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The first test win is in the books. Done with.
Ten years from now, no one will care whether the present Zim team should have had one-or two "other" players or not. Even less so, when, in one or two years, with 1-2 more batsmen and 1 quality pacer and spinner, this Zim team will become as strong as the previous versions. That bane of our Test cricket existence, the "learning curve" applies equally to them these days and I have no doubt they will come through with flying colours. Athletically, they are a gifted bunch, and in Taibu they have a pugnacious fighter and will not be any more "two-race, two-bus" type of off-the-field headaches to deal with.
Ten years from now, no one will care whether the present Zim team should have had one-or two "other" players or not. Even less so, when, in one or two years, with 1-2 more batsmen and 1 quality pacer and spinner, this Zim team will become as strong as the previous versions. That bane of our Test cricket existence, the "learning curve" applies equally to them these days and I have no doubt they will come through with flying colours. Athletically, they are a gifted bunch, and in Taibu they have a pugnacious fighter and will not be any more "two-race, two-bus" type of off-the-field headaches to deal with.
Miscellaneous thoughts from an arm-chair all-rounder
by Razab Q. Chowdhury
Published: 13th January, 2005
[Disclaimer: The only video evidence I have seen are those 7 clips everyone
else has seen. I am basing these following thoughts on not just thoseclips but
on various 2nd party oversvations/commentaries and my own knoweldge of some
of the players and teams involved.]
The first test win is in the books. Done with.
Ten years from now, no one will care whether the present Zim team should have
had one-or two "other" players or not. Even less so, when, in one
or two years, with 1-2 more batsmen and 1 quality pacer and spinner, this Zim
team will become as strong as the previous versions. That bane of our Test cricket
existence, the "learning curve" applies equally to them these days
and I have no doubt they will come through with flying colours. Athletically,
they are a gifted bunch, and in Taibu they have a pugnacious and rapidly maturing
leader. Above all there will not be any more "two-race, two-bus" type
of off-the-field headaches to deal with.
Self-belief that we can indeed win in these, the most "Testing" of
Done! So what next?
Well there is the immediate, and somewhat non-trivial matter of 1 more Test
and 5 ODIs with a wounded eagle (I looked it up - the Zimbabwe national bird
is "fish-eagle"). Perhaps Taibu & Co. are not capable of unleashing
the same fury as Messrs Tendu & Shewag (and hopefully we will not be hauling
out any more old-timers as our \"attack\"**), but, fight back they will
and with everything they have got. Therefore, victory in our next 6 international
matches is not a given.
Then there is the small matter of a first ever series at the birthplace of
cricket, followed by a triangular affair involving this other team named Australia.In
between there is hope for some first-class action with the Duleep trophy and
our very own, forgotten, and almost lost National League.
Let us explore each of these issues and attempt to make sense of what the Tigers
could and should do.
This present Zimbabwe team has some talented players like Chigumbara, Payangara,
Taylor et al, with depth in batting. The bowling, at present, looks a tad green,
but against our batting, they are capable of getting wickets. Let\\\'s think of
a hypothetical scenario. Zimbabwe wins the toss in Dhaka and takes advantage
of that dustbowl before it crumbles and becomes Enam and Rafique\\\'s playground.
They utilizise their depth, bat with the tenacity that they displayed during
the 1st innings in Chittagong, and set a 400 plus total. Then they field like
demons. Both of these acts we know they are capable of executing. In such a
scenario, it could be quite possible for BD to succumb to a defeat or having
to force out a draw. In fact, my gut instinct tells me no matter the toss, the
2nd Test\\\'s most likely result is a draw.
What should be the team composition and pitch condition then?
Let\\\'s tackle the easy one. Pitch.
Until Bangladesh suddenly discovers a wicket taking 3rd seamer - sit down Talha,
you aren\\\'t there yet - the pitch must be a turner with just a hint of bounce.
Masree and Tapash are crafty enough to wean something out of the new ball and
they are not WACA worthy yet. Our curators must ensure they do not provide any
belated Christmas gifts to Zimbabwe\\\'s bevy of medium pacers by preparing a bouncy
Then there is the team selection.
Unless injuries force it - we should not change the winning team. Not only
because it is a winning combination but also because the replacements do not
bring a significantly higher probabilty of performance.
JO\\\'s poor form? He is still one of the better ones in the side at knowing where
his off-stump is and with the pace of Zim bowlers, his fading reflexes are not
a liability yet. He is also probably a good influence on "bhatija"
- this is a guy who carried his bat in both innings of a Test match.
As for his replacements; Rokon is in good nick but he\\\'s not an opener in 1st
class matches. He\\\'s a poor man\\\'s Afridi (Shewag has a few test tons so please
no comparisons there). Hannan & Kapali? Too early for the former, jet lag
and not enough 1st class for the latter. If push comes to shove and JO can\\\'t
make it, Rajin should be pushed up the order and Rokon accommodated in the middle
order. Let\\\'s hope though it doesn\\\'t come to that. Another thought to consider
- because of our propensity to lose a wicket within 1-2 overs, Bashar is almost
a de-facto opener. One wonders
Rafique\\\'s hammie? A major worry. He and Enam complement each other well. One
bowling darts which give you no room, for runs or mistakes, and the other looping,
and inviting you to commit, just before the cobra spits off the track and gets
you. Here\\\'s hoping electro therapy and massage does the trick. We need Rafique
to win - as much psychologically as in terms of just wicket.
If Rafique can\\\'t make it, then the two ** asterisks I had about old-timers
come in. This 2nd match is no time to blood new talent - it will be trench warfare.
This might be a case where we bring that old horse - Naimur Rahman Durjoy -
for one final fight. Such an act is not w/o precedent. If memory serves me correctly,
India did that occasionally with Raju, England with Tufnel and Australia with
May. Durjoy is in good form, he\\\'s got the confidence of a Test Pfeiffer at Dhaka
stadium, and he\\\'s unlikely to be over-awed by the occasion or the opposition.
If Durjoy is totally unacceptable to the selectors than you fall back on Rana
- he\\\'ll hopefully keep one end tight and try his best. Rana would be a very
defensive move though - as would bringing back Mushfique.
That settles the Test match area, but what about ODIs?
On evidence of Zimbabwe\\\'s performance in similar pitches in Pakistan and the
4-game series against England, their ability to strike lusty blows and field
well makes them a very very competitive prospect in the ODIs. In fact, we the
fans should be prepared for a 3-2 result (hopefully in our favor).
In the ODIs JO should be dispensed with and Rokon given a whirl. He\\\'s hit and
miss but is very capable of being a flat-track bully - witness his whirlwind
century against Namibia and recently, Zimbabwe. Rana should get some games too
as should Kapali. But let\\\'s not go all India and start rotating the side wholesale.
On the bowling front, it is time to find out if the remedial actions on Razzak
Raj have been fruitful and if Sharif can reprise his reverse-swinging, bowling
at the death role. However, the question of is which of our top 3 ODI pacers
(Masree, Tapash or Nazmul) do you drop. So I say, play our best side (the one
that beat India) in the 1st two ODIs and see where we stand.
The Duleep trophy is ideal for giving players such as Talha, Shafaq, Sharif
and Razzak Raj the chance to get some needed 1st class experience. From the
batting side, Shamsur, the other Nafis, perhaps Aftab, Hannan and Kapali should
go. No point in sending Tushar or Rokon, they have already done these tours
in the past. Another player to think of is Faisal Hossain - though he doesn\\\'t
seem to be making much noise in the Dhaka leagues.
As to the NL - ensure that all BCB contracted players play. None of the \"I
miss my family in Narail or Barishall\". At the same time all team coaches
and physios should coordinate with Dave and Steve K so that there is a consistency
of message and exercise regimen. The pitches should be bouncy and the board
should make it very clear that slots on the England tour are going to be given
to top performers. Spread that message loudly and often. This is where Tushar
& Rokon must make themselves heard.
It also wouldn\\\'t hurt if BCB were to actively promote the NL with a weekly
highlights show on one of the Satellite channels. It gives exposure of 1st class
cricket to our fans. As another board author astutely pointed out, our fans
need to learn about 1st class cricket as much as our payers.
This tour will make or break our reputation as a cricketing nation. Fair or
not, English journalists wield tremendous influence. If we are able to make
a competitive affair out of this tour, the Brits with their inherent fondness
for underdogs, will be won over and we can expect the incessant carping on our
Test status to ratchet down significantly. Falter or make a hash out of the
tour, and we can anticipate the baying of \"test cricket devaluation\"
to reach new heights. As such, the team and the board must cover all bases.
Break with the current trend and organize loads of practice matches before
the bullets are flying for real. Be it Scotland, or minor counties or other
counties\\\' 2nd elevens. England in May is as foriegn an environment as can be
to our players (never mind if they do indeed get better curry than they would
get at home ;) In that double-jumper cold, every fielding attempt stings your
fingers just that bit more, and even a two over break in the outfield will tighten
up your hammies like nothing. On the english green-toos the ball will seam and
swing and the soft grounds will give very little purchase to our spinners. To
acclimatise to these conditions our players must have at least 2 3day and 2
4-day games. Bangladesh should play up the probashi community aspects in terms
of making the couties agree to matches.
Player skills/coaching
Batting in England will be first and foremost about playing the moving ball.
It is vital when one plays the swinging ball to get quickly on the front foot
and if one is to play a shot to do so whole-heartedly.
If I may be allowed a trip down memory lane, I recall a cold, English like
morning in Cambridge, MA 3-4 years ago. Our club was playing against an Indian
club and they had an excellent new ball swing bowler (he had finished in the
top 5 wicket takers the year before in the State league). Anyway, within 2-3
overs of bending the cherry around the corners, he had our top 4 batters out
including two to half-hearted drives. Now I claim to be no great batsmen, but
by the simple dint of standing a foot outside the crease, focusing on playing
in the V and ensuring that I lowered my leading right shoulder before every
shot to get maximum power, I was able to drive him for 4-5 bowlers back boundaries,
the one edge I had flew over slips, and wouldn\\\'t you know it, my team suddenly
had a partnership going. Soon the ball lost its shine and the swing master was
Why do you I recount this story? Because after the match - which we lost handily
by the way - the bowler came up to me and told me that I was one of the few
subcontinental batsmen who had ever adopted that technique against me. He claimed
that English batters were always able to play him well with their cocked elbow
and straight-bat approach, but \\\'desi\\\'s always got out trying to hoik him or
work him to the onside. The moral being - unless you have Gilly\\\'s bat-speed,
Shewag\\\'s eye or Hayden\\\'s power, do the the prudent thing and focus on your technique.
While the practice matches will help our batsmen must spend hours getting their
frontfoot techniques down.
At the same time, England will have in their arsenal a certain Mr. Harmison
and Flitoff making special deliveries to our batsmen\\\'s midriffs and thereabouts.
Unless the player\\\'s name is Ashraful or Bashar, out batsmen must become adept
at the weave. They have their own home-town expert in Rajin Saleh to show them
the way. One of the revelations of the Windies tour was Rajin\\\'s extreme supple
and flexible body, smartly swaying out of harms way as Best, Fidel at al tried
to intimidate him. Please - let us not attempt take these two on. Let discretion,
as it is so capable of, being the better part of our valor.
In terms of bowling, the 99WC and Monjurul\\\'s wonderful displays of control
of swing should be our guideline. Having just checked into our scorecards, all
the other pacers, Hasibul, Shafiuddin and even Chacha were guilty of not being
able to control the swing at times. Again, this is where the practice matches
with the English Duke balls should come in handy.
Team selection for the two tests.
I am assuming a 16 member squad here.
England in early summer is a spinner\\\'s graveyard unless you spin the ball prodiguously
ala a Warne of Muralitharan, or happen to be a master of changes of pace. So
for most of our matches, we will probably feature one spinner and it will probably
come down to a straight choice between Enam & Rafique. Believe it or not,
Enam has the edge at present because he just recently had a tour or England
(thus being more familiar with the conditions) and he is also a bigger turner
of the ball. I am - and this will raise the ire of many a forum poster - skeptical
of Rafiques impact on the soft english greentops. Unless he pulls a Kumble and
essentially morphs his approach to a slow medium bowler, Rafique might struggle
to take wickets. However, and yes, this is a broken record, that\\\'s what the
practice matches are for. :) We are now left with 14 slots.
So which pacers get to go? Unless Masree and Tapash stink up the joint in the
coming months or are unfit, these two are a shoo-in. As should, in probability
be Nazmul. In subcontinental conditions he is not a Test player but as the Champion\\\'s
trophy and the recent U-19 tour showed, in English conditions, he\\\'s our very
own Hoggard; the accurate, whole hearted stock bowler who picks up a wicket
or two. We should take 5 pacers but because of the extra spinner, we can only
take one more. I suspect it will come down to a choice between Mr. Sharif and
Talha. I had high hopes for Shafaq - what with him adding the variety of being
a lefty and his experience of NZ U-19 WC (similar conditions) - but the recent
4-day match seems to indicate that he\\\'s a few A-team tours short of being the
finished article. At any rate, let the best man (based on A-tour and NL form)
That leaves us 10 slots. One goes to Pilot (no explanation needed there). Bashar,
Ashraful are also pretty much a certainty. So now 7 slots. We need 3 openers.
The hope here is that Hannan comes through. He really is a compact guy and England
don\\\'t have any left arm pacers in their team horizon. Ideally he and Nafis would
open, and the back up opener could be JO or if the A-team form warrants it -
the other Nafis. The opening slot is really up there at this point and more
information is needed.
The four middle order slots? Rajin & Aftab are near certainties, and it
would be wonderful if Shamsur could get a senior tour in for the experience
of it all. Then, based on form, Kapali, Rokon or Tushar get in.
Finally, the team selection for the triangular series.
Let\\\'s face it, playing against England in their backyard with Freddie on their
side, and then the OZs - we will be lucky if we get some decent totals (evidence
- Champion\\\'s Trophy & WC 99). The 5 ODI series with Zim will potentially
have identified whether Rokon, Kapali and Sharif are ready for the big time,
because we will need all 3 to be in top form to be competitive. At their best,
Rokon and Kapali strike the ball cleanly and time it sweetly (respectively)
- we will need that to keep up with the likes of Gilly, Flintoff, Clark, and
Trescothick. And Sharif is shaping up to be bowler who can bat a bit, which
we will need in the ODIs. As a fallback we will have Chacha/Babu. One thing
for sure - we need our ODI order settled by this tri series. No time for experimentation
with pinch hitters in this one.
So there you have it - one amateur pundits prescription for Bangladesh. Hopefully
BD Tigers will keep on roaring.
About the author(s): Razab Q. Chowdhury feels particularly adept at being an armchair critic
based on his past history of playing school cricket and dispatching a slew of
West Indian cricketers while at college. He deigns to grace our forum as RazabQ and is a forum moderator.
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RIP Mercy the cat
It is with deep sadness that I have to tell you all that my kitten, Mercy, has passed away. My heart is completely broken.
When I first got Mercy, I had never lived with a cat before and so I had no idea that I was allergic. I thought that it might pass, but after a few weeks I decided to go visit two separate allergists, one of whom said my allergies wouldn't get any better unless I started taking injections. I had fallen SO in love with Mercy that I wanted to try everything I could to keep her, but I didn't think it was safe to resort to injections, and it wasn't fair on Mercy, because I couldn't play with her or give her as much attention as I wanted to. Mercy deserved a mom who could really give her the time and affection she deserved. I knew that Sydney, Khloe's assistant, who had recently lost a cat she had loved and cared for for 17 years, would be the perfect mom for Mercy and Sydney was so excited to have Mercy as her own!
Sydney gave Mercy a loving home, but after a couple of weeks Mercy got really sick and Sydney had to rush her to the vet. They discovered she had a stomach problem that we weren't aware of. Poor little Mercy died the very next day. It broke not only my heart that little Mercy died at only four months old, but Sydney's too.
Mercy was a gentle and loving kitten and we are all going to miss her so much. Thanks to Sydney for making Mercy's short life one filled with love. RIP Mercy Xo
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Oct. 30, 2005
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - After dropping the first two games at Northerns, MIT bounced back on Sunday with a 13-4 win over Fordham University. With the victory, the Engineers finished seventh of the eight teams in the tournament. St. Francis College edged out Brown University in the championship game, 9-7.
Senior John Rogers scored three more times on Sunday, increasing his tournament total to 11. Senior Grady Snyder and Mark Liao tallied two goals a piece in their final MIT water polo contest. Freshmen Palmer Rosemond, Dallas Chase and Mike Smith Bronstein all chipped in one goal.
"Considering how many guys we lost from last year, for us to be in the position we were at, this tournament was really amazing," said head coach Felix Mercado. "It will be tough losing our three seniors, but I have a great feeling that this program is on course to be great."
In other tournament action on Sunday, Queens College defeated Connecticut College 11-8, and Harvard slipped by Iona 11-10 in overtime.


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Author Notes: My best version of a deep-dish pizza, made in an 11-inch cast-iron skillet. This takes some advance planning, if you make it as I prefer to; I like to make the dough a day in advance and let it mature in the fridge overnight as it slowly rises. I find the crust develops more flavor with this method. I love the butter in this crust; it makes the final crust flaky and light, which is important in a deep-dish pizza. The sauce in this recipe makes more than you'll need for a single pie. This pizza is versatile; it adapts well to vegetarian preparations, for example. We love a spinach and mushroom pizza, using this crust, sauce, and cheese. Obviously, you wouldn't be browning pork sausage for a vegetarian pie, but you might still be sauteeing mushrooms; if so, saute them in the iron skillet and retain any remaining olive oil in the pan. If you're not sauteeing anything in the skillet, be sure to coat the bottom with 2 Tbsp. olive oil. I've been trying to perfect a deep-dish pizza for years; this is my best version to date. - adashofbitters —adashofbitters
Food52 Review: I've never made a deep dish pizza before, but having now made this pizza, we'll be enjoying them a lot more. The instructions are clear. The recipe produces a complex sauce, all tomato-y goodness, enriched with the acidity of wine and the sweetness of the carrot. The pizza dough is silky and a breeze to work with. And the entire pie slid out of the skillet (after cooling for 10 minutes) and made a great presentation. A real winner. - MrsWheelbarrow —The Editors
Serves: 4-8
Pizza crust
teaspoons active dry yeast
teaspoon sugar
cup warm water
tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
teaspoons kosher salt
cups unbleached all-purpose flour
Sauce and Toppings
tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, for sauce
tennis ball-sized onion, peeled and diced
cloves fresh garlic, peeled and sliced
tablespoons shredded carrot
1 1/2
tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, in their juices, crushed in your hand (or 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes)
cup red wine or port
tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, for toppings
pound cremini mushrooms
ounces sweet Italian sausage
ounces fresh mozzarella, torn apart by hand
tablespoons Pecorino Romano, freshly grated
tablespoons basil, chiffonaded
- A day in advance, start the dough.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine yeast, sugar, and water; let sit 5 minutes or until frothy.
- Add butter, salt, and 1 1/2 cups of flour.
- Combine on low speed until flour is incorporated, about 2 minutes.
- Add remaining flour, half cup at a time, until incorporated.
- Increase speed to medium and mix until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and crawls up the dough hook, about 1 minute. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons water if dough is dry and not coming together. If dough is too wet, add 1 to 2 tablespoons flour.
- Continue kneading on medium 2 more minutes, until dough is silky smooth.
- Grease a medium bowl with olive oil and add dough to the bowl. Cover and let the dough rise until it doubles in bulk, about an hour.
- Punch down, reshape, and let rise again (covered) in the refrigerator, at least 2 hours or overnight. Bring dough back to room temperature 2 hours before you plan to roll it out.
- On day of assembly, start the sauce.
- In a medium saucepan, heat olive oil over medium heat.
- Add onions and a pinch of salt. Sauté onions until soft and golden and then stir in garlic. Cook garlic until soft.
- Add carrot and thyme and cook until the carrot is soft.
- Add tomatoes (along with their juice) and wine or port. Lower the heat and cook until the sauce is thick, seasoning to taste as you go. It'll take about half an hour to thicken up appropriately.
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- In a medium saucepan, heat 1 T. olive oil over medium, brown crimini mushrooms, and set aside.
- Meanwhile, in the same iron-skillet you'll use for the pizza, heat 1 T. olive oil over medium. Add sausage to skillet and brown.
- Using a slotted spoon, remove the sausage to a plate lined with paper towels. You can remove some fat if desired, but leave the skillet well greased.
- Pat or roll the room-temperature dough into a circle about 12 inches in diameter. Let rest for 5 minutes to keep the crust from shrinking and then transfer it to the skillet. Press dough down into bottom of skillet and partway up the sides. Dock dough with fork.
- Layer sauce, sausage, mushrooms, and cheese. Bake on bottom rack of oven for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Grate Romano cheese over top of pizza and garnish with shredded basil.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
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With starry-eyed optimism, Western leaders and members of the media have recently fawned all over the new Iranian president, Hasan Rouhani, as if he had taken any meaningful steps to reverse Iran's illicit nuclear program, abysmal human rights abuses, or support for Hezbollah terrorism and Basher Assad's murderous regime in Syria.
Rouhani can thank his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for being so repugnant that virtually anyone succeeding him would be welcomed with relief. But the West's premature exuberance over Rouhani undermines efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and dangerously signals to rogue states that a few weeks of charm can quickly compensate for decades of terrorism, genocidal incitement, and human rights abuses.
On the core issues, Iran's behavior is the same, but with a more PR-savvy face. Rouhani has continued Iran's support for the Syrian regime and Iran's anti-Israel rhetoric and policies. About a month into Rouhani's term, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared that Iran's nuclear program includes "strong indicators of possible nuclear weapon development." The program includes developing plutonium-based capabilities for building nukes, installing advanced uranium enrichment equipment that enables Iran quickly to weaponize its nuclear materials without detection by IAEA inspections, enriching uranium in defiance of UN Security Council and IAEA resolutions, and developing nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them.
These facts completely discredit Rouhani's repeated claims that Iran's nuclear program exists only for "peaceful" purposes. His boasts about playing for time (in a 2004 speech) when he served as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator further undermine his credibility on this issue (in his words: "While we were talking with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in parts of the [nuclear conversion] facility in Isfahan"). Moreover, Iran has consistently deceived the international community about its nuclear activities, like when the Islamic Republic concealed its nuclear facility in Qom (which was uncovered by Western intelligence agencies).
But these facts don't seem to matter because when Rouhani repeatedly drops the word "peace" in his speeches, Western media and diplomats swoon. "At the cost of thoughtful reporting" (as media watchdog CAMERA aptly summarized), Western media have also fallen for the "Twitter charms" reportedly sent by members of the Iranian regime.
And this same naive crowd celebrates the release of 80 Iranian political prisoners – timed for maximum PR effect – while forgetting that Iran has executed more than 170 political prisoners since Rouhani's election and continues to imprison close to 800 (including U.S. citizen and former Marine Amir Hekmati, despite requests to release him from top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry).
Indeed, a web site documenting Iran's human rights abuses confirms that – under Rouhani's rule – it's very much business as usual in Iran, with public hangings, religious persecution, abuse of women, arbitrary arrests, and suppression of dissent. But why spoil the party with such details when Rouhani speechifies about "peace" and "friendship?"
Desperate for a sign of progress, delusional optimists point out that Rouhani hasn't actively denied the Holocaust. That this could be considered a sign of Iranian "progress" shows just how pathetically low the bar has dropped (thanks, again, to Ahmadinejad's fine work). But even by this measure, Rouhani just looks more sophisticated (opting to say that "he's not a historian" instead of unequivocally denying the Holocaust).
One Iran expert explained Rouhani's shameful response as a result of local politics, but if Rouhani's not even free to acknowledge a historical fact, how can he possibly change Iran's nuclear policy? Rouhani may have subsequently realized that his media strategy required improving upon his initial answer, but the clarification he attempted in his recent interview with Christiane Amanpour left him plenty of room for Holocaust denial and revisionism.
Only the credible threat of force has ever worked in stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions, and after Obama's feckless and spineless approach to a far weaker adversary (Syria), the Iranians have all the more reason to doubt any U.S. military threat – particularly if Obama can be stalled by a diplomatic process that seems to offer progress now that the Iranian wolf has been redressed as a sheep.
While Obama likes to boast that his economic sanctions have brought Iran to the table, the only measure of success is whether Iran is closer to a nuclear weapons capability, and on that score Obama is a complete failure: Iran has been inching closer to nukes every day that Obama has been in office.
Moreover, the dynamics of Obama's diplomatic efforts reveal who's actually winning: Obama asked Rouhani for a meeting at the UN, only to be rejected. So the U.S. looks like the eager party here, making it that much easier for Iran to manipulate any eventual talks in its favor.
Indeed, the more the West appears desperate to welcome Rouhani's new tune, the less Iran has to make any meaningful concessions. In this way, Ahmadinejad's revolting persona and style made it that much easier for his successor to succeed at playing the "good cop" in any negotiations. And it is actually Iran's hardline supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on Iranian policy, so the Rouhani theatrics are ultimately meaningless anyway. While the country's dictator recently said that Iran can show "heroic flexibility," he's not actually beholden to anyone, so he can easily change his mind after buying another 6–12 months of nuclear enrichment time by "negotiating" with the West through Rouhani.
To resolve a crisis that could otherwise end up as a massive regional war in the near future, Iran must:
If the international community hopes to stop Iran's nuclear program before it's too late, any deal with Iran must ensure that the above four steps are verifiably taken. Any lesser deal would allow Iran to continue developing nuclear weapons capabilities behind a smokescreen of promises, as the North Koreans have done.
Will the West be charmed all the way to Armageddon?
Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis, an apocalyptic novel about Iranian nukes and other geopolitical issues in the Middle East.
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BOGOTA: Miguel Caballero has been making bullet-proof clothes for politicians and other bigwigs for 20 years, but not for kids. The latest US school massacre has changed that.
This year he plans a line for children -- T-shirts, vests, and combination backpack-vests -- and geared toward the US market.
Caballero has made good money in his 22-year-old business with a factory on the outskirts of Bogota. He sells around 50,000 garments a year that go for about US$2,000 a piece, but the US market had been tough to crack.
Then, after a lone and deranged gunman killed 20 small children and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month in Newtown, Connecticut, he started getting orders from very worried parents.
"We would answer that we do not make clothes for kids. But the emails kept coming," Caballero said.
So, in just a week, he designed garments and subjected them to ballistic tests. Now his factory is fitted to churn out a first lot of 1,800 bullet-proof garments for children and is waiting for firm orders.
Carolina Ballesteros, Caballero's director of research and development, said the impact of the Newtown shooting was huge because of the age of most of the victims: just six and seven.
Asked how you explain to a child that simply going to school can be so dangerous you have to wear a bullet proof vest, Ballesteros explained that her company's garments are not designed for everyday use.
Rather, they are for emergencies, to be handed out by teachers when needed.
The new line is tailored for kids aged 8 to 16, with prices ranging from US$200 to US$400, depending on the garment and its size.
Caballero's factory employs 235 people, and 95 per cent of its output is exported to 23 countries in the Middle East and Latin America.
The company makes uniforms for security forces and suits for public figures in many countries, she said.
"Three royal families in the Middle East are customers of ours. We made a bullet-proof kimono for the American actor Steven Seagal. Our experience is beyond question," Ballesteros said.
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Hey guys, I live in Sylmar, I have access to a private court close to Olive View Hospital, or I can come to you, I'm usually free during the weeks, I go to weekend college, so I'm pretty flexible on my schedule, if any one is interested please just drop me an e-mail here. I am a little better than Beginner, but not quite there as an intermediate, not sure what my ranking would be really. I haven't played for a while so please be patient with me, anything else just e-mail me.
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Hello. I'm a beginner player but can keep up a rally. I'm looking to get some cardio and technique practice in during weekdays. Mornings are best but evenings are ok as well. Would you be able to meet at Sepulveda Recreation Center at 8801 Kester Ave. Panorama City, CA 91402? If so, we can figure out the best time to meet.
Hey Ana,
You're not that far from where I usually play. We play in North Hollywood and Burbank. Normally in Noho during weekdays and in Burbank in the weekends.
If you are available tomorrow around 7:00-7:30 pm, we have a play in Noho. We play doubles though and you are most welcome to join us. Let me know if you can make it! :)
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Tomorrow at 7:30 would be great. My email is: email@example.com
Please let me know where in NoHo to meet you and I look forward to meeting you all you tomorrow.
hey Ana -
I hope you got the email I sent you yesterday.
Just to re-cap, address is 1430 Chandler Blvd, No. Hollywood,CA 91601
The courts are actually on the Tujunga Blvd side (which is the major cross street) near the public library.
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|Los Angeles Math Circle
Currently, the math circle groups meet in several rooms on the 3rd, 5th, and 6th floors in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA, as well as at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM). IPAM is located close to the MS building, see campus map.
Important Note
The Mathematical Science Building is locked on Sundays. Only the glass doors on the 5th floor (entry from the breezeway with vending machines) are unlocked during the times of the math circle.
Directions to the Mathematics Sciences Building
(Any of these steps direct you to the same entrance to the Mathematical Sciences Building. Click on "View larger map" and then on "directions" below for Google directions from your current location).
Public transportation
Several bus companies (including the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus and the Culver City bus) serve the UCLA campus. On Sundays, busses stop at the Ackerman Union bus terminal. It can be found on the left side of the map above (marked by a small bus icon). From the bus terminal, walk up a stairway between the Ackerman Union (UCLA Store) and an Engineering building. You will see the Math Sciences building to your right. Keep walking until you see an archway with some vending machines. Enter the archway and go through glass doors to your right.
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The closest pay-by hour parking lots are P2 (enter campus on Hilgard/Westholme) and P8 (enter via Westwood Blvd or Strathmore Pl). Pay-by-hour parking is available (use pay stations in the parking lot). Only cash and credit cards may be used at campus pay stations. Pay stations accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card and American Express. There are no refunds for purchases at campus pay stations. Pay stations only accept $1, $5, and $10 bills and DO NOT give change in the form of cash or credit.
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Melbourne, Australia – eMCeSqrd introduces Chronicles-Timer & Stopwatch Recorder 1.0 for iOS. Available now, the iPod and iPhone app is designed to keep track of how users spend their valuable time. Whether it's timing exercising, children doing homework, workmates on a break, or that heavy machine producing widgets, the recorded timed data will give users insights on where all of their time is spent.
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Oct. 23, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior Chase Lochmiller picked the perfect time to record the second multi-goal game of his career, as the striker's pair of early tallies pushed MIT past visiting UMass Boston, 2-1, in non-conference men's soccer action on Tuesday afternoon at Steinbrenner Stadium. Like Lochmiller, the entire Engineers squad seems to be peaking for the crucial end-of-the-season push, as the Cardinal and Gray is undefeated in its last four matches, notching three wins and a tie.
MIT moved to 8-4-2 overall with the win, while the Beacons fell to 8-8-0.
Vicious winds wreaked havoc on the match for the entirety of the 90 minutes, as the weather conditions proved to have a serious effect on the results on the field. With the wind at their backs in the first half, the Engineers out-shot UMass Boston, 9-1, while the Beacons turned it around in the second stanza to grab a 10-3 shot advantage.
Aided by the wind, MIT opened the scoring in just the 10th minute. Freshman Jason Zhu whipped in a corner kick from the left side, which UMass Boston goalkeeper Paul Maniscalco attempted to punch clear. However, a wicked swerve pushed the ball out of his reach and left Lochmiller with the simple task of heading home from a yard out.
The score was 2-0 to the home side in the 19th minute, when Lochmiller made the most of a half-chance from a tight angle. Rookie forward Christian Therkelsen was played through on goal from nearly midfield, but the freshman's shot was blocked by a backtracking defender. However, an alert Lochmiller pounced on the loose ball and slid his shot under Maniscalco and into the far corner.
It was nearly 3-0 in the 25th minute, but freshman midfielder Matt Talpe's spectacular full-volley effort struck the cross bar.
It was clear from the outset of the second half that the wind was a tremendous factor and would aid the Beacons in getting back into the match. A number of long-range efforts were put on net - most notably a knuckling strike from Ludji Chipps in the 59th minute - but Tech keeper Tom Caldwell was up to the challenge.
With exactly 13 minutes remaining in regulation, the visitors finally cut the deficit in half courtesy of a spectacular 25-yard drive off the foot of senior Guilherme Goncalves. After picking up a loose ball in space, the midfielder struck a dipping shot that nestled in the upper left corner of the net, leaving Caldwell with no chance.
The Beacons so nearly leveled the score less than two minutes after scoring their first, but Anthony Cataldo was denied from close range by a sliding Caldwell.
The Engineers played the final eight minutes with 10 players, after Lochmiller was ejected for receiving a second yellow card.
Caldwell made six saves in net for the Cardinal and Gray, while Maniscalco stopped four shots for the Beacons.
MIT will conclude its regular season schedule on Saturday, Oct. 27, when it will host WPI in a critical New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference showdown. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. UMass Boston will also close out its regular season schedule with a home match on Saturday, at 1:00 p.m. against Plymouth State University.


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Secured: Fact or Fiction?
Youre not safe, Im not safe, nobody is safe. Companies spend millions of dollars each year guarding their buildings with surveillance cameras, alarm systems, and security guards. They even go as far as placing password protection and network security programs in their computers. The driving force behind all this spending is the fact that companies feel much safer when equipped with such precautions. At the same time, however, millions of people all over the world spend their entire lives learning the art of theft.
Among the most skilled thieves are the experts of so called breaking and entering. Why break in, so the argument goes, if you can walk in? Furthermore, why walk in when you can have someone on the inside -- an accomplice -- come out and simply give you what you want? Is it really possible to get precisely what you want, simply by asking for it?
The answer, surprisingly, is yes. Furthermore, the art of getting what you want through simple request has become so refined that it has attained an official name: Social Engineering (Mitnick 3). Social engineering is used mainly by criminals; thieves, hackers, con-artists, terrorists, embezzlers, private investigators, and other such groups, including typical adolescents who possess time, ingenuity, and the desire to commit misdeeds.
One might ask how the technique of social engineering works so well among those who practice it. Gullibility, lack of caution, unwariness, innocence, and vulnerability combine to create the typical human psyche, and thus average human beings are their own weakest link in personal security (Mitnick 3). The social engineers main objective is to convince the persons disclosing the information that the social engineer is in fact a person they can trust with sensitive information(Granger par 20).
The problem with trying to prevent social engineering is that its undetectable because of three basic, psychological weaknesses that the human being possesses: first, the willingness and desire to trust others, second, the willingness and desire to believe information presented if for no other reason than the listener has never heard contradictory information, and third, the altruistic willingness and desire to help others; making social engineering stealth; providing the ability to prevent detection by the human. With social engineering being in existence protection is very limited. Detection of social engineering is usually only done when beginners who are still learning social engineering make common beginner mistakes, such as not being calm and/or professional (Bernz's Social Engineering Tips). But the experience social engineer, is undetectable, even to a trained observant because social engineering techniques are applied to real world situations (RSnake 3). The attack to the victim does not seem like an attack, but more like questions being asked from a reliable source inside the circle in hopes of furthering the good of the group, making social engineering stealth. The truth is that even those companies that do make an effort to protect confidential information may be at serious risk (Mitnick 64). This risk affects all of society; all of our personal information that we once thought was secure is really not and because anyone who knows the art of social engineering can obtain it, which makes un-detection very harmful and scary because theres not telling what the social engineer will do with the information.
Social engineers learn their craft from a psychological point-of-view, emphasizing how to create the perfect psychological environment for the attack (Social Engineering Fundamentals: Part 1, par 23). Once created, the key to successful social engineering is trust. Once the aspiring social engineer has a victims trust, said victim will believe anything they are told so long as it is within the realm of believability. Giving the victim, also known as a mark (bernz 1), a spurious callback phone number, fake password or code, or talking in their lingo are all techniques which assist the social engineer in achieving his or her aims. It is human nature to trust ones fellow men, especially when the request meets the test of being reasonable (knowing the lingo) (Mitnick 32).
Every person knows how important their social security number is. It is the identity of a person in a nutshell. Every person also knows to never give out their social security number to anyone. So we never give people our number, right? But wait, some applications require a social security number to do back ground checks, such as banking, jobs, credit cards, and cell phones. Is it possible for someone to call my phone and to act as if they were from one of these companies and get me to give out my social security number? The answer is yes. Heres an example.
Ring, Ring, Ring.
Social Eng: Hello, This is Mark Thompson calling from ATT Wireless. May I please speak with John Doe?
Person who answered: Hold on one moment please while I get him.
John Doe: This is John Doe.
Social Eng: Hello Mr. Doe, This is Mark Thompson calling from ATT Wireless your account has reached its monthly limit of $1000.00 in phone calls. If you look at your service agreement it states that the plan you choose has a limit of $1000.00 each month. Once you reach the limit you have the choice of either paying for it then otherwise your account with me locked until paid.
John Doe: What the hell? I never made $1000.00 in calls! I only use my phone when my kids go out and theres no way they could of made $1000.00 in calls.
Social Eng: Let take a look at your account. Sir Im going to need to verify youre the owner of the phones before I can access you account.
John Doe: Sure.
Social Eng: Can you please verify your billing address please.
John Doe: 1234 Street. Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Social Eng: Can you provide the last 4 digits of the social security number used to sign up the account.
At this point the social engineer has gotten the information needed to now call the ATT and sign up another cell for themselves. At this point the social engineer would act as if there was a call made to Africa for 45 minutes or a story like that. They could say something like Theres a chance that they could of called that number with the cell phone being in the childs pocket and without them knowing. I can wave the fees the one time as a complementary waver, but next time you will have to pay for the fees. Next explained how to prevent accidental calls, and then insured them that the account was now at good standing.
What Joe Doe just did was very scary and harmful. He just gave this anonymous person all the information they would need to access his account. The reason why this it happened was because of the human error, which makes of social engineering stealth.
A few years ago in Texas there was an experiment performed with a well dressed man in a suit. He was waiting at a stoplight and began to cross before the light turned green, and people followed him. The set up was done at the same light, same times, ect , except this time it was done with a guy in a t-shirt, not as many people followed him. It seems that people tend to trust position of authority/expertise. This is also applied to social engineering especially when dealing with people who lack knowledge on the information thats being spoke about.
Successfulness in social engineers involves strong people skills; charming, polite, and easy to like, all traits needed to establish rapid rapport and trust. (Mitnick 8) Just imagine two men. The first man is very nice, funny, charming, polite, down to earth, and easy to like. Then another man whos lacks some of these traits. Who are you going to trust more? Very few wouldnt trust a nice charming polite man. The key to gaining trust is confidence. If the image you set looks professional and sounds as if you know what you are talking about, not only will people trust you, but they will believe you.
At some point in everyones life, they find themselves lost on a car ride to a destination which they have never been to. Not knowing their way around town, the average person will do one of three things. One, try to find their way, even though they are lost, something men tend to do a lot because of their egos. Two, ask for directions. Three, give up and go back to where they came from. Sometimes one will work and sometimes it wont. Lets say you got wrong directions and the possibility of finding the destination is just impossible. Why do people ask directions? This is because every human has the willingness and desire to believe information presentation due to their lack of knowledge. If it wasnt for us willing to trust others, then no one would ask for directions. They would then think that everyone might give them false information and would not believe anyone. If this was the case then the world would be running around lost and afraid to ask for directions.
Another great example of how humans have the willingness and desire to believe information presented because of lack of knowledge is #49 an anonymous article titled 68 things to do at Walmart, Go to an empty checkout stand and try to check people out. The sounds of I can help the next person in line, will grab attention of anyone waiting in a long line.
Another factor to the human belief system is, people are ashamed to admit to what they do not know. A great example is children in school whose friends talk about topics that they have no knowledge of, such as sex. The reasoning behind all of this is not wanting to look stupid or to feel ashamed of not knowing.
Believing others because based on lack of knowledge opens a door for all information true and false to enter the mind, allowing humans to believe false information. This is dangerous because humans are unaware of whats untruthful, allowing the social engineer to be who ever they desire in the humans mind.
Social engineering doesnt just stop there. It takes the best of people, their great hearts and uses that side of the human against themselves. The way it works is people tend to want to help each other out. All of our lives we are taught team work; working as a team and helping each other. This human error makes it hard to thinking doubtful when a person believes they have just received a phone call at work from a fellow employee that needs their help. People tend to favor others who have similar traits as them, such as other people who dont know how computers work. They might give little tips and secrets if they feel that it might better the person. Also, people from the same hometown tend to favor others from their hometown. This favoring leads to extra help.
Being a woman in the field of social engineering is the biggest advantage. The reason why is because men love women. Men always want to help a woman over a man. Being a women and having a sexy voice is also a plus. Imagine a beautiful person of the opposite sex asking you a quick question. Chances are your going to try to spend as much time as you can communication with them and of course you would help them. You do want to make your self look good.
Two great examples of how fellow employee had the willingness and desire to help others are excerpts from Kevin Mitnicks The Art of Deception. The first one involves a woman named Didi who calls the Real Estate of a department pretending to have reached the wrong number. The call starts out with "Sorry to bother you", she explains that shes a fellow employee who has lost her company directory. She then asks where she is supposed to call to get a new copy. He implies that he can helpfully look up the number for her. He does and she has the number. Its more than likely that the reason why he gave her the number was to keep her on the phone. Her style of talking included her sweet, sexy voice. Another example is a social engineer dials the private phone company number for the MLAC, the Mechanized Line Assignment Center. When the woman answers the call he tells her Hey, this is Paul Anthony. Im a cable splicer. Listen, a terminal box out here got fried in a fire. Cops think some creep tried to burn his own house down for the insurance. They got me out here alone trying to rewire this entire two hundred-pair terminal. I could really use some help right now. What facilities should be working at 6723 South Main? The reasoning behind why she helped him is because she feels sorry for him; she too has had a few bad days of her own working on the job. So she decides to help her fellow employee with the problem.
Some people just have a good heart. Others do not, but when receiving a phone call from a higher authority, people tend to bow down and many like to kiss ass. With the social engineer calling and acting like some big shot that has higher authority over the person they called can get them all the help they could ever want. Most people are afraid of losing their jobs by doing their duties wrong or by upsetting their bosses. Thats the reason behind gaining extra and, in some cases, instant help by just saying youre a CEO.
Giving out help to someone is very dangerous and harmful because victim in a sense is loading the gun for the social engineer with the bullets.
To sum it up you could say that social engineering is very similar to one of the those "help the homeless/battered" people standing outside of a supermarket asking if you can donate any change to help the homeless/battered. People usually trust them and believe them. People who dont donate are mostly people that do not want to give up their change and people who do not have any money. The reason why people do contribute to the jar is because they have the willingness and desire to help others. There is not a way to verify that they are legit except to call their affiliation. Even then you dont know if the people answering the phone that was given to you by the person ringing the bell are going to be completely honest. They could be part of the scheme, if there was one.
With social engineering, the person being attacked has no real way to identify if the person they are speaking to is really who they say they are, unless they in fact know the person and can recognize that the person they are speaking to is in fact not the person they say they are by their voice.
Thats the reason why social engineering succession exists and why it is impossible to detect is because of human error, and with it in effect no one is safe; not you, not me, nobody. This is very dangerous because everyones sensitive information is up for grabs for the social engineer. Not knowing what the social engineering will use this information is harmful. There is not such thing as Security. Its only an illusion designed to keep thefts away, but in reality creates a false feeling of safety. A safety net that will never be safe because of the human error.


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Confession Friday: My Glamorous Life as a Poet/Writer/Editor (Enjoy the view...)
I am writing to you from the Best Western Hotel while looking out to a parking lot, a patch of grass and one red picnic table, waiting for the writers' conference I'm teaching at to begin.
I have already been locked out of the hotel (no really, who gets locked out of a hotel?) two times and have gone down to get breakfast (before I knew any writers were up) but forgot my spoon.
So I went down again, this time right after a shower with wet hair trying not to make eye contact with any other poets, famous writers, agents, who are staying here.
I'm watching the clock as in 30 minutes, I will be shuttled to a chat about writer's tools-- I hope someone brings up blow torches.
Here's some things that teaching at a writers conference reminds me of--
1) We are still doing are best, bumbling around, and we are completely lost without our packets.
This is how writers operate at conferences--where is my schedule, where do I need to be next.
Our packets include a nametag, where we need to be and at what time, and tickets for drinks and lunch.
In my fantasy life as a writer, I am in Mexico on a tiled patio overlooking the Pacific and someone is bringing me margaritas while I watch the sunset while conversing with poets who passionate about their art.
In real life, I get a drink ticket for boxed wine.
2) I confess the life of a writer, and life of a working writer are two very different things.
The life of a writer is composed of all the great stories--the time I met Li-Young Lee in a Native American smokehouse, the time Naomi Shihab Nye write me a letter, a first publication, a handwritten rejection from the New Yorker, the time I read poetry in my pajamas with 3 other poets in a Seattle hotel, having lunch with someone you just met and being able to fill the entire afternoon because you are both writers.
The life of a working writer is deadlines, schedules, and complimentary breakfasts if you're lucky.
It's finishing projects, not getting distracted by the internet, suffering through doubt, feeling completely connected and in love with all your writer buddies, then feeling terribly alone as if no one understands you.
But in the end, even when you don't know where you are going, you still write on.
3) I confess when I really *love* a writer, I cannot talk to him or her because I become Neanderthal Girl: "Me like your books."
This happens to me at conferences a lot, I become an even more awkward version of myself.
I confess I have said stupid things to Bob Hicok. I have not had a book signed because I was too afraid to walk up to Famous Poet X, while everyone hovered and chattered around her, I took off to the restroom to put on lipstick. This is the adult version of hiding in the closet until the stranger goes home.
4) I realize I just love hanging out with writers and I don't arrive with an agenda except:
a) Do my best
b) Make others who have signed up to be here feel comfortable
c) Try to be helpful
If someone let's says "we should network" I run screaming from the event. The only networks I like are spiderwebs--that's some good net work--otherwise, I'm not interested connected...unless you want to talk about craft or art or struggles...
Give me a room of people who can further my career, and I will be talking to the one person who can't because honestly, usually that's the most interesting person in the room.
I'm not interested in climbing. I'm interested in perching on the ledge with you and discussing parachute colors.
5) Enjoy the view.
Looking out my window at the parking lot, I realize I can see concrete or I can see sky.
I can see the weird little cart used to pick up garbage, or I can see the sun coming through the trees.
This is our lives, every day of it.
We can look out the window and say, "We've paved paradise" or we can notice the greenery.
I can see the beauty in the connection of meeting new people or I can hear the heater running all night in the room next to me.
I'm seeing the sunlight, feeling the cool pillowcase on my cheek as I think about being here. I always believe at every conference, there will be at least one person I'm thankful I met. There are usually more.
And just like the the writer who told me, "I was a little afraid to come here, I didn't know what to expect, but I'm glad I did," I can also say-- "Yes, I know that feeling well and I agree."
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Suarez is winning over critics
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers feels Luis Suarez is winning over his critics with his form after his controversial start in British football.
The Uruguayan joined the Reds in January 2011 and in December of that year was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.
Last season he was handed another ban for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic, meaning he did not play until September this campaign, but that has not stopped him netting 19 goals as Liverpool battle for a Champions League place.
And Rodgers, who has given his public backing to Suarez on numerous occasions, believes that form on the field is beginning to win over those who are not on the red side of Merseyside.
"He's absolutely in the right place," Rodgers told several national newspapers. "Supporters around the country are marveling at his talent and he is gaining the understanding of the culture here.
"Throughout South America and parts of Europe it is part of the game to maybe get the referee to make a decision for you. He has recognized and realized that this is a country where honesty is very much at the forefront of the game.
"He's well on the way to being the PFA Player of the Year. Whether he gets the award or not, there certainly hasn't been a better player consistently this season and he'll be looking to continue along that vein.
"It would be a great testament to not only him but (to us) as a people as well. (When) people get knocked down, we like to see that sometimes in this country, but we're also a nation that will pick people up again, and that's something you can see in the football world with Suarez."
Rodgers was also full of praise for the way the striker, who recently penned a new long-term contract, handled himself in the wake on the Ivanovic biting incident.
"There was a lot of self-reflection and he probably thought he couldn't have gone any lower," Rodgers admitted.
"I know he was in a real bad place at the time and sometimes in life it takes you to get to that point and you have to assess it and you go one of two ways.
"In that period there were a lot of difficult moments for him but as he became closer to staying and realizing he was going to be playing fairly quickly, he's been exemplary in his behavior.
"On the pitch everyone can see the maturity and his level of performance speaks for itself."


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One of the things I've wondered about is what the folk model of linear logic is. Basically, I've noticed that people use linear logic an awful lot, and they have very clear intuitions about the operational behavior they expect, but they are often not clear about what equational properties they expect to hold are.
Since asking that question, I've learned about a few models of linear logic, which are probably worth blogging about. Morally, I ought to start by showing how linear algebra is a model of linear logic, but I'll set that aside for now, and start with some examples that will be more familiar to computer scientists.
First, recall that the general model of simply-typed functional languages are cartesian closed categories, and that the naive model of functional programming is "sets and functions". That is, types are interpreted as sets, and terms are functions between sets, with the cartesian closed structure corresponding to function spaces on sets.
Next, recall that the general model of intuitionistic linear logic are symmetric monoidal closed categories. So the question to ask is, what are some natural symmetric monoidal closed category given by sets-with-structure and functions preserving that structure? There are actually many answers to this question, but one I like a lot I learned from a 1999 LICS paper by Martin Hofmann, and is called "length spaces". It is very simple, and I find it quite beautiful.
To understand the construction, let's first set out the problem: how can we write programs that respect some resource bounds? For example, we may wish to bound the memory usage of a language, so that every definable program is size-bounded: the output of a computation is no bigger than its input.
Now, let's proceed in a really simple-minded way. A length space is a pair $(A, \sigma_A)$, where $A$ is a set and $\sigma_A : A \to \N$ is a size function. Think of $A$ as the set of values in a type, and $\sigma_A$ as a function which tells you how big each element is. These pairs will be the objects of our category of length spaces.
Now, define a morphism $f : (A, \sigma) \to (B, \tau)$ to be a function on sets $A \to B$, with the property that $\forall a \in A.\; \tau(f\;a) \leq \sigma(a)$. That is, the size of the output is always less then or equal to the size of the input.
Here's the punchline: length spaces are a symmetric monoidal closed category.
Given two length spaces $(A, \sigma)$ and $(B, \tau)$, they have a monoidal product $(A, \sigma) \otimes (B, \tau) = (A \times B, \fun{(a,b)}{\sigma(a) + \tau(b)})$. The unit is $I = (\{*\}, \fun{*}{0})$, and the associators and unitors are inherited from the cartesian product. The intuition here is that strict pair, requires resources equal to the sum of the resources of the components.
The function space construction is pretty clever, too. The exponential $(B, \sigma) \multimap (C, \tau) = (B \to C, \fun{f}{\min\comprehend{a \in \N}{\forall b \in B.\;\tau(f\;b) \leq \sigma(b) + a}})$. The intuition here is that if you have a morphism $A \otimes B \to C$, when we curry it we want a morphism $A \to (B \multimap C)$. However, the returned function may have free variables in $A$, so the size of the value it can return should be bounded by the size of its input $b \in B$ plus the size of its environment.
We also have a cartesian product, corresponding to lazy pairs. We define $(A, \sigma) \times (B, \tau) = (A \times B, \fun{(a,b)}{\max(\sigma(a), \tau(b)})$. The intuition is that with a lazy pair, where we have the (linear) choice of either the first or second component, we can bound the space usage by maximum of the two alternatives.
Note how pretty this model is -- you can think about functions in a totally naive way, and that's fine. We just carry around a little extra data to model size information, and now we have a very pretty extensional model of an intensional property -- space usage. This also illustrates the general principle that increasing the observations you can do creates finer type distinctions.