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Big Ben is putting up numbers, Cam Newton, Nick Foles, Bobby Rainey, Rashad Jennings, Michael Floyd and more in Scott Cullens 50 Points on NFL Week 11. 1. Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger (29-for-45, 367 YDS, 4 TD) is now averaging 290.1 passing yards per game, ranking fifth. His 17 touchdown passes ranks ninth, so there hes establishing himself firmly as a fantasy starter at this point. Steelers WR Antonio Brown (7 REC, 147 YDS, 2 TD, 13 targets) is rising up along with Roethlisberger, averaging 95.2 receiving yards per game, ranking fifth. 2. Panthers QB Cam Newton (19-for-28, 209 YDS, 3 TD; 62 YDS, 7 carries) had a strong game against New England, both in fantasy tersm and in terms of leading a 13-play, 83-yard drive for the game-winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter. 3. With Doug Martin and Mike James injured, Buccaneers RB Bobby Rainey (167 YDS, 3 TD, 32 touches) forced his way into a star-making role against Atlanta. Brian Leonard got the first couple carries against the Falcons but, on Tampa Bays second possession, Rainey ripped off three runs for double-digit gains in his first three carries, setting him up for the most productive game of his young career, quite a bit better than his previous best: 45 yards rushing the week before. 4. Eagles QB Nick Foles (17-for-26, 298; 47 YDS, 1 TD, 9 carries) didnt throw a touchdown pass -- he didnt throw an interception either -- in the win over Washington. His QB Rating (128.0) ranks first and his Total QBR (ESPN) ranks second only to Peyton Manning. 5. Broncos QB Peyton Manning (24-for-40, 323 YDS, 1 TD) spread the ball around to his usual favourites: WR Demaryius Thomas (5 REC, 121 YDS, 13 targets), Wes Welker (8 REC, 72 YDS, 10 targets) and Eric Decker (5 REC, 71 YDS, 6 targets). 6. Lions WR Calvin Johnson (6 REC, 179 YDS, 2 TD, 13 targets) extended his lead among wide receivers in terms of yardage. Johnson has averaged 120.3 receiving yards per game, the next best among wideouts to play at least eight games, is Houstons Andre Johnson (96.6 receiving yards/game). 7. Texans WR Andre Johnson (10 REC, 116 YDS, 17 touches) is doing his thing, averaging over 90 receiving yards per game for the seventh time in the last eight seasons and posting one touchdown for every two games played. 8. Browns WR Josh Gordon (5 REC, 125 YDS, 1 TD, 15 targets) had his fourth game with at least 125 receiving yards. In eight games, he has 751 receivnig yards, a 1,502-yard pace over a full season. He ranks sixth among all wideouts with 93.9 yards per game this season. 9. Cardinals QB Carson Palmer (30-for-42, 419 YDS, 2 TD) had the second-most passing yards of his career Sunday, his most since 2006. Cardinals WR Michael Floyd (6 REC, 193 YDS, 1 TD, 11 targets) had a monster game against the Jaguars, surpassing last seasons finale, when he had 166 receiving yards, for a new career high. TE Rob Housler (6 REC, 70 YDS, 9 targets), now healthy, is also emerging as a viable target for Palmer. 10. Raiders RB Rashad Jennings (150 YDS, 1 TD, 22 carries) continues to be a beast filling in for Darren McFadden. Given that Jennings has been a lock for 100-plus yards every time he gets 20 touches this season, the Raiders may need to find a permanent role for him in the offence. 11. Even in a lopsided loss, Jets RB Chris Ivory (98 YDS, 15 carries) had another strong performance. Its the third time in the last four games that Ivory has rushed for at least 95 yards. 12. Giants RB Andre Brown (93 YDS, 21 touches) had a second straight productive week, though lost a short yardage touchdown opportunity to Brandon Jacobs. 13. Ravens RB Ray Rice (148 YDS, 1 TD 28 touches) had his best game of the season at Chicago. It was only the second time this season that hes had more than 75 yards from scrimmage. 14. 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick (17-for-31, 127 YDS, 2 TD, 1 INT; 25 YDS, 3 carries) continues to put up abysmal stats. It was the eighth time in the last nine games that he passed for fewer than 200 yards. 15. Bears RB Chris Ogbonnaya (99 YDS, 1 fumble, 14 touches) and Fozzy Whitaker (61 YDS, 9 touches) saw more action than ineffective veteran Willis McGahee (17 YDS, 8 touches) at Cincinnati. Ogbonnaya could be an interesting option down the stretch if hes going to be the primary option for the Browns. 16. Buccaneers QB Mike Glennon (20-for-23, 231 YDS, 2 TD) was ridiculously accurate against Atlanta and while his numbers havent been gaudy, having not passed for more than 275 yards in a game, hes also thrown eight touchdowns and one interception in the last five games. 17. With Stevie Johnson and Robert Woods out due to injuries, Bills WR Marquise Goodwin (6 REC, 81 YDs, 1 TD, 9 targets), a rookie drafted in the third round out of Texas, stepped up and was the primary target for QB E.J. Manuel. 18. Bears RB Matt Forte (125 YDS, 1 TD, 23 touches) now ranks third among running backs with 1148 yards from scrimmage. 19. Eagles RB LeSean McCoy (150 YDS, 2 TD, 24 touches) had his first multi-touchdown game of the season and it was his second straight game with at least 150 yards from scrimmage. He left, for a time late in the first half, with a hamstring injury, but returned in the second half. 20. Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles (72 YDS, 18 touches) was held under 100 yards from scrimmage for the second straight week and his 72 yards and 18 touches against Denver both represented season-lows. 21. Bengals RB Giovani Bernard (86 YDS, 14 touches) and BenJarvus Green-Ellis (62 YDS, 16 carries) both contributed against Cleveland, still a lot of balance considering how much more productive Bernard is by comparison. Green-Ellis has 158 touches, compared to 147 for Bernard, this season. 22. Lions RB Reggie Bush (54 YDS, 1 fumble, 15 touches) was benched against Pittsburgh, but it wasnt because of his fumble, it was due to the weather. Apparently, thoroughbreds like Bush arent suited for rain. Anyway, Joique Bell (97 YDS, 1 TD, 12 touches) delivered another strong game. As second-team running backs go, Bell has been the most productive. He ranks 19th among running backs in yards from scrimmage, but first among those to have a teammate ahead of them on the list. 23. Steelers RB LeVeon Bell (88 YDS, 22 touches) isnt doing much on the ground, averaging 3.1 yards per carry and 53.6 rushing yards per game, but becomes a productive option once 34.0 receiving yards per game is added to the equation. 24. Chargers RB Ryan Mathews (143 YDS, 21 touches) had his biggest yardage game of the season against Miami, but hes been so up-and-down, its going to take more than one or two games to build up expectations. 25. Texans RB Ben Tate (117 YDS, 23 touches) is making hay with Arian Foster out of the lineup. Look for Tate to be a productive back, possibly RB1 level, over the rest of the season. 26. Falcons WR Harry Douglas (6 REC, 134 YDS, 1 TD, 9 targets) is putting up strong numbers since landing a spot in the starting lineup. In the last five games, he has 35 catches for 535 yards. 27. Texans QB Case Keenum (13-for-24, 170 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT) was replaced by Matt Schaub (12-for-25, 155 YDS) in Sundays loss to the Raiders, but Keenum will be back under centre again next week. Hes been so productive since taking the starting job, it was a strange decision to yank him after three three-and-outs to start the second half against Oakland. 28. Raiders QB Matt McGloin (18-for-32, 197 YDS, 3 TD) was surprisingly effective in his first NFL start and while his numbers werent huge, they were enough to get productive days from WR Rod Streater (6 REC, 84 YDS, 1 TD, 8 targets) and TE Mychal Rivera (5 REC, 54 YDS, 1 TD, 6 targets). 29. Colts RB Donald Brown (94 YDS, 2 TD, 15 touches) is taking touches away from an unproductive Trent Richardson (53 YDS, 13 touches). Good thing the Colts gave up that first-round pick for a second-string runner. 30. Saints RB Pierre Thomas (84 YDS, 16 touches) was the most active back against San Francisco. After a breakout game the week before Mark Ingram (29 YDS, 7 touches) didnt do much and Darren Sproles (35 YDS, 7 touches) even saw fewer touches than normal. 31. Dolphins RB Daniel Thomas (59 YDS, 11 touches) was more effective than Lamar Miller (37 YDS, 6 touches) against San Diego. Millers still the better option, but its not a consistently clearcut situation. 32. Broncos RB Montee Ball (41 YDS, 2 TD, 11 touches) had a productive effort against Kansas City, particularly with those two scores, but Knowshon Moreno (79 YDS, 27 carries) remains the lead horse in that backfield. 33. The Patriots backfield is getting crowded again, particularly when RB Stevan Ridley (48 YDS, 1 TD, 13 carries) fumbles. LeGarrette Blount (49 YDS, 10 carries) and a returning Shane Vereen (72 YDS, 9 touches) were also factors against Carolina. 34. Neither of Arizonas running backs, Rashard Mendenhall (27 YDS, 1 TD, 16 touches) nor Andre Ellington (13 YDS, 10 touches), could get loose against Jacksonville. Strange, but true. 35. Aside from Newton running, the Panthers rushed surprisingly little against New England. Running backs Jonathan Stewart (10 YDS, 4 carries), DeAngelo Williams (25 YDS, 8 touches) and Mike Tolbert (17 YDS, 6 carries) didnt amount to much. 36. Jaguars WR Ace Sanders (8 REC, 61 YDS, 10 targets) was the top Jaguars receiver Sunday, inexplicably getting more action than Cecil Shorts (2 REC, 22 YDS, 5 targets) and Mike Brown (2 REC, 23 YDS, 3 targets), unless Chad Henne was dead-set against challenging Cardinals CB Patrick Peterson, so he stayed with his rookie slot receiver more often. 37. Titans RB Chris Johnson (86 YDS, 2 TD, 17 carries) had a solid game against the Colts, while Titans TE Delanie Walker (10 REC, 91 YDS, 1 TD, 10 targets) is emerging as a receiving threat. Three times in the last four weeks, Walker has recorded at least 50 receiving yards with a touchdown. 38. Texans TE Garrett Graham (7 REC, 136 YDS, 1 TD, 1 fumble, 13 targets) had a strong game against the Raiders. His previous career-best had been Nov. 18, 2012 , when he had 82 receiving yards. 39. Colts TE Coby Fleener (8 REC, 107 YDS, 10 targets) set a career-high for receiving yards, his most since Week One last season, the first game of his career, when he had six catches for 82 yards. 40. The Chargers passing game against Miami was ruled by tight ends Lardarius Green (4 REC, 81 YDS, 5 targets) and Antonio Gates (4 REC, 52 YDS, 1 TD, 6 targets). 41. Dolphins TE Charles Clay (6 REC, 90 YDS, 1 TD, 7 targets) and WR Brian Hartline (5 REC, 65 YDS, 13 targets) were the most productive Miami receivers against the Chargers. 42. Packers QB Scott Tolzien (24-for-34, 339 YDS, 0 TD, 3 INT) had solid yardage in his first NFL start. If only he could avoid those pesky interceptions. 43. Packers RB Eddie Lacy (48 YDS, 16 touches) may have run into trouble against a Giants team that was willing to let Tolzien throw to beat them. It was Lacys fewest yards from scrimmage this season, aside from Week Two when he was injured on his first carry of the game. 44. Giants WR Victor Cruz (8 REC, 110 YDS, 13 targets) had his first 100-yard game since Week Four. Eli Mannings poor season is natually having an effect on the production of his wide receivers. 45. Vikings TE John Carlson (5 REC, 69 YDS, 7 targets) had another solid game in place of injured Kyle Rudolph. WR Jarius Wright (3 REC, 69 YDs, 2 TD, 4 targets) made the most of his opportunity against Seattle too. 46. Bills RB Fred Jackson (39 YDS, 14 touches) and C.J. 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Once Again, Court Says Homeland Security Is Free To Seize & Search Your Computer Without A Warrant At The Border
from the bad-rulings deptWe've noted, repeatedly, how troubling it is that customs seems to feel no duty to obey the 4th Amendment at the border, and that the courts have allowed this. It's even worse when it comes to searching digital devices, such as laptops. As we've explained before, what you have access to via your laptop is entirely different than what you pack in a suitcase for entering the country:
- You mostly store everything on your laptop. So, unlike a suitcase that you're bringing with you, it's the opposite. You might specifically choose what to exclude, but you don't really choose what to include. With a suitcase, you specifically choose what to include.
- The reason you bring the contents on your laptop over the border is because you're bringing your laptop over the border. If you wanted the content of your laptop to go over the border you'd just send it using the internet. There are no "border guards" on the internet itself, so content flows mostly freely across international boundaries. Thus if anyone wants to get certain content into a country via the internet, they're not doing it by entering that country through border control.
And, once again, we have yet another appeals court ruling that says this is fine even if the laptop is taken away from the customs station and brought into the country. We've had similar rulings in the past, and this one involves laptops that were taken away from the border and brought to another location, 170 miles away, where they were searched. The lower court said this evidence could not be used, but the appeals court reinstated the evidence, claiming that tossing out such evidence "would only reward those individuals who, either because of the nature of their contraband or the sophistication of their criminal enterprise, hide their contraband more cleverly or would be inclined to seek entry at more vulnerable points less equipped to discover them."
But that makes no sense. I mean, if you're good at hiding your "contraband" that's already true. Nothing about this ruling changes that. All this ruling does is say that it's okay for border officials from Homeland Security to search through your stuff without reasonable suspicion. It's not about rewarding people who better hide things, it's about the basic requirement of the 4th Amendment that there be probable cause before the government can take your stuff and search it. Only the dissenting judge seemed to recognize this basic issue in the ruling, which is embedded below, noting: "I add my voice to the chorus lamenting the apparent demise of the Fourth Amendment."
The majority ruling claims that it's not setting up an "anything goes" situation at the border, but it's difficult to see how it's placed any limits at all on Homeland Security. It claims that it's fine to search laptops at the border, because Homeland Security and ICE have a compelling reason to keep material out of the US that it doesn't want crossing the border. But, when it comes to digital content, that's just silly. No one is crossing the border with a laptop to "get content into the country." They can do that using the internet just fine. Claiming that searching the contents of a laptop are like searching a suitcase is as if you are technically illiterate.
Of course, since this is a child porn/child abuse claim, it's easy to say that it's a "good thing" that the search caught this guy -- which it did. And I'm happy he was eventually arrested. But I'm still troubled with how the evidence was collected, and anyone who crosses the border with their computers should be equally concerned. Don't let the fact that this case was about child pornography detract from the important issues about your own privacy rights concerning information stored on a laptop.
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The Historical Architectural Review Board (HARB) is a public advisory body created by state and local laws, the Board of Historical Architectural Review is known, locally and nationally, as HARB. HARB operates under the authority of the State of Pennsylvania's Historic District Act, General Assembly #167 of 1961, as amended 1963. Lower Merion Township's HARB was created by Ordinance #1902 of 1980.
HARB's purpose is to help protect the distinctive and historic character of Lower Merion Township by considering the effects of proposed changes to buildings and properties within historic districts and on the Historic Properties List and by ruling on their appropriateness.
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A series of brochures, published by the HARB, that contain information about architectural review standards and guidelines to help move a project quickly through the approval process. The brochures are available from the Township's Building & Planning Department (610-645-6200). PDF copies are linked below.
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A lot of magazine articles dedicated to the subject of dating photographs, would use clues such as fashion and the model of the car to date this photograph. Fortunately, my grandmother wrote on the back of almost every photo so I can use my family tree to make the job a bit easier:
"Grandad Reid; Grandma Reid; Aunt Mona; & probably Ron; & Eric; Uncle Walter's car"
'Grandad and Grandma Reid' are Alexander Gibson REID and Janet HUNTER who married in Glasgow 1886 and emigrated to New Zealand soon after. It's quite exciting to have photographs of people who for a long time were only names on the 1871 and 1881 censuses.
'Aunt Mona' was mentioned in my previous post so it is also quite exciting to have a picture of her. 'Uncle Walter' must have been taking the photo. They married in 1925 – my grandmother and her older sister were flowergirls for their wedding – so the photo is obviously post 1925.
Eric BRUNDELL, the baby being held by 'Grandma Reid', was born in October 1928 which means this photograph was taken late 1928 or early 1929.
'Grandad Reid' died in late 1929 which to me makes this photo as poignant as the one of Ngaire (see here).
I'd love to know the make and model of 'Uncle Walter's car'. Any vintage car enthusiasts care to hasten a guess?


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More look at Disc talents as PVP-BG
I've spent some time pondering my talent choices. To briefly summarize, I copied some decently rated Disc priest's choices with only one or two changes just to have a working base. I knew I'd be tweaking. This is… pretweak, really.
The talent that's really and truly caught my eye is improved mana burn.
With the talent (2/2) it's 2 seconds instead of 3 to cast. Add in the fact it's 30 yards and it is no longer the "looks nice but low value in PVP" that is Mind Control. (snicker. 10 seconds of mind control in PVP. Fun while it lasts, IF you can get it off.) That said… I'm not really convinced that in BG-PVP it's that good a deal either. Arena – yes, cold. But in the chaos that's BG…
It's essentially worthless on a warlock. (siphon life/life tap – the warlock's perpetual motion machine.) Mages have such huge pools of mana – especially if using a few stones – that unless they've already burned a lot it's not going to have significant impact. It IS of use against paladins, CAN BE of use against druids (noting innervate as a counter), and is of moderate use against shamans unless/until they pop a totem or two. It's useful against hunters if you can get inside their range without being noticed — their surprisingly small pool is especially vulnerable. Priests have large enough pools that, well, it would take 11 casts — 33 (or 22) seconds with no lag — to drain my pool. Rogues (AGAIN) and Warriors scoff at the spell.
It is not useless. And working with another mana burner, especially with the opponent burning mana with spells, can be critical. But…
But I'm not certain it really is of use in a BG, where the player comes back at you no more than 30 seconds later. That's the real kicker, I think. The fact that in BGs a death is basically a "time out".
At this point in time it sits on top of my list of talent points to move. I'm not going to move any, of course, till I get past this weekend. And I'm going to make a conscious attempt to use it when possible. But mostly I'm healing – damage is very secondary – and so I'm not sure it's going to be useful ENOUGH – even at 2 seconds instead of 3. And that last reiteration is the big thing. The talent points don't give me the spell or improve its effect. It's "just" faster. But it's not quite in my preferred zone, so…
We'll see.
Have fun.
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No wonder the Holy tree was kinda light! GHeal is useful to keep alive a well geared ally and you aren't under heavy fire. In the end, it's just preference. 🙂
I've found it… situationally useful. IF there are enough shammy/druid healers in the immediate vicinity, then yes, it can be good for a giggle, but like most offensive spells if you're healing, it needs a switch of mentality to utilise. You need to stop targeting your folks and switch to the enemy. That done, you need to find some1 with a smallish mana pool who's already burned half of it and IS IN RANGE. Outside of WSG, this can be difficult to arrange, and in any case involves getting far closer to the general melee than is really comfortable. I've only used it untalented (manaburning combat pallies & other heal-tanking priests) and it is, frankly, and IMO, a waste of time. Switching between heal thinking and attack thinking is hard work. Talented, maybe, it has a place – but the attitude switch is still difficult.


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Here We Go
Gird your loins, boys and girls, it's time for the California Election! The good news is that in 24 hours, it'll be over, unless someone manages to pull a Florida on us, which all things considered, would be the least surprising thing about this whole mess. But no matter what, Californians are about to get the government they deserve, and you can take that statement however you want to take it.
You ask: "John, if you were still in California, how would you vote?" Well, I'll tell you, since I'm not, so I can't. First, I'd vote against the recall, because, really, what a foolish idea, people. If some person with more money than sense can just spend a couple million to invalidate an election for no other reason than not liking the guy who is governor, you have to question the utility of elections in the first place. You might as well just punt to oligarchy. I don't have any special love for Gray Davis, but my personal threshold of recall involves undeniable criminal activity, which is not the case here.
But as I understand it, Californians also have to list their choice for governor even if they vote against the recall. And I have to say I'd probably vote for Schwarzenegger just to see what happens next. I realize, of course, that this is a terrifying reason to vote for anyone for anything. But if you're going to go screaming over the precipice of sanity, might as well do it in style. And who knows? Maybe he can pull it off. In any event, it saves us from that Conan movie that's loitering in pre-production.
The blog world is all over this. Here are some sources for commentary and such for today's election: PrestoPundit, CalBlog, The California Insider, Boomshock, and I'll be surprised if CalPundit doesn't have a few things to say by the end of the day.
Good luck, California! You're gonna need it.


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At the root of the opposition to President Obama's gun policies is a fear that some of these policies, notably an assault weapons ban and a limitation on the size of ammo clips, violate the Second Amendment and, in any event, are a "slippery slope" toward confiscation of all guns.
This is nuts. The Second Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, allows for regulation of guns to protect public safety. There is no second Amendment violation hiding in President Obama's proposals.
In addition, there is no evidence that the president wants to confiscate guns already owned by citizens or to bar most future gun sales. President Obama's proposals apply only to future gun and ammo purchases and, then, only to a small subset of equipment that civilians surely don't need but that clearly threaten public safety.
As to the argument made by some that that we need to own assault weapons to be able to challenge a tyrannical federal government, this smacks of paranoia. We hold elections to change federal policies we don't like. If you don't like the policies resulting from an election, start working to elect different people the next time. Assault weapons and large clips (actually all gun violence) are never the answer in our Democracy.


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Freight forwarding and contract logistics continues to be a growth industry. Though such growth is expected to slow somewhat (from a high of 3 percent over the past five years to about 1.5 percent in the near term), that rate will still likely outpace that of global GDP—a good situation to be in, considering current economic circumstances.
Even so, freight and logistics companies will need to deal with numerous issues in the years ahead. For example, as trade routes become more competitive and as freight rates fall, the industry's traditional bargaining power with its shippers—volume—will be challenged. One important strategy to counter this challenge is to use balance sheet strength to acquire niche players in important trade routes and geographies, especially in emerging markets.
Another key to growth and profitability will be the ability to analyze customers' needs and then respond quickly with differentiated and advanced logistics solutions. That will require better IT tools to improve internal process efficiency and to generate analyses that result in deeper understanding of customers' industries and business processes.
According to recent Accenture High Performance Business research, which analyzed corporate performance in the freight forwarding and contract logistics industry from 2008 to 2011, high performers owe their success to a combination of factors: dominance over profitable trade lanes; strategic growth in key emerging markets; and business models supported by operational excellence and designed to develop expertise in customers' industries while empowering those customers with greater information and better service at the same time.
Industry background
As customers enter new markets, especially in emerging economies, they are demanding much more than traditional transportation and warehousing services from their freight forwarding and contract logistics providers. The ability to offer new, value-added services such as warranty processing, returns management and light manufacturing is now a differentiator, as is providing services such as customs and insurance brokerage, and trade and transportation management. In other words, the ability to become a "one-stop-shop provider" is emerging as a way to achieve differentiation and capitalize on cross-segment opportunities.
However, companies in the industry face multiple risks, particularly in light of continued global economic instability. Rising oil prices are a persistent threat. Industrial production slowed during 2011. Economic challenges in the European Union, political instability and unrest across multiple areas of the globe, and a series of natural disasters have highlighted the often fragile nature of the freight forwarding and logistics business and the industry's customer environment.
According to our research, the following represent some of the most serious risks:
- Flat growth for forwarders. After heavy losses in 2009, the sector recovered moderately in 2010. The past year has been a difficult one, with profit growth being limited to volume growth, and with yields unlikely to improve as freight rates remain under severe pressure.
- Pessimism about growth opportunities in air freight. In the Asia-Pacific region in particular, the air freight business has suffered more than container shipping recently.
- Ongoing overcapacity in ocean freight. Shipping rates for all routes continue to decline.
- Risk of cheap capacity. Counter-cyclical businesses such as freight forwarding or contract logistics, with relatively flexible business models, are better able to keep margins stable in the downturn—but they risk sitting on cheap capacity in an upturn.
On the positive side, demand is rising for advanced logistics capabilities and industry-focused solutions, especially in emerging markets. The increasing number of assembly plants in these markets—including Turkey, Mexico and Thailand—has positively affected the dynamics of the logistics industry.
Companies are also responding to market and economic pressure by restructuring their logistics organizations—consolidating service providers and functions, sharing logistics facilities and centralizing management.
Industry imperatives: What the high performers know
Against this background, according to Accenture's exclusive analysis of recent industry performance, high-performance businesses in freight forwarding and logistics have maintained industry-leading operating profit margins and above-average capital efficiency ratios—a result, we believe, of their tightly controlled operating expenses and strong working capital management.
In contrast to most of the companies in the industry, whose top-line growth suffered significantly in the global downturn, the high performers managed a compound annual growth rate of 13.4 percent over the past three years. They also returned a total of 7.5 percent to shareholders over five years—in contrast to negative returns for the rest of the industry peer group studied.
Using the structure of the three building blocks of high performance, as defined by the Accenture High Performance Business research program, the following are some of the important lessons about high performance from which all players in the freight forwarding and contract logistics industry can benefit.
1. Market focus and position
Due to a mixture of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, high performers not only have a strong presence in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico, they also exert control over the most profitable trade lanes: Europe to Asia, for example, or North America to both South America and Asia. Moreover, by leveraging dominant positions in domestic freight (both air and road), they have managed to maintain volume growth without compromising their revenues.
2. Distinctive capabilities
According to our analysis and scorecard of industry players, three business capabilities stand out in particular.
- Flexible business model. The high performers know that time to market is critical in their industry—and they have the flexibility to respond with speed and agility to their customers' need for convenience. High performers have established new ocean freight links to growth geographies such as Africa. And they have opened multiple new service links that span the global trade routes over which they dominate.
- Deep expertise in key customer industries. Industry knowledge is growing in importance as customers extend their supply chains in response to globalization. High performers have been leaders in developing extensive expertise in the industries they serve, going well beyond traditional transportation and warehousing solutions. Increasingly, logistics companies are strengthening their ability to collaborate and are better aligning themselves with customers' operations, processes, industry know-how and technology.
- Using IT to maintain 360-degree control. The high performers have moved well beyond using IT merely as an enabler of internal process management. Instead, they leverage their proprietary customer-facing technologies to empower their customers, offering them end-to-end visibility across the entire supply chain. Important to ongoing success will be the ability to develop more "intelligent" services, more dynamic planning and increased alignment with customers' operations and processes.Supply chain visibility remains a top operational priority for large customers. Customers generally struggle to achieve a unified picture of their supply chains because of the legacy information systems designed to operate within a single company, not across a network of companies. Thus, the ability to share real-time information with key customers, suppliers and partners has become critical in the freight forwarding industry.
3. Performance anatomy
With freight forwarding and contract logistics, performance anatomy relates not only to overall operational excellence but also to such procurement practices as the purchase of transportation capacity and the innovative use of shared services. Because of their relentless focus on productivity improvement, the high performers are masters of operational excellence, achieving significantly higher gross profit conversion.
These companies place much greater emphasis on process automation and on finding the right balance between volume commitments and spot buying—a strategy that enables them to achieve competitive rates in the most important trade lanes. And they have been enthusiastic adopters of shared services, not just for internal processes but also to improve customer services and supply chain management.
A controlling presence in key growth markets and the flexibility to respond swiftly and innovatively to customers' evolving needs distinguish the high performers in freight forwarding and contract logistics. In the future, deep expertise in customers' industries and in the discipline of cost control will be more critical than ever.
High performers will differentiate themselves further by offering supply chain management as a shared service to customers. To drive the continuous innovation of customer-facing applications, industry leaders will leverage IT-driven process management collaboratively with those customers.
About the author
Rob Knigge leads the Accenture Freight & Logistics group in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America.
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There are some really great, old photos as well as obituaries and newspaper articles, greeting cards and report cards. There are also letters and documents that tell a sad story of loss that is still deeply felt in our family. I've already started scanning the stuff from Mom's side of the family (yes, I do carry my Flip-Pal scanner with me on trips like this). There are a boatload of super old pictures from my dad's side, too, and I think I'm just going to take those home with me.
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When it comes to third periods, the Washington Capitals own them.
Facing a Minnesota Wild team that was desperate for points, had played the night before in Philadelphia, and had forged a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes, the Caps put the hammer down in the final frame getting Alexander Ovechkin's 40th goal of the season on the power play, Dmitry Orlov's game winner via a Harlem Globetrotters type move, and a huge victory clinching save from Braden Holtby with 33 seconds left en route to their 3-2 triumph at the Verizon Center.
Washington once again found themselves in penalty trouble in the first frame, taking three infractions, although the first one on Brooks Oprik was a total joke. The Wild capitalized on the third of those three man advantage situations to forge a 1-0 lead on Mikko Koivu's shot that went five hole on Holtby. It was the 14th time in the last 17 games that the Capitals allowed the first tally. Their first frame was not very good once the parade to the box began and they were outshot on goal, 12-3, and 22-8 overall in shot attempts. It was an ugly period and Koivu's tally, with 52 ticks left in the opening frame angered #70.
"Just over anticipating. I think they use a lot of tip plays and different things like that. Karl [Alzner] was in the lane and somehow the puck snuck through there. I need to be tighter there. Those are the plays I've been working on lately to solve, you don't see the puck, but you still make the save. I didn't do that," said the Holtbeast afterwards on that first goal.
Coach Barry Trotz was not happy with his team's play in the opening 20 minutes and he noted following the contest that he told the team they had to fix the problems themselves. It wasn't about X's and O's, it was about playing the right way. In period one, Washington was very sloppy with their passes, they were losing the loose puck battles, and were making poor decisions.
They started the second period with a vengeance and Oprik scored his second goal in four games, and his sixth point in six tilts since returning from a 40 game absence due to injury, just 54 seconds into the middle frame. But another costly mistake on defense allowed Nino Niederreiter to get a breakaway on Holtby and he beat him top shelf at 5:05 of the second to regain the Wild's one goal lead. After a few more rough minutes, the Capitals started to get their legs going and at the end of the period the shot attempts were 24-23 for Minnesota for those 20 minutes. Trotz told the media after the game that in the second period "we started fixing our battles."
In the third period, the Caps really amped it up against a club that looked exhausted playing on back to back nights and their third game in four nights. They were also missing their top forward in Zach Parise, who was out due to injury. Ovechkin scored blocker side on Darcy Kuemper (24 saves) with the man advantage after Matt Niskanen gave him an absolutely perfect pass, which was hard to do on this evening. Carrie Underwood held a concert at the Verizon Center on Thursday and the ice was downright horrible. As one member of the media said to me, "It's no surprise the ice is bad, because Carrie sure can melt some ice." Isn't that the truth and the surface was equally bad for both teams? Pucks were bouncing everywhere and skaters were falling down without even being touched.
But Washington fought through that and to their credit, they started owning the loose pucks as their coach preaches to them to do. The Caps had their fore-check going and were relentless in the last 20 minutes of this one. Orlov's goal came after Andre Burakovsky made a nice cross ice pass to #9 and then he put the biscuit through his legs like he was Curly O'Neal and fired a backhander on the cage that Kuemper allowed to squeeze though his pads with 5:04 remaining.
The Caps then really buckled down and when they needed a big stop, the Holtbeast delivered. It was Braden's strongest game (30 saves) in recent memory and he did it with his former bench boss, Adam Oates, the man who wanted him to play deeper in his net, in the house (Oates apparently is a paid consultant to Parise and Ryan Suter of the Wild).
The victory was Holtby's 39th of the season and he is 31-2-3 in his last 38 games. Holtby did have to make several big stops early in this one and he also was run into by Niederreiter in the first frame. All around the league I've continued to see players making contact with goaltenders and the infractions are rarely being called. It's becoming super dangerous to be a goalie these days. Kings Coach Darryl Sutter, just last week, commented on how Jonathan Quick continues to get run when he plays, as well. Following Friday's win, I asked Holtby about this phenomenon.
"It's one of those things where you solve the problem, but you create another one by putting the reviews in. There's no reason for refs to call goalie interference anymore because they know it's just going to go to review if it's a goal. You knew that was going to happen and that's no fault at all of the referees because if they make a mistake with the ability to have a review, then that's not a good thing either. So we just have to play through it and hope it doesn't cause any damage," stated the Holtbeast on the recent trend of goalies getting run over.
My take, the referees need to enforce the rulebook and do a better job of protecting the net minders before some goalie gets seriously hurt.
After this third period domination, and the Caps lead the NHL with 80 third frame goals to just 48 allowed, they move to 45-11-4, good for 94 points. That is just sick and unbelievable and it ties them with the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings for most wins in a team's first 60 games in NHL history.
Speaking of sick and unbelievable, how about that Gr8 guy, who now has scored 40 or more goals in eight NHL seasons? Ovechkin became the seventh player in NHL history to record 40 or more goals in eight of his first 11 seasons, joining Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Mike Bossy, Marcel Dionne, Brett Hull, and "Lucky" Luc Robitaille. He's the 10th player in NHL history to post at least eight 40 goal campaigns. Those stats are all courtesy of the Capitals excellent public relations staff.
So now it is on to Chicago to face the Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon at 12:30. GM Stan Bowman is intent on trying to win his fourth Stanley Cup in seven years. On Thursday he traded for forward Andrew Ladd from Winnipeg and then on Friday he added forwards Tomas Fleischmann and Mike Wiese from Montreal and defensemen Christian Ehroff from the Kings (who was in the minors after being waived). Those are some good moves, but it remains to be seen how Coach Joel Quenneville will integrate his new troops. After Friday's win, Coach Trotz joked that the Caps weren't even going to pre scout the Hawks for Sunday's game because they have like eight new guys. Too funny!
Speaking of jokes that are also somewhat serious, Coach Trotz was clearly not thrilled with another bad start and he stated afterwards, with a sly smile, that "we'll go on a walkabout on Saturday to see if we can find our game." Clearly the coach who holds everyone accountable is a Crocodile Dundee fan.
Here's to hoping that on Sunday in Chitown the Caps come out as sharp as Dundee's knife, for once.
Notes: Orpik had another fantastic game logging 24:44 and going +2. He had eight hits and five blocked shots. #44 is really playing well and his lengthy injury absence has to help Washington for the stretch run because the 35 year old is dealing with much less wear and tear…on the bad news front, John Carlson did not play due to a lower body injury and Coach Trotz confirmed that it is the knee that forced #74 to miss 12 games after Christmas. It remains to be seen if he will need the knee "to be fixed," but the Caps huge standings point lead and the depth they have on defense, which will increase when Mike Weber joins the team (his wife had a baby on Thursday), allows the club to be extra careful and work to get Carlson right for the post season…Ovechkin had an assist on the Orpik tally and Nicklas Backstrom had two helpers in the game, as well…Sunday in the Windy City starts a stretch where the Capitals will play six games in nine days.
WNST EVENT NOTE: Please come out to Buffalo Wild Wings on Monday night (February 29th) in Belair, Maryland as Nestor Aparacio and I will be interviewing Coach Trotz. There will also be trained personnel in attendance who will be swabbing people for the Bone Marrow Registry in an attempt to continue to fight Leukemia. It's an easy process, so please come on out, eat some wings, listen to the coach talk hockey, and support a great cause!


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Viewsonic has finally announced its ViewPad 7, its first Android tablet, will be coming to the UK, and revealed some pretty tasty specs.
The tablet, which we brought you news of last week, is set to make its debut at IFA this year, and will be sporting Android 2.2.
It will also have a 3G SIM slot, meaning on the go data use, as well as a VGA front facing camera and 3MP snapper on the rear.
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The Android tablet will also have Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and VoIP internet calling as standard, making it the largest phone we've seen on the market. And the stupidest, if you feel like holding it to your ear.
ViewSonic also promises that the new tablet will have handwritten note-taking capabilities, despite packing a capacitive screen, so we're assuming a special stylus might be included in the package.
The UK price is set to be £350, although we've yet to learn of a UK release date. However, we're expecting review samples in early October, so fingers crossed its not too long after that.
TechRadar will be on hand at IFA to get our hands all over this device, so stay tuned for our in-depth coverage all through the week.


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May 9, 2014 (ISN) – "Did you hear what Abby told me when he came out to the mound?" said Frenchy, my fellow pitcher and friend on the Portland Beavers pitching staff in 2008. "No, what'd he say?"
"Said that all I needed was a double play groundball. I said, 'Abby, there are two outs.' So he said, 'Good, then you only need one of the outs from that double play ball, but might as well get two just to be sure.' Then he smacked me in the ass and walked off the mound. What the hell was that about?"
"You got out of the inning, didn't you?" I said.
"Yeah, but not because I was told to roll a double play ball."
"How do you know?"'
"Trust me, I know."
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Mound visits are one of baseball's many arts. When a coach calls time and waddles out to the old agony patch in the middle of the infield, he often doesn't have time to say all the things he really wants to. It's not like a supervised practice session in the bullpen where you can pontificate on the virtues of working the bottom portion of the strike zone. It's like the Twitter version of coaching: You don't have room for many words.
Folks like to think that, if the outcome is positive after a mound visit, it worked. They got things sorted or, they must have fixed the issue. It's hardly that simple.
When a pitcher is in the middle of a game, you can't truly fix an issue. You can only steer him toward a temporary solution. In fact, the more in-depth coaches go, the more likely they are to make the pitcher double-minded — one half of his focus on the opponent, the other half on what part of him he needs to fix.
It's better to simply nudge the pitcher back in the direction you want him to go and hope that he gets himself back on track naturally. To do that, you must know your pitcher beyond mere mechanics
There are pitchers who need pep talks. Pitchers who need to be screamed at. Pitchers who need to be reminded on what to throw, and pitchers who need to be reminded to just relax and throw.
Sometimes a coach will make the walk out, ask you about how your girlfriend is in the sack and then stand there while you giggle, saying nothing about pitching at all. Sometimes he'll come out and just stare at you, waiting for the umpire to show up so he can rip him a new one over how bad his zone is.
Abby, our pitching coach in Portland, instructed Frenchy to get a double play ball because Frenchy was the type of pitcher that, if the ball were an egg, it would have exploded in his hand from holding it so tight. After getting hit around a little, Frenchy would come into the dugout screaming about how the other team had picked up his signs and how he needed to overhaul the entire operation. When that stuff started, the enemy was no longer the other team's bats, but Frenchy himself.
Asking a pitcher to roll a double play ball when there were already two outs is just a way of nudging his focus off himself and onto some other stupid thing in the world.
"It doesn't surprise me Abby told you that," I said to Frenchy as we anchored the left field foul line during batting practice, "One time he came out to me after I gave up a mess of homeruns in the same inning, and told me that I needed to slow down because the guy responsible for firing the home run cannon was having trouble keeping up."
"I would have punched him if he said that to me," said Frenchy.
"I know you would have. Which is why he said it to me. I just laughed."
The best coaches know their players' personalities, what motivates or defeats them. I needed to relax. Frenchy needed to stop fighting himself. But other guys on the squad, like Ox, the hard-throwing rage monster, needed to be pissed off. Abby would go tell him things like, "You want me to take you out or do you want to finish this, because it seems like you're doing everything you can to get an early exit."
Sometimes, when a pitcher is particularly aggressive or reactive to criticism in the heat of the moment, the manager will go out. The manager can say things that a pitching coach can't, or, in some cases, things a pitching coach shouldn't say.
Since the pitching coach is often the pitcher's most trusted confidant during the season, there is a natural opportunity for a manager to play bad cop to a pitching coach's good cop. Frustration with the manager draws a pitcher closer to the one advocate he feels he has. The pitching coach can then deliver instruction to the player — even if it's straight from the manager — under the guise of proving the manager wrong.
But going to the mound isn't always about playing therapist. Sometimes the pitcher is already off the rails and the coach or manager just wants to see how they'll react.
I was told that Lou Piniella was the kind of guy who would go out and threaten a rookie player with a demotion, call him a pussy, challenge him to be a man, or some combination of all of the above. If the pitcher folded, Lou knew what kind of guy he was dealing with. If the pitcher gave him some lip back, he knew the kid was a fighter. It's a pretty cruel way to find out what a player is made off, and, yet, there is no other time when what a player is made of matters more.
That said, the Piniella method could easily backfire. When a coach hits the mound, angry that a pitcher isn't tough or focused enough, it can make the player more concerned about being whatever the manager wants in that moment, and not being what got that pitcher to where he is in the first place.
As always, though, results are king — not how a player looks or feels while getting them.
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"I don't like it when he screws with me like that," said Frenchy as we walked off the batting practice field toward the dugout.
"He tells you what you need to hear and nothing more, that's what you're upset about. Besides, you ended up getting yourself out of a jam, didn't you?"
"Yeah, but it was a pop-fly, not a grounder, and I made that pitch, not Abby."
"Of course is was you, dummy. That's what Abby was relying on."
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Dirk Hayhurst is a former pitcher who spent nearly a decade in professional baseball between MiLB and MLB. He is also a best-selling author, and has appeared on Baseball America, Bleacher Report, Deadspin, The Score, ESPN, TBS' MLB postseason broadcasts, Sportsnet Canada and more. More from Dirk at www.dirkhayhurst.com. Follow him on Twitter at @thegarfoose


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Opinion analysis: Who "makes†statements under the federal securities laws?
Monday"™s decision in Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders provided a bright-line rule with respect to potential primary liability under Securities and Exchange Rule 10(b)-5, which prohibits "mak[ing] any untrue statement of material fact" in connection with the purchase or sale of securities: in a decision by Justice Thomas (joined by the Chief Justice and Justices Scalia, Kennedy, and Alito), the Court limited potential primary liability under the Rule to speakers and persons and entities with ultimate authority over statements. [For more background on the case, you can read my preview of the case here and my recap of the oral argument here.]
In doing so, the Court rejected broader readings of the statute from both the government "" which urged the Court to hold that the word "make," for purposes of the federal securities laws, should be defined as "create" and that potential primary liability extends to parties who play a significant role in the creation of false statements "" and from the dissent, which argued that the "maker" of an allegedly false statement should be determined based on the facts and circumstances alleged in a particular case.
Petitioner Janus Capital Management LLC (JCM) served as an investment advisor and administrator to the Janus mutual fund family. The Janus mutual fund family was in turn created by publicly traded Janus Capital Group (JCG) and is organized in a Massachusetts business trust, the Janus Investment Fund. JCM and JCG are the petitioners here and are both separate legal entities from Janus Investment Fund.
Respondent First Derivative Traders alleged in the district court that both JCM and JCG bore primary liability for allegedly misleading prospectus materials issued by Janus Investment Fund because they "caused mutual fund prospectuses to be issued for Janus mutual funds and made them available to the investing public, which created the misleading impression that [JCG and JCM] would implement measures to curb market timing in the Janus [mutual funds.]" After the district court dismissed the action for failure to state a claim, the Fourth Circuit reversed, holding that First Derivative had sufficiently alleged that "JCG and JCM, by participating in the writing and dissemination of the prospectuses, made the misleading statements contained in the documents."
JCG and JCM filed a petition for certiorari, which the Court granted. On Monday it reversed the Fourth Circuit"™s decision, holding that only a party "with ultimate authority over the statement including its content and whether and how to communicate it" is the one that "makes" the statement within the meaning of Rule 10b-5. Accordingly, even allegations that JCG and JCM were "significantly involved in preparing" the prospectuses fails to state a claim against them under Rule 10b-5. In so holding, the Court compared JCG and JCM to speechwriters: "Even when a speechwriter drafts a speech, the content is entirely within the control of the person who delivers it. And it is the speaker who takes credit "" or blame "" for what is ultimately said."
The Court also rejected as overly broad the government"™s contention that the word "make" under Rule 10b-5 should be defined as "create." That argument, the Court explained, was both unpersuasive and inconsistent with its 2008 decision in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. And in any event, the Court continued, because it found the plain language of Rule 10b-5 to be unambiguous, it need not defer to the government"™s interpretation. Finally, the Court expressed skepticism regarding the need to ever defer to the government"™s broad interpretation of the private right of action.
In contrast to the bright-line rule requiring that the "maker" of an allegedly misleading statement must either be the actual speaker or have ultimate authority over the statement, Justice Breyer wrote in his dissent "" which was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan "" that the language of Rule 10b-5 and case law require a more flexible approach. "Neither common English nor this Court"™s earlier cases limit the scope of ["make"™] to those with "ultimate authority"™ over a statement"™s content." Instead, he would analyze the issue of which party or parties "make" a statement based on the individual circumstances alleged; in this case, he concluded, "the circumstances here are such that a court could find that Janus Management made the statements in question."
The practical effect of the opinion should be to narrow the non-speaking parties subject to potential primary liability under the federal securities laws and to focus litigants and counsel on potential theories of secondary liability for such non-speakers involved in same way with allegedly false statements.
Recommended Citation: Steven Kaufhold, Opinion analysis: Who "makes†statements under the federal securities laws?, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 17, 2011, 11:35 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/06/opinion-analysis-who-makes-statements-under-the-federal-securities-laws/


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|June 30, 2012, 08:17 AM
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Figure Eight Training Drill
I just saw this one in a Training Vidio and thought it was a pretty good Training Drill. It is a good drill when you can only shoot safely in a single direction on the range.
NOTE: This is an Advanced Training Drill. Begenning shooters should not attempt this drill.
This training drill should be done with a minimum of 2 shooters. We will call the one performing the Drill the Shooter. The one giving instructions we will call the Trainer for this exercise. Two shooting buddies who train together can swap out who is the Trainer and Shooter.
EQUIPMENT REQUIRED: 2 Barrels a Minimum of 3 Silhouettes with Target Stands, however the more Silhouettes and Stands the better. Spray Paint.
SET UP: Place the silhouettes on line with the impact berm behind them. Spray Paint random numbers on the targets. Now place the barrels on line infront of the target line about 10 feet apart.
Note this can be changed around by setting the barrels further back, as well as spacing the targets closer or further apart. You could also stagger the target array so some silhouettes are further back than others.
Safety Note: Check from each end of the barrels that all targets have impact berm behind them.
TRAINING DRILL: The Trainer will instruct the Shooter to load and make ready in a safe direction and holster. The Shooter will now start walking a Figure Eight around the barrels. The Trainer will call out numbers at random. The Shooter will locate the target, then draw and engage. The Trainer should call out non existant target numbers during the drill. The Shooter when he/she cannot locate the Number will not darw. Start doing the exercise in slow motion until both the Shooter & Trainer are both confident in your ability to orient on the target before starting your weapon presentation.
The Figure Eight Course should be ran both directions.
NOTE: Run the course cold to start with and get the feel for what you are required to do. Air Gun the targets after orientating on them. What you are working on is not making a weapons presentation until you are oriented on the target.
OBJECTIVE: While you are walking the Figure Eight the Targets will be Infront, Behind, and to Either Side of you at some point. When you run the Figure Eight in Reverse everything is changed around again. You will be required to turn in both direction to orient on the target before drawing.
AN IMPROVEMENT: Cover the Silhouettes with Different Color Tee Shirts. Instead of calling out a Number to Engage, call out a Color.
ADVANCED COURSE: You could add cardboard cut outs of Guns, Knives, Cel Phones etc to the targets. Have more than one of each color, one being a Shoot and the Other a No-Shoot. This will add Target Identification to the training drill.
This looks to me to be a very good ADVANCED TRAINING Drill. As I mentioned at the first of this post, this is not a Drill for new shooters.
If new shooters would like to attempt this drill do it COLD with a Blue Traing Gun, and not live ammunition.
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Very good drill, did it during the Combat Focus shooting class.
At the end of day one with just 3 targets staged in a line parallel to the "barrels."
At the end of day two we ran it again with 7-10 targets staged at different distances.
This added the extra risk of shooting through the threat and hitting a "Bystander."
They also numbered the targets in a partially random way so there were skipped numbers the instructors could call.
To be really mean they also started calling basic math problems where the answer may or may not be one of the targets.
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I like this, . . . and it will be especially good for our place as we have limited direction and angle in which to shoot.
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In the vast majority of porn, to quote Robert Jensen, "women are reduced to three holes and two hands. In pornography, women are reduced to the parts of their bodies that can sexually stimulate men. Women are not really sex-objects (which at least implies they are human) but more fuck-objects, simply things to be penetrated." Anyone who doesn't believe that such a message, when communicated repeatedly to a huge proportion of the population and coupled with the world's most powerful conditioning mechanism (orgasm), doesn't have an effect on our society is a fucking fool. By coloring people's perceptions of women and their relative humanity, porn has directly contributed to the growing (yes, growing) misogyny in our popular culture, it has directly hindered women's progress toward financial, social, and legal equality, and it has directly fueled the increase in sexual assaults across the country, especially the lesser discussed kinds of sexual assault that are becoming so common that they are almost no longer deemed noteworthy.
Not to bring up Robert Jensen every three sentences, but he's made a point that I find extremely salient when it comes to how porn affects women's lives. If I have to go to court tomorrow, or I have to go discuss my career with my boss, or I have to work on a project at work or school with men, or I have to deal with a cop, or I have to rely in any way on a man in a position of authority to treat me fairly, shouldn't it worry me to think he might have been watching a film the night before in which a woman has her head shoved into a toilet while someone uses her like a piece of toilet paper? I know some of you may say that the authority figure in question probably wouldn't be equating me with the woman he jerked off to the night before, but can someone really suspend their sense of empathy long enough to jerk off to an image like that and then see me as an equal human being the next day? Doubtful. And men get together every day to make decisions that affect women's lives. Men decide whether to promote women, whether to give them raises, whether to hire them, whether to take their claims of sexual harassment seriously, whether to pass a law that hurts or harms their rights to equal pay for equal work, safe and effective health care, etc.
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Lay estimates (meaning common wisdom) tell us that almost all men use porn. I believe that, and I believe that nearly all of the men who use porn have unwittingly absorbed some of its messages about women and their place in the world. How are we ever supposed to expect any kind of equality to develop when most men don't see most women as full human beings, but rather as conglomerations of sexualized body parts and undesirable personality characteristics? No one can honestly claim that porn doesn't affect the way men view women, and thus no one can claim that pornography doesn't negatively affect the way women are treated in our society and women's chances of ever achieving social and legal equality.


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Two of Marley's children, Ziggy and Karen, accepted a proclamation from councilmen Tom LaBonge and Joe Buscaino.
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Buscaino called himself a life-long Marley fan and even broke into song.
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