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If people hate it, they are not paying attention. It is a great design by Blizz, in my opinion. The problem is we are used to using Swiftmend on a caster/ranged to save them. Effloresence is, I think, more designed around tank healing. If you Swiftmend the tank, the Effloresence will cover the melee/pets as well. This should provide a massive amount of healing for one GCD.
Nina Katarina said...
It's especially bad on Deathwhisper - it looks too much like that bad green thing I'm supposed to move out of.
I Am My Enemy said...
There is a simple solution: Debuffs. Moist bad voidzones give you a debuff that you can usually quickly recognize and can make the decision to stay or move IF its really that difficult to tell them apart.
I agree the big green circle throws people off.
Typically bad void zones and the like consist of a solid color. Think of shadow traps on HLK for example. It would be nice to have a stronger visual cue to distinguish friendly from bad circles.
So I propose to have the friendly zone only have a visual marker of the border of the effect while leaving the inner circle transparent. The border serves the purpose of knowing where the effectis occuring and the transparency helps with not desensitizing reflexes. You know down the line someone is going to say "I thought that void zone was a heal".
So basically solid zone color = bad and bordered circle = good.
Personally, I've found that optimal use of efflorescence is in fights where a bunch of people have to clump together. Boss fights like Heroic Anub, Heroic Sindragosa, and the Lich King (phase 1 and 2) had my efflorescence as my third highest healing spell. I only had to tell people to get into the green circle once or twice and they caught on.
I think the only fight where there's a huge green circle on the ground that kills you is Deathwhisper (unlike the Plagueworks where the bosses have more distinct looking green things that kill you), and we had no issues with that. The runes on the ground look different despite the fact that both effects are both green. Plus, any boss mod will tell you that you're standing in death and decay, so this should be a non-issue for the most part.
I also love the graphic for efflorescence, and I for one hope they do not change it. :)
How about a little less attention on recount and a little more on your surroundings?
I know some effects could be exactly similar to some effects, in that case move out of that color no matter what. The rest of the effects are still good to be used in that particular encounter.
uncaringbear said...
Problem with Efflorescence is that more times than not, the ground graphic doesn't even appear on the terrain, and all I see are the floating leaves. Agree that the graphic needs look distinctively more 'healy' and less threatening.

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We loved this. Omitted the carrot and pancetta and used 1 lb mild ground Italian sausage and 1 lb ground beef. Did everything else the same-- very easy. Going into the rotation :)
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large yellow onion, diced
- 3 stalks celery, diceed
- 1 carrot, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 pound pancetta, chopped
- 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1 cup whole milk
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- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano, or 1 tablespoon dried
- 1/2 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
- In a Dutch oven, over medium heat, heat the oil. Add the onion and saute for 3 minutes. Add the celery, carrot, and garlic and cook for 5 minutes more. Add the pancetta and cook for 5 minutes, then add the beef and cook until brown. Add the wine and the remaining ingredients and simmer for 45 minutes. Serve with cooked fettuccine. Sprinkle with Parmesan.
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I purchased this in shade 21 C, which is a bubblegum/Barbie pink. My favorite color liner is NYX in 839 Dolly Pink, the thing is that it does not last very long. It was painful for me to spend $19.00 on a lip liner, considering how fast I go through them~plus sharpening eats away at it, too. The shade 21 C is a pretty close match to the Dolly Pink from NYX, but 21 C is a little bit lighter and brighter pink shade.
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The only gripe is that once this wears off, it does stain your lips that annoying red color that looks as if you ate a popsicle. Not very attractive. Still the solution is to reapply.
I tried this product because they stopped making the color I liked in the Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil. Unfortunately it wasn't nearly as good as my old pencil. I often wear these long wear lip liners by themselves when I'm going out for dinner and don't want to reapply my lipstick. I actually ended up returning this for several reasons; one it didn't last and came off onto my cup within the first sip, two it was too matte and didn't look at all natural, and finally it made my lips look and feel dry even when I tried to apply lip balm first.
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I have this in 8C (red) and 16C (bright fucshia). It makes your lipstick last endlessly. I can eat with this on and it stays, unless it's something oily. It's drying, but if you need your lipstick to stay put, use this.
I always use Urban Decay lipliner in Ozone to outline the lips before any lip look --- it prevents feathering. I draw an outline with the MUFE lipliner and then fill in the entire lip, give it a second, and then apply my lipstick on top. I blot, touch up any faint areas, and then l lightly run pressed powder around the edges of the lips.
I like this lip liner. It is not the most amazing but it does what I want it to do. I didn't actually purchase this for the waterproof use. I went for colour. I purchased one of the darker shades, a dark plum red. I like the way it glided on the edge of my lips. No dragging, non drying. The pencil is however not as waterproof as I thought it would be, I can say however that it is long lasting. It out lasted my Mac lipstick, I was left with just my lip liner on : ) which made me look a bit funny after several hours and a hot beverage. The actual product did not make my lips sore/chapped and did not have perfume scent. I have used many other brands of lip liner Chanel, Mac, Origins, Dior, YSL, Lancôme and many other brands in the past but I can say that some of them did not last as long, cost more, smelled too perfumed or made my lip line look dry/greasy. I will happily repurchase this after I have completely used it.
I've been using this in 1, 2 and 3C. I have always had really thin lips and gave up wearing lipstick years ago. I completely line my lips with a lipliner and may occasionally use a shimmer lip stain over it. I've used everything from Chanel, Estee Lauder and Mac to all the drugstore brands and I have to say that this stuff is the best. Is it completely waterproof all day through eating and drinking? No, but it comes pretty close. I've had lunch, wiped my mouth and been driving to pick my daughter up from school and still had a little color on my lips. Love it...Hate the price but will continue to buy it. I only wish they had a nice warm, natural pink color (14C is a little too dark for me). (C3/NC25 here)
This product is not waterproof (or anything else proof). It doesn't come off as easily as other lip liners but it doesn't last all day either. Also it's too drying so your lips will look cracked and in need of a lip balm. Wouldn't buy again.
I discovered this after I desperatley needed a matching lip liner with my "girl about town' lipstick. I bought this is 16c. Matches perfectly! And the liner is great. Smooth, no bleeding and lasts all day. I love it, and am planning on purchasing other colors soon.
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Love this range- the colours are so so so fantastic! they can get way too creamy in the heat, so I like to keep them in the fridge and throw them into my kit each morning. They don't budge, they are so wonderful!
I have 8c (fuchsia) and 16c (red). I use 8c with my fuchsia lipsticks, namely NARS Funny Face and Schiap. I use 16c with MUFE Moulin Rouge. These liners are creamy, long lasting and have good pigmentation. They're not drying and can be easily sharpened for precise application. I have MUFE, MAC and NARS lip liners and MUFE are my favorite because of their application and the duration they stay in place on my lips.
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YANAI, T., J. G. HAY, and G. F. MILLER. Shoulder impingement in front-crawl swimming: I. a method to identify impingement. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 21–29, 2000.
Purpose: The impingement of subacromial structures has been proposed as a major cause of the shoulder problems experienced by athletes who use repetitive overhead actions. The purpose of this study was to develop a noninvasive method to identify instances at which the shoulder was experiencing impingement during front-crawl swimming.
Methods: Shoulder impingement has been reported to occur when an arm is: (a) elevated above shoulder height while being rotated internally; and (b) forcibly elevated at, or beyond, the maximum active elevation angle. In this study shoulder configurations that satisfied the above two conditions were sought throughout the functional range of each shoulder; and a boundary that distinguished configurations that would cause shoulder impingement was defined. The shoulder movements exhibited during performance of the front-crawl stroke were measured using three-dimensional videography and compared with the boundary defined for each shoulder. The shoulder was considered to experience impingement if the shoulder configuration observed exceeded the boundary defined for that shoulder.
Results: For a male collegiate swimmer, impingement occurred for 12% of the stroke time for each shoulder.
Conclusions: The analysis permitted the identification of the instances at which the shoulders were experiencing impingement during the front-crawl swimming. In this study, the measurement of the boundary was based entirely upon the mechanism of impingement described in the literature. Further studies are needed to confirm the occurrence of impingement by means of advanced visualization techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonogram.
Shoulder pain has been frequently reported by competitive swimmers, particularly by those who use the freestyle and butterfly strokes. Surveys have shown consistently that 40–70% of elite swimmers complained of shoulder pain (8,10,24). Although the etiology of the shoulder pain has not been understood completely, impingement of the subacromial structures has been hypothesized as a major cause of the shoulder problems experienced by front crawl swimmers (5,15,16,19,22,24). The impingement refers to the mechanical phenomenon in which contact between the greater tuberosity of the humerus and the acromial arch creates compressive force on the subacromial structures. Pathological conditions such as bursitis and rupture of rotator cuff tendon are believed to develop when the magnitude of the compressive force is sufficiently large and the impingement is repeated over several years. This pathological condition of the subacromial structures was defined as impingement syndrome (20). The mechanism of impingement syndrome has also been cited frequently to explain the cause of shoulder injuries experienced by athletes who participate in throwing activities (2,11,13,22,26,27). There is as yet, however, no biomechanical evidence to demonstrate that shoulder impingement occurs in such athletic activities. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to develop a noninvasive method to identify instances at which the shoulder experienced impingement during front-crawl swimming.
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Last night, Research in Motion announced a delay in the release of BlackBerry 10, and confirmed fears the beleaguered company would be cutting jobs. The news came during RIM's first quarter earnings call, where a £334m loss was reported.
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"I want to be in a position to average out 1.5
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of the NHL. A six-part, $2.3-million documentary about
the business of professional hockey, it aired on CBC from
September 29 to October 3, 1998. What viewers didn't know at the
time, but would discover about a week later, courtesy of
Toronto Star sports media columnist Chris
Zelkovich, is that CBC Sports gave the NHL the right to make
changes to the series. One of those changes just happened to be
the Tie Domi contract negotiation scene. At the league's
insistence, CBC Sports forced Peter Raymont and Joseph Blasioli,
who directed the series, to include shots of Domi skating,
instead of just fighting. In addition, the filmmakers had to
shoot an interview with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman the week
before the show aired to replace a scene in which he reacted
strongly to Brett Hull's public pronouncement that the league
"sucks." The NHL felt the scene would embarrass Bettman and
wanted it changed. And CBC Sports, hoping to satisfy a long-time
meal ticket, readily agreed.
One of the most common
criticisms of sports reporting is that it's just public
relations. While CBC Sports is certainly not the only offender,
many Canadians expect it to live up to a higher standard because
it is part of the public broadcaster. That's why it's surprising
when CBC Sports' hockey coverage routinely misses meaningful
sports news stories. By giving the league editorial control over
The New Ice Age, CBC Sports is ensuring, as
the Hockey Night in Canada tag line goes, the
tradition continues.
One of the only profitable
divisions of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Sports
made $1.9 million in 1995. And that's despite losing money on
amateur sports, such as the Canada Games, the private
broadcasters rarely touch. Much of the profit comes from hockey.
(Hence the bidding war for NHL broadcast rights among Canadian
networks-newcomer CTV Sportsnet, for example, paid $60 million
for a four-year deal, outbidding TSN.)
Although it
sometimes produces specials, often of the documentary film
variety, CBC Sports is primarily a broadcaster of sporting
events. Hockey broadcasts have long included play-by-play, colour
commentary, and interviews with sweaty, short-of-breath athletes.
Increasingly, however, CBC is trying to offer more. But the
amount of journalism, in the true sense of the word, remains
minimal. This season, Hockey Night in Canada
has added a half-hour pregame show largely in response to
competition from other networks. (Last season TSN's Esso
Saturday Night served as the pregame show for the
hockey broadcast on CBC.) But the pregame show is not much of a
improvement, serving mainly to set up the two or three games CBC
is broadcasting that night. It does include a feature segment
called "The Headliner," that has offered, for example, interviews
with Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman while he was
recovering from surgery and former Vancouver Canuck sniper Pavel
Bure after he was traded to the Florida Panthers. Such
interviews, however, are by no means hard-hitting.
kind of stories that "The Headliner" could and should cover are
likely the ones that profoundly affect the game. Stories like the
Alan Eagleson or Graham James/Sheldon Kennedy sagas, or even the
current increase in the number of head injuries, all of which
have received sparse coverage from CBC Sports.
It wasn't
until Eagleson's conviction in January 1998 that CBC Sports,
through Hockey Night in Canada, aired a short
piece on Eagleson's legal woes, even though the story had been
building for almost a decade. In 1989, about 100 NHL players
hired labour lawyer and former head of the National Football
League player's association Ed Garvey to investigate Alan
Eagleson, who at the time was the head of the National Hockey
League's Players' Association and a prominent agent. The players
were following the lead of agents Ron Salcer and Rich Winter, who
were suspicious of Eagleson's methods. In 1990, Winter filed a
complaint with the Law Society of Upper Canada accusing Eagleson
of unethical conduct. In December 1996 the RCMP charged Eagleson
with eight counts of fraud. Though most Canadian media failed to
investigate or even follow the story, Hockey Night in
Canada had one of the best platforms in Canada to let
fans know what was happening. Indeed, Bruce Dowbiggin, one of the
only Canadian reporters investigating the Eagleson story, worked
for CBC Radio Sports and could have easily provided reports for
HNIC. But it was Russ Conway, a reporter for a small-town paper
in Massachusetts, who broke the story.
The Graham
James/Sheldon Kennedy case was another missed opportunity. In
September 1996, Kennedy, then a member of the Boston Bruins, went
public with the story of how his former junior hockey coach had
sexually abused him. In January 1997, James was jailed for
sexually assaulting Kennedy some 300 times over 10 years. Nearly
two weeks after the conviction, and after Kennedy had done
numerous other television interviews, Hockey Night in
Canada aired a 17-minute interview with the abused
hockey player. Toronto Sun sports columnist
Rob Langley claimed Ron MacLean looked more uncomfortable than
"To work a story like Graham James is to do
investigative journalism, which few sports reporters are capable
of doing, with notable exceptions," says Mark Douglas Lowes,
whose book Inside the Sports Pages, an
analysis of the sports press in Canada, will be published this
spring. "And quite frankly, I don't think a lot of hockey writers
have the skills to do investigative reporting of the kind that
would lead to breaking a story such as Eagleson or James. They're
trained to report, not to investigate."
Even simply
reporting unpleasant news has proven difficult for CBC Sports. It
has all but ignored the concussions issue, even though the
1997-98 season was marred by some 60 head injuries. After sitting
out the entire season with a concussion, Nick Kypreos retired in
the off-season. Pat Lafontaine did likewise, after suffering the
sixth concussion of his career-a career that had already included
sitting on the sidelines for a season due to postconcussion
syndrome. And youthful stars such as Rob Niedermayer, Eric
Lindros, and Paul Kariya missed significant chunks of the season
recovering from head injuries. Kariya not only missed 28 games,
but also the Olympics and NHL playoffs. Meanwhile Lindros's
brother Brett retired two years earlier from recurring
CBC Sports appears happy to report who's
out, but it rarely goes beyond the numbers. This year, for
instance, the number of groin injuries has increased. Some
experts believe poor ice conditions may be a contributing factor,
but CBC Sports has made little or no mention of the connection.
It does, after all, have a 47-year relationship with the NHL to
Given CBC Sports' dismal journalistic track
record, The New Ice Age offered it an
opportunity to be taken more seriously. The promos for the series
called the film an unprecedented investigation that "would
uncover stories and secrets previously reserved for insiders
only." And given the outstanding access Raymont and Blasioli had,
the series certainly lived up to its billing. Chris Zelkovich
called The New Ice Age "possibly the best
hockey documentary ever."
In episode one, New York
Islanders general manager Mike Milbury paces the arena floor at
the 1997 entry draft, trying to trade a first-round draft pick.
He scurries to and fro, bartering with competing GMs, throwing
players' names out like a car salesman tossing extras into a deal
for a new car, all in what turns out to be an unsuccessful bid to
trade a player. The series also contains numerous scenes from
closed-door meetings where general managers and governors of NHL
teams discussed proposed rule changes and other sensitive issues.
That Blasioli and Raymont, who directed the series and
produced it for CBC Sports, are both award-winning, documentary
filmmakers, certainly lent some credibility to The New Ice Age.
Coincidentally, they've also both produced films about
questionable media ethics. Blasioli's most famous work is the
critically acclaimed Blast 'em, a 1992
documentary about the paparazzi. Raymont is perhaps best known
for his 1988 documentary, The World Is
Watching, about ABC News' misrepresentation of the
civil war in Nicaragua, which aims to illustrate how the media
spin reality. Raymont also worked with CBC on a 1993 documentary
Chasing the Dream, about the experiences and
challenges of bush-league baseball. On that occasion, he had no
problem with CBC Sports. But there's a huge difference between a
six-hour, prime-time series made with the cooperation of CBC
Sports' major source of revenue, and a one-and-a-half-hour film
about minor league baseball. "I think the stakes were much higher
for the CBC on this project," says Raymont. "The CBC will argue
that you've got to be able to give an organization like the NHL
editorial input and that they never had final control, that they
had input. I think they had more control than they should have
The CBC's journalistic policy sides with Raymont.
It prevents subjects from being shown, let alone having a say on,
the final product. The policy states, "Participants in programs
will not be granted the right to veto any portion of a program."
The network recommends CBC Sports adhere to the guidelines, but
it doesn't insist, even when the department covers news, as is
the case with The New Ice Age.
Clark and Nancy Lee, head and deputy head of CBC Sports
respectively, refused to respond to numerous attempts to contact
them about the series. However, according to Zelkovich's column,
Clark claims only two significant cuts were made to the series:
foul language and one scene described only as "sensitive." Clark
said he was comfortable labelling the series a documentary even
though the subject, the NHL, got to review the final cut. And
Clark believes there was no way the filmmakers would have
received the access they had without striking a deal with the
But many filmmakers make documentaries without such
deals. It's as simple as asking the crew to turn cameras off when
contentious issues arise. In fact, during shooting of
The New Ice Age, general managers and league
officials often requested cameras be shut off.
surprisingly, the NHL was happy with The New Ice
Age. The league received $2.3 million worth of free
publicity from a reliable journalistic outlet like the CBC and
had the right to edit the film. Glenn Adamo, the NHL's vice
president of broadcasting, doesn't acknowledge any breach of
journalistic ethics occurred. In fact, he believes the show isn't
"This, in my mind, is not a documentary.
This is simply an entertainment show called The New Ice
Age: A Year in the Life of the NHL," says Adamo, a
former television sports producer for NBC. He characterizes the
series as a coproduction between CBC Sports and the NHL, citing
the filmmakers' use of footage shot by NHL Productions and the
league's involvement in the film. And he had subsequent
conversations with CBC Sports to dictate the changes to be made
to the film. "A lot of this came from within our PR department,"
says Adamo. "We reviewed the rough cuts of the episodes. If there
were things that were going to embarrass or hurt people that they
got through this access then that wouldn't be fair."
Sports has always been more than fair with the NHL, and it seemed
intent on keeping its cozy relationship with the league during
the making of The New Ice Age. But it didn't
have to go that far. In 1990, CBC produced Home
Game, a documentary by Ken Dryden and Peter Pearson
that was free of interference from the NHL. Pearson says most of
the access granted in the Home Game series was
largely a result of Dryden's personal relationship with many of
the key figures involved, like Serge Savard, then general manager
of the Montreal Canadiens, and Edmonton Oilers GM Glen Sather,
both former teammates of Dryden's. The NHL, however, still wanted
the right of final cut. "Well, we had a big negotiation with the
NHL in terms of whether they were going to let us shoot that one
Canadiens-Oilers game because they were all upset about violence
in the NHL and that kind of shit," says Pearson. "It was one of
those big-dick-on-the-desk issues, you know. They tried it out,
but, I mean, people try out stuff all the time. Essentially,
Savard and Sather both said, 'Come on, fuck off.'''
Home Game, however, was not a CBC
Sports production. And that made all the difference. "Because we
were in public affairs, the CBC was not going to let some NHL
executive have final cut on information programming," says
Pearson. "They weren't going to allow that precedent."
Unlike CBC Sports, the public affairs department has to
abide by the journalistic policy. And public affairs also doesn't
rely heavily on the commercial success of the NHL, as CBC Sports
"You walk a fine line to criticize your business
partners," says John Shannon, executive producer of
Hockey Night in Canada. CBC buys the broadcast
rights to the NHL and considers itself partners with the NHL. As
a result, CBC has a vested interest in the game. The show has
segments that sometimes emulate journalism-interviews, for
example-where the objective is to convey information to the
viewer. However, Shannon believes that it's not
HNIC's job to do journalism. But if there is
something wrong with the game, doesn't HNIC
have any responsibility to cover it? "We would separate
ourselves," says Shannon, "and try to, as well as we can, try to
cover the story with a great deal of fairness." The late,
lackluster coverage of the games' significant issues, like the
Eagleson saga, suggest HNIC isn't greatly
concerned with its viewers' knowledge of the games beyond the
score. But Shannon doesn't see it that way, especially when it
comes to Eagleson. "Tell me what that had to do with
Hockey Night in Canada and the National Hockey
League as a day-to-day issue?" questions Shannon. He suggests the
Eagleson affair has no connection to HNIC,
saying issues the show might be responsible for covering must
have a connection to the game at hand. "I mean, the Kennedy
situation had terrible ramifications on the whole game of
hockey," says Shannon. "But how does that reflect on a
Montreal-Toronto hockey game that we're covering?"
Shannon explains why HNIC shouldn't
and couldn't do journalism. "I think our news department at
CBC...." Shannon stops. He tries again. "Our job is to cover
hockey, and to cover games, and to cover the current National
Hockey League, that's our first job. I think the Eagleson thing
is a very topical issue, but we don't have the resources to do
that. I mean, tell me who would cover it? We, we, don't have
those resources. So, and I'm not sure, and this is not a negative
at all reflecting back on us, I'm not sure we have the background
to do it."
HNIC does do journalism,
however. Shannon mentions a piece the show did in November 1998,
saying, "I think we did a great job covering the bankruptcy trial
of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Totally unbiased. Gary Bettman
literally said, 'I hope you don't make too much of this' And we
didn't make too much of it."
If that sounds
contradictory, it is at least consistent. Most sports
broadcasters and press are devoted more to reporting game scores
and highlights than reporting significant events or issues. "The
sports pages-and this holds for radio and TV-function as a
promotional vehicle for the major-league sports industry," says
author Mark Douglas Lowes. "There is a very strong reciprocal
relationship between the sports press and big-time sports
leagues." He explains that sports teams and events need the daily
coverage of their activities to build and maintain fan interest.
And the press and broadcasters are happy to oblige, especially
considering the audience for their skin-deep coverage of
male-dominated professional sports is the coveted 18-to-49 male
demographic. "Because of the symbiotic relationship between the
two industries-pro sports and news-the kind of coverage you get
is invariably promotional in nature," says Lowes. "Sports editors
and reporters do not see themselves as having a social
responsibility to do critical reporting, to really dig around in
the muck."
That's certainly the experience of Bruce
Dowbiggin, the former CBC Radio and local TV sports reporter in
Toronto. "They don't want to deal with this. Most of TV sports is
run by beer salesmen and car salesmen. Keep preaching the romance
of the game and all that other horseshit and ignore the real
problems when they come up," says Dowbiggin, who is now a sports
columnist for the Calgary Herald. When he was
one of the only Canadians investigating Alan Eagleson, CBC Sports
showed no interest in any of his work. The
National, part of CBC News and Current Affairs,
however, took full advantage and aired his stories. "CBC Sports,
ah, that's a different case," he says. "They have had no interest
in this story whatsoever. The sports department at CBC is an
entirely different entity in terms of its ethics and the way it
does things."
To illustrate this point, Dowbiggin
mentions an occasion when CBC Sports paid a high-profile Olympic
athlete to participate in a documentary. He also believes the
relationship between individuals in the TV sports department and
the sports they broadcast is too friendly. "They're always
schmoozing and golfing," he says. "The idea of having to turn on
one of their own is too difficult for them." That's one reason
he's not surprised by what happened with The New Ice
Age. "When it comes from TV sports?" he asks. "No, not
in the least."
There is an ironic scene in The
New Ice Age that illustrates the cozy relationship
between reporters and the National Hockey League. As the camera
zooms in on reporters in the press box of New York's Madison
Square Garden, the narrator says, "Hockey writers around the
league can understand the NHL's need to sell itself. But it's not
their job to buy in." On the ice, the Rangers face their former
captain, Mark Messier, in his first visit to the Garden since
signing as a free agent with the Vancouver Canucks. The fans'
excitement is palpable as Messier accepts a breakaway pass, fakes
a shot, then snaps the puck past New York goalie Mike Richter.
The fans give Messier a rousing ovation for his clinching goal,
even though the home team, their team, lost.
pictures of reporters flipping notebook pages, jotting notes and
typing on laptop computers, New York Post
sports columnist Larry Brooks comments on the battle between the
league selling its image and reporters buying that image. Brooks
mentions how New York Rangers GM Neil Smith has portrayed the
loss of Messier as a story of greed. But Brooks says the writers
aren't buying that.
The next image is a group of
reporters conferring on the story of the game. One of them
believes Messier left for financial reasons. "They forget that he
walked out of here for more money," says Toronto
Star hockey columnist Damien Cox of the fans. The
narrator's voice comes in over shots of the huddled reporters.
"Journalists are paid to report what they hear, see, and
sometimes conclude," states the narrator matter-of-factly. "They
are not paid to handle public relations."


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Despite a career-high 29 points from Jada Blackwell, the Arizona State women's basketball team fell to Washington 77-74 on Friday night in the Pac-12 opener for both teams.
Janae Fulcher (15 points) and Adrianne Thomas (11 points) also scored in double figures for the Sun Devils (8-5, 0-1 Pac-12), who lost despite a plus-22 advantage on the boards (52-30).
Talia Walton (19 points), Jazmine Davis (17 points), Aminah Williams (14 points), and Kristi Kingma (14 points) all tallied double-digit scoring totals for Washington (9-3, 1-0), which defeated ASU for only the second time in the last 17 meetings between the two schools.
The Huskies scored 21 points off 24 Sun Devil turnovers while connecting on 50 percent (7-14) of their three pointers.
Fulcher led ASU's rebounding effort (11) while Micaela Pickens and Elisha Davis tied for the team lead in assists with six each.
Five of the game's 11 ties and 12 of its 17 lead changes occurred in the second half as neither team led by more than three points during one stretch of more than nine minutes.
Promise Amukamara's jumper with 4:18 left tied the game at 67-67. Walton answered at the opposite end putting the Huskies back up by two.
The Sun Devils weren't able to respond and the Huskies would take advantage as Walton knocked down her second 3-pointer of the night to give Washington a 72-67 lead.
The Huskies would eventually extend to a six-point lead before a pair of free throws by Blackwell cut the lead to four.
However the Sun Devils would get no closer until the final buzzer as a layup by Kingma and two free throws by Davis helped seal the win.
Blackwell, who also tied her career highs for rebounds (8) and steals (3), played a big role in not letting the game get away right before halftime as she scored ASU's last six points of the first half to help cut an eight-point Washington advantage in half (36-32) at the break.
The momentum Blackwell helped ASU establish carried over into the second half as the Sun Devils used a 16-4 run over the last two minutes of the first half and the first five of the second half to take a 42-38 lead. Freshman Haley Videckis nearly extended the lead to seven, but her 3-pointer missed its mark.
The Sun Devils would lead by four on three other occasions in the second half, but each time the Huskies would answer on their ensuing possession.
The Sun Devils close out their trip to the state of Washington on Sunday when they face Washington State at 1 p.m. PT/2 p.m. MT. The game can be heard live on The Fan AM 1060.
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For Liberals, Mandela's Communist Sympathies Are a Delightful Bonus
While conservatives debate whether former South African President and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's efforts to eradicate apartheid outweigh his one-time endorsement of violent terrorist tactics and shady alliances with despots, liberals seem curiously untroubled by the revelation that he used to be a communist. In fact, it seems to make them like him even more.
In 2011, British historian Stephen Ellis documented Mandela's one-time membership in the South African Communist Party and his ideological affinity with such communist leaders as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Joe Slovo. This was in addition to Mandela's known political alliances with American foes such as Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Hamas, and Muammar Gaddafi.
So what do liberals think of Mandela's flirtation with communism? In a purportedly tough-minded historical assessment titled "Nelson Mandela, Communist," New York Times columnist Bill Keller asked, "Does it matter?" and then, implying that it doesn't, sneered, "The news excited some critics and historical revisionists, who claimed it exposed the A.N.C. as a Stalinist front… [But] Mandela's Communist affiliation… doesn't justify the gleeful red baiting."
Keller went on: "Mandela's brief membership in the South African Communist Party… say[s] less about his ideology than about his pragmatism… The early collaboration of the A.N.C. with the Communists was a marriage of convenience… Communist ideology undoubtedly seeped into the A.N.C., where it became part of a uniquely South African cocktail with African nationalism, Black Consciousness, religious liberalism and other, inchoate angers and resentments and yearnings."
In other words, communism in the A.N.C. wasn't an isolated pollutant that trickled into an otherwise pure mountain spring. It was a contaminant that blended in with the roiling cauldron of other ideological toxins that made up the A.N.C., including Black Nationalism, Black Liberation Theology, and socialism.
Keller continued: "Perhaps the most important and lasting personal effect of the South African Communist Party on Mandela was that it made him… a committed nonracialist. The A.N.C. in its formative years admitted only blacks. For a long time, the Communist Party was the only partner in the movement that included whites, Indians and mixed-race members. That relationship is one of the main reasons Mandela cited for his rejection of black nationalism and his insistence that multiracialism remain at the heart of the A.N.C. ethic."
So the definitive 20th century international hero for multiracialism and racial justice didn't reject racism on his own, but only once his organization was infested by communist doctrine. That's how high-minded Mandela's philosophy was: communism actually improved it, rather than making it worse.
For that reason, one wonders whether the American left is more excited by Mandela's multiracialism or his one-time affinity for redistributing wealth.
For example, New York City Mayor-elect and self-described socialist Bill de Blasio, who supported Nicaragua's Sandinistas after they left power, and honeymooned in communist Cuba, extolled to a Harlem audience the virtues of Mandela's campaign against economic inequality—which coincidentally parallels De Blasio's raison d'être. He urged the crowd, "If you believe in progressive values… all you need to do is look to the example of Nelson Mandela." Could Mandela's death have come at a more propitious time for the candidate who campaigned on the promise of grinding his heel into the faces of New York's high-income earners and tossing their custom-made suits to the crowd?
For his part, Obama recently announced his intention to spend the rest of his Presidency spreading the wealth around—at least when he's not busy slobbering all over communist leaders like Raul Castro. In Obama's view, income inequality is the greatest factor holding back our economy. Not sluggish business investment, not stifled entrepreneurial spirit, not excessive government regulation or anemic job creation or artificially low interest rates. No, the most important influence on our economy is hard-working capitalists getting paid too damn much.
Similarly, Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats have renewed their push for raising the minimum wage for burger flippers to the starting salary of high school teachers.
And David Simon, creator of Obama's favorite TV show "The Wire," with its relentless left-wing propagandizing, recently wrote a long, incoherent essay in The Guardian arguing that America should become more Marxist.
As Michael Goodwin noted in the New York Post, the Democratic Party has no more centrists. The closest equivalents exist within the Republican Party, and they're called RINOs.
Today's Democrats aren't troubled by Mandela's former communist sympathies, because they share them.
Related articles
- South African Communist Party Confirms Mandela Was a Member (blacklistednews.com)
- Mandela one of the world's communist greats – SACP confirms his membership (praag.org)
- Why Mandela's Communist Party membership is important (newstatesman.com)
- South African Communist Party Admits Mandela's Leadership Role (thenewamerican.com)
- Comrade Mandela's Secret Life (trevorloudon.com)