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In case you missed it, LSU scored one of the biggest upsets in its recent hoops history last night. But, judging from the way the needle has barely moved, the chances are pretty good you did miss it. Or you saw the score, shrugged your shoulders, and went about your obsession with Signing Day.
Twenty-five years ago, LSU basketball was one of the premier national brands. OK, LSU wasn't North Carolina or anything, but LSU had a national following. The team played in front of packed houses, had a charismatic coach, and went to the tournament seemingly every year.*
*Actually, this is true. LSU went to ten straight NCAA tournaments and made either the NIT or NCAA field for fifteen consecutive seasons.
LSU basketball is now an afterthought, even on its own campus. We largely see basketball season as that dark period between football and baseball season, which is just sad how far the program has fallen. And it's going to take a lot more than one upset win over Mizzou to change things. Now, I do think Johnny Jones is the guy to right this ship and he has the program, finally, headed in the right direction. But he also has his work cut out for him. So what the heck happened to LSU basketball since Dale Brown retired?
Bad hires. I don't want to dance on the coaching graves of John Brady and Trent Johnson, but... oh, who am I kidding? John Brady was the worst kind of bad coach - a bad coach who constantly made excuses for his own underperformance and then somehow pulled out a great season once every three or four years, just in time to get a contract extension.
Brady managed to coach at LSU for ten and half seasons, an extremely long tenure at a program with only marginal success. In those 11 seasons, LSU had a winning record in conference three times. Of those three winning seasons, he won the SEC title twice and the Final Four once. How did he follow up those SEC titles? With a disastrous season. The 2000-01 team built off an SEC title and Sweet sixteen appearance by going 2-14 in the SEC. The 2006-07 team had the nucleus of the Final Four team returning, and went 5-11 in conference play.
That's eleven years of pretty consistent losing, with just two brilliant seasons that flared up and left fans only with ash. Trent Johnson came in and promised a more consistent and disciplined program, and delivered pretty much the same results. One brilliant season and an SEC title, followed by a bunch of dreck. I liked the Johnson hire at the time, but man, he did not do a good job at LSU. But at least he wasn't Brady.
A boring style. I love defense. Defense wins championships and all that. I like a team that plays tough defense in any sport, and I have fond memories of Dale Brown's Freak Defense.
But if you're gonna lose a lot, losing a lot of games in the 50's is somehow even more painful. Not only has LSU spent the better part of two decades getting its ass kicked, its also treated fans to a pretty brutal style of basketball. Games have been a brutal slog, which has driven fans away in droves. I mean, losing sucks, but losing while being boring is just the kiss of death. Why should fans show up to watch bad basketball that isn't even enjoyable to watch?
Football and baseball got great. Show me a major college team with a great college basketball program, and I'll probably show you a team with a lousy football program. There's some exceptions to this rule (hello, Florida!), but it's no accident that Kentucky is a basketball power. When your football team stinks, there is more incentive to pouring your resources into the basketball team, and as a bonus, it doesn't cost nearly as much. I hate to say it's easier to compete in basketball, but you do need less resources and one player can make a much bigger difference. Football is a massive investment of manpower and money.
LSU's most successful period in basketball coincided with some turbulent years on the gridiron. The 1980s weren't exactly a disaster for the football program, the Curley Hallman years were the true Dark Ages, but the seeds were sown for the slow decline of LSU football. Fans at least at hoops to support and hang their hats on.
Unfortunately for the basketball team, the decline of the basketball program and its eventual probation coincided with the worst era in LSU's football history. Into the void stepped the baseball team. Skip Bertman won his first national title in 1991. Shaq left campus in 1992. It didn't take a genius to see which program was going to get the love and attention from the fans and the athletic department. As the end of the Dale Brown era went into a tailspin, fans flocked to the only winner in twon: baseball. Make no mistake, the sudden explosion of our baseball program has everything to do with the sudden decline of our basketball program.
Eventually, football got good again and there was even less incentive to get the hoops program back to its former heights. For the last decade, LSU fans get their fix during the fall and the spring, and could spend the winter paying attention to recruiting. Bad basketball just became part of the mosaic of LSU sports, and we were no longer that we were no longer that emotionally invested in its success. Why worry, when you have football and baseball? Hell, if you really wanted a winner in basketball, you could have followed the women's team in the Pokey era.
Basketball fell off of our radar and worse, we found we didn't miss it.
Oh, and then college basketball started to suck nationwide. Most importantly, college basketball itself took a blow to the chin. In general, sports tend to improve over time. The best teams in football right now would kill the best teams from the 1980s. Whether it is because of better nutrition, tactics, equipment, or (ahem) chemistry, athletes keep getting better and better. College basketball is the counterpoint to this argument. The game has moved backwards, and interest has declined.
A lot of this has to do with the One and Done rule, which has absolutely gutted college basketball. The star players only stay one year, which means they never really reach their potential in college. But it's not just the talent drain, getting a one and done player can be just as big of a problem for a program, as dealing with their early departure causes a difficult situation. The biggest fish, which used to get most of the big time players, now get an even bigger share because they can promise the one thing smaller programs could: immediate playing time. And the dominoes keep falling, as guys who would have been important role players 20 years ago are now asked to be stars and carry their respective teams. It just leads to a lot of bad basketball that the nation has largely tuned out, except for three weekends in March.
Johnny Jones is working against all of these systemic factors. He didn't create the mess that is LSU basketball, but for the first time in a long time, it seems there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully, there will still be LSU fans there to watch.


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REG - 30.04.2 Academic Awards and Stipends Regulation
1. Purpose
The purpose of this regulation is to provide guidelines regarding the treatment of payments made to students.
2. Scope
This regulation applies to all students.
3. Academic Awards - Qualified Educational Expenses (Tuition & Fees)
3.1 Awards for qualified educational expenses are the only amounts that are not taxable to the student. IRS Form 1098 is issued to the student, reporting the amount paid for "qualified" tuition and fees. It is the student's responsibility to report any amounts received which exceed "qualified tuition and related expenses" as income.
3.2 These awards go through the financial aid system and are paid to the student's account and applied directly to their bill. As appropriate, any extra is refunded directly to the student.
3.3 Examples: Limited to tuition and fees required for enrollment and books, supplies and equipment required for courses taken.
3.4 Account codes: 765XXX (state & trust funds) and 769XXG (grant funds)—Scholarships and
Educational Awards
4. Academic Awards – Non-Qualified Educational Expenses
4.1 Payments to students, enabling them to attend school, that are not qualified educational expenses as defined above. This funding does not require the recipient to perform services such as serving as clerks/interns, or assisting with teaching, research or other academic work.
4.2 Taxation and reporting: Awards for non-qualified educational expenses are subject to income tax.
4.3 These awards go through the financial aid system and will be posted directly to the student's account and applied to their bill
4.4 Account codes: 765XXX (state & trust funds) and 769XXG (grant funds)—Scholarships and
Educational Awards
5. Service (Work-Related) Stipends
5.1 Payment to any student who is required to perform services in order to receive the payment is a service or "work-related" stipend.
5.2 Service stipends are subject to tax withholding. An IRS Form W-2 is issued.
5.3 Processed through Payroll during the month-end payment cycle. Service stipends are not included in calculating a student's eligibility for financial aid.
5.4 Examples: Assistant teaching, internships/clerkships, research or other academic work.
5.5 Account code: 614590—Student Stipends-Work Related
6. Non-Service Stipends
6.1 Non-service stipends are amounts paid to individuals who do not provide any services, and which are not academic awards.
6.1.1 Taxation and reporting: The payee will be issued a 1099, if required.
6.1.2 Payment processing: Non-service stipends are paid through our Accounts Payable Office; if paid to a student, non-stipend payments are included in calculating a student's eligibility for financial aid. If paid to an employee, the payment is processed through payroll.
6.1.3 Examples: Token payments and other one-time monetary awards for being the subject in a study, completing a survey, providing samples. Awards to high-school students taking part in a summer STEM program.
6.1.4 Account code: 765900 (state & trust funds) or 76911G (grant funds).


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A regular-fit by Benetti Menswear, featuring a zipped neck and detailed zip at the chest. The new 'Biden' sweater is made for comfort and style, built for a classic approach, this adaptable sweater is detailed with contrast shoulders, trims and cuffs. Wear your new Biden sweater with a smart chino or denim for a smart casual yet contemporary feel.
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The graphs and stats that you see on the dashboard come from two different services.
- The first is our long-term stats storage. This is where stats get aggregated and the average value is stored at intervals of five minutes, one hour, one day and one month.
- The second is our realtime stats service. This stores stats on message and connection numbers for the last 30 minutes, as well as a maximum number of connections for the day and the total number of messages sent in a day.
If you are looking at any stats that are from more than 30 minutes ago then note that these numbers / graphs will be showing the average number of connections over a given time period, not the maximum. In other words, you may have received a limit notification saying that you reached 1100 connections but the graph shows you as only having had 700 connections at that time.
This is because during the given time period, your account's average connection number was 700, but you peaked up to 1100 connections during that time period.
However, also note that the maximum connection number is stored for the whole day, even with the realtime graphs, and any number values you see on the dashboard that show peak connections for the day will be exactly that - peak connections, not averaged connections.


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The Medicines Firm is a biopharmaceutical firm pushed by an overriding purpose—to save lots of lives and alleviate suffering by creating solutions for diseases with huge financial and social consequences. Pursuant to the Alphabet Merger, a newly shaped entity ( Merger Sub "), a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet and an oblique, wholly owned subsidiary of Google, will merge with and into Google, with Google surviving as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Any international firm can establish its place of work in India by submitting eForm FC-1 (Information to be filed by foreign firm).
Any New Zealand financial institution may also help you with establishing financial institution accounts for business purposes, and plenty of may also show you how to with transferring funds from overseas and different specialist migrants' providers. Firms with brand pictures get six times extra visits to their Firm Pages. We have expanded our talent model to draw folks with diverse backgrounds: mathematicians, information scientists, designers, software engineers, implementation specialists, and entrepreneurs.
That founding group contains: Nima Bahrami, who served as vice president for transponics at Hyperloop One for almost two years; Jadon Smith, a ten-year veteran of SpaceX who has also worked for Lockheed Martin and the CIA; Knut Sauer, former vice chairman of enterprise improvement at Hyperloop One; Andrew Liu, senior VP at AECOM Ventures; William Mulholland, former VP of finance at Hyperloop One; and David Pendergast, a former investment banker and assistant basic counsel at Hyperloop One.
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Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Illinois Fighting Illini, third game of the fourth week, the Lions have always taken the lead against the Illini, but the last that Penn State visited and played against the Illini the team lost 16-14 in 2014. This is an important game for the conference, the Lions want to win to improve the record and continue advancing in the ranking of the FBS Big ten.
Penn State Nittany Lions: We are stronger.
The Lions record this season is positive, 3 wins and 0 losses, this will be the first game of the conference for them. This game is on the road, it is not a bad sign, but last season the record finished in 3-2 at the end of the season on the road. This year they had a single game on the road against Pittsburgh 51-6, and the remaining two games were at home with solid victories. Against the Illini the team lost the last game on the road in 2014-16-14 and the last they played was at Penn State and the Lions won 39-0.
Trace McSorley has shown solid results for the team, the three victories are due in large part to the effectiveness that McSorley has offered in each of the games. McSorley had a regular effectiveness over 50% in passes against Appalachian State, Pittsburgh and Kent State, the highest percentage of effectiveness was against Appalachian State with 58.3% 21-36.
Illinois Fighting Illini: Positive record at home.
The Illini know how to defend their home, despite having a defeat against South Florida Bulls 25-19 on the road. The two home games were against Kent State 31-24 and defeated Western Illinois 34-14 at home. The team knows that this game is important for being a conference and if they win the game they would be in the first place of the WEST Big Ten on the Wild Cats, but they know that it will not be easy to win against the Lions and it is unlikely that victory is achievable today. Last season I finish with a negative record for the team with 2-10 overall.
AJ Bush is probably the QB tonight, despite having suffered a hamstring injury, Bush will take action against the Lions. Bush became starting QB since the defeat of the Illini's first game, and the results with him have been good. 13-23 with 56.5% against Kent State and 71.4% with little passes 5-7 against Western Illinois. The Illini against the Lions are 4-2-0 in the positive ATS from 2009 to 2015: +5 L, +5.5 W, +11.5 W, +5.5 W, +8.5 W, +7.5 L.
My Free Pick & Prediction for Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Illinois Fighting Illini 09/21/2018
is: take the Illinois Fighting Illini +28 (RUNLINE).
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(5-8 lbs.) Small Sugar is known as New England Pie or just Pie Pumpkin. Folks have been growing and asking for this variety for 150 years. It is the classic pie pumpkin with thick, sweet, stringless yellow-orange flesh. It is 8 x 8" and lightly ribbed with a slightly flattened shape. With rich soil and adequate water each vine produces 4-6 pumpkins. C. pepo. 90 days.
100-300 seeds/oz. (Seed Variable); 1-4 lbs./acre.; 7 days, 72°F.
Start early indoors in pots and transplant after last spring frost. Can also be seeded directly in the field after soil temperature is 72°F.


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|Name:Yugo GTL 65 1983
|Name:Talbot 1100 GLS 1979
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|Most Recent New Price:$7,573 USD
|Most Recent New Price:$8,385 USD
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|Price Notes:Price current as at Dec 2013
|Price Notes:Price current as at Dec 2013
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|Top Speed:152 kph, (94 mph)
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|Average Consumption:9 l/100km, (31.39 mpg)
|Transmission:4 speed, manual
|Transmission:4 speed, manual
|Weight:932 kg, (2055 lbs)
|Description:The Yugo GTL 65 1983 is a front-wheel drive, 5 door, 5 seat hatchback. It has a - cylinder, - - engine.
|Description:The Talbot 1100 GLS 1979 is a front-wheel drive, 5 door, 5 seat hatchback. The car is 1588 mm, (62.52 in) wide and 3944 mm, (155.28 in) long. It has a carburetor, 4 cylinder petrol engine.


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SO cute!ReplyDelete
I had the same issues earlier in the week with server, etc. GRRR... Glad you're back up.
oh this is so beautiful, cheer up Jen :)ReplyDelete
Ugh, IT problems are the worst! I was on the phone with the help desk for an hour yesterday...and I work from home, so by "help desk" I mean Mac! Thanks for posting these fabrics...they're gorge and I'm bookmarking for whenever I finally get around to my own headboard.ReplyDelete
I love the one from Fabric Worm!ReplyDelete
I love the black and yellow Victorian style fabric! cute.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2009
Gorgeous patterns! Love them all! Especially both of the rose ones and the one from Fabric Worm!ReplyDelete
la-la-LOVE the yellow and black!! Great stuff!ReplyDelete
I am actually loving that black and one patterned one AND the one below it, with the pink and blue roses... Black and white on upholstered white chair...Roses on pillows in the bed... hmmmm.... much to ponder. I hope you have a better day tomorrow, IT-wise.ReplyDelete
I LOVE damask! I just recovered TWO wing backs in black and white damask!!ReplyDelete
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Absolutely love that blue and coral-type colour one on the right Sorry for your computer troubles! xReplyDelete
I consider myself fabric-ly challenged, so I love suggestions and for the combos to be put together for me... Thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2009
These colors and fabrics look so sheek. Love everything you bring to your readers!ReplyDelete
all of the fabrics you chose are great and your headboard looks unbelievable.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous patterns! I'm really digging the yellow. Yet, another great find.ReplyDelete
la la la love fabric worm! I like your choices, very pretty and oh so bright!ReplyDelete
The bedroom looks fab! Don't be surprised if you get an uninvited guest from Sweden ;)ReplyDelete
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Fast Secure Contact Form Basic Settings post helps you set up the plugins basic settings for your forms and more.
Last Updated: January 15, 2019
Latest Update: I repaired a broken link.
This tutorial keeps getting updated based on the latest version. If nothing new is added then there won't be any changes only the changelog will be updated.
Latest News: I have fixed a broken link.
Hint: Nearly all entries have a help link to help you understand how to configure that field, entry, label etc.
Fast Secure Contact Form Basic Settings Setup
Step 1 ) Lets begin by looking at one of the excellent improvements over the old version. The following image shows you the new version using tabs. It is better organized and easy to follow.
The following image shows you the following tabs.
- Select a form option drop down menu. (Preview Form button)
- Basic Settings
- Fields
- Styles
- Labels
- Security
- Advanced
- Meeting
- Tools
- Newsletter
Step 2 ) Go to Settings -> FS Contact Form -> Basic Settings tab to change some of the basic settings. It shows you the shortcode for the current form you are creating which is Form 1. This is the shortcode you will be adding to your contact us page or a post.
Other changes you can make.
- Form 1 label:
- Welcome introduction:
Step 3 ) The following image Email Settings allow you to edit and adjust the following settings. Make sure you enable all recommended features.
- Email To:
- Email Bcc address (optional):
- Email Subject Prefix: = (If you don't want to receive the e-mail prefix, simply delete the text from this entry.)
- Return-path address (recommended):
- Enable when web host requires "Mail From" strictly tied to site. (recommended, see FAQ) help)
- Custom Reply To (optional, rarely needed):
- Once you finish setting up this area make sure you click on Save Changes button.
Click on the following link Fields to complete the next tutorial.
If you have any questions please let me know.
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Do you know where to delete an added field? I don't find a "delete field" button…
Thx for a hint!
Thanks, the delete button is completely wrong transleted in German… (date field instead of delete field) I should have tried the button first…
Thorsten, thanks for your help and effort. Just installed the FS Contact Form plugin, am happy with the appearance, but the text font for each field label is , not (my preference). How can I change the font?
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This is a really nice plugin. I am just wondering on how can I let people to contact separate departments, using a radio button within the same form.
any one got a clue?
2 questions.
1) I would like to have the state list out the 50 states in drop down format. Is there a way to do that? (searching thru the forums should be made, easier)
2) I saw on another post you had stated that the for the phone number mask, you should add \d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}/ to the validation regex field. After saving, I entered in the field, but the phone number does not format to be that way. I able still able to add a () or – between numbers. Is there no way to mask the input to be a certain way ? for instance XXX-XXX-XXXX?
Hello, I'm working on a long contact forms like this:
I need to print all the forms received but it's too long to put on one page? Is it possible to save some paper space by placing some fields on the same line (like "Nome Cognome" or "Via Numero civico")?
I also need to add, on the email received, some text under all the fields. Is it possibile to add?
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Dialogues with Colleagues Foster Inclusive Care
Stacey Bukuras
Patient/Family Representative, Patient and Family Relations
Over the past two years, an inter-professional group from Nursing and Patient Care Services has been working to shape the future of caring through a series of conversations about race and health inequities. Through these monthly programs, entitled Diversity and Inclusion Dialogues: Conscious Conversations, the Patient Care Services Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee is helping to advance a caring and healing environment at BWH.
For the inaugural launching of the Conscious Conversations series, the committee, established by Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services Jackie Somerville, PhD, RN, adapted a two-hour workshop to educate BWH staff on race-based health inequities in Boston and surrounding communities from Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center's Abigail Ortiz, MPH, MSW, director of Community Health Programs. The Diversity and Inclusion Dialogues seek to change the water cooler conversation about race and ensure that everyone who enters BWH—patients, families and staff—feels welcomed and cared for.
"I think these discussions among staff are a significant step in helping to foster individual growth and learning with respect how we think and talk about race in the context of our work environment," said Martha Jurchak, PhD, RN, executive director of the BWH Ethics Service, who chairs the committee with Shelita Bailey, director of the Office for Sponsored Staff and Volunteer Service. Jurchak and Bailey, along with other members of the committee, have organized and facilitated the workshops.
Several workshops were held this past fall, and starting Jan. 22, monthly programs will continue to take place. The facilitated discussion at the workshops creates a safe space for employees to process evidence-based data and begin difficult, yet respectful conversations about their personal and professional experiences related to race, said Bailey.
Bailey pointed out that some of the most poignant data related to infant mortality rates. Longitudinal studies have shown that African-American infants have higher rates of death within their first year of life as compared to other ethnic groups, irrespective of the mother's socioeconomic class and level of education. "That the color of one's skin predisposes a child to a higher rate of mortality even in a healthy and supportive prenatal environment was a sobering concept to grasp," said Bailey. She speculated that peoples' incredulity stems from discomfort. "It's easier to explain it away," she said.
Jurchak said that the discussions have informed her own personal understanding of where she is within the social structure of our society as a white person who, as the data show, enjoys advantages that non-whites do not. She added, "Ideally, seeing the data and sharing experiences will help others to construct a framework that will help guide and improve our practice with our patients, as well as interactions with each other. Our goal is to enhance our work environment to ensure all employees, patients and families of diverse cultures and backgrounds feel welcome and cared for."
It is not uncommon, Jurchak noted, for people to be afraid of saying something that is not perceived as politically correct, so they shy away from saying anything at all. Both Bailey and Jurchak urge staff to talk openly about these differences: "Be thoughtful, but talk about it," said Bailey. "Join us at these workshops, as we believe these conversations hold real promise for improving over time the quality of our worklife, the health care for our individual patients and the populations we serve."
The Diversity and Inclusiveness workshops will be offered monthly in 2015. To sign up, visit BWHPikeNotes.org, or contact Mary Greenwald at email@example.com.


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Since reading Orwell's 1984 I've often thought about the climax in Room 101 and the idea of somebody using my worst fear against me. The idea is fascinating, because a fear can manifest itself in so many forms, but can be so particular to the individual. In the novel the malevolently regulated Ministry of Love have stockpiled information on citizens of Orwell's dystopic world and use this information to discover a person's deepest fear. They then use that fear against the individual to finally make them submit.
This vision of unleashing a person's deepest fear to take away their humanity reminds me a lot of hell. The idea of hell has been something of a fascination of mine for some time. It all started when watching Nick Cave live, where I swore that the ground was opening up beneath me (anyone who has seen Nick's recent tour will probably understand). Hell and fire, eternal torture, and the underworld are all connected. But where did this notion of "underworld" come from, what form does it take, and why does it go down into the earth?
Having grown up in a Christian country, my understanding of hell is associated with suffering eternally in a fiery afterlife. But in other religions hell can be passed through or visited; it is not eternal, and often not associated with suffering. Eternal suffering is the punishment in Christian religion for a poor life spent on earth.
The Ancient Greek version of hell was very much removed from this – the underworld was a place that could be moved in and out of, where experiences could be gained. Odysseus spent time in hell as part of his journey home in The Odyssey, for example. Ancient Greek religion might also have an interesting overlap with Christian hell through the figure of the Devil.
Although comparisons have often made between Hades and Satan in cultural history, there is also an overlap between the titan Prometheus and the Christian leader of hell. Prometheus was the ancient figure who gave life to humanity, and also gave human beings freedom of choice and access to fire. Due to these acts against the will of the gods, Prometheus was condemned to 1000 years of suffering (tied to a rock, the titan had his liver eaten daily by an eagle only for it to regenerate overnight, a hellish experience). This figure of eternal suffering has an interesting overlap with the fallen angel Satan, and further to this Prometheus was also a major protagonist in a war between the titans and the gods.
The similarities between Prometheus and underworld-leaders continues in comparisons with Norse mythology. In the Norse myths the mischievous Loki was a trickster character who gave birth to Hel (the ruler of a realm of the same name). Loki was the antagonist of much of Norse lore, and his mischievous characteristics are similar to the titan's. Prometheus stole fire to give it to man, acting against the gods and for the progress of people on earth. Likewise, Satan's acts in the Garden of Eden can be said to be the work of a trickster who is acting against God, but his acts cause humanity to move forward. This ties into the theory of the good devil – the creature who gave autonomy and freedom to humanity as opposed to sin and destruction (interesting theological discussion continues in my mind, not for the virtual page).
These figures in historical culture are crucial when viewing how hell is interpreted in Christian religion. Originally, Christian hell was a cold place, but it evolved into fire-and-brimstone somehow. Dante described the zenith of hell as a lake of solid ice. Something in a reading of Solzhenitsyn's One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich brings this cold hell to life; the protagonist is a zek or convict in a Russian gulag in Siberia, where bitter cold and endless toil are the daily routine.
There is a presumption, highlighted in the In Our Time radio show, that burial grounds outside Jerusalem in the desert created the "hot" hell. The origin of heat may have come from Gehenna, where it is rumoured that dead babies were once burned outside the walls of Jerusalem. In Roman times this became a municipal rubbish dump with a perpetual fire; the hideousness of these images lending itself to a real-word hell.
It has been argued that the idea of a hot hell was more in tune with the warmer climate of the Mediterranean where ice and cold were less of an issue, but this doesn't necessarily link to the revolving door policy in the Greek underworld, which was illustrated in classical writing as more like a watery cave than a fiery pit (so many elemental versions of hell!).
Hell-on-earth is a popular device in historical art. William Blake illustrated hell through Dante's writings, placing hell in an earthly surround. Rodin saw our world as some hellish incarnation, and built the gates of hell as a seething reminder of the dark underworld that awaits (also inspired by Dante). These visceral illustrations of Dante's hell have perhaps cemented the idea of suffering in contemporary hell, but the connection between hell and earth has very specific connotations – in so many versions hell is beneath the earth.
Which brings us to the final point. Why does hell go down? With modern knowledge of the stars it is easy to picture hell in the vacuous emptiness of space. Endlessly suffocating, de-pressurising souls floating in eternal cold: that is a perfectly hellish idea. In fact, Stephen Hawking envisaged for me what one of the most eternal and most torturous of hellish events when he described what it would be like to standing on the surface of a star as it imploded to form a black hole. He imagines an intrepid astronaut sending signals as the star collapses beneath him, and with the star time also collapses so an eternity passes in an instant as the astronaut is slowly pulled apart into spaghetti.
Hell going down may perhaps have something to do with the stars. With so many ancient religions focussing on the sun and the moon as life-givers and as key to our existence, it would be hard to believe that people could see the infinite emptiness of our skies as a hellish idea. Or perhaps cremation and burial have everything to do with how we see hell – fire and descent as common methods for dealing with human remains that came from a need to ensure they were not left to animals. It could all be as simple as a children's fear of the unknown.
So to hell with it. We have our visions of hell; suffering, hot/cold, elemental wastelands in so many forms make up our evil afterlife. But it is the hell on earth; the specific suffering that is due for the specific sin, that makes the Room 101 prospect so utterly terrifying and hauntingly poignant.
I think I can at least finish this post on some positive words, courtesy of songwriter Jeffrey Lewis:
Well if we lived for ever we'd really want to find out
But what a relief, we all die, so there's nothing to worry about,
Some say that life is empty, some say its meaningless,
And some say it isn't such a bad thing if it is.
And some say I'm wrong and that when I die I'll go to hell,
But I'd be happy just knowing that there was a point so it's just as well.
People assume that you'll suffer there, they just think you're selfish,
If I was in hell id be glad knowing that other people are in heaven
It'd make it no so hellish…


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RIYADH – Saudi Arabia's food market has been estimated to reach a value of $16 billion, with the Halal food market alone valued at around $6 billion.
Driven by the huge growth potential of the Saudi food market, the Kingdom continues to attract leading food manufacturers worldwide as evident in the upcoming Saudi Agriculture 2012, which reported a substantial 22 percent increase in the number of international exhibitors from different countries.
"The Kingdom's $16 billion food market continues to attract the attention of leading local and international food manufacturers as we are poised to stage the biggest edition of Saudi Agriculture yet. We have prepared more than 15,000 square meters of exhibition space for over 300 exhibitors from all over the world. For the past 31 years Saudi Agriculture has achieved unparalleled success as the premier networking platform for all key industry players. The huge increase in participation this year serves to reaffirm the event's status as a major driving force in the sustained growth of KSA's food industry," said Khalid Daou, Project Manager of Saudi Agriculture in Riyadh Exhibitions Company.
Saudi Agriculture 2012, the 31st International Agriculture, Water and Agro-Industry Show, set on Sept. 24-27, 2012 at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Center, will showcase the latest and best solutions and techniques to help the Saudi government achieve food security and self-sufficiency. Organized under the patronage of the Ministry of Agriculture, Saudi Agriculture has confirmed the participation of more than 400 exhibitors from 23 countries including Denmark, Kuwait, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, and UK.
Prominent local and regional food companies are likewise attending the event, led by Fakieh Poultry Farms and ARASCO, which will be the diamond sponsors of Saudi Agriculture 2012. The event will also be held concurrently with Saudi Agro-Food 2012, the 19th International Trade Show for Food Products; and Saudi Food-Pack 2012, the 2nd International Exhibition for Food Processing and Packaging.
Saudi Agriculture 2012 will cover all aspects of agriculture and food industries from cultivation, to management, production, packaging and distribution. Now on its 31st year as one of the fastest growing industry events in the region, Saudi Agriculture will be held concurrently with Saudi Agro-Food and Saudi Food-Pack to feature the latest products, technologies and services in areas ranging from frozen and chilled foods, confectionery, chocolates, health and natural foods, to presentation, processing and packaging equipment.
Accredited by UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, the show has a wide range of scope that include animal health and production, agricultural financing, agricultural products and services, chemicals and fertilizers, cold storage, dairy farming products and equipment, fish farming, greenhouses, handling and transport systems, irrigation and landscaping equipment, organic farming, packaging systems and products, pesticides, pumps and pipe systems, seeds and soil nutrition products, spraying machinery, water treatment, water management systems, and warehousing, etc.
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Hundreds of melanated travel enthusiasts converged on the city of Memphis, Tennessee to attend the Second Annual Audacity Fest. The weekend conference was chock-full of panels and workshops centered around my favorite topic…TRAVEL! But the Audacity Fest isn't your run-of-the-mill travel conference, this event was created by and for travelers of color.
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The Audacity Fest is an annual travel conference organized by the Nomadness Travel Tribe, a group of more than 20,000 like-minded wanderlusters of color. The organizers and participants–comprised mostly of black women– are the vanguards of the Black Travel Movement. Our existence continues to defy the trope that zealous travelers are rich and white. The Audacity Fest was the perfect opportunity for me to meet and commune with my fellow travel trailblazers.
Audacity Fest Kick-Off (Friday night)
The Audacity Fest officially kicked-off the night before the conference. Event panelists and VIP ticket holders attended a private, self-guided tour of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel. The motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. During opening remarks, event organizers explained that the group chose Memphis to pay homage to the city's deep commitment to preserving African American history.
The museum has artifacts from the Civil Rights Movement as well as interactive exhibits.
The most moving aspect of the museum was the preserved hotel room where Dr. King spent his last night. That exhibit was deeply moving and it set the tone for the rest of the conference.
Audacity Fest: the Main Event (Saturday, 10 am-5:15 pm)
On Saturday morning, I was greeted by a sea of 'twist outs', 'locs', and 'curly fros' when I walked into the breezeway at the Beale Street Landing to check-in. The air was buzzing with the ebullient chatter of hundreds of black and brown nomads. The vibrations were high and I knew this event was gonna be amazing.
The Beale Street Landing, located along the Mississippi River, is a picturesque venue. Festival guests enjoyed a bevy of panels featuring travel experts, entrepreneurs, and influencers.
There were 27 offerings, divided into the 6 main verticals of travel – culinary, self-care, immersive, adventure, budget, and luxury. Some of the panels covered:
- Budget Travel Hacks
- Mental Health & Travel
- Traveling with Children
- Body Positivity in Travel
- Solo Travel
- Black Men of the Travel World
- Wellness & Fitness in Travel
- Volunteering Abroad
Whether you're a couch-surfing backpacker or a posh traveler who prefers to be surrounded by luxury, there seemed to be a panel or workshop for most in attendance.
I loved that we were encouraged to ask panelists questions. All of the speakers seemed eager to make connections.
Brunch and Awards Ceremony (Sunday)
The festivities did not end after the conference. Nomadness hosted a brunch and awards ceremony for panelists and VIP ticket holders on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, I did not attend this event because I had an early morning return flight.
Audacity Fest Takeaways
As a seasoned traveler, I'm accustomed to being a globetrotting ambassador for my people. I break down barriers and stereotypes with each newly garnered passport stamp. There is a dearth of diversity and inclusion in the travel sphere and I yearned to connect with other travelers of color.
I craved a safe space that would foster a meeting of the minds. A place where black and brown nomads could share stories, compare notes, expose battle scars, and acknowledge our most ambitious and dopest travel dreams without fear of judgment.
The Audacity Fest provided all of the above and I will be forever grateful. I look forward to experiencing all of that nomadic greatness in the coming years.
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NEW YORK (CNS) — Generations of children have fallen in love with the peace-loving protagonist of Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson's 1936 classic "The Story of Ferdinand."
Now that amiable bull, who was featured in an Academy Award-winning 1938 short from Walt Disney, gets his first full-length screen outing with "Ferdinand" (Fox), a pleasing piece of animation in which he's voiced by wrestler-turned-actor John Cena.
The book is a brief one, so it's not surprising that the film's plot feels somewhat padded. But good values go a long way in masking this defect and in maintaining a receptive mood among viewers.
Escaping the confines of the stable in which he and other bulls are prepared for their fateful confrontation with a matador, and where his preference for smelling flowers rather than locking horns makes him a bullied misfit, Ferdinand is adopted as a pet by an affectionate little girl named Nina (voiced at different ages by Julia Saldanha and Lily Day).
All goes well until a misunderstanding interrupts Ferdinand's idyllic existence and sets him back on the path to the bullring — where his commitment to nonviolence will be put to the ultimate test.
To turn this easily summarized story into a more than 90-minute movie, screenwriters Robert L. Baird, Tim Federle and Brad Copeland introduce a variety of lively secondary characters. The most prominent of these is Lupe (voiced by Kate McKinnon), the slightly pixilated goat who volunteers to serve as Ferdinand's coach as, once back in captivity, he reluctantly trains to face down famed bullfighter El Primero.
Charming pastoral landscapes and such colorful sights as a flower festival also strengthen director Carlos Saldanha's picture. But what moviegoers who base their ethics on the Gospel, and parents in particular, will find most congenial is the central theme, which exalts tranquility over needless conflict.
That solid foundation will make this fable an appealing one to children who may be facing peer pressure or intimidation themselves. It also outweighs some fleeting elements Catholic viewers might find dubious, such as a comic but not fundamentally disrespectful portrayal of a group of nuns much given to blessing themselves when surprised or alarmed.
Easily frightened tots may not appreciate the dangers Ferdinand faces during his quest to be true to himself. These include a trip on a slaughterhouse conveyer belt. Ferdinand also discovers that humans always prevail in the bullring — with fatal consequences for the animals placed there.
The potty humor so common in kids' movies, on the other hand, is virtually absent here. And, on the whole "Ferdinand" provides appropriate — and morally enriching — entertainment for a broad spectrum of age groups.
The film contains scenes of peril, some mildly irreverent humor, a vague scatological reference and one slightly crass expression. The Catholic News Service classification is A-I — general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
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Today, we abandoned Patnem and took tuk tuks to the very north end of Palolem Beach, to a beach shack there called Cozy Nook. It's very much a favourite place of ours. Very quiet down that end of the beach, or at least much quieter than on the central and southern sections of Palolem. The shack itself looks like the sort of place you'd find on a Pacific island after a bit of a hurricane!! Lots of "things" hanging off the ceiling, rustic tables, artifacts…. we really like it. Breakfast is especially good there. They do Swiss rosti potatoes which Bob loves, so he generally goes for poached eggs on rosti. I like their Spanish omelette which is a generous size containing tiny diced squares of tomato, onion and peppers and topped with some grated cheese. I also abandon my tea habit there and go for a cafetiere of fresh coffee.
Nick, Jan, John and Susan were also at Cozy Nook because they were booked on a river trip birdwatching. We opted not to join in today because we will undoubtedly do this later in our stay when other friends arrive who have not been. It's an absolutely great trip and costs a couple of quid each for an hour up the backwaters.
Bob and I pegged out on the sands. Palolem bay is at an oblique angle to the open sea, protected by headlands at either end and it is nearly always very calm, much calmer than any of the other south Goan beaches. It also runs out very shallow so you have to walk a bit to get a swim. Ideal for small children and nervous swimmers though. Really quite idyllic. It was busier than we've seen it today, not sure why. The tides are very extreme at the moment – Spring tides – and certainly the beach was narrower for most of the day which may explain it. Anyway, we had a great day just swimming, reading and soaking up the sun.
At one point some men came along playing music and leading a highly decorated white brahmin bull, asking for donations. Rather an exotic looking fella. Somehow Bob managed to sleep through the din they made on their pipes and drums!
This evening we went to the El Diablo Steakhouse in Ourem, Palolem, to see "A Star is Born". Oh dear. For years we went on a regular basis to see films on this site when it was a restaurant called the Steakhouse but was known by everyone as the Nepalese Steakhouse because it was operated by… Nepalese people. It was great. Really nice cocktails and steaks (amongst other things on a large menu) and all very cheap. Then last year they lost their rental place and had to move and it was taken over by an English chap and opened as El Diablo. Terrible disappointment and I don't think we'll go back again.
Firstly, it was a really inept showing….. terrible copy with Chinese subtitles and bad sound. The laptop they were projecting from kept closing down and needing to be re-started. There was noise (a lot) from surrounding bars (and the bar in El Diablo itself). The food was good but not better than the previous Steakhouse and it was at least double the price. The menu is small and if you don't want steak or burgers, you're onto a bit of a loser. I had chicken satay and it was delicious but not cheap…. the cocktails were really expensive. We won't go back and will have to try and find another cinema-restaurant. What a huge shame. We loved that place. And it used to be packed. You had to reserve. Tonight, it wasn't full at all and I'm not surprised.


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Joe Lauzon and Clay Guida paired up for UFC Fight Night Norfolk
UFC Veterans Joe Lauzon and Clay Guida meet in Virginia
A highly entertaining lightweight contest between Joe Lauzon and Clay Guida has been added to the UFC's November 11 fight card in Norfolk, Virginia. Between Lauzon and Guida the two have a combined 13 Performance of the Night bonuses.
Lauzon (27-13) is coming off a majority decision loss to Steven Ray in April. Lauzon's tenure with the UFC dates back 11 years to 2006.
Guida is coming off a unanimous decision win over Erik Koch in June. He also entered the UFC in 2006.
The UFC Fight Night 120 event will air live on FS1 from the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
Fight card below:
Lightweight – Anthony Pettis vs. Dustin Poirier
Welterweight – Matt Brown vs. Diego Sanchez
Women's Strawweight – Angela Hill vs. Nina Ansaroff
Middleweight – Nate Marquardt vs. Cezar Ferreira
Middleweight – Darren Stewart vs. Karl Roberson
Light Heavyweight – Jake Collier vs. Marcel Fortuna
Heavyweight – Andrei Arlovski vs. Júnior Albini
Welterweight – Court McGee vs. Sean Strickland
Lightweight – Clay Guida vs. Joe Lauzon
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- Close to 600 people have been affected by the largest Hep A outbreak to hit the US in decades.
- Hundreds of people in Southern California have been hospitalized; at least 18 have died.
- State officials are working to contain the spread of the disease by cleaning streets and distributing vaccines.
- Certain populations are especially vulnerable, including those who live on the streets or use drugs.
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency last week as officials struggle to contain one of the worst hepatitis A outbreaks to hit the US in recent decades.
The outbreak, which is so far affecting San Diego and Los Angeles counties, is the largest person-to-person epidemic on record in the US since the hepatitis A vaccine was introduced in 1996.
In San Diego, the most acutely-affected area in the state, officials have confirmed to 507 cases of people with active hepatitis A. Of those, 351 have been hospitalized and 19 have died in San Diego County alone, the most affected area in the state. Close to 100 other cases have also been confirmed in Santa Cruz and Los Angeles counties.
Hepatitis A causes inflammation of the liver and makes it harder for the organ to function properly. It can last from a few weeks to several months. At its most severe, the virus can cause death. It is, however, easily treatable with vaccines.
Wilma Wooten, a public health officer at San Diego County's Health and Human Services Agency, told CNN that an infected individual can spread hepatitis A simply by using the bathroom without washing their hands and then touching things in their environment, such as "door handles, ATMs, or whatever they touch."
People can also contract hepatitis when they consume food or drugs contaminated with fecal matter from an infected person, have sex with an infected partner, or are exposed to unsanitary, contaminated conditions.
Officials in California are rushing to distribute the 81,000 doses of hepatitis A vaccine they received from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and have requested more to address the need.
Although the uptick in hospitalizations and deaths has made headlines in recent days, it's been almost a year since the outbreak first emerged. Here's how the crisis unfolded.
How did the outbreak start?
There have been numerous hepatitis A outbreaks in the past, but this is one of the largest person-to-person transmitted outbreaks in recent US history. In 2013, 162 people in 10 states were hospitalized after consuming pomegranate seeds contaminated with Hep A that had been imported from Turkey. In 2003, uncooked green onions served at a restaurant in Pennsylvania infected more than 900 people; four people died.
The first case connected to the current outbreak occurred in a homeless man in San Diego in November 2016. His case didn't attract health officials' attention until a few months later, however, when a pattern of similar cases clearly began to show the rumblings of an outbreak.
Officials declared an official outbreak in March 2017 as dozens of cases began to pile up in the San Diego area, far surpassing the average yearly total of just 28 recorded infections. Last month, Los Angeles County declared its own local outbreak that appears to be connected to the one in San Diego.
Many of those affected by the current outbreak are people who live on the street or use recreational drugs, no matter if those drugs are injected or consumed. Recreational drugs can inflame the liver, making a person more susceptible to the hepatitis virus.
Those who are not immunized or who already suffer from chronic liver diseases are especially at high risk.
Frequent and thorough handwashing, according to San Diego County's HHSA, is one of the best ways to prevent infection.
It can be difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of the outbreak, but researchers have managed to identify several strains of the current virus that are more common in the Mediterranean. In some cases, a viral strain can remain dormant in a population for several months or years, something experts believe may have happened in this case.
"It could have been one that was circulating in Southern California at a very low rate for some time and just found a niche in this population," Stanley Lemon, a hepatitis researcher at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
San Diego County is also home to one of the largest homeless populations among major US metropolitan areas, and it has grown in recent years. Between 2016 and 2017, the number of homeless people in San Diego County rose 5%. In just the downtown area of the city, the number rose 27%.
And California is not the only state suffering from hepatitis A outbreaks. In March, the CDC confirmed more than 50 cases in Utah, although there were no reported deaths. As recently as this month, The Arizona Republic reported health officials in Arizona had contained an outbreak in Maricopa County, resulting in 15 cases.
What are officials doing to contain the outbreak?
In San Diego, health officials are power-washing streets with bleach-spiked water in some of the most acutely affected areas, including areas around 17th Street and Imperial Avenue downtown. They are also installing dozens of hand-washing stations to help prevent the spread. The city has also opened up temporary encampments with security, bathrooms, and showers for the area's homeless.
Eric McDonald, a San Diego County health official, told The Los Angeles Times earlier this month that health workers had taken additional steps by vaccinating 57,000 high-risk residents.
Despite these efforts, cases have continued to mount.
Jessica Randolph, Santa Cruz's public health manager, told The Los Angeles Times earlier this month that more cases are likely to surface even as officials take measures to combat the crisis because it can take weeks for infected people to show symptoms.
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U.S. says China is intercepting U.S. military planes in 'unsafe manner'
China blames U.S. for spy plane-fighter collision
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A collision between U.S. and Chinese military aircraft has led to Pentagon accusations that China is intercepting U.S. military aircraft operating near China in an "unsafe manner."
A U.S. spy plane made an emergency landing Sunday in China after it was clipped by the Chinese jet, the Pentagon said.
China is blaming the U.S. for the collision, which the Pentagon said happened over international waters. The Chinese fighter crashed into the South China Sea; its pilot remains missing, Beijing says. See map locating incident.
Although Washington is not directly blaming China for the collision, the U.S. Pacific Command told CNN Sunday that in the past two months U.S. military officials have told Chinese officials that the way that Chinese have intercepted U.S. planes in an "unsafe manner." China's response, the Pentagon said, was "unsatisfactory."
The U.S. plane -- a Navy EP-3 Aries II -- landed on the Chinese island of Hainan. None of the 24 crew members were reported injured. The U.S. is calling for the immediate return of the plane and crew and warned China not to board the secret high-tech aircraft because it is sovereign U.S. property.
"We've got assurances that our crew is safe and sound and that we'll get to see them soon," said Joseph Prueher, the U.S. ambassador to China.
"We've got some people on the way down there tomorrow. And we'll continue to work hard both here and in Washington," Prueher added. "And it appears also the Chinese have lost an aircraft and we're sorry that occurred."
Crash may complicate U.S.-China ties
U.S. lawmakers warned the incident could strain diplomatic relations if not resolved quickly.
"We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship," Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, said in an interview with CNN.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzo said two Chinese military planes were following the U.S. plane to monitor it. The Chinese planes "were flying normally" about 60 miles southeast of the Chinese island of Hainan when "the U.S. plane suddenly turned toward the Chinese plane," he said, in a statement. "The head and the left wing of the U.S. plane bumped into one of the Chinese planes, causing it to crash."
Chinese authorities are searching for their pilot, Zhu said.
Without China's permission, the crippled U.S. plane then entered Chinese air space and landed at 9:33 a.m. Sunday (8:33 p.m. Saturday ET) at the Lingshui airport on Hainan Island, he said.
"The direct cause to the crash of the Chinese plane is the U.S. plane violated flying regulations by suddenly turning toward the Chinese planes and bumping into one of the planes," Zhu said. "The U.S. side should bear full responsibility for the incident. China has protested to the U.S. side and reserved its right to pursue further on the issue of compensation for the Chinese damage."
But in Hawaii, Adm. Dennis C. Blair of the U.S. Pacific Command blamed the Chinese fighters, which he said were similar to F-16s, fly much faster and have more maneuverability than the EP-3, which is about the size of a Boeing 737.
"Big airplanes like this fly straight and level on their path, little airplanes zip around them," he said in a report by The Associated Press. "Under international air space rules, the faster more maneuverable aircraft has obligation to stay out of the way of the slower aircraft.
"It's pretty obvious who bumped into who," Blair said. "I'm going on common sense now because I haven't talked to our crew."
Blair said the collision was likely an accident -- but that it reflected a "pattern of increasingly unsafe behavior" by the Chinese military. He said U.S. officials had protested to Beijing earlier about the behavior but "did not get a satisfactory response."
"Intercepts by Chinese fighters over the past couple months have become more aggressive to the point that we felt they were endangering the safety of the Chinese and American aircraft," he said in the AP report.
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outside n
1 also attrib: The world outside of Alaska; esp, the rest of the United States. [From earlier use in ref to northern Canada] AK Cf inside n, lower adj 2, outside adv1900 Spurr Through Yukon Diggings 156 AK, "When did you leave the Outside?" . . (The Outside means anywhere but Alaska—a man who has been long in the country falls into the idea of considering himself in a kind of a prison, and refers to the rest of the world as lying beyond the door of this.) 1901 in 1991 Tabbert Dict. Alaskan Engl. 31, Today the mail contractor . . arrived, bringing outside papers. 1915 Stuck 10000 Miles 54 AK, From an "outside" point of view they may appear rough. 1935 Anchorage Daily Times (AK) 27 July (Tabbert Dict. Alaskan Engl.), John Staller of Oklahoma left for the Outside today and will return the last part of August. 1944 Williamson Far North 209 AK, Outside is either the States or some other place beyond the confines of Alaska. 1953 AK Sportsman Oct 14, The trading company's little railroad was no monstrous undertaking by Outside standards. 1959 Hart McKay's AK 33, Outside: Means anywhere except Alaska and usually refers to any of the other states. 1987 Fairbanks Daily News–Miner (AK) 30 Dec 9 (Tabbert Dict. Alaskan Engl.), Most people now have telephones and can call almost anywhere in the world, except on Christmas when all the lines to the Outside are always busy.
2 See outside child.