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Iron Fist isn't just the worst thing in Marvel's nearly-ten-year MCU arsenal; it's indeed one of those rarest of pop cultural entities, an outright creative disaster. It can be used as a teaching case in universities for everything from film classes to project management: just because A was successful (and B, and C, and D in Marvel's case), doesn't mean whatever you do next will be.
Iron Fist, starring the hopelessly miscast Finn Jones in the title role, behaves as though it smelled the Orientalism controversy coming and decided to lean into the punch. Where Doctor Strange contained, at least, notions of white privilege as it applies to its overall white saviour framework, Iron Fist doesn't seem to know that those notions are there, or could be there (or could make the show better by being there).
It indeed casts a white man as a traditionally-white character in Marvel's '70s kung fu comic, and buffs up that decision by casting a white man who must be the single least convincing action lead I've ever seen on a screen, anywhere. And it surrounds all this with overall storytelling and production value so unrelentingly pisspoor that they begin to serve as a kind of mediocrity cloaking device.
You've gotta work pretty hard to make an Iron Fist show where the problematic racial elements are just as bad as everyone feared, and yet aren't actually the worst thing going on. Off a guess, I'd say the series' mission statement was: "Let's see what happens when we make a series built around a lead character who is a colossal asshole in an unwavering state of chaos, who doesn't know it, never finds out about it, and never changes it." I'm all for the unsympathetic protagonists, but Breaking Bad, this ain't.
Marvel is teeing up for a big year at the movies (Guardians 2, the new Spider-Man, and a Thor movie that even non-Thor people are keyed up to see) and, perhaps, a less than stellar year on television. Iron Fist showrunner Scott Buck is beavering away on The Inhumans for this fall, a series that is already a downgrade from a feature film project and which covers ground better handled elsewhere already. The Defenders is on its way, but between last year's flawed-but-worthy offerings (Daredevil season 2; Luke Cage) and this Iron Fist mess, I'm mostly looking forward to it as an opportunity to spend some more time with Jessica Jones (and Sigourney Weaver).
Surprising everyone including myself, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is in the middle of its best season yet, but now feels so divorced from the rest of the MCU that it scarcely seems to matter. It got walled off back when it was the worst thing Marvel had done, and is doing just fine.
Iron Fist, by dint of being the anchor leg of the Defenders project, doesn't have that luxury. Whether its failures will torpedo The Defenders remains to be seen, but watching the series, I was more amazed (and disappointed) by how quickly and effectively it rubbed the shine off its preceding series as well.
Look, I'm a big booster overall for both seasons of Daredevil and for Jessica Jones, and think that Luke Cage gets off to a great start. Iron Fist's mess spills over onto them, though. The latest series takes a can of pink spray paint to the shoddy workmanship of its predecessors.
It makes the various Netflix series' reveals feel more like tricks, their predictable beats feel more like laziness, and the shoestring budgets feel more like a bug and less like a feature than ever before.
Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage each, in their way, felt like Marvel pushing the boundaries of the established House Style. Iron Fist makes the quadruped feel more like what it is: bargain basement stories married to low-rent production values and dangled before an audience long since presumed to be "captive." It feels, disappointingly, like it was true all along. This was just the one where the seams burst, the illusion no longer able to carry the flimsiness of the construction.
It takes a pathological kind of creative bankruptcy to take a franchise that is, by any rational analysis, a kung fu movie, and strait-jacket it into the established Defenders universe visual language without even the courtesy nods towards stylistic innovation that marked the first couple episodes of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. This is some cheap, cheap chicken.
The average issue of Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja's run on The Immortal Iron Fist had more kinetic imagery on the page (pages which do not, last I checked, actually move) than any given fight scene in Iron Fist. None of the season's directors seem to want to make even token efforts to stretch the resources they've been given to arrive at something even slightly more artful and daring than what the terrible scripts have given them. Even RZA, who really ought to know better, is brought in to direct the season's only "tournament" style episode and never finds a moment of wuxia grace in any of it.
I give Netflix maximum kudos for their push towards house-owned content and the speed and effectiveness with which they've gotten there. The more entries like Iron Fist show up, though, the more it starts to make the entire Netflix-style 13-episode binge series feel mightily threadbare.
If everyone knows that the middle third of a Netflix season is going to be wild-goose-chase plotting, why are those episodes there? Would subscriptions actually dip if Iron Fist was 8 episodes, or 6, or a TV movie? Would a single viewer notice or care if the Meachums - Ward, June, and Faramir - weren't in Iron Fist at all? I doubt it. They're padding, wandering around on two legs apiece.
Just as the visual blandness of Iron Fist shows the limitations of its sister series, the proscribed run of episodes shows how haphazardly arbitrary the 13-episode order actually is. It's based on a model of network television to which Netflix has literally never been beholden. If the studio is the only one with the balls to bank Scorsese's next movie, might they also have the balls to find a television creator and ask him or her what the natural extent of their storytelling frame is? Are audiences still this dim-witted, that they think they're being duped if they don't see more episode titles in their queue than they have room on the screen?
I've written before about the dangers of pipeline content, where every new show or movie is just streaming media to eventually be sent down the digital delivery pipes regardless of shape, size, or colour. Iron Fist feels like the grey paste that comes out of that pipe when no one cares what's being delivered any more, so long as something is being delivered.
If this is television's new "golden age," studios are going to tailor the medium to the content, not the other way around. The flexibility is there, and the field is wide open. Television is an embarrassment of riches right now - why would anyone waste their time with Iron Fist?
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Yeeouch. I haven't partaken yet, but the trailer I saw enticed me. I'll get around to seeing it eventually, but I'm in no rush now.
I wouldn't bother sir I have watched the whole series and it's very poor.
Poor story, poor plotting, poor choreography and some terrible direction.
Massive disappointment for this old Powerman and Ironfist fan.
If you want some good fun TV martial arts Into The Badlands second season has started.
Well I certainly trust you opinion and appreciate the response. Fact of the matter is, I've only seen season one of Daredevil which I thought was exceptional entertainment. Jessica Jones, Daredevil Season Two and Luke Cage all look good to me. Iron Fist sounds like they shit the bed and man alive am I an Iron Fist fan. Heartbreaking.
Into the Badlands looks stellar.
Thanks again for chiming in and be well.
Your welcome sir season two of Badlands has added Nick Frost, I'm hoping he busts out his Sammo Hung impersonation from The World's End.
That's so funny that you mentioned that. I just watched The World's End for the very first time last week. Sammo Hung is a legend.
I'm usually pretty critical of movies and TV shows and while Iron Fist wasn't very good, it still was far better than the early Shield series.
The whole white savior thing is a non issue for me. We now know that Danny Rand is not the best martial artist. He's portrayed as a lost ten year old trying to fit back into a world he only knew and saw thru a child's eyes.
We "know" the Hand is bad (more because of Daredevil), but I loved that Iron First is questioning the whole basis of guys hidden city. Danny Rand as a child is showed being beaten by his teachers. Was he taught, or was he brainwashed to fight in a centuries old battle?
I felt there were layers to this show that few critics addressed.
Yes, there were a lot of bad elements in it, but quite a bit of good too. Still better than Shield.
I'd at least miss Ward Meachum. He's the only one in the entire mess I found entertaining. And he has great "clammy drug binge face." I'd rather see *him* join the Defenders instead of Iron Fist.
The middle 4-5 episodes were REALLY bad though.... and Finn Jones seems to have only one emotion he can display on screen... petulantly angry... I half-expected him to scream "WHY CAN'T I HAVE DESSERT BEFORE DINNER!?!?!" in some scenes....
But I agree... the script was a bit better than the zero-rating some critics gave it. I am hoping that Jones can take some acting lessons, and maybe we can get past the weak first season...
I did not mind IF but the last 2 episodes were unfulfilling. It was JJ was a tedious drain at best. Madam Gao is the best villain by far in the MCU. Ben Urich & Misty Stone are the only 'heroes' that I was truly liked & rooted for
As for TV, Marvel has really dropped the ball. Agent Carter > AoS. They should have had kept Agent Carter had it do 10-13 episodes, start a mystery, tie in to the MCU (i.e Darkhold and Dr Strange this yr), and then have AoS wrap it all up.
Daisy, May, & occasionally Simmons have been the only good things about AoS. # different storylines this yr have been a mess. Ghost Rider was better than expected. The LMD was weak. The what if is shaping up to be average.
Ir would have been better if somehow Simmons were pushed beyond the pale and ended up being Madam Hydra... not Aida
The DC on CW has had its share of melodrama, but, has been way more fulfilling esp now that Caitlin is no longer Caitlin. I hope Felicity goes to the darkside and Helix is the big bad for Arrow S6.
p.s. Sara Lance would kick Melinda May's a$$ upside one side and back down the other
I liked Iron Fist. The show didn't suck. I don't see anything wrong with the show. It was very good. But this article is your opinion on the show. Glad I didn't listen to all the negativity about Iron Fist and went ahead and watched it. Like I said it is a very good show and I throughly enjoyed it.
I dunno if anybody noticed but this "critique" contains very little actual critique. I think Iron Fist is very good...and I'm way snobbier about stuff than most folks.
What's really going on is the author of this article wants to join in the circle jerk of negative press so badly that he forgot to learn how to write a compelling review.
Try starting with a blog on Jezebel. Seems more your speed, bro.
Please shut the fuck up. Anybody who whines about white privilege when pouring out their own personal and irrelevant opinion about a TV-show should never be taken seriously.
This is why idiots won the election, because of moron sjws like this... I say this as someone on the left, I'm sick and tired of sjws ruining our side.
It's just sad .. it's not enough with all the shit going on with the world now we attack an actor playing a privileged white man a fictional white man playing a comic book character that gets so much negative feedback about the roots of Asian culture. Who fucking cares your right shut the fuck up if u don't like the show say that don't drag it out with some ideal bull shit that we are holding a culture back .. really it's laughable that show is fine it's the marvel machine don't make it into some draw out crap about holyier then now speeches about a fictional show based on a fictional comic .. reaching for a story has been the problem with media for ever don't habituate a problem that's was not even there for the start..
It's so sad that because it's in vouge to trash a show, people focus on one thing that was not even there from the beginning the more shit I read about iron fist the more I see it as a good show .. why can't people have there own mind when reviewing .. it is hard to find someone that can give an a unbaise reveiw even a true account of there experience..
despite the sjw stuff ill ignore, he's right about the poor action, terrible lead , bad writing. not that I disagree/agree with sjw stuff. Just ignore it.
Fuck the sjw stuff, the show is just plain awful. The lead is horrible, the action is weak and the writing is stupid. The show sucking has nothing to do with 'whitewashing' or some shit.
Finn Jones moves with the grace of a three legged gazelle and is as spontaneous as a bucket of cement mix. This guy struggles to keep his balance on one leg and struggles even more with his childish tantrums and panic attacks. Not really impressive for a guy who spent 15 years disciplining and learning to master every aspect of his mind and body. All I can say is God help the monks at Kun Lun if this clown is all that stands between them and certain destruction.
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Wow. Now that's what I call "bashing." Gotta say, I disagree with every word. I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Fist, and I don't have my TV hooked up to cablevision (since 2011), here in Canada. I watched IF on my computer (meaning, I don't watch anything "casually"), though I suppose I could've watched it on my TV via my PS4. Anyway, I don't watch shows with an eye towards finding something to criticise. I watch for whatever there is to enjoy, and I found plenty of that, in this show.
I don't believe in innocent bystanders.
The only marvel show that made me fall asleep. Nuff said!
Iron Fist suffers from making its main character an annoying, whining, 'almost' badass character. He didn't have to come back from the monastery with the brain of a 10 year old. He was there for 15 years. 15 year Monks don't act like that. It would have made sense for him not to know business or politics, but not to such a degree that he acts like a 10 year old brat. And the whole mental institution thing took to long. He should have meditated that medicine out after he developed a plan for what he was going to do next, knowing he could meditate out of that medication whenever he wanted to. They made the Iron Fist to weak and annoying, I never got past the 5th episode. I couldn't stomach it anymore.
I hope he has small parts in The Defenders, or his balls drop by then.
Yes! The lack of substance is exactly what I was thinking! This review skirts around ever actually SAYING anything, particularly about specifics! It's just grand generalizations, like calling yourself an artist and then painting a bedroom.
Characters should not be racially profiled. Even luke cage was not that good and people dont make fuzz about it. People who have watched iron fist first in this series really liked the show.
I feel like this reviewer wanted to watch a completely different series than the one that Marvel produced, and is upset that Iron Fist is completely different from his expectations. Rather than judge the series on its own merit, let's join the feeding frenzy.
The difference between the critic (17%) and audience (80%) scores for Iron Fist at Rotten Tomatoes is stunning. Perhaps critics should dial back the feeding frenzy and try to figure out what audiences like about the show. No, it's not an Enter the Dragon-style martial arts extravaganza. But that kind of combat-oriented story wouldn't work for an 13-episode season. Iron Fist has characters with well-developed diverse motivations, different factions working against each other, and a naive lead being pulled in several different directions. The story develops slowly, but it's rich and is going in a given direction the entire season (in contrast to Luke Cage, which devolved into baddie replaced by baddie replaced by baddie...)
I can't tell what side you're on.
I'd give Iron Fist a try. JJ is the best of the bunch, largely because of David Tenant. Every DD episode with Fisk is worth watching, but some of the S2 episodes are weak. I enjoyed Luke Cage but I think they got lost a bit in the plotting trying to stretch out a simple story into an entire season.
All right. I may. Fisk WAS why Daredevil was so enjoyable to me. Looking forward to Jessica Jones.
Iron Fist was freaking hilarious. Need to make drinking game for it. Take a drink everytime Finn Jones gives his constipation look. "Oh I'm angry and I have to take a poop. Grhhh!". I've seen adult movies with better acting.
Iron Fist is supposed to be so in tune with his inner chi that he can focus it's power into physical form yet wavers psychologically between Forest Gump and a toddler having a temper tantrum. The set pieces are laughably amateurish.
You know your show is in trouble when the most interesting character is the bully spoil for the protagonist.
Luke cage crashed netflix....
lol white guy plays white character: Such controversy! Such Tragedy! Such racism! Stow your morally bankrupt self hatred. No one cares. But all these Marvel shows are garbage anyway.
What "problematic racial elements" are you referring to? The character, as you said, is white and a white actor plays him. Where the problem? The show wasn't that bad, it was an improvement on Luke Cage anyway. Too many people feel guilty for being white these days. Unless you owned slave or something you should really stop feeling bad about things you can't control. Would you have felt better if they cast an Asian actor as this white character?
Yeah, apparently he doesn't dislike it because they cast a Caucasian actor in the part of a white man, but he simultaneously thinks that is a major problem. Amazing. The review is nonsense and totally obtuse.
I found it pretty enjoyable, it's not exactly Fist of Legend in the martial arts stakes or anything but it's entertaining. I expected it to be terrible but i enjoyed it more than i liked Luke Cage.
You are just wrong. I liked it and so do most people I talk to. It had some issues but all the shows do.
Ignore the whitewashing claims and what are we left with? Crappy choreography, bad acting, and bad writing.
I can guarantee if they did cast and Asian actor there would be no one talking about "problematic race elements" it's just another case of critics having no clue what their talking about. Every single comic book fan that I have talked to has loved the series (including myself). I won't let some old men in suits who say it isn't good stop me from enjoying it lol. The whole race debate and claims of white washing are fucking stupid. Danny Rand is White. The only reason anyone thinks it should be an Asian actor is because it deals with martial arts, and that in itself is more racist to me than a white actor being cast for the role of a white character.
I experienced the exact opposite of you.
You couldn't be more wrong, the show is amazing and according to the data is Netflix's most binge-watched show this year bar none. http://variety.com/2017/tv/... As for 'white-washing' Danny Rand has always been a white guy.
No it didn't Iron Fist did though: http://variety.com/2017/tv/...
I suppose that 17% on Rotten Tomatoes is completely misguided?
Iron fist bad reviews have crashed the Internet.... Lol. I wonder if it will be a season 2
All i read after complains about priviledge and orientalism and casting a white man is Whaaaaaa whaaaaaaaaa Whaaaaaaaaa
Anyways this like very other website before who criticize this series based on the cast race is being blocked. Never again to fall in this BS place. you join the blocklist alonside racist websites like breitbart pjmedia buzzfeed salon etc.
Could not really care about the whitewashing. This portrayal of Danny Rand makes him look like a cut-rate Batman; rich kid goes to Tibet and comes home, but unlike the Dark Knight, Rand returns as a clueless and insensitive doofus.
As for the production value, the two dummies "climbing" the Himalayas in sweaters was only slightly less convincing than the Elves in "A Christmas Story."
I guess we saw how that turned out.
I suggest they were not 'bad reviews' rather 'offended reviews' which should receive all of the attention they deserve, which is none.
"It indeed casts a white man as a traditionally-white character in Marvel's '70s kung fu comic,..."
OK wafle7350, kindly explain to me what Matt's race criticism was here?
I Like Iron Fist but freely admit that it's the weakest of the Defenders. Your whiny rant sounds like something we used to find on IMDB.
Iron Fist is pretty good. Someone cried "whitewashing", and the whole world piled on. It's like someone saying "Make the hulk Mexian!" There is nothing wrong with the request, but when they don't do it, don't claim whitewashing. It is the same thing, and it is stupid. Jessica Jones was far more boring of a show anyway.
You can request that Daredevil be played by an Iranian or the hulk played by a Mexican, but when it doesn't happen, you can not claim whitewashing. This is the exact same situation. So we can in fact easily ignore "claims of whitewashing" because they are false. The only thing the producers are guilty of is not fulfilling a request to change a character to a different race for no specific reason.
Probably done by a ton of people who never saw the show but piled on because of false claims of whitewashing. The source material was not changed one bit in order to add white characters or convert non-white characters to white. Hence, no whitewashing, hence, people are idiots desperate to signal their virtue when they think they can get credit for being a stellar social justice warrior.
You clearly can't read. I said to ignore the white washing claims. Without those controversies, the series still sucks compared to the other defenders. Stop trying to pick illogical fights to prove your stupid point.
You clearly can't read. Let me spell it out for you: There is no controversy, only idiots trying to invent controversy.
I don't give a f*ck if there is a controversy or not. The show still sucks.
Danny was a kid when his parents died and when he was taken in by the monks. He was almost immediately beaten so he wouldn't show "weakness" by grieving their deaths. He was never given any time to properly mourn his parents. Sure, he had some downtime based on the stories he told of him and Davos, but that doesn't take away the fact that he was never allowed to openly mourn his parents, that he was made to stifle his emotions. It amazes me that people think he would be well-adjusted. He had a form of PTSD, so is it any wonder that he would lapse into fits of anger?
A lot of solid points on this, but i just can't understand all the hate on Iron Fist, particularly when they always use Jessica Jones as point of comparison, which was such a boring, subpar show to begin with. There seems to be a lot of articles praising Jessica Jones for being feminist and Luke Cage for being all #blacklivesmatter, and hating on Iron Fist for so-called whitewashing, when really all 3 could have been much better. And other than Daredevil, Iron Fist did the best use of 13 episodes, while Jessica Jones could have been greatly improved by being at least 3 episodes shorter. But probably all of the marvel series could be better at 8-10 episodes, as The Defenders is gonna be.
My goodness, I actually forced myself to binge-watch the entire season. Aside from "The OA", this could be the absolute worst TV series in history. BAD acting, BAD plot, BAD writing, BAD action, BAD martial arts, and perhaps the worst actor cast as a superhero since Barry Allen.
Audience score is 78%. The people who actually watched it liked it. The reviewers are just a bunch of SJWs piling on for clickbait.
I absolutely LOVED Tom Pelphrey in Banshee.
Let me help wafle7350 out here (crossing out the racial qualifiers that could have been left out due to their lack of usefulness, because they are plain wrong, and correctly editing). Paragraph before your quote:
"Iron Fist, starring the hopelessly miscast Finn Jones in the title role, behaves as though it smelled the Orientalism controversy coming and decided to lean into the punch."
And the paragraph following your quote:
"You've gotta work pretty hard to make an Iron Fist show where the problematic racial elements are just as bad as everyone feared[most the action focus wasn't on Iron Fist], and yet aren't[isn't] actually the worst thing going on."
In summary, even your quote when taken in with the correct context, that he was using it to point out what he thought was a bad decision, all leads to the narrative that a vast sum of what he thought wrong with it is that of race.
I don't care about the whole whitewashing claim. I'm not PC enough to care. The fact is, Finn Jones is just bad. The show is bad. The script, the plot, every scene...It's as if they tossed the project to high-schoolers and said here, it's yours. It's just bad. And now I'm hearing Iron Fist is kind of central to The Defenders? Thanks, Finn Jones for f-ing up the Marvel universe. Should have put Iron Fist in Avengers; Infinity Wars. Thanos would kill himself off to avoid Finn Jones terrible delivery of the Iron Fist character. Or better yet, as soon as Thanos gets the gauntlet, he seeks out, destroys and then remakes Danny Rand/Iron Fist, and they use that as an opportunity to recast. Finn Jones...smh
Agree completely. Daredevil season 1 was best. Season 2..m.eh, punisher was good. Luke Cage, talking about a stiff actor and bad (in a non-entertaining way) villains. I kind of like JJ, but it drug on too long. But I agree with the above, every facet of Iron Fist was bad IMO. Madam Gau and the Nurse only things decent about that show, but overall it deserves an F.


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There are parts of our garden with 4+ feet of snow piled up. We have a narrow-walled path to walk down in front of the house. Everywhere you look just screams WINTER. This is a nuts week we're having in Boston. Blizzard after blizzard with a little Patriots Superbowl win thrown in the middle (don't worry Eagles, I'll always be yours).
Finn and I have been feeling some serious cabin fever lately. Most of January was spent with one or both of us battling some sort of illness. And now that we're finally healthy (thank you Renewal Detox!), we want to get OUTSIDE and play. There's only so many times we can play with his toys and read his books at home.
One upside to being snowed in (and keeping our power on, thank goodness) is extra time for baking and cooking. We've made carrot cake, blueberry oat bars, meatballs, soup soup soup, and now these guys.
It's winter and you've probably taken full advantage of the amazing citrus of the season. If you're like us, you probably have a ton of clementines in your fruit bowl. It's not hard to finish them all (especially with fruit-loving Finn around). But inevitably, one or two will go the way of the trash can because they went moldy or overripe. So before that happened this time, I grabbed 3 and made these delicious cookies.
If you don't have clementines, don't worry. Any citrus fruit will work - seriously, ANY. One giant orange. A lemon. A lime. Blood orange. Grapefruit even? Give it a try.
- Zest of 2 clementines (or any other citrus fruit)
- Juice of 3 clementines (or any other citrus fruit)
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- 1/2 cup almond meal
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla powder
- Preheat the oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, stirring well to incorporate.
- Scoop out the dough in golf ball size pieces and flatten with the palm of your hand. Don't worry about leaving tons of space between cookies on the baking sheet. They expand but not too much.
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On June 30th our Brain Injury Partner (BIP) program ended. The State of New Mexico has chosen to no longer fund this much needed and requested program which supported individuals living with brain injury to navigate the system of healthcare, legal, housing, social supports, etc. The NMBIA feels strongly that this program should continue and we are seeking funding sources to make that happen. The end result is that we can no longer provide one on one peer supports. Susan Erickson, Bryan Patterson, and Marilynn Holtsoi were excellent BIPs but are no longer with us. Matt Nañez is still our intake and referral person and Alicia Sisneros-Schobel returned as a temporary employee to assist with other contract deliverables. Their service & work was and is greatly appreciated!
Most recently, the NMBIA was not awarded the Information and Referral Contract with the State of New Mexico. We will be handing over the "reigns" to the selected contractor sometime in September. Please know that WE ARE STILL IN BUSINESS as the lead Brain Injury Advocacy organization in New Mexico. We will be reinventing ourselves so that we can continue to be available for supports. We will still be here doing what we do best, just a little bit differently.
On a more positive and exciting note, the State of New Mexico's Children Youth and Families Division (CYFD) has awarded us a contract to provide Families — Advocacy, Support, Access Project (F-ASAP). This program will provide advocacy and support services and educational opportunities for families with children and youth with neurobiological (mental illness), emotional or behavioral differences, and/or brain injury. This will include advocacy in the schools, hospitals, juvenile justice, child welfare and through whatever door a child and their family enter through. We will be using the wraparound approach to care. The NMBIA is very enthusiastic in this program as a vast number of children living with these illnesses have gone un-served or are underserved. Eventually these individuals reach adulthood and life only gets rockier.
We are also in the talking stages with OptumHealth regarding the System of Care Federal Grant transitioning to NMBIA. The System of Care grant is located in three NM sites — the Highland High School cluster in Albuquerque, the communities of Silver City and Santa Clara Pueblo. The grant brings with it a Statewide Family Coordinator and three local site coordinators. "A system of care is defined as a coordinated network of community-based services and supports that is organized to meet the challenges of children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families. Families and youth work in partnership with public and private organizations so services and supports are effective, built on the strengths of individuals, and address each person's cultural and linguistic needs. A system of care helps children, youth and families function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life."
With change comes the need to move in to larger office space and we HAVE MOVED to 3232 Candelaria NE. The NMBIA is now located ONE BUILDING west of our old location, sharing our same parking lot. Signs will be posted for directions. Once everyone is hired and settled in, we will be hosting an Open House.
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Cathriona Murphy of Maria Immaculata Community College, Dunmanway has been awarded a gold medal for achieving first place in the country in the 2013 Junior Certificate Business Studies exam.
Cathriona received her medal at the Business Studies Teachers' Association of Ireland (BSTAI) Business Studies Achievement Awards ceremony, hosted by the Irish Banking Federation at their offices in Nassau Street, Dublin. The awards recognise the achievements of students in Accounting, Economics and Business at Leaving Certificate Level and Business Studies at Junior Certificate Level.
The winners, including Cathriona, were presented with their medals by David Duffy, President, Irish Banking Federation (IBF). Cathriona's teacher, Ms Claire Kelly and school Principal, Mr Dennis O'Sullivan, were also recognised for this outstanding achievement.
Cathriona is now in Transition Year and is interested in studying medicine when she finishes school. As part of her TY work experience she recently spent time in the Mater Hospital, Dublin, where she particularly enjoyed her time in the pathology department. Her hobbies include piano and guitar and she is also currently taking the last level of training required to become a lifeguard.


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At times I will post a guest entry on this website. This one is from Romana, an international student who studied in Groningen in the college year 2004-2005. If you are interested in also posting story here, please feel free to contact me.
Contrary to popular belief not everyone in the Netherlands wears clogs, lives in a windmill or grows tulips, but everyone does own a bicycle. In fact, this small country with a population of about 16 million people has more bikes than people. So the bike is not so much a stereotypical symbol of the NL but rather a necessity of Dutch life steeped in tradition and national identity.
Every minute, almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week you can see cyclists pedaling leisurely through the streets and along the canal banks, alongside one another, and enjoying a gossip or even singing. All roads have cycle lanes and I do not mean the narrow two-foot excuse of a cycle lane that have recently been painted along some of the roads in my country. I am talking about king-size paths with plenty of room for any manoeuvre. Perhaps what is most satisfying to a Dutch cyclist is that sense of priority that is always given to him or her. And if they do not have it they take it anyway because the Dutch cyclist knows that the law is nearly always on their side when it comes to accidents with cars. I watch them with constant anxiety as they glide nonchalantly through the traffic, often managing to talk on their mobile at the same time, career around comers and shoot blindly through traffic lights. Without a doubt, they are the kings and queens of the roads. In fact, the Dutch Queen, Beatrix, is often rumored to have been seen pedaling through the Hague on her sit-up-and-beg style bicycle.
The bicycle in the NL is not just a means of transport, it often functions as a great shopping carrier, too. I am constantly amazed by how much can be carried on one small bicycle and am convinced that the Dutch are born with a greater sense of balance than the rest of us. I will never forget the time I saw a mum skilfully balancing her three children (one on the front, two at the back), her weekly shopping and a huge bunch of flowers all on her trusty bike.
However, there is also a rather dark side to cycling in the NL. With over one million bikes being stolen every year, bike theft has become a lucrative profession. That is why most Dutch people do not own a bike that is worth more than about 70 EUR. Although the Dutch do value their bikes enormously, they also favor an ´easy come easy go´ type of attitude that helps when it is stolen. Which at some point it inevitably will be.
That is why there is a very unique anti-theft invention developed by the Dutch themselves – they make their bikes look individual and distinctive by painting them. Thus the many brightly colored, graffiti-decorated bikes are not just an artistic expression of individuality but also a deterrent to a bike thief and works on the premise that a bike with a leopard skin or silver and orange snake design is perhaps easier to trace than a standard black bike. Resourceful people, the Dutch.
Whatever the problems, be it congestion and stress on the city cycle lane or the risk of having one´s bike snatched by a thief, bicycles will always be at the core of Dutch culture. And without a doubt cycling through the Dutch countryside is still a real joy and a cheap day out for everyone. Also the environmentally-friendly aspect of the bicycle surely makes this a vehicle that will be encouraged to use however technically advanced Dutch society becomes.


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It is not easy to clean a dirty mattress. Even though the level of issues faced depends on the type of grime, nevertheless mattress cleaning is a challenging job comparable to carpet cleaning job. If it is soiled with water, you can dry it up, but not when it is soiled with urine, vomit or blood. Consequently, it is far better to use the mattress cleaning services rather trying to clean the mattress without any achievement.
However, you can use the following ideas to effectively clean the the bed you found at whatsthebestbed or elsewhere. Even though mattress cleaning is a tough job, and cleaning services are the best option to clean it, nevertheless you need to be aware of these ideas, making particular you can cleaned think about care of your mattress when needed.
Water, juice, blood, vomit, urine or any other aspect that can spoil your mattress, ought to be urgently sucked up using the vacuum cleaner. It does not allow the harm to spread. However, you should not use the vacuum considerably; else it will spoil your mattress.
There are a number of fantastic wash-up options and you can use any one of them to wash the mattress. You can try your luck with ordinary shampoo and washing options, however it is far better to use fantastic quality solution. Once you have washed it, the top surface of the mattress will get cleaned. However, in its layers, the grime stays trapped. Consequently, you need to use some other type of cleaning options that are based on citrus concentrate.
Once the mattress is clean, it needs to be properly dried. I you depart it wet for long, and then bacteria can develop in it. Consequently, you have to think about right care of drying it completely. Use of vacuum cleaner is very recommended in cleaning process. Moreover, in the event you do not want to think about this type of burden of vacuuming, washing and drying the mattress, you far better use services of mattress and carpet cleaning in Vancouver.
The cleaning services have specialists for different sorts of cleaning needs and consequently you do not have to think about the discomfort of cleaning your mattress all by yourself. Moreover, the process used by them to clean the mattress is also different and consequently provide greater level of cleanliness. The elements, cleaning options and technique used by them also produce an excellent deal of distinction. Anytime you use cleaning services for the job of carpet cleaning or mattress cleaning, it also ensures that you simply merely do not have to make out time out of your energetic schedule for this type of jobs.


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Happy 4th of July to you all. As we take this day to soak in the awesomeness of America, let's remember if it's weren't for the British who we fought for our freedom, we wouldn't have the sport of Rugby. America has much to celebrate this year in the rugby world. We are putting in a bid for the Rugby World Cup 2018. Our USA Eagles are making a huge showing on the International Circuit, The Women's Eagles Sevens went into the World Cup Quarterfinals UNDEFEATED! The Men's Eagles Sevens almost caused one of the biggest upsets in Eagles' history last Saturday at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens by almost beating New Zealand in a 26-19 game.
In Illinois, we have many athletes who are proudly representing the U.S.A. all over the country as well as internationally. We have players on the USA Women's Team, USA Men's team, we have younger players also, on the All American High School team. I recently had a chance to talk to Nolan Day who is the coach for the Illinois Tornadoes, and who will also be coaching in the Stars and Strips AAHS game that USA Rugby puts on.
The Tornadoes can proudly celebrate this 4th, knowing that they are one of the best teams in the U.S.A. as the proudly took home the Cody Cup as well as winning the 2013 Challenge Cup. Coach Day told me that this tournament really showed the strength of the Tornadoes. The U-17 team came in 6th in the tournament, and were able to hold their own, especially in games where they were playing teams that had kids bigger than most of the U19 teams. As for the U19 team, who won the Challenge Cup in Pittsburgh, Nolan Day told me that despite the limited amount of practice that the team gets before travel, the team worked so well and cohesively together, and the sheer talent of players is why they won.
"How often do we train? Not very often. About four times before tournaments, 6 times throughout the year. We try to get in three before regional and Corn Bowl, Cody Cup, and Pittsburgh. Against Indiana, there was some great playing, they had the ball was flowing as easily as a branch in the breeze. The Tornadoes backline meshed well and looked beautiful. One boy [Lucas Jeauxseph] scored four tries from over 40 meters."
Lucas Jeauxeph helped get the team into the semifinals, and it was Malcolm May, who scored three tries in Pittsburgh, including the one that tied up the final game for the Tornadoes when no time was remaining. For Nolan Day, it was the most exciting final win by a Tornado team ever! In U-19 games, they have a kick off if a game ends in a tie.
"The game was tied 26-26 in regulation we won a kick off from 42 meters by Andrew Fraczek. It was just amazing"
The team not only demonstrated USA Rugby's new, very American motto, "Work for It", but the team showed their maturity and politeness when they traveled, earning compliments from hotel staff and guests. Their help in the small time consuming tasks were also greatly appreciated by the coaching staff Their behavior has motivated the coaches to commit to a UK-France, Belgium and Netherlands tour next summer. Coach Nolan
Day also told me, that the reason he has decided to dedicate his time to coaching the Tornadoes is because, he likes helping kids find a sport they can play for life. Now in his 50s, he's an old boy, he will always be connected with his sport, teams he played for and the life long friends and teammates he made. It provides for these young players a camaraderie that you need in any sport and in the world. Coach Day also added that on the subject of camaraderie,
"You look at their [former Tornadoes] Facebook pages and even from tours 4 years ago, it's still as their main picture. We've had kids that have never been on a plane or out of the state and what a great chance for them. We've had a lot of old boys step up to donate and help get those kids there. They donate money, and their time to help out these kids who might not ever get a chance to do something like this. It's amazing to see rugby friends get together and really step up so these kids can have these awesome chances to experience the great culture that is rugby"
With that, I don't know what else to say about the greatness of rugby culture and how American it is to come together and help one another. The Tornadoes, and their parents will be extending their kindness and be ambassadors to host Churchers College players from England the nights of July 7th and 8th. The favor will be returned when the Tornadoes tour there next year. The experience of this special camaraderie is like no other sport. Windsor Boys' School will also be coming for a visit over July 26-28. This match will be what Day believes to be the longest UK-US high school rivalry once they play them in England next summer for the 5th time. You can check out the Churchers v Tornades game, Monday at the Blaze fields in Lemont at 7pm.
Happy 4th of July!
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OLLIE RAYNER has vowed to bowl through the pain barrier to help ensure Middlesex's Division One survival.
A troublesome knee injury meant Rayner's appearance in last week's London derby with Surrey at The Oval was his first for the tenants of Lord's in more than seven weeks.
Surgery is planned for the end of the season.
Until then, the off-spinner hopes a series of albeit increasingly ineffective injections can help him play a part in keeping last season's champions safe from the drop this time around.
Speaking prior to this week's clash with Yorkshire at Headingly, Rayner told The Gazette: "Basically I've got a tear in the cartilage of my knee.
"I've got to go and have it all cleaned out at the end of the season, so hopefully I'll get through the last four games.
"The injections are lasting for less and less time as the season goes on, so if I get all four games in I'll be over the moon."
"I just want to get back to how I was bowling last year and at the start of this. If I get anywhere close to that hopefully I will be alright for the runin.
"It's all about getting into a good rhythm, keeping the pressure on and helping the lads in any way I can."
The 31–year-old acknowledged the injury has been challenging mentally as well as physically.
He admits there is no guarantee he would have been part of the club's T20 plans even if he had been 100 per cent, but says the combination of the cricket schedule and being on the side-lines has meant he has inevitably found himself on the outside looking in.
"It seems like I've been out for a longer period than I actually have because of the T20 block, which I don't think, even if the knee was alright, I would have been a part of anyway," he added.
"But I like to tell people it was because of the knee so I don't damage my ego too much.
"I'm not going to lie though, the schedule is really hard because if you are not playing you are out of the team environment.
"The T20 is a totally different team and if you are out of it, although we are one squad, you are on the fringes very much so.
"That is nothing against the coaches at all because there is not an awful lot they can do in terms of that. It is just the nature of the beast and they have been great with me up until now, so hopefully I can repay them and get the bowling back to where it was before the knee was bad."
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An infestation of a bark beetle species capable of vectoring pathogenic fungi was recently found in North America.
An infestation of H. ligniperda was discovered at a Christmas tree plantation in Rochester, NY, in November, 2000.
Preocupación: Previously, single H. ligniperda adults were trapped in Monroe County, 20 miles west (upwind) of the Rochester site in both 1994 and 1995. Surveys conducted in spring and summer 2001detected small numbers of adult H. ligniperda at single locations in two adjacent counties (Wayne and Ontario), as well as two locations in Monroe county. Surveys in five other adjacent counties were negative.
Adult H. ligniperda are attracted to fresh stumps, slash and logging debris for breeding. In unhealthy Pinus spp., the beetle usually breeds in thick bark near the base of the stem or in large exposed roots. Newly emerged adults may attack seedlings and stressed pole-sized trees.Adult beetles are efficient vectors of Leptographium fungi, which have been implicated in pine root decline diseases. Leptographium procerum, often isolated from New Zealand populations of H. ligniperda, is the cause of Procera root disease, found in white pines in the eastern U.S.Leptographium wageneri, the causal agent of black stain root disease, is currently present in the western U. S. There is concern that H. ligniperda could be an efficient vector of this fungus if the range of the beetle and the fungus were ever to overlap. The H. ligniperda colony recently discovered in NY yielded 20 isolates of Leptographium fungi (as yet unidentified to species).
Hylurgus ligniperda is occasionally intercepted at U. S. ports in association with solid wood packing materials from Europe. Dispersal on Christmas trees is unlikely because the adults primarily infest stumps and roots and are not flying when the trees are harvested.
Hospedantes: Several species within the genus Pinus (pines).
Africa, Asia (Japan and Sri Lanka), Australasia and South Pacific (Australia and New Zealand), Europe, North America (U. S. - infestation in NY) and South America (Brazil and Chile).
Cuarentenas: Hylurgus ligniperda is a quarantine-significant pest for numerous countries.
Estrategias de detección
Placement of trap logs and survey of pine cull trees, slash piles and stumps are survey methods which may be of use. Tools should be used for prying open pine wood, branches and stumps.
A recent study by the USDA Forest Service found Lindgren funnel traps with high release alpha-pinene (625 mg/day = 5 standard lures) + high release ethanol (1000 mg/day) to be the most effective of the trap-lure combinations they tested. Other lures tested in this study also proved effective, but to a lesser degree. Intercept panel traps and Theysohn traps may be used in conjunction with high release alpha pinene + high release ethanol. Lindgren funnel traps should be hung from a trap rod with top of trap appox. 6 feet from the ground, with the ethanol attractand hung from the top funnel down through the inside of the funnels below. The alpha pinene should be attached below the ethanol, and these attractants should not touch each other.
Adult H. ligniperda are good fliers and can disperse over several kilometers in response to host volatiles. The infestation in the Rochester, NY, area is moving slowly by natural means. Hylurgus ligniperda is present in a wide range of climates throughout the world, so it could potentially survive in all regions of the U. S.
In 2001, H. ligniperda appeared to complete two generations in New York, with the first developing from May to mid-July and the second from mid-July to September. Adult flight activity was heaviest from September to November, corresponding with the second generation's emergence. However, there was no similar increase in July, suggesting that brood adults continued to breed in the same stumps in which they developed.The most promising methods of control are silvicultural controls, including removal of tree stumps and logging debris, as well as delaying the replanting of pine plantations for 6-9 months following harvest. Biological control (for example, using predatory clerid beetles) may be of some use in light infestations.
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The Escondido Creek Conservancy (TECC) has created a shared workspace called Environment, for small businesses working in Escondido and North County that need office space to call their own.
If your business becomes part of Environment, you will receive: 24-hour access to a shared workspace, an address where you can receive packages, access to private office space and a conference room (with dedicated conference phone), access to a printer and copier, a separate entrance and lockable personal storage.
Environment also has a microwave, refrigerator and coffee maker.
Basing your business at Environment gives you a professional working space and the knowledge that your payments are supporting your local environment. We will limit the number of businesses that share Environment so that you will always have access to a desk and a peaceful place to work and collaborate.
Packages start at $275 per month.
$275/month includes – 24-hour access to shared space plus 4 hours of either conference room or private office space per month.
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Dr. Jim Beers is the director of the EVWP and Professor of Reading, Language, and Literacy at William and Mary. Dr. Beers has taught reading, writing, and spelling to all students at all grade levels and is the author of numerous books and articles on these same subjects. In addition, he has given numerous workshops throughout the US and Canada for teachers and administrators, and has also assisted a number of school systems in developing K-12 reading and writing curricula.
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The Eastern Virginia Writing Project offers school districts and individual schools a wide selection of highly skilled individuals who can deliver staff development workshops for faculty and staff. Each workshop runs approximately one hour and includes interactive activities that focus on the teaching of writing--both across the K-12 content areas and in the English/Language Arts classroom.
National Writing Project Sites: What They Do
National Writing Project sites focus on the core mission of improving the teaching of writing and improving the use of writing across the disciplines by offering high-quality professional development programs for educators in their service areas, at all grade levels, K-16 and across the curriculum. NWP sites share a national program model that includes
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- delivering customized inservice programs for local schools and institutions
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In addition, NWP sites may conduct programs for youth, for parents and community members, and for administrators. Each NWP site is housed in a college or university and is constituted as a school/university partnership that identifies, celebrates, and enhances the professional role of successful classroom teachers.
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Red Rock Trail is a 0.7 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Doyle, California that offers scenic views and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Short out&back trail located near the junction of 395 North and Red Rock Road. Trail features a unique geological formation sitting near the border of Nevada and California. Also features views of Petersen Mountain and the Sierra Nevada.
It is not marked and is a little confusing as to where the "trail" is. I parked and thought I saw the trail but it ended at a barb wire fence. I fly d another trail but it went up a steep-ish incline in soft sand. I got to the top and it was a cool view. then I saw a road. walk down the steep part on the other side to find an opening that was block by a fence. it is a cool thing to see and snap a pic. would not want to come here in the summer. there is no shade and the sagebrush stinks to high heaven now. the end of Sept.
Not so much a hike as a walk. A cool spot to stop and hangout around or on the formation. Very cool and fun to explore the different shapes and forms. A nice quickie on 395 North that is worth exploring.


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At PDC we announced special pricing for Microsoft Surface. We've now extended that pricing through the end of November. It's a great discount for those developers who got their hands on the SDK at PDC and are now looking to run those applications on the full hardware. See the US order form or go to Surface.com for more information about the product.
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Being in constant association with and providing consultancy to Socially Responsible Clients has taught us the values and importance of CSR.
We have taken a number of steps as a part of our CSR and sincerely hope that it might have made a difference to the society, even though it may be small.
Our list of activities for CSR is virtually endless and is a long one. Every activity we do is evaluated and vouched for its impact and counter-measures / alternates are considered.


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Angelina Jolie sends aid to Somalia
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are making both hit movies and a difference in the world. Find out where they're focusing their humanitarian efforts now.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt don't just talk the charity talk -- they walk the walk, too. Jolie and Pitt just donated $342,000 to the Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid, a non-profit dedicated to providing healthcare to women and children in famine-plagued Somalia.
HIJRK director Mohamed Dahir told CBS News that the money will help the organization ramp up their aid to the 300 women and children who descend on Mogadishu's Badbaado camp each day.
Somalia -- and the entire Horn of Africa -- is battling a severe famine that has killed an estimated 29,000 children so far and threatens to kill at least 750K more in the coming months. Civil war and other strife has kept much-needed aid from reaching the people who need it most.
Jolie and Pitt are no strangers to spreading the word about the African people's plight. They've donated millions over the years to various organizations and spend time on the continent visiting with people and political leaders.
In addition, Jolie has been a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees for the past 10 years. She's now transitioning into a role as a Special Representative to work with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iranian governments on the plight of refugees.
"It's everybody's problem," Jolie told NBC's Ann Curry in 2007 about the problems that plague Africa. "It is not America's problem. I'm not somebody to say, 'Well, America's the wealthiest and a powerful nation and, therefore, has a responsibility to.' I don't think that's true. I don't think that's the reason why. I think that shouldn't be our motivating, 'You should because you have.'"
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My kppp make my LAN card as default gw route which enforces me to shut down my network services & bring them up after iam connected to the internet.
Is there anyway i can change default route .. settings.... or anyway to solve the problems of shutting & starting the network interfaces before internet connection.
If iam not wrong is this true to add this line ( i dont remember it exactly)
route del default gw in /etc/ppp/options
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The five-year ban imposed on batsman Khalid Latif by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on account of corruption, was upheld by an independent adjudicator - Justice Fakheer Mohammad Khokhar - on Wednesday (January 31).
The five-year ban imposed on batsman Khalid Latif by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on account of corruption, was upheld by an independent adjudicator - Justice Fakheer Mohammad Khokhar - on Wednesday (January 31).
In September 2017, Latif was found to be guilty by an Anti Corruption Tribunal of the PCB, of playing a role in the spot-fixing scandal which marred the second edition of the Pakistan Super League. Consequently, he was banned across all formats and was slapped with a fine of PKR 1 Million. Latif filed an appeal against this verdict with the adjudicator, but has now proven unsuccessful.
"Khalid Latif has been found guilty on all charges," PCB legal advisor Taffazul Rizvi said after the verdict. "This is a vindication of what the PCB had been saying. He met bookies twice, and the second time, when he took Sharjeel Khan along with him, provided conclusive proof of his guilt. The PCB does not take pleasure from meting out punishment to any cricketer, but the law must be upheld. We need to rid ourselves of corrupt cricketers like these. I hope all other cricketers learn a lesson from this case. If anyone is even thinking of indulging in corrupt practices, they should banish the thought. And if anyone is illicitly approached, they must report it immediately."
However, although the ban was upheld against the 32-year old, his fine was waived off by Justice Khokhar citing that his career is all but over. Rizvi didn't dispute this decision. "I think the reason for the fine being set aside was that with his career over, it would have been difficult for him [to pay it]," he said. "Everyone knows the effects a five-year ban can have on someone."
Along with Latif, Pakistan batsman Sharjeel Khan was also handed a five-year ban for a similar offence, while fast bowler Mohammad Irfan and all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz were suspended for 12 months and two months respectively, for not reporting a corruption approach.
Despite making his first-class debut around the age of 15, Latif hasn't been able to cut it to the Test team for Pakistan. Even in the limited-overs format, he has only played 5 ODIs and 13 T20Is for his country.


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