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Analysis of the goals conceded vs Everton
We played some great football at Goodison, and at 0-2 with 12 minutes to play, we should have been home and dry.
I'm afraid that in this analysis, I'll be picking out some of the same old names again – I apologise in advance if anyone thinks that I'm "out to get" certain players – I'm not! And nor am I going to hold grudges against players that make mistakes because, frankly, even the best players make errors. The worry is that we often make the same mistakes over, and over…sometimes two or three times in the same match!
The move for the first goal develops down our left, Everton's right. Assou-Ekotto was taken off at half-time, as he was having a poor game and had been booked. Gareth Bale had come on and, despite some useful attacking forays, had looked a little shaky defensively. As the ball is played out to Coleman, Bale's starting position could be better, but he is certainly still in a position to deal with the danger.
On a yellow card himself, he certainly can't lunge in, so I would just expect him to stay on his feet, jockey Coleman, and see the situation out for a goal kick or even a corner. Notice at this point that Bassong is touch-tight to Saha in the 6-yard box.
Bale is beaten by the same dummy that Coleman used every time he went forward. Bale is left for dead (literally, if your name is Jamie Redknapp), and Coleman now has time to pick out a cross. Saha's movement is good – he comes towards the ball, and then drops off. With Bale beaten, though, Bassong has little choice but to come across towards Coleman. Kranjcar seems to see the danger, and makes a move towards Saha.
But Kranjcar stops short, and Saha is left in acres of space. It's not an easy finish, but Saha is a quality player.
The second goal is generally a bit more of a muddle. The move begins with, I think Cahill, with his back to Dawson and Bassong, well marshaled.
Palacios sees a chance to get rid of the ball. The contact he makes is awful – if you're going to clear the ball square in a situation like this, you have to make sure it goes into the stands.
Instead the ball comes back out to our friend Seamus Coleman. Notice Bale – in fairness, he spots the danger relatively quickly, and makes his move out towards Coleman. Also worth noting the positions of the centre backs – whilst Dawson has dropped back, Bassong is lingering on the edge of the area, with Huddlestone next to him, and Palacios just on the edge of the D.
Bale seems to slow down, and not attack the ball, leaving Coleman in plenty of time and space.
This time the cross is pretty poor, and it eludes both forwards. It comes out to Everton's left where Baines, in a very advanced position, picks up the pieces. In this situation, Dawson does what every defender should do, and drops back to protect the goal line – good, instinctive defending from the captain. Bassong, on the other hand, is still lingering halfway between the penalty spot and the edge of the box – he can have no effect on play from there and, indeed, Cahill is now unmarked, because Palacios hasn't picked him up either.
A relatively simple task for Cahill – Bale has no chance of getting back in, Palacios is watching Cahill, Dawson's moved toward the line, and Bassong is nowhere near the action.
A worrying lack of defensive instinct from Bassong.
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I have to agree with your comments on Bassong. He performed well early in the season alongside King, however, without Ledleys leadership and instruction he often makes the wrong decisions and seems a second behind the play. Dawson on the other hand has performed exceptionally1
Same problem as Daws had early in his career with Spurs. No Ledley and he plays like a wrong 'un.
Never never more Bale in a Spurs shirt……
I feel sorry for bale, he was on a yellow and I think his only fault is trying to impress so much that he spreads himself to thin between getting forward, pulling in to help his centre backs and his full back duties. If he had tried to stick a leg out and bring down the everton player and got a second yellow we would all be on here saying how naive he was and how his red card cost us the three points.
Bottom line is he didn't get enough defensive support from Krankjcar and was exposed a number of times – hes young, rusty and needs competitive games. Theres been so much spoken about bale (his inability to defend, he hasn't progressed sufficently enough defensively and the curse of not winning too many games hes featured in) that I look at him and see he feels the weight of the world on his shoulders and its affecting his natural game.
He needs a run of games and to play without fear and then we'll see the best of him. Hes an easy scapegoat when the focus should be on the more experienced players in the team not shutting up shop at 2-1 and seeing the game out. Thats the difference between us and the top 4 teams – we love to bottle it at crucial times – Is it a learning process that the players must go through that will allow them to develop and mature into a real top four outfit or is it just same old spurs?
Only time will tell.
(I'm a lot more philosophical today than I was yesterday when the 50inch panasonic viera tv nearly had a chair put through it!!)
The trouble with Spurs is we dont have a settled back four that grows has the season goes on .Dawson is a very good defender and he could break in to the England Squad.But having said this he to suffers from being behind Woodgate and King in organising is defence and if i where Harry he should leave him Captain but make him shout and marshall the defence and move him out of defencive shadow of the other two Bassong was in a defence that got relegated and he must have made his fair share of mistakes and to be fair he has not played with any settled defence.Bale needs a midfielder that helps him like malbranque used to do where is Naughton this lad was plucked from Sheffield and has not played except for the under 21 and all the fighting with players and managers is another indication something is wrong .Davspurs the legend could be right about energy bunnies all these late goals from teams that should be knackered .
Bassong actually was in position to cut that first goal cross out but waves his leg at it and misses the ball. Pity.
Both goals were well taken by Saha and Cahil. The sort of chance that Crouch misses because he is not sharp enough.
Dawson is probably 5th choice and quite young . He plays with authority and has two goals in two matches as captain.
Two years ago he was touted quite widely as a future Spurs captain but he is only third choice centre half at the moment.Tricky.
I agree with JimmyG2 on Bassong "waving his leg". If only he had shown more determination and commitment, instead of a half=hearted attempt at blocking the cross!
Bassong seemed off his game throughout Sundays game. Football is very similar to boxing in terms of 'match ups' ……some styles seem to unexpectedly give paople a problem….Jo despite not providing a finish gave Bassong problems througout….Bassong looked very uncomfortable against him……in the first twenty minutes our high square line was caught out many times by through balls …the awkward Gomes looking a disaster waiting to happen with his iffy first touch on back passes. The point about inconsitant defensive selections is very true and while I rate all of our individual defenders they have little chance too establish combinations before change occurs again
don't see the blame being laid at bassongs feet? dawson failed to pick up saha? bassongs form has lapsed since the return of dawson and we are leaking goals at critical times..again. dawson is an average player at best. he gets turned far too often and breaks the line early. he would be one difficult bloke to play alongside. since this post he's again not got tight to his marker and doyle has netted. this is typical dawson..always has been always will be. he lacks concentration so imo is best used rarely. we certainly need another CB. bassong is copping it for dawsons frailties. definitely should have picked up saha when bassong moved out. corluka had the player at the back post dawson had no one!


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So last year I didn't get the chance to do one of these posts properly. I was too swamped, between teaching 21 credits, doing freelance copywriting, and pushing myself to publish 6 books I was editorially responsible for in 6 months, two of which I wrote. I'd already maxed out my labor investment in Autonomous Press, and I was just hauling ass to try to get the titles off the ground so they could be marketed and soled. So that we could get profitable and get paid.
I essentially silenced my own voice in the name of the collective, and in return I got... eight thousand dollars of short-term debt. I haven't realized profits from the press yet, and it's in no small part because my books did not receive the kind of basic book marketing I'd even been able to sustain for myself as a self-publisher. The press was going at a breakneck speed, but when I inquired about issues like a Goodreads presence or investing in trade shows (or even specific academic conferences), I was alternately told that I was making things too much about myself, that I was being too demanding, or that the press was "too focused on autistic books."
Excuse me?!
1. I capped my investment in the press at $2500 to hold parity with the other partners, because I value the structure of a cooperative that much, and it would have taken structuring the company as a traditional employee stock-owned company to value my labor at its market rate. And in that case, the labor I have put in to date is worth $8000--coincidentally very close to the same amount of medical debt I am currently carrying.
2. That's just my labor expressed directly as typesetting projects. I've also worked two full conferences in our sales booth, edited two single-author books, edited an anthology, trained an apprentice typesetter, run all of our labor logistics for production, oh, and the entire production model and cost of goods and services estimate from our labor plan was mine.
3. When they wanted me as a partner, the press was pretty quick to want multiple books from me. My partners originally optioned Imaginary Friends and Defiant, and they were happy to solicit my extra books--The US Book and The Spoon Knife Anthology when there were gaps in the calendar. It was only after I started inquiring about my sales performance relative to other partners and about general marketing for the press as a whole that the focus on autistic people was an issue and that there was a problem with us publishing too many books by partners.
4. Let's take a moment to examine that too--there was exactly one partner who raised this issue, and another that defended it. The rest of us were here precisely because we were being given the chance to build a cooperative community platform where we could use our strength together to magnify each other's voices. We want to share this platform and to offer it to authors outside the press partnership as well--but we are building this for ourselves first, because we're the ones here doing the work of setting up the stage. That's not self-absorbed, that's investing in your own labor.
5. The fact is, once we use partner labor and partner books to get profitable, we're then able to offer both better sales projections and more marketing options for our non-partner authors. It's essentially the same brand model you see in popular music, especially hip hop. The artist establishes a platform, raises money with her own work, invests in new artists, mentors them through opening acts that also serve to enculturate them into the industry, and then turns them loose to create. Our process is similar. Artists publish with our journals or our anthologies. If they are ready to go, we bring them in for books. If they are opening acts yet, we invite them to do more anthologies until we feel ready to ask for a book. The ones who also have the gumption and the skills to do publishing work, we hire as contracted labor or bring in as partners. That model only works when the partner books are strong and form a backbone that can carry the company.
6. Book sales and book quality have nothing to do with one another. Fucking hacks like John Locke can game the marketing of books well enough to sell cheap Jack Reacher knockoffs to people who don't care because they just want to read cheap sex scenes and firearms. It doesn't matter what someone thinks of my books, if we're in the same boat financially, they should be motivated to market them. There is something fundamentally toxic and not at all related to the profitability of the company or its ability to support the uplifting of marginalized voices going on if a partner is willing to ditch this model and make excuses that revolve around the content of the publishing.
The Crisis
This came to a head between November and February of last year, when my continued clashes with the two partners who seemed to have soured on my work progressed into their open harassment and incidents of gaslighting related to editorial decisions I had made. Mind you, I was not editing books with these partners. Rather, one of them felt that being a contributing author gave her the right to continue making editorial demands during the typesetting timeline, long after edits were being accepted from writers.
When I stuck up for my editorial autonomy, I was pursued with lectures about my position being inherently ableist and accusations that I was recasting the other person's words when I kept emphasizing that I had already asked her to stop, that she was overstepping boundaries, and that this discussion was over. The harassment pushed me off Facebook and into a nervous collapse and series of meltdowns and fragmentations. All told, I lost eight days of work, and the only reason our March books were out on time was because when I pushed my editorial responsibilities onto Ian Nicholson, who at the time was not a partner but an outside contractor, he accepted the work as just part of learning how the company worked. He saved the NQ Books launch, and that's why I gave him the imprint when he came on board.
During the time I was working with him on the books, I refused to communicate with the partnership. I was querying agents, to be honest. I was done. I wanted to fulfill my duties to myself and the authors I had committed to, but I was considering resigning in June when the books came out. The only reason I didn't quit was because Nick Walker talked me back into the fold and made a behavior plan with the partner who had abused me repeatedly and escalated into open harassment. Despite that agreement, any attempts that I made to talk about marketing were met with hostility, and when I attempted to get the partnership to agree to simple labor maximums that would curb the amount of extra duty I had to cope with before profitability, I was met with obstruction, excuse-making, and demands that we "slow down" and "discuss things."
Mind you, the same two partners who were happy to see me put in 50 hours a week at an unpaid job while teaching 6 college writing courses were suddenly very concerned about making actions slow and deliberate when I wanted to bring in a partner who was qualified to take my overage and define workplace protections against exploitation for both of us.
Oh, yeah. Ian is also our first partner of color, and the only partner that there was any obstructionist discussion about bringing in. I eventually had to basically accuse Corbett OToole of race trolling while Dani worked on getting people to accept that a 5 out of 6 vote could carry motions. Once Ian was onboard that became 5 out of 7. This is important. Oh, and there's one other important point.
I walked.
I told the partners that they could accept my entire restructuring, labor rates, quotas, Ian's partnership agreement, merging with Barking Sycamores, and my new partnership agreement, or I could walk. Dani could come collect the stock, and hopefully Ian would be able to figure out the parts of dealing with the printer that I hadn't gotten to yet. I wasn't even going to put out Spoon Knife.
They brought Ian in and gave me what I wanted. It seems that there were really only two partners who had a problem with it at all.
Over the course of the month of March, I attempted to engage with Ibby Grace in various ways to keep the company moving forward. As she requested, I began to work on our workflow documents so that we could understand where people were at with their projects and when they would be ready to publish. To that end, I made a short questionnaire that editors could fill out for each book.
I was abused immediately. I was accused of violating Ibby's ADA accommodations (which she had never discussed with me in the context of an editor/production coordinator relationship), of being worse than the corporate university that she feels does nothing to work with her, and I was told that I had to sift through all the past email threads to figure out which books she was working on and who the authors were. I was given no information about how I would discover which developmental steps were completed.
Again, Nick intervened. I requested a restructuring that removed me from daily contact with Ibby. She was moved out of her imprint coordinator position at that point, and was supposed to deal with marketing and acquisitions.
Over the course of the next few months, I continued to monitor our sales, which continued to decline. When the opportunity arose to work with Fable the Poet and to bring in new voices, new audiences, and possibly even new sales channels, I moved on it. In fact, Fable's book got a spot that one of mine was going to have, because I'm just that selfish, right?
The point is, when I asked about marketing, no one had the time to do it, least of all the partners who claimed to be about marketing, outreach, publicity, and events. When we had new authors from communities whose voices were new to the press and we needed marketing support for them, I was accused of being self-promotional for bringing up the lack of marketing for titles, because of course the fact that I have published the most titles means I'm always talking about my own, right?
I have been AutPress in 2016
Every book we have put out this year was brought into the press by me. I talked Ian into the Barking Sycamores partnership and eventually taking over NQ Books, making it the first ever NDQTPOC-driven literary imprint. I typeset seven of our first ten books, and Ian did the rest as I trained him to take over in the event that my current burnout incapacitates me.
I wrote three of our first ten books. I edited two of the single-author ones. I edited one anthology with Ian. I also contributed to four anthologies. That means I'm in seven of the first ten, the same number I typeset. I brought in our first two outside poets and made one a partner. I found our legal partner, who also happens to be a fantastic science fiction author.
But you know what? The titles I have put out without having any formal relationship with our marketing department are strong enough that we are replenishing our coffers and getting ready to put out more books that you will love, because we are still reinvesting and expanding this platform to service a more diverse range of disabled authors.
As we do that, though, I am not going to be accused of being selfish and self-promoting when all the authors in my anthology got paid and I am $8500 further in debt than I was when this show started.
I am too damned strong for that.
This company is MY VOICE
I want to share it with you. I want to share it with my partners--the ones that remain. Yesterday, the Autonomous Press partnership chose to remove the two partners directly responsible for putting the pressures on me that caused my burnout/PTSD spike/fibro flare of the last six months. But make no mistake, in 2014 I had no credit debt, a partner I had been in a loving relationship with for over a decade, a home that had increased in value every year since I bought it, two stable jobs, and health concerns that were on their way to being addressed as I prepared to transition.
TODAY, I am single. My tits hurt all the time. Physical therapy took care of my limp so know I know I will need reconstructive surgery in my knee to be pain free. I'm on estrogen, but it costs me a full day of work and a trip across the state every time I need to see the doctor. I had to quit one of the jobs because the constant anxiety attacks and the fibromyalgia pain together made me too disabled to keep working. I didn't get to attend the award ceremony for my book for the same reason. My house is falling apart because I can't afford things like new lightbulbs.
But the company is mine. And the people who hurt me aren't there any more. The five of seven needed to carry a motion were all it took.
It's safe now.
You can come in. There's room for you. But first--it's time to accept that they hate you.
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Health Care Providers become more Accessible through Telehealth Portal
Technology enables healthcare providers to virtually see paitents in a secure environment
Salt Lake City, UTAH — When Justin Kahn was 14 years old, he was accidentally struck in the head with a baseball bat during a softball game. The incident caused significant head trauma and Kahn developed issues with mood and energy. He spent years working with multiple healthcare providers who diagnosed him with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), manic depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Kahn was prescribed multiple prescription drugs, none of which alleviated his issues. In 2007 Kahn began working with a neurologist who was able to identify that he had a form of epilepsy caused by the head trauma. The neurologist placed him on an anti-seizure medication, and it changed his life.
In 2009, Kahn came up with the idea for TruClinic after reading an article on how the Department of Defense was going to start investing billions of dollars each year to research and treat PTSD and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in active duty and veteran populations. He approached the VA in Salt Lake City with the idea to connect active duty military stationed all over the world with mental health care providers from their home state's VA through a secure webcam connection. The premise was that by establishing a practitioner/patient relationship early in the career of a soldier, the relationship would continue well after the transition to a veteran status.
TruClinic was developed over years of R&D and BETA testing. TruClinic offers a simple virtual clinical solution, all of which is consolidated in a user-friendly, secure website accessible from any computing device. This cutting edge technology allows users to communicate in high definition from their smartphone, tablet or computer. "The technology was built with one aim: Versatility. TruClinic is designed to fit into any practice workflow," Kahn said.
TruClinic is a secure technology that allows for healthcare providers and patients to connect virtually through any computing device and a webcam. The company was recently awarded a Phase II Technology Commercialization Incentive Program (TCIP) grant through the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED).
The TCIP has offered TruClinic funding to specifically help one community in need. The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation (CTGR). The Goshutes are located 70 miles south east of Wendover and almost 200 miles from Salt Lake City. In order for Goshute tribal members to receive medical assistance they either have to drive over two hours to Wendover, Elko or Salt Lake City or wait for a healthcare provider to visit the reservation.
The first phase of the TCIP grant was awarded in May 2012, and was used to help Goshute tribal members receive remote mental health counseling through TruClinic's technology.
The second phase of the grant will be used to complete two tasks. First, TruClinic partnered with Satellite Country, the nation's largest re-seller of satellite service, will install and provide free satellite Internet to the homes on the reservation for one year. In addition, TruClinic will be opened up to all of the health care providers who deliver care to the Tribe.
"Practitioners love it, it's incredibly easy to use, it's secure, and it gives them all of the functionality to effectively communicate with their patients in a meaningful way," said Justin Kahn, founder and CEO of TruClinic.
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Summer League Sixer Participants
I know I am jumping the gun on this question, but with the draft happening shortly, summer league is right around the corner. My thought is who from the roster will participate in summer league? I would guarantee the draft pick (hoping it's Evan Turner). I would think that Meeks would also participate. My question is will Jrue Holiday and/or Jason Smith be participating. My thoughts with Jrue going is not necessarily for his own performance but to give him some familiarity working with Evan Turner. Jason Smith, having missed the year with the knee injury, could use some real playing time and work on a consistent shot. In addition with court time it may also benefit his defense and rebounding even though the competition will come from inferior talent.
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I would say Speights will go because he needs to, but he's dominated the summer league offensively and on the boards. Think he averaged 20/10 in it last year. If he goes it may be to familiarize himself with Holiday and Turner more and to learn to play more unselfish. Ryan Brooks (Temple) and Rodney Green (La Salle) have been brought in for workouts and I'd like to see them get invites as local guys.
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Here are few snaps from today's visit to Ruhe restaurant. I've been wanting to go there since .. forever, and I couldn't be happier that today turned out to be that day. I think I'll never get tired of those outside-of-Tallinn restaurants by the sea. (And thank you, Estonian weather, for your support also.)
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Platform: PC
Developer: Firaxis
Publisher: 2K Games
Considering that Brave New World is designed to be the final expansion for Civilization V, it's only fitting that it focuses on the endgame. While Gods & Kings did a great job of freshening up the mid-game, Firaxis' latest content drop is all about sweetening the pot for more culturally sensitive players or economy-focused traders, granting us a host of new features and systems to dominate the world through tourism, money or diplomacy. Artists slave away on immortal masterpieces, archaeologists scamper around to secure priceless artefacts, and powerful game-changing rules can be voted on in the new World Congress; conferring lasting boons or devastating embargoes.
If this is all sounding a little too refined and cultured for your tastes, you'll also be pleased to know that Shaka Of The Zulus is finally making a comeback, meaning that the more warlike amongst us will be able to crush their rivals before they've even researched gunpowder. Indeed, the only evidence they ever existed will be the occasional arrowhead dug up by modern day tomb raiders.
I recently sat down with Brave New World for a couple of hours, and suffice to say that Civilization players are probably going to get dragged back in for yet another long haul.
Trade Routes
International trading is one of the biggest new gameplay systems that Brave New World brings to Civilization V, and one of the few features that's immediately available from the outset. Once you've researched Animal Husbandry, you'll be able to construct trading units such as land caravans and cargo ships, each of which can provide a game-long source of income. So long as you're on reasonably friendly terms with a neighbour (open borders and embassies are preferable), you can designate a city to visit, creating a trade route that automatically brings in gold, resources and even a two-way flow of technology and religion between the two players.
Trade units exist on their own layer, meaning that they can stack with other units as they go about their automatic business, though naturally have to be carefully defended to avoid barbarians (or Shaka!) ambushing them. More tactical - or introverted - players can also set up trade routes between two of their own cities, allowing them to grow faster and benefit from increased resource generation.
As a simple yet potent way of amassing gold, making friends and nicking the occasional bit of research, trade routes fit neatly into the Civilization V experience, and should make for a neat addition to the early game. However, it's also just the tip of the iceberg.
Culture & Tourism
If you're chasing a culture victory, you'll be pleased to know that Brave New World massively beefs up this side of things, which initially felt a little flat (especially in the late-game). Tourism has been added to the experience, visible as a new HUD icon, which acts as a powerful new offence against other Civilization's culture ratings. If your lifetime tourism exceeds the lifetime culture of your rivals, you'll win the game, and there are plenty of options available.
Great people, not just great works, are a key way of generating both culture and tourism. Legendary artists like Pieter Bruegel The Elder can paint their masterpieces, such as The Tower Of Babel, while Edvard Grieg and fellow musicians slave away on magna opera including In The Hall Of The Mountain King. Once slotted into their prerequisite buildings, these everlasting icons attract an influx of eager patrons desperate to sample the cutting edge of world culture. Or, of course, you could just invade and steal someone else's.
Another more interesting method of attracting tourism is creating archaeologists, who look suspiciously like a certain whip-wielding professor we're all well acquainted with. Once you've built a university in one of your cities, you can build these vulnerable units and task them with digging up 'antiquity sites' that spontaneously appear dotted over the map. Brilliantly, you'll usually uncover artefacts such as arrowheads or spears, which actually correspond to real events that happened earlier in the game.
Finding a fragment of a decisive battle you had with a rival, or evidence of crushing barbarians who set up camp near to your first city, adds a nostalgic jolt to the late-game, not to mention the option of setting up a tourism site or a standalone artefact that can be traded or plugged into your existing university. Sending
Indy your archaeologists into neighbouring territories to plunder their treasures will also be a fun way of griefing your rivals, with the option to sell it back to them bringing the Elgin Marbles instantly to mind.
This is just a small snapshot of the new tourism options available to players, which ought to present an exciting way of winning matches without relying on guns or Gods.
World Congress: Every Vote Counts
Perhaps Civilization V's biggest new feature comes in terms of the World Congress: an obscenely powerful international tribunal that can lay down laws that completely change the face of the game. The first country to develop the printing press can start work on the Congress, and once developed, it holds regular meetings that all Civs and even City States can attend.
The World Congress' word is law, and its edicts can radically alter the shape of the mid-to-late game. The founder of the congress and the attendee who commands the most delegates can propose new binding , which can be both rewarding and punishing. As an example, holding a World Fair or Olympic Games can benefit everyone (especially the host, who'll garner a massive tourism boost), while the International Space Station can lead to exciting scientific advances for all participants. On the flip-side, however, standing army taxes or trade embargoes can cripple aggressive players.
Once an edict has been tabled, it will become irrefutable if voted through, a totally strict and automatic sanction that can only be ended if overturned at the next congress. To this end, players will need to bribe and threaten other players and city states into voting their way, or buy delegates from other countries to ensure that more scandalous bills fail. The full ramifications of this has yet to be seen, but we feel that it will add yet another layer of deeply tactical and surprisingly aggressive play.
New Civs: Boom-Shaka-Laka!
Brave New World will add several new civilizations to the experience, and I'm allowed to talk about a handful as per the terms of my NDA.
Since the expansion ramps up culture and trade, you can expect some powerful magnates and luminaries to lead your civilizations into a new golden age. Pedro II of Brazil, nicknamed "The Magnanimous," is famed for turning a fractured nation into a bastion of free speech and economic stability. Maria I of Portugal will also be of interest to savvy spenders, seeing as her budgetary genius factors into some exciting unique units. Portuguese Naus sail further than Caravels, capable of trading exotic goods at far-flung outposts, while Faetoria trading posts can be built near cities belonging to other civs to duplicate you a cut of their generated cultural resources.
And then, like a club-wielding fly in the ointment, comes Shaka Of The Zulus. The fanbase has been clamouring for Shaka to return, and as you'd expect, he's a ferociously aggressive pre-gunpowder military option for domination players. Even Montezuma will have much to fear from Shaka's unique pikemen, who can attack twice per turn.
Once again, it's clear that Firaxis aren't afraid of adding completely new systems and mechanics to keep the evergreen Civilization V feeling fresh. We'll find out whether this really is a Brave New World when the expansion releases in summer.


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Ladies and Gentlemen, "V for Vendetta" by Alan Moore has taken my graphic novel virginity! If you were to ask me a year ago if I planned on ever reading graphic novels, my first question would be "uhm…a what?" and then if you were to show me what a graphic novel actually is, "I don't do comic books." Not even "I won't read comic books" but "I won't DO comic books". I just instantly tied comic book to geeks and I was so not about that life. Let me go ahead and answer what you all are wondering, "No, I have never seen the movie." The only thing I knew about that movie is that Natalie Portman got her head shaved for it. (YOU GO, GF!! I definitely can't pull that look off. NO WAY!) For one of my classes this semester, this was on our reading list. I must admit, I was a bit surprised to see that I like it as much as I did. I liked it so much that I decided to choose the dystopian short story option to do my paper on. I pretty much wrote a fanfiction short story based off of a scene out of V for Vendetta.
I'm most certainly not the best writer out there but as I'm getting older, I find myself more interested in creative writing. I don't know if that's because of my admiration [obsession] for James Franco or if it's because English is constantly challenging…who knows. I love it so much that I decided to change my major to concentrate in English. BOOM BOOM BOOM! #lifedecisions
I will attach a link to my livejournal where I will be posting my writing pieces. First post will be of my short story off of "V for Vendetta" to which I have titled, "Frank". For a background scoop of this little piece of fanfiction, it is based off of a scene of a minor character (Frank, the Fingerman) that died due to an explosive caused by V. I wanted to give Frank a voice. Basically, I wanted people to empathize with his death a little bit. I don't know. Check it out and let me know what you think! Or don't. That's okay too. I know I've been quiet in the blogging world but it's that time of year where students try to get their shit together for finals. BEAR WITH ME! I admire your patience. Also, prayers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Write about the Middle East, and the nouns — mess, chaos and revolt — will appear in the first sentence. Its inhabitants live with a constant premonition of tragedy, and thus an inability to form a normal, civil society.
As John Dean of Watergate fame might have said: there's a cancer on the Arab world and its name is religion. Every so often, and more often these days, the tumor metastasizes and sends Arab countries into a dark abyss.
Islam has more than 260 sects, often connected to indigent tribes, to which members are more devoted than to their national entities. In many cases these nation-states had been cobbled together by the British and French while dismantling the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled these lands for 500 years.
In 1916 the British and French forged a secret agreement, blithely creating new countries and allocating them to each other's spheres of influence. Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges Picot created Iraq and divided it in half; newly-minted Syria went to the French; ditto Lebanon; and the created-from-scratch Kingdom of Transjordan — a large terrain sparsely populated by Bedouin tribes — British. The victors legitimized and annexed new territory to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Because of British sentimentality for the Bible and the Holy Land in which Jews and Arabs "seemed" to live together in peace, in 1922 Britain convinced the League of Nations to grant it a mandate over Palestine and Transjordan.
Did these Europeans understand the depths separating Shia and Sunni Islam? Probably not, since to us the differences appear insignificant and their origins too frivolous to have created hatred and massacres for 1500 years.
Some background: Mohammed established Islam in 622, accepting tribal rituals of the pagan population, such as worship of the Black Rock (Ka'aba) in Mecca, till this day the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage; adding to this the Koran and the worship of one God — Allah. Alas, he lived only for ten years after the start of Islam. Dead in 632,- he had sired only daughters.
Thus, the male succession was between his father-in-law Abu Bakr and his son-in-law Ali; each of them forming their own faction. After Ali's death, his son Hussein took over. In 680 Hussein was ambushed and killed by Abu Bakr's descendants in Karbala, today's Iraq. Hussein's followers, now called Shiites, declared him a martyr and believe till this day that he will be resurrected as the 12th Imam.
Shiites comprise 20 percent of the 1..6 billion Muslims worldwide. They obediently follow their religious leaders — the ayatollahs. The other 80 percent are Sunni who claim to follow the Koran with greater devotion. There seems to be no philosophical or theological difference between the two. They're like the Hatfields and the McCoys on steroids.
Here's who is who and where in Islam:
Saudi Arabia is Sunni, its cruel religious enforcers are the Wahabbis and the Salafis. Egypt is 90 percent Sunni and 10 percent Coptic Christians. The Muslim Brotherhood, established in 1929, is Sunni, as is Hamas controlling Gaza. The Gulf states — Quattar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates — Sunni; but Bahrain, ruled by Sunnis, has a majority Shia population. Al Queda is Sunni, though many patriotic American politicians, even after 9-11 and the Iraq invasion, had no knowledge of either sect.
Turkey, for the U.S. as important as Egypt, is Sunni. Turkey's neighbors and our old allies, Iraq and Syria, are now useless as partners. Of these two, Iraq is mostly Shia but with a strong Sunni presence, now planting daily bombs in Bghdad. Syria is Sunni, but ruled by Basher El Assad's Shia Alawite minority. 54 percentof Lebanese are Sunni, and 41 percent Maronite Catholic Christians.
The Palestinians are Sunni, but the Jews are not. (Forgive me this feeble attempt at levity.)
I'll concentrate on events in Egypt in my next article. If by then the situation is solved, I'll write about kittens. Better yet, I'll eat an entire litter.
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I posted a couple of days ago the gift that I made for my son's Pre-school teachers. I figured today I would share the cards that I made. I LOVE the Chalk it Up paper pack and knew it was my paper pack of choice for my Teacher thank you cards.
How fun is this card? I am having so much fun with my teacher theme cards that I want to so some more for next year 🙂 I used my Cricut to cut the apple and star. The star is actually just one of the basic shapes offered with the Cricut Design Space. The Apple is from my Cricut subscription. I used Chalk it Up, Lagoon, White Daisy, Flaxen and Sorbet cardstock. The ruler/tape measure image is actually from Washi Wonder D1558 (retired hostess exclusive stamp set) which was stamped in Flaxen ink and then fussy cut. I used the Teacher Appreciation stamp set D1612 to create the grid lines on the White Daisy star and to stamp the pencil. Inside the card I used the "thank you" sentiment and the "for all your dedication and effort this school year". The Lag0on wavy strip at the bottom is from my scraps of previously cut items.
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Make your own Chocolate Cream Pie from scratch!
OK, who's ready for dessert? I am a big believer in homemade pies. They are not terribly difficult and they taste SO much better than store bought. Don't even stop in the grocery store bakery when you can make one of these babies at home.
On Good Cheap Eats I shared some of my favorite pies to serve on Thanksgiving. Today, I've got a homemade version of Chocolate Cream Pie. You may be familiar with the refrigerated or frozen pie crust, Jell-O chocolate pudding, and Cool Whip version. And that's fine. But this takes little more work than using those convenience items and it tastes loads better.
Plus, it doesn't have all those funky ingredients that you can't pronounce.
So, ready to make a pie?
First you're going to whip up a batch of Gramma John's Pie Crust. This is practically foolproof since you don't have to roll out the dough. Just pat it in the pan.
You're going to blind bake the crust. This means that you're going to bake it empty. Since the filling is cooked on the stovetop, you won't be baking it.
Line the pie crust with foil or parchment paper and fill it with beans or pie weights. When the crust starts to color around the edges, you'll remove the foil and continue baking until the crust is light brown. Cool it on a rack.
Meanwhile, cook up the filling in a saucepan. It takes less than ten minutes! Let that cool a little and pour it into the cooled pie crust. Cool it to room temp and then chill the whole thing for several hours. Top with whipped cream.
And voila! Your own Homemade Chocolate Cream Pie!
Recipe: Homemade Chocolate Cream Pie
- 1 batch Gramma John's Pie Crust
- 2/3 cup sugar plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup whipping cream
- Preheat oven to 375 ° Prepare the pie crust according to recipe directions. Pat into pan. Line the crust with parchment paper and fill with beans. Bake until edges begin to color, about 15 minutes. Remove paper and weights and continue cooking until golden brown.
- Cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a medium saucepan, whisk together the 2/3 cup sugar, cornstarch, cocoa powder, and salt.
- Whisk in the milk, stirring well. Cook over medium-high heat, whisking constantly until mixture begins to thicken, about 5 to 7 minutes.
- Whisk in chocolate chips and vanilla until well blended. Allow mixture to cool slightly.
- Pour cooled mixture into baked and cooled pie shell. Cool to room temperature and then chill for several hours.
- Prior to serving, whip the cream and the remaining tablespoon of sugar in a medium bowl until soft peaks are formed. Serve with pie.
Preparation time: 20 minute(s)
Cooking time: 25 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 8
URS Guidelines
Remember: Each week at Ultimate Recipe Swap, there is a posted theme. You are welcome to share any recipe that fits the theme and contains a link back to Life as MOM. If you're curious about the upcoming themes, I have a calendar here. This week's theme is Pie!
If you have a recipe that fits the theme, please link it. However, things like Beef Strogonaff will be deleted from Chicken week because it doesn't contain chicken. Please keep this meme as helpful to others as we can.
And don't make me the bad guy!
What's a favorite pie at YOUR house?


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Human side
Accommodating disabilities
Can demands be unreasonable?
Bert Kriegman, a service mechanic with a badly crippled leg incurred in an automobile accident a year before, complained that the company was not doing enough to accommodate his disability. He contended that as a long-time employee he deserved more consideration.
Maintenance Supervisor Max Redlich sympathized with Kriegman's problem, but disagreed with his contention. "I've been bending over backward to make life as easy for you as possible."
"If that's true," Kriegman replied, "you would have constructed those two ramps I requested a few months ago."
"I looked into that," Redlich said, "but it would have been prohibitively expensive to build those ramps."
Redlich pointed out as he had in the past that he went out of his way to assign the mechanic jobs that were as conveniently accessible as possible, and to avoid assignments where Kriegman would have to climb steps. He also made plant vehicles available to the worker whenever possible. He had even offered to transfer the mechanic to another building where getting around would be easier, an offer Kriegman refused.
Kriegman was persistent in his complaint. Under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), he contended "it was management's responsibility to build those ramps" for him.
When Redlich was equally persistent, Kriegman threatened to sue.
Question: Do you think the employee has a viable case?
Russo's response : Plant Engineer Bob Russo supported Redlich's stand when informed of the case. "For one thing," he said, "Kriegman is able to perform his job competently under the conditions that exist. For another, the 'reasonable accommodation' proviso under ADA does not imply accommodation beyond practical and reasonable limitations."
Jury duty
Does it deserve priority over departmental duties?
Decision makers are sometimes called upon to pass judgment on the weirdest situations. Instrument Repairman Tom Kramer's jury duty notice couldn't have come at a worse time. The maintenance department was up to its neck and beyond in a backlog of high-priority work.
Maintenance Foreman Murray Rosen closed his eyes in dismay when Kramer broke the news.
"There's no way I can spare you now," he told Kramer.
The repairman shrugged. "Duty calls. I have no choice."
"Let me see about that."
Rosen telephoned the judge and explained the situation.
"No problem," the judge replied. "I can arrange to have him serve at a later date."
When Rosen told Kramer about the postponement, the worker balked and insisted on serving the day he was called.
His boss couldn't believe his ears. "The department's in a jam. I need you now."
Kramer refused to back down and took off to serve on the scheduled date.
To say that Rosen was furious would be understating the case.
On payday following Kramer's return to work he was back at his boss's desk to complain that his jury duty pay was missing from his check.
"Tough luck," Rosen replied. "Under the labor agreement jury duty pay entitlement only applies when an employee is required to attend. Since the judge was willing to postpone your service, no requirement was involved, hence no pay. Next time maybe you'll keep other obligations in mind."
"No way am I sitting still for this," Kramer threatened. "This isn't fair."
Question: Is Rosen justified in denying the mechanic his jury duty pay?
Jolson's verdict : "Murray, I can appreciate the way you feel," Plant Engineer Phil Jolson told the supervisor when the case was called to his attention. "But the word 'required' in the contract is defined to mean called upon to serve. Under the circumstances Kramer is entitled to the pay. The best you can do at this point is mark it down as a psychological demerit in his file."
Can you let a persistent harasser get away with it?
Electrician Grade II Jerome Shea filed a grievance after having been fired for sexual harassment. When, after undergoing arbitration he was reinstated, it appeared to some that the arbitrator had harassment tendencies of his own. Shea had repeatedly patted the rear end of a female coworker and attempted to hug her despite vehement protestations.
What made the ruling particularly hard to take was that the arbitrator had failed to consider evidence of other harassment incidents brought to light on the grounds that they had been revealed subsequent to Shea's dismissal.
Plant Engineer James Lacrosse had no choice but to comply with the order to reinstate the electrician, but had no intentions of letting the employee off that easily.
Question: Does Lacrosse have any recourse making Shea pay for his behavior?
Lacrosse's response : Shea's reinstatement didn't last long. Soon after he was fired again for the multiple incidents referred to above. Within minutes another grievance was filed. This time he didn't fare so well.
At another hearing the second discharge was upheld. "Management complied with the requirement to reinstate the worker the first time," the arbitrator ruled. "But no law restricts the company from initiating a second case stemming from the new evidence that was disclosed."
On occasion justice does triumph.
Rules only work when they have teeth
Rule 114 B reads: "Drinking on the job, or coming to work under the influence of liquor, is inconsistent with productive enterprise. The imbibing or possession of alcoholic beverages on the premises of this plant is strictly forbidden and will result in discharge."
So stated management's policy.
One day Maintenance Manager Ken Carpenter was tipped off by a supervisor that he had spied a couple of guys "guzzling beer" in the company cafeteria on a rest break. Carpenter checked it out and found Perry Wilson and Vince Abruzzio with half-finished bottles of beer.
"That does it!" he told the twosome. "You guys know the rule concerning the drinking or possession of intoxicants in this plant."
Carpenter typed up a discharge notice which he handed to the men, who stalked off in search of help.
Minutes later, accompanied by Morris Stewart, their unit representative, Wilson and Abruzzio appeared at Carpenter's desk.
"We're filing a grievance," Stewart charged. "You can't fire these guys for drinking or possession."
"Says who? You know the rule as well as they do."
"Maybe so, but for one thing they aren't under the influence of liquor. They're doing a competent job. For another thing, drinking on the premises has been disregarded more than once in the past. Suddenly clamping down on these men for what was overlooked in the past is unfair and unwarranted."
Carpenter disagreed. "The terminations stand."
"We'll see about that."
Question: Is discharge too harsh in this case?
Wong's decision : "Reduce the discipline to a suspension," Plant Engineer Lee Wong instructed Carpenter. "In view of the fact that the enforcement of Rule 114B has been lax in the past, it lacks the teeth to be enforceable now. Along with the suspension, inform the men that a repeated offense will result in dismissal, and post a notice to this effect on the bulletin board to alert the rest of the crew."
Can an embarrassing environment constitute grounds for litigation?
Maintenance department clerical employee Rose Malkowitz, after once having dated Group Leader Hank Kurso, subsequently rejected all his further advances. After a while Kurso gave up on Rose and set his sights on Sally Rich, an attractive air conditioning mechanic. Before long a hot affair developed between Kurso and Rich.
Forgive the cliche, but Rose was fit to be tied.
Referring to Kurso as "that jerk," she failed to win the sympathy of her female coworkers. According to the plant scuttlebutt, one claimed she was jealous; others dismissed her as simply being angry. "If he's such a jerk," one employee wanted to know, "how come you dated him?"
Whatever the case, Rose's anger was barely restrained. She accused Kurso of being a 'lush' and complained to Maintenance Foreman George Ripley that the couple's shameless behavior produced a hostile work environment.
Ripley took her gripe with a plum-sized grain of salt.
"What do you expect me to do about it?"
"Their behavior is embarrassing and undermines productivity," she claimed. "They should both be fired, or at least transferred out of the department."
When Ripley refused to take her complaint seriously, Rose threatened to sue.
Question: Does Rose have a viable case?
Berman's response : "She can sue all she wants," Plant Engineer Ben Berman told Ripley, "but her case is as weak as a house of cards for the simple reason that it involves Kurso's behavior and has no bearing on her personally or on her relationship with Kurso. Tell Rose that if she wants to transfer out of the department I may be able to swing it."
Can sick leave double as a job-seeking opportunity?
Joe Mancuso, a maintenance department welder, presented Maintenance Supervisor George Van Delft with a doctor's note recommending that he take two weeks off to recover from a throat operation. The employee's sick leave was approved without question.
When two weeks later Mancuso returned to work fully recovered, he found his time card missing from the rack.
The worker marched up to Van Delft's desk. "Where's my time card?" he demanded.
"In the archives," Van Delft replied. "You've been terminated. Your final check will be mailed to you."
Mancuso was stunned. "What the heck!"
"Don't act so innocent. The word came back that you were out looking for another job while on sick leave."
"The 'how' isn't important. Do you deny that you were job-hunting part of the time?"
"Well, no. But whoever said that was a crime?"
"The labor agreement. That's who."
"I'm not sitting still for this."
Question: Is Van Delft within his rights to discharge Mancuso?
Dunlap's verdict : "Mancuso stays fired," Plant Engineer John Dunlap ruled. "For whatever good it may do you can refer him to Clause 136 in the contract. 'An employee who seeks or applies for other employment while on sick leave without the company's consent shall be regarded as having resigned.'"
Must you give him severance pay?
From a performance standpoint Mechanic Grade II Marcel Drummond left much to be desired. From a human decency standpoint he fared even worse. He had a foul mouth, was disrespectful of coworkers in general, and women in particular.
One day, after receiving a complaint from Storeroom Attendant Ellen Glover that Drummond had been abusive and insulting, Maintenance Supervisor John Kowalsky told Ed Moyer, his assistant, "That does it. I'm getting rid of this guy."
"It's about time," Moyer said.
When Drummond got the news he put on a convincing act of being shocked.
"What about my severance pay?"
"You have got be kidding," the supervisor replied.
"That's a rip-off. Employees who are laid off receive severance pay."
Question: Is Drummond entitled to severance pay?
Jarmin's response : Plant Engineer Jack Jarmin remarked, "A clause in the labor agreement specifies that severance pay is not a fixed benefit, but optional at the election of management."
Employee FMLA
Do you know what to do when an employee on medical leave has used up her 12-week FMLA entitlement? The question is posed by HR Matters E-Tips published by Personnel Policy Service, Inc. The answer is, it depends.
The question cropped up at a New England tool manufacturing company when maintenance department clerical worker Anna Leavit developed complications following her pregnancy. Leavit was a marginal performer at best, so that when she called Maintenance Foreman Al Selikoff to inform him that she would have to extend her legally authorized 12-week FMLA leave by four weeks, he figured this would be a good chance to get rid of her.
Ordinarily, says Personnel Policy Service, you may terminate an employee seeking to extend her leave if "the termination is consistent with the treatment of similarly situated employees who have taken FMLA or other extended leave."
But if the medical condition qualifies as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), you may have to extend the leave beyond the FMLA requirement.
Question: What action would you take?
Dorf's decision : "Where a serious health condition is involved," Plant Engineer David Dorf said, "under the ADA a reasonable accommodation is called for if the employee is expected to be able to resume her normal duties following the extension. In Leavit's case the requirement is that you treat her condition caused by pregnancy the same as any other employee who suffers a temporary medical disability."
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