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2016 | NR | 92 min
Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller
Cast | Adam T Perkins, Soa Palelei, Kenny Low, Korum Ellis, Kira Caine, Jason Britza
Synopsis | In the research tower of Japanese company Saisei Security, a scientist awakens mercenaries killed in combat and gives rise to a new, vicious, ninja-trained breed of zombie. The undead face off against an elite swift-response black ops team sent to contain the threat, resulting in a frightful assault between two highly skilled lethal forces. A retired commando stuck in the crossfire becomes the living's best hope for survival.
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My Bulgarian friend is in the States for a while, visiting her wonderful guy. They were our hosts when my husband and I visited Bulgaria last fall and we got to see some absolutely amazing parts of the world. Such fun! They recently invited us over for small dinner party...
When I saw Nellie, I was met with a much smaller, more trim version of herself. Wow! Same smile, but it was much bigger and brighter. As she twirled around to show me her new outfit--loved it!--she shared with me that she had been reading my blog and trying to follow all of the advice I had been giving. She reads English with ease, though struggles at times with conversation, and yet she was able to grasp every bit of information she needed to work toward her health goal of becoming more svelte. Nellie, you are an inspiration to us all!
Her dinner party was delivered as most special meals are in Bulgaria: many courses, with food, drink and great conversation going on for several hours. It's such a delight to experience eating like this when so many of us in America are used to the fast, 10 minute meal. Relaxing, chewing, tasting, savoring the food....good stuff!
The first course presented cheeses of all types, small bowls of healthy nuts, veggies, grapes, juicy melon slices and whole grain bread. I smiled at Nellie a few times as we both chose to pass on the cheeses and enjoy a few nuts. She was up and down flitting around in the kitchen, as many hostesses are, getting a good workout in during the meal.
I sipped on one glass of wine that lasted all night and Nellie had water. We were both choosing to control the excess calories there. I was wondering if she watched the others as I did, as they kept reaching for more and more cheese. We both set our forks down often, relaxed and chatted. Control is good stuff. Next came a delicious salad made out of wonderful greens and a great mix of dried fruits, nuts and all sorts of wonderfully healthy things. I remember that lettuce based salads are not the norm in Bulgaria, so this was a mindful choice by Nellie. No recipe, just a blend of health and deliciousness. Nellie and I enjoyed plenty of this course!
The main course included lean pork loin chops baked with prunes and served with a pasta dish. Yum! So tender, good and filling, that I didn't even have room to try the chicken she made for me, just in case I wasn't a pork eater--she's so sweet. Dessert was a light 'n creamy pie topped with fruit. Flavors were perfect. And then, the cheese, fruits and nuts came back on the table, along with tea for the rest of the evening.
Nellie, it was great! You presented beautiful fruits and veggies, nuts, whole grains, lean meat...and delivered it in a wonderful dinner party setting. You and I made good choices the entire evening, which was easy to do given the choices there.
On the other hand, my husband, who has lost 60 pounds and is now at his healthy weight, found himself losing control over the cheeses that night. Interesting. He got lost in the conversation and did not stay mindful of what he was eating. He just loves blue cheese, which can act as a trigger for him. So, even people who are in control most of the time and have good choices available can lose it sometimes. He just pulled it together, and started eating a little "tighter" the next day. Next time, he'll try to focus more on the strawberries and melon slices and less on the cheese. Good plan.
Thanks, Nellie. Great, healthy party! To your health!
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My Bulgarian friend is in the States for a while, visiting her wonderful guy. They were our hosts when my husband and I visited Bulgaria last fall and we got to see some absolutely amazing parts of the world. Such fun! They recently invited us over for small dinner party...


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'Something Deeper than Reason': Violence and Nonviolence in the Plowshares Nuclear Disarmament Movement
by Kristen J. Tobey (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by Sharon Erickson Nepstad (University of New Mexico), Jon Pahl (Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia), and Scott Appleby (University of Notre Dame).
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Theorizing Theodicy in the Study of Religion
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With invited responses by Kevin Taylor (Boston University), Sally Stamper (University of Chicago Divinity School), Charles Long (University of California, Santa Barbara, emeritus), and Bryan L. Wagoner (Harvard University).
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With invited responses by Stewart Hoover (University of Colorado), Ghada Hashem Talhami (Lake Forest College), Mark Hobart (University of London), and Kathleen Moore (University of California, Santa Barbara).
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by Kathryn Lofton (Yale University)
With invited responses by Daniel Sack (University of Chicago), Kerry Ferris (Northern Illinois University), Gary Laderman (Emory University), Aaron Jaffe (University of Louisville), and Jane Iwamura (University of Southern California).
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Theological Cartography and the Arboreal Imagination in Israel-Palestine
by Alain Epp Weaver (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by David Blakewell Burrell, S.C.S. (Notre Dame University), Amahl Bishara (Tufts University), and Loren Lybarger (Ohio University).
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by Jeffrey Shandler
With invited responses by Sarah Imhoff (University of Chicago), Ellen Koskoff (University of Rochester), and Faye Ginsburg (New York University).
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With invited responses by Sarah Hammerschlag (Williams College), Barbra Barnett (PhD candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School), and Jal Mehta (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
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With invited responses by Susan McReynolds Oddo (Northwestern University), Robert Bird (University of Chicago), and Ralph C Wood (Baylor University).
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by Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by Slavoj Zizek (The European Graduate School), Jeremy Biles (University of Chicago), and Christina Gschwandtner (University of Scranton).
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The Enchantments of Secular Belief
by Danilyn Rutherford
With invited responses by Malika Zeghal (University of Chicago), W. Clark Gilpin (University of Chicago), and Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley).
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by Richard Madsen
With invited responses by Hong You (University of Chicago), Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore), and Robert Weller (Boston University).
June 2008
The Altar and the Screen: Filmmaking and Worldmaking
by S. Brent Plate
With invited responses by Crystal Downing (Messiah College), Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago), Robert Johnston (Fuller Theological Seminary), and William Paden (University of Vermont).
May 2008
More than a Mere Contract: Marriage as Contract and Covenant in Law and Theology
by John Witte, Jr. (Emory University)
With invited responses by Brian Bix (University of Minnesota), Don Browning (University of Chicago), Christine Hayes (Yale University), David Novak (University of Toronto), and Charles Reid, Jr. (University of St. Thomas).
April 2008
What Athens Has to Do with Jerusalem: Location and the Origin of Ethics
by William Schweiker (University of Chicago)
With invited responses by Douglas Anderson (Loyola University), William Burrows (Orbis Books), Terry Clark (University of Chicago), Arthur E. Farnsley II (IUPUI), and Rev. Laura Sumner Truax (LaSalle Street Church).
March 2008
The Last Prophet: Spinoza and the Political Theology of Moses Hess
by Jerome Copulsky (Goucher College)
With invited responses by Rabbi Shai Held (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Leah Hochman (University of Florida), Jeffrey Israel (University of Chicago), and Ben Sax (University of Chicago).
February 2008
The Preacher in the Text: Zora Neale Hurston and the Homiletics of Literature
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With invited responses by Kimberly Connor (University of San Francisco), Dolan Hubbard (Morgan State University), Carolyn Medine (University of Georgia), and Teresa Stricklen (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary).
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Agape, Special Relations, and the Global Care Crisis: Challenging a "Two-Track" Understanding of the Obligations of Christian Love
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Do you remember a childhood nightmare? Yes, we all do. Snakes under the bed, dragons, a burglar, Dracula. Most people's childhood nightmares are based on fearful fantasies. But in Munir Bello's case the nightmare was real life. And something which contributes driving him in his work today.
I'm very happy to welcome back Munir Bello who featured in this interview about his book The Break Up Recipe a few months ago. It was an interesting interview, and as his responses were honest and open, I wanted to find out a little more about the author. You might be surprised by what he told me.
Hi Munir, Good to have you back on A Writer's Notebook
Thanks. Good speaking to you again.
What have you been up to since we last spoke?
I have been running around like mad. I've released, The Break Up Recipe as a paperback due to heavy demand, done a few more interviews and I am in the middle of shooting my dating show, it's been awesome and I'm really enjoying myself at the moment. The team I work with have been fantastic and the singletons are brilliant. Had our first kiss recently (off camera) which was exciting. I'm also writing the second book as we speak which I'm hoping to release later this year.
Fantastic. Congratulations on the paperback, when can we expect to see the show?
Very shortly, I promise to keep everybody informed closer to the time. We're shooting through the summer and aiming to start airing in Mid Summer.
Since we've last spoken I've noticed that you have done a few more interviews and it looks like you're featured in different parts of the world.
Yes I have, it's been brilliant. There have been pieces in The US, The UK, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria and there are some due out in South Africa and other parts of Europe. I will soon be writing regularly for a huge international blog. They read the first chapter of my book, took a liking to it and approached me about being a columnist. We're still in the middle of the discussions.
Congratulations! I hope being a columnist works out for you. You definitely don't stand still for long. You mentioned in your previous interviews your book was written after a painful break up but you never expand on the subject. As the incident inspired your book I'm sure your fans are keen to find out just how much of an influential role it played.
Good question. You're very correct that I've never expanded on it and I don't really plan to. Yes it's true that I wrote the book after a break up but that event was never the influence of the book. The parallels between me, Mark Mutton (The main character in the book) and my previous relationship are contained in a small amount of the book and not all over it. I'm aware that there is a belief that this book is an autobiographical book written about my break up and that the reason I've been working so hard is to prove something to my ex, which is not the case. That chapter is closed and I don't look back on it at all.
That's great you are able to looking forward which is always positive. I wanted to discuss your work ethic in more detail. I know about the intense routine you had when writing (living on 3 hours of sleep) as well as the amount of things you did to try to get your work to the general public (5000 emails and 10000 flyers). Tells us what really drives you?
I think it goes back to certain incidents that took place in my past, which made me realise that you should never get comfortable or take anything for granted.
What specifically are you referring to?
One day when I came home from school, I overheard my mother telling one of her friends that my father had been arrested and wouldn't be coming home that night. This was at a time when Nigeria was ruled by a ruthless dictator named Sani Abacha. He had locked up various people who posed a threat to his power and some of them later died while in custody under very suspicious circumstances or were executed (Most notable names being MKO Abiola, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua and the author Ken Saro- Wiwa). This was a period when I thought that I would become the man of the house and it was particularly difficult because it was just before I came to England to start schooling.
How long was your father incarcerated for and what was it like to go through that when you were so young?
My father was incarcerated for a period of over 3 years if I'm not mistaken and it was tough. Whenever I'd go home from England during the school holidays, I'd see what my mother was going through. There would be threatening phone calls coming through to the house, which sometimes I would pick up. The underlying message of those calls were people telling me that I wouldn't see my father again or people just generally mocking us. It was nuts to say the least. Although I was young and my mother tried to protect the children by putting on a brave face, I was fully aware of what was happening.
I don't know how you coped. It truly does sounds like a nightmare for anybody to go through. What effect has it had on you, and in particular your work?
Lots. As the oldest son, I naturally felt a responsibility towards the family. I'm just happy that I never had to become the man of the house. The uncertainty of not knowing what would happen to my dad was frightening of course. I commend both my parents for never feeling sorry for themselves and just carrying on after that. When you have people like that for role models, you have to step up to the plate. In answer to your earlier question, I work as hard as I do because there is a psychological scar left on me from that period. I felt underprepared to be the man of the house at that age and I guess the drive comes from me wanting to make sure that if called upon to fulfil that role in future that I am ready.
Thank you for sharing that with me. I'm sure your fans will have gained new insight into you as a person.
I'm guessing they will.
I wanted to get a little more background as to what has made you the author you are today. And of course I'm thrilled to hear the book is now in paperback.
And all you got was this lousy sob story hahahahahahaha. I was just hoping to plug the paperback release and the dating show. All the same, it's been a pleasure talking to you as always.
Thanks Munir
Munir's book, The Break Up Recipe, is now available on paperback at Amazon.
Keep up to date with him either on www.facebook.com/thebreakuprecipe or on twitter, @munirbello1983.
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Within the next four weeks, more than 100 people were attending West Side on Sunday mornings. We moved again! This time we rented the county park's facility, Twin Lakes Lodge. By the time Easter Sunday arrived, we had outgrown the lodge with more than 200 people each weekend – and we were just six months old! We moved again, and began renting the auditorium at Traverse City West Senior High School. The facility was perfect for our ministries…and we had room to grow.
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West Side experienced the challenge of outgrowing the high school. With more than one thousand people calling West Side their home church and weekend service attendances nearing 600 people, we were in need of something larger! Since moving into our new building in the fall of 2008, weekend attendances have increased to over 1,500 – with more than 3,000 people calling West Side "Home."
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Experts can often befuddle. They sold the banking world on using derivatives. Experts in real estate failed to warn about the consequences of zero-down mortgages sold to non-qualified home purchasers. Again and again experts lead us to believe they are more competent than they really are. They want us to stand in awe of their pronouncements and never to challenge them. But following steep declines in the domestic economy and the mortgage industry, few people today doubt that the experts can be fallible, and never more than when collectively they agree about the facts pertaining to the Orwellian masterpiece.
What better time than now, twenty-five years since the fateful year 1984, to correct the errors of the consensus experts? Do not the media provide copious coverage of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist explosion killing 237 marines in Beirut? Then why not celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Orwell's fateful date to provide a retrospective, and answer whether or not Orwell wrote about the future conquest of Britain and America by the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin? Or whether Orwell arrived at his title by reversing the final two digits of 1948, the year when ostensibly he wrote 1984? Or whether we can confirm that the book contains no predictions?
As we shall see, 1984 is, in fact, not a vilification of the Soviet dictator Stalin. Nor was the title chosen by reversing the final two digits of the year in which the book was written. Rather, the book is satire of the highest order written against Fabian socialists. They are the breed of English socialists seeking to reform the British economic system, favoring public ownership of the means of production. They also favor state-controlled schools, nationalization of land ownership, and the welfare state. Their foreign policy is internationalist. Orwell wrote his powerful satire to show how Fabian socialism could reform the world until it resembled Stalin's Soviet Union, even if it took 100 years. Moreover, Orwell's scenario is chock full of "predictions" — 137 of them — that describe the daily life of citizens in Anglo-America living in a socialist state modeled after the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin.
How legions of 1984 experts fail to decipher these basic truths remains a mystery even now, 60 years since Orwell's masterpiece burst on the scene in Britain and America.
Orwell on Stalin
When George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, published in 1945, he delivered much vitriol against the Soviet government — Soviet leaders were cast as the pigs. Americans who acquired the rights to 1984 from Orwell's widow and second wife, Sonia, would have us believe — along with many Orwell scholars — that Stalin is Big Brother in 1984. This is wrong. Published in 1949, Orwell's 1984 states clearly that Big Brother is merely a televised image. Though Stalin may be a distant benefactor, Big Brother symbolizes the rise of super agencies in Britain and America staffed by intellectuals on the political Left. A letter from George Orwell to the author Sidney Sheldon that has recently come to light confirms this hypothesis. It states that 1984 is an exercise in "trying to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted in the English speaking countries, and was no longer a mere extension of the Russian Foreign Office."
Similarly, Orwell hardly meant for the satire to be a repudiation of all breeds of socialism. He further stated to Sheldon, "What I most particularly did not intend was an attack of the British Labour Party, or on a collectivist economy as such." Orwell states that the book is not "a sermon on what Socialism in England must lead to." He is informing readers that by the year 1984, the respected socialist leaders of his day, like Clement Atlee who defeated Winston Churchill to become Prime Minister in 1945, would be retired. Then younger socialists born in 1945, the first year of the Labour Party's post-World War II tenure in office, would be 39 years old, prepared to replace the earlier generation. Having been raised under state socialism, the bullies among them handed the reins of power could establish a state so totalitarian that it would destroy every vestige of democratic thought. Orwell was sure that the Atlee government meant no harm — although on Atlee's watch Big Brother super-agencies emerged capable of regulating every aspect of citizen life.
Orwell foresaw how the coming generations of younger Fabians building on the precedent of universal healthcare would employ the emergent welfare state, then, bloated by obedient Left intellectuals intent on increasing governmental power, could become dictatorial. In 1984, instead of bringing the promised peace, truth, love, and plenty, new Fabians would construct enormous ministries devoted to war, deceit, and hatred. In secret, this future generation of Fabians would create shortages, and use fears engendered by the shortages to impose Draconian governmental controls.
Indeed, Orwell while employed by the BBC and the Ministry of Information observed how "totalitarian ideas had taken root" in intellectual socialists. They often represented the tenured elite at universities and government, unable to be ousted whatever leadership took over. Claiming to be above politics, the new apostles of government power, Fabian socialists, believed that their university educations made them high-born. They could trace back their academic bloodlines to famous socialists of the past, much as we Americans look back on Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
Becoming apostles of the adviser to Ren-aissance princes, Niccolo Machiavelli, who taught them cunning and deceit in politics, the Fabian socialists determined to conquer their competitors regardless of time and cost. Through collectivist political teachings, contrived crises, and central planning, they expected that like a ripe fruit, the control of government in Britain and America would fall into their hands. They planned by committee to seize power by citing the good works of famous Fabian socialists like Beatrice and Sidney Webb, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw.
1984's Satirical Targets
The targets for Orwell's blistering, boisterous satire in page after page of 1984 are members of the London Fabian Society. That organization, whose public face was Beatrice and Sidney Webb, created the organized socialist groups rooted in universities like University College London and the London School of Economics. They constructed curricula based on the premise that technological knowledge is power. George Bernard Shaw inflamed the popular imagination to believe that rule by an educated elite would become the political ideal. Their combined ideas powered the movement leading to the requirement that at least four years of university training filled with socialist indoctrination be required before students could graduate, then enter into learned professions.
Beatrice and Sidney Webb became Orwell's targets because they demanded that socialist ideals benefit the power elite more than mere commoners. Even fellow Fabian socialist H. G. Wells attacked the Webbian excesses. They became Victor and Altiora Bailey in his cruel satire, The New Machiavelli. He disparaged their penchant to hold dinners for the super-rich and super-powerful who then were fed Fabian teachings and advice on how to rule more efficiently. The aim of these dinners was to permeate society with expanding socialist control over the people, rather than power shared by the people. Victor and Altiora promised social reform and a louder voice for citizens in government, while they courted believers in imperialism.
Through numerous allusions, Orwell tipped us off that the rulers in 1984 are Fabians of the younger generation. Book characters are named after obscure and esteemed socialists from the past. Party members quack to each other in duckspeak, bringing to mind webbed feet. Most significantly, Sidney Webb appears as Goldstein, who split with Big Brother. Brilliantly, Orwell transforms Goldstein into a sheep among the bleating flock. Webb, because of his goatee and whining voice, was called Nanny by parliamentary opposition, who were known to bleat in the back benches when he spoke. These are some of the obvious allusions. The most biting satire of all, however, is found in the title of Orwell's book.
The title Orwell chose, 1984, provides the cornerstone for the biting satire against the Fabians. The symbol of the Fabian Society was a turtle, reflecting slow movement toward objectives that might take a hundred years. This fixation of "a hundred years hence" appears in a famous Fabian pamphlet devoted to the centenary of the French Revolution. This suggests one reason why Orwell chose his book title. A collector of pamphlets, he knew how the Fabian Society of London was founded on January 4, 1884.
The first Fabian pamphlet was published on April 4, 1884. The first day mentioned in 1984 is April 4. While Orwell was searching for a title, the Times reported that the London Fabian Society was celebrating its 60th anniversary in 1947, three years late, delayed because of the war. Orwell's first wife, Eileen, formerly a student at University College in London, penned a poem entitled "End of the Century, 1984." It was published in the Sunderland Church High School Magazine. We can easily imagine how, sharing a pillow, George and Eileen spoke about Webbian Socialism and what form it might take a hundred years ahead during calendar year 1984.
The breed of socialism presaged by the Webbs, and embellished by their younger protege, William Beveridge, need not be inferred from obscure clues. In 1932, the Webbs visited the "new" Russia under Stalin. Upon returning to London, they regurgitated the information given to them by the Soviet Foreign Office. Obvious exaggerations and outright lies appeared in their big book entitled Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? This publication established Stalin as a "necessary hero." A second edition followed two years later with the title altered slightly: The Webbs removed the question mark. In 1942, Beatrice wrote The Truth About Soviet Russia, denying that Stalin was a dictator. Thus could Orwell, familiar with Beatrice and Sidney, hunch over his battered typewriter and pound out page after page of 1984. The end result became the scenario in 1984 that combines the pro-Soviet vision of the Webbs with Big Brother government enacted by the arrogant new Fabians.
Orwell had earlier written satire against the Fabians. In The Road to Wigan Pier, he ridiculed Beatrice and her male Webbian followers, who wore beards, beads, and sandals. They also experimented with drugs, sex, and the secret religion. The Fabian beliefs in spiritualist teachings is spoken by O'Brien, who tortures 1984's protagonist Winston Smith. O'Brien reflects the new Fabian socialism emerging in the 1940s, led by William Beveridge, who laid the foundation for Britain's National Social Insurance and National Health Service with The Report on Social Insurance, commonly known as the Beveridge Report. The goal of the new Fabians was Big Brother government offering cradle-to-grave security.
In parts of India where Orwell during his early years lived with his family, Big Brother means the close relative who provides financial support to the family. Orwell, remembering the 1942 Beveridge Report, which was used by Clement Atlee in 1945 as a campaign issue, knew that the full Beveridge package comprised more than a National Health Service. It included paid postpartum leave for mothers, child support, compulsory education until college, part-time vocational education, free lunches for students, pay raises for teachers, improved physical education, unemployment insurance, job priority for veterans, welfare for youth, training for the handicapped, government housing around parks, and even payment of funeral expenses. It was literally cradle-to-grave security.
It required new ministries to be built and filled with bureaucrats, in which government holds total power over its citizens. Orwell believed that power over citizens would grow annually until, by the calendar year 1984, Fabian socialists, who were always increasing their numbers through university education, would become sufficiently numerous to remain perpetually in power. No revolution could ever overthrow them.
Orwell saw firsthand how younger Fabians rose to power in proportion to their ability to engage in self-censure, teamwork, and shared journalism and broadcasting. They preferred comrades who tamed emotions and individuality, and showed loyalty to an international brotherhood. The new Fabians as a social class comprised professors, scientists, technologists, advertisers, journalists, public relations specialists, labor union leaders, and celebrities. They represented a collectivistic oligarchy always expanding their oppressive reach into private lives.
Orwell perceived as well how efficient men and women, once awarded Fabian credentials, permeated the schools step by step, as well as shops, homes, hospitals, churches, radio, television, and the cinema, bombarding the public with shared images. New Fabians in one voice taught citizens whom to fear and love. Their messages were embedded in newspaper stories and magazines, media programming, and school education. In their collective view, mammoth government ensured inevitable victory. They represented a monstrous organism too large ever to fail.
Simply stated, Orwell believed that two generations after the implemented Beveridge Report, a new civilization could arise in Britain and America. New Fabians would stock hollow-eyed agencies with obedient intellectuals. The future would belong to them, ruling by committees of equals. Then the university-trained propagandists, poster artists, pamphleteers, illustrators, lecturers, film producers, ghost-writers, broadcasters, teachers, literary experts, economists, psychologists, biologists, engineers, and mathematicians laboring in unison would rubber-stamp socialist decisions meant to allay any problems troubling the upper class.
Predictions Become "Predictions"
Experts on 1984 often proclaim that few predictions can be found in the book. Since Walter Cronkite wrote the preface to the Signet 1984 paperback edition, scholars can cite his preface to debunk the idea of predictions. Cronkite stated, "George Orwell was no prophet and those who busy themselves keeping score of his predictions and grading his use of the crystal ball miss the point." What Orwell did was write a novelistic essay on "power, how it is acquired and maintained, how those who seek it or seek to keep it tend to sacrifice anything and everything to keep it." Therefore, an executor of the Orwell estate suggested using the word "predictions" — in quotes — when referring to alleged future events. Cronkite did acknowledge that the book is "a warning: a warning about the future of human freedom in a world where political organization and technology can manufacture power in dimensions that would have stunned the imaginations of earlier ages." Orwell, therefore, was less a prophet than the satirist who established benchmarks for arrival of a totalitarian society. The items cited below can be viewed as "predictions" warning about the world's future when the norm becomes fighting perpetual war against foes, flying bombs crashing against buildings, and the response by Fabian leaders, as Cronkite observes, in meeting citizen demands for "greater security and comfort." In other words, during dangerous times, 1984 can become the preferred future.
We illustrate from a list of 137 Orwell "predictions." In 1984, Orwell wrote about decisions made following atomic attacks on Great Britain in the 1950s. While the rubble cooled, government set up investigatory committees. Experts on the committees knew they had to exonerate the ruling class from blame and echo opinions of colleagues on investigatory panels. Orwell identified their mental mechanisms as crimestop, diverting attention from criminal deeds by anyone in a position of power; blackwhite meant agreeing with people in power that black is white when they want it to be. Doublethink was refusal to let facts get in the way of preconceived conclusions. In the name of making citizens feel more secure, such panelists in real life assured Americans that the murders of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King were the work of "lone nuts." But was this true in every instance? By implication, collectivists never could conspire to kill world leaders.
Following the kamikaze-like attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, in real life as in 1984, the attacks are described as acts of terror. In 1984, the leaders of Eurasia launch a surprise atomic attack against the Allies, leading to the establishment of dictatorial powers at home ostensibly to combat the threat from abroad. Today, the rise of terrorism leads to the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security, a term that sounds like an invention by the Soviets under Stalin to scare the people.
In 1984, warfare becomes continuous and is conducted against foes, fought in a rough quadrilateral with its corners at Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin, and Hong Kong. In 1984, this includes the Malabar Front in India. In real life, it perfectly brackets Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, cauldrons near and above the boiling point today.
Atomic, biological, and chemical weapons in 1984 remain in the hands of three major powers named Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia. These comprise the United States and Britain (which together have gobbled up Central and South America); Russia incorporating Western Europe; and China holding hegemony over Japan and Korea. This scenario corresponds today to an aggressive America confronting the sword-wielding Russia and the armies of China.
In 1984, captured by police as a suspected terrorist, Orwell's chief protagonist Winston Smith is declared "a minority of one," a mental illness. He is an intelligent person not restrained by threats of punishment. He is tortured by O'Brien. In real life, the DSM-V diagnostic manual due in 2012, sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, according to critics comes close to pathologizing the entire American population. With government having taken full advantage of such expert opinion, tens of millions of Americans could be placed on the mental-illness watch list for just being moody, and declared to be too active or inactive.
Police surveillance in England has become as ubiquitous in real life as in Orwell's novel. Tens of thousands of hidden cameras, some hidden in wall panels, scan the faces and bodies of loyal citizens. Police seek facial expressions and body language as telltale signs of citizens capable of disloyal acts against the government. London is now a spider web with cameras recording millions of citizens conducting their daily business. America is moving in the same direction under the Homeland Security and Justice Departments.
Police establish checkpoints in 1984 and demand that citizens show papers. They also monitor all communications between people. Today citizens submit to random stops. Police searching for DUIs establish checkpoints. Luggage today is opened in transit. National Security Agency technicians read electronic transmissions sucked out of the skies. An article in New Scientist discloses how certified cellphone analysts can routinely extract names, passport and banking information, personal friends, credit card numbers, and travel information from devices we carry in pockets and purses. We drive automobiles that beam our locations up to spy satellites.
School education in 1984 made sure that open-minded intelligent rebels could never emerge again. The masses were granted intellectual liberty because "they have no intellect." Today in schools, grade inflation and favors to unmotivated yet affluent students are especially rampant in public and private high schools and colleges. The SAT was rewritten to lift the scores of students. Clearly, our culture that bombards viewers with staccato images induces shorter and shorter attention spans, particularly in impressionable youth.
Orwell foresaw large telescreens in 1984. Arrayed in front of these monstrous instruments, he saw large audiences conditioned daily to fear and to hate. In 1984, the Party members despise Goldstein the terrorist; they throw things at the huge telescreen when his face appears. Today increasingly large television screens, often depicting gore and brutality, inure children toward violence, including the horrors of war.
These comprise just a small part of the list containing 137 "predictions" for 1984. Who can fail to see how power-hungry bullies, university trained and on the political Left, through advancing technology seem to stop at nothing in their pursuit of order and law. We have been conditioned to obey them. We take off shoes before we board an airplane. We expect orbiting satellites to read our license plates. We feel that day by day the media multiply our fears. We are alerted to real or perceived dangers of weapons loaded with uranium, anthrax sent through the mails, swine flu mutants, E. coli in our food, exploding gas tanks, killer bees, and explosives manufactured from fertilizer. This is our world today, propelled by the intellectual descendants of Beatrice and Sidney Webb, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw.
What We Must Do
The masterpiece 1984, therefore, stems from decisions made in Fabian circles beginning in 1884 and continuing for a hundred years. The book may be called a dystopia about totalitarian Britain and America, but there is a great deal more to Orwell's purpose than that. It is a book warning about how socialism cast free of its moral anchors could eventually lead to an all-powerful state exercising totalitarian rule. Clearly 1984 is Orwell's projection of the Beveridge Report and Winston Churchill's fears during the 1945 elections of power-hungry younger Fabians getting their hands on the whip.
Their hands on the whip and the reins of power, they are the experts promoting consensus. Their methods involve using the mainstream news and peer science. Whether through nuclear winter or global warming, they deal in promoting fears. Meanwhile, America continues to build a more-Orwellian society, brick by brick. But how close we have come can be best understood by understanding why the nightmare of 1984 can happen here. The accumulation and use of government power began with a promise by Beveridge of a National Health Service, followed by government intruding into all areas of public welfare, and from there nationalization of banks and seizure of industry. As Walter Cronkite wrote: 1984 occurs when government experts prove they "may not be strong enough nor wise enough nor moral enough to cope with the kind of power they have learned to amass."
Fortunately, America today still falls far short of the Josef Stalin monstrosity. We still do not gag all the critics to shut them up, as our right to free speech still largely prevails. Stalin's state religion of leader worship falls short of adoption today. Purges and show trials remain in the future, if they occur at all. Visas to travel within the country are unnecessary. Truth as yet cannot be routinely falsified so long as we savor the fruits of free science. Firearms still hang on pegs in our safes. Murder of rich farmers to trigger famine in the United States appears extremely unlikely. And certainly tens of millions have yet to be exiled to the gulags.
The time is now to take George Orwell's 1984 into our minds, when we elect candidates in 2010 and 2012 who run as non-experts willing to tell the truth and obey the U.S. Constitution. The emerging, supposedly more-sophisticated society must reject communism, socialism, and collectivism, and instead adopt freedom.
One final thought: How would George Orwell — based on his writings and what we know about him — avert 1984? My guess is that Orwell, buried in a simple churchyard cemetery, would have relied on his lifelong beliefs in equality, charity, and truth. To live in accordance with these beliefs, Orwell abandoned London with his young son, Richard. They moved six hundred miles away to the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides. When displaced from the London Fabian fog, George could seek more justice living in a freer society. What better way for George, the father, to live than to raise his son to be just and right, rich in integrity — and, for the impoverished and wealthy alike, giving every man his due.
This is Orwell's breed of socialism.
David A. Goodman, Ph.D. is a specialist in brain research.
— Photo of George Orwell: AP Images


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Portland coach Spencer suspended and fined
This just in from the league:
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced today that Portland Timbers head coach John Spencer will be suspended for one game and fined $2,500 for inappropriate public comments about officiating in MLS. Spencer's total fine includes the automatic $500 fine he received for being sent off during the Timbers' game against the Colorado Rapids on June 11.
"John Spencer's recent public criticism of MLS officials was not constructive and will not be tolerated," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said. "We recognize that referee's decisions can be debated, but public comments cannot impugn the credibility of the officials or the League. MLS requires that its players, coaches, and club leadership maintain proper respect for the officials at all times."


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Lets assume that the Grizzles do take Hasheem with the 2nd pick for team needs and to avoid the risk of Rubio's signability (I know there are many other scenarios like trades etc.)
Then the Thunder will be on the clock. Rumor is they covet Harden and they already have a point guard in Westbrook. If Harden slips past the Kings and Wizards, (Kings need a pg and Washington is high on Hill) A possible great trade partner would be the T wolves at number 6. Here is how it could work...
OKC drafts Rubio and trades to Minnesota....
Jeff Green
Minnesota trades to OKC...
Kevin Love
(either this years 18th pick or preferably next years first round)
This trade works for OKC because Jeff Green's natural position is the 3, the Thunder need an inside scorer and rebounder, and they are already looking to draft Harden anyway. Plus they can look to draft a solid player at 18 or acuire the TWolves pick next year and get an athletic center to complement Love. (Aldrich, Davis, Favors, ext.) Minnesota needs a PG (especially one who could bring fans back to the games) and a small forward. Green would play better alongside Jefferson than Love would. This trade addresses both team needs perfectly.
Potential Starting lineup in 2010 for OKC
C - (Aldrich, Favors, Davis, Motiejunas)
PF - Love
SF - Durant
SG - Harden
PG - Westbrook
Starting Lineup for Twolves in 2010
C - (Acquire one through free agency (Birdman?) or drafting Mullins in this year's draft)
PF - Jefferson
SF - Green
SG - Foye
PG - Rubio
or they could play small with Green at PF and miller at the SF.
Let me know what you think. I never post random trade ideas, just bored in summer school.
the knicks are looking to trade lee and robinson. why not try to trade robinson, the 8th pick, and cash for the 2nd pick and take rubio. Diantoni will love him and hell love to play there. then memphis can pick up jordan hill or tyreke evans and have cash for the free agency. plus then the knicks will open up a little more cap space
think before you say team needs. grizz need a true powerfoward more than anything. not another center. have you ever watched the grizzlies play? i mean besides when they play the teams you like
Dlipto...Robinson will be a restricted free agent...sign-and-trades can't start until July...and Joe2BA...as stated before I don't think Rubio would want to play for Minny, and they're in love with Love (no pun intended)
let's assume otherwise because Memphis is not drafting a back up center with the number 2 pick when they desperately need a staring power forward or an upgrade at point guard. I'm so sick of everyone assuming Memphis is going to take Thabeet. The #2-#4 swap will happen with Hawes/Thompson in the deal. If it happens Do not be surprised if Tyreke Evans is the pick and Mayo moves over and plays point guard.
I think Hill is their ultimate goal coming out of this draft, but if they can get Thompson and compensation for swapping two spots then I wouldn't be surprised at all if Tyreke Evans is the pick. Mayo's made it perfectly clear he wants to be the starting point guard for this team and I wouldn't mind seeing it.
I don't think the Kings trade Thompson or Hawes just to move up 2 slots. The 2-4 swap can happen but either the Kings give up someone other than Hawes, Thompson, or Kevin Martin, or the Grizzlies give up more to get Thompson. If they really want Thompson, perhaps a package of #2, Arthur, and Warrick can be enough for #4 and Thompson.
Grizz- It will never change, I think aside from a handful of people I'm sure anyone on this website who has watched a Grizzlies game watched it against on of the lakers 40+something televised games this year. Thabet and Gasol is a train wreck waiting to happen.
Knicks- I put an initial one out and revamped it up about a week ago. I'm going to fine tune the shit out of it when the drop outs emerge. I personally don't see Teague, Daye, and lawal for starting staying in. So Why bother vamping up past the lotto if their not going to be in ya know.
Minnesota has proved they potentially can be a suitable market for a superstar player when Kevin Garnet was once one of the highest paid players in the game, an MVP, and carried several major endorsements. Minnesota is NOT Memphis. The problem is not Minnesota, its been Mchale. However I do agree that Hasheem going to Memphis is far from being set in stone. I was just showing a hypothetical scenario (and Hasheem going to Memphis is more possible and logical than most of your argument show.) But assume Memphis doesn't want to pick Thabeet at 2, they could still possibly get him at 4 along with d-grizzleys power forward he desperately wants.....
Memphis could draft Rubio and trade to Sacramento....
Expiring contract
Sacramento could draft Thabeet (Sources say Presti isn't impressed with Hasheem and wants Harden) and trade to Memphis..
Hasheem Thabeet
Jason Thomson
Sacramento gets their potential star point guard and a more athletic power forward in Arthur who would thrive alongside with Rubio.
Memphis gets the shot blocking they have needed for 10 years and a good young power forward in Thomson. BAM!!!
If Rubio ends up being up for grabs watch out for LAC to move back in to try to get him. Dunleavy absolutely loves him and they would give up almost anything to get him.


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Using Data to Target Risk and Overcome Barriers to Recovery
In July 2015, Sacramento Outreach Adult Recovery (SOAR) Administrator Shannan Taylor (right) introduced a new process to her team: the data-driven morning meeting. The goal: use data to help staff become more effective and focused in serving the right clients, at the right time, with the right, recovery-focused interventions.
Components of the Data-Driven Morning Meeting
You can download this PDF to get a more comprehensive overview, however in brief, the morning meeting process includes a handful of steps and/or components, including:
- Member status surveys, completed at least weekly for all 225 SOAR clients
- Priority snapshots of all clients, produced from survey data
- A structured morning meeting process to input data, review snapshots, and prioritize care
- Routine reports to check client progress and overall program performance
The new process was created using only a few simple, inexpensive tools (Excel and SharePoint) and is done in the same time as a regular morning meeting.
How It's Helping Us as a Team
"By focusing our team and focusing our services, we are able to prioritize our member's needs and are better able to identify risk," Shannan said. "The best way to transform the ideas of recovery into actual recovery is to plan your day around those practical steps. We do that using data."
"Our hope is that by collecting information in the morning meeting and archiving it, we can help plan for care as a team. We became much more effective just by turning a loosely structured case review discussion into something that is a lot more fast-paced, data-driven, and collaborative."


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INSEAD faculty wins three category awards and two competitions at The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2018
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05 March 2018
INSEAD, the business school for the world, today announced that its faculty have performed exceptionally by receiving prestigious awards and commendations in The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2018, which honours and celebrates worldwide excellence in case writing and teaching.
Seven professors and four INSEAD cases have been conferred a total of three category and two competitions awards.
"Congratulations to the INSEAD faculty and research staff who have achieved great success and recognition for their excellence in case writing and teaching," says Ziv Carmon, Dean of Research and The Alfred H. Heineken Chaired Professor of Marketing, "Our accomplishment this year is testament of INSEAD's thought leadership and the high calibre of its research output. It reaffirms the school's commitment to research excellence that is both rigorous and relevant for global business practitioners."
Case Centre Category Award Winners (awarded based on the increase in the number of schools adopting the case):
- "Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour" category
Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Radical Change
Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Noah Askin, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Professor Petriglieri and Professor Askin note that, "2018 is the 19th time INSEAD has won this category award – and this is only possible due to the school's dedication to humanising global business, a principle on which many of our activities rest." They add, "Good cases are meant to generate healthy, multi-sided debate amongst students, and this is certainly one of them. The blending of the personal and the professional in Tony's leadership of Zappos brings out strong feelings among MBA students and executives and really make for a great case discussion."
Recent cases written by Gianpiero Petriglieri
- The Executive Challenge: A Day in the Life of a General Manager
- Ten Years Later: Memoirs of Life and Work a Decade after an MBA
- Fiona and Frédéric Bonner
- "Marketing" category
AccorHotels and the Digital Transformation
David Dubois, Associate Professor of Marketing, INSEAD
Joerg Niessing, Affiliate Professor of Marketing, INSEAD
Jean Wee, Research Associate, INSEAD
Professor Dubois comments that, "Our case works very well in the classroom because it involves a relevant business challenge in today's agile world that both speaks well to the audience and is at the heart of the company's digital transformation." Professor Niessing adds an interesting observation that, "Students aren't only surprised that Booking.com is spending more than Accor, but also by the magnitude of differences: with such a big gap in spending, what should Accor's reaction be? It prompts them to follow alternative routes."
Recent cases written by David Dubois
- Ombre, Tie-Dye, Splat Hair: Trends or Fads? "Pull" and "Push" Social Media Strategies at L'Oréal Paris (Winner of the "Marketing" category in 2017)
- S.T.Dupont - The Renaissance of a French Luxury Brand: Building a Strong Brand across All Touchpoints for Sustainable Growth
- Shang Xia: Selling High-Quality Refined Goods "Proudly Made in China"
Recent cases written by Joerg Niessing
- Who's #1: INSEAD, Harvard, Wharton, LBS?(A): Designing Research to Measure the Strength of Business Schools Brands
- Smartick vs. Khan Academy: A Marketing Strategy for Moving Free Users to a Paying Model
- Telenor: Revolutionising Retail Banking Services in Serbia - Digital Transformation of the Customer Experience
- "Strategy and General Management" category
Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry?
Nathan Furr, Assistant Professor of Strategy, INSEAD
Professor Furr states that, ""My favourite part of the case is the discussion about whether Tesla is a car company (i.e. product), a battery/energy company (i.e. component), or a system (i.e. ecosystem of product, service, repair, charging and upgrades). This discussion really opens students' minds."
Case Centre Competitions Winners (awarded by a panel of internationally renowned case method experts):
Pierre Chandon, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD and The L'Oréal Chaired Professor of Marketing - Innovation and Creativity
Professor Chandon says that, "Since the very first case which I had produced during my PhD studies, I've always considered case writing and case teaching as an essential part of my job. Receiving this Outstanding Case Teacher competition award means a great deal to me, especially after having received the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method Award two years ago. I am thankful to INSEAD for allowing me to pursue both academic research and case writing and teaching."
Recent cases written by Pierre Chandon
- Who's #1: INSEAD, Harvard, Wharton, LBS?(A): Designing Research to Measure the Strength of Business Schools Brands
- L'Oréal in China: Marketing Strategies for Turning Around Chinese Luxury Cosmetic Brand Yue Sai
- Renova Toilet Paper: Escaping the Commoditisation Trap
The TAG Heuer Carrera Connected Watch: Swiss Avant-Garde for the Digital Age (A) & (B)
Felipe Monteiro, Affiliate Professor of Strategy, INSEAD
Anne-Marie Carrick, Research Associate, INSEAD
Professor Monteiro and Ms. Carrick comment, "We are honoured to win this competition which is recognition not only for us as case authors, but validates all of INSEAD's energy and efforts in developing new, innovative and compelling case studies. We must also acknowledge the time and effort that the protagonist, Jean-Claude Biver, dedicated to developing the case studies, and coming to campus to spend time with the students. His level of openness was unprecedented when discussing the watch industry's future, and eventually the development of the Connected Watch."
Recent cases written by Felipe Monteiro
- Digital Transformation in Latin America: A Leapfrogging Opportunity?
- Stefanini and the Digital Revolution: Transforming and Being Transformed
- EBX: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire - Eike Batista
The Case Centre have been presenting the awards since 1991, offering recognition to cases in nine management categories used in the largest number of organisations across the globe in the past year. The Awards this year also include five competitions awarded by a jury of experts.
To find out more, visit INSEAD Case Publishing or view the school's cases with dedicated websites.
About INSEAD, The Business School for the World
As one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools, INSEAD brings together people, cultures and ideas to change lives and to transform organisations. A global perspective and cultural diversity are reflected in all aspects of its research and teaching.
With campuses in Europe (France), Asia (Singapore) and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi), INSEAD's business education and research spans three continents. The school's 145 renowned Faculty members from 40 countries inspire more than 1,400 degree participants annually in its MBA, Executive MBA, Executive Master in Finance, Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change and PhD programmes. In addition, more than 10,000 executives participate in INSEAD's executive education programmes each year.
In addition to INSEAD's programmes on its three campuses, INSEAD participates in academic partnerships with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia & San Francisco); the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University near Chicago; the Johns Hopkins University/SAIS in Washington DC and the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York; and MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Asia, INSEAD partners with School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. INSEAD is a founding member in the multidisciplinary Sorbonne University created in 2012, and also partners with Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil.
INSEAD became a pioneer of international business education with the graduation of the first MBA class on the Fontainebleau campus in Europe in 1960. In 2000, INSEAD opened its Asia campus in Singapore. And in 2007 the school began an association in the Middle East, officially opening the Abu Dhabi campus in 2010.
Around the world and over the decades, INSEAD continues to conduct cutting edge research and to innovate across all its programmes to provide business leaders with the knowledge and sensitivity to operate anywhere. These core values have enabled us to become truly "The Business School for the World".
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Sharpened Artist: Colored Pencil Podcast
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Topic: Setting Art Goals
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As the new year kicks off, many people are making resolutions and setting goals. John and Lisa share 8 tips for setting art goals this year, and encourage developing goals that are specific, measurable, and time sensitive. With the right goals, you'll find that you are driven and focused on moving forward!
Download the Goals Workbook!
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Lisa's DIY Dry Erase Board video
Lisa's Twitter: @lachri
John's Twitter: @sharpenedartist
As always, thanks for listening! Tune in next week for more from John and Lisa. In the meantime, be sure to visit www.sharpenedartist.com for additional updates and information. You can also join our Facebook group, Colored Pencil Podcast, or contact us by email at email@example.com .
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The Cardinals haven't finished above .500 since 2009. That streak will end this season, and even if they don't make the playoffs, Bruce Arians and company are making their case as being the best-coached team in football. Here's why
Bruce Arians will not win a second straight NFL Coach of the Year award, but he deserves it. Sure, the Cardinals might not even make the playoffs, but no team has done a better job than Arizona at masking weaknesses and conjuring strengths.
The credit for the Cardinals' 2013 success goes to Arians, an offensive connoisseur, and his hand-picked defensive coordinator, Todd Bowles. Other than Carson Palmer—who arrived with just 12 victorious starts over the previous three years—this is largely the same Cardinals cast that, before Arians was hired, had lost 30 of its past 48 games. Arians and Bowles have this team at 9-5, a record good enough for first place in four divisions, but merits only third in the mighty NFC West.
If the Cardinals upset the Seahawks on Sunday and the 49ers stumble against the Falcons on Monday night, Arizona would face the Niners in Week 17 with a playoff spot likely on the line. But regardless of what happens this week and next, Year 1 of the Arians era has been a roaring success. Let's examine the best-coached team in football.
As offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, Arians ran a two-tight end, play-action heavy system predicated on long dropbacks and deeper route combinations. He has continued this approach in Arizona, though not without tweaks to accommodate his personnel.
Arians no longer has an athletic, sack-shedding gunslinger like Ben Roethlisberger or Andrew Luck at quarterback. Instead, he has Carson Palmer—a decent-armed 33-year-old who knows how to perform in a messy pocket but lacks the mobility to escape one.
Messy pockets have long been common in Arizona. The offensive line's best player has been Daryn Colledge, a well-rounded but mildly inconsistent left guard. For years the offensive tackle positions has been a revolving door, in terms of personnel and execution. This year, the left tackle duties initially belonged to Levi Brown who, on his best days, looked washed up. When Brown was dealt to Pittsburgh in early October, the duties fell to Bradley Sowell, who has overachieved but often still resembles the undrafted second-year pro that he is. At right tackle is Eric Winston, a shrewd-but-damaged eighth-year veteran who had remained unsigned for several months in free agency. Winston has been serviceable but not much more.
To aid his pass protection, Arians has used chip-blocks from running backs and tight ends. More importantly, he has gradually called more three-step-timing pass plays, especially early in contests, where he makes a concerted effort to get Palmer comfortable. Featuring a more conservative, quicker-paced passing attack early in games also gives the offensive line a chance to find its rhythm and see some of the defense's pre-snap looks and pass-rush concepts (both on the field and through in-game aerial pictures). This, along with presumably keener classroom instruction from offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin and O-line coach Larry Zierlein during the week, has eradicated many of the mental breakdowns that once-plagued the Cardinals' pass protection.
Sounder blocking obviously affords the skill position players better opportunities to do their jobs. Arians' scheme makes those jobs easier by featuring mismatch-creating concepts like diversified formations, pre-snap motion and shifts, and transformative route combinations that distort coverage responsibilities. Below is a typical Cardinals play that illustrates a lot of these principles.
A sharply defined system has helped several Cardinals find a new niche. Start with Larry Fitzgerald. His numbers have dropped, but his performance has not. The 30-year-old is just beginning what will prove to be a career-extending renaissance. In Arizona's previous systems, Fitzgerald was almost always the X-receiver, meaning he often aligned by himself on the line of scrimmage. Under Arians, Fitzgerald has become the Z-receiver, aligning off the line, all over the formation and often in motion. This makes him more exhausting for defenses to focus their coverage, and it opens up unique one-on-one scenarios for others. It's no coincidence that the drop of Fitzgerald's numbers is commensurate with the rise of Michael Floyd's.
Floyd, a 2012 first-round pick, has assumed the X-receiver role, though in this system, that doesn't necessarily mean he always splits out wide on the weak side. He does, however, frequently run routes based off Fitzgerald's routes. Many of them are downfield, which the lanky, long-strider is built for. Impressively, Floyd's last 24 receptions have gone for a first down.
Tight end Rob Housler is becoming a more movable chess piece by the week. Twenty of his 34 receptions have come in the five games he's played since the Week 9 bye, as Arians has called more tight end screens and back-side seam patterns.
If Housler is a bishop on the chessboard, running back Andre Ellington is the queen. The sixth-round rookie has sensational lateral agility, soft hands and good stop-start speed. Arians consistently has created matchup problems by using the future superstar (yes, SUPERstar) at wide and slot receiver, where Ellington's route running is pristine. His backfield touches also have been diverse, with a variety of screens, draws, tosses and straight handoffs.
Coming into this season, no one knew whether Todd Bowles would be a conservative, coverage-oriented defensive play-caller or an aggressive, pressure-oriented one like predecessor Ray Horton, who had a meritorious two-year stint in the dessert. Turns out, Bowles is more aggressive than Horton. It has been not just with blitzes—which, according to STATS Inc., the Cardinals have used on 33.6 percent of snaps this season, second only to the Raiders—but also base defensive concepts. Horton ran a true 3-4, with defensive linemen responsible for two gaps. Bowles has instituted an attack-focused one-gap scheme to better capitalize on the ferocious strength and initial quickness of Darnell Dockett and Calais Campbell. Both Pro Bowl-caliber defensive ends are having arguably the best seasons of their careers. And the Cardinals as a unit rank No. 1 against the run.
Dockett and Campbell are not the only veterans who are flourishing. Thirty-two-year-old Karlos Dansby, who was tossed aside by the Dolphins, has been terrific in a scheme where he's often asked to read-and-react downhill, rather than change directions in space. At outside linebacker, free-agent afterthought John Abraham has had every bit the impact that his 11.5 sacks and four forced fumbles suggest. The 35-year-old plays the weak side just like he did in Atlanta, but instead of spearheading a four-man rush, Abraham is often part of a five- or six-man pressure concept, which usually creates mismatches for him off the edge.
Then there's Tyrann Mathieu, whose 2013 Defensive Rookie of the Year campaign was truncated by a torn ACL in Week 14. Bowles, a former defensive backs coach, casted the third-round pick in two perfect roles: slot corner in nickel, and free safety in the base 3-4. Bowles capitalized on Mathieu's range and uncanny football instincts with man coverage concepts out of different looks, but where the youngster shined brightest—and most unexpectedly—was on blitzes.
Really, blitzes are where every Cardinals defender has shined. Having a true shutdown corner like Patrick Peterson—who often plays "Cover 0 man" against the opposing team's No. 1 receiver—lends Bowles tremendous freedom in pressure designs. In a clear mark of being well-coached, this defense's best execution has come from its staple pressure tactic: the Fire-X blitz.
The 2013 Cardinals seem destined to go down as one of the most overlooked winning teams in NFL history. Perhaps that's another sign that they're well-coached. After all, the only time coaches truly captures the headlines is when they make questionable late-game decisions or butt heads with stars. All Bruce Arians and his staff have done is fully maximize their resources in the first year of what's essentially a franchise rebuilding project.


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CFO Moves: Rovi, Immersion, Covance
Rovi, a digital entertainment company based in Santa Clara, Calif., said in an earnings conference call that Chief Financial Officer James Budge will leave the company mid-May for another professional opportunity. He will be succeeded as CFO by Peter Halt, who has worked with Budge for over four years, according to the call transcript. Budge received compensation in 2011 valued at $3.4 million, according to a proxy filing.
Immersion, a touch-technology firm based in San Jose, Calif., named Paul Norris as its chief financial officer. He succeeds Victor Viegas, the company's president and CEO, who also held the CFO position in an interim capacity. Norris was most recently CFO of Sonic Solutions, according to a press release. The last permanent CFO, Shum Mukherjee, received compensation in 2011 valued at $529,684 according to a proxy filing. Mukherjee resigned at the end of last year.
Covance, a drug developer based in Princeton, N.J., said Chief Financial Officer Bill Klitgaard will become chief information officer. Succeeding him in the CFO role is Alison Cornell, currently vice president of global financial planning and analysis. Klitgaard received compensation in 2011 valued at $1.7 million, according to a proxy filing.


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The Emmys™ are nearly upon us! The competition is fierce this year with nominations for shows including Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Orange Is The New Black, and Veep. Thankfully we don't have to choose the winners. We only have to sit back, enjoy the show, and decide which of these tasty Emmy™-nominated TV show recipes to try at home!
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It has been way too long since I last did a post. Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram make it easy to forget to do this. However, with that said, I'm back, and I'm going to try and get back into this blog.
Today I'm starting work on building Laura's Spartan armor based on Spartan Kelly-087. I'm using a new program call Armorsmith Designer to help scale the armor pieces, so they will fit her right. At least that's how the program is supposed to work. We'll find out soon. Check out the video below.
There are a few parts I'm planning on 3D printing: gloves and upper armor. Though, speaking of upper armor, I'm still up in the air as to whether or not I put them on correctly. The picture show how they're on the mannequin.
They look right especially when compared to a really nice high-res picture I found.
You can see the detail in the upper arm plates that is missing from the model I'm using which is why I'm going to see about 3D printing them.
That's the only update for now. I'm shooting to make some kind of progress on this each week, so I'll be sure to add a post at least once a week. The other reason I'm shooting to make progress on this armor every week is that we're shooting to have this done by Questcon, which is the end of October. Let's see if we can do it.


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The government's flagship academies are today accused of creaming off the best headteachers from neighbouring schools by outbidding them with six-figure salaries.
New research seen by the Guardian reveals a surge in headteacher posts advertised above the £100,000 mark, fuelled by the expansion of the academy programme. The schools secretary, Ed Balls, will tomorrow announce plans to drive up standards in 638 of the worst-performing schools which will include a new wave of academies and trust schools.
Ministers say academies have nearly doubled the proportion of their pupils getting five good GCSEs from an average of 22% to 42%. But teacher unions claim this has been at a cost to other state schools, which are helpless to compete against the high wages and prestige of academies.
The headteacher study, conducted by Education Data Surveys, reveals that 14% of headteacher jobs are now recruiting with salaries in excess of £100,000. Since September, 30 of the 57 £100,000 jobs have been in academies, which operate outside the government's pay scales for schools, despite the fact that there are only 87 academies currently open out of more than 3,000 government-funded secondary schools. The average salary for a 1,000-pupil school is around £72,000.
John Howson, of Education Data Surveys, said: "Teachers and headteachers can choose between high remuneration in challenging circumstance, or lower wages but better working conditions. It leaves a gap of schools in the middle who struggle to recruit."
Tomorrow, Balls will publish a strategy for the 638 schools with fewer than 30% of pupils getting five A* to C grades at GCSE, including English and maths. Local authorities have until the end of the summer term - 50 days - to submit detailed plans for their underperforming schools that will see them closed down, merged or turned into academies.
Ministers will emphasise that the so-called national challenge strategy is about supporting and helping teachers and heads working in difficult circumstances. Schools will be fast-tracked for a new MA qualification for teachers, reorganised into federations with high-achieving schools or turned into academies.
Balls will also announce a new "super-trust" structure in which a low-performing school is closed, then reopened in partnership with a high-performing school and a business or university in order to get it the most support possible. Trust schools enjoy similar freedoms to academies.
An elite force of top headteachers will be developed to help struggling schools, an acknowledgement of the shortage of headteachers who can manage the schools with the toughest problems. "We will do what it takes to make sure that every child gets a good education in a local school," Balls said yesterday.
Officials in the Department for Children, Schools and Families have already categorised the 638 schools according to their problems. They include a group of schools that are already rapidly improving; 96 that are in relatively affluent areas and will be under intense pressure to improve; around a third that are struggling inner-city schools, many of which are earmarked to become academies; and a significant body of secondary moderns in areas that have grammar schools.
Michael Gove, the shadow children's secretary, said: "The government has no answer other than more bureaucracy and targets and they have no plans either to restore rigour to exams or freedom to professionals."
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: "If you create a system where some schools get millions of pounds more than others it's not surprising you make them attractive schools to work in. We have a deeply divided and divisive system."
Christine Blower, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "Academies have the capacity to cream off the best teachers and heads ... It damages surrounding schools and there is anecdotal evidence of staff being headhunted for academies."


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By UFA Assistant Chief Mike Watson
A number of questions about fireworks, recreational fires and open burning have been surfacing lately since the July holidays have come to a close. Here are some answers:
First, thank you to the residents of Cottonwood Heights for being safe and responsible during the Fourth and 24th of July fireworks celebrations. It was evident that citizens were well-informed and took the information seriously. I am happy to report that the city didn't have any grassfires on the Fourth of July. We had one small grassfire on the 24th that was extinguished quickly by fire crews. These statistics are a reflection of how much Cottonwood Heights residents care about the city and the safety of their neighbors.
There are three different types of fires:
A recreational fire is a fire that is essentially a campfire.
An agricultural fire is allowed by permit only and pertains to areas such as farms or mini-farms.
If a fire does not fit within either of these descriptions, it is an open fire, which is not allowed.
The following information is provided by Unified Fire Authority's Fire Prevention Division for Salt Lake County:
Open Burning. Residential open burning (other than "Recreational Fires") is not allowed in Salt Lake County.
Agricultural burning. Land must be zoned "Agricultural," limiting the burning incident to horticultural or agricultural operations (i.e. ditches, fence lines, horticulture pruning, stubble and controlled heating to prevent freezing of crops). Among the restrictions: a minimum of five contiguous acres of land used for Agricultural or Horticultural operation is required, and you must contact Valley Emergency Communications Center (VECC) at 801-840-4000 with your name, address and time of burn prior to starting the burn operation.
Recreational fires. The fuel area cannot exceed 3 feet diameter by 2 feet in height. Burn only dry, clean natural materials. No trash or rubbish, tires, oil or construction waste can be burned. Open fires also must be kept 25 feet away from a structure or combustible materials. Fires contained in an improved barbecue pit or portable outdoor fireplace require a minimum of 15 feet of clearance from combustibles.
Remember to reference the map on the Cottonwood Heights website, www.cottonwoodheights.utah.gov, to ensure you do not use a recreational fire in one of the closed areas. Those areas are closed to all ignition sources, not just fireworks, when hazardous conditions exist. Hazardous conditions exist when we are experiencing such things as hot temperatures, low relative humidity and wind. Across the state of Utah, we currently have had 375 wildfires, many of which you have seen or read about in the news. These numbers are unprecedented, considering the fact that the fire season isn't over. Please continue to be responsible and keep these fires from happening in Cottonwood Heights.
Thank you and as always, be safe!