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important that we convey the joy of learning to our pupils and gently motivate and support them. SchoolVision forms a very effective element in this regard. It has a positive impact both on the educational environment and learning behaviour."
- Irene Mold, Headteacher of Grafenwörth primary school
The original study in Germany yielded some surprising results. It found that, using certain lighting scenarios, pupil attentiveness and concentration were considerably increased. In addition, reading speed rose by 35% and hyperactivity was reduced by up to 76%.
To see if these same results could be achieved in Austria, the regional government selected three schools to use in a pilot test. The 6-month long study was conducted using 98 pupils, spanning three different age groups. The investigation was carried out by the child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy department at the Landesklinikum Donauregion in Tulln, using scientifically-proven procedures.
The results were impressive. The findings reinforced those of the German study, with slight variations in individual parameters. Dynamic lighting was shown to reduce restlessness amongst pupils, increase their concentration, and lead to them making fewer mistakes. However with the pupils in Austria it was reading comprehension rather than reading speed that improved. Overall, the study supported the notion that SchoolVision can enhance the learning environment for children.
SchoolVision is a ground-breaking lighting solution that enables the light atmosphere in a classroom to be modified simply by pressing a button. The learning atmosphere can be set to suit the occasion, helping children to stay alert or calm down at different times of the day.


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Sailing the Elbe River near Coswig, Germany. The Fahrschule Lohman on right. (Km #237)
Weather on the Elbe can be very rainy in June and July.
Storm clouds are about to refill the shallow Elbe.
Captain Rohn on a routine deck check.
The 112-passenger Fontane, built in 1991 and refurbished in 2010. Eight rooms with French balconies (200 sq. ft.) and 48 other cabins (135 sq. ft.).
Passengers walking off the great Viking cuisine!
The ubiquitous kite.
Ferry boat am Elbe.
At the state-of-the art ship controls.
No traffic jams here!
Chief Engineer Ullrich on a routine stroll of the ship.
Lamb was often on the terrific menu! Sorry guys!
An agriculture processing plant?
Bike paths line the Elbe in Germany.
Guests enjoy the Meissen Porcelain factory demonstrations.
The Viking horde returns.
Cruising into Dresden.
Dresden bridge.
Guide reveals Dresden's destruction in WW II.
The terrific Viking Fontane team.
Parking lots.
Typical Russian housing in the background.
Tasting at a Russian food specialty shop.
Tasting ham and vodka at the market.
Passing vineyards while sipping wine...seems so appropriate.
Beneath the Bastei Bridge.
Vertical transportation.
Paddle Steamer near Rathen, Germany.
Festung, Koenigstein fortress.
Near Rathen, Germany.
Cabin wildlife abounds!
Docked in Bad Schandau, Germany.
Wedding party at Bastei Hotel.
Saxony near the park.
Candi & Artur toast the guests.
This is YMCA?
Chris entertains the guests.
Vladamir kept the Fontane rocking!
Pastyrska Stena above Děčín.
Fontane underbelly.
Plenty of clearance under the bridges. Never forced to lower the sundeck roof.

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February 5, 2007
View Your Site Through Google's Eyes
The interface is pretty difficult to use, especially for large sites, so it's a good idea to download the data and analyze it Excel or other spreadsheet application.
Google's blog says there are some limitations: "We do limit the amount of data you can download for each type of link (for instance, you can currently download up to one million external links). Google knows about more links than the total we show, but the overall fraction of links we show is much, much larger than the link: command currently offers."
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- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2007 at 5:52 PM
broken link
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2007 at 6:41 PM
I don't mean to be rude, but as the previous commenter noted, the first link doesn't exactly work. ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Use http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ReplyDelete
It's interesting they show links that have the 'nofollow' tag.ReplyDelete
I thought search engines didn't follow/take into account/catalog these?
Ppl would be more interested in link:external-urls.com rather than from links pointing in from the same website.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2007 at 10:43 AM
They should allow us to view all links for all sites, make the search engines more transparent - not less! We want to know what practices certain sites are using to get their site to the top!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Also, there's an error in the results of this interface, it returns less links than the real existent links to your site.ReplyDelete
You can read the post about this at:
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Forget Segway: Honda introduces new UNI-CUB personal mobility device (w/ Video)
Honda Motor today unveiled the new UNI-CUB personal mobility device. Featuring a compact design and comfortable saddle, UNI-CUB offers the same freedom of movement in all directions that a person enjoys while walking.
Representing the evolution of the U3-X personal mobility device that Honda announced in 2009, UNI-CUB features Honda's proprietary balance control technology and the world's first omni-directional driving wheel system (Honda Omni Traction Drive System). These technologies allow the rider to control speed, move in any direction, turn and stop, all simply by shifting his or her weight. Since the rider can freely move forward, backward, side-to-side and diagonally, he or she can quickly and easily maneuver among other people.
Moreover, UNI-CUB's compact saddle-style packaging makes it easy for the rider's legs to reach the ground and maintains eye-level height with other pedestrians. This configuration promotes harmony between the rider and others, letting the rider travel freely and comfortably inside facilities and among moving people.
Starting in June 2012, Honda will jointly conduct demonstration testing of UNI-CUB with Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. In addition to testing the feasibility of using UNI-CUB indoors, this project will explore the practical applications of the device in a wide range of environments in Japan and other countries.
The balance control technology of UNI-CUB is part of the Honda Robotics family of technologies, which originates with Honda's research into humanoid robots, including the world-famous ASIMO.
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Two Things Challenge – Time and Friend Entry
I like to enter the Two Things Challenge each week. This week is Time and Friend. This is my vibrant, colorful painting of Two Things Challenge – Time and Friend. You pretty much had me stumped!! But … My purple tuxedo kitty sits with his paws neatly folded. Tears are shed for his passing, even though there is much joy at his arrival in cat heaven. This is a tribute to the power of love through all time & space. So he was definitely my Friend and I love him through Time. We were together for 18 years and I miss him a lot still!
This is a shower curtain from CafePress. (http://bit.ly/VsDuv0) I have created over 50 shower curtains in the last week if you would care to go take a peek! Here is the shower curtain section. (http://bit.ly/UybEzy) Thank you for looking!!
I hope you enjoy it!! Thank you for this challenge! Here are the entries for the other week's Table and Holiday. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Thank you and I hope you enjoy your day!! ~ Diane Clancy
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9/11 Cover Up Director (Philip Zelikow) Appointed to Chair COVID Cover Up Group 26 min
9/11 Cover Up Director (Philip Zelikow) Appointed to Chair COVID Cover Up Group 26 min
Corbett Report Extras
New 9/11 Timeline Entries: Richard Myers's Actions During the Attacks, Pre-9/11 Warnings About Al-Qaeda, and More
From the History Commons Groups blog:
A large number of entries have been added to the Complete 9/11 Timeline at History Commons. The majority of these deal with events that took place on September 11, 2001, with a particular focus on the actions of General Richard B. Myers, the highest-ranking military officer in the United States when the terrorist attacks occurred; others describe notable incidents that occurred before 9/11, such as warnings issued by key individuals about the threat posed by al-Qaeda and discussions within government agencies about killing Osama bin Laden.
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Myers Learned of the Attacks on the World Trade Center
Many new timeline entries provide details of the response of Myers to the 9/11 attacks. Myers was at the time vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was out of the country for most of the day of September 11 and so Myers stood in for him as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Giuliani's faulty radios - FDNY
Everyone's seen this? Yes?
Time-Waster in Chief: General Richard Myers, the Highest-Ranking Military Officer in the U.S. During the 9/11 Attacks
General Richard Myers was the highest-ranking military officer in the country when America came under terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, and yet he appears to have done nothing that would have helped protect the nation while the attacks took place.
Myers was, in September 2001, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--the second-highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military. However, when the 9/11 attacks occurred, General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was out of the country and so Myers was the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and took on the chairman's responsibilities until Shelton returned to the United States late in the afternoon of September 11.
"COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity" by The Corbett Report 9/11/2020
"COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity" , a 34 minute video was published by The Corbett Report on 9/11/2020. Transcripts, alternative video media platforms and sources: https://www.corbettreport.com/covid911/
YOUTUBE - https://youtu.be/opAyJt94Kmo
9/11, as we were told repeatedly in the days, weeks, and months after the attack, was the day that changed everything. And now a new event has come along to once again throw the world into chaos. But whereas the post-9/11 era introduced America to the concept of homeland security, the COVID-19 era is introducing the world to an altogether more abstract concept: biosecurity. This is the story of the COVID-911 security state.
COVID-911 eludes to "The Great Reset".
October 7, 2020 James Corbett Breaks Down the Great Reset with Pete Quinones
AA Flight 77 at the Pentagon
New video by David Chandler.
Until now I, and a number of others in Scientists for 9/11 Truth, have maintained, that the evidence supports the theory that the Pentagon was hit by a large plane, consistent with a Boeing 757. New evidence that emerged in connection with the Denver conference on the Pentagon Evidence adds significant support to the theory that the impacting plane was actually AA Flight 77.
The logic of making this specific identification is:
The data from the flight data recorder (FDR) recovered in the Pentagon shows a remarkable correspondence with actual "facts on the ground," leading us to conclude this is an authentic record of the plane that entered the Pentagon.
Justice Rising: Online 9/11 Conference, September 11–13
It isn't often that a conference features so many respected voices in the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is thrilled to announce "Justice Rising," an online conference on the continuing struggle for 9/11 justice and the destructive trajectory of the post-9/11 world.
The conference will run from Friday, September 11, to Sunday, September 13, marking the 19th anniversary of the day that changed our world so profoundly.
The international lineup features some of the most highly regarded figures in the movement, including pioneers David Ray Griffin, Niels Harrit, and Steven Jones. It will also offer a deep look into AE911Truth's upcoming feature documentary SEVEN.
The conference will go for three hours each day and will be open to all free of charge at AE911Truth.org.
More details about the schedule, the speakers, and their topics will follow in the weeks ahead. This will be a historic online gathering you won't want to miss!
Friday, September 11: 6 to 9 PM Eastern (12 to 3 AM Central European Summer Time)
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Presentation by Colorado 9/11 Truth
For this year's 9/11 anniversary presentation, Colorado 9/11 Truth is pleased to present Richard Behan, author of the upcoming book, Fraud and Apocalypse: the Backstory of George Bush's Global War on Terrorism, to be published by Ryan Grim's Strong Arm Press. Much of our own focus has been on the physical evidence at the World Trade Center that proves 9/11 was an orchestrated event that took high level planning and preparation. Richard Behan's work comes from a different angle. He gives us a peek behind the curtain in the months leading up to 9/11.
Did you know that when George W Bush entered office, he had a standing offer from the Taliban to arrest, extradite, or assassinate Osama bin Laden (based on his prior embassy bombings and the Cole bombing)? This offer was turned down by the Bush administration four times in the months leading up to 9/11 and one more time after 9/11. Richard Behan's research is entirely based on publicly available documents. Without the backstory we don't have the full story.
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SEVEN: Explosive 9/11 Documentary Trailer Begins Airing This Month
from: https://thewashingtonstandard.com/seven-explosive-9-11-documentary-trailer-begins-airing-this-month-video/
trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9CCZFuDFY
A new 9/11 documentary titled SEVEN is soon to be released, but in the meantime, a five-minute version of it began airing on Public Broadcasting System on Thursday. Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth released the information.
PBS affiliates across the country today will begin airing a five-minute version of the new documentary SEVEN directed by Loose Change creator Dylan Avery about the explosive findings of the recently completed University of Alaska Fairbanks study on the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7. The short film, titled Spotlight On: SEVEN, will run for a minimum of three months on up to 200 local PBS stations, reaching at least three million viewers.
History Commons May Disappear
What is the History Commons?* One of the most important and invisible, useful and unknown websites on the internet — and without better funding, it may disappear from the web. You might not have heard of it, but it's been used and referenced by an array of well-known investigative authors and journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, Craig Unger, James Ridgeway and Peter Lance; see section at this article's end. HistoryCommons.org is a documentation & research tool driven by a relational database and public input, with editorial oversight. It's proof-in-practice of the Mosaic Theory of Intelligence Gathering, but for the public interest, the people, our posterity and future generations. HistoryCommons.org is best known for the Complete 9/11 Timeline, but the site hosts over 30 timeline projects on diverse subjects such as elections, wars and foreign interventions, civil liberties, health care, climate change, and other important domestic and foreign policy issues.


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Just a little bit over a year ago, I wrote about the Internet Archive's Smart 404 Handler, which aimed to help site owners put an end to useless 404 Not Found errors on their own site by offering a link to the content (if available) on the Wayback Machine. Now, the Internet Archive has set out to solve the problem of useless 404 Not Found errors for everyone with a new extension for Firefox, for Chrome, and for Safari!
With the extension installed, if you encounter a 404 (or really any from the range of "unavailable" errors) for content that exists in the archive, you'll see this very handy pop-up:
As that button describes, clicking it will take you to the archived page, so you'll never have to wonder about what you were missing. But, that's not all! Do you feel like a page looks a little bit different today? Are you feeling nostalgic for how pages looked when they were first published? Just open the extension in your browser's toolbar for even more fun:
Thanks to this new extension, and the Wayback Machine's hundreds of billions of archived pages, the experience of missing out on lost content could finally be a thing of the past! Also, if you find this extension useful, don't forget that the Internet Archive needs donations to be able to provide all of that for free.


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Hagen Exo Terra Feeding Dish contains a natural look that integrates in any type of terrarium. Easy to clean. Steps prevent crickets and terrarium animals from drowning. Non-porous and smooth surface will not absorb harmful bacteria.
- Made from safe food grade resin
- Excellent feeding dish for food or water
- Very stable, not easily tipped over by larger reptiles


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A New Life
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
I still remember it like it was yesterday. After seven days of grueling labor pushing my body to its limits, I was proudly walking - no, strutting. As my clean and pressed uniform held my new ribbons for the world to see, I looked up to the stands to find the people I cared noticed, and there they were, proudly snapping away with their cameras as Captain McClelland announced my name. Earning a spot in Leadership Academy, an NJROTC boot camp, is a privilege; graduating is a life-altering circumstance.
In the first day, the drill instructors broke us down, removing the protective bubble wrap of the individual, leaving behind raw, primal beings. We were then left on our own to fix ourselves. For the next seven days, we would be nothing more than mosquito bait in the blistering sun. Many tacitly accepted the situation, concerned with simply surviving the week; I chose to rise up and use this chance to improve myself. All of life's tedious little lessons I thought I knew began to truly make sense. Suddenly I could not picture myself as anything other than a perfect gentleman, complete with self-discipline and a well-developed code of honor. That was my rebirth.
As I left the stadium following the graduation ceremony, I sped by...
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KDD 2011 : The 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Conference Series : Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
|Link: http://kdd.org/kdd/2011/
Call For Papers
The 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2011) will be will be held in San Diego, California. The conference will include two refereed paper tracks: the Research track, and the Industry & Government track; this document includes the call for papers for these tracks below.
Research Track - Call For Papers
We invite high-quality papers reporting original research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining. We especially encourage submissions that promote the advancement of KDD as a scientific and engineering discipline and submissions that bridge between different disciplines. Papers are rigorously evaluated based on potential impact, novelty, repeatability and presentation.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* data mining algorithms (supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised)
* data mining foundations and theory
* dimensionality reduction and feature selection
* mining dynamic and evolving data
* mining graph data
* mining semi-structured data
* mining spatial and temporal data
* mining stream data
* mixed-initiative data mining and active learning
* outlier analysis and anomaly detection
* parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
* pattern mining and association analysis
* robust and highly scalable data mining algorithms
* similarity search in data mining
* statistical methods in data mining
* topic models and matrix methods in data mining
* transfer learning and mining with auxiliary data sources
* adversarial data mining algorithms
* biological and medical data mining
* data mining for computational advertising
* data mining in social sciences and on social networks
* mining environmental and scientific data
* mining sensor data
* mining user behavioral and feedback data
* mining the Web and text data
* multimedia data mining
* data mining for other novel applications
* data integration and indexing for data mining
* data visualization for data mining
* KDD methodology and process
* platforms and systems for KDD
* pre-processing and post-processing in data mining
* security and privacy issues in data mining
* user modeling in data mining
All submitted papers will be judged based on their technical merit, rigor, significance, originality, repeatability, relevance, and clarity. Papers submitted to KDD'11 should be original work, not previously published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal. Substantially similar versions of the paper submitted to KDD'11 should not be under review in another peer-reviewed conference or journal during the KDD'11 reviewing period.
Repeatability guideline: Repeatability is a cornerstone of any scientific and engineering endeavor. To promote a solid foundation upon which future KDD work can be built, authors should make every effort to make code available as open source, and to employ public datasets, or make novel datasets available to the community. If this is not possible, please include a justification to that effect. Comparison to credible baseline systems and statistical significance of experimental results are expected for all papers with empirical evaluations.


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Just a helpful reminder from Feminist Law Professors if you're looking for tips on how to prevent rape.
We agree with them that these ten tips absolutely, positively can prevent many sexual assaults without fail.
1. Don't put drugs in people's drinks in order to control their behavior.
2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
4. NEVER open an unlocked door or window uninvited.
5. If you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, DON'T ASSAULT THEM!
6. Remember, people go to laundry to do their laundry, do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.
7. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! If you are not able to stop yourself from assaulting people, ask a friend to stay with you while you are in public.
8. Always be honest with people! Don't pretend to be a caring friend in order to gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consider telling them you plan to assault them. If you don't communicate your intentions, the other person may take that as a sign that you do not plan to rape them.
9. Don't forget: you can't have sex with someone unless they are awake!
10. Carry a whistle! If you are worried you might assault someone "on accident" you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can blow it if you do.
When being told how to avoid assault most lecturers tend to give tips to "prepare" people from being possible victims. This reinforces the idea that it is the victims' fault for being assaulted. Many thanks to you for saying the much needed idea that the assaulters need to be taught to change.
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3 Humongous Health-Care Stocks This Week
The fireworks started early for several health-care stocks this week. Amidst a somewhat gloomy overall market outlook, a handful of stocks saw solid gains. Here are three humongous health-care performers for the last week of 2012.
Righting the ship
Rite Aid continued to claw its way back this week, climbing 12%. This makes the second week in a row that the pharmaceutical company landed on our humongous health-care stocks list.
Last week, Rite Aid reported positive quarterly results that served as a catalyst for the stock's ascent. That momentum carried over into this week. News that the company returned to profitability for the first time in five years definitely is worth the market celebrating for more than just a few days.
Rite Aid was able to post a profit even though revenue declined slightly compared to the prior year. That's because the revenue decrease stemmed from increased sales of generic drugs. While those generics bring in less total revenue, they also are more profitable to the pharmacy chain.
The company also benefited from the squabble between its competitor Walgreen and large pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts . While that dispute was ultimately settled, some customers who drifted to Rite Aid could stay with the pharmacy.
Good news from A to Z
Aeterna Zentaris shares jumped more than 11% this week. The increase stemmed from news that the FDA agreed on a Special Protocol Assessment phase 3 trial design for the company's experimental endometrial cancer drug AEZS-108.
The upcoming clinical study will involve around 500 patients with endometrial cancer, the most common form of uterine cancer. AEZS-108 will be compared with doxorubicin as a second-line treatment for the cancer in hopes of improving overall survival rates.
This good news provided some year-end cheer for Aeterna Zentaris. The company hasn't had much to be cheerful about in 2012. In April, it announced that a phase 3 trial of perifosine targeting treatment of colorectal cancer failed to improve overall survival rates compared with placebo. The stock has languished since then, although a 6-to-1 share consolidation undertaken in October to regain Nasdaq compliance made its chart look better superficially.
Back at Ack
Herbalife rounds out our final weekly humongous health-care stocks for 2012. Last week, the company made the list of worst health-care performers after an all-out attack launched by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. This week, Herbalife gained nearly 8%.
Are Ackman's claims less believable this week than they were just a few days ago? Maybe and maybe not. However, the more likely reason for Herbalife's resurgence is that the company's counterattack plans could have calmed investors down a bit.
Last week, the company announced an analyst day scheduled for Jan. 7. Earlier this week, Herbalife stated that it had retained Moelis & Company as a "strategic advisor." The company also engaged a prominent law firm in connection with Ackman's allegations.
Despite the partial recovery this week, shares of Herbalife are still down more than 30% from before Ackman went public with his allegations. You can bet this story will carry over well into the new year.
2013 awaits
No one knows for sure what 2013 will bring. One thing you can count on, though, is that the health care sector will continue to have stocks that skyrocket -- and some that crash -- every week. We'll be there to point them all out. From the Fool and myself to all of our readers: Happy New Year!
The Motley Fool's chief investment officer has selected his No. 1 stock for the next year. Find out which stock it is in our brand-new free report: "The Motley Fool's Top Stock for 2013." I invite you to take a copy, free for a limited time. Just click here to access the report and find out the name of this under-the-radar company.
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If that works, you should be able to install and run all of these examples with fewer than 5 mouse clicks.
jquery.minListFilter A minimal jquery plugin that I wrote for filtering the contents of HTML select lists.


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Google Projection (Google it)
The commonly described 'Google Projection'. The trick here is the nadgrids=@null. Much much much help to sharpgis for his help on figuring this out:

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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
Released in Summer 2011 and now in its second edition, Chavs is Owen Jones' attempt to help rescussitate debate around class within mainstream outdated concept and political discourse.
Broadly speaking, it is focused on the fate of working class communities in Britain since the Thatcher era and the disappearance of working class political representation, and puts forward some possible ideas to envision a renewed class politics for today. The book has proven a popular one and has propelled its author's public status as a prominent left-wing commentator, and one of the main voices of initiatives to reclaim the Labour Party as a working class organisation.
As Jones is quick to point out in the preface to the new edition, had it been released a couple of years earlier, when class denial was still a more viable ideological line, then Chavs would likely have remained a more obscure work. But, given its convergence with the current crisis and the riots that spread throughout various British cities last August, Chavs arrived on the market at a time when issues of wealth and power have become far more pressing to a wider public. That said, no matter how many new billionaires this crisis has managed to create, the author is well aware that much of society's frustrations can still more easily be channelled against 'welfare dependents', as it can against powerful elites.
The book offers a thorough mapping of how the neoliberal project has taken shape in Britain. It documents the shifts in social structure brought about by the steep decline of traditional industries and with them, trade unions, the corresponding rise of the service industries and the increasing dominance of the financial sector. These are related to changes in popular cultural and political discourse, centred on the mantras of individual aspiration and personal responsibility, showing how the forms of exclusion and inequality that are the effects of deindustrialisation and the chasm it left behind are today ex- plained in terms of their 'anti-social' symptoms. One familiar example: if people are unemployed, it's because they're too lazy to get a job, not because of the lack of jobs.
It is a credit to the author that he's managed to cover so much material in a style that is clear and easy to read, incorporating a broad stock of secondary research to support his own case studies on the media, the party system, changes in occupation and the emergence of the 'flexible' workforce, education and cultural capital, the post-welfare vacuum, and the rise of far-right politics.
Indeed, every chapter could be read in its own right as a primer on class in each of these areas of society.
'Middle Britain'
The title, Chavs, was chosen because, according to Jones, it encapsulates the kind of class disdain that has become totally acceptable in much of British culture over the last 30 years. In a culture increasingly more dominated by middle-class ideals, the world 'below' this norm is framed as one of feckless single-mothers, hoodied teenagers and welfare dependants, liv- ing undisciplined lives on council estates and in high-rise tower blocks.
The core myths on which this 'middle Britain' consensus is based are that 'we are all middle- class now', that class is an outdated concept and that social problems can be explained as the moral or even genetic failings of individuals or families. To understand how these ideas have become so normalised, it is necessary to see them as a symptom of the broader social changes that have taken place in Britain since the 1970's and how the ideals of the welfare state have been supplanted by free-market individualism.
Jones develops his argument by first leading the reader through an analysis of the media, examining the ideological role it plays in imprint- ing the myth that most people now live cosy middle-class lives except for 'a problematic 'chav rump' left on the wrong side of history.' It is a clever way to open up the study, as it builds on the most familiar of images and narratives we are fed today, situating media production and consumption in a wider context, and illustrating the political function of such representations.
His analysis of popular culture covers everything from the relative absence of plausible working class characters on television, to the gross marketisation of English football as a global brand, that has ultimately excluded a whole swath of supporters who can no longer afford to go see their local team.
Farewell to the Working Class?
Probably the most substantial and valuable sections of the book try to answer the question of just who is the working class today. Jones is well aware that the working class could never be defined as homogeneous, that there 'have always been different groups within it, not all of whom have sat comfortably together'. Taking a definition of working class in both material terms of having to sell one's labour on the market, with little autonomy over this labour, and also in cultural terms as something that shape's one's identity, sense of history, place, language, shared experience and expectations of life, Jones attempts to give a sketch of today's working conditions and the shape of communities that were once centred around the factory, the mine or the docks. What we find is a fragmented class certainly no more homogeneous than at other phases in recent history, yet whose interests can still be broadly defined as antagonistic to those of a small minority who benefit most off their labour – waged or otherwise.
Though he doesn't reduce an understanding of class to simply income levels, income is obviously a key factor, and statistically, the median household-income in Britain is £21, 000 – already a drastically lower figure than one might expect from the elusive ideal of 'middle Britain'.
While necessary attention is given to the fact that 8 million people are still employed in some form of manual occupation, Jones does not dispute the relative disappearance of traditional industrial occupations and the rootedness that went with them. The real dramatic figures are to be found in the number of people employed in service sector work, predominantly in retail, call-centres and public services where a further 8 million people are now employed.
This economy is one of a very different character to that on which the dominant images of the 'traditional' working class are based. For starters, women now make up a huge share of the wage-labour market. Also, most of the gains of the labour movement have been pulled from under these workers. Many are employed on 'temp' contracts, often through agencies, or on a part-time basis and are non-unionised, all of which contribute to greater precarity in terms of workplace rights and overall social security.
Jones looks at the conditions in which most service sector work is done, their authoritarian style of management and regimentation and, in particular, the effects on the health of call centre workers and increasing stress levels on workers generally, induced by the simultaneous extension and fragmentation of the work- ing day. These issues are approached from the point of view of not only needing to understand contemporary working conditions, but to specifically highlight the particular forms of alienation and exploitation that even the cleanest and less physically arduous jobs entail, and what prospects they present in terms of workers getting organised.
Taking Stock
One of his conclusions on these issues is that a 'blue-uniformed male factory worker with a union card in his pocket might have been an appropriate symbol for the working class of the 1950s. A low-paid, part-time, female shelf- stacker would certainly not be unrepresentative of the same class today'. To help construct a more formidable class politics, the left itself needs to look at how its own romanticisation of the former plays into its irrelevance in the eyes of the latter.
The remainder of these sections of Jones's investigation draws out the hypocrisy of the language of 'meritocracy' that has been used to rationalise increasing inequality in Britain. The basic strategy of this ideology is one that denies any kind of structural analysis in favour of moralising about the personal responsibilities of individuals. Social problems are explained at the level of the individual — their lack of discipline or enterprise — while more social resources such as healthcare and education are opened up to commodification.
Capitalism's major victory over the last three decades has been to dismantle labour's power in the West through many of the processes mentioned above, and with the major growth of financial capitalism and wage repression, to proliferate easy credit and mortgage schemes that have lumped unseemly amounts of debt on to individual households. The few benefits gained at the level of production (or service provision) are recuperated at the level of consumption – and this in a society where you are now expected to consume education, consume healthcare and so on.
Even where the state still provides some semblance of social support for citizens, it is often on terms that are more favourable to capital, for example, in supplementing private landlords through housing benefit while effectively going on strike in terms of building council housing. Indeed, many of the most poverty-stricken households covered in Jones's study are those who bought into the 'right-to-buy' schemes first rolled out under Thatcher, which helped set the tone for the continuing privatisation of council housing today.
In the section entitled, 'A Rigged Society', Jones also illustrates not only the economic boundaries that underlie a society rationalised in terms of individual merit, but also how cultural, habitual tendencies debar many working class people from even considering that they might enter into educational institutions or pursue certain career paths. In this discussion of the cultural and social capital of the middle classes, Jones shows the processes that go far beyond economic understandings about formal equality of access to institutions. He shows the subtlety of how class is reproduced through the maintenance of spaces of privilege which many people of a lower socio-economic position or sense of status would not conceive of stepping into. These tendencies are not something that the social circles of left- wing politics are exempt of. They should inform our understandings of privilege within our own movements and questions over who can participate and who gets to define the problems and "solutions" for oppressed social groups.
Dark Days
Another chapter focuses on the rise of the far- right in Britain, particularly in the shape of the British National Party's electoral successes in former Labour-dominated constituencies. Jones argues that it is the material issues of scarce affordable housing and secure employment that have provided the root conditions for this reactionary turn, and that discussion of the racism that the BNP thrives off must be framed within this context. The BNP have thrived by racialising these issues – in the context of a broader, liberal multicultural discourse that ignores class – presenting themselves as the voice of the "white minority".
One missed opportunity of this chapter is that, ironically, it is pretty much told from the perspective of the majority-white people who have witnessed the failures of New Labour and the welfare state and the fragmentation of their communities, but doesn't engage us with the views of those minorities who are the actual tar- gets of far-right groups or the populist discourses around Islamophobia and 'the immigrant infestation'. This absence gives too much primacy to the class issue in this case and doesn't let us consider the complexity of racism and its intersection with other forms of oppression.
Chavs is a densely-packed book, but not an impenetrable read. There is barely the space here to point out half of the book's strengths, let alone take issue with it in any substantial way. This review is mostly focused on relaying the primary economic changes that are documented in the book, and the analysis of the BNP's rising popularity, only a few fragments of the overall picture offered.
As the author has stated, it is meant as a contribution towards encouraging real debate around class and to promote left-wing ideas while the left is dramatically weak. I think this is what it should be taken up as, ideally as a step towards a more prominent focus on class and class struggle, and not as the book to understand the whole issue.
Beyond the State
For those who don't see the route for emancipatory political projects in claiming state power, under any banner, there are issues with this work which should be taken up critically. (Though there is little sense in stringently argu- ing that this or that remains under-theorised, as the book is not meant as a theoretical work.) In this context, it is best to flag up some of the as- sumptions or partialities of Jones's position.
While rightly seeing New Labour and Blairism as symptomatic of the dominance of free-market politics on a scale far wider than Britain, Jones's treatment of the Labour Party pitches them as an organisation that has otherwise consistently represented working class interests until their degeneration into New Labour. Historically, this can be challenged both in terms of internal and external policy.
Although the traditional class alliances nationally of the Tories and Labour in the 20th Century are illustrated in one chapter, the main timeline of the book stretches from the 1970's to the present day. The role of the state itself is not scrutinised in Chavs beyond showing how it has been used to administer the 'Thatcherite agenda', and should be reclaimed for working class interests. While not romanticising the days of the welfare state, we are not given much critical discussion of such models in the context of the broader historical and geographical development of capitalism, past, present or future. This makes it difficult to grasp what social ideal Jones would advocate in terms of the goal for present-day movements of an internationalist perspective. The book's focus is confined to the island of Britain, though the fact that Northern Ireland doesn't feature is as much reflective of the very contradictions of the British state's territories, as any flaw in the vaildity of looking at the social and economic processes that have taken place in England, Scotland and Wales over the last three decades.
The political history of Northern Ireland is only one site among countless others that can offer arguments for why the very existence of states should be challenged – for reasons that the Labour Party are not exempt of.
The narrative of the breakdown of the welfare state is also one where, entwined with the gains of feminist movements, women become more visible in terms of their accomodation within the waged-labour system. On this, it is important that it is not just inclusion in the labour market that influences some crude understanding of women as paid-up members of the class struggle within the left. Capitalism has required a sexual division of labour that has confined women to the private sphere of reproduction – a role that has been legitimised as natural or voluntary – providing the system with its most crucial commodity, a workforce.
We need to be vigilant in order that the invisible phases in this history should feature equally as accounts of working class experience and shape our theory and praxis. Without doing so, our attempts to prefigure a society that can transcend capital and the state's divisions will always be partial.
Overall, Chavs gives us a tangible insight to the dynamics of class decomposition since the 1970's. Jones offers compelling evidence of the need for an organised opposition to the particular conditions that neoliberalism has established. He has shown the degrees of atomisation, thwarted aspiration and disillusionment that have developed in Britain, which make cohesive forms of class solidarity seem all the more elusive. It is a sincere work that poses many practical questions around the issue of class politics today, ideas it would seem will have some real currency to the left of Ed Milliband's "one nation" Labour approach.
For those who want to see class shed its status in the popular imagination as an idea of the past and to construct a revolutionary politics for today, the task should be to see that those most effected by these conditions are the ones set- ting the terms of any such debate and struggle. For that, we need to look to where the foundation for such forms of solidarity and resistance already exist, and build from there.
For further discussion on the politics of 'chav' hatred, see: badreputation.org.uk/2011/08/30/is-chav-a-feminist- issue/ and ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/beautiful-transgressions-8/
For analysis of similar issues to those addressed by Jones, but in an Irish context, check out: rabble.ie/2011/09/30/media-rte-scum


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Warren's painful journey began one night while asleep, when he suddenly woke up writhing in pain: He felt as though he had "slammed" his right testicle during a routine sleeping position, "I felt the most enormous amount of pain that one could possibly imagine," Warren said.
The pain quickly subsided; however, the next day, Warren noticed that his scrotum had increased to the size of a soccer ball.
When the Las Vegas resident went to the emergency room, he was told he had an infection, given antibiotics, and sent on his way.
But his scrotum size kept increasing.
The 48-year-old unemployed man went to see other doctors to determine why his scrotum was enlarging but was not given satisfactory responses. Warren had another major stumbling block in his quest to find a diagnosis: he was only living off of disability benefits, so he did not have the financial means nor health insurance to continue finding answers for his medical condition.
Eventually, the scrotum added about 160 pounds to Warren's frame, bringing his total weight to 500 pounds. And whenever Warren would leave his home, he would have to bundle up his scrotum in a hoodie and carry a milk crate with him so that he could hoist his scrotum on it every few steps to take a break.
Warren's condition made daily tasks very difficult; since he could not find his penis, he was forced to urinate on himself. Warren's scrotum size also made it impossible for him to put his legs together, so anytime he wanted to weigh himself, he would travel to newspaper and scrap metal recycling yards to use their scale.
In an effort to raise money for the much-needed surgery, Warren went on the shock jock Howard Stern radio show. He managed to raise money from Stern's sympathetic and mostly male listeners.
Luckily for Warren, California surgeon Joel Gelman, a urologist who works out of the University of California and specializes in scrotal lymphedema, heard about Warren's condition, and contacted him.
Using the money he received from Stern's listeners to travel to Irvine, Warren met with Dr. Gelman. And even though Warren had great trepidation about having the complicated surgical procedure, the pain of carrying around his massive scrotum forced him to agree to having the surgery in April.
Dr. Gelman told ABC News, "Some of the veins in the mass were a quarter-inch in diameter," Gelman said, recalling the lengthy and risky procedure to remove the mass in one giant piece.
Warren, who is unmarried and has no children, can now wear regular underwear and pants and says he is still getting used to walking in his newfound body. "My body is acclimating. I'm still not able to get around much and enjoy driving or going to dinner. But I intend to make up for it and treat myself to a truly fabulous meal and enjoy relaxing for at least a few days."
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House Republicans outlined a new round of spending cuts from environmental agencies Wednesday while denying President Barack Obama any increase for one of his top investment priorities: the National Science Foundation.
Following on April's budget agreement, the Environmental Protection Agency is again a major target, and the reduced $7.15 billion EPA funding would mean a $1.53 billion or 18 percent cut from current spending, much of which would come at the expense of clean water programs.
The smaller but also environmentally sensitive Fish and Wildlife Service faces an even deeper 21 percent or $315 million cut, and elsewhere in the Interior Department, no increase is permitted for operation of the national parks.
With the full House taking up defense and war funding Wednesday, the release of the new numbers underscores the growing competition between the Pentagon and domestic agencies, all fighting for their share of a shrinking appropriations budget.
As proposed by the House Appropriations Committee, Pentagon spending would grow by another $17 billion in 2012 even as the remaining agencies would get about $45 billion less than was agreed to in April for the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
The EPA and Western lands agencies are bundled in a $27.5 billion bill—released Wednesday— that represents a $2.1 billion cut from 2011 levels. The NSF is part of a second, more varied $50.2 billion measure which faces its own cuts of $3.1 billion— impacting an amalgam of science and space agencies as well as the Departments of Justice and Commerce.
The fact that the committee protected the NSF from further cuts testifies to its sensitivity for both parties. And a modest $43 million increase is allowed for core research.
Nonetheless, the $6.9 billion NSF budget still represents a departure for Republicans and a major retreat from Obama's ambitious innovation agenda which he would argue is crucial to making the U.S. more competitive economically.
Keeping faith with recently passed patent reform legislation, the committee is proposing $2.7 billion for the Patent and Trademark Office, a 28percent or $588 million increase over current funding. Like NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is largely frozen at 2011 levels, but the $16.8 billion provided for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reflects a $431 million cut in NASA science programs.


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The man intent on taking the Philly cheesesteak global saw a familiar sight from home on a recent trip to Florida: a Wawa.
The hoagie-making, coffee-brewing convenience and gas chain from the Philadelphia area is pushing hard into the Sunshine State, opening more than 60 stores since 2012 with another 25 planned by the end of the year.
Albie Misci, sales director at cheesesteak chain Tony Luke's, knows the idea.
He's helping take Philly's most famous culinary treat to Florida, California and even the Middle Eastern nation of Bahrain.
"The cheesesteak has grown from a Philadelphia sandwich, a local food, to a national sandwich. Everyone's familiar with it," Misci said in a recent interview. "When we're in Las Vegas or in L.A., they'll come up to us and say, 'Hey, Tony Luke's, you're from Philly!'"
Other staples from the City of Brotherly Love, including its beloved soft pretzels and water ice, are also going global, as their Philadelphia-based purveyors aggressively expand into national — and international — chains.
Tony Luke's has 22 stores, seven more in development and plans to grow to 360 locations within a decade.
Philly Pretzel Factory, started in 1998 as a single stand by friends who hawked pretzels as kids on the side of a busy Philadelphia boulevard, has 150 stores and plans to open 350 more and break into the international market by 2020.
Rita's Italian Ice, already up to 600 stores in the U.S., is expanding into six Middle Eastern countries and is looking to Canada and Mexico for further growth.
Rita's chief development officer, Eric Taylor, said its Philadelphia-bred franchisees — and customers who've relocated from the city or vacationers hitting the beach, the theme parks or Phillies spring training — have an emotional connection to the product.
"They want to bring water ice out to Arizona or Utah or wherever they are now," Taylor said of the sugary frozen treat, which is more sorbet than snow cone. "They take pride in bringing a Philly staple back to their home market."
Wawa skipped straight from its footprint in five mid-Atlantic states to Florida, where census data shows 3 percent of residents are natives of Pennsylvania and 8 percent are from other northeast states.
The company has stores in the Orlando and Tampa areas popular with retirees and tourists — including the one Misci saw near the Phillies' complex in Clearwater. It's opening three stores at once next week in Fort Myers.
Wawa spokeswoman Lori Bruce said the reception has been so strong in Florida, the company will continue to open 25 new stores there and 25 in the mid-Atlantic — further into northern New Jersey and south into Virginia — each year.
Across the company and employee-owned chain, its made-to-order Philadelphia-style hoagies remain a top seller.
"It speaks to the unique connection Philly foods have with people," Bruce said.
Philadelphia's boom in gastronomic exports comes at a heady time for the city.
It'll host Pope Francis in September and the Democratic National Convention next July and a major soccer championship this summer.
It's also been featured prominently on the television shows "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The Goldbergs," which recreated Veterans Stadium — the former home of the Phillies and Eagles — for a recent episode.
The brands built around the city's iconic foods are following a trail blazed by every major chain before it — growing from a single store into a regional player before leaping into less familiar territory, said Penn marketing professor David Reibstein.
Think Starbucks, which started as a single-store operation at Seattle's Pike Place Market, or one of its main rivals, Dunkin Donuts, which evolved into a global coffee and pastry giant from a small chain of shops in the Boston area.
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I just couldn't resist.
While skiing at Le Grand Bornand a few days ago, I kept looking towards Col de la Colombière and wondering if I could reach the top with a bike – without waiting until June for the road to open.
The South-West side from Le Grand Bornand is the easier side of Col de la Colombière – at least when there is no snow.
It was cloudy, cold and dark down low. But approaching Chinaillon I begun to get through the fog – sweet, another day above the clouds.
I was pleased to find that road was ploughed until about 3 kms from the top. Then it was steep, deep, and soft snow – VERY hard work uphill with a bike:
I had descended this side at speed (OK lots of people passed me) in two cyclosportives this summer – great hairpins even with snow! I had also been hailed on here (in July!) with the Tour d'Enfer. I'll take sun and winter anyday.
Do not try accessing Colombiere from the classic north-east side during winter. The last 3 kms have steep mountains on one side and a cliff on the other. As the photo below – from the top looking down – shows: avalanches all over the road. Eric, are you listening? 😉
The cement thing in the bottom middle below is the safety barrier. The road is to the LEFT.
The only living creature I encountered was a very relaxed Bouquetin – see very last photo.
The next time I am here will likely be to watch the epic stage 17 of the 2009 Tour de France, which will descend this side to the finish.
Eric had ambitious plans to do a monster loop from Geneva and climb the harder north-east side. Too much for me. I hoped to surprise him coming from the other side – but never saws him. I was alarmed to see the state of the other side and hoped he had turned around. Quick glances down the cliff revealed no fallen Flemish cyclists. When I got home, I found that he had abandoned his plans. Hmmm, he's not coping with turning 40 very well. 😉


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The U.S. government doesn't have a huge swath of underused wireless spectrum to auction to mobile carriers, although agencies are working to identify spectrum bands that can be sold, an official said Wednesday.
Several lawmakers, pointing to a predicted spectrum shortage for mobile broadband providers, called for the U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) to move ahead quicker with efforts to identity government spectrum that could be converted to commercial use.
But Lawrence Strickling, NTIA's administrator, disputed lawmaker assertions that some federal agencies are inefficiently using their spectrum.
"Compared to commercial services, federal agencies do not have a lot of spectrum in the prime bands," Strickling told the communications subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.
Federal agencies have exclusive use of only 18 percent of the "prime" spectrum between 225MHz and 3.7GHz, while commercial and other users, have exclusive control of about 30 percent, Strickling said. The remaining spectrum is shared between federal agencies and other users, he said.
Some lawmakers called on the NTIA and other agencies to move faster to identify spectrum that can be sold to commercial carriers. Carriers are facing a spectrum crunch, said Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican. Agencies "have got to get with the program," she said.
Some agencies seem unwilling to give up their spectrum, she added. Spectrum managers at some agencies are "kicking the can down the road," she said.
Strickling agreed that some agencies were reluctant to give up spectrum. When Representative John Shimkus, an Illinois Republican, called the process of government agencies giving up spectrum for commercial uses a "win-win" situation, Strickling seemed to disagree.
Agencies "haven't quite seen what the win is for them," he said.
In a national broadband plan released in March 2010, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission called on the federal government, television stations and other users to make 500MHz of spectrum available for commercial mobile broadband over the next 10 years. In June 2010, President Barack Obama voiced the same goal.
In the FCC's plan, about 200MHz would come from federal agencies. The NTIA, working with other agencies, has already identified 115MHz that can be vacated and auctioned, although 100MHz is above 3.5GHz and not currently attractive to mobile broadband providers.
The NTIA is also looking at whether to relocate agencies using spectrum from 1755 to 1850MHz, but it hasn't yet decided whether that band is a candidate for commercial auction, Strickling said. More than 20 government agencies now share that band of spectrum, including the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, he said.
"We have piled use upon use on top of each other," Strickling said.
Agencies need money for better spectrum relocation planning, Strickling said. He also called on commercial operators to be more willing to share spectrum.
A shared market "has to develop," he said. "We are running out of options of taking bands, clearing them totally, and making them available exclusively for commercial operators."
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is email@example.com.


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NEW YORK -- Alabama coach Nick Saban and Arkansas coach Bret Bielema voiced their concerns about the effects of up-tempo, no-huddle offenses on player safety to the NCAA committee that passed a proposal to slow down those attacks.
Neither Saban nor Bielema were on the committee and they did not vote on the proposal passed Wednesday to allow defenses time to substitute between plays by prohibiting offenses from snapping the ball until 29 seconds are left on the 40-second play clock.
NCAA coordinator of officials Rogers Redding said Thursday that Bielema was at the meeting in Indianapolis as a representative of the American Football Coaches Association.
"Coach Saban asked for the opportunity to meet with the committee and talk about this," Redding said. "It's not routine, but it's not unique, either."
Bielema and Saban run methodical offenses and have publicly questioned if the quickening pace of offenses is good for the game.
FBS coaches on the panel are Air Force's Troy Calhoun, who is the chairman, and Louisiana-Lafayette's Todd Berry. Their teams ranked 104th and 93rd, respectively, last season in plays per game in FBS.
The proposal must be approved by the playing rules oversight panel, which meets March 6. Redding said it's not a rubber stamp panel, but more often than not it approves proposals. The panel does not consider competitive issues, Redding said.
"Their role is to examine rules on the basis of player safety, economic impact and image of the game," he said.Right now the proposal is in what is known as a comment period. Coaches can electronically submit their opinions to the NCAA on the proposal, supporting it or opposing it.
Redding said it is "rare though not unheard of for the committee to revisit" a proposal. He added the comments are taken seriously by the oversight panel.
Redding said rules changes that would affect the pace of the game were discussed by the committee last year and during the AFCA convention in January at meeting he attended of about 35 coaches, including Bielema. The proposal passed by the NCAA committee was an idea that came out of the AFCA meeting, Redding said.
Plenty of coaches have made it known they are not happy with the proposal, especially those such as Auburn's Gus Malzahn, Texas Tech's Kliff Kingsbury, Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin and Arizona's Rich Rodriguez who run fast-paced offenses.
"The 10-second rule is like asking basketball to take away the shot clock -- Boring!"
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy weighed in Thursday via Twitter.
The no huddle, fast tempo style has changed the game of CFB. Our sport has exploded in popularity with high scoring games & packed stadiums.
- Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) February 13, 2014
College Football is constantly evolving. Coaches have to make adjustments based on their team, their talents and their opponents.
- Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) February 13, 2014
The 10-second rule is like asking basketball to take away the shot clock - Boring!. It's like asking a blitzing linebacker to raise his hand
- Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) February 13, 2014
Why change our sport at the peak of its popularity
- Mike Gundy (@CoachGundy) February 13, 2014
The committee said the proposed change addresses concerns that defensive players are at increased risk for injury because defenses cannot substitute if the offense goes straight to the line scrimmage when the ball is spotted and the 40-second clock has starts.
An exception will be made in the final two minutes of each half to allow the offense to snap the ball as quickly as it wants.
Many coaches aren't convinced this is a player safety issue.
"I don't see the injury piece," said Boston College coach Steve Addazio, whose team runs an offense that is rarely in a rush. "I think we need more data."
Redding said the proposal was not made based on a study of data.
"I can't say there is hard physical evidence," he said. "It's more common sense."
Redding added he studied film of two games involving up-tempo offenses and only once in each game did a team snap the ball within 10 seconds of the 40-second clock starting.
"The majority of time was somewhere in the 20s," he said. "The average time was 17 seconds.
"You really don't impact what people are already doing."


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