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Ben Affleck is Batman no more. Last night it was confirmed that director Matt Reeves would be looking for a younger actor to replace Affleck as the Dark Knight for the upcoming film The Batman. On Twitter, Affleck wished Reeves the best, and that was it. After signing on to play the role in August 2013, Affleck only starred in two movies—Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League—and had a brief cameo in Suicide Squad. For a guy who was the Caped Crusader for the better part of this decade, that's not a lot of output, but that doesn't really fall on Affleck's shoulders. At one point he was supposed to direct The Batman, but that never really came together, and his tenure as Batman will probably be defined more by what others did than what he did.
The concept behind casting Affleck as Batman—an older, grizzled Bruce Wayne who has seen some things—was sound. Keep in mind that when Affleck was cast, we were barely a year removed from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy. Christian Bale had done a fine job with the role (questionable Batman voice aside), but more importantly, he had left a stamp on it for the first time since Michael Keaton had played the part (Val Kilmer and George Clooney's turns as Batman were largely forgettable at best). There needed to be some kind of change to make this Batman stand out, and director Zack Snyder felt they needed to echo Frank Miller's comic The Dark Knight Returns by having an older, world-weary Batman. Affleck, hot off his Best Picture win for Argo, was seen as the best choice.
When you look at Affleck as Batman, there's a lot of potential in his performance that's hampered by the story beats. In Batman v Superman, he's taking on the Lex Luthor role in the comics by seeing Superman as a threat. But his actions make him villainous, and his machinations turn out to be just a part in Lex Luthor's (Jesse Eisenberg) plot, to the point that Batman as a character comes off as largely incompetent or despicable. He's either trying to take down Superman because he's scared that Superman could destroy the world, or he's branding criminals to get murdered in prison because he doesn't care about human lives anymore. Perhaps in his own story, this could be an interesting redemption arc, but in Batman v Superman, it makes Batman as a character deeply disturbing—and not in a compelling way.
And yet Affleck as Batman is quite good. In his performance, you can see that his fear is motivated by personal loss. To be afraid of Superman is reasonable, and Affleck's Batman melds pragmatism with that fear so that he still has the strength of a superhero melded with the humanity of someone who knows he's not a god like Superman. And as Bruce Wayne, there's an almost charming chip on his shoulder, especially in his confrontation with Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) at Lex Luthor's party. He's got the grizzled thing down as he basically treats Clark like some naïve kid who should let those with experience handle things. Also, when the film finally gives Batman a laugh line ("I'm a friend of your son's.") he nails it.
Moving over to the lighter Justice League, it's a miracle that movie holds together at all, but again, there are glimpses of something better in Affleck's performance, especially in terms of his relationship with The Flash (Ezra Miller). Rather than the grizzled veteran who acts out of fear, this new take on Batman has him moving into a mentorship role where he uses his experience to help other superheroes rather than work alone and terrorize criminals. Affleck has no problem giving the character warmth when it calls for it, and again, the biggest problems with the movie aren't because of his performance, but because of filmmaking beyond his control.
What makes Affleck's turn as Batman so curious is that his Batman exists in this odd No Man's Land where he's a part of superhero movies, but he doesn't have a superhero movie to call his own. That was supposed to be The Batman, but it kept getting pushed back and reworked and meanwhile the brand was souring because of Batman v Superman and Justice League. You have Affleck trying to make the role his own while also sharing the screen with other superheroes, and so he never really gets to take full ownership of the character. There is an arc for Batman in Batman v Superman, but it's diminished because he's also sharing time with Superman and his story. It's difficult to be a definitive Batman when you're not the sole superhero.
Obviously, as an actor, Ben Affleck is going to be just fine. He's got Triple Frontier coming out later this year (where I'm sure he'll be asked ad nauseum about moving on from Batman) and other projects lined up. But looking at his time as Batman, it feels like a missed opportunity. To Zack Snyder's credit, looking for an older, world-weary Batman was a unique take that audiences hadn't seen before. Affleck was going to do something new with the character, but all of it was marred by storytelling decisions outside of his control. At the end of the day, Affleck isn't the writer or director of Batman v Superman and Justice League. He did the best he could with what he was given, but his time as Batman will always be "What if?" What if he had better scripts? What if he had been able to do The Batman? Affleck wasn't as forgettable as Kilmer or Clooney, but his time as Batman shows there's more to the character than just who gets cast in the role.

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This week's Word of the Week is: decathect.
To decathect is to withdraw one's self emotionally from something or someone in anticipation of losing it.
I suppose of this would largely depend on how accurate this anticipation is. But even if it's entirely accurate, I'm not sure if it's entirely a good thing.
Even if the future loss is an absolutely sure thing, is it really healthy to deny one's self what possible emotional benefits one might have left in order to avoid the pain of losing it?
And, particularly is the object is another person, it's potentially cruel to that person to decathect one's self from him or her.


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• Offer it as a gift to those attending any event you're running
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T3 for 6, Ax-Les-Thermes
** Professionally Cleaned: We are pleased to confirm this property is professionally cleaned and undergoes a strict pre-arrival checklist to ensure that cleaning has been completed in full compliance with local hotel and professional accommodation guidelines.
** Amenities: Due to local COVID guidelines and regional regulations please expect that the shared amenities at this property such as pool, gym, and common areas will not be available during your stay.
Come and stay in our comfy apartment in Ax-Les-Thermes! You will LOVE our quiet getaway next to a river and only 100m from the excitement of town. There is something for everyone in this area - read on for our recommendations.
- Master bedroom with a cozy Double bed, bedding supplied!
- Bunk Bed in the second bedroom
- Sofa bed for 2 in the living room
- Wi-Fi is available in your unit for additionnal fee
- Access to an Indoor pool
- Soothe your muscles in the shared Sauna on-site
- Convenient FREE Outdoor Parking
- Keep clean with laundry facilities on-site
- Just outside, a gondola to whisk you to the Bonascre Plateau
- Front desk style reception to make your stay as stress-free as possible!
**A number of these units are available, and each is individually decorated. The images shown are a representation of the unit you will receive. At check-in, you will receive a unit of the same type as shown in this listing, complete with the advertised size and number of rooms, but the actual decor in the unit, view, and furniture layout may differ. You will have access to all amenities advertised!
Our cozy and rustic apartment in Ax-Les-Thermes offers the perfect escape for every traveller! We think you'll LOVE the location of our 29 m2 retreat next to a rushing river - the perfect home base in this historic and lush area. Stroll into town, a mere 100m away, to enjoy wonderful shops, delicious restaurants and exciting entertainment. Step outside to take the gondola to the Bonascre Plateau. And, at the end of a wonderful day, make sure to take a soak in one of the famous Ax-Les-Thermes spas to feel pampered and relaxed!
There are 2 BEDROOMS - the master bedroom features a cozy Double bed and the second bedroom contains a Bunk bed. There is an additional Sofa bed for 2 in the living room. Enjoy this EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Bedding is supplied!
Get ready for your day outside in the 1 BATHROOM, with toilet separate. If you're travelling light, we've got you covered with towel rental on-site for a fee.
The bright and warm LIVING AREA features a comfy sofa and a dining area. You will love to sit back and read a good book, or arrange for TV service on-site (charge applies). Stay connected with loved ones back home using the FREE Wi-Fi in the reception, or purchase Wi-Fi for your room. This unit may feature a balcony or terrace - please request this with our team upon booking and we will be happy to try and accommodate you.
The equipped KITCHENETTE includes cooking hobs, a fridge, a dishwasher, and a microwave for your convenience. We recommend that you rent a raclette set on-site to prepare a delicious, traditional meal. If you want to cook at home, stock up on groceries at the Petit Casino, a 5-minute walk away.
Our guests enjoy access to a number of wonderful amenities and services at the Residence Les Grands Ax, where this apartment is conveniently located. Make sure to cool off in the indoor pool after a day outside. Keep up your gym routine at the equipped fitness centre, and then soothe your muscles in the sauna. We recommend bringing a car to explore this serene and peaceful region - there is complimentary outdoor parking available (subject to availability).
If you're interested in bringing along your furry best friend, please do let us know upon booking as they may be accommodated for a small pet fee. Please note that a small daily tourist tax per person and a fully-refundable damage deposit will be collected upon your arrival. Guests are requested to clean their apartments prior to departure, or an end of stay cleaning will be provided for a fee.
During your stay in Ax-Les-Thermes, we highly recommend that you check out the National Wildlife Reserve to appreciate the amazing flora and fauna of the region. In the winter, you'll love this location as it's near 3 excellent ski resorts with 75km of terrain - Bonascre, Saquet and Campels. In the summer, lose yourself in gorgeous mountain walks and in the lush forests. Visit the Le Rocher de la Vierge chapel, just a few minutes' away. And, in town, make sure to drop by the summer markets for local specialties! Downtown, we love La Petite Fringale after a day outside - the fondue is amazing. We also recommend the fresh blueberry cake at Le Fournil de la Forge d'Ascou Bakery.
Less than 250m from ski lifts
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- Spend some time with your group, or fellow travellers, and hire board games on-site!
- Ask about using raclette and fondue sets at the residence
- Enjoy the FREE Wi-Fi available at reception, or arrange for Wi-Fi in your room for €16/week or €27/week for a family pack
- A full end of stay housekeeping (except kitchen) is available for purchase from €65
- Towel rental is available for rent for €10/person
- TV rental is available for €42
- This unit may feature a balcony or terrace - please request this with our team upon booking and we will be happy to try and accommodate you
- The property may accept pets for a fee of €42/stay (up to a max of 1 pet/accommodation). First and second category dogs are prohibited. Please inform our team upon booking if you'd like to bring your pet along.
- Upon your arrival, a tourist tax of €0.50 to €3/night/person will be collected, along with a fully-refundable damage deposit of €300


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If you follow my blog regularly you've probably already realized how much I like the British Victorian houses, and generally everything about the era and the literature of Jane Austen :). Whenever I hear that there is something around here, I miss no opportunity to make a visit. It's been a couple of years I discovered list the locations of the world of Jane Austen Pemberley.com, and since then I have them all on my list of outstanding destinations. Curiously, one of them is in my same city.
Loseley Park is a Victorian house on the outskirts of Guildford which has been the scene in Emma (in the starring Romola Garai version, It was the home of Mr Knighley) and Sense and Sensibility (in the BBC miniseries, Barton Park to, the home of the Middletons). It was built in the sixteenth century, except minimal reforms, everything remains as is.
Although easily accessible by car, it is possible to go for a walk from the center of Guildford (approximately 40 minutes). To visit the interior of the house, there are guided tours every hour in which they explain the whole story of Loseley Park from its construction to today, visiting the main rooms. Tours last about an hour and cost 9 pounds, including the entrance to the gardens. Although at first glance the entry may seem a little expensive, in my opinion worth, as visit completely transforms you to another time and the guides are exceptionally good (and you can take a freírles questions). The bad part is once inside, It is forbidden to take pictures, but still I could do some sneaking (forgiveness if they are not well focused).
The garden is also worth seeing. It consists of several parts as a rose garden, other spices and herbs, several other flowers, a pond… And after walking around all, I recommend entering the cafe for tea (served in teapot, course) and a slice of Victoria Sponge, the typical English cake, less than 5 pounds for two people.
Curiously, the family that owns Loseley Park is still living there, so it only opens during the summer months. Do not miss the opportunity and stop by Guildforsd before the end of September (and if you see Emma before, insurance that makes you look a lot more enthusiasm).
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Pretty Things! I do not remember very well the house, I think I'll have to see Emma again hehe


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Your Asian Activist writer with no visible or audible people to rouse, sends a letter via land-mail to Richard Louie the Yellow at the top of the Yellow newsheap. My how far we have fallen since the days Connie Chung good work as Rocky's shadow? Where, oh where, is the people, the magazines, the newspapers envisioned by Ken Kashiwahara, for an activist writer to shake up and make active? I'm still being read under the blankets by flashlight. Shame on us.
September 5, 2016
Richard Louie
NBC News,
30 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, N.Y. 10112
Mr. Yellow Newsman:
All these Yellows doing the news abroad the land and not one with Yellow local news out of their mouth. Not a word from a Yellow newscaster on Trump linking Japs of Dec 7th 1941 with Muslim's of 9/11. Bring back the camps! No reaction from the JACL or OCA? No notice of George Takei, Mr. Sulu of STAR TREK doing the story of his childhood in camp as a Broadway Musical in Trump's New York.
Of course not a word, not one Yellow American word about Pres Clinton's followed by Pres Obama's bellow of hatred and contempt for China and it's children's stories by officially endorsing Maxine Hong Kingston's lies about Far Mulan being tattooed by her parents at birth.
You claim to be the tops in Yellow news. Prove it, please.
Obama in Hangzhou, China "When I bring up issues like huaman rights there are some tensions there that don't take place when President Xi meets with other leaders, but that's part of our job, that's part of what we do."
Obama stands out among world leaders, as first nation to announce its contempt for the Chinese children's story by awarding Maxine Hong Kingston's hate for her father and his culture by falsifying the life of the woman who inspired generations of women to fight for their homes. White racist readers were fooled to tears of pity for poor little Max.
White feminists were fooled into dancing the White racist delights mythic misogynist Chinese men. Yuck! White women cringe at the suggestion of touching the yellow skin of a Yellow man. But White men drool at the thought of licking the yelllow of a Yellow woman. Or hairless girl.
The Presiden's Yellow men in tow could have known Kingston was a fake in 1988. That's when Kay Bonnetti published her interview with Kingston in CONVERSATIONS WITH MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, by Maxine Hong Kingston, ed by Skenazy & Martin (U Press of Mississippi ).
Pres Clinton awarded Kingston his Humanities Medal in 1998. She badmouths her unnamed critics and describes her lifting the tattoos off of Yue Fei , a man's back, from a famous story, of centuries later. The man, Yue Fei, is killed by the corrupt Song court, and China saved by his allies along the Yellow river, Liang Hongyu, a lady wrestler with a talent for strategy and tactics, and Mu Guiyinng the Shandong mountain bandit queen who becomes the Supreme Commander of the 7 Yang family armies, retires, and is recalled to lead the imperial army at 45 years old. Mei Lanfang, the creator of modern theatre Peking Opera was famous for the new operas he composed amd wrote, and his playing of female roles. He wrote and played MU GUIYING ASSUMES COMMAND. Other Lady Generals in the Far Mulan traditon are the Ming dynasty's last general Chin Liangyu, and the three Shoong sisters Ai ling H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi) (who loved Money) Shoong Chingling, Mme Sun Yatsen (Who loved China) Shoong Meiling, Mme Chiang Kai shek (Who loved Power).
Pres Obama''s Arts Medal to Maxine Hong Kingston 2105 -6 (?) was a thumbing of the USA's nose at China. What do the medals for Kingston's the American hatred for China and Chinese children's stories accomplish? Is it some strategy for winning? Neither Churchill nor Franklin Roosevelt thought of trashing German fairy tales to bring Hitler to heel.
Please bring some Yellow honor to the shiny eyes of Yellow journalists glistening like rhinestones doing on the news round the country.
Frank Chin
Frank Chin is your father's generation, Son.


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3 Ways Coach Training Can Help Doctors Become Better Leaders
As an Admissions Coach for iPEC, I get to talk to professionals of all backgrounds. Lately I've noticed that more and more of my one-on-one sessions have been with medical professionals who are facing uncertainty and overwhelm due to more patients, fewer doctors, and increasingly complex regulations. They feel they're at a tipping point and they're willing to try a new approach in order to get things done.
Coach training can help you move your practice forward.
Coaching is a skillset, one that offers practical and effective techniques whether you're in hospital administration or a doctor working directly with patients. If you're on the hunt for new ways to effectively lead a team, skillfully navigate organizational changes, and confidently confront roadblocks, a coach training program might be the answer you're looking for.
Here are three ways that coaching methods can help you overcome some of your biggest challenges:
1. You'll restructure the way you communicate with staff and other executives.
When a doctor checks on a patient, he or she might ask, "have you been taking your meds?" as a way to gauge the patient's current mental and physical health. Questions like this seem natural to the doctor but to the patient, it feels more like a test. The result? A simple yes or no and potentially feelings of pressure or resentment from the patient.
Rather than phrasing questions in a yes or no manner, a useful coaching technique is to ask open ended questions. In this case, asking "how's your medication been making you feel over the last few weeks?" is a much better way to open up a dialogue with patients. It releases tension or pressure and gives them the chance to explain the details about their health experience.
The same is true for communicating with staff and other physician executives. Rather than using your authority to tell others what to do, take the time to ask for opinions and gather feedback. This more collaborative approach typically leads to fewer hurt feelings, a greater sense of camaraderie, and better solutions.
2. You'll learn tools that can help you connect on a deeper level with your patients.
If you ask a patient to imagine a trip to the hospital or doctor's office, they'll probably conjure up the same basic story: arriving at a sterile office, checking in at the front, and waiting too long for their appointment. More often than not, the waiting room is marked by frustration, nerves, resentment, and even fear. Fear of what the doctor may tell them, fear that they'll not receive answers for the pain they're in, or worse, that their concerns will not even be heard.
Listening is a coach's most powerful tool.
You can gain vital information about your patient simply by giving them the time and space to speak. Listening from a coach's perspective can illustrate what a patient is saying and what they're not saying. They might not always stay on topic and they might give you superfluous details, but the goal is to allow them to make connections and draw conclusions on their own. Listening at this level also leads to deeper, more insightful questions that could be the key to getting through to your patients' needs. (And also to changing their perception that they spent more time in the waiting room than they did with you.)
When a patient feels that their time is honored by their doctor, they'll be more open-minded and receptive to feedback. They're also more likely to take on an active role in leading a healthful lifestyle when you empower them to be in charge of their decisions.
3. You'll lead a more balanced life.
Chances are, you became a doctor to care for people and make a difference in the lives of many . . . but somewhere along the way, you ended up dealing more with corporate affairs than patient concerns. You've piled up your To-Do list and feel like you're drowning in tasks to meet budget goals and get more efficient. Maybe your own health has slipped as a result of the stress or maybe you're not spending as much time with your family as you would like. Whatever your reasons for seeking more balance in your life, there are a variety of coaching tools to help you evaluate where you're spending your time and how you can make simple yet powerful changes to pursue balance.
As a physician, you've already had years upon years of intense medical training so you might feel skeptical at the prospect of spending more time to learn a skillset that seems unconnected to what you do. However the knowledge and perspective you'll gain from coach training will allow you to build stronger relationships with your patients, help you become a better leader among your coworkers, and lead to a healthier, happier YOU.
If you think you'd like to try a new approach, you can find out more about iPEC's Coach Training Program here.


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Helping your community
It goes without saying that it is a responsibility of a business to give back to its community. The basis of any organisation should be to provide some kind of value to people and supporting local charities is a great way to fulfil that, while also bettering your own society.
Positive brand identity
People are more inclined to deal with an organisation that is engaged in charitable activities in any way, according to various research. Therefore, providing support to charities will elevate identity of your business above your competition and provide status of being ethical and trustworthy.
Enhanced market reach
Providing advertising support to charities will gain marketing returns. It will act as a positive platform to reach and connect with potential customers, who otherwise might have been out of your reach.
So what's in it for the charities?
Advertising within one of our charity publications (Diaries, Newsletters, Annual Reviews, Anniversary Brochures) allows us to provide the product free of charge to the charity and in addition where we achieve enough support, the charity receives 50% of revenue after the costs have been deducted.
Some beautiful numbers and facts
Advertising within the publications has saved the charities over £400,000 in publishing costs and in addition has generated over £150,000 in revenue for the charities.
Half a Million
Roma Fundraising prints over half a million copies of charity publications, split between around 50 charities each year, covering the length and breadth of the UK. In addition, the charities' own websites receive over two million hits per year.
Any area, any quantity
Whether it is a local charity, such as St Luke's Hospice (Harrow) which sends out 33,000 copies of each newsletter locally, or Midlands Air Ambulance which distributes 40,000 copies of Take Off across the whole Midlands area, it is a great way to socially market your business.
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Patron Tequila
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Made in: Mexico
By: Patron Spirits Company
Comparing all 4 samplers of the Patron Tequila (Silver, Reposado, Añejo and Cafe Dark). Starting with the common Silver version. Clear look, aromas of agave, caramel, with hints of citrus and smokiness. Pretty smooth mouthfeel overall with taste of grassy blue agave, alcohol and slightly peppery. Very easy-drinking, mild tequila. Next is the Reposado with a very light clear golden colour. Aromas seem like alcohol is stronger, with the agave and some wood notes. The caramel and smokiness is milder. Feels a little smoother, but overall not as pleasant as the silver one. 6 month in oak barrels and now the Añejo version, at least 12 months with white oak maturing. Light golden with a very slight amber hue. A little sweetness in the taste with grassy notes, caramel and mild vanilla. Smoother mouthfeel than the others, and the taste is better than the Reposado. The agave is well-balanced with the oak. And last is the coffee liqueur blended with their Silver version. Dark brown colour reminding me of soya sauce, and the scent is closer to this than coffee. Chocolate as well. The chocolate is more present in the flavours than the coffee. Syrupy mouthfeel with the tequila coming out in the finish. A nice desert drink. A nice bunch of tequilas, but not sure I would pay the price for a full bottle.


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The Guardian ran an opinion column last week by its foreign correspondent, Peter Beaumont, about chemical weapons.[i] He opened by evoking the blood and misery of World War One before coming to his central question: 'why is it that we regard the apparent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime (which has claimed relatively few lives overall) as more terrible than the crude pummelling by conventional arms which have [sic] resulted in hundreds of thousands of Syrian deaths?'
It's a worthwhile question but I was sincerely taken aback by the emaciated reasoning that followed. Before I come to that, first the disclaimer required for those of bad faith or worse intelligence. I do not approve of chemical weapons, I don't support Bashar al Assad, and I offer no view on whether his forces were responsible for the Douma chemical attack or, indeed, whether it was a chemical attack at all.[ii]
It seems to me that Beaumont attempts to answer his chosen question at two points in his article. His first attempt is partly historical. The Hague convention of 1899 set out the humanitarian principles that would 'later form the basis of the modern law of conflict.' Among these was the section that limited the 'right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy'. The first instance of this was the ban on poisoned weapons, itself building on a 1675 agreement between France and Germany that banned poisoned bullets.
But what of poisoned gas? This was singled-out because it 'inspired a particular horror, in large part psychological.' That it 'has remained a special case is because of the way its prohibition has become emblematic of restrictions on warfare. We decided gas must not be used because of our horror of being gassed ourselves.'
Is this why we regard gas as more terrible than bullets, because we were its victims? When we become the victims of nuclear weapons will their possession also move beyond the pale? Were the thousands of Japanese adults and children incinerated in our twin fireballs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not enough for us to forever renounce these most indiscriminate of means? Evidently not. They've not even been enough for states like the US and UK to take seriously their obligations, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to make good faith efforts to eliminate them (and certainly not to develop more 'useable' nuclear weapons.[iii]). Indeed, the atom bombs are still defended as having helped 'shorten the war' – a defence Beaumont seems reluctant to allow Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons. The salient different, of course, is that Assad is on the 'other' side. Being on the 'other' side forbids our enemies the right to make such decisions, to wage 'just' war or to self-defence at all.[iv]
In the Great War, we were supposedly horrified by chemical weapons but, as Beaumont mentions, not enough to forswear them ourselves. In 1919, Porton Down boffins in Wiltshire developed the 'M Device', an exploding shell containing diphenylaminechloroarsine. 50,000 'M Devices' were shipped to Russia to be used in British bombing of Bolshevik soldiers. Though few were ever used, those caught in their green cloud reportedly vomited blood and then collapsed unconscious.[v]
Winston Churchill infamously did not understand the 'squeamishness about the use of gas' against 'uncivilised tribes' (he was speaking of India), noting that it was not 'necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.'[vi] Churchill's defenders often assert that he was talking only of tear gas and not poison gas per se. Yet, this distinction might seem a little academic when, as the War Office noted of one then common variant of tear gas in 1921, while it was 'classified as non-lethal' and was 'far less noxious than even mustard gas,' at the same time it might have 'serious and permanent effects on the eyes, and even, under certain circumstances, cause death.'[vii] I'll also note that, while the historian Ray Douglas has pored over the evidence for Britain actually using CW in Iraq and found it wanting, he most certainly acknowledges that our lack of use arose from 'practical difficulties rather than moral qualms'. Even in the oft-cited passage above, Churchill did not appear to think it wrong to use the 'most deadly gasses,' merely that it was not 'necessary'. There's no 'horror' there, simply a candid acceptance of chemical weapons as another tool in the white supremacist's armoury. For some, in fact, chemicals were perhaps even a better weapon since their effects were 'less terrifying' than artillery shells or flamethrowers. Indeed, Douglas quotes a General Staff memorandum from 1919, which mused: 'if it is advisable and possible to abolish gas on purely humanitarian grounds, the abolition of High Explosive, a far more terrible weapon which removes limbs, shatters bones, produces 'nerves,' and generates madness, is equally advisable.'[viii]
There may well be a public revulsion to chemical weapons but evidence of the same within elites seems thin. It certainly wasn't suggested by British and American support for Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Iranians – for which the US provided logistical support[ix] – or of Halabja, for which the US provided diplomatic cover[x] and the UK rewarded with £340m of additional economic support.[xi] To take just one more example, in 2006, a Ministry of Defence Inquiry reported that scientists at Porton Down had exposed 11,000 people to mustard and nerve gas in experiments carried out between 1939 and 1989; experiments which claimed the life of one serviceman and inflicted lasting damage on many more.[xii]
Beaumont then deploys his perfunctory second argument:
'The argument that relies on the idea that other weapons are equally deadly misses the point, which is that we have decided that this class of killing – like the wanton murder of civilians and shooting prisoners – is beyond the pale.'
Is this really the point? That chemical weapons are uniquely horrific because 'we' have decided that they are? This is to invoke that old parental standby, 'because I said so'. The argument betrays a certain western bias and the usual reek of hypocrisy. I can well imagine that other parts of the world might think we 'miss the point' that much of our arsenal is equally, if not more, reprehensible. We clutch our scented handkerchief to our nose at the whiff of chemical weapons while our depleted uranium leaves 'babies with two heads. Or missing eyes, hands and legs. Or stomachs and brains inside out.'[xiii] Our white phosphorous burns people to their bones,[xiv] we perforate limbs to unstitchable mush with Dense Inert Metal Explosives,[xv] and rupture people's internal organs or burn them to death while showing off the Mother of All Bombs, which might also be said to inspire a 'particular horror, in large part psychological.'[xvi] Beaumont's 'fitful advances in the laws of war – contradictory and permissive as they remain' seem all too 'optional and reversible'.
So why do we pillory chemical weapons, which are revolting but not uniquely so? Perhaps it is because they, unlike our latest glittering engines of fully-automated luxury death, are not beyond the pocket of the Lesser Nations. To quote the Iranian politician Hashemi Rafsanjani, they're 'the poor man's atomic bomb'.[xvii]As such, the taboo on their use is not only prophylactic but also a useful moral lever to justify our enlightened intervention.
[i] Peter Beaumont, "The taboo on chemical weapons has lasted a century – it must be preserved," The Guardian, 18th April 2018, available at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/chemical-weapons-taboo-syria
[ii] Robert Fisk, "The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor's doubts over the chemical attack," The Independent, 17th April 2018, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html
[iii] Most recently, see Clark Mindock "Trump administration considering developing two more 'usable' nuclear weapons," The Independent, 16th January 2018, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nuclear-weapons-new-latest-more-usable-a8162351.html Note that such intentions are portrayed as a response to Russian behaviour but as Charles Ferguson of the Centre for Non-Proliferation notes, the US has been 'downplaying and, in key instances, repudiating arms control agreements' since at least 2002 (see Nuclear Threat Initiative, "Nuclear Posture Review" 1st August 2002, available at http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/nuclear-posture-review/ )
[iv][iv] According to one BBC Radio Four new report I heard, Trump 'warned' of his recent attack on Syria while Russia 'threatened' to respond.
[v] Giles Milton, "Winston Churchill's shocking use of chemical weapons," Guardian, 1st September 2013, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons
[vi] J. A. Webster, Air Ministry, to J. E. Shuckburgh, Colonial Office, September 15th, 1921, PRO, CO 537/825, quoted in R. M. Douglas, "Did Britain Use Chemical Weapons in Mandatory Iraq?" The Journal of Modern History, Vol 81, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 859-887. Italics mine.
[vii] Webster, op. cit. Note that the effects of exposure to mustard gas include blistering, blindness of up to ten days or in some cases for good, severe abdominal pain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, chronic respiratory disease, cancer, and death. https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/sulfurmustard/basics/facts.asp
[viii] Webster, op. cit.
[ix] Patrick E. Tyler, "Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use Of Gas, New York Times, 18th August, 2002, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/world/officers-say-us-aided-iraq-in-war-despite-use-of-gas.html Shane Harris and Matthew M. Aid, "Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran," Foreign Policy 26th August 2016, available at http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/
[x] Prof. Juan Cole, "US Protected Iraq at UN from Iranian Charges of Chemical Weapons Use," Informed Comment, 28th August, 2013, available at https://www.juancole.com/2013/08/protected-charges-chemical.html Robert Fisk reported that 'the CIA – in the immediate aftermath of the Iraqi war crimes against Halabja – told US diplomats in the Middle East to claim that the gas used on the Kurds was dropped by the Iranians rather than the Iraqis (Saddam still being at the time our favourite ally rather than our favourite war criminal).' (Robert Fisk, "This was a guilty verdict on America as well," The Independent, 6th November 2006, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-this-was-a-guilty-verdict-on-america-as-well-423147.html)
[xi] A month after Halabja, the UK Government extended a further £340m in export credit guarantees to Saddam Hussein (John Kampfner (2003) "Blair's Wars" Free Press, London, p. 7. See also Alex Danchev, Dan Keohane (eds.) (1994) "International Perspectives on the Gulf Conflict, 1990-91," Palgrave Macmillan, London p. 148.
[xii] Rob Evans, "Porton Down chemical weapons tests unethical, says report," Guardian, 15th July 2006, available at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/jul/15/uk.greenpolitics
[xiii] As Barbara Koppel wrote in 2016, "what is little known is that for the past 25 years the United States and its allies have routinely used radioactive weapons in battle, in the form of warheads and explosives made with depleted, undepleted or slightly enriched uranium. While the Department of Defense (DOD) calls these weapons "conventional" (non-nuclear), they are radioactive and chemically toxic. In Iraq, where the United States and its partners waged two wars, toxic waste covers the country and poisons the people." Barbara Koppel, "How the U.S. Made Dropping Radioactive Bombs Routine," Newsweek, 4th April 2016, available at http://www.newsweek.com/how-us-made-use-radioactive-bombs-routine-443732 For detail on the US use of DU in Syria, see Samuel Oakford "The United States Used Depleted Uranium in Syria," Foreign Policy 14th February 2017, available http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/14/the-united-states-used-depleted-uranium-in-syria/
[xiv] See George Monbiot, "Behind the phosphorus clouds are war crimes within war crimes," Guardian 22nd November, 2005, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/22/usa.iraq1
[xv] DIME weapons were developed by the US and use a fine powder of tungsten or carbon fibre to confine the blast to a small area, perforating flesh and bone. Allegedly have also been used by Israel in its colonisation of Palestine. See Raymond Whittaker, "'Tungsten bombs' leave Israel's victims with mystery wounds," The Independent 18th January 2009, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/tungsten-bombs-leave-israels-victims-with-mystery-wounds-1418910.html According to a report commissioned for the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2016, there are 'concerns that wounds from DIME weapons are particularly difficult to treat surgically, and may have ongoing health impacts' (Cross, Kenneth, Ove Dullum, Marc Garlasco & N.R. Jenzen-Jones. 2015. Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas: technical considerations relevant to their use and effects. Special Report. Perth: Armament Research Services (ARES), available at https://www.icrc.org/en/download/file/23603/aresweb-generic.pdf )
[xvi] Thermobaric weapons like the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast) were developed by the US Government and used in Vietnam as well as being used by the Russians in Chechnya. Human Rights Watch quote a 1993 Defence Intelligence Agency Report on the Russian bombs (although the effects don't differ with whichever flag is painted on the casing): 'The [blast] kill mechanism against living targets is unique–and unpleasant…. What kills is the pressure wave, and more importantly, the subsequent rarefaction [vacuum], which ruptures the lungs…. If the fuel deflagrates but does not detonate, victims will be severely burned and will probably also inhale the burning fuel. Since the most common FAE fuels, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are highly toxic, undetonated FAE should prove as lethal to personnel caught within the cloud as most chemical agents.' Human Rights Watch (2000) "Backgrounder on Russian Fuel Air Explosives ("Vacuum Bombs")," available at https://www.hrw.org/report/2000/02/01/backgrounder-russian-fuel-air-explosives-vacuum-bombs One Pentagon report into the MOAB used typically anodyne language: 'It is expected that the weapon will have a substantial psychological effect on those who witness its use.' Robin Wright, 'Trump Drops the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan,' The New Yorker, 14th April, 2017, available at https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan
[xvii] 'While nuclear weapons represent the zenith of mass destruction, their fabrication requires advanced industrial capabilities as well as access to rare, tightly controlled materials. Chemical and biological weapons, on the other hand, are cheap and easy to build using equipment and materials that are used extensively for a host of civilian purposes.' Lord Lyell "Chemical and Biological Weapons: The Poor Man's Bomb Draft General Report," North Atlantic Assembly International Secretariat 4 October 1996 Draft, available at https://fas.org/irp/threat/an253stc.htm


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All of the Lesser-Known Archangels
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My first daughter, as any five year old kid, would keep asking many questions. Some of those questions started with the characters she saw on TV. She saw monsters and goblins in some of the shows, and she was quite frightened, and asked me if they were for real, to which I responded that they were not real. When Shrek scared off the villagers carrying pitchforks, she asked me the same question, and once again my answer was the same – that he was not real.
After few more questions in the same vein, I formalized my answer. I told her that certain characters exist only in stories, in books and on TV, and that they don't exist in real world. I extended this notion to tell her that ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and all other threatening and menacing characters do not exist in reality. [I came to an understanding with my wife that she will not scare our kids with any reference to monsters to make them eat up their supper.]


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So, I return from the road to find Nancy and Fran inviting and giving advice about garden blog photography. Oh man, do I want to write a rant! This is why I joined this group, this is why I title my section "The Camera Always Lies". Garden photography is how I make my living but too often these days I wonder if my work is helping or hindering gardeners in their own gardens.
Professional garden photography has gotten so much better in the past 20+ years that I have been doing this and publications increasingly rely on photos to sell the product and tell the story. This must drive writers nuts and why blogs are popular – the blog writing is personal and authentic while the books and magazines are decorated and false. The writing itself in the print publications is as good as ever but too often glossy photos imply an ease that real gardeners scoff at. And, too often I suspect, readers look at photos without reading the text and get no real understanding of what it takes to create a garden seen in a photo.
Often the photos that get published are taken in gardens that have no relation to the story or book chapter; and don't get me started with the current trend of garden publishers using stock photos from random sources that can very well have an English garden photo illustrating an American garden.
This is certainly not true of all print media and I know and appreciate (along with my banker) that beautiful photos help inspire gardeners, but blogging offers an honest alternative. So long as garden bloggers use their own photos I think there can be no wrong. Maybe some want to see close-up, bug free specimens while others want to see the whole garden but, if authentic, it is all useful. I will say it is much harder technically to produce and display a wide garden scene in a small space and perhaps, if there is interest, I can get into an instructional mode one of these days, but since I am just back from a trip I will use some photos to illustrate the garden photographer's dilemma.
I am working on my meadow book and just back from my last big trip. Got to visit and stay with Neil Diboll of Prairie Nursery fame and spent two days photographing his Wisconsin gardens. Autumn is coming on strong and many leaves have fallen on his "No-Mow" meadow lawns:
Is this a useful garden photo ? Does it inspire ? Probably not by itself, but once you know Neil has never mowed his lawns and sells a mixed fescue seed blend (mostly Festuca rubra) you might want to say: "show me". Once you understand the intent of his gardens – to have naturalistic meadows that only get raked once a year, you may begin to yearn for such a yard yourself and then the photo above becomes inspirational, a good photo to accompany a story.
This photo serves another purpose:
I raked his lawn and sought a more dramatic angle. Is this a useful garden photo? While I hope it is inspirational, I wonder if it is as useful as the first one. Given Neil's intention to have a naturalistic lawn/meadow and knowing this photo can not possibly be how it usually looks, the photo is a lie. Hopefully it still serves my purpose: to inspire gardeners to try using meadows. I wonder though, if in showing this more dramatic photo, gardeners are being set up for a fantasy look that needs more care than most gardeners want to give. The photographer's dilemma is between what the publishing client expects, what the gardener's intention is, and of course the photographers own aesthetic.
An increasingly important aspect of my work is to illustrate gardens I personally find interesting, that are environmentally sustainable, and suit an evolving vision I have of beauty. I am consciously trying to change the aesthetic of what we expect to see in a garden photograph. This is particularly important for Western gardeners (where I live) who need to find inspiration in our own ecosystems. All gardeners in all regions need to do this of course, but there is very little in traditional English inspired garden photography that is useful or authentically beautiful for Western gardeners. (Apologies here to the incredible gardeners in western Oregon and Washington who can pull off the English look because they have so much more water).
Here is a garden in Santa Fe, New Mexico I am photographing for Organic Gardening Magazine:
The photo by itself is hardly inspiring but it does give a good idea of the setting. I show this wide view only to illustrate how the photographer can "lie" with the camera. I want to use this garden in my meadow book so I come in tighter to have the camera say what I want:
This photo is certainly "prettier" than the over-all view but can be much more misleading if taken out of context, much the way English garden photo can mislead American gardeners. I could imagine this photo inspiring gardeners to try a meadow look but unless you live in the arid West these plants would never thrive. The shrubby Forestiera and Bouteloua grass have equivalents in other climates but the look would never be quite the same. Experienced gardeners understand this but only when they are told where the photo is taken. Imagine the frusration of a beginning gardener who might see this photo randomly illustrating a story about naturalistic gardens. Rant. The camera always lies.
Is this a meadow?
Oh yes ! and it does not get any better. God's own meadow and I hope no-one is fooled into thinking a gardener could do this. In Santa Fe I hoped to connect with fellow gardeningonewild blogger David Salman, but my short visit coincided with a busy time at High Country Gardens and we could not meet this time. I then got lucky and connected with an old friend, the inimitable Gail Haggard whose Plants of the Southwest Nursery has inspired a generation of gardeners, David among them. Gail directed me to a couple meadow gardens in town but then noticed a haze of yellow way up in the mountains. We played hooky with what we were supposed to be doing and went to Big Tesuke trail in the Santa Fe National Forest. Without saying much about what I would find there, Gail took me to the most inspiring meadow I have seen. Her smile at my delight was priceless. She knew I "got it", that this is what a meadow book must be about. I hope the publisher will include many natural meadows I have found in my travels, this is where gardeners must find inspriration if our constructed gardens are to have any chance of success.
I can not rant anymore about what is deceptive about traditional garden photography, I can only present what I think is important and hope it inspires. This inspires me to make meadows:
Don't expect this at home . . . .


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- Six points for rushing or receiving touchdown, four points for passing touchdown
- One point for every 10 yards rushing or receiving, 20 yards passing
- A loss of two points for a lost fumble or interception
- Two points for a two-point conversion of any kind
- Kickers: three points for a field goal under 40 yards, four points for one between 40 and 49 yards, and six points for kicks of 50 yards or longer. Plus, one point for every extra point
- Defense: Two points for an interception or fumble recovery, six points for touchdown, four points for safety, one point for sack, and a loss of one point for every seven points the defense actually allows (and a bonus five points for a shutout)
Teams are comprised of one quarterback, two running backs, three wideouts, one tight end, one kicker, and one defense. There are no substitutions, so if a player is injured or his team is eliminated, then he ceases to produce points for his team. The teams, in drafting order, are as follows:
- Head Honcho Aaron Schatz
- Clutch Columnist Scott Kacsmar
- Your Editor Vince Verhei
- Your Scramble Writer Mike Kurtz
- Any Given Sunday Author Andrew Healy
- Your Scramble Writer Tom Gower
This is a serpentine draft, as is the fashion of the day, with a two-pick round eight. The results were as follows:
Round 1
1. Aaron: Marshawn Lynch, RB, Seattle
2. Scott: Demaryius Thomas, WR, Denver
3. Vince: DeMarco Murray, RB, Dallas
4. Mike: Le'veon Bell, RB, Pittsburgh
5. Andrew: Rob Gronkowski, TE, New England
6. Tom: Eddie Lacy, RB, Green Bay
Round 2
7. Tom: C.J. Anderson, RB, Denver
8. Andrew: Antonio Brown, WR, Pittsburgh
9. Mike: Dez Bryant, WR, Dallas
10. Vince: Justin Forsett, RB, Baltimore
11. Scott: Jeremy Hill, RB, Cincinnati
12. Aaron: Tom Brady, QB, New England
Round 3
13. Aaron: Jordy Nelson, WR, Green Bay
14. Scott: Russell Wilson, QB, Seattle
15. Vince: Emmanuel Sanders, WR, Denver
16. Mike: Tony Romo, QB, Dallas
17. Andrew: Randall Cobb, WR, Green Bay
18. Tom: Aaron Rodgers, QB, Green Bay
Round 4
19. Tom: T.Y. Hilton, WR, Indianapolis
20. Andrew: Julian Edelman, WR, New England
21. Mike: Jason Witten, TE, Dallas
22. Vince: Calvin Johnson, WR, Detroit
23. Scott: LeGarrette Blount, RB, New England
24. Aaron: Greg Olsen, TE, Carolina
Round 5
25. Aaron: Brandon LaFell, WR, New England
26. Scott: Doug Baldwin, WR, Seattle
27. Vince: Coby Fleener, TE, Indianapolis
28. Mike: Martavis Bryant, WR, Pittsburgh
29. Andrew: Stephen Gostkowski, K, New England
30. Tom: Kelvin Benjamin, WR, Carolina
Round 6
31. Tom: Julius Thomas, TE, Denver
32. Andrew: Shane Vereen, RB, New England
33. Mike: Jonathan Stewart, RB, Carolina
34. Vince: Steven Hauschka, K, Seattle
35. Scott: Heath Miller, TE, Pittsburgh
36. Aaron: Seahawks Defense
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Round 7
37. Aaron: Terrance Williams, WR, Dallas
38. Scott: A.J. Green, WR, Cincinnati
39. Vince: Torrey Smith, WR, Baltimore
40. Mike: Reggie Wayne, WR, Indianapolis
41. Andrew: Patriots Defense
42. Tom: Mason Crosby, K, Green Bay
Round 8
43. Tom: Broncos Defense
44. Tom: Wes Welker, WR, Denver
45. Andrew: Ben Roethlisberger, QB, Pittsburgh
46. Andrew: Joique Bell, RB, Detroit
47. Mike: Dan Bailey, K, Dallas
48. Mike: Panthers Defense
49. Vince: Bengals Defense
50. Vince: Peyton Manning, QB, Denver
51. Scott: Connor Barth, K, Denver
52. Scott: Cardinals Defense
53. Aaron: Jonas Gray, RB, New England
54. Aaron: Adam Vinatieri, K, Indianapolis
|FO Playoff Fantasy Rosters
|Tom Brady
|Russell Wilson
|Peyton Manning
|Tony Romo
|Ben Roethlisberger
|Aaron Rodgers
|Marshawn Lynch
|Jeremy Hill
|DeMarco Murray
|Le'Veon Bell
|Shane Vereen
|Eddie Lacy
|Jonas Gray
|LeGarrette Blount
|Justin Forsett
|Jonathan Stewart
|Joique Bell
|C.J. Anderson
|Jordy Nelson
|Demaryius Thomas
|Emmanuel Sanders
|Dez Bryant
|Antonio Brown
|T.Y. Hilton
|Brandon LaFell
|Doug Baldwin
|Calvin Johnson
|Martavis Bryant
|Randall Cobb
|Kelvin Benjamin
|Terrance Williams
|A.J. Green
|Torrey Smith
|Reggie Wayne
|Julian Edelman
|Wes Welker
|Gregg Olsen
|Heath Miller
|Coby Fleener
|Jason Witten
|Rob Gronkowski
|Julius Thomas
|Adam Vinatieri
|Connor Barth
|Steven Haushcka
|Dan Bailey
|Stephen Gostkowski
|Mason Crosby
Oh, the Humanity!
Aaron Schatz
Aaron notes: I like the top four teams, and I think the AFC wild-card games are total crapshoots while Carolina and Dallas should each get at least two games. Other than that, I went best player available.
Tom Since he got the first pick, Aaron is up first. Lynch was a no-brainer first choice. Scott wanted him. I was all set to take him until you decided high random number instead of low got first choice.
Mike: I am an agent of chaos. I'm not actually sure Lynch is a no-brainer, though. Playoff fantasy, as we have discovered, is very different from normal fantasy. It's good that Aaron got Seahawks D, but that is basically the only other rosterable part of Seattle's team. So by picking Lynch you're consigning yourself to a great piecemeal team. A strategy that has not had success in the past.
Tom: I concur with your basic point, though Russell Wilson worked out just fine for Aaron's winning team last year. I just think the Seahawks are likely to win at least one game, and Lynch is a large chunk of their offense, including at the goal line. Traditionally, though, this has been a very quarterback-heavy draft. This was the first time since 2010 that a quarterback didn't go first overall. And last year, three quarterbacks went in the first round. This time, Aaron made Brady the first quarterback chosen at the end of the second round.
Looking at his team, it's NFC heavy. Brady, Gray, and LaFell are his ball-handling players from the AFC, while his four NFC selections are on different teams. I think that goes more to your point about how the Lynch pick is part of a non-winning strategy. With a Patriots Super Bowl, Gray somehow contributing instead of nailed to the bench, and a messy NFC postseason, he has a shot.
Mike: That is my point, yes. But it might work. The Patriots have set themselves up well and the Seahawks' defense might generate points like a WR2. I just wouldn't count on it.
Scott Kacsmar
Tom: Thomas was the first wide receiver to be selected in the first round in the six years you and I have been involved in this FO playoff draft.
Mike: I'll be interested in hearing Scott's rationale for that.
Tom: Granted, outside of the two of us and Aaron, the other participants change pretty much every year.
Mike: Or at least why Thomas in particular.
Tom: Scott's best shot for glory seems to be a lot of Wilson-to-Baldwin pass plays, plus our first extended Cincinnati playoff run since 1988, particularly one with A.J. Green clearing concussion protocol quickly.
Mike: Yeah, this team is full of risks.
Tom: Where he got him in the draft, Green was a reasonable risk. But still a risk, yes. My personal hatred of Wheel of Belichick also would have said no to Blount, but there are only so many good bets at running back. Of course, that just takes us back to the Thomas pick.
Vince Verhei
Vince notes: I didn't really have a plan going in other than "take a running back in the first round." I took another in the second when I could see the pickings there were already getting slim. Then there was a run on quarterbacks in the third and fourth rounds, and that point I figured I might as well wait till the end to get one of my own. I wasn't even really paying attention to which quarterbacks had been taken, only that a lot of them were gone. Then the last round came along, and lo and behold, Peyton freakin' Manning was still available. I mean, understand WHY he was available, but still -- Peyton Manning! Last round! I also really like my pick on Hauschka. The Seahawks figure to go deep in the playoffs as much as anyone, but they're not a team that gets lots of touchdowns. I'm envisioning lots of kicks there.
Mike: Vince went hard for the best player available. I think he stole a few that you and I were eyeing at various points.
Tom: I didn't really start eyeing specific players unless they were still around when Andrew was on the clock.
Mike: I get the feeling he didn't feel he could string together a one- or two-team roster together and instead opted for mid-round value while we were grabbing fodder like Jason Witten.
Tom: But look at his team: two RB1s, two WR1s and a strong WR2, a TE1 on a team whose two primary receiving options are banged up, and the best quarterback of the past 25 years with his final pick.
Mike: You just had to steal his thunder on that last point, didn't you? And I agree. He got a tremendous amount of value out of those middle rounds.
Tom: The only pick of his I really didn't like was Bengals Defense, and defenses rarely matter in this scoring setup.
Mike: I think if the Ravens lose this weekend, he's sunk, though. Which is odd considering how diversified he is, but I think really he needs at least two games out of two-thirds of his roster for this to work.
Tom: Forsett and Smith are his best hope for an extended run, but he has so many valuable players and I don't think anybody's team is super-concentrated. If nobody's specific bet (like Aaron's on the Patriots) pays off, I think he has a solid chance of winning.
Mike: I don't know, I've become quite pessimistic about diversified teams in this format, over the years. Maybe that's just because I was so sick of losing with them? Who knows. Hopefully Vince can prove me wrong.
Mike Kurtz
Mike: Bell kind of handcuffed me to the Steelers. Anyone who knows me knows I hate expressing any optimism about my team whatsoever. Past that, Bryant (Dez) was the best I had on the board, so from there I started building from Dallas and Pittsburgh out.
Tom: Well, you sort of had a limited way of expressing your Steelers affection. Ben, Bell, Brown, and Miller were it, unless you wanted to take a risk on Bryant or Markus Wheaton or ... Ben Tate?
Mike: I picked Stewart because he was the only useful RB1 left at that point.
Tom: Right, the Stewart pick made sense. We should note that this draft was conducted over email between Sunday night and late Tuesday afternoon, and was mostly concluded by the time the news the Steelers picked up Ben Tate broke.
Mike: To be fair, I wanted Brown, and he went one pick before me
Tom: Yup, Brown just didn't happen for you. Them's the breaks in this setup.
Mike: I will say I'm not particularly happy about Suh's suspension being vacated.
Tom: Another thing that happened after the draft was mostly over!
Mike: So this could all just blow up in my face. Still, I made do with what I had and I think I've backed two pretty good offenses.
Tom: For where you took him, Bell was too big of an injury risk for me. I'd rather have either of the two backs I took. (And, yes, I probably would have taken him if you had taken either of my guys. I still like him a lot.)
Mike: Everything points to just hyperextension. Everything points to just hyperextension.
(Mike repeats his mantra, rocking back and forth in his chair with a dazed expression.)
Tom: Even just a hyperextension, with no bye and a fairly even first-round matchup, scared me a little too much for there. But hey, really talented back on a team that could make a run. That and the shares of the Dallas passing game, even if you did take Witten a little high for my taste, gives you a shot.
Andrew Haley
Tom: If the Patriots make it to the Super Bowl, Andrew should be right there with Aaron.
Mike: The Fighting 'Kowskis is indeed a formidable setup. Even if I think Edelman is basically fantasy garbage.
Tom: Gronkowski was another fascinating first-round pick. I like him in the first round better in a Real Fantasy Draft than I do in this format. Edelman, Vereen, Gostkowski, the defense, they're not likely to be huge scorers, but they support the big bet he made on New England by taking Gronk so early.
Mike: Right. I think the problem with a Patriots-heavy team is that without Brady it's a huge crapshoot. And Andrew of course does not have Brady.
Tom: I don't think people, and I include myself in this, are actually engaged in defensive drafting. I think they're just engaged in trying to take the best players on good teams, which has the same effect. So you end up with either an unconcentrated team like Vince's or a concentrated team like this one, with a bunch of potentially useful players but missing at least one of the most important ones.
Mike: I think the main difference is that the players on Vince's team are significantly better. Albeit with lower upside.
Tom: That's the tradeoff.
Tom Gower
Tom: I was very excited about going RB-RB at the turn with my first two picks. In hindsight, though, I'm not sure it was the right strategy. It shows in my wide receivers, where I need productive postseason runs with passing game success from Indianapolis (I feel OK about this, subject to Hilton's recovering) and Carolina (eh...).
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Mike: I like Carolina's chance of playing in two games. So that's something.
Tom: Something, yes, though the first opponent is not promising for receiving fantasy purposes, plus that potential trip to Seattle in the divisional round. The pick I agonized over the most was taking Rodgers. I strongly considered waiting on a quarterback, knowing three quarterbacks were off the board and Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger, Manning, and Andrew Luck were still available. Then I decided, screw it, he's the best quarterback in the game and dissected a really good pass defense on Sunday even when he couldn't move in the second half. Given the real top receivers were already gone, I'd take him. (Yes, Megatron, but passing on him was a reflection on what I think of Dallas-Detroit.)
Mike: I think that waiting on a quarterback is probably the best strategy, with the caveat that if you're going all-in on a team, you can't afford to not have its quarterback.
Tom: I was really hoping for the Cobb-Rodgers double, but Andrew sniped Cobb right before those were going to be my picks. I'd like my team more with Cobb instead of Hilton, a strong Denver-Green Bay bet, or I may just be too into hoping my preseason matchup happens.
Mike: That's what we're all doing, really. You can just claim foresight. Or attempt to, at least.
Don't forget to assemble your Best of the Rest team in the comments from players we did not pick!
Loser League Final Results
Quarterback, Week 17: Playing only one half, without Rob Gronkowski or Julian Edelman in the lineup, against a good pass defense, with a conservative Week 17 game plan, it was no surprise Tom Brady did little and came away with just 4 Loser League points thanks to 80 passing yards.
Quarterback, Weeks 10-17: It is set to be a thin crop of free agents, but if you are looking for experienced starters, you could potentially have either the first-place finisher in the second half 2014 Loser League standings or the second-place guy. Jake Locker only avoided the penalty in three games, but managed only 8 points combined in those three games and finished with 83 points. Closely behind him was Brian Hoyer at 85. As those two had overlapping dismal weeks, though, your ideal choice included only one of them. Either Locker with Derek Carr or Hoyer with Kyle Orton would have given you 61 total points, just ahead of Hoyer and Carr's 62 and Locker and Andy Dalton's 64.
Running backs, Week 17: While Week 17 typically does not feature particularly bad quarterback performances, running backs suffer thanks to coaches' willingness to send a back plowing into the line for enough times to avoid the penalty. Both Knile Davis and Chris Johnson had enough carries and finished under 3.0 yards per carry for 2 points.
Running backs, Week 10-17: Titans supporters may have begged for Bishop Sankey to get more carries. If he had gotten them, he might have done something truly spectacular, as he hit the penalty twice and still only finished with 58 points. Another four carries against the Colts on Sunday and five against the Jets in Week 15, and we might not ever see an RB score so bad. As is, Jonathan Dwyer's 41 remains the lowest 2H RB score in the past six seasons. Runner-up to Sankey was Chris Ivory with 70 points, followed by Alfred Blue and Mark Ingram at 72.
Sankey and Ivory were the mainstays of all your best choices at the position, with the two of them plus Frank Gore the ideal team at 98, followed by Tre Mason at 99; Darren McFadden at 103; Alfred Blue at 10; and Joique Bell at 106, as well as a team of Blue, Gore, and McFadden.
Wide receivers, Week 17: As with running backs, so with wideouts. Your top two actual scorers came from the same game. Unsurprisingly, it was the Texans-Jaguars game, with DeAndre Hopkins and Marqise Lee the culprits with 0 points, while eight other receivers finished with 1 point and ten more with 2 points.
Wide receivers, Week 10-17: You may have heard that Alex Smith was attacked on the field by a velociraptor in every game in which he threw a touchdown pass this season and concluded from Smith's currently being alive and in possession of all his limbs that a Kansas City wide receiver would be a fine Loser League choice. You would be right, as Dwayne Bowe finished with a mere 31 points and did not get hit with the penalty a single time. Ryan Tannehill actually completed enough passes to Brandon Gibson that Gibson only got the penalty once and finished with 38 points. Andre Holmes was next at 41, followed by Wes Welker at 43.
Unsurprisingly, Bowe and Gibson were the mainstays of the best trios you could have chosen. The two of them plus Tavon Austin would have given you just 43 points; James Jones 44; Welker or Robert Woods 45.
Kicker, Week 17: It was a fairly good week for kickers, as everyone other than Nick Novak who missed a kick (about which more infra) made a couple kicks. Novak made just an extra point, and finished with -1 points.
Kicker, Weeks 10-17: Ken Whisenhunt was correct when he said in his season-ending press conference that Ryan Succop posted his career-best field goal percentage in 2014. Of course, when the offense rarely gets to field goal territory, it does not matter that much. He finished atop the second half standings with 35 points, edging out Shayne Graham by a single point. Chandler Catanzaro was next at 40 points.
The best combination you could have had was Succop and Billy Cundiff for a combined 18 points, even though Cundiff was a respectable 13th-worst. Runners-up included Catanzaro and Nick Novak at 19; Succop and Novak plus Graham and Greg Zuerlein at 20; and Succop and Blair Walsh, Graham and Cundiff, Graham and Robbie Gould (whose four 15s after his injury put him sixth in total points), Catanzaro and Walsh, and Catanzaro and Cundiff at 21.
Team Results: With 271 total points, 51 more than the minimum, the winner of the second half Loser League is Michael Gormley of Houston, with his team "Houston Horribles." He wins a copy of the 2015 KUBIAK fantasy football projections. The cumulative winner for both halves of the season is Andy Bizer of New Orleans, with his team "Geno Manuel." He wins both the 2015 KUBIAK fantasy football projections and a copy of Football Outsiders Almanac 2015. Congratulations to both. Check out the Loser League results page to see where your team finished this week and overall.
Keep Chopping Wood: All Jeff Fisher asks of his backup quarterback is to make a few simple throws and not make mistakes. Instead, Shaun Hill begins the fourth quarter of a tied game with the Rams in borderline field goal territory by throwing a screen pass right to Seahawks defensive lineman Jordan Hill for an interception. After the Seahawks score, Hill then throws a tipped ball interception that Bruce Irvin returns for another score. Facing a last gasp, Hill takes sacks on first-and-20 and third-and-25, then throws a checkdown on fourth-and-35. All told, he finished the fourth quarter with -99 total DYAR.
Mike Martz Award: NFL kickers are as good or better than they have ever been, but once you get beyond 50 yards, field goal attempts are by no means a sure thing. Of course, even if they were a sure thing, the San Diego Chargers would still have needed two scores in the final 15:30 when Mike McCoy sent Nick Novak out for a 52-yard attempt with the Chiefs holding a 19-7 lead. Had this been fourth-and-21 like Kansas City faced on the ensuing possession, that would be one thing, but fourth-and-8 is not an unmanageable situation. That CBS makes Phil Simms their top commentator does not mean that kicking in every conceivable situation is a wise decision.
22 comments, Last at 04 Jan 2015, 3:14pm
1 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB Cam Newton
RB Giovani Bernard
RB Joseph Randle
WR Mohamed Sanu
WR Philly Brown
WR Golden Tate
TE Tim Wright
K Graham Gano
D Colts
Props to Aaron for picking "Old Gregg" Olsen.
2 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
On Demaryius Thomas: I wanted Lynch, but Aaron wisely took him first. So at that point it was down to a top RB or a top WR, because I figured people would wait on the QBs (they did). I don't have great faith in the Steelers advancing past a game or two and Le'Veon Bell might not play period. Too risky. DeMarco is going up against the best run defense this week, and again, I could see Dallas losing that game.
So with the top two backs out, I went with the WR I think can be most dominant this postseason and was most likely to play 2-3 games. That's Demaryius. If he gets the Steelers in two weeks, well we remember what he did against Ike Taylor in the playoffs. There was also the long bubble screen TD in Week 1, 2012 against Pittsburgh.
5 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
My All Left overs:
Joe Flacco QB
Justin Tucker K
Detroit Lions Defense
Golden Tate WR
Steve Smith WR
Michael Floyd WR
Owen Daniels TE
DeAngelo Williams RB (he might play)
Stepfan Taylor RB
oops needed 3WRS
3 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
I'll take a top 20 finish for my first year in the LL. But couldn't you guys at least have given the Cowboys the kiss of death by picking them against Detroit?
4 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Andy Dalton, CIN
RB: Robert Turbin, SEA
RB: Dri Archer, PIT
WR: Golden Tate, DET
WR: Larry Fitzgerald, ARI
WR: Paul Richardson, SEA
TE: Luke Willson, SEA
K: Mike Nugent, CIN
D: Detroit
6 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Matthew Stafford,DET
RB: Giovani Bernard,CIN
RB: Robert Turbin,SEA
WR: Golden Tate,DET
WR: Mohamed Sanu, CIN
WR: Steve Smith,BAL
TE: Owen Daniels,BAL
K: Justin Tucker,BAL
D: Detroit
7 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
Bell as the 4th overall pick. Interesting.
8 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Andrew Luck
RB: Jeremy Hill
RB: Ronnie Hillman
WR: Danny Amendola
WR: Mohammed Sanu
WR: Steve Smith, Sr
TE: Luke Willson
K: Graham Gano
D: Packers
10 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
Scott took Jeremy Hill. The RB leftovers are a little slim naturally.
22 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
Missed that somehow. I guess it's too late but the other option was Bernard. Somehow I didn't see Hill listed in the table.
9 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Cam Newton
RB: Giovani Bernard
RB: Josh Harris
WR: Steve Smith
WR: Mohamed Sanu
WR: Cole Beasley
TE: Richard Rodgers
PK: Shaun Suisham
DEF: Steelers
15 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Joe Flacco
RB: Ben Tate
RB: Khun
WR: Steve Smith
WR: Golden Tate
WR: Mohammed Sanu
TE: Owen Daniels
K: Justin Tucker
D: Lions
11 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB - Cam Newton
RB - Giovani Bernard
RB - Dan Herron
WR - Steve Smith Sr
WR - Devonte Adams
WR - Jermaine Kearse
TE - Richard Rodgers
K - Justin Tucker
DEF- Steelers
12 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB- Flacco
RB- Dan Herron
RB- Ronnie Hillman
WR- Steve Smith
WR- Golden Tate
WR-Larry Fitzgerald
TE- Owen Daniels
K- Justin Tucker
DEF- Detroit Lions
13 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB - Andrew Luck
RB - Dan Herron
RB - Reggie Bush
WR - Golden Tate
WR - Steve Smith
WR - Donte Moncrief
TE - Dwayne Allen
K - Matt Prater
DEF - Packers
14 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Andrew Luck
RB: Dan Herron
RB: Stepfan Taylor
WR: Golden Tate
WR: Larry Fitzgerald
WR: Mohammed Sanu
TE: Owen Daniels
K: Justin Tucker
D: Lions
16 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB: Andrew Luck, IND
RB: Joseph Randle, DAL
RB: Dan Herron, IND
WR: Steve Smith, BAL
WR: Paul Richardson, SEA
WR: Reggie Wayne, IND
TE: Luke Willson, SEA
K: Shaun Suisham, PIT
D: Steelers
17 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB - IND Luck
RB - SEA Turbin
RB - IND Herron
WR - ARI Floyd
WR - ARI Fitzgerald
WR - CAR Cotchery
TE - SEA Kearse
K - PIT S Suisham
If Kearse is considered a WR, kick out Cotchery and take GB Quarless
18 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB - Andrew Luck, IND
RB - Dan Herron, IND
RB - DeAngelo Williams, CAR
WR - Steve Smith, BAL
WR - Reggie Wayne, IND
WR - Jermaine Kearse, SEA
TE - Dwayne Allen, IND
K - Graham Gano, CAR
DEF - Packers
19 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
If I'd thought through the rules a little better, I would have taken Brady with my second pick rather than Antonio Brown. My thinking was that I would get a shot at a good quarterback very late no matter how things went. But the QB provides so many points in this format. It was cool to be able to pick up Roethlisberger or Manning in the very last round (Vince and I were the only people left who hadn't picked a quarterback), though. I actually think Manning is a better pick, in general, but I'm screwed if New England doesn't make the Super Bowl, anyway. So Roethlisberger is a better pick for my team, particularly since I have Brown.
One thing I'm pretty sure is a good thing is having Gostkowski. The kicker should get a fair number of points in this format.
Once there was a run on RBs, I also like waiting until the very end to pick up a guy like Bell. He may only play one game, but I'm not sure he's much worse than Forsett and Hill in terms of the points you'd expect to get from him. All of them play on wild card underdogs. Bell isn't quite as good, but he also gets to face a bad Dallas run defense.
20 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB - Newton, CAR
RB - Herron, IND
RB - Turbin, SEA
WR - Smith, S BAL
WR - Richardson, SEA
WR - Amendola, NE
TE - Willson, SEA
K - Suisham, PIT
21 Re: Scramble for the Ball: 2014 Staff Playoffs Draft
QB Joe Flacco
RB Dan Herron
RB Joseph Randle
WR Golden Tate
WR Steve Smith
WR Cole Beasley
TE Owen Daniels
K Justin Tucker
D Ravens


text:
When my Chinese tutor was a young girl in school, she remembers being taught about Confucius. When Confucius was quoted, they were always supposed to use the ancient way of saying "says" which is 曰 ㄩㄝ (yuē). (If you aren't familiar with the Chinese phonetic system of bopomofo, click here)
Among themselves, the school children would joke:
(ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄗˇ)(ㄅㄨˊ)(ㄏㄨㄟˋ)(ㄔㄨㄛ)
(kǒng zǐ)(bú)(huì)(shuō)
(Confucius)(not)(will)(to say, to speak, to explain)
Confucius will not say,
(ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄗˇ)(ㄧㄝˇ)(ㄅㄨˊ)(ㄏㄨㄟˋ)(ㄐㄧㄤˇ)
(kǒng zǐ)(yě)(bú)(huì)(jiǎng))
(Confucius)(als0)(not)(will)(to speak, to explain, to negotiate, lecture)
Confucius also will not speak,
(ㄎㄜˇ ㄕˋ)(ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄗˇ)(ㄏㄨㄟˋ)(ㄩㄝ)
(kě shì)(kǒng zǐ)(huì)(yuē)
Confucius will sayeth!
(ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄧˇ)
(suŏ yǐ)
(孔子)(曰 ) (有)(朋)(自)(遠)(方)(來)[(不)(亦)(樂)(乎)❹]
(ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄗˇ)(ㄩㄝ) (ㄧㄡˇ)(ㄆㄥˊ)(ㄗˋ)(ㄩㄢˇ)(ㄈㄥ)(ㄌㄞˊ)[(ㄅㄨˊ)(ㄧˋ )(ㄌㄜˋ)(ㄏㄨ)]
(kǒng zǐ)(yuē) (yǒu)(péng)(zì)(yuǎn)(fāng)(lái)[(bú)(yì)(lè)hū)]
(Confucius)(sayeth) (to have)(friend)(from, self, oneself)(faraway)(location, region)(to come)[isnt' that a joy?]❺
Confucius sayeth, "To have a friend come from faraway, isn't that a joy."
It is kind of funny to mix Confucius with Shakespeare, but is also helpful to keep in mind when trying to understand Chinese idioms or watching Chinese movies set in ancient time periods. Think about someone who is learning English also trying to understand Shakespeare. That is a major accomplishment for even native English speakers! Don't be discouraged if ancient Chinese is a challenge for you!
❶ Confucius may also be seen in the Chinese language as 孔丘 ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄑㄧㄡ(kǒng qiū) or 孔夫子 ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄈㄨ ㄗˇ (kǒng fū zǐ). The second of those being the one that will sound most like our English version.
❷ Although 說 and 講 can be used fairly interchangeably in Chinese, and both translated as "to say," I have translated them each differently in the final English version to keep the flavor of the joke.
❸ 曰 can also be directly translated as "to say," but the tone of the joke is comparing ancient ways of saying things, so I have used old English in the translation to emphasize this. If you ever want to have fun with that, check out LingoJam.com, which has a "translator" function to old or Shakespearean English, all in good fun!
❹ In ancient Chinese writings, there were no punctuation symbols. There were 4 characters that were used to indicate pauses or breaks. 乎 is one of them, but even though punctuation is used nowadays, the characters are often part of well known four words idioms and it would not work to remove them.
❺ A literal translation of the characters in this idiom is:
不 ㄅㄨˋ (bù) not, un-
亦 ㄧˋ (yì) also, too
樂 ㄌㄜˋ(lè) happy, glad
乎 ㄏㄨ (hū) exclamatory final particle