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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti la Virtus Entella nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2012-2013.

Stagione
Nonostante la mancata promozione della stagione precedente, la squadra è stata ripescata in Lega Pro Prima Divisione. Il 7 agosto, infatti, il Consiglio Federale della FIGC accoglie la domanda di ripescaggio presentata il 30 luglio e così l'Entella per la prima volta nella sua storia disputerà la terza serie del campionato italiano, l'ex Serie C1.

L'Entella fa il suo esordio in stagione il 5 agosto nel primo turno di Coppa Italia, cui non prendeva parte dal 2010 (sconfitta con il  ai supplementari), vincendo per 2-0 fuori casa contro la Reggiana con gol dei neoacquisti Vannucchi e Marchi. Il 12 agosto al secondo turno, eccezionalmente in casa ha affrontato l'Hellas Verona perdendo 2-3 (doppietta di Rosso).

Il 18 agosto allo stadio, in concomitanza con l'amichevole vinta per 1-0 contro il Chiavari, viene premiato il pallanuotista chiavarese Maurizio Felugo fresco di medaglia d'argento alle Olimpiadi: il presidente Gozzi gli ha regalato una maglia dell'Enntella con il numero 6, lo stesso della sua calottina, e lui l'ha subito indossata tra gli applausi dei 250 spettatori presenti dimostrando l'attaccamento alla squadra della sua città.

Il 22 agosto l'Entella è stata presentata ufficialmente in piazza ai cittadini, in cui sono intervenuti il direttore generale Matteo Matteazzi, il direttore sportivo Matteo Superbi, il responsabile del settore giovanile Manuel Montali, il vicepresidente Walter Alvisi e il presidente Antonio Gozzi il quale ha ribadito ancora una volta le sue ambizioni legate alla chiavaresità del progetto e anche a uno stadio nuovo. Lo ha poi appoggiato e gli ha fatto eco il sindaco-tifoso Roberto Levaggi, favorevole insieme all'amministrazione comunale al progetto del nuovo stadio in Colmata dove attualmente si allenano le selezioni giovanili biancocelsti. Tra le novità della nuova stagione spiccano la realizzazione del nuovo sito internet, la creazione dell'Entella Card con lo sconto Entella Family del 20% e la denominazione di Settore Giovanile Scolastico Sgs che cambia in Entella Academy.

La campagna di sponsorizzazioni legata alla stagione 2012-2013 ha fatto registrare un incremento del 59% rispetto alla passata stagione tanto da non avere più spazio per i cartelloni pubblicitari che così son stati installati sulle torri faro. Questo fatto ha avuto evidentemente una ricaduta anche sul volume economico che è cresciuto del 58%. Al 17 dicembre, secondo il responsabile marketing Sergio Rossi, gli sponsor sono 106: erano 12 nella stagione 2009-2010, 36 nel 2010-2011, 63 nel 2011-2012 e infine 106 appunto nella stagione corrente. L'85% delle aziende sono della zona, ma ci sono anche operatori non legati alla realtà del comprensorio come Radio Live 365, network austriaco. Il fatturato supera i 400.000 euro e il numero degli abbonati, rispetto alla passata stagione, è passato da 103 a 256 con un incremento del 150%.

Il monte-ingaggi netto dell'Entella è di circa 1,5 milioni di euro con Ighli Vannucchi e Simone Guerra che hanno lo stipendio più alto (100.000 euro).

A dicembre i calciatori dell'Entella hanno preso parte come testimonial alla realizzazione del calendario 2013 di Telefono Donna "Non una di più" contro la violenza sulle donne. Nello stesso periodo si sono improvvisati cantanti incidendo con Niccolò Pagliettini, già autore dell'inno dell'Entella, il brano "Vorrei che fosse Natale" con un cameo finale fatto dalla voce del capitano Gennaro Volpe. Il progetto è stato promosso dall'Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti Onlus di Chiavari che avrà beneficio delle vendite del disco.

Alla fine del girone d'andata l'Entella si trova salda al 5º posto in classifica con 23 punti e si trova anche all'11º posto nella classifica degli spettatori allo stadio con una media di 730 persone a gara.

A febbraio la Beretti partecipa per la terza volta al Torneo di Viareggio piazzandosi al secondo posto nel girone con 6 punti dietro all'Inter. Accede agli ottavi di finale come migliore seconda raggiungendo un risultato storico per il club. L'avventura dei ragazzi di mister Scotto si conclude al turno successivo quando allo Stadio comunale vengono eliminati dal  con il risultato di 2-0. I biancocelesti hanno ben figurato al torneo internazionale ricevendo molti complimenti tra cui quelli del presidente della Lega Pro Mario Macalli.

L'Entella ha anche deciso di fornire un aiuto economico alle famiglie dei ragazzi iscritti al settore giovanile biancoceleste al fine di poter contribuire ai costi legati alle attività sportive dei propri ragazzi con l'immediata disponibilità del Banco di Chiavari, sponsor istituzionale del settore giovanile.

Il 5 maggio l'Entella, pareggiando per 1-1 in trasferta con il  per 1-1 seguita da 100 tifosi e grazie alla sconfitta dell' sul campo del , con 50 punti accede matematicamente ai play-off con un turno di anticipo pur riposando all'ultima giornata. La società ha deciso anche che l'anno successivo, per il centenario, sarà confezionata una speciale maglia biancoceleste nella cui parte bianca saranno stampati i nomi dei circa 1500 calciatori che hanno giocato con la maglia biancoceleste.

Il 26 maggio, per la semifinale play-off con il Lecce, sono circa 2000 (record storico) i tifosi presenti sugli spalti, di cui 240 leccesi. Il risultato finale è di 1-1 con gol di Garin per i liguri e di D'Ambrosio per i salentini.

Divise e sponsor
Lo sponsor tecnico per la stagione 2012-2013 è Erreà, mentre lo sponsor ufficiale è Elce Arredamenti.

Il 26 gennaio l'Entella annuncia che il nuovo sponsor che comparirà sulla maglia in questa stagione sarà quello di "Due Energie" della Duferco Group, gruppo appartenente al presidente Gozzi, per la campagna nazionale del brand che si occupa della vendita di gas ed energia elettrica. Il logo del vecchio sponsor "Elce" verrà spostato sui pantaloncini da gioco sino al termine del campionato.

Organigramma societario

Area direttiva
 Presidente: Antonio Gozzi
 Presidente Onorario: Silvio Risaliti
 Vice Presidente: Walter Alvisi
 Direttore Generale: Matteo Matteazzi

Area organizzativa
 Direttore sportivo: Matteo Superbi
 Responsabile osservatori: Andrea Grammatica
 Responsabile del Settore Giovanile: Manuel Montali
 Segretario generale: Giuliano Esposto
 Team manager: Delio Lagomarsino

Area comunicazione
 Ufficio stampa: Marco Bianchi
 Supporto tecnico: Marco Repetto

Area amministrazione
 Amministratore finanza e controllo: Alberto Garibotto
 Cassiere: Luca Zignaigo

Area marketing
 Responsabile marketing: Sergio Rossi
 Staff: Angelica Carboni, Andrea Solari

Area tecnica
 Allenatore: Luca Prina
 Allenatore in seconda: Sergio Spalla
 Preparatore atletici: Andrea Disderi, Sandro Farina
 Preparatore dei portieri: Fabrizio Casazza

Area sanitaria
 Medico Sanitario: Lorenzo Marugo
 Operatore Sanitario: Roberto Galli
 Fisioterapisti: Matteo Perasso, Cristiano Venturini
 Nutrizionista: Alessio Paggi

Staff
 Addetto biglietteria: Andrea Solari
 Addetto rapporti tifosi: Salvatore Fiumanò
 Addetto all'arbitro: Agostino Prestileo
 Psicologo: Elena Passoni
 Magazzinieri: Sergio Baratta, Salvatore Papparazzo, Ornella Armanino, Enio Curto
 Delegato alla sicurezza: Andrea Mei
 Vicedelegato alla sicurezza: Armando Marcolini

Rosa

Calciomercato

Sessione estiva (dall'1/7 al 31/8)
Il 20 giugno l'Entella rinnova con il Brescia le compartecipazioni di Serlini e Fantoni, il 22 giugno rinnova il contratto a Michele Russo, riscatta Talignani e Simeoni rispettivamente dal  e dal  e cede Dolce definitivamente al Montichiari, il 23 giugno si aggiudica l'intero cartellino di Francesco Zampano alle buste con la Sampdoria per 290.000 euro contro i 50.000 offerti dai blucerchiati, il 3 luglio dal Cagliari arriva in compartecipazione Marco Pisanu, il 4 luglio Stefano Favret lascia l'Entella dopo due stagioni per accasarci alla Sacilese in Serie D, il 5 luglio acquista Filippo De Col dal Legnago Salus, il 7 luglio rinnova il contratto a Gennaro Volpe, l'11 luglio prende Luca Cecchini dalla , il 17 luglio ingaggia Ighli Vannucchi, il 19 luglio in occasione della partenza per il ritiro rinnova il contratto a Garin, il 20 luglio acquista Silvano Raggio Garibaldi dal Genoa, il 25 luglio mette sotto contratto Francesco Conti (svincolato), il 1º agosto prende l'attaccante Mattia Marchi in compartecipazione dal Novara, il 9 agosto ingaggia Alberto Bianchi dallo Spezia, il 10 agosto prende il brasiliano César, il 29 agosto mette sotto contratto Simone Guerra (svincolato), e il 30 agosto acquisisce la comproprietà di Renan Wagner dal .
Dai prestiti ritornano alla base invece Marianeschi e Chiarabini.

Oltre a Favret lasciano l'Entella anche Bonaccorsi, Bertoli (Bassano Virtus), Villagatti (), Ciarcià (), Lazzaro () e Lenzoni (Sambonifacese).

Cessioni tra le due sessioni
A stagione ormai iniziata, il 14 settembre Francesco Marianeschi rescinde il contratto con l'Entella e torna alla Sambonifacese.
A novembre il giovane Pisanu, mai sceso in campo per infortunio, rescinde il contratto con l'Entella.
Il 5 dicembre poi Mirko Chiarabini viene ceduto in prestito in Serie D alla Lucchese. Nella città toscana viene accolto con grande entusiasmo come una star da tifosi e giornalisti locali.
Il 30 dicembre Talignani rescinde il proprio contratto con l'Entella.

Sessione invernale (dall'2/1 al 31/1)
Il 14 gennaio dal  arriva a titolo definitivo il centrocampista Elia Ballardini, figlio dell'allenatore Davide Ballardini, e dall'Empoli, ma sempre di proprietà dei romagnoli, l'attaccante Sasha Cori in prestito con diritto di riscatto.
Prima Simone Fantoni (17 gennaio) e poi Matteo Serlini (31 gennaio), entrambi in comproprietà con il Brescia, vengono ceduti in prestito alla Giacomense e in cambio arriva l'attaccante classe '94 Giacomo Protti. Nel frattempo il 26 gennaio Renan Wagner rientra al  per andare in prestito all'Aversa Normanna.
Sempre il 31 gennaio l'Entella ufficializza anche gli arrivi in prestito con diritto di riscatto di Francesco Di Tacchio (dal  ma di proprietà della Fiorentina), Moreno Beretta (dal Portogruaro ma di proprietà della Sampdoria) e Francesco Bianchetti (dal Treviso, in cambio di Roberto Musso, ma di proprietà dell').

Risultati

Lega Pro Prima Divisione

Girone di andata

Girone di ritorno

Play-off

Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia Lega Pro

Statistiche

Statistiche di squadra

Andamento in campionato

Note

Collegamenti esterni

2012-2013

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The International Chronicles
Interactive Forum of political culture
How a World Order Ends, And What Comes in Its Wake
A stable world order is a rare thing. When one does arise, it tends to come after a great convulsion that creates both the conditions and the desire for something new. It requires a stable distribution of power and broad acceptance of the rules that govern the conduct of international relations. Eventually, inevitably, even the best-managed order comes to an end. The balance of power underpinning it becomes imbalanced. The institutions supporting it fail to adapt to new conditions. Some countries fall, and others rise, the result of changing capacities, faltering wills, and growing ambitions. Those responsible for upholding the order make mistakes both in what they choose to do and in what they choose not to do. But if the end of every order is inevitable, the timing and the manner of its ending are not. Nor is what comes in its wake.
By Richard Haass for Foreign Affairs
Orders tend to expire in a prolonged deterioration rather than a sudden collapse. And just as maintaining the order depends on effective statecraft and effective action, good policy and proactive diplomacy can help determine how that deterioration unfolds and what it brings. Yet for that to happen, something else must come first: recognition that the old order is never coming back and that efforts to resurrect it will be in vain. As with any ending, acceptance must come before one can move on.
In the search for parallels to today's world, scholars and practitioners have looked as far afield as ancient Greece, where the rise of a new power resulted in war between Athens and Sparta, and the period after World War I, when an isolationist United States and much of Europe sat on their hands as Germany and Japan ignored agreements and invaded their neighbors. But the more illuminating parallel to the present is the Concert of Europe in the nineteenth century, the most important and successful effort to build and sustain world order until our own time. From 1815 until the outbreak of World War I a century later, the order established at the Congress of Vienna defined many international relationships and set (even if it often failed to enforce) basic rules for international conduct. It provides a model of how to collectively manage security in a multipolar world.
That order's demise and what followed offer instructive lessons for today—and an urgent warning. Just because an order is in irreversible decline does not mean that chaos or calamity is inevitable. But if the deterioration is managed poorly, catastrophe could well follow.
OUT OF THE ASHES
The global order of the second half of the twentieth century and the first part of the twenty-first grew out of the wreckage of two world wars. The nineteenth-century order followed an earlier international convulsion: the Napoleonic Wars, which, after the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, ravaged Europe for more than a decade. After defeating Napoleon and his armies, the victorious allies—Austria, Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom, the great powers of their day—came together in Vienna in 1814 and 1815. At the Congress of Vienna, they set out to ensure that France's military never again threatened their states and that revolutionary movements never again threatened their monarchies. The victorious powers also made the wise choice to integrate a defeated France, a course very different from the one taken with Germany following World War I and somewhat different from the one chosen with Russia in the wake of the Cold War.
The congress yielded a system known as the Concert of Europe. Although centered in Europe, it constituted the international order of its day given the dominant position of Europe and Europeans in the world. There was a set of shared understandings about relations between states, above all an agreement to rule out invasion of another country or involvement in the internal affairs of another without its permission. A rough military balance dissuaded any state tempted to overthrow the order from trying in the first place (and prevented any state that did try from succeeding). Foreign ministers met (at what came to be called "congresses") whenever a major issue arose. The concert was conservative in every sense of the word. The Treaty of Vienna had made numerous territorial adjustments and then locked Europe's borders into place, allowing changes only if all signatories agreed. It also did what it could to back monarchies and encourage others to come to their aid (as France did in Spain in 1823) when they were threatened by popular revolt.
The concert worked not because there was complete agreement among the great powers on every point but because each state had its own reasons for supporting the overall system. Austria was most concerned with resisting the forces of liberalism, which threatened the ruling monarchy. The United Kingdom was focused on staving off a renewed challenge from France while also guarding against a potential threat from Russia (which meant not weakening France so much that it couldn't help offset the threat from Russia). But there was enough overlap in interests and consensus on first-order questions that the concert prevented war between the major powers of the day.
The concert technically lasted a century, until the eve of World War I. But it had ceased to play a meaningful role long before then. The revolutionary waves that swept Europe in 1830 and 1848 revealed the limits of what members would do to maintain the existing order within states in the face of public pressure. Then, more consequentially, came the Crimean War. Ostensibly fought over the fate of Christians living within the Ottoman Empire, in actuality it was much more about who would control territory as that empire decayed. The conflict pitted France, the United Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire against Russia. It lasted two and a half years, from 1853 to 1856. It was a costly war that highlighted the limits of the concert's ability to prevent great-power war; the great-power comity that had made the concert possible no longer existed. Subsequent wars between Austria and Prussia and Prussia and France demonstrated that major-power conflict had returned to the heart of Europe after a long hiatus. Matters seemed to stabilize for a time after that, but this was an illusion. Beneath the surface, German power was rising and empires were rotting. The combination set the stage for World War I and the end of what had been the concert.
WHAT AILS THE ORDER?
What lessons can be drawn from this history? As much as anything else, the rise and fall of major powers determines the viability of the prevailing order, since changes in economic strength, political cohesion, and military power shape what states can and are willing to do beyond their borders. Over the second half of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth, a powerful, unified Germany and a modern Japan rose, the Ottoman Empire and tsarist Russia declined, and France and the United Kingdom grew stronger but not strong enough. Those changes upended the balance of power that had been the concert's foundation; Germany, in particular, came to view the status quo as inconsistent with its interests.
Changes in the technological and political context also affected that underlying balance. Under the concert, popular demands for democratic participation and surges of nationalism threatened the status quo within countries, while new forms of transportation, communication, and armaments transformed politics, economics, and warfare. The conditions that helped give rise to the concert were gradually undone.
Because orders tend to end with a whimper rather than a bang, the process of deterioration is often not evident to decision-makers until it has advanced considerably.
Yet it would be overly deterministic to attribute history to underlying conditions alone. Statecraft still matters. That the concert came into existence and lasted as long as it did underscores that people make a difference. The diplomats who crafted it—Metternich of Austria, Talleyrand of France, Castlereagh of the United Kingdom—were exceptional. The fact that the concert preserved peace despite the gap between two relatively liberal countries, France and the United Kingdom, and their more conservative partners shows that countries with different political systems and preferences can work together to maintain international order. Little that turns out to be good or bad in history is inevitable. The Crimean War might well have been avoided if more capable and careful leaders had been on the scene. It is far from clear that Russian actions warranted a military response by France and the United Kingdom of the nature and on the scale that took place. That the countries did what they did also underscores the power and dangers of nationalism. World War I broke out in no small part because the successors to German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck were unable to discipline the power of the modern German state he did so much to bring about.
Two other lessons stand out. First, it is not just core issues that can cause an order to deteriorate. The concert's great-power comity ended not because of disagreements over the social and political order within Europe but because of competition on the periphery. And second, because orders tend to end with a whimper rather than a bang, the process of deterioration is often not evident to decision-makers until it has advanced considerably. By the outbreak of World War I, when it became obvious that the Concert of Europe no longer held, it was far too late to save it—or even to manage its dissolution.
A TALE OF TWO ORDERS
The global order built in the aftermath of World War II consisted of two parallel orders for most of its history. One grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. At its core was a rough balance of military strength in Europe and Asia, backed up by nuclear deterrence. The two sides showed a degree of restraint in their rivalry. "Rollback"—Cold War parlance for what today is called "regime change"—was rejected as both infeasible and reckless. Both sides followed informal rules of the road that included a healthy respect for each other's backyards and allies. Ultimately, they reached an understanding over the political order within Europe, the principal arena of Cold War competition, and in 1975 codified that mutual understanding in the Helsinki Accords. Even in a divided world, the two power centers agreed on how the competition would be waged; theirs was an order based on means rather than ends. That there were only two power centers made reaching such an agreement easier.
The other post–World War II order was the liberal order that operated alongside the Cold War order. Democracies were the main participants in this effort, which used aid and trade to strengthen ties and fostered respect for the rule of law both within and between countries. The economic dimension of this order was designed to bring about a world (or, more accurately, the non-communist half of it) defined by trade, development, and well-functioning monetary operations. Free trade would be an engine of economic growth and bind countries together so that war would be deemed too costly to wage; the dollar was accepted as the de facto global currency.
The diplomatic dimension of the order gave prominence to the UN. The idea was that a standing global forum could prevent or resolve international disputes. The UN Security Council, with five great-power permanent members and additional seats for a rotating membership, would orchestrate international relations. Yet the order depended just as much on the willingness of the noncommunist world (and U.S. allies in particular) to accept American primacy. As it turns out, they were prepared to do this, as the United States was more often than not viewed as a relatively benign hegemon, one admired as much for what it was at home as for what it did abroad.
Both of these orders served the interests of the United States. The core peace was maintained in both Europe and Asia at a price that a growing U.S. economy could easily afford. Increased international trade and opportunities for investment contributed to U.S. economic growth. Over time, more countries joined the ranks of the democracies. Neither order reflected a perfect consensus; rather, each offered enough agreement so that it was not directly challenged. Where U.S. foreign policy got into trouble—such as in Vietnam and Iraq—it was not because of alliance commitments or considerations of order but because of ill-advised decisions to prosecute costly wars of choice.
SIGNS OF DECAY
Today, both orders have deteriorated. Although the Cold War itself ended long ago, the order it created came apart in a more piecemeal fashion—in part because Western efforts to integrate Russia into the liberal world order achieved little. One sign of the Cold War order's deterioration was Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, something Moscow likely would have prevented in previous years on the grounds that it was too risky. Although nuclear deterrence still holds, some of the arms control agreements buttressing it have been broken, and others are fraying.
Although Russia has avoided any direct military challenge to NATO, it has nonetheless shown a growing willingness to disrupt the status quo: through its use of force in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine since 2014, its often indiscriminate military intervention in Syria, and its aggressive use of cyberwarfare to attempt to affect political outcomes in the United States and Europe. All of these represent a rejection of the principal constraints associated with the old order. From a Russian perspective, the same might be said of NATO enlargement, an initiative clearly at odds with Winston Churchill's dictum "In victory, magnanimity." Russia also judged the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 NATO military intervention in Libya, which was undertaken in the name of humanitarianism but quickly evolved into regime change, as acts of bad faith and illegality inconsistent with notions of world order as it understood them.
The liberal order is exhibiting its own signs of deterioration. Authoritarianism is on the rise not just in the obvious places, such as China and Russia, but also in the Philippines, Turkey, and eastern Europe. Global trade has grown, but recent rounds of trade talks have ended without agreement, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) has proved unable to deal with today's most pressing challenges, including nontariff barriers and the theft of intellectual property. Resentment over the United States' exploitation of the dollar to impose sanctions is growing, as is concern over the country's accumulation of debt.
The UN Security Council is of little relevance to most of the world's conflicts, and international arrangements have failed more broadly to contend with the challenges associated with globalization. The composition of the Security Council bears less and less resemblance to the real distribution of power. The world has put itself on the record as against genocide and has asserted a right to intervene when governments fail to live up to the "responsibility to protect" their citizens, but the talk has not translated into action. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty allows only five states to have nuclear weapons, but there are now nine that do (and many others that could follow suit if they chose to). The EU, by far the most significant regional arrangement, is struggling with Brexit and disputes over migration and sovereignty. And around the world, countries are increasingly resisting U.S. primacy.
POWER SHIFTS
Why is all this happening? It is instructive to look back to the gradual demise of the Concert of Europe. Today's world order has struggled to cope with power shifts: China's rise, the appearance of several medium powers (Iran and North Korea, in particular) that reject important aspects of the order, and the emergence of nonstate actors (from drug cartels to terrorist networks) that can pose a serious threat to order within and between states.
The technological and political context has changed in important ways, too. Globalization has had destabilizing effects, ranging from climate change to the spread of technology into far more hands than ever before, including a range of groups and people intent on disrupting the order. Nationalism and populism have surged—the result of greater inequality within countries, the dislocation associated with the 2008 financial crisis, job losses caused by trade and technology, increased flows of migrants and refugees, and the power of social media to spread hate.
Meanwhile, effective statecraft is conspicuously lacking. Institutions have failed to adapt. No one today would design a UN Security Council that looked like the current one; yet real reform is impossible, since those who would lose influence block any changes. Efforts to build effective frameworks to deal with the challenges of globalization, including climate change and cyberattacks, have come up short. Mistakes within the EU—namely, the decisions to establish a common currency without creating a common fiscal policy or a banking union and to permit nearly unlimited immigration to Germany—have created a powerful backlash against existing governments, open borders, and the EU itself.
The United States, for its part, has committed costly overreach in trying to remake Afghanistan, invading Iraq, and pursuing regime change in Libya. But it has also taken a step back from maintaining global order and in certain cases has been guilty of costly underreach. In most instances, U.S. reluctance to act has come not over core issues but over peripheral ones that leaders wrote off as not worth the costs involved, such as the strife in Syria, where the United States failed to respond meaningfully when Syria first used chemical weapons or to do more to help anti-regime groups. This reluctance has increased others' propensity to disregard U.S. concerns and act independently. The Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen is a case in point. Russian actions in Syria and Ukraine should also be seen in this light; it is interesting that Crimea marked the effective end of the Concert of Europe and signaled a dramatic setback in the current order. Doubts about U.S. reliability have multiplied under the Trump administration, thanks to its withdrawal from numerous international pacts and its conditional approach to once inviolable U.S. alliance commitments in Europe and Asia.
MANAGING THE DETERIORATION
Given these changes, resurrecting the old order will be impossible. It would also be insufficient, thanks to the emergence of new challenges. Once this is acknowledged, the long deterioration of the Concert of Europe should serve as a lesson and a warning.
For the United States to heed that warning would mean strengthening certain aspects of the old order and supplementing them with measures that account for changing power dynamics and new global problems. The United States would have to shore up arms control and nonproliferation agreements; strengthen its alliances in Europe and Asia; bolster weak states that cannot contend with terrorists, cartels, and gangs; and counter authoritarian powers' interference in the democratic process. Yet it should not give up trying to integrate China and Russia into regional and global aspects of the order. Such efforts will necessarily involve a mix of compromise, incentives, and pushback. The judgment that attempts to integrate China and Russia have mostly failed should not be grounds for rejecting future efforts, as the course of the twenty-first century will in no small part reflect how those efforts fare.
The United States also needs to reach out to others to address problems of globalization, especially climate change, trade, and cyber-operations. These will require not resurrecting the old order but building a new one. Efforts to limit, and adapt to, climate change need to be more ambitious. The WTO must be amended to address the sorts of issues raised by China's appropriation of technology, provision of subsidies to domestic firms, and use of nontariff barriers to trade. Rules of the road are needed to regulate cyberspace. Together, this is tantamount to a call for a modern-day concert. Such a call is ambitious but necessary.
The United States must show restraint and recapture a degree of respect in order to regain its reputation as a benign actor. This will require some sharp departures from the way U.S. foreign policy has been practiced in recent years: to start, no longer carelessly invading other countries and no longer weaponizing U.S. economic policy through the overuse of sanctions and tariffs. But more than anything else, the current reflexive opposition to multilateralism needs to be rethought. It is one thing for a world order to unravel slowly; it is quite another for the country that had a large hand in building it to take the lead in dismantling it.
All of this also requires that the United States get its own house in order—reducing government debt, rebuilding infrastructure, improving public education, investing more in the social safety net, adopting a smart immigration system that allows talented foreigners to come and stay, tackling political dysfunction by making it less difficult to vote, and undoing gerrymandering. The United States cannot effectively promote order abroad if it is divided at home, distracted by domestic problems, and lacking in resources.
The major alternatives to a modernized world order supported by the United States appear unlikely, unappealing, or both. A Chinese-led order, for example, would be an illiberal one, characterized by authoritarian domestic political systems and statist economies that place a premium on maintaining domestic stability. There would be a return to spheres of influence, with China attempting to dominate its region, likely resulting in clashes with other regional powers, such as India, Japan, and Vietnam, which would probably build up their conventional or even nuclear forces.
A new democratic, rules-based order fashioned and led by medium powers in Europe and Asia, as well as Canada, however attractive a concept, would simply lack the military capacity and domestic political will to get very far. A more likely alternative is a world with little order—a world of deeper disarray. Protectionism, nationalism, and populism would gain, and democracy would lose. Conflict within and across borders would become more common, and rivalry between great powers would increase. Cooperation on global challenges would be all but precluded. If this picture sounds familiar, that is because it increasingly corresponds to the world of today.
The deterioration of a world order can set in motion trends that spell catastrophe. World War I broke out some 60 years after the Concert of Europe had for all intents and purposes broken down in Crimea. What we are seeing today resembles the mid-nineteenth century in important ways: the post–World War II, post–Cold War order cannot be restored, but the world is not yet on the edge of a systemic crisis. Now is the time to make sure one never materializes, be it from a breakdown in U.S.-Chinese relations, a clash with Russia, a conflagration in the Middle East, or the cumulative effects of climate change. The good news is that it is far from inevitable that the world will eventually arrive at a catastrophe; the bad news is that it is far from certain that it will not.
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April 12, 2019 / 5:14 PM / 9 months ago
Trump claims victory as court rejects investigating U.S. forces
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump heads back to the Oval Office after declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border during remarks about border security in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's unanimous rejection of a request to investigate U.S. forces for possible war crimes in Afghanistan is a "major international victory", U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday.
He, however, warned the court against trying to prosecute Israelis or Americans following a complaint by Palestinians, which have called for an ICC investigation of Israel.
"This is a major international victory, not only for these patriots, but for the rule of law," Trump said in a statement. "We welcome this decision and reiterate our position that the United States holds American citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards."
Reporting by Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Editing by James Dalgleish


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Opinion Volume 4 Issue 7
Self-Defense: A Practical Approach to Combatting COVID-19
Salam A Ibrahim1*, Rabin Gyawali1 and Hafize Fidan2*
1Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
2Department of Nutrition and Tourism, University of Food Technologies, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
*Corresponding Author: Salam A Ibrahim, Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA.
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In order to elucidate the importance of the immune system with regard to the spread, diagnosis, and treatment of the novel COVID- 19, this paper aims to emphasize the need for a more holistic approach to understand and treat the COVID-19. We have provided an overview of why high quality nutrition is important for the immune system to function properly. To do this, we have summarized the current evidence available from information being reported by the health authorities and studies in human subjects, to support this opinion. Though the available data in the literature is relatively scarce, we also offer our own informed opinions on the role of human microbiota (probiotics) in creating a natural immunological defense system for combating COVID-19. We thus hope that this paper will help to inspire scientists from other fields such as nutrition immunology to be involved in order to provide consumers with a more global approach to fighting this epidemic. If we want to eliminate the threat of this novel coronavirus pneumonia, we must practically address this issue itself.
Keywords: Self-Defense; SARS-CoV-2; Nutrition; Human Microbiota; Practical Approach
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Q: Does Web Api support two and multi dimensional arrays for serialization and parameter binding? I know that web services with Web Api can handle all the serialization and parameter (or data) binding tasks automatically for one dimensional arrays.
For example, a model class like the following one can be converted to JSON/XML and bound to a parameter of type Person automatically by the web api framework:
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What if the model class includes a two or multi dimensional array, like the following one? Can Web Api also handle such arrays automatically, or does the user need to write some extra code for serialization and data binding?
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Pink sand verbena is an annual (sometimes perennial) species of maritime beach habitats, including disturbed sandy areas, coastal scrub, and lees of sand dunes (Spellenberg 2004). It is endemic to the central Pacific Coast of North America where it is found within the driftwood zone. Only one population of the species is known in Canada, from Pacific Rim National Park in British Columbia. Although plants have not been seen in several years, recovery efforts are underway to reintroduce it within its historical range (Fairbarns et al. 2007). This is a prostrate, mat-forming species with a deep tap-root and trailing stems (Hickman 1993; Spellenberg 2004). Flowering occurs year-round.
Fairbarns (2010) provides the following detail in Botanical Electronic News (BEN) (#428) about this species: "Abronia umbellata subsp. breviflora occurs south along the beaches and dunes of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California as far as the Point Reyes area, near San Francisco. It is ranked globally imperilled (NatureServe 2009). Southwards from San Francisco it is replaced by A. umbellata Lam. subsp. umbellata. Tillett (1967) assigned populations in Canada and Washington to A. umbellata subsp. acutalata (Standl.) Tillett, however, examinations of morphology and chloroplast DNA failed to show any difference between subsp. acutalata and subsp. breviflora (Karoly ex Kaye 2002) so northern plants are now assigned to subsp. breviflora In Canada. Abronia umbellata subsp. breviflora is ranked as endangered and protected under the Species-at-Risk Act (Douglas 2000, 2004; Fairbarns 2010)." Read the full BEN article.
There is a 1915 collection record for this species by C. F. Newcombe (Clayoquot Sound) in the UBC Herbarium.
Annual, sometimes perennial herb from a thick, deep taproot, densely glandular-hairy throughout; stems trailing, to 1.5 m long; branches short, forming mats.
Opposite, thick and fleshy, lanceolate to narrowly egg-shaped, 2-6 cm long, 0.8-3.5 cm wide; stalks 2.5-7 cm long.
Inflorescence of many-flowered, rounded heads on stout flower stalks 2-4 cm long, involucral bracts 5 (4), in a whorl, narrowly lanceolate, 5-6 mm long; perianth tube greenish to pinkish, 6-8 mm long, widely flaring into a pink, 5-lobed limb 5-6 mm wide.
Achenes, 10-12 mm long, prominently 3- or 4-winged, the wings of the fruits wider than the fruit bodies.
This regional endemic was considered extinct in BC and WA until recently (Douglas et al. 1998a, Washington Natural Heritage Program 1994). Two plants of this species were rediscovered in 2000 and subsequently destroyed by a winter storm that year (Douglas 2001). In May 2001 three plants reappeared at the same site.
Coastal sandy beaches below the driftwood zone in the lowland zone; rare on the W coast of Vancouver Island, known only from Ahousat and Pachena Bay (in 1915 and 1927, respectively) and more recently from Clo-oose Beach, Pacific Rim National Park; S to WA.
Vegetatively, Abronia umbellata var. breviflora could be confused with Abronia latifolia (yellow sand-verbena). Abronia latifolia has yellow flowers, broader ovate to reniform leaves, and achenes with wings narrower than the body of the achene. It has habitat requirements similar to those of A. umbellata var. breviflora; the two species can grow intermixed. Abronia latifolia is also known from the outer beaches of Vancouver Island.
Abronia umbellata var. acutalata (Standl.) C.L. Hitchc.
Spellenberg, Richard W. 2004. Abronia umbellata var. breviflora. Flora North America Online.


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This is a fruity theme choice from developers NetEnt who have done quite a few of these sorts of slot themes both as mobile versions like this one and as not. With this Fruitshop Touch slot game the theme is essentially a play on the classic fruit machines of old which featured this form of produce often as the symbols on the reels. In the case of this mobile slot game the fruits and their associated paraphernalia are all done up in a more cartoon style, whilst the rest of the game adopts a similar minimalistic and austere approach to the gameplay involved. Overall the graphics and theme of this slot pull together well to form the mobile presence players will discover.
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As mentioned above, the setup of this Fruitshop Touch slot game is deliberately geared toward the simplicity of classic slot gaming and as such proffers more austere facets of the game over the more modern ones. In this case that means that whilst the graphics for this mobile game are still competent the symbols, backdrop and reel border are all simply done up and designed, making the slot appearance one of a more clinically classic yet modern combination.
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Hazard's influence wanes as Chelsea waste chances in defeat at Everton
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Everton pushed Chelsea's chances of finishing in the top four further into jeopardy with goals from Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson.
LIVERPOOL, England — Ross Barkley endured an unhappy return to Goodison Park as goals from Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson struck to help Everton win 2-0 and deal another significant blow to Chelsea's chances of a top-four finish in the Premier League.
Chelsea were excellent in the first 45 minutes without scoring, pinning Everton back with possession, moving their defence around and creating several good chances. There are signs that Maurizio Sarri's system is working — up to a point — and that his players are still committed to executing it.
This will be a sickening defeat for Sarri given Chelsea's first-half dominance, and they have let too many Premier League points slip away in this fashion. The competition for a top-four finish has never been this fierce and, with eight games left, all of the other contenders have more attacking firepower.
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6 — Sarri's starting XI worked in terms of yielding tactical dominance, and he can't help it if his players miss a succession of chances. He even switched to 4-2-3-1 again once Chelsea went 2-0 down, but this performance should give him cause to think that one or two of his regular starters should be dropped.
Player ratings (1-10; 10 = best. Players introduced after 70 minutes get no rating)
GK Kepa Arrizabalaga, 5 — Showed his agility to make some eye-catching saves before and after Chelsea fell behind, but was culpable for both goals. Gifted the ball to Richarlison for Everton's first by parrying Dominic Calvert-Lewin's header back into danger, then repeated the mistake for Sigurdsson's penalty.
DF Cesar Azpilicueta, 5 — Did not provide much in the way of attacking support on the right and sold himself a little too easily defensively as well. Calvert-Lewin out-jumped him for Everton's only first-half chance — a moment that foreshadowed what was to come.
Eden Hazard should've converted one of the chances that fell his way in Chelsea's 2-0 loss at Everton.
DF Antonio Rudiger, 6 — Calvert-Lewin did not present him with many problems from open play, though the Everton striker's aerial presence proved decisive for the hosts. Rudiger's scrambling instincts saved Chelsea from further damage as they pushed up in search of a comeback, but the damage had been done.
DF David Luiz, 6 — Managed to panic Everton's defence with a couple of incisive long passes and distributed the ball well even when pressed. Was not directly at fault for either of Everton's goals but, despite being one of the biggest personalities in this team, was unable to steady the ship either.
DF Marcos Alonso, 5 — His overlapping runs created problems for Everton in the first half and on occasion he picked out teammates with smart crosses. Could not deal with Everton's wing attack after the interval though, and his clumsy reach conceded a needless penalty that put Chelsea in a world of trouble.
MF N'Golo Kante, 7 — Managed to outwork Everton's midfield almost on his own in the first half as Chelsea dominated. Always looks a little incongruous surging forward as Chelsea attack, but created a good shooting chance for Gonzalo Higuain with a smart lay-off from a long Luiz pass.
MF Jorginho, 6 — Had a very good first half, underpinning Chelsea's possession dominance by breaking up Everton counters at the source. His chipped pass played Higuain clean through and he tested Jordan Pickford himself with a low shot. The game felt like it got a little too quick for him after the break though.
MF Ross Barkley, 6 — The hostility began before the first whistle with Everton supporters cheering every shot he missed in the warm-up, and he seemed determined to play well on his Goodison Park return. A bright first half yielded no tangible reward though, and he faded in the second before being substituted.
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FW Pedro Rodriguez, 5 — His only clinical finish of the afternoon was disallowed by the linesman's flag. Sliced one presentable first-half opportunity wide from Alonso's nice cutback, and while he had some nice moments, it seems the speed and precision that defined his prime years can no longer be expected.
FW Gonzalo Higuain, 5 — Has now scored just three goals in 10 appearances for Chelsea since his January arrival. His link-up play and movement are sharp enough, but his lack of speed limits his team's ability to stretch opponents. Was too slow to convert one first-half chance and forced only one save from Pickford.
FW Eden Hazard, 5 — Was a menacing presence early, forcing one save from Pickford and striking the post with a deflected effort, but his influence waned once Everton came into the game. Should have scored with a shot that Michael Keane blocked as Chelsea desperately chased a comeback.
MF Ruben Loftus-Cheek, 6 — Brought more physicality to Chelsea's midfield when he replaced Barkley, but his work lacked the same precision he has displayed in recent weeks. Maybe the Dynamo Kiev minutes were still in his legs.
FW Olivier Giroud, 6 — Did not have much opportunity to make a positive impact here, but there is a growing case for the Frenchman to start ahead of Higuain.
FW Callum Hudson-Odoi, 7 — Direct and aggressive with his running whenever he got the chance, almost scoring with one fierce shot that Pickford tipped over.


The United Nations marked World Teachers' Day today with top officials calling on governments to make up a projected deficit of over 10 million teachers by 2015 and stressing the crucial role teachers play in recovery from natural disasters and conflict.
This year's theme is 'Recovery begins with teachers,' and in a discussion teachers from Haiti, Israel, Lesotho, Mali, Laos and France shared their experiences in dealing with crisis. A presentation of the latest statistics on the global teacher shortage and the opening of a photo exhibition on teachers who work in particularly daunting conditions also marked the Day.
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I would also conclude that this reinforces the obvious idea that schools need a disaster response plan and continuity of operations plan. The concept should be all-encompassing of K-12, colleges and universities.
Full disclosure of the findings, research methodology, and the investigator qualification to accomplish the task could have made this a nonissue but, this is not about the findings or the government's response to the event. It does however call into question the lack of credibility of the organization whether perceived or actual.
Interesting. Many emergency management practioners across the nation (US) advocate that the first public facility to reopen after a disaster should be the school. It is a place of comfort, structure, and a venue to provide follow-on social services such as counseling and nutritional meals. This also allows time for the parent(s) to work through recovery related issue.
I recommend reading : National Commission on Children and Disaster, Progress Report on Children and Disaster, May 11, 2010.
I agree. It provides structure and stability for the children. In one community I visited, the kids felt reassured when they saw their classmates, knowing they were alive and well.
School re-opening also provides the parents a break, which I'm not sure the report mentioned. For a lot of working families school is the only day care available. Once the kids are able to go back, parents can return to work. If kids are home it creates stress on the family even in normal times. Why do you think so many parents celebrate the end of summer every year!


Kerala based Vibe/Profoundis has been acquired by US startup Fullcontact.
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Clemson vs. LSU: Browns' Odell Beckham Jr. Hands out Stacks of Cash During Celebration
By John Newby - January 14, 2020 12:52 pm EST
Monday night, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was in New Orleans to watch his alma mater, LSU, defeat the Clemson Tigers in the National Championship. OBJ was fired up about the victory, and he turned heads with his celebration. He was seen handing receiver Justin Jefferson a stack of cash as confetti fell onto the field.
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You can't be caught on camera handing cash to Wide Receivers while they're in college dude.... What are you thinking ? pic.twitter.com/k7o2Vccxxp
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Considering that college athletes aren't currently allowed to receive monetary gifts, it was expected that Beckham's move would be met with a considerable amount of criticism. However, an LSU official has since told The Advocate that the money given to Jefferson and Jontre Kirklin was actually fake.
"Hahahahaha. So LSU is saying Odell just walks around with wads of FAKE cash? LSU is saying [Odell] is a FRAUD?!?!? Oh my..." one user added on social media.
Others chimed in by saying that this explanation of fake money didn't add up. They had no reason to believe that Beckham is simply carrying a large amount of fake money on his person at all times.
That being said, one fan had a unique explanation for the massive stack of "fake" cash. They said that Beckham had been playing a board game during the National Championship.
"Odell been over on the sidelines with the Honey Badger playing Monopoly the entire game and was just showing off how much he had made from putting up hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place."
Jefferson is eligible to return to LSU for a senior season, which brought about concerns of future discipline from the NCAA. Would he be banned from the football team and forced to miss his senior season, or would he lose a scholarship? Many LSU fans were very concerned about any potential issues that would prevent Jefferson from playing in the future.
The junior had a productive night for LSU as he caught nine passes for 106 yards. He tied for the team lead in receptions and finished with the second-most yards. This capped off a year in which he posted 1,540 yards and 18 touchdowns. This was a career-best season for Jefferson, and he is expected to leave school early and declare for the NFL Draft. Although this hasn't been confirmed just yet.
If Jefferson does indeed head to the pros, he would see a considerable amount of interest. The Oakland Raiders, in particular, would examine the possibility of drafting the wide-out due to a lack of depth on the offense. For now, however, he will simply enjoy the victory while fans of the team worry about punishment from the NCAA.
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Jeremiah 45:4 Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: "This is what the LORD says: I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the land!
But the LORD has told me to say to you, 'This is what the LORD says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.
"Baruch, this is what the LORD says: 'I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted.
Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.
Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: "This is what the LORD says: I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the land!
"Thus you are to say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to uproot, that is, the whole land."
"This is what you are to say to him: 'This is what the LORD says: "What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot--the whole land!
But all over the earth I am tearing down what I built and pulling up what I planted.
"But I, the LORD, am tearing down what I have built and pulling up what I have planted. I will do this to the entire earth.
"This is what you are to say to him: 'This is what the LORD says: What I have built I am about to demolish, and what I have planted I am about to uproot--the whole land!
Say this to him: 'This is what the LORD says: "Look! What I've built I'm about to tear down, and what I've planted I'm about to pull up—and this will involve the entire land."
The LORD told Jeremiah, "Tell Baruch, 'The LORD says, "I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.
"You shall tell him, 'Thus says the LORD: "Look, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
"Say this to Baruch, 'This is what the LORD says: I will tear down what I have built. I will uproot what I have planted throughout the earth.
Thus shalt thou say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, And that which I have planted I will pluck up; And this in the whole land.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD said thus: Behold, I destroy those whom I have built up and those whom I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.
Thus shall you say unto him, The LORD says thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
Thus shall you say to him, The LORD said thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
say thou to him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted.
Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith the LORD: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
Thus shalt thou say to him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
Thus dost thou say unto him: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, that which I have built I am throwing down, and that which I have planted I am plucking up, even the whole land itself.
Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and to multiply you, so also it will please Him to exterminate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
Verse 4. - That which I have built (comp, Jeremiah 1:10 and parallel passages). Even this whole land; rather, and that is the whole earth.
45:1-5 An encouragement sent to Baruch. - Baruch was employed in writing Jeremiah's prophecies, and reading them, see ch. Jer 36, and was threatened for it by the king. Young beginners in religion are apt to be discouraged with little difficulties, which they commonly meet with at first in the service of God. These complaints and fears came from his corruptions. Baruch had raised his expectations too high in this world, and that made the distress and trouble he was in harder to be borne. The frowns of the world would not disquiet us, if we did not foolishly flatter ourselves with the hopes of its smiles, and court and covet them. What a folly is it then to seek great things for ourselves here, where every thing is little, and nothing certain! The Lord knows the real cause of our fretfulness and despondency better than we do, and we should beg of him to examine our hearts, and to repress every wrong desire in us.


A few years ago I wrote about the Battle of Los Angeles inside Pat Haden's (stepping down) office. The premise of that piece was the vacancy in his basketball offices, Haden could determine a shift in basketball culture in Los Angeles. That's a hyperbolic synopsis and much of the piece's premise centered around recruiting. Shortly after I wrote that, Jordan McLaughlin chose USC and not UCLA. But for Andy Enfield's first two years as the lead of the Trojans, the Bruins took it to him. No longer. And sure sports are cyclical, but UCLA has still managed to out-recruit the Trojans in each of their three overlapping classes. And yet in 2016, USC is +33 on the Bruins (in case you missed it USC beat the Bruins by 19 in the Galen Center's first sell out since 2011).
Arizona had their second worst shooting night of the season (by eFG% standards), turned the ball over on 20% of their possessions (season high 20 TOs of which 15 were non-steal turnovers aka boneheads), and it was loud in Seattle (see below). And they won. They won because it helps to rebound 47% of your misses. Think about that. Arizona secured half their missed shots for a second attempt. They had 10 putback attempts. Of course Washington is the 342nd worst team at defensive rebounding so it shouldn't come as any surprise. Oh, and Allonzo Trier is back.
And suddenly the picture of grabbing just 53% of available defensive rebounds because slightly more clear. Alas, I would've loved to be in Seattle this weekend. Alaska Airlines was sold out for the first time in five years and Arizona @ Washington didn't disappoint. These Huskies are going to be so good after one summer in Seattle. They're pretty damn good right now.
See above because when life gives you mid-court-tie-game-fouls you, sweep the Ski Schools.
Last week I talked about the Buffs' ability to maintain their high three point shooting (40% in conference play and overall).
This weekend the Buffs shot 11-37 from distance or 29%. Lost 'em both.
No one expected Stanford to come out of their three game road swing against the Skis and rival Cal unblemished. In fact, we probably imagined that they would get annihilated. And they did, finishing the two week trip with 53 fewer points than their opponents. For funsies, the Cardinal are on pace to have the worst in-conference eFG% since that 6-26 (1-17) USC team. Woof.
Just wrapped that Stanford bit with a reference to the 1-17 Trojans. Is it time? As in, is it time we start thinking that these Cougars could lose-out? Their current, in conference scoring margin is -17.6 points per 100. The 2012 1-17 Trojans sat at -18.2. Just think about this.
Utah wishes that Brandon Taylor foul was in a tie game. Then it might not have hurt as much. But the Utes were UP by one! That's right. The Utes were.1 second away from a road win!
Thanks for the correction. Indeed, a tough – TOUGH – foul.
Buffs moving back up, sans Josh Scott!
Can't knock the Ducks too much. They're still damn good and play their next 3 at home. Colorado got wins. Love that.


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1.2 Full Description
2.2 Character Debuts
4 Continuity Nods
The police are investigating Cartman's mysterious disappearance on social media. Gerald enjoys more media attention as Skank Hunt 42 continues to troll everyone and anyone. Meanwhile Garrison is getting ready for the Presidential debate.
Danish Olympic gold medalist Freja Ollegard is on a talk show discussing the online bullying she is receiving from Skankhunt42 for the website she created for breast cancer survivors. The talk show host reads social media comments that initially appear to be sincere, but are revealed to be from double entendre pseudonyms of Skankhunt42 (aka Gerald Broflovski) while he watches the show. The next morning, Gerald is visited by two policemen who question him on Cartman's sudden disappearance from Twitter without explanation. They then question Gerald's son, Kyle , who also denies any knowledge. Gerald continues sending hateful messages to Freja, but this results in her suicide, sending Gerald into a panic. At a funeral service for Freja, the speaker announces that Denmark will go to war with the troll. While at the supermarket, Gerald finds an anonymous note attached to his car windshield that reads "I know who you are." Gerald clears his history on all of his devices and destroys them. He then realizes that Ike's computer may also leave a trail to his activity, but while attempting to clean it, he receives an anonymous email repeating the message, "I know who you are," followed by an alert asking him to meet with the anonymous sender the next day.
Meanwhile, Randy Marsh supports Hillary Clinton, referred to as the Turd Sandwich, for President, and expresses disdain to the people of South Park that are supporting the Giant Douche, aka Mr. Garrison. Even though Garrison admits to being an incompetent presidential candidate during a debate and other speeches, his apparent honesty only results in increased support from his constituents, even leading to Randy finding him appealing to the point that he changes his mind. When he reveals this to Stephen Stotch, Stephen reveals that he has also changed his mind and now wants to vote for Clinton. Their mutual flip-flopping on candidates gives Randy cause for suspicion. After being offered a pie filled with member berries by Stephen, Randy goes to visit the Old Farmer whose crop is being dwarfed by hundreds and hundreds of member berry bushes.
Cartman and Heidi Turner, who are both apparently dead to the world for having left Twitter, begin to converse with each other to compensate for the lack of a social media presence, and begin spending time in the park with others who have quit Twitter. Cartman explains to Heidi that his attempt to prove that women are funny at a school assembly was sincere and that he is genuinely trying to change himself. During one of their private conversations, Cartman asks Heidi if girls have testicles, and she replies they do not. Cartman explains he does not know what is at the bottom of a vagina to scratch when girls get itchy. Much to his surprise, Heidi offers to show Cartman.
PC Principal
Officer Barkley
Park County Police
Freja Ollegard
Randy Marsh
Turd Sandwich
Giant Douche
Stephen Stotch
Continuity Nods
Gerald is still skankhunt42.
Mr. Garrison is still running for president.
Cartman and Heidi still have no access to Twitter, they're the 'damned' ones.
Stan and Wendy are still broken up.
The talk show host in this episode has the same first name as Heidi Turner.
Many people believed that Freja Ollegard was a real-life person, but she was not.


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The theme for 2020 National Crime Victims Rights' Week is Seek Justice | Ensure Victims' Rights | Inspire Hope. This year's theme commemorates the individuals and groups whose advocacy has propelled the victims' rights movement forward for the past half century, inspiring in victims and their loved ones a feeling of hope for progress, justice, and healing.
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CAROLINE HUFFAKER, VICTIM SERVICES COORDINATOR, CHATTANOOGA POLICE DEPARTMENT: Justice for a victim can be everything from a guilty verdict to feeling heard and valued.
DAVID RODDY, CHIEF OF POLICE, CHATTANOOGA POLICE DEPARTMENT: It's taking the time to listen to what the victim's needs are, and making sure that we can help the individuals that have suffered violence, suffered a tragedy, suffered a crime—that we help them heal.
GRETCHEN MORRIS, RED CLIFF BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA, DIRECTOR, RED CLIFF BAND INDIAN CHILD WELFARE: Seeking justice is ensuring that the victim is protected and that they're safe, especially when they're being removed from a traumatic situation.
BROOKS DOUGLASS, FORMER STATE SENATOR OF OKLAHOMA, PRESIDENT, DOUGLASS HOUSE: People that work in the criminal justice system, they understand that the rights of victims are there; they are the bedrock that tells the world this is what victims need.
MERRY O'BRIEN, MSW, ELDER JUSTICE COORDINATOR, NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY OF DC: Letting them know, we are going to help you seek justice, and we're going to make sure we do it in a very survivor-defined way—that ultimately can inspire hope.
BROOKS DOUGLASS: When I was 16 years old, a couple of guys came to our door, and they wound up hog-tying us, hands and feet behind our back, face down on our living room floor. They took turns sexually assaulting my 12-year-old sister, and then they sat down and ate the dinner that my mom had been fixing. And then they shot us all in the back and left us for dead. My sister and I were both able to recover from the physical wounds, and then we started our journey through the criminal justice system. And what we found out...
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BROOKS DOUGLASS: If victims are never validated, you lose hope. I realized that there needed to be legislation passed, if victims were ever going to be in a place where they can heal from what's happened. Having legislation tells a victim, we've thought about this and we know you need help.
MERRY O'BRIEN: We're going to discuss the case, and as we prepare for presentation. Making sure that victims have the right to be present throughout all proceedings, have the right to be notified, have the right to speak and be treated with dignity—all of those rights and more place the victim at the center of the criminal justice process. We have some photographs here, and also interview notes from various people in the community. We want to make sure that they know about all the services and that they feel confident that justice will be served, especially in cases of older survivors who aren't aware that there are professionals such as myself and many like us ready to help.
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MERRY O'BRIEN: The Federal Government has helped the elder justice movement tremendously. It really sends a message to older survivors out there in our community that if they are living in fear of physical abuse, financial exploitation, criminal neglect, we will help you get justice. That really inspires hope.
DAVID RODDY: The words officers choose upon their initial response and how they engage with the victim after a tragedy or traumatic event are critical.
RYAN BLEVINS, CHATTANOOGA POLICE DEPARTMENT: Hey, I'm Officer Blevins with the Chattanooga Police Department. How are you?
DAVID RODDY: The victim has to see hope on the face of the officer.
CAROLINE HUFFAKER: Victim services isn't just us as victim service providers. We're all in the business of victim services. Advocates work directly with their patrol teams, they ride-along on a consistent basis.
DAVID RODDY: Victim services being embedded in our agency means that victim is tied to us from the start of their trauma to the end of our involvement with them as a law enforcement agency.
CAROLINE HUFFAKER: And then another thing, a big part, is I know that there is an arrest made in your case. It's giving victims and survivors control over the very crime that's taken a hold of their life.
DAVID RODDY: Sometimes cases aren't solved. That doesn't mean our connection and support of that victim stops.
GRETCHEN MORRIS: Mommies and daddies, you got to get your babies off the floor because we're going to be doing the hoop dance. The Red Cliff Indian Child Welfare Department seeks to ensure that our children are protected when they're in their homes, but also to rebuild that family and to give them the tools and the resources they need to become complete again.
DARRELL KINGBIRD, RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, CULTURE CONSULTANT: The animals brought us the seven teachings, to be highly respectful. Remember that.
GRETCHEN MORRIS: Supports in the community have always been a way of Anishinaabe life.
DARRELL KINGBIRD: What else do we gotta learn? We talk about respect, honesty, humility—all these seven teachings we're supposed to apply each and every day we wake up. There's a lot of children who are just sponges for it. They'll just get up and say, "Teach me that," because they want to learn and they feel safe.
GRETCHEN MORRIS: Now, remember, you're dancing Anishinaabe style. Listen to the drum! Children need to have their story be told when they want it to be told.
DARRELL KINGBIRD: Oh, good one!
GRETCHEN MORRIS: Everyone has the right to heal and to create a story that is filled with hope.
CAROLINE HUFFAKER: Crime can have a tremendous effect on people. As an advocate, it's a very humbling position to be allowed in to some of the darkest times that a human can experience.
GRETCHEN MORRIS: In seeking justice, we're seeking cares and supports to help recover from the trauma.
DAVID RODDY: It's taking the time to pay attention to those victims' needs and their rights.
WOMAN: Do you have a court date coming up?
MERRY O'BRIEN: Ensuring that victims have those rights and that they're respected and treated with dignity throughout the entire process is really crucial.
BROOKS DOUGLASS: Ultimately, if you feel that validation and respect, that gives you hope.
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A new novel about belonging, loss and love from the celebrated author of Star Jumps, the 2010 winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Children's Fiction.
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Leave taking noun the act of saying goodbye.
What if you had just one week left to say goodbye to everything you've ever known?
Toby and his mum and dad are leaving their family farm after the death of Toby's younger sister, Leah. Together, they sort through all their belongings and put things aside to sell or throw out. It's a big task, and Toby doesn't want to leave the only place he's called home.
As his last day on the farm approaches, Toby has a plan – a plan to say goodbye to all the things and places that mean something special to him and Leah, from the machinery shed to Pa's old truck to the chook house. With the help of his best friend, Trigger the dog, he learns what it means to take your leave.
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Lorraine Marwood was born and raised in rural Victoria and has lived for most of her married life on a dairy farm with her husband and their six children. Lorraine is an award-winning poet who has been widely published in literary magazines across Australia, as well as magazines in the UK, USA, New Zealand and Canada. She has also published several children's novels and collections of poetry. Lorraine was also the recipient of a May Gibbs mentorship in children's writing.
Her previous titles (Walker Books Australia) include Ratwhiskers and Me, published in 2008, and Star Jumps which was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards 2010, Lower Primary Category, a Notable mention in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards, 2010 and won the inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Children's Fiction in 2010.
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I was meaning to start having a look at the more… errr… challenging Richard photoshoots, the *uughs* to balance out the *ooof* images, but then of course life is what happens when you're making Armitage plans as I had to be hit right in the gut with a new arrival courtesy of the Old Vic.
Bloody hell, what are you trying to do to me?!?
I've been searching for familiarity in the image.
My immediate though was that there's a strong resemblance to Macbeth's Angus which Richard played in a stage production on tour in Japan (all of 7 lines).
The frown, the scorn on his face brings to mind Thorin, a character that he's inhabited for so long, I guess Mr Majestic will inevitably be popping up here and there.
If we stripped Oakenshield *breathes heavily like a dirty old wizard at the very thought* from all the goo and prosthetics, is this what we'd end up with?
Sure, the degree of anger and scorn is much smaller, but who knows, maybe Richard's been working on his Crucible face in front of a mirror since the Hobbit production wrapped up, eager to throw even the most ardent RA pic starer off.
Out of all of the RA images that pop into my head, THIS Richard most resembles The Crucible image.
It took a while to get used to the cropped-hair bearded Armitage, but now that we know what John (another John…) will look like, I feel as if it's the return of a long lost friend (and welcome back Beardy…).
And as I continue staring at The Crucible image with a passion that would most certainly have me committed so don't tell anyone, ok?, trying to find familiarities in the look, the expression, the eyes, I am also battling the impulse to grab a tissue and to rub off the grime from his face, but then that may just be my twisted need to apply saliva on Richard's mug.
Anyway, I can't/won't stop being excited about this new path Richard has embarked on, if the Old Vic continues to tease, taunt and light fires in lady bits, it's going to be a looong wait for July.
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So yes, I am one of those people who punch the air when they see that Mr A is mentioned (which doesn't occur that often).
It doesn't happen often but when it does, it's this strange crossover between the Armitage Universe as I know it and the dirty world of the tabloids.
So when I see a paparazzi pic of Richard, I can't help but love it.
I'd hate for him to feel hounded (although, as the last installment of The Hobbit is heading our way, I doubt it'll ever come to that) and I'm more than content to get my grubby hands on images that are shot either by professionals or at a red carpet event.
But then I see a picture like the one above and something stirs in me, something that makes me want more… more candid pics, more images where Richard is caught off guard, a peek into his day when he doesn't have his project promo hat on.
Hell, the heart wants, right?
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Yowza, it's been a while since I last posted, luckily it was less than 10 days ago, so I can count that far, plus I have a pinky or two to spare.
Today I shall start by write about one of my absolute favorite aspects of our little community of Armitage Admirers.
As I had mentioned before, due to my planned trip to see the thespian Richard Armitage in July, I've had to tighten the ol' belt and couldn't splash out on Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare until debts were paid off and London pocket-money (or rather a large sack, judging by how expensive that city is…) was safely tucked away waiting for July.
I must admit, with all the positive reviews of the book, it did very much feel like a kid with its nose stuck to the sweet shop window, but needs must and I was focusing on the greater good.
Turns out two beautiful souls ( you know who you are and, more importantly, I know who you are!) gifted me a copy, so this sugar-starved snotty-nosed kid could dive right into the book, so thank you and I.O.U!!!
I'm was adamant that I wouldn't really enjoy the plot as I'd be focused on the character that Richard plays, how prominent he is and whether he has any good lines etc.
Officially my favorite Chop pic to date!
Not to worry, Chop is the narrator, the part is plump and perfect for our Mr A- juicy, disturbing, heart-breaking and, at times, ridiculously tender.
Judging by the set pics, book Chop has been transformed from an overweight long-in-the-tooth boozer to a slimmer boozer with dodgy dress sense.
Ergo, just like beards started being hot right about the time Richard grew one, I'm betting grandpa-meets-second hand shop garb and dodgy hats will stoke our fires red-hot very soon.
This part is just what Dr AgzyM ordered as an antidote to The Hobbit madness and the fact that I'm actually getting my wish makes me think I should seriously play the lottery and maybe hit another jackpot.
Also, no spoilers, but there is a scene that involves dangerous water and Richard getting soaked, so yahoo! for us and bummer! for him.
I adore the first season of Shameless (UK version, not the US).
It follows the Gallagher family and other occupants of the fictional Chatsworth council estate in Manchester and stars the delicious James McAvoy (nuff said!).
You can also check out a 5-part documentary called Benefit Street, which follows people living on James Turner Street in Birmingham, where it is reported 90% of the residents are on benefits.
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We repeat them like a mantra till they become set in stone.
Nope, she loves reading, listening and talking all together waaay too much, but she doesn't write.
2,5 years later she's still blogging and although both quality and quantity of her written word may be questionable, she's still at it.
Yet half way through her Zombies, Run 5K program, she doesn't mind telling you that she is kicking those zombies butts and has her heart set on further goals- a 10K, perhaps a half marathon one day.
What other stories on repeat in that thick skull- stories of what cannot be done- repeated to the point when they become an absolute?
It at moments like these that I think of poor Mr Armitage who script after script is confronted with, what he claims, is one of his greatest fears.
Doused and drowning, sinking and swimming, sprayed, spritzed, hosed down (and that's just Porter…).
There are more projects on his CV that involve a wet T-shirt competition than not.
Wet in water and mud, soon filthy canal muck, he puts aside the story he tells himself and just does it anyway for his admirers' amusement and entertainment.
Do you ever tell yourself what you simply can't do but know deep down inside it may just be that- a story?
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Guy of Gisborne Taking off his Armour.