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Bus Accidents in Texas | Your Legal Options
Posted on April 21, 2022 by Accel Admin
To learn more about bus accidents in Texas, reach out to our skilled Houston bus accident lawyer today. Our legal team will help you obtain the compensation you need to heal.
What are the bus regulations and laws in Texas?
When understanding your legal options after a bus accident in Texas, it is important to recognize the National Bus Regulations, including school bus regulations. They are as follows:
Bus drivers must carry a Commercial Driver's License
If the bus driver is impaired, he or she cannot drive a bus
The bus driver must be free of intoxication (drugs or alcohol) prior to driving a bus
School buses must carry liability insurance complying with general liability regulations
School buses must carry signal lamps that display flashing red lights
The bus driver must be secured by a seatbelt, although its passengers may not be required a seatbelt
The speed limit for school buses in Texas is 55 mph on the interstate and 50 mph on any other highway
Can I file a claim and obtain compensation for my bus accident in Texas?
In the event that you were injured as a result of your bus driver's failure to obey bus regulations, resulting in an accident, you will likely be entitled to financial compensation for your injuries. You should also recognize, however, that in some cases, bus accidents may be caused by defective bus parts, which may indicate that you have a valid product liability claim. Generally, those injured in bus accidents will take one of two courses when seeking compensation:
Negligence and Gross Negligence: An individual may be held liable for an accident when they fail to follow a "duty of care," which is also referred to as negligence. The driver or the company/school representing the bus and bus driver may be put to blame if the choices made on their part exhibited negligence. Gross negligence can be associated with an accident where an individual performed a careless act. An intoxicated school bus driver, for instance, may relate to gross negligence in an accident for determining to act recklessly in the situation.
Product Liability: Product liability should always be viewed when investigating bus accidents. Bus accidents are not always instantly related to the driver but to the automobile itself. If the bus had some error in its design, mechanics, or manufacturing, then the case can result in a product liability case. In this circumstance, the liability can be directed back to the manufacturer of the bus itself, not just the transportation company.
Do not wait to reach out to our firm today to speak with a Houston auto accident lawyer if you were injured in a bus accident. Our legal team is on your side.
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Texting is among the most dangerous forms of distracted driving, tripling the risk of a crash, but it is often difficult to detect. "If a person is hiding their electronic device in their lap or other less than obvious place it can be hard for an officer to observe them texting," says Technical Sergeant James Cleary, spokesperson for the New York State Police.
While texting is illegal in most states, a violation is treated very differently depending on where you live. Fines for a first-time offense vary from as little as $20 to as much as $250. About a third of states assign driver's license points (See "10 things you need to know about driver's license points") or consider a texting ticket a moving violation. Others specifically prohibit use of a texting ticket as a reason to raise insurance rates.
Sometimes the distraction is beyond ridiculous, "Oftentimes people are so distracted with their device that they don't realize there is a police car with lights and sirens trying to pull them over," says Cleary, of the New York State Police.


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China, Germany Defend Iran Business Ties as US Sanctions Grip
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China and Germany defended their business ties with Iran on Wednesday in the face of President Donald Trump's warning that any companies trading with the Islamic Republic would be barred from the United States.
The comments from Beijing and Berlin signaled growing anger from partners of the United States, which reimposed strict sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, over its threat to penalize businesses from third countries that continue to operate there.
"China has consistently opposed unilateral sanctions and long-armed jurisdiction," the Chinese foreign ministry said.
"China's commercial cooperation with Iran is open and transparent, reasonable, fair and lawful, not violating any United Nations Security Council resolutions," it added in a faxed statement to Reuters.
"China's lawful rights should be protected."
The German government said U.S. sanctions against Iran that have an extra-territorial effect violate international law, and Germany expects Washington to consider European interests when coming up with such sanctions.
The reimposition of U.S. sanctions followed Trump's decision earlier this year to pull out of a 2015 deal to lift the punitive measures in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program designed to prevent it from building an atomic bomb.
Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said meanwhile the country had nothing to be concerned about, a report on his official website said in an apparent reference to the imposition of the U.S. sanctions
"With regard to our situation do not be worried at all. Nobody can do anything," Khamenei said recently, the website reported. "There is no doubt about this."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, speaking in a meeting with North Korea's foreign minister, said that America could not be trusted, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.
"Today, America is identified as an unreliable and untrustworthy country in the world which does not adhere to any of its obligations," Rouhani said.
Tuesday's sanctions target Iran's purchases of U.S. dollars, metals trading, coal, industrial software and the auto sector.
Trump tweeted on Tuesday: "These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level. Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States."
Europeans withdraw
European countries, hoping to persuade Tehran to continue to respect the deal, have promised to try to lessen the blow of sanctions and to urge their firms not to pull out. But that has proved difficult: European companies have quit Iran, arguing that they cannot risk their U.S. business.
Among those that have suspended plans to invest in Iran are France's oil major Total, its big carmakers PSA and Renault, and their German rival Daimler.
Danish engineering company Haldor Topsoe, one of the world's leading industrial catalyst producers, said on Wednesday it would cut around 200 jobs from its workforce of 2,700 due to the new U.S sanctions on Iran, which made it very hard for its customers there to finance new projects.
The chief executive of reinsurance group Munich Re said it may abandon its Iran business under pressure from the United States, but described the operation as very small.
Turkey, however, said it would continue to buy natural gas from Iran.
"Simplistic idea"
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted by an Iranian newspaper as saying that a U.S. plan to reduce Iran's oil exports to zero would not succeed.
U.S. officials have said in recent weeks that they aim to pressure countries to stop buying oil from Iran in a bid to force Tehran to halt its nuclear and missile programs and involvement in regional conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
"If the Americans want to keep this simplistic and impossible idea in their minds they should also know its consequences," Zarif told the Iran newspaper. "They can't think that Iran won't export oil and others will export."
Rouhani hinted last month that Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route, if the U.S. attempted to stop the Islamic Republic's oil exports.
Trump responded by noting that Iran could face serious consequences if it threatened the United States.
"The Americans have assembled a war room against Iran," Zarif said. "We can't get drawn into a confrontation with America by falling into this war room trap and playing on a battlefield."
Iran has dismissed a last-minute offer from the Trump administration for talks, saying it could not negotiate while Washington had reneged on the 2015 deal to lift sanctions.
In a speech hours before the sanctions were due to take effect on Tuesday, Rouhani rejected negotiations as long as Washington was no longer complying with the deal.
"If you stab someone with a knife and then you say you want talks, then the first thing you have to do is remove the knife," Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television.

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Segment 1 -- Jeffrey Wright opens the second hour of the show by welcoming Evan Barnes of The Commercial Appeal to the show to discuss the AAC Championship Game, the Tiger football season, the Birmingham Bowl, and more.
Segment 2 -- Jeffrey welcomes Joe Mullinax of Grizzly Bear Blues to the show to discuss the Memphis Grizzlies.
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import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.core.Model;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.core.View;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.observer.Notification;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IController;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IFacade;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IModel;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.INotification;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IView;

import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IMediator;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IModule;
import com.example.puremvc_appfacade.Runs.protocol.IViewModel;

/**
 * Created by dev_wang on 2017/1/23.
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public enum Facade implements IFacade {
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    @Override
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    @Override
    public void sendNotification(String name) {
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    @Override
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    @Override
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    @Override
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        return iView.getMediator(name);
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    @Override
    public IViewModel getViewModelWithName(String name) {
        return iModel.getViewModel(name);
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    @Override
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    @Override
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        return iModel.hasViewModel(name);
    }

    @Override
    public void registerAllModules() {
        iController.registerAllModules();
    }

    @Override
    public void unRegisterAllModules() {
        iController.unRegisterAllModules();
    }

    @Override
    public IModule getModule(String moduleName) {
        return iController.getModule(moduleName);
    }

}

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The story of Hayagriva retrieving the Vedas represents triumph of pure knowledge, guided by the divine, over forces of passion and darkness.Hayagriva is an important deity in Vaishnava tradition. His blessings are sought when beginning study of both sacred and secular subject. Hayagriva is an incarnation of Vishnu, depicted with a human body and a horse's head, brilliant white in color, with white garments, seated on a white lotus.
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Maansi Virk is an accomplished martial artist who has career aspirations to protect and serve. She aspires to follow in her father's footsteps by becoming a police officer.
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Maansi Virk is an accomplished martial artist who has career aspirations to protect and serve. She aspires to follow in her father's footsteps by becoming a police officer. Her father, Amrik Virk, was a former Inspector with the RCMP as well as a former Surrey MLA and provincial Cabinet Minister.
Born in Alberta, Maansi moved to South Surrey at the age of one. She is a graduate of Elgin Park Secondary. The nineteen-year-old has wanted to be an officer since she was 6-years old. She recalls hearing about some of her father's work during her formative years and wishing to aspire to be just like him. "I wanted to support families, and ultimately bring those who break the law to justice. I want to do the same things my dad did." Her entire family very much supports her career aspirations. "Both of my grandparents are very proud of me," Maansi, a reserve in the Canadian military, confides. "I completed my Basic Military Qualifications in Chilliwack, living on the base for five weeks. Amongst the 55 who were there, only 7 were women."
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Maansi suggests anyone interested in challenging themselves consider joining martial arts. "Martial arts instills discipline, in addition to physical fitness. It also supports self-confidence." She continues to train and hopes to one day stand on the podium at the World level in karate.
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Dr. Mario World: an unmissable classic
Announced in February, Dr. Mario World has finally landed in the Play Store! It's free to play (with optional in-app purchases), and it offers hundreds of levels characterized by different environments in which you'll have to fight to eliminate viruses. How? Aligning the pill capsules of the same color, both horizontally and vertically, a bit like in Bubble Bobble!
Dr. Mario World is not a race against time but rather a strategy game: the number of antivirus capsules is limited. And if you like the toughest challenges, try Duel mode!
Compatibility: Android 4.4 or later
Price: free with app purchases
Download Dr. Mario World from the Play Store and get ready to play for hours!
Groovepad: for music lovers
Groovepad is an app designed and built for those who have music in their blood and want to test themselves by creating their own music tracks. With this app, you can select your favorite music genres (hip-hop, EDM, house, drum & bass, electronics, etc.), use the effects of the pad to create real songs.
Groovepad is easy to use and allows you to share your songs in one tap, even through WhatsApp. An app for beginners who want to get in the game! Groovepad is free for 7 days, after which it costs $5.99 per week. The subscription can be cancelled at any time from the Play Store. Also available in a pro version, without advertising (the ads are quite boring) and with unlimited sounds.
Best music streaming apps for Android
Price: free for seven days but with app purchases
Let your friends dance to your music by downloading Groovepad from the Play Store.
Bad Roads GO: fasten your seatbelts!
How's your driving? Before answering this question, download Bad Roads GO to your Android device and test yourself against hills, bridges and obstacles of all kinds. The goal of the game is to reach the finish line without losing the boxes on the street or you'll have to start over!
The gameplay is very simple: just a tap to start the car and adjust the speed. Each level is set in a different scenario and accompanied by a different background music that will mark the rhythm of your race. The game offers a two-player mode that, curiously enough, divides the display of your smartphone in two, allowing you to play simultaneously with a friend using a single device.
Download Bad Roads GO from the Play Store and don't forget to fasten your seatbelts!
Calcolapizza: pizza night?
Calcolapizza is an app that will make your life in the kitchen easier! If you love pizza and, above all, homemade pizza, this app will allow you to calculate the right ingredient measurements in seconds. Just enter the required parameters in the app (room temperature, amount of cheese on hand, salt, oil, etc..) to get the perfect recipe for your pizza.
Pizza requires few ingredients, but the problem is to put them together in the right quantities! Calcolapizza also allows you to save the recipes you make for future use.
Download Calcolapizza from the Play Store.
Super GPS Compass Map: 3 apps in 1
This app brings together GPS, compass and Google Maps services to guide you on your outdoor adventures. The digital compass, through the built-in magnetic sensor and leaning on GPS and Maps, offers precise coordinates as well as locations for restaurants, hotels, bars, ATMs, and hospitals in the vicinity.
Again, this is an easy to use app with modern graphics. Features include weather forecasts, maps of 220 countries and traffic conditions.
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Download Super GPS Compass Map from the Play Store.
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For a decade now, in what is certainly an annual tradition for the Campbell family, we welcome each new Buffalo Bills season by attending the first (and several more) training camp practices.
The allure of this event is not just football. Sure, that's the main draw, and we Campbells are always excited about Buffalo Bills football. (It's true. We may have a problem…) But beyond watching the players practice in groups and as a team, sometimes only a few feet away from you, there are activities galore!
There are several other vendors at the Training Camp, also, and most of them have some sort of giveaways. One of our first stops every year is the "Plinko"-style game at the Verizon booth. Some of their prizes include mini-footballs (handy for autographs!), stickers resembling "eye blacks", and this year, bead necklaces in the Bills' team colors.
Speaking of autographs, certainly one highlight for the older boys is flagging down players and coaches to sign anything and everything they can think of. The players will often come over to the fences where the eager fans are lined up with their Sharpees and jerseys, footballs, programs, and every other sign-able thing.
Bills Rookie QB, E.J. Manuel signs Cam's blue football—with a personalized birthday message!
The Bills also have a tent set up where three or four lines are formed for scheduled autograph sessions for specific players. This year the Campbell kids got photos and autographs of the QBs and some of the DBs in the Autograph Tent.
It's not just limited to players, though. This year the boys even managed to flag down Peter King of Sports Illustrated (and a few other publications/media outlets) and get him to sign an item or two. Bills reporter, Chris Brown, and a few other lesser-known media members have also penned their names to one or more of the Campbell brothers' possessions!
What will 2013 hold for this Buffalo Bills team? Not sure. There's been so much change here. (Did you read my post from early July about this year's Bills team?) It really does seem promising. At least it will be different.
In the end, it's just fun. Like training camp. Fun!
But we still find the fun.


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This statement welcoming the participants to the Conference is an important one to share, I believe ... .
According to Nielsen, Americans watch an average of 36 hours of television every week, making TV writers, producers, and executives among the most influential change makers of our time. By determining whose lives are reflected on screen, storytellers who work in TV directly impact, more than ever in history of the medium, our shared perception of what's real and what's possible.
Few opportunities exist for members of the content-creation community to gather and discuss how to better wield this far-reaching cultural impact. That changes today: The purpose of A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is to "interrupt your regularly scheduled programming" with new ideas and interlocutors. Our hope is that the conversation will carry far beyond this gathering as you return to your writers rooms, energized to move the story of progress forward.
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Since the experience with the Oakland Symphony, I've faced into the winds of changes unimaginable only a year ago.
The publication of Sign my name to freedom has opened the gates wide into the world of authors where I'm a complete stranger but eager student. Having been graciously accepted into the new worlds of technology through participating in events for Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Adobe, Nike, etc., in recent months, and having now stumbled into that of Virtual Reality through the artistry of Gary Yost, it feels almost surreal.
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Which Witch Won This Week's American Horror Story?
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With the grace of a bull-headed man in a china shop, Ryan Murphy has returned with an all new season of American Horror Story. We've been eagerly anticipating AHS: Coven for months now, mostly because this witchy installment includes Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett and even more Jessica Lange.
American Horror Story has always been good at creating meaty and dynamic roles for women and Coven takes it one step further by hosting an almost entirely female cast (I'll miss you most of all, Zachary Quinto). That's reason enough to pay attention, but once you add on how Coven is all about witches getting shit done, the contest is over — this is already my favorite show on television (even if last night's episode proved that this is one of the worst shows on television).
The Coven premiere was...insensitive? Graphic? Exploitive? Yes, yes and yes. The fact that Murphy and Co. were able to include a rape, racism, fat jokes and a bizarre Hurricane Katrina tie-in all in one episode would be impressive if it wasn't so offensive. Still, I almost have to respect the show's willingness to go so balls-to-the-wall campy in the very first episode. (Or I would respect it if I still wasn't trying to crawl out of my own skin.)
Even with all that, there was still some badass witchery to behold, which leads us to our new weekly ranking — Queen of the Coven: Who's the Baddest Witch?
Fiona Goode
We begin where we should always begin — with Jessica Lange. Lange plays Fiona Goode, a highly powerful and highly glamorous witch who is obsessed with finding a magical way around aging, which, well, yaaaaaawn. Jessica Lange makes getting older look so good that watching her freak out about it doesn't quite compute, but oh, well. I guess that's her deal.
Fiona is the Supreme, which means she's widely recognized by the witch community as the baddest witch (and baddest bitch) around. Unfortunately, all that power and strength doesn't stop her from losing her mind, dancing around to "In A Gadda Da Vida" and draining the life out of innocent people all to stop herself from getting forehead lines.
Why she's the baddest: Fiona is Head Bitch in Charge (30 points) and she has the whole magic thing down pat. She can use her mind to throw people into walls (7 points), she can literally suck the life out of you (15 points) and she wears very sexy skirt suits (4 points). Total points: 56
Why she's not: Fiona is petty (-3 points). She's so petty that she'll resurrect a vicious serial killer from her grave (more on that later) all to get her secret of eternal youth (-20 points). Total points: -23
Final Verdict: 33 points or not quite bad enough (at least not in a cool way)
Cordelia Foxx
Cordelia Foxx — surprisingly not a porn witch — is Fiona's daughter. Though they share a bloodline, the two have chosen very different paths. While Fiona is more the "Will Literally Suck the Life Out of You to Get What She Wants" type, Cordelia has chosen to educate young witches at New Orleans' Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies (Hogwarts for the Depraved) by teaching them to hone in on their power and hide who they are. If she fails, IT WILL BE SALEM ALL OVER AGAIN. (This sentiment was repeated exactly one million times.)
Why she's the baddest: Cordelia comes off as level headed (+2) and kind (+2). She seems to genuinely care about her charges (+6) and the threatened future of witchy-kind (+6). Total points: 16
Why she's not: So far, she is very boring (-20). Total points: -20
Final Verdict: -4 or not very bad at all.
Madison Montgomery
Madison (unfortunately played by known boyfriend puncher Emma Roberts) is a Lindsay Lohan-eque, hard-living starlet who gets whisked away to Miss Robichaux's by her publicist after using her secret telekinetic powers to murder a director. Okay, that's ridiculous, but sure — I am on board. Now that she lives in the Big Easy, she really misses partying (because if there's one thing that's hard to find in New Orleans, it's a wild night out). To her relief, she gets "tweeted an invite to a frat party." (What? Tweeted invites? Was this episode written by someone who's only read about 2013 and hasn't actually lived in it?)
That's where her real trouble begins. At the party, Madison is roofied and graphically raped by a group of frat boys. (Seriously? Y'all couldn't wait until, like, episode four for this shit?) It was terrible and disgusting and honestly made me question why I even watch this show. Fortunately (and I use the word lightly), she gets her revenge by using her powers to murder the entire frat. You win some, you lose some? Never mind — everybody loses and now I'm off to sit under a running shower with all of my clothes on.
Why she's the baddest: Madison will make people pay for hurting her, even if it means overturning a speeding party only using the power of her mind (+100). Total points: 100
Why she's not: She doesn't care much about innocent bystanders (-7), she's a selfish asshole (-2) and she's played by known boyfriend puncher Emma Roberts (-11). Total points: -21
Final Verdict: 79 or bad and getting badder.
Zoe Benson
Taissa Farmiga (of AHS: Murder House) is back as Zoe, the emotionally tortured teenage girl who discovers she's a witch while losing her virginity (long story short: Zoe's vagina is lethal and her boyfriend ends up bleeding to death out of his eyeballs). Her mother decides it's best if she's sent to Miss Robichaux's and has her picked up by the goooorgeous Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy) and a team of security guards who are all albino black men. How fetishizing!
Zoe goes with Madison to the frat party where she meets Kyle. Kyle is played by the adorable Evan Peters, who — sidebar — once refused to make eye contact with me outside a coffee shop. Does that mean we're dating? Let's just say it means we're dating. Anyway, this is a bit of a romantic reunion seeing how Farmiga and Peters also played love interests back in season one.
Kyle is a member of the same frat as Madison's rapists, but he's one of the good ones. In fact, he's the only good one, as demonstrated by the fact that he breaks up Madison's assault and is then beaten unconscious by his monstrous frat brothers. His goodness doesn't help him in the end — he gets murdered by Madison alongside the rest of them. RIP Kyle.
Zoe — who fell instantly for that blond, cow-eyed moppet — is heartbroken and goes to the hospital where the one surviving member of Madison's attack lies in a coma. Wouldn't you know it — the only one who made it is the same one who roofied Madison in the first place. His good luck doesn't last long. To avenge Kyle (and Madison, too), Zoe straddles him and magic-vaginas him to death.
Why she's the baddest: Zoe will defend the people she loves (+20) and she looks very good in a hat (+4). She also has some good one-liners (+3) and seems like a decent person (+5). Total points: 32
Why she's not: Um, using your witch vagina to rape a rapist who is in a coma still counts as rape — I mean, I'm not crying over his suffering or anything, but the whole thing is pretty questionable (-12). She is also super emo (-4) and gets attached way too easily (-2). Total points: -18
Final Verdict: 14. Not very bad, but there's potential for future badditude.
Madame LaLaurie
Kathy Baaaaaaaaaates! Bates plays Madame LaLaurie, an actual New Orleans historical figure who, legend has it, brutally tortured and murdered slaves in the mid-18o0s. The truth of these allegations have been called into question, but the myths persists — and honestly, it's hard to care too much about the soiled reputation of a slave owner. Coven buys into the legend 10-fold, portraying LaLaurie as an evil sadist who tortures black men in a dungeon, all so she can a.) exercise her cruelty and b.) use their blood and organs to create an eternal youth serum because you know ladies — they hate aging/love senseless murder.
LaLaurie eventually fucks with the wrong the wrong guy. Not because he rescues himself (no, his fate — having a dead bulls head planted over his own — is absolutely horrifying), but because his lover (Angela Bassett) is a powerful Voudon who gets revenge by poisoning LaLaurie and — I think this is what happens, but someone will have to clarify — burying her alive for what's supposed to be eternity. Unforch, Jessica Lange comes along and digs her up, so Bassett would have been much more effective if she just chopped the woman's head off.
Why she's the baddest: She's truly evil, but she's also a total coward for preying on the vulnerable so no points there. I'm also not sure if she's even a witch. Still, she is Kathy Bates and being Kathy Bates is worth a hundred points. Total points: 100
Why she's not: But fuck her (-100) and fuck this whole element of the show (-100). I love historical horror as much as the next person, but to portray a bunch of faceless black men (and some of them are literally faceless — like, they've had their faces CUT OFF) who never get a voice or backstory is just exploitive nonsense (-1000).
Final Verdict: -1,2000
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) is widely considered the most famous voodoo queen in New Orleans history and she is undeniably badass. Not only does she take out LaLaurie with ease (side note: while both her and LaLaurie are based on real people, their relationship is entirely fictional), she also doesn't turn her back on her newly minotaur'd boyfriend. Previews suggest that she survives into 2013, still as powerful and stunning as ever. (Speaking of eternal youth, the real-life Angela Bassett does not seem to age.)
Why she's the baddest: She takes out LaLaurie without hesitation (+100), is probably immortal (+150). Total points: 250
Why she's not: She probably should have picked a more final end for LaLaurie (-10), otherwise too soon to tell. Total points: -10
Final Verdict: 240 or Queen Witch.
But the winner?
Myrtle Snow
ONE BILLION POINTS FOR SERVING UP SOME GRACE CODDINGTON REALNESS.
(Honorable mentions: Gabourey Sidibe as Queenie, Jamie Brewer as Nan and Lily Rabe as Misty Day — also not a porn witch. All three have cool powers, but none of them have gotten enough screen time to showcase them.)


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A 20-year-old Tampa man has been found guilty of first-degree murder after he showed the victim's body to friends, officials said.
Amer Ejak was convicted for the September 2009 death of Thomas Johannesen, a 34-year-old father, according to the State Attorney's Office in Hillsborough County.
Ejak, 16 at the time, and his friend Christopher Cox, who was 22 at the time, were inside Johannesen's apartment when Cox told Ejak to strike Johannesen in the head with a whiskey bottle, said a 2009 Hillsborough Sheriff's Office press release.
Officials said Ejak and Cox moved Johannesen onto the couch after he fell. Ejak placed a plastic bag over Johannesen's head and a belt around his neck, strangling and killing him, the release said.
The two then hid Johannesen in his closet, placing items over his body, and stole his cell phone, house keys and Adidas sneakers before leaving the apartment, officials said.
Sometime later, Cox and Ejak asked two friends if they had ever seen a dead body, the release said. They then took their friends to the apartment and showed them Johannesen's body, according to authorities.
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Southwest baggage crew did a pretty good number on the checked bag with all my games in it. My Dropzone Commander box bore the brunt of the trauma apparently even though it had a lot of foam support and packing.
My bikers took their share and more of the hits coming my way.
Some flight stands were broken and and Lifthawk took some engine damage as well. The pics might look bad but aside from the sheared flight stands, nothing is truly broken. Everything seemed to detach at the glue points. I'll pick up some super glue later and do a repair session later this evening.
Being Wednesday, the Con hasn't started so we plan on getting some gaming in, picking up this Con's "official" liquor, and getting tickets from the will call booth. Tonight we hit Giordano's for great pizza and have the Fantasy Flight Report to attend.
I am so glad I've never had to fly with anything like that. I'm not sure I could hand that kind of stuff off to an airline.
Oh man, this post just hurt to read. Hopefully the fixes are as easy (and painless) as you think.
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It's finally here!
The 2021 Formula One season kicked off today with the first of three days of pre-season testing.
It was a windy day in Bahrain and conditions were making things tricky out on track for the drivers.
Despite the sandstorm during the afternoon session, it was Max Verstappen who was fastest on the opening day of testing.
While times are not entirely representative this early on, laps definitely do matter, and it was Red Bull who completed the most laps on the opening day.
It did feel like a day of two halves, mostly due to the strange weather in the afternoon, so let's have a look at what happened during today's sessions.
Teams wasted no time to get their installation laps completed. However, for Mercedes, it would be the only running they would do for most of the morning.
Mercedes had a gear shift issue on fire-up and were forced to change the gearbox. It took over two hours to get it changed which left Bottas with only 35 minutes of running.
This would also be cut short as Leclerc came to a stop with only 10 minutes to go to the lunch break. The circumstances of Leclerc's stop was unclear, but it did bring out the red flag.
In the end Bottas only got 6 laps done.
Credit: Formula One
It wasn't just Mercedes who struggled for track time in the morning session, Haas were also hampered. Mick Schumacher had a nice early run but was pulled in as Haas wanted to change the gearbox.
Sebastian Vettel stalled his Aston Martin at the end of the pit-lane which brought an end to his session. Not a great way to end his run after getting a good number of laps done.
Williams were slow to get Nissany out on track, however, he got some meaningful running later on in the session.
For the cars actually out on track, the conditions were very windy, and it made it difficult for the drivers to navigate. Early on we saw Kimi Raikkonen wrestling with his Alfa Romeo as he fought against the conditions.
But Daniel Ricciardo managed to find some pace and set the fastest lap of the morning session while completing 45 laps.
The heavy wind had left the track very sandy when teams returned for the afternoon session.
Nikita Mazepin and Esteban Ocon were straight out, and it was clear to see that grip levels were low.
Some drivers took it a lot more cautious than others. When Lewis Hamilton eventually appeared onto the track, he was slipping and sliding coming out of near enough every corner.
He quickly came back into the pits to change his pedals.
Nikita Mazepin had a spin as well as Carlos Sainz. You can't blame them, as the conditions were very tricky.
Eventually the sand cleared off the racing line and the drivers could put their foot down. Verstappen was stamping his mark and putting his Red Bull at the top of the timing sheets.
Credit: Alfa Romeo Racing
Not all drivers did tough out the sand storm. Lance Stroll was delayed getting some track time as the car developed a small electrical fault which meant he was out for half of the session.
As the sun went down and the lights came on, it was mostly plane sailing as drivers got laps on the board.
At the end of the session Red Bull, Alpine, AlphaTauri and Alfa Romeo all clocked in over 100 laps. A very solid day.
The same couldn't be said for Mercedes who only managed 48 laps all day.
Who were the winners from day 1?
Red Bull.
They had a very solid day with Verstappen finishing top of the time sheets and completed the most laps.
While the car looked shaky at the start of the day and that saw Max have a half spin coming out of Turn 2.
Max seemed to get to grips with that car by the end of the day and he was able to complete long runs with very few problems. It was definitely encouraging by Red Bull.
Tomorrow will see Sergio Perez take to the track in the car for the first time.
Red Bull will be hoping to replicate the success they have had today and take advantage of Mercedes' issues.
Honourable mentions also go out to Alpine who had a very solid day as well as Alfa Romeo who looked very good out on track.
Who were the losers from day one?
It was cruel day for the reigning champions as a gearbox issue meant they were pit-lane bound for most of the morning session.
Once the car was back out on track, Bottas was only able to get 5 laps completed.
Credit: Mercedes AMG-Petronas F1
In the afternoon it took a while for Lewis to emerge from the garage. He found himself back in the pits in no time so the team could change the pedals.
He got back out with just over two hours remaining but was back in the pits within 15 minutes.
Hamilton could only complete 42 laps in the afternoon and ended the session in 10th place.
Far from the start the champions wanted.
Honourable mention also to Haas. Haas had to replace the gearbox in the morning, but the missed time was made up by Mazepin completing 69 laps in the afternoon.
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I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose shaped by it later in life. I still have deep, almost primal responses to the language of scripture, and I think that comes through in all my writing.
I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for me - which was absolutely brutal and I was terrified - was so important, especially later in life when one was faced with conflicting stories and conflicting evidence.
"Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.
No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.
When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.
Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.
When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.
I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.
Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.
I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.
"'Family Ties' mom: 'I am a lesbian'" by Vidya Rao, www.today.com. December 7, 2012.
Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.
"Thanks all round at parting of ways" by David Harbord, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2003.
I married the right guy later in life. Roger Robinson is just so wonderful but I was 40 and by that time he had been married and had his family. I realized how dangerous children could truly be. So I feel maternal when I see those women run.
I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.
I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.
"The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview by John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.
It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.
"The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.
Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.
I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.
"Conversation: Francine du Plessix Gray and Sean Wilsey". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.


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Q: restriction diagonalizable operator is diagonalizable
If $T:V\to V$ is diagonalizable and $S \subset V$ is a $T$-invariant subspace, I have to show that $T|_{S}$ is diagonalizable, but without using the minimal polynomial.

I can not think how to do it without using the minimal polynomial.
Thanks

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ALWAYS a good idea to keep this kit on hand in the car. I think the snacks (like almonds) and water are really important. Time to go check this out. We're supposed to be getting a big snow storm in here tomorrow!
I love the idea of a car kit-great idea!
You did not mention a cellphone. You should always have a cellphone with you so you can call for help. You can get a prepaid phone like a Tracfone for $15. Always good to have a backup.
A car care kit is a SUPER idea. I love that you donated your kit to your local women's and children's center. They need the fresh start and not having to worry about these things is a HUGE help!
that's a great kit!! GOOD JOB!!
We always keep an extra cell phone charger in the car. Because you never have enought battery when you need it!
My sister's co-worker's wife learned the importance of an emergency kit recently. She (drunkenly, most likely, but still) wrecked her car on a cold, wintery night at 2am. She had no cell reception in that area and so set out to walk to her brother's house. She was wearing heels, did not have a decent coat, no gloves, but a cute little purse! Sadly (and I mean that), she suffered frostbite so bad that she lost both of her FEET. I'm serious. The last I heard, she was hoping not to have to also lose one of her ankles. Sorry to be so dark here, but if this doesn't teach people to a) not drink and drive and b) to have an emergency kit, I don't know what will.
I used to have one in my car but things get cleaned out, moved around, lost... I need to make a new one. Thanks for the reminder!
Good reminder to check on what we have in the car! We have lots of this rolling around, not on purpose, more due to our lack of car organization... Snacks can be found somewhere in the car seats, for sure.


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Building EU civil justice
Seminar 'It Takes Two to Tango'
New year, new ERC team member!
On 1 January 2020 Betül Kas joined our ERC team as a postdoc researcher on the subproject on privatisation of civil justice. She is the successor of Alexandre Biard, who as of December 2019 continued his career as a senior advisor at BEUC in Brussels, where he will be able to use his extensive research experience for the benefit of enforcing consumer rights in the EU. We are grateful for his invaluable contribution to our project, resulting in an impressive number of publications and conference presentations among others. We all greatly appreciated his many initiatives, his fieldwork, support of the other researchers, work spirit, and good sense of humour. We are happy to keep him in our team as an affiliated researcher and look forward to our futher collaboration.
We welcome Betül to our team as the successor of Alexandre for the postdoc project on privatisation. She has an impressive track record, having worked among others as a PhD researcher in the ERC Advanced project of Hans Micklitz at the European University Institute in Florence and as a postdoc researcher in the Vidi project led by Chantal Mak at the University of Amsterdam. Her German background will further strengthen our research on German law and practice. One of her research focuses will be the interaction between public and private justice. We are very happy to have Betül on our team and look forward to working with her in 2020 and onwards!
On June 13 and 14, Jos Hoevenaars joined a group of scholars working on the preliminary reference procedure of the EU legal system for an exchange of ideas and perspectives on the 'dance' between national courts and the Court of Justice of the EU. The seminar 'It Takes Two to Tango' and organised by the Radboud University of Nijmegen took place in Ede (the Netherlands) and brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with various empirical point(s) of view in terms of how national courts (do not) send references to the ECJ. Jos was invited to present his work on the ECJ and empirical insights into the preliminary reference procedure from the perspective of legal practitioners that have participated in these proceedings.
© Xandra Kramer 2020


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Q: очистить гит репозиторий от удалённых файлов Исторически возник большой репозиторий с несколькими десятками слабо связанных проектов.
Начитался что разделить можно просто склонировав репозиторий и удалив ненужные проекты. Склонировал, удалил. В проекте осталась только нужная папка, всё удалённое закомиттил, но папка .git разрослась больше полугигабайта. При том что сам проект мегабайт 50.
Можно ли как-то почистить репозиторий от удалённых файлов и их истории?

A: Для большого количества файлов или небольшого репозитория можно попробовать git filter-branch (см ответ от Arhad).
Для большого количества файлов, массовых чисток, или удаления случайно вкоммитанных паролей стоит использовать утилиту BFG Repo-Cleaner.
Она позволяет массово переписывать историю, и делает это очень быстро. На порядок быстрее git filter-branch. git filter-branch приходится вызывать для каждого файла, и он заново пересчитывает историю для каждого файла. Если файлов больше двух, это занимает вечность. Repo-Cleaner делает все за один проход.
Из базовых примеров:
Удаления файлов по маске:
bfg --delete-files id_{dsa,rsa}  my-repo.git

Удаление папки целиком
bfg --delete-folders somefolder --delete-files somefolder

Удаление больших файлов
bfg --strip-blobs-bigger-than 50M  my-repo.git

BFG по умолчанию не удаляет блобы в текущей ветке (HEAD), так что она идеально подходит для массовых чисток и переписывания истории без риска запороть последний коммит.
В качестве гайда можно воспользоваться справкой GitHub по чистке репозиториев:

*

*Removing files from a repository's history

*Removing sensitive data from a repository

A: Для того, чтобы удалить все упоминания конкретного файла из истории репозитория необходимо воспользоваться командой git filter-branch:
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --ignore-unmatch <путь>'

где <путь> — это путь до удаляемого файла относительно текущей папки (не корня репозитория!).
Учтите, что эта команда занимается переписыванием истории. То есть она берёт старое дерево и переносит его в новую копию, коммит за коммитом, после чего переназначает текущую указатель-ветку. Поэтому она работает очень медленно (около секунды на перенос одного коммита).
Затем надо удалить пустые коммиты, образовавшиеся на месте тех, в которых были изменения только удалённых файлов:
git filter-branch --commit-filter 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' HEAD

После переписывания истории надо убрать все оставшиеся хвосты, чтобы как можно скорее уменьшить размер репозитория:

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*Рвём все связи старых (исходных) коммитов с git reflog, чтобы сделать их недостижимыми:
git reflog expire --all --expire-unreachable=0

*Удаляем все недостижимые объекты (и упаковываем оставшиеся):
git gc --prune=all --force

Так как переписывание истории порождает новое дерево, которое не может быть наложено поверх одноимённой ветви любой другой копии репозитория, то ближайший git push придётся однократно сделать с ключом --force. То же самое касается и всех тех, кто будет выполнять git pull.

A: Если у вас был репозиторий гит на полгигабайта и вы сделали коммит, в котором грохнули 99% этого репозитория - то давайте определимся, вам то, что было ранее уже не пригодится никогда и можно этот архив грохнуть, либо вам вам это нужно?
Если нужно - то создайте новый репозиторий из оставшихся файлов, а в старый будете посматривать, если понадобится что-то глянуть.
Если не нужно - схлопывайте историю коммитов оставив только последний (git rebase -i HEAD~100), а потом делайте git gc и git push --force


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Manova Global Health Summit: The Sequel
Katie Couric is among the announced speakers.
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Katie Couric is among the headliners announced Monday for the second Manova Global Health Summit, to be held in Minneapolis in mid-October. A well-known television personality, Couric is also co-founder of Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C), a nonprofit which helps to fund promising cancer treatments. Fundraising broadcasts in the U.S. and Canada raised $109 million in pledges for SU2C in 2014.
The Manova event aims to bring together a range of health care executives, entrepreneurs, experts, and policy makers, with an eye toward the future of global health and wellness. The inaugural summit in October 2018 drew more than 1,000 attendees from six continents. More than 700 health care companies had representation at the conference.
Minnesota has a robust health care economy. The state is home to the nation's largest health insurer (Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group Inc.), the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, medical device giant Medtronic, and one of the top clusters of medical device companies and startups in the U.S.
Other speakers announced include:
James R. Downing: President and CEO of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
Thomas F. Burke: Chief of the Division of Global Health Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Agnes Binagwaho: Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity and former Health Minister of Rwanda
Jane Brody: Personal health columnist for The New York Times
"The 2019 MANOVA Summit is set to be even bigger and bolder," said Mark Addicks, CEO of Manova, in a statement. "Today, we are proud to be announcing our first group of world-class speakers that will lead programming as we convene global, national and local health leaders for this unique opportunity to collaborate, connect and partner with one another."
The three-day event—which runs Oct. 14-16—takes place at the Minneapolis Renaissance Hotel at The Depot in downtown Minneapolis.
The Golden Valley-based Medical Alley Association trade group was a primary sponsor of the inaugural event last year, but is not a partner or sponsor of the event this year.
Of particular note to those interested in the sometimes-dicey business of healthcare startups, Theranos whistleblowers Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung are also on the list of speakers.
Theranos Inc. was once one of the most celebrated startups in Silicon Valley. The company, which purported it could do comprehensive blood tests with blood drawn from a finger, raised more than $700 million from investors and was valued at a staggering $9 billion.
But coverage in the Wall Street Journal disclosed significant issues with the company's technology and its representations to investors. In March 2018 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company, founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and former president Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani with "raising more than $700 million from investors through an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company's technology, business, and financial performance."
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Ethereum has faster transactions than the 10 minutes of standard bitcoin protocol. How do the transaction fees compare at the moment if you translate the price into a comparable currency like dollars or euros? Long-term how are they likely to compare?
Every computation on the Ethereum network cost gas, so do value transfers like on the bitcoin blockchain.
Users can set the gas price they are willing to pay and and miners can set the minimum gas price they are willing to accept. This creates a dynamic market, which allows ethers "fee" to be dynamic and adopt to ether price swings.
In short, in Ethereum the fees are paid in gas and calculated based on contract code execution complexity, in bitcoin the're based solely on transaction size.
See the these Ethereum gas fees tables ( table1, table2 ) for the complete gas costs for executing contract code.
For Bitcoin you can check the fees explanation page and formula from the bitcoin wiki.
The recommended bitcoin standard transaction fee is 0.1mBTC (10000 satoshis) even if the minimum fee around ~0.055mBTC. The fees rises if you aggregate multiple inputs, to produce multiple outputs instead, because their size is smaller (1/4) compared to an input, the amount to pay is smaller.
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Home match day
1. FC Köln settle for split with Wolfsburg after conceding late
TOPICS:1. FC KölnBas DostEffZehIvan PerisicKevin DeBruyneMatch RecapSimon Zollertransfer rumorsVfL Wolfsburg
Posted By: Randall Hauk August 22, 2015
Some thoughts from 1. FC Köln's 1:1 draw with VfL Wolfsburg to open the home segment of the season.
In the end, 1. FC Köln needs to be content, if not overjoyed, by snatching a point from a club as highly regarded as VfL Wolfsburg. The reigning DFB Cup winner, Bundesliga vice-champion, and Champions League participant are favored to be the team to bring drama to this year's title race, if any drama is brought at all.
But because of the way the match played out, it's going to take some work to get past feelings of disappointment.
During the majority of the game in which the effzeh were, by far, the more-energetic side and definitely looked the more threatening, everything seemed grand. Once the home side was put in front in the 30th minute by Simon Zoller, fans both in the stands and online were enjoying themselves by exclaiming the club's top-of-table status with "Spitzenreiter."
The hosts continued to look the more-engaged side and pressed for a second goal, but it was not to be despite several big opportunities.
Even as some of the steam steemed to be taken from the Köln effort, the club was defending well enough to maintain dreams of carrying the single goal to a three-point result.
And then the luck of the Lord intervened.
Niklas Bendtner had Timo Horn's deflection of the ball roll right to his feet, right before a wide-open goal, and two of those three points evaporated.
After that, Wolfsburg was closer to winning even more points than Köln was to regaining those they let slip away late. In fact, a pair of huge moments from Horn were all that kept a point for the home side over the final minutes and copious added-time.
Ultimately, fans got to see some of the high-energy game the effzeh had seemed to promise in the summer, providing for exciting football and dreams of doing more than preserving scoreless draws.
Peter Stöger did revert to a 4-2-3-1 against a team laden with offensive weapons, but the presence of the two holding midfielders did not prevent the team from showing the aggressive closing on the ball in the opposition's half that seemed to be a big component in the summer test match's.
And it worked! Not allowing the Wolfsburg backs to bring the ball up the pitch uncontested led to multiple turnovers of the ball in Wolfsburg's own half, thanks to sloppy passing under pressure and two-fights (I'm REALLY not going to call Zweikämpfe 'duels') in which the Köln midfielders enjoyed an advantageous rate of success.
Because the 4-2-3-1, against a stronger opponent, delivered more the type of play Stöger seemed to want than did the 4-1-4-1 the weekend before, you have to wonder whether how long it will be before we see the 4-1-4-1 again. Kevin Vogt had a strong match today paired with Matthias Lehmann, and the trio of Bittencourt, Zoller, and Risse showed plenty, so if the appealing style and successful pressing can be effected even with the addition help in defensive midfield, there won't be much reason to replace Vogt again with Osako, Jojic, or Gerhardt other than coach preference.
Rising – Simon Zoller
Zoller, a striker by trade, successfully slotted into the center of the midfield in place of another striker playing out of position, Yuya Osako, due to injury. In addition to scoring Köln's lone goal through some tidy technical effort, Zoller was omnipresent in pressing Wolfsburg coming out of their end and then in the attacks that followed.
Zoller zips past Casteels and Naldo for the score.
But if you know the story of Zoller's first year after transferring from Kaiserslautern, all you need to know about his day is that he given a standing ovation as he was substituted from the game.
His willingness to do what the coach asks of him and do so energetically is going eventually make people forget that many had hoped he'd stay in Kaiserslautern after his second-half loan back to his former team last season.
Rising – Jonas Hector (football god)
Can a "football god" even be said to rise? Ascend, maybe?
Hector's play continues to expand as he grows increasingly comfortable with the idea that he's no longer just some farm kid playing on the biggest of stages, rather he's a member of the national team playing with that sort of presence for a top Bundesliga club.
Wolfsburg successes last season were largely fuelled by play stemming from Kevin DeBruyne and Ivan Perisic on the flanks. On Saturday, neither player established much of a presence, much less on Hector's left side.
It's only fair to note, I suppose, that Hector came out on the wrong end of a two-fight against Daniel Caligiuri in a series that led to the equalizer, but nobody wins all their battles all the time. Hector's play was a huge factor in keeping Wolfsburg mostly-harmless for much of the day.
Rising – Frederik Sørensen
One of the two new guys in central defense, Sørensen has been a huge contributor to supporting the offensive philosophies of the team by providing stability in the back. Tasked with dealing with Bas Dost, the Dane had plenty of opportunity to show his value. He won his battles and kept the Dutch goal threat in check and visibly frustrated.
With Dominic Maroh nearing a return, it would seem Stöger will have some decisions to make, but it's going to be difficult to justify sitting Sørensen at this rate. He's proving to be a very strong pick-up by Jörg Schmadtke.
Distraction Central?
How much was VfL Wolfsburg's game today hurt by the swirl of transfer rumor surrounding offensive stars Kevin DeBruyne and Ivan Perisic?
Certainly, DeBruyne has developed a reputation for ineffective play when his attitude isn't right for a match, which has often led to uninspired performances for the offensive phase of the Wolfsburg game. Certainly, it can be said at the least that DeBruyne contributed little to help his team find a groove today.
Perisic was nearly equally invisible from the attacking efforts Saturday, which comes somewhat of a surprise considering his terrific form the week before against Eintract Frankfurt.
Did the effzeh play a role in Wolfsburg's struggles? Absolutely! But the fact is that we might not get a look at Wolfsburg's true self until we're on the other side of the transfer window, by which time, either or both of those players may be gone from the Bundesliga.
Point Blank: Timo Horn.
Yes, you'd have loved for Horn to have held onto the ball that ultimately trickled to Bendtner for the equalizer, and yes, it's hard to pick a guy who had such a critical failure in the one goal-against.
There's your point, right there!
Except that Horn became all the more critical in retaining that point as Wolfsburg surged to life after their goal. Without those huge saves made on DeBruyne and Dost in the waning moments, we're talking about three points dropped at home, rather than two. He had had moments earlier in the match, but none as big as either of those two to keep the point in the face of a suddenly vital Wolfsburg attack.
Next?
See you next week at the same Billy Goat time, same Billy Goat place. Hamburger SV comes calling Saturday, riding high off their 3:2 comeback victory over VfB Stuttgart.
Köln end Saturday fourth in the table, though could drop into fifth behind a victor from Sunday's Borussia Dortmund – FC Ingolstadt match.
Yannick Gerhardt Returns to Training
Effzeh Auf Englisch: 1. FC Köln News for 3 July 2013
Timo Says He's Staying (for now)! He also says other stuff.
Effzeh auf Englisch: Hosting Kaiserslautern under the Friday Night Lights
Effzeh auf Englisch: Failed Ex-Coaches Haunt My Midweek
It turns out even the mention of former coaches who were abject failures during my formative days as an Effzeh fan can do nothing to darken my football mood. I know…
No Promotions Given in November
Effzeh in English: Friday 12 December 2014
What? Why?!


My husband and I live on an island in Southeast Alaska. We have five children of which three are adults. One of our sons is currently actively using a variety of drugs. He has been struggling with his addictions for about 4 years off and on. He is 22. I'm starting this blog because I feel the need to not be ashamed by reaching out and asking others for support that can understand what my family is going through. I also want to offer that same thing to others. I have a strong faith in God and recognize that most people have a higher power whether it's called God, Budda or something else. We all know addiction discriminates against no one. Addiction wants anyone regardless of social or economic status. This blog is intended to provide a positive outlet and support for those who need it, whether you are struggling with addiction, you are in recovery or you are a friend, loved one or family of someone. I hope that sharing my own story and experiences will help someone else. I would like to make a difference in my community and other places with the current opioid epidemic. Island life can be challenging in situations like ours.
Well I am back from Japan. Had an absolutely amazing time! I would recommend to anyone that they go and see Japan!! It was fantastic! I found it very peaceful after I started to feel more comfortable. The scenery is such bright and so green! Not like anything I have seen. And the streets are so clean! Not a garbage can in sight, yet no trash on the ground. People do not walk around eating anywhere in Japan. It is not heard of.
So, while I was gone all hell broke loose. Our son relapsed and was full on using all the time. Things were going very bad. My husband and him had words and my husband reconciled and went to him and they were fine. Both of them were at fault.
Why are there no directions on how parents are to deal with this stuff? UGH, makes it so very difficult. You love your kid so much and yet you have to sit back and watch it all take place and not be able to do anything. My heart feels like it is stomped on all the time!
Anyhow, I am back now and look my son was finally able to get into the medication assisted therapy program and it looks like he will have a bed for inpatient treatment and he has a detox he can go to. So hopefully the crazy cycle is about to take a rest at least for a while. I am praying he can get the services he needs to stop altogether and not turn back. However, I must be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. I have faith!!
Her inability to recognize that others are able to have their own opinions and think freely was not the only reason she oozed with narcissism. It was certainly a contributing factor, but not the main trait. She especially challenged other women.
It was more than being a little jealous. It was she saw other women as a threat, a competition and that she was the better woman. No one else could be better than her.
She always has a constant need to point out how she is doing. Kind of like a "look at me" attitude. Look at me, my grades are so awesome. Look at me, I'm better off without you. Look at me, I'm doing better than you could have expected. Why can you not make me the center of your attention all the time!
Her narcissism oozed out when she spoke. It oozed out when she would get upset with people not praising her every move. It oozed out when she refused to listen to others thoughts and feelings. How could her ideas not be the best ones? How could she just be another opinion not agreed with? Or how could someone else have a good idea that would have just as much impact or more than hers!
She was that woman that people avoided because of her narcissism. She definitely was intelligent, pretty, funny and charismatic. However, her inability to recognize and be open to others opinions really showed her true intent and her flaws.


Leyla and Kaveh are the instruments of a cruel and bizarre game. The well-situated couple drive through the mountains distributing plastic bags full of money to every poor and unfortunate person they meet. At first everything goes according to plan as they disdainfully "share the joy" with their shocked "neighbors" while documenting the event via cellphone. They encounter those, however, who refuse the strange gift – and others who end up offending the irresponsible strangers. Gradually, the amoral game (part of which involves inventing a vast array of stories) begins to turn against the cynical manipulators.… This darkly comic parable seeks to critique modern society's penchant for squandering resources, energy, and emotions in artificially constructed pranks. The dramatically terse, minimalistic narrative is intensified by the lead actors' restrained performances, and by the gorgeous natural backdrop where the film plays out over the course of 24 hours. The picture took the NETPAC Prize at the Berlinale 2012 for Best Asian movie.