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The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat ~ or What Alex Rodriguez, Esmailyn "Smiley" Gonzalez, R. Allen Stanford and Bernie Madoff Have in Common
Posted on February 20, 2009 by hector
Illustrator Barry Blitt has done it again. He has created yet another great New Yorker cover that parallels the one he did of Obama back in July of 2008. Only now, in the February 23 issue, we find a muscular Alex Rodgriguez signing autographs for steroid pumped children.
Blitt New Yorker -- Rodriguez
The illustration captures the conflicting drama of sports in America today: while we've been taught that sports–and particularly baseball–are about community, fair play, honor and courage, the notion that a player works as hard as she and he can for the benefit of the team, we find instead another reality–selfishness and hubris, egotism, deceit, cheating and scandal. And all of it the design of a production system that suggests that winning at any cost is what matters most.
The fundamental American principles of self-reliance, experience and pragmatism are nowhere evident. It's no wonder we're all confused.
Baseball was about redemption. It is a forgiving sport for players and viewers; it is also a contemplative sport. The point of baseball is to "come home"–round the bases home. It's a space game. There's plenty of time in baseball. But none of this is true anymore. Baseball is as harsh a sport as any other. Home is where the gold is. Possibilities are gone, as is the imagination. Like football, our current national pastime, baseball is now a finite game, about end results. And the end result is not winning, but rather, profit and loss.
In 2008, the 33 year old Rodriguez had a .302 average (.306 lifetime) and earned $28 million dollars. Coming into the 2008 season, the Yankees were valued somewhere between $200 million, to $1.2 billion; their revenue was $302 million (with $28 million in losses); and player costs, the largest expense, was approximately $200 million a year.
"The Yankees—read Steinbrenner—also own more than a third of the YES network, which broadcasts Yankees games to 8.7 million subscribers. The network's revenues top a quarter billion and its profit margin is 60 percent. Though a completely separate business from the Yankees, YES's value is directly tied to how much interest people have in the team, making a $200 million payroll a very easy decision."**
The system corrupts. The profits for many owners, staggering. And players like Rodriguez are used to ensure that a franchise's tentacles are many and reaching far and wide. It's not surprising, then, that "A top baseball prospect from the Dominican Republic who received a $1.4 million signing bonus from the Washington Nationals lied about his age and name in what team president Stan Kasten called 'an elaborate scheme.'"*** The Nationals signed a 16-year-old shortstop named Esmailyn "Smiley" Gonzalez. He was compared to U.S. Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith. "But while the Nationals have been listing his date of birth as Sept. 21, 1989 — which would make him 19 now — Kasten said on Wednesday that a Major League Baseball investigation determined Gonzalez was actually Carlos David Alvarez Lugo, born in November 1985 — meaning he was really 23." ****
Money corrupts and the prospects of a lot of money earned early and fast corrupts even more. That's the game now. That's been American life for quite some time. This is why we can't see ourselves coming out of this black hole for quite some time.
We learn from the historian Richard O. Davies, in Sports in American Life, A History, that "to be a sporting man in the mid-nineteenth century was to be someone who flouted rules of social acceptability by gravitating toward activities deemed inappropriate for a proper gentleman." By mid-century this changed and sportsmen had good social standing and created outlets such as boating, swimming, horse racing, baseball, and so on. And by the end of the century, spontaneity is gone from sports and we find "formalized structures, written rules and bureaucratic organizations," Davies tells us. Professionalism in sports is in–and it comes in with industrialization. Money–read profits–becomes central to the American experience.
Now in 2009, we have incredibly lavish sports venues, extraordinary media contracts and more highly paid stars than ever before. The stakes are high. So so much so that sports venues are sometimes created at the expense of communities nearby–the old Yankee Stadium and the South Bronx is a case in point.
The athlete as role model, in this system, is supplanted by the owner as king. The owner as plantation owner in a vituperative economic model dating back to slavery (see: William C. Rhodan, sports columnist for The New York Times, in Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete /a star like David Beckham, at the time of this writing, is about to be traded–not loaned–to AC Milan). Money is privileged above all else. The premium placed on performance is extensive because the faster, bigger, and more powerful athlete has to hold the viewer's attention. Salaries and on and off the field mayhem (Phelps's pot smoking theatrical) are all part of the mediated experience of sports in America. Without it we don't know what to make of our sports. We need the disjointed narrative to make sense of our oppressive lives that, with every day, appear to hang by a thread.
Phelps + Bong
Professional sports mirror American life and the reflection is bleak and dark. The American athlete is central to our collective experience. The professional athlete is a metaphor for our sense of self, our desires–but also our foibles, our darkest selves. It's not surprising, then, that during these the darkest of times Mixed Marshall Arts, which used to be called caged fighting, extreme fighting, and no holds barred fighting, is one of the fastest growing spectator sports. Anything goes.
Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford believed this–anything and everything was for their taking. Not unlike Rodriguez and "Smiley"-Lugo, Madoff and Stanford, who lived in an elite system, a bubble, sensed that they were somehow immune to the morals of our society and our socioeconomic systems. Rodriguez's ready-made narrative is that he was young and naive, a stupid kid. Unknowingly he took steroids. In the case of "Smiley"-Lugo, MLB, agents and owners are all passing the buck, no one really taking responsibility, though there is a history of age irregularities in the league.
Why a 70 year old Madoff, so respected by Wall Street, would create a Ponzi Scheme, your guess is as good as mine. And why would Stanford involve himself in fraud is yet another mystery. But most distressing is the information we're getting that some of the Madoff money comes from organized crime, while some of the money in the Stanford case comes from a Mexican drug cartel. Madoff and Stanford have allegedly been involved in money laundering. Anything goes, including the taking of people's lives.
Madoff and Stanford, and Rodriguez and "Smiley"-Lugo are one and the same, born in a time where hubris reigns supreme; where what children see and experience is irrelevant–some will suffer, others will pull themselves up by their bootstraps and survive, and yet others, like those kids in the Blitt New Yorker cartoon will imitate Madoff and Stanford, Rodriguez and "Smiley"-Lugo. This is the most corrupting tragedy of all. Everyone is expendable. And when everyone is expendable, everyone is also a commodity.
Steroids, graft and corruption, these are the symptoms of a lost humanity.
In "Money for Idiots," David Brooks tells us that, "Our moral and economic system is based on individual responsibility. It's based on the idea that people have to live with the consequences of their decisions. This makes them more careful deciders. This means that society tends toward justice — people get what they deserve as much as possible."
This is the ideal, not the reality. We find ourselves in a moment of real moral oscillation. We don't know which end is up. We can only look at ourselves, though, and determine who and what we value,what's closest to the human heart, what's important. It may mean that in order to balance ourselves out, we have to also balance out idiots–but not criminals–as Brooks contends in his editorial piece.
In the meantime, in the South Bronx, within view of Yankee Stadium, a little girl, Pineapple is her name, Jonathan Kozol tells us in The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, looks out towards Manhattan and describes us as "other people." She fully understands that we live differently than she does–and she's only in elementary school. What she sees–the Rodriguez's and the Madoff's and the Stanford's–are what she calls "other people," and they live different lives, touted as successful, luxuriant, wonderful. Just to get to school, Pineapple and friends have to walk through all sorts of dangers. As she looks outward past Yankee Stadium, how will she learn how to choose? Who will she be given who we are?
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Confounding Variable
Confounding Variable / Third Variable
Martyn Shuttleworth, Lyndsay T Wilson488K reads
Confounding variables (aka third variables) are variables that the researcher failed to control, or eliminate, damaging the internal validity of an experiment.
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What are Confounding Variables?
A confounding variable, also known as a third variable or a mediator variable, influences both the independent variable and dependent variable. Being unaware of or failing to control for confounding variables may cause the researcher to analyze the results incorrectly. The results may show a false correlation between the dependent and independent variables, leading to an incorrect rejection of the null hypothesis.
The Problem with Confounding Variables
For example, a research group might design a study to determine if heavy drinkers die at a younger age.
They proceed to design a study, and set about gathering data. Their results, and a battery of statistical tests, indeed show that people who drink excessively are likely to die younger.
Unfortunately, when the researchers gather data from their subjects' non-drinking peers, they discover that they, too, die earlier than average. Maybe there is another factor, not measured, that influences both drinking and longevity?
The weakness in the experimental design was that they failed to take into account confounding variables, and did not try to eliminate or control any other factors.
Imagine that in this case, there is in fact no relationship between drinking and longevity. But there may be other variables which bring about both heavy drinking and decreased longevity. If they are unaware of these variables, the researchers may assume that heavy drinking is causing reduced longevity, i.e. they'll make what's called a "spurious association." In reality, decreased longevity may be better explained by a third, confounding variable.
For example, it is quite possible that the heaviest drinkers hailed from a different background or social group. This group might be, for unrelated reasons, shorter lived than other groups. Heavy drinkers may be more likely to smoke, or eat junk food, all of which could be factors in reducing longevity. In any case, it is the fact they belong to this group that is responsible for their decreased longevity, and not heavy drinking.
Without controlling for potential confounding variables, the internal validity of the experiment is undermined.
Extraneous Variables
Any variable that researchers are not deliberately studying in an experiment is an extraneous (outside) variable that could threaten the validity of the results. In the example above, these could include age and gender, junk food consumption or marital status.
An extraneous variable becomes a confounding variable when it varies along with the factors you are actually interested in. In other words, it becomes difficult to separate out which effect belongs to which variable, complicating the data.
To return to the example, age might be an extraneous variable. The researchers could control for age by making sure that everyone in the experiment is the same age. If they didn't, age would become a confounding variable.
Any time there is another variable in an experiment that offers an alternative explanation for the outcome, it has the potential to become a confounding variable. Researchers must therefore control for these as much as possible.
Minimizing the Effects of Confounding Variables
In many fields of science, it is difficult to remove entirely all of the confounding variables, especially outside the controlled conditions of a lab.
A well-planned experimental design, and constant checks, will filter out the worst confounding variables.
For example, randomizing groups, utilizing strict controls, and sound operationalization practice all contribute to eliminating potential third variables.
After research, when the results are discussed and assessed by a group of peers, this is the area that stimulates the most heated debate. When you read stories of different foods increasing your risk of cancer, or hear claims about the next super-food, assess these findings carefully.
Many media outlets jump on sensational results, but never pay any regard to the possibility of confounding variables.
Mini-quiz:
Imagine that a research project attempts to study the effect of a popular herbal antidepressant. They sample participants from an online alternative medicine group and ask them to take the remedy for a month. The participants complete a depression inventory before and after the month to measure whether they experience any improvement in their mood. The researchers do indeed find that the participants' moods are better after a month of treatment.
Can you identify any variables which may have confounded this result? The answer is at the bottom of the page.
Correlation and Causation
The principle is closely related to the problem of correlation and causation.
For example, a scientist performs statistical tests, sees a correlation and incorrectly announces that there is a causal link between two variables.
The problem is that the research has not actually isolated a true cause and effect relationship. It is similar to a researcher who notices that the fewer storks there are in a country, the lower the birth rate is. They would be mistaken to assume that a decrease in storks causes a decrease in birth rate.
Though these factors might show some correlation, it doesn't mean that one is causing the other. In fact, two variables may move with one another purely by coincidence!
Constant monitoring, before, during and after an experiment, is the only way to ensure that any confounding variables are eliminated.
Statistical tests, whilst excellent for detecting correlations, can be almost too accurate.
Human judgment is always needed to eliminate any underlying problems, ensuring that researchers do not jump to conclusions.
Mini-quiz Answer
The fact that the participants were sampled from a group with an interest in alternative medicine may mean that a third variable, their belief in the effectiveness of the remedy, was responsible. You may have thought of other confoudning variables. For example their mood might have improved for a number of other unrelated reasons, like a change in weather, holidays, or an improvement in personal circumstances.
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Throughout his long, storied career, Ridley Scott has only known how to pump his films to the maximum volume and to throw the kitchen sink at his audience. Full of large budgets, bloody, bloody carnage, and maximalist aesthetics, his movies are capable of occupying every inch of a cinema.
Stemming from his second film Alien to his latest and second movie this year House of Gucci, Scott has shown no sign of reining in his aggressive, speed of light work rate. Scott is a filmmaker known for an increasingly large color palette and super-slick commercial style, even though his artistry has never suffered.
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Even after raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in box office revenue and plenty of Oscar nominations, Scott continues to churn out top-notch work. Here are his top 10 so far.
10GI Jane
Playing a supercharged and determined Naval veteran who wants to break strides as the first female Navy Seal, Demi Moore goes against all the awful double standards of the patriarchy while going toe to toe with her master chief played by Viggo Mortensen in GI Jane. Scott's direction is slick as always and gives plenty of unforgettable moments to its lead, Moore, who proves she has all it takes to be an action badass.
9Black hawk Down
Coming off the tails of Gladiator, you'd think no director would be willing to plunge themselves right back into the battlefield, but Scott did just that with Black Hawk Down. Never quite reaching the heights of his early masterworks but, nevertheless, Scott directs this pulsating survivor story featuring non-stop shootouts with utmost finesse.
Featuring an incredibly stacked cast that features the likes of Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, and Tom Sizemore, Black Hawk Down is a scorcher of a film. The story revolves around an elite unit of Army Rangers who get left behind in a Somalian city who have to fend off 100s of militia until rescue comes. Black Hawk never wanes from distraction and keeps the viewers locked in until the end.
8American Gangster
The only way Scott could do a crime film is to go epic. In its scale and scope, Scott crafts the story of Frank Lucas – the biggest distributor of heroin at the time – with gritty and ruthless intent. Denzel Washington shines in his portrayal of the suave, smart, and vicious gangster Lucas. Frank meticulously builds his criminal network while slowly and tragically involving his family. But, the epic crime saga chronicles Lucas' fight against the law with Ridley's longtime collaborator, Russell Crowe, just waiting to bring him down. American Gangster is a vicious but poignant story of the Harlem crime world.
7The Martian
Ridley Scott knows no bounds to the scale or scope of his cinematic vision. Even when shooting for the moon, or this time, Mars, Scott's commercial viability never lessens the craft or artistry of his films. In the Matt Damon-led story The Martian, Scott lets his lead take the reins for the majority of the film, as the lone astronaut stranded on Mars, staking his life in hopes his crew will come back to rescue him. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and went on to gross $630 Million Worldwide.
6Legend
After gifting the world of cinema with two sci-fi classics, Scott's follow-up was the fantasy tale Legend with then-burgeoning superstar Tom Cruise. While the film at that time felt a disappointment, age has only helped the film's reputation grow. The film builds the beautiful enchantment of a magical forest but is also quick to deepen on its gothic side at the drop of a dime. Legend is gorgeous in design and has a beauty of a score from Jerry Goldsmith.
5House of Gucci
Even at the tender age of 82, Scott continues to work at breakneck speed and churn out memorable films. His second film of this year happens to be one of his best. In the true-crime story of the Gucci family, Scott directs a stacked cast in this stylish crime thriller that knows when to lean into its laughs and not be over-serious. Featuring an Academy Award-worthy performance from Lady Gaga, the balance of style and substance was the perfect alchemy to make House of Gucci a great film.
4Thelma & Louise
A groundbreaking and instantly iconic film when it was released, Thelma & Louise takes a spin at repurposing the Western ethos as a progressive take on bandits on the run set against the sparse backdrop of the southwest desert. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon shine in Scott's sleek direction as they empower and liberate themselves from the grips of possessive men while also realizing the love they have for one another is all they need.
3Gladiator
In Scott's only film to land Best Picture at the Oscars and one that should've won him Best Director, Gladiator is a Roman epic grounded in the tragic roots of the hero journey. Featuring some of the best duel-to-the-death battles inside the Colosseum and carried by Russell Crowe's brooding, tough guy charisma, Gladiator is a violent but endearing revenge story from start to finish.
2Blade Runner
The only way to follow up a classic is to give the world another. While not as respected upon release, Blade Runner has proven to have legs because of Scott's impeccable craft and the ambiguity by design. Harrison Ford leads as Deckard, a detective whose job it is to seek out replicants, the hostile artificial intelligence product that is seeking autonomy against the humans who designed it. Ridley built the then futuristic world of Los Angeles in 2017 with a dream-like, neo-noir design, where the mystery of the dream is the subject of ongoing debate.
In only his second film, Ridley Scott would prove to be a director of massive talent, intellect and show a passion for ingenuity that would only push the craft forward as well as influence every film to come after. Alien is not only a story that combines great character arcs – including the one of its lead Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) – special effects and cinematography, but the dread which hangs over every frame of the film throughout is unmatched, even today. Alien is an iconic film and one of the greatest of the sci-fi horror genre.
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Massachusetts Funds Offshore Wind Workforce Training Initiatives
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Massachusetts' Baker-Polito administration has announced $721,500 in grants to six academic institutions and labor organizations to establish workforce training and development programs to support the state's emerging offshore wind industry.
The awards include a $200,000 commitment from Vineyard Wind's Windward Workforce Fund. The programs will be located at institutions in Barnstable, Bourne, Fall River, New Bedford, Newton and Martha's Vineyard.
"Growing a workforce for the construction, installation and operation of offshore wind will create opportunities for Massachusetts residents to take advantage of the thousands of jobs created by this emerging industry," says Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito.
The institutions receiving funding are as follows:
Bristol Community College (BCC) – $200,000 to establish basic safety training and basic technical training to Global Wind Organization (GWO) standards at its campus in New Bedford.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) – $184,000 to establish all five modules of GWO basic safety training at its campus and develop an "introduction to offshore wind" course for MMA cadets. A crew transfer training facility, supported by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), will be operational this summer.
UMass Amherst – $105,500 to complete the initial design of and develop most of an offshore wind professional certificate program to be offered at the Mt. Ida campus in Newton.
Pile Drivers and Divers Local 56 – $100,000 to sponsor trade union members for GWO basic safety training at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Cape Cod Community College – $66,570 to develop and deliver a suite of courses to introduce students and workers to careers in offshore wind.
Adult Continuing Education – Martha's Vineyard – $65,000 to partner with BCC and MMA to provide on-island courses and training to support basic safety and technical certification, as well as offshore wind technician certificates.
"The offshore wind industry is poised to create new renewable energy jobs, and these programs represent an important development as the commonwealth readies for the first large-scale project in the nation," says Stephen Pike, CEO of MassCEC. "With Massachusetts' proud maritime heritage, robust innovation economy and academic and training assets, the state is very well-positioned to grow a workforce that will contribute to this new American industry for years to come."
In April 2018, MassCEC released a report on the workforce needs and economic impact of the emerging offshore wind industry, finding that the deployment of 1,600 MW of offshore wind is estimated to support between 2,300 and 3,100 direct job years over the next 10 years and generate a total economic impact in Massachusetts of between $678 million to $805 million.


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Titan said that it has been continuously supporting Swiss watch subsidiary Favre Leuba and has made a series of investments aggregating to Rs 275 crore for the revival of the company.
Titan Company, a part of the Tata Group, on Monday said that its board has decided to scale down the operations of its wholly owned subsidiary, Favre Leuba AG (FLAG), with immediate effect. The watch-to-jewellery maker had acquired global rights to the trademarks of heritage Swiss watch brand Favre Leuba for 2 million euros in 2011.
Headquartered in Solothurn, Switzerland, FLAG was incorporated in 2012 by Titan as a 100 per cent subsidiary, following which, the Swiss watch brand was revived by the Tata group company.
In a regulatory filing, Titan Company said that it has been continuously supporting FLAG, and has made a series of investments aggregating to approximately Rs 275 crore, over a period of time for the revival of the Favre Leuba brand and its growth plans. The current COVID-19 pandemic, however, has severely impacted the revival plans and prospects, it said.
Considering the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the businesses, the board of Titan at its meeting has decided to request the FLAG management to scale down the operations of the company substantially with immediate effect so that further investments from Titan to FLAG cease as early as possible, it said.
"Consequently, this will lead to Titan making provisions in the current financial year for additional impairment pertaining to its investments in FLAG, in addition to the impairment of Rs 145 crore already made in earlier years," the Tata Group company said in a filing to the BSE.
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Stay away from this place! I agree with Dave M and Lloyd L.
Read reviews before you go here (on other sites as well). The course is mediocre, at best. Much more than that though, the ownership/management/staff is horrendous. I should have read the reviews before wasting my time and money at this place. I'd rather light my money on fire than contribute to the bottom line at this (insert favorite expletive here). Let me know when the ownership/management has been replaced. I came here to write the same thing that many others have mentioned..."I wouldn't go here if it was free".
This is one of those places that begs for the option of zero stars.
This is one of those places that begs for the option of zero stars. I really never thought I would give out a one star review, but this placed definitely earned it! Absolutely deplorable.
I went here as part of the pre-wedding festivities for my daughter. I will skip the parts about the complete lack of professionalism and verbal attacks by managers of the establishment. That alone was enough to earn a one star and to never return here again. Instead, I'll focus on what started the unbelievable, worst customer service I have ever experienced.
I was not going to be golfing due to physical reasons and so I asked for a cart. I was not allowed to PAY for a cart to travel along with the group. I was absolutely not allowed to go out with the group unless I was golfing, even if I paid! After reading another users review about how rundown and dangerous the carts are, maybe it was for the best. Regardless, I was disappointed to not be able to participate in what was supposed to be a nice afternoon before my daughter's wedding.
If this place was free, it would be overpriced. Nobody that I know, will ever be giving this establishment any kind of business.
ATTN: SAFETY HAZARD: I lost control of the cart going from 1st tee to the fairway. My partner was thrown from the cart. The cart almost rolled over. We could have both died. He was injured but, thank God, not seriously. We requested another cart which was better but not great.
A little hilly for walking, but do-able. Interesting layout with hills, meandering, curving fairways. Good use of water, trees, landscape. Greens were in great shape and both times we've played here it has been raining. Fairly busy place but paced well.
Best golfing value in Portland.!
Best golfing value in Portland.! The course is very well maintained, especially for a public course. Lots of terrain variations, which gives the course a unique feel. Not particularly challenging, good for most golfers. Really beautiful scenery with great landscaping, forest butting up to the golf course and views of Mt. St. Helens, Willamette and Portland. I find the staff to be friendly and helpful. Really a good overall value and they don't even gouge you on beer! Pace of play is usually great, but obviously can be slow on a weekend in the summer mid day, just like every other course in town. If you have a complaint about a marshal hassling you, you were probably being a jackass or you were playing behind the pace.


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Senators' Trade Bait: Cody Ceci
Trade rumours have circled the Ottawa Senators for years now, and most of the players involved in them have eventually been shipped out. But there has been one player that the team has held onto: Cody Ceci. Ceci has drawn the ire of Senators fans since he broke into the league and has never lived up to the 15th-overall selection that the team used on him. With the team rebuilding, now may be as good a time as any to move the defender.
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According to Ken Warren of the Ottawa Sun, general manager Pierre Dorion and Ceci's camp have discussed a potential extension for the restricted free agent (RFA) defenseman, both short and long term. However, Warren also says that Dorion is also "seriously exploring the trade market" in case the two sides can't come to an agreement. (From: "Cody Ceci in the midst of trade talks in advance of NHL draft" – Ottawa Sun – June 18, 2019).
Senators' Cody Ceci finds himself in trade rumours again (photo: Amy Irvin)
This possibility brings up many questions. What would a trade look like? Where could he end up? And perhaps most importantly, is this finally the time Ceci gets traded? Let's take a look.
Ceci Trade Comparable
Leading up to the draft, many defenders on the trade bait and free agent lists have been taken off the board. Former Senator Erik Karlsson re-signed with the San Jose Sharks (giving the Senators a 2021 second-round pick in the process), Jacob Trouba was traded to the New York Rangers, Olli Maatta was moved to the Chicago Blackhawks, and Justin Braun was sent to the Philadelphia Flyers, who also swapped Radko Gudas with Matt Niskanen of the Washington Capitals. It's been a busy few days for the league's defenders.
Out of these, the closest comparison is former Pittsburgh Penguin, Maatta. Here's a look comparing the career stats of the first-round picks:
Player Age GP G A P P/60
Ceci 25 440 32 86 118 0.27
Maatta 24 362 25 82 107 0.30
They are about the same age, with similar stats through their careers. Both players have also struggled defensively through their careers with Ceci holding a minus-3.9 Relative Corsi For percentage and Maatta with a minus -1.2.
When the Penguins traded Maatta to the Blackhawks, the return was Dominik Kahun and a 2019 fifth-round draft pick. Kahun is a promising forward coming off of a rookie season with 13 goals and 23 assists. It's a good return for the Penguins. A sticking point would be the fact that Ceci is a restricted free agent, where Maatta has three years left on his deal.
The Olli Maatta trade may be a close comparable for Ceci (Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)
For the Senators, they would be looking for at least this if they were to trade their home-grown defender. More likely though, they would use him in a package to move up in the draft.
What Could a Ceci Trade Look Like?
According to Sportsnet's Wayne Scanlan, Dorion's phone has been ringing for their cap space and draft assets. In the article, Dorion discusses what those calls have touched on.
"There have been multiple discussions, more about moving up than moving down because we have pick 32 and 44."
The Senators may try to move up, say to the Vancouver Canucks spot with the 10th pick or the Edmonton Oilers at 8th. Both teams have been rumoured to be looking at Toronto Maple Leafs right-handed defender Nikita Zaitsev, and if the price is too high, maybe they turn their attention to another right-shot defenseman: Ceci.
Speaking of the Oilers, another interesting return could be Jesse Puljijarvi. According to TSN's Darren Dreger, the winger has asked the team for a trade. Coming from a position of weakness, the Oilers, who need defense, could see Ceci as the best return possible. They have said the won't give him away, but perhaps there is a deal to be made here.
Jesse Puljujarvi has asked for a trade out of Edmonton (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Puljijarvi was the fourth-overall pick in 2016 and hasn't had the best start to his career with the Oilers. In 139 games, he has 17 goals and 37 points. He's looking for a change of scenery, and as a right winger at just 21-years-old, he would fit perfectly with the rebuilding Senators.
It might not be a one-for-one trade considering the age and ceiling difference, but Ceci and a fourth or fifth-round pick for the Oilers' winger would be an enticing deal. TSN's Ryan Rishaug mentioned that the Oilers would want a third-line forward in the deal, so maybe including veteran Mikkel Boedker could help the case.
Although, he also mentions that defender Matt Benning could be on the move to make room for a younger blue-liner, so perhaps that plays Ceci out of any deal with the Oilers. If the Senators are willing to take a bad contract back, which they have the cap room for, the Oilers seem like an ideal trade partner.
Will the Senators Trade Ceci?
As Dorion said, he's going to try and re-sign Ceci to an extension. However, if they can't reach a deal, Dorion will look to move him. Looking back to last year's offseason, Ceci and the Senators went into arbitration looking for a deal. The defender's camp was looking for $6 million and the team countered with $3.3 million. The arbitrator awarded Ceci $4.3 million. If the ask and offer are anywhere around the same numbers as last season, it's likely that Ceci's time is over in Ottawa.
That being said, Dorion has also said that Ceci is part of the core veteran group for the Senators. And this is not the first time Ceci's name has been in the rumour mill. He's been a trade candidate ever since Taylor Hall was an Oiler, so it remains to be seen if this time it actually happens. If Dorion and the Senators are serious about their rebuild, it would be smart to move on from the defenseman.
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SINGAPORE, 20 NOVEMBER 2008 — CHILDREN RUSHED INTO Expo Hall 10 with beaming faces. Laughter began the moment the event started, and barely broke throughout — the kids cheered, shouted and screamed from start to finish. Some brought banners all around the hall to show their support for friends who were the grand finalists of the Talentime Junior competition.
The kids were divided into four color groups — red, blue, and orange and green — each representing the different zones.
As the light dimmed, the worship team from the children's church began to minister with praise and worship. To enhance the dynamic praise songs, the worship leaders added drum beats to the songs, which then segued into the first Talentime Junior contestant's performance — a drum solo that blew the crowd away!
The event hit a high with the guest performance by Superband finalist, Dreamfactory. The five-person band entertained the crowd with a hit song from the popular movie Camp Rock.
Talentime winner Joie Teo, 7, performed a beautiful duet with her father Teo Poh Heng, City Harvest Church's worship leader. Teo sang the classic 'Stand By Me'. The crowd clapped to motivate the young talent to sing the best that she could. It warmed the heart to see father and daughter singing and playing their hearts out.
When the show was over, Eileen Toh took the stage to illustrate a powerful example of God's greatness and power in our life. She took a Mentos mint, pressed it, and dropped it into a pet bottle of Coca Cola. The cola began to fizz and flow out of the bottle.
"We may be as small as this Mentos, but if we put our trust in God, He will increase the capacity in our lives. Your life will be overflowing with goodness of God," explained Toh.
The children had a great time at Emerge Junior, soaking in the presence of God and learning ways to be as creative as possible in everything they do.


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T-Mobile To Offer Free One Week iPhone 5S Test Drives
T-Mobile is determined to live up to its self-given designation as the "Un-carrier." The latest attempt to separate itself from the competition is to allow users to take an Apple iPhone 5S handset out for a seven-day spin at no cost and with unlimited nationwide service. It's called "T-Mobile Test Drive," and it's intended to help consumers make an informed buying decision (and of course draw attention to itself).
"The way this industry forces Americans to buy wireless is completely, utterly broken. I'm here to tell you there's a better way," declared John Legere, T-Mobile CEO and President. "While the carriers ask you to buy blind, the Un-carrier gives you transparency. Our network kicks ass, and now people can experience for themselves what a data-strong network can do with T-Mobile Test Drive."
According to T-Mobile, the U.S. wireless industry has one of the highest buyer's "remorse rates" with nearly half -- 46 percent -- of wireless customers admitting to wanting to leave the carrier they signed up with. One in 10 take it a step further and actually jump ship within the first 30 days of making a switch.
T-Mobile's various Un-carrier strategies have been working, at least in terms of gaining subscribers. The wireless carrier added 2.4 million customers in the first quarter of this year, more than AT&T and Verizon combined. That success hasn't necessarily translated over to T-Mobile's balance sheet, though the company is on the verge of being bought out by Sprint for around $32 billion.
As for test driving an iPhone 5S, T-Mobile will begin offering the option starting this Monday, June 23. If you're interested, bookmark www.t-mobile.com/testdrive and check it next week.
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Smell That Floss! That's right, take a big whiff. If it stinks, you've got a problem.
So just why are we asking you to do this seemingly disgusting act of self-discovery? Because… It allows you to determine if you have gum disease. It's common knowledge that when your gums bleed, you have gum disease, but what if they don't bleed? Is there still a way to test the health of your gums?
You bet there is, and we call it the Road Kill Test. Wanna take a guess as to why?
Floss your teeth, making sure you get well below the gum line; not sure how to do that, watch this video. Then smell the floss exactly where you used it before you move to a new position in the mouth, (floss- smell, floss – smell, etc…). If the floss smells like bloated Interstate carcass, it means that bacteria is growing and you've got leftovers below the gum line. It also means that you should be brushing and flossing more. Your floss should smell clean.
Bacteria will always exist in your mouth regardless of who you are, and how much you claim on your taxes. The problem arises when you miss some of this bacteria which inevitably finds its way into the sulcus; that little pocket just below the gum line. That little pocket is also why we want you to brush 45 degrees into the gum line instead of circles and up and down, and it's why we made the MD Brush the way we did.
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Ernest Thompson Seton was an author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America) and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.
Seton was a spell-binding storyteller and lecturer, a best-selling author of animal stories, expert with Native American Sign language and early supporter of the political, cultural and spiritual rights of First Peoples.
The family went from England to Lindsay, Ontario, Canada in 1866, after his father had lost his fortune as a ship-owner. On the farm near Lindsay, Ontario, Seton developed the interest in animal life that became the basis of his career as both artist and naturalist.
Ernest Evan Thompson went to Toronto schools for his basic education.
At the age of 21 Ernest changed his name to Ernest Thompson Seton, believing that his father was the true heir to the lands and titles of Lord Seton, Earl of Winton.
Until the late 1880's he spent his time between Carberry, Manitoba, Toronto and New York. He became an established wildlife artist, and was given a contract in 1885 to do 1,000 mammal drawings for the Century Dictionary.
In 1898 Seton published his first book of animal stories, Wild Animals I Have Known. He became successful as a writer, artist and naturalist, and moved to New York City to further his career.
In 1906 Seton met Lord Baden-Powell, Scouting's founder, who had read Seton's book, The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians, and was greatly intrigued by it. Seton became the president of the committee that founded the Boy Scouts of America and was its first (and only) Chief Scout.
Seton wrote the Boy Scout Handbook.
Known as the gateway to Kawartha Lakes, Lindsay is a community on the Scugog River in south-eastern Ontario.
In 1820s a small village grew up around the mills, and it was known as Purdy's Mills. In 1857 Lindsay was formally incorporated as a town. The town was eventually named for the assistant of one of the first surveyors, John Houston.
Carberry is the largest town in the Rural Municipality of North Cypress in southwestern Manitoba. Carberry celebrates the talent and passion of the former resident, famed naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton at The Seton Centre in downtown Carberry.
Carberry was named after Carberry Tower in Musselburgh, Scotland. The town was officially founded in 1882.
Carberry are known as "King Spud Country", a nickname which pays homage to the high quality potatoes grown in the area due to ideal soil conditions for the crop.


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EDITORIAL: Nelson mayor's race uninspiring
An incumbent mayor, a former mayor and a clown walk into a forum
Todd Coyne
Forgive me for feeling uninspired by our three mayoral candidates.
All the talk about how Nelson's small-business community has been forgotten amid four years of Deb Kozak's mayoralty has inspired not one representative of that aggrieved community to run for the city's top job.
Instead we have an incumbent mayor, a former mayor and a clown.
Incumbent Deb Kozak has approved a 50 per cent raise for the next council, bouncing the salary above that of the average household in the city, against the recommendations of an independent committee. Former mayor John Dooley says he will reverse the decision, while contender Bernie Brown has declared she makes $12,000 a year as a street performer.
I, like many of you, attended Saturday's two-hour mayoral forum, where moderator Glenn Hicks did his level best to stir the pot with the three candidates, oftentimes cutting them short in an effort to interject some illusion of dynamism into the evening's proceedings.
But the gambit fell flat, and not for lack of effort.
Discussions around cannabis legalization, funding for supportive housing, mental health and wildfire prevention in West Arm Provincial Park chewed hardest on the clock. But these are issues outside the purview of even the most ambitious city government.
And now Monday plays host to a climate change forum.
Don't get me wrong, the need to address climate change is beyond urgent, and civic leaders should be asked to, at very least, acknowledge its existence as a baseline for fitness for the job. But aside from laying down sod or speed bumps on Baker Street, any candidate's pledge to make a difference on climate is no different from my pledge or yours.
I admire the desire to hold every elected foot to the fire of a burning planet. But asking a Nelson mayoral candidate to address global warming is asking them to shout back the tides. In a city with no major industrial sector, the debate only depletes our chief non-renewable resource — time.
For the first time in my life I will be abstaining from voting for a mayoral candidate. Given their performance at the forum, the choice boils down to a we-used-to-do-it-this-way candidate, a we're-still-in-talks candidate and a street clown.
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Nelson candidates debate climate change at forum
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Kayakers capsize in front of Chahko Mika Mall
Nelson Police Department says members of the public helped two kayakers
Nelson rejects plastic bag ban, opts for education and awareness
Council will collaborate with Chamber of Commerce
Matti Erickson to compete for Team B.C.
Erickson will race at nationals next month in Sydney, N.S.
Nelson U-Haul shutting down
Kootenay Glass and Mirror will no longer provide the service as of July 12


thank you!!! A rep for you.
Sounds like your in a corner here SassyOne.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but no I'm not. I said he is supposed to set an example. Don't you think the President should set an example? Well, that one is a lost cause.
And I said he DID, he told the TRUTH!
Well sassy pro-illegals are allowed to smear legals calling us lazy, calling us under achievers, over paid etc. Wait that was you whosaid those things. Free speech should apply to everyone.
Not with her. FOR her. So she wouldnt worry. Ive got a strong 21 year old back that can take some abuse...hers, well, she'd skin me for putting her age out, so we'll just say hers is older.
I dont blame JUST the illegals. The government is doing a crappy job of following American's wishing concerning them ( and everything else for that matter). So they get blame too.
Excuse me, I don't think any pro whatever has said that. I think free speech should apply to anyone. I don't think you would fly with making a threat towards the President.
over Arizona, what a joke and did not accomplish one thing.
It would not help for a full time job, but maybe a part time.
You yourself have said illegals get the jobs because we are over paid, illegals work harder and many americans are lazy.
I have said that the illegals get the jobs because they will work for less, what part of THE EMPLOYERS HIRE THEM do you not get? I'm beginning to realize that you do not read the posts you skim them.
The only reason your side have a problem with us is, because we do not dislike the illegals. You mud sling on them all day, even when you know there are hispanics on this forum, you trash their culture and everything you can drum up.


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Tania is currently the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Hudsucker, and Senior Editor at the Nashville, Tennessee based PopCulture.com. With past writing and editing credits with Womanista, Quietly, the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) and NBC Newsvine, she is currently a member of Indianapolis based, Society of Professional Journalists — one of the oldest organizations in the U.S. that promotes and represents journalists. She is an avid Indianapolis Colts, Elvis Presley and baseball fan as well as a lover of pancakes and fine cheeses, film, and music. Tania is a Hoosier at heart with a passionate wanderlust for always traveling and giving back to those in her community. She is currently studying at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Follow Tania on Twitter: @westlifebunny.
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It's a "New Day" with Kate Bolduan
Journalism is an integral part of the media industry. It is a very powerful and influencing medium to reckon with. Since words whether written or spoken are very potent, journalists are in an enviable position to alter people's lives and by authentic reporting, move people on personal and collective levels. It is not surprising that journalists have a great social and moral responsibility to speak about matters that affect our lives in an unbiased manner.
In a few short weeks, a young and talented, charming professional face in journalism is set to debut into our lives blazing a new dawn in a New Day.
Kate Bolduan, 29 is the youngest morning show host in television history. Image Credit: CNN/Time Warner
Growing up I was constantly fascinated with watching the news and understanding the truth about our world. It always meant appreciating the events unfolding in my immediate community, the society at large and around the world, while coming as close as possible to the heart of who we are as a human beings and getting a glimpse of our future. From time to time, I'd watch these incredibly strong female voices in the form of Joan Lunden co-anchoring with Charlie Gibson on ABC, who years later would go on to co-anchor with Diane Sawyer on their network morning show, Good Morning America. Some days I'd find myself watching the competition over at NBC and admire Katie Couric's skills and eloquence when she would be discussing such major life-changing events. I would constantly be in awe of these women and the grace they showed through their journalistic integrity. It wasn't until after I graduated from high school some ten years ago that I realized I wanted to make a difference with my own voice in the same way these women did. They were not just reporters to me but instead, adroit historians full of heart, forthrightness and a solid conscience. They made me believe there was no glass ceiling in attaining such a position and being a strong female voice in a harsh world was possible. In some ways, their longevity and certitude in such a career paved the path for me and many others as a young journalist.
One such journalist who I've grown to admire the most in these recent years, and strongly believe will be one of our generation's most prominent voices and a model to many young women growing up is Kate Bolduan.
Before joining the esteemed Cable News Network (CNN), Bolduan was an editorial intern for House & Garden magazine during her student days at George Washington University, but soon began her television career after graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism. She took an internship with NBC's Washington DC bureau and it was there that Bolduan's skills and talents were recognized and was soon promoted from intern to producer of a highly publicized series called, "Dying to Drive" for NBC Nightly News. Her hard work is a testament to her dedication which saw her move up as a production assistant for NBC News and MSNBC in 2005.
Bolduan sitting in with Wolf Blitzer on her last episode of The Situation Room earlier this spring. Image Credit: CNN/Time Warner
In 2006 she got her first on-air job as an assignment reporter with an emphasis on breaking news and live coverage for ABC affiliate WTVD in Raleigh, North Carolina. During that time, Bolduan covered anything and everything, including stories such as Hurricane Ernesto; the chemical fire in Apex when much of the town was temporarily evacuated; the high school shooting in Orange County, North Carolina; and the Duke lacrosse case, in which she tells Home & Design was one of the major stories she was involved in.
Since joining CNN in 2007, Bolduan has proved her staying power and candor as she covered activities of the U.S House and Senate, became a member of the Capitol Hill unit covering countless stories through breaking news coverage and feature reports for more than 800 CNN Newsource affiliates. In 2008, Bolduan had the chance to cover the Presidential Election and was provided the opportunity to travel throughout the United States covering such national headlines like the Minneapolis Bridge collapse, OJ Simpson's armed robbery case, and the launches and landings of the retiring NASA space shuttle fleet. Last year Bolduan joined Wolf Blitzer as co-host on The Situation Room and contributed features and news, including the 2012 Presidential Election feature known as, America's Choice 2012.
The Goshen, Indiana native's interest in journalism began when she was a student at Goshen High School, known as one of the Best High Schools in America acknowledged by U.S News and World Report. It earned a silver medal and ranks 12th in the entire state. Bolduan was on the honor roll each semester, a member of the National Honor Society and Goshen's Junior Miss in 2000. During her four years in high school, she was actively involved with school events, theater and sports; from getting involved with the volleyball team to becoming junior class President; crowned Prom Princess in 2000, and serving the high school newspaper, the Tomahawk, where she later become Editor-in-Chief during her final year.
Bolduan's successful journey is no surprise to English teacher and former advisor of the Tomahawk, Marilyn Graber. Graber tells The Hudsucker that Bolduan was a gifted student who wrote for three years at the school newspaper, as well as taking dual credit writing courses in Elementary Composition (W131) through Indiana University during her senior year.
Kate Bolduan seen in her 11th Grade photo attended Goshen High School from 1998 to 2001. Image Credit: GHS Crimson Yearbook
Graber says Bolduan always showcased a clear goal and incredible drive to succeed. "Probably by her junior year she knew she wanted to be in broadcast journalism. At that time we had no broadcast program at Goshen High School [so] she honed her reporting skills on the Tomahawk staff. She gave leadership to the staff [during] her senior year as editor in chief. She was a hard worker and her goal was to be the best in all her classes."
The Goshen High School English teacher also shares the time Bolduan met with great disappointment when she graduated second in her class. "We talked about her disappointment in getting an A- in a class, taking her out of first place," Graber says. "I remember telling her that this grade, this disappointment, [it] would not stand in the way of her success. In fact I believe that disappointment, failure if you will, often pushes us harder to achieve our goals."
Graber shares how Bolduan was a joy to work with. "I am so proud of all she has achieved," she says. "She has worked hard to get where she is today."
In an interview with Goshen News back in 2007, Bolduan disclosed how much she enjoyed reporting on the events at her high school and having others read her work but it wasn't until she enrolled in a broadcast journalism class at George Washington University that she really got the "news bug."
With a deep passion to give back to her community, Bolduan's roots took her back to her hometown in 2010 to take a look at the trickle-down effect stimulus money had on local economies in Goshen's Elkhart County for a segment on The Situation Room. During the week-long series, she featured her hometown of Goshen, a city that maintains its small town feel but very evident pain of a stubbornly high unemployment rate. Bolduan kept it real, speaking to municipal officials and small businesses in town while showcasing the effect it had on not just the people but herself. "It was great to get back," she told host Wolf Blitzer. "I don't get back very often at all, but it was great to get back and also be able to cover this story and kind of dig deeper on what we're covering, tracking the stimulus all the way to your hometown. It hits home when you're talking about not someone else's main street, but your main street. [It] was good to get back there and see that."
Like any other role model, Bolduan is active in her community and takes time out for causes. One such cause was International Coastal Cleanup Day, where the young reporter took out time to pick up trash and marine debris from coastal areas. She later tweeted a photo of herself cleaning up while encouraging others to do the same in an effort to educate the public on problems caused by litter and inevitably change our own ways to stop pollution at its source.
In an interview with The Elkhart Truth back in 2000, Bolduan humbly acknowledged deep gratitude to her family for all that she is, going on to say that they made her the person she is today. "My life, my ambitions, my drive come from my parents. They've never pushed me in anything, they've allowed me to make my own decisions and my own mistakes. They've always built a very strong spiritual environment in our house, leading me to God, leading me in a positive direction," she said.
Kate Bolduan on a fun assignment for CNN in the village of Bucklebury in West Birkshire. Image Credit: Kate Bolduan/Instagram
At just 29 years old, Kate Bolduan will be the youngest morning show host on any major television network when she makes her June 17 debut alongside Chris Cuomo and Michaela Pereira on CNN's New Day. Airing live weekdays from 6 A.M to 9 A.M in CNN's New York studios, New Day will replace Starting Point and approach the morning show circuit with a harder look at news.
Jeff Zucker, President of CNN Worldwide expressed his excitement about the show's newest hosts in a press release. "Chris, Kate and Michaela are a dynamic team that will give our viewers in America a new way to start their day. We were floored with excitement when we saw Chris and Kate together on screen, and by adding Michaela to the mix we feel we have something very special. We believe there is an opening to do news in the morning with a fresh, new voice."
Kate Bolduan has a distinct and solid voice in an industry that can often be cloaked with partiality. Her achievements and characteristics have proven her to be someone our generation can be proud of, specifically as her passion for her work has the capacity to encourage others with similar drives. Bolduan's skills speak volumes as she firmly acts in ways that support her journalistic values of truth and showcase her mettle. She proves that her age is nothing but a number and that hard work gets you where you want to be. One is never too young or too old to achieve their goals and clearly she is someone a lot of young women will aspire to one day emulate. Zucker's choice of Bolduan to headline a morning news show now has her in the ranks with Joan Lunden, Diane Sawyer, Ann Curry, and Katie Couric.
We have only seen the beginnings of Bolduan's journalistic rise and there is much more to see. She is a naturally beautiful, intelligent and compassionate woman leading the way for confident and politically savvy young women interested in the field.
All that she's done so far, along with her self-assurance, integrity and commitment to the truths of the world around us prove her to be a dynamic role model for the many young women still in school and hoping to be an enterprising female reporter like one Kate Bolduan.
Kate Bolduan seen with Chris Cuomo and Michaela Pereira. "New Day" premieres June 17 on CNN. Image Credit: CNN/Time Warner
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Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
DocumentaryCrime
In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 t... Read allIn an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a wo... Read allIn an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a working class Irish Catholic girl. Knight's main source, Joseph Gorman (Annie Crook's grands... Read all
Stephen Knight
Ray McGregor
Stephen Knight(uncredited)
Is a hidden feature on the 2 disc edition of From Hell (2001). To access this feature on the 2 disc DVD, select "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder" on disc 2 at the bottom of the main menu, press down and then right on your remote to highlight a knife on screen and press enter to view it.
When they are talking about victim Annie Chapman they actually show two pictures of victim Catherine Eddowes.
Featured in History Buffs: From Hell (2017)
Not final. Not even a solution.
Of all the many Ripper theories, the Stephen Knight version has made the biggest impact on the public, earning him a fortune in the few years before his untimely death. And I'm not the only one to have been fooled for a while. An Australian researcher, Ray McGregor, crossed the world to walk in the steps of the Ripper and his wretched victims in those dark lanes that still carry such emotional force - most of this film being his own interview with the author.
Knight was an obscure young reporter on Whitechapel's last remaining newspaper, when he was approached by a nervous, chain-smoking individual who claimed to be the illegitimate son of one of England's best-loved painters, Walter Sickert, by a secret daughter of Prince Eddy, Heir Presumptive to the throne, elder brother of the future King George the Fifth. On these grounds, he was apparently being persecuted by the Freemasons, for fear that he would reveal the Royal plot that lay behind the murders. Any professional reporter would immediately realise that he was listening to a fantasist, as Knight must have done. But of course he could smell money.
Like many sensational exposés, the story appears to add-up, provided you accept it at face value. The blackmailing of Sickert... the cover-up by corrupt police... the disembowelling of the victims according to masonic ritual... There's no doubt, it all makes for an unusually engaging and involving detective story. (Indeed, Patricia Cornwell has endorsed the theory so enthusiastically that you could believe it was her own.)
But on investigation, it all starts to crumble. No, England was not on the verge of revolution, so there was no need for desperate measures to silence any witnesses to a Royal scandal. No, Sickert's model was not a catholic, and even if she had been, marriage with Eddy would have been null without the Queen's approval. (In any case, Knight is conflating two different girls, Annie Cook and Annie Crook.) No, Prime Minister Salisbury was not a freemason. No, the police inspector's diaries handed to Knight by the fantasist were not genuine. And finally, the fantasist withdrew his claims anyway, for reasons not disclosed.
First-class entertainment it was. A final solution it was not.
Goingbegging
September 17, 1980 (Australia)
Saint Michael's Parish Church, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England, UK
Canyon Entertainment
RWB TV
By what name was Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1980) officially released in Canada in English?


Lothair I or Lothar I (Dutch: Lotharius, German: Lothar, French: Lothaire, Italian: Lotario) was the Holy Roman Emperor (817–855, co-ruling with his father until 840), and the King of Bavaria (815–817), Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (840–855).
In 855 he became seriously ill, and despairing of recovery renounced the throne, divided his lands between his three sons, and on the 23rd of September entered the monastery of Prüm, where he died six days later. He was buried at Prüm, where his remains were found in 1860.
In 870, Lothair's kingdom was divided between his three sons in a deal called the Treaty of Mersen: the eldest, Louis II, received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, Lothair II, received Lotharingia; the youngest, Charles, received Provence.


Philadelphia, PA, March 3, 2017 — In recognition of the New York Life Foundation's $100,000 Grief Reach grant, The Center for Grieving Children visited New York Life's local office in Bala Cynwyd for a check presentation. The event highlighted the continued partnership between the local New York Life office and The Center for Grieving Children to support Philadelphia's grieving youth.
Pictured: New York Life's South Jersey General Office Managing Partner Robert G. Karalius, ChFC (first row, far right), Volunteers for Good Coordinator Faith Romolini (first row, second from right), and Volunteers for Good team members of the New York Life's local office present a $100,000 Grief Reach grant check to Darcy Walker Krause, Executive Director (first row, second from left), and her team from The Center for Grieving Children to fund expanded grief support services to children and families in Philadelphia.


Isaku Kageyama is a pioneering taiko drummer who has brought the traditional Japanese instrument to the cutting-edge modern art scene across the globe. After working as one of the principle members of Tokyo-based taiko ensemble Amanojaku for 5 years, Isaku moved to Boston, Massachusetts, becoming the first taiko drummer to be accepted into Berklee College of Music in 2011. Isaku has collaborated with jazz greats Eric "Kamau" Gravatt, Terumasa Hino, Toshinori Kondo, and Kazutoki Umezu, as well as a wide range of ethnic musicians.He is also a two-time National Odaiko (large drum) Champion, becoming the youngest person to win highest honors at the Mt. Fuji Odaiko Contest in 2000, and Hokkaido in 2003.


The highly anticipated player drafting of the Pakistan Super League T20 tournament began in grand fashion today. The crème de la crème of Pakistan cricket came together for a lavish ceremony at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.
The day began with the unveiling of the Karachi Kings franchise logo, and the big news that Javed Afridi's Peshawar Zalmi franchise had traded with Islamabad for the first pick of the player draft. This would have a massive impact on future selections, which the Islamabad franchise has utilised quite well.
As expected, Peshawar immediately picked Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi as their captain. Karachi surprised many and opted for former T20 captain Shoaib Malik as their icon player. Many were expecting Chris Gayle, of the West Indies, or former England batsman Kevin Pietersen to be their first choice. As it transpired, Australia's Shane Watson headed to Islamabad and Pietersen was picked up by the Quetta Gladiators. The first round ended with the Lahore Qalandars choosing Gayle.
Islamabad started off with a bang and quickly snatched up hard-hitting West Indian all-rounder Andre Russell, along with Pakistan Test skipper Misbahul Haq, who was appointed captain of the team. Samuel Badree's quick leg breaks have wreaked havoc against T20 teams around the world. Not to mention that Pakistan's ace fast bowler, Mohammad Irfan, is also there to do wonders with the new ball. Veteran Aussie wicket-keeper, Brad Haddin, would bring the fighting spirit and late-order hitting to the team. Left-handed opener Sharjeel Khan can prove to be a shrewd pick, as he has shown the ability in the past to tear bowling attacks apart.
With head coach Dean Jones and living legend Wasim Akram as the team's mentor, at the helm, Islamabad are rightly considered one of the strongest sides in the tournament, and will be the team to beat.
The Karachi Kings have built their team on the grounds of all-round skills and utility. The side is packed with multi-faceted cricketers who can deliver in every manner. Dashing West Indian opener Lendl Simmons will be the man expected to get the batting off to a flyer, and the return of l'enfant terrible, Mohammad Amir, would give the bowling some much needed cutting edge quality. English middle order batsman James Vince will also be one to watch. His fantastic stroke play is one of the highlights of the recently concluded Pakistan-England T20 series.
Peshawar Zalmi is packed with match-winners from top to bottom and is a strong contender for the title. Bangladeshi opener Tamim Iqbal, veteran wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal and ace all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez are all capable of tearing any T20 bowling attack to shreds. In addition to that, with the sheer power and big hitting ability of 'Boom Boom Afridi' and West Indian all-rounder Darren Sammy, Peshawar is set to make a mark. Furthermore, it has, arguably, the strongest pace attack in the tournament with Wahab Riaz, Junaid Khan and English all-rounder Chris Jordan. They are all capable of breaking the back of any batting lineup.
This is a team built to do serious damage.
This, perhaps, is the most balanced side in the tournament. They could prove to be the dark horse in the competition. Pietersen, Sarfraz and Shehzad will be expected to provide the fireworks in batting, and combative all-rounders Luke Wright and Anwar Ali would provide the finishing touches whenever required. The bowling also has excellent depth and variety. Top class pace bowling of T20 specialist Umar Gul and West Indies Test captain Jason Holder with the deceptive left-arm spin of Zulfiqar Babar will bolster the team's capabilities.
This is a team packed with sheer talent. Much like their spiritual name, the Lahore Qalandars promise to be the most exciting, as well as unpredictable team in the tournament. Chris Gayle's triumphant batting aside, the likes of Dwayne Bravo, Umar Akmal and Sohaib Maqsood will set the stadia alight with their electrifying and cavalier stroke play. Mustafizur Rahman will prove an asset in confounding the opposition with his variety and change of pace.
With pride, honour and big money all at stake, the PSL T20 tournament promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting T20 competitions in the world. Not to mention, it could be a potential game changer for Pakistan cricket.
A business owner and avid cricket fan based in UAE. He tweets as @azkhawaja1 (twitter.com/azkhawaja1).
Younis and Afridi, do us a favour and never come back!


To play the Cooperative Game Memory Palace players share wacky stories as they place their animal tokens facedown in a room. Be careful, there are Memory Monsters lurking in the palace trying to confuse. Successfully remember where each animal is on the board without turning over a Memory Monster and everyone wins! Memory Palace uses Story Telling and Association to build memory skills and imagination.


Roman Furst and Karel Tomek's I Am for a Human Face – their film about Evžen Plocek, the third human torch of 1969 – was made that same year and managed to win county and regional amateur film contests before the two Jihlava filmmakers hid it for the long period of Normalization.
An analytical type of documentary film about the life philosophy and work of the historian Ján Mlynárik (1933 – 2012) in the context of social and political developments in the former Czechoslovakia with its influence on today.
In the communist Romania we had but a single brand of each basic product: the Relaxa mattress, the Dragasani sneakers, the Pegas bicycle, the Mobra motorcycle, the Fieni bulbs and the Ileana sewing machine were the stars of the Romanian golden era.
A situational dialogue of actresses in a studio. Reading the last speech of Milada Horáková in front of the court, they try to understand her as a woman and a mother.


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Kerry Underwood
COMPENSATION ORDER REGIME FOR DISQUALIFIED PERSONS CONSIDERED FOR FIRST TIME
Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy v Eagling [2019] EWHC 2806 (Ch) (1 November 2019)
the High Court ordered a disqualified director to pay compensation equal to misappropriated company funds which founded his disqualification.
This is the first case brought by the Secretary of State under the compensation order regime, introduced on 1 October 2015 by sections 15A and 15B of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986.
The sections are now supported by Compensation Orders (Disqualified Directors) Proceedings (England and Wales) Rules 2016 (SI 2016/890) and the Disqualified Directors Compensation Orders (Fees) (England and Wales) Order 2016 (SI 2016/1047).
Similar provisions apply to compensation undertakings, the variation or revocation of which is covered by section 15C of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986.
The High Court acknowledged academic concern that the new regime conflicted with the Insolvency Act 1986 and the principle of pari passu, which has applied since the mid-nineteenth century.
The court provided directions for allocating the compensation, focussing on specific unsecured creditors whose loss directly benefitted the director by his misconduct, which it considered fair and appropriate on the facts.
The contribution element, for the loss of the company's assets, was made payable to the Secretary of State rather than the liquidator.
The court analysed the regime, which was designed in the public interest to cover the entirety of the misconduct for which a person may be disqualified under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986.
The court held that the regime is free-standing and, as it is based on loss to individual creditors rather than the insolvent company, creates a new cause of action between a director and creditor.
Consequently, there was no direct correlation with the remedies available to creditors under the Insolvency Act 1986.
The judgment is a detailed analysis and explanation of the new law.
Sections 15A and 15B read as follows:
"(1) The court may make a compensation order against a person on the application of the Secretary of State if it is satisfied that the conditions mentioned in subsection (3) are met…
(3) The conditions are that-
(a) the person is subject to a disqualification order… under this Act, and
(b) conduct for which the person is subject to the order… has caused loss to one or more creditors of an insolvent company of which the person has at any time been a director.
(4) An 'insolvent company' is a company that is or has been insolvent and a company becomes insolvent if-
(a) the company goes into liquidation at a time when its assets are insufficient for the payment of its debts and other liabilities and the expenses of the winding up,
(b) the company enters administration, or
(c) an administrative receiver of the company is appointed.
(5) The Secretary of State may apply for a compensation order at any time before the end of the period of two years beginning with the date on which the disqualification ordered referred to in paragraph
(a) of subsection (3) was made…
(7) In this section and 15B… 'the court' means-
(a) in a case where a disqualification order has been made, the court that made the order…".
Underwoods Solicitors are the solicitors for Crowe UK LLP, the Joint Liquidators of the Cambridge Analytica Group of Companies
Written by kerryunderwood
« COURT HAS POWER TO COMMIT FOR CONTEMPT DURING PROTOCOL
LITIGATION FRIEND'S DUTIES AND COURT'S POWER TO END APPOINTMENT »
FIXED COSTS, ALL THE PORTALS AND FIXED RECOVERABLE COSTS
GUIDELINE HOURLY RATES
MIB UNTRACED DRIVERS AGREEMENT FIXED COSTS SCHEME: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
COSTS BUDGETS: NEW RULES
FAST-TRACK TRIAL FIXED COSTS OUTSIDE FIXED RECOVERABLE COSTS
LOVE SONG TO HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
NON-PAYMENT OF STAGE 1 COSTS TRIGGERS HIGHER FIXED COSTS
PART 36: OFFERS "EXCLUSIVE OF INTEREST" NOT VALID
APPEAL AGAINST PROVISIONAL ASSESSMENT LIMITED TO POINTS RAISED AT INITIAL ORAL HEARING CHALLENGING ASSESSMENT
HIGH COURT JUDGE SLAMS £74,000 COSTS FOR TWO-HOUR HEARING
FUNDER LIABLE TO SOLICITORS BUT WITHOUT SOLICITORS ACT 1974 PROTECTION
PORTALS, VULNERABLE ADULTS, HARM AND INCORRECT VALUATION
PART 36: HIGH COURT AWARDS 10% ABOVE BASE
TRIAL FEE PAID LATE – TRIAL SHOULD STILL GO AHEAD
EMPLOYMENT CLAIMS AND DAMAGES-BASED AGREEMENTS AND CONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENTS ETC.: SOME ISSUES
CONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENTS ARE CONTENTIOUS BUSINESS AGREEMENTS: YOU CAN'T JUST SUE ON THEM
DAMAGES-BASED AGREEMENTS: FUNDERS AND CLAIMS MANAGEMENT SERVICES
INDEMNITY COSTS: HIGH COURT REVIEW OF PRINCIPLES AND RELEVANT CASE LAW
PART 36: 8% APPROPRIATE INTEREST RATE SAYS HIGH COURT
COURT FEE REMISSION
OUT-OF-HOURS QUALIFYING FLOATING CHARGE HOLDER ADMINISTRATOR APPOINTMENT VALIDATED AND RESTRICTIONS ON OUT-OF-HOURS E-FILING CRITICIZED
QUALIFIED ONE-WAY COSTS SHIFTING AND MIXED CLAIMS
CPR 71 ORDER FOR EXAMINATION OF JUDGMENT DEBTOR AVAILABLE FOR COSTS ORDERS WHERE AMOUNT NOT YET DETERMINED
EMPLOYMENT: NO WITHOUT PREJUDICE OR LITIGATION PRIVILEGE FOR SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT OR EMAIL REFERRED TO IN IT
STANDARD COSTS MEANS FIXED COSTS: COURT OF APPEAL DECISION
RYANAIR LIENS CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT
FAILED FRAUD ALLEGATION MEANS INDEMNITY COSTS
PERSONAL INJURY NEGLIGENCE: SUBSEQUENT EVIDENCE NOT RELEVANT IN TARIFF SCHEME
COSTS BUDGETING: LATEST NEWS
COSTS BUDGETING DECISIONS: DETAILED REASONS NOT REQUIRED
PORTALS: STAGE 3 AND LATE EVIDENCE: COURT OF APPEAL DECISION
NON-PARTY COSTS ORDERED AGAINST LIQUIDATOR'S FIRM THAT FUNDED UNSUCCESSFUL LITIGATION
LITIGATION FRIEND'S DUTIES AND COURT'S POWER TO END APPOINTMENT
COURT HAS POWER TO COMMIT FOR CONTEMPT DURING PROTOCOL
PART 36: EVERYTHING IN FULL HOWEVER SMALL THE MARGIN
CONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENT DEATH CLAUSE VALID: SIGNATURE HEAVILY LIMITS CHALLENGES
DATA PROTECTION UPDATE
INSOLVENCY PROHIBITION IN BRESCO IS NOT ABSOLUTE
LITIGATION FUNDING AGREEMENTS ARE NOT DAMAGES-BASED AGREEMENTS – OR ARE THEY?
COURT FEE REMISSION AND RECOVERABILITY
INTERIM STATUTE BILLS
NATIONAL PRO OH NO! WEEK! 2019
COURT FEES: THREE NEW CASES
INTERIM COSTS ORDERS AFTER ACCEPTANCE OF A PART 36 OFFER
CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS: GUIDANCE FOR SETTING INTEREST RATE IN EQUITABLE COMPENSATION CLAIMS
FIXED COSTS AND COUNSEL'S FEES
FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY
NON-PARTY COSTS ORDERS: SUPREME COURT HOLDS INSURERS WILL RARELY BE LIABLE
ADMINISTRATOR APPOINTMENTS CANNOT BE MADE OUTSIDE COURT HOURS BY E-FILING
TECHNOLOGY IN COURT: IT AIN'T WORKING (2)
TECHNOLOGY IN COURT, IT AIN'T WORKING
NON-PARTY COSTS ORDER AGAINST FAMILY MEMBERS: A VERY STRANGE DECISION
PART 36 AND STAYS
SOLICITORS' LIENS – WHO TERMINATED THE RETAINER?
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