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GoldLink Might Be the Wildest DMV Rapper Since Wale: "I could start a revolution"
Interview with GoldLink, the faceless, DC-born proprietor of "future bounce."
By Duncan Cooper
Interview with GoldLink, the faceless, DC-born proprietor of "future bounce"
GoldLink is a rapper who immediately seems to have carved his own lane—"future bounce" as he somewhat imprecisely calls it, "dream rap" as I even more poorly first conceived it. Basically he's rapping over pittering dance beats that you can't always dance to. Born in DC and now based in Virginia, he's got a weirdness that could make him the biggest DMV rapper since Wale; at the very least, he shares a refreshing left-field newcomer's confidence to experiment. Download his debut album, The God Complex, and below, read what he has to say about discovering club music, linking up with Soulection and the excitement of not knowing what might happen next.
Where exactly are you from? I was born in DC. I was born in Columbia Hospital, not that that matters… I ended up in Maryland. My apartment burned down and then I lived in Cheverly. My mother wanted better for us, so we ended up moving to Virginia, then my mom got divorced, but I stayed there.
Where are you living now? A few places. Woodbridge is one. Alexandria. It's aight. There's not a lot of minorities, so everything's kinda awkward, but it's cool. We manage. We stay on the west side, it's calm and quiet.
I saw you said used to go to Busboys and Poets "on the very low." What were you like as a teenager? At 17, I was wild. I was really wild. I was really smart for my age, but I thought I knew everything. I was really hardheaded, but I couldn't control my temper. I was really smart-mouthed. I was the opposite of everything I am now. I was super loud and annoying. I was 17, you know what I'm saying?
Were you recording and putting out music at that time? Not at 17, no. I was just chilling.
That was a few years before Wale started blowing up, and Baltimore Club was having a big moment too. Did you feel that excitement? Even though I was young, I remember it. Wale was cool. You know how you had that friend circle and out of that circle one guy gets everybody hip? I was that kid. So I was like, yo, Wale, you head 100 Miles of Running? I got hip to Baltimore Club music because I took somebody's CD out of their car and it was a blank CD with nothing on it. I was like, 'What is all this?' He was like, 'Oh, it's Baltimore club music, all this red light district music.' I remember I caught that riff. I was young but I was old enough to understand that there was something in the DMV going on.
When you came out, your sound was already really solid. Did that take time? Were you fucking around over Zaytoven beats a few years ago? No, that was the sound. I never crossed over like, trap is cool, I'm going to do this. This is what I started with. I heard Ta-Ku beat two years ago and I thought it was cooler than all the bullshit that was hot. I didn't care what the fuck was hot. I thought that was cool. I didn't get it when I was 18 at all, but I just rode with it. That's why it's so natural over the beats. I wrote to those beats to challenge myself, not knowing that this is the route I was going to take. I was like, 'Man, this is weird. I know someone wouldn't rap over this so I'm going to challenge myself.' So I just did. I was never really influenced by anybody.
How did you link with the Soulection team? I know you've worked with Sango. A friend of ours introduced us through email. We ended up talking and I ended up sending him tracks that I did over previous beats to see if he liked them. He ended up loving them and became a fan and he started sending me beats. From there we built a friendship. We got each others numbers and started talking and we both did Broccoli City Festival. That was two weeks ago and we kicked it there and we kicked it the whole day. It was all through email at first, though.
There's more in the pipeline coming with him? Yeah, maybe.
I was going to ask you about Broccoli City—Cam'ron and Kelela performed, and you're kind of like midway between them, to me. I met Kelela. Cam'ron was really protected, so he was kind of in and out. He did his job. But the scene was cool. DMV is such a soul, neo-black city. So people accepted both. There were a lot of people there who liked soul and they liked Kelela and were singing along, and there was a lot of people from the hood because it was in Southeast, and Southeast is like "Oh it's Cam'ron!"
How do you deal with the not-showing-your-face thing at shows? I did UStreet with a mask at the beginning and then I took it off. I guess it's like a suspense thing, but I'm really into the music and not into the imaging and I don't necessarily think we should put an image to the music. I'd rather just make music, and people like that. For performing it's different, because you actually get to look people in the face—these people that have been following you for months or maybe a few days and you get to look at them. It's really intimate. I don't mind showing my face to people because they get to deserve it.
It's funny that you mention not putting an image to music, because your videos are so striking. The beats are on a spacey, electronic thing, but the videos have a very real street feel. Is that an important tension, for you? I could see why you could say it's tension, but I don't think it is. I make it work. Even though the beats are really outlandish and wild, that bounce is really familiar. It's really different, but it's the same trap bounce, the same street bounce, the same hip-hop ruggedness, but it's really new it's really futuristic sounding. That's why I feel like people can actually accept it. It's at a fine line where it's different, but it's not so new that it's annoying or trying too hard. I made it mesh and meet in the middle. Tasteful.
Have labels been reaching out? Is it at that point? I guess it's at that point. I like what I'm doing and I think it can grow naturally because it's been growing naturally to this point. I want to see how far it can go naturally. If it makes a complete 100 percent sense, then maybe I'll consider a label, but right now I'm content with what I'm doing.
What most excites you about what you're doing right now? Knowing that I don't know where it's going to go or how big it could possibly be. The unknown is really exciting. This could be big! It could be on the radio, and it could change what people think. It could change the way the music goes. It could change the BPM. Knowing that I don't know that makes me excited. Knowing that kids could take this route and add something to it is cool. Knowing that I could start something and start a revolution is exciting. That's the coolest part about what I'm doing. In my city there's a lot of hate, but I don't get any of it at all. I get so much love it almost doesn't make any sense. Kids are changing up the music and starting to let that image shit go. They're starting to make better music and clique up more. This is the best era for the DMV.
What else do you want people to know? I want fans to be like, 'Damn, that nigga tight.'
goldlink Duncan Cooper
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StarKist admits fixing tuna prices, faces $100 million fine
published on October 19, 2018 - 1:06 PM
Written by Associated Press, PAUL ELIAS
(AP) – StarKist Co. agreed to plead guilty to a felony price fixing charge as part of a broad collusion investigation of the canned tuna industry, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
The DOJ said StarKist faces up to a $100 million fine when it is sentenced. Prosecutors allege that the industry's top three companies conspired between 2010 and 2013 to keep prices artificially high.
"We have cooperated with the DOJ during the course of its investigation and accept responsibility," said StarKist chief executive Andrew Choe. "We will continue to conduct our business with the utmost transparency and integrity."
StarKist is owned by South Korean company Dongwon Industries, one of the largest tuna catching companies in the world. The parent company's website carries pledges to abide by ethical standards and good corporate citizenship.
The scheme came to light when Thai Union Group's Chicken of the Sea attempt to buy San Diego-based Bumble Bee failed in 2015, according to court records.
Chicken of the Sea executives then alerted federal investigators, who agreed to shield the company from criminal prosecution in exchange for cooperation.
Bumble Bee Foods last year pleaded guilty to the same charge and paid a $25 million fine, $111 million lower than prosecutors said it should have been.
Prosecutors said they feared putting the financially struggling Bumble Bee out of business with a high fine and agreed to let the company make interest-free payments for five years.
Two former executives of Bumble Bee and one from StarKist have also each pleaded guilty to price-fixing charges. None of them have been sentenced.
Former Bumble Bee chief executive Christopher Lischewski has pleaded not guilty to a price fixing charge.
"The conspiracy to fix prices on these household staples had direct effects on the pocketbooks of American consumers," said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim.
In addition, the three companies face myriad lawsuits from wholesalers, food service companies and retailers such as Walmart, Target and Kroger.
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by Nicola Sturgeon | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Today I will join thousands of others in the heart of Glasgow to demand Scotland's right to choose independence.
Another election win for the SNP will make the case for this country having the opportunity to decide its own future simply unanswerable.
And the National's rally today is a great chance to show Westminster that Scotland's voice will not, and cannot, be ignored.
The question people are now faced with is whether Boris Johnson or the people of Scotland themselves should control this country's future.
And I am confident that people across the nation will answer that question in a resounding fashion on December 12th by rejecting Johnson and his increasingly extreme right-wing government.
This election is Scotland's chance to escape Brexit and to put our future in our own hands.
As the National reported exclusively earlier this week, the election has merely reaffirmed my resolve to demand the formal transfer of power for an independence referendum from Westminster before the end of this year.
And no UK Government has the right to stand in the way of yet another democratic mandate delivered by the people of Scotland.
The SNP goes into this election taking absolutely nothing for granted. We know there are tough battles to be fought and that every single seat needs to be contested vigorously.
But we go into this campaign full of confidence and knowing that our message is one that will strike a chord in every corner of the country.
And today I make this pledge and issue this warning to whoever may be looking to form the next UK government.
When it comes to the demand for the transfer of power for a referendum that I will make before this year is out, then know this – that demand will not be made on my behalf, or that of the SNP or the Scottish Government.
It will have been instructed and mandated by the people of Scotland themselves, having given not just their consent to it, but having directed it and demanded it as their democratic will.
It will be a demand for an independence referendum from the people – and for the people.
And any would-be occupant of 10 Downing Street should know this too – if you attempt to refuse it, you would not be refusing me, the SNP or the Scottish Government, you would be refusing and denying the express democratic will of the people of Scotland.
That would be an affront to the very principles of democracy to which the UK still claims to adhere, and it would not stand.
The opening days of this election campaign have already seen major cracks appearing in Westminster's opposition to Scotland's right to decide its own future.
Labour's indications that they would not seek to stand in the way of such a mandate show that they understand the reality – which is that, whatever the bluster of recent times, attempts to block Scotland's democratic right simply cannot stand.
This election really is the most important one Scotland has faced in modern times.
So much is on the line:
We face a catastrophic Brexit which would cost jobs and do huge damage to Scotland as a nation.
We witness the spectacle of Nigel Farage trying to lay down the law to Boris Johnson, saying his price for an election pact would be an even more extreme form of Brexit.
And as if that wasn't enough, we see Farage egged on by Donald Trump, whose administration would gladly see our NHS as being up for grabs in any post-Brexit trade deal.
Johnson. Farage. Trump. Three names that sum up the times we find ourselves living in – and three names who should provide more than enough motivation for people across Scotland to come out and make clear that their values are not our values.
George Square will be packed today as people from all backgrounds join together to demand a better future for Scotland.
For me, it will be an event tinged with nostalgia and infused with real hope. Nostalgia, because it will remind me of similar gatherings in the square in the 1990s when we demanded a Scottish Parliament. And hope, because that Parliament was indeed delivered, and I believe now more than ever that independence will similarly be achieved.
An independent Scotland is closer than it has ever been. It really is within touching distance.
What is needed now is another clear win for the SNP to bring it even closer still – so vote SNP on December 12th to secure Scotland's right to decide.


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Q: Add django variable to  tag I have variable CHOICES and ListView.
CHOICES = [
        ('ALL', 'ALL'),
        ('IT', 'IT'),
        ('FINANCE', 'FINANCE'),
        ('OTHER', 'OTHER'),
]

class HomePageView(ListView):
    model = Vacancy
    template_name = 'vacancy_list/vacancy_list.html'
    paginate_by = 10
    page_kwarg = 'vacancy'
    context_object_name = 'vacancies'
    queryset = Vacancy.objects.order_by('-published_date')

How can I add CHOICES to the html tag  ?
I want to replace <option>IT</option>  to something like for department in CHOICES
full code
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-xs-12">
    <select name="q2" class="form-control" id="exampleFormControlSelect1">
        {% if user.is_authenticated %}
            <option>{{ user.department }}</option>
        {% else %}
            <option>ALL</option>
        {% endif %}
             <option>IT</option>
             <option>Finance</option>
             <option>Other</option>
    </select>
</div>

I tried
{% for department in CHOICES %}
    <option value={{ department.0 }}>{{ department.1 }}</option>
{% endfor %}

but CHOICES is empty

A: you need something like
{% for department in CHOICES %}
  <option value={{ department.0 }}>{{ department.1 }}</option>
(% endfor %}

make sure CHOICES is passed as a context from your view

A: Normally, you use a ChoiceField or TypedChoiceField in a Django form, and to a greater or lesser extent the <select> structure is automagical when you render the form in your template.
But for edge cases you can indeed pass it to your template as Tushortz shows in his answer.

A: Correct way -
{% for department in CHOICES %}
  <option value="{{department[0]}}">{{ department[1] }}</option>
(% endfor %}

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It is an honour to be delivering the opening speech at the 2017 CommsDay Summit in the company of so many industry leaders.
I would like to acknowledge in particular the Minister for Communications, the Honourable Mitch Fifield.
I would also like to thank CommsDay founder Grahame Lynch for the invitation, and the CommsDay team for all the work that they do every day to keep us all well informed and holding us to account.
It's been a year since I spoke to you here last – at the industry's premier annual conference.
A lot has happened since then, so we have much to talk about.
I believe, that for telecommunications in this country, 2017 is a year of great relevance.
5G and the Internet of Things revolution are almost upon us.
It is fair to say that Australia could be on the leading edge of one of the most significant step-changes in technological history.
And as leaders in our industry, we have a responsibility to make the most of every opportunity to ensure that we maximise the great benefits that our industry can bring to Australia.
There are many decisions and events this year that will shape the future of the industry. And I will focus on three of them, which I believe are the most obvious to make a real difference for Australia, especially regional Australia: finalising the USO Reform process, spectrum, and I think you would all be disappointed if I didn't mention something called "domestic roaming".
I should clarify that while I am going to talk about spectrum, I am absolutely not going to talk about any spectrum auctions.
I believe that we need constructive solutions and collaboration, not criticisms, threats, scare mongering or claims that the current situation is the best that Australia deserves.
We need a vision for innovation and progress, for collaborative approaches to solving the most difficult challenges.
Last month, I celebrated my third anniversary as Chief Executive Officer at Vodafone Hutchison Australia.
It has been a great privilege to lead this company, and I am extremely proud of what we have been able to achieve for Australian customers.
One of the keys to our return has been to challenge the status quo, to put the customer at the centre of all that we do, to take the tricks and traps out of international roaming, and becoming the least complained about telco.
One of the things I have observed over the past three years is that in the Australian industry, there can be a strong culture of acceptance of the status quo.
While there is usually a general acknowledgment that there could be a better way to do some things, we often seem cautious when it comes to actually making the bold changes which are needed.
When industry leaders and policy makers accept the status quo, it means customers are forced to accept an environment which we know is not actually delivering the products, services, investment and change which Australia needs and deserves.
Recently, I spent time in parts of regional New South Wales, talking to residents, farmers, business people and local community leaders about their telco experiences.
I visited cities such as Armidale, Tamworth, Dubbo, Orange and Bathurst – and the overwhelming message from locals is that the current telecommunications set up is not working.
While in Orange, I met an award-winning cherry farmer named Fiona.
She has a very short window of time in which she needs to get her cherries picked, packed and over to Asia – about 48 hours – so time is critical.
She told me about the challenges she faces with keeping in touch with her workers on the farm.
While she has decent mobile reception in her home, it's a different story in the paddocks and on the roads.
That sentiment is echoed by a Federal Member of Parliament in his submission to the ACCC's domestic roaming inquiry.
He said that his community is – quote – "becoming more and more disenchanted", and that locals are – in his own words – "sick of paying more, yet receiving less".
Unfortunately, the industry is not always delivering what the country needs.
Australians who live in regional areas are being left behind, and that's simply not right. It's simply not fair.
It is also a huge missed economic opportunity for the country.
The vast majority of those who are saying it is good enough live in the cities.
In the cities, telco services are world class. Thanks to competition, these people haven't experienced the day-to-day telco pain that too many people in regional Australia have to put up with.
Industry and government must do better for regional Australia. We must work together to provide increased coverage, and also reliable, competitive services.
In December last year, Vodafone was recognised as the top-performing network in cities with a population over 100,000 people in the CommsDay P3 Mobile Benchmark tests.
We have innovated to continually create products which are more transparent and fairer to the customer, simplifying plans, offering real value and eliminating bill shock.
Our recent full year results prove our strategy is working – it is delivering for our business, as well as for our customers.
However, when you step outside the cities, the barriers to investment and competition are dramatically raised.
Given the vast areas and very low population densities in regional Australia, the only way to deliver more reliable, competitive services is for operators and government to collaborate.
We believe that the Mobile Black Spot Program is part of the solution.
The program's intention and spirit is one of collaboration, and we think it has the potential to be a fundamental ongoing initiative.
We believe and support the program, and we also believe that it needs to be substantially improved.
Less than ten per cent of the current black spot sites are co-located.
We all need to work together to find solutions that maximise the return on this taxpayer investment. After all, the spirit of the program is to deliver coverage and competition, and this cannot be achieved if marginal amounts of co-location happen.
Before the start of the Mobile Black Spot Program, the incumbent had a monopoly in 1.4 million square kilometres of mobile coverage.
Consumers who live and work or think that they might need to travel to or through this monopoly area are effectively forced to pay the premium attached to its services.
Since 2006, the incumbent has received around 2 billion dollars in subsidies. The incumbent continues to receive nearly 1 million dollars a day under the USO regime which the Productivity Commission says is "ineffective and unnecessary" and "effectively stymies competition".
The incumbent's dominant position has been built on regulatory intervention and subsidies. For that reason, without better regulation, no operator is ever going to have a fair chance at closing the gap.
The incumbent and the number two player are claiming that the gap between them is closing, but all of the data in fact confirms the opposite.
By its own admission, in its public submission to the ACCC Domestic Roaming Inquiry, the number two player pointed to a marginal amount of regional investment.
To catch up, it would actually need to invest many billions of dollars in the build alone – in areas where, at most, it is only economical for one set of infrastructure to exist. And again, an infrastructure that has been built to a great extent thanks to substantial state aid.
Given its massive advantage, the incumbent inevitably is able to capture a bigger share of new subsides and funding. And so the vicious cycle continues, and the monopoly gets bigger.
By the end of the second round of the Mobile Black Spot Program, the incumbent had captured 75% of the funding. We estimate that it will have increased its regional site advantage by about 30 per cent. This increases the size of the monopoly area by another 350,000 square kilometres so the 1.4 million becomes 1.75 million square kilometres.
Without domestic roaming, it just doesn't make any sense for any operator other than Telstra to build a remote site outside Telstra's footprint. By definition, it would be too far from the Vodafone or Optus footprints, and neither would be able to offer continuity of service.
By Vodafone standing up for a level playing field and challenging the status quo, we've had a lot of mud slung at us.
We are raising important questions, and we're also putting forward constructive tried and tested ideas to solve them, and facts, evidence and international experience to back it up.
While Vodafone is offering up solutions to challenges facing our industry, others are just creating fear.
We raised domestic roaming as the most obvious, tried and tested solution to the competitive failure of the mobile market in regional Australia. We believe it is the most common and best solution to ensuring increased investment and increased competition.
Once roaming is in place, other operators, including Vodafone, will contribute substantial sums of money through roaming payments to Telstra, effectively subsidising its infrastructure. Other operators, including Vodafone, can and will compete on a level playing field for subsidies for new infrastructure, and new coverage.
However, we've never said that domestic roaming is the only solution.
We believe it is a proven solution to stimulate new investment in areas where coverage does not currently exist.
We have put forward extensive data, analysis and international experience to support our position including extensive evidence showing an increase in investment following the regulation of roaming in multiple countries which have done so.
I mentioned earlier the cherry farmer who I met in Orange. Fiona not only grows cherries, but has also invested in a state of the art cherry processing and packaging plant.
She said that she couldn't have justified the investment only to process her own cherries, so has a wholesale deal under which she offers all local producers the opportunity to use her facilities to process their crop and they pay her a fair rate to use her facilities.
Although the farmers all compete in the retail market to sell their produce, they cooperate at a wholesale level to enable an investment which wouldn't be possible for any one of them alone.
When Fiona told me this story, I couldn't help but be struck by the extent to which she and her neighbours were cooperating to jointly invest in new infrastructure. Exactly what the telco industry needs – collaboration.
To the opponents of domestic roaming I say this… if you don't think domestic roaming is the best solution, ok. But I have to ask you, what is your solution?
In this debate, I have not heard any genuine alternatives.
The threats from the incumbent to withdraw regional investment just don't make any sense.
Monopolies don't drive investment, competition does.
The status quo is just not delivering satisfactory outcomes to people who live outside the major cities.
I was recently asked – what will Vodafone do if the ACCC doesn't make a domestic roaming declaration?
The answer is simple – we will carry on.
We will continue investing in regional areas wherever we can make a business case to do so. We will continue to duplicate existing infrastructure. We will continue to question whether wasting scarce capital on duplication of infrastructure is really the right answer, or whether collaboration and infrastructure sharing to extend coverage is better for regional Australia.
Across the Tasman in New Zealand, the three mobile carriers have just put forward an innovative proposal to co-invest with government to build over 500 new mobile base stations which would extend the land area coverage in New Zealand by twenty five percent.
The only significant form of collaboration in regional Australia uses the least efficient form of infrastructure sharing (co-location) under which the cost of everything except the physical tower is duplicated, greatly reducing the possibilities of new investment in infrastructure.
The New Zealand mobile operators have proposed using public funding to maximise the public benefit, building one regional network, sharing not just the towers, but the Radio Access Network, power and transmission, and providing a signal to all operators.
New Zealand has had regulated roaming for many years. The opponents of roaming in Australia will have trouble explaining what is happening in New Zealand, as roaming – in their eyes – is supposed to undermine further investment. But the carriers in New Zealand have continued to expand coverage and have now jointly proposed yet another substantial increase in regional investment. If you are looking for evidence that regulated roaming undermines investment, I once again question why all the evidence points in the opposite direction.
We will continue to ask for better regulation of monopoly inputs which can only be bought from Telstra – especially co-location and transmission.
We will continue to expose the numerous subsidy systems which have further protected the incumbent from competition, and question new subsidy systems whenever they bring risks of inefficiency and raise barriers to competition.
We will continue to run a successful, sustainable business.
For consumers and businesses in regional areas, it will be a missed opportunity if roaming is not regulated.
Taxpayers will continue to bear the burden for investment which the private sector could have undertaken to a greater extent if the barriers were lowered.
Vodafone has been strongly advocating for reform of the three hundred million dollar a year USO for many years.
Many voices have joined us to call for change and it's now getting to the point where it's become almost impossible to defend the current set up.
While we expressed serious concerns about the USO model for some time, even I was surprised at just how damning the Productivity Commission's draft report was.
The report reveals that what makes reform so urgent, is the lack of transparency, accountability and controls.
It is very troubling to think that three hundred million dollars a year, including $100 million in direct taxpayer subsidies, is handed over to the incumbent every year, Six billion dollars over the 20 years of the contract.
The Productivity Commission pointed out that fixed lines and payphones are in fact being shut down. Even they couldn't get precise numbers, but they think that around 25% of fixed lines and 50% of payphones appear to have been shut down.
When the PC's final report is released later this month, it is critical that action is taken. Government subsidies in any form must be transparent, and ensure a level playing field.
Before we introduce other schemes like the Regional Broadband Scheme, let's focus on fixing the current USO.
And in doing so, it's highly likely that we will free up substantial funds to cover the RBS.
The time for more reports and reviews is over. We need to move forward as quickly as possible.
A third key for Australia is a long term spectrum strategy which will ensure that we are always at the forefront of technological advances.
As we move closer to 5G, this becomes even more important. We have the benefit of working closely with our two shareholders who are on the leading edge of 5G development internationally.
5G will leverage new features such as beam-forming and massive MIMO technologies to drive massive increases in the throughput and capacity of mobile networks, and drive latency down to below one millisecond.
This will enable a new generation of solutions, from driverless cars, precision farming, e-health, water and energy monitoring and management and many other applications which have a huge potential for Australia, particularly regional Australia.
Not only will new spectrum need to be made available, but far greater quantities of spectrum will be required and we must make sure that Australia benefits from global ecosystems by designing a spectrum strategy that is compatible with other bigger markets.
We need to learn the lessons of the regional 1800 MHz spectrum. For many years this was severely under-utilised – to support a few fixed point-to-point links which could be provided through other spectrum bands and technologies. Leading edge competitive 4G services couldn't be rolled out outside the major capitals.
Once this spectrum was re-assigned by the ACMA through an orderly process, it was auctioned, yielding hundreds of millions of dollars for government and enabling rapid deployment of 4G services in regional areas virtually overnight. A great result, but one which took many years too long.
I fear that we might be looking at another such situation. It has only become clear in the last year that the spectrum bands which are by far the biggest opportunity for internationally aligned 5G services are the 3.4 to 3.7 GHz bands.
Other possible spectrum bands do not have sufficient international alignment, and therefore risk leaving Australia unable to leverage the global technology ecosystem.
While we need to take account of the rights of existing users in any spectrum re-allocation exercise, we have an over-riding duty to maximise the public benefit of spectrum allocations. This has to be done by following a similar application for spectrum bands as the large markets that define the availability of equipment. Whether its radio equipment or consumer devices.
Just to show that we don't disagree on everything, I would note that Telstra made a submission in 2014 pointing out that this was the best 5G candidate band and great caution should be taken in assigning it for other uses.
What I am advocating is simply a discussion to identify the options. The current owners of that spectrum must be able to deliver its services, and at the same time the right spectrum has to be made available to industry to benefit from the economies of scale on international standards.
There are definitely numerous alternative ways to ensure that both of these important objectives can be delivered. We should not assume that they are mutually exclusive without a quick but thorough examination of the options.
While we talk about the importance of competition and choice for our telecommunications now, it will only be more crucial in the future as how we work and play continue to evolve.
We need to explore new ideas and break the mould to allow Australians to continue to punch above their weight and compete on a global scale.
This is a great industry, one that creates a fundamental, vital infrastructure for the competitiveness and innovation of the country. The Internet of Things has the potential to increase productivity and capability in ways we've never seen before.
One industry in particular where IoT can make the biggest difference is farming.
Vodafone is a world leader in M2M services – as a supplier of global products such as livestock monitoring, remote machinery, vehicle tracking, and remote diagnostics.
If we are able to remove the barriers which have been raised to competing on a level playing field in regional Australia we will all benefit from incremental investment, which means that the industry will be able to bring these and other solutions to more places in Australia.
This will increasingly have a huge impact on productivity in regional Australia and this country's ability to innovate in the agriculture, mining, transport and energy sectors.
This year, collectively as an industry, and also as individuals, we have a choice.
We can tell ourselves, and we can tell Australians in regional areas, that the current set up is good enough, or that it's as good as it gets.
Or we can challenge the status quo, and work collaboratively to ensure Australia doesn't fall behind the rest of the world.
At Vodafone, we will continue to propose solutions to promote competition, a level playing field, innovation and more and better choice for customers.


ALEX PARDEE'S LAND OF CONFUSION: MIKE KERSHNAR! TIGERS! FUN!
Just a quick update from the road, on the Calvin & Hobbes Newspaper 2010 Tour…..
...where Cage & I are running around like madmen trying to say hello and goodbye to as many people as possible, wishing I had my Tardis fixed so I could buy a little more time. But as soon as I get back, on Sunday, a special amazing friend will be visiting the ZEROFRIENDS San Francisco Retail Store!
On Sunday, Oct 24, artist, survivalist, humanitarian, and overall inspirational human being MIKE KERSHNAR will be doing a special live-paint-jam session at the Zerofriends store, where he will also be hanging out, chatting, signing things, and enlightening anyone within 100 yards.
Painting, signing, hanging, chatting, being awesome.


Fixed deposits are an excellent way of saving money. But, in spite of all the benefits offered by regular FDs such as loans and flexible withdrawal, these do not have any kind of tax savings benefits. Tax saving fixed deposit is a type of FD which has tax savings benefits. This is invested for five years and does not have flexible benefits like the regular FD. Tax saving fixed deposits have a lot of other benefits, which are higher for a senior citizen. Given below are the benefits, eligibility criteria, interest rates of tax saving FDs, and tax deductible on fixed deposits.
Given below are some of the key features of a tax saving FD.
The maturity period of a tax saving FD is five years.
Premature withdrawal is not permitted.
Individuals cannot avail loans against tax saving FD.
Tax saving FD can be opened individually or jointly.
Investors can get deductions up to Rs. 1,50,000.
The interest earned from the tax saving FD is taxable under TDS.
Here are some of the key benefits of investing in a tax saving FD.
One of the most significant benefits of investing in a Tax saving FD is that it helps save income tax.
Assured returns apart from saving tax as premature withdrawal is not available with tax saving FD.
Investors can nominate or authorize to withdraw the deposits before or post maturity in the event of death.
Who is Eligible to open a Tax Saver FD?
Check out the list of those who are eligible to open a tax saving FD.
Given below is a table displaying the interest rates of tax saver fixed deposit offered by several banks.
Please note that the interest rates are subject to change without prior notice as per the bank's policies.
TDS stands for Tax Deducted at Source and is a part of the income tax. TDS applies to every interest income earned in India, including the FDs. If the income earned through an interest in a financial year is more than Rs.10,000, the account holder has to pay tax at any cost.
Individuals can claim a tax deduction for investments in tax saving FD of up to Rs.1.5 lakh as per the tax laws. The amount gets deducted from the total gross income of the individual to arrive at the taxable income. Here are some criteria to be fulfilled to claim this deduction.
Only individuals and HUFs are eligible to invest in tax saving FD schemes.
FD can be of the minimum amount as specified by the bank.
The tax saving FD has a lock-in period of 5 years. Premature withdrawals and loans against this FD are not permitted.
Except for rural and co-operative banks, investors can invest in tax saver fixed deposit through any public or private sector.
The post office time deposit of 5 years also qualifies for the same deductions under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act of 1961. Post office FDs are transferable between post offices.
Investors can either have an individual or a joint account. In case of a joint FD, the first holder of the FD gets the tax benefit.
Tax-Deductible FDs have a Nomination Facility.
Senior citizens get a higher interest rate on tax saving FDs than the normal tax saving FDs.
Interest earned on FDs is applicable for TDS. The interest is payable either on a monthly or quarterly basis. This interest may be reinvested.
As discussed above, the account holder does not have to pay tax if the interest earned is less than Rs.10,000. Offered as per the prevailing income tax rules, TDS can be circumvented by planning investments smartly. Given below are some ways to avoid TDS on FDs.
If the interest earned is less than the prescribed taxable limit, the applicant must fill and submit Form 15G or 15H in the bank. The bank does not deduct TDS on the interest earned if the investor submits the form. Form 15G is for individuals and HUFs whose income does not exceed the prescribed tax limit. Whereas, 15H is for senior citizens, individuals who are above the age of 60 years. The form will be considered void if the interest earned is eligible for tax deductions.
Timing the investments in a manner that it does not exceed Rs.10,000 for any financial year can help save TDS. One way to achieve this is by splitting the financial year. Individuals can invest in October. This divides the financial years into two as the financial year comes to an end by March 31.
TDS gets deducted from the account of the first applicant in case of a joint account. Hence, the investor can avoid TDS by being the second applicant.
Instead of investing everything in one bank, distribute investment across several banks in such a way that the interest does not exceed Rs.10,000.
Tax saving fixed deposits can be beneficial for those seeking tax deductions and can be instrumental in investing. Read about the banks' policies before applying to get the most of the scheme.


5 Ways to Automate Your Janitorial Company's Social Media Marketing Strategy Are you using social media to connect with prospects and nurture them through your janitorial company's sales process? While social media has become a leading marketing tool, some janitorial companies struggle to use it effectively because they lack the time and resources needed to maintain a presence on all the top social media networks. The good news, however, is that there are ways to automate your janitorial company's social media marketing strategy.
Posted On Monday, February 25, 2019 by SalesLeads, Inc.
You don't have to log into your janitorial company's Facebook Page each time you want to post new content. You can actually create content in advance and schedule it to publish at a later date. This is done by clicking the drop-down menu next to "Publish" and choosing "Schedule." From here, you can select the date and time when you'd like the content to be published.
Another way to automate your janitorial company's social media marketing strategy is to connect your company's Facebook Page to its Twitter profile. Once connected, the content you share on your janitorial company's Facebook Page will automatically be shared on your Twitter account as well. You can push your Facebook posts to your Twitter account manually, but automating this process will save you time and energy.
You shouldn't have to manage your janitorial company's Facebook Page by yourself. By assigning other user roles to your Page, you can take this burden off your shoulders. If there are other employees at your janitorial company with whom you can entrust to manage your company's Facebook Page, assign them as an admin or editor so that they can create new content and manage existing content.
There are more than a half-dozen tools designed to automate social media marketing. HootSuite, for example, is a popular tool that allows you to create and schedule posts for all the leading social media networks. Alternatively, you can use Buffer, which offers many of the same features and functionality as HootSuite, including the ability to create and schedule social media posts.
This won't necessarily automate your janitorial company's social media marketing strategy, but it can streamline the process of distributing new posts nonetheless, making it a useful optimization tactic. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or any other leading social media network, find and follow some of the top users relevant to your janitorial company's industry or niche. And when they publish a useful piece of content such as sanitation, bacterial management or general cleaning services, consider sharing that content on your janitorial company's account.
Now that you've created great content for your social media, why not share the same content in an email with your janitorial prospects. Need a few more prospects? No problem. SalesLeads offers identified projects or high quality sales leads to help you gain new business especially with companies that are renovating, expanding or building a few facility. Try a few project reports by opening a new account. Now you can see for yourself the quality content our researchers generate for your company each day.


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The Supreme Court today issued notice on UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake to appear before the court on December 07 over contempt of court charges.
The court issued notice on the parliamentarian when the case was taken up before a judge bench chaired by Chief Justice Nalin Perera.
This is in order to determine through a hearing whether the MP can be charged with contempt over the recent comments he had made to the media.
The Supreme Court had previously notified the Attorney General to appear at the court on December 7 to assist the country when the case is taken up.


The Society of Neuroscience Graduate Students (SONGS) is an organization run by graduate students in the neuroscience program at Western University. Each of our committee members is elected through a voting process. Below you will find some information about our current members and their roles within the Executive Committee.
If you are interested in becoming part of this committee we are always looking to recruit new members. Please get in touch to receive more information about becoming involved with the society.
Krys Wieczerzak Krys is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Neuroscience in Dr. Allman's lab. She is interested in how noise exposure affects higher-order cortical areas, and how top-down modulation of sensory processing is altered in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. If not a scientist, she would be a movie director, philosopher or Time Lord. In her free time, she loves to go to concerts, read books and travel. As an ex-swimmer, she is trying to go back to a gym and is looking for a swimming buddy.
Niveen Fulcher Niveen is the current Neuroscience Graduate Student Representative and is a 3rd year PhD student working in Dr. Susanne Schmid's lab. In SONGS, Niveen played a key role in the initial organization of the Committee in 2017, is still the student liaison at the Program Executive Committee Meetings, and is the chief project manager of SONGS' Neuroscience Research Day (NRD) taking place May 2019.
Outside of the lab and volunteering, Niveen enjoys playing volleyball, Monopoly Deal and hanging out with friends/family/cats.
Abdullah Al-Jaja Abdullah is a PhD student in the neuroscience program under the co-supervision of Dr. Penny MacDonald (PI) and Dr. Jessica Grahn. His research investigates several aspects of Parkinson's disease (PD). From a molecular level, they are looking at genetic polymorphisms that affects dopaminergic signaling in the striatum. In addition, he is investigating the effect of anxiety reduction on freezing of gait in PD. Moreover, Abdullah is studying the effect of certain auditory stimuli on brain activity via EEG and fMRI. Globally, his projects aim to increase and strengthen our understanding of the dorsal and ventral striatum in PD.
Ariel Frame Ariel is a PhD student in the neuroscience program at Western University. He moved to London from Vancouver in 2016 in order to begin graduate school at Western. He is a neurobiologist who is currently researching aging, metabolism and memory in hopes that his future work will address the mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease etiology. Ariel is the managing editor of GradCast, the official radio show and podcast for the Society of Graduate Students at Western University. Ariel likes in depth discussions on controversial topics, playing soccer and the number three.
Simon Benoit Simon is a 3rd year PhD candidate co-supervised by Drs. Susanne Schmid and Matthew Hebb. Coming from a lab at the University of Ottawa which focused on stroke, he is now using brain biopsies from living patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) to expand our knowledge of the pathophysiology of the disease and to develop new treatment strategies. This includes interrogating gene expression in the PD brain using RNA sequencing and generating patient-derived progenitor cells to investigate their utility as a cell-based therapy. When not hard at work, Simon primarily enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, as well as living an active lifestyle comprising of hiking, biking, running, volleyball and whatever else he can fit into his busy schedule.
Faraj Haddad Faraj is a PhD student in the Schmid lab. His work focuses on environmental influences on fetal brain development. More specifically, he studies the effects of maternal infection and the ensuing immune response during pregnancy on brain development and how it can increase the risk of autism and schizophrenia in offspring. His work involves a lot of rat behavioural work and some molecular techniques, but the thing he most enjoys his PhD is teaching and mentoring undergraduate students. Outside the lab, Faraj enjoys watching video game tournaments and baking.
Joyla Furlano Joyla completed her Honors B.Sc. at University of Toronto with a Specialization in Psychology, and is currently a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Neuroscience at Western University. Broadly speaking, her research interests include exercise, aging, brain health, and cognition. Her doctoral research uses fMRI to examine the effects of resistance exercise on memory and brain function in sedentary, overweight older adults. Outside of the lab, her hobbies include volunteering, outdoor activities, cycling, and quality time with her cats.


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Babies on board
A GROUP of Widnes bikers joined forces with an army of riders from Liverpool's Rocket Motorcycle Club to raise bundles of cash for Zöe's Place Baby Hospice.
Joe Tighe, a Widnes motorbike enthusiast, was among riders from Halton who took part in the ride from Hein Gericke motorcycle clothing centre in Aintree to the hospice in Middlesbrough, 141 miles away, as part of an annual Bank Holiday run.
The 100-plus bikers who took part raised more than £550 to help give 24-hour respite and palliative care to special needs babies at Zöe's Place.
The charity is a lifeline to parents whose children are mentally handicapped or disabled. The nurses at the hospice give mums and dads time to recharge their batteries so they can continue to give the child the love and attention they need.
Mark Bryant, manager of Hein Gericke, donated a £400 helmet to auction on the day and provided refreshments for all the riders.
Now Joe and a gang of dedicated riders in Widnes have decided to launch their own fundraising activities in Halton. And after taking part in numerous bike rides to Zöe's Place, Joe reckons that the time is right for Widnesians to club together and raise even more cash for the hospice.
Joe said: 'I am hoping to organise a soap box derby on The Bongs, to be run in late July/August in conjunction with a fun day in Crow Wood Park and all the proceeds would go to Zoe's Place Baby Hospice.'
Joe has already been in contact with Halton Borough Council about the event and is hoping it will give the green light for him and his team to put their plan into action.
He added: 'I have spoken to planner Nigel Hayes and he requires details of paths on The Bongs to be used for runs and proposals of exactly what we intend doing so that he can put it forward for approval.
'I was hoping to organise a children's event but this would seem very difficult in the short time we have due to all the legal requirements.
'But at the very least we hope to have the fun day with demonstration runs by carts made professionally and thus whetting people's appetite for next year, when we will have time to organise a bigger and better event.'
Joe has been involved in fundraising for Zöe's Place for four years after he was invited by a biker friend to join a Christmas bike ride for the charity, organised by the Rocket Motorcycle Club.
After taking part and seeing the good work done at the hospice, he decided to try to do something for the cause himself. He duly organised a sponsored ride from Zöe's Place in Liverpool to Zöe's Place in Middlesbrough in September 2003.
Joe said: 'My wife Elaine and I, plus three other couples, completed a ride to Middlesbrough and back raising £2,000.'
Joe is appealing for support from businesses in Halton. If you can help, e-mail joe.tighe2@btopenworld.com


Mr. Stöferle: I have always considered it impossible to create a "self-sustaining" economic expansion by means of the printing press. By so doing, central bankers only succeeded in suppressing symptoms, but the underlying structural problems that created the 2008 financial crisis in the first place, have only gotten worse.
Global Gold: Do you believe central banks still have other options they could resort to or will this be the end of the road for them?
Mr. Stöferle: Central banks still have several options for further monetary easing. For instance, they could cut rates deeper into negative territory. However, to create an environment in which banks could pass on negative rates to their customers' savings accounts, cash would have to be abolished first, in order to avoid bank runs. We are already seeing signs of such intentions. But I cannot imagine these brutal measures being implemented, without stirring up even more unrest, in times when anti-establishment sentiment is already spreading. Moreover, negative interest rates have already been introduced in five currency areas with hardly any positive impacts on growth and inflation.
Global Gold: Monetary policy is one of the tools of financial repression, or measures the state resorts to when it simply can't afford its own expenses. What other tools are there and what can investors do to protect their wealth?
Mr. Stöferle: Artificially low interest rates and inflation are forms of financial repression, as they favour debtors to the detriment of savers. In the extreme scenario of negative interest rates where cash is abolished, we can expect negative nominal interest rates on peoples' savings accounts.
Global Gold: Now to the question on many of our readers' minds: Are we on the verge of a recession?
Mr. Stöferle: The 2008 financial crisis was the result of an unsustainable boom driven by loose monetary policy; the credit-based house of cards was about to collapse. To prevent the catastrophe, central banks increased the dosage of loose money by implementing ZIRP and QE and so forth – it's as if they were trying to put out a fire with gas. As I pointed out before, asset prices are artificially boosted and a withdrawal of that artificial support might cause a market crash, which in turn would very likely trigger a recession.
Global Gold: Years ago, our governments decided to abandon gold in favour of our fiat money system, thinking this would save their currencies, particularly the dollar. Recently, Greenspan mentioned in a Bloomberg interview that the economy performed successfully under the gold standard and surprisingly suggested we return to it. What do you think about this?
Mr. Stöferle: The "Maestro" was already a fan of gold in his early years. His essay "Gold and Economic Freedom" from 1966 is among the best publications ever written on gold. Back then, he criticized the money creation schemes of the fractional reserve banking system, pointing out that under a gold standard, the amount of credit in an economy would be restricted by its tangible assets. The end of the gold standard paved the way for an unlimited expansion of credit, which has now reached its limits. I believe we are in a historic situation where a realignment of the monetary system is going to take place. I don't see any other way for the credit system to survive.
Global Gold: Just a few weeks ago, the British surprised us with their vote to Brexit. Markets plummeted and the value of the British Pound slumped vis-à-vis the dollar to a 30-year low, noting that the Pound was heavily overvalued. Meanwhile, demand for gold went up. Did you expect this outcome would have such an impact on markets? What developments do you expect to see going forward?
Mr. Stöferle: Like many others, I didn't really expect Brexit to happen. But the market movements thereafter didn't surprise me at all. Brexit increased the uncertainty in a world that is already on the edge of chaos, and in this context, it was not surprising that the British Pound would suffer and gold would gain momentum.
Global Gold: As you know, I believe today's markets are mainly driven by geopolitics and central bank decisions. Based on what we discussed, is gold back in business? And as a portfolio manager, how would you approach gold in the context of portfolio diversification?
Mr. Stöferle: As an Austrian economist, I don't regard exact forecasts as seriously as the price developments that result from decisions and actions by individuals as well as politicians. However, I do believe in a huge upward potential for gold, at least in the mid-term. After years of falling price inflation rates, of a strong U.S. Dollar and market participants that lulled themselves into a false sense of security, the inflation trend has reversed and the first doubts about the narrative of the economic recovery have arisen. In our "Gold in Trust 2016" report, my partner Mark Valek and I set our price target of USD 2,300 per ounce in June 2018.
Global Gold: Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us.
Ronald-Peter Stöferle is a managing partner and investment manager of Incrementum AG. Together with Mark Valek, he manages a global macro fund, which is based on the principles of the Austrian School of Economics.
He previously worked for Vienna-based Erste Group Bank where he wrote extensive reports on gold and oil. His benchmark reports titled 'In GOLD we TRUST' drew international coverage on CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Besides his work at Incrementum, he is a lecturing member of the Institute of Value based Economics and lecturer at the Academy of the Vienna Stock Exchange.


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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Story Trailer – Here's What You Missed
The new story trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has been released recently. We knew about the casting of Kit Harington (who plays the popular character Jon Snow in the Game of Thrones series) and Conor McGregor (a UFC featherweight champion and professional martial artist).
Kit Harington and Conor McGregor are the bad guys
In the new story trailer, we get to know that Kit Harington and Conor McGregor will be playing negative roles in the new Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Harington plays Admiral Salem Kotch, a sweeping angry space corps leader. On the other hand, McGregor plays Captain Bradley Fillion – an enemy who prefers the hands-on approach to fighting, as fans expected very much.
Here's a bit of action from McGregor:
When the biggest need the baddest to do work, I answer the call. Keep an eye on @CallofDuty tomorrow. #ad pic.twitter.com/pVEUxeuT4O
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) September 14, 2016
And here's a Kit Harington interview with bits and pieces of shooting times:
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's powerful narrative
Activision promises breakthrough storytelling. They also mentioned a powerful narrative design for the upcoming game in the same announcement that also notified us of Harington's villain role: Kit Harington Takes Villainous Turn in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
With this trailer, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare is expected to hit with a good story. A fast-paced, full of action, (mostly space based) combative, and space flying story.
Should we change our opinion now?
People are already talking hotly about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Boards and forums are full of "RIP Battlefield 1" posts. So shall we change our opinion about Infinite Warfare now?
You all know how there was a hate against the game just a few weeks ago. We also covered it in our Infinite Hate Story piece.
But if the narrative is this strong and plot this immersive, we should really be receptive to good things happening with Infinite Warfare.
And… the graphics
The graphics of the game would be thrilling, just like how this story trailer was. All those space battle effects must be a CPU consuming force but Infinite Warfare surely promises great graphics.
Jon Snow in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
We're yet to experience true gameplay, but from the visuals we have by now – we can presume that playing Infinite Warfare ourselves would be pretty amazing as well.
We can't conclude whether the game's going to be the best 2016 FPS or just a "decent" one. With the story trailer, the game shows some promise but we should still wait up and let the movie progress further. Let us know what you think about Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and keep in touch with Spiel Times for more gaming, technology and esports related information, news and stuff.


THE MODERATOR: We would like to welcome Coach Scott Drew and the Baylor Bears to the interview room. The two student-athletes are Manu Lecomte and Terry Maston. Coach, we will look to you for an opening comment.
SCOTT DREW: I thought West Virginia did a great job. They caused us 22 turnovers, and I thought Jevon's three at the end of the half took away the momentum from Tristan's dunk, and now it gets to 6 points and Miles hit some big threes today, 5 from 6 for threes and they were deep and late in the shot clock. When you get down double digits against West Virginia it's hard to come back.
There are certain teams we match-up better with. West Virginia is one of them that we're not -- we're glad if we never have to play them again this year.
Q. Guys, I wonder if you could describe the cumulative affect of facing that press for forty minutes? I know they turned you over 22 times, which was a season worst, but just describe what it's like to have to go against that for forty minutes.
MANU LECOMTE: It's a great press. It's a great team. They turned us over 22 times. The coaches put up a great game plan and I know we've made a lot of mistakes, but I'm proud of my guys that we fought until the end.
TERRY MASTON: I think fatigue and frustration sets in especially when you start to turn it over a lot. But like Manu said, I'm glad we kept battling to the end and we just have to take care of the ball next time and just work a little harder in practice. That's about it.
Q. Manu, you guys cut the lead to 2 early in the second half and then Miles hits three straight threes. How difficult was that to maybe come back from that?
MANU LECOMTE: It was tough because he got hot and we should have done a better job us guards of closing out to him and taking it away. But, again, it came off of turnovers, so it's the same thing. We've just got to take care of the ball better.
Q. Terry, you guys got out to an 18-9 lead, looked like you had chances to expand that. How difficult was it not to stretch it out?
TERRY MASTON: It was very difficult. We try not to dwell on it because we had to play in the now. We couldn't worry about the lead that we had kinda blown. We just tried to keep going and stay positive and we got a couple of traverse, they got some great momentum, couple of fast break dunks and they just played good overall.
Q. Selection Sunday, 5:00, I guess. Do you guys feel like you guys have done enough? Are you going to be a little nervous?
MANU LECOMTE: I think we're good enough, but it doesn't matter now. We've just got to wait and see.
TERRY MASTON: Same, pretty much just waiting and seeing.
Q. Guys, how different are they when Esa Ahmad is playing like he did? I know he had 21 points. He was effective in the late run in the first half and then also early in the second. What does he do to make them different?
TERRY MASTON: I think he just plays hard. He's a great scorer. He has wide hands on defense in their press and he plays with a lot of energy, especially with a guy that's 6-8 moving around with those guards out there like Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles. That's just a great part of his game.
MANU LECOMTE: I think he's a very good player, gave us trouble in our zone, catching the high post and stuff. Again, the coaches put up a great game plan defensively, and we tried but he's a very good player, like TJ said.
THE MODERATOR: Guys, thank you. Good luck next week. Questions for Coach Drew?
Q. Coach, what is the feeling like for you and the staff now that -- you've said as long as you're playing you're good well now you're not playing anymore, it's out of your hands. What's the feeling like?
SCOTT DREW: The positive part of things are we are playing the No. 1 RPI conference in the country. We were the seed. Ten of our losses were to ranked teams most in the nation. Zero losses in quadrant 3 or 4. So we don't have any bad losses, and we're the fifth best team according to KenPom on the Big 12, and it's a great conference, a great league. There are certain teams that you match-up better with, and others that you don't. West Virginia we knew was a tough match-up. We actually completely changed our game plan from Game 2 to this one, and I thought early on it worked. In the last 8 minutes in the game in the first half, you get to 18 points and then all of the sudden you're stuck. I think the fatigue and that press wears on you.
When they got momentum going into half, I think if we could have finished with Tristan's dunk, one-possession game, it's a lot different. So when you're playing them you don't need them hitting half-court shots. They're good enough without that.
Q. Scott, what did y'all do early to get that 9-point lead?
SCOTT DREW: Well, our defense was really good early on, especially. They were 22%, 4 for 18 and then all of the sudden our traverse allowed them to not have to face our defense and when they started scoring then we had to face their press.
When we were getting stops, then we could get out in transition, not have to face the press. When they scored they set up and that wasn't good for us.
Q. You said you changed up the game plan. What were y'all trying to do to beat the press? Trying different things?
SCOTT DREW: Well, we played in space in the half-court early on, and as far as the press break, the first time we played them we used three guys the entire time, second time we used three for the first half, switched to just two up and that was more effective. So we started the game with two up and that worked fairly well until the 8-minute mark when -- and when you're not scoring, it does tend to affect you defensively and everywhere else. I think that was unfortunate for us.
So, again, their pressure -- at some point you're going to make a mistake and if you're not scoring on the other end, getting high-risk/high-reward stuff it makes it tough. When we turned it over and they scored, then you get down in double digits, that's a tall feat.
Again, if we could go back and start the game right there from 8-minute mark when we're up and play it again, I would love to do it. I don't think Coach Huggins will, though.
Q. Huggins was pretty eloquent when he thought there were no bubble teams in this conference. He thinks everybody should make it. How are these next 72 hours going to be for you as you sit and ponder as far as what your team's chances are may be in the next week or so?
SCOTT DREW: I like his answer. Coaches tend to worry, though. At the end of the day if I was on the committee I agree with him and what he said, but we're not on the committee, and hopefully again the things they have asked us to do, play good teams, play good schedules, not have bad losses. When you play top-25 teams you rack up losses. In this league you do.
Q. I was wondering, you've seen this league in a lot of different seasons and each season is different. If you had to play a tour guide this year of what has made it exceptional, I wonder what you would highlight?
SCOTT DREW: Well, first of all, you look at the tournaments we all won in the nonconference. It's hard to win tournaments, and we had a lot of teams win tournaments in the nonconference. Normally every other game you're facing a great player or two great players and in this league it starts with point guards, and to me it's never been better top to bottom with point guards. If you have great point guards you've got a chance to win any game.
Then you look at shot blockers. It's the best the league has every been with shot blockers and then you fill it in with everything else and you're like, this is really a tough league.
I don't know how many NBA players we'll have, but I know we have a lot of really, really good players in this league that when you game plan you're like, that's a problem. That's why I think we're all so successful in the nonconference in our tournaments.
If we could go back -- everyone has injuries and you've got to deal with them, but, I mean, we were undefeated when TJ was healthy. We lost him and I wish we would have had him in a couple of those nonconference games. When he's rolling we're really good and it gives us another weapon confined of like with West Virginia. Esa Ahmad was tremendous tonight, but when he first came back I thought it took time for him to get acclimated. He was a looked a little heavy, a little slow. Right now he's playing like he was last year and because of that I think their team is better now than they were in the beginning of the year because he's such a weapon for them, really knows how to operate their defense.
Offensively he can score and he can score inside, he can score outside. So, again, I think every one of the Big 12 coaches are excited to face somebody different. Especially one thing in coaching that's tough. We all talk about talent and teams and leadership, but there is something to be said about confidence and swag and when you're losing games, adversity hits you and when you're in a great league you have more adversity than if you're playing in a league where you get two or three losses. So every coach and every team is dealing with that.
THE MODERATOR: Coach, we will let you go and good luck next week.


Soichiro Honda founded the Honda motorcycle business in 1946 from the proceeds of selling his piston ring company to Toyota. Under the name Honda Technical Research Institute, Soichiro and his team designed and produced tooling and creating a way to power pedal-cycles by installing ex-military generator engines.
The business was renamed Honda Motor Company in 1948. Producing his own engines followed by frames and other components, a range of Honda motorcycles soon became popular on the streets of Japan. By 1952 six different models had been produced and export started. Just seven years later the company became the world's largest motorcycle producer.


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Vasily Borisovich Livanov (born 19 july 1935) is a Russian actor who played Sherlock Holmes in the TV movies divided in two series Sherlok Kholms i Doktor Vatson (Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson) aired in 1980 and Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i Doktora Vatsona (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson) aired between 1980-1988 with Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. Because of this role, on 20 february 2006, he became an Honorary MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) "for service to the theatre and performing arts". The movies are quite faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories. The actors were chosen because of their British looking and their resemblances to the Sidney Paget illustrations.
In 1985, Vasily Livanov gave his voice to Sherlock Holmes in a short Russian TV cartoon named Мы с Шерлоком Холмсом (Me and Sherlock Holmes).