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An Achilles tendon rupture is an injury located at the back of the leg and the heel. This injury commonly occurs during a sport whilst stopping and starting to run again at a rapid pace. The patient will present with sharp pain immediately after a pop or snap has occurred. After this, it is very common that the patient will not be able to walk or will experience significant pain whilst attempting to do so. There will be swelling around the heel and back of the lower leg, and it is common for the patient to have significant difficulty when contracting their calf muscle (Brukner & Khan, 2012).
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A very accurate diagnosis is often reached without the use of radiography. The physiotherapist will have good evidence for diagnosis after the patient interview, where they are particularly looking to hear if a snap or pop was involved. The physiotherapist will perform what is called the "Thompson Test", which involves squeezing the back of the leg at the calf and observing the integrity of the Achilles tendon and other structures. Muscle testing of the calf can also aid in the diagnosis if the Thompson Test had unclear results. Radiography can be used if there is still confusion, it is most useful to determine if there is a need for surgery (Brukner & Khan, 2012).
The Achilles tendon can become quite weak with age or rest from a particular activity. The Achilles tendon is the most common tendon to rupture as it very stretchy. People who have had previous conditions that weaken the tendon will be more susceptible to rupture, these conditions include: Achilles tendonitis and more minor Achilles strains. Rupture normally occurs during sport or exercises, example in a game of soccer where the player tries to take off in a burst, planting the foot back and exerting maximum stretch and force through the tendon. Other sports where this can occur are: basketball, tennis, rugby and at the start of a running race. The injury can also occur outside of a sporting scenario when stepping backwards from a small height or stepping in a hole (Hess, Gregory, & William, 2016).
For Achilles tendon ruptures, conservative, non-surgical management has been shown to be very effective for full return to function. Patients will wear a Controlled Ankle Motion boot until the tendon has healed. Once they are out of the boot, strengthening exercises are used to strengthen the entire leg and the non-affected leg as all muscles will have some wastage after this period of rest. Manual therapy will also be used to restore full movement at the ankle as it becomes very stiff from wearing the Boot. If conservative management does not work or the rupture is deemed too large, the Achilles tendon will have to be surgically reattached. After this surgery, a Controlled Ankle Motion Boot is also used and conservative Physiotherapy is commenced (Kocher, Bishop, Marshall, Briggs, & Hawkins, 2002).
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Brukner, P. & Khan, K. (2012). Brukner & Khan's clinical sports medicine (pp. 797-800). Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
Hess, Gregory, & William,. (2016). Achilles Tendon Rupture. Foot & Ankle Specialist, 3(1), 29-32.
Kocher, M., Bishop, J., Marshall, R., Briggs, K., & Hawkins, R. (2002). Operative versus nonoperative management of acute Achilles tendon rupture: expected-value decision analysis. The American Journal Of Sports Medicine, 30(6), 783.
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New York leaders faced an unanticipated crisis as the new coronavirus overwhelmed the nation's largest city. Their response was marred by missed warning signs and policies that many health-care workers say put residents at greater risk and led to unnecessary deaths.
In the first few days of March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio assured New Yorkers things were under control. On March 2, Mr. de Blasio tweeted that people should go see a movie.
Only after the disease had gripped the city's low-income neighborhoods in early March did Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio mobilize public and private hospitals to create more beds and intensive-care units. The hasty expansion that ensued, led by New York government leaders and hospital administrators, produced mistakes that helped worsen the crisis, health-care workers say.
The virus has hit New York harder than any other state, cutting through its densely populated urban neighborhoods and devastating the economy. New York state's death toll of 30,575 accounted for 7% of the world's deaths and 27% of American deaths as of June 11, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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LCS program cost overuns? Surprise, surprise. Press rrelease from DoD: Navy Issues Stop Work Order for Littoral Combat Ship 3 Announced:
The Navy has issued a stop work order today to Lockheed Martin Corp. Maritime Systems & Sensors unit, Moorestown, N.J., for the construction of the third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). This stop work order will take effect immediately and is for a period of 90 days.
The stop work order was issued because of significant cost increases currently being experienced with the construction of LCS-1 and LCS-3, under construction by Lockheed Martin.
"I determined that at this point in time it was critical to stop work on LCS-3 to assess the LCS program and ensure we understand the program's cost and management processes before we move forward. It is essential that we complete LCS 1 and get it to sea so we can evaluate this new ship design" said Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter.
The Navy is working closely with the contractor to identify the root cause of the costs growth. The Navy is reviewing the overall acquisition strategy for the LCS program and is working closely with the contractors to keep this program on track.
Root cause? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
One answer found here:
"We believe these increased costs are due to an underestimation of labor hours," said Lt. John Gay, a spokesman for the Navy, in a telephone interview, noting the Navy had not changed requirements on the initially awarded contract granted in June 2004.
According to Lockheed, several issues raised costs including incorrect reduction gears supplied by vendors, a six-month delay in receiving high-grade steal (sic) and the Navy's decision to apply standard vessel production rules when constructing the ships.
Yeah, you gotta pay extra for that "high grade steal."
A recent cost review of the USS Freedom showed that the estimated price had jumped from a planned $220 million to between $331 million and $410 million, according to a Navy official. That ship is under construction by Lockheed Martin and scheduled to be delivered to the Navy this summer.
Another factor in gauging Congressional response to the program's cost growth, the Congressional naval analyst pointed out, is that the ships are being built at three small shipyards that have not done a lot of Navy work.
"People from the big yards" — the six major shipyards owned by Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics — "have always regarded LCS as a threat," the analyst said. "This doesn't help that."
The pace of acquisition is key to the Navy's desire to rapidly get the ships in service to perform close-to-shore combat missions.
So, the long knives are out.


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Bernie Sanders Supporters Say They'll Fart in Protest of Hillary Clinton
By Kirsten Salyer
Kirsten Salyer is a writer and the former Deputy Editor of TIME Ideas
In case you need another reminder that much of the 2016 election seems to be on the same maturity level as a middle school student council contest, there's this: Bernie Sanders supporters are planning a "fart-in" at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week to protest Hillary Clinton's nomination.
"For us, this whole thing is a farce, it's a charade," organizer Cheri Honkala told NBC News. "They're creating the illusion of democracy in a very important historical location, Philadelphia, and we're really saddened by that."
In response, she and her group, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, are planning to act out an idea that some attribute to Saul Alinsky, a community organizer who once threatened a "fart-in" protest in Rochester, N.Y. Protesters are preparing to create a shantytown in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, where they say they plan to eat beans and other gas-inducing foods before they head to the convention hall on July 28 to, well, "make a stink."
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Let's just get this out of the way: Farts are funny. They can also conveniently serve as a literal representation of the idea that there's something stinky about our democratic process. And sure, why not? Flatulence can be free… speech.
Calling for improved health care and economic justice is a worthy cause. But is the medium for the message necessary?
For attention, maybe. (It's possible the protest theme itself is a farce.) Over-the-top tactics can help cut through the noise of the constant election coverage. For example, at the Republican National Convention this week, the story of 100 women posing nude to protest Donald Trump drew attention to the group. And stories of women calling Indiana Governor Mike Pence's office to talk about their periods in response to his policies on abortion resurfaced when Trump picked Pence to be his vice president.
But for the supposed goal of protests—lasting, meaningful change—it's uncertain whether splashy shows can have much of a long-term effect. The counter to that argument is, of course, that if silly things can get people talking about serious issues, why not?
Perhaps that's enough. In an election in which candidates have debated the size of their hands and protestors have erupted into senseless brawls, it might be wishful thinking to ask that we all just grow up.


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So what should the average visitor expect from a trip to Everglades National Park? Well, what do you want? You could spend a couple of hours with your camera clicking away at the fantastic range of wild birds, then you could take an afternoon hike and watch out for the alligators warming themselves in the afternoon sun – really though, do watch out for the alligators, they were there first and are protected in the park. Why not hitch a boat ride while you're at it – but do remember your mosquito repellent, especially between June and October, the rainy season. Everglades National Park does have its share of tropical storms and hurricanes too so be prepared, but they are actually regarded to have an important place in the future health of the Everglades National Park.
I wanted to find a video which isn't full of alligators, and I think I managed . . . did you see any?


sounds like a very (too?) wide net you are casting there, may be more useful to pick a subject/case-study and start to fill in the context/reverberations.
Yeah, I do think I cast the net too wide, but it was unavoidable, given the enormity of my ignorance: I did not know where to begin, so I just. . . started.
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While much attention has been paid to the headline unemployment rates in Colorado and the nation as a whole, just below the surface lingers a more damaging picture of Colorado's stalled economy under the Obama administration. Not only do we have fewer people working in this state than we did four years ago, but Colorado has witnessed a sharp decline in high paying, "good jobs" in critical industries such as IT, financial services, and manufacturing.
Viewed alongside the fact that the state's population growth rate over the past decade has been approximately 1.6% per annum, an even bleaker picture regarding jobs and the gainfully employed in Colorado comes into focus: Colorado's labor force has contracted by more than 24,000 people during Obama's term, while the state's population grew by nearly 240,000. This fact makes the real employment situation in Colorado significantly worse than what is recorded by official numbers, as The Colorado Observer pointed out.
Who is hurt the most by the Obama economy in Colorado?
Back in July we reported on a troubling trend – Coloradans losing their jobs in the energy sector while spouses of Colorado's Congressional delegation were getting rich off the Green Lobby.
One fact we were the first in Colorado to report — that Democrat Congressman Ed Perlmutter's then-wife was Solyndra's first lobbyist — has now made its way onto TV screens across the Denver Metro area.
The problem for Perlmutter here is the more he pushes back against this ad the deeper he'll sink into ethical quick sand. Yes, Perlmutter is now divorced from said lobbyist-wife, but they were married at the time of her lobbying the US House, something that Perlmutter promised she wouldn't do.
We were glad to hear Perlmutter say that his wife would not lobby him or any member of the U.S. House. That's essential.
To official lobbying disclosures from 2008 that show that Deanna Perlmutter was lobbying the U.S. House over Solyndra's loan application.
What does Ed Perlmutter have to say to voters in the 7th Congressional District about his broken lobbying ethics pledge?
Corruption was voters' number one concern in 2006 — the year Perlmutter was elected to Congress. Could the issue that helped bring Perlmutter to Washington also send him packing?
Ever since the specter of a Joe Coors campaign for Congress first came to light, Democrats have done their level best to insist that Coors stands no shot at winning. Telling a much different tale about the threat Coors poses to incumbent Democratic Congressman Edwin Perlmutter is the $1 million dollars two liberal outside groups have spent in recent weeks attacking Joe Coors on television.
Put simply, Democrats are frightened of the electoral freight train that is the Coors campaign.
Joe Coors can spend big, has sky-high name ID and appears to be generally liked by all reporters who meet him. That, and he's challenging Perlmutter in a district that's nearly half brand new to both candidates.
A year ago, virtually no one would have said that Perlmutter was at risk of a serious challenge in 2012, seeing that he walloped Ryan Frazier by 11 points in the Republican wave year of 2010.
How quickly the tides have turned.
Turns out relegating the CD7 race between Coors and Perlmutter to sideshow status didn't happen, forcing public sector union AFSCME and the SEIU to drop another $500,000 attacking Coors.
Colorado Pols' truly pathetic spin got even worse this weekend, claiming "Joe Coors' candidacy won't survive" a story by Lynn Bartels in the Sunday Denver Post.
Wishing doesn't make it so, Pols.
But that's what happened when 9News took a closer look at the damning Coors campaign ad slamming Congressman Ed Perlmutter's record of supporting rapists' rights.
The fact that the truth test came on right after the ad itself aired makes it even more damning for Perlmutter.
CLAIM: Ed Perlmutter voted against the law that protects victims of child abuse from having to face their abusers in court.
CLAIM: Extreme Ed Perlmutter voted against Colorado's law allowing the use of DNA evidence to convict sexual predators years later.
There is no denying how Perlmutter voted as a State Senator in 2001. The ad's statement about the vote is true.
Last week, The Denver Post released a poll by SurveyUSA showing the Presidential race tied in Colorado. Then today, the Post did something unusual — they released a bunch of the data below the top line numbers (PDF). Kudos to the Post for putting it all on the table.
Polls, as we are taught, are mere snapshots in time. The top line results…who is up, and who is down…is often less important in the end than what the cross-tabs beneath say.
Who is winning with key demographics? Who is under-performing where they need to over-perform? Who is gaining ground on the other guys' turf? These are the questions that decide elections. These important data points are the all-important tidbits found in a polls' cross tabs.
The Denver Post released a Colorado poll confirming what everyone other than Democrat polling firms already knew — the race for President in Colorado is tied.
The poll results — first announced Friday on the noon broadcast of DPTV— show Obama ahead of Romney by a single, statistically insignificant percentage point, 47 to 46 percent. When former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who is running as the Libertarian nominee for president, is factored in, Obama's single-percentage-point lead remains, 45 percent to 44 percent. Johnson registers at 3 percent of the vote.
We have only one slight problem with the poll — as Alan Philp noted on Twitter, the poll's sample assumes a higher turnout of Democrats than Republicans.
The sample is 34% D / 34% R / 30% Unaffiliated. As there were almost 100,000 more registered active Republican voters than Democrats as of September 1, an equal turnout from Democrats would assume they are actually turning out at higher rates than Republicans.
We don't see that happening. Just look at Obama's recent visit to CSU: In 2008, he attracted a crowd of 45,000. This year: 13,000. Does that seem like it portends a 2008-like turnout among Democrats?
If the poll were to have a more realistic likely voter sample, Romney would actually be in the lead, which we know would probably break Denver Post Publisher and Obama fan boy Dean Singleton's heart.
FELON FUNDRAISER FIASCO: Did Joe Miklosi Knowingly Hire An Ex-Con To Raise Money?
AURORA – The congressional campaign of Joe Miklosi (D-Aurora) is acknowledging it never performed a background check on an employee forced to resign after a conservative website revealed his history of drug arrests.
Doran Kaye's background was first reported Friday by The Colorado Observer. Kaye volunteered his resignation the same day.
A brutal story in The Colorado Observer today on CD6 candidate Joe Miklosi's latest problem with his Congressional campaign staff. The Observer's Leslie Jorgensen reports that Miklosi is currently employing a 6-time drug offender, who spent at least 276 days in prison for his crimes, in his fundraising department.
DENVER– Democrat 6th Congressional District candidate state Rep. Joe Miklosi claimed that he didn't know who was working on his campaign – most were being picked and paid by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
The controversial staff shakeups made news – but undetected was a key member of Miklosi's fundraising team – a felon whose arrest record is riddled with drug charges.
Hobart did not return calls to The Colorado Observer. Numerous attempts to contact Kaye were unsuccessful.
According to Kaye's resume, he landed the Telefund job in October 2009 – a few months after a warrant for his arrest was served and then cancelled in July 2009, and he completed a two-year probation and jail term for a class 4 felony, possession of a Controlled Substance Schedule 2 drug.
Schedule 2 drugs are described as dangerous drugs that include cocaine, morphine, methamphetamines and opium.
Give the whole story a read here. Kaye's rap sheet reads like something out of Breaking Bad.
This is a serious issue for Miklosi, as it calls into question his judgment in managing a staff.
Seeing that it's another scandal in his fundraising department — and Miklosi has proven to be one of the worst fundraisers in the country — it makes it worse, even if only symbollically.
Earlier this year The Observer reported that Miklosi had a back pay complaint filed by his campaign finance director Kirsten Boyd for stiffing her of her full paycheck. The complaint was eventually dismissed on a technicality because Boyd wasn't considered an employee, and therefore the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) could not review her situation.
Normally we would say the background of staff members doesn't much matter, but in the case of Doran Kaye there are a few issues that make it matter.
First, the staffer in question — Doran Kaye — was in his 30s when these arrests happened, so they are no youthful indiscretions.
Secondly, these are very serious charges. Schedule 2 drugs do not include marijuana, but dangerous drugs like crystal meth and cocaine. And it's not one arrest but many arrests in the last couple of years, including one in 2008 described in the article as "'possession with intent' (typically intent to sell or distribute)". He has spent at least 276 days in prison for his crimes, according to the story.
The police records don't detail which Schedule 2 drug or drugs Kaye was arrested for, so that will be up to the Miklosi campaign or Kaye himself to clarify.
Thirdly, Kaye's last arrest, in March 2009 for drug paraphernalia at St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver, was mere months before he went to work for a liberal fundraising company that boasts the DNC, DCCC and Obama's campaign as clients.
Are Democrat donors okay with an ex-con potentially having access to their credit card information?
There are a number of unanswered questions in this story. Compass Colorado outlined three in a press release this morning. We'll leave you with that.
When did Joe Miklosi know his staffer was a convicted drug pusher?
Who hired the felon staffer, Joe Miklosi or the DCCC?
Will Joe Miklosi defend his staffer's criminal actions or dismiss his employee?
OUR VIEW: No candidate has been more poorly vetted since Dan Maes.
Most conspicuous on Pace's rap sheet is the news that he's been arrested for public urination not once, but twice. While a Denver Post story last year noted Pace's first charge for relieving himself in public, the Peak is the first to report news of a second public urination arrest, which occurred in the summer of 2003.
Pace attempted to explain away his first public pee-pee problem, and his contemporaneous burglary arrest, as brain dead moments as a college student.
"When my two boys are older I will use this experience to show them how mistakes can live with you your entire life," he said.
But when Pace was nabbed a second time for dropping trow in public he was no longer a college student, but climbing the Democrats' partisan political ladder.
In 2002, he was a regional director for the Colorado Democratic Party.
In 2003, he was working with environmental groups to help defeat Referendum A, a ballot initiative that would have allowed the Colorado Water Conservation Board to borrow up to $2 billion for public and private water projects by issuing bonds.
A few months after being nailed a second time, Pace worked for then-state Representative John Salazar as a political aide at the Capitol. Pace would go on to be a top level operative in Salazar's campaign for the 3rd Congressional district in 2004, and ran his re-election campaign against now-Congressman Scott Tipton in 2006.
Pace's second arrest for public urination can't be written off as the misdeeds of a stupid college kid; Pace got nailed with his pants down while he was three rungs up the Democrat political ladder (excuse the mixed metaphors).
The incident didn't occur on a college campus, but rather right next to the state Capitol on one of the most policed streets in the state.
Pace's frankly embarrassing record of using sidewalks as urinals is only the start of the House Minority Leader's long and checkered criminal rap sheet.
His driving record in Denver from 2004 includes charges for driving under restraint, a charge that was later pleaded down to a conviction of driving with suspended license plates. Driving under restraint is driving while knowing you had no legal right to, such as driving with a suspended license. The charge carries with it a mandatory minimum sentence of five days in jail.
While he wasn't jailed for that offense, Pace did end up in the slammer for felony burglary in the 3rd degree and larceny charges on October 5, 1995. Pace has told The Denver Post the incident was in regards to stealing from his dorm's vending machine.
At the time, Pace told the school newspaper of his alma mater Fort Lewis College, "The Independent," that he was "under the influence of alcohol" during this incident. Fort Lewis College placed Pace on probation.
The next year, on April 20, 1996 Pace was arrested for obscene conduct. He was also "under the influence of alcohol" during this incident, according to Pace's comments to The Independent.
Under college rules, the criminal charges spurred a mandatory disciplinary hearing. Pace was sentenced to 20 hours of community service, probation and was told he must attend alcohol counseling.
At the time Pace was a student Senator, and after his criminal melee he was asked to resign his position in exchange for not being suspended from school.
Vice President of Student Affairs for Fort Lewis College Betty Perry told The Independent that Pace was the only student Senator in school history to go before the Disciplinary Hearing Committee.
Pace tried to fight the dismissal, claiming if he was forced to step down it would stifle student voices.
Fort Lewis College did not buy that specious and hollow argument, and he was forced to resign in November 1996.
All of this adds up to a troubling record for a Congressional candidate in a competitive district. Pace's past has caused trouble for his political career once before, and these new revelations are likely to add major questions about his candidacy.


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Rihanna took over New York Fashion Week on Tuesday night, showcasing her Savage X Fenty brand with a show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The lingerie line took center stage, along with performances from Halsey , Migos , Big Sean and more, as the crowd was filled with famous faces like Paris...
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ST. LOUIS – Quinn Porter(notes) plays special teams for the St. Louis Rams. He is listed on the roster as a running back, but his primary task is to return kickoffs and play the "gunner" (first man down the field) when the Rams punt. He is a gregarious man with an infectious laugh who gets so excited telling stories that sometimes his mind goes faster than his words. He then has to stop and start over.
Some of this makes him no different than those who dress around him in the Rams' locker room. What sets Porter apart, though, is that his teammates were recruited out of high school to play college football and were scouted by the NFL throughout their college careers. In most cases, the NFL is not a surprise.
"I prefer stuntman," he says. Because after all, "cheerleader" leaves the impression he was screaming chants into a megaphone and Porter didn't do that. Instead he clapped and threw the female cheerleaders into the air and caught them and stood next to the field on which he someday hoped to play.
"Don't forget you're going places," his mother, Kim Oliver, back in California, used to say. And so he believed her even as he wore the tight shirt, clapped and held other cheerleaders over his head.
"He's always been very determined," Kim says.
Football was Quinn's dream since he was 7 years old and his stepfather, David Oliver, put him in pads and sent him out for his youth football games. But he grew only to be 5-foot-8, 165 pounds as a teenager and the coach at Quartz Hill High School outside Lancaster, Calif., didn't like to play underclassmen, according to Oliver, so Porter played only his senior year. This didn't dissuade him from his passion.
He bombarded USC with the few game tapes he had, sending them as high up as athletic director Mike Garrett. Oliver, realizing a more modest goal for the child, sent tapes to smaller schools around the country with little response. It wasn't until they attended an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) convention at their church that the name Stillman came up.
It turned out there was a teacher at a local community college who knew the president of Stillman, and the subject of Porter's possible enrollment was broached. He had never heard of Division II Stillman, but the football coaches seemed interested in having Porter walk on. Since he says the only other response to his inquiries was South Carolina State, he picked Stillman because the initials are "S.C.," which is what USC is referred to in L.A.
He flew to Alabama before the fall semester of 2004 and wondered what exactly he had done. He was alone and couldn't play football and seemed lost until he stumbled across a pair of girls who kept smiling at him.
"Oh you're so cute," he remembers them saying.
"You guys are pretty cute yourselves," he replied.
They told him they were cheerleaders and they desperately needed some male cheerleaders. They then asked him to meet their advisor. Since they told him how important he would be, he agreed. And when the advisor, Patricia Wilson, put on the pressure he reluctantly said he would consider the offer.
He called Oliver and his birth father and asked them what they thought. At first Oliver, who had taken loans to pay Porter's tuition, didn't know what to say until Porter added that it came with a $1,000 scholarship.
"Go for it!" Oliver shouted into the phone.
"That's when we started referring to all of our male cheerleaders as 'stuntmen,' " Wilson says with a laugh.
One time Stillman played a game in San Diego, and Kim Oliver, in town for a conference, drove over to watch her son mostly stand with his hands behind his back and occasionally throw one of the girls in the air and catch her. His role was simple.
In some ways David and Kim think their son was embarrassed. He was popular in high school and he boasted about going off to college to play football. Instead, he was a cheerleader. It wasn't exactly the life he had told everyone he was going to live. But, his parents say, he is not the kind to get depressed or wracked with despair. He was, after all, getting attention at school as a cheerleader. He might not have been a football player but he was somebody.
"Quinn is a kid who is just comfortable in his own skin," Kim says.
The next season he went out for football.
"The players all said, 'Isn't that the cat who was the cheerleader?' " Quinn says.
They gave him a nickname: Pom-Pom.
After that he was a running back. He also returned kicks and punts, and for a time he punted. He played for three years until Thompson left and, figuring a new coach wouldn't want him, he dropped out of school and was even drafted by the Georgia Stallions of the United National Gridiron League, a developmental league that ran out of money before even starting. By then Stillman's new coach, L.C. Cole, had called assuring him that he was wanted and demanding that he return to school for his senior season.
And when he had 1,247 rushing yards his senior year, he kept telling his mother he was going to the NFL. For awhile she amused him by responding "OK." But she also remembered his obsession with USC and how the Trojans never returned his calls and how he had to go to Stillman and become a cheerleader. Yet he seemed so certain, so determined, that after awhile Kim Oliver believed, too.
"If he believes, I'll doggone believe it, too," she says.
Even if it was too hard to imagine.
Still, Porter found his way to an HBCU all-star game in the winter of 2010, which is where he first caught the attention of several NFL scouts. His agent, Travis Martz, sent him to Atlanta to work with a trainer, David Irons(notes), who had worked with several top backs from the South, including Brandon Jacobs(notes), Anthony Allen(notes) and DuJuan Harris(notes). All of them, Irons says, worked hard, but none came in as determined as Porter. He smelled a life in professional football, and he was going to find a way to make it real.
Green Bay signed him as an undrafted free agent immediately after the 2010 draft, and he seemed to have found a place with the Packers. He got several carries in training camp, and two newspapers had heard of his cheerleading past and wrote stories about him. The players all called him "Pom-Pom." Then he tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee. The Packers wanted to put him on injured reserve. Porter, certain that he could play at some point during the season, asked for his release and began a voyage that took him to the Redskins, the Browns and eventually five weeks ago, the Rams, who put him on their roster and told him they needed him on their special teams.
So far he has returned seven kickoffs, averaging 20.4 yards, and has made one special teams tackle. These are not overwhelming statistics. But given where he has been, the fact he was unwanted by every college just six years earlier and had to become a cheerleader just to get close to a small-school football team, the numbers might as well shine in blazing red lights from the top of the Gateway Arch.
Sitting on a stool in the Rams locker room, Porter laughs.
"I've got to thank the Lord for me being here," he says. Otherwise, there was no way anyone could have expected he would be.
A Rams official arrives saying it is time for a meeting. Porter rises. He hopes he has found a home here, and undoubtedly the players will hear about Stillman and "pom-poms" and there will be jokes. His agent, Martz, for awhile owned the domain name: "Ipreferstuntman.com" because he figured sooner or later his client was going to make it big.
Given the path he's already taken, that might be very soon.
There's a difference between pain and injury. Pain is fleeting. Even in various degrees of discomfort, it's possible to function at a very high level of competency. Any athlete knows this. But injury is lasting. Injury has the power to rob us of our dreams. Injury makes us mortal.
Boston College safety Ryan Glasper, who went undrafted this weekend, knows pain. It's the kind of pain that accompanies many citizens of New Britain, Conn., or "Hard-Hittin' New Britain," as it's called. The city of 70,000, once a thriving factory town, is now known for its housing projects. As a kid, Glasper was innately rambunctious, engaging in activities like jumping off the second floor of a house onto a mattress. His mother, Brenda, suggested football was a great way to deal with his reckless sensibility. This proved a great solution. He was a natural at running into things.
The family had what he calls financial difficulties.
"I didn't really know it at the time," he says. "I was a happy kid. But looking back on it in retrospect, I can see we had it hard."
When it became evident Brenda could no longer provide a home, Glasper's Pop Warner football coach contacted Jude Kelly, the football coach at Southington (Conn.) High School. He and Glasper's mother determined that the best thing for the young man was a change of address and a school district that offered him better opportunity for growth.
Glasper moved into the Kelly residence and once classes began, so did the pain. There were only about five black kids in the school. His wardrobe was typical inner-city: Roca Wear, worn in a baggy style.
After playing through a hip injury as a senior, Glasper went undrafted.
"I wasn't wearing Abercrombie and Fitch," Glasper says. "I stood out, so they called me a thug."
In the first week, one white student called Glasper the n-word.
This led to a violent retort, the first of many. By the time that first semester ended, Glasper had been labeled a problem.
"Let's just say I was written up a few times," Glasper says.
He was something of a problem at home, too. Kelly was Catholic and attending mass was a regular habit for members of the Kelly household. But Glasper wanted no part of it, so he resisted the way any adolescent resists.
"I used to call him Pope Kelly because he went to church so much," Glasper says. "If communion started at 11:40, I would argue with him until 11:35."
ALPINE, Texas (AP) - Mike Flynt was drinking beer and swapping stories with some old football buddies a few months ago when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: Getting kicked off the college team before his senior year.
So, one of his pals said, why not do something about it?
Most 59-year-olds would have laughed. Flynt's only concern was if he was eligible.
Finding out he was, Flynt returned to Sul Ross State this month, 37 years after he left and six years before he goes on Medicare. His comeback peaked Wednesday with the coach saying he's made the Division III team's roster. He could be in action as soon as Sept. 1.
Flynt is giving new meaning to being a college senior. After all, he's a grandfather and a card-carrying member of AARP. He's eight years older than his coach and has two kids older than any of his teammates.
"I think it was Carl Yastrzemski who used to say, 'How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?' I'd be in my late 20s or early 30s, because that's how I feel," said Flynt, who has made a living out of physical fitness. "That's been my approach to this whole thing. I feel that good. I'm just going to find out if I can perform and make a contribution to the team."
A longtime strength and conditioning coach at Nebraska, Oregon and Texas A&M, he's spent the last several years selling the Powerbase training system he invented. Clients include school systems and the military. His colorful life story includes being the son of a Battle of the Bulge survivor and having dabbled in gold mines and oil wells - successfully.
Flynt's life was supposed to be slowing down this fall. With his youngest child starting at the University of Tennessee, he and Eileen, his wife of 35 years, are planning to take advantage of being empty-nesters for the first time.
Instead, they've moved to this remote patch of West Texas so Flynt can mend an old wound and, he hopes, inspire others.
He became emotional discussing his goal of "helping a bunch of young men to make up for those guys that I let down." Then he laughed about the reality that fellow Baby Boomers are getting the most out of his comeback.
"People are kind of in awe. They keep comparing me to themselves and where they are physically," he said. "If I can help anyone out by what I'm doing, then it's all worth it."
RICHMOND -- It wasn't long before the new math tutor at John Marshall High School started attracting attention. And not because he was bigger than the teachers or that he carried around a gallon of water or that on occasion, when things got slow, he dropped to his stomach and began doing push-ups.
Neither did Lawrence Sidbury Jr. let anyone know he was a football player at the University of Richmond and that it was likely he would play in the NFL. It would take some time for those facts to emerge. He never was much of one for talking about himself.
Instead, math teacher Priscilla Wright remembered something else entirely.
"He was really smart," she said. "Really, really smart."
Not a lot was expected of the defensive end from Cheltenham, who was hired two years ago to assist teachers in some of the more challenging classes and to provide individual support to students needing to pass the state's annual Standards of Learning exam. He was a college student, after all, going into some of the city's toughest classrooms. But something amazing happened: It turned out the giant man who did push-ups had a gift for making students listen. His explanations made sense. Their grades improved.
"As a teacher you try to find a way to reach all the kids," Wright said. "He comes in and says, 'You need to do this, this and this,' and they are like, 'Oh, okay,' and they get it. He just has a great rapport with the kids."
Ask Sidbury about his work with the school, and he smiles and mumbles something about how he never wants to be a teacher. He sits in a chain steakhouse on the west side of town, scouring a menu, mentally calculating the calories in the pile of bread put before him, making sure it will not violate the strict diet he has set for himself for football.
Sidbury is one of the biggest surprises in this weekend's NFL draft. Three months ago he might have been a sixth-round pick. Then came the Senior Bowl and a week of practice in which he dazzled NFL coaches and found himself predicted to go in the second round.
And yet, he does not speak with wonder. He has been disappointed before, as a senior at Oxon Hill, when few division I-A colleges showed interest in him, leaving him to Richmond in division I-AA.
"You can say I have had a chip on my shoulder," he said, scanning the menu.
"He's got a huge chip on his shoulder," Richmond Coach Mike London said.
Hay's Journey Just Beginning ..
At this weekend's rookie minicamp, offensive lineman Michael Hay will be one of 39 bright-eyed youngsters hoping to make a strong first impression on the Rams' coaching staff. The 38 others might want to be on the football field as much as Hay but none will need it more.
Where the road diverges, Hay doesn't see football as just a sport or an opportunity to play a game he loves. For him, it's so much more.
"This game saved my life," Hay says with an air of absolute certainty.
Like his rookie classmates, Hay loves football. The field represents a bit of a sanctuary, 100 yards of green solitude where the trials and tribulations of a bumpy past can be forgotten.
Signed as an undrafted free agent out of Syracuse last week after starting every game at tackle for the Orange the past two years, Hay comes to the Rams with big dreams and every possible motivation to get his foot in the NFL door.
It was only about five years ago that those dreams were almost dashed in an instant, gone with the swipe of a knife in a fistfight that spun wildly out of control. Hay had been stabbed in his chest, just below his left arm, cut through the rib cage and diaphragm, leaving a collapsed lung in its wake.
As Hay was rushed to the hospital and headed to surgery, his thoughts turned quickly to the game he loves. With mother Maria and father Arthur in tow, Hay looked up at the attending surgeon and asked what the damage would be in terms of his football hopes.
The answer wasn't what he'd wanted to hear.
Hay grew up in a supportive family in College Point, New York, an industrial part of Queens, with two working parents doing all they can to provide for the family. There, he learned the importance of hard work from his father who was a construction worker in the city.
Bigger than most kids his age, Hay became a force on a very talented Holy Cross High football team in Flushing. At 6'5, 283 pounds, Hay was one of the top linemen on one of the best teams in the city. He drew plenty of interest to play at the college level but none from any major Division I schools as he'd hoped.
Instead, Hay decided to attend Division II C.W. Post in Long Island. During the summer of 2007, between the end of his high school career and the start of his college career, what he calls an ongoing war of "he said, she said" began to boil over.
Thought this was a good offseason read about our secondary coach, especially in context of recent rule changes.
Chuck Cecil's world is exploding. The Phoenix Cardinal free safety has closed on his target like an electron returning to a nucleus, and now he uncoils into Washington Redskin tight end Ron Middleton with a crash that is both terrifying and thrilling to behold. Middleton crumples around Cecil like a crash-test dummy around a telephone pole. His feet buckle and his helmet flies. The headgear will come to rest five yards from the site of impact, and when Middleton revives sufficiently to know where he is—RFK Stadium on Sept. 12—he will notice that all four snaps on his helmet chin strap are still in place; Cecil's blow knocked the helmet off the way carbonation blows a champagne cork out of a bottle.
But just now Middleton is on another planet. Flat on his back, knees up, eyes closed, he looks as though he has been nailed to the ground. Cecil stands over him, twitching with ecstasy. Later, sports-writers will say Cecil appeared to be imitating a boxing referee, counting Middleton out. Cecil doesn't think that's what he was doing, though he admits he doesn't remember much of what happened in the euphoric state he had entered. He does recall kicking Middleton's helmet when he saw it lying in front of him.
For the six-foot, 185-pound Heat Seeking Missile, as Cecil was dubbed during his All-America career at the University of Arizona, the blow approached perfection. For the NFL brass reviewing the collision on slow-motion replay later that week, the hit, and another on the same series, approached insanity. On Sept. 20, Bill Polian, the NFL's vice-president for football development, announced that Cecil was being fined $30,000, one of the largest nonsuspension fines ever imposed on a player, for "two acts of flagrant unnecessary roughness involving the use of his helmet." He is appealing the fine, but he has reportedly been warned that another such hit will result in suspension.


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Claudio España (Luján, Provincia de Buenos Aires, 29 de octubre de 1942 - Buenos Aires, 28 de marzo de 2008), fue un crítico de cine, docente y periodista argentino. Fue un apasionado por el cine y lo enseñó como profesor de las Universidades de Buenos Aires y del Cine, así como en otras instituciones del país y del extranjero. Sobre la materia escribió libros así como artículos en periódicos y revistas y fue director del Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata.

Carrera profesional
Siempre fue un fervoroso amante de la lectura. Estudió en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, y obtuvo su título de licenciado en Letras. Ejerció la docencia en la Universidad de Buenos Aires como profesor titular de Historia del Cine Latinoamericano y Argentino, y de Análisis y Crítica Cinematográfica, y profesor de posgrado en la maestría de Análisis del Discurso. También fue profesor de Historia del Cine y de Estética en la Fundación Universidad del Cine y dio seminarios, cursos y conferencias en otras universidades del país y del exterior, y en diferentes instituciones públicas y privadas. En varias oportunidades se hizo merecedor de becas de los gobiernos de los Estados Unidos y de Alemania.

Colaboró en la revista Panorama y en los diarios La Opinión  y La Nación  como crítico de cine. Entre los numerosos libros sobre cine que escribió, destacan Reportaje al cine argentino, Medio siglo de cine, Cien años de Cine y Luis César Amadori. España también coordinó y dirigió los libros Cine argentino: Industria y Clasicismo, Cine argentino: la llegada de la modernidad, Cine argentino: Modernidad y Vamguardia (1957-1983) y Cine argentino en democracia (1983 a 1993), cubriendo la historia del cine argentino.

Fue director artístico del Festival de Cine de Mar del Plata en los años 2001 y 2002, también delegado argentino del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, en España y muchos recuerdan sus brillantes intervenciones como presentador y analista de cine en el programa Historias con aplausos, una creación de Clara Zappettini que se transmitió en el verano de 1989 a 1990 por ATC. Se trataba de emisiones de una hora y media de duración dedicados a una gran figura de la pantalla nacional en cada una de ellas, con reportajes (a cargo de España pero sin aparecer en cámara) a allegados, parientes y compañeros de trabajo de los homenajeados, comentarios y fragmentos de sus películas. Algunos de los destacados fueron los dedicados a Libertad Lamarque, Hugo del Carril, Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor, Zully Moreno y Alberto Castillo, en las que mostraba su erudición literaria y su rica formación humanística.

Bartolomé de Vedia escribió de él:

Premios
Fue galardonado con el Premio Konex de Platino en 1997 en la disciplina "Prensa Escrita de Espectáculos", y con el Diploma al Mérito de los Premios Konex en 2004 y 1987. Fue además jurado en la categoría Espectáculos en 1981, 1991 y 2001 y en la categoría Periodismo en 2007.

Falleció luego de una larga enfermedad en Buenos Aires, el 28 de marzo de 2008.

Filmografía como intérprete
 Ángel, la diva y yo (1999) … Crítico (escenas eliminadas)
 Queridas amigas (1980)
 Cantaniño cuenta un cuento (1979)
 El poder de las tinieblas (1979) No acreditado

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Información sobre Claudio España en el sitio del cine nacional

Lujanenses
Críticos de cine de Argentina
Periodistas masculinos de Argentina
Premio Konex de Platino
Diplomas al mérito Konex
Profesores de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
Alumnado de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
Licenciados en Letras de Argentina
Fallecidos por cáncer de páncreas
Fallecidos por cáncer en Argentina
Fallecidos en Buenos Aires

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Indonesian 1 is an intensive language course for beginners, in which students acquire the basic structures and basic vocabulary of Indonesian, as well as cultural knowledge necessary for effective Language Use in this language. The course consists of three closely linked components: Grammar, Vocabulary and Language Use. The Grammar component is focused on acquiring knowledge of Indonesian grammar and the practical ability to apply this knowledge in oral and written discourse. The Vocabulary component is meant to acquire, memorize and enlarge the student's lexical knowledge. The Language Use component is devoted to acquiring practical competence in Indonesian by means of exercises in conversation, oral presentation, comprehension of texts, and writing skills. Indonesian 1 is an integrated whole in which all components mutually support each other. It is not possible to follow the component classes separately.
• Basic knowledge of the vocabulary and word and sentence structures of Indonesia in order to be able to speak, read, and write on a simple level, and to be able to understand simple spoken messages. The overall level to be attained in this course for active and receptive language use according to the Common European Framework of Reference is A1.
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PAHOA, Hawaii (CNN) — The thick, fiery stream of lava oozing over eastern Hawaii is about to cross Pahoa's main street and could soon envelop over a dozen homes.
As the fire danger increases, 80 members of the Hawaii National Guard will start patrolling road blocks Thursday.
The slow-moving stream has been inching along at about 30 feet per hour, said Darryl Oliveira, director of the Hawaii County Civil Defense.
Late Wednesday, the nearest home was about 100 feet away from the liquid inferno. But due to shifts in the lava's speed, it's difficult to predict when the first house would be swallowed.
About 20 families in the path of the lava have been told to evacuate, Oliveira said Wednesday.
The main road in Pahoa, on Hawaii's Big Island, will be overcome with lava by Friday morning. While the front of the lava flow is 15 feet wide, the molten river widens significantly behind it, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
"We're going to be very sensitive to the fact that they'll be losing their home, and this would be a catastrophic event," Scott said.
The slow-moving lava flow began moving toward Pahoa in June, when a volcanic crater vented and released the river of liquid rock.
And it could go much longer. A USGS geologist said the lava flow could continue for 30 years.
CNN's Martin Savidge reported from Pahoa; Holly Yan reported and wrote from Atlanta.


An unexpected accident can leave people unable to work. Therefore, they may find it helpful to sit down with an attorney and discuss what options are available to them.
Posted on Dec 22, 2015 by Mayer & Rosenberg, P.C.
When driving at night, it is important for people in Kansas City to pay particular attention to their environment. Visibility is a constant challenge and often, people assume they can safely travel at the same speed or engage in the same behaviors as during daylight hours. They use their phone to send texts, drive when they are too tired to and focus their mind on other things. However, such actions can lead to tragedy and create turmoil in an innocent victim's life.
It is unknown what led to a head-on crash that recently occurred in Independence. The at-fault driver apparently was driving through a road-work zone and failed to see a worker's truck heading the opposite way. The worker in the truck was transported to a hospital with injuries to his face and head but is expected to eventually return to work.
There was no mention of whether there were other vehicles on the road at the time of the accident, which occurred in the early morning hours. The worker, a night supervisor, was there to oversee the cleaning of a median barrier. A spokesman for the Missouri Department of Transportation credited the survival of the worker to the fact that he was wearing a seatbelt.
An unexpected accident can leave people unable to work. Additionally, they are no longer able to support their families and may incur additional debt and financial challenges as a result. Therefore, they may find it helpful to sit down with an attorney and discuss what options are available to them.


Holiday deal in the Jewel store.
I was wondering what they were gonna do this year.
Love the mug! You can buy it separately if you don't want to spend another $70 on stuff you might already have.
Also, I just noticed two new lyric shirts. We Are Never Broken tee and an Only Kindness Matters sweater.
Re: Holiday deal in the Jewel store.
That cup is awesome. I'm a big coffee drinker.
Erm, how are they offering new vinyl bundles when the old ones haven't shipped?
My thoughts exactly. the site still say end of november. they should hurry or start communicating about updates.
I love the mug too. $20 isn't bad, but I'd probably have to sell a child to afford to pay for shipping costs from the States to Canada. They seem to be atrocious these days.
I'm a tea drinker. I don't suppose she tried to console a cup of tea that didn't wanna talk, did she?
I've actually been astonished by shipping prices lately. I could do one of those, "why, I remember when a stamp cost___ " posts.
Very good ladies, I enjoy the banter of the EDAs here.
I must have that mug!


What a nice template you have. Partly due to the site of yourself, I opted for this. The images, layout, etc. from the site are beautiful. This has also been decisive to buy the site.
However, after installation, I have the ability to choose page templates such as "Homepage template 'and' Portfolio 'but none of these pages look like your live site / example'.
I wish that I publish your entire site with all pages, articles, menus, image's etc. exactly on my own site and. From here i want to make changes.


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When Australia's workers fought back against the Accord
by Liz Ross
Can you tell us about the context in which the Accord emerged?
In 1972 the Whitlam Labor government was elected on the back of rising workers' struggle and the black, anti-war, women's and gay movements. Whitlam introduced a range of reforms in the areas of health, welfare and women's rights, and oversaw the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. Workers saw the potential for more gains, and by 1974 there was a massive strike wave, the most significant since the revolutionary post-WWI years. But the world economy, including Australia's, soon began trending down. The ruling class turned to what we now call neoliberalism as a way to rescue their system and to reverse working class gains.
Malcolm Fraser, his Liberal/National Coalition and their ruling class backers started the offensive by engineering a coup and throwing Whitlam out of office in 1975. Workers struck in their millions, but the ACTU, as they have done time and again, turned a potential strike wave into an electoral campaign to restore the government, which of course failed. Fraser, who promised much to the ruling class, including an end to strikes, more anti-union legislation and higher profits, did not deliver in government.
The big industrial and political battles during those years ended in a stalemate. By 1980, workers had begun to gain more confidence and industrial action began to pick up. But then came a sudden recession and talk of deals between government and unions, even with employers, became louder. The promise of more jobs, security and stable wages to pull the economy out of recession seemed more plausible than tearing down the system. The most common of these agreements were the social contracts – known as the Accord in Australia – in countries such as Sweden, the UK and Austria.
They promised unions a seat at the planning table, but at the cost of concessions on wages and conditions and limitation on industrial action. With the election of the Hawke-Keating government in March 1983, the Accord became a reality. Bill Kelty, then ACTU president, explained: "The philosophic framework [of the Labor government]... [was to] open up the economy to the rest of the world, increase productivity, promote competition ...". Of course there were still the fig leaf promises of "powerful safety nets in national health care, superannuation and wages", but for Kelty these measures were useful only if they promoted "adaptation and change, thus increasing productivity".
As the Accord years rolled on, workers' welfare and living standards fell at the same time as productivity and profits for the bosses rose. Meanwhile, workers' defensive organisations, the unions, collaborated with government and employers to destroy solidarity and rank and file industrial power. For the working class, it was sacrifice after sacrifice to ensure the survival of capitalism. The Financial Review summed up the result: "Under the Accord, the ACTU has deliberately facilitated the biggest redistribution of national income from wages to profits".
Laurie Carmichael, Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) leader, claimed the Accord was a "pathway to socialism". What was the role of the CPA and others on the left?
Far from being a pathway to socialism, the Accord was a major defeat for the working class, and the Communist Party and Labor Left played a critical role in this defeat. Using their union and Labor government positions, they "educated" the working class in a retreat from class struggle and into class collaboration. The leading left wing union, the AMWU, began the process. Starting in 1976, the AMWU brought out The People's Budget and then, along with the ACTU, went on to publish a series of pamphlets – Australia Uprooted, Australia Ripped Off, Australia on the rack, Australia on the brink. All argued for a left nationalist, class-collaborationist solution to capitalism's woes. The CPA and its Labor Left allies continued to play that role from the lead-up to and formulation of the Accord through every step in its development, supporting and enforcing every attack on workers' wages and conditions.
You describe a pretty grim scenario, but your book argues that workers didn't just go along with these attacks – some were prepared to fight back.
I cover around 15 major disputes in the book, from 1983, right through to the end of the Accord in 1996. The smallest – Dollar Sweets, where Peter Costello made his name as a lawyer for the company – involved just 15 workers. Others, like the APPM paper mill in Tasmania, Robe River iron and Cockatoo Island in Sydney, involved hundreds of workers.
Then there were the really big ones – the Victorian nurses, the builders' labourers and the pilots. Certainly the majority lost, but the resistance was important and remains a legacy of the Accord years. Whether you win or lose, how you fight – or even if you fight – matters. It makes the difference between being crushed or living to fight another day.
Some of the most inspiring of these battles involved women workers – those belonging to the small Food Preservers Union and the thousands-strong Victorian nurses, for example. Their determination, backed by solidarity actions from other unions, delivered them wins in the face of intransigent opposition from the government and ACTU. At the Heinz, Plumrose and Rosella-Lipton factories, the workforce went on strike, imposed bans and took other industrial action for higher pay and better conditions.
Union members at Rosella had the book thrown at them. Industrial relations minister Ralph Willis berated the union for being "selfish", urging members to defy their officials and go back to work. Hawke instructed the Social Security department (now Centrelink) not to pay the workers or their dependants unemployment payments and tried to get them excluded from the September national wage case. More dangerously, the federal government, backed by Kelty, threatened to rush through legislation to cancel the union's award, which would have left union members around the country with no protection at all.
In the face of their determined action – and the industrial support they got from other workers and their unions such as the Builders' Labourers Federation (BLF) and Transport Workers Union – the employers caved in, and the Arbitration Commission was forced to grant them the national wage rise. Food Preservers' organiser Denis Evans insists that, after listening to the rank and file, the union backed its members. They refused to become, in his words, "industrial policemen". If members said they couldn't live on what they were getting, "what right does a union official have to say, 'you can't improve your wages and conditions because the Accord says you can't'? ... Members fuelled the anti-Accord position".
In Victoria, the nurses' union held out for 50 days, escalating the dispute until the entire workforce was on strike. They eventually claimed victory, having stared down a hostile Labor government, an obstructive ACTU and Trades Hall Council . These forces accused the nurses of being naive and not knowing the system. Nurses state secretary Irene Bolger was quick to rebuff these charges. "Of course we knew the system", she said, "but we ignored it because it was their rules and their system – and we'd decided that it was time to chuck their rules out the door ... [our members] were fed up".
These are inspiring wins, but the Accord left a terrible legacy for workers. What were the defeats that left the unions and their members weakened both industrially and politically?
The losses were significant and overall had a massive effect on workers and their unions. Two of the strongest unions, the builders' labourers and pilots, were smashed with the help of the police, draconian state and federal laws, other unions and the ACTU.
The BLF did manage to hold on, but in its strongest state, Victoria, the state and federal governments pursued the union to the end, raiding its offices, taking over its finances and passing laws that made it impossible for the union to re-establish itself. It avoided total annihilation by amalgamating with the construction union, but has remained under attack from the ruling class ever since.
In the case of the pilots, the government, with the full backing of employers and the ACTU and other transport unions, brought in the air force to break their strike in 1989. The pilots were taken to court and fined millions, scabs took their jobs, and many of the strikers never returned to the industry. The union has rebuilt, though to nothing like its previous power.
One of the most destructive moves was the introduction of enterprise bargaining – former prime minister Paul Keating's parting "gift" to workers at the end of the Accord years. Enterprise bargaining left workers more casualised, isolated, on lower wages and conditions, de-unionised and weaker overall. Resistance to it was shut down by the officials.
The Accord and its supporters are responsible for the weak state of the union movement today, and its orientation to class collaboration rather than class struggle. Nonetheless, the fact that the government – backed by the bosses and ACTU – was forced to destroy two unions, impose massive fines and bring in more and more anti-worker laws, is an indication of the level of resistance amongst the rank and file, often in defiance of union leaders. For our side, it means that, though battered and bruised, enough class antagonism remains that every time there has been a call to the fight, workers have responded enthusiastically.
Hundreds of thousands hit the streets during the waterfront dispute in 1998 and against WorkChoices towards the end of the Howard years. Class collaboration is on the agenda of the left union leadership and Labor once again, as the federal government plans massive cuts to wages and conditions in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. We desperately need to reignite a spirit of resistance inside the union movement if we are to fend off the coming attacks.
The resistance by workers during the Accord years was, for me, the education of a lifetime. As well as highlighting the pitfalls of class collaboration, it provided confirmation of the potential for solidarity and struggle and the vital role of the working class in building for a better, socialist future.
Stuff the Accord! is published by Interventions. You can buy it online at Red Flag Books
Liz Ross is a socialist activist and historian. She is the author of several books, most recently Stuff the Accord! Pay Up!, available from Red Flag Books.
Sydney nurses take action over pay
Kim Stern
Hundreds of nurses and midwives walked off the job at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Sydney on Thursday. In response to stalled negotiation, blue-scrub-clad members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association rallied outside the Darlinghurst hospital and the Mater Hospital in North Sydney for a one-hour stoppage at 1pm.
Union membership in free fall
Tom Bramble
Union coverage, in steady decline since the early 1980s, took another sharp turn for the worse in 2022. The latest figures, released by the Bureau of Statistics in mid-December, show that membership has fallen by 76,000 in two years, to 1.4 million, even as the workforce has grown. The outcome is that just one in eight workers in Australia are now union members, down from one in two 40 years ago.
Pampas workers strike
Amelia Christie
Pampas Pastry workers in West Footscray have reached day 14 of an indefinite strike for better pay and job security. The majority migrant workforce, who produce a range of baked goods for Helga's and Bakers Delight, are out in force against Pampas management and parent company Goodman Fielder, which has an annual revenue of $1.1 billion.
WA nurses strike
Nick Everett
Thousands of West Australian nurses went on strike on 25 November, rallying at parliament and in regional cities across the state, including Broome, Karratha and Bunbury. The strike took place in defiance of an Industrial Relations Commission ban and amid hostile media coverage and outrageous attacks by state Labor politicians.
Workers' wages plummeting
The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirm that real wages are falling at the fastest rate since the Great Depression, possibly even the 1890s, both period of massive unemployment.
WA nurses defiant
The Australian Nursing Federation will proceed with a ballot of its West Australian members in defiance of an order by the Industrial Relations Commission. If nurses reject the McGowan state Labor government's below inflation pay offer, they will resume a campaign of industrial action, which was suspended last week.


Instead of your typical 2013 flashback I thought a fun and sparkly DIY would be more fun. So here it is, enjoy!
Detach flowers from there stem. I bought this group of flowers from Michael's for around 5 USD. The flowers easily pop off just by pulling.
You want to make sure the base of the flower is still attached because the green part here is holding all the petals together. I didn't cut them at all because I wanted to use the little stem here to hold on to while spray painting.
Take flowers, I ended up using six for the one headband, but this will vary with whatever type of flower you are using, newspaper, gloves, and spray paint outside.
So once gloves are put on you can begin spraying the flowers with your black paint. Make sure not to get any in your eyes, that could be painful!
Take dried flowers in inside. Use hot glue gun to attach flowers around the the headband. The flowers should cover the entirety of the headband.
Allow glue to dry and then head out in your awesome new floral crown!
This project has a lot of flexibility in it.
You can use an type of flower you would like.
These make great gifts for friends and family and are super cheap and easy to do!
I hope you guys have had a wonderful 2013 and a lovely holiday. For me this year has been a bit of a struggle but finally things seem to be falling into place. I have only two New Year's resolutions this year, which is quite surprising, I normally have a whole list!
The second is especially important me and is definitely something I have struggled with over the years. However I am feeling confident that if I really work at this year then only great things can come back out. Have you set your resolutions yet? I'd love to hear them .


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Q: Sql Alchemy can't cast jsonb to boolean I have the following value I'm pulling from a model, and trying to cast to a boolean. However, when I run the program I get an error stating `can't cast jsonb type to boolean. The value for the jsonb value here is a boolean, so why can't it cast it? What do I need to change?
The data value that I'm trying to get is the boolean out of {"unsubscribe" : "True"}
Here is the line that causes the error.
args.append(Customer.data['unsubscribed'].cast(sqlalchemy.Boolean) == "{}".format(True))
Here is the customer model
class Customer(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'customers'
    id = Column(UUID, primary_key=True, server_default='uuid_generate_v4()')
    phone_number = Column(String)
    data = Column(JSONB)
    created_at = Column(DateTime, server_default='NOW()')
    updated_at = Column(DateTime, server_default='NOW()')

    @property
    def agent_number(self):
        return self.data["agent"]["phoneNumber"]

    def __repr__(self):
        return '<Customer(id={}, phone_number={}, data={}, created_at={}, updated_at={})>'.format(
            self.id,
            self.phone_number,
            self.data,
            self.created_at,
            self.updated_at
        )

A: As far as PostgreSQL is concerned, the true is a jsonb type, not a SQL boolean type. You can't do
SELECT 'true'::jsonb::boolean;

You also can't do
SELECT '123'::jsonb::int;

You'll need to do some sort of conversion. One way is to convert to varchar using ->>:
SELECT (('{"unsubscribed": true}'::jsonb)->>'unsubscribed')::boolean;

Or, you can use jsonb_to_record:
SELECT unsubscribed FROM jsonb_to_record('{"unsubscribed": true}'::jsonb) AS o(unsubscribed boolean);

As far as SQLAlchemy is concerned, you can do
Customer.data['unsubscribed'].astext.cast(sqlalchemy.Boolean).is_(True)

Or, go the other way
Customer.data['unsubscribed'] == cast('true', JSONB)

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To accompany the release of the newly manufactured twin square headlights we have these brand spanking new upper grilles. These are also available in a badge-less option here.
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It is worth noting that these are NOT those nasty fibreglass aftermarket ones, these are plastic like the originals and top quality. The surround is also black not chrome.


All of the Friday BE games are available on the Big East Digital Network via the Fox Sports Go app or here: https://www.foxsportsgo.com/ and the Marquette at Xavier game is on FS2. Two of the games are matinees.
The St. John's-Villanova looks to be the most compelling game. Of course the Marquette game is the one of most personal interest to me .
St. John's is off to a fast start in this one and forced an early Villanova timeout as they went up 10-0 to start the game. Go St. John's!
16-10 St. John's at the end of the first quarter. Get with it Gametracker - it's not halftime - it's not as if the Women's game just moved to quarters.
You are welcome . I'm annoyed with the BE Digital Broadcast for not having the score on the screen (it's usually there). I'm having to watch with the sound down because of other things going on in my house right now.
It's a close one in Philly with St. John's leading Villanova 39-35 with 3:10 to go in the third quarter.
I appreciated the heads up, too. I have a very rare snow day from work, so I've been enjoying having a live game to watch (and also listening to U-M softball's opening day).
Cool on the snow day from work. My kids have their first snow day on four years.
Georgetown leads Seton Hall 41-31 with 4:26 to go in the third quarter. It doesn't look like any school groups are there - I thought that was the main purpose of the games during the day during the week.
Butler is up 25-16 on DePaul after the first quarter. I doubt they will hold onto this lead but it sure would be nice if it did .
Butler and DePaul are tied at 34 at halftime. Butler star player Tori Schickel already has 3 fouls in the first half.
Marquette's weird starting lineups continue - Blockton and Davenport were back in the starting lineup tonight. But Hiedeman and Wilborn came off the bench. Hiedeman is in a shooting slump right now so maybe that's why she's not starting. I have no idea why Wilborn is suddenly not starting.
DePaul wins easily at Butler which isn't surprising - 86-68.
Marquette started out slow at Xavier and trailed 14-12 after one quarter but outscored Xavier 29-9 in the 2nd quarter and holds a 41-23 halftime lead.
DePaul looks to be the front runner for the regular season BE title with Marquette and Villanova in a battle for 2nd - the Villanova at Marquette matinee match up next Friday could be interesting. Creighton is close behind those two teams also.
It got sloppy but Marquette wins 80-63. So last game out against Creighton MU was 2 of 18 from 3 point range and tonight they tired a season record with 13 3's going 13-29 from 3 point land - go figure!
I meant to add previously - congrats to DePaul's Doug Bruno who picked up his 700th win tonight.


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The Hickenlooper campaign is claiming progress for the people of Adams County:
Some of our state level accomplishments:
Colorado was hit hard by the recession; in 2010, we were 40th in the nation for job creation and had an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent. Since John took office, Colorado has climbed to fourth in the nation for job creation, and our unemployment rate is now at 5.8 percent. The state is in its 31st consecutive month of positive job creation. We should all be proud of the progress we have made together, but we won't rest until Colorado is No. 1 in job creation and it is felt in every corner of the state. Click here for more economic details.
During the last four years, Colorado went through 13 federally-declared natural disasters, the most in the state's history and more than any other state. Despite these challenges, we have remained united and stronger than ever. Click here for more emergency response details.
Agriculture is one of Colorado's strongest industry sectors, employing more than 170,000 people and accounting for more than $40 billion in economic activity. Since 2009, the state's agricultural exports are up more than 90 percent and have recently surpassed $2 billion annually. Last year, Colorado's farm-fresh products were sent to 110 countries around the globe. Click here for more agriculture and rural development details.
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Colorado chosen as HQ of big flour milling consortium
"Colorado will become the headquarters of a major flour-milling company created by the merger of three big agricultural companies' milling units.
The headquarters is expected to employ about 250 workers initially. The companies plan to locate the headquarters in metro Denver at a site yet to be determined.
'In the agriculture world, you don't get companies like this starting up everyday,' Gov. John Hickenlooper said at a news conference Tuesday.
ConAgra operates Colorado's largest flour mill, in Commerce City, and a smaller facility, in north Denver."
FMC Technologies selects Brighton for site and jobs
"FMC Technologies, Inc., a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry, will locate a new sales and service facility for its Completion Services, Fluid Control and Surface Wellhead business units to a 20 acre site in Brighton, Colorado.
The project is an expansion of FMC Technologies' current Colorado operations, with initial staffing at the new facility to include 66 employees. The company plans to further expand operations and add more than 50 jobs over the next five years. The average annual wage for positions in the Brighton facility is significantly higher than the county average wage."
Hick touts unemployment numbers
Aurora shooting trial delayed, Obama gives economic speech
CDOT continues to tout its I-70 plan
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Colorado Senate hopeful John Hickenlooper (D) recently praised China as a "great nation" deserving of American respect, according to a report, despite the nation being the origin of the virus plaguing America and the rest of the world. Hickenlooper, a former Democrat governor of Colorado, made the remarks to supporters on a Zoom call on […]
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Days after "social justice" riots erupted in downtown Denver last weekend, destroying businesses and launching fireworks at police, Colorado's Democrat senator and its nominee to oust the state's Republican incumbent have yet to condemn the political violence. Sen. Michael Bennet, re-elected in 2016, and former Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is running to unset Republican […]
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A former Colorado judge pleaded guilty today to obstructing a federal task force investigation of a large-scale drug trafficking organization.Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn of the District of Colorado and Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider of the FBI's Denver Field Office made […]
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Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) has apologized after video surfaced of him comparing himself and elected officials to slaves on ships, comments he appeared to make six years ago while he was governor. "Taking a look at this video from six years ago, I recognize that my comments were painful. I did not intend […]
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"We have seen China continue to change and evolve… We encourage China to continue to open up," he said during a speech at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday, reports AFP.
The dip had been expected following the company's revenue warning in December, where Apple admitted that iPhone sales and overall earnings would be below most forecasts, citing economic weakness in China and trade frictions between Washington and Beijing. Lower priced local rivals such as Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo have also been nibbling at the California tech giant's market share in China.


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Gaming, Under The Microscope - Reviews	 December 6, 2014
My Thoughts about New Bedford from Dice Hate Me Games
I just wanted to give a little attention to a very deserving game that is currently on Kickstarter. It's New Bedford from Dice Hate Me Games. This is a heavier game from DHMG. It's more Euro than any of it's recent releases. It's set in New Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800's. Nat Levan, the game's designer, has done a fantastic job staying true to the time. New Bedford at that time was probably the largest whaling port in the world. While the whaling aspect is an integral part of the game, it's not explicit and is treated in historical context. Players build the actual town of New Bedford as the game progresses. The buildings represent the actual buildings from the period. Each building has a special power that is activated when a player places a worker on it.
Here's the game blurb from the Kickstarter page.
"Set in the mid-1800s, the age of whaling, New Bedford gives 2 to 4 players the chance to build the Massachusetts town of the same name into a thriving community. Gather resources to add buildings with new actions and launch ships to go whaling. Go out longest for the best choice, but wait too long and the whales become harder to catch. And don't forget to pay your crew when ships return! Carefully balance time management and timing to earn the most points in this medium-weight worker placement and resource management game."
I've played the game once and REALLY enjoyed it. Deciding on whether you will go into whaling or just city building. When to go whaling and when to return. What building to build and when. Decisions. The game has lots. And you know that this is one of my hallmarks of a great game. Like I said, I liked this game a bunch. So much so that I back it as soon as it launched.
DHMG has put out only quality games. The game has been extensively playtested, graduating from the Unpub program and lots of playtesting at cons across the country. Chris and his crew do a thorough job making sure each of their games is the best it can be, in both game play and quality of components. This will be no exception. But it needs a bit of help to get funded. Please consider backing New Bedford right here. You'll not regret it.
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With the first weekend of the March Madness betting tournament in the books, sportsbook players can now set their eyes on the Sweet Sixteen. This year's NCAA Tournament is delivering more upsets than anyone could have ever imagined, from Wisconsin knocking out Nova, to Duke falling short against South Carolina, it's safe to say that more than half of the brackets across the nation are officially busted. But now that we've had some time to let these results sit, it's time to go over which teams have made it to the Sweet Sixteen.
So far there have been some notable developments in this year's tournament. Seeing the overall No. 1 seed in the tournament (Villanova) get eliminated so early in the competition is as good as example as any. The ACC, who had 9 teams originally represent the conference in this year's March Madness betting tournament, has but one team left. Lastly, the lowest seed still in contention is No. 11 Xavier. With that in mind, let's take a look at which teams from each region have made it to the Sweet Sixteen.
While the NCAA Tournament lines might not agree, most bettors wouldn't argue that Baylor and Florida are easily one of the top-10, if not top-5, programs left in the Tournament. Throw in the fact that Wisconsin just took down Nova, and sportsbooks could begin to see a lot of action for East Regional schools. The Gamecocks don't have the same repute as the other three, but considering that South Carolina just played its best two games of the season, including their 65 in a half performance, it's clear that the East still has plenty in store for the country.
Aside from Gonzaga, Kansas is undoubtedly the best program left in the tournament. In fact, one could make a case that the Jayhawks looked the best this past weekend. Of course, they did get a run for their money from Michigan State, but the way they pulled away in the final minutes of the game shows that this team is built for the March Madness betting tournament.
UNC is synonymous with March Madness, but the way the Tar Heels have been performing seriously brings their status as title contenders into question. In fact, some bettors might even rank them 4th overall in the South Regional.
Accounting for the current landscape of the tournament, there are few who would disagree that Gonzaga is the remaining top dog – or top bulldog in their case. In addition to the fact that the Zags have only been beaten once this season, Gonzaga is ranked No. 1 in multiple metrics. Granted, stats don't win championships, but if you had to pick a clear sportsbook favorite, Gonzaga is the way to go.


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The wallpaper hanger just left and I just couldn't resist sharing some pics! I LOVE IT!
But those are easy & fast fixes.. hope to be done very soon!
That looks fantastic. Absolutely love it!
Oh, how fun! I know you are excited!
So jealous! I'm dying for grasscloth on an accent wall in my dining room. It looks really great.
What a lovely finish! Looking forward to seeing it all finished and looking brilliant!
I don't blame you for not being able to wait. It's beautiful. Can't wait to see the room finished!
The wallpaper is gorgeous and I love that mirror!
Fun! I'm curious, does grasscloth show seams normally? Is there no getting around it when using?
yup! No way around it.
Love! Have you seen blue grasscloth? I really want some in my bathroom!
Very exciting!! It's going to be really lovely Bryn!
I have been wander-lusting about this mirror for a billion years and I am completely JEALS!!!! What a bathroom this is gonne be.....can not wait for the proper after photos!
Love the wallpaper, Bryn. Can't wait to see it all finished !
LOVE your mirror, Bryn! And the wallpaper looks fab. It adds such a nice dimension to the space.
Such progress!! It looks really good.
Loving it! So exciting, I'm sure, to have made this much progress. It's going to be great!!
Looks great! I will definitely be using grasscloth somewhere in my home!
love grasscloth in powder rooms and water closets. looks great, Bryn!
New to blogs....love yours! Great ideas and gorgeous pics!