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Q: SImple question for CSS about scroll - I was clone-coding Facebook When I use Facebook's dashboard, and I just scroll down the browser, I can see only the main part(newsfeed at home) scrolled to down with infinite scrolling and another parts are fixed on side and top of the screen. How do I implement like this? I mean, scrollbar is on the right side of browser on the Facebook while the scrolling part is just the main contents part, not the inner side(I mean, not at the right side of the inner part - newsfeed). I tried to copy and clone-coding the Facebook and the left side of main(name, Friends, Watch, Group, Events, etcs) scrolled down together.
Real Question is -
How can I just scroll down the part I want, not the whole part?
Please check the image below to make sure what this question is clearly about.
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A: Check this sample design below. This might help.
Basically, I have used the flex layout as the one to create the page and then I've hidden the scrollbar for the news feed container.

for (var i = 1; i <= 200; i++) {
  document.getElementsByClassName("container2")[0].innerHTML += 'scrollable area ' + i + '
';
}
* {
  margin: 0;
}

.main-container {
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.container1 {
  background-color: #a00;
  flex: 0.2;
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  align-self: flex-start;
}

.container2 {
  background-color: #0a0;
  flex: 0.8;
  overflow: auto;
}

.container2::-webkit-scrollbar {
  width: 10px;
}

    Unscrollable area. This will contain the page links, group links and others. This is the left side on facebook.

    This is the news feed. You can use javascript to load more content when user reaches the scroll end of this element.

A: Here is an example of structure

.header {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0px;
  background: blue;
  width: 100%;
}

.wrap {
  display: flex;
  position: relative;
  top: 15px;
}

.menu {
  width: 100px;
  position: fixed;
}

.main {
  height: 1500px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin-left:100px;
}

Header

side menu

main

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CDC Released Sexuality Education Score Card for U.S. High Schools, Middle Schools
December 11, 2015 — A CDC report published Wednesday finds that fewer than 50% of high schools and about 20% of middle schools address the 16 sexuality education topics recommended by CDC, according to HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report (Preidt, HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report , 12/9).
According to "Science Now," the findings on sexuality education were included in CDC's School Health Profiles report, which uses information from a survey conducted every two years (Kaplan, "Science Now," Los Angeles Times , 12/9). The survey included information on schools in 44 states.
Key Findings by State
According to the report, the percentage of schools in 44 states that address all recommended sexuality education topics for grades nine through 12 ranges from 90% of schools in New Jersey to 21% in Arizona. New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York compose the only three states in which more than 75% of high schools address all 16 recommended topics ( HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report , 12/9).
Further, the report found that New Jersey and Vermont were the only two states where more than 90% of high schools taught students how to use condoms correctly. In contrast, fewer than 33% of high schools in Arizona and South Dakota showed students how to use condoms.
According to the report, 100% of high schools in Delaware, New Hampshire and New Jersey addressed abstinence, as did 95% of high schools in another 15 states. Meanwhile, 56% of high schools in Arizona and 60% of high schools in Alaska addressed abstinence ("Science Now," Los Angeles Times , 12/9).
The report found that the percentage of middle schools that teach students about all recommended topics in sixth through eighth grade ranges from 46% in North Carolina to 4% in Arizona. According to the report, in no state did more than 50% of middle schools address all topics, and the majority of states reported that fewer than 20% of middle schools taught all of the topics ( HealthDay/U.S. News & World Report , 12/9).
Key Findings by Topic
When broken down by topic, the report found that 94% of high schools addressed abstinence in their sexuality education curricula; 92% taught students about how family members, friends and society overall affected sexual behavior; and 88% said there were benefits to having fewer sexual partners.
Further, 95% of high schools addressed how sexually transmitted infections are spread and how they affect individuals' health. Eighty-five percent of schools informed students about how they could access materials and services that would help them protect against STIs and avoid pregnancy. According to the report, 70% of high schools addressed the importance of using condoms properly and consistently, while 54% showed students the correct way to use a condom and 60% taught students how to access them.
Among middle schools, the report found that 77% addressed abstinence in sexuality curricula for students in sixth through eighth grade. Meanwhile, 75% of middle schools taught students how STIs are spread, 27% told students where they could obtain condoms and 23% demonstrated the proper use of condoms.
Jonathan Mermin, head of CDC's HIV and STI prevention programs, said, "We need to do a better job of giving our young people the skills and knowledge they need to protect their own health."
Stephanie Zaza, director of CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health, said, "Lack of effective sex education can have very real, very serious health consequences." She added, "School-based sex education is a critical opportunity to provide the skills and information [young people] need to protect themselves" ("Science Now," Los Angeles Times , 12/9).

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Call For Paper Sumbissions
The 2021 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) will be held in Stuttgart, Germany from May 25 to 29, 2021. The aim of ETRA is to bring together researchers and practitioners from across fields with the common goal of continuing to move eye tracking research forward. Join us in Stuttgart for ETRA, attend co-located workshops, and participate in exciting discussions.
The symposium presents advances and innovations in oculomotor research, gaze tracking systems, eye tracking applications, gaze-based interaction, and eye movement data analysis. We invite papers in all areas of eye tracking research and applications, and welcome submissions from all domains, including visuomotor neuroscience, perception, and cognition.
Papers must be original and not accepted previously for publication elsewhere. All accepted papers will be published and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author must register and present accepted work at the conference.
ACM ETRA 2021 is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH).
Go to Full Papers.
Go to Short Papers.
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Abstract submission (mandatory) Nov 25, 2020 --
Paper submission Dec 2, 2020 Jan 27, 2021
First round reviews and notifications Feb 9, 2021 Mar 15, 2021
Revisions due Mar 1, 2021 --
Second round reviews and notifications Mar 18, 2021 --
Camera ready deadline Mar 30, 2021 Mar 30, 2021
Conference date May 25-29, 2021 May 25-29, 2021
The ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) solicits original full and short research papers on a diverse set of topics related to eye tracking. Research contributions are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not limited to:
Novel methods such as deep learning and other machine learning-based methods
Pattern recognition for scanpaths
Clustering of gaze data
Event detection
Large-scale data processing
Prediction methods
Gaze prediction
Action, intent, or attribute prediction
Visual representation of gaze patterns and other eye tracking data
Visual analytics and combination with machine learning
Eye tracking devices
Head-mounted eye tracking
Remote eye tracking
Novel sensors
Perception and cognition; empirical studies
Perception, attention and oculomotor control
Visual search and scene perception
Eye movements in reading and communication
Eye-hand coordination
Eye tracking in naturalistic tasks
In-the-wild studies
Gaze-based interaction
Novel interaction methods
Multi-modal interaction
Graphics and virtual avatars
Submission Categories
Authors are invited to submit original work in the format of full papers (see details of the submission instructions here). A full paper should provide a substantial contribution to the field in the topic areas mentioned above.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process assessing the originality and technical quality of the work as well as the relevance for eye tracking research and applications. Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library as "ETRA '21 Full Papers". All accepted full papers will be presented at the conference.
Full papers will go through a two-phase review process. The first phase will involve four full reviews done by two program committee members and two external reviewers. At the end of the first phase, advised by the review summary provided by the primary committee member, the chairs will provide authors with a conditional accept or reject decision. Conditionally accepted papers will be provided with recommendations for revisions and are invited to submit a revised version of the paper that will go through a second review phase. The primary program committee member will assess the revisions and make a recommendation to the chairs for a final accept or reject decision.
Submissions may include supplementary material, such as videos, code, or datasets that will be archived together with the paper in the ACM DL. Authors should keep in mind that the final acceptance to the conference will be based on the quality of the paper and not the supplementary material. Video submissions are not required, but encouraged to help demonstrate interactive systems that are otherwise difficult to showcase using images or text. Videos should use the MP4 format with H.264 codec and file size should not exceed 100 MB. We recommend the standard 1920x1080 resolution (1280x720 as an alternative). Any supplementary material, including the video, have to be anonymized for review.
Authors are also invited to submit original work in a shorter format (see details of the submission instructions here). A short paper should provide a focused and concise, yet significant, contribution to the current state of the art while not delving into broad discussion.
All short paper submissions will undergo a double-blind review process assessing the originality and technical quality of the work, as well as the relevance for eye tracking research and applications. Accepted papers will be archived in the conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library as "ETRA '21 Short Papers". Details about the presentation format will follow after the acceptance notification.
Short papers will go through a single-phase review process. Full reviews will be provided by three committee members. External reviewers will be invited on a case by case basis if specialized expertise is required. After the review process, based on the review summary provided by the primary committee member, the authors will receive the final acceptance or rejection notification.
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Hans Gellersen
Aarhus University, Denmark
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ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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tw telecom brings fiber connection to Sentinel's NC data center
tw telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC) is extending its fiber network to Sentinel Data Centers' NC-1 carrier neutral data center in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Sentinel began building the 420,000 square foot facility late last year, and the first phase will be commissioned this month.
Bringing its fiber connection to Sentinel's NC-1 facility makes sense since the large business customers that reside in Sentinel's data centers are the same types of companies that tw telecom already serves over its own fiber network.
"In concert with our national network, tw telecom's North Carolina Regional Fiber Network enables customers to reach Sentinel's NC-1 facility easily and cost effectively from other North Carolina cities, such as Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Fayetteville, to support disparate data center applications and business continuity strategies," said John Rinehart, vice president and general manager for tw telecom in Raleigh, in a release.
The fiber extension will give Sentinel's existing customers a broader set of network connectivity options, particularly Ethernet and IP/VPN, for regional and national network connectivity to and through the facility.
Sentinel is just one of many agreements tw telecom has established with third-party data center providers. It has similar arrangements with Core NAP and Phoenix NAP to extend services to customers in central Texas and Phoenix, Ariz.
Mike Rouleau, senior vice president of business development and strategy at tw telecom, told FierceTelecom in a recent eBook that data center connectivity is a multi-layered opportunity that includes the corporate office, the enterprise data center, and the third-party data center.
And while tw telecom may have a fiber connection between the customer data center and their enterprise, the challenge comes in weighing the business case and the operational activities involved in installing a new fiber connection to a third-party data center.
"This is hard; this is heavy lifting," Rouleau said. "It's not simply a matter of having fiber into a location, you have to be able to manage the inventory, provision on the fly, count it and bill it for a customer."
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New Documentary Explores What It Means to Be a MAMIL
The film shows how "middle-aged men in Lycra" get into cycling, and why they would embrace the label
By Christa Lagler
Whether you're a seasoned cyclist or you're new to the sport, there's a good chance you've come across MAMILs.
The term, short for "middle-aged men in Lycra," doesn't refer to career cyclists; rather, it refers to men of various skill and experience levels who seem like career cyclists. They have all the top gear, the flashiest clothes, and fully loaded bikes. They're out early in the morning and late at night. Some fly solo while others ride in large groups. And they all tend to don the eye-catching elastic uniform behind the acronym.
Countless films have explored cycling as a professional sport, and the athletes that excel within it. But MAMIL, a new documentary out of Australia, offers a fresh perspective by introducing us to the everyday dads (and other men) who happen to be cycling diehards. In the process, it examines masculinity and male bonding in the context of the sport and shows why people may come together to proudly embrace the label.
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"We know we look bloody stupid," one interviewee says in the film's trailer. "We're just weekend warriors trying to set our own best times and challenge each other."
MAMIL - Official Trailer from Demand Film on Vimeo.
The film follows different men from the U.K., the U.S., and Australia, all of whom have found cycling through a unique—or difficult—set of circumstances. Richard, for example, took up cycling after he was diagnosed with MS. Best friends Craig and Franko started to raise money for cancer research. Carlos established a bike club in Los Angeles to help his community fight obesity.
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But these are just a few examples. The documentary is loaded with stories that show how the MAMIL is so much more than a stereotype in a colorful, tight-fitting outfit. It also offers a peek into the world of MAMIL cycling clubs, like the Adelaide Fat Boys (Australia), the Altoona Road Riders (Des Moines, Iowa), and MAMIL Sports (the U.K.). (Find your own bike clothes at the Bicycling shop.)
MAMIL is the newest film from Melbourne-based directors Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe. It premiered this month at the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival. It will be screening across the US on Wednesday, February 21. More information on showings can be found at Demand Film.
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Q: Estimating summary statistics for a distribution from a sample and some sample statistics Here is the question that I am trying to solve.
Given:

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*One in eight items in a production process was sampled.

*This resulted in 11,341 samples from the process

*These were tested for the presence of a biological pathogen

*After growing culture from these test about 817 had more than 2 colonies

*The mean number of colonies in those 817 was between 7 and 11

*There were 50 samples that had between 10 to 15 colonies.  These comprise the sampled right tail of the data.

*(note: there may be growth over time, so higher colony counts relate to higher initial populations.

Assuming:

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*The sample represents the population

*The samples were drawn i.i.d. and treated identically

Find:

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*a reasonable approximation of what the distribution of colonies would
look like if it were taken across the entire population.

*an estimate for the 50th, 90th, and 99th percentiles of colonies if the whole population were tested.

Here how I am trying to engage it.
Approaches:

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*Write down the things that we know (number of elements with mean or max colony counts within window) and use a computer program totry to find best fits for a number of distributions, and think about the ones that do and the ones that do not fit.

*Think about the biology and try to relate it to the distributions that do and that do not fit.

*look in literature for previous work on this topic.

While Polya in his "how to solve it" might think this is okay, statistics was not his (or my) field.  What feedback would a mature statistician give an aspiring "wanna-be" in this area?
Updates:

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*My first thought was something like a constant rate Poisson point process.  The overall mean is going to be $\mu = \frac{ \left( 11341 - 817 \right) \cdot 1 + \left( 817 \right) \cdot x } { 11341 }$ where x ranges between 7 and 11, which results in a mean between 1.42 and 1.72.  When I repeatedly drew 11,341 samples from a Poisson distribution with means in those ranges, the maximum value was 6, not 15.  From this I infer that the process is not Poisson distributed.

*My second thought was a Gamma distribution. The best fit had shape and scale of 0.9947489 and 0.7640226 respectively.  It had 2437 samples with greater than 2 colonies, and 5 samples with greater than 10 colonies.  While it is a less bad fit than the Poisson, it seems to be substantially off.  Instead of populations of 2437 and 5 a good fit would have closer to 817 and 50.

*The geometric distribution, like the Poisson distribution, substantially misses the tail, but is close in the mean.


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On a warm Sunday in late July, Jeff Collins watched his 11-year-old daughter, Hannah, use a rope swing to launch herself into the warm waters of the Edisto River near Charleston, S.C.
Less than two weeks later, though, Collins held his daughter in her hospital bed, where she lay dying from a rare infection officials say she contracted as she splashed in the water.
The culprit: Naegleria fowleri, the so-called "brain-eating amoeba" that resides mostly in warm recreational waters.
N. fowleri infections are extremely rare, but almost always deadly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has recorded fewer than 150 U.S. cases since 1962. Ninety-seven percent of people who contract the disease don't survive — including Hannah, who died Friday, 12 days after she was exposed.
Her family marked her rapid deterioration on a Facebook page.
"Prayers for Hannah Katherine" is filled with happy pictures of the little girl — on a dock near a marshy river, or dressed in a bathing suit, ready to go into a swimming pool.
In one photo, Hannah is wearing a sash, having just been crowned queen of her age division at the Colleton County Rice Festival's pageant, according to the Charleston Post and Courier.
The written posts, however, provided grimmer images.
"Hannah officially received her angel wings this evening at 10:20 p.m.," the family's statement read. "Hannah spent the day surrounded by family and friends, snuggled with her Mom and brother, and listened to prayers and books read by her Grandmother.
To contract N. fowleri, known colloquially as "brain-eating amoeba," water has to shoot up a person's nose with significant force. That happens when people jump into water that contains the single-celled organism. In one recent case, an Ohio teen rafting during a church trip in North Carolina fell out of the boat into the water at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte. She later died from a meningitis infection caused by N. fowleri, health officials said.
Naegleria fowleri resides in warm freshwater, hot springs and poorly maintained swimming pools. When the single-celled organism enters a person's body through the nose, it can cause a deadly infection that leads to destruction of brain tissue.
Just 138 people were infected in the United States between 1962 and 2015, according to the CDC.
Lab tests confirmed that Hannah Collins contracted what state health officials called "an extremely rare infection of the brain," most likely while swimming near Martin's Landing on the Edisto River in July.
Hannah's doctors went to extreme measures to try to save her.
On Tuesday, a courier drove six hours through the night from Orlando to Charleston to deliver a potentially lifesaving drug, according to the Associated Press.
Profunda chief executive Todd MacLaughlan, whose pharmaceutical company makes miltefosine, told the AP that the drug once saved the life of a girl who contracted N. fowleri.
There wasn't enough: On Thursday morning, the family reported that the amoeba was killing Hannah.
A day later, she was dead.
As his daughter was dying, Jeff Collins sat in a jailcell, unable to be with her.
Just before Hannah fell ill, Collins was taken into custody in Colleton County for an unpaid traffic violation, according to Charleston CBS affiliate WCSC. The charge was dropped, but instead of being released, he was transported to Beaufort County, where he had a year-old warrant for not paying child support.
While he was still in custody, officials took him from jail to his daughter's hospital room. He had 90 minutes with her before she died.
Collins said he learned about his 11-year-old daughter's death from one of his other children. Would he get out in time to attend Hannah's funeral?
Jail officials said Collins was released Monday morning.
His daughter's funeral will be held Friday at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Beaufort.


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Satellite observations show the extent of the floating ice that melts and refreezes every year was 318,000 square miles less last week than the same day period in 2007, the year of record low extent, and the lowest observed at this time of year since records began in 1979. Separate observations by University of Washington researchers suggest that the volume of Arctic sea ice is also the smallest ever calculated for this time of year.
Scientists cautioned that it is still early in the "melt season", but said that the latest observations suggest that the Arctic sea ice cover is continuing to shrink and thin and the pattern of record annual melts seen since 2000 is now well established. Last year saw the second greatest sea ice melt on record, 36% below the average minimum from 1979–2000.


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A Progresszív Föderális Párt (afrikaans nyelven: Progressiewe Federale Party) egy dél-afrikai politikai párt volt, amelyet 1977-ben a Progresszív Reformpárt (a Progresszív Párt és a Reformpárt pártszövetsége) végleges egyesülésével alapítottak 1977-ben. A párt alkotta a Népgyűlés legnagyobb apartheidellenes frakcióját, többek között szorgalmazva a hatalommegosztást az ország etnikumai között, egy föderális rendszerben.

Első vezetője Colin Eglin volt, akit Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, majd Zach de Beer követett. Egyik legismertebb parlamenti képviselőjük Helen Suzman volt, aki hosszú éveken át az egyetlen népgyűlésbeli tag volt, aki nyíltan szót emelt az apartheid rendszere ellent, élesen bírálva azt.

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A dél-afrikai apartheid törvények kezdetben az ország fehér lakosságára korlátozták a párt tagságát, amely elsősorban az angolul beszélő liberálisok támogatását élvezte. Amint ez 1984-ben újra törvényessé vált, megnyitotta tagságát minden faj előtt, de a párt továbbra is túlnyomórészt fehér és angol maradt. A PFP legtöbbször városokban szerepelt jobban, így például Fokvárosban, Port Elizabeth-ben, Johannesburgban és Durbanben. Az afrikánerek körében igen csekély támogatottsága volt.

1989-ben a PFP és az Új Demokratikus Mozgalom (NDM) egyesült egy másik kisebb reformpárttal, a Független Párttal (IP), és létrehozták a Demokratikus Pártot (DP).

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At any one or more points in time, it can be argued that everyone may be "at-risk" in public health emergencies; however, risks to groups unable to access resources and services are considered to be the result of existing vulnerabilities. Here, we define vulnerability as the characteristics of a person or group and their situation that influence their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of an emergency. These groups include, but are not limited to, those who are physically or mentally disabled (blind, deaf, hard-of-hearing, cognitive disorders, mobility limitations), limited or non-English speaking, geographically or culturally isolated, medically or chemically dependent, homeless, frail/elderly, and children.
The Guide is designed primarily to address the training needs of individuals working in emergency management, local health departments, and hospitals who may find this information useful. This includes planners, preparedness coordinators, and public health personnel interested in identifying, engaging, communicating with, and providing services to vulnerable and at-risk populations during emergencies and disasters.
While this formula is certainly not new and actually finds its origins in risk analysis and safety engineering studies of frequency and severity exposure to risks, it is important to consider the relationship as you develop and implement your preparedness plans.
Most at-risk population planning initiatives will require more resources than any one agency or organization can provide. A comprehensive preparedness program for at-risk populations is the results of the coordination of a number of individuals and the agencies they represent around a set of common planning goals. Community engagement principles can be useful in providing guidance for planners wishing to embark on a new at-risk population project. This may require you to go into your community, establish relationships, build trust, work with formal and informal leadership, and seek commitment from community organizations and leaders to create processes for mobilizing the community.
Become knowledgeable about the community in terms of its economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts. Learn about the community's perceptions of those initiating the engagement activities.
Go into the community, establish relationships, build trust, work with the formal and informal leadership, and seek commitment from community organizations and leaders to create processes for mobilizing the community.
Establish a "case" to persuade prospective partners of the benefits of disaster planning for at-risk populations. Such planning is often in the best interests of the organization.
One of the most challenging initial tasks when planning for at-risk groups is deciding how to define "at-risk." As we mentioned previously, CDC defines at-risk populations as those groups whose needs are not fully addressed by traditional service providers or who feel they cannot comfortably or safely access and use the standard resources offered in disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery. Social vulnerability refers to the socioeconomic and demographic factors that affect the resilience of communities. Previous research and experience have demonstrated those more socially vulnerable populations are more likely to be adversely affected in emergencies and disaster events. By effectively addressing social vulnerability, efforts decrease both human suffering and the economic loss related to providing social services and public assistance after an event. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) collaborated with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP) to produce a social vulnerability index with the intention of helping state, local, and tribal disaster management officials identify the locations of their most vulnerable populations.
The socioeconomic domain includes 1) percent individuals below poverty; 2) percent unemployed; 3) per capita income; and 4) percent persons with no high school diploma.
The personal and household domain includes 1) percent persons 65 years of age or older; 2) percent persons 17 years of age or younger; 3) percent persons more than 5 years old with disability; and 4) percent households with male or female householder, no spouse present, with children under 18 years of age.
The housing and transportation domain includes 1) percent multi-unit structures; 2) percent mobile homes; 3) crowding; 4) no vehicle available; and 5) institutionalized population.
The Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) was designed to provide a framework to help decision-makers examine how people's social circumstances, such as age, race, or socioeconomic status, contribute to their vulnerability and ability to recover from the effects of a public health, natural, or technological emergency event. The SVI is build upon four over-arching domains that are closely associated with varying vulnerability and risk to disasters. Combined, the four domains provide an overall summary of varying social vulnerability in a total composite value. The SVI data is presented at the census tract level. Each tract is ranked according to its level of vulnerability in comparison to the average across the state. Those areas with more vulnerable populations are indicated by the darker color and those less vulnerable (in compason to the state average) are lighter in color. The SVI can be used to help create a profile of your area's most populated at-risk groups to help you move forward with your preparedness planning and activities. The Social Vulnerability Index is divided across four domains to calculate vulnerability within and across these domains at the tract level.
The information contained in the SVI can help you identify hard-to-reach, underserved population groups in your service delivery area, their general location, and possible contact points in their communities. The following is an initial checklist to help you begin to identify, reach, and provide services to at-risk populations.
Choose an underserved group to reach, basing your choice on reliable demographic and epidemiological data whenever possible. Involve a wide variety of groups (e.g., clients, funding sources, and staff) in this selection process.
Work with community members and community organizations to carry out a rapid low-cost needs assessment and identify the group's health needs.
Identify potential working partners among the community-based groups, non-governmental organizations, religious leaders, private organizations, development projects, government ministries, and donors already working in the area.
Work with the community to set qualitative and quantitative objectives for your program.
Select a strategy or combination of strategies to attain your objectives, given your budget and other resources.
Establish a system for receiving accurate and timely information on services, supplies, and activities so that you can identify problems as they arise and address them promptly.
Integrate your services for underserved groups into your ongoing programs and activities.
The SVI is one way of defining and identifying at-risk populations. Ultimately, your department must decide how to define at-risk populations for your own planning and response needs. You and your department should gather data and keep in mind that populations at risk may change depending on the threat (e.g. a particular infectious disease may affect children more than other groups). Be sure to also consult secondary data sources to obtain a profile of your county's most populated at-risk groups that can be disseminated at your first multi-organizational planning committee meeting.
While your department has an important role in leading at-risk populations initiatives, it must be recognized that you can't do it alone. Hard-to-reach populations are not homogeneous and strategies must be adapted for the unique circumstances of each group and/or individual that cannot be reached by typical means. It is essential to know why certain groups have difficulty understanding or carrying out preparedness and response activities before developing any targeted intervention.Effective plans will need strong collaboration from stakeholder groups in your community.
They employ hard working personnel.
They serve the same clients as you do – your community.
They have the visibility and established community involvement that holds the community's trust.
They have access to the staffing and financial resources to pull this off.
They already have a mindset for helping.
Most partner agencies will have experience organizing and mobilizing volunteers to do work for the community.
Ultimately, you and your department must decide how to define, identify, contact, and prepare at-risk populations in your own community. The tips and resources contained in this guide are intended to support your planning and preparedness activities. This Guide is designed to help you and your department improve your preparedness planning by including vulnerable and at-risk populations. It is intended to provide some first steps to identifying and helping you to assess how your services may address populations in your community.


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Ducks general Bob Murray said he wasn't sure that Jean-Sebastien Giguere was headed for Toronto until 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
That's how much of a whirlwind deal Sunday's blockbuster was — mainly, according to Murray, because he was willing to trade his veteran goalie before Brian Burke was.
"I talked with (Toronto assistant) David Nonis and Burkie early in the year about this," Murray said. "They didn't feel it was the right time. All of a sudden, (Jonas) Hiller's signed and I've got (Nonis) saying he's interested in something. They had a much bigger deal going somewhere else (for Dion Phaneuf) and they wanted to tie everything together.
With Jason Blake en route from Toronto, the Ducks chose rookie sensation Dan Sexton as the odd man out of the Ducks' forward corps Sunday, assigning the right wing to Manitoba of the American Hockey League.
Goaltender Justin Pogge was recalled from AHL San Antonio but his stay could be a short one if Vesa Toskala is able to suit up for the Ducks tomorrow against the Florida Panthers.
Sexton appeared in 28 games for the Ducks, collecting nine goals and 18 points with 14 penalty minutes. The 22-year-old led all NHL rookies in goals and points, along with scoring on the road, since his recall from Manitoba on Dec. 4. He scored six goals and 11 points in the month of December, ranking second among league rookies in scoring and tied for second in goals. Sexton also posted a career-high three-game goal streak from Dec. 3-8, matching the longest by a rookie this season.
The Ducks have traded Jean-Sebastien Giguere, the most decorated goalie in franchise history, to the Toronto Maple Leafs for forward Jason Blake and goaltender Vesa Toskala.
The writing was on the wall Saturday, when the Ducks tabbed Jonas Hiller as their goaltender of the future by extending his contract for four years. Giguere, who was set to become a free agent after the 2010-11 season, must waive his no-trade clause to approve any trade.** He was expected to do so to be reunited with goaltending consultant Francois Allaire and general manager Brian Burke in Toronto, which is also much closer to his native Montreal.
Toskala, 32, lost his starting job to Jonas Gustafsson in Toronto, and will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, when he is owed $4 million. Blake, 36, still has two years and $6 million remaining on his contract after this season, with a cap hit of $4 million each year.
Toskala has appeared in 260 career games with Toronto and San Jose, going 127-82-25 with 13 shutouts, a 2.77 goals-against average and .902 save percentage.
Blake peaked as a member of the New York Islanders in 2006-07, when he scored a career-high 40 goals. In an 11-year career that began with the Kings in 1998, Blake has 184 goals and 427 assists in 724 games.
**Update: The Toronto Maple Leafs were one of the teams Giguere previously indicated to Bob Murray that he would be willing to accept a trade to. Presumably, the trade was a done deal as soon as Bob Murray and Brian Burke had decided upon the specifics.
The Ducks have identified their goalie of the future, signing Jonas Hiller to a four-year, $18 million extension announced today. The27-year-old will make $4.5 million in each year of the contract.
Ducks 2, Tampa Bay 1. Updates with quotes.
James Wisniewski scored his second shootout game-winner this week, after scoring the Ducks' lone goal in regulation, completing a hard-fought victory at the St. Pete Times Forum.
Wisniewski had never taken part in an NHL shootout before last Saturday, when he scored the clinching goal in sudden death in St. Louis.
On Friday after Corey Perry missed, and Ryan Getzlaf scored, head coach Randy Carlyle turned to the defenseman in the third shootout round — and Wisniewski did not disappoint.
Huntington Beach Inline hosting Junior Olympic tournament.
Approximately 4,000 athletes representing 400 teams from 10 different countries are expected to invade Southern California for the Inline Hockey Junior Olympics, July 1-11.
Huntington Beach Inline will serve as headquarters, with one additional local facility (to be announced) hosting games at the tournament, which has never before been to the West Coast. In addition to this year's Junior Olympics, the Ducks have signed on to host future tournaments at their local affiliate rinks.
Of the 400 expected teams in 2010, more than 200 are based in California. The tournament features numerous age groups and divisions (8u, 10u, 12u, 14u, 16u, 18u, 21u, men's), and approximately 50 international teams from as far away as Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Germany and France. Canada, Mexico and Colombia have also committed numerous teams.
For more information about the Inline Hockey Junior Olympics, visit aauhockey.org.
Jonas Hiller sharpens his own skates.
This and other interesting revelations in a new feature up on NHL.com about Hiller, who comes across in the story as the type of Swiss who could spend his retirement years tinkering with watches in a secluded repair shop somewhere in the Alps.
The storyline was different this time, but the result was a familiar one for the Ducks on this six-game road trip.
After allowing an early goal, Anaheim (24-23-7) resiliently battled the Washington Capitals (35-12-6) for 40 minutes, then ran out of gas in an up-and-down third period.
Washington scored a mere 36 seconds into the game when Alexander Ovechkin was inexplicably left alone in front of the net, and easily tapped in a rebound past Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who was getting a rare start 24 hours after Jonas Hiller lost in Atlanta.
Having been introduced to the reigning league MVP, the Ducks' defense buckled down considerably on Ovechkin and the high-flying Capitals. When they didn't, Giguere was almost never out of position, sprinkling in several point-blank saves among the 34 he made through two periods.
The Ducks tied the game in the second period when Caps goalie Michal Neuvirth allowed a long rebound off a deep Sheldon Brookbank slapshot. The puck came to Dan Sexton in the left faceoff circle, and the Ducks rookie didn't miss a wide-open net at 11:23.
But Washington, which leads the NHL at 3.81 goals per game, made up for lost time by teeing off against Giguere in the third period.
Shaone Morrisonn angled a deep slapshot in off the skate of Steve Eminger at 1:15 for the go-ahead goal. Mike Knuble scored 56 seconds after, and Alexander Semin scored on a breakaway at 4:15, making it a three-goal game in a three-minute span.
Semin provided the final score with another goal, this time during a 5-on-3 shift, at 11:47.
The Capitals' eighth straight win is the team's longest in 26 years.
The Ducks fell to 1-3 on the road trip, which resumes in Tampa Bay on Friday. Giguere stopped 44 shots in his first start since Jan. 3.
Steve Eminger's second goal of the season was all the Ducks would get at Philips Center, where backup netminder Johan Hedberg was stellar in a 34-save victory.
Hedberg's effort allowed goals by Colby Armstrong in the second period, and Maxim Afinogenov in the third, to stand up. Jonas Hiller stopped 32 of 34 for the Ducks.
Corey Perry did most of the work on Eminger's goal, charging out from behind the Atlanta net and backhanding the puck on Hedberg from just outside the crease. Eminger skated in unchecked to get the last touch, angling it between the legs of Afinogenov and into the net.
Armstrong took advantage of a long rebound off the pads of Hiller, firing in the game's first goal from the slot at 4:32 of the second period. Randy Carlyle burned his timeout shortly thereafter, delivered a spirited speech on the bench, and moved Bobby Ryan up to the Ducks' top line. Perry scored with 2:02 left in the period.
But the Thrasher potted the go-ahead goal, skating 5-on-4 at 4:03 of the third period when a failed clearing attempt by the Ducks landed on Afinogeov's stick at the right point.
After a sluggish start, the Ducks (24-22-7) bounced back with a strong third period, in which they outshot Atlanta 15-6, including 5-1 in the final five minutes. Completing a night of bad breaks for Anaheim, Ryan Getzlaf hit the post with a wrist shot at the buzzer.
The Ducks are 1-2 to begin their season-long, six-game road trip, which continues tomorrow in Washington.
Report: AHL shakeup could help Ducks.
A story posted today at SBNation.com insinuated that the Ducks might not be without an American Hockey League affiliate much longer.
Entitled "AHL Shakeup Coming?", the story said that AHL Commissioner David Andrews has a couple possibilities on the horizon. One would see the Iowa Chops re-activated under new ownership, and renewing its affiliation with Anaheim. The Des Moines-based team failed to make payments owed the Ducks and thenwas booted from the league, after its owners encountered financial difficulties.
Andrews also told SBNation thatthe Texas Stars are only temporarily associated with the Dallas Stars and, if the affiliation isn't made permanent, the league will not exempt the franchise and it may cease operations.


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Sam Jose
Posted on August 22, 2016 by mostimportantsubject
Jose Mourinho, photo by Aleksandr Osipov, http://www.flickr.com
It's the year of the manager. Jose, Pep, Antonio, Jurgen and Claudio – reads rather like a Euro boy band – are set to be the real superstars of the Premier League season. Meanwhile, Big Sam has taken on the big job of attempting to restore England's credibility at the international level.
The TV cameras will be trained on the dugouts more than ever as the aforementioned, plus Arsene, Slaven et al plot, scheme and tinker. The vast sums being paid by the broadcasters for their seat at the table means that the most important decisions the managers make will occur during the transfer windows. Take note Arsene.
Wenger must be getting a better interest rate than most in the UK who leave their money in the bank at the moment as he persists with his almost comical reluctance to invest. The joke is wearing thin for Arsenal fans though as they can see that in standing still, their side is sliding slowly but surely backwards.
If Wenger is waiting on the market cooling off he may have a long wait ahead and he's likely to feel some considerable heat from his supporters before that happens. The start of the season should be a time of hope and expectation for fans but Arsenal fans know what to expect: top four (maybe, just), last 16 or quarter finals in the Champions League, and at least one decent domestic cup run.
One man who hasn't hesitated to throw open the owner's wallet is Mourinho. He's spent extravagantly but wisely. Of course Pogba is not really worth all that in absolute terms but if Man U win the title, it will prove to be money well spent.
An even smarter decision that Jose's made is snapping up Ibrahimovic. He's a Cantona-esque signing: top-quality, a proven winner, and brings with him an unmistakable aura. I make United slight title favourites ahead of their Manchester neighbours based mostly on the Zlatan signing.
I foolishly left him out of my initial fantasy league selection; a mistake that I have now rectified.
City fans meanwhile are enjoying the long-held fantasy of having Pep in charge. As expected, he's wasting little time in putting his stamp on the side and appears to have little love for Joe Hart. The squad still needs more of an overhaul and I'd be surprised if his summer spending has reached its conclusion.
Guardiola will probably want to avoid getting caught up in a sideshow with Mourinho but the Portuguese will relish it, stoke it, and embrace it. The first Manchester derby of the season should be worth a watch. I'd be quite happy to watch a camera that only showed the two managers throughout – like that strange film they made a few years ago that focused solely on Zidane ('A 21st Century Portrait') for 90 minutes.
Conte must seek to make something of an omelette from the broken eggs that Jose left behind at Stamford Bridge and Chelsea fans will have been encouraged by what he was able to eke out of a modest Italian squad at Euro 2016.
It might not be pretty but it's sure to be intense under the Italian. Chelsea will be very hard to beat, their work rate will be off the charts, and they will be tactically flexible. I don't think they'll be champions but I expect them to be the highest placed London club this season.
Two games in and I have almost no idea what to expect from my club, Liverpool. Triumph at Arsenal followed by disaster at Burnley suggests that one of those performances was an imposter but it's hard to tell yet which one.
Klopp has declared the squad at Anfield his own and he knows that vast improvements on last season are required. In any of the last few seasons, Liverpool's current squad under Klopp would be near-certainties for the top four but this is likely to be the most competitive season in a long time.
Klopp is as competitive as they come and he doesn't lack ambition. His squad still lacks something though and a further addition or two could make a big difference for Liverpool.
Ranieri must be hugely relieved that his squad doesn't now lack most of its best players. It's a tremendous tribute to what Leicester achieved last season, and the way in which they did it, that almost everyone has opted to show loyalty and stay.
They surely cannot repeat the heroics of that fairy tale run but they will enjoy the experience of being champions and are unlikely to relinquish the crown meekly. Ranieri, once seen as something of a jester, has been enthroned as the Premier League's managerial king. The loyal subjects at the King Power Stadium may never witness anything so remarkable again.
It is to be hoped that none of us ever have to witness Gary Lineker presenting in his pants again although whoever sold the garment in question may warrant investigation under the Trade Descriptions Act.
Whatever embarrassment Lineker may have felt was probably not as great as that of the England players who contrived to lose to Iceland in the Euros. That defeat – possibly the worst in the country's history – brought to a close the rather farcical reign of Roy Hodgson.
Big Sam thus has small boots to fill.
England's young and energetic side actually travelled to France having displayed some promise in the build-up to the tournament. Not unusually of late, it was a promise they failed to keep. Is Big Sam the man for the rebuilding job?
Why not? He has lots of experience, he excels at man management, and he's more tactically astute than he's often given credit for.
There are no quick fixes for England in terms of the fundamentals: players who are not as talented as they think they are, a squad that is tactically naïve, and a lack of opportunities for young players at many top clubs.
That said, he will select players who are in form (I don't envisage many Allardyce 'favourites'), instil a simple but consistent style of play that his squad is comfortable with, and attempt to create more of a club atmosphere for the national team.
None of these changes will turn England into Spain or France overnight (or even Portugal or Croatia) but they should suffice to avoid banana skins such as the Iceland debacle. For England then, as well as in the English Premier League, it's the manager who looks set to take centre stage.
So put your clothes back on Gary, be careful of the bets that you make, and let's see who turns out to be this season's special one.
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Posted on June 10, 2016 by mostimportantsubject
Euro 2016, France. Photo by Brigitte Djajasasmita, http://www.flickr.com
My favourite scene of all in Only Fools and Horses has the two Trotter brothers in their trusty van, driving through the French countryside. Del professes his love for duck a l'orange and asks Rodney: "how do you say duck in French bruv?" Rodney pauses then replies: "it's canard Del." Try saying it out loud if you don't get it.
And so it is with predicting the winner of the European Championships which commence later tonight in France with the hosts taking on Romania. The French are many people's favourites and that's understandable given their strong and balanced squad plus home advantage.
Since hosts don't have to qualify it's always difficult to assess their form ahead of a tournament. The ease with which they beat Scotland last week told us more about our travails than French prospects of triumph.
We Scots have been looking on with envy as the rest of the home nations have crossed the Channel to do battle against Europe's best. And Albania.
Indeed, the last time we made it to a major tournament was in France, the World Cup of '98. I was still a teenager, with a Kurt Cobain poster on my wall, and had recently moved to England. The Scotland team did as usual: almost beat Brazil then exited meekly.
We had a tough qualifying group for France '16 but we still should have edged out the Irish for a play-off spot. I expect most of the home nations to return home pretty quickly with the exception of England.
I don't think they'll win it (they don't look like a squad who could handle the pressure of going all the way) but it wouldn't surprise me to see them in the semi finals. England are suspect at the back, which is true of most teams in the competition, but they have considerable talent and options up front. Personally I wouldn't start Rooney but Hodgson will and the balance of the side will be disrupted as a consequence.
I see some of the England fans have already been making friends and influencing people. They've been on the receiving end of some tear gas and more tears will surely follow when the inevitable defeat on penalties comes to pass.
Elsewhere, the Spanish and the Italians both arrive somewhat uncertain and potentially underestimated. Conte will squeeze every ounce of sweat out of his side but he lacks a really menacing goal scorer. The Spanish are trying to evolve their tiki-taka style in the absence of Xavi, the man around whom the whole system once revolved at both club and national level.
Belgium are ranked highly but I'm not convinced they're ready to breakthrough and actually claim a title. My tip then is the Germans. Betting against Germany rarely pays dividends and I don't recommend it on this occasion. They were poor against Scotland twice in qualifying but they have quality throughout the spine of their side and, more importantly, they know how to win.
It promises to be an exciting month and for those of us watching from afar, a tiring one. Many of the games kick-off at 3am Malaysian time. I'm much older than a teenager now, so I'll have to pace myself.
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Can England win Euro 2016?
Posted on April 7, 2016 by mostimportantsubject
England v France at Wembley. Photo by Ben Sutherland, http://www.flickr.com
If England were to be crowned European champions in France this summer it would come as something of a surprise to me. By then of course, Leicester may already be Premier League champions and an English triumph at the Euros wouldn't be as big a shock as that. Still, England have never previously won the tournament nor, remarkably, ever even made the final.
Recent friendly matches were an opportunity to assess the form of Hodgson's squad and their prospects when they cross the Channel in June. A 3-2 victory away in Germany was a significant statement of intent, subsequently tempered slightly by a 2-1 loss at home to the Netherlands a few days later.
What struck me most about these recent matches is the extent to which the England side has changed from the last major international tournament, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Let's compare the starting line-ups from England's crucial group game against Uruguay in 2014 with the team that took the field in Berlin last month.
Uruguay v England (19/06/14)
Hart, Johnson, Baines, Cahill, Jagielka, Sterling, Henderson, Gerrard, Sturridge, Rooney, Welbeck.
Germany v England (26/03/16)
Butland, Clyne, Rose, Cahill, Smalling, Dier, Henderson, Lallana, Alli, Welbeck, Kane.
Only three players – Cahill, Henderson, and Welbeck – appear in both line-ups. Several others who played against Uruguay may also start England's first match in Euro 2016 against Russia with Hart, Rooney, and Sturridge probably the most likely among them.
Nevertheless, it's a significant overhaul of his side that Hodgson has undertaken. No bad thing that in all likelihood given the fact that the 'golden generation' scarcely got anywhere near bronze. So is the 2016 vintage better?
Defensively I don't think it is. England are a team that leak goals against decent opposition and there's quite a lot of inexperience at the back. Clyne is average in my view and Rose has a lot to learn before he can consider himself a master of international football. Smalling is a link in the chain that opposition sides will regard as vulnerable.
The emergence of Alli provides some real dynamism and vigour in midfield, of the sort that Sterling briefly promised at the World Cup but has failed to deliver this season at Manchester City. Lallana, after failing to convince me in his early days at Liverpool, seems to be growing in confidence and influence. Henderson is no Steven Gerrard, for club or country (I suspect Klopp may be inclined to let him leave in the summer).
Up front things get particularly interesting and, as has been the case for rather a while now, the biggest dilemma concerns Rooney. The Manchester United striker is more often found splitting opinion than splitting defences these days.
One school of thought maintains that Rooney is still England's most important player and should be the first name added to the team sheet. A dissenting school contends that peak Rooney was reached quite a long time ago and while he might retain a place in the squad, he should not feature in the starting eleven.
Hodgson is a cautious manager by nature and thus I suspect that Rooney (if he's fit) will start in the game against Russia. Personally, I would pair Kane and Sturridge up front although Vardy certainly deserves consideration for the extraordinary season that he's having.
There are goals in the current England side and they look like a much more threatening proposition than the team that limped so meekly out of the World Cup with just two goals in three games.
The recent round of friendly fixtures point to an open championship coming up and England are far from alone in carrying defensive frailties into the tournament. It should make for entertaining viewing.
Scotland, sadly, won't be in France this summer but will be facing England in World Cup qualifying later in the year. After our recent friendly in Prague, Gordon Strachan observed: "we are not a great side but we can turn ourselves into a decent side by working hard." That's a fair summary of our current state and I think it also describes where England are at the moment as well (although they undoubtedly have a lot more quality).
Roy Hodgson justifiably claimed that the win in Berlin was his best night as England boss but went on to acknowledge that: "we have got an awful long way to go before we can claim to be anything like Germany with all they have achieved."
Hodgson has been a master of expectations management since taking charge. The hype and hysteria that used to carry England teams into tournament battle has largely dissipated with more sober assessments being made of a squad that is good but lacking in greatness.
How much greatness is there elsewhere though? The Germans looked quite ordinary in qualifying (Scotland were unlucky to lose to them twice); the Spanish have lost more than a little swagger of late; the Italians are hardworking but not exactly inspired under Chelsea-bound Conte; the French face the pressure of playing at home (something that worked for them in 1998 but could easily go against them); while the Belgians will rightly travel in hope but I'm not convinced they yet have the expectation of victory.
The UK referendum on leaving the EU falls between the end of the group stages and the start of the knockout phase. England have a favourable group so there shouldn't be any Engxit before a potential Brexit.
So, can England win it? Yes, given how open it looks to be and the shortcomings elsewhere. But I don't think they will. Hodgson is a realist and his assessment is correct: it's only a short journey to France, but his squad still has a long way to go.
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The Monday Post – 17/11/14
Posted on November 17, 2014 by mostimportantsubject
Photo by: Football Gallery
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This new format of spreading international games over several days is still taking a bit of getting used to. Some people seem to have just got bored and given up entirely. I was amused to discover that more viewers tuned in for the BBC quiz show Pointless on Saturday night than for ITV's coverage of England v Slovenia. I'll let you do your own puns. The quiz show averaged 4.99m viewers with a peak of 7.26m while the football averaged 4.56m with a peak of 6.3m.
By all accounts England were pretty terrible and still won pretty comfortably. It's not surprising then that interest in this current team and qualifying group is so low.
Rooney won his hundredth cap and scored a penalty. Wellbeck helped himself to a double. All of this happened very shortly after Henderson had scored an own goal to give Slovenia the lead. I'm not sure that there's much else to say about the game other than that apparently Uefa made the Slovenians travel in a team bus to the stadium despite the fact that they were staying in a hotel just 50 metres away. Meanwhile, over on pointless …
TV producers love to get those shots of teams emerging from the bus and entering the stadium. Most players bounce off the bus with enormous headphones and try to either put their most serious game face on or make a strenuous effort at appearing serene. Some have huge bags and suitcases as though headed for a fortnight on the Costa de Sol while others make do with just a tiny wash bag.
The scene then cuts to the studio where former pros will make their pronouncements: "the boys look relaxed" or the "boys look focused" or "the boys look up for it." Actually, the boys just got off a bus, that's all. I wouldn't read too much into it.
The tendency toward pointless analysis is now reaching such heights that it surely can't be long before 'the boys getting off the bus' becomes subject to video analysis with slow-motion replays and comment being made on the formation.
There are no points available on Tuesday night when Scotland and England clash at Celtic park in what's likely to be a feisty friendly. Viewing figures will probably be considerably higher than for England v Slovenia.
The other game that I was interested in at the weekend was Italy v Croatia. My love of Italian football has been well documented on this blog but Croatia is my adopted home (and team) as my wife is Croatian.
A 1-1 draw in Italy was a good result for the boys in the tablecloth tops but sadly, like a 70s disco act, Croatian supporters got a bit carried away with their flares. The game was interrupted twice as a result, with the players taken off the field for 10 minutes on the second occasion.
This is not the first time such incidents have occurred with Croatian fans (and they are far from the only ones who treat flares as a routine part of the match day experience) and I think it's time that the authorities got stricter on stamping out flares at games.
The dangers inherent in lighting a flare in a crowded enclosed space (often with children in the vicinity) are pretty obvious. Speaking about the trouble at the San Siro, Croatia's coach Niko Kovac said: "I was ashamed and I apologised to the Italians after the game. There were families with children up there."
Let's hope in future that Croatia's considerable flair on the pitch is not overshadowed by a minority of fans who insist on the pointless endeavour of lighting flares in the stands.
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Which is the best league in the world?
Photo by: Will Morley
I raise this question today since David Moyes proclaimed the Spanish La Liga as the best league in the world at his first press conference as manager of Real Sociedad. His reasons were simple: "La Liga has the finest players and great coaches and I want to test myself against the best." So, is Moyes right? Is the Spanish league the best in the world?
There aren't actually that many competitors for this title. I don't think it's too controversial to restrict this search to Europe. There's a lot of great football played outside Europe (in terms of current growth and future potential, the MLS in America is hugely exciting) but it remains the case that the best players, the best coaches, and the biggest teams are overwhelmingly concentrated in a select few European leagues.
After careful consideration I took the decision to rule out the Scottish Premiership.
The big four leagues in Europe are the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga, Italy's Serie A, and La Liga in Spain (the French might make a case for being included over the Italians but I think Serie A remains stronger than Ligue 1 overall). As I've written before, I love Italian football even with all its present travails but there's no doubt that the Serie A is not at the level of the other three right now. It could be thought of as the Andy Murray of the big four.
Let's look at some evidence in order to give the impression of employing a scientific approach to ranking the three remaining contenders before arriving at the necessarily subjective conclusion.
I'll start with the best players. The long list for FIFA's Ballon d'Or was announced recently, comprising 23 players: Bale (La Liga), Benzema (La Liga), Costa (Premier League), Courtois (Premier League), Di Maria (Premier League), Goetze (Bundesliga), Hazard (Premier League), Ibrahimovic (Ligue 1), Iniesta (La Liga), Kroos (La Liga), Lahm (Bundesliga), Mascherano (La Liga), Messi (La Liga), Mueller (Bundesliga), Neuer (Bundesliga), Neymar (La Liga), Pogba (Serie A), Ramos (La Liga), Robben (Bundesliga), Rodriguez (La Liga), Ronaldo (La Liga), Schweinsteiger (Bundesliga), and Toure (Premier League).
Moyes would appear to be right about the best players then. 10 players on the list are based in Spain, six in Germany, five in England, and one each in Italy and France. Overall, the Spanish league does have more of the best players in the world and in Messi and Ronaldo it has the top two.
Photo by: Jan Solo
It also has Suarez who is not included on the Ballon d'Or list. Some people are upset by that but the list is about players who have performed best over the year; Suarez has spent rather a lot of the year not playing at all on account of his disgraceful conduct. I have little sympathy regarding his absence.
How about coaches? There are ten contenders for Fifa's coach of the year award: Ancelotti (La Liga), Conte (currently coach of the Italian national team), Guardiola (Bundesliga), Klinsmann (coach of the U.S. national team), Loew (coach of the German national team), Mourinho (Premier League), Pellegrini (Premier League), Sabella (coached Argentina at the World Cup), Simeone (La Liga), and Van Gaal (Premier League).
The Premier League comes out on top here with three, La Liga has two, and the Bundesliga one. It probably is true that most of the best coaches want to manage in England. I expect Guardiola to move to an English club at some point in the future.
Finally, let's consider supporters since they are the lifeblood of the leagues. Earlier this year, the Sporting Intelligence website published average attendance figures for the leagues based on the 2012-2013 season (http://www.sportingintelligence.com/finance-biz/business-intelligence/global-attendances/). The Bundesliga's average attendance was 41,914 (total attendance for the season was 12,825,684), while the Premier League's average was 35,931 (but with a higher total attendance of 13,653,780), and La Liga's average was 29,330 (with a total attendance of 11,145,277).
I've been to games in all three leagues and I would award victory to the Bundesliga in the supporters' category. The combination of low ticket prices, superb atmosphere in the stadiums, and excellent German beer and sausage makes the Bundesliga a clear winner here.
Photo by: lackystrike
So where does that leave us? It seems that Spain is the place to be as a player, its England if you are a coach, and Germany if you are supporter.
The Spanish league is technically and tactically sophisticated, has the best players in the world and the two biggest clubs in Barcelona and Real Madrid (El Classico is the game in world football these days). Last season's remarkable title triumph by Atletico Madrid aside however, the big two tend to overshadow the rest of the league in a way that's not altogether healthy.
The Premier League is arguably the most competitive, has many world class players and many of the world's best coaches. Ticket prices are generally too expensive though and the football can be of rather uneven quality.
The Bundesliga takes care of its supporters and offers an excellent quality of football but the increasing dominance of Bayern Munich is making it a bit less competitive than would be ideal. In the next few years, even Bayern may struggle to prevent more players following Kroos out of the Bundesliga.
Is Moyes right then? Has he just landed in the world's best league? Has he just left it? Should he have opted for Germany?
It's a tough call and a close one but for me, right now, I would still award the overall title of best league in the world to the Premier League. It's the most exciting, the fan experience is not as great as in Germany but the atmosphere is still good, there are more than enough great players (including the likes of Aguero, Fabregas and Sterling who didn't make the Ballon d'Or list) and some of the finest coaches.
England it is then by a whisker from Spain, followed by Germany. Do you agree?
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No more Mr Nice Guys
Photo by: Bradford Timeline
Almost five months on from England's dismal elimination from the World Cup and the squad have reached a conclusion on what went wrong: apparently they were "too nice."
Ahead of their match against Slovenia on Saturday, Gary Cahill has said the side has been working on being more aggressive and less naïve. Much of the new emphasis is being credited to Gary Neville, a man that I don't ever recall being referred to as "too nice" during his playing career.
Cahill describes the required defensive approach as "being aggressive and getting tight – when players are trying to hold the ball up and you're behind them and they are thinking: 'What is this guy doing?'"
I must admit it's a thought that crossed my mind quite often when I played as a centre forward. Some defenders need very little encouragement to 'get tight.'
I once had a friendly opponent, a practitioner of the not-too-nice school of defending, who suggested that he might be inclined to break my legs (that wasn't the exact phrase he used). In reply I pointed out that he might first show some inclination to keep up with me (again the phrasing may have been slightly different).
Back in the day I was noted for having a 'turn of pace' as they say. I still do; I'm now quite adept at turning from slow to leisurely via dawdling before coming to complete rest. At school though, I was so quick that I briefly caught the eye of the rugby coach. He offered me the chance to play on the wing. I declined on the basis that however quick I was, eventually someone would catch me and thereafter it (and I) would not be pretty.
It's that sort of fear that Cahill seems to want to inspire in opponents. He argues that since the World Cup, England have become "a lot harder to play against." That may be true and they have kept clean sheets in their last 5 games but the opposition has got a lot easier. Clean sheets against San Marino and Estonia are nothing to get overly excited about.
Remarkably, Cahill also says that England are learning to play the ball longer when necessary. "Everybody has this philosophy of playing from the back but there are times to think, 'Hold on, let's kick up the front for five or 10 minutes.'"
Any time I've watched England recently, I can't honestly say that I've been struck by the thought: 'there they go again with that playing from the back philosophy of theirs.'
Long ball or short, tight or loose, nasty or nice, for this qualifying campaign it doesn't matter too much for England. By the time they arrive in France though, they are likely to discover that their World Cup failure was not really a question of being too nice.
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Rooney – more respected, less feared
Posted on November 9, 2014 by mostimportantsubject
Photo by: Brent Flanders
Wayne Rooney is set to win his 100th England cap next weekend in the European Championship qualifier against Slovenia at Wembley. He will do so as captain. He was handed the armband following Steven Gerrard's retirement from international football after the World Cup in Brazil.
Rooney is a player who divides opinion. For some he remains one of England's few genuinely world class players and the most natural leader of the current England side. For others he's a shadow of his former self who scarcely deserves a place in the England starting line-up.
I certainly think it's true that he hasn't fully fulfilled the promise that he showed when he burst on to the scene as a precocious teenager. With the exception of the European Championships in 2004, he has generally disappointed somewhat on the biggest stage at the very highest level.
There seems to be something a bit less swashbuckling about him these days which is not entirely explicable by the passing of years. The look on the faces of the defenders he faces has changed a little: a respectful wariness has replaced fear.
On his day he can still command a game but when he receives the ball these days there doesn't seem to be quite that same anticipatory shift forward in the seat among the crowd. Di Maria is the one more likely to induce that movement at Old Trafford now. With England, Sterling is a more likely candidate.
Rooney has matured though. On and off the field he no longer embarrasses himself in the way that he once did. He appears more in control of himself, maybe a little bit too much in control sometimes. The leash has been shortened and he's more disciplined but less dangerous.
Sir Bobby Charlton will present Rooney's 100th cap (I'm not entirely sure of its origins but a cap has always struck me as a slightly odd thing to reward people with for international appearances). Rooney is a mere six goals behind Sir Bobby's England record of 49 and there's a very good chance that he will have overtaken Charlton's haul by the end of the qualification campaign.
Rooney is also now captain of both club and country. He's become an elder statesman of the game; entrusted by managers to lead by example and instruction.
Roy Hodgson is quoted today however as saying: "I worry that the responsibility is going to weigh him down." It's a strange thing for the England manager to say just a few months after appointing Rooney captain.
How much extra responsibility does the role really entail? The biggest decision that the captain has to make is heads or tails. Most of the other responsibilities (guiding young players, offering leadership on the pitch, communicating with the manager) would all be expected of a senior player anyway and there's nothing to suggest that Rooney would shirk them if he wasn't wearing the armband.
British football tends to inflate the role and importance of captain. I get the impression that it's seen a bit more ceremoniously elsewhere. The fact that Rooney was seen as such an obvious choice for both Manchester United and England says more about his teammates at club and international level than it does about him.
Rooney will probably become England's all time leading goal scorer. England will definitely qualify for the European Championships in France. Once there, Rooney and England will be respected but not feared by their opponents.
If Rooney does appear weighed down, I don't think it's the burden of captaincy that's the cause. I think it's much more likely to be the fact that he knows that considerably more of his career is now behind than in front of him and the heights he's reached, impressive though they are, have fallen short of those that he hoped for and expected.
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England expects … very little
Posted on August 7, 2014 by mostimportantsubject
England fans in Brazil. Photo by Rob, http://www.flickr.com
Greg Dyke set the tone. With the draw for Group D of the World Cup concluded, the FA Chairman promptly drew his finger across his throat: a group of death. Of course, back in December it was Costa Rica who were expected to end up in an early World Cup grave but they went on to outlive all of the group's more celebrated sides.
England got rumbled in the jungle by Italy (or more precisely by Pirlo, again), suckered by Suarez (a less painful experience than the Italians had of him), and the match against the Costa Ricans was essentially pointless in every sense bar the literal one.
How much more should have been expected of England? Consistently laborious performances in qualifying were enough to suppress the expectations of all but the most optimistic of their fans. Last year Gary Linker lamented a return to the tactical "dark ages" following a draw at home to the Republic of Ireland. The World Cup offered little indication of renaissance.
Pre-tournament expectations were low but not all hope had been renounced. There was some hope that Rooney would demonstrate beyond doubt at an international tournament that he is world class; there was perhaps greater hope that an emerging young talent such as Sterling or Barkley would take the tournament by storm in the manner of Gazza at Italia 90; and there was just enough hope that the blend of those youngsters with tournament veterans such as Gerrard and Rooney would produce a side that was both attack-minded and competitive.
Rooney did manage to score his first World Cup goal and provided an excellent assist for Sturridge against Italy but overall his limitations were more apparent than his strengths. Played out of position in the opening game, he frequently left Baines exposed and the Italians were savvy enough to take full advantage. There's no question that Rooney is a very talented footballer but he did not answer the doubts that linger about him at the very highest level. He's certainly not able to carry a team in the way that Messi or Neymar can, or indeed Robben or Colombia's Rodriguez.
Barkley didn't have much too much opportunity to prove himself in Brazil but he's a player that, for all his qualities, has an awful lot to learn. The most important lesson that has escaped him so far is that genius is more often to be found in simplicity than complexity.
Sterling meanwhile has emerged as the most promising young English footballer at present. This is somewhat surprising in my view, as for at least a season at Liverpool he demonstrated little more than searing pace. He had a mystifying tendency to take the ball down dead ends, and his final delivery (on those rare occasions when he either avoided or reversed out of cul-de-sacs) was generally abysmal.
In the last 12 months however he has grown in strength, tactical appreciation and technical ability and now offers a real threat beyond his speed. His fast start to the tournament was not sustained and while he returns home with his reputation enhanced, a lot of work remains to be done if he is to prove himself worthy of being the player that England's immediate future is constructed around.
On paper, the blend of youth and experience in the England side did appear quite positive. Much of the build up to the tournament focused on whether or not Hodgson would be able to overcome his customary caution in team selections. Starting Sterling in the opening game was overwhelmingly interpreted as praiseworthy boldness on the manager's part but looked to me to be a rather more straightforward decision to pick arguably the most in form player in the squad.
In fact there was very little drama about the starting 11. Most of the debate, as ever, revolved around Rooney. Hodgson certainly erred in not playing him in his best position against Italy but otherwise most of his selections required little justification. Personally I'm far from convinced by Wellbeck, he's a player that does nothing badly but nothing particularly well either. Left back also became an area of scrutiny as Baines failed to play anywhere near his best but his initial selection was absolutely understandable.
Tactically, Hodgson has more to answer for. It still seemed as though England were generally set-up to nullify the strengths of the opposition rather than impose their own. With so many Liverpool players in the team, Hodgson could have opted to play closer to the style of Brendan Rodgers' side with a quicker tempo and more emphasis on pressing higher up the pitch. In his selection, the England boss recognised that his side was stronger in attack than defence but he failed to reflect that in his tactics.
England's tactics were apparently shared with the world before they even started their first game. Gary Neville was photographed with his training notes on display and thus, in the typically understated language of the English press, he 'unwittingly revealed England's master plan.'
The notes read: "When the ball goes into control zone – team must make at least 3 passes before hitting the CF. Once the ball is played into the end zone – 2 MFs try to get in and support for a 3v2. However, if the defending team win the ball back they counter straight away." I can imagine the England squad listening to Oasis on the team bus and singing, "we're all part of a master plan." Neville's tactics gaff was about as revelatory as his brother's attempts at co-commentary.
It would have been great if a photographer had captured a similar piece of paper in the Argentinean camp: "just pass the ball to Messi lads."
Hodgson developed an increasingly pink complexion over the course of his side's short stay in the tournament. It is unclear how much was attributable to embarrassment and how much to neglecting to take a strong enough sun cream. He didn't have a strong enough defence either.
Uruguay's winner was a particularly shocking example of what's come to be universally known as 'schoolboy defending.' I can remember being lambasted for that type of defending – and that exact phrase being used – when I was a schoolboy. It struck me as rather harsh at the time but it cannot be considered harsh when applied to the ineptitude of some of England's defensive displays.
England's world cup campaign was probably best encapsulated by an incident in the aftermath of the equaliser against Italy when team physio Gary Lewin dislocated his ankle amidst the exuberance of the celebrations. He went home early but the rest of the squad were not far behind.
The best sides at the World Cup either had an exceptional individual (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Holland) or a very well developed but still flexible style of play (Germany and the Dutch again warrant inclusion here). England had neither. Rooney is good but he's not exceptional and it remains to be seen just how good Sterling will become. In terms of style of play, England may have progressed a little from the dark ages but not nearly far enough.
Greg Dyke has set England the target of winning the World Cup in 2022. That's just 8 years away. 8 years ago, England lost on penalties to Portugal in the quarter finals of the World Cup in Germany. Since then, they've gone backwards. In 2010, the Germans humbled Capello's calamitous side 4-1 in the last 16 and in 2014 Hodgson's men failed to make it out of the group stage.
Unable to survive a group of death (I don't use the term the group of death as there were other groups just as tough), it seems likely that it will take longer than 8 years to breathe life back into England's World Cup prospects.
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On the occasion of the exhibition Frans Post. Animals in Brazil and Hercules Segers the Rijksmuseum is hosting two symposia. On Tuesday 22 November Alexander de Bruin, curator at the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem, will talk about his spectacular discovery of thirty-four completely unknown drawings of Brazilian animals by Frans Post (1612-1680). The recent discovery calls for a new perspective on the work of Post himself and the collaboration and interaction within the group of artists that joined Johan Maurits as governor of the Dutch colony in Brazil in 1637.
Furthermore, on Friday 2 December a team of scholars will present their extensive research on the small, but yet mysterious oeuvre of Hercules Segers (1589/90-1633/40).
For more information, see the Post-link and the Segers-link.
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is organising an international conference on the consumption of early modern prints, ranging from precious artistic prints that were carefully collected to cheap printed images that were used and discarded: Paragons and Paper Bags. Early Modern Prints from the Consumer's Perspective.
The aim of this symposium is to further develop this new approach in order to achieve new insights on target audiences, the application and usage of prints, and special collection practices. The organisers particularly welcome object-based proposals regarding printed pictorial material or written primary sources.
In early 2016 the Fondation Custodia is staging an exhibition of the impressive collection of old master drawings owned by John Fentener van Vlissingen and his wife Marine, Comtesse de Pourtalès. This exhibition, which ran at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam during the summer of 2015, will open in France on 30 January. It features 100 drawings with 'travelling' as the theme – from sheets by seventeenth-century artists such as Rembrandt and Jacob van Ruisdael to nineteenth-century works by the generation that included Josephus August Knip (1777-1847). For the excellent exhibition catalogue, see Delineavit's Publications page.
The Brussels Print Room and the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht are staging an exhibition of Master drawings from a Belgian private collection. This focus exhibition features ninety drawings from artists from the southern and northern Netherlands created during the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. Besides drawings by Frans Floris and Rubens there are sketches for prints, paintings, stained glass and tapestries, as well as figure studies of Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis De Vos, and landscapes by Pieter Stevens and Adriaen Frans Boudewijns. Most of the drawings have never been shown to the public before.
The exhibition Rubens, Van Dyck y la Edad de Oro del grabado flamenco presents 175 prints from the collection of the National Library of Spain and four paintings from the Prado Museum. It consists of five sections; the first dedicated to Rubens and the best printers of his works, the second to Van Dyck, the third to genre prints, landscapes and genre scenes, the fourth to Rubens and book illustrations,and the last to Rubens, Van Dyck and contemporary European prints.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, 442 pp. (ISBN 978-844-92462-44-5). Copies can be ordered from the online museum shop for €39.


Slovenská Sporiteľňa (Slovak Savings Bank - SLSP) Inc., Bratislava, in the last week of July sold an almost 30-percent stake in Benzinol for 358.9 million Sk (505 Sk per share) to the as yet unknown company Slovbena Inc. SLSP's stake in Benzinol thus declined from 34 to 4 percent while Slovbena became a strategic investor, controlling a 29.99 percent stake. Slovnaft still has the biggest say in Benzinol with their 51 percent stake, while the employee company Bena Trade Inc., Lučenec, controls another 12 percent. SLSP purchased 34 percent of Benzinol's shares from the National Property Fund (FNM) for 500 Sk per share in December 1996.