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The government is right to junk Supplementary Vote – it's the worst of all worlds – politicalbetting
March 2021 edited March 2021 in General
The government is right to junk Supplementary Vote – it's the worst of all worlds – politicalbetting.com
The only exciting thing about the London mayoral election result this year is likely to be whether Sadiq Khan wins on the first vote or is forced into second preferences. He will not be close by Shaun Bailey or any of the many other candidates but may miss out on the 50% share needed to secure a first-preference win.
FrancisUrquhart Posts: 73,424
CarlottaVance said:
https://twitter.com/reutersuk/status/1373848167020691458?s=21
Sixty-one percent of French adults surveyed said the vaccine was unsafe, a rise of 18 percentage points compared to February, YouGov said.
Just over half of German adults surveyed said they thought the vaccine was unsafe, a rise of 15 percentage points compared to February, while 43% of Italians had serious doubts, an increase of almost a third.
Well done mini-Trump...time to build a wall around France.
Second but first after second preferences are redistributed.
How does one go about building and equipping a nightingale mrna vax factory?
FrancisUrquhart said:
The survey showed that only in Britain, where the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been used in a national rollout since January, have the blood clot concerns had little to no impact on public confidence. The majority of people polled in the UK - 77% - still say the shot is safe. Their trust in it is on a par with Pfizer's 79% perceived safety rating.
Wakes up
Reads news
Sees the world is going mad
Goes back to bed...
I thought I was not going to agree with David Herdson, because Conservatives are always wrong when they talk about voting systems. But then I read his piece, and I was persuaded.
If this system was introduced in 2000, then it was under a Labour Government, and they are almost as corrupt and self-interested as the Tories.
Hancock will have a mate from one of his dogging spots.
LindonLight Posts: 96
What these threads on voting methods are illustrating is that whilst it's very easy to diss FPTP it's equally difficult to back an alternative with total confidence. Every voting system is flawed. If you're going to allow everyone over a certain age to have a vote then there's no perfect way to represent their views.
Personally I'm happy with FPTP. I think it's bemusing that those on the left are now complaining about it since when in power, and it suited them just fine, they did bog all about it.
And when the LibDems had their golden chance to reform the voting system as their price of coalition they blew it.
Let sleeping dogs lie, I say. If you don't like the Conservatives being in power, beat them.
An unusually silly lead from Herdson. Yes, the way SV limits second preferences is flawed, but having a second preference is better than none, and ensures both that fewer votes are wasted and that the winner has the support of at least half of the voters, which FPTnP doesn't do. His suggestions that votes aren't wasted under our current system is absurd. Indeed every flaw he seeks to call out under SV is worse when there is no second choice at all.
I see that another African politician has died of Covid:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/22/congos-opposition-candidate-kolelas-dies-a-day-after-poll
The combination of meeting lots of people, age much greater than the national average and air conditioned offices is not a good one.
As record-breaking rains batter the NSW coastline and southern Queensland, causing widespread flooding, animals and insects are scrambling to escape the waters.
"There were also skinks, ants, basically every insect, crickets – all just trying to get away from the flood waters. My husband videoed it, because I was not going close to it. When he was standing still he had spiders climbing up his legs. A skink used him as a pole to get away from the water.
Macksville resident Melanie Williams was also shocked by a swarm of spiders climbing the outer wall of her home as they fled for higher ground. "I occasionally see spiders around the place but never anything like that, it was just insane," she told the ABC. She told Guardian Australia the spiders outside her home were "horrific" but her neighbour told her there were twice as many inside his garage.
It's sunny though, here. Sort of. Some breaks in the cloud cover we've had for several days.
If PP was changing the system just for these elections that would be one thing, but her claim seems to be that FPTP is always best.
US AZ results out - works among over 65s as well as younger people and 100% effective against serious illness seventy something against symptomatic infection.
Good morning, everyone.
All eyes on EU leaders to see what the magic 8-ball throws up on Thursday. So far, "AZN vaccine is poison", "Export bans", "Mandatory for the elderly", "Forbidden for the elderly", and "Unscientific pause to give a few people more chance to die" have come up, but we're all eager to see what happens next.
F1: returns this weekend.
If Frau Dr van der Leyen has any sense she'll issue a statement along the lines of 'We've had concerns over the AZN vaccine, but as a scientist I've realised these were groundless. It should be part of the range of vaccines being used.'
And leave it to the company, and the industry generally, to get one with meeting contractual obligations.
That sort of co-operation is what the EU is for.
Is it correct that the US could meet Biden's new vaccine target without AZN? But with it they have a whopping surplus? Interesting. Most interesting...
Also no serious side effects in US AZ trial. AZ will present data to FDA in a few weeks.
The EU will soon be welcoming the return of witch trials and the Spanish Inquisition....
"Embrace the medieval!"
But that still leaves Brexit Britain W-A-Y out in front.
"If we can't stop the vaccines - can we stop the needles?"
Before either, we'll see Nicola Sturgeon branded an unreliable witness. Maybe an out and out liar. You may hear nothing of the other two over the Stuka whine of the Nats.
https://twitter.com/MattRayTalk/status/1373897250418556930?s=20
Yes the UK has done very well. Given our health structure I suspect we'd have done just as well if we'd still been in the EU.
We'd have been a significant partner in the EMA too, of course. That would have moved more smartly.
As I mentioned yesterday, the traditional Congolese greeting is not the handshake, but rubbing alternate temples together. Covid couldn't have devised a better vector for transmission - two faces in extended close contact.
The alacrity of the EMA moving out of London - 1st March 2019, well before Brexit - didn't help. It was a reduced body as a result.
Barnesian Posts: 7,304
Agreed. More votes are wasted in FPTP. So a nonsensical argument.
But I also agree with David that this is a distraction from more important issues.
MattW Posts: 15,128
Morning all. Thank-you, David.
Time for gardening.
Bright sunshine, Chiffchaff singing near the window - winter is now but a faded memory.
True; there was a reason give for the haste, but I can't recall what it was! IIRC it was our idea, but that could be wrong.
King Cole, I thought we'd offered to retain it until they had time to sort things but the EU wanted to take the EMA out quickly.
Yes, in a few weeks I shall be spending an hour or so a week putting the world to rights in the sun in a pub garden, instead of on here.
Not at 7.30am, of course!
Could be, although I recall going to a Retired Pharmacists meeting in Nov 2018 where a speaker, a retired EMA scientist, urged us to lobby out Govt. to keep the EMA as it was.
Snow is forecast for Friday apparently
felix Posts: 14,490
Utterly deluded.
Possible light rain here then, with temperatures just getting into double figures (C, of course!)
We offered to extend their time here. The EU was behind the headlong rush - and consequent loss of expertise.
(Interesting: they couldn't decide whether to move it to Amsterdam or Milan. So they drew lots!)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/03/eu-medicines-regulator-struggles-coronavirus-pandemic-staff/
Thanks for that, Donnie Downer!
Although not in Devon beyond the Dartmoor tors, I suspect.
The punishment beatings had to commence early.
Though the Boomerang of Doom has ensured that it is the EU that gets whacked on the back of the head.
Charles Posts: 35,758
Barnesian said:
People who aren't the first choice prefer a system that gives them another chance
We wanted to keep it and proposed that we be an associate member.
They said no, broke their lease and moved. Over 1/3 staff said they would rather stay in London
Ah, OK. Seem to recall there was some discussion over senior staff preferences for the site, plus availability of support staff.
I think, but, again am prepared to be wrong, that some Brit staff are commuting to Amsterdam.
Really not sure I get this argument. Why is a vote "wasted" if I don't choose one of those who get through to the final round but not "wasted" when I vote for someone that loses in FPTP?
We certainly have more important things to worry about, on that I agree.
But inept since the first London Mayor was an independent who beat the Labour candidate. It was only later that Ken Livingstone (re-)joined the Labour Party.
I do not know why the government is changing the voting system but one imagines its team of weirdo misfit superforecasters identified an advantage to the Conservative Party.
CorrectHorseBattery Posts: 21,436
https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1373904704451776513
An interesting point.
Mr. L, aye. Not sure why it's a great cause for celebration if my 9th choice candidate beats the 10th placed chap.
Do Londoners have an issue with the current voting system? Seems to me that yet again the Tories are imposing changes on a city that has run them out.
F1: Verstappen favourite to win in Bahrain on Betfair. 2.74 versus 2.8 for Hamilton.
Charles said:
And they had to pay up for the broken lease. Even went to court about it.
No doubt they are being royally rewarded if so.
But there will soon be a need for plenty of senior pharma figures here, when the production moves to the safer shores of the UK....
Razedabode Posts: 2,702
Well done Macron and co. Idiots
2 on-topic questions:
Why was this system used in London in the first place?
(Was it like modified d'Hondt in Scotland an attempt to wire in a Lab majority?)
Would any Mayoral results have been changed by this?
For me, I think this is deckchair-rearrangement for all it's practical impact.
My one reflection is whether this is groundwork for a review of all devolution systems - which would make sense democratically (?) because they are mainly ready for a review and rather broken, and perhaps politically because an overall thing might be cover for whatever will be done in Scotland. There is also the reality that perhaps it needs to be evened across parts of the country.
God knows how they will do that latter, mind.
https://twitter.com/steve_hawkes/status/1373907962230669312
Gallowgate Posts: 18,684
Of course in FPTP the "winner" is usually the first choice of only a minority.
The 100% is stunning. Absolutely stunning. Think for a moment where we were with vaccines a year ago when this started.
Everyone in Oxford team should get a knighthood.
@MattW are you suggesting that Westminster will unilaterally change the voting system of the Scottish Parliament?
Inflammatory to say the least...
Agreed. The weird thing is that the US results are better than those that they managed to produce themselves in a slightly rushed and bumbling trial here. They actually managed to undersell the efficacy of their product. Must be a first in Pharma.
Just say no.
Johnson's cabinet need to hold the line on this. No bloody foreign holidays this summer. Having such a holiday is very nice but it is a First World thing. People can live without it.
Who is going to be the first cabinet member to get caught sneaking abroad?
JonathanD Posts: 2,400
The US stockpile of AZ is only about 30 million I think. Oxford /AZ seems to be a good vaccine but the production of it seems to be much more difficult than Pfizers jab given the millions more of that which has been produced. An inherent problem with the vaccine or just AZ not being used to vaccine manufacture?
It's not the absolute worst system. That has to go PR of the party list type. Where politicians can arrange to become utterly invulnerable to the voters.
Helen Wheatley doing a valiant job on R4 of holding to an agreed line that is not helpful to speculate over the AZ situation and EU.
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1373908171283124225
I think any party list system has to be way worse than any other system. The German system is insane - the very popular politicians run to represent the constituency with the most popular winning the seat and because of the way the system works the losers end up there via the party list top up system.
In reality the choice is a simple one - do you want the most popular candidate out of X (in which case it's possible that the winning candidate is only supported by just over (100/X)% of the vote or do you want a system where the candidate is the preferred choice of 50+% of voters.
Gallowgate said:
Just not politically possible and highly undesirable in any event. You only need to look at the result of the Westminster FPTP system in Scotland to show the risks. Do we really want to risk an opposition to the SNP government of 3? Given that a significant minority spread across the country (with modest soft spots in the borders and the NE) support independence this would guarantee massive SNP majorities.
Indeed, I would go further. Rather than some smart super forecaster finding some Tory advantage this focus on FPTP elections is a bungle that should be quietly forgotten about as soon as possible.
Whilst I know your opinion on voting systems is nuanced with a preference for more proportionate systems the more "local" the government, with all due respect it does seem a little hypocritical to support FPTP at Westminster while opposing it at Holyrood for the main reason (possibly sole?) that it would likely give the SNP massive majorities...
I am flabbergasted that confidence in the Oxford vaccine has declined in the EU after they subjected it to more totally unproven allegations.
It really is a no brainer. Not only is there the risk of variants but we urgently need to boost our domestic leisure industry and help get it back on its feet after 18 disastrous months. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake. Plus some improvement in our balance of payments. Plus reminding our oh so good friends in the EU what the UK brings to the party.
Quite a few of them are doing it as part of their job at FCDO...
Are they all getting COVID tested on arrival?
I suspect we will soon find COVID tests are for the little people.
You say hypocritical, I say pragmatic.
Scientists Say They Found Cause of Rare Blood Clotting Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine
German, Norwegian researchers say rare autoimmune reaction is behind several cases of brain blood clotting, and suggest a possible treatment for it
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-say-they-found-cause-of-blood-clotting-linked-to-astrazeneca-vaccine-11616169108
Floater Posts: 14,195
At least they want to save us from using the 100% effective non blood clot causing medication
Our EU overlords are indeed benevolent
Slackbladder Posts: 9,523
CorrectHorseBattery said:
If only the Remoaners would do the same.
No - I'm suggesting that a measure of reform in the current setup in Scotland may prove to be necessary, given how eg separation of powers is not strong enough, and Parliamentary Privilege vs Crown Office is clearly insufficient. Would anyone disagree with that?
I call that a "25 year service". And it is critical for the enquiries to be completed, and really no one outside Scotland in Govt has even commented afaik. Yet the Holyrood system is still very obviously inadequate and ready for a refresh.
How that would happen is politically interesting, as it would need to be specifically *not* "Westminster unilateral". However is it not basically a Westmnister competence under the Scotland Act?
I'm suggesting that most of the other aspects of devolution - including the decision to swerve the issue in English Regions as people did not like the suggestion - are also suboptimal, and that looking at it all at the same time might be sensible.
Perhaps "political cover" is the wrong phrase !!
Sure. It is pragmatic. But it does certainly lend support to the idea that the main and dominant reason Conservatives really like FPTP at Westminster is because it benefits them.
There is a significant minority spread across the country (with modest soft spots in the major cities) that support the Conservative Party...
FWIW I have always supported PR, even during the last Labour government. In fact it is my biggest criticism of Tony Blair, other than the Iraq War obviously, that he failed to follow through with the manifesto commitment of changing the voting system.
Decide on the basis of evidence in the summer. Saying yes or no now are both very poor answers given we will know far far more in June about the prevalence and vaccination in various countries for the summer than we do now.
Too much talking not enough waiting.
This is a risk we should take. With tests at the airport and a few days later it is manageable. There will always be some danger of infection, but we can't put normal life on hold forever.
https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1373782084754550787
MattW said:
I call that a "25 year service". And it is critical for the enquiries to be completed, and really no one outside Scotland has even commented. Yet the Holyrood system is still very obviously inadequate and ready for a refresh.
How that would happen is politically interesting, as it would need to be specifically *not* "Westminster unilateral". However it is basically a Westmnister competence.
I'm suggesting that most of the other aspects of devolution - including the decision to swerve the issue in English Regions - is also suboptimal, and that looking at it all at the same time might be sensible.
Perhaps "political cover" is the wrong phrase.
Westminster could impose changes via a referendum ratification process. It would be tough for the Scottish Government to object if a majority vote for it in a referendum in Scotland.
Although I can imagine the UK government want to avoid talk of Scottish referendums...
I predict that the US population will be larger than China's within the next fifty years.
https://twitter.com/davidpaulk/status/1373845330765115393
Well the Dakotas do need populating.
(FPT)
https://twitter.com/AnthonyQuintano/status/1373787472493170695
For me, as we discussed yesterday, the best features of FPTP at national level are its tendency to produce decisive governments and to discourage fragmentation. I would not want a Belgian style situation where it takes a year to form a new government.
@Pagan2 also made the point yesterday that PR systems with fragmented parties means that you vote for a manifesto that you like but it doesn't get implemented. All the power to decide what a government actually does is taken from the electorate to the politicians in what these days are no doubt well ventilated rooms away from the public gaze. I don't see that as an improvement.
Slackbladder said:
I think you'll find that the Labour by-election campaign will be a single issue "vote to give the nurses more than 1%!" campaign.
squareroot2 Posts: 4,935
Neighbours of mine are antivaccers, the force with which they present their ludicrous arguments is staggering. We now have even more reason to avoid them as they are a risk to everyone else.
The SA variant is already here, and shutting the door after the horse is long gone simply magnifies the economic damage and misery of lockdown needlessly.
Pop Quiz: do you prefer:
a) UK life largely back to normal for 2021, very limited risk of more lockdowns, social life back to having no limitations, pubs, theatres, cinemas, restaurants all open, freedom to holiday anywhere in the UK - just not foreign holibobs until 2022;
b) foreign holibobs for Brits allowed from June 2021, but that comes with a material risk that a new variant comes into the UK to which our vaccines are far less effective. Consequent risk of lockdowns and closures.
I know where I stand.
Given that our system gives majority power to minority opinion, it pretty much guarantees that most people will not see the manifestos they voted for implemented.
To be honest, we've done the arguments in favour/against FPTP to death.
All I will say is that to get those "decisive governments" there is a democratic cost. Whether that is worth it is a matter for opinion.
On the coalition front — we already have coalitions. They are simply hidden from the public.
Under FPTP the public has no say over which half of the Conservative Party has the most sway and the same is true with Labour.
Already under FPTP policy is formulated in well ventilated rooms away from the public gaze. Under PR the people have a direct say over who has the most power in these well ventilated rooms. You can't get away from it.
You may be surprised to learn Mr M, that I agree with you.
Apart from the fact that I want to go to see my family in Thailand, probably early in 2022. Of course, Thailand is practically Covid-free.
squareroot2 said:
They will gain protection (probably) through the rest of us doing the work and bothering to get vaccinated. Annoying to say the least.
JonathanD said:
AIUI the AZ vaccine is "grown" like a crop so its difficult to predict yield - the UK started working on improving yield months ahead of the EU, which - apart from agreeing contracts earlier, is another reason why we're ahead.
As someone who can't wait to get away to a beach in Greece or Italy I think putting our domestic unlockdown at risk would be completely idiotic. Until we can be sure that our vaccines protect us to a high degree from the variants out there we should hold firm on overseas travel and keep our domestic economy open fully.
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1373920450414325761
Is Labour value for second place?
Floater said:
Portexit? Pexit?
I'd suggest your bigger concern would be about whether or not Thailand will let you in (they may do as I guess their economy is suffering badly from no tourism).
That's what I don't get about this whole debate. It's all well and good focussing on our government and what they think, but who wants to go to a country that's in lockdown?!
Oh, I think its been noticed:
https://twitter.com/AlastairMeeks/status/1373919186162974721?s=20
How did you feel about a Labour "majority" in 2005 with 36% of the vote? Outraged at the unfairness? Quite right too.
That's meaningless without context
I would say Brexit is important but COVID is the top issue facing the country. It's what is more important than brexit that matters
I believe their argument was it was our fault they had broken their contract... hmm that sounds familiar
AZ Press release:
The AstraZeneca US Phase III trial of AZD1222 demonstrated statistically significant vaccine efficacy of 79% at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% efficacy at preventing severe disease and hospitalisation.
This interim safety and efficacy analysis was based on 32,449 participants accruing 141 symptomatic cases of COVID-19. The trial had a 2:1 randomisation of vaccine to placebo.
Vaccine efficacy was consistent across ethnicity and age. Notably, in participants aged 65 years and over, vaccine efficacy was 80%.
The vaccine was well tolerated, and the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) identified no safety concerns related to the vaccine. The DSMB conducted a specific review of thrombotic events, as well as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) with the assistance of an independent neurologist. The DSMB found no increased risk of thrombosis or events characterised by thrombosis among the 21,583 participants receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. The specific search for CVST found no events in this trial.
https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/astraz/media-centre/press-releases/2021/astrazeneca-us-vaccine-trial-met-primary-endpoint.html
The logical conclusion is that a strong SNP majority on 36% of the vote in Scotland should be seen as a good thing.
Strong governments are better remember.


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Jim Harbaugh's contract with Michigan escalates coaches' salaries scale, college football arms race
Tuesday in Ann Arbor, Michigan will introduce the richest college football coach in history, a title Jim Harbaugh will not hold for long. The exorbitant salaries universities pay football coaches have resulted in an arms race without end, at a cost to the structure of the sport that remains to be seen.
Michigan reportedly offered Harbaugh $48 million over six years, which would make him the highest-paid coach in college football history. Other reports have since refuted the precise figures. Either way, Harbaugh's megabucks deal will continue the escalation of coaches' salaries, a cycle with no stopping in sight that, depending on your point of view, is either a reflection of wanton spending in college sports or the logical byproduct of a rational market.
"It's simple, really," said agent Neil Cornrich, who represents Bob Stoops, Kirk Ferentz and other high-profile coaches. "As long as the revenues from college football continue to grow, all the numbers will follow."
It's true – big-time programs like Michigan can pay coaches inflated salaries because the money is there, and they choose to pay the salaries because they want to keep the money there.
The entirety of deposed Michigan coach Brady Hoke's salary and buyout – $14.4 million over his four-year tenure – came from Michigan athletic department coffers and not taxpayers, State Budget Office spokesman Kurt Weiss said. The public university is expected pay Harbaugh solely through revenue and donations the athletic department generated, with no money from the state included.
"Our records show [Michigan's athletic department] would likely have enough money," Weiss said.
The Wolverines can sustain their own excesses. So what's the issue? While Michigan's athletic department may be able to afford it, many of the schools it competes with cannot. Only 20 Football Bowl Subdivision athletic departments finished in the black in 2013, according to an NCAA study released in April. Meanwhile, according to USA Today's database, the average FBS coach's salary has doubled since 2006.
As coaching salaries rise, those schools that operate at a lower economic threshold than Michigan will face a choice: Step aside or dip into state funds or money otherwise earmarked for academics. The gulf between the haves and have-nots will widen, with many of the haves using taxpayer dollars. And then some of have-nots will choose to give up rather than try to keep up, spent into oblivion.
"It's really the 24 programs with the largest athletics budgets that are really the ones driving the spending increase," said Amy Perko, the executive director of the Knight Commission. "Schools at the lower tier of spending, those programs rely on student fees for a significant portion of their athletics budget. They are facing decision day fairly soon on how much they can increase student fees" to pay a football coach's salary.
The growing chasm will only deepen if and when players receive compensation. The Knight Commission's data shows that coaching salary makes up one third of athletic department spending, Perko said. The costs would only increase if football players received pay, too.
"The more that costs go up, whether it is with coaching salaries or players compensation, it will lead to some schools thinking hard about the value of a football program," said Michael McCann, the director of the University of New Hampshire's Sports and Law Institute. "We could see some schools reconsider the value of a football program. That said, every time there are rumors of a football program being cut, there are widespread complaints from alums. That will always be a check to some extent on movement to cut programs."
That ripple effect is one reason why critics view escalating coaches' salaries as a striking problem: When Power School U decides it will pay a coach $8 million per season, it may trickle down to how much an average student at Lower Tier Tech pays for tuition. But the appeal of a football program can be so strong that alumni donations threaten to fall if the smaller school makes noise about dropping the sport.
But larger schools have both the incentive and the means to offer higher and higher salaries. Remember: The money is there. New television rights fees have enriched power-conference schools like never before. As long as the NCAA prohibits players from seeing any of the massive profits, no one figure is more responsible for raking in revenue than the head coach.
"Am I surprised they [the salaries] are going up? Not when revenues are going up," Cornrich said. "If revenues go down, the salaries will go down. These are businesses that are operated by universities, but they're very dependent on the unique job skills of certain coaches. There are tons of people who want to do it. There are very few who can do it. You need one of those tremendously prolific people – people like Bob Stoops and Kirk Ferentz – who enhances a school's brand and creates so much value."
It would be easy to counter that any coach could keep a tradition-rich program like Michigan profitable, and that more athletic revenue should be spent on academic pursuits. But if Hoke's rocky tenure didn't lead to indifference, Michigan wouldn't have felt compelled to find a new coach. This fall, a campus convenience store ran a promotion that handed out two tickets to Michigan's home game against Minnesota with the purchase of two Cokes.
The dizzying salaries coaches receive are only natural byproducts. This summer, Vanderbilt law professors Randall S. Thomas and R. Lawrence Van Horn performed a study of college football coaches' salaries, comparing their ability to add value to an organization to that of CEOs. They disregarded any social stigma pertaining to skyrocketing pay for a coach at an institution devoted to higher education. The professors discovered the market had rewarded them properly.
"We find no evidence that the structure of college football coach contracts is misaligned, or that they are overpaid," Thomas and Van Horn wrote.
College coaches, though, operate in a specialized sphere. "College sports is not a typical business," Perko said. "College sports is connected to a university. The majority of the universities in FBS are state run. All these programs benefit from the tax status provided to them because of their connection to the universities."
Still, salaries will continue to rise before they go back down. Many critics have proposed a cap on coaches' salaries, but that idea would be struck down through a lawsuit, McCann said. As Harbaugh's salary shows, colleges will continue to use all the financial might they can muster to lure a coach able to produce wins and revenue.
Coaches cannot be begrudged for negotiating contracts that are fair under the system in place. If the NCAA is not going to let the players share in the profits, then head coaches are next in as the ones who produce the revenue.
But the salary figures the system produces provides yet more evidence of the absurdity of linking a massively profitable sports enterprise to an institution of higher education. The money is there and it's being made by the football team, and it's not like any schools are going to be diverting that money to the anthropology department anytime soon.
"It would be bold for someone to do it," said McCann, the professor, breaking into a laugh. "It would also be really risky."
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Booms And Busts of Last Year's Draft
By Zachary Hicks
Every year there are players that are either undervalued or overvalued. It's a General Manager's job to look at the risk along with the reward when drafting a player. This list is my opinion on early boom and bust players from the 2014 draft. (note this is a very early assessment and players do develop at different times in their career)
BOOMS:
1. Khalil Mack OLB Raiders- Stats don't tell the whole story for how well Mack has played this year. He provides constant pressure and his biggest contribution is stopping the run. He's been basically the lone bright spot on a shaky Raiders defense thus far and they should look to build around him in the upcoming draft.
2. Chris Borland MLB 49ers - It may have been a small sample size, but Chris Borland has been stellar in his first pro season. Only starting in eight games this year, Borland has racked up over 100 tackles including a game against the Giants where he had 13 tackles and two interceptions. Chris Borland is a name to watch next year to see how he fits in with All Pros Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman.
3. Odell Beckham Jr. WR Giants- How could someone make a list of productive rookies without mentioning Beckham? This guy has been flat out amazing. He runs very crisp routes, is strong off the line of scrimmage, and has outstanding hands (yes we've all seen the catch on Monday Night Football). He has the tools to be a top ten maybe even a top five receiver in all of football next year.
Honorable Mentions: CJ Mosley ILB Ravens, Aaron Donald NT Rams, Derek Carr QB Raiders, Mike Evans WR Buccaneers, Zack Martin OL Cowboys, and EJ Gaines CB Rams
Busts:
1. Blake Bortles QB Jaguars- Its always early when it comes to Quarterbacks, but Bortles has looked sub-par at best. He has had glimpses where you see his number three overall pick potential but he's been terribly inconsistent. Blame it on the Jaguars in general or not, Blake Bortles doesn't look like the answer for this team.
2. Jadeveon Clowney DE/OLB Texans- Being the number one overall pick always brings pressure to perform immediately and Clowney simply hasn't been on the field. He's been injured most of the year and has had surgery on his knee already. Injuries along with people doubting his effort make Clowney look like an early bust candidate. He has all the ability in the world and if he can just get on and stay on the field, he may be one of the best pass rushers in the league.
3. Justin Gilbert CB Browns- Justin Gilbert's rookie year has been shaky at best. He's been far from the answer the Browns thought he was going to be when the drafted him. They thought they were getting a playmaker opposite of All Pro Joe Haden instead they got a young corner who gets burned way too often. Gilbert has plenty of skill but until he puts some effort in, he'll just be another forgotten top ten pick.
Dishonorable Mentions: Johnny Manziel QB Browns, Eric Ebron TE Lions, and Darqueze Dennard CB Bengals
Posted by NC Sports on Monday, December 29, 2014
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Williamson sets Titans' rookie mark for tackles
From Wire and Staff reports' "NFL notes: Cobb scores 2 TDs in Packers' win; Williamson sets Titans' rookie mark for tackles"
With four tackles on Sunday, former University of Kentucky standout Avery Williamson raised his season total to 105, moving past Alterraun Verner for the Tennessee Titans' rookie tackle record. Verner had 103 in 2010.
Williamson was pleased with how his season went, though disappointed that the team struggled to a 2-14 record that earned them the No. 2 pick in the NFL Draft.
"I have a good feeling about this season," he said. "It wasn't perfect, but as a rookie, I feel like I did pretty good. I made some huge strides, so it gives me some confidence going into the next season, and I can build off that and keep on improving."
Williamson, who said he'll spend part of the offseason at UK taking a class and working out with coaches, said he'll do all he can to retain his starting position.
"I've really got to work hard this offseason and get in the playbook," he said. (To) know the ins and outs of it, and get bigger, stronger, faster. The whole nine yards. I've got to come back an even a better player next year."
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Marshal Yanda named to the Grantland All-Pro Team
From Bill Barnwell's "The Grantland All-Pro Team"
Josh Sitton, Green Bay Packers
Marshal Yanda, Baltimore Ravens
Sitton is a reasonable candidate to be considered the most underrated player in all of football. The 2008 fourth-rounder has made only one Pro Bowl and doesn't ever get discussed as one of Ted Thompson's best draft picks, but Sitton consistently stands out as the best player on the league's sixth-best run-blocking offensive line. STATS has him down for just three penalties and zero sacks this season.
Yanda teams with Kelechi Osemele to form what might be the best tandem of guards in football right now. Baltimore has totally turned its running game around this season, as a team that averaged just 3.1 yards per carry during a dismal campaign last year is now up to 4.5 yards per rush, the seventh-best rate in football. Baltimore basically punted at right tackle this offseason and gave the job to 2013 fifth-rounder Ricky Wagner, but Yanda has been good enough at guard to solidify that side and make Wagner's job all that much easier.
Second Team: David DeCastro, Steelers; Zack Martin, Cowboys
Posted by NC Sports on Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Labels: marshal yanda, NC Sports Athletes in the News
Seeing the value in Steelers TE Matt Spaeth
By KiwiSteelerFan
It's a thankless job, being the second tight end on a dynamic offense like the Steelers. Antonio Brown needs to get the ball, so there's 60 percent of the team's targets. Le'Veon Bell needs to run the ball, so there's even fewer passes to go around. Add in Heath Miller, a player with his own fan-stamped yell for each catch he gets.
There really just isn't anything left for Steelers TE Matt Spaeth. But he's making it work anyway.
Here are the offensive snap count percentages for each game played so far.
Heading into Week 15, there's a pattern developing. Check out Matt Spaeth's snap-count percentages this season. When he's in, he's there to block both on passing and running plays, and he has been a major factor in the improved play of the Steelers' offense. His snap-count is almost directly proportional to how well the offense goes.
Going through and looking at our best and worst offensive performances of the year, this makes for an interesting read. Some of the best performances the Steelers' offense has had this season were against Carolina, Indianapolis and Baltimore, as well as that that monster rushing effort from Bell against the Titans and last weekend's destruction of the Bengals. Some of the worst performances were at Baltimore in Week 2, at Cleveland, the Jets and the Saints games.
Although against the Saints we actually ended up producing quite a lot of yardage, most of it came when the game was already over. The Buccaneers game was another low-light.
In all of our best offensive performances, Spaeth's snaps are well over 30 percent and often nudging on 50 percent. In the worst offensive performances, he's well under 30 percent, bottoming out at 5 percent in probably our worst performance of the year, the embarrassment in Baltimore.
Does Spaeth being in there blocking in both the running and passing games boost us more than any other single player? There's probably good reason to wonder about it. As maligned as Spaeth was during his first stint as a Steeler, it's clear that he is, at least now, an excellent blocker for both the run and pass games. He's helping open big holes for Bell but, perhaps more importantly, he's helping keep Ben vertical and unharrassed. And when he does, even though we're a receiver short, it doesn't matter because the Steelers have three guys who can get open on anyone given time.
More Spaeth please.
Posted by NC Sports on Friday, December 12, 2014
Labels: matt spaeth, NC Sports Athletes in the News
Markus Kuhn becomes first German to score touchdown in NFL
Markus Kuhn has become the first German to score a touchdown in the US-based American football league, the NFL. The 28-year-old was playing for the New York Giants against the Tennessee Titans in Nashville.
Markus Kuhn has gone into the history books, after becoming the first German to ever score a touchdown in the world's toughest American football league, the NFL.
The defensive end from Mannheim, Germany, was playing for the New York Giants in their 36-7 victory over the Tennessee Titans when, in the 14th minute of play, he scooped up the ball after a fumble by Titans quarterback Zach Mettenberger. Kuhn then ran 26 yards to the endzone to take the score to 16-0 in favor of the Giants.
Kuhn was escorted into the endzone by teammates, Jason Pierre-Paul and Damontre Moore, who then congratulated their team-mate with slaps on the back and on the helmet.
The German, who is normally just involved in defensive plays for his team, could barely believe his luck.
'No way this is happening'
Kuhn tweeted after the game that he had "always dreamed" of scoring for the Giants.
Speaking to the New York Post about the reaction from his teammates after his touchdown, Kuhn said: "They were like, 'They've even let the German score now.'"
Kuhn admitted that, as he scored the touchdown, he thought to himself, "there's no way this is happening."
Kuhn's touchdown was even more remarkable as it was the first TD from a fumble for the struggling Giants in 35 games. The result helped his team to their first victory in eight games.
The 28-year-old is one of four Germans playing in the NFL this season. Other representatives from Germany include Björn Werner (Indianapolis Colts), Sebastian Vollmer (New England Patriots), and Kasim Edebali (New Orleans Saints). Despite the recent closure of the NFL Europe competition, the NFL remains popular amongst sports fans in Germany.
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The NFL Three-Quarters Award Winners
by BILL BARNWELL
We've made it three-quarters of the way through the NFL season, so that means one thing: It's time to catch up on the various award races.
Everyquarter, I run through the regular-season trophies to get a gauge on how perceptions are changing as the season goes along. The league moves so quickly that it's actually pretty incredible to see players enter a race and then disappear over the course of mere weeks. Philip Rivers went from being an MVP candidate to downright mediocre and then flipped that script in Sunday's win over Baltimore alone.
Please keep in mind that these aren't my picks for who should win each award, but instead who I think is most likely to win. These are also based on a combination of each player's current output and what's likely to happen over the remainder of the season; if I had thought Haloti Ngata deserved to be defensive player of the year for his performance through the first 13 weeks of the season, the news of his suspension for Adderallwould immediately ix-nay his candidacy.
Let's start with an award where one teammate's late surge might very well usurp another's …
Defensive Rookie of the Year
Week 4: Kyle Fuller, Bears
Week 9: Anthony Barr, Vikings
Week 13: Chris Borland, 49ers
Last time, I jokingly wrote Borland's name before crossing it out. No joke this time. Borland's profile has exploded over the past four weeks, to the point where he's now the highest-profile defensive rookie seeing regular playing time. Seahawks fans were actually trying to troll me on Twitter on Thanksgiving by pointing out that Marshawn Lynch had run over Borland, not noting that Borland had made probably a half-dozen solo tackles on Lynch up to that point, let alone that we're talking about the most powerful running back in football versus the fourth inside linebacker on the 49ers depth chart. It's a sign of how far Borland has come.
It's also a sign that there really isn't a clear-cut choice to compete with Borland. Barr had only one sack during this past quarter and he left Sunday's win over the Panthers with a lingering knee injury that will likely keep him out for at least one week. C.J. Mosley has immediately settled in and taken over as a fine inside linebacker for the Ravens, and he's actually a better player than Borland, but Borland's story is better, and that matters to the electorate that votes on these awards.
Aaron Donald is an absolute freak and deserves the J.J. Watt–lite comparisons he got before the draft, but his rookie-leading sack total is at just six. He is Borland's biggest competition for the award, and it should come down to how these two play over the final month.
Chris Borland named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month
San Francisco 49ers rookie linebacker Chris Borland has had a monster season since moving into the starting lineup in October. He added to his honors with NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month for November.
By David Fucillo
The San Francisco 49ers have had an inconsistent season, but amidst the turmoil, Chris Borland has emerged as a serious presence. The 49ers rookie earned a significant honor today, as the NFL named him Defensive Rookie of the Month for November. This followed back-to-back Rookie of the Week awards in Weeks 10 and 11. It is worth noting the weekly awards are voted on by fans, while the monthly award is not. Borland joins Aldon Smith and Patrick Willis as the only 49ers linebackers to win the award.
Borland's November was kind of ridiculous. According to the NFL, he is the only player in the past 20 years to accrue 70+ tackles and 2+ interceptions in a calendar month. He led the NFL with 70 tackles in November, although every source seems to end up with different tackle total. However you look at it, he has been a force.
Borland moved into the starting lineup in the second half of the 49ers December 13 win over the St. Louis Rams. He had a strong second half, but then struggled the following week against the Denver Broncos. After the bye, he put together a ridiculous three week stretch against the Rams, Saints and Giants. The last two weeks he has come back to earth a bit. His numbers are down a bit, including his grading at Pro Football Focus. However, among linebackers with at least 25 percent of snaps, he is tops in run stopping percentage. His pass coverage is going to need continued development, but he has gotten his NFL career off to a strong start.
Now the question is, does he have enough time to potentially claim Defensive Rookie of the Year? The 49ers have some big games in December, and some strong performances could be enough to notch the honor. It won't be easy, but the opportunity is potentially there with a strong finish.
Posted by NC Sports on Thursday, December 04, 2014
Marshal Yanda is quietly becoming one of the Ravens' all-time greats
Marshal Yanda grades out as the best guard in all of football.
By Childs Walker The Baltimore Sun
Try this idea on for size: Marshal Yanda is one of the greatest players in Ravens history.
An offensive guard? Really? Yeah, really.
Let's start the case with Ravens offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak on the stand. Kubiak has coached and played with his share of excellent offensive linemen. Already, he'd put Yanda near the top of the list.
"Yes, I've told John [Harbaugh] that," Kubiak says. "He's as good as any I've ever been around, and I've been around some great ones. I'm so impressed with the technician that he is, how hard he plays, how tough he is, the things he plays through. He's a consistent body of work."
All right, how about the view of a pretty smart rookie looking for NFL role models?
"He's the type of guy where, when I'm watching film, I watch what he does on every single play," Ravens guard John Urschel says. "That's how good he is. … Listen, if I end up being like Marshal Yanda in four or five years, I'll be more than happy with my career. That guy's the real deal."
You want outside views? Yanda's peers voted him the league's 55th best player in the NFL Network's annual preseason poll. He was the second-ranked offensive lineman and one of only two guards to make the list at all.
The analysts at Pro Football Focus grade every play of every game, and by their reckoning, Yanda has been a top-10 player at his position — guard or tackle — in five of the six seasons he's started more than half his team's games. Last year, playing with a shoulder still weakened from rotator cuff surgery, he graded as the NFL's 15th-best guard.
"He's definitely one of the best linemen in the league," says Steve Palazzolo, a senior analyst for Pro Football Focus. "He can play the power game and maul people but then you see some of the reach blocks he makes, and he moves awfully quickly over a short space."
The entire Ravens line suffered through a disappointing 2013. But now that Yanda, 30, is healthy again, he's playing arguably the best football of his career in his eighth season. Pro Football Focus says the gap between him and the next best guard, the Cleveland Browns' Joel Bitonio, is greater than the gap between Bitonio and the 10th best player at the position. ESPN analyst Jon Gruden gushed over the holes Yanda and Kelechi Osemele opened for Justin Forsett in the Ravens' Monday night victory in New Orleans.
'Always finishing to the whistle'
OK, enough with the accolades. What says Yanda to the notion he's an all-time great Raven, behind only former teammate Jonathan Ogden among all the franchise's offensive linemen?
It's Friday afternoon before the New Orleans trip and he's still flushed and sweaty from practice. He starts with a self-deprecating snort. He's trying to humor the question but with the Saints looming in three days, he can't go there.
"It's tough, because I'm a team guy, and I don't worry about that stuff," Yanda says. "If I'm worried about that stuff, then I'm not worried about what's most important, which is blocking New Orleans. If you get in that mindset, you're going to take steps backward. You can go from the top to the bottom in a half. Not a game, not a year. In a half."
And there you have it, an athlete who's great in part because he never stops to think about how great he is. Yes, it's easy to fall into cliché when discussing Yanda, the unbreakable Iowa farm boy who achieves beyond his physical gifts and hates talking about himself as anything more than a classic football grunt.
You read stories about him from over the years and toughness is the common theme. The most widely repeated episode is the $600 bet he won as a rookie when he took two jolts from a stun gun wielded by disbelieving Ravens veterans. "Easiest money I ever made," he said at the time, noting he'd taken worse shocks brushing against the electrified cattle fences on his family's dairy farm.
Others marvel at the way he played through the Ravens' 2013 Super Bowl run with that torn rotator cuff, which required surgery five days after the last snap of the season. "Who does that?" asks Kirk Ferentz, Yanda's college coach at Iowa and also a former Ravens line coach.
But these stories circulate often enough and they become almost cute, which doesn't fit Yanda's self-conception. He's not interested in being a folk hero. He's simply devoted to pushing through whatever he must to be a great offensive lineman week after week, year after year. Consistent is his favorite word.
Look at his His Pro Football Focus game grades and they're almost numbing — positive scores for weeks on end. Positive for both run and pass blocking. Positive whether he was playing at guard or right tackle, a position he manned earlier in his career.
It speaks to a man whose mind remains locked on football every day during the season. No leaving the game at the office for Yanda. He believes such paranoia is warranted for a job that can subject him to public mockery if he screws up two plays out of 60.
Every practice, he does his best not to loaf, lest he set a poor example for younger teammates. Every night, he plays with his children, 4-year-old Graham and 2-year-old Elizabeth, then settles in to watch film. Every play, he looks for another opponent to hit until the referee's whistle blows the action dead.
Want to know why Yanda is so often in the middle of on-field shoving and yapping? "I think guys get into it with him, because he's always finishing to the whistle," says Ravens center Gino Gradkowski. "He might get under guys' skins always doing that."
'He'll be out there'
Pain is part of the routine, something to be accepted as the price for doing what Yanda loves. "You have to understand it's not if you're going to get hurt, it's when," he says matter of factly.
Yanda had never been injured in high school or college. "I thought I was just different," he says, mocking his youthful outlook. But then he blew out his knee five games into his second pro season.
Since then, some part of him has hurt pretty much all the time.
"But you'll never know, never hear about [it]," says rookie tackle James Hurst. "If there's any way that guy can be out there, he'll be out there."
Guard is actually the perfect position for Yanda's stoic personality. He can do his job better than anyone in the world, receive handsome pay ($32 million over five years) and universal respect from his peers and still face less public attention than your average back-up quarterback.
He wasn't always this picture of professionalism. Growing up in Anamosa, a town of 5,500 in Eastern Iowa, Yanda let his grades slip to the point he had to attend junior college instead of pursuing a four-year scholarship. With that jolt of reality and numerous kicks in the rear from his strict mother, Ruth Byrd, he shaped up and set his sights on the Big Ten.
Ferentz remembers Yanda hanging around Iowa's facilities "like a dog who won't leave your porch."
The coach didn't like using roster spots on junior college players, whom he regarded as poor risks. And he half-regretted giving Yanda a shot when he saw how stiff the kid looked in summer workouts. "He wasn't very impressive," Ferentz recalls. "And that's being kind."
This would become a theme for Yanda, who's the opposite of a workout warrior. At the NFL scouting combine, he'd impress virtually no one with a 40-yard dash time of 5.15 seconds and 23 repetitions in the 225-pound bench press.
Even now, Yanda hardly stands out in an NFL locker room. He neither towers over his teammates, as Ogden did, nor ripples with muscle like Terrell Suggs, who dresses a few lockers down. He's just another beefy guy with ruddy features.
But once Yanda donned his pads, Ferentz watched him transform into a different animal, one who'd hit anything that moved and hard.
"During his senior year, I told all the pro guys, 'Look, your coaches are going to hate him when they see him running around in shorts, but once they see him play actual football, they'll come back and thank you for drafting him,'" Ferentz says.
'He always finds a way'
The Ravens saw exactly what Ferentz promised, picking Yanda in the third round in 2007 despite having already drafted another guard, Ben Grubbs, in the first round.
As a rookie, Yanda got his one chance to play with Ogden, a future Hall of Famer whom he'd heard all about from Ferentz. He observed Ogden's intelligence in team meetings and the great tackle's competitive meanness on Sunday. But study as he might, Yanda would never be 6-foot-9 with dancer's feet and arms as long as javelins.
"I couldn't do anything he could do," Yanda says with an awed laugh.
It was an important lesson. He had to know his own strengths — diligence and a thirst for contact — and play to them.
"He's definitely a scrapper, a guy who will get it done no matter how he has to do it," Gradkowski says. "I think he would pride himself on that. It doesn't always look pretty, but he always finds a way to get it done."
Now Yanda's the guy studied by younger players. He's made three Pro Bowls with a fourth seemingly inevitable this year. And he's a quiet cornerstone of one of the league's most consistent winners.
"I knew he was a good player when I came here," Kubiak says. "But man, is he impressive — not only as a player, too, but as a person, how he goes about getting ready to play."
Yanda has some notions about his post-playing career. He and his wife of three years, Shannon, are expecting their third child in February. They plan to retire to their native Iowa, probably to a farm. Yanda says he'll shed some of his 305-pound playing weight to reduce strain on his joints.
But those visions seem as far away as the post-career awards — Ravens Ring of Honor, even the Hall of Fame ballot — he doesn't care to discuss.
There's a game coming Sunday, and Yanda has to get ready.
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Best-Reviewed New TV Shows 2014
Jane The Virgin: Season 1 (2014)
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: Jane the Virgin's dubious premise has become part of its unlikely charm -- along with delightfully diverse writing and a knockout performance by Gina Rodriguez.
Starring: Gina Rodriguez, Andrea Navedo, Yael Grobglas, Justin Baldoni
Directed By: Jennie Snyder Urman, Ben Silverman, Gary Pearl, Jorge Granier
Fargo: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: Based on the film of the same name in atmosphere, style and location only, Fargo presents more quirky characters and a new storyline that is expertly executed with dark humor and odd twists.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks, Allison Tolman
Directed By: Noah Hawley, Warren Littlefield, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Transparent: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: As much about a change in television as it is about personal change, Transparent raises the bar for programming with sophistication and sincere dedication to the human journey, warts and all.
Starring: Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker
Directed By: Nisha Ganatra, Jill Soloway, Jill Soloway
The Flash: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: The Flash benefits from its purposefully light atmosphere, making it a superhero show uniquely geared toward genre fans as well as novices.
Starring: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Rick Cosnett, Danielle Panabaker
Directed By: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, David Nutter, Sarah Schechter
The Missing: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: The Missing turns a common premise into a standout thriller with heartfelt, affecting performances.
Starring: James Nesbitt, Tcheky Karyo, Jason Flemyng, Émilie Dequenne
Directed By: Tom Shankland, Ben Chanan
Olive Kitteridge: Miniseries (2014)
Critics Consensus: Olive Kitteridge's narrative slow burn enhances fascinating performances -- and a story worthy of its source material.
Starring: Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray, John Gallagher Jr.
Directed By: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Frances McDormand, Jane Anderson
Broad City: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: From its talented producers to its clever writing and superb leads, Broad City boasts an uncommonly fine pedigree.
Starring: Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, John Gemberling, Todd Alan Crain
Directed By: Lucia Aniello, Nicholas Jasenovec, Amy Poehler
The Affair: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: Thanks to some smart, creative storytelling and spectacular performances, The Affair is a somber, bewitching exploration of truth and desire.
Starring: Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, Joshua Jackson
Directed By: Hagai Levi, Sarah Treem, Jeffrey Reiner, Eric Overmyer
Silicon Valley: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: Silicon Valley is a relevant, often hilarious take on contemporary technology and the geeks who create it that benefits from co-creator Mike Judge's real-life experience in the industry.
Starring: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani
Directed By: Mike Judge, John Altschuler, Alec Berg, Dave Krinsky
Gotham: Season 1 (2014)
Critics Consensus: High production values, a talented cast, and an appealingly stylized approach to the Batman mythos help Gotham overcome its occasionally familiar themes.
Starring: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sean Pertwee
Directed By: Bruno Heller, Danny Cannon, John Stephens


ARLINGTON -- Cowboys officials spent the preseason gushing over the addition of receiver Tavon Austin and the impact his speed and versatility would make on the offense.
Then he had no catches and one rush for 1 yard in the season-opening loss at Carolina.
But Dallas turned to Austin early in Sunday night's win, going to him on a go-route on first down on the third play of the game. Quarterback Dak Prescott hit him on the move, then Austin ditched two Giants defenders as he danced into the end zone on a 64-yard scoring play that delivered the fast start the moribund offense needed.
"It's just a regular go-route, just beat your man," Austin said. "Dak gave me a chance. I made a good move at the line. ...We've been practicing that the whole week, and I had a couple good catches that same exact play. ... My number got called, and I was just ready, man."
The aggressive start to the game set the tone -- Dallas barely tried to go deep in Week 1 -- but the offense trailed off as much of the game went on. Questions remain about the effectiveness of the Cowboys' receiver-by-committee approach.
Cowboys' plan was to turn the clock back to 2016 vs. Giants. QB Dak Prescott ran it even further back.
Prescott again threw for less than 200 yards. Aside from Austin's 79 yards, the receiving numbers are bland: Deonte Thompson had four catches for 33 yards, Cole Beasley two for 13 yards, Terrance Williams 1 for 12 yards, Allen Hurns 1 for 9 yards, Michael Gallup 1 for 5 yards.
The Cowboys, a source on Sunday told SportsDay, are in the process of bringing receiver Brice Butler back. They'd let him walk in free agency this offseason but he became available after Arizona released him. It's unclear who the team will cut to make room for Butler, who served as the team's lone deep threat last season.
Austin said the group approach will work because the receivers understand none of them are the No. 1 receiver.
"It's about a plan," he said. "Know your role, play your role to the best of your ability. You can't have no attitude about it. Some games you're going to get the ball, some games you're not. I touched the ball once last week. I didn't complain and cry about it. Look what happened this week. Next week it's probably going to be somebody else."
For Austin, the touchdown reinforced the value of the fresh start he wanted after his career appeared in decline after a particularly rough season last year with the Los Angeles Rams, who traded the six-year veteran in April.
"I told myself the first time I scored that first touchdown a tear might come down my eye," Austin said. "I just thanked him [God] for all the things he put me through. He put me at the bottom, but he showed me who's here for me, who wasn't here for me."
The Cowboys did tap into Austin's versatility Sunday, using him on reverse in the first half, with Austin rushing for 15 yards.
"It felt good, it makes me think about West Virginia [college] days," Austin said, "when I was just all over the field."


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Chelsie Raabe of Wauseon serves one during a Division II volleyball district semifinal at Bluffton University Tuesday. The Indians swept Lima Shawnee 25-16, 25-22, 25-21 to advance to the district final.
Skylar Reckner of Wauseon with a bump Tuesday versus Lima Shawnee in the district semifinal.
BLUFFTON – Top seed Wauseon left nothing to chance, sweeping third-seeded Lima Shawnee 25-16, 25-22, 25-21 Tuesday in a Division II volleyball district semifinal at the Sommer Center on the campus of Bluffton University.
The Indians were well prepared going into the match. It didn't hurt being able to host the sectional tournament where they got an early look at Shawnee in their match against Celina.
Wauseon was able to break it open in the middle of game one, like they have done many times this season.
After a pair of Karrington Green kills that pulled Shawnee within 10-8, Wauseon ripped off five in a row. A Shawnee serving error started it, Harlee Floss fired an ace for Wauseon, Maddie Trejo dumped one for a point, then a Shawnee hitting error and Chelsie Raabe's shot from the middle put Wauseon ahead 15-8.
Shawnee had to use multiple timeouts in the game, but it didn't help as Wauseon pulled out the nine-point win.
A total of four Lexi Sauber kills and also four errors by Shawnee helped Wauseon get out to an 11-5 lead in game two.
Trailing by as many as 10, Shawnee attempted to come back and steal the set. They went on a 6-0 run to get within two, 24-22. Amber Greenley fired one down the middle, Kelly Armentrout scored three times from the left side, Wauseon had a hitting error and Kelsey Fischbach also scored for Shawnee.
However, Sauber closed it out with a no-doubter down the middle.
A Sauber kill, plus three straight points from Raabe helped Wauseon create separation, 11-5, in what turned out to be the third and final set. One of Raabe's points came by way of a block.
But, the third set was mostly close. Shawnee even took leads at 15-14 and 16-15.
The match was tied at 18 when Wauseon got two kills from Sauber, Shawnee committed an error, Tamera Smith's shot down the middle and a Sydney Zirkle ace enabled them to pull away.
Sauber paced the Indians with 19 kills, seven blocks and eight digs. Raabe chipped in with nine kills, five blocks and two aces. Zirkle had nine kills as well.
Wauseon (19-5) now advances to the district final where they will take on second-seeded Defiance tonight at 6 p.m.


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After sixteen editions there's a new, tangible emblem of what Montelago truly is: a utopia that over time increasingly resembles real life. Years ago Marco and Francesca met at the Festival on the alpine plains of Colfiorito. They came with two unconnected groups and ended up as tent neighbors. After three hours the barter began: charcoal in exchange for a tent peg. After two days, Marco knelt in front of Francesca: baptize me, he said, handing her his rubber sword. Still after five years the two cross the Italian peninsula to meet again in Middle Earth, behind them a thousand kilometres, more than three hundred days and thousands of messages, for those three magical days in the mountains.
Friendship is the foundation of the Festival, one that transcends borders, age and political belief, dazzling like a campsite brazier in the darkness amid the nomads and the tents they carry on their shoulders.
Fellowship, Tolkien calls it. In that case: "Say it, friends, and enter". Mellon is the elfin term for friends to throw open the doors of Moria to the Fellowship of the Ring. In one of his ingenious exaltations of everyday life, Tolkien leaves Frodo with the task of deciphering the riddle. It's the little Hobbit that suggests the solution, not Aragorn, for too long a lone wanderer, nor even Gandalf, whose mind is so occupied with the great things of the world that he does not grasp such a banal, trivial word: friends. Long-time friends, new friends, friends yet to meet.
In a world in which value is merely an economic principle, time can only be bought, and the individual feels like they're at the centre of everything, friendship is the bedrock of nostalgia. Zuckerberg understood the concept, and cunningly portrayed it by sharing Likes. Politicians understand and misuse it to create an illusion of intimacy. Advertising companies, serial exploiters of the mythology of friendship for commercial purposes, understand it. But friendship is somewhere else. In these times which permit no gathering without a project, no favour without a price, living in a space of friendship is a revolutionary act.
Friendship that, even if you do not know it, clears the way when the path gets darker.
For three years darkness has covered this tortured valley, the most beautiful in the world, with its villages and pastures. Thanks to friendships and all of you, the utopia of repopulating it for three days is once again realized and takes off on a grander design. Chasing dreams has been our only belief: that the barter goes on and rubber swords baptize friendly shoulders. Some signs, after all, are auspicious.


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During their regular monthly meeting Tuesday, Anderson School District One Board members approved the 2016-17 calendar, heard an update on the local option sales tax and previewed designs for two new athletic facility projects the tax is funding. Scott Powell of Craig Gaulden & Davis presented architect schematic designs for the planned Palmetto High School Muli-purpose facility and the Wren High Weight Room/Locker Room facilities. Powell said the projects are in the design phase and they are working on about one year out so that it can be ready for fall 2017.
The 6221 sq. ft. multi-purpose facility at Palmetto High will be located near the softball field. It will be one large open space building with a 20 ft. ceiling and a turf or rubberized floor. Wrestling mats will be designed so they can be lifted up to the ceiling allowing more floor space, Powell said.
The exterior will feature brick veneer with some detail and no windows. It will have a red metal roof to incorporate school colors and a red scupltured metal horse at the entrance. Current facilities will be used for parking and dressing rooms, he said. The facility is identical to the one already constructed at Wren High.
At Wren, the new Weight Room/Locker Room will be located on adjacent property behind the football stadium.
It will have 49 lockers for eighth graders on one end and on the other end will be 49 lockers for JV and 74 for Varsity in addition to toilets and eight showers. The eighth grade end will have three showers.
Powell said the area is being designed to have an athletic campus feel with plans for future tennis courts and a new practice field in the area.
The facility will be used for PE classes during the day and is close to the main school building.
There is a laundry room, training room, an office for the AD/Head Coach with private shower and toilet and another office for coaches with eight work stations and a toilet.
It will include a 2400 sq. ft. weight toom, team meeting room with a roll up door separating them.
The building features a windowed front with Hurricanes spelled out in film across the windows and athletes can be seen working out. It also features dormers. Havird said the facility will have new weight lifting equipment.
Havird said plans are to start on the projects in February allowing six to eight months to build them and ready for use in August.
During a special called meeting held in December, Board members approved the purchase of 12.04 acres of property located at 106 and 110 Wigington Road. in the amount of $367,500.
The property is adjacent to the Wren High Football Stadium and across Wigington Road from Wren Middle School. The property will be used for athletic and/or academic use, according to Havird.


SUMMARY: RARE TOTAL VICTORY FOR EMPLOYER FROM ARB. HENNESSY: ARBITRATOR FOUND PETITIONER FAILED TO PROVE HE SUSTAINED ACCIDENTAL INJURIES ARISING OUT OF AND IN THE COURSE OF HIS EMPLOYMENT FOR RESPONDENT ON JANUARY 19, 2005; CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION WAS DENIED.
THE ARBITRATOR ALSO MADE A SPECIFIC FINDING THAT PETITIONER WAS NOT CREDIBLE.
ISSUES: ACCIDENT, NOTICE, CAUSAL CONNECTION, MEDICAL, TTD, NATURE AND EXTENT.
FACTS: Petitioner, a 38 year old union carpenter, claimed that on January 19, 2005, while pulling up floor joists to the second floor, he felt a pop in his right wrist to his elbow. He alleged that he sustained a fractured wrist as a result of this incident. The facts surrounding this claimed accident and the alleged mechanism of injury were hotly disputed from the very beginning.
At trial, Petitioner's version of the alleged events were revealed to be in stark contrast to what was found in the actual records in evidence, including all of his treating medical records; indeed, the Arbitrator found that Petitioner's accident history was not supported by any evidence in the record. In fact, the Arbitrator found that in clear and direct contradiction to his testimony, not a single piece of evidence in the entire record corroborated his testimony, while every single record in evidence operated against his claims, including the emergency department records and the treating records of his own physicians.
The Arbitrator was thoroughly persuaded by Respondent's arguments and, accordingly, he adopted Respondent's Proposed Decision of Arbitrator in its entirety, unedited.
The record reveals that Petitioner's testimony was inconsistent, contradictory and against common sense. He disingenuously tried to argue that the records all contained "mistaken" histories, yet offered no proof as to how they became so or why. He indeed looked foolish trying to argue that every medical record was wrong. Petitioner had no way to escape the inevitable conclusion of what the records all clearly stated; that not a single record supported his claim of an accident sustained at work on January 19, 2005.
RESULTS: In an unusual decision from this ardently liberal Arbitrator, he concluded that the actual evidence in the record showed that Petitioner was not credible and had failed to prove his claim. Arbitrator Hennessy admittedly displayed uncommon intellectual and ethical courage and here decided the case based on a consideration of the actual evidence, rather than his well-known feelings of favoritism towards a Petitioner. But the truth is that the evidence was so favorable to the employer that even Arb. Hennessy had no choice but to rule in employer's favor or risk an almost certain guarantee of an embarrassing Commission decision reversal on Review.
SIGNIFICANCE: This Arbitration Decision is a shining example of what should (and will) result when an Arbitrator renders a decision based on a review of the actual evidence in the record where a Petitioner is caught in a tangled web of lies and deceit and his credibility is roundly shredded by his own words and the treating medical and other records.
Further, the plain fact is that this case should not have proceeded to trial. Respondent was compelled to take this case to trial only after Petitioner rejected employer's settlement offer, even though opposing counsel agreed that this case was a losing proposition. Opposing counsel further admitted that he was also compelled to take the case to trial in order to "save face" with the carpenter's union, a big client of his law firm.
In clear fact, the evidence against Petitioner was overwhelming and straightforward, and unusually so. Literally nothing can objectively be found in the record in his favor. The Arbitrator's Decision makes this point clear, example by example.
Respondents' attorneys must rise to the challenge and take a case to trial without hesitation (even when facing Arbitrators such as Hennessy) when the Petitioner is unreasonable and the evidence undoubtedly supports the employer. Employers must send the clear message to Petitioners and their attorneys that we will not be intimidated by the threat of trial (even before liberal Arbitrators) when we know the cause is just and the evidence is in our favor.
We will continue to keep you updated on this matter. We do not know yet if Petitioner has or will file a Review to the Commission. If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned.


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The Nuremberg Code 70 Years Later
Jonathan D. Moreno, Ulf Schmidt, and Steve Joffe
JAMA. Published online August 17, 2017.
Seventy years ago, on August 20, 1947, the International Medical Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, delivered its verdict in the trial of 23 doctors and bureaucrats accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in cruel and often lethal concentration camp medical experiments. As part of its judgment, the court articulated a 10-point set of rules for the conduct of human experiments that has come to be known as the Nuremberg Code. Among other requirements, the code called for the "voluntary consent" of the human research subject, an assessment of risks and benefits, and assurances of competent investigators. These concepts have become an important reference point for the ethical conduct of medical research. Yet, there has in the past been considerable debate among scholars about the code's authorship, scope, and legal standing in both civilian and military science. Nonetheless, the Nuremberg Code has undoubtedly been a milestone in the history of biomedical research ethics.1- 3
Writings on medical ethics, laws, and regulations in a number of jurisdictions and countries, including a detailed and sophisticated set of guidelines from the Reich Ministry of the Interior in 1931, set the stage for the code. The same focus on voluntariness and risk that characterizes the code also suffuses these guidelines. What distinguishes the code is its context. As lead prosecutor Telford Taylor emphasized, although the Doctors' Trial was at its heart a murder trial, it clearly implicated the ethical practices of medical experimenters and, by extension, the medical profession's relationship to the state understood as an organized community living under a particular political structure. The embrace of Nazi ideology by German physicians, and the subsequent participation of some of their most distinguished leaders in the camp experiments, demonstrates the importance of professional independence from and resistance to the ideological and geopolitical ambitions of the authoritarian state.
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Casearia commersoniana Cambess, a tree in the Flacourtiaceae. Note the dentate margens of the leaves. This species has a strong odor like epoxy resin. Un árbol. Note las márgenes dentadas. Esta especie tiene un olor fuerte a resina epoxy.
Description: The other "garbage pail" family of tropical botany, but fortunately a slightly more navigable garbage pail than the Euphorbiaceae. In this region, all the flacourts have simple, alternate leaves with more or less dentate margins. Some have translucent punctations in irregular shapes. The genera Carpotroche, Casearia, Laetia, Ryania, and Xylosma have pinnate venation, while Hasseltia and Pleuranthodendron have three main palmate veins at the base. Xylosma has abundant, branched spines on the trunk and branches.
Recent molecular work suggests that the Flacourtiaceae belong in the Salicaceae (willow family; Stevens 2005), a largely temperate and montane family. They have been kept separate here because of the long tradition in tropical botany of treating them at the family level.
Economic uses: Some species in the Flacourtiaceae are used as pain relievers by natives in the Amazon. This is not surprising, considering that the bark of temperate species of Salicaceae (the same family, according to Stevens 2005) was the original source of aspirin.
Descripción: La otra familia "basurero" en la botánica tropical. Afortunadamente este grupo es un "basurero" más asequible que las Euphorbiaceas. Todas las Flacourtiaceas de esta zona tienen hojas simples y alternas, con las márgenes usualmente dentadas. Unas tienen puntos translúcidos de formas variables. Los géneros Carpotroche, Casearia, Laetia, Ryania, y Xylosma tienen las venas pinnadas, y Hasseltia y Pleuranthodendron tienen tres venas palmadas en las base de la hoja. Xylosma tiene espinas abundantes y ramificadas en el tronco y las ramas.
Análisis recientes sugieren que las Flacourtiaceas pertenecen a la familia Salicaceas (los sauces; Stevens 2005), un grupo más común en las montañas o en las zonas templadas. Debido a que la botánica tropical tradicionalmente ha considerado Flacourtiaceas como un grupo, he mantenido la familia separada de Salicaceas.
Usos económicos: Los indios del Amazonas usan algunas Flacourtiaceas como analgésico. No es sorprendente, dado que la aspirina originalmente se extraía de la corteza de unas especies de Salicaceas (según Stevens 2005, la misma familia).
FIELD MARKS – alternate, simple leaves with serrate or crenate leaf margins, tertiary veins perpendicular to primary vein. Three patterns are common: 1. Distichous leaf arrangement with pellucid dots and dashes (think Morse Code!), 2. Distichous without dots and dashes, 3. Spirally arranged leaves with nectaries at the base of the blade.
Close-up of leaf showing venation patterns.
Laetia procera is one of the most common trees in the primary forest of La Selva. Photo by R. Aguilar courtesy of La Flora Digital de la Selva.
Trunk of Laetia procera. Photo by R. Aguilar courtesy of La Flora Digital de la Selva.
Casearia arborea with distichous serrate leaves.
Flacourtiaceae with alternate toothed leaves in the same plane.
Casearia showing alternate simple leaves with finely serrated margins.
Alternate simple leaves with finely toothed margins. Close examination with a hand lens will reveal abundant dot-dash punctations in the leaves of Casearia.
Alternate serrate leaves with prominent stipules.
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UBC's Department of Psychology ranks twelfth in the world and first in Canada in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) subject rankings. The 2019 psychology rankings includes 463 universities, up from 101 in 2018.
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Our annual report highlights the scholarly accomplishments, leadership, and community engagement of our faculty, staff and students.
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In September 2015, exactly 100 years after welcoming its first class of students, UBC launched a year of Centennial celebrations.
The year 2015 also marked a historical time for psychology at the University—it's 100th anniversary of when the first psychology class was offered. Now, Psychology is the most popular undergraduate major at UBC, with over 1800 students working toward their BA degree and over 150 studying for their BSc degree.
In 2008-09, UBC Psychology celebrated 50 years since becoming an autonomous academic unit and 25 years in the Department's current home, the Douglas T. Kenny Building.
Eric Eich, Andrew Witt, and Joanne Elliott co-authored the book, UBC Psychology at Fifty, to pay tribute to the Department's accomplishments. The book contains a verbal and pictorial timeline of major milestones, individual essays by four past Psychology Department Heads, memoirs, photographs, and past doctoral-degree recipients and major award winners.


While we recently told you the technical launch of the first Nordhavn 120, Nordhavn Pacific Asian Enterprises also recently delivered its latest Nordhavn 86 explorer yacht.
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