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Skins Quotes 9/12/18: Alex Smith
September 12, 2018
QB Alex Smith
On if the success of the running game helped the passing game:
"I think as a quarterback when you're throwing the football, anytime you have a run game like that, a defense has got to defend it. It opens up a lot of opportunities for us on the edge, in the perimeter, whether it's play-action pass, just spacing the field. A lot of favorable matchups I felt like we had [was] because of the run game going so well. I mean you love to have balance, any good offense has balance and obviously with us running the ball the way we did – I think kind of setting that tone – certainly a lot of stuff in the pass game came off it."
On why he is comfortable with RPOs and how it helps the running game:
"I think experience is the main reason. I've had a lot of experience with them since they've kind of come and go. Some weeks they are great. Some weeks they are not as great. I think the nice thing is that as a play caller, all of a sudden now you don't have to be right. In the past if you were having to choose between run and pass, you had to make that decision and kind of play that chess game as a play caller. Now, not as much, you kind of have them built into the same play call and the defense really dictates where the ball goes. So, like I said, some weeks they make a ton of sense based on what you are seeing scheme wise and from a personnel standpoint. Other weeks they don't and won't be as good."
On his impressions of the offensive line's versatility:
"Yeah, I've been really impressed with those guys and not just the starting five as a unit but I think that whole room. The kind of pride they take. The detail they have at their position and as a whole and I think the detail is in all aspects. I feel like they can do about everything and they take a lot of pride in being able to do a whole lot and they don't get pigeon-holed as a single player or as a group. They can do it all. They are good in space. They can pound it. They are good in pass pro [protection]. I think that's a strength, not only theirs, but as an offense and a team."
On how TE Jordan Reed helps the offense:
"I think the tight end position is such a unique position across the league. These guys are tweeners. They all do a little bit of everything. They have to block in the run game. They have to block in the pass game. They have to obviously be involved in route running as well and we move them around with shifts and motions and those kinds of things. I think these guys all have a lot on their plate, and in Jordan, you have a guy that is really special and unique at doing all those things. His ability to do a lot as a tight end – I mean he is capable of doing about all there is because he has obviously the skillset to do it. I think mentally he works really hard at knowing all those facets of his game. I think he's a difference maker without a doubt at the tight end position. It's different when he's on the field."
On the diversity of the offense and how it can change when facing a different defense:
"I think that's mindset you hope to develop and I think that's true every week. Last week especially, because we were facing a new coaching staff and a new defense, but every week there is an element of that. You don't know where their point of emphasis is going to be and I think throughout the week you prepare to have a sound game plan knowing that we don't know. We don't know whose turn it's going to be. You know? You don't know who is going to have that moment in that key situation and I think good offenses prepare every single guy included to do their job that when your number is called you make the play. You are accountable to the other guys on the offensive side and the team that you piece it together through playmakers and schemes – that you can't stop us all. That kind of mentality, I think you have to develop that and work at it."
On anything that surprised him in Week 1:
"I don't know about surprise. I think just anxious to see us when it really matters. I think all that stuff gets turned up, the intensity, the stress, the anxiety. All those things get magnified once they become real. So yeah, I was anxious to see how we handled that, travelling on the road, an opener, handling our emotions. I think because using them as a strength or sometimes letting them get the best of you and I thought our team as a whole handled that really, really well. There was still kind of the unknown, I think to just see how we handle it and I think it still is. Every week is a different thing and something else is going to come up and we are going to have to be able to handle it. That's an ongoing test."
On how he will prepare for the game with the possibility of inclement weather:
"No, no secrets. I wish I had a secret or something that made it easy. No, it's tough; fundamentals, attention to detail when you handle the ball every single play in weather, and obviously that's a premium, you know, ball security, ball handling, in the pocket and things like that. I wish I had some kind of secret sauce or something but I don't. I just try to do the best I can."
On comparing OL Trent Williams to other linemen he has played with through his career:
"Yeah again, I think it's a lot like the Jordan question. I don't want to necessarily compare the other guys I've played with but same thing, he's a special player. He's a difference maker as well when he's on the field. I don't feel like there is anything he is really limited in doing. I think as a left tackle, he can do it all. He's great in the open field. I mean, he's so strong handling any guys his size or bull rush or things like that. He's got great feet. I think all those things obviously make him that special."
On if he has been in awe of Williams:
"I mean, yeah certainly, you watch a lot of film over the years, you see plays, and I think everybody in the league knows the caliber of player he is and how special he is. It's always different though when you are on the same field as him, and you see it live, and it becomes a little more real. It's special to see on a daily basis."
On LB Ryan Kerrigan's streak of consecutive starts:
"I didn't know that. I mean, that is a ridiculous stat at that position. Any time you are playing in the trenches with those guys, it's a different level in there. Every single play, it's tough to avoid contact and I think credit to him. I certainly see how hard he works, taking care of his body, every single day he's in here. Whether he's working out, recovering, doing something, rehabbing, it's not by accident. I think having gone against him in the past too you see that same kind of relentlessness on the field. Obviously, he's the same thing, a really elite player when you're out there every Sunday helping us."
On his communication with the wide receivers and keeping them involved:
"I think talking about it like that; that mentality right? There was some unknown. We didn't know where that game plan was going to go and I think there are going to be weeks like that. There's going to be other weeks where it comes in bunches and all of a sudden we are going to lean on them offensively and we are going to need them and the ball is going to [thrown to a different receiver] a bunch. That's the nature I think of week to week and just who you are playing. I think the great thing is we got a bunch of selfless guys out there. I think all they care about is winning. Obviously, they want to be involved and included but [they are] team first guys. I think that's not always the case at that position around the league and I think it's kind of a credit to the mindset of those guys we have outside [at the wide receiver position]."
On the benefits and downside of him starting at quarterback early in his career:
"I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. [Laughter] I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year. Certainly though, playing, I mean, I started every single game, every snap that second year and for me that was invaluable. That kind of experience was invaluable for me. I do feel like that was a different situation in the year prior and these situations are all different. Some of these guys come out more ready than others based on how long they played and where they are maturity wise. How old they are, all these things, how much ball they played, so every situation is different. I don't think any two are totally alike. So, it's hard to compare. I don't think you really compare apples to apples, but I do know for me, I felt like I dug myself a big hole my rookie year and it took multiple years to kind of get myself out of that."
On the thought of being drafted to a team where he could have sat behind a veteran quarterback:
"I've had people ask me and things like that. I don't give that much thought. I mean, what's the point? No. I mean, they are totally different roads and it does me no good dwelling on that. I'm very thankful for where I'm at right now and the road I did have to go down. Certainly, there were tough times and things like that, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?"
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What's Important About a Flat Footed Walk?
I have been riding a lot lately and truly enjoy working with many horses as well as my own. You learn so much when you get the chance to work with other horses..and other seasoned riders!
Though the years I have had the opportunity to ride many disciplines and have learned from both lessons and 'trial and error' (although I tried not to be on the side of error often). It seems that I have found, just when you think you 'have it', sometimes, you don't! There is always so much to learn, it amazes me. And maybe it's because I continually look for better, easier or, if you will, a simpler way to ride. ~ Which leads me to one of the most fundamental and basic principles…the walk.
The simple walk can profoundly be one of the most over looked gates that riders 'skip' learning. As Steve, a family friend and trainer from Ultra Morgans says, "The flat-footed walk is one of the most important gates to attain with your horse." And why? Because when you have a flat-footed walk, you have gained the horses complete 'trust'!
Think about it ~ have you watched other riders with their horses 'dancing' at the walk, only to see them completely uncollected at the trot and worse at the canter? Have you ever watched one rider work a horse with ease while , yet another rider, on the same horse, has issues. It all starts at the walk. Accomplishing that 4 beat even walk can be one of the hardest things you do with your horse. The practice to gain it may seem long and repetitious but the reward of your horses trust is the basis for every other gate you ask him to give you.
How would your horse do when put into a situation that asks more from him? For example, when you go out on a trail, in an area he is not familiar with or when you trailer to another area? What if you were in a touchy situation by a road or in an open field -(one step further….), with the wind blowing in a large open field? See what I mean?
Establishing the simple flat footed walk will be one of the safest things you can do for both you and your horse. Gather your reigns so you feel slight contact. Start by asking your horse for to 'walk'. That voice cue needs to 'tell' your horse what you want and sound confident. A tone that indicates a question or worry will do just that – and your horse will not look to you as his 'leader' but rather loose confidence. Use your lower leg and briefly squeeze. A small forward seat motion will give encouragement, if needed. Always, as soon as your horse does what you ask, reward him by removing pressure. (This does not mean throw the reigns to your horse, but rather, give to the pressure). That is a huge reward that many people don't realize. Horses that are not rewarded will once again try to do what the rider is asking…he may back up, dance, throw his head or lock his jaw. ~ Allow your hands to follow your horses head with slight contact. Look in the direction you want to go and keep your head up. Keep your eyes soft rather than looking directly on a spot. Relax and breath.. it makes a difference at any gate. Practice the 'Whoa' cue while pulling on the reigns and releasing as soon as your horse indicates a stop. Once again, the reward is released pressure.
If you are having any behavior problems at the walk, seek out a seasoned rider or trainer to help you establish good habits before bad ones set in. Often it only takes a few tips that will make all the difference in your ride and your horses 'trust' in your requests.
So get your 'flat footed walk' with your horse and you will be able to ride places you never have – outside of an indoor, through the woods, down the road and even in a parade! (Ever wondered if you could?? :). Heres to you and your horse! Wishing you the best rides of your life!

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FOR the last two weeks, a justice in New York State Supreme Court has heard testimony in one of the most pivotal cases of the financial crisis. The hearings will tell whether Bank of America can extinguish legal liability for more than a million Countrywide Financial loans by paying $8.5 billion in cash and agreeing to loan servicing improvements in a settlement struck with 22 investors in 2011.
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Referring to a default, Mr. Kravitt said he told a Bank of America lawyer, "We don't want it either, Chris."
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Justice Kapnick's decision is not expected for months, and will affect only this settlement. But the revelations in her courtroom send a message to investors who might have expected trustees to protect their interests with more vigor.


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er since Tweetbot became the most popular Twitter client on iOS and Mac many users have been searching for Tweetbot for Windows, Tweetbot for PC and even Tweetbot for Windows Phone (Seriously?), There is a better chance of seeing Tweetbot for Android before any of the above, however there is no Tweetbot client for any of these devices and that is because the developers of Tweetbot made the app exclusively for Apple devices. That doesn't mean that you can't get the same great functionality that Tweetbot offers on your not-so-iOS device.
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Merced County school districts have begun destroying cases of frozen beef from the Chino slaughterhouse under investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for animal abuse.
At least 11 of the 21 school districts received meat that came from Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. and was distributed by the state as part of the National School Lunch Program, according to the Department of Education.
The list, which is preliminary and has been revised since it was posted three days ago, doesn't include districts that received meat through their contracted food suppliers.
No illnesses have been linked to the recalled meat, and officials said the health threat was likely small.
At some districts, cases of the beef remain set aside in freezers because cafeteria supervisors are away since schools are out for the week. Other districts, like Merced City School District, destroyed their supply immediately.
A truck hauled nearly 200 cases Thursday morning to the county dump, where they were buried to ensure that nobody tried to eat the beef, said Terri Soares, district director of school nutrition services and warehouse.
"We will only be serving beef that's allowable by the USDA," she said.The beef was worth more than $30 a case, and it cost about $350 to bury it. Both expenses will be reimbursed by the federal government, she said.
Federal officials told school districts to put the suspect meat aside earlier this month ago because of the investigation into the Southern California slaughterhouse.
The Humane Society of the United States released an undercover video from the plant showing crippled and sick animals being rammed with forklifts to get them to stand up.
Animals too sick to walk to the slaughterhouse are not allowed to be processed for human consumption because there's higher risk that they have E. Coli, salmonella or Mad Cow disease because they're lying in feces and their immune systems are often weak.
The USDA announced Sunday that 143 million pounds spanning two years of processing from the meat slaughterhouse needed to be recalled because it was unfit for the dinner table.
On Wednesday, U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Administrator Eric Steiner said that 50 million pounds of the beef went to the federal lunch program. Of that, nearly 20 million pounds have been consumed, and 15 million pounds have been put aside. Another 15 million pounds are being tracked down, he said.
Officials at UC Merced and Merced College said they didn't receive any of the recalled beef.Merced Union High School District had six cases of the meat from Hallmark/Westland and will soon dispose of it, Deputy Superintendent Diane Hockersmith said.
"We were lucky," she noted.
The recall affected about a third of the Merced City School District's beef supply, the rest of which will start being cooked again next week, Soares said.
After learning of the investigation, school cooks substituted other meats for the beef.
"I didn't hear too many complaints," Soares said. "The middle school did get tired of not having their burgers."
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I installed Flock, the "social" browser yesterday and set it as my default web application. Less than 24 hours later I've reverted back to a pimped-up Safari.
Flock is a nice idea, nicely done, but somewhat lacking. The built-in blog editor is nice, but primitive in its capabilities. Far more useful is the shelf feature and the ability to drag and drop HTML snippets and images. These are valuable but not the main purpose of a web browser.
On the Mac OS, WebKit browsers are, inevitably, faster than Gecko ones. That's not a simple trade-off as Gecko is arguably the better rendering engine. I keep Camino as a backup browser to Safari precisely for those web pages that don't work correctly in WebKit. Unfortunately Flock suffers doubly in the performance stakes. Not only is the Gecko engine slower but so is the UI – and that's where the difference is really felt.
Flock is basically a bunch of bundled themes and extensions over Firefox with its XUL interface. XUL is all very well but its not the native API for Mac OS, or indeed any other platform. So it's a hodgepodge that kind of looks okay but is a bit sluggish and quirky to boot. I can tolerate the non-standard widgets. But what I can't stand is the slow response to key presses and mouse-clicks. I end up penta-clicking in the search bar in an effort to "select all". (It's only a triple-click in just about any other Windows or Mac app.)
I've not tried Firefox on a Mac but on Windows the UI is just about bearable. With Flock on Mac OS I found it just too irritating to use. It's not that the UI is badly designed: it's quite smart actually. But all that XUL results in an unpolished finish that wouldn't be out of place on a Linux desktop. If I was happy with that I wouldn't be using Mac OS.


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Alright, things are going to be a little different this week. We want EVERYONE to attend the Trinity Trotter Shirt Design Breakfast.
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Meeting Location
Hartville Hardware
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940 West Maple Street
Hartville, OH
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Turn RIGHT out of Hartville Hardware parking lot
Turn LEFT on Sunnyside
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- Look for orange cone turnaround cone!!!
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Invisible Beaker of the Laboratory
"Yet in a wider sense of the term, the decisions of a scientist choosing a problem and pursuing it to the exclusion of other possible avenues of inquiry may be said to have an economic character. For his decisions are designed to produce the highest possible result by the use of a limited stock of intellectual and material resources. The scientist fulfils this purpose by choosing a problem that is neither too hard nor too easy for him. For to apply himself to a problem that does not tax his faculties to the full is to waste some of his faculties; while to attack a problem that is too hard for him would waste his faculties altogether. The psychologist K. Lewin has observed that one's person never becomes fully involved either in a problem that is much too hard, nor in one that is much too easy. The line the scientist must choose turns out, therefore, to be that of greatest ego-involvement; it is the line of greatest excitement, sustaining the most intense attention and effort of thought. The choice will be conditioned to some extent by the resources available to the scientist in terms of materials and assistants, but he will be ill-advised to choose his, problem with a view to guaranteeing that none of these resource be wasted. He should not hesitate to incur such a loss, if it leads him to deeper and more important problems."
The author earlier used the example of a giant puzzle that all scientists were trying to solve. The method the author claimed that science used was as follows: each scientist following their comparative advantage in particular puzzle piece preparation and permutation. But science isn't like that!
We don't know if the universe even has a solvable puzzle. Physicists are currently searching for a 'theory of everything'. This ToE, if it exists, will combine quantum mechanics and general relativity into one giant 'solved puzzle'. This understanding will enable us to peer into the early nanoseconds of the universe and understand why things are the way they are. But it is possible that there isn't a theory of everything. It is possible that we won't be able to find all of the pieces because there isn't a complete puzzle that exists. It's possible that the best humanity can do is to get a practical, workable, fuzzy, general understanding of the nature of things. This might be enough for our continued survival as a species.
The author acts like each individual scientist has the ability to choose from a number of unsolved scientific problems, and that the scientist will know in advance which might be too easy or too hard. The scientist will then choose the goldilocks problem, the one that is just right. BOGUS. It implies that a scientist knows the level of difficulty of each problem before he or she begins to solve it. It also implies that scientific problems can be broken into solvable chunks like puzzle pieces.
You know what you call a problem that is too easy? You call that problem solved. Too easy... BAH. The only reason that the problem exists is that someone hasn't figured it out yet. It's possible that no one has tried. A scientist won't look at it and think, I can solve this one in two weeks, so I won't even try. Every time a scientist discovers something it's an opportunity to publish his or her findings in a peer reviewed journal, and publishing is a major motivation for the scientist to figure things out. If anything an ambitious scientist will be motivated to find the 'too easiest' problems out there and solve them and publish the results.
Also not every puzzle piece is available to every scientist. The fields of specialization are so narrow that at the frontiers of scientific discovery there may be only a few people qualified to even know where the particular pieces are. In those cases those small groups of specialized scientists are actually working in 'isolation' like the author mentioned in the beginning of the essay. Anyway, I can't wait for our meeting this Thursday.
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I'm not sure I think the puzzle metaphor is as completely worthless as you seem to.ReplyDelete
1) I'm sure Polanyi recognizes that "the puzzle" is likely unfinishable, but that doesn't negate the point about cooperating to attempt and assemble the available pieces. The puzzle metaphor helps illustrate the importance of collaboration and interdisciplinary studies.
2) Scientists face incentives just like everyone else.
a) If a problem is outside of their area of specialty (too hard) they will likely not pursue it. To attempt to do so would require years of costly re-training. Scientists have an incentive to perform research within their disciplines as determined by their comparative advantage. Scientists do tend to approach their area of study selectively according to specialization (i.e through the division of labor).
b) scientists may not always be aware of exactly how long their research might take but they do have a general idea about the depth of a research problem and the amount of work involved in testing their hypotheses.
c) If a scientist anticipates that a problem is too simple there can still be a variety of reasons they choose not to pursue it. For one if the problem was as easy as it seemed the scientist would assume one or more competing researchers were already working on the problem at hand and nearly ready to publish their results. To attempt to pursue the simple problem as well would be a waste of time if the researcher was certain another was also on the verge of publishing. Economists call this the "No Cash on the Table Principle".
d) Also if the problem was simple enough the scientist might simply choose to defer it to one of their starving graduate students for a quick research project so the fully fledged scientist can devote their efforts to more advanced and prestigious problems.
While you manufacture certainty about your feelings as to the usefulness of the puzzle metaphor, let me make it more useful by adding the following:ReplyDelete
It's a group of giant puzzles that we are all trying to solve at once. It might be possible that it's just one super giant puzzle, but at the moment it seems unlikely. So far, in the Indiana Jones warehouse where we are keeping the completed puzzles we have about a half dozen groups of connected pieces that may or may not join together sometime in the future. Adding pieces to one completed bit doesn't really help the guys working on the other bits.
We have an unlimited number of puzzle pieces in the warehouse with us, but in order to handle any given piece, and examine whether or not it fits in our completed section we have to spend anywhere from a few tens of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars. There are a few groups that are willing to loan or give us the necessary funds to play with our puzzles, but we are in competition with all other scientists as to how much of the puzzle fund we have access to.
Some of the already completed sections of the puzzle have cute pictures of puppies and babies, and the jerks that control the puzzle money seem to favor completing those sections.
Other sections of the puzzle look like treasure maps, and private companies occasionally chip in to the puzzle fund to see if they can find exactly what spot 'x' marks.
Some partially completed sections of the puzzle don't look like too much of anything at all, but the pieces themselves are intriguing and they capture the attention of some of the scientists. These sections don't get much money from the puzzle fund, but these sections have what appear to be the borders of the bigger puzzle.
Often times what determines what sections of the puzzle get the most effort is the charisma of the people working the puzzle, and whether they can sweet-talk the keepers of the puzzle fund out of some money.
One more thing, the people who hold the purse strings to the puzzle fund, are usually color blind, totally blind, and often brain damaged as well. They couldn't tell the difference between a puzzle and a pizza.


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The Skinnyfat is best described by the bank of common knowledge, that is Urban Dictionary, with the following:
Damn, I'm skinny fat. I fit into a sweet size 4, but when I take them jeans off and unleash my gut, I look like I'm 7 months pregnant with twins.
Have things gotten a bit wobbly?
Here is a collection of articles how to think intelligently about your body's condition. Perhaps you're here because you have a bad back and want that pain to disappear. Getting in shape can cure many of our ailments, as it happens, having even a little bit of extra fat on the midsection can make us susceptible to "sickness and hell".
Do some body maintenance in steps:
- Don't eat junk and drink some water
- Avoid the scam because there are lots of them
- Shrink your belly, then shape it so
Discipline yourself to resist the temptation of eating unhealthy foods and motivate yourself to eat healthy foods. You will then find it quite achievable to get on the road to a healthy life. It takes a strong commitment to get on track and it takes an equally strong commitment to keep at it.
Many skinnyfats give up after a short time — in two weeks or so — as they're not satisfied with their results. Maybe part of giving up can be explained by losing the feeling of novelty. (A few days ago you read something inspiring and today it doesn't sound so impressive, that sort of thing.) If you can commit and keep yourself motivated and continue to aspire to eat well and train well, you will achieve your goal.
If your want is simply to lose some weight, you really require only a small daily window allotted to your exercise, and to keep an eye on how you fuel your body.


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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see the future. NYU's Tisch School of the Arts is giving designers and industry professionals the chance again this year, when it showcases the Department of Design for Stage and Film's 2005 MFA graduating designers May 4-11 (noon to 8pm). The portfolio exhibits — in the form of sketches, set models, professional production photos, and costume displays — illustrate the potential of the 22 graduates in lighting, set, and costume design. This year's showcase
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This Friday, New York art collective, The Culture Whore, is throwing Cryptkeepers at 496 Morgan Ave. in Brooklyn to celebrate Halloween—the only holiday that matters. Featuring DJ sets and performances by some of the city's freshest acts, including BULLETT favorite JX Cannon, as well as a long list of familiar nightlife faces, Cryptkeepers is the only place to be tomorrow night.
To get you in the mood, we asked The Culture Whore co-founder, Dream, to assemble an exclusive BULLETT mix—"New York Is Dead" combines spooky Halloween jams and all the classic dance hits—think Rosemary's Baby meets New Order, with a techno twist that's perfect for Halloweekend.
Stream "New York is Dead," below, and purchase tickets for Cryptkeepers, here.


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Gust has revealed some new story details as well as loads of new screenshots for Blue Reflection: Sword of the Girl Who Dances in Illusions. Blue Reflection is an RPG which follows the story of Hinako Shirai, a schoolgirl who used to study ballet until an accident left her unable to dance.
After the accident Hinako began to withdraw into herself and shut out people. However after meeting sisters, Yuzuki Shijou and Raimu Shijou, she becomes a "Reflector" which gives her magical powers. Whilst in her Reflector form she can move about freely and so begins to hope that this form holds the key to her foot healing and enabling her to dance again.
Despite her new magic powers Hinako is still a student and so during the day will have to attend lessons. She attends an all-girl's school and it'll be important for Hinako to get to know the other students better and form true friendships with them. Different scenes will be triggered amongst the students depending on your "Interaction Level" which shows your closeness to other students.
Part of being a Reflector is helping the other students solve struggles and worries in their lives. These problems will not just be solved in the real world, Hinako will also need to jump into the world of humanity's collective unconscious known as the "Other World". In the other world you can solve their problems by looking for fragments of emotions that are causing their problems back in the real world.
Huge monsters known as "Pure Breeds" begin to appear in the real world and attack people, it will be up to Hinako and her friends to use the powers they gain from the Other World to fight against them.
Sounds interesting doesn't it? 🙂
As a special bonus Gust has also released a special Christmas wallpaper which features Hinako and her friends, Yuzuki Shijou and Raimu Shijou, dressed as Santa Claus and reindeer.
Check out the gallery of new screenshots and artwork below:
Blue Reflection: Sword of the Girl Who Dances in Illusions is due out in Japan on PlayStation 4 and PS Vita on March 30. No word yet on if this is getting a Western release but I'm hopeful that it'll make it's way over here!


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Yet, I seem to think I can live off what seems like galleons of coffee. Well, part of me does. Because the other half of me knows that it's only a matter of time before I actually do faint or collapse. Before all of this began, my biggest fear was any sort of medical help, and that's what I'm technically heading for. My body will shut down or I'll develop anaemia or osteoporosis, meaning I'll need a lot more treatment. My muscles are already becoming weak and I'm always ice cold, and I know it'll only get worse! I can also feel my mood declining, falling back into that very lonely and dark place, otherwise known as depression - and I can't stop thinking about that coping mechanisms I used when I was there before.
It's really strange though, because I don't actually feel hungry, I just have no energy. My stomach hardly ever rumbles or hurts as a result of hunger. If you're not hungry, why would you eat? To stay alive!
Being thin really can't be more important than my own health. It can't be more important than singing or socialising? So, why is it to me?
I've come to the conclusion, I'm completely fucked up and probably need help. But the majority of my mind won't accept that. I'm fighting a battle, that I think, I can only lose.


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Cambridge exams are recognised worldwide and are widely accepted by companies as proof of a certain level of English. The Advanced Certificate in English (CAE) is widely accepted as proof of English language skills for university entry, especially in the UK, and is accepted by more than 2700 organisations around the world.
Exam preparation courses are the right choice for:
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- students who are able to do one to two hours of homework a day to complement the course lessons.
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RE: Desktop icons flickering when loading OperaOpera for Windows
That doesn't work for me. It is related to the link in <user>\AppData\Local\Temp though as indicated.
Since that link ("Opera browser") is created by Opera itself on each start, this ISN'T a problem of windows.
If I remove the link before any start of Opera, it starts normally. If I leave that link in the temp dir, no matter how I start Opera, it will case desktop refresh.


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Published at Thursday, May 09th, 2019 - 06:19:03 AM. Coffee Table. By Donatien Gonzalez.
Decide on the design too. If you want something simple then go for simplicity in design. If you want something grand try something with intricate designs. If you want to use your unique coffee table to serve guests then consider a lift top or something equally functional.
It nearly became a completely different piece of furniture. Today, a coffee table is no longer subject to strict utility and it has become almost an art piece, which is often the focal point of the room. The coffee table was neglected in favor of sofas, armchairs and chairs for a long time.
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allocheziaA term of waning use for an abnormal discharge of either
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Evan Hunter, Daphne Du Maurier
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw
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The small California coast town of Bodega Bay is suddenly beset by large flocks of birds intent on attacking the residents.
Alfred Hitchcock was a filmmaking virtuoso of many disciplines, the facts of which are detailed at length in numerous academic texts and meticulous frame-by-frame dissections. Among that focus on suspense genius, skillful editing, and general admiration of moviemaking mastery, a less discussed aspect of many scripts he brought to the screen is how often these stories deliberately lacked structured premeditation in their course of events.
James Bond is given an assignment by M with the broader arc of his imminent adventure already etched in stone. An evil villain has emerged, a diabolical plot is in motion, and 007 is dispatched to put an entertaining, albeit predictably plotted, stop to the entire scheme.
Elsewhere, graverobbing doctor Victor Frankenstein sets out to create a being from body parts and he does exactly that. "Frankenstein" is the tale of what happens when the protagonist fulfills his initial intentions and subsequent scenes progress across a fittingly organic path of sensibility for the setup.
These are examples of stories following a straightforward line with clear premises outlined from the beginning. Hitchcock premises may be clear to his audience at the outset, but his characters generally have no idea about the direction they will ultimately be going.
"North by Northwest" is the most obvious example of a Hitchcockian hairpin turn on the proverbial ear. Cary Grant is an unassuming adman innocuously attempting to flag down a bellhop only to be mistaken for a secret agent. If Grant raises his hand at any other time except that one, his day ends with a drab drink in the hotel bar instead of being chased across George Washington's nose by Martin Landau. "Psycho" has a similar conceit. Had Janet Leigh picked any other motel except that one, "Psycho" could have been a romantic crime thriller and there is no telling if Norman Bates' proclivity for transvestitism would have ever been uncovered.
Tippi Hedren's character in "The Birds" comes from that same pool of characters set for a mundane movie that might have belonged to a different genre had she not become a victim of circumstance. Melanie Daniels is the 1963 version of a Paris Hilton celebrity socialite, though she has more of a Patty Hearst bio and a slightly more inhibited tendency towards tabloid-worthy dalliances.
After lawyer Mitch Brenner spots Melanie shopping in a pet store by chance, the two enter a foxy and flirtatious convo that wins the better of Miss Daniels' curiosity. A trite bit of sleuthing and Melanie is off to the Brenner family home in Bodega Bay for a surprise visit to find out if her toe dipped in amorous waters might warrant a full swim.
Leave it to a meddlesome seagull to swoop in unexpectedly for a brief beak peck that spoils almost a full half hour of meet cute romance. Hitch takes his time breaking out a full flock of feathered fiends as it is another 25 minutes before the gulls return en masse for an attack at a children's birthday party packed with popping balloons and scrambling little girls.
"The Birds" is not even close to a brisk thriller. Clocking in at close to two hours, there is a looseness in its timing that lets the accordion extend too far at times before snapping the sides back together for an eagerly awaited, and occasionally much needed, moment of terror.
Hitchcock wants the audience caught in his web of realism, warmed by the security of likable characters in a relatable world of mundane diner meals, post office visits, and small town hubbub that seems all the more meaningless when the birds of the world go on the offensive without warning. There is little question that the setup makes the ornithological insanity more hauntingly plausible, though it can definitely be debated if Hitchcock keeps his audience in that part of the movie past the point of necessity.
There are broader hints at more complex themes that see a quick stroke, although Hitchcock never dabs his brush all the way in for a full examination. Hysteria sets in briefly when one panicked resident irrationally blames the visiting newcomer for their inexplicable epidemic. A slap ends that confrontation and along with it, any deeper exploration of societal relations altered by the situation. And although the surface is only scratched, the real terror of "The Birds" comes from the thought of, what really would happen if another creature that we tenuously share nature with suddenly turned hostile?
"The Birds" is very good and holds up well enough in the important areas after 50 years, though it may not be near the top of Hitchcock's more notable achievements. The dated special effects can be forgiven to a degree, owing to 60's era technology that was state of the art then and nostalgic at best now. Earning less clemency are the aforementioned pacing problems and some highly suspect developments meant to move the plot forward.
Anyone who wants to argue that "The Birds" is the closest Hitchcock movie that can be considered a traditionally defined horror film should focus on the sublimely dumb behavior of some of its characters, not unlike dimwitted teens traipsing into the woods to meet a machete blade in a 1980's slasher. Despite ongoing evidence of bird swarms on the rampage, Bodega Bay residents are strangely in no hurry to fortify indoor sanctuaries, instead opting to spend a conspicuous amount of continued time outdoors, only to be pecked yet again. There is similarly no rational explanation for why Tippi Hedren decides that investigating an upstairs room alone during a break in bird attacks is suddenly a good idea.
These are the kinds of contrivances that critics would jump all over today, but Hitchcock is afforded the benefit of having 50 plus years for his film to transcend its faults and achieve "classic" status. Structural problems notwithstanding, that classic status is still earned.
The brilliance of a music-less soundtrack instead filled with squawks, caws, chirps, and screeches is exactly that. Brilliant. "The Birds" might have benefitted from a notch or two of belt tightening, but its seesaw balance between banal romance and family melodrama against frantic wing-flapping frights can still affect the most fearless viewer, even if it is more than half a century later.
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Meek hopes Bill Clinton will boost his Senate campaign
"On the scale of 1 to 10," U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek says of Bill Clinton's visit to Florida on Monday, "this is an 11."
Locked in a tough Democratic primary and polls showing no obvious winner, Meek is hoping the 42nd president will provide the boost he needs in the final week.
If anyone can deliver, it's Clinton, whose love among Democrats seems to be only outmatched by love from Democrats in South Florida, where the two will campaign together -- eight days before the primary.
"It will help bring about clarity," said Meek, who has been far outspent by billionaire rival Jeff Greene.
Clinton and Meek will appear together at three rallies, starting in Palm Beach County, then Broward and ending in Miami-Dade. Demand was so high for the 4:30 p.m. Palm Beach County rally that a larger venue had to be reserved, Meek's campaign said.
Broward's rally will be at 6:45 p.m. at the Signature Grand, 6900 State Road 84; Miami-Dade's will be at 8 p.m. at the Gusman Theater, 174 E. Flagler St. in downtown Miami.
The TV coverage alone could be worth the equivalent of millions in campaign ads.
"This is pivotal for Kendrick," said U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar. "The locations are hotbeds for Democratic activists and it will generate a buzz that Kendrick should be able to ride into the 24th primary successfully."
Greene played down Clinton's role and has cast Meek as an ineffective congressman.
"People in Florida are too smart to rely on another political figure endorsing someone."
But in a Democratic primary where turnout could be low, the candidate who most energizes the base could win. Black voters account for a quarter of Democratic voters in Florida.
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Does God exist? Looking out on the world this is a perfectly reasonable question. At St George's we want to create spaces where people can bring questions like this and explore possible answers. Alpha is specifically designed for you to bring questions of life and faith, to discuss different viewpoints with other like-minded people.
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Our research database supports population based research in psychiatry/mental health within the Trust and its partner research organisation; University College London (UCL). The database provides direct clinical benefit to patients because it enables better clinical audit and NHS service development.
How does it work?
Information from C&I NHS clinical records is fed into the research database via a system that removes information which could identify an individual. This database of anonymised data is accessible only to approved researchers within C&I and its partner research organisations. It may be used for population-based research projects such as looking for links between family history and particular illnesses. For this kind of research, the researchers won't know who any patient is, and so patients will not be approached for their permission.
Future development of the database will add capabilities so that researchers working on ethically approved research projects can also search the database to find patients who might fit their study's criteria. Patients will be able to express an "approach mode" deciding if they wish to allow approved researchers to view their records and/or contact them about projects that may be relevant. This will substantially improve opportunities for patients to participate directly in research, and will contribute to improving future management of mental health.
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To find out more about the part your medical records play in the role of the C&I research database and how to get involved, go to our page for services users.
To find out more about using the C&I Research Database for research, go to our page for clinicians and researchers.
Over the last five years this system has been used by researchers with great success. For example, this method revealed the high mortality and lowered average life expectancy in people with serious mental health problems.
The research database is part of a national programme launched by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). As well as C&I, the other participating trusts are: Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (who developed the database system originally), West London Mental Health NHS Trust, and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.


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Futurism, future cars, future aviation, flying cars, watercrafts, future concepts
Many would simply fling their eyebrows high when told that the original Ferrari 512 S Module by Pinninfarina was actually unveiled at the 1970 Geneva Auto Show. And now after 40 years, the modernistic version of this already futuristic car is back to tickle our sci-fi senses albeit in a more sustainable manner. Though strictly at a conceptual stage, this remarkably avant-garde conception was contrived by a design team of Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres and Bastien Petelot.
Infused with a sleek demeanor, classy bearing and a fervently innovative technology, the Ferrari Modulo of the 21st Century will certainly be a supercar to behold. The inconspicuous wheels will be 'sunk in' within the body frame like the original design; supposedly, for enhancement of rolling efficiency and airflow. On the other hand, the improved (if we daresay that) styling is quite evident from the roof of this version, which completely incorporates a swanky glass facade (in comparison to the original 70's model). The linearity of the astute form along the measured edges have been specifically dealt with to accentuate upon the aerodynamic quality of the car.
According to the designer:
"Everything on this car is designed around aerodynamism and reduced rolling resistance. The extremely low profile, the controlled airflow, the sharp back-end edge help reduce drag and improve performance."
Now coming to the part that interests us Ecofriend folks, the fascinating supercar will actually flaunt an all-electric engine that alludes to the very low emission side of affairs. So, if we ever get a chance to roll around the city blocks in this ultra-futuristic green monster, we would gleefully accept it with our bowing heads.
Designers: Emmanuel Laffon, Bastien Petelot | Source: EcoFriend.com
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Tabor Bread on Hawthorne Boulevard in Portland, OR is cute, really cute. The high ceilings with exposed beams, hardwood floors, and simple tables (made of wood reclaimed from trusses removed during remodeling) make the place welcoming but spacious. The all-important masonry bread oven is located just to the side of the seating area, so customers can see the bakers pulling hot loaves out of the wood-fired inferno. The place smells of coffee and cinnamon and sourdough with a hint of woodsmoke. Tabor Bread has only been open for just over three weeks, but it has a lot of potential for sure.
The vision for Tabor Bread came from California native Tissa Stein, but that vision has been realized with the help of skilled bakers and a pastry chef up for the challenge of whole-grain sweets. My friend from high school, Annie Moss (below in the red/stripes), has been critically involved in the development of the physical space of the bakery as well as the implementation of the bakery's program sourcing locally grown grains and milling them in-house. Annie's previous experiences managing a bakery in New York City as well as working with numerous bakeries on plans to incorporate a larger percentage of local ingredients into their goods sold at Greenmarket Farmers' Markets (the country's largest farmers' market association) made her a perfect fit for a position as a general manager of sorts for Tabor Bread. Because the bakery is just getting up and running, Annie bounces from staffing the counter to chopping kale salad to fielding media requests to bookkeeping to making emergency yogurt runs on any given day.
Currently, Tabor Bread is well stocked with whole grain breads, fresh pastries, and hot coffee. They are also serving a light lunch of soup and sandwiches. Later this month, they will roll out an evening menu of bread-centric appetizers to accompany a selection of wines.
The huge masonry oven is at the heart of the bakery.
The vast majority of grains used in their breads and pastries including several types of wheat, spelt, rye, and kamut are purchased farm-direct from Camas Country Mill in Eugene. The whole grains are ground into flour by a beautiful wood-framed mill in a room just off the dining area.
I left the bakery with one of Tabor Bread's signature giant "Fife Boule" loaves. Now I'm a big fan of hearty, whole grain bread, so I would never complain about a loaf being too heavy-duty, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by how approachable the Fife Boule was when I cut it open. Though it was quite weighty, the texture of the crumb was light and airy, and even after being cut for three days (because it took us a while to get through such a big loaf) it wasn't noticeably stale. If I lived closer to Portland, I'm pretty sure this bread would be on my table on a regular basis.
Tabor Bread is open Wednesday through Sunday. If you're in Portland, you should definitely pay them a visit.
*This post is NOT sponsored by Tabor Bread in any way. I visited the bakery to catch up with an old friend and check out what seemed like an interesting business. I did get a bit of a behind-the-scenes tour, but I paid for my own loaf of bread.


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PDC10 Live at South Bank University
Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 4:45 PM to 7:30 PM (BST)
Event Details
This event is a must attend for students interested in leading edge technologies and for professional developers who want to watch and listen to Microsoft Executives via High Definition Live Streaming direct from the US.
Since 1991, the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been the centre for students, developers and architects to gather and hear about the next generation of Microsoft technologies. This year will be no exception!
In association with NACUE, South Bank Entrepreneurs and Microsoft Ltd, seven UK universities are bringing this incredible event to a location near you. The Live streaming of the keynote sessions will be top and tailed with local UK Microsoft staff and NACUE members to help answer any questions and manage the local interactive online Q&A!
The conference keynotes will focus on Client & Devices, Cloud Services, and Frameworks & Tools. Our local sessions are a great opportunity to engage with like-minded students and developers to learn about thrilling new technology developments.
3:45pm - Arrival Registration and Networking
4:00pm - Welcome and Introduction
4:15pm - Opening words - Research & Business Development
4:30pm - Networking 101
4:45pm - Introduction to PDC10
5:00pm - 7:00pm Live streaming of PDC10 keynotes from Microsoft in the US
Including live local interactive online Q&A
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Our gorgeous hanging toys make great crib or pram toys for babies, providing visual stimulation and promoting brain development. Older children will love using them to decorate their dens or for playing make-believe too. The range includes some utterly irresistible animal toys that make ideal Christmas decorations for the tree, or the prefect festive gift for anyone in the family – who could resist the felt reindeer with its jolly red scarf?
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St. Aug's hires interim president. Retiring leader to leave early, but 'was not pushed out,' trustee says.
St. Augustine's University has named an interim president, replacing its retiring leader several months before expected.
The Rev. Gaddis Faulcon will take the reins of the historically black college near downtown Raleigh effective immediately, according to the Rev. Hilton O. Smith, chairman of the university's board of trustees. Smith said the board approved hiring Faulcon this week.
"At this time of significant positive momentum surrounding the next phase of the University's evolution, the Board of Trustees has determined there is a need to launch the formal transition and search process for the new President," Smith said in a statement released late Friday by the university. "We are pleased that Dr. Gaddis Faulcon, our 1974 alumnus, has agreed to lead our transition team. He brings the passion and previous experience serving in this pivotal role."
In an email, Faulcon referred questions to the university.
In its statement, the school quoted Faulcon as saying, said, "I am truly honored to be asked to lead my alma mater at this crucial time in our 152-year history and look forward to working with all those who are committed to writing our next great chapter together."
Faulcon is pastor and founder of the Agape Worship Center and Training Institute in Creedmoor, just north of Raleigh. He is a 1974 graduate of St. Aug's, according to his biography on his church's website.
The university's statement said Faulcon has 30 years of experience in higher education, including in administrative roles. The statement said Faulcon had recently served as vice president of enrollment management at St. Aug's and was interim president at Shaw University in Raleigh from 2014 to 2015.
Faulcon is a native of Oxford. He received a master's in recreation resources management and public administration from N.C. State University in 1981 and a doctorate in education and public administration from NCSU in 1994, St. Augustine's said.
Faulcon is taking over from Everett Ward, who announced in late January that he would retire in July. Ward could not be reached Friday.
Smith, a retired pastor who lives in Ohio, and Kimberly Williams Moore, an adjunct professor at the university, both said Ward would help Faulcon transition into the job.
WRAL TV reported that Ward had been pushed out of the presidency early, citing no sources.
According to the university's website, Ward was appointed interim president of St. Augustine's in April 2014. A year later, the board of trustees voted to make him the 11th president of the school.
In a phone interview, Smith said the board had voted this week to hire Faulcon immediately, meaning Ward no longer would hold the title of president. But he said Ward would continue to serve in a supportive role and would be welcome at the university always.
"He was not forced out," Smith said. "He is forever a member of the family. He is a son of St. Augustine's."
The university has had its struggles. It was released from two years of probation by its accrediting agency in December after addressing issues involving funding, accounting and educational effectiveness.
The school was founded in 1867 by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. The school has about 800 students and about 200 faculty and staff members, Moore said.


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Mathematics is found throughout the natural world — from geographic spirals within a pinecone, to the spheres that move through space.
Our curriculum seeks to embody the sense of wonder and beauty that can be found in the order of our universe. We encourage children to delight in exploration and discovery. We aim to engage the child's thinking, feelings and actions through imaginative stories and through rhythmic activities, such as walking or clapping, mathematics becomes an activity of the whole body, as well as the mind.
The capacity for thinking is nurtured throughout the early years, by introducing mathematical concepts concretely and through imagination. Skills and knowledge are developed through written work, problem solving and analyzing with Pure, abstract thinking introduced later.
Allowing children to grasp the whole before the parts, encourages imagination and versatile thinking. A birthday cake is cut into parts to present a whole range of possibilities. Children are shown that there is not just one answer and are encouraged to find a number of ways to solutions and answers.


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Garpikes Fish
The spotted Gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) is a primitive freshwater fish of the family Lepisosteidae, native to North America from the Lake Erie and southern Lake Michigan drainages south through the Mississippi River basin to Gulf Slope drainages, from lower Apalachicola River in Florida to Nueces River in Texas, USA. It has a profusion of dark spots on the body, head and fins. It occurs in quiet, clear pools and backwaters of lowland creeks, small to large rivers, oxbow lakes, swamps and sloughs. It occasionally enters brackish waters. The fish is a voracious predator feeding on various kinds of fishes and crustaceans. They are notable for being one of the few extant fish species with ganoid scales.
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How bad was Sunday's loss to the Eagles?
It got Eli Manning to step up and finally assume the role of leader for the first time in his career. Long known for his spastic body language and overly emotive facial expressions, Manning went a different route on Monday and addressed his teammates at Giants headquarters.
His message was just about the only one you could send in the wake of such humiliation.
"We don't have time to moan, it's not the time right now to start going in the tank or start slacking off or being in a bad mood. Now's the time we got to be excited, you kind of have to look at the bright side of things, you got to be optimistic that, hey, we got a great opportunity to make the playoffs. We got to go in, play a big game in Green Bay. We just got to take care of our business. We're going to be the one to decide whether we make the playoffs and what happens. It's only us."
He's right, it is only up to them. And there really is nothing to be gained by wallowing in misery. That's true in life and it is true in football. To quote the master, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get back in the race.
What's less clear is whether or not self-reliance is a good thing for the Giants at this point in time.
Oh, sure, you'd rather control your fate than sit there and realize you need help from other teams to make the playoffs. The problem is that these Giants have spent the last three years shrinking away from chances to set their own course. That's problematic and more than a little amusing given the way their head coach is represented by most of the media.
It is hard to read or listen to something about Tom Coughlin without coming across some combination of words like disciplinarian, authoritative, respected by players, no-nonsense and accountable. The reality of the team he coaches, with one brief and notable exception in early 2008, has never reflected any of those things.
They always lack discipline, often lack the ability to finish what they start and never seem to do a very good job of executing Coughlin's vision. You know that by the way he throws temper tantrum after temper tantrum on the sideline or holds passive-aggressive press conferences. Some have expressed disgust for those who raised an eyebrow for the way Coughlin verbally assaulted Matt Dodge on the sideline after his fateful punt. They ask what Lombardi would do in that situation and the answer is obvious.
He'd never be in it because Dodge would have been cut shortly after the second time he dropped a snap from the center. You don't get to coddle mediocrity and then earn praise for pointing it out. Coughlin's done that for a long time, but it's looking like he'll need his team to break their habits if he's going to keep getting chances to do it in 2011 and beyond.
For better or worse, that's another piece of the future that's up to Eli and the rest of them.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com. You can follow him on Twitter.


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Low Choo Chin
Low Choo Chin is a lecturer in the History Section, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Arts (MA) from USM. Her research interests include comparative citizenship, migration policies and diaspora studies. Her recent publications include "Defending National Identity and National Interests: The Limits of Citizenship Transnationalism in Germany and China," Journal of International Migration and Integration (2014) and "Taiwanese and German Citizenship Reforms: Integration of Immigrants Without Challenging the Status Quo, 1990–2000," European Journal of East Asian Studies (2013). She is also interested in the politics of belongingness during the Malayan Emergency, particularly on the issues of citizenship and repatriation.