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A popular leisure venue which has been plagued with vandalism has been given a lifeline, with a grant for CCTV cameras.
Members of Longridge Sports and Social Club, in Towneley Road, had requested Ribble Valley Council extend the security cameras onto the Towneley Gardens site after vandals smashed a club window and the burglar alarm.
As this didn't appear possible, Lancashire County councillor for Longridge with Bowland David Smith has offered a grant to fund cameras.
He said: "Every county councillor has a Member Grant to spend each year and I will use part of that to fund CCTV cameras.
"I will give whatever it costs - between £500 and £600.
"The club originally wanted for cameras to be linked up to Ribble Valley Council cameras, but they are not able to do that.
"So I am stepping in with an alternative by offering to buy them a camera for the club.
"I want the social club to succeed. Since it ceased being the British Legion the committee has been working hard to be a growing concern.
"The club is not flush with money so if I can help any way I can, I will. They deserve to succeed.
"I know any help will be appreciated."
The Longridge Sports and Social Club committee will meet on Friday February 17, to discuss the offer.
Although there has been an increase in police presence around the area, the committee is keen to fit the CCTV as soon as possible.
Club chairman John Jackson said: "We truly appreciate and think very positively about Coun Smith's offer of help.
"We want to put as much money as we can into the club.
"We will discuss it at our committee meeting on Friday. However, these things take time and the money would not be available until April.
"We are desperate for the CCTV now as we have had windows smashed and we have been broken into.
"If we get approval, we want to move as quickly as possible."
The club has also had tree works commissioned for the site, which were scheduled to start this month and the decorative design for an entrance archway is underway.

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{The Weight of Lies by The Avett Brothers}
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
In honor of their two sold out shows in Dallas this weekend. {Thanks for the link, Twinner!}.
5 comments:
- Jhan said...
Oh man! I love the Avett Brothers! Haven't heard this song before but I like it. :-)
- October 11, 2011 at 11:12 PM
- Brooke said...
I adore any and everything they do. "Murder in the City" and "If It's Beaches" are easily up there on my favorite songs list.
- October 11, 2011 at 11:25 PM
- kate said...
We just saw them a few weeks ago in the middle of a field in upstate NY during a soaking downpour. And they were (unsurprisingly) AMAZING.Have an awesometime at the show!
- October 12, 2011 at 6:44 AM
I'm going to see them in Nashville in 3 weeks! So pumped!
- October 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM
Kate, I attended the show at Ommegang as well. What a great show.
- October 12, 2011 at 12:02 PM
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"The streak is over! SUSAN LUCCI!!"
— Shemar Moore, announcing Lucci's first Daytime Emmy win after being nominated 18 times before
A run of consecutive losses by (say) the team the main character is on, or of consecutive wins by the team's rivals, or both, comes to an end.
Exceptions are when Failure Is the Only Option, or your would-be streak breakers get diabolically unlucky...or stupid. In other words, if the opposition wins, it's by luck rather than skill.
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Anime and Manga
- In a Halloween Episode of Axis Powers Hetalia, America (whose only fear is the supernatural), finally defeats the occultist England after 87 losses in their competition of seeing who scares the other first. It was probably only because he enlisted Japan's help.
- In Initial D, Takumi breaks the winning streak of Ryosuke Takahashi, who had previously been considered the best street racer around. In Second Stage, another opponent appears who had wanted that honor for himself.
- When Subaru Mimasaka was introduced to Shokugeki no Soma, he is said to have won 99 consecutive shokugekis, and the count rose to 100 when he defeated Takumi in the Autumn Election's first round. He then attempted to do the same to Soma, who managed to defeat him during the semi-finals, and broke his win streak.
- In the backstory of Mobile Fighter G Gundam, England's Gentle Chapman won the Gundam Fight an unprecedented three times in a row; the international tensions caused by England having control of the world government for twelve years running caused the next Fight to be put off for four years, and resulted in the other nations focusing on long-ranged combat (since Chapman was a Cold Sniper). But then in the 12th Fight, Master Asia defeated Chapman with martial arts, breaking England's streak and inspiring the other nations to focus on hand-to-hand combat again.
- Done for two characters in the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl series:
- In the first half, Dawn has had a losing streak in her Contest run (not even making it past the first round), breaking down and almost even made her consider changing careers. It took until the special Coordinator Tournament Arc, the Wallace Cup, for her to break her streak.
- Prior to this one of the opponents she was bested by was Jessie, who had suffered an even longer losing streak throughout the entire Hoenn and Kanto contest run in the previous series. Jessie was convinced James and Meowth had helped her cheat, but they eventually tell her they played no part and Jessie continues winning ribbons and even makes it to the semi finals of Sinnoh's Grand Festival.
- Sun & Moon had Ash FINALLY winning a Pokémon League after 7 generations of trying.
- In Girls und Panzer, Black Forest Peak High School, the reigning champions of tankery, had its nine-year winning streak end when Miho Nishizumi, then vice-captain of the team, abandoned her tank to help save the crew of another. With the flag tank vulnerable, Pravda fired on it, winning the match.
- In Saki, Kazekoshi's long winning streak in the Nagano prefecturals of the national mahjong tournament was broken a year before the start of the story, when the newly formed Ryuumonbuchi team managed to win. Meanwhile, in Saki Achiga-hen, the protagonists break a 10-year winning streak by Bansei High School in the Nara prefecture, replicating their advisor Harue's feat from a decade ago.
- Eyeshield 21 has the protagonist team, the Deimon Devil Bats, break two streaks: The first being the nine-year reign of the Shinryuji Naga in the Kanto region who the Devil Bats eliminate in the first round of the tournament. The second, and biggest streak, is their upset win over the Teikoku Alexanders, the perennial Christmas Bowl champions ever since its inception.
Comic Strips
- Peanuts: The losing streak of Charlie Brown's softball team is legendary. Most of the times they start winning have been when he wasn't able to play for some reason, with the winning streak ending the moment he returned. One exception to that general rule was a winning streak caused by a bug going around that affected every team in the local league except Charlie Brown's, which ended the moment the other players recovered. Prior to that, they had won two games in a row after the other teams forfeited due to bad weather, and one when Charlie Brown stayed home.
They did win on their own once in the early 1970s...at which point, one of their players was revealed to be a gambler. And so their win was stripped and given to the other team. They won again twice in the early 1990s against another team (with Charlie Brown hitting the winning runs, no less), but it was revealed later that the opposing team's pitcher had let them win because she thought that Charlie Brown was cute.
- Funky Winkerbean: During the gag-a-day era (pre-1992), the Westview High School football team's losing streak was legendary in Ohio, often having an absurd number of consecutive losses, virtually every one of them completely one-sided (and providing fodder to Coach Jock Stropp's pre- and post-game talks). The team would win on occassion, usually as the storyline dictated, but the game would quickly be retconned by the following fall (when most of the football-related strips appeared), or somehow the team would have to forfeit for a (typically comic-of-the-era) reason. Today, Westview is a generally competitive team that wins more than it loses.
Fan Works
- In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Ash is able to break A.J's 99-win streak this time around.
- In Rivals Series, Yuuri finally beats Viktor's long-winning streak when he wins gold at the Winter Olympics.
- Harry Potter:
- In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the protagonists break Slytherin House's seven-year winning streak in the House Cup. Dumbledore gives the ¡Three Amigos! enough last-minute points to put Gryffindor in joint first place, and then awards Neville "Why is it always me?" Longbottom another ten for being brave enough to stand up to his friends (the same ones who taught him to stand up to people in the first place) when he thought they were making trouble.
- In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry fails to catch the Snitch and loses a game of Quidditch for the first time in the series.
- A more personal version in Order of the Phoenix: Gryffindor has limped its way to the Quidditch Cup final despite Umbridge kicking Harry and the Weasley twins off the team and Ron's year-long Performance Anxiety issues. No one's feeling optimistic, so when Hagrid asks Harry and Hermione to meet him in the forest during the match, they do so. When they hear what sounds like the Slytherins' 'Weasley is our King' song on their way back, they assume Gryffindor lost. Then they notice that the actual lyrics have changed a bit, and see Ron being carried across the field by his teammates...
Live-Action TV
- 3rd Rock from the Sun: Harry makes an impromptu overhaul of a university football coach's strategy during their homecoming game...and then the team goes on to take the win.
- Dawson's Creek: Also involving football.
- Usually the protagonist is trying to break the streak. In the case of a Boy Meets World episode, Cory is trying to sustain Mr. Feeny's streak at a geography competition (the resident egghead is uninterested since they're not giving out the usual prizes this year). In the end, Feeny's streak is broken, while the winner spazzes out upon finding out she's getting a different prize from the norm. However, Feeny decides to pin up Cory's A on a geography test where his previous wins had gone.
- Father Ted - where failure (to get off the island) is the only option - broke their losing streak...in such a fashion that Bishop Brennan was about to reassign them somewhere even worse. Therefore a success was required to maintain the status quo. They blackmailed the Bishop about his breaking his vows of celibacy.
- Subverted in Only Fools and Horses. In one episode, Del constantly says to Rodney that the reason he keeps losing money to Boycie at poker is because he is on a "losing streak" which he feels is about to come to an end. It's actually because Boycie cheats. Del does end up winning a lot of money off of Boycie, but the reason he does so is by cheating better.
- iCarly: iWas A Pageant Girl had Sam breaking the streak of the long-running champ of a beauty contest. Even though she completely screwed up everything but the final dance routine.
- Cheers's yearly pranks with rival Gary's Olde Tyme Tavern always end with Gary triumphant - until the final season, when Harry "The Hat" Gittes tricks Gary into demolishing his own bar.
- The progression of super-lengthy consecutive No. 1 hit streaks on Billboard magazine's country chart dates back only 50 years. Prior to Buck Owens (when only A-sides are considered), lengthy streaks were a rarity. For instance, Eddy Arnold, who for years held the overall record for most No. 1 country songs at 28 (from 1968 until broken in 1982 by Conway Twitty), never had more than five No. 1 hits in a row. Other contemporary artists, some listed above, never had more than 11 No. 1 hits in a row. So the progression is as follows:
- Owens, who first hit No. 1 in 1963 with "Act Naturally" (later covered by The Beatles). During the next four years, Owens released 14 more singles, all of whom had their A-sides — and among them one B-side (1964's "Together Again," the B-side to "My Heart Skips a Beat") — reach No. 1. The final song in the streak came in September 1967 with "Your Tender Loving Care." The following up to "...Care," "It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me," stopped at No. 2 in January 1968, held out by Bill Anderson and Jan Howard duet "For Loving You" and Merle Haggard "Sing Me Back Home." note
- Sonny James, who began a 16-song streak — one better than Owens — in May 1967 with "Need You." Every song released reached No. 1, with No. 16 in the streak coming in November 1971 with "Here Comes Honey Again." The song breaking the streak was "Only Love Can Break a Heart," which stopped at No. 2 in March 1972, held out by Tammy Wynette's "Bedtime Story" and Freddie Hart's "My Hang-Up Is You."
- Alabama blew past Sonny James in August 1985 when they had their 17th non-holiday/non B-side No. 1 hit "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')." The Fort Payne, Ala.-based band of cousins began their streak five years earlier with "Tennessee River," and their streak eventually reached 21 in April 1987 with "You've Got 'The Touch'." The follow-up single to "...Touch," "Tar Top," stopped at No. 7 in November 1987, ending the streak.
- That said, some critics contended that Alabama's streak never came close to matching James'. They point to the 1982 holiday single, "Christmas in Dixie," peaking at No. 35. However, Billboard magazine officially declared "40 Hour Week" having set a new standard, and James — also an Alabama native and supporter of the group — was there to celebrate with Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, Jeff Cook and Mark Herndon.
- Although he never topped Alabama, Portsmith, Ohio-native Earl Thomas Conley quietly established a lengthy streak of No. 1 hits of his own, scoring 16 in a rownote . The streak began in August 1983 with "Your Love's On the Line," and No. 16 in the streak came in June 1989 with "Love Out Loud." A song called "You Must Not Be Drinking Enough" was a flop in the fall of 1989, stopping at No. 26.
- Blake Shelton began his streak of 17 No. 1 country hits — starting with the all-encompassing Hot Country Songs chart, and extending to the Country Airplay component chart — in February 2010 with "Hillbilly Bone" (a duet with Trace Adkins). Shelton's streak continued to June 2016 when he peaked with "Came Here To Forget," his 17th No. 1 song. In the late summer of 2016, his wordplay song "She's Got a Way With Words" peaked at No. 7, ending the latest super streak. This is because some stations objected to the line "she put a big FU in my future" and thus refused to play the song.
- Brad Paisley:
- Between 2005 and 2009, he had a hot streak of ten consecutive #1 hits on the country charts. Then in 2009, after the mega-hit "Then", both "Welcome to the Future" and "American Saturday Night" stalled out at No. 2.
- He had two more streak-breakers in the 2010s. "Camouflage" (2011), the last single off This Is Country Music, became his first song since 2000's "Me Neither" not to hit Top 10, and both the third and fourth singles off the polarizing Wheelhouse ("I Can't Change the World" and "The Mona Lisa") failed to make Top 10 either. The former didn't even make Top 20!
- Dierks Bentley had his streaks broken twice. The two singles off his bluegrass-tinged 2010 New Sound Album Up on the Ridge (the title track and "Draw Me a Map") were his only two singles since 2003's "My Last Name" (second release from his debut album) not to reach Top 10. And again in 2013, "Bourbon in Kentucky", the lead single to his 2014 album Riser, failed so badly that it didn't even make Top 40, leading to the album getting pushed back. (However, he quickly got back on track, as the other three singles off the album all went to #1.)
- Carrie Underwood had a 12-song streak of #1 hits on the Mediabase country charts, of which all but two also got to #1 on Billboard (those two being "Don't Forget to Remember Me" and "I Told You So", which "only" got to #2 there). In early 2011, "Mama's Song" put an end to the streak, when it became her first song not to reach #1 on even Mediabase. Since then, the streak has either been broken or continued, depending on which chart you go by, and whether or not guest singles are included, further muddied by Billboard splitting its country singles charts into two separate charts after the second single from her fourth album, Blown Away, was released. The long and short of it is that "Mama's Song" remains, to date, her only single not to hit #1 on any mainstream country chart. ("Something in the Water" did not get to #1 on Country Airplay or Mediabase, but did top Hot Country Songs, which factors in downloads, streaming, and cross-genre airplay.)
- Canadian Country Music singer Charlie Major sent his first nine singles to #1 on the RPM country charts. The streak was broken by "Waiting on You" in 1996, which stopped at #2, followed by "This Crazy Heart of Mine" at #8. After re-releasing the seventh of those nine #1 hits in the US only to see it not chart there, he had one last #1 in 1997 with "I'm Feeling Kind of Lucky Tonight" plus a couple more chart entries before RPM folded in November 2000.
- Rascal Flatts' 2008 single "Bob That Head" broke an 18-streak song of consistent Top 10 country hits dating all the way back to their debut single "Prayin' for Daylight" in 2000; it was also their first song not to enter the Hot 100. (Note that this discounts their 2006 cover of "Life Is a Highway" from Cars, which only got to #18 because it was never officially a single — it was merely an album cut that a lot of stations chose to play alongside their then-current single "My Wish".)
- One Direction's streak of albums debuting at #1 was ended at Made in the A.M., when Justin Bieber's album Purpose debuted at the pole position for the week of November 13, 2015. It's especially ironic because Bieber was coming back from a massive popularity drop — one that began by 1D's meteoric rise to fame and takeover of Bieber's tween/teen demographic. Another streak of theirs that got snapped earlier in the year was their Teen Choice Awards winning streak — they went in 19-0 and lost two of their ten nominations to Super Junior. Despite that, they became the biggest winning act in the show's history, and won all the nominations they got the following year.
- Tracy Lawrence had a #1 smash in 1991 with "Sticks and Stones", the first of 19 consecutive top 10 hits for him. But after some domestic dispute issues and an ensuing lawsuit, radio dropped him like a hot potato, blunting his 1997 single "The Coast Is Clear" at #26. While he did spordically return to the charts afterward, his momentum was gone.
- Jess Glynne's "Ain't Got Far to Go" only reached #45 on the UK charts before falling off immediately, making it her first single to fail to reach the Top 10 and ending the 8-song streak of her doing so.
- George Strait:
- His 1992 cover of "Lovesick Blues" was his first single ever not to hit the country Top 20, stalling out at #24...
- His 2000 Self-Titled Album broke a 19-album streak going back to his debut of his albums being certified platinum or higher, as it only went gold. Only one other studio album after that (2009's Twang) failed to go platinum until the next one, Here for a Good Time, which didn't even reach gold.
- 2001 became the first year since 1982 where he failed to have at least one single release reach No. 1 hit within the calendar year, after a span of 19 consecutive calendar years of at least one chart-topping tune. ("Don't Make Me Come Over There and Love You" reached No. 17 early in the year, while "If You Can Do Anything Else" was a No. 5 hit that summer.) Strait went on, however, to have eight more No. 1 hits, so it still wasn't all that bad.
- 2012's "Drinkin' Man" became his first not to hit the Top 30, peaking at #37...
- ...after which "I Believe" only a year later became his first single not to crack the Top 40...
- ...after which "Let It Go" (no, not the song from Frozen — or even the James Bay song) became his worst performing lead single ever, at #46.
- Clint Black led off his career with four straight #1 hits in 1989-1990, making him one of the only artists in any genre to do so. His streak of Top 10 hits got up to 24 before the #11 "Still Holding On" snapped it in 1997.
- Keith Urban sent 37 consecutive singles into the Top 10 of the country music charts between 2000's "Your Everything" (his second solo American single release) and 2017's "The Fighter". But in 2018, the streak was ended when "Female" stalled out at #12.
- Cole Swindell's first seven singles all went to #1 or #2 on the country charts, then "Stay Downtown" stalled out at #28 to break the spell.
- Starting with third single "Live Forever", Oasis always got to the top 10 of the UK charts, until "I'm Outta Time" narrowly missed it with a #12. (to make it worse, follow-up "Falling Down", which was also the band's last before they broke up, got to #10)
- Disturbed's streak of five #1 albums snapped in 2018, when Evolution debuted at #4.
Pro Wrestling
- Goldberg's 173-win streak (the longest in the history of pro wrestling at the time, though Asuka has since surpassed it) finally ended when he got tasered behind the Easily Distracted Referee's back, courtesy of Scott Hall and opponent Kevin Nash and Nash's new booking superpowers. The losses he suffered before the streak storyline begun were retconned.
- The Undertaker has appeared at WrestleMania twenty-odd times. After about the tenth time, everyone started making a big deal about who will be the first to beat him. Brock Lesnar finally broke it at WrestleMania XXX, leaving Taker's record at 21-1. He won his next two matches, however, but then lost to Roman Reigns before winning a Squash Match against John Cena.
- In 1995, jobber Barry Horowitz finally won a match (he had supposedly lost over 500 straight matches), defeating Chris Candido (aka Skip of the Bodydonnas). (In reality, Horowitz had some non-televised wins in the WWF, usually against fellow jobbers, as well as a win or two at the major arenas (Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia Spectrum, etc.) that were televised; the lengthy losing streak was used to put over Horowitz's gimmick as the perpetual loser.)
- Asuka has amassed a massive win streak of 214 victories, lasting over 900 days. It's gotten to the point that nobody could ever beat her for the NXT Women's Championship, and she had to vacate it during a kayfabe injury. On the main roster, Asuka managed to beat all of her opponents until WrestleMania 34, where she lost to Charlotte Flair.
- Kelly Klein had a long undefeated streak in Women of Honor, until Karen Q defeated her by countout. It was Goldberg-like, since the commentators would talk about how long she was undefeated.
Video Games
- Final Fantasy X gives you the option of ending the Besaid Aurochs' multi-year losing streak on Wakka's last game as team captain (the only thing it affects is if Wakka holds the trophy in the following cutscene).
- Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune hands out special titles for defeating a player with a sufficiently long victory streak. Additionally, it hands out a title for losing in Story Mode after winning the first 40 stages without a single loss: "First Black Mark".
- Call of Duty multiplayer modes often reward players with additional experience for ending other players' killstreaks or their own lose streaks, with a Buzzkill award for the former and a Comeback award for the latter.
- In Yandere Simulator Raibaru Fumetsu, the former Martial Arts Club leader, had a perfect undefeated streak, with no one unable to defeat her, until her protege Budo Masuda surprisingly challenged-and defeated her. Raibaru is actually relieved by this, as she wanted to retire from martial arts to pursue other interests, but felt obligated to stay on as club leader due to her 'Indestructible Rival' reputation. She promptly passes the leadership on to Budo and leaves the club, soon befriending the first rival, Osana Najimi, making her a formidable obstacle for Yandere-chan to get around if she wants to eliminate Osana.
Visual Novels
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:
- Phoenix Wright has broken the winning streaks of Miles Edgeworth, Manfred Von Karma and Franziska Von Karma, while his mentor Mia broke the winning streak of Winston Payne. (Godot lost in his first case)
- And depending on what ending you get in the last case of Justice for All you can end up breaking Phoenix's winning streak as well. Note that the good ending actually has Phoenix losing, because saving Maya and putting the guilty man behind bars is much more important than a perfect record.
- You can also subvert this, in that the good ending also allows you to save Maya and still get a "Not Guilty" verdict...at which point your guilty-as-sin client willingly pleads so and goes behind bars anyway, since the alternative was being marked for death by a world-famous assassin.
Web Original
- In Death Battle, Ryu taking the win over Jin ended the five year long loss streak that the Street Fighter series had been suffering.
- After winning his Movie Fights eight times in a row, Dan Murrell finally loses his title of "Undefeated Movie Fights Champion" during the "Jurassic World — Fun or Failure?" battle. Since that particular round wasn't a Title Bout, however, he'd remain as the Movie Fights Champion for some time.
Western Animation
- Hey Arnold!:
- "Road Trip": Helga's mom needs $500 to repair her car. Enters bull-riding contest with $500 prize. Rival has won 5 years running. Turns out she was state bull-riding champion, and she takes the money.
- "Tour De Pond": Not only is it a case of Feuding Families, but Rex Smythe-Higgins the 3rd has also won this race a couple years running.
- In the Peanuts movie Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown, the title character, as he is leaving for France, tells Schroeder to take care of the baseball field, whereby Sally bluntly tells him that "the last time you went away, our team won three games in a row."
- The only time Charlie Brown's baseball team had a winning streak where Charlie Brown himself wasn't benched for some reason, it was because a bug was going around that made all the other teams too sick to play. Said streaks invariably ended when Charlie Brown returned to the game or the other teams recovered.
- There was also the time he had a two-game winning streak, but that time it was because both opposing teams couldn't make it, and thus forfeited.
- In the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R." Tommy breaks his family's Tube-a-Thon Losing streak, despite his brother losing (everybody except him had actually tied for first place).
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Friendship Games: After a consectutive string of losses in the titular games against Crystal Prep, Canterlot High doesn't lose that year's games. Granted they don't win either due to some magical shenanigans and the reveal that the Principal of Crystal Prep, Abacus Cinch, flat out tried to cheat when she found human Twilight had been unwittingly collecting magic. But they're more then happy to take a tie. Even better it's a fitting punishment for Principal Cinch who prided herself on having a spotless winning streak.
- In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Pitch Purrfect," Zoe loses an audition for the first time, and in singing, which is her forte no less. However, it's not because there was a better singer, but because Zoe is a dog and tried out for a cats-only audition.
Real Life
- Awards Shows:
- Susan Lucci's run of Daytime Emmy losses for Erica Kane ended in 1999. This 28-year streak included 21 nominations.
- Kevin O'Connell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing 20 times between 1983 and 2007 without ever winning. In 2016, he finally won on his 21st nomination for Hacksaw Ridge.
- Ted Danson, despite starring on the incredibly popular sitcom Cheers, started to become known for consistently losing the Lead Actor in a Comedy Series race at the Primetime Emmys, to the point where his co-star Kirstie Alley made jokes about it at his expense when they presented together. He finally won for Cheers for the 8th season in 1990, on his 9th overall career nomination (8 for Cheers and 1 for Something About Amelia).
- Despite winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series 4 times in a row, Mad Men always had difficulty winning an Emmy for any its main cast members (whether they were lead, supporting, or guest stars). As time went on, it became especially notable about Jon Hamm, who was credited for helping to carry the show on his back and who would often show his range by jumping back and forth between Mad Men and appearances on comedy programs like Saturday Night Live or 30 Rock (occasionally earning Emmy nominations for the latter without ever winning either). Matthew Weiner would frequently talk about how surprised he was that Hamm would never be able to take home the prize, and the losses came in spite of Hamm winning the Golden Globe, TCA Award, and Critics Choice prize for his performance while the ensemble won the SAG Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama multiple times. It finally came to an end for the show's final season, when Jon Hamm won on his 8th nomination for Don Draper (and 16th career nomination). It was also the only acting win for Mad Men out of 37 nominations throughout its run.
- Game Shows:
- The most famous streak in Game Shows, Ken Jennings' 74-game Jeopardy! win streak, came to an end in November 2004 after he missed a Final Jeopardy clue which competitor Nancy Zerg got right. The cut to Zerg's look of shock as Jennings' wrong answer was revealed is now known as the "Zerg Cam" by the J! Archive.
- Movies/Television:
- Pixar provide several examples of broken streaks.
- After 11 films, all certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, they released Cars 2, which is currently at 38% on the Tomato-meter. Also, all Pixar films released since the establishment of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001 have been nominated for it, except Cars 2 and Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory...
- Predating Cars 2, Toy Story's streak of 100% Rotten Tomatoes ratings ended when Toy Story 3 got...99%. The first two critics with negative assessments (one of whom already had a reputation as both a Commander Contrarian and Pixar hater) were bashed to death, the third review only escaped with less flames for being released later.
- Inside Out ended the studio's #1 Openings streak as Jurassic World beat it out on its opening weekend, though Jurassic World exceeded even the most optimistic box office predictions and Inside Out managed to open with $90.4 million in the US and Canada, which is not only Pixar's best opening weekend for an original film by almost $20 million (beating out The Incredibles' $70.4 million opening weekend), but the biggest opening weekend ever for an original film, besting Avatar's $77 million debut. The film did go on to take the #1 spot in its third weekend, though.
- Unfortunately, the #1 streak came to an end for good with The Good Dinosaur. It was also their first bomb and their first film ever to not be nominated for a Kids' Choice Awards.
- Brad Bird's streak of Certified Fresh ratings as a movie director became broken when Tomorrowland received a 50%.
- Ever since Iron Man back in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has enjoyed entirely Fresh ratings on Rotten Tomatoes...until the Netflix show Iron Fist was released in 2017 to a whopping 16% on the site, putting an end to the MCU's 9-year streak of fresh ratings. However, the audience rating stands at 79%, continuing the fresh streak. It would be Inhumans that would break that area later in the year, having an audience rating of 51% alongside a critic rating of 8% - officially putting an end to the MCU's streak of fresh ratings.
- On the flipside, the DC Extended Universe has suffered from a three-movie critical panning (with a hefty dose of Critical Dissonance) until Wonder Woman was released to critical acclaim. For comparison, the previously highest rated DCEU film was Man of Steel with a 55% critic rating in Rotten Tomatoes. Wonder Woman beats it at 92%. For comparison, this is the the same rating The Avengers (2012) got.
- On the topic of DC/Marvel movies and Rotten Tomatoes, 2017 saw a long streak of acclaimed and positively received superhero films after the mixed bag of 2016 (where exactly halfnote got a Rotten rating and halfnote got a Fresh rating). The LEGO Batman Movie got a 90% Certified Fresh rating, Logan got a 93%, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 got an 83%, and Wonder Woman (2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Thor: Ragnarok all happened to end up with a 92%. And then along came Justice League, which got a rotten and comparatively paltry 40%, preventing 2017 from being a year where every superhero movie got a good rating.
- For most of 2018, there was a streak of positively reviewed superhero movies like Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Aquaman (2018), all of which were rated fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. However, Venom (2018) received a rotten 29% score, making it the only critically panned superhero movie of the year.
- NBC and Storyline Entertainment had a positive example regarding their 2010s series of live, made-for-TV musicals. The first two, The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live!, received mockery for their questionable casting, among other things. The third, The Wiz Live! boasted a cast with more extensive backgrounds in music and/or theater, and also addressed some aesthetic criticisms lobbed at the previous two musicals. Consequently, The Wiz Live! earned more positive reviews than its predecessors, and also scored higher ratings than Peter Pan Live! did.
- Ever since the release of A New Hope back in 1977, Star Wars has made a name as a roaring box office success of a film series, with The Phantom Menace, Rogue One, and The Last Jedi all crossing the one billion mark at the box office and The Force Awakens crossing the two billion mark, a feat shared only by Avatar, Titanic (1997), and Avengers: Infinity War. However, Solo came out exactly 41 years to the date (May 25), after A New Hope, and unfortunately flopped at the box office, becoming the first Star Wars film to ever lose money. It had a budget of $275 million and would've needed to have grossed $500 million to break even, and its final box office gross fell very short of that number at $390 million.note
- Pixar provide several examples of broken streaks.
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- The longest winning streak in the history of any sport is the one held by the Americans in the America's Cup yacht race. The American yacht won every race held between 1851 (the year of the original America's Cup race) and 1983 (132 years of consecutive wins) when the Australian yacht Australia II won the race. The Americans won the cup back in the very next race, and have continued to be the dominant force in yacht racing (winning six of the eleven America's Cup races since 1983), but since 1983, no single nation has been able to establish the same sort of win record since the American streak was broken. Note that this is technically an inversion of the trope for Americans, but straight for every other nation.
- The Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars won every sanctioned game they played from November 7, 2010 to November 7, 2015 when the Rose City Rollers Wheels of Justice defeated them by a score of 206-194, two weeks after the death of longtime team coach, Rob Lobster. The team posted to Twitter, "We did it, Robin," sending the entire Derbyverse into an Ugly Cry.
- The Boston Red Sox broke the "Curse of the Babe" and won the World Series in 2004, a drought that had lasted 86 years and through numerous close calls.
- And the Chicago White Sox won the year after (and 88 years since their last championship). The San Francisco Giants snapped their 56-season rut five years later, too.
- For the National Hockey League, the New York Rangers in 1994, their first Cup in 54 years.
- January 5, 1971: the Washington Generals beat the Harlem Globetrotters 100-99, bringing the Globetrotters' winning streak to an end at 2,495.
- On June 1, 2012, Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter in New York Mets history against the St. Louis Cardinals, ending their 8,019-game streak (roughly 50 seasons) without one.
- The Pittsburgh Pirates in 2013, broke their streak of 20 straight seasons with a losing record. They also broke the streak of not making it to the playoffs during that time span.
- Sussex won cricket's County Championship for the first time in 2003, after 164 years of trying.
- ASM Clermont Auvergne finally claimed its first French rugby union championship in 2010 after 99 years, with 10 previous seasons ending with title-game losses.
- The Detroit Lions lost nine Thanksgiving Day football games in a row, ending the streak in 2013.
- As noted below in the Exceptions section, Cleveland has had an infamous streak of sports championships as a whole since the Cleveland Browns won the NFL championship in 1964. That is 52 years of futility, close calls and heartbreak. It had gotten to the point that sports columnist Bill Simmons as well as beleaguered Cleveland fans sending him fan letters made a Running Gag in his columns about how God hates Cleveland whenever the Browns, Cavaliers or Indians were mentioned, especially when it comes to decades of mediocrity in which the city has been mired for all these years or sad memories surfaced in said years. Finally, LeBron James rallied his teammates around him and came back from a 1-3 series deficit to defeat the Golden State Warriors in the 7th game in dramatic fashion to win the NBA championship. James finally delivered on his promise of winning a major title for Cleveland. This gets bonus points because it happened on Father's Day, of all days and James himself is a father of 3 kids!
- As noted below again, the Chicago Cubs hadn't won the World Series in 108 years since their win in 1908...up until the 2016 World Series, where after several close calls (ending Game 4 with Cleveland one game away from winning the world series, losing a 6-3 lead in the 8th inning of Game Seven), the Cubs managed to pull ahead by two runs in the top of an overtime 10th Inning, and kept a one run lead to claim the title of 2016 World Series Champions.
- Michael Waltrip had his losing streak of 462 races broken by winning the 2001 Daytona 500, where his brother, Darrell, was cheering him to the checkered flag in the announcers' booth. It was overshadowed, however, by Dale Earnhardt's death in the same race.
- Until pulling off a stunning 27-10 upset in 2015, Temple hadn't beaten Penn State in football since 1941 in a very One Sided Rivalry. Penn State hasn't lost again to Temple.
- The 2018 Stanley Cup by the Washington Capitals not only broke a much tortured existence (filled with blown 2-0 and 3-1 leads), but was the first time a D.C. Big Four team had gotten past round 2 since 1998 (those same Capitals before a finals loss) and the first title of the capital since 1991 (the Redskins' third Super Bowl).
- The following year, the St. Louis Blues also broke a tortured losing streak by winning the Cup - which also made them the last surviving team of the 1967 expansionnote to win it all.
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- From 1993's Mystère onward, all of Cirque du Soleil's shows enjoyed indefinite runs in one venue or another. This streak of successes ended in 2010 when Banana Shpeel, a Genre Throwback to Vaudeville, bombed in New York City and couldn't make a go of it as a tour — ushering in a gloomy few years in which several other shows (most of which premiered in 2008 or afterward) were also shut down.
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- A Minute With Stan Hooper: The titular newsman wants change in the town he's moved to (it doesn't even allow women to vote), and decides to run for mayor against the 20 year incumbent, a bait shop owner who happens to have a political aide backing him. After spending a better part of the ep drumming up support, he ends up getting just 2 votes: himself...and the mayor's aide.
- Gilmore Girls, "They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?". Lorelei is desperate to break Kirk's winning streak (and her own streak of futility) at a dance marathon and almost does it (just like last year), but her partner / daughter Rory runs off the floor with 15 minutes left after breaking up with her boyfriend Dean (the real important event in this eppy), leaving Lorelai with yet another 23rd-hour loss as Kirk outdances the others to win his 5th in a row.
- Used in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, when Rosencrantz spends the first ten minutes of the play desperately trying to break a streak of turning up heads every single time he flips a coin. He can't. It's their first clue that reality is warping, and that they're stuck in something powerful that they might not be able to escape from by following any of the usual rules.
Western Animation
- The telefilm The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones: Looks as if Nate Slate is about to end his losing streak to a rival in a pig catching contest...time for Dino and Astro come in and inadvertently help sustain the rival's streak, naturally this also results in Slate berating Fred Flintstone.
- In Fairly OddParents, this is how the Bronze Kneecap became the Crimson Chin's Arch-Nemesis. He was once a jai alai player famous for a continuous streak of 3rd-place finishes, never quite being good enough to win. During a charity game, he was moments away from winning and finally breaking his streak when he tripped over the Crimson Chin, broke his kneecap, and came in 3rd once again. He vowed revenge on the Crimson Chin and has been fighting him as the Bronze Kneecap ever since (with equally little success).
- Also of note is that Bronze Kneecap only continues being a villain because, according to him, Crimson Chin never said he was sorry about being the cause of his loss. Also becomes a Chekhov's Gun later in the episode this story comes from when Timmy apologizes to a teacher who became a villain.
- South Park, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride": QB Stan is looking for his gay dog Sparky, while his football team continues its decades-long losing streak against Middle Park without him. Fortunately, the denizens of South Park were more interested in beating the 60-point spread, and Stan shows up in time to at least do that.
- As Told by Ginger, "Next Question": Ginger's school Lucky Jr. High is up against 9-time winner Furnace Brook in a televised quiz contest. Ginger asks her quiz team coach out on a date (!) right on the air (!!), resulting in Furnace Brook continuing their streak.
- Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Norrisville High's Chess Team has defeated Flackville High's eleven times in a row. When they tried the twelfth time, Hannibal McFist replaced one of Flackville's players with a robot that broke that streak, making several Norrisville students depressed enough to be stanked by the Sorcerer. The students reverted back to normal when Howard Weinerman, who knows practically everything about chess except for the pieces' names, defeated the robot.
Real Life
- The Boston Red Sox... in 1986. Bottom of the 10th, two outs, Sox lead 5-3. Then: single, single, single for a run, pitcher switch, wild pitch for the tying run, grounder through Bill Buckner's legs for the Game 6 win by the Mets, losing in Game 7 two nights later.
- The Chicago Cubs in 2003. Almost made it to the World Series, which they hadn't won since 1908 and hadn't even been to since 1945 (according to superstitious fans, because of a Curse by a vengeful goat-owning tavern owner). Despite holding a 3-1 series lead and having their two best pitchers on the mound for Games 6 and 7 and holding the lead twice, they still lost Games 5, 6, and 7 of the NLCS against the Florida (now Miami) Marlins.
- Karl Malone moved to the Los Angeles Lakers hoping to finally win the NBA title. He reached the finals but lost, leading to retirement instead.


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As a teenager, Srishti Bakshi dreamt of someday becoming the CEO of a company. When she moved to Hong Kong for work, she was well on her way to achieving her dream. A few years later, however, she took an unexpected U-turn. Coming from an army background, India was always close to Bakshi's heart. It was a harsh wakeup call when she realised that the country she so loved didn't hold much consequence for outsiders.
"When I was living in Hong Kong, I got the opportunity to meet a lot of different people from various parts of the world. Over casual dinner conversations with friends and colleagues, I was reminded time and again that I came from a place that these people would not choose as a holiday destination. A typical conversation would start like, 'Wow, you're from India, how nice.' My automatic reaction to this would be, 'Why don't you visit? If you want to plan a trip, I could help you.' And that would be met with an incredulous, 'Oh, India would be the last country I would travel to.' The discussion would always veer towards how unsafe India was for women," she recalls.
Bakshi found herself feeling distressed about India being mentioned in such a light. Then two years ago, she read about the Bulandshahr case, where a mother and her teenage daughter were gang raped in front of the father and brother. She says, "I felt failed by the entire system. When I spoke to people back home, they told me nothing will change or to not talk to them about it as it upset them. I realised that people weren't recognising it as a social crisis. That's when I decided to do something about it, to bring in energy to the same discussion in a very different way."
Bakshi decided to walk across the subcontinent to understand the gravity of the problem and add to solutions that people were already talking about. She adds, "Right now, we're pointing fingers at the government and the judiciary system, but we've never looked to ourselves for solutions. We can do a lot if we put our mind to it. That's the whole sentiment of the movement—we have to participate to bring about change." In September 2017, Bakshi drew up a plan to walk 3,800 km from Kanyakumari to Srinagar. Along the journey, she conducted workshops on gender sensitisation, financial and digital literacy, leadership, knowledge of one's rights, health, hygiene and sanitation, etc. The on-ground movement was mirrored online through a mobile app called CrossBow Miles. The app motivates people to walk—to just donate their steps to the causes that are listed on it. It is a nodal point for organisations that work for the betterment of girls and women to collaborate with each other. So, say, if you walk 1000 steps for the education of girls, those 1000 steps will be converted into a notebook for a girl child in a rural area.
Preparing for this gruelling walk was another matter altogether. There were two sides to it—personal strength and logistics. "I trained for a year and a half to prepare my body to go under duress. I was trained in muscle repair therapy and I built my core through CrossFit and weightlifting. The other side was planning the logistics of this journey. I wrote to district collectors, police departments, and state and welfare departments. My team consisted of 12 people on-ground taking care of operations and logistics, and I was the person walking and conducting the workshops," she explains.
While the walk was physically strenuous, it was also emotionally draining. Bakshi came across girls and women who were suffering because of issues she was trying to eradicate. For instance, during a workshop in a classroom, she saw a 13-year-old girl who was married. She says, "I wondered what I could do for her. I knew I couldn't rescue everybody. There were moments when I broke down. You can feel the pain when you're sitting across the embodiment of the issue at hand. But I also saw human potential, the hope and courage to overcome these problems." Along the journey, Bakshi encountered people who had experienced the worst kind of tragedy, and people who had left their gory past behind. "We met a family who lost their daughter—she was gang raped and then set on fire. We also met a mother with a five-year-old daughter. The daughter was raped by her grandfather. But with her child, she left the family and has started working towards a new life. Our duty then became to find these women who were everyday heroes and who can inspire others."
Bakshi put her heart and soul into this movement and people's responses have made it all worthwhile. By the end of her walk, she met around 75,000 people and conducted 110 workshops. One of the most common issues Bakshi and her team encountered was domestic violence. "By our assessment, this was found in seven out of 10 homes. Domestic violence is being perpetuated by multiple reasons including dowry and alcoholism, and these reasons aren't being addressed individually. Online activism will only help so much. We need people and organisations working these issues on the ground," she says.
Besides the CrossBow movement, Bakshi was involved with the Internet Sathi programme; in association with Google, where she promoted women's empowerment through financial and digital literacy. The UN Empower Women Champion for Change says, "We went to villages to create awareness about what the internet has to offer. More often than not, there would only be one phone in rural households and women didn't have much access to it. We wanted to convert the phone into a powerful medium for skill development. We taught women to use the internet without having to know how to read and write."
Bakshi and the CrossBow Miles team were in Mumbai recently for a finale that included a musical evening and a night walk. She has previously conducted night walks in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Gwalior and Delhi. The purpose of these walks is to make cities safe for women even when it is dark outside. Bakshi says, "We all have a common goal; to create a platform to congregate the sector, especially the non-profit sector working for women's issues. Our focus will be on generating funds and volunteers for them. The walk may be over, but we're still not done."
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Christine Marie Slaughter is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of political behavior and psychology, race and ethnic politics, and poverty. A second stream of research specifically focuses on gender & politics and millennial voters. Her work focuses on the effects of poverty and inequality on political efficacy and civic and political participation. My teaching interests include Black Politics, American Politics, Poverty and Inequality, and Quantitative Methodology.
Christine is a recipient of the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2016) and the American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship (2016). She has presented research at several national, regional, and sub-field specific academic conferences. She also is a Graduate Research Assistant for the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey. Christine holds a Master's of Arts in Political Science from UCLA.
At Spelman College, she studied Political Science and Comparative Women's Studies graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2015. She is a former UNCF/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
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Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, has announced Nigerian Entertainment Today (theNETng), along with two other Nigerian brands, as partners to debut updates to its social plugins.
This announcement was made at the 2016 Facebook Developers' Conference (F8) during a session titled creating high quality sharing experience, which was hosted by Facebook Product Manager, Alyssa Levitz and Engineering Manager, Brian Dewey.
The new Facebook features – Quote Sharer and Share Composer – were created to aid easier sharing of important nuggets of information from content publishers.
The NET website, which now sports a revamped new look, is now the first Nigerian entertainment platform with Facebook Quote Sharer functionality. This enables users to highlight text on the NET website and share directly onto Facebook via an instant on-page plugin. This feature will help publishers drive traffic back to their pages, while saving users the stress of capturing screenshots and having to crop out unneeded information.
Also, NET is now fully integrated with Facebook Instant Articles, becoming one of a very small number of African platforms and the very first Nigerian entertainment news publisher to be integrated in this manner, alongside global brands such as BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, National Geographic, NBC, and The New York Times.
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Furthermore, NET today announced that it will be joining the Facebook Free Basics Program which is part of Internet.org . Internet.org is a Facebook initiative to connect the billions of people who are not on the Internet today, considering the fact that for every 10 people that get online, 1 person gets lifted out of poverty because they have access to tools for education and finding jobs.
The Facebook F8 Event, which held in San Francisco, California, is a mostly annual conference organized by Facebook for developers, entrepreneurs and project managers who build products and services around the social networking platform. This year's F8 Conference saw announcements of several important new features from Facebook such as Facebook Quote Sharer, Facebook Messenger Bot Platform, 3rd Party App Profile Videos and open access to Facebook Live among others.
Giving his thoughts on the announcement, NET founder, Ayeni Adekunle who was in San Francisco for F8 remarked,
'This is a clear demonstration that we take user experience seriously, and that we are keen on putting social first. Technology is driving the future of media in more ways than anyone can imagine, and we are focused on using the opportunities therein to help our visitors connect better with one another and with the celebrities and events they care about.'
Launched on November 23, 2009, TheNETng provides celebrity news on the go to young Nigerians. Today, NET has become the world's number one source for Nigerian entertainment with over 5 million users and 6 billion in cumulative views and retaining a formidable spot as a top 10 entertainment website in Nigeria since its inception in 2009.
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NET Funnies – a collection of original comedy content and funny videos, created by a team of NET writers and comedians
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Obama veep vetting team looks at ex-military brass
Barack Obama is considering former top military leaders among his possible running mates, according to senators who met Tuesday with the Democratic presidential candidate's vice presidential vetting team.
North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad said the team asked him about potential candidates from three broad categories: current top elected officials, former top elected officials and former top military leaders.
Conrad would not disclose which names they discussed, and the Obama campaign has been keeping the process a closely guarded secret.
"We talked about many names," Conrad said, including "some that are out of the box, but I think would be very well-received by the American people, including former top military leaders."
A running mate from the military ranks could help address concerns that Obama lacks foreign policy experience, having served just three years in the Senate.
It could also provide a counterpoint to the military bonafides of the Republican ticket, which will be led by Vietnam War veteran John McCain.
Obama has a three-person team managing the vetting process that includes one-time first daughter Caroline Kennedy, former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Jim Johnson, the former CEO of mortgage lender Fannie Mae.
The vetters have been holding meetings with several Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill to get their input. Conrad met with Holder and Johnson.
Johnson and Holder also met with North Dakota's other Democratic senator, Byron Dorgan, who confirmed that former military officials were discussed, along with a "good many names" of other potential candidates.
Many former military leaders have been involved in the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign.
Some of Obama's most prominent campaign advisers have been retired Gen. Tony McPeak, who was Air Force chief of staff during Operation Desert Storm; retired Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, who flew repeated combat missions and has worked with Obama on a range of military issues since before he began his presidential campaign; and Richard Danzig, who was secretary of the Navy under President Clinton.
He might also look at some of former rival Hillary Clinton's top military advisers in a gesture of unity, retired generals who include Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; or Wesley Clark, who led the war in Kosovo and sought the Democratic presidential nomination four years ago.
Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, who served as Navy secretary under President Reagan, has also been frequently mentioned as a possible running mate.
Campaigning in St. Louis, Obama was asked about criticism from McCain of Johnson, who received loans from Countrywide Financial with the help of the firm's chief executive, Angelo Mozilo. Countrywide, which is being bought by Charlotte-based Bank of America, is part of a federal investigation in the midst of the subprime mortgage crisis.
Holder has also come under Republican criticism for his role in helping fugitive financier Marc Rich get a pardon from President Clinton.
Obama said he was not hiring "a vetter to vet the vetters."
On Tuesday, Democrats raised questions about Arthur Culvahouse, the former Reagan administration official helping with McCain's vice presidential search.


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text: The agreement was signed by President Thein Sein and 16 ethnic groups [AP] After more than 60 years of armed conflict, the government of Myanmar and ethnic rebel groups today agreed on a draft nationwide ceasefire agreement geared towards ending civil war, the United Nations said in a statement. The agreement, which was signed by President Thein Sein and 16 ethnic groups, comes after more than a year of intense negotiations between the government's Union Peace Working Committee and the rebels Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team, which were formed to hash out the accord. Landing a nationwide ceasefire agreement ahead of general elections slated for November has been a major priority for the quasi-civilian government - which took power in 2011 - as it looks to solidify its commitment to reform. Various ethic rebel groups have been at odds with the government since Myanmar gained independence from the British in 1948. "The signing of the draft accord between the NCCT and UPWC will pave the way for holding political dialogue," Myanmar President Thein Sein was reported as saying by Reuters during a surprise visit to the site in Naypyitaw this morning where the accord was signed. He added that the accord will be forwarded to the parliament for approval and the final agreement to be drawn within the next couple of months. Naing Han Thar, head of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team charged with facilitating the ceasefire, told reporters on Monday that even though an agreement has been realised, several unspecified issues were omitted and would need to be negotiated before the ceasefire is finalised. "We have some different views about the framework and when we will hold political dialogue," he said. Nevertheless, the United Nations lauded the agreement as an important first step towards a larger dialogue for creating sustainable peace. "For the government of Myanmar and 16 ethnic armed groups to reach a ceasefire agreement after more than sixty years of conflict is a historic and significant achievement," Vijay Nambiar, the UN special adviser on Myanmar, said in a statement. Despite the agreement however, the ceasefire does not include a ceasefire with the Kokang ethnic Chinese group whom the government has been fighting in northern Shan State since February. Experts, meanwhile, remain sceptical that the deal will result in any meaningful impact. "I'm not that confident that the agreement will have any major impact on the ground any time soon," said David Mathieson, a senior research for the Human Rights Watch in Myanmar. "The real impact will be when communities on the ground benefit, from increased human rights protection, security from rampant land grabs and destructive development projects and the greed of armed groups, both government and ethnic," he said. "That is a long way off, so any analysis of the ceasefire agreement has to put these challenges in perspective. Real peace is years away." This week's talks were the latest of seven rounds that began in 2013. SOURCE: Al Jazeera War & Conflict Myanmar Asia Pacific


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