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Beef with 'Rief: Saints/Bears game to be among best in recent rivalry
The Saints took care of business in the first quarter of their schedule to start 4-0, becoming the sixth team since 1990 to start 4-0 after going 0-4 the previous season.
But now it's time to see how good they really are when the black and gold hit the road for the next two weeks.
Some would say the Chicago Bears are the Saints' next biggest rivalry behind the Atlanta Falcons, and I won't argue it from just going to the games as a fan.
The word "fan" is where it starts. I've seen Saints and Bears fans fight and argue at games in the Dome. It's just a hate for each other that drives this rivalry.
Since Sean Payton has been the head coach, the Saints are 1-3 against the Bears. Payton's only win against Chicago came in 2011 when he beat them 30-13 in New Orleans. The Saints knocked around Jay Cutler, sacking him six times, and Drew Brees threw for 270 yards and three touchdowns. The other three losses came in the Windy City in three straight seasons with the biggest one coming in a playoff game.
In 2006, the Saints went to Chicago for the NFC Championship and were blown out of the Windy City 39-14 by Rex Grossman and the Bears running attack.
The next time they played was the following season right back at Soldier Field. The Saints were fighting to get into the playoffs, but the Kyle Orton-led Bears beat them 33-25 in the final game of the 2007 season. It was a game where Pierre Thomas had a coming-out party with 105 rushing yards and 121 yards receiving, becoming the first player in Saints history to accomplish that feat.
The trips to Chicago didn't stop there. The Saints returned the next season for a Week 15 battle with playoff implications on the line. The Saints took the Bears to overtime before losing 27-24 on a frigid Thursday night to get knocked out of playoff contention.
The last time the Saints won in Chicago was 2000 when Jim Haslett's team went to Soldier Field and beat the Bears 31-10. Jeff Blake threw for 230 yards and three touchdowns, while Ricky Williams ran for 130 yards and a score. Yes, they did beat the Bears in 2002, but that was played in Champaign because Soldier Field was being renovated.
After a short history lesson, we get back to the current game.
This, in my opinion, will be one of the better ones in this rivalry.
Chicago has gotten to 3-1 because of its potent offense, and I wanna start right there: Bears offense versus Saints defense.
The Bears are putting up close to 32 points per game, and the only other team in the NFL scoring more per contest is Denver. The Saints defense is allowing 14 points per game and hasn't given up more than 17 in any outing.
The Saints have to find a way to frustrate Bears quarterback Jay Cutler just like they did in 2011. The Lions picked him off three times and made him fumble once in Detroit's 40-32 win last week.
I always felt if you can frustrate Cutler, you can beat the Bears. Cutler seems to always lose focus when he's being rattled, allowing teams to just take over games.
He's always had issues with his offensive line in the past but has no reason to complain with Jermon Bushrod, Kyle Long, and Jordan Mills protecting him. Those guys have held him upright so far, allowing Cutler to get sacked only six times.
The Saints have done a good job at getting to the quarterback with 12 sacks, and the sixth-ranked defense in the league will have to find a way to maneuver its way through that line.
Cutler has three good targets in Earl Bennett, Brandon Marshall, and Martellus Bennett, who have seven of Cutler's eight TD receptions. It will be interesting to see how Keenan Lewis, Jabari Greer and the safeties matchup against them.
The Saints defense has forced 10 turnovers, and if Cutler has a bad game, watch out for the flood gates to open up.
I will say that running back Matt Forte may frustrate the Saints defense if they don't contain him. The former Tulane Green Wave player is fifth in the NFL in rushing but hasn't had a 100-yard rushing game this season.
The Saints' one downfall has been rushing yards allowed. They're ranked 22nd, giving up 112 per game, but through the air, they're fifth in yards allowing just under 200 yards per contest.
Let's flip flop things here.
The Bears defense isn't the defense we are all used to seeing.
They're near the bottom of the NFL in passing yards allowed, and that's something you don't wanna hear as a Bears fan with Drew Brees coming to your house.
Brees started off the season a little cool but has warmed up the last two games with close to 800 yards and eight total touchdowns.
For the Bears, they're thinking containing Jimmy Graham will be the key, but that's not the case with No. 9 using Kenny Stills, Nick Toon, Marques Colston and Darren Sproles as a safety valve.
The two guys Brees must keep an eye on are Charles Tillman and Major Wright, who have a combined seven forced turnovers. Those two guys are a big reason for the Bears being plus-five in the turnover margin department.
All right, back to Jimmy Graham.
Can Tillman and Wright hold down the most dangerous weapon in the game? Four teams have tried and all four failed. Graham is tied with Wes Welker for most TDs in the NFL with six and his 458 receiving yards ranks him second behind Julio Jones.
As for the Saints' running game, it hasn't worked to this point, and I don't see it getting better any time soon unless the offensive line improves. The good news for the line is the Bears only have six sacks this year, but knowing that Brees has been dropped 12 times they may up those numbers.
I usually don't talk about special teams but feel like I have to with the most prolific returner in the game playing for the Bears. Thomas Morstead must keep the ball away from Devin Hester, because he's one return away from changing the game for the Bears.
My pick to click this week is Marques Colston. I try to go away from the usuals like Brees and Graham unless it's Monday Night Football. I think the Bears will be so worried about Graham that Colston will have a lot of chances Sunday.
Final prediction: The line in this game is even, so I'm looking at head coaches here. Both Marc Trestman and Sean Payton will go head to head in play calling. Give me Payton in this one. Payton is eventually due to win one in his old stomping grounds. I did say when the season started I would not pick the Saints in every game, but I have to go with them this week. I always pick the hot team until I see something I don't like.
Saints 31, Bears 27
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The Assad regime, which has instigated a bloody crackdown against protesters leading to accusations of human rights abuses (Reuters), is now facing the weight of sanctions imposed by the international community, most recently the Arab League. CFR's Mohamad Bazzi, a leading Arab expert, says the Assad family is the most isolated it has ever been. "There is no precedent for the regime dealing with this many crises and sanctions at the same time, so it must be feeling more threatened than ever before, but there is very little indication that it is about to capitulate to the Arab League," he says. The consequences of sanctions could cause the business elite to actively turn against the regime, but security forces are likely to remain loyal, Bazzi says. He adds that Iraq and Lebanon, Syria's major Arab trading partners, are not supporting the League's embargo, which could hamper its effectiveness.
The Arab League over the weekend approved sanctions (LAT) against the Syrian government. Is Syria able to weather the political storm or is it really teetering on collapse?
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This is certainly the most isolated the Assad family regime has been since it was founded forty-one years ago by Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez al-Assad. Syria has faced international isolation before and faced sanctions from the United States over the years and sometimes from Europe as well. But this is the first time it's facing these kinds of sanctions from fellow Arab countries. There is no precedent for the regime dealing with this many crises and sanctions at the same time, so it must be feeling more threatened than ever before, but there is very little indication that it is about to capitulate to the Arab League.
On Monday, the day after the sanctions decision was announced in Cairo, the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid al-Moallem, was quite defiant (Bloomberg) in Damascus. He was indignant at what he called the "economic war" on Syria. He made some real threats in pointing out Syria's location in the region and how Syria is a transit point for commercial traffic. He was alluding to the fact that much commercial truck traffic from parts of Europe and from Turkey going to the Persian Gulf has to go through Syria. Many Arab airlines have to cross Syrian airspace. He seemed to be suggesting that the Syrian government might retaliate. The regime doesn't appear to be about to give in, but the sanctions definitely heighten the pressure on the regime. The most important consequence might be that these sanctions could make life so difficult that the business elite, especially in Damascus and Aleppo--the Sunni business elites that have stayed on the sidelines since the uprisings began--might finally have enough and turn against the regime.
As you just noted, the so-called "Sunni business elite" has been backing the Alawite leadership of Assad, and the Alawites are a part of the Shiite sect. But would the business elite just fold up shop? What could happen?
It's not entirely clear if they still support Assad actively. I would guess that many of them don't support the regime. They have stayed on the sidelines by not financing the opposition, or encouraging more protests, or going out into the streets themselves, or shutting down their businesses, or participating in general strikes and these kinds of activities. This business community, if it turns against the regime more actively, instead of standing on the sidelines and being passive, could begin to participate in strikes. It could cause widespread closure of businesses, activities that we saw, for example, in the lead-up to the Iranian revolution that brought down the shah in 1978 and 1979. Such activity could bring the Syrian economy to a total halt.
There is no precedent for the regime dealing with this many crises and sanctions at the same time, so it must be feeling more threatened than ever before, but there is very little indication that it is about to capitulate to the Arab League.
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The Syrian economy has already been damaged quite severely over the past year. Two major economic sectors, tourism and oil, have been struggling because of the unrest and previous sanctions from the United States and Europe. Syria doesn't have a lot of oil, but now because of the sanctions it has very few places to sell that oil, and the regime has had to dip into its foreign currency reserves to stay afloat. There have been reports of problems securing heating oil, and food is getting quite expensive in Damascus. People have much less purchasing power. All of those factors taken together make life more and more difficult for the average Syrian, who might not have gone out into the streets actively against the regime, but who now will have to suffer the consequences of the regime's intransigence. So we have something of an economic death spiral that's accelerated as a result of these sanctions.
What about the security forces? Is there any chance of a military coup?
That doesn't appear likely right now. The security forces are still loyal to the Assad regime, and many of those security forces are Alawites. The regime has tried very hard to keep the security forces, instead of the army, as the first line of defense against the protesters. They've had to deploy the Syrian army to various cities and towns, but often they have the security forces go in first to carry out the most severe repression, to carry out the arrest and torture of people. The security forces have been wildly indiscriminate in killing protesters and carrying out torture and imprisoning thousands of people.
For now it seems that security forces are still as loyal as ever to the Assad regime. Part of the reason is because so many of them are Alawites; they see this as a struggle to the death, that it's either kill or be killed. Part of the regime's success in the past few months has been to convince the Alawites that their future is tied to the Assad family. This fear has also crept into the thinking of some of the other minority communities in Syria, especially Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the population. They've been pretty solidly behind the regime because they fear the alternative of radical Islamists taking power.
Why hasn't Assad carried out his promises to have reforms and to lead the way to elections. In fact, he repeated some of this in an interview (CNN) with the Sunday Times recently.
Assad and other members of his regime began talking about this constitutional revision process, amending various laws, allowing or setting up a committee to study a multi-party system, to study also the possibility of allowing more than one candidate during elections. But those were all very cosmetic initiatives, and were designed to buy more time. There's a lot of rhetoric, especially about setting up the committees and studying various reforms, but the central demand of the protesters--having real competitive elections, disbanding the Ba'ath party monopoly on power, which is enshrined in the constitution--has not been addressed. So as time has gone on, the opposition and the international community have lost faith in Assad and his desire to accept any real change.
If Assad had responded dramatically differently when the protests began, and he had accepted some of [their] demands, he could have actually been a competitive candidate if there were real elections for the presidency.
Right now, the regime is focused entirely on security. The regime has argued that it's facing external terrorist groups and they need these clean-up operations in various cities that will restore public order. The regime has tremendous fear of real reform because it's that it would lose power if there were genuine elections. If Assad had responded dramatically differently when the protests began, and he had accepted some of these demands, he could have actually been a competitive candidate if there were real elections for the presidency. At that time, before the very brutal crackdown, he still had a considerable level of popular support.
At the time of the Arab League decision, two nations didn't support this resolution imposing sanctions. One was Iraq and the other was Lebanon. Can you discuss the relationships of those two countries with Syria?
[A lot of Syria's] economic activity centers on its neighbors Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan. Without Iraq and Lebanon participating in these sanctions, it's going to be very difficult for the Arab states to enforce them.
Lebanon has a very active banking system, and Syrians over the years have kept money in that system. We might see more banking activity, more funds from Syria ending up in Lebanese banks. There's a government that's very friendly to Syria right now in Lebanon, and certainly the current Iraqi government is also very sympathetic to the Syrians. Part of the reason that the Iraqi government has been so supportive to the Syrians is because of Iran, which is a major backer of Syria. We have a Shiite-led government in Baghdad that's an important ally of Iran, and Iran is probably Damascus' best friend right now. The Iraqis are acting as Iranian proxies when it comes to Syria. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his allies have shown that they're going to support the Syrian regime as long as the Iranians try to keep Assad in power.
In Lebanon, you have a host of complicated factors where the current government is led by Hezbollah, which is another important ally of Iran. Syria has been the most crucial transit point for Iranian weapons and material support to Hezbollah, so Hezbollah has been very reluctant and quite scared of losing its ally, the Assad regime.
Let's talk briefly about Turkey, which, of course, has come out fairly strongly against the Assad regime. Were you surprised by this?
Turkey had been ambivalent for several months. At first, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, tried to be as supportive as possible to his friend Bashar al-Assad. He gave Assad many chances to respond to end the crackdown, and finally the Turks got extremely frustrated with Assad breaking his promises. Erdogan called on him to step down recently. The Turkish government expressed support for the Arab League decision.
The central question is going to be how involved will Turkey become, especially in supporting the Syrian opposition. Is Turkey going to provide a safe haven for Syrian opposition, and especially armed groups and Syrian army defectors? Will the Syrian opposition be able to rely on Turkey as a staging ground? Will they be able to transit weapons into Syria through Turkey? Those are all open questions.
So far, Turkey has allowed several thousand Syrian refugees to live on its territory, so it's dealt with the humanitarian aspect of the crisis. It's also allowed some of the Syrian army defectors, the so-called Syrian Free Army to remain in Turkey. It also allowed some political opposition leaders to operate in Turkey, but it's not entirely clear if the Turks are going to allow their territory to be used as a staging ground for wide-scale attacks against the Syrian regime. I think that the Turks are naturally worried about what Assad's response would be. Would Assad then support some of the Kurdish separatist groups, and instigate them to attack Turkish targets? That's always been one of the games that the Syrian regime plays.


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text: Home > News and Events > Media Centre > Press Releases > Club Care Launches Caravan Theft Alert System Club Care Launches Caravan Theft Alert System Search Press Releases Monday 15 October 2012 Caravan industry figures suggest that the number of caravans reported as stolen are decreasing year on year, however research* by Club Care Insurance shows that on average just three per cent of stolen caravans are recovered. To tackle this on-going problem, Club Care Insurance, supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (AVCIS), has created a Caravan Theft Alerts System, http://www.caravantheftalerts.co.uk, which will be officially launched tomorrow at The Motorhome & Caravan Show at the NEC, Birmingham in October. Nigel Coppen, Client Director at Club Care, said: "At its peak it was estimated that around 5,000 caravans were stolen each year so we launched this system to allow the caravanning community to use the internet and social media to report their stolen caravans and to encourage the general public to report any sightings." The new mobile-friendly system will enable stolen caravans to be reported to the Caravan Theft Alerts website by insurers or owners. Any confirmed genuine sightings of a stolen caravan will be passed onto the police, who will then follow up the leads and seek to recover the caravan. Upon retrieval, cash rewards may also be offered by the insurers or the owners themselves. For more information as to how the system works, view Club Care's video on their website: http://www.caravantheftalerts.co.uk Tim Booth, Leisure Vehicles Officer with ACPO Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, believes the system will provide a significant boost to the recovery of stolen caravans. He said: "In recent years the industry has worked hard to reduce the number of caravan thefts. By involving the consumer this initiative will further support this work. This system increases substantially the chances of early recovery and I commend it." Tim also offered a word of caution regarding gathering details to submit a sighting, and added: "Under no circumstances should any member of the public put themselves at risk to gather information about a potential sighting. Even if they can only collect small amounts of information, such as part of a registration number on a towcar, this could be enough to trace the caravan." If you would like to share this system, website and blog owners can create a customisable widget by visiting: www.caravantheftalerts.co.uk/widget For more information visit The Camping and Caravanning Club's stand in Hall 18, Stand 18 at The Motorhome & Caravan Show where video content, explaining the system in further detail, will be available to view. Ends For further media information or images, please contact: Jon Dale, 024 7647 5204, 07748 936464 email@example.com Kim Blythe, 024 7647 5224, 07951 153074, email@example.com Sara Drinkwater, 01789 491610, firstname.lastname@example.com Editorial Notes: 1. The Camping and Caravanning Club is 110-years-old and is the largest and oldest Club in the world for all forms of camping. It has 109 award-winning sites throughout the UK and, through a partnership with the Forestry Commission, now runs and manages a further 20 Camping in the Forest Touring Sites. 2. www.realrichness.co.uk was launched on Monday, April 18, 2011. 3. www.newtocamping.co.uk incorporates all forms of outdoor holidays. Club Care is the long-established provider of insurance for members of The Camping and Caravanning Club, meeting the specific needs of those who enjoy the outdoor lifestyle. Club Care specialises in touring caravan insurance, static caravan insurance, motorhome insurance, trailer tent insurance and camping insurance, but also offers a host of other products too. You do not have to be a member of the Club to enjoy Club Care's products, but members receive a discount on premiums and a host of other policy benefits. *Source: ACPO Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service and Club Care caravan claims data


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Carrick shooting kills young Mount Washington man
Michael Palombia, 18, found on sidewalk on Brownsville Road
An arrest has been made in a shooting that killed an 18-year-old Mount Washington man just after midnight Monday in Carrick.
Loc Doc Vong, 22, has been charged with criminal homicide and carrying a firearm without a license in the death of Michael Palombia.
Pittsburgh police said they found Palombia with gunshot wounds to the neck and stomach shortly before 12:30 a.m. Monday in the 2500 block of Brownsville Road. He later died at UPMC Mercy.
Officers were sent to the area for a report of a fight outside the Brownsville Inn Bar, and they said Palombia was lying unresponsive on the sidewalk when they arrived.
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Police said a witness reported that he was inside when he heard a group of people yelling outside, followed by two gunshots.
The witness said he went outside and saw two people, both female, getting into a late 1990s or early 2000s white Nissan or Toyota sedan that left the area going up Churchview Avenue toward Kirk Avenue.


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Waitsfield voters rejected new subdivision regulations by a vote of 115 to 70 this week.
Polls were open on Tuesday, October 23, for voters to affirm or reject revised subdivision regulations. The regulations were approved by the town select board on July 23, with one dissenting vote. In August the town received a petition from 82 residents asking that the matter be brought forward for a public vote.
The rejection of the new regulations means that the town's old subdivision regulations, adopted in 1988, remain in effect. Those old regulations were cited by planners and reviewers as outmoded and one size fits all in terms of how they viewed the disparate areas of the town. The new regulations took a more careful look at the town and were written to be responsive to specifics of the town's geography, development and settlement patterns.
The new regulations were more specific to the town's various districts and zones and better reflected and use patterns and historic uses, according to the authors. The old regulations offered up a single pattern of regulation for the entire town without regard to use, topography and natural or scenic resources.
In addition to overhauling the old regulations, the new regulations contained some nuts-and-bolts housekeeping amendments such as allowing the town's zoning administrator to grant simple lot line adjustments without requiring the applicant to go through the entire application and regulatory review process. That time-saving measure is now lost along with other small amendments.
A vocal opponent of the new regulations was select board member Paul Hartshorn who said that the new regulations allowed the town to blackmail would-be subdividers into giving the town a right of way for a future road network. At public hearings on the regulations, Hartshorn said the regulations allowed town-sanctioned blackmail and allowed the town to take property without compensation.
His issue was with a clause in the new regulations, which calls for planners and specifically the development review board to consider development access roads as they relate to existing public and private roads in terms of proximity, connectivity and topography.
That section of the new regulations reads as follows: (emphasis added)
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(c) follow existing linear features, such as utility corridors, tree lines, hedgerows and fence lines;
(e) avoid fragmentation of farmland and other natural and cultural features identified in Section 3.3.
The planners who wrote the new zoning countered that the former zoning contains the same clause and that both are based on portions of the Town Plan. The current regulations, which now remain in effect, read (emphasis added)
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The board's support of the new regulations follows three years of planning work on the part of the planning commission, updating subdivision regulations adopted in 1988. After planners and hired consultants revamped the regulations, they also heard from a group of local land use attorneys who raised issues with several aspects of the new regulations. The planners incorporated some changes suggested by the local attorneys and did not adopt others.


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Mondago Limited are pleased to announce that their flagship product for the BroadWorks hosted telephony platform, Go Integrator DB, now provides support for Zoho's new telephony integration interface (PhoneBridge).
Mondago's Commercial Director, Rob Cox, stated: "We are very excited about this release and believe the improved the level of integration and the enhanced partner status with Zoho will be of significant benefit to users of Go Integrator and Zoho."
Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho Corp stated: We are highly invested in finding the right telephony vendors to partner with. The vendors powering the newly released Zoho PhoneBridge integrations are all leading players in their respective regions and they all have very powerful products. We're excited to work long term with these fifteen companies, while we also actively reach out for new partnerships.
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The Truth About Rock, Paper, Shotgun
I cannot maintain my silence any longer. As someone who has been working behind the scenes at Rock, Paper, Shotgun since it launched, and seen what's really been going on here, I have to reveal the truth of this company. How am I supposed to sit back and watch as the website is adulated across the internet, bestowed with numerous awards for the supposed success of its "four main writers", and celebrated as the site that invented good games journalism. I have recently found out I'm to be dismissed in the next round of lay-offs at RPS, as the company once again fires the "little people" who actually run the site, while the ego of the Big Four grows. So I've started this blog, and I'm using the login details I've got for RPS until they figure out how to stop me. Like those idiots ever could.
Working for Rock, Paper, Shotgun basically means pretending you don't exist, and giving the credit for all your work to Jim, Alec, John or Quintin. Their names go at the top of the posts, their names go on the comments below, their names go on the awards after. Anyone who speaks up, who suggests that more credit should go to the actual authors, is very quickly out of work.
So if you want to know what really goes on at RPS, I'll tell you right now.
First, the Big Four don't know what they're doing. Quintin Smith is the cruellest man I've ever encountered. All he does is sit in his palatial London apartment, sucking up to the right people. You want to know how he got the job on RPS? It wasn't because of his writing talent. Let's just say that with enough money, and enough dirt on the right people, it's very easy to get a position on the RPS board. He's never written a single word of copy in his entire career, and instantly fits right in to the "team".
Alec Meer used to be the decent one. When the company started, he was the one who would talk to the staff writers, the art production teams, and so on. He didn't actually do anything, of course, but would at least be courteous to those who did. That all changed with time. Now he's rarely to be seen outside of his offices. No one knows what he does in there, but the stories of screams and crying animals are rife.
John Walker – "The Funny One" as they so hilariously call him – is the biggest arsehole of them all. By far the least funny person I've ever encountered, his lack of a sense of humour leads to his misunderstanding anything anyone says to him. The endless rages are legendary in the office, inevitably because he doesn't get a joke on the site, and starts screaming the place down. I could tell you about the out-of-court settlement that prevented one of his victims bringing to light the incident with the chair. Maybe another time. But let's just say that he's got enough money to make sure people don't need to hear about his violent tendencies.
And as for Jim Rossignol, who thinks he's the boss of the whole enterprise. It's pretty sad really. The delusional old man sits in his luxury country cottage, banging away on a keyboard that's not plugged into anything, while barking orders at his staff to build him ever-more improbable robots. You should see what they have to do, dressing up in tin foil-wrapped cardboard to appease his insane ranting, as he picks up and slams down a disconnected phone. It's hard to hate such a tragic figure. But it's also pretty hard to see him receive credit for the book he pretends he wrote.
Want to know more? Keep reading. I can keep ranting.
You're probably wondering about Kieron Gillen, and the coup that led to his getting fired. Oh, he left voluntarily you say? No, he was fired. The other four, with Quintin the "brains" of the operation, plotted to get rid of him so they could split his salary between them. Quintin saw an opportunity to replace Kieron in the Big Four, and within a couple of months KG was gone and "Quinns" (as he likes to pretend we want to call him) settled in to his position and salary. I bet Quintin is enjoying the sweet new chicken and ham pie he bought after leaving the knife in the man who mentored him.
Kieron was no saint. Promoted far beyond his ability he had to rely on so many underlings to get anything done. And the sycophancy of Jim, John and Alec. It wasn't until Quintin joined the team that any of them had the guts to try to launch the coup, and blame Kieron for all of RPS's many failings. Sure, their audience figures may be climbing all the time, but what you've got to wonder is where that audience is coming from. There's only so much money that can come in from all their shady deals with various publishers to pay for those South Korean sweatshops to keep refreshing the front page. Or keep clicking on Alec's features, as he insists they do.
And what do they all have in common? All of them have barely written a word on the site. The content is generated by faceless drones, trawling the net for stories to copy off of Kotaku, inevitably bawled out by John or Quintin for whatever the write, no matter how many hits it may get. Don't get enough hits, and you're gone. Oh, and repeat a post that someone else has already posted, even months ago, and the bollocking you receive is never forgotten.
And you know what they're most proud of? This is the kicker. They are most proud of their Captcha system. They boast about how effective it is, its ease of use, and how it's changed the site for the better. They spent $300m on it. It's the only thing the four of them have done on the site in at least a year.
So there it is. Firing the competent. Rewarding the incontinent.
I say it anonymously so I can keep my next few pay cheques coming.
So I'm a louse. A big fat RPS louse.
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Gannett and other media companies are embracing hyperlocal Web sites as a new way of engaging fleeing readers.
Donna Shaw
Donna Shaw (email@example.com) is an AJR contributing writer.
In Mesa, Arizona, several neighbors are feuding over a limousine company that's allegedly being operated out of one family's upscale home. In Lebanon, Ohio, an artist is exhibiting her quilts in a local coffee shop. Visitors can stick around for a wine tasting. And in Noblesville, Indiana, new mother Leigh Anne is concerned about her 6-month-old son's oddly shaped head.
Not exactly the stuff of headlines, you say? Then you haven't been following one of the hottest trends in journalism, known as "hyperlocal" news.
If this sounds vaguely familiar, like the Neighbors sections of newspapers, it's more like Neighbors on steroids. The most innovative hyperlocal Web operations have strong database and video components, multiplatform tools and accessibility, and far more reader input and interaction.
There's no official definition, but generally a hyperlocal news site (also known as local-local or microsite) is devoted to the stories and minutiae of a particular neighborhood, ZIP code or interest group within a certain geographic area. Such sites have been springing up on the Internet for some time now, initially as independent startups, created and maintained as labors of love by founders who work on a shoestring budget (see Drop Cap, December/January). Other sites are making money (although generally not a lot) by offering inexpensive advertising space for local businesses--the mom-and-pop restaurants, dry cleaners and crafts shops that can't afford to advertise in citywide publications. Some hyperlocal sites have content produced at least in part by paid, professional journalists. Many others don't.
It's a development that has captured the attention of large media companies, which are on the prowl for opportunities to create revenue streams and lure readers, and has spurred a number of them to start experimenting. In addition to offering blanket coverage of a community, the approach can help journalists build stronger relationships with readers, who contribute ideas and expertise. But it also has the potential to trivialize a media organization's brand and further saturate news sites with myopic local (and frequently unedited) content, perhaps at the expense of foreign and national reporting.
To keep that from happening, the hyperlocal approach necessitates care and thoughtfulness, according to John S. Carroll, former editor of the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun. He sees it as "well worth exploring" but difficult to deliver in terms of matching the quality of the primary news product. "I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but if it's executed without sufficient investment, it will hurt the paper and harm society," he says.
When Carroll arrived in Los Angeles in 2000, the Times was publishing neighborhood inserts called "Our Times," which stressed local news but, to his mind, diminished the L.A. Times. "People perceived the paper to be a large, sophisticated metropolitan paper, and within that paper, they were receiving these fairly shoddily edited and shoddily reported neighborhood papers, which led to a dissonance," he says. "People read it and said, 'What kind of paper is this?'"
Rob Curley, the hyperlocal guru who in October joined Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive as vice president of product development, thinks newspapers can tackle these projects while maintaining quality. His team is just starting to show off some of its innovations, with more to come soon: Curley is keeping most of the details under wraps. "Journalists hold the papers like the Washington Post up as, 'This is what great reporting looks like.' But if you live in Washington, this is your local paper," he says. "So covering local stories is an honorable profession."
If it takes hold, the hyperlocal movement means some fundamental, groundbreaking changes in the way traditional journalism is conducted. Many media chains are beefing up their online local ventures, but in terms of sheer numbers of news-papers involved, no one is moving more aggressively than Gannett. The nation's largest chain by circulation (90 daily newspapers, including USA Today) will roll out its "local information center" approach division-wide by May 1. The shift reorganizes reporters and editors into a 24-7, multiplatform operation and invites readers to be among its eyes and ears.
"There's so many other places you can get Anna Nicole Smith," says Michael Maness, Gannett's vice president of strategic planning. "Our role is to become even more vital by focusing on the hyperlocal."
Gannett's new approach will usher in many more hyperlocal sites, some organized strictly by geography and others by interest groups. Local communities will get their own Web pages, and so will mothers of young children. (It was at one of those sites, the Indianapolis Star's IndyMoms.com, that Leigh Anne learned from other parents that her baby's head shape probably was no big deal.)
In a December 2006 presentation to Wall Street analysts, Sue Clark-Johnson, president of Gannett's newspaper division, said the strategy was developed last spring and tested at 12 newspapers. The results were "overwhelmingly positive," with Web traffic increases "double that of the base group." Gannett's other divisions, including USA Today and broadcast, are looking to adapt the approach, she said, noting that it "can be accomplished without additional resources."
While the information center requires professional journalists to work more closely than ever with the public, don't confuse that relationship with citizen journalism, in which readers play an active role in collecting and reporting the news, Maness says. "We are very careful to stay away from network or citizen journalism," he says. "In terms of doing news, you still need that professional journalist--people who can build on [readers'] leads."
One element of Gannett's model, Maness explains, involves "crowdsourcing"--asking readers for advice and expertise on certain stories--but still leaves the journalism to journalists. "The public recognizes what journalists do, and when we say, 'Be a journalist,' they don't know what that is. But when we ask for help, they're much more comfortable with that," he says.
In practice, the hyperlocal approach has meant more reader photos, videos and opinions, like the conversation involving the feuding neighbors in Arizona. But it's also led to some substantive journalism, as it did for the News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida, when the paper asked readers why local homeowners had to pay so much for new water and sewer hookups.
"Within three hours, they had a whistleblower," Maness says. "Eventually they had to put three investigative reporters on it because they had so many leads." The result: some 110 stories that led to a 30 percent reduction in the fees and the resignation of a local official. "All of this was enabled by the community," Maness adds. And just as important, "the way the community views the Fort Myers paper is that they are really a champion, a community watchdog."
Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, says Gannett is "moving into a very creative zone," adding, "They've been able to articulate a vision.. and move forward on it."
In a February report, Schaffer concluded that new kinds of media companies are starting to emerge because of hyperlocal sites that fuse "news and schmooze." The J-Lab study is based on 31 in-depth interviews and a survey that garnered responses from 191 readers, contributors and site operators. Those responses may contain some lessons for media companies in search of elusive readers: Schaffer learned that many hyperlocal sites have sprung up in communities where citizens felt they weren't getting adequate coverage from local newspapers. Others said their towns used to get coverage but lost it as newspapers cut costs.
Now some hyperlocal independents boast that, as a result of their growing voices, the mainstream media companies are returning to their areas--and even considering whether the hyperlocal model might be profitable.
Schaffer thinks that journalists "may need to rethink their mission" and the kinds of products they want to develop for their various audiences. "The really successful [citizen] sites out there have a lot of naked caring and passion for community, and it's not what we journalists are comfortable with," Schaffer notes. So it's important to remember that the people participating in the hyperlocal citizen sites generally don't think of themselves as, or want to be, journalists--"they just want to get information about their communities." Schaffer thinks media companies would be wise to partner with these sites, tapping into the ideas and expertise of community members. "It's a bargain," she says.
Mark Potts, co-founder of the hyperlocal network Backfence.com, couldn't agree more. A journalist by trade (he worked at the Washington Post), he has no professionals writing for his sites, which number seven in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., three in the Chicago suburbs and another three outside San Francisco. On the Bethesda, Maryland, site, there's a review of a local sandwich shop ("With everyone on a first name basis, it's so relaxed and friendly"); on the site for Skokie, Illinois, there's a lively discussion about education.
Backfence.com was founded in 2004 (see "Dotcom Bloom," June/July 2005) and launched its first sites in 2005, but this year had to scale back. Potts says he is "very actively" pursuing partnership deals with several media companies. "I think the big media companies weren't ready for it, but in the last six months or so...they see this as something that they should be involved in," he says.
Like Maness, he sees a future in giving readers the local news they can't get anywhere else. He can read about Iraq or Iran or Britney Spears anywhere, Potts says, "but I can't find out about the local baseball team or where there's a good pizza restaurant... We're getting into something that's completely uninteresting to somebody five miles away."
For large media companies to be successful with this approach, Carroll thinks local-local would be better defined as "unique-unique"--that is, play to your strengths and provide truly newsworthy content that your publication is in the best position to provide. "In every area, there are unique things, stories that the local paper can dominate," he says. Examples: In Lexington, Kentucky, where Carroll now lives, the Herald-Leader (which he used to edit) should aspire to be the world's best source on University of Kentucky basketball and perhaps also thoroughbred horse breeding and the Appalachian coal business, he says. "Those aren't local-local--those actually have very broad interest, but they happen to be where the paper is situated."
Carroll says he's glad the Washington Post is experimenting with hyperlocal news "because it could help find the way out of the wilderness, or failing that, it will tell us where the path is or is not." But he thinks it would be foolish for the Post to follow what he sees as Gannett's lead and "try to cover every neighborhood in the D.C. area at the expense of what they do."
He continues: "My concern in reading about the Gannett initiative is that it will take manpower to do it, and it would be uncharacteristic of Gannett to add manpower. They're going to take manpower from somewhere...they may hit the neighborhoods, but they may miss the big picture."
Maness says that for Gannett, a chain made up mostly of smaller and medium-size newspapers, the emphasis on local news won't hurt national or foreign coverage, for example, because most of its papers are too small to have far-flung bureaus. What's more, he says, "there are strong opportunities for taking national stories and making them local," through their own reporters and the extensive databases they are compiling and putting online. So a statewide story on property taxes can be rewritten several times for different communities. "It can double or triple the views of that story," Maness says.
He knows that such ambitious plans may be met with skepticism and fear in some journalistic corners. His philosophy about the transition: "We should be engaged, not fighting it." He adds, "The role of the journalist is still to say, 'There's more here. And we're going to get it.'"
AJR contributing writer Donna Shaw (email@example.com) wrote about online scoops in the magazine's October/November issue.


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Gimpsy - An Overview
Gimpsy? That's an uncommon name! How did you get it?Gimpsy was the name of our hamster pet. An energetic, friendly, cute and industrious little fellow, which is very appropriate for what we have in mind for this site. Incidentally, the 'G' in Gimpsy is pronounced hard, as in 'Gear' and not soft as in 'Gin'.
So what is Gimpsy?Gimpsy is an Internet directory that categorizes sites in a new and unique way. Unlike other Internet directories, which categorize sites according to their subject, Gimpsy is concerned first and foremost with the service that a site provides.
What do you mean 'according to their subject'?Imagine the World Wide Web as a huge virtual library, with millions of 'books' (web sites). As in every library, a user needs some assistance in finding a particular book.
Enter the book catalogue. In it, each book is assigned to a 'category' according to its subject (Philosophy, Poetry, Chemistry etc.) Usually, each subject is further divided to more specific areas (In Philosophy, for instance, you will find 'Ancient', 'Greek', 'Religion' and such like). In a 'brick and mortar' library, the book is located on a particular shelf. To find it, you search for it in the catalogue, which then directs you to the right shelf.
Similarly, an Internet directory is a virtual 'site catalogue' which defines virtual 'shelves'. In it, sites are placed in a given category according to their subject. For example, eqi.co.uk, a share dealing site, will be found in the Open Directory under the following category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Financial Services: Stockbrokers: Online Trading
How does that contrast with 'the service that the site provides'?Here a different analogy will serve us better. Imagine the World Wide Web as a huge virtual city and you as a visitor touring it. As in a real city, there are shops and malls, estate agents, advertisers, broadcasters, banks, insurers, galleries, cinemas, schools, etc. If you are unlucky or naive you may also encounter thieves or con men.
Further imagine that you want to buy some shares. How do you find where such activity takes place? You can go to the Tourist Information Center and ask: "I want to trade in shares. Where can I do it?" You will be directed to the nearest share broker or given a list of brokers in the vicinity.
Gimpsy works in a similar way. The site eqi.co.uk will be found under the category: trade > shares. In Gimpsy the sites are examined and categorized only with respect to the service that they provide. The Gimpsy Mission Statement sums it up:
Gimpsy will be the definitive guide to the World Wide Web virtual city.
Is it not a Search Engine?Not at all. Search Engines are more like the Index often found at the end of scientific books. Using it, you can find on which page a particular word or phrase appears. Likewise, Search Engines are indexing all the web pages that they come across. That is, they build a huge reference list that shows on which web page particular words appear. When searching for a page or site using a Search Engine, no semantical relationship is assumed between the words in the search phrase. See the following real-life examples of results returned by some Search Engines (names omitted):
Obviously, the results do bear some relationship to the search phrase, but not to the purpose intended by the searcher. In contrast, entering the same search phrases in Gimpsy produces a list of sites that provide only the required service. Thus, for the first search phrase you will get (among others) the site www.new-era-homes.com and for the second www.computerbooksdirect.com. It is quite evident from the name of the domain alone that the sites actually provide the required service. If you need convincing, just try out any of the phrases in the example box on that page with any other search engine or directory and compare the results with the list produced by Gimpsy.
Obviously, some results generated by other search tools do match the user's intention. In some cases you will find that most of the results are appropriate. At Gimpsy, however, all the results are fully relevant every time. Quite a bold statement, coming from a small furry creature...
So will Gimpsy understand every search phrase?Sadly, no. It will only recognize simple statements. The example box shows what types of search phrases are currently understood by Gimpsy. As the site continues to grow and develop, so will the number of Natural Language expressions for which it will return relevant results.
Having said that, Gimpsy does show remarkable flexibility. For instance, it will produce the same search results for all the following phrases:
'buy books on computers'
That sounds great! So how do I search in Gimpsy?Gimpsy was designed to be as easy to use as possible. Just type in what you 'want to do' and click on 'find' (or press the 'Enter' key). Alternatively, you can click on any of the categories in the highlighted window on the Home Page.
If you care to look under the hood, you will find that Gimpsy wields tremendous power (you wouldn't have thought it possible for a cute hamster, would you?). The following examples illustrate some of the more apparent manifestations of it.
Say you entered the search phrase 'open personal bank account'. If you live in the US, it will be of no use to check the 'FirstDirect.com' site, as it only accepts UK residents! Similarly, UK users have no interest in checking out American bank sites that exclude non-US citizens. In Gimpsy, once you set your location in the 'Preferences' page, you will only see sites that 'cover' your place. In other words, Gimpsy will only list sites that are serving your country or region.
Another example. You want to 'download a video player'. There are more than 10 sites that offer that service. As it happens, you are running the 'Linux' operating system and you want to get the software free of charge. Not a problem. Use the Filters provided and select...
Operating system -> Linux
Click on the 'Apply' button and you will get a much shorter list of sites that provide the service 'download a freeware video player for Linux'. Neat, isn't it?
Do you intend to include every web site?Absolutely not. Gimpsy only covers sites that provide an interactive online service. If a site is only a repository of information, such as a newspaper, it will not be included. Even a store that has its catalogue online, but does not allow users to shop online - will not be included. That's why we have coined the slogan "Active Sites for Active People". Gimpsy provides excellent service for the active people, that want to accomplish something online.
How are the search results ordered?The first few entries in the search result may be (but are not always) 'featured sites'. You can tell that they are, because they are distinctly highlighted. There are several ways for promoting a site to become a 'featured site', including paying for it. If you are a site owner or just want to learn about this aspect of Gimpsy, follow the link Gimpsy help - Site Owner. The order of all the other sites is randomly generated and changes once a month.
Randomly??? That IS odd...In Gimpsy, all the sites listed in a search result are directly and fully relevant to the user. On the other hand, sites placed higher in the list get more visitors. It is unfair to penalize a site that happens to begin with 'z' and reward the 'AAA' sites, as do other directories. Gimpsy gives sites a fair chance to be in a prominent position!
If sites pay to be featured, why don't you show the amount?Unlike other directories, which get paid for every time the user clicks on a site link, Gimpsy has a different commercial agreement with the featured sites. The site pays a lump sum, which is unrelated to the number of users clicking on the link. The exact amount is commercially sensitive information and is not disclosed. However, since Gimpsy does not directly benefit (from your decision to click on a site, nor is the site owner charged) for you doing so, you are left free to make your choice without such considerations.
What are the advantages of registration?When you register, the following benefits become available to you:
I have a question/comment/complaint/suggestion/... What can I do?Gimpsy is eager to hear from you. Once you register, you will have access to the feedback page. Just try it and you'll see why we pride ourselves by the customer service we provide. Anything you say will be seriously considered and treated with utmost courtesy and confidentiality. You are assured to get a timely reply.
I would like to learn more about Gimpsy. Where can I go next?That depends what particular information you are interested in.
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Marcelo, Paul, Armand and myself) work in different studios right now. Here are a few shots Armand just emailed me, fresh from the oven. The other two are works of mine that were displayed at CTNX this year, the first (from Trail of Steel) is a very special one for me, it is the last drawing i did before having a daughter! The second is one of the drawings I did for El Pacifico, pirate adventure graphic novel work which somehow was the origin of the talk we had on Saturday in Burbank.
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Artist on a canvas
of green felt
by Jim McCarty
You don't
want to shoot pool with Charles "Spitball" Darling. You especially
don't want to shoot pool with him if money, your car, your cue stick
or the World Artistic Pool Championship are on the line.
52, burst on the trick shot scene by winning the world championship in
2001. But hundreds of others learned the hard way years ago — this
guy is good.
He got
that way by doing what mothers warn their kids not to do. He hung out
in pool halls, specifically the now-defunct Jim's Pool Palace in
Pacific where Charlie grew up. "I hung out there all the time,"
says Charlie, who now lives in Washington. "I couldn't get
enough pool. I had a real knack for it."
By age
14 there were few contenders who could sink an 8 ball against Charlie.
Adults who challenged him went home without their paychecks. Charlie soon
found he had to travel farther and farther away to play.
County got a lot smaller as I got better," he recalls. "When
I was 15 I had to go to St. Louis to find a game."
workers Charlie knew would set him up in high-stakes games. "The
subject of pool would come up on the job. They would say, 'I've
got this 13-year-old kid who can whip you.' That weekend I would
be off playing." He rarely let his friends down.
In the
early 1960s Charlie played many different games. Snooker was a favorite,
as were more obscure games you don't see played a lot today. One
game was called Kelly. Players drew numbered balls from a leather bottle.
Then they would try to sink the ball with their number on it. Another
game, cribbage, required sinking two balls with numbers adding up to 15.
days people play 8 or 9 ball," Charlie says. "Years ago people
played more of a variety of games. There are probably 100 or more games
you can play on a pool table."
took his pool skills to college. As an art education major at the University
of Missouri, he discovered Mizzou once had a pool team. "The old
boy in charge said, 'We just let it drop, no interest in it.'
I said, 'You have some interest now' so he reinstated it."
traveled along with Mizzou's chess, bridge and bowling teams to
two Big 8 tournaments each season. "I was the University of Missouri
pool team," Charlie says.
in Columbia Charlie learned a trick that would earn him his nickname.
Columbia Billiards brought in a man from Tennessee for an exhibition.
The man's hands were crippled so badly he could not hold a pool
cue. Instead, he spit the cue ball from his mouth to make shots.
was making some real simple shots," says Charlie. "The thing
he ended his show with was spitting the ball out of his mouth and going
five rails and hitting the ball in."
was pretty sure he could do better. "I found I could fit the ball
in my mouth. The next day I got on a table and tried it and I made it
on the first try. I kept trying it and the rest is history."
Spitball Charlie wows customers at his downtown business, Washington Billiards,
with an amazing show of spitball tricks. Spitting the cue ball from his
mouth, he can make half a dozen shots that would be nearly impossible
with a cue stick.
the spitball antics are for fun, Charlie also is a wizard with a stick
in his hand. In between tending bar at his pool hall he spends hours honing
his trick shot skills, often walking around the table knocking down shots
with one hand. The table nearest the bar is where Charlie holds court.
Its green felt surface is pockmarked with tiny dimples caused by massé
shots — taken with the cue stick held vertical in order to make
the ball curve.
His feats
on a pool table defy the laws of physics. One shot has him place the number
1, 2, 3 and 4 balls on top of four beer bottles. He then banks the 5 ball
off the back rail. Before the 5 returns he moves across the table and
sinks the first four balls in order. The last falls just as the 5 ball
passes between the bottles and drops in the pocket.
For some
shots the cue ball reverses direction or curves around another ball. His
"swish" shot requires shooting five balls into the corner
pocket without them touching the table. Another trick has the ball bank
off the back rail, leave the table through the bridge and roll across
the floor to knock a ball off a beer bottle.
uses anything he can find in the pool hall to set up trick shots, including
cue sticks, ball trays, the rack, pennies, beer bottles and bottle caps.
Even wrappers from a fast-food hamburger get used in a shot that has the
ball flip out of two bags before hitting the pocket.
used shots like these to win the 2001 World Artistic Pool Championship.
He was third in 2002 and sixth in 2003 at a match held in Kiev, Ukraine.
In October
he will be one of eight people invited to a trick shot event held by sports
channel ESPN. This will be his second time in the ESPN competition.
played in it last year and hopefully I will win it this year," Charlie
says. "I'm going in with a win-the-thing attitude."
In the
ESPN event players take turns shooting. Their opponent then has two chances
to duplicate it. "If someone's got a shot I haven't
seen I have a good idea how to make it. There's nothing out there
that scares me," Charlie says.
A win
in the Oct. 1 match might spell a new career, Charlie says. The match
will be repeated on TV more than 100 times. And that would give Charlie
enough exposure, he thinks, to take his act on the road.
Charlie plans to spend September practicing his shots 6 to 8 hours a day.
"I do it over and over again," he says of his practice sessions.
"It's like being in a nuthouse."
holds court at Washington Billiards located at 3rd and Jefferson streets
in Washington. He can be reached at (636) 390-8498 or email@example.com.