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This weekend, TLC — which no longer has anything to do with learning, and everything to do with cruelty to people — will debut its new reality series, "Geek Love," which follows the speed-dating scene among sci-fi dorks at various Comic-Con type conventions. Basically, it's a window into a world of lonely desperate people searching for a connection beyond what they get from their television sets and action figures. It's an incredibly easy premise to make fun of, and of course, the overriding temptation is to point and laugh at the overweight geeks with their Chewbacca mating calls and homely geek women wielding light sabers.
Subscribe to UPROXX But that's the point, isn't it? That's exactly what they want. They want us to point and laugh at the misfortune of others, which serves a dual purpose: It boosts our own egos by comparison, and it boosts the profits of the cable networks that exploit the fringes. It's mean-spirited television gawkery. Of course, "Geek Love" is not the first of its kind; it's simply the latest in a series of reality shows designed to elicit our mockery and mean-spirited derision. After the jump, we'll examine four more reality shows that prey upon our collective schaudenfreude.
Virgin Diaries: How can you not make fun of this show? It's about 30-year-old virgins who are completely and hilariously clueless about sex! Of course, TLC insists that they're not exploiting these virgins; they're celebrating them! "A lot of stories about later in life virgins talk about it like a problem. We want to show that this is something that can be celebrated." Right. Because when I see the GIF below, my first instinct is to celebrate the love of two people that have finally found one another and will bask in the joy of their simultaneous de-flowerment. Uh huh.
Toddlers and Tiaras: "Toddlers and Tiaras" is perhaps the most cruel of all these reality shows because it takes pre-adolescent girls and subjects them to our collective judgement. These girls — five or six years old — aren't allowed to be "girls," they're infantalized women buried in three inches of pancake make up and dolled up to look like American geishas. Why? So their selfish mothers can feel good about themselves? What do we get out of it? Security in the knowledge that we're not as horrible as the parents, who scream at their daughters for having fat arms or for eating too much junk food. And, of course, these poor girls are going to grow up to be just like their despicable mothers.
16, 17, 18 19 Kids and Counting: It's not that the Duggars are just kookoobananas, they are. It's that they're raising an army of loony tunes nutjobs that will grow up to be cast members of "Virgin Diaries" and continue the shame cycle of American reality television. And how do they feed those kids? Keep them clothed? The profits they make from a show about how messed up it is to have 19 kids (and a miscarriage), of course, all the while feeding into the TMZization of the Internet. Why do we watch? Because we can point and laugh at how horribly irresponsible, selfish and narcissistic it is to flood civilization with a troop of wackjobs created in their own image under the guise of religion. Hey Michelle: Your vagina is not an assembly line equipped to poop out your own production of Oliver. Put a lid on it, lady, and save some of the world's resources for the rest of us.
The Kardashians: It's one thing to exploit the lives of geeks, virgins, over-populaters or even the obese. But I think it crosses the line when you build a show around mentally retarded people. That's low, even by reality show standards. Those poor women; they can barely string a coherent sentence together, and I'm pretty sure they'd get their asses handed to them by Forrest Gump in a game of Chutes and Ladders ("What's a chute?"). Yet, we laugh and point at these mentally impaired celebutards who are forced into Botox treatments and plastic surgery whenever they are disfigured by wrinkles and laugh lines. The sad sisters are even forced to share a limited number of brain cells. Moreover, no one will love the sad things; their husbands keep leaving them. And we, the viewer, we point, and we laugh, as we watch these unfortunate brain damaged women try to navigate complex obstacles, like stairs, or face difficult questions, like which shoe goes on the left foot, and which goes on the right.
5 Reality Shows Cruelly Engineered to Provoke Pointing and Laughter
This weekend, TLC — which no longer has anything to do with learning, and everything to do with cruelty to people — will debut its new reality series, "Geek Love," which follows the speed-dating scene among sci-fi dorks at various Comic-Con type conventions. Basically, it's a window into a world of lonely desperate people searching for a connection beyond what they get from their television sets and action figures. It's an incredibly easy premise to make fun of, and of course, the overriding temptation is to point and laugh at the overweight geeks with their Chewbacca mating calls and homely geek women wielding light sabers.
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By: Upstate Underdog12.15.2011 @ 4:08 PM
I would argue that "Toddlers and Tiaras" provokes fist shaking and rage, not pointing and laughter.
By: Taco_Jones12.15.2011 @ 4:22 PM
Besides shows based around kids, these people chose to be on display.
By: Taco_Jones12.15.2011 @ 4:26 PM
Sure, Virgin Diaries and Geek Love are solely created for people to gawk and poke fun at, but I'm pretty sure if you polled the people who actually watch the Kardashians, The Duggars, and Toddlers & Tiaras, you would find that most of the audience isn't watching with disdain. Talk to a fan of the Kardashian shows and you'll find a fan of the Kardashians themselves (what that says about us as a culture is something else altogether). The only time those shows are served up to the rest of us for mockery is when they're on The Soup.
By: Burnsy ☆12.15.2011 @ 4:34 PM
I'm shocked there hasn't been a SNL sketch combining the Duggars and the kissing family.
By: LastTexansFan12.15.2011 @ 4:46 PM
I can't wait for Tebow to be on Virgin Diaries.
By: bob loblaw12.15.2011 @ 4:47 PM
My favorite bit of irony in that FFC/Lowes debacle was that the FFC continued to call TLC "The Learning Channel" in regards to the one show where its appropriate.
By: bob loblaw12.15.2011 @ 4:48 PM
Oh, and if you watch Geek Love this weekend, I'm TOTALLY not the geek that talks about posting on a TV blog called Warming Glow.
By: Steve12.15.2011 @ 5:19 PM
Actually, I believe the term "The Learning Channel" still applies because when you look at these shows, see the people on it, and most importantly, realize that people enjoy watching them, you learn exactly how fucked up we are as a species.
By: Alcoholics Gratuitous12.15.2011 @ 6:33 PM
*Pushes up nerd glasses*
Um Chewbacca is a character in Star Wars, and is a Wookie. His name is Chewbacca but the mating call that poor bastard attempted was of the Wookie. Any Wookie could have made it, as the female Star Wars fan in the video proved.
How long did they leave up the definition for nerdgasm? Long enough for us non-nerds to phonetically sound out the words? I don't know – these might be actors playing nerds.
By: bob loblaw12.15.2011 @ 6:49 PM
There are two ee's in Wookiee
By: Dustin Rowles ☆12.15.2011 @ 6:59 PM
NEEEEEEERD OFF! 3:00. After school. Behind the dumpsters. Bring your BlasTech DL-44.
By: bob loblaw12.15.2011 @ 7:04 PM
Impostor nerd. You know conflicts of this sort are resolved by a role of a 32 sided die.
I read everybody's gushing posts about Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and Remedial Chaos theory. There are more of you out there.
By: Aeyos Cot12.16.2011 @ 9:51 AM
TLC has to be the single greatest argument against the defunding of PBS. And for that I am thankful.
By: NakedCritic12.16.2011 @ 11:55 AM
Shouldn't it be 16, 17, 18 19, 20, no wait, still 19 Kids and Counting?
By: oldskooled12.19.2011 @ 11:25 AM
i wasn't gonna watch this show because of this (and other angry nerd reviews) but then i started getting blasted with tweets about it so i checked out a replay. it's actually sweet and while yeah, they make fun of some nerd stuff, this is not "cruelly engineered" or really anything like you said. i think your post says a lot more about you than it does this show. i know you need to post something, but how bout not bringing all your baggage to the boards?


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I use a 50 ft. Better to have too much than not enough.
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X2. Make sure to bring extra blades. They work pretty good for cutting into ceilings for grills too. And scraping off old tape and mastic.
I have a 4 cylinder Toyota Tacoma access cab that I drive when I'm not working. It does everything I want BUT the back seat really isn't meant for people. Too small. My work truck is a F150 supercab...
I've used the ryb hoses with no problems whatsover for a couple of years. In fact, I bought another set for spares.
I have one and don't carry it, but it does work pretty good :)
Fieldpiece sc46 with a fluke 902 for backup
Texas pretty much requires you to have EPA AND register to be legal.
The majority of the inspectors here in north Texas only care whether it's done to code or not.
I've been putting them in the primary without problem for the last couple of years. Ive never had to put one in the secondary or the pan to get it to pass inspection.
No joke. The psc motors seem to be a lot more forgiving
I just replaced another x13 out of a carrier airhandler. I think that makes 7 now in a month. All carrier products.
I've changed 4 of them in the last two weeks. All in carrier/ICP products.
Ive got one with the analog gauges. Like it better than the yellow jackets. But you're gonna need adapters for the digicool
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I just developed the same problem. Did send Dad an email. :(
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Robin Fabricius, Chair of the ElderCare Board of Directors of the local non-profit agency, has announced new staff. Gaila A. Nielsen will be the Executive Director for ElderCare, Inc. Nielsen will direct the Home Care and Nutrition divisions of the agency. Nielsen was with Legend Senior Living in Topeka and Lawrence as Regional Director of Sales and Marketing, Ellinwood School District and Alterra Healthcare in Great Bend.
It is customary during the Christmas season to give generously and to support local charities. A group of employees at Van Wyk, Inc. proposed to take up a collection from their co-workers to do just that. Worthy causes were selected in each of the states where the company has terminals. Dave Van Wyk, President of Van Wyk, Inc., agreed to match dollar for dollar what was raised by employees up to a total of $2,000.
Realtor members giving back to their communities and participating in local events has been an ongoing effort for the Great Bend Board of Realtors for many years. They have given both individually and as an association. Some of the organization that have benefitted from such giving are: KANS for Kids, Special Olympics, Family Crisis and Kansas Honor Flights to name a few. The quarterly giving project has selected the second quarterly recipient as The Humane Society. The local Humane Society received $1,000 to help with their ongoing mission. As the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization ...
The Kansas Department of Transportation announces approved bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects in Kansas. The letting took place Nov. 19 in Topeka.
The Great Bend Chamber of Commerce & Economic Development recently recognized the efforts of five individuals who will finish their service to the Barton County Young Professionals Steering Committee at the end of 2014.
All assets of one local non-profit entity are currently being transferred to another to ensure donors' contributions will be used for their intended purposes.
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The Kansas Society of CPAs held its annual meeting on Nov. 19, at the Hyatt Regency in Wichita. Michelle Schneider, Great Bend, was elected 2014-15 Chair of the 2,700-member Kansas Society of CPAs (KSCPA) at the Annual Meeting.
Landmark National Bank is collecting donations of non-perishable food items to help benefit the Barton County Food Bank. Donations can be dropped off at either of Landmark's Great Bend locations, at 1623 Main Street or 5200 Broadway.
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Learn the varieties of jade
Published: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
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Please join me in a dream, or maybe a nightmare. We are antiquing in California, enjoying museums and shops up and down the West Coast. We enter one art shop filled with fine and rare antiquities. While browsing, our eyes settle on a shelf with several extraordinary jade vases. When we check the price tags, we find that all the vases command five figure prices, but their age and beauty justify this.
While we are perusing the jade vases our feet tingle a bit, and then they start to vibrate. Soon the room is shaking and merchandise everywhere is falling and crashing. It's an earthquake. We watch the jade vases as the slip on the shelf and then our dream switches to slow motion as we watch the valuable artifacts tumble slowly over and over in the air as they plummet toward the floor. Just before impact, we wake up with a start, dreading the crash.
This dream actually happened in 1953 in an art shop in Santa Barbara, Calif. But the real shock is not the jade hitting the floor, it is the fact that none of the jade was damaged. That's right. The valuable jade vases tumbled to the floor, but did not suffer any damage.
Jade is the toughest gem material known. Fellow dreamers might be saying, "I thought diamond was the toughest material." No, diamond is the hardest gem material. Toughness is resistance to fracture or breakage, while hardness is resistance to being scratched. Consider the material called rubber. It is very easy to scratch rubber but very hard to break it. Jade is more like rubber.
There are two varieties of jade: jadeite and nephrite. They can be so similar visually that a refractive index reading is necessary to tell them apart. Jadeite is the more valuable and should not be confused with jadite, a trade name for green glass.
Fine jade is typified by a moderately deep green color, semi-translucence, and a slightly greasy looking polished surface. Evenness of color is very important. A spinach green color has value, but is slightly too dark to have peak value. Some collectors prefer an apple green to the deeper green. These colors of green are found only in jadeite.
Of course, the fineness of the jade is not the only factor, the age and the quality of carving are also highly influential to the value.
While most Asian decorative arts are in a down market, the highest end of the jade market seems to be doing well. The market for lesser qualities of jade, not surprisingly, is soft. Here are some results for better pieces from a July auction: Qing Dynasty jade plaque, $13,000; three rams, 20th century carvings, pale greenish white jade, $2,700; a carved jade snuff bottle, $1200; 18th century white jade vase with cover and with carving of children, $23,000. Even on Ebay an 18th century covered vase recently sold for $20,000.
Jade is often seen in jewelry and in that category we see the same range of qualities where the fine pieces are really quite rare. Fine jade estate jewelry can be both exceptionally beautiful and pricey.
Imitations of jade are usually other gemstones rather than synthetic materials. A trained eye can usually spot aventurine and separate it from jade. Dyed soapstone can also look like jade. The most common substitute is serpentine which goes by such names as Korean jade, Suzhoe jade, Olive jade or New jade. Glass is also sometimes used and it poses a bit of an identification problem because glass can have any refractive index, but glass is generally heavier in the hand so one is immediately suspicious if the object is something like beads.
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The man who died when his car was crushed by a falling tree in Watford this morning has been named.
51 year old Donal Drohan had been driving along Lower High Street when a tree fell on his vehicle, a red Peugeot 207. He sadly died at the scene.
His family have released the following tribute to him: "Donal was a loving husband and father of three. He was the best husband and father anyone could wish for. You couldn't find anyone who had a bad word to say about him."
Donal recently took up golf and was very keen to improve his skills at the local golf club. He loved his chocolate and has been described by the family as a chocoholic.
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Spring has arrived in Watonwan County and with it many ideas and thoughts about outdoor activities and projects. Thrivent and Wellspring Faith in Action have connected with county youth and adults to do service projects in our communities.
"Join Hands Day" is an opportunity for young and old to connect with each other to make a difference in their communities through useful projects. It is a national volunteer day sponsored by America's fraternal benefit societies. This annual event generates awareness about what volunteerism can do in communities while bringing together youth and adults to build friendships across generations.
Thrivent and Wellspring Faith in Action had the opportunity to sponsor five community service projects in Watonwan County. Linda Buller at the St. James Community Building worked with children from The Little Red Caboose to plant flowers in the garden plot outside of the community building. Also in St. James, Darla Hoppe and Jackie Nielsen, co-leaders of the Jimmies 4-H Club, worked together with numerous 4-H youth to conduct a Bike Safety Rodeo at which there was a drawing for bicycle helmets. The Jimmies also planted flowers in planters at the Watonwan County Courthouse and the Watonwan County Extension Office. The Rosendale Skippers, led by Jolene Braaten, planted 11 planters on three patios at Good Samaritan Society-Pleasantview.
Other towns in Watonwan County also benefited in this "Join Hands Day" project. Jen Harris, coordinator of the Butterfield Big Buddy Program, worked with Joyce Peek and four children to make stepping stones, bird feeders and bird watering wells for the Voss Park Campground in Butterfield. In Madelia, Kristen Girard along with numerous adult and youth volunteers planted perennials in the Madelia Elementary Butterfly Garden and flowers at the Watona Park Ballfield.
Thrivent and Wellspring Faith in Action welcomed the opportunity to bring youth and adults together in these communities to inspire community service and beautify our county.
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City and county officials met with local residents at Antonio's in Morgantown, to talk about multiple construction ideas. The non-profit organization Sunnyside Up, is coordinating the project.
They have $2.4 million to spend on improving the community's look and infrastructure. The items presented were part of a construction wish list. Everyone who attended was encouraged to provide their feedback.
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Babes in Bikeland is an annual WTF (women, trans, femme) alleycat where participants receive a list of stops and then determine their own route to the finish line with a pen and a map before taking off. Alleycats, a product of messenger culture, are often male-dominated events, but Babes in Bikeland is a celebration of female cyclists. Men can volunteer for stops and attend the dance after party, but they can't race.
For the 2012 ride, I joined in as a volunteer while my girlfriend Nola Gradzielewski rode as a Babe with faux flowers crowning her white Bern helmet.
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Babes in Bikeland draws in both experts and naifs. As is common in alleycats, some participants ride the event as a race, reaching for the big prizes, while others treat it as a long, fun treasure hunt with friends.
This year's sixth-annual Babes, organized by Kayla Dotson and Kat McCarthy, began at a baseball diamond in Powderhorn Park. Participants sprawled around the field, examining their Minneapolis maps to determine the best route point-to-point. Some riders were fully outfitted in spandex, while others were costumed in ultra-feminine getups to reflect Babes' celebration of WTF. There were super-short skirts, brightly colored tights, and even some high heels.
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Before the race kicked off, I pedaled away to Boom Island in strong winds that struck from every direction. My Babes in Bikeland stop was manned (literally, in this case, har har) by myself and a group of supportive guys. Our job was to reveal bonus stops, so we placed stickers on participants' manifests with info on where to go next (the Northrup King building), then marked their sheets with stars, hearts, smiley-faces, or A-plus marks.
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Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Paul Sullivan will perform at 4 p.m. Jan. 29 at St. James Episcopal Church for the church's 22nd annual benefit Candlemas Concert.
Sullivan received his Grammy Award in 2006 for his work on the Paul Winter Consort CD "Silver Solstice."
A resident of coastal Maine, Sullivan has had a richly varied and distinguished career as both composer and pianist. As a soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort, he has played concert tours in most of the United States and all over Europe, as well as in Croatia, Israel, Costa Rica and Japan. He has also performed with a number of orchestras, including the Philadelphia orchestra under Eugene Ormandy and the Boston Pops under both Arthur Fiedler and Keith Lockhart.
As a jazz player, Sullivan has worked in some of New York's most prestigious clubs, including Sweet Basil, The Village Vanguard and Bradley's, playing with jazz masters ranging from Benny Goodman to Tommy Flanagan. His 17 albums, on the River Music label, have sold more than 300,000 copies and won three Indie Awards.
In theater, he has worked as music director, pianist and conductor for many Off-Broadway and Broadway shows. He played keyboards and shared conducting duties for the original production of the musical "Nine," which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 1982. He has also worked extensively in the dance world, including writing more than 15 scores for the Pilobolus Dance Theater and music for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.
Sullivan's music blends jazz and classical styles. In his solo performances, he is known for creating a relaxed and intimate feeling with his audience through his entertaining observations about music and life. You can read more about Sullivan and hear samples of his music at his website, www.rivermusic.com.
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September 28, 2013
Preparing Your Warehouse for Omnichannel Fulfillment
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September 28, 2013
Preparing Your Warehouse for Omnichannel Fulfillment
With U.S. ecommerce sales surpassing the $200 billion mark it is increasingly important that merchants develop a process to integrate sales channels and manage fulfillment efficiently and effectively. In this executive summary from Multichannel Merchant, you will learn how to …More...
May 9, 2016
8 Steps to Improving Inventory Management and the Bottom Line
Even the most efficient of multichannel merchants often stumbles when it comes to managing excess inventory. Common practices such as discounting or liquidating items devalue products and undermine sales. Ecommerce can magnify that problem, making it easier for shoppers to …More...
May 4, 2016
Build or Buy Best of Breed Software – What's Right for You?
[caption id="attachment_83989" align="alignright" width="300"] Left-right: Ashley Kohnen, Shao Li, Keith Kirssin at Operations Summit 2016 (photo credit: Curt Barry)[/caption]
At the recent Operations Summit 2016, I led one of the best panels ever on warehouse software strategy. What made …More...
August 30, 2013
The Amazon Warehouse Boom
Amazon has been making major investments into building more warehouses in order to bring more products, to more people, the fastest way possible. In fact, according to a recent article in Businessweek, Amazon has spent nearly $14 billion since 2010 to build 50 …More...
April 28, 2016
The Top 5 Considerations in Finding an Omnichannel Fulfillment Partner
As the volume of online sales continues to rise, companies are struggling to manage the difference in B2B and D2C operations. Many still segregate these inventories, meaning they pay more for inventory, equipment, buildings and labor.
If you …More...
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April 26, 2016
Bill Blass Names Borderlinx as Cross-Border Ecommerce Expansion Partner
Iconic American fashion brand Bill Blass has chosen Borderlinx to lead the global distribution of its high-end product range, rounding out the retailer's major brand re-launch.
Bill Blass set the standard for American designer brands when it was founded in 1970, …More...
August 7, 2013
8 Tips for Designing Your Warehouse
When it comes to the ecommerce world, it's all about efficiency, speed, and accuracy. And while the marketing messages and inventory technology need to be on point, if your warehouse is not set up to sufficiently handle the orders, …More...
In Inventory, Must Reads
April 26, 2016
Use of a 3PL A Small But Growing Option for Merchant Shippers
[caption id="attachment_83347" align="alignright" width="253"] Source: MCM Outlook Survey 2016[/caption]
While there are many clear advantages to using a third-party fulfillment (3PL) partner for outsourcing some or all of your operations, the majority of merchant companies still opt for …More...
April 26, 2016
Need for Delivery Speed Driving Ecommerce Distribution Investments
The need for speed in ecommerce distribution, driven largely by Amazon Prime's two-day promise, is behind increased investments in distribution center technology as well as a trend toward more smaller, forward-based facilities closer to the customer, according to a new …More...
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Located just outside of Edinburgh City, Tantallon Castel is dramatically set on the edge of cliffs overlooking Bass Rock. Four many years this castle was the stronghold for the Douglas clan. The castle boasts earthwork defenses and a huge 50 foot high wall built back in the 14th century. This castle offered formidable defenses to any would be attackers. While now a ruin the castle still offers valuable glimpses into what life would have been like for a noble family.
The grounds surrounding the castle are well worth exploring with stunning views and plenty of clean Scottish air. Refreshments can got at the visitor center on the grounds and depending on what season you decide to visit you might be able to enjoy the wild flowers which grow around the castle grounds. There is also a replica cannon at the castle which originally would have been used of protect the castle from attackers.
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Road safety
This new film from ETSC – European Transport Safety Council makes the case for making overridable Intelligent Speed Assistance a standard feature on all new vehicles in Europe. Watch the video!
The bfu
On this page you will find the presentations of this year bfu-Forum. The topic of this years conference on 25 November 2015 in Berne: «Planning Safe Cities and Towns across Europe?». The presentations are only available in german.
Research and statistics
04.08.2015: The bfu has published its annual statistics on non-occupational accidents and the level of safety in Switzerland. Read more...
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Do you have questions regarding the accident prevention in Switzerland? Please get in touch with us...
This part of the bfu website covers an overview of the campaigning activities by the bfu and its partner organizations.
Safety analysis of equestrian sports in Switzerland
Equestrian sports encompass a wide variety of disciplines and activities, and the accident occurrence reflects this. Our current safety analysis focuses on injuries sustained during recreational horse riding.
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Share the post "Rex Ryan with no plans of changing Tajh Boyd's position right now"
New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan says he doesn't plan on changing the position of rookie quarterback Tajh Boyd to switch him to something other than a quarterback in 2014. The Jets drafted Boyd in the 6th round [No.213] in the 2014 NFL draft out of Clemson, but the Jets are stacked with quarterbacks right now with Geno Smith as their projected starter and veteran Michael Vick as the backup. The Jets also have Matt Simms as the No.3 quarterback on the team, at least for now.
In a press conference this week, Ryan said that Boyd is just a quarterback "right now, but that at a later point in the season they might "consider" switching him around in order to use his running ability in some way. How the Jets will do this is unknown, because they wouldn't be fooling anyone if they inserted Boyd into the game as a wildcat quarterback. Everyone would know that the chances of him running the football would be high, so the element of surprise would be lost.
There's no point in switching Boyd to receiver because he wouldn't be as good as the the Jets player he would be replacing if he were to enter the game in that position, and he doesn't have the size to play at tight end. The Jets also couldn't use him as a running back, because that's a position that takes years of development to become good at.
Boyd completed 68.5 percent of his throws in 2013 with Clemson and 67.2 in 2012. He's actually a very good quarterback who doesn't get stressed out when he takes a hit or when he's dealing with a heavy pass rush like the Jets starter Geno Smith does. The Jets would be better off with Boyd as their starter than Smith, as Boyd seems to be a lot more of a calm player with a more solid foundation than Smith.
As bad as the Jets have been in terms of coaching, I don't expect Ryan to connect the dots and figure out that Boyd would be better as their starter than Smith, so you can expect Boyd to either languish on the bench in 2014 or end up getting cut. In the meantime, look for Geno Smith to continue to play horribly as the Jets starter, and thus putting Ryan in a very bad position after the season when it comes to him trying to keep his job.


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