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During the final kickoff return by Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders this past Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, the officials ruled that he stepped out of bounds at the Pittsburgh 37 yard-line and thus the touchdown was negated.
During his Tuesday press conference, head coach Mike Tomlin was asked Tuesday why that play was not reviewed.
"There was no official word," said Tomlin. "What Bill [Leavy] told me, the white hat in stadium, is that there was no mechanism in place to review it based on how the play was officiated."
Tomlin was then asked if it should have been automatically reviewed because it was a scoring play and the head coach offered the appropriate response.
"The fact that he called him out of bounds doesn't make it a scoring play," said Tomlin. "The fact that he ruled that the guy stepped out of bounds is not a scoring play because of that."
As it turns out, Tomlin failed to notice the time remaining on the clock before the Steelers offense ran their first play of the ensuing series and screen grabs below show the team was indeed shorted eight seconds.
"I have no idea," said Tomlin, when asked if the proper time had been put back on the clock. "I was too pissed to notice."
That certainly isn't a proper response and had the Steelers needed that extra eight seconds, you can bet this issue would be a big talking point right now, especially if they had lost the game.
The Steelers really should consider hiring someone to sit in the booth upstairs to monitor these kind of things along with other clock related issues and official challenges. Being pissed doesn't cut it.
It's a moot point, had we only had one or no timeouts left it would've been a bigger issue, but to be honest we had too much time left as it was.
Also, where are the other coaches at this moment, someone could've spoken up
In all the assistants to the assistants, etc. I've always said there should be one watching the game clock, and/or/plus the TV viewer perspective. Maybe there is… and this guy should have a line to the HC headset.
To think the team doesnt have someone watching these things is just stupid. While the OFFICIALS were the ones who dropped the ball…so did the personal responsible for looking at these things…just like when someone helps out and tells coach to challenge a play. The coach can't watch the play and the clock and so on at the same time. They have people for that. That person and the officials dropped the ball…but in reality it worked in their favor. So this is a non-issue here.
Tomlin's response to being pissed is terrible although very honest but he above all others needs to keep his head on tight as he is the leader.
to call it a non-issue after the fact because things played out well is stupid.
Well, as some have said here, not a moot point. Tomlin would have been ripped a new one had they needed more time to get in FG range, or possibly closer than 42 yards. And it speaks to the future … will he be "too pissed" in a future game and make the same kind of mistake? I agree that there are a bunch of coaches (and players!) who could/should have spoken up. This speaks to accountability, something that both coaches and players need to constantly reaffirm.
It's a moot point, rendered purely academic and has not practical relevance after the fact
It is a moot point. They won the game, so if they got the 8 seconds back, it wouldn't have mattered. That's pretty much the definition of a moot point.
Well, the issue is not how it played out for this game (though people who say it's a non-issue because of this are correct). The issue is that Tomlin screwed himself out of 8 seconds, which could be an issue in a future game. He needs to be more careful that he doesn't lose time like this because he's mad his returner stepped out (which he did.)
You both missed my point about relevance to the future. A moot point would be defined as debatable, however of no significance or relevance. I think the situation is highly relevant to how the coaches perform, especially in a two minute drill situation. What happens next time Tomlin is "too pissed" to notice he's lost 8 seconds?
I doubt it happens again, not after this instance
What ticked me off was that whoever was calling the game on CBS said that Sanders "clearly" stepped out of bounds. Clearly?! It wasn't clear AT ALL. In the fuzzy replay, the best someone from their vantage can do is speculate whether the slightest bit of Sanders' heel is indeed touching the line, or just nearby/hovering above it.
In general, the game callers automatically siding with the refs is infuriating. It takes stones to say, "That was the wrong call," and so few of them do it. Pass interference replays are the WORST. A guy can be grabbing, shoving, and hooking in a slow-motion video…while an announcer says "Good no-call." It's ridiculous.
Agreed. When you watch it in full speed it appears Sanders is running on his toes and his heal is off the ground, of course when you look at instant replays played at reduced speeds the picture is not as clear and it just appears as if his foot is out… its debatable… but I agree
i have found the tues press conferences to be interesting so far this year. tomlin has been more personable and willing to answer questions-expand on thoughts….0-4 start may have humbled him, but difficult to read into it.
it's obvious tomlin has struggled with in-game situational management…are quality control folks not involved on game day? would be a good question to ask
that was my issue with the play. side view appeared his heel did not touch, and the end zone view was not clear enough for my liking to clearly state he stepped out.
I really think he said he was pissed as a just a lil joke…I think if he really was that pissed about it, he would not have verbally said it in that matter that he was "To pissed to notice" I think just hell he wanted the time not to be reset cause he pretty much new we had more then enough time to get in to field goal range
Thought about it, and I can't really put this on Tomlin as a mistake. A coach has to have some level of comfortability that the refs are doing their job, so he can focus on his own job.
I think it would have been impressive if Tomlin would've noticed this given the situation (Tie ball game in the 2 minute drill). His focus was on driving down the football field and tieing the ball game. It's not surprising that people are complaining about this though considering we've heard fans displeased with his time management in the past.
I won't bash the refs whatsoever though. They have one of the toughest jobs in sports.
AGREE ONE ZILLION PERCENT…. I was yelling at my TV haha….. I didn't know whether his heel touched based on the replays we got, but I know for certain that the announcers couldn't have been as "sure" as they sounded. We were all looking at the same thing.
Surprised none of the coaches noticed it.
Funny that's the same thing I noticed. My son is on the track team and if anyone knows track cleats don't have cleats on the heel because when you run your heal never touches. Problem would have been the ruling on the field was he was out and I'm not sure there would have been enough to overturn the call.
Exactly. From what I saw, it was a bad call, but by the time it had been made, there wasn't going to be enough to reverse it. Even if they had, I don't believe the would have called it a TD (if the play was blown dead before Manny reached the EZ – don't recall if it was),
If time would have been a factor someone would have noticed. As it was their goal should have been to milk the clock as they did and kick a field goal. I always thought the Steelers had a guy in the booth to look at replays and things of this nature, like other teams do.
If that's the case then it isn't a big deal and I hope it is.
I nearly lost my voice screaming at the ref " We can't win with you on the payroll, is your check purple and black" Any how I understand you can't have that but we won, so i am just going to leave that be.
According to Tunch Ilkin the refs screwed up the spot as well, but in the Steelers favor. They put the ball at the 37 but Tunch said Sanders was actually out on the 34.
They say they blew the whistle when he stepped out but with the crown noise no one heard it. When the whistle blows the play is dead.
I heard the whistle on tv. Told wife it was coming back. I thought the rule now was they are suppose to let it play out as opposed to blowing it dead? Unless that's on fumbles?
I'm sure someone on the staff was in charge of the clock and just plain messed up. I also feel it should be the job of Landry Jones to pay attention to clock management, fore that his part of his grooming and why he receives a weekly check, too. I know Charlie would have let coach know!
If they spotted the ball correctly it would have been on the 2 yard line for the extra point attempt!!!!!!
Yeah, I thought it was unclear myself if Sanders really did go out.
They have to get a win and they did, look at the tape correct the errors and move on. They were 0-4 for a reason everyone is at fault. From my vantage point Sanders never stepped out of bounds and was a blown call. You could find issues with every coach to be honest and every game from this weekend had some sort of coaching error. Ergo that bone headed onside kick that was poorly timed and executed worse.
Nailed it. The Cowher teams had folks watching this, remember the non reviewable call about too many men on the field. Bill put a picture of the field in the zebra's shirt pocket and got fined for it. Instead we obviously have Mr. Oblivious. He seems to have problems with this type of thing a lot, time challenges etc.
Sanders is fast enough and smart enough to know how to run on his toes. I think the walls in my house shook as I yelled this at my T.V. It looked like his heel was out over the line but it hadn't touched the ground. If Sanders were running on his heels down the field, I doubt he would have made it to the endzone. If the refs were so sure, they would have blown the play dead. They weren't sure so they opted to take it off the board. The announcers seemed so sure that he stepped out while no one really took a second look at it. I'm not saying he for sure didn't step out, but this kind of ruling along with the failure to add 8 seconds to the clock and others sometimes make me wonder….. At least they kicked some ratbird ace..
I want to know why Harbaugh was allowed to take the amazing Troy Polamalu leaping offsides penalty on the subsequent kickoff. The ball was never kicked, they in effect skipped a play before enforcing a penalty.
What if Troy did the same thing again, do they penalize 10 yards then? What if the Steelers held, because they already took the 5 yards, do they not get the 10 yards?
Leavy let Harbaugh get away with a free 5 yards on the kickoff.
Those are some really good questions.
Dave's point still stands. There should be somebody up in the booth to monitor such things while the coach is too pissed, ignorant, distracted, sleepy or focusing on other things to catch them. Presumably there is at least one person whose responsibility it is to review questionable calls, consider options and make a recommendation to Tomlin. This person or people should also monitor clock issues as well.
At the time of the play, we had not won the game. And when you have the ball in the final seconds of the game and you do not have a lead, you want each of those seconds. Had we been one play short of getting into FG range and ultimately lost, this would have been huge.
Just leave it up to certain people in this fanbase to sour what was an important win. In the grand scheme of things, this is a very moot point. Firstly, the Steelers only had one time out left; thus they could afford to lose those 8 seconds, secondly the fact that we are emphasizing the loss of 8 seconds, even though the bigger picture is that they WON THE GAME, is absurd. The fact is that every aspect of the game they played was extremely stong; their ground game was strong, the blocking was strong, Special teams played well, they got big plays from the defense; yet we are putting emphasis on the fact the Steelers lost 8 seconds off the play clock; perhaps more emphasis should be centered upon the ridiculous nature of the call that was made to call the touchdown back. The only theory I have is that either the person whom wrote this article is a Tomlin hater, or I'm assuming this person is more fit to run the team that the current Steelers administration. But these article nit picking each mistake the coach makes is ridiculous and it's really not benefiting anyone.
He is terrible when it comes to clock management .Always has been. Thank god we did not need the time.
You should read here more. If you did, you would know I am a huge Tomlin fan. At the same time, I am very objective and not afraid to call a spade a spade. When you catch a child playing with matches, but he doesn't burn the house down, you don't look past the problem. HTH
Having been a die hard Stiller fan for 55 years, I think I know enough about the game to comment. In this case, the focus is on the future, not the past game. Tomlin tells his players to not make the same mistake twice, and that's all I'm saying. Besides, 8 seconds is not insignificant.
I live in Oklahoma they put the stinking KC Chiefs on here so I didn't get to watch the game. I did see a replay on my phone and there is a ref in the end zone signaling touchdown on that run back. Should have been reviewable then.
Wow, Steelers fans cannot criticize anyone on the Steelers if they win AND If you criticize a Steeler after the Steelers win a game, your theory is that they must be be criticizing that person because they hate the person. The reasoning is the Steelers won and it is a mute point. Agreed, you should not point out errors or mistakes or attempt get better as long as you win the game. Stating that Players and Coaches are infallible as long as they win does not make any sense to me. I thought Tomlin had the players prepared and made the correct adjustments. I think he is one of the top 5 coaches in the league. However, he struggles with time management at the end of the game. He is famous for calling timeouts with 2:02 in the 4th quarter. He or one of the other coaches should have noticed the time they lost. He is a passionate coach and cares about winning. I think he was p/o about the kick off return. It was a mistake that needs to be addressed. I said last year that they should have someone upstairs reviewing the clock and advising coach Tomlin. I am glad Dave pointed this out and hope the Steelers learn from this mistake before it cost them a regular season game, playoff game, or Superbowl Victory
Improper clock management is NOT a moot point.
Especially when POOR clock management is a historical and on-going point.
Based on the fact that the game is over. It can be considered moot. But only in that sense.
The same weaknesses time and time again regarding poor clock management. That is very worthy of discussion.
He should also get criticism for his resonse to the issue of losing in Oakland due to travel and time issues. He said he hadn't thought about it. He damn well HAS TO think about it. It's part of his job!
You think he'll think about it next time he takes a team to London?
Yes, with the benefit of hindsight, the head coach of an NFL football team not noticing that time should have been added to the clock doesn't matter. Yes, the Steelers ended up having enough time to win the game, but there was no way of knowing that immediately after Sanders KO return.
The play speaks to his situational awareness at the time. If one of MT's players makes a mistake, he's not going to cut them any slack just because the team won. There's no reason he should't be held to the same standard … because the Standard is the Standard.(couldn't resist!)
8 seconds is enough time to run a pass play to the sidelines, or the end zone.
I can agree with that.. and im not trying to invalidate Bryans point, I agree that someone should be keeping an eye on these sort of things. I trust moving forward they will.
Every Coach in the League has made clock management mistakes..hell Andy Reid is historically terrible with clock management, more so than Tomlin ever has been. It doesn't make it ok by any means and I hope they get it rectified by having an extra set of eyes on the clock at ALL times
Cowher was horrible at clock management as well.
THE UMPIRE HAS ALWAYS HAD THE TIME ON THE FIELD, UNLESS THAT HAS CHANGED ANOTHER OFFICIAL HAS IT. Soon AS THE PLAYER WAS RULED OUT , THAT OFFICIAL SHOULD HAVE STOPPED THE CLOCK AND MADE SURE THE TIME WAS CORRECT ON THE GAME CLOCK. ANOTHER SCREW UP BY THE OFFICIALS.
Yeah you can bet Tomlin would have caught major hell had those 8 seconds been needed. He got away with one here and I'm sure he will hold himself accountable for it and try to have his emotions in check in the future. At the same time though, it's hard to fault Tomlin for being pissed as I'm sure everyone else in Steeler Nation was spitting fire at that moment too. Not only was this a must win game, it was a game against our most bitter rivals and every single point is crucial and the refs could have cost us the game.
it's a MOO point, you know, like a cow's opinion. Doesn't mean anything.
give me a break that was last season who cares
I saw a blown up picture he did
"From my vantage point Sanders never stepped out of bounds and was a blown call."
Is that vantage point watching the game on a slow , low quality stream on a cell phone?
I saw a blown up picture on Steelers Depot on Facebook
It was Tuesday at his press conference.
obviously I was referring to the loss smh
It's called brutal honesty. Some people can't take it and want it sugar coated. Thanks Depot for calling a spade a spade.
Another opportunity for Tomlin haters to pounce on…
Keep in mind, Cowher was not free of clock gaffs himself. I recall a certain Patriots game in 2005 that we lost, because the clock operator at Heinz accidentally gave the Pats an extra :50 at the end of the 4th qtr they should not have had, which they used to score the game-winning field goal.
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To power up the Monotribe first turn the LEVEL knob and RHYTHM knob all the way to the left, then PRESS AND HOLD the power button located on the rear of the unit. The step LEDs will illuminate indicating the remaining battery life. You may now turn the LEVEL knob and RHYTHM knob an appropriate amount to the right. Press a key on the ribbon controller to sound a note. To power down the Monotribe first turn the LEVEL knob and RHYTHM knob all the way to the left, then PRESS AND HOLD the power button until all lights have gone out. For full instructions please refer to the instruction manual under Documentation.
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Sirloin With Balsamic Vinegar
4 Sep 2009
|Sirloin steak
|3 Pound (1 1/2 Kilogram)
|Olive oil
|25 Milliliter (2 Tablespoon)
|To Taste
|For marinade
|Dry italian red wine
|250 Milliliter (1 Cup)
|Extra virgin olive oil
|50 Milliliter (3 Tablespoon)
|Balsamic vinegar/Red wine vinegar
|50 Milliliter (3 Tablespoon)
|Lemon juice
|25 Milliliter (2 Tablespoon)
|Dijon mustard
|15 Milliliter (1 Tablespoon)
|2 Clove (10 gm), minced
|Dried rosemary
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried thyme
|1 Teaspoon
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried oregano
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
MARINADE: In large shallow dish, combine wine, oil, vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, garlic, rosemary, thyme, pepper and oregano.
Pat steak dry and add to dish, turning to coat.
Cover and marinate for 1 to 2 hours in refrigerator.
Remove steak and pat dry; pour marinade into saucepan and set aside.
Brush steak with oil.
Broil or grill about 5 inches (12 cm) from heat for 7 to 10 minutes per side for rare or until desired doneness.
Let rest for 5 minutes before carving diagonally across the grain into thin slices.
Meanwhile, bring marinade to boil; boil, uncovered, for 8 minutes or until thickened and reduced to about 1/2 cup (125 mL).
Taste and season with salt if necessary.
Serve a little sauce with each portion of meat.
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Difficulty Level:Easy
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Any idea who is starting for the Dragons tomorrow?
Any idea who is starting for the Dragons tomorrow?
Is Dickerson hurt? Is his rehab time up?
"He looked like a surfer kid from SoCal," manager Dusty Baker says. "He didn't say much, but you could tell he was cool."
Billy Hamilton is 1-for-2 with his 13th stolen base. Hamilton entered today hitting .297/.364/.438 - .802 OPS in 128 atbats. Very impressive considering how raw he is. I just don't understand why he is playing second base. Nothing against Devin Lohman but Hamilton is the better prospect. JMO.
I miss Adam Dunn.
My guess about Billy at 2B is that he can obviously play SS so there's no need to test him there. But they might want to judge if Lohman can stick there.
Billy Hamilton is now 2-for-4 with two stolen bases.
I miss Adam Dunn.
Francisco is a monster.
Felix Perez is 2-for-3 with a double and a stolen base.
I miss Adam Dunn.
Anyone else agree that the Reds could benefit as much as any team out there when the rosters expand to 40 on September 1st? Roster expansion will allow the Reds to add Aroldis Chapman (if he's not up by then), Jared Burton, Enerio Del Rosario, Daniel Ray Herrera, and Micah Owings as bullpen depth, and possibly Matt Maloney and/or Sam Lecure to eat innings. And that's only the pitchers. Also, Homer Bailey should be back by then.
As for the bats, I figure Juan Francisco is a lock to come up and add some power from the left side, and Yonder Alonso is a possibility too if he continues to hit well in the second half. I think we'll also see Drew Sutton called up to provide some versatility and Chris Dickerson too, though he may be up by then.
I miss Adam Dunn.
Also, Dayton is tied at 5 in the 15th inning.
Dont forget Valaika.
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I have to draw charts as displayed in following image for an iPad app. is there any free native chart api available for it?
Or any help to draw it...
Any help would be appreciable.
I have to draw charts as displayed in following image for an iPad app. is there any free native chart api available for it?
Or any help to draw it...
Any help would be appreciable.
Ok, the Bounty is gone, but I want to contribute another answer. You will find a working project at github: https://github.com/vikingosegundo/PlectrumView
Results in
I change the plectrum code in a way that it's area will represent the percentage instead of it's width. It feels more natural.
I would like to go with Quartz 2D. I dont think so any library will do your deal. You need to create your own. Here are my ideas.
For one kind of charts, you can take idea how speedometer works. Eeww, I didnt searched links for that, hope idea will do. You can calculate angle for your percentage and draw arc accordingly. This wont be too hard.
For droplets, oops that will be bit busy. But here is some logic for that:
I guess you will have percentage for each segment in your droplet like chart. You can calculate radius for them ! Hope image below will better explain your idea. I am just trying to share logic and not code, since SO is not about give me code kinda stuff :)
Hope this helps
Your example pictures are actually quite easy to draw using Quartz 2D. If you are not concerned with exactly how your charts look, I would suggest looking into what is already out there. If you need the charts to look exactly as you show (for example because they should look similar to a web app), I suggest you draw them yourself. It is not that hard, to draw the kind of simple charts you show:
Let me know if you want to try and need any more details.
There are a lot of "chart" libraries:
Check out on Cocoa Controls
or this one:
If you use SVG, you can easily create the shapes with a function like:
Successive drawings looks something like this:
Edit 1: Added more comments in the code for better understandibility
Download this project and use this but they are using ARC for that. Hope it will help you!
I think all of the above could probably be done using transparent images with an underlying shape that increases in size/diameter using mathematical code.
With the Arc Percentages you could have the dial


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TV Info
Episode PremiereFebruary 06, 2000
DistributorFox TV
GenreAnimation, Comedy
Show Period1997 - 2009
Production CompanyDeedle-Dee, Judgmental, 3 Art, Film Roman, Fox TV
Cast and Crew
DirectorJeff Myers
ScreenwriterGreg Daniels, Jim Dauterive
Main Cast
- Mike Judge
- Kathy Najimy
- Pamela Adlon as Bobby Hill (voice)
- Brittany Murphy as Luanne Platter/Joseph Gribble (Age 12)
- Johnny Hardwick
- Stephen Root
- Toby Huss
Additional Cast
- Mac Davis
- Phil Hendrie
- Lane Smith
- Kathleen Turner
- Reese Witherspoon
Mrs. Strickland files for divorce, throwing Hank in the middle of a sex scandal...and a murder!
Hank's boss, Buck Strickland, gets caught in a compromising position with a hot, young employee named Debbie by none other than his wife, Liz. Liz files for divorce and immediately takes control of Strickland Propane, putting Hank's loyalties to the ultimate test.
Trying to protect his assets, Buck signs his popular barbecue restaurant, Sugarfoot's, over to Hank, much to Peggy's delight. Meanwhile, Liz gives Hank a promotion and a silver lighter engraved with Hank's initials. Hank feels torn between the Stricklands, but offers to make an "propane emergency" house call when Mrs. Strickland calls late one night. The "emergency" turns out to be Mrs. Strickland's overactive libido and sends Hank running from the house. The next day, Hank discovers a half-naked Debbie waiting for him in the back of his truck. Since he's her new boss, she wants to sleep with him. Between the stress of work and women throwing themselves at him, Hank starts smoking again!
After Liz lies to Buck and says she slept with Hank, Hank decides to put an end to the whole mess. He arranges for Liz and Buck to meet him separately at Sugarfoot's--with plans for a surprise reunion. They're surprised all right. But it's because of Peggy's handiwork. She's remodeled the restaurant--now called Peggy's Sugarfoot--into a cozy, country barbecue. While Liz and Buck reminisce about their beloved restaurant, Hank slips out to meet with Debbie at her apartment, which is across from the restaurant. He's hoping to dissuade her from lying to Peggy about the truck incident.
Moments later, Peggy hears a noise behind the restaurant. She investigates and discovers Debbie's lifeless body in the dumpster!


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Local business educators agree financial crisis is serious
The national financial crisis is every bit as serious as President Bush explained Wednesday in his nationally televised address, local business educators agreed.
In calling for Congress to pass a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, Bush said a lack of quick action could send an already faltering economy spiraling even further downward.
"The market is not functioning properly," Bush said, later adding that the cost of inaction would be dire. "Our entire economy is in danger."
While bank deposits up to $100,000 are federally insured, widespread bank failures would place jobs, investments and retirement savings at risk, University of Evansville finance professor Soumendra De said after watching Bush's prime-time address.
De and Mohammed Khayum, dean of the University of Southern Indiana College of Business, said the question of whether the plan put forth by Bush to handle the financial crisis will work depends upon on how tightly it is monitored.
Some in Congress have cautioned that a lack of stringent oversight of the bailout acutally could reward CEOs of failed companies.
"If the government buys the bad (assets) and (executives) buy the good ones, they would make a very hefty profit," De said. "You don't want to give a free ride to the private equity firms."
Also at issue will be disclosure requirements for firms that receive assistance, De said, adding that some observers are calling for the information to be made available in full online.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday is said to have accepted the idea of allowing the government to take an equity stake in some of the companies aided — rather than just purchasing their bad assets, as Bush originally proposed.
But there was no agreement yet on how the plan would work, and those details are critical to whether Bush's plan will succeed in stabilizing the markets, local educators agreed.
"There was some signal in the speech that there is intent in providing oversight and watching the compensation of the executives," Khayum said. "Of course, the details are important."
Khayum noted the market has been volatile for several months now, and there's no guarantee the bailout Bush is proposing will be a solution.
Still, "it's good to see that there is debate and discussion," Khayum said. " ... I sense that there is compromise occurring between the president and Congress."
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A system in which agents are transferred based on the future performance parameter of a call center predicted from the trend of current samples. In a multi-media call center, the performance parameter may be any defined variable, such as profit per contact, incoming call wait time, etc. The agents being transferred come from any agent activity such as web chat, e-mail, another incoming call campaign, an outgoing call campaign, etc.
1. A call center agent method for transferring agents between one agent activity to another activity, which agent activities are concurrently active in a call center in order to maintain a call center performance parameter within an acceptable range, including the steps of:
obtaining, periodically, a sample value of the performance parameter;
predicting the performance parameter at a future time by projecting a trend established by at least two samples of said performance parameter to said future time;
determining whether or not the predicted performance parameter will be outside of an acceptable range at future times;
signaling for the transfer of agents to bring the predicted performance parameter inside an acceptable range if the determining step determines the predicted performance will be outside the acceptable range;
repeating during said concurrently running activities said obtaining, predicting, determining, and signaling steps to maintain said performance parameter within said acceptable range.
2. A call center agent method as in claim 1, wherein said predicting step uses a first derivative with respect to time of the change in two of the sample values to determine a predicted performance value.
3. A call center agent method as in claim 1, wherein said predicting step uses the first and second terms of a Taylor expansion to determine a predicted performance value from three sample values.
This is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 09/038,964, filed on Mar. 12, 1998, now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to an improved system for managing agent assignments in a call center environment in which agents are transferred from one agent activity to another based upon a performance parameter and, more particularly, to an improved system that anticipates short term imbalances between a need for agents to meet performance parameters and agent assignments.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, commercially available systems, which automatically connect incoming calls to an agent, offer a range of functional capabilities. Many of these Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) systems are capable of simultaneously running multiple tasks with some agents logged on to one task and other agents logged on to another task. Here it should be noted, the current trend in call center systems is to have full multi-media capabilities, which includes incoming and outgoing telephony calls, web chats, e-mails and other advanced Internet contacts, so that the blending function transfers agents among these activities.
For example, there are prior art systems that blend inbound automatic call distribution agents and automatic outbound calling agents in order to improve staffing efficiency. Inbound call distribution typically has peaks and valleys in its operation since the demand is generated by outside callers. By linking inbound and outbound call functions, outbound agents can be switched to inbound duty during peak inbound demand periods and switched back to outbound duty during slack periods in inbound demand, thus improving overall staffing efficiency.
In typical prior art systems, an inbound performance parameter is monitored based upon statistics tracked by the inbound call distributor; for example, number of calls in the inbound queue or average time to answer an inbound call. Target values and upper and lower thresholds are established for the performance parameter; for example a five second target to respond to incoming calls with an upper threshold of seven seconds and a lower threshold of three seconds. The assumption of the thresholds is: if upper threshold is exceeded the performance is unacceptable, and more inbound agents are needed; if the lower threshold is exceeded, the inbound function is considered to be overstaffed and overall efficiency would be improved by transferring inbound agents to outbound operations.
In the prior art, agents are typically transferred, as they become available, when the upper or lower threshold values ale exceeded. Agents continue to be transferred until the performance parameter is between the upper and lower threshold limits, when the transfer stops. U.S. Pat. No. 5,425,093, assigned to the assignee of this application and incorporated herein by reference, discloses the concept of providing hysteresis to provide added stabilization to agent transfer.
More generally, systems can monitor a call center's performance parameters, such as service times, in-queue times, call volumes, call abandonment rates, benefits derived from having different agents handle calls requiring different skills, proportions of work (e.g., time or calls handled) spent by agents on handling calls requiring different skills, etc., and automatically adjusts agents' call-handling assignments, for example, by changing the skills to which an agent is assigned (logged into) or by changing the relative priorities (levels of expertise) of the agent's skills, in order to optimize a predefined objective or objectives. The objective is a selected performance characteristic of the call center, such as the total benefit to the call center of individual ones of the agents handling calls requiring individual agent skills.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,185,780 discloses a work force management system for predicting agent requirements in such systems. This system uses historic average load data at specific times to forecast agent requirements at a comparable future times; for example the average load on Tuesday between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. is used to predict the load on the following Tuesday between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. These initial forecasts, which are used to calculate agent requirements at some comparable future time, are not based on the system experience at that future time. However, these initial forecasts are compared with actual data and the initial forecasts can be modified by means of a weighting factor based on the difference between the initial forecast and data accumulated from the system in operation at the future time for which the initial forecast was made. Here it should be noted, the weighting factor is based on the difference between the initially forecast values and the experience values.
An object of this invention is the provision of an improved call center balancing system that efficiently transfers agents in response to unanticipated short term changes in a call center's defined performance parameter. Another object of the invention is to maintain a call center's performance parameter (e.g. desired wait time for incoming calls or revenue per contact) by monitoring the parameter's current short term time history, and switching multi-media agents in response to predicted future values.
Briefly, this invention contemplates the provision of a system in which agents are transferred based on the future performance parameter of a call center predicted from the trend of current samples. In a multi-media call center, the performance parameter may be any defined variable, such as profit per contact, incoming call wait time, etc. The agents being transferred come from any agent activity such as web chat, e-mail, another incoming call campaign, an outgoing call campaign, etc.
In matching agent assignments with performance parameter requirements in accordance with the teachings of this invention, two or more current samples of the call center's performance parameter (or samples of a parameter that determines the performance parameter, such as inbound call load) are taken at time spaced intervals and the trend of the sampled parameter is projected to a future time in order to predict whether or not a change of agent assignments should be made in order to maintain the performance parameter within acceptable limits. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the call center balance algorithm uses a Taylor expansion to predict the future value of a performance parameter from a series of two or more discrete data samples separated in time. For some applications a single term of the expansion is adequate. For other applications, the first and second terms are used advantageously to predict the future value. Here the word "acceleration" is used to connote a second derivative of the function whose value is to be predicted and the word "velocity" to connote the first derivative.
The foregoing and other objects, aspects and advantages will be better understood from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention. in which:
FIG. 1 is block diagram of typical inbound/outbound call center system in current commercial use and with which the improved method for agent blending, which is the subject of this invention, can used.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating short term traces of a call center performance parameter value as a function of time.
FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of a call center system in accordance with the teachings of this invention.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of the operation of the call blending system of this invention.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,425,093 illustrates one prior art inbound-outbound call center system with blended operations. That call center system contemplates separate inbound and outbound functions, which control respectively separate inbound and outbound switches. The blending system of this application can be implemented advantageously in such systems with separate inbound and outbound functions. In fact, as will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the system of this application is independent of any particular call center hardware or architecture, and can be used advantageously in all call center systems. Here it should be noted, the current trend in call center systems is to add software modules to the inbound call distributor system so that the inbound call distributor performs both inbound and outbound functions including the blending function to which this invention is directed. FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram illustrating a call center system in which a commercially available automatic call distributor includes application programs to allow it to perform both inbound and outbound functions, including the agent blending function in accordance with the teachings of this invention.
Referring now to FIG. 2, it shows three illustrative traces (A, B, and C) of a center performance parameter as it changes with respect to time and a projection of these parameters to a future time. The current trend in call center systems is to have full multi-media capabilities, which includes incoming and outgoing telephony calls, web chats, e-mails, and other advanced Internet contacts, so that the blending function transfers agents among these activities. In the multi-media call center, the performance parameter may be any defined variable, such as profit per contact, incoming call wait time, etc. The agents being transferred come from any agent activity such as web chat, e-mail, another incoming call campaign, an outgoing call campaign, etc. In trace A, the performance parameter is improving at successive times t1, t2, and t3. In B, the performance parameter improves slightly between t1, and t2 and t3. In FIG. C, the performance parameter stays between the upper and lower limits.
Using samples of the performance parameter, an algorithm or routine known in the art is used to predict the value of the performance parameter a short time (e.g., five seconds) in the future. In a preferred embodiment, a Taylor expansion routine is used. Two samples S1 and S2 of the call center's performance parameter, calculated at recent times (units of seconds for time) t1, t2 respectively, with t2>t1, and separated by an interval Δt1. The first term of Taylor expansion is a first derivative ("velocity") routine, which computes the slope S of the performance parameter by (S2−S1)/(t2−t1)=S and predicts the value of the performance parameter (Sf). Δt2 seconds in the future by: S2+SΔt2=Sf.
The second Taylor expansion term is a second derivative "acceleration" prediction routine, which uses three samples S1, S2, S3 taken at recent times t1, t2, t3 (units of seconds for time) with t3−t2=t2−t1=Δt1. The predicted value for the call center performance parameter Sf, Δt2seconds into the future is:
In order to accommodate rapidly fluctuating performance parameters, in the preferred embodiment of the invention Δt2 is 5-10 seconds in value.
The instantaneous performance parameter fluctuates as a function of time, and the samples S1, S2 and S3 are averages. The averaged performance parameter varies in time due to the changing conditions (e.g. sudden increase of incoming phone calls because of a TV commercial running). The system of this invention uses data that provides current, real-time, future predictions. Yesterday's data is not deemed relevant to what happens in the next minute.
The system starts taking samples of the performance parameter value at time T=start, and then after a short interval of Δt1, (in seconds) computes the average value S1, of the performance parameter by adding the sample values and dividing by the number of samples. Going ahead another time interval Δt1 the system computes the average value of the performance parameter S2 by adding the sample values over the interval from T to t2(i.e. 2Δt1) and dividing by the number of samples. If the instantaneous performance parameter fluctuates on the time scale of seconds, then S1 and S2 will be, in general, different. The system has enough information to compute the first derivative, which is S=(S2−S1)/Δt1. This first derivative can then be used to estimate the future value Sf of the (averaged) performance value at t4seconds in the future; (i.e. the future estimated value of the (averaged) performance parameter at Δt2seconds in the future from time T (start)+2*Δt1)Sf=S2+S*Δt2.
Going ahead another time interval of Δt1, the system computes the average of the performance parameter again, for time t3by adding the sample values from T to t3and dividing by the number of samples. The new slope is (S3−S2)/Δt1. The new future predicted value of the (averaged) performance value Δt2 seconds into the future from time T (start) +3* Δt1 is Sf =S3+{(S3−S2)/Δt1}Δt2.
The second derivative uses S1, S2, and S3 in the above formula Eq(1) to make the future prediction Sf. In this exemplary embodiment, the two most current values of the performance parameter are used for the first term of the Taylor expansion and the three most current values are used for the second term of the Taylor expansion. To maintain the freshness of the data, the systems periodically stops the averaging process (e.g., after 2 minutes) and begins anew.
There are a number of performance measurement that can be used alone or in combination as a indication of the responsiveness of the center to inbound calls. Two widely used measurements are the number of calls in the inbound queue awaiting initial connection to an agent, and the time between when a call is answered and when the caller is connected to an agent. It will be appreciated that the blending system of this invention is independent of any particular performance measurement, but for ease of explanation here in connection with FIG. 2 it will be assumed the performance measurement is the time (in seconds) between the time a call is answered and the time the caller is connected to an agent. The diagrams of FIG. 2 assumes a target caller wait time target of five seconds, with an upper limit of seven seconds and a lower limit of three seconds. Obviously, the target, upper, and lower limits can be set to other desired values. Exceeding (i.e. rising above) the upper limit is assumed to be an undesirable call center operation because it keeps callers waiting too long. Exceeding (i.e. dropping below) the lower limit is assumed to be an undesirable call center operation because it makes inefficient use of the available agents. Here it will be appreciated that having a band of acceptable performance between upper and lower limits discourages indiscriminate transfer of agents. Referring to FIG. 2, A illustrates a predicted performance parameter above the upper limit (illustrated to be seven seconds), and agents are transferred to inbound operations. In B, the predicted performance parameter is below the lower limit (illustrated to be three seconds), and the system signals to transfer agents from inbound operations to other operations. In C, the predicted performance parameter stays within limits and there is no agent transfer. Agents are typically transferred as they become available until the predicted performance parameter value is between the upper and lower limits of its range.
Referring now to FIG. 3, it illustrates the system of the invention in terms of a functional block diagram. Here it will be appreciated that the system components for tracking inbound call volume, number of available agents, and performance are available in commercially available automatic call distributors available from Lucent Technologies Co., among others. The agent assignment system of the invention includes performance parameter prediction module 50, which predicts the performance parameter value at the end of a short, future interval, tests the predicted value against upper and lower limits, and generates a signal to transfer agents if the predicted value is outside the limits. A switch 52 allows the call center to select either the first derivative "velocity" or second derivative "acceleration" routine depending upon the nature of the short term changes in call center performance.
Referring now to FIG. 4, the process initially obtains two samples or three samples of the performance parameter (block 60) depending upon whether the call center has selected the first derivative routine or second derivative routine. When sufficient samples have been obtained, block 62, the system predicts the performance parameter at the end of a short (e.g. 5-10 seconds) interval, block 64. At decision block 66, the predicted performance parameter is compared to limits. If the limits are exceeded, agent assignments are changed, block 68. If these are not exceeded, the agent assignments are left unchanged , block 70.
It will be appreciated that, as disclosed in copending application Ser. No. 09/038,964, which is incorporated herein by reference, other routines can be used to project the trend of sample values and predict a future value. In addition, the Taylor expansion routine can be used to predict call center parameters such as inbound load and a determination made as to whether or not change agent assignments based upon predicted load, as disclosed in the copending application Ser. No. 09/038,964.
While the invention has been described in terms of a single preferred embodiment, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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"Edwards' second quarter take from North Carolina — $308,622 — was about one-third of what he raised in his home state in the first quarter."
":Among the notable donors who gave to Edwards in the second quarter: Vernon Jordan, a Washington power broker and close friend of former President Clinton; Sandy Berger, Clinton's former national security adviser; lawyer Johnnie Cochran; actress Glenn Close; singer Barbra Streisand; Glenn Frey of the Eagles rock band; and professional football player Robert Porcher of the Detroit Lions."
--At least 772 attorneys donated to the campaign, per PoliticalMoneyLine.com. --Only $15,550 in itemized donations from Iowa. Largest amount, statewise, came from California, followed by New York and then Missouri. (Also per PoliticalMoneyLine.com). --Spent nearly $700,000 on salaries and payroll taxes. --Spent $94,500 on polling services from Westhill. The AP's Fournier has exclusive details of Gephardt's meetings with Democratic Party officials to prevent a panic.
"Gephardt was making the rounds of party leaders and constituency groups, urging them not to give up on his presidential campaign despite the poor fund-raising performance. One meeting was with Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union has not endorsed a candidate although McEntee has spoken favorably about Kerry." LINK Congressman Gephardt used a press avail after the Human Rights Campaign forum to explain his quarter:
"'We are on course … ..We are raising the amount that we set out to raise.' He said he was 'roughly very close to halfway' to his goal of $20 million for the year. That calculation includes $2.4 million he transferred from his House campaign committee earlier this year," USA Today 's Lawrence reports.
"Donna Brazile, a Democratic Party strategist who was Gephardt's field director in 1988, said he has run a strong campaign this time. But the new figures 'should be a wake-up call,' she said. 'Unless he picks up money soon, it looks like he's heading back into his 1988 territory. We had a good candidate. We had endorsements in the bank. But we had no money to complete the battle.'"
Lawrence allows the Gephardt campaign to end on a positive Note:
"Gephardt spokesman Erik Smith predicted four or five candidates would be competitive for the Democratic nomination and said Gephardt would be one of them. 'If you've got $6 million the bank,; he said, 'you're not going to be excluded from this race.'"
--The campaign paid $135,500 to the Garin Strategic Group for polling. --The largest occupation group listed for donors was "Information Requested" (383 entries), with 360 attorneys coming in a close second. --1,506 of itemized 1,991 donations came from Florida for total of $1.2 million. (PoliticalMoneyLine.com) --The campaign spent only $29,000 spent on air and rail travel. The Florida press corps is not kind to Senator Graham:
The Orlando Sentinel's Silva: "'Jamal Simmons, spokesman for the senator, said Graham is on course in his fund raising. Graham joined the fray late, after open-heart surgery this past winter.' 'For someone who started at zero 100 days ago, we've had a strong start,' Simmons said. 'At the end of the day, money is not what determines the winner.'" LINK


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North Bend, Oregon (541) 271-6000
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Jun 2014 - $20.00
Agree with last review. We had no problem fitting our 33' RV and toad in site 11 and found this to be a lovely, quiet setting. Host tends lovely flowers at his site. We would camp here again. - RDR
Sep 2013 - $10.00
This is a forest service campground. Sites are paved and plenty long enough for our 40' MH but we needed to cut some branches that were in the way of slides. Water available around the park. Nice trail around the small lake. Less than a mile to the ocean. There are ATV dunes close by but no ATV's in the campground. There is a horse campground just up the road and ATV campground across the street. Good Verizon internet service but marginal phone service. Only 4 miles to Coos Bay for shopping. Price reflect Old Age Pass. - rhianna
North Bend, Oregon (map) | (541) 756-6274
Sites: 88 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 4 Reviews
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This park is very run down and needs some major maintenance. There are many permanent residents in very run down, ill-maintained rigs. A lot of the sites had trash and junk stored all around them. Our electrical and water hook-ups were old and questionable. On the plus side it was quiet, the lady in the office was nice and we had a Wi-Fi signal (although it was a very slow connection). We would probably not stay here again unless the management made significant improvements. - BruceandKathyWA
Oct 2007 - $35.00
Bad: All the sites are mud and sand. The bathrooms are run down. The washers and dryers are old and always breaking down. It's a battle to do laundry. It's almost always full. The WiFi hardly ever worked. Even management admitted that it didn't work right but there was nothing they could do about it. Some of the children living there were very mean to the younger children and liked to beat them up. Management was also aware of this, but did nothing. There are a lot of permanent residents there with run down trailers. Good: The sites have fire pits. There is free firewood available for the fire pits. Park is fairly quiet. They are adding more sites to the park. - ajharkins
Jul 2005 - $25.00
The campground used to be The Firs RV Park, it is under new ownership. Many permanent run down TT and MH, junk all around, the WiFi did not work well. The laundry room was dirty and half of the machines were not working, beyond repair, the washrooms were dirty, we used our bathroom in the TT. We will never return to this park - User5
North Bend, Oregon (map) | (541) 756-4851
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Stayed here one night as we were tired, but unless you are an ATV person this is not the park for you. Just a big dirt parking lot and lots of dust and very noisy. The staff did, however, tell us this so as an overnight it worked. - EJK
Aug 2011 - $41.00
Pretty much a standard KOA. Dirt and gravel roads and sites. Caters to the ATV crowd. Utilities worked well. It tends to get dusty with a lot of vehicle traffic. If your not into ATV'ing then you probably wouldn't like this park. - yachtjockey
Jul 2010 - $32.00
Maybe we were lucky, but this park worked well for us. We do not have an ATV, but the ATV'rs were not obnoxious at all--They did cause some noise and dust during the daytime. They honored quiet time from 10PM to 8AM. The park is very dusty, and rather than gravel roads, the roads AND the RV sites themselves, were spread with rather large rocks (very rough gravel, to say the least!) It was interesting to see all the different kinds of ATVs as we knew nothing about them. Showers were very clean and available early, as it seems the ATV folks shower after a long day on the dunes--that is when we saw the lines! We would be willing to stay here again, but saw another park during our day excursions that we would prefer! If you don't want dust and some engine noise, choose another park! This park caters to ATVrs! If you travel almost to Florence, there is a great park where we spent 2 lovely days in the dunes--Woahink Lake RV Resort, for about the same price. Check it out!! - ruthieva
North Bend, Oregon (map) | (800) 953-4800
Sites: 102 | Latest Rate: $35.00 | 87 Reviews
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Jun 2015 - $35.00
Very friendly and helpful staff. The park is very clean and well maintained. A good place to stay to visit the local attractions. The food at the casino was very good and reasonably priced. We will stay there again. - Windshift
May 2015 - $28.00
This was our second visit. Everything about The Mill RV park is first class. It is waterfront, on the bay and central to everything in North Bend and Coos Bay. The check-in is easy to park for, and fast. The employees are super friendly. They sell propane on-site. The park is clean and very well maintained. Their free shuttle will take you not only to their nearby casino (also well done), but anywhere in town you want to go. That is worth the cost of the space rent all by itself. The paved sites are wide and generally level. The only draw back in this first-class park is third class wi-fi that was slow with erratic never getting over 5 mbps, and was usually moving at a snails-pace 1 mbps. With all the effort they put in to the rest of the park, I wish they would fix this important service, too. - Washoezephyr
Jan 2015 - $28.00
Other reviews point out the features well. Clean, efficient check in, sites a bit narrow. Just fine for a day or two. As advertised this is certainly an RV park and not a campground.
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- Audio Interview with Ernie Westworth by Liza Dale-Hallett at his home in Kinglake on 6 November 2009.
This interview forms part of the Victorian Bushfires Collection and relates to the Black Saturday Chimney, a key item of this collection, which came from burnt remains of 'The Uplands' homestead in Kinglake Central.
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- Ernie Westworth recollects the time he worked at 'The Uplands' for two years when he was 16-18 years old, during the 1930s.
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Spokane County Sheriff officers are continuing to work on a shooting near Airway Heights on the 4000 block of North Garfield Road Sunday, Jan. 13 at 4:30 a.m.
Once arriving on scene, officers located a deceased adult male in the residence, now identified as James S. Cavazos, 31, who died from a gunshot wound to the head or neck, according to the medical examiner's office.
Officers arrested his father Mark Cavazos, 52, for second-degree murder and booked him into the Spokane County jail, booked on a $100,000 bond. He will have an arraignment Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Media reports said Mark and his son were arguing in the evening when the elder Cavazos went to retrieve a gun. Cavazos was allegedly pointing it at his son when it accidently fired. Alcohol was reported to be a factor earlier in the evening.
Major crimes detectives and forensics officers spent much of Sunday investigating the scene of the crime.
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Celine Danhier's documentary Blank City (now playing at Real Art Ways) got me seeking out the movies of the No Wave filmmakers of the late '70s-early '80s, starting with Amos Poe's Unmade Beds. Here's Deborah Harry and annoying Jean-Pierre Leaud stand-in Duncan Hannah in the best scene in the movie:
I haven't seen Poe's follow-up, The Foreigner, but here is a clip in which Eric Mitchell (another director featured in Blank City) gets beaten up by the Cramps at CBGBs:
Jim Jarmusch's first film, Permanent Vacation, in which Chris Parker takes the Leaud role, is almost as French new wave-obsessed as Unmade Beds, but it's the prototype for just about everything he's made since. Martin Scorsese excerpted this scene in The King of Comedy:
But this scene, filmed at Theatre 80 St. Mark's, is more prototypical. With Frankie Faison in his film debut:
Finally, Ubuweb's Cinema of Transgression collection has films by Beth B, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Kembra Pfahler and Richard Kern, as well as David Wojnarowicz & Tommy Turner's "Where Evil Dwells" (featured in Blank City). Nick Zedd's "War is Menstrual Envy" (you were hoping for "They Eat Scum"?) is here.Copyright © 2015, The Baltimore Sun


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Discussion in 'Fly Fishing Forum' started by Derek Young, Apr 11, 2013.
No I would tell you to show your badge or fuck off....
Luke, you do recognize that the deformity you see is actually a beheaded trout, right?
Actually, they had 12-14 fish lined up on the bank, slit from the head to tail. The story just isn't believable - who catches 14 fish at a lake, puts them in a white plastic grocery bag, then drives 20 miles away to a secluded section of a different river to clean them? I didn't see any rods, but they were probably in the back of their truck.
One theory: They left Matoon because they were 2-4 fish over the limit and didn't want to get busted for that.
Reading this makes me want to do a Cedar River poaching rant but I must.....restrain myself.....don't want it interfering with my Friday night sense of well being.
Derek, good work.
Thanks for paying attention and taking the time to report it, Derek. Nice job.
You did good, Mr. Young; I'd have probably done something similar. Maybe one of these days I'll have to get myself a fancy phone so i can take videos.


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