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|Kjeld Langes Gade, 1367 Copenhagen, Denmark
|Property type
|Private room
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The lakes are 50m away - by walking Nørreport station (Metro) is 8 minutes away, the big shopping streets 10 minutes away, Tivoli 15 minutes away and you can walk to nearly everything else in the city of Copenhagen. There's a bakery, grocery store and pizzeria.
There are sheets and towels included in the fee. You can rent new bicycles from me, which is cheaper than anywhere else.
You can make coffee and tea in the kitchen, but its not possible to cook.
I´m a very friendly host and I will be flexible and helpful if needed.
House rulesThere is two rules:
1. You can place your water,soda, beer in the refrigerator in the kitchen, but there is no cooking.
2. No bath after 22:00.
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Reviews of this property
excellent location. But. Contrary to the ad no TV and no key to lock the room. Instead of the owner foreign guests in the other rooms of the apartment. Tub and tiles with gray-yellow encrustations of decades, calcified sink and dishtowels staring from dirt. not my style.
Robert's house is a nice and comfortable place to stay. The bedroom has got a large bed where we slept in two, we used the other regular one to put things on. The bathroom is like the photos. In the kitchen we could use the kettle and the toaster, not the cookers. The house is near the city center and the museums. Robert was very kind to us and we could do whatever we wanted.
Nice, clean room with comfortable beds. The owner Robert is a very friendly guy. Near the city centre, but quiet at night.
It is a fantastic location with lots very close by: near the city centre, Rosenborg castle, cheap Netto supermarkets and some lovely little bars and restaurants. Yet it's nice and quiet. Bathroom and kitchen were great and well stocked. Unlike other reviewers I found the bed very comfy and slept well. My only gripes would be:
- The bedroom was not all that clean (I wiped grime off surfaces before putting my things there).
- The host's things were in the wardrobe and there was no other storage space apart from some coat hangers. I really wanted to unpack my stuff as I was there for 6 days, so I cleared my host's things off one shelf, cleaned the shelf as it was grimy, put a clean towel over it too for good measure, and stored my stuff there. Sorry but I have to feel at home!
- I hardly saw my host as he kept odd hours, out till 5 a.m. (I always got woken when he came home and used the bathroom), then he was in bed till midday. On the rare occasions he was there and awake he made sure everything was OK. But as I was alone, I had hoped that the Wimdu thing would enable me to maybe chat to the hosts a little bit, maybe have a beer/coffee, etc? Don't know, this was my first time.
- The host told me that he normally gave guests a lift back to the airport, but I could see he really wanted to get out of taking me. I didn't want to force it but was disappointed! It takes about 45 minutes by walking and metro, my bags were heavy and I was coming down with a cold and felt lousy.
To sum up, if you need things a bit more homely and spick and span, perhaps this isn't your thing. But absolutely go for it if a handy yet quiet location is your priority. And I'd say it's good value for money.
We spent three great days in Copenhagen. The apartment is located in a nice neighborhood in a prime location. Robert is very friendly but had little contact since we were traveling a lot. The Wonhung is a cozy old building, but the images give the impression that everything was just renovated, which is not so.
Wir haben drei tolle Tage in Kopenhagen verbracht. Die Wohnung liegt in einem schönen Viertel in Toplage. Robert ist sehr freundlich, hatten aber wenig Kontakt, da wir viel unterwegs waren. Die Wonhung ist eine gemütliche Altbauwohnung, die Bilder erwecken jedoch den Eindruck als sei alles gerade frisch renoviert, dem ist nicht so.
Robert and his girlfriend were very kind and friendly. We did not get to see him/them very often, but we had beer with his neighbours one night.
The flat was clean. Only flaw: the beds were very soft. Location was good.
The apartment is really easy to reach from the airport. Both the keys and return was totally easy and accommodating. Robert was also friendly and helpful. We have felt very comfortable and pleased us to the surrounding places.
Die Wohnung ist wirklich gut vom Flughafen aus erreichbar. Sowohl die Schlüssel Übergabe als auch Rückgabe war total einfach und entgegenkommend. Robert war auch freundlich und Hilfsbereit. Wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt und uns an den umliegenden Lokalen erfreut.
Very good, all cool and uncomplicated. Thank you.
Sehr gut, alles cool und unkompliziert. Danke.
We had a very pleasant stay in Roberts apartment. The apartment is clean, nicely decorated, the bed linen and towels are freshly washed and the internet connection is super. Both bathroom and kitchen can be to share. The apartment is located very centrally, everything is easily reached on foot, and yet it is there very quiet at night.
Robert is very nice and polite and makes you feel that you can move freely in the apartment. However, anyone who is looking for a host for a chat and hang out, here is maybe not correct. There were two, I think the three of is a little tight, we would not recommend.
Wir hatten einen sehr angenehmen Aufenthalt in Roberts Wohnung. Die Wohnung ist sauber, schön eingerichtet, die Bettwäsche und Handtücher sind frisch gewaschen und die Internetverbindung ist super. Sowohl Badezimmer als auch Küche kann man mitbenutzen. Die Wohnung liegt sehr zentral, alles ist fußläufig gut erreichbar und dennoch ist es dort nachts sehr ruhig.
Robert ist sehr nett und höflich und gibt einem das Gefühl, dass man sich in der Wohnung frei bewegen kann. Wer jedoch einen Gastgeber zum Quatschen und Rumhängen sucht, ist hier vielleicht nicht richtig. Wir waren zu zweit, ich glaube zu dritt ist es etwas eng, das würden wir nicht empfehlen.
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Getting a little tired with Morehead having to defend Phil against some who never saw him play. Phil played in a stadium that was renowned for its swirling winds. If he didn't throw one of the tightest spirals of his time his completion % would have been even worse. As it was, it surely effected his % by several points.
He had guys like Ernest Grey dropping 2-3 passes every single game. The receivers of Phil's time would have trouble making 3rd string on today's team.
As Morehead said, Phl had no short passing game.
If Eli had to pass in Giants stadium for his whole career his stats would be much worse.
The Giant offensive line was very good at run blocking, but Phil was sackedover 50+ X in 3 seasons, 2 seasons of 40+, and 5 seasons in the high 30's Eli's highest sack year was 30.
Hard to compare in different eras, but please don't even begin to lean on stats.
Simms is my favorite Giant of all time (LT, Carson and Bavaro are close). Given that, I think Eli is the best Giant QB of all time.
I'm not a blind Phil supporter.
But, it's a lot closer than some think.
Phil's time was all about Marino, Kelly, and Montana... and, the Giant D. Phil rarely got credit for his solid play and helping win games.
For all the points you made you can argue about the high degree of turnover the Eli has dealt with, less than stellar running games, poor defenses. Simms had some of his worse games away from Giants stadium (49ers playoff loss) What about the sack ratio, does that say nothing about the qb? I think Eli himself is a big reason he gets less sacks than Simms.
The other thing I don't get is the hatred of stats, they do not tell the whole story, and it is easy to manipulate them to prove a point, but how can you say completion percentage over a career does not matter, that I just don't understand. I think stats are an important tool to use when analyzing players, especially the new total qb rating system.


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On Deadline: Is 'cheating' ingrained in our schools, or society?
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, on Sep 29, 2011
But several recent high-profile events are raising the question of cheating, despite strong admonitions against it in Palo Alto area schools.
One such event was the discovery that six students at Great Neck High School, a high-performing top-100 school similar to Palo Alto schools, actually hired a young-looking college student to take their SATs for them.
Well, the fellow had to work his way through college somehow, I suppose.
This followed revelations that some teachers and administrators, mostly in low-performing schools, were fudging test scores by erasing wrong answers and putting in correct responses to multiple-choice tests. Fudging? Hardly.
Yet there are serious, job-threatening penalties for teachers and administrators whose schools are deemed to be doing poorly or failing under federal regulations. Just keeping one's job can be a big incentive.
But what are these folks thinking, whatever their age or position as a student or teacher? And where did the Great Neck students get the $2,500 per-student fee to pay the college kid to sneak into the test room? In one case, CNN reported that he even took the place of a young woman student and was not detected. Did the parents not know their children were siphoning off pocket change from their allowances -- or were parents involved as co-conspirators?
Meanwhile, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday that California schools two years ago abandoned a "cheating detection" system -- such as watching for excessive erasure marks on test papers -- in favor of an "honors system." That may work for most students, but perhaps some are honor challenged and don't mind one-upping their fellows for their own advantage.
Well, six students may make national headlines but don't make a statistical blip among the hundreds of thousands of students who filed into test centers Saturday. Some felt confident due to their performances on Preliminary SATs they took as juniors, or because of follow-up tutorial help. PSATs are scheduled to be given in October.
One such test center was at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, where a capacity turnout of 1,135 students sat down for the regular SAT.
Of those who signed up, 267 were Gunn students, 205 Palo Alto High students and 107 Menlo-Atherton High students. The rest came from 57 other high schools from a large area, and included students from France and China and many from private schools in the region.
Nationwide, hundreds of thousands of seniors were doing the same thing, struggling with the same questions, the same ticking of time, perhaps the same hopes and fears.
Most believed they were playing on the proverbial "level playing field," basing their efforts on personal study habits, honesty and diligence. Some were coached by tutors, not considered cheating but providing a clear advantage to those whose families can afford it. Those who can't afford such personalized help find they must invest time and energy -- in a community that is already concerned about the intensity of such investment.
Scott Bowers, Palo Alto schools' assistant superintendent, said while there was no special effort being made this year to emphasize or detect cheating, teachers are expected to be watchful and district policies are explicitly outlined in student handbooks. The policy is meant to "provide an environment conducive to ethical behavior," it states.
Cheating, it says, "is an obstacle to achieving these goals." It cites factors that include pressure for grades, not enough time, students taking advantage of teachers who do not monitor their classes closely, unrealistic parent expectations and inefficient study skills.
The policy does not mention peer pressure, but perhaps that is hidden under "pressure for grades.
"In any of its forms, for whatever reason, cheating denies the value of education," the policy states.
It provides a clear, if slightly legalistic-sounding, definition: "Cheating is taking (or lending) at inappropriate times a person's work, information, ideas, research, or documentation, without properly identifying the originator. It includes using unauthorized materials when testing or other acts specified in advance by the teacher."
Sounds simple, almost simplistic. But this basic guideline seems to be a severe challenge to some students, parents and even teachers who feel the need, for whatever reason, to push the limit, to gain "an edge," to climb past others in what is the ultimate failure -- a failure of ethics that no multiple-choice test can easily measure.
Perhaps the worst thing is that it will rob the students of their personal sense of honor for the rest of their lives. Perhaps they will make enough extra money to make up for that great loss. Perhaps.
Note: Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be e-mailed at email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.
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a resident of Midtown
on Oct 8, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Brian Guth-Pasta is a registered user.
An easy thing right off the bat is have all the students put cell phones on the front desk at the beginning of the exam.
The other thing I would do is let students sit down, and then after everyone has "chosen" their seat I would completely reverse the seating. This would make the kids who would sit in the back row in front and visa versa. It is common knowledge that kids who naturally sit in front are "better" students and would cheat less because they are closer to the teacher normally so it would be harder normally cheat. They therefor would not prepare to cheat on the SAT and when asked to sit in back it doesn't matter that the teacher can't keep as good an eye on them, the focus can be on the kids who typically cause the trouble.
*Special note if kids need accommodations because of special needs then they can sit where needed.*
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 8, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Getting a great score on the SAT's can be life changing - allowing you to attend a school you might not even dream of attending. The rewards for cheating are too great-better schools, potential scholarships, better grades, etc.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 9, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Nayeli is a registered user.
It is unfortunate that cheating is so widespread in society. When I took my SAT, there was a person that I knew who was taking it across the auditorium. This person graduated with honors from my high school and was already attending college, so I was baffled that he would be taking the SAT.
A few weeks later, I saw this guy at a supermarket. I asked him about why he was taking his SAT again when he was already in school.
He laughed and said that he wasn't repeating the test, but taking it for someone else. He said that he was worried that they would inspect his fake photo id more closely, but he was relieved that the test administrator didn't examine it too closely.
It made me really think about how widespread cheating might be on tests like the SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, etc... I suppose that the pressure is pretty immense for some people that they would resort to cheating.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 11, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Children learn from adults. Children imitate adults. Children repeat what adults do and say. You want to build a better world; one with more acceptance, compassion, integrity, understanding, as well as effectiveness, it starts with the person in the mirrror. As the song goes, "Teach your children well."
Most likely, the parents knew, and encouraged the cheating; as the saying goes, "By all means necessary." Look at how we elect political leaders - be it local, or national. We give power to those who either pay to get the power, or know the right people to get the power - is this not a form of selective cheating? Look at how we select those who are given a certain job - if you know somebody in a position of influence, you can get that specific job or position. Cheating is a societal thing that affects all areas of life - the question is, can't it ever be reigned in?
editor emeritus
on Oct 12, 2011 at 8:47 am
Jay Thorwaldson is a registered user.
Good comments. I particularly appreciated Nayeli's first-hand anecdote. Here's an idea for state Sen. Joe Simitian's "Oughta Be a Law" contest: Make sitting in for someone on SAT or other major academic-performance tests illegal, subject to substantial fines or perhaps even some jail time. Then produce a "Top Ten Most Wanted Cheaters" list and identify with photos those who are making good money doing that. -jay
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 15, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Good points, when we started down this road of corruption it is not easy to see, or to return from. Who know who is what, when the basic reality of the economy the society is corrupted what can people do?
There's a book out called "The Cheating Culture" that talks about this at length, since it is hidden and hard to find out, and we do not like to feel like we are the only ones to be looked at there are very few ways to look at this problem or to see what is going on or how to stop it.
Can we afford to come down on cheaters when everyone is cheating?
I think the solution is making it so people do not want to cheat, that one's life does not depend on cheating, and that there are no things that function like the SATs in terms of cutting people out of education or anything else. Our country, our society is getting very good and kicking people out, and then just expects to ignore them and that there will no cost involved with this mode of existence.
a resident of another community
on Oct 17, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Posted by a resident of another community, on Oct 6, 2011 at 10:32 pm
As a former Palo Alto City Staff member, I want to note that there were numerous City requirements for the transition from the Varsity Theater usage to the Borders Books usage due to the historical nature of the building. This included the re-establishment of the theater usage if the Borders tenant left the property. Some of the requirements of the tenant improvement were the storage of the chairs of the former theater seating and the maintanance of the slope of the theater alignment. All this was required in the event that the usage of the site was changed due to Borders, or another to be stored to be replace if the above usage was changed. All of this happened in June of 1996 via the Palo Alto Planning Department and the Historical Resources Board. This issue needs to be researched and reported on by the local media. Don't let Mr. Keenen get away with ignoring property development agreements made 15+ years ago without proper City and public review and approval.
I remember special times spending in the courtyard of the Varsity Theater at the champagne brunch on Sundays, in the 1980's, with the harpsicord and other various musical venues performing. This was a wonderful experience and hopefully it can be re-established as it was. Sorry to see the demise of the brick and motar Borders Books venue, though.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 18, 2011 at 11:20 am
Trusting in the honor system to prevent cheating is like Safeway allowing people to check themselves out and have free access to the cash registers, with no supervision. Yeah, right.
What strikes me is that even with such lax oversight, those students got caught. What would happen if we actually LOOKED for cheating. I don't buy the argument that it was only six out of hundreds of thousands who cheated, it was only six cockroaches who got caught in the dark. Turn on a light, you will find more cockroaches.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 20, 2011 at 11:43 am
When I was in school, we had to handwrite on the cover of every exam paper or booklet... the full honor code.... in pen... in (gasp!) long hand... and then sign our name to it. Signing the written promise to not cheat and agreeing to the consequences (score of 0... and then some) certainly curtailed cheating. and when the average score on an exam was 37/100, it was clear cheating didn't happen.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 21, 2011 at 9:11 am
@ honor code:
I attended a large public university, and I never knew that our school had an honor code until an older professor had us write it before a test. He made our class write it out (several times over the course of the semester) on the cover of our test.
I wonder how common it is? Do all schools have them? It would be a great way to remind students of the opportunity that they have and, for those who didn't have parents who explained it properly, the importance of honesty.
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Families from around New York City are clamoring to get their children into Chinatown's P.S. 184, the only dual language school in the United States to focus on Mandarin Chinese.
Commonly called the Shuang Wen School, which means "dual culture" in Mandarin, P.S. 184 teaches students in both English and Mandarin Chinese. Students spend their mornings learning core subject areas in English, while afternoon classes are taught in Mandarin with a focus on language and Chinese culture. The free after-school program, which runs to nearly 6 p.m., is also taught in Mandarin. The school year is also longer than most public schools, ending in August.
|"We are fortunate that so many of our students form good character in school. Many, but not all. Millions of students are taught the wrong values, or no values at all. So, we have our work cut out for us. We live in a culture of callousness. The result: a staggering achievement gap, poor health status, overweight students, crime, violence, teenage pregnancy, tobacco use and alcohol use."
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Patriots or Communists?
Original post made by Cindy Cross, Parkside, on Oct 6, 2011
Thousands are gathering on Wall Street in New York City to protest corporate greed, defense spending, and the huge disparity between the middle and upper classes. They claim that their goal is to make a statement to the world that America is now run by corporations—not elected government officials.
Starting out as a small group protesting on Wall Street, it has flourished into a nationwide collective of people of all ages tired of the status quo. One protester in New York held a sign reading, "Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy rotten system."
But right wing pundits such as Sean Hannity have classified these protesters as 'communists and un-American.' GOP candidate Herman Cain said of the protesters, "Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself," said Cain. "It is not someone's fault if they succeeded. It is someone's fault if they failed."
Earlier this week, Mitt Romney described the protests as "class warfare" and "dangerous." Romney was quoted as saying, 'corporations are people too' during a GOP rally in late summer. If we use Romney's logic, corporations are a sum of its parts, like a person, with the front line employees being the blood supply; the worker bees who keep the corporation afloat. The accounting and finance department would be the brains and the heart would be the CEO; without a healthy heart beat, the corporation would die. One important part of this 'person' is missing, and that would be its soul; the intangible essence of a 'person.' Without a soul one would be in a league with a megalomaniac or a sociopath. Most, if not all, serial killers are sociopaths. Using Romney's logic, corporations are serial killers. They kill people (jobs) without remorse and with impunity. They continue their bloodlust (making money) until they are either caught (fraud), are killed (bankruptcy), or are re-habilitated (government bailout). There are good corporations out there with 'souls', companies run by CEOs who care about the blood running through its veins—its employees. But how many are there? So few in fact, that people are protesting in the thousands.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement, as the media is calling it, has spread to other cities throughout the country, including Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
The big question is whether these protesters should be considered communists or patriots? Right wingers call them communists and un-American, while the left-wing calls them patriots looking out for average Americans.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said of the protesters, "God bless them for their spontaneity. It's young, it's spontaneous, it's focused and it's going to be effective."
We shall see how effective they are, and how long the protests will last.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 7, 2011 at 10:08 am
After a long surge of extremist politics on both sides, I'm beginning to take a laissez faire attitude. What I mean is that bulbous social reaction is actually a symptom a deeper issue. Yes, the pustule sore on the outside is really just an indication of a deeper malady. This is true on both side of the political equation. To say that Wall Street is NOT greedy is naive, yet to wear purple hair on the streets is pesky. To say that deprecate social spending is outrageous is obvious, but to disdain people because of a lower social class is repellent.
I'm beginning to look at the core problem and then the cure, not the symptom so I can scream bloody murder. I'm feeling much better now.
a resident of another community
on Oct 7, 2011 at 10:44 am
jimf01 is a registered user.
One way to tell what the truth is in politics nowadays is that it's usually the exact opposite of what Nancy Pelosi says it is. It's not spontaneous, it's astroturf. Watch this video, an interview with one of the main organizers from the "New Party" Web Link
Watch this video from with one of the early planners of this protest, it takes 7 minutes for him to describe their motivations and what they are planning, but he gets to it eventually Web Link
Facts about the backgrounds of these organizers:
* The Working Families Party was established in the 90s by key members of the the socialist organizations The New Party, ACORN, SEIU, and a coalition of other labor unions and community organizations.
* Patrick Gaspard, the current executive director of the DNC, former director of Obama's Office of Political Affairs, was an organizer for the New Party, the executive vice president of the SEIU Local 1199, political director for Bertha Lewis (the former president of ACORN) and a co-chair of the Working Families Party.
* The New Party is a socialist political coalition co-founded in 1992 by academic and political activist Joel Rogers.
* The first strategic meetings to plan the New Party were held in Joel Rogers' Madison, Wisconsin home; Wade Rathke, ACORN and SEIU founder and Gerry Hudson from Democratic Socialists of America and SEIU were in attendance at those meetings.
* The New Party's influential Chicago chapter began to formed in January 1995. Its members consisted mainly of individuals from ACORN, SEIU and the Democratic Socialists of America. Obama attended a New Party function and received their endorsement in 1995.
Note please, that these are all facts, and that the videos are the words of the organizers themselves.
The New Party organizer states quite clearly that the goal is to bring european style socialism to the United States. That alone tells you these people are not the 99%, and that they are un-American. Real communists have different goals, but there are many communists among these protesters, watch the video from Ch 13 in Sacramento last night. The reporter focuses on the lack of an articulable message, but watch for the communist at 1:58 into the video.
Web Link
The group that got this party started, started the New Party and got Barack Obama started in politics. As Mr Obama himself said just before his election "We are 5 days from fundamentally transforming America" Web Link
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 7, 2011 at 2:09 pm
"Herman Cain said of the protesters, "Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself," said Cain. "It is not someone's fault if they succeeded. It is someone's fault if they failed."
A reason you should never vote for someone like Herman Cain or Barack Obama. What he doesn't understand is that many of the people at the big banks and insurance companies did fail and failed completely as a result of their own bad decisions. The derivative traders at AIG's proprietary trading desk had no one to blame but themselves for running the company into bankruptcy. The trouble is that the Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve rushed in to bail them out. In doing so not only did they reward failure, but they created large distortions in the markets and created counterproductive incentives that encourage a company to grow and take on more debt than is prudent. What's worse, a large number of the traders who brought down AIG never paid a price for their failure and in fact got large bonuses for their trouble, courtesy of the taxpayer.
Many people in the Tea Party movement and in these Wall Street protests sense that something was fundamentally wrong with these bailouts. There is a great deal of overlap in what they say. I disagree with much that is said by both these groups, but I have to agree when they speak out against the way these bailouts were handled. This was crony capitalism at its very worst. The Frank/Dodd bill never adequately addressed the too big to fail problem or the problem of properly regulating over-the-counter derivatives. Democrats and Republicans have both played a large role it creating the policies that caused our current economic problems.
Jimf01, when you going to join us in the Tea Party and the Wall Street protests in condemning the bailouts or at least condemning the way the bailouts were handled by both presidents and congress?
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Oct 7, 2011 at 2:51 pm
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Patriots or Communists? All I've seen are photos of young people protesting. It's a jobless generation who is facing a bleak future created by their elders.
a resident of Bonde Ranch
on Oct 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm
So let me get this straight. When the Tea Party protests over taxes, Fox makes them out to be heroes. And yet when younger people protest against the greed of Wall Street they are Communist. Brilliant.
a resident of Parkside
on Oct 8, 2011 at 7:35 am
If you've listened to their ramblings, you can certainly understand why people would believe these immature, selfish kids are commies. But, just to play devils advocate, they could be patriotic commies, but they have to move to china. I wish them luck once the govt confiscates their iPhones and other toys that capitalism has provided them. Spoiled, ignorant kids, but commies....maybe
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Oct 8, 2011 at 8:34 pm
These folks have a legitimate gripe: the major brokerages trashed the economy by granting and selling increasingly uncollectible mortgages, then walk away scot free while everyone else downstream suffers.
Irresponsible and unaccountable. I'd be angry, too, if I weren't sitting pretty.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 8, 2011 at 9:59 pm
"but they have to move to china. I wish them luck once the govt confiscates their iPhones and other toys that capitalism has provided them."
Steve, I wonder if you've ever been to China. I have, and I've never heard of the government confiscating someone's iPhone or other "toys". In fact many tech companies sell more products in China than in the US. Life is good there and it is getting better every day. As to "moving to China", many of us in the Bay Area spend a lot of time in China, and some have moved there. Given the expanding, well managed economy, some of my colleges have found better opportunities in China than in the US.
Yes, there are many ignorant people in both the Tea Party and these protest Wall street movements. But, as I said above there is some overlap in what they say. Many in both movements have legitimate grievances with our government and with Wall Street. I hope something good comes from these movements because this country needs better leadership than we are getting from Republicans and Democrats.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 8, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Are you out there?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2011 at 9:59 am
Would you please answer my question?
a resident of another community
on Oct 10, 2011 at 10:20 am
jimf01 is a registered user.
Jimf01, when you going to join us in the Tea Party and the Wall Street protests in condemning the bailouts or at least condemning the way the bailouts were handled by both presidents and congress?
This thread is not about the bailouts. But I will take issue with some of your justifications and arguments
Pat said "What he doesn't understand is that many of the people at the big banks and insurance companies did fail and failed completely as a result of their own bad decisions"
This is nonsense. These companies are operating (hopefully) within the laws and regulations laid out by the government. Are they looking for loopholes, are they dodging taxes, are they lobbying for breaks? Sure, they are.
You even contradict yourself when you say "Democrats and Republicans have both played a large role it creating the policies that caused our current economic problems"
The behemoth and labyrinth set of laws and regulations the bailed out companies had to deal with set the stage for these problems. Our government set all of this up, and then failed to provide proper oversight of the process. So not only did they set up the environment in which it occurred, they failed to control it when it was occurring.
But we are getting well off the subject. This thread is about the occupy protests, and not about your obsession with the bailouts.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2011 at 11:42 am
"This is nonsense. These companies are operating (hopefully) within the laws and regulations laid out by the government. Are they looking for loopholes, are they dodging taxes, are they lobbying for breaks? Sure, they are."
I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Are you saying AIG didn't fail? That AIG failed was the reason they got $182 billion from the Treasury department. They were bailed out. The company failed, our tax dollars bailed them out. They were rewarded for failure. I don't know why you talk about "...loopholes, are they dodging taxes, are they lobbying for breaks...". I'm not talking about any of those things. I'm talking about the bailouts. I never said any of them broke any laws.
"You even contradict yourself when you say "Democrats and Republicans have both played a large role it creating the policies that caused our current economic problems"
I don't contradict myself in any way. You say "behemoth and labyrinth set of laws and regulations the bailed out companies had to deal with set the stage for these problems." So it sounds like you're blaming government policies for causing the need for the bailouts (or something like that), and you're saying that somehow contradicts what I said? Taking your premise as a given, isn't it Republicans and Democrats who made the "laws and regulations" and "they failed to control it when it was occurring." Jim, for the life of me, I can't see any contradiction in what I said. Go read that thread someone named GX started about crony capitalism. There was a good discussion there about the culpability of both Republicans and Democrats in this.
You also seem to be blaming government for causing the failures at companies like AIG or the big investment houses. I'd just suggest that you should spend some time studying what happened at AIG. AIG got the biggest bailout of any company in US history. I would be hard pressed to see how any government regulation led to AIG needing a bailout. AIG's failure was entirely of its own making. AIG failed because it was on the wrong side of too many derivatives trades, specifically credit default swaps. Credit default swaps trades are about as unregulated a market as possible. There is no disclosure requirement. They don't trade on any public exchange. No one held a gun to their heads and forced them to make the bets they made. The government had no legal authority to regulate them. There was no " labyrinth set of laws and regulations" controlling derivatives trading and it was precisely this lack of regulation that allowed the problem to grow so large without anyone on the outside knowing. Google the "Commodity Futures Moderization Act" to read more.
Jim, maybe I have this all wrong, and if you show me where I'm wrong, I'll be happy to admit my mistake. As far as I can tell, the problems at AIG, and the big investment houses like Morgan Stanley were entirely of their own making, and mainly the result of bad derivatives trades. These trades were largely unregulated. The companies that made the trades were bailed out with tax dollars.
"This thread is not about the bailouts."
Oh but it is about the bailouts. Many of the protesters have made it an issue, just as many in the Tea Party had made it an issue. It is central to both movements. It is crony capitalism at its worst. People in both protest movements saw what happened and know in their hearts that something was fundamentally wrong.
a resident of another community
on Oct 10, 2011 at 11:56 am
jimf01 is a registered user.
This is what I mean about your obsession. Anything and everything related to politics can be about the bailouts, you even made the "Air & Space Museum" thread into a bailout thread. Go ahead and start the "Pat's bailout" thread and we can discuss. I will not argue bailouts with you on every thread
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2011 at 1:29 pm
This thread is about bailouts. Read the original poster's text:
"... or are re-habilitated (government bailout). "
I would just reiterate that you should spend some time studying what happened with the bailouts of AIG and Morgan Stanley. I recommend looking at what was done by both by the Treasury (TARP) and the Federal Reserve (emergency loan programs and quantitative easing).
Please do answer my above questions. If you want to start a new thread, that is fine with me. The original poster specifically mentioned bailouts as a reason for the protest.
I don't have anything against you Jim, so I don't understand what sounds like hostility in your answers. I'm just asking you to take a closer look at what was done by our government.
a resident of another community
on Oct 10, 2011 at 4:35 pm
jimf01 is a registered user.
Pat - What do you think of this, written by a big 'L' Libertarian
Web Link
In my opinion, a far more incisive analysis than what our local blogger has provided.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2011 at 11:01 pm
"But what conservatives are missing is that the protestors have a few good points. The U.S. political system is corrupt. Big corporations, lobbyists, and lawyers are taking advantage of the taxpayers. The bailout of banks and Wall Street was a massive mistake. "
That's pretty close to what I am saying.
"These big companies took capitalist risks, lost big, then went to the government with hat in hand like welfare queens..."
The language is a little over the top, but I agree again with what he says in this paragraph. I don't agree with everything, but I think he's right about a lot of it.
a resident of Pheasant Ridge
on Oct 18, 2011 at 4:05 pm
those are your only two choices
Patriots or Communists?
If your not a patriot on your issues your a communist. Great thinking.


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Correctness of short cut fusion
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1 Short cut fusion
Short cut fusion allows elimination of intermediate data structures using rewrite rules that can also be performed automatically during compilation.The two most popular instances are the
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destroy :: (forall b. (b -> Maybe (a,b)) -> b -> c) -> [a] -> c destroy g = g listpsi listpsi :: [a] -> Maybe (a,[a]) listpsi [] = Nothing listpsi (x:xs) = Just (x,xs) unfoldr :: (b -> Maybe (a,b)) -> b -> [a] unfoldr p e = case p e of Nothing -> [] Just (x,e') -> x:unfoldr p e'
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That is, the left- and right-hand sides should be semantically the same for each instance of either rule. Unfortunately, this is not so in Haskell.We can distinguish two situations, depending on whether
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The two sides are semantically interchangeable.
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g = \x y -> case x y of Just z -> 0 p = \x -> if x==0 then Just undefined else Nothing e = 0
destroy g (unfoldr p e) = g listpsi (unfoldr p e) = case listpsi (unfoldr p e) of Just z -> 0 = case listpsi (case p e of Nothing -> [] Just (x,e') -> x:unfoldr p e') of Just z -> 0 = case listpsi (case Just undefined of Nothing -> [] Just (x,e') -> x:unfoldr p e') of Just z -> 0 = undefined
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What is known is that semantic equivalence can be recovered here by putting moderate restrictions on p.More precisely, if
destroy g (unfoldr p e) = g p e
2.2 In the presence of seq
This is the more interesting setting, given that in Haskell there is no way to restrict the use of
Unsurprisingly, it is also the setting in which more can go wrong than above.
2.2.1 foldr/build
In the presence of
The instance
g = seq c = undefined n = 0
The converse cannot happen, because the following always holds:
foldr c n (build g) <math>\sqsupseteq</math> g c n
Moreover, semantic equivalence can again be recovered by putting restrictions on the involved functions.More precisely, if
foldr c n (build g) = g c n
2.2.2 destroy/unfoldr
Contrary to the situation without
This is witnessed by the following instance:
g = \x y -> seq x 0 p = undefined e = 0
Conditions for semantic approximation in either direction can be given as follows.If
destroy g (unfoldr p e) <math>\sqsubseteq</math> g p e
destroy g (unfoldr p e) <math>\sqsupseteq</math> g p e
Of course, conditions for semantic equivalence can be obtained by combining the two laws above.
3 Literature
Various parts of the above story, and elaborations thereof, are also told in the following papers:
- A. Gill, J. Launchbury, and S.L. Peyton Jones. A short cut to deforestation. Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, Proceedings, pages 223-232, ACM Press, 1993.
- J. Svenningsson. Shortcut fusion for accumulating parameters & zip-like functions. International Conference on Functional Programming, Proceedings, pages 124-132, ACM Press, 2002.
- P. Johann. On proving the correctness of program transformations based on free theorems for higher-order polymorphic calculi. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, 15:201-229, 2005.
- P. Johann and J. Voigtländer. The impact of seq on free theorems-based program transformations. Fundamenta Informaticae, 69:63-102, 2006.
- J. Voigtländer and P. Johann. Selective strictness and parametricity in structural operational semantics. Technical Report TUD-FI06-02, Technische Universität Dresden, 2006.


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UTSA hosts storytelling festival March 4
By Adi Pavlovic
Student Writer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts
(Feb. 28, 2006)--The UTSA Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching hosts the second annual UTSA storytelling festival from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 4 at the Main Building ground floor, 1604 Campus.
The festival is free and open to the public, with the exception of workshops from 1 to 3 p.m. The workshops are $25, $15 for UTSA students.
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The event will include professional storytellers and workshops that discuss how to select stories, how to tell stories and how to use stories to foster learning.
Sign-in is at 8:45 a.m., followed by a keynote address from 9 to 10 a.m., which will include discussion of the importance and influence of a good story.
From 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., participants can choose from 10 professional storytellers who will discuss different storytelling methods. Afterwards, there will be food for sale at Sombrilla Plaza and the opportunity to informally share stories.
From 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Scholastic Books will conduct a book fair with a large variety of children's literature for sale. Profits will benefit the storytelling festival.
Storytelling workshops will be offered from 1 to 3 p.m. Workshop admission is $25, $15 for UTSA students. To register, send or take a check (payable to UTSA ILT Department) to the UTSA Academy for Teacher Excellence, Main Building Room 0.312, 6900 N. Loop 1604 W., San Antonio, TX 78249.
With registration information, include name, UTSACard number or school district, and e-mail address. Additionally, rank your workshop preference of the following workshops (if first choice is full, you will be assigned to another workshop):
- "Unleashing Your Inner Storyteller: Developing the Art of Teaching Through Storytelling"
- "… And They Lived Happily Ever After: Classroom Storytelling and Culture Values"
- "Crafting Oral Stories: Bringing the Elements of a Story to Life"
For more information, contact the Academy for Teacher Excellence at (210) 458-6175, or Susan Keehn at (210) 458-5402.


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a request by Samsung to seal the results of a Dec. 10 request she made to Samsung. Judge Koh had asked Samsung last month to reveal unit sales of certain products over certain time periods. It is unknown what models precisely were requested, but they likely included the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones -- centerpieces of Apple's first infringement case against Samsung.
Samsung had pleaded with Judge Koh to keep those details out of the public eye, arguing that it would damage it from a competitive perspective. Judge Koh had little sympathy for the South Korean electronics company, though, siding with local firm Apple, who argued the information should be made public regardless of the damage to its rival.
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Israel keeps stranglehold on Gaza 'freedom'
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Israel says it will continue to control Palestinian trade and travel from the Gaza Strip even after it removes its troops and settlers from the occupied territory, a process set to begin this weekend.
Palestinians say that Israel's tight restrictions on people and goods entering the fenced-off enclave will turn Gaza into a de facto prison for 1.3 million people, stifle trade and create severe poverty.
Lengthy security checks, which can last days, mean that Palestinian produce can rot before it is taken to market, while exporters of vegetables, fruit and flowers become dependent on Israeli middlemen who can dictate prices.
The relatively free movement of Israeli goods and produce, on the other hand, gives Israeli goods a price advantage over Palestinian competitors in the occupied territories.
Israel says that the blockade of land, air and sea access is necessary to prevent Palestinians from obtaining weapons.
During the present uprising against Israeli military rule, Palestinians have fired thousands of homemade missiles at Israeli towns and communities and at Jewish settlements inside the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli security cabinet announced on Monday that after "disengagement" was complete, it would allow Palestinian goods and people to travel to Egypt only by a new border terminal to be built where Israel, Gaza and Egypt meet. The present crossing at Rafah borders only Gaza and Egypt but is controlled by Israel.
The US economic envoy to the disengagement process, James Wolfensohn, has urged Israel to free access to Gaza so that living standards can improve after the evacuation of the territory's 8000 Jewish settlers. Otherwise, it is feared the present relative calm will be replaced by a new cycle of violence and despair.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced yesterday that a parliamentary election would be held in January, in a sign of efforts to meet demands for reform as a condition for eventual statehood. He announced the move two months after postponing a July 17 vote, saying he needed time to resolve a dispute over electoral law reforms.
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UTSA 1604 Campus street closure
Margaret Tobin Avenue section closed July 3-12
By David Kapalko
Director of Parking and Transportation Services
(June 28, 2006)--A portion of Margaret Tobin Avenue will be closed Monday, July 3 to Wednesday, July 12 for duct bank utilities construction work at the UTSA 1604 Campus.
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The closed section of Margaret Tobin Avenue is west of the intersection with Walter Brenan Avenue, adjacent to the Chaparral Village and Roadrunner Cafe parking lot.
During the construction work, west-bound traffic on Margaret Tobin Avenue will be detoured through parking lot 1A from Walter Brenan Avenue back onto Margaret Tobin west of the closed section of the street.
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DWI patrols increased for St. Patrick's Day weekend
The Minnesota State Patrol recognizes that St. Patrick's Day is historically a dangerous drinking and driving party time.
With it falling on a Sunday this year, the concern is a whole weekend of partying.
Troopers, deputies and officers from around Minnesota will be working Towards Zero Deaths (TZD) Driving While Impaired shifts all weekend, including Sunday, March 17, to be worked in conjunction with St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
Area agencies participating include the Minnesota State Patrol, Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office and police departments in Pequot Lakes, Nisswa, Crosslake, Breezy Point, Emily, Brainerd and Baxter.
Drivers are encouraged to support this project by planning ahead not to drink and drive and report impaired drivers.
In the last five years during the St. Patrick's Day holiday there were 11 traffic deaths. During that time, law enforcement arrested 1,241 motorists for DWI.
Department of Public Safety records from the Office of Traffic Safety show that since 2008, the number of people arrested for DWI on St. Patrick's Day has gone up every year as the holiday approached the weekend.
Duluth State Patrol District Lt. Jason Hanson said, "We would rather not have to make arrests or have needless tragedies occur, but people need to plan ahead especially because of the potential for a weekend-long celebration."


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For 22 years, Tom Lemieux has been nurturing both plants and students at CU-Boulder. As director of plant science facilities, Lemieux along with Assistant Greenhouse Manager Janice Harvey, manages the three greenhouses maintained by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
It may not seem that daunting of a task until you learn that Lemieux is responsible for the health and well being of more than 6,000 plants of 1,000 different species.
There are two horticultural facilities on the main campus that belong to the department—near Macky Auditorium and on the rooftop of Ramaley Hall. But the largest and most conspicuous greenhouse is on east campus. The prized plant collection is used for research, teaching undergraduates and graduate classes and engaging the community.
"It's so much more informative and relevant when a student can see and handle a live plant as opposed to only looking at pictures in a book," said Lemieux, whose career as a horticulturist spans four decades.
A wild garden display surrounding a Japanese torii gate greets visitors to the mysterious glass house set back from 30th Street across from Scott Carpenter Park. Inside, the rooms are filled with a diverse array of plants, from orchids and cacti to medicinals and succulents. Some plants sport fanciful names like 'Big Yellow Moon,' 'Little Warty' and Dracula bella.
Some plants are showy, like the vanilla orchid laden with 50 pale blooms or the large rhododendron bedecked in flamboyant orange flowers. Some are rare like the Helminthostachys fern collected in Malaysia. There's even a large collection of medicinal plants, including valerian, gingko, turmeric and the cinchona shrub from which quinine is derived.
Lemieux realizes that for today's young people, a familial and cultural lineage to gardening and to horticulture is disappearing. One counter to the lack of nature in children's lives is the tours he gives to elementary and high school students who are old enough to appreciate it.
"Kids have no idea where their food comes from," he said. "I told one college student to grab a bunch of leaves from our raised bed outside and pull. She couldn't believe that she pulled up a carrot. It's sad how divorced people are from their food supply and from the many plants that play important roles in their lives, from coffee, alcohol and fabrics to cosmetics, perfumes, drugs, spices, paper and lumber. Too many people take plants for granted."
A few plants are particular favorites of visiting youngsters, such as the insect-eating Venus Fly Trap and the Sensitive Plant whose leaves droop when touched.
When the banana plant produced fruit, greenhouse staff and volunteers made banana splits, although Lemieux doubted they would try to make chocolate from the cacao plant.
Plants have been used in a variety of projects by CU-Boulder researchers and graduate students, such as investigating chemical communication between plants, biological control of knapweed and nitrogen deposition as a response to global warming.
Lemieux has shared plants with researchers across the country—the Smithsonian Institute, UCLA, Harvard, New York Botanic Gardens and UC Berkeley.
"We have rare and valuable plants they want," he said. "Our facilities are better than some universities that have full-fledged botany departments."
Passersby are understandably curious about the glass building. While not open to the public, Lemieux coordinates with CU-Boulder's Museum of Natural History to offer free tours twice a year. Based on how fast the tours fill up, there is considerable interest in the greenhouse.
"We like to let people know what's inside here," he said.
Plenty of planning and nitty-gritty work goes on behind the scenes to maintain such a large and busy facility. Volunteers help weekly and university staff are at the greenhouse every day of the year watering and checking on plants. Volunteers also help with dividing plants, sowing seeds and doing light cleaning. In a cooperative agreement with the Boulder County Jail, inmates come once a month to do deeper cleanings, such as scrubbing algae off the floor and washing hundreds of flowerpots. In return, all the seedlings for the county jail's large vegetable garden are started at the greenhouse.
Alisa Nguyen, a senior majoring in sociology, has been a work-study student at the greenhouse since her sophomore year.
"When I saw all the plants, I knew I wanted to work here," she said. "It's surprising how different each plant is. I assumed all plants needed water at the same time, but I've learned how careful you have to be to not over water. I'm not usually a morning person, but I look forward to coming here."
Lemieux has a wish list of equipment and upgrades for the greenhouse. For years he's wanted to add a lath house on the north side. And a much-needed backup generator in the greenhouse would protect plants in the event of a power failure in winter or summer.
"This is such a great place to work," said Lemieux. "Monday is just as good as Friday and coming in on the weekend or when I'm sick is fine. How many people can say that about their jobs?"


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The act of transitioning from discussing talking about a douche bag to actually talking about said douche bag.
you're talking on the phone with a friend about how you always, in the middle of any conversation can just start talking about this one douche bag, and then you actually start talking about that douche bag. that's a douchebagism!
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Packers 19, Ravens 17: Raw emotion
Lacy runs for 120 yards in victory
BALTIMORE - When it was over, when Eddie Lacy had sprinted past the first-down marker and then smartly slid to stay in bounds and keep the clock running, Ted Thompson slammed his hand onto the counter in exultation. Heads turned throughout the M&T Bank Stadium press box, but the Green Bay Packers normally unemotional general manager couldn't help himself.
"I shouldn't have done that," he then said, sheepishly.
Before it began, T.J. Lang had a similar moment of raw emotion. The Packers veteran guard, having been named on Friday as one of the team's three captains for the game, had started formulating his thoughts for a pregame speech in case he was called upon. When coach Mike McCarthy gave him the go-ahead right before the team would run onto the field, Lang was ready. Sort of.
"I had a big long speech I was going to give, and then last minute, I kind of scrapped that and just started talking. I might've gotten a little passionate about it," Lang recounted, seemingly embarrassed that he'd been outed as the day's motivational speaker. "(Expletive), I think I was more nervous about that than I was about playing."
In between Lang's emotional address and Thompson's emotional reaction, all the Packers did was deliver what could turn out to be the defining moment in their season: A 19-17 victory over the defending Super Bowl-champion Baltimore Ravens on their turf. Besieged by adversity, reeling from the loss of injured wide receivers James Jones and Randall Cobb, and with their struggling offense relying on the defense to keep them in the game until they could find a way to make a play, the Packers (3-2) just might've shown the world exactly what they're made of.
"Days like today remind you of why you love this game so much," quarterback Aaron Rodgers said with a small grin. "If you ever question how much you love this game, that feeling we had in the locker room, those are the moments in 20 years you can look back and remember. Probably not the score or that stats or the final drive, but those times with your teammates."
Or, as McCarthy put it: "We talked about adversity. Our theme for the week was 'True Grit,' and we had all of that and then some today. … That's real football. That was a knock-down, drag-out (game). I'm very proud of our football team."
Not only did the Packers overcome injuries to Jones (leg) and Cobb (knee), whose prognoses are unclear; not only did the defense play brilliantly for most of the game (five sacks, only 47 rushing yards allowed) and overcome a few glaring mistakes without four-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker Clay Matthews (broken thumb) and glue-guy inside linebacker Brad Jones (hamstring); not only did Lacy (23 carries, 120 yards) carry the offense when the passing game stalled without two of its top players; not only did Rodgers and last-man-standing Jordy Nelson connect on a gutsy, thing-of-beauty 64-yard touchdown that reminded everyone of how good both can be; but the game was decided on four turns of events:
The goal-line stand. It came midway through the second quarter, with the Packers up 3-0 and the Ravens punting from their own 30-yard line after another three-and-out series. Tight end Ryan Taylor burst through the line and blocked Sam Koch's punt, but veteran fullback John Kuhn inexplicably tried to pick it up beyond the line of scrimmage. When he bungled it, the Ravens recovered and had a fresh set of downs. Two plays later, on third-and-10, quarterback Joe Flacco hit tight end Dallas Clark for a 45-yard gain, and the next thing the Packers knew, it was first-and-goal at the 4-yard line.
That's when the Green Bay defense rose up, stuffing running back Ray Rice on first, second and third down and Bernard Pierce on fourth down to keep the Ravens off the scoreboard. The tone had been set.
"We believe we can stop pretty much any team in this league," defensive tackle B.J. Raji said. "You're not going to stop them every play. They got a few runs on us because they're a good team with good players, but ultimately, we feel like we can stop the run enough to win games."
No pity party. Cobb had just been hit low in the right knee by Ravens safety Matt Elam and had to be helped off the field. The players' concern for the team's top pass-catcher and one of its most-liked players was palpable. Then, on the next play, kicker Mason Crosby, who'd made his first 10 field-goal attempts of the regular season and was on a 23-kick streak without a miss (including last season and preseason), was wide right on a 44-yarder.
But then outside linebacker Nick Perry beat left tackle Eugene Monroe around the edge, hit and stripped Flacco in the pocket and first-round draft pick Datone Jones scooped the loose ball up and returned it 20 yards to the Baltimore 13-yard line. With two ticks left on the clock, Crosby was able to come back out and nail a 31-yarder to make it 6-0 at the break, despite it all.
"Those three points we got were big," Jones said. "I feel like if we didn't get those three points right then and there, maybe it's a different game."
There were plenty of those moments to come.
The clock-eater. After the bomb to Nelson made it 16-3 and the Ravens responded with a touchdown drive of their own to make it 16-10, the Packers took over at their own 16-yard line with 11 minutes, 52 seconds left in the fourth quarter. With James Jones and Cobb sidelined – Cobb watched the second half on crutches in the bench area – a three-and-out would have kept the crowd of 71,319 on its feet and intensified the Ravens' momentum.
Instead, still playing almost every snap with two receivers (Nelson and Jarrett Boykin), two tight ends (a combination of Jermichael Finley, Andrew Quarless and Taylor) and Lacy, the Packers went 72 yards in 12 plays while chewing up 7 1/2 minutes of clock. From Rodgers' third-and-1 strike to Nelson for a 9-yard gain to Lacy gashing the blitzing Ravens with a 17-yard run to Lacy's second effort converting a third-and-2, by the time Crosby made his fourth field goal of the day to make it 19-10, only 4:17 remained in the game.
"That was big for us to run that clock," said Nelson, who finished with four catches for 113 yards, including the 64-yard TD. "We scored just enough to get it done."
The finishing blow. The stakes weren't as high as they were in January 2004, but when the Packers had the Ravens in fourth-and-21 at their own 19, the game should've been over. Instead, safety Jerron McMillian tripped over himself while covering Baltimore wide receiver Tandon Doss on a deep ball down the middle, giving up an inexcusable 63-yard gain. The next play, the Packers coaches failed to get a defensive play call in – according to McMillian, at least – when the Ravens went no-huddle and Flacco hit Clark over McMillian for an 18-yard touchdown that made it 19-17 with 2:04 to play.
With the 2-minute warning and all of their time outs, the Ravens were primed to force a three-and-out and win the game. Instead, after Lacy was stopped for a 1-yard gain on first down and the 2-minute warning hit, the Packers got aggressive.
On second down, McCarthy called a quarterback keeper on which Rodgers faked a handoff and took off around left end, gaining 6 yards to set up third-and-3 at the Green Bay 27. And the third-down call was even gutsier.
While Rodgers (17 of 32, 315 yards, three sacks, one touchdown, one interception, 84.8 passer rating) may not have been as sharp as he normally is, he threw a laser to Finley, hitting the big tight end between the numbers on a quick crossing route at the Packers' 36, and Finley was off to the races. And while Finley mistakenly went out of bounds at the Ravens' 21 at the end of the 52-yard gain, Lacy made sure it didn't come back to haunt them. After being stopped for a 1-yard loss on first down, Lacy barreled up the middle – breaking at least four tackles against nine defenders – for 9 yards on second down. On third-and-2 with 1:32 to go, he got the left edge on Ravens defenders Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata and Arthur Jones, then slid down after the 4-yard gain, leading to Thompson's – by his standards, anyway – outburst.
"We won this as a team. Obviously I'm a defensive player, I'm always going to be proud of this defense. But it's ironic at the end that the offense stepped up and got that drive going to end up winning the game," Raji said. "That's the type of team we have, and I'm proud to be a part of it."
When Rodgers knelt for the final play, victory was theirs. And while they don't know what the week ahead (with injury news) or the months ahead (with plenty of games still to play) will bring, on this day, the Packers had reminded themselves what this whole thing is about – just as Lang had presciently reminded them in pregame.
"The gist was, just doing whatever it takes to win the game, even in these tough games where you grind it out," Lang said. "I mean, winning is what we get paid to do, and it's a whole lot of (expletive) fun to win. I could tell by the faces of my teammates that (they understood)."
"I almost teared up every time I tried talking. I get that passionate. I don't know if it affected our team at all., but it's always good for your teammates to hear different guys speak."
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