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When the New York Times decided to launch a weekly ethics column for its Sunday magazine, the newspaper turned to the most obvious candidate to opine on moral matters: a comedy writer for David Letterman.
Don't laugh. For 12 years, Randy Cohen turned out a popular, thought-provoking and hilarious discourse on right and wrong. Cohen compiled the best of his queries in a new book, "Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything."
Cohen, who left the Times last year, will be in the Bay Area to talk about his book at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Taking a Dear Abby approach to ethical problem-solving, Cohen touched on everything from illegal music downloading and underage smoking, to feeding cats a vegetarian diet. On a more serious note, he also tackled plenty of life and death questions as well.
Throughout his tenure as the Ethicist, Cohen relied on reason, reflection and common sense to shape his answers.
"I had no predisposition to write about ethics," said the 63-year-old, four-time Emmy award winner. "I was not really meant to write from a position of authority, but be a kind of stand-in for the reader, and together we would reason our way to a conclusion to what I regarded as right action."
Though raised in a Reform Jewish household, Cohen maintained a strictly secular perspective in his column. He occasionally consulted religious experts (as well as other outside experts), but never quoted any of them.
"I didn't refer to Jewish moral thought," Cohen said. "I had an ordinary Jewish education, but I didn't refer to that in the column. I gradually saw a set of moral principles that underpin everything, a belief in an egalitarian
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He took queries seriously, but with his comedy background Cohen couldn't help slipping in the quips.
For instance, responding to a writer who wondered about the ethics of swimming with captive dolphins, he wrote, "It's been my lifelong dream to swim with Meg Ryan."
To another questioning the ethics of first-class flyers jumping the security line, Cohen wrote, "If we must have a caste system in America, let's make our Brahmins not those with fat wallets but those who gave joy to millions. At the Randyland International Airport, Aretha Franklin would sashay through security. Billionaire Walmart Waltons… we thank you for your patience."
One of his most turbulent exchanges took place when he responded to a female letter-writer appalled that an Orthodox Jewish real estate agent wouldn't shake her hand.
Rather than explaining that strict Jewish law forbids men physical contact with any women other than wives and immediate family, Cohen excoriated the man's behavior, calling it "sexism," and he recommended she tear up her real estate contract.
That triggered a firestorm of criticism, most of it from fellow Jews, some of whom demanded the Times fire Cohen.
In a follow-up, Cohen acknowledged that the man's behavior was grounded in Jewish family purity laws, but added, "So do many proscriptions in sexually segregated societies, from the chador [veil Muslim women must wear] to allowing only men to vote."
"I would say I have a fundamental belief in egalitarian society," Cohen told j. "Segregation by race or gender is wrong."
Cohen often blasted what he saw as unethical behavior by those who wrote in, but says he never judged them wholly as good or bad human beings. Ethics, he asserted, is strictly about actions.
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Following Cohen's departure — he is currently the creator and host of the public radio program "Person Place Thing" — guest writers such as poet laureate Phillip Levine filled in until Chuck Klosterman came aboard as the Times permanent ethics columnist in June.
Over 12 years and 614 columns, Cohen believes he became more ethical himself because of his job.
That doesn't mean he always got it right, at least not according to his readers.
"One of the truly wonderful things about the job was that five seconds after the column came out I would get letters pointing out how wrong I was," he said, referring to online comments. "I felt I was kind of running a salon."
"Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything" by Randy Cohen ($24.95, Chronicle Books, 318 pages)
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This has been on the back burner for quite some time.
Doing a MS-20 like LPF is easy. Doing a PT2399 delay is easy. But making the delay controllable from a Shruthi-1 filter board and/or getting the whole thing to fit in the Shruthi-1 filter board format was much harder than I thought.
The Shruthi-1 emits 2 CVs. This is not enough for controlling a delay for which we usually want at least 3 parameters (time, feedback, level). My first try with just a time + feedback control (output signal taken out of the feedback loop) kept the length of the delay "tail" coupled with its level…
So I had to find a way of cramming more controllable parameters out of the Shruthi-1 system. My very first intuition was to do shitty PWM (a few bits of resolution, and a carrier frequency of 200 Hz) on the digital expansion port pins. This required super big filter caps to get reasonably smooth CVs, or an even bigger 2 or 4-pole active filter. The efforts that followed – and I was stuck there with no improvement over 2 or 3 months – focused on using the same approach as on the other filter boards (74hc595 receiving data through the expansion port), and toggling resistor networks through 4051s or 4053 in the feedback path – with CV1 controlling delay time and CV2 controlling a VCA on the delay output. The original design gave 8 unique feedback values, and another 4053 provided 4 different feedback routes (with fixed LP / HP filters)... not too bad but still it did not fit on the board :(
At some point I considered doing the whole filter board in SMT so that everything would fit there. Another option I considered was to use good old pots, and make a dedicated bigger case for this version. with an extra column of controls on the side for the delay.
Finally I had two epiphanies. The first one was that at the exception of the "main" VCA which has to be dead silent, a tiny bit of bleeding was allowed for whatever other VCA was used in the circuit (resonance control, delay mixing, delay feedback) ; and that some amount of compensation could be done software-side. So I could use very very simple, non-ideal V to I converters for those VCA (a single transistor), trading an op-amp for a bit of software-side calibration. The second epiphany was that I could use the TX> pin, normally used for serial communication with the digital filter board, as an extra GPIO to do proper SPI communication to a SPI device with the expansion port. This is a bit strange to do because the expansion port is really designed for chaining 595s, so everything we want to do with it has to go through the LEDs 595 and has to be done in sync with it, but I successfully managed to talk to a SPI slave through the LEDs 595 and the spare TX> pin. Yeah! At the same time I found about Microchip's dual digital pots chips, and this was exactly what I was looking for!
The 4251s were delivered on friday morning, I got a proof of concept in the afternoon, and finished the whole thing over the week-end.
The last hurdle was that even with a minimal circuit for the delay, the board was too small. I managed to make it fit by putting to work the LM13700 Darlingtons as buffers / mixers and getting rid of 2 TL072.
The final feature list is:
There's a lot of noise but there's a very good chance it's just due to the messiness of the proto and poor grounding of breadboards…
This is a new filter board. There wouldn't be enough space for this + another filter board + a control board!
this is pretty awesome!
If I may give a bit of advice, think about trying your design with several pt2399 chips. Those are not always very consistant, especially regarding the minimum delay time, causing them to stop working. Some have used a current source to overcome this issue and allow the pt2399 to work as some chorus effet, using the minimum time allowed by every pt2399 chip.
Oh, and from what I understand, since you've used the TX> pin to handle both feedback and level of the delay, is there another CV output left? Or maybe you used it for the echo tone control.
It's been some months that I've been considering about using digital pots. What are the references you used?
edit : did you try using the pt2399 as a chorus? With no feedback, minimum time delay, maximum level, and modulating the delay time with some LFO : are the digital pots precise enough for this kind of stuff?
I actually have a double shruthi in a partially premanufactured case that has some spare room… was actually thinking of cramming a pt2399 based delay in there – they are CEM3379 filters though so you haven't completely made my project irrelevant :)
chance of me not building this new filterboard – 0
Wowowow, that sounds excellent! It' so buttery and OTA-ey. I am a huge fan of Korg filters. I've been waiting a while for this one, and even just the preliminary stuff is making it totally worth the wait!
I guess I just would have wished that it had the additional bandpass of the MS 20 to get vocal sounds, and other weirdnesses.
@MicMicMan: the CV1 and CV2 pins are respectively controlling the amount of feedback in the low-end and in the high-end. This is done with simple passive RC filters at the input of two VCAs (yuck). The UI presents this as a level control and a tone control, and this gets translated into the right pair of voltages (or rather PWM ratio) for those. Now, and this is a bit tricky, if you route a modulation source to CV1 / CV2 on the Shruthi-1 mod matrix, it won't modulate those ; it will modulate instead the delay time and the delay level – I think this is more useful…
I've observed a PT2399 stalling during developed, so I plan to do a software adjustment to avoid the minimum delay time to be reached. That or an extra resistor as often seen. Too bad because I love the super short delay times, especially with heavy feedback in the low-end.
The digital pots I used are MCP4251-503 (dual, 50k, 257 values, SPI interface, no persistence of settings). The biggest caveat with those is that there's a digital glitch in the output everytime the values are refreshed (CS pin transitioning from low to high), whether the actual value changes or not. This means they would sound horrible with fast modulations. I had to write code that monitors successive values and skip the refresh if the values do not change to reduce the glitching. The RockIt uses 42050s – I don't know if they are any better in terms of glitches, if not, using this as a fast gain control element is an audio circuit is totally insane. These are certainly not the same kind of animals as DACs.
The resolution of the digital pot is not good enough to allow a convincing chorus. If I try modulating the delay time with a LFO in the mod matrix. With a modulation amount of 1 or 2 it gets very steppy of course (since the delay time goes only through 4 values), with a higher modulation amount it gets all sproingy. I think this needs to be done in the analog domain directly by sourcing a very small triangle current into the VCO pin of the PT2399…
@n8bit: a full MS20 clone would have required a full board, and no delay :(
I can't believe it a Shruthitron Delay Machine! Sounds awesome!
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"The resolution of the digital pot is not good enough to allow a convincing chorus. If I try modulating the delay time with a LFO in the mod matrix. With a modulation amount of 1 or 2 it gets very steppy of course (since the delay time goes only through 4 values), with a higher modulation amount it gets all sproingy. I think this needs to be done in the analog domain directly by sourcing a very small triangle current into the VCO pin of the PT2399…"
yay, this option is worth considering. That's what I thought about the precision of digital pots.
In that case, that would be über cool to have a mod-pad© on pin 2 of the pt2399, since this seems to be the better option for getting chorusish/vibish feel out of the pt2399
Anyway, you've been talking about this board for a loooong time. I remember that since i came to lurk this board i've always read you talking about this ms-20_with_delay_filter_board project. This is quite an achievement, Congratulations :)
@MicMicMan: I have broken out ground + VCO control pin — primarily for people who want to use this board without a Shruthi and thus without the digital control ; they'll stick a pot there — but this could be used as well for the mod you describe.
@Schrab: at the moment, it's just a number between 0 and 127 :) But this is just software, not a big deal… My concern is that there might be some variability from chip to chip and/or a dependency to temperature (from the VCO generating the clock) that makes it a bit difficult to get reproducible absolute delay times.
Wow, excellent! I've been waiting for this one for ages- thought you'd forgotten about it, pichenettes.
Sounds great. Excellent work! I'll definitely be getting one of these when they appear in the MI shop. Now, what colour enclosure should I get or it (it's all about the colour of the enclosures)...
I'll investigate more, but I'd rather say "at the moment no" than promise you something.
Maybe you could put a trimmer in to scale the cv for the delay time. This would allow users to tailor the discrete values to their requirements and/or work around any variability in the chips/circuits.
Few ideas about things that may be possible to do with the help of these digital pots! (even if their glitches production is a shame for parameters sweep)
If we manage to use the spi port (AVRISP on the digital control board) to control 16 digital pots (with 4 free Pic outputs driving a 4-16 decoder) we can for example:
- Increase the pole mixing possibilities on the 4pm style filterboard. I'm not a filter designer expert! Will we gain a lot in "sonic possibilities" having an "infinite" number of filter response shapes ?
- i also thinked about putting tree different shruthis (with 3 different filterboard) in one box. And make a different routing. See schematics bellow.I see that people are polychaning shruthis (with 3 identical filter boards) to have polyphony! but if we polychain 3 control boards and send the sum of the signals to one single filter (instead of 3) we get the same result! Am i wrong?
One alternative to these digital pots can be to use SPI DACs +VCAs! ("maybe" less glitches but for sure much more expensive )
Sorry for going a little bit out from the subject ;)
Digital pots were helpful in this particular case because of the board space constraint. Sorry if I made it sound like they would cure cancer :)
> – Increase the pole mixing possibilities on the 4pm style filterboard. I'm not a filter designer expert! Will we gain a lot in "sonic possibilities" having an "infinite" number of filter response shapes ?
The 4PM board is already packed, we can't do more. If you remove the filterboard size constraint, why using digital pots instead of proper VCAs?
Also, note that in this "infinite" set of filter response shapes, most of them are crap. That's why I didn't get excited by the Schippman filter thing (worst thing is that in all the fancy responses it can do, some of the obvious ones are missing).
> I see that people are polychaning shruthis (with 3 identical filter boards) to have polyphony! but if we polychain 3 control boards and send the sum of the signals to one single filter (instead of 3) we get the same result! Am i wrong?
The difference between 3 voices with an individual filter for each of them ; and 3 voices sent through the same filter/VCA is huge. Imagine what happens when you play a chord note after note, with a sound with an envelope on the filter. If all voices are sent through the same filter/VCA, there is only one single filter envelope, which will be retriggered at every note, so when you play the second note of a chord, the first note that is still playing will be "re-enveloped". This kind of half-assed polyphony (such synths are called "paraphonic") is not really my cup of tea.
> One alternative to these digital pots can be to use SPI DACs +VCAs! ("maybe" less glitches but for sure much more expensive )
Except in some special circumstances, and the delay board was one of those (super tight board space), I'd stay away of digital pots. The clear advantage of VCAs is that you can smooth the control signal to your whim, to reduce digital glitches. Digital pots not only have stepping, but short glitches whenver their value is modified.
About the one filter with more voices, this was one of the big drawbacks of the otherwise quite nice sounding Korg Poly800, which is an analogue polysynth
@rumpelfilter the Poly-800s single filter wasn't necessarily a drawback. It certainly gave it a special character. I always loved the sound of the filter opening up on low notes when you hit a much higher note- you'd get a really nice kind of sample-and-hold effect. Having said that, I'm not a keyboard player, so I imagine the limitation might be more frustrating for someone more musically able than myself.
Incidentally, pichenettes, the P800 had per-note amplitude envelopes (two of them, in fact, in dual mode), but obviously only one envelope for the filter. There was the option to have the filter envelope retrigger on each new note, or only when all previous notes had been released.
@toneburst I mentioned it because many people seemed to have a problem with it. But of course this is always a subjective matter and often the technical limitations of an instrument become its distinguishing characteristics.
Ok, guys Thanks for the replies!
All these are just ideas for eventually future projects or mods. Olivier electronics is already really nice as its is! That is why i bought a 4PM shruthi + some filter boards!
I'm quite newbie in the synthesis domain! That's why I totally forgot that a chord can also be played note after note (each one triggering a VCF parameter modulation(if needed) and a VCA)! Stupid mistake!
I never had the occasion to listen to a shipman filter a bit to expensive for me ;-)
I agree that using digital pots is crappy for heavy knob manipulators! But if the parameters controlled are changed only during a "sound design session" and than you save the patch for playing it latter ?!?
The idea was that with this atmega we have a limited numbers of PWM outputs (so a limited number of voltages that can control VCAs).. And using the spi port +4 (or 5) bits to to have 16 (or 32,...) lower frequency " analog outpouts" (a pots value) updated one by one by scanning trough all of them seemed to me (at first) to be a interesting and cheap idea!
But i agree that increasing sound possibilities is not good if it increases also bad sound possibilities.
So forget about that and continue your great job Olivier! We are waiting for the new synth (with big screen and sd card)!
@joma the problem with digital pots is that they are..well, digital.. Apparently the 4PM ones glitch every time you change the value, this isn't a problem if you haven't learnt about LFO's yet, but if you want to make the squishy goodness of "dubstep" bass's, pads that evolve over time etc, you really, really want something solid that does not bounce around randomly :(
So, digital pots are not the optimal solution for filter boards, unless you only produce sounds without LFO's, which will probably become boring quite fast :/
Hmm, there seems to be a lot of confusions here. I assume you refer to the inability of the 4PM to progressively crossfade from one mode to the other through LFOs.
If you want every on/off setting to accept intermediate setting for progressive LFO modulation, you're going to need VCAs everywhere. A VCA crossfading between two values takes at least two chips (it can be done with a SSM2164 and a quad op-amp ; or a LM13700, 2 transistors and a quad op-amp)... Shruthi-1 filter boards can't have more than 10 chips. I personally think that asking this kind of interpolation for stuff like mode selection or extra effects is being way too much picky for a DIY project… If you could pay 800€ for a dedicated eurorack filter module doing that and could find 100 other guys wanting so, maybe I could sell you one.
I know people love to modulate everything with everything, but there are already enough modulation possibilities on the Shruthi I think (besides modulars, do you know many hardware analog or hybrid synths in which things like osc balance, noise level, sub level, resonance can be controlled by LFOs?)...
Maybe you want this, though unsurprisingly, there's a note about some transitions sounding glitchy :)
Hmm, i really should learn not to post when tired >_>
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About those switches – yeah, I've become quite good at recognizing the "click" sound digital switches(relays?) make, there is one in my soundcard that makes a incredibly loud (like can be heard across the room kinda loud) click/pop noise if you start changing parameters :(
Anyways, you keep doing your thing, and i.. well, i will go to bed, where i belong.. :)
Oops the doepfer module I was referring to is A107, not A106.
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Remote Start can kill?
Fortunately the WK2 remote start turns off after 15 minutes (I hope).
To all the haters who dismissed as nutty the dangers of CO poisoning...
(see: http://jeepgarage.org/showthread.php...837#post366837 ) it can happen. More people probably die of CO then get backed over by vehicles (reference to NHTSA proposal to require back-up cameras).
"Car with keyless ignition might have been left running at West Boca home, killing a couple with carbon monoxide"
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I know what carbon monoxide poisoning is like, as we had to endure it during a monster Midwestern blizzard we got caught in years ago when electricity was off for several days and we were trapped on a remote farm. All we could to keep from freezing to death was to use a noxious propane heater filched from the farm's large machinery outbuilding. These fumes may be tasteless and odorless, but they make you sicker than a dog. We survived by turning the heater on and off, striking a balance between freezing to death and dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Given this experience, I didn't plan on using remote start in our enclosed detached garage. But it's reasonably large and drafty enough that it works nicely with no signs of carbon monoxide poisoning, given the 15 minute time limit. So now we do it regularly with no apparent ill effect. Of course, the vehicle is well sealed and the heater automatically recirculates interior air, which doubtless helps.
I'm certainly not recommending this for others, but rather pointing out that while safety comes first the devil's in the specifics and in our circumstances it works.
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The article isn't talking about remote start, its talking about keyless enter and go systems and...frankly...morons leaving their cars running in their garages and gassing themselves to death.
I'm sorry...but I don't get it. How do you get out of a car with it running in an enclosed garage and not know its running? My cars are loud as sh!t in my enclosed garage. If its a hybrid or something I might be able to understand, but to say in this article that there is no warning sound and there "needs to be"? How about the HUGE, LOUD RUNNING MACHINE IN YOUR CLOSED GARAGE? HELLO! Pretty effective warning to me.
So no, keyless entry and start doesn't kill people...remote start doesn't kill people...being stupid kills people.
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Sorry but if you are too dumb is shut off a car before you leave it, then death would be a better life choice for you. The same goes for turning on a remote start inside your garage with the doors and windows shut.
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I mean...its like talking about the dangers of toasters because people have electrocuted themselves using their toasters in the bathtub...
"We simply must have a cutoff for the toaster in case its submerged in water!"
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What if a toddler gets ahold of your keys and hits the start button? My jeep will turn off in 15 then right? This is a worry I have with 3 kids 3 and under. They have been known to find our car keys...My current cars don't have remote start. But occasionally I hear the horn honking cause my kid found the keys and pressed the lock or panic...hahaha
Maybe we should ban three year olds! ;)
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Only have to press the panic button once. the remote twice in a timely fashion. It shouldn't be an issue. Plus, keep the keys out of their reach, just like matches and lighters.
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Sometimes we need extra chlorine in the gene pool ;)
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I am trying to understand how a car running in a closed garage would create a hazard inside a house. Even an attached garage is considered a non-insulated part of the house so all surrounding areas of the house are insulated and protected from the garage. If it was their car that cause the CO levels then they had a poorly built home.
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^^^ A lot of homes aren't properly sealed from the attached garages, especially older homes. Newer homes should have some separation but not 100%....my other home which was less than 10 years old still had smells that permitted the home (when a skunk sprayed under the deck) all the way into the garage and it was a well built house. If you ever watch Holmes on Homes on HGTV you see the shoddy work...it happens all the time so I wouldn't rely on the home being separated properly from the garage.
- True that small kids love to play with keys...and yes they will press a button twice in a row (not sure how that makes an owner an idiot kids play with keys...a lot of people have no clue about CO too). Fortunately, the WK2 will turn off after 15 minutes. Just pointing out the issue so people are aware.
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NFL Draft: The Art Of Deception
Perhaps the most overlooked element of being successful in the NFL Draft is not the ability to evaluate collegiate players and accurately project them to the next level, but rather the skill of misdirection.
Obviously several teams come into the NFL's annual selection process with similar needs in mind and a number of possible players to fill those holes, but the teams that have the most success are the one's that are able to convince the other 31 organizations that they covet something totally opposite. This art of deception has been best exemplified by some of the league's most successful clubs over the better part of the last two decades with teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts, and even Baltimore Ravens coming specifically to mind.
This practice of misleading your opponents is perhaps the one area where the Chargers have been lagging behind their competition in the draft process. Although General Manager A.J. Smith has a keen eye for talent and a high-quality staff of evaluators around him in the team's scouting department, the Bolts inevitably seem to tip their hand way too early in this high stakes game of poker.
Although this must be prefaced with a full disclosure that J.J. Watt has been my preferred target for the Bolts in this year's draft since the collegiate season came to a conclusion, but that doesn't make things any less stressful when the whole world seems to know that Watt is Smith's guy. Telegraphing draft selections is never a smart move as it can allow teams to jump over, around, or outsmart you into paying a mighty ransom just to move into position to make your draft choice (see: Ryan Mathews).
Watt's stock is hot at the moment and it doesn't appear that it will be cooling off in the weeks and days leading up to the draft. What this inexorably means is that the Bolts will again be looking to climb up the draft order by sacrificing multiple picks in later rounds in pursuit of this one particular player. Regardless of the favorable opinion that Watt has with me or anyone in the organization, trading up more than necessary to land a player is never a positive.
Draft choices are precious and Smith has been excellent at accumulating them during the course of the past two seasons. Still those same valuable commodities can be deemed worthless if they are frivolously discarded in the quest of catching the presumed biggest fish on your draft board. If that trophy ultimately pans out then granted the GM will look like a genius for trading up, but that speculative venture is a dangerous game to play.
The teams mentioned earlier all realize the irreplaceable value of draft picks and just what they can do for building the future of a franchise. New England in particular has been a club prone to trading down if they aren't completely satisfied with any of the options available to them at any point in the draft.
Strategy is a huge part of the draft as well from prioritizing team needs to placing players on the draft board in an unbiased fashion. Becoming completely infatuated with one player only does a disservice to the team and the entire draft process by rendering the draft a failure in essence if the club is unable to land that one guy.
With Luis Castillo and Vaughn Martin the only two defensive ends under contract at the moment for the Bolts, San Diego has backed themselves into a bit of a corner with this year's draft. Maintaining flexibility has been an issue for the Chargers when it comes to making draft decisions as last season the team hastily cut ties with LaDainian Tomlinson leaving only the diminutive Darren Sproles on their depth chart in the backfield. The reality set in that Sproles could not carry the load as a feature back in the league and Smith had to make another impulsive decision to trade up for Mathews.
It appears the Bolts have again pigeon-holed themselves into selecting the best defensive end available for the five-technique no matter the price. Free agents Jacques Cesaire and Travis Johnson are likely to find new homes in the coming season leaving the Chargers to write a new chapter at defensive end.
Regardless of whether or not J.J. Watt turns out to be the top notch player that many (including myself) believe he will one day be, San Diego has left themselves no choice once again when draft day arrives on April 28th. The Bolts have to find a way to have him wearing a Chargers hat and holding up a jersey with lightning bolts on it when all is said and done late next month.
Now it's your turn. What do you think is the most valuable information that a team can have coming into the draft; info on players or info on other teams? Do you feel that A.J. Smith's inability to hide his intentions have hurt the Bolts in the draft in recent years or is he putting on a good enough charade as it is? Are the similarities between last year's ordeal with LT and this year's lack of depth at defensive end comparable or mere coincidence? Is J.J. Watt the player that the Chargers have to draft no matter the cost or would you rather see them take the best available player by staying put? Please leave your thoughts and any other draft suggestions in the comments section below!
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- Jason Ciano said... Mar 18, 2011, 9:07:00 AM
I think on that pro day AJ was looking at that RT too
I love Carimi. The dude is 6'8" and 340, and is a fantastic run blocker. If you cant get the DE you want at 18, then take Carimi and get a DE in the second.
There is a better way. What I would do if I were AJ
1. Ryan Kerrigan (He is going to be a great football player)
2. Cameron Hayward (His stock should fall a little because of his elbow surgery)
2. Leonard Hankerson (This is a baller at WR)
3. Casey Matthews (This guys is going to be a monster in the NFL)
3. Dontay Moch or Robert Sands or DeAndre McDaniel (Best defensive players on the board)
6. Best player on the board
Our offense in very good already you just need to pick up an OL on the market and we are great once again. In this draft we need to focus on defense because defense wins champions.
I don't think it's necessary to trade up to get Watt. There is plenty of DL talent in this draft. If Watt and Jordan are gone, we should get Heyward or Wilkerson
The argument for staying put and taking Wilkerson is interesting. If Watt doesn't fall to 18 it seems likely that Muh will still be there and he could be a nice versatile piece to add along the defensive front.
I think this article is terrible. When has AJ tipped his hand? Did you have AJ picking Larry English or Buster Davis? Did you have him picking Merriman? Mathews i thought was an obviusly choice but to say he tipes his hand is false journalism.
IMO the fact that you all think he loves Watt means he isnt the main target. Acee saying Kerigan looks like wil be the pick imo means he isnt even in AJ's cluster. Maybe the fools you the ones writing this article.
This is not journalism....not even close....it's blogging an opinion......but I agree with the "terrible" adjective.....his opinion is crap for the reasons you mention, plus some other assumptions he made. If you were a real fan (or a coach or part of the management staff), you knew that Mike Tolbert was going to carry the rock...so the Chargers were not left with "only Sproles in the backfield".
Also his assumption that Travis Johnson or Jacques Cesaire are gone. Travis Johnson expressed a lot of love for the Charger's management last year and when has Cesaire ever indicated he wanted to leave?
And the statement "....San Diego has left themselves no choice once again when draft day arrives on April 28th." is such a BS statement, I don't even need to explain it.
And how about this statement: "..Smith had to make another impulsive decision to trade up for Mathews."? I don't know for sure (no one outside the organization does), but Smith does not strike me as someone who makes an impulsive decision. I'm fairly sure that he was convinced that Mathews would be gone if they did not trade up.....and you know what? I also believe he knows a lot more about "draft deception" than some weekend blogger.
By now you probably think I'm an A.J. lover. I'm not. The man has his flaws, but I respect what he has done.
- Rob Zepeda said... Mar 20, 2011, 8:18:00 AM
Not only did we see Larry English as a very real possibility for the Bolts, but we even interviewed and featured him on this site! :)
Maybe he's doing exactly what you think everybody else is and he's trying to decieve other franchises and in truth he's sold on Cam Jordan, Akeem Ayers, a RT or trade up to Dallas at 9 and pick up Prince Amukamara. There are 3 or 4 5 tech guys (3-4 DE) that could come in and start opposite Castillo, or he can wait to the second round where almost certainly one of those guys will still be.
Just so we are clear, my feelings on A.J. have been well documented here in the past... http://www.bolthype.com/2010/08/admitted-aj-smith-apologist.html
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I just thought it was amazing that it ran that good from tool batteries, although it did take 384 of them. They tried to get over 400, but the trunk lid wouldn't close.


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Steamboat Springs Technical problems and a few small fires interrupted Friday night's fireworks finale at Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs.
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Deception - Poem by Aftab Alam
The thing we see, mind can't perceive
The mind that perceive, eyes can't see
Deception resides in the mind of man!
Lord: not you involved? Only we deceive!
Almighty is omnipotent, omnipresent,
The Lord of the universe, nothing hid
Created the universe and then Satan,
Adam and from ribs, Ewe, and lament
Knowing everything you planned and painted
Satan the Iblish disobeyed thee and rented
Ewe for the hex, thrown on earth for sex
From Eden, Why Still with Satan, we are fainted?
Read, Iblish: The Evil of the evils, beloved and wise
A learned, lost everything the knowledge, you gave
The Ego and proud made him a dark stupid knave
Saved Eden, thrown Satan, shown Adam his size
I discard the theory of duality of God, evil and holy
A deception through Satan by Lord, a perceived folly
A spy of Lord to misguide and know, are we faithful?
Whether Satan knows or not? This act of deceitful//
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McGuire, Alistair, Harris, T., Lloyd, G. and Newlands, D. (1986) Oil contributions in the Aberdeen economy: structural change and the response of the state. In: Cooke, P., (ed.) Global Restructuring Local Response. Economic and Social Research Council, London, UK. ISBN 0862261740
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BeschreibungThis volume consists of twenty chapters addressing different aspects of the theme of fluvial processes and environmental change. The overall coverage is broad; scientifically, (from modelling to alluvial dating), geographically (from arid zone flash-flooding to glacial meltwaters) and in time (from contemporary process studies to the Quaternary). The introductory chapter sets the context, which is an attempt to show how studies of fluvial processes can help us in understanding and therefore predicting the impact of environmental change on our rivers, riverine resources and landscapes. Environmental change includes both climatic factors, however caused, and human impacts on river basins. The differentiation of these two factors is discussed in several chapters whilst others take a more holistic approach. Both climatic and human factors have, and will remain, to act together and so their interactions need to be understood. Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change is divided into five sections, commencing with the slope-catchment scale and proceeding to studies of channel response, then floodplain processes and floodplain response and finally two studies from glacierised basins. The volume originated as a two-day session of the British Geomorphological Research Group and contributors from Europe, the USA and Australia were included in order to provide a wide perspective on the topic. This book will be a valuable reference for postgraduates and researchers in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, Quaternary science, geology and environmental science.
InhaltsverzeichnisSlope Catchment Scale. Channel Response. Floodplain Processes. Floodplain Response. Glacierized Catchments.
Pressestimmen"As a symposium volume this rates as a good one." ----Journal of Quaternary Science, Vol 15/5, 2000 "...the content and breadth of this volume will make it a useful reference for a range of scholars in the environmental earth sciences..." (River Research and Applications, Vol 19(7), Dec 2003)
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It was quite a moment at the end of President Obama's town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Fla., yesterday. As The News-Press writes, 19-year-old Julio Osegueda "rocketed from a Cape Coral teenager who flips burgers for $7.85 an hour at a McDonald's to an instant celebrity of sorts."
And he got a temporary job.
For those who didn't see what happened at the town hall when Osegueda asked the president about when he and other low-wage workers might be able to get job benefits, here's the video:
"I have never felt this good except maybe when I got my PlayStation 3 for Christmas," Osegueda told the News-Press later.
After the event, the newspaper adds, Osegueda:
Picked up another job -- if just for a day -- as the color announcer for the Fort Myers Miracle baseball team's radio broadcast for its home opener April 10. The one-day gig typically pays $25, but the Miracle said the salary is negotiable.
"I'll be ready," he said about his debut.
Also during Tuesday's town hall, a 61-year-old woman named Henrietta Hughes told the president that she and her 37-year-old son are homeless after having their house foreclosed. She asked for his help. Obama said he would, and his staff put Hughes in touch with local housing authority officials.
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Their story got the attention of another person who wanted to help.
While local and national media swarmed Henrietta Hughes for interviews, Chene Thompson, wife of State Rep. Nick Thompson, grabbed Hughes' hand and offered them a house.
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"Just give me the opportunity to help you," Chene Thompson told her.
But as of Tuesday night, the Hughes had not contacted the Thompsons about coming to see the house. Their cell phone is out of minutes, so it is nearly impossible to get in touch with them.
Update at 11:45 a.m. ET. Osegueda was on last night's edition of MSNBC's always liberal Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Here's some of the back-and-forth Julio had with Keith:
Olbermann: "Were you satisfied with the president's actual answer to your question about improving your benefits?"
Osegueda: "Yes, I was. I was truly blessed. The answer that Mr. President Obama gave me was such a motivation that made me feel as if success is around the corner. Just keep trying hard and don't stop for anything."
Update at 1:45 p.m. ET: An Oval reader points out that Julio doesn't say "thank you, Lord Jesus," in the video above. According to the News-Press, here's where that line came from:
"I jumped up on my chair, screamed my lungs out and shouted 'you're the man, pick me, pick me.' I felt good," Osegueda said (describing what he did to get Obama's attention).
Then, Obama changed his life. "Thank you Lord Jesus," (Osegueda) said he shouted as he stood face to face with the president.
Interested in joining a discussion about Julio's sudden fame? Click here to head into our Forum section.
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Reading dis/ability : interrogating paradigms in a prism of power
Graham, Linda J. & Grieshaber, Susan J. (2008) Reading dis/ability : interrogating paradigms in a prism of power. Disability & Society, 23(6), pp. 557-570.
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The dichotomisation of literacy instruction into phonics instruction versus a whole language approach fails to realise a fundamental tenet of providing equitable educational opportunities to diverse groups of children. Diversity becomes a problem to solve through "inoculation programs" or "special" education expertise. Moreover, children's individual strengths can fail to realise because they do not fit well with the program of the day. Instead of being appreciated for the value that they may bring in higher-order conceptual and intellectual tasks, these individual strengths may be neglected at great cost to the individual child because they offer cheap reward in the shape of aggregate test scores. This paper is a philosophical piece, which in refusing to prescribe what one should do on Monday morning, joins other strident voices in disability studies in education to question what it is that we are doing today. Whilst not scientific, this is important work – it emphasises the a prior importance of philosophical, moral and ethical questions – reminding science that children are dynamic social beings who cannot be manipulated like genes to "express" themselves in ways more conducive to quick and cheap educational programs.
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Addressing And Communicating Climate Change And Its Uncertainties In Project Environmental Impact Assessments
While climate change has become an important concern at both regional and global levels, its inherent uncertainties have often been cited as the main reason for delaying many actions to mitigate its potential impacts. Reviews of environmental assessments (EAs) have shown that impacts from climate change have been inadequately addressed within them and that the corresponding uncertainties have been addressed even more poorly. This paper describes several basic approaches for addressing and analysing climate change within the EAs of individual projects with a focus on its uncertainties. Subsequently, the paper describes how the results from this analysis can be effectively and comprehensively communicated to the EA's disparate set of technical and non-technical decision-makers and stakeholders. Based upon this overall approach, the paper proposes a general set of guidelines that enables proponents to incorporate climate change and its uncertainties into project EAs.
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