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Elena strolled through the streets surrounding her apartment without a clear purpose. She'd wanted some fresh air after finishing a troublesome essay, but had no friends to go to – no friends that were not busy with other things, anyway – and no money to spend. So she walked. She didn't mind being on her own, with no people telling her to stop daydreaming or asking her what she was thinking of. She never did know how to answer when asked that question.
As a child, she'd been honest and mentioned the flying fish and multi-coloured ponies that invaded her thoughts every now and again. But after many a strange look and an uncomfortable answer, she'd learned to keep it simple. "Oh, nothing," a chuckle and an apologetic smile. Yet the fish and the ponies were still there.
A smile on her face, Elena continued her walk, her feet leading her into the local park. When she noticed the swing in the playground was vacant, she couldn't help but run over with a grin.
"Ooh, it's been so long . . ." she mumbled to herself, heart beating as she scanned the surroundings both excited and very aware of the fact that she was a twenty-three-year-old on a swing in a children's playground.
Up. The grin widens.
Down. That rollercoaster feeling in the pit of her stomach.
Up. Hair in the wind.
Down. Heart racing.
Up. Laughing.
Down. "Wheeeee!"
Up. Back to the starting grin, more relaxed now.
Down. What a wonderful day this was . . . the way the sunlight came through the canopy and spread light around.
Up. How the wind made the grass dance and the trees stretch.
Down. Stretch in preparation of a race, maybe? An annual race, that all the trees have been looking forward to for ages.
Up. And the winner will get its bark cleaned by busy birds and bees, and that annoying woodpecker will be removed so the tree can continue its life in peace.
Down. The sky turns into a sea, with cloudy fish and other creatures gliding about, to cheer the trees on. The willow is favourite this year.
Up. They're about to get started, the cloudy creatures are cheering, the trees are lining up . . .
Down. And they're off! Look at them go, that grace, that elegance, that –
Elena grips the swing's chains with force and wide eyes when she hits something. Someone. She gasps, and quickly stills the swing so she can get off under the screeching sound of a crying child.
"Are you okay?" She blinks, still a little lost in the tree race while she kneels next to the inadvertent toddler that had crossed the space too close to the swing. "I'm sorry . . . " she adds, wincing when the child looks up at her with a helpless stare, red cheeks and a hand on his head.
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More than 135 firefighters in Greater Manchester have now been suspended without pay for refusing to use the equipment in protest at the failure to reach agreement on a deal which ended the last firefighters' strike a year ago.
The union said today's meeting in London was "tense" although it is understood that some progress was made.
There will be further contact between the two sides tomorrow although no more face-to-face talks are planned at this stage.
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The winning images of Astronomy Photographer of the Year are presented in a free exhibition at the Royal Observatory Greenwich which showcases some incredible images of the sky, from within our solar system and far into deep space. Images on display include winners from all nine categories: Aurorae, Skyscapes (sponsored by Insight Investment), People and Space, Our Sun, Our Moon, Planets, Comets and Asteroids, Stars and Nebulae, and Galaxies. A further prize 'The Sir Patrick Moore for Best Newcomer prize' is given to an amateur astrophotographer who has taken up the hobby in the last year and who has not entered the competition before. Finally, a special Robotic Scope prize is given for photographs taken with a remotely operated robotic telescope.
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Eye catching images from within our solar system and far into deep space.
Royal Observatory Greenwich, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
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Dates: 07th October 2016
The Godfather of Electronic Music, famed for light-fantastic visuals, performs a laser-filled live show for the first time in six years. Coming to The O2 for one night only on Friday 7th October 2016, FrenchmanJean-Michel Jarre will perform brand new music from his two-part LP, 'Electronica', alongside classic material from previous albums such as Oxygene and Equinoxe. Jarre has broken Guinness World records including one for an audience of 2.5 million in front of La Defense in Paris. He also held a very special show for the Royal Wedding in Monaco in 2011, broadcast to an estimated audience of 3 billion worldwide.
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The pop sensation performs tracks from his fourth studio album, Purpose.
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After a rocky few years it seems Justin Bieber has started to win back the public's affection with the help of some rather good tunes. The release of his fourth studio album, Purpose, has taken the limelight away from his questionable recreational activities and possibly even seen him gain some new Beliebers. Nearly three years in the making, Purpose debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, giving Bieber his sixth number on album, and also saw him set a record for having the most simultaneous top 40 entries from a living artist, with eight songs from the album charting in the top 40 UK Singles Chart. The star will stop by The O2 for two nights in October as part of the Purpose World Tour .
Selena Gomez
She's come a long way from the Wizards of Waverly Place.
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Dates: 04th November 2016
She may have started out as a Disney star but Selena Gomez is now a fully fledged, bona fide multi-platinum selling pop star. For those still doubtful, the first three singles - Good For You, Same Old Love and Hands to Myself - from her latest album, Revival, have all reached number 1 in the US. Entertainment Weekly said her latest offering is, "as fresh and forward-thinking as the music of indie darlings Tove Lo and FKA Twigs", while Rolling Stone raved, "this is the sound of a newly empowered pop artist growing into her strengths like never before".
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The world's top eight tennis players attempt to out-ace each other at The O2.
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Dates: 13th - 20th November 2016
A battle between the world's best eight men's singles tennis players and men's doubles pairs, the ATP World Tour Finals is a theatrical affair, with the audience plunged in darkness and all eyes on the bright hard court below. Played over eight days at The O2 Arena, the tournament brings top players like three-time champion Novak Djokovic and home hope Andy Murray in their quests to secure places at the tour finals. Stan Wawrinka, Roger Federer and 22-year-old Austrian Dominic Thiem all look likely to be in the London tournament, competing for the title and 7.5 million dollars in prize money.
Rod Stewart
The septuagenarian shows no signs of hanging up his leopard print shirts.
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Dates: 22nd - 25th November 2016
Rock and roll legend Rod Stewart returns to the capital for two gigs at The O2 Arena in front, no doubt, of hoards of female fans. The timeless performer attracts a loyal following and continues to sell records by the million - his 29th album 'Another Country', released last year, went platinum. Both Elton John and James Brown have called Stewart the best white soul singer of all time - and who are we to disagree? With his trademark raspy voice and tight leather pants, expect the evergreen 65-year-old to whizz through his back catalogue of classics, including gems such as Maggie May, Baby Jane, Some Guys Have All The Luck, Young Turks and This Old Heart of Mine. Oh, and the blond crooner has a new album of classic sixties/seventies-era soul favourites to promote.
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Ibiza Classics by the master of dance music and the 60-piece Heritage Orchestra.
The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0BB
Tube: North Greenwich Station
Dates: 01st December 2016
Following the huge success of the BBC Radio 1 Ibiza Prom at the Royal Albert Hall last summer, Pete Tong will bring Ibiza Classics along with the 60-piece Heritage Orchestra to The O2 this December. The veteran British DJ presents a line-up of live artists, including Jess Glynne, to perform a homage to the dance tracks which put the Balearic isle on the map. Expect reinterpetations of classic dancefloor fillers like Rhythm is Rhythm's 'Strings of Life' and Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better with You'. "Finally, a chance to cut some moves, to 'stack some shelves'" saidThe Guardian ahead of Tong's Proms performance. We say: with Pete Tong you can't go wrong.
The ska septet fronted by Suggs plays their first arena tour in two years.
Hailing from Camden, the ska septet reigned through the 70s and 80s with their upbeat singles including House of Fun, Nightboat to Cairo and One Step Beyond, and continue to perform with their most recognised line-up led by Graham 'Suggs' McPherson. They've played on the roof of Buckingham Palace and at Alexandra Palace but in 2016 they're at one of London's biggest and best concert venues, The O2. This one-night-only gig on Saturday 10th December brings their 'Can't Touch Us Now' tour, their first arena tour in two years, to The O2.
Status Quo: The Last Night Of The Electrics Tour
The O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, London, SE10 0BB
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Dates: 11th December 2016
Classic rock from Status Quo as Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andy Bown, John 'Rhino' Edwards and Leon Cave bring their live show to the massive O2 arena, just as they did this time last year, but this time it's for their final full-on electric show. Making what has become something of an annual pilgrimage to The O2, the Quo will play a rundown of their biggest hits, new and old. Support comes from American rock band REO Speedwagon and The Lounge Kittens.
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Companies still have very little idea how to get the best out of social media but the good news for this year is that they seem less inclined to panic at the mention of it and are instead starting to think about what they should do. Their initial strategy to employ a dozen 18-year olds and throw money at them to build a Facebook presence has been found wanting. They might have attracted a million "likes" but then what? For many the follow up "conversations" have been as vacuous as always seemed likely.
Now comes, if not a backlash, at least a realisation that the world has changed much less than they thought. As a result executives are seeking to apply some traditional rules of marketing and communications. First, identify your audience; next, decide what you want to say and only once you've done that is it time to work out the best way to get the message across. (And question whether your brand or your company does really have one million friends.)
That at least was the guidance from a seminar yesterday sponsored by Precise Media and CorpComms Magazine which sought to identify what the hot social media trends of this year are likely to be. Intentionally or otherwise, what came through most strongly was that the industry is beginning to grow up. People are getting used to what the technology can deliver and the honeymoon period is over. Consequently, its use is no longer an end in itself. Instead the emphasis is switching back to content. It is not contact that matters but what that contact delivers for the business.
Thus we have the return of the closed-user group — or "walled garden" in the jargon. Companies cannot communicate with one million people. So they want to break these numbers down into more manageable and cohesive smaller groups, where there is a common interest and with whom they have something meaningful to say. In other words it is targeted marketing to common interest groups — something which existed long before the internet.
This is driven partly by their insight and partly by the commercial practices of Facebook which is ratcheting down the proportion of its users companies can reach for nothing. Instead they offer smaller targeted audiences — but only to those companies which are willing to pay. It is a reflection also that there is so much stuff out there online that most is ignored or lost in the general noise — the electronic equivalent of junk mail. Companies have to pay to be selective: just as they did in the days of direct-mail marketing, they must pay for names and addresses of quality contacts. But this also indicates that using social media effectively is going to cost a lot more.
In many ways this was predictable. So the more interesting trend highlighted at the seminar is the effect social media has had on a business's internal structure. The idea that all external communications have to be funnelled through the PR department is increasingly impossible because social-media comments have an impact on all departments and they need the skills to be able when necessary to respond directly and promptly. The silos of communication are therefore under threat but so too are the other organisational silos — those of marketing, buying, finance, product development and so on. Social media may yet turn out to be the agent which breaks these down.
Social media could also have a marked influence on management hierarchies. More and more companies have internal sites through which employees can communicate with each other, react to new products and share experiences and knowledge particularly in solving problems in sales. But they also allow chief executives to communicate directly with their front-line troops. One chief executive told me years ago that his biggest challenge was his colleagues in the executive suite who publicly nodded their heads in agreement with his plans, while quietly saying no to themselves. Internal social-media platforms can solve the problem of how to get the message through the layers of middle management. Similarly the front line can communicate directly with senior executives — again without having the message filtered by middle management.
So not only is communication between top and bottom much faster — which should make for shorter response times and a nimbler corporation — traditional hierarchies are also undermined, posing a serious challenge to accepted management structures. One suspects media could also prove to be a major problem for risk-management structures which, almost without exception, are rooted in traditional models. It will be interesting to see how well they adjust to a world where both silos and middle management are likely to be bypassed.
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At Management Today's glitzy awards bash in London, BSkyB was named as this year's Most Admired Company.
The great and good of UK plc were in attendance at Claridges in London tonight to see BSkyB scoop MT's coveted 'Britain's Most Admired Company' award for 2009. CEO Jeremy Darroch was on hand to pick up the top prize from Haymarket chairman Lord Heseltine, as Sky became our youngest ever winner - the award comes just 20 years into its existence.
Meanwhile there was also recognition for Sir Terry Leahy of Tesco - still Britain's Most Admired Leader - and the likes of Johnson Matthey, Cadbury and GlaxoSmithKline. According to their competitors, these are the companies that are best-placed to ride out the current storm...
MT's annual 'Britain's Most Admired Companies' awards are based on a peer review survey conducted by Professor Mike Brown of Birmingham City Business School. the votes are cast by the people that know these companies best - their competitors. BSkyB which took fourth place last year, inched ahead of Tesco and Johnson Matthey to become Britain's best-regarded public company. It's an impressive achievement for such a relatively young business, not least because the media industry as a whole has had such a rotten year, indeed none of Sky's rivals got within thirty points of it.
'BSkyB has shown that a class-leading product, well marketed and slickly delivered, can continue to grow and prosper even in the most challenging circumstances,' said MT editor Matthew Gwyther. 'But perhaps its greatest achievement is the transition from being a new kid on the block and awkward industry outsider to winning over a jury of peers and becoming the UK's most admired company.'
Around 70 CEOs, chairman and senior execs from the shortlisted BMAC companies gathered for tonight's bash. Former Bank of England deputy governor Sir John Gieve provided the entertainment, regaling the guests with behind-the-scenes tales from Threadneedle Street - including why he thought the BoE job might turn out to be 'a bit dull' (not so much), how he didn't 'bang the table enough' when the banks told him about their flawless risk management systems, and why he thinks an international monitoring body is the way forward.
But there was no doubt about the night's big winner: BSkyB is officially Britain's Most Admired. So where does it go from here? 'Now it has to move onto the next phase – out of adolescence and into maturity,' reckons Gwyther. 'The next couple of years will be crucial to BSkyB's long-term future. But in the meantime it can bask in some deserved glory.'
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More than £675,000 secured to further reduce youth unemployment
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More than £675,000 will be ploughed into generating more valuable work experience, apprenticeships and job opportunities for young people in Bracknell Forest over the next three years, thanks to the Berkshire City Deal.
Bracknell Forest Council, with other Berkshire authorities, signed up to a landmark £2.4million City Deal last year, which aims to drive economic growth and prosperity. It has recently been confirmed that Bracknell Forest will benefit from £679,000 of funding thanks to the programme, which is jointly funded by the government and the European Structural and Investment Fund (SIF).
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- Provide a two year (fixed-term contract) business relationship coordinator to ensure the project runs smoothly and that providers are delivering even more effective and joined-up solutions for the business community.
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About adler and Mason, who haven't been close since they dated in highschool, you'll see what happens!
The sun was just starting to rise over the horizon, spewing its golden light over the snowy hills and valleys of the small rural town. People were already starting to seep out of their houses, climbing into their cars for work. A few still clung to their beds, unwilling to wake up from their deep slumbers. One in particular would stand out if he was seen, a mass of short black hair with streaks up the sides half way covered by a blanket, the owner's face hidden in a memory foam pillow. An alarm went off, causing the dozing inhabitant to sit straight up with a yelp, his brown eyes large as dinner plates. His face was wide, but not fat, with a strong chin and barely noticeable cheekbones. He had striking green eyes that could make any person who looked at him cower in fear. It wasn't to say that this man was scary or mean, no in fact he was usually rather nice. Looking about thoughtfully the male sighed, smacking off the blasting alarm with a tired groan.
His name was Adler, and his name didn't fit him at all. Things often went over his head, his perception of things was usually skewed by his drug habit. He'd often be drunker then holly hell, or high on pot. That was his life when he wasn't working. Stepping out of bed he noted his hard on, which was standing defiantly within his boxers. Giving an annoyed sigh Adler or better known as Addie stepped into his bathroom, pulling off his boxers and jerking off quickly. It took only twenty minutes for him to finish up, it landing in the shower rather then on the floor which was good. Less to clean up. Stepping over the cum in his shower the well built man turned on the shower, standing away from the stream as it washed away his release. After he was sure that his cum was gone the large man stepped into the line of fire, allowing the water to run down his chest.
Tan flesh glistened under the warm water, his arm muscles flexing and relaxing as he began to scrub off the night's sweat. Adler wasn't bad looking in any stretch of the imagination. Standing at six four, weighting about two hundred pounds he was easily stronger then many guys at his work. He had a slight six pack, well defined hips with a eight inch cock hanging down between his legs. This particular feature usually brought the woman running to him, sadly he wasn't interested in the ladies. No he was more interested in guys, not guys like him. No he was more interested in bottoms, the shorter boys who were more innocent then himself. Those boys who looked at the world with a sense of childlike wonder. Not that he was into kids, nah. The guys had to be a year older then himself if he'd be interested in dating them.
After his shower was complete, and he felt clean all over the groggy male stepped carefully out of the shower onto a blue rug. His mind was still foggy from sleep, but he was starting to wake up slowly. Wrapping a towel around his waist he moved from the bathroom attached to his bedroom and looked about the room with a lazy gaze. The room was rather messy, and it smelled of pot. On his oak wood dresser was a bottle of vodka, inside the dresser a half of weed. Smiling lightly at the thought of smoking he moved over to his dresser, taking out the needed supplies to roll a joint. It didn't take more then a minute for him to roll a good sized joint, and to place it at the corner of his mouth. Lighting it up he took a deep drag, bringing in extra air to help the smoke move through his lungs better. If his mother could see him now she'd be turning in her grave, not that he cared much about what she thought. It was her fault he got hooked on drinking in the first place.
She'd let him drink when he was fourteen, giving him wine on New Years, and scotch on his birthdays. He'd grown so used to drinking that he was now more often then not completely shit faced. The large male knew it was bad for him, but at that point he was too hooked to get out on his own. Going to AA was always an option, though the thought of dealing with Christians was a bit unnerving. They'd likely try to change his sexuality on top of changing his habits. Shaking the idea of Alcoholics anonymous he began to get dressed, taking another large hit as he pulled on his boxers, pants, and socks. Placing the joint on his counter he sat down on the bed and pulled a shirt out of the second drawer, finding a light blue skin tight T-shirt that he'd often wear to work. Pulling it on he finished off the joint before spraying himself with an ass load of his cologne to snuff out the smell of his pot..
Making his way out of the house he let out an annoyed groan, his car was completely snowed over. What could he really expect? It was mid December after all. Glaring up at the bright Ohio sky he hoped that the sun would melt away all of the snow, and make it easier for him to come home that day. Setting to work on taking all the ice and snow off his car the large mane made an annoyed groan as he saw his overly excited neighbor heading towards him. The man known as Mason was very annoying, he was always trying to get Adler to come over and have dinner with him. It wasn't like he wasn't attractive this Mason guy, in fact he was. It was just something about him that made Addie cringe, maybe it was his too sweet attitude. Not the mention they had been childhood lovers, it hadn't lasted long because Mason didn't like the fact that he drank and smoked.
Watching the brown haired male approach he gave up on trying to uncover his car, standing awkwardly as the smaller male came up and hugged him as tightly as possible. It wasn't saying much since he was so weak, even so the larger male just stood there like a tree. It was always weird how the small boy wanted to hug on him like that, even though they'd broken up almost three years ago when they were seventeen. Now that they were both in their twenties life was a little complicated for the both of them. Often they'd see each other at the store and Mason would hug on him, ask how life was. It was apparent that he was not yet over the breakup, and it didn't help matters that they lived right next door to each other. It was likely on purpose so that the brunette could see more of Addie. Shoving the other away slightly the bi hair colored male rolled his eyes, hearing the boy say something about going to have breakfast, didn't he have a job or something? "Sorry I gotta go to work Mason." He said lowly, making the boy pout and tears well up in his eyes. "Please?" "No Mason." Adler's voice was a bit firmer now, his eyes narrowing at the pouting boy.
Looking him up and down he found that he was checking him out, it wasn't an uncommon occurrence. Maybe it was why Mason thought he was still into him, shrugging he took notice of a bruise on the boy's neck. It looked like a hickey, it was easily seen over the boy's pale skin. "New boyfriend?" The large male asked, seeing the other tense at the question. "No...and I don't really want to talk about it okay?" Now it was the evasive male's turn to get interested, so the boy had a hickey and he wasn't dating anyone. A one night stand? Rape? Tilting his head he looked at the boy, hidden in his baggy hoodie and loose pants with a black and white belt. "How about we catch up later then?" At the offer he saw Mason's face light up, his eyes getting large and teary. "Really?" Wincing at how happy the boy seemed Addie nodded, opening his drivers side and climbing in. The windshield was cleared off enough to where he could see, so he wasn't too worried about the rest of the car. "Seven O'clock I'll be at your house." With that he turned on his car, shut the door and drove off towards work.


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Epic Trek
An exhausting 7 month droving journey, moving 18,000 head of cattle from western Queensland to the New South Wales Riverina, quickly got into trouble, coinciding with one of the worst droughts in recent years.
Source: Landline | Duration: 21min 45sec
Topics: beef-cattle, hay-2711
PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: This story is about an extraordinary droving tale that you wouldn't think was possible in the 21st Century: an exhausting seven-month journey moving 18,000 head of cattle from western Queensland to the New South Wales Riverina.
The venture quickly got into trouble, coinciding with one of the worst droughts in recent years. But the man behind this bold scheme has no regrets.
Reclusive South Australian cattle baron Tom Brinkworth is notoriously media shy, but he gave a rare interview to Landline's Tim Lee, who's been following the cattle on their epic trek.
TIM LEE, REPORTER: It was a scene that leapt straight from the pages of Australian history, an epic trek reminiscent of the great overlanding feats of pioneering drovers.
In June last year, 18,000 cattle started walking from Winton and Longreach in western Queensland on a bold venture to move them almost half the length of the continent. Like the cattle barons of colonial times, Tom Brinkworth's aim was simple: shift them from the north, a region devoid of grass, all the way south into pastures of plenty.
TOM BRINKWORTH, PASTORALIST: At the time, it just seemed a good idea, and looked for an opportunity to move cattle where we would want them later on, and I thought things were pretty crook in the north and droughty, the cattle had to go somewhere. And we - I thought at the time we'd want cattle, so we had a look and bought some.
TIM LEE: "Some" is more than mild understatement. The deal represented the largest single purchase of cattle by one person in Australian history.
RON RUTLEDGE, ELDERS LIVESTOCK: From one single vendor to one single buyer, definitely not in Elders' history, we have not had a transaction from one single vendor, one single buyer in 175 years, no.
TIM LEE: The drought-affected cattle belonged to the Australian Agricultural Company, the nation's largest cattle producer. It runs more than half a million head on about 7 million hectares across Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Last wet season, the monsoonal rains that normally drench its massive cattle stations in the Gulf of Carpentaria barely came, so AACo needed to lighten its stocking rate in a hurry. Like other northern cattle producers, the suspension of the live trade had left the company with excess cattle. The Brinkworth deal, worth about $7 million, gave it some much-needed cash flow.
RON RUTLEDGE: He's an opportunist and it's completely that. He's a visionary and he's a pioneer within Australian agriculture and he saw an opportunity that existed in the north through the deficiencies of live export.
TIM LEE: Elders stock agent Ron Rutledge helped broker the deal - 18,000 young breeding cattle for a reputed average price of around $400 per head, a bargain price. From the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory, the cattle were trucked to Winton and Longreach in western Queensland, ready for their epic trek.
RON RUTLEDGE: So our significant purchase was in the Barkly Tablelands off Brunette Downs. Started our journey up in here in the Barkly and moved ourselves via truck to Julia Creek, Winton and Longreach. And then we basically got on the road via drovers.
TIM LEE: Shifting so many cattle so far amounted to a monumental logistical exercise.
RON RUTLEDGE: We had to start from scratch. We engaged one person, being Bill Little, to take a lot of our droving issues on, but at the height of the drove, there was some 120 people involved in the exercise, from drovers to water carriers to just auxiliary people that we use. So, it was a big logistical exercise.
BILL LITTLE, HEAD DROVER: We started with nine drovers with 2,000 cattle each in Queensland, which made up the 18,000 cattle. Nine drovers all probably with four men working for them with their own teams of horses, their own plant, their own trucks, their own individual gear.
TIM LEE: But why not take the more conventional route of trucking?
TOM BRINKWORTH: We weren't in a hurry to get the cattle. We were waiting for feed to come and move some other cattle, so we weren't in a hurry to move them and I thought that was a possible - an opportunity, so we thought it might be feasible and so that's the way we went.
TIM LEE: In August 2012, Tom Brinkworth had bought the famous merino stud Uardry Station, near Hay, for around $30 million. The property comprises 35,000 hectares, with massive irrigation entitlements from the Murrumbidgee River. Tom Brinkworth admits that good winter rains on the inland plains had filled him with confidence. Though he was gambling that the good seasons would continue, the odds suggested his newly-purchased cattle would finish their long walk in knee-high pasture in the Riverina.
TOM BRINKWORTH: Yes, that's pretty true; we had a good season, but things didn't really go with us that well. It didn't go that well coming down through Queensland and it didn't rain down here much. (Laughs) That's the way it happens.
TIM LEE: No-one could have imagined that the venture would confront the beginning of the most widespread drought in Queensland's history.
DAVE FENTON, DROVER: It never rained from the day he bought those cattle. And the bloke that he got, Bill Little, and I think it's a great achievement what he done too. Like, to organise that many drovers - drovers are not easy to find anymore - and to find that many drovers to look after them cattle, that was a big effort, I thought, and would have been a nightmare for him, I think. He would've had a lot of sleepless nights, I'm sure of it.
TIM LEE: The cattle are split into nine mobs of about 2,000. So as not to overgraze the stock route, they're carefully spaced, with about a week's journey between them. By early September, after three months on the road, the first mob in the care of Bill Little, a professional drover from Roma in Queensland, reaches Mungindi. The little town straddling the NSW border marks roughly the halfway mark of this epic trek. The drovers are happy to get out of the northern state. The tightening dry spell seems to be stalking them all the way south.
BILL LITTLE: Queensland's been pretty tough, it's pretty dry back there. Most of the way, especially the boys at the back, they're doing it tough enough, the feed's dry. As soon as we got close to the NSW border, Mungindi, the conditions are better. There's still some old clover on the ground, there's even thistle in amongst the feed. Quite good feed down here at this stage.
TIM LEE: The stock routes of NSW have stricter rules on the herd numbers, so at the border, the travelling mobs are reduced down to 1,500 head. Then there's the delicate task of shepherding the cattle over a two-lane concrete bridge spanning the Barwon River.
BILL LITTLE: Bridge crosses can either be really good or they can be really bad. Like, all you need is those cattle to get a scare at the front or the horses might even get a scare, and once they get a scare, well, every time they clump, they're thinking, "That bogeyman's there again." And you get them to that certain stage and they run back.
The main thing is to keep it smooth, don't let anybody change the tempo. Like, all it takes is for one to get a fright and come back and it's all over. And like I said, once they break back on that bridge, you can have some proper drama there.
TIM LEE: Some of the drovers position themselves at the lead to prevent the cattle from bolting. In little more than three minutes, the cattle are across, without incident. Soon they have their heads down, grazing on better feed.
But there's still uncertainty about which routes the cattle will take from here. Tom Brinkworth had originally contemplated moving the cattle along the stock routes in the far north-east of South Australia, where he owns cattle properties.
TOM BRINKWORTH: We could have sent some, I thought, down the Strzelecki Track and bring them in the back way to Frome, that way, but Frome got bad. That didn't work out either. It was a bit iffy at the time. I always thought, "Well, it'll rain, she'll be right, she'll rain," but it didn't really rain.
We didn't go quite the way we wanted to go. Went out Walgett way at one stage and I thought, "Crikey, we've got no hope here." And so you had to go further east. But Bill would go well ahead and try and work out what was the best alternatives. And that's what you do, you just take the best alternatives you've got at the time.
BILL LITTLE: The detours for us was around the really bad dry country. We had to find better feed, better water, took us a long way out of our way at times, a lot further than the direct route probably would have taken us.
TIM LEE: On the NSW border, 12 extra drovers are employed. Among them are veteran drover Reggie Sutton and his 15-year-old son, Bill. They've been at the rear of the cavalcade, and with other mobs ahead of them, their herd of 1,100 cattle has had slim pickings.
BILL SUTTON, DROVER: Yes, it was just dirt, that's all it was. Probably a few burrs and that was it. So we had to - yes, we thought we were heading into good feed, but then, yes, we found out there was two mobs hanging around Coonamble and that sort of sent us backwards, so we had to get them trucked down here.
TIM LEE: The trucks carried some of the mobs about 300 kilometres further south to Condobolin and better grass.
BILL SUTTON: They must have thought they'd died on the trucks and came into heaven here.
BILL LITTLE: With the cattle on the truck, we were quite happy about that because we didn't want to be dead heroes. The well-being of the cattle comes first. I sort of had deadlines where I said, "Well, that's it, these cattle aren't going to walk any further, we've got to get them on a truck." We didn't want dead cattle laying along the stock route anywhere.
TIM LEE: Travelling at an average of more than 10 kilometres a day, by October, most of the cattle had reached the Lachlan River district around Condobolin.
CRAIG RIDLEY, STOCK RANGER: All the stock had to come through this area. The western routes were closed due to seasonal conditions and lack of water, etc. So, we had to accommodate as many as we could through here. And I spent a fair bit of time last year - I went to Coonamble a couple of times and I met with the boss drover up there and we discussed routes in and out and entry and exit points, etc., what to expect. So, yes, there was a fair bit of planning went into it and I think for the most part it worked pretty well.
REGGIE SUTTON, DROVER: Mate, the hardest part for me would have been coming through the Condo board. You had beautiful wardy, good river system and there's hardly any points where you can water - and I mean hardly any points where you can water on that river system. And then where you find feed - there's feed there three foot high - they won't let you stay. And I think it's bloody bad management, myself.
TIM LEE: For the travelling stock, the Condobolin region brings a welcome change from the threadbare stock routes they've so far encountered. Good rains had fallen between July and September, meaning local cattle producers had little need to put their own stock out on the roads.
CRAIG RIDLEY: We had - just here in the Condo region, we had about 3,000 head of stock on well before Brinkworth's cattle arrived. And then we just moved those around and managed them so that we could then get the Brinkworth cattle through, to our boundary, anyway.
TIM LEE: Months earlier, Bill Little predicted that the first cattle would reach its destination of Uardry Station before Christmas. By late November, he has reached Hillston to the north and on schedule. But some big hurdles still lie ahead.
Because of the sheer scale of this cattle drive, 18,000 head in total, and the fact that it hasn't been done like this for so many years, it's raised some real concerns and raised a lot of issues about how the stock route has been maintained during the last few decades.
Water has become critical. Dams have dwindled. Other infrastructure, never made to accommodate such large numbers of cattle, is struggling.
BILL LITTLE: A lot of the dams haven't been de-silted. Even the dams that have got enough water in them are extremely boggy. So we're going to have to bring in a water truck to water some of the cattle and that's going to take some more management.
TIM LEE: A run of extreme temperatures is forecast. Here, the cattle and horses mull around until a broken windmill is fixed. Tomorrow, the herd must travel 26 kilometres to get to the next water.
LYDIA NEWBURY, DROVER: We're probably on a horse 10 to 12 hours every day and just in the sun all day. (Laughs) As soon as it comes up till as soon as it goes down, pretty much.
BILL LITTLE: We'll leave the camp in the morning with the cattle before daylight, but we've got a full moon now, so we'll have a bit of moonlight. Yes, and we'll be at that water for lunch tomorrow, no worries at all.
TIM LEE: But after seven relentless months in the saddle, the drovers are exhausted. For 21-year-old Lily Higgs from Victoria, it's been a tough initiation to droving life.
LILY HIGGS, DROVER: Well I find the heat the hardest because I sort of grew up in New Zealand. So, yes, it's pretty bloody hot some days and there's not much you can do about it. You just have to sort of try and cool off however you can, but usually there's not much water around to swim in or anything, so, yes, you get a bit exhausted from the heat, really.
JOHNNY COOPER, DROVER: The time flies when you're on the road and you work seven days a week. You just - yes, just keep working, wake up and work again. We go by Queensland time. We get up at four o'clock in the morning and we don't finish - lock the cattle away between 6.30 and 7.00, so, yes, long days.
LILY HIGGS: I like working with horses and cattle and it's really interesting seeing different country and every day's different. (Horse strikes her side and face with tail) Oh! (Laughs)
TIM LEE: John Duryea, head stock ranger at Hay, had to accommodate the Brinkworth cattle as well as finding sufficient feed for the 7,000 cattle and 10,000 sheep owned by others already on the stock routes of the Hay district.
JOHN DURYEA, STOCK RANGER: I just relocated, reorganised and repositioned other mobs to allow those go through, and since those cattle have been through, we've had good storms in that country and that country has started to rejuvenate already. Our biggest problem was water. We ran into trouble with water problems on that - particularly from the north, the way they came into us. We had to leave a river system. We split those mobs, we came down the Lachlan, we came down the Murrumbidgee with a couple of mobs, out through Wagga and Narrandera and diversed around, and two or three mobs come down through Rankins Springs, which required them to have supplement water through water cart.
TIM LEE: By now, the Brinkworth cattle drive has made front-page news, not just in the rural press.
RON RUTLEDGE: Whet the appetite of people within the cities. Obviously we've got a grandeur in Australia of stock routes and horses and movement of cattle, but it also - it intrigued us with the support that people in desperately tough areas of Australia, being in drought areas, came with just the simplified things in life. They brought cakes and food to drovers that you would not necessarily expect in this modern era, but they're still reliant on the links of traditional country people to help other country people and it was just quite amazing, the good spirit that people offered.
TOM BRINKWORTH: I've been absolutely amazed at the amount of public interest. I had no idea that people were interested in that sort of thing. It just was another job to me and it never occurred to me that the public would be so interested in it.
TIM LEE: The scale and the daring of the Brinkworth cattle drive well and truly captured the public's imagination, but not everyone was so welcoming of this epic undertaking.
PETER CLEMSON, DROVER: They sort of pushed the drover, the original drover from around here, they pushed us out to let the Queensland cattle through. I don't think they looked after the drovers here well enough.
JENNIFER DOWDY, DROVER: They took a bit of our livelihood away from us, put a lot of pressure on us and our environment, our position as drovers, like, and the responsibility we have to feed our own stock, we had to sort of get out of the way and try and feed them in other areas where the Brinkworth cattle were taking all the feed away from us, so that made it a lot harder for us down here.
TIM LEE: Do you think that might actually raise the awareness of the stock route and its worth?
JENNIFER DOWDY: Well that was one good thing that come out of it; a lot of maintenance was picked back up, but if the routes was left open and the maintenance had been maintained for the last 20 years, we wouldn't have had to have had them all maintained and updated again.
TIM LEE: Other drovers, such as Dave Fenton, are full of admiration for Tom Brinkworth's giant gamble. Like many, he wonders what it cost.
DAVE FENTON: A small fortune, I'd imagine. Logistically, like, money, and a lot of them cattle didn't get through and he had to truck and it was all expensive. Once you talk about trucks, it gets very expensive. And carting water, they were carting a lot of water, had water trucks with them and to get them through. So they done a pretty big job.
TIM LEE: On Christmas Eve, seven months after starting, Bill Little and his team walked the first of the travelling mobs into Uardry Station at Hay.
BILL LITTLE: Yes, we're pretty happy with the way they've travelled. They've come a long way. Yes, no, we're really happy with the way they've come in. ...
... Probably one of the toughest, longest trips I've ever done. I've done trips as long, but as tough - seasonal-wise, it would be the toughest we've ever taken on. Our cattle are strong and healthy, they're bright in the eye, they're healthy, they're not fat by any means, but they're good, strong, healthy cattle.
JOHNNY COOPER: It feels good and feel a bit tired too. Now I can rest.
TIM LEE: Like all those involved in this venture, Reggie Sutton is proud to be a part of such a large movement of cattle.
REGGIE SUTTON: Well, in my bloody - my lifetime of droving, I haven't heard of it before, no.
TIM LEE: Tom Brinkworth is using Uardry Station as a depot for his vast livestock operation. Soon most of these will be trucked to other Brinkworth properties in northern South Australia, where they'll become valuable breeding cattle. It's a strategy reminiscent of Australia's cattle king, Sid Kidman.
RON RUTLEDGE: I think it's recorded he's got some close reflections of what Sidney Kidman may have done, but he's a visionary in modern Australia.
TOM BRINKWORTH: Ideas would have come originally from the way Kidman did things and said it was possible to do. I've always read some of his stories. I've copied in the way we run livestock, the way he did. And we operate as a pretty low-cost operation, the way he did. And I've admired what he did and - without really knowing it at the time, I would actually copy him, but I weren't fully aware that I were.
TIM LEE: Stock ranger John Duryea believes the Brinkworth cattle drive did much to publicise the worth of the travelling stock routes.
JOHN DURYEA: The media, through all forms of media, did make people aware that - of their existence and the benefits and the great asset to the nation they are.
TIM LEE: Tom Brinkworth very rarely talks publicly about his business affairs. He says this giant cattle drive was successful and time will prove it so.
TOM BRINKWORTH: Usually the harder you work, the better your luck gets and we don't give in too easily. Our luck will come good.
TIM LEE: However, the one multi-million-dollar question remains: was this venture a financial success?
And I guess you haven't put a cost on it or you probably have, but ... ?
TOM BRINKWORTH: Yes, but, you know, it's costing us money, but things haven't gone with us very well. But that's, you know, we look on things in the longer term. Just depends what opportunities turn up in the future. But one never knows.


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The University of Applied Sciences Kempten, Germany, and The University
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Dr. Holger Claussen is leader of the Small Cells Research at Bell Labs with a team in Ireland and the US. In this role, he and his team are innovating in all areas related to future evolution, deployment, and operation of small cell networks to address the exponential growth in mobile data traffic. His research in this domain has been commercialized in Alcatel-Lucent's (now Nokia's) Small Cell product portfolio and continues to have significant impact. He received the 2014 World Technology Award in the individual category Communications Technology for innovative work of "the greatest likely long-term significance".
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Low-Latency Communications in LTE Using Spatial Diversity and Encoding Redundancy
Extracting Location Information Content from RF Fingerprints
Lattice Partition Multiple Access: A New Method of Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiuser Transmissions
Multi-Layer Optimisation of Heterogenous Networks using Grammatical Genetic Programming
Operating Massive MIMO in the Unlicensed Band for Enhanced Coexistence and Spatial Reuse
Dynamic Idle Mode Control in Small Cell Networks
Enhancing Coexistence in the Unlicensed Band with Massive MIMO
A New Method of MIMO-Based Non-Orthogonal Multiuser Downlink Transmission
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Indianapolis - If he can get in the right offense. Iowa TE C.J. Fiedorowicz would like to do what Rob Gronkowski has done for the New England Patriots.
In short, be a match-up nightmare who is as comfortable lining up in the slot as he is with his hand in the ground.
Fiedorowicz compares favorably to the 6-6, 265-pound Gronkowski in height and weight, but a key measure of his potential to be a dual threat will be his 40-yard dash time and vertical leap. The 6-5 1/2, 265-pound Fiedorowicz would like to match the 4.68-second time and 33 1/2-inch jump Gronkowski recorded at his Arizona pro day in 2010.
If he does, maybe the comparisons will be a little more legitimate.
"Just the way he plays hard every down," Fiedorowicz said during an interview session at the scouting combine. "He finishes guys. He uses his body in the passing game.
"That's what I'm shooting to be. I think I proved that a little bit at the Senior Bowl. Some of my times here maybe Saturday I can show them my speed."
Part of what Fiedorowicz must also prove is that he can function in the passing game the way the modern day tight ends like Jimmy Graham, Vernon Davis and Gronkowski do. Under coach Kirk Ferentz, Iowa lined up and pounded the ball like a '70s Steelers team, leaving very little room for the tight end to shine.
He caught just 30 passes for 299 yards last season. His longest reception was 25 yards. He did produce down near the red zone, hauling in six touchdowns for the year.
"At Iowa, we ran the ball about 70% of the time," he said. "But when we were down in the red zone, the offensive coordinator looked to throw it to me and I got my fair share of catching the ball in the end zone.
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DJ Bean is live from the Garden for Game 2 between the Bruins and Capitals. DJ talks about the importance of having David Krejci in the lineup, Chara vs. Ovechkin, and how he sees the rest of the series playing out.
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Sports -- editor point seven WEEI it's been -- -- -- -- with you until 320 this afternoon for number 61777. I Missouri fifty told 38885250850. There right Specter calls and and sex and all that separatist that is the yeah a few minutes were. Let's check in -- from WEEI dot com are brought insider. DJ being is at the garden a deejay how you go and per well is the ice melting -- away. You know what I think that after after playing what was it three games in the -- -- the playoffs last season I think that. They're prepared for anything but no notebook that. I just know freaky things can happen in the Boston during an area during the playoffs I think the rapid but. Well first bullets hit the obvious question when asked about the you know -- she is going to play today correct. Yes yet that that in a glass didn't hit him hard enough rarely use you get to go. That was one of -- that's one of the freakish things that can ever remember seeing it in a playoff game ever and it just was unbelievable. And all the people birthday happens to mean that. Steve encourage the other guy who two years ago basically. That the Bruins end up being do in the playoffs because because they lose and then obviously each year -- these they're the biggest. Performer not named Tim Thomas in the playoffs so that that would have been just devastating injury really wacky it's -- it's that the badly either could have been. Anything changed DJ injury rise from anybody else hear from from game one -- hearing here before game two anybody you know unexpectedly injured hear anything any any other news that we haven't heard about. Wolf that I mean Adam -- blog and practicing with the team there originally wrote this book to be an eye injury RI laceration he'd been so bruised after that. It punch a rare few weeks back but you hadn't been skating they have since changed its dates and started calling -- upper body injury rather -- injury and -- block from the press box the other night he didn't -- -- I didn't look so bad so. Make of that what you will. So it's look at this whole upper body -- -- -- just as a what did you get a look at this developer I think we will get it out -- our full line up. -- surprise you the how this game went down until opening game you know with the with you know scoreless game record -- with a great shot in overtime we surprised when -- capitals played acted. Absolutely I know I was I was shocked I thought there's going to be. A very quick series I -- the Bruins and I've been I thought that it was more likely. Just to rent in this sport than it would be ten and six but. I know the -- hunter came in there and he's trying to get them play more defensively sound game. I actually think they were at that they were gonna respond to it as quickly they have an obviously. That brought to scene in the capitals a couple times on the stretcher with. With hunters and -- -- you know -- Bruce Boudreau but I mean I was I was floored that they were able to play that road game they played the other night -- Really -- limit the Bruins. Better opportunities and yet they got a clutch shots on net but you look at that first period from the golden opportunities they get them view it what I'll let you. Was was bringing all -- who had their streets -- and NHL playoffs on the place. Probably getting a little more comfortable they would have wanted to be so when they're getting the better opportunities and second period. Before they took a nap in the third -- he was more comfortable and that you already. There's we're gonna see all series right -- and -- -- about it earlier in the week with -- in the -- here you know aside -- retreated dale. To a veterans on the ice even strength that char for 23 seconds on Thursday we're gonna see that the whole series right. Right in this especially in these games the garden and when. But because Julian hasn't rather than the last line change it's going to be every -- much in -- there. You get have the Chara Seidenberg airing out there and you guys talked last year. Against teams like Tampa in seemed like. Like bit quicker and we expect that that the flyers ability VR was playing. When when that -- -- out there against such top forwards. It just nothing happens in that that that the huge victory yet for the Bruins because. Actually I cited some dirty research in the over the years -- -- -- -- in the plea to the 24 times in their careers. Yup -- has outscored -- -- in in just as many games is so much in adult court Chara. Just -- like the old the old matchup Steve cast from Wayne Gretzky ever and he just -- him and and system or at least. The the first like twenty games against the -- Gretzky basically didn't do. Hardly anything. And abroad Dorsey to have a number and -- the -- we got out it's but it's also we ago. I guess new term for journalism is -- researcher Ted and realized there. Mean you're you're you're just doing your job I mean and the big deal. I decided I want to be sports writer when the Internet was around but. What you're so I'd like actually having to -- over. Box scores -- forget I'm on -- -- about places sickening. Irregular -- well a dispute about that matchup will quick with a with a -- and also the mean not to mention you know Seidenberg at the chart but also that that whole first line I think was. Did very well also cut and and complementing obviously it with -- on and Sagan and and and Bergeron and -- talk to -- about the before I DJ about. No signature bought a responsibility and much more this year than last year and post season and -- and and so far he's lived up to -- to a one game the post season but are like one of sin. Right I think that a little -- people throughout the season. Were calling for they can keep playing on the on the curriculum with Lucci twin. Our doctor Horton went down but he. Say in this is this is no disrespect. It's taken but he -- -- peppers -- online and they need him because. In the upper -- like you have. You don't get Bergeron who's probably get a run -- -- silky this year is one of the best two NHL Brad Marchand who is another exceptional to leap forward. And then and again obviously it. He's not knowing that he's very few of the -- number two overall three to play defense and not something that. You still come it's still kind of coming along for and so rather than being on. More offensively potent line in risking allowing a lot of goals which even what you -- -- -- And they were scoring -- -- they are giving up particles to. So. He hit it perfectly on that -- online just -- that eating. Is deficiencies. Defensively are kind of made up for -- Bergeron and mark are. That is offensive skill is told to put them over the top so. Yeah I mean -- in this this isn't last year where every time Michael radically earlier groups seeking to be in the lineup you a lot of Japanese. So getting some some pretty vigorous poppy seed going up against Alexander Ovechkin line. Sergeant seems like in this in series like this it seems like that road team always -- that one shot when these first two games to win netting Bausch in my to have that shot in game one things to be tough really tough and the when this afternoon what's your expectation level. You look at the capitals heading in the game to. I think it's gonna be higher scoring I think that after playing a more defensively sound game that the capitals should be very encouraged. By how they were able to limit the Bruins. But they've also look at what their MO has been heard for so over the years and that's just been to score goals and hopefully. End up with more than the other team. I think that maybe they get a little -- never garden takes some more risks I think they need a lot more. Out of aren't their second line which. Which I mean I applaud dale hunter -- basically. Can conceding. Out general questions to the Bruins in this thing you know what we'll put a question on the top line chart and -- can happen. All -- Baxter and seminar that second line and hope that maybe they can matchup better with somebody otherwise the the issue of their courses. Against the Bruins who don't have. Any big truly elite players. They've got 620 -- scores that such a deep in my offensively. That no matter who you have against two. You probably will be the ones that have the matchup problems. You surprised at the way of how physical basket was and and you know we had yet despite not -- the one shot on net I mean he he was pretty solid in the game don't cinema yet. A surprise that as physical game is that was very physically. But I thought he got there he was great I was wondering if that was ever -- do what what happened the great. Roll over and got it got a big frame and he would use it correctly. The the issue with him as though in this is another area and in which the -- probably take every time. Is. Did if you line them up for a big hit in this in the you put some thought cut back on in the rest of the ship that's always thinking about that you saw so many times against Seidenberg in game one or Seidenberg republic good hit on them. But it wasn't like what collection going after the rest the shift. You could see that he retired -- knocked out in the -- to contrast to circle around and put himself in the position to do it. It's Seidenberg and if that little Alexander Ovechkin is on the -- doing -- the Bruins when this series very very easily. So it's good for the capital that doesn't back down that Hugh Hewitt he uses body but if that's always thinking about the going to be a problem for Washington. I'm not one of a last year when -- -- -- want to start off the power player of Montreal -- -- still sitting here with one about a year but -- on phrase you know social media and here I was sitting here. I thought it was but I was so I was on my college tweeting and and and and and a FaceBook about. People not to panic because to me was far more important that apparently penalty killing was so high that there was still the best five on five team. In the NHL but it would be refreshing DJ. To see a couple of power play goals don't care their full cure whatever. To get them going -- because you know I don't it to the last year but I hate to have a -- toward on the stretch of -- for 21 on the power play again. Right and you know that the the Bruins fans have certainly gotten their wish from last post season they want it figure a lot of -- the lineup they wanted him in the on the power play. It aside a couple of games were called put upon that second unit and play them very sparingly there. The broad sense and get their -- then but. I thought I'd say that they don't have -- in front they don't have they don't have that guy you can kind of -- people that. In front where on one the unit sorted out -- during an on the other ones but the skill -- still high enough where he's still -- should be able. Produce more on the power play and having Karabakh there was that shot should. Lead to more but again it's -- from our -- can sit down the last year which is you look at it. Can't put together why it isn't happening like you said it's far bigger that they. The death penalty kills Salmonella never be an issue for the team given how many. Good to report they have Bergeron and Kelly and in high AA and -- whomever so I mean I guess it's still going to be a waiting game for the for the power play at the penalty kill. Doesn't seem electrical struggle from here on out. My last question slashed -- you know dale hunter among lol you but I mean I hated men. Couldn't stand him when he was with Quebec and some of the things in the crap and he pulled and there was one incident where yet he was. Kicking the crap Kenny wins -- minute Bob Sweeney actually led led up a bench clearing brawl off the bench. You know years ago but. That that was just one minor thing but I'm I'm that I'm that was that was the statement part yeah okay but -- are you surprised somewhat. Most teams take on the personality of their coach dale. As a distinct personalities realizes pressure is surprised that he's Qaeda is it is a better coached that I thought it would be at least I that's been a short sampling your -- I'm a little surprised at how discipline -- is what I'm trying to say because he wasn't. Right that you know you'd you'd think you'd think -- hunter and you think what you just said you think -- countries think you're terms -- So certainly it there was a lot more the ready in dirty or things that valued in the plane crew that. That really get made and postal. Name what he was playing and police that you're older than me but that was also one of the reasons why when I was a kid and I got dale hunter Carter threw away. On back. But. Yeah I mean I think that still his style was enough. -- the a more responsible defensively sound player that you would want it can take that are in they have. You also look at the roster you'd think -- did it compel the get a work there maybe they need to ship some of these. More highly skilled. In in and flashier players who don't really bring the complete package. I wrote in it's -- I guess will depend on our quick this series goes. And I should of realised now my last question but another thing of the Stanley Cup Playoffs we all know -- it's one of the greatest times in in in sports are really got a -- like FROST/NIXON and I'm a big -- -- out of our big hockey guys as you know but -- -- -- saw the other Vancouver game last -- mean for the -- game was great. And the Vancouver game against it's that. I just love watching the conduct suffer but when they give up too shorthanded goal -- Dustin Brown scored -- scored early there's almost a fight between between the goal of borrowers and and the goal we earlier quicken early on the game I mean it's just great drama is and it. Oh it's it's it's it's one of Borneo that at series I don't want people are surprised but -- mentioned Jonathan Quick. The big news that this that this doesn't like 46 days last night right it is like you know what I did in my in my top vote for the Hart trophy. So maybe he can all of -- Verlander. It way way way way -- it like you'd pretend balloting US -- Hart trophy vote. -- Select the hall of fame ballot which like dislike this looks like a piece of toilet tissue with five games on it and boxes people think that all -- -- a baseball. Is this real fancy dollars basic thing. It's just like little white piece of Paper you fight that you know stuck in a and a copier they're Freddie Scott as the Hart trophy ballot not -- give off. A. Know what that does say the and it's a lower -- looks like it looked like an email that says. Hart trophy. I needing your trop but people. Norris I told you five -- All all rookie team all funny jokes involve -- for the Yeltsin this person. Named put it. Well let me ask you this -- is real quick fortnight ago and the and the LA -- Vancouver series do you as a possible while the comes out there for game three Schneider goes in our -- pizza guy. Via game game three army to at least it. But he struggled again and got this this -- finished well -- that -- 37 -- senate which is just shy of what part of the last year in -- He didn't play as much as on this but being that this kid is legit and it's it's funny reason further the conduct in their -- to be to get themselves over the contract that Longo has because. Really this -- can be starting goaltender pretty much anywhere. And in cities -- it's putting time. You do affects a lot then though you enjoy the game today do not be surprised elect the one at some point. I mean -- -- say eighty degrees across the hockey at -- like DJ being joining us here WEEI -- up -- insider does a great job.