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Detailed Accident Report
Submitted By: Bruce Tremper; UAC
Place: Storm Mountain - Stairs Gulch; Big Cottonwood Canyon
State: UT
Country: USA
Fatalities: 2
Summary: 2 climbers caught, buried, and killed.
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Stairs Gulch Avalanche Fatalities,
Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah
April 28, 2001
Updated report submitted by Bruce Tremper
Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center
May 29, 2001
2 attached photographs
Martin Gleich, 38, a Doctor from Salt Lake City and Scott Dull, 39, also a Doctor from Eagle River, Alaska were killed Saturday, April 28th in Stairs Gulch, a tributary of Big Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City. The pair left the trailhead about 3:30 to 4:00 am to climb Stairs Gulch to Twin Peaks with ice axes and crampons, rope and snowshoes but no beacons (they did not own beacons). They did not return by their 11:00 am planned return time and the Sheriff was notified that afternoon.
That evening, a Salt Lake County Search and Rescue team walked up both Stairs Gulch and the nearby Broad?s Fork looking for the missing climbers. They discovered fresh avalanche debris in Stairs Gulch and quickly found Martin Gleich?s boot sticking out of the snow about 100 yards above the toe of the debris at an elevation of about 6400 feet. His head was buried about 4 feet deep and he had a couple of lacerations on his head. Medical examiners later determined he died by asphyxia. After finding Gliech?s body, Wasatch Backcountry Rescue was called, which is a volunteer group composed of avalanche professionals from northern Utah ski areas. They responded with personnel from Snowbird (the only ski area open at that late date) along with a rescue dog. The avalanche dog easily located the second victim, Scott Dull, about a 10-minute hike above the first victim at an elevation around 6,900 feet. Although he was buried 8-10 feet deep, part of his fleece shirt was torn to shreds and it stretched out about 10 feet with part of it on the surface, which may be why the dog was able to locate him so quickly. Scott Dull had multiple fractures and the medical examiner reported that he was killed by trauma. The accident appears to have occurred as the pair ascended.
Avalanche Conditions
Stairs Gulch is the steepest and longest avalanche path in the Wasatch Range near Salt Lake City. It has a vertical fall of about 1650 vertical meters (5,000 feet) and the upper section is composed almost entirely of 45-55 degree sloping rock slabs. Because it is such steep and large terrain, very few skiers or boarders ever enter Stairs Gulch in winter but climbers sometimes practice their alpine skills there in spring after the snow stabilizes.
On Sunday morning, the day after the accident, I ascended the ridge to the east of Stairs Gulch to look at the avalanche, since the route up the bottom of Stairs Gulch was not safe because of continued very warm spring weather. I noticed that the steep rock slabs on the west side of the drainage had recently produced two large glide avalanches with several other smaller avalanches and the snow that had not yet released had numerous glide cracks and appeared to be on the verge of releasing. While I was on the ridge I saw one smaller glide avalanche release and descend onto the debris and stop just above where the upper victim was recovered the previous night.
The avalanche that most likely caused the accident was a glide avalanche about 200 meters wide (700 feet) with a fracture depth averaging about a meter or a meter and a half (5 feet). These glide avalanches occurred on northeast facing, rock slab of about 45-55 degrees. The crown was around 10,000 feet in elevation and the avalanche descended 3700 vertical feet to an elevation of 6,300 feet, running about a mile in length. (see photos).
(The media, including local news, CNN and the Weather Channel, incorrectly reported the avalanche to be 30 feet deep and 2 miles wide--obviously hyperbolic numbers since 30 feet of snow has probably not existed in Utah since the Pleistocene and Stairs Gulch is less than a mile wide.)
On Thursday, two days before the accident, I skied up Broad?s Fork, the next drainage to the east, and noticed three recent, large, glide avalanches off the steep rock slabs with one more on the steep rock slabs in Mill B South, the next drainage to the east
Glide avalanches are relatively unusual for Utah but they do occur regularly each spring on the steep rock slabs in radical terrain such as Stairs Gulch and Broad?s Fork usually in a time window of about two weeks after the dry snow turns wet for the first time of the season. They occur when percolating water lubricates the interface between the snow and ground causing the entire snowpack to slowly slide like a glacier on the underlying ground, often over the course of days, until it suddenly releases. They occur mostly in very steep rock slabs during very warm weather. You can easily recognize them by gaping crevasses on their upper boundaries and a rumpled-up look on their lower boundaries. Glide avalanches are very difficult to trigger?even with explosives--and like a stubborn mule, they tend to release only when they are ready, more or less randomly in time, kind of like a calving iceberg or icefall. Paradoxically, they show a slight preference to release during the coldest part of the day, or during a freeze following a protracted period of melting, which would fit the pattern of this avalanche. These were average sized avalanches for Stairs Gulch and are a regular occurrence each spring.
Statistically, glide avalanches kill very few people because 1) they are difficult to trigger, 2) the warm and soggy conditions that produce glide avalanches often discourage people from traveling on snow, and 3) most people instinctively avoid crossing beneath them, as they look quite dangerous even to people who don?t know much about avalanches. This is the first known fatality from a glide avalanche in Utah and possibly the first in the U.S.
How it May have Happened
I doubt if the pair triggered the avalanche. First, glide avalanches are notoriously difficult to trigger, second the avalanche had a large amount of volume?much more than the volume produced by a wet, loose avalanche they may have triggered on their likely route. Plus, there was no obvious avalanche on their planned climbing route that could account for the volume of debris. Third, all of the glide avalanches I noticed the following morning were on rock slabs to the west side of their most likely route. The climbing route usually follows the gully the whole way since all other routes are quite steep and difficult, especially the routes that would have crossed the glide avalanches. Fourth, Martin?s body was found near the toe of the debris, indicating that it may have come down on them from above.
The evidence indicates that the accident occurred early in the morning when the pair was on their way up. The evidence includes the following:
? Richard Green, a local climber, ascended Broad?s Fork the same day as the accident and climbed to the ridgeline separating Stairs Gulch from Broad?s Fork. He then followed the same route the victims planned to use, following the ridge to Twin Peaks and returned along the same route, returning around noon. He said that he did not see any tracks other than his own, indicating that the victims did not make it to the top of Stairs Gulch. Richard Green used an ice axe but no crampons. Alan Irdahl, one of the rescuers flew in the helicopter the evening of the accident to look for the overdue victims. He saw these same tracks and assumed that they belonged to the victims. Likewise, I originally assumed the tracks belonged to the victims. On Friday, May 4th, the first day after the accident I felt was safe enough, I repeated their climb and ascended Stairs Gulch to the summit ridgeline to take a closer look at their tracks. I did find tracks at the top of Stairs Gulch that ascended to the ridgeline and also some nearby tracks that descended into Stairs Gulch. The tracks were in a place where a climber would naturally travel. The tracks were difficult to see since they had undergone several days of melting, then frozen by much colder weather, then buried by several inches new snow that had subsequently blown away. Only the top 200 feet remained visible since new snow and old wet sluffs covered up everything below that elevation. Complicating factors included one set of tracks that came from Broad?s Fork and traversed into Stairs Gulch for awhile and returned again to the ridge, plus some mountain goat tracks that switch-backed up Stairs to the ridge. I spend about a half hour wandering around trying to sort it all out. As it turns out, Richard Green made the tracks along the ridgeline but did not make the tracks that ascended and descended into Stairs Gulch, so another party must have made them at another time.
? Martin Gleich?s sunglasses melted out of the debris nearly a month after the accident and they were still in their case, indicating that the accident occurred on the ascent, while it was still too dark to wear sunglasses.
? Scott Dull?s pack melted out of the debris a month after the accident and it appeared to contain an uneaten lunch. Martin?s pack, recovered during the rescue, contained a couple of energy bars.
? Martin Gleich carried a camera but he did not take any photographs, however all his friends did not think this was conclusive since he almost never carried a camera nor took photographs. Plus, it was a rather cloudy day with very strong winds.
? They did not use Martin?s cell phone to call from the Summit, but there was no plan to do so. Scott?s widow indicated that he often would often call her on a cell phone when he got to the top of a ridge or mountain (he was an avid mountain runner) and she thought it was unusual for them not to call.
? They were wearing crampons at the time of the accident and Martin had his ice axe strapped to his pack, indicating that they were not yet on steep terrain. They both were using their ski poles at the time of the accident. When they ascended they were walking on old avalanche debris from an avalanche on April 8th, and it probably would have been hard enough to warrant wearing crampons.
Recent Weather
The first half of April was very snowy. From the 3rd through the 9th, 50 inches of snow fell in the Wasatch Range, which caused one large dry avalanche to release in Stairs Gulch on April 8th and descend 5,000 vertical feet, stopping only 400 feet short of the Big Cottonwood Canyon road. Another 16 inches fell by the 14th and finally, another two feet fell in a storm ending on the 23rd, only 5 days before the accident. Then the weather warmed dramatically. The last overnight freeze of the snow surface occurred on Wednesday night, 3 days before the accident and even that freeze was quite thin and short-lived. For the next three days, daytime highs at automated weather stations the same elevation as the accident were in the 50?s, rising to a high of 61 on Thursday the 26th. Minimum temperatures were 35-45 degrees and the night of the accident the minimum air temperature was 47 degrees, combined with scattered clouds and strong southwest winds. This was the warmest overnight low since September. Daytime highs in Salt Lake City were near 80-degrees for the previous few days of the accident.
At the Utah Avalanche Center, we usually end our regular morning advisories in mid April, but because of continued storms and then the subsequent wet slide activity, I had been issuing sporadic afternoon or evening updates as time allowed until the wet cycle abated. According to national policy, I did not use any danger ratings because of the limited information coming in so late in the season, plus, I was the only staff left working and my time allowed only limited and sporadic fieldwork. (The Salt Lake County Sheriff incorrectly reported to the media that the avalanche danger was rated as ?moderate?, but I had not been issuing avalanche danger ratings for the previous two weeks.) The advisory did, however, warn people about the warm temperatures, the lack of an overnight freeze and the presence of wet sluffs, wet slabs and other glide avalanches in the area. I suggested that if people still wanted to get out into the mountains that they get an early start and return early. No one knows whether they called the advisory before heading out although Martin was a regular caller during the winter.
Human Factors
Studies show that human factors account for nearly 90 percent of avalanche accidents involving people with at least some avalanche experience and knowledge and this accident also fits this pattern.
? The time constraints on Scott Dull represent a large red flag. Scott and Martin were old friends. They had gone to medical school together and had climbed several mountains together including Mt. Orazaba in Mexico (19,000 feet), Mt. Rainier several times and Mt. Baker. They had taken a climbing school on Mt. Baker as well as an avalanche course. The pair was on a constrained time schedule as Scott and his wife flew into Salt Lake City just for the weekend specifically to visit Martin and his wife. The victim?s widows were also close friends. They had first made the plans a couple weeks previous to the accident. Scott and his wife had flown in from Alaska the previous evening and Scott and Martin had stayed up late catching up and woken up at 3:00 am for their climb. Therefore, Scott had no recent experience with the local snow conditions and we do not know if he checked the recent weather. He was probably following Martin?s lead as Martin had climbed Stairs Gulch before and Scott had not.
? Martin and two other friends attempted to climb Tanners Gulch (another nearby large and steep, avalanche path in Little Cottonwood Canyon) on the previous Wednesday, but they turned around because of wet snow conditions as they were sinking in deeply. (The temperatures Wednesday morning were about 15 degrees cooler than Saturday, the day of the accident.) When Scott and Martin ascended Stairs Gulch on Saturday, they may have been fooled by the supportable snow conditions as they walked on old avalanche debris, which tends to be quite hard even in warm temperatures.
? Both were extremely intelligent people who were otherwise very attentive of their day-to-day life decisions as well as their own personal safety. Although they took an avalanche course at one time, most of their friends reported that they were still relative avalanche novices. Also, although they both kept very fit and liked to hike in the mountains (Scott was an avid mountain runner and marathoner) they were still considered to be intermediate climbers.
This was an unusual accident for a number of reasons:
? Most fatalities involve dry slab avalanches, yet this was most likely a glide avalanche and, as far as we know, no one has ever been killed in Utah by a glide avalanche.
? The vast majority of avalanche fatalities in Utah trigger the avalanche that catches them, yet these two almost certainly did not trigger the avalanche.
? Most avalanche fatalities in Utah do not call the avalanche advisory before heading out, yet Martin Gleich regularly called the avalanche advisory (although his wife did not know if he called it in the days before the accident)
This accident brings Utah?s total avalanche fatalities this season to six, tying the previous record. This also brings the U.S. avalanche fatality total this season to 33, which breaks the previous record of 32.
I took this photograph on Sunday morning, a little more than a day after the accident probably occurred. You can clearly see that one large glide avalanche has recently occurred leaving the steep rocks slabs bare and glistening with water. Several other smaller glide avalanches have recently occurred in the path on the right. I witnessed one release on the right side when I was there. In examining the debris from the avalanche that caught the climbers, it clearly came from the avalanche path on the left. The usual climbing route ascends the gully to the pass in the upper left of the photograph. The tracks I saw near the ridge 6 days after the accident were near the arrow and they were only visible for 200 feet below the ridge. The tracks were covered up by new snow and old wet avalanche debris below the head of the arrow. Broad?s Fork is on the other side of the skyline ridge. The tracks then lead from the pass along the skyline ridge to the small peak in the left third of the photo, then they follow a ridge leading directly away from the camera towards Twin Peaks, which is not visible in this photograph. The bodies were recovered well below the confluence of these two paths.


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Walter Garrett testified in the trial of Carlos Contreras and Daniel Cervantes, both 34, who face murder and other charges stemming from the May 7, 2008, shooting death of 55-year-old Daniel Kuzawa, along with special circumstance allegations of murder in commission of a robbery, kidnapping and carjacking.
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Senate Republicans have grown frustrated with large and small business trade associations for not helping enough to oppose the Democratic healthcare overhaul.
GOP lawmakers have turned their focus on two groups in particular, the Business Roundtable and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), which they say should be playing a more active role.
Senate Republican leaders on Oct. 20 called representatives from the Business Roundtable, NFIB and other business groups to a meeting at the Capitol to find out what they planned to do during the upcoming Senate floor debate on healthcare reform, according to sources familiar with the session.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnellMitch McConnellWarren goes on tweetstorm over GOP ObamaCare repeal bill McConnell: ObamaCare repeal isn't dead McConnell complained to WH about pro-Trump group's attack on GOP senator: report MORE (Ky.), Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Conference Chairman Lamar AlexanderLamar AlexanderThe Hill's Whip List: GOP undecided, 'no' votes pile up on ObamaCare repeal bill Trump administration pays June ObamaCare subsidies to insurers Republicans and the lost promise of local control in education MORE (Tenn.) and Policy Committee Chairman John ThuneJohn ThuneGOP chairman wants 'robust' tax reform process in the Senate Senate GOP delays ObamaCare repeal vote past recess GOP ObamaCare fight faces do-or-die procedural vote MORE (S.D.) attended the meeting.
Kyl said there are some industries Republicans are disappointed have not taken a more active role in standing up to Democratic plans to pass a $900 billion package that would levy an array of taxes and fees on businesses.
He said some industries have sat on the sidelines and "some folks that have made some kind of a deal and may live to regret it."
The pharmaceutical industry, represented by its trade association PhRMA, struck such a deal with the White House. Under the agreement, drug makers will provide $80 billion in savings to seniors in return for Democratic leaders agreeing not to push drug re-importation legislation and other measures manufacturers oppose.
Senate Republicans also suspect the American Hospital Association of striking a deal with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max BaucusMax BaucusLawmakers: Leave advertising tax break alone GOP: FBI firing won't slow agenda White House tax-reform push is 'game changer,' says ex-chairman MORE (D-Mont.) to refrain from strong criticism in return for removing hospitals from the jurisdiction of a new Medicare commission that would determine future changes in federal payments to healthcare providers.
GOP lawmakers also feel aggrieved that mainstream business groups, which have teamed up with them in past battles, are working with Democrats or holding back from criticizing their healthcare plans.
"I would like to see more help from the business sector," said one senior GOP senator. "We feel like we're the only ones fighting the battle."
Thune spoke again to NFIB on Wednesday morning, urging it to play a more active role in the healthcare debate as well as upcoming policy battles over climate change legislation and the card-check bill favored by labor unions.
"I believe they know what the impact of this is going to be and we're encouraging them to get active at the grassroots level, that their memberships are fully informed and educated about these impacts and if they care about it they're getting in touch with their delegations," said Thune.
"We believe a lot of the healthcare proposals are going to be very detrimental to small business in the form of higher taxes and more regulations and a lot more government spending and expansion here."
Thune said that some business groups are hesitant to criticize the Democratic plans because Democrats have threatened to penalize groups that oppose them.
"There's a belief that Democrats have tried to create among these organizations [the belief] that [healthcare] is going to happen, so either get out of the road or get run over," he said.
"There's always room for improvement," he said. "We can ratchet things up a level."
GOP leaders tried to get groups more involved at last week's meeting, which included the Business Roundtable, NFIB, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Benefits Council, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors and other business groups, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
"It wasn't so much a message to say, 'This is what you need to do,' but more a query about 'Where are you on healthcare reform and what are you going to do?' " said a person familiar with the meeting. "It was an inquiry rather than an inquisition."
Republicans have praised the efforts of the Chamber, which has launched a nationwide campaign to highlight tax increases in Democratic healthcare proposals, but grumbled about the lack of support from NFIB and the Business Roundtable.
A spokesman for NFIB did not return a request for comment. The Business Roundtable has responded to criticism by noting that it is a nonpartisan group that works with Democrats and Republicans.
NFIB, the Business Roundtable, the National Retail Federation and the American Benefits Council are several mainstream business groups that have negotiated with Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Health Committee and the Finance Committee over healthcare reform for much of the past year.
The National Retail Federation has begun to voice strong concerns with Democratic bills in the Senate and House, but the other groups are still working with Democratic lawmakers in the hope of modifying the final healthcare reform bill.
"We want to see a bipartisan product," said Jason Hammersla, a spokesman for the American Benefits Council. "We're a group that works with Democrats and Republicans."
Business groups that have come out against the emerging Senate Democratic healthcare plan say they favor reforming the healthcare system but argue that the pending bills would not lower costs.
"Individual companies are ginned up to oppose the Democratic plans, but some of the trade associations are scared. It's silly," said a senior GOP aide.
"Some trade association representatives have told us they've been invited to negotiate the final details [of healthcare reform], but we're telling them this is far from over," said the aide.
Another GOP aide predicted that business groups would become more vocal once Reid unveils the details of the healthcare bill headed for the Senate floor.
"There's no target to shoot at right now," said the aide.


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Millennium Broadway New York Times Square features a 24-hour fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and 12 meeting rooms. Parking is available for USD 55 per day (USD 70 per day for valet parking), and there's also limo/town car service. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include conference space, a business center, and express check-in.
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Enjoy a front row seat to the New York City offers with the Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, located in the heart of midtown Manhattan.
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Buccaneers | Two Bucs safeties dealt with injuries
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 13:29:27 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers FS J.J. Wilcox (undisclosed) and S Justin Evans (undisclosed) missed a majority of the offseason workouts because undisclosed injuries.
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Buccaneers | Chris Conte, Keith Tandy with first team
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 13:14:23 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers FS Chris Conte and S Keith Tandy are expected to open training camp as the starting safeties.
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Buccaneers | Roberto Aguayo winning competition?
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:41:14 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers PK Roberto Aguayo seems to have the edge over PK Nick Folk for the Bucs' starting kicker position, according to NFL Network's Mike Garofolo.
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Buccaneers | Doug Martin flashing 2015 form
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:12:37 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Doug Martin is receiving a ton of offseason praise from a number of sources, not the least of which is general manager Jason Licht. "(Martin) looks lean, he looks like he's finishing his runs - obviously, there is no contact in the spring - but it looks like he's finishing his runs. He looks like he's got that burst. ... He looks like the Doug Martin of 2015," Licht told NFL Network's Mike Garafolo.
Fantasy Tip: It's important to remember Martin will miss the first three games due to suspension and doesn't boast the best track record when it comes to staying healthy. While it is entirely possible he can return to being a fantasy RB1, those two factors alone make him a risky bet and someone owners should not be trying to move up draft boards just because he is looking good in non-padded practices.
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Buccaneers | Ali Marpet officially a center
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:12:56 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers C Ali Marpet has officially transitioned to center from offensive guard. Head coach Dirk Koetter and the Bucs' coaching staff believes Marpet can be special at the center position.
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Buccaneers | Deondre Barnett waived
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:52:15 -0700
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers waived DE Deondre Barnett from injured reserve with an injury settlement Wednesday, June 14.
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Buccaneers | Doug Martin living in weight room?
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:10:17 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Doug Martin looks quicker and bulkier than he did only two or three weeks ago, according to a source.
Fantasy Tip: Thought to be a cut candidate earlier this spring, Martin appears primed to enjoy a bounce-back year once he is able to return from his season-opening three-game suspension. Jacquizz Rodgers, Charles Sims and rookie Jeremy McNichols figure to pick up the slack in his absence. Once Martin returns, he could easily be an upside RB2 in what should be a very good offense.
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Buccaneers | Jameis Winston off to historic start
Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:25:14 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Jameis Winston is the only quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 4,000 yards and 20-plus touchdowns in each of his first two seasons.
Fantasy Tip: Another year of experience and the additions of DeSean Jackson and O.J. Howard to the passing attack could push Winston into QB1 territory this season.
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Buccaneers | Cameron Brate to remain the starter?
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:22:58 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers TE Cameron Brate and QB Jameis Winston have a chemistry that is "going to be tough to dethrone," according to Trevor Sikkema of PetwerReport.com, and Sikkema believes Brate could make it difficult for TE O.J. Howard to be the No. 1 option at the position.
Fantasy Tip: Howard has long-term upside as a TE1 and is the preferred option in keeper leagues. However, Winston looked Brate's way a lot in the red zone last year, and his touchdown potential should allow Brate to remain a quality TE2 this season.
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Buccaneers | Derel Walker could grab roster spot
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:15:56 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Derel Walker has been one of the better overall receivers in OTAs, according to Trevor Sikkema of PewterReport.com, and Sikkema believes Walker could claim one of the final receiver spots on the roster.
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Buccaneers | Ryan Fitzpatrick will compete for backup spot
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:17:36 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Ryan Fitzpatrick will need to outperform QB Ryan W. Griffin in order to win the Bucs' backup quarterback job, according to head coach Dirk Koetter. Koetter said Griffin has had a really good offseason.
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Buccaneers | Jameis Winston great with tight ends
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 06:50:43 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Jameis Winston has the fifth-best passer rating when targeting tight ends since he entered the league three years ago, according to Pro Football Focus. However, he is third-worst in the league when targeting other positions.
Fantasy Tip: The latter number isn't too surprising because the team hasn't had a lot of receiving options outside of Mike Evans, and Winston probably tried to force the ball to him sometimes. The addition of DeSean Jackson should help. Winston is in the conversation of a low-end QB1 in fantasy.
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Buccaneers | Ryan Smith back at corner
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:09:08 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers DB Ryan Smith is back at his natural position of cornerback after operating as a backup safety and on special teams as a rookie in 2016.
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Buccaneers | Chris Godwin showing versatility
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:46:54 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Chris Godwin has been one of the most consistent players during OTAs, according to head coach Dirk Koetter, and Koetter said Godwin has the ability to play outside or from the slot.
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Buccaneers | Charles Sims to be more involved?
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:43:24 -0700
Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Charles Sims showed good burst in practice Thursday, June 1, according to beat writer Jenna Laine, and Laine believes Sims could be used from the slot this season and will be more involved in the passing game.
Fantasy Tip: At the very least, Sims should see some action on third down as a receiver out of the backfield. His value will only go up if he also lines up as a receiver. Grab him in the later rounds of PPR formats and see how his role develops.
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Ben Anderson scored an early goal to put the Tribe (1-1-1) on top, 1-0, in the sixth minute, and they would not look back from there as Roshan Patel and Chris Albiston each netted second-half scores to give the Tribe the win.
Senior midfielder Houston Oldham (Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) led the Spiders (1-2-0) with six shots on the night, while freshman Manaan Umar (Herndan, Va./Chantilly) finished with a pair of strikes in the setback.
Sophomore Thomas Hand (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown, 1-2-0) secured five saves over a full night in net for the Spiders, while his counterpart in Bennett Jones followed suit with five stops.
After holding a 7-5 advantage in shots at the close of the opening half, Richmond allowed 15 in a second frame that saw the Tribe flex its offensive muscle. W&M also held a 9-7 edge in corner kicks in the match.
Richmond continues its season-opening six-match road swing next weekend when it travels southward to the Davidson Tournament, in which the Spiders will take on the host Wildcats on Saturday, Sept. 8 before meeting Appalachian State two days later.
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Corner Kicks: UR 3 4 - 7, W&M - 3 6 - 9
Goalkeepers: UR: Hand - 5 SV, 3 GA, 90:00, L; W&M: Jones - 5 SV, 0 GA, 90:00, W
Fouls: UR 9, W&M 14
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In a speech today in Milton Keynes, David Cameron promised to turn Britain into something closely resembling a democracy. Just a tad over-ambitious, I fear. Still, it was a fine piece of oratory. First of all, the Tory leader grasps the fact that public anger against the MPs expenses wouldn't have taken off in so explosive a way were it not for a seething discontent with the political process in the wider sense. And that this discontent arises, most of all, from a sense of powerlessness. This is not so much a disconnection between people and politicians as a disconnection between human beings and the system that governs them. He mentions frustration with central targets in the health service and education and - remarkable for a Conservative politician - increasing distrust of the police. There is "a sense of power and control draining away", he says. People "see a world that is built to benefit powerful elites, and they feel a terrible but impotent anger".
He echoes complaints about officious rule-following, box-ticking procedures and an officialdom "which treats us like children with rules and regulations and directives and laws that no-one voted for, no-one supports, but no-one ever seems to be able to do the slightest thing about". He condemns a legislative process in which bills are "dreamt up on sofas" and nodded through by MPs who "most of the time don't even know what they're voting for". He is willing to use the O-word - Orwellian - to describe New Labour's surveillance society. He notes that people "increasingly feel that the state is their enemy not their ally". He even blames political shortcomings for the alleged fact that "we lose our temper more than any other people in Europe".
Now obviously, telling people what they think they want to hear is part of the standard repertoire of the modern politician. It is meaningless without action to back it up - and it might just be empty words. Even so, that the "rage against the machine" - for so long confined to columns in the Daily Mail, online forums and beer-fuelled moan-sessions in the few remaining traditional pubs - has now entered mainstream political discourse in this way is a development which potentially has far-reaching repurcussions. Leaders in all parties will now be competing with each other to provide answers to this sense of dislocation. The terms of debate have shifted, for the time being at least, against Brown's vision of centralised statism.
Then there are Cameron's proposals themselves, which while they wouldn't by themselves resolve all the public grumbles are fairly radical. Cameron's answer is a "massive devolution of power:
From the state to citizens; from the government to parliament; from Whitehall to communities. From Brussels to Britain; from judges to the people; from bureaucracy to democracy. Through decentralisation, transparency and accountability we must take power away from the political elite and hand it to the man and woman in the street.
In practice, this would mean a decimated Parliament, local and national referendums, more powers for local authorities, elected mayors, direct public control over the police, and something resembling education vouchers (though not called that). He intends to abolish regional government (hooray). It's a heady agenda. And as for Westminster itself, Cameron seems to be proposing to dismantle much of the party system. Open primaries would enable independent candidates, selected by local voters, to stand under party banners. Without owing their position to central party machines, it's unlikely they would owe the party hierarchy much loyalty, either. Cameron wants fewer whipped votes, more power and independence to Select Committees, more scope for backbenchers to introduce legislation, more detailed scrutiny of bills. The result, in terms of the government's ability to pass legislation, could be extraordinarily disruptive. He declares himself in favour of fixed Parliamentary terms and a major reduction in the Royal prerogative. If all Cameron's proposals are introduced, the House of Commons would begin to resemble the House of Representatives. With the major difference that the government would continue to draw its majority, legitimacy - and membership - from Parliament. It could be a recipe for chaos.
No Proportional Representation, though. The present system, with its unbalanced distribution of seats, is overwhelmingly biased in favour of Labour. But that doesn't mean that the government is not facing meltdown at the next election, so unpopular has it become. PR, in the minds of its left-leaning supporters (now joined by Roy Hattersley) has always been seen principally as a device for ensuring quasi-permanent Lib-Lab government, so it's scarcely surprising that leading Labour figures faced with the disappearance of what they must have long considered their God-given majority (achieved last time on not much more than 20% of the available vote) should be rushing to embrace it. Hattersley is honest enough to admit that the principal attraction of PR, for him, is that it "offers the prospect of a progressive alliance". But might it serve the Conservative interest? Cameron doesn't think so:
Proportional representation takes power away from the man and woman in the street and hands it to the political elites. Instead of voters choosing their government on the basis of the manifestos and leadership put before them in an election campaign, party managers would choose a government on the basis of secret backroom deals.
How is that going to deliver the transparency and trust we need? And hybrid systems like AV plus are even worse: they're not proportional, and represent something of a political fix.
Instead, he wants to redistribute a smaller number of seats to produce equally-sized constituencies which would eliminate most of the present Labour advantage.
The best argument for first-past-the-post is that it produces (most of the time) a strong government that can get things done without having to engage in horse-trading. It also prevents a defeated government clinging on to power by doing a deal with one of the smaller parties in the face of the clearly-expressed desire of the voters for change. So it is not always the most democratic solution. Tony Blair was dissuaded from adopting the Jenkins plan for AV-plus when he learned that, had it been in operation in 1979, Margaret Thatcher would never have come to power. Sometimes, it is necessary for a government to do unpopular things, and FPTP both makes this possible and ensures the proper punishment of a government that abuses its power, is incompetent or has simply been there for too long.
That said, a decentralised, open politics of the kind described in David Cameron's speech today would be one in which the professional political class has had many of its teeth pulled. So the argument that a PR-elected Parliament represents a conspiracy of the politicians against the people would have less force. And if a government so elected was hamstrung by inter-party niceties, then most of the time that would be no bad thing. Cameron's other proposals, after all, aim to strip power from the political machines who have benefited most from FPTP. He expresses a desire for MPs who "deliver more for less"; but what is really wanted is a Parliament that does less - or at the least passes fewer laws. So the question really is whether PR would weaken the impact of the suggested reforms. Candidates selected in open primaries and less at the mercy of the whips would come much closer to the ideal of the MP as a local representative than is presently the case. PR, by contrast, would increase party patronage.
Other sections of Cameron's speech are a little vague. He talks of bringing back power from Brussels - but, short of offering a referendum on the Lisbon treaty (a promise that will probably be meaningless by the time he gets into power) and referendums on any further treaties holds out little prospect of delivering. He's iffy about the Human Rights Act (especially the power it gives to judges) but the promised British Bill of Rights is still poorly sketched out. He scarcely mentions the House of Lords (though, to be fair, he has previously promised an elected chamber). He talks of the "post bureaucratic age" without promising the one thing that would actually achieve it, which is a drastic reduction in the number of bureaucrats. There's something a bit gimmicky - Blairish, even - in his extolling of the latest technology. And technology tends to date even more quickly than political programmes - even this one, which for all its internet connectivity has more than a whiff of Maggie's Victorian Values about it.
Still, the ambition of the speech is awe-inspiring. Putting Cameron's blueprint into effect would require possibly the biggest act of political self-renunciation since Diocletian gave up ruling the Roman Empire to grow cabbages. It will require remarkable levels of fortitude. Every time there's a major disaster or scandal, or the crime figures rise, or the health scare of the day hits the headlines, or people complain that their local school isn't up to much or a hospital is threatened with closure, every time John Humphrys gets a cabinet minister on the radio and asks "what are you going to do about it?", said minister will have to sit there and say "Sorry, that's not my responsibility". And when Humphrys retorts, "Why did we elect you?", when opinion polls show discontent, when the Opposition - the reinvigorated Labour Opposition - promises that they would take control of errant public services and put new procedures in place to make them work - ministers will have to have the strength of will to do nothing.
And it could all get rather unpopular.
There's also the accumulated inertia of the system, which he does at least acknowledge:
Politicians, and the senior civil servants and advisors who work for them, instinctively hoard power because they think that's the way to get things done. Well we're going to have to kill that instinct, and believe me: I know how hard that's going to be. It will require a serious culture change amongst ministers, amongst Whitehall officials - and beyond.
I suspect it will be much harder than he could ever possibly imagine. In one episode of Yes, Prime Minister, Sir Humphrey Appleby described a similarly ambitious plan for local accountability as "the most courageous I have ever heard". "Courageous", in Humphrey-speak, meant "mad".
Cameron's speech is inspirational, not simply because of what it promises in terms of giving us a real democracy, but because of the confidence it expresses that the British people will rise to the challenge of accepting the "responsibility" which he is offering. Giving "power to the people" is wonderful in principle; achieving it would require, not just self-restraint from politicians, but also a citizenry willing to put in considerable extra effort in managing their own lives, taking more interest in politics, being more active in their local communities, in addition to everything else that occupies the time during a full working life. It's a big ask. It threatens to rob the British of one of our greatest national pleasures, therapeautic grumbling. Can people learn to stop expecting (or not expecting) "the government" to step in and sort out every problem? Can we really bear the psychological burden of actual responsibility?
I'd like to think so. But I'm not entirely convinced.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Cameron's Grand Design
In a speech today in Milton Keynes, David Cameron promised to turn Britain into something closely resembling a democracy. Just a tad over-ambitious, I fear. Still, it was a fine piece of oratory. First of all, the Tory leader grasps the fact that public anger against the MPs expenses wouldn't have taken off in so explosive a way were it not for a seething discontent with the political process in the wider sense. And that this discontent arises, most of all, from a sense of powerlessness. This is not so much a disconnection between people and politicians as a disconnection between human beings and the system that governs them. He mentions frustration with central targets in the health service and education and - remarkable for a Conservative politician - increasing distrust of the police. There is "a sense of power and control draining away", he says. People "see a world that is built to benefit powerful elites, and they feel a terrible but impotent anger".
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10 comments:
- valdemar squelch said...
I wonder if the supposed unwillingness of citizens to participate in local politics is, at least in part, down to mobility - the physical kind. We have shallower roots, nowadays. In the 19th century most people lived the same place for most of their lives. Yes, some people left home to seek their fortunes etc, but the working class (when they got the vote) and the middle class shopkeepers and clerks were rooted in their town or city. Are things like that now? The conventional lifestyle today - or at least, before the credit crunch - was based around the assumption that you commute to work from a considerable distance - at least half an hour by road - and change your address every two or three years because a house isn't just a place to live, it's an investment scheme. So if Mr Cameron wants to really revive local democracy, he should somehow scupper this pernicious modern trend for the masses to move about. Bearing in mind the Duke of Wellington spotted the problem but failed to nip it in the bud, I suspect the Duke's successor will find it tricky.
- 26 May 2009 at 19:39
- WeepingCross said...
Valdemar, I've come to the same conclusion about the reluctance of people apparently to join in any voluntary effort, from politics to the church to local football teams to the Brownies. People feel that they have to live their lives in an entirely ad hoc manner because at any moment they might have to drive halfway across the country to be at Auntie Doris's deathbed. In fact they've probably got no such intention, but they feel they might, and that's enough to outweigh any urge to commit themselves in advance to much.
- 26 May 2009 at 21:12
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
"Tony Blair was dissuaded from adopting the Jenkins plan for AV-plus when he learned that, had it been in operation in 1979, Margaret Thatcher would never have come to power. "
Priceless! That is truly hilarious. Quite the funniest thing I have read in many weeks, A real comedy gem. Wonderful satire. Well done.
- 26 May 2009 at 22:58
- Ayrdale said...
From here in NZ, Cameron's speech seems to be on target.
How is it though when referendums are mentioned the Swiss example doesn't get considered ?
Doesn't multi-lingual, armed to the teeth Switzerland have over 400 unpaid (real expenses only) MP's and less than 20 ministers who run the country ? And doesn't their country run rather well ? And isn't the basis for this prosperity and harmony a citizens initiated referendum law ?
Cantons for the UK maybe ?
- 27 May 2009 at 01:57
- valdemar squelch said...
Father W, I was playing Devil's Advocate, but I played him like William Shatner. I would like local democracy to work, but I do think that Victorian concept of having a home town and being proud of it just doesn't fit with the zeitgeist. Regional government is deeply unpopular - esp. up here - so what remains? I'm sure devolving power to councils would improve things simply by having somebody involved who knows the terrain. But Cameron's views do seem wildly optimistic.
- 27 May 2009 at 07:13
- WeepingCross said...
I did detect a certain presence of the tongue in the cheek, but there's many a true word ...
- 27 May 2009 at 08:19
- The Heresiarch said...
No indeed, Woolly, I can assure you that vignette comes on good authority. Though I forget exactly where I read it. Blair's precise words were "The country needed a change".
- 27 May 2009 at 08:28
- Richard T said...
I think what we're seeing is a very worrying combination of an incompetent state with venal politicians. The deterioration in the competence of the British government has been noticeable for some time. Partly this may relate to the paradox of the expansion of its reach - into matters which were traditionally left to local government for example, with the transfer of accountability to executive agencies and quangos. There is in the former case an expansion of very detailed centralised management into say schools which central government had eschewed and now relishes but where the ability of Parliament to give effective oversight is completely absent. In the latter example - well we all recall Paxo and Michael Howard on his accountability for prisons. Linked with this is the very disturbing extension of Statutory Instruments whjich by pass scrutiny; the decision to force through retention of DNA for 12 years is a case in point.
All these create a sense of powerlessness amongst the electorate. Add in the witch's brew where there has been what I'd call government dishonesty, about the Iraq war for example, the MPs' feathering nests bought at public expense, the failure to reform the Lords, the election of the government on a 36% vote with a 60%turnout and finally the mismatch of words and deeds and the spin. You get where we are today and the catalyst for the current public mood has been the expenses scandal.
But Government and MPs have done this themselves. They've sown the seeds of the climate of cynicism and now the whirlwind is being reaped.
Cameron's speech is interesting in that he gives no acknowledgement to practice in our Parliament in Edinburgh where much of what he preaches is in operation.
- 27 May 2009 at 10:59
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
The Heresiarch said... No indeed, Woolly, I can assure you that vignette comes on good authority. Though I forget exactly where I read it. Blair's precise words were "The country needed a change".
He may well have said exactly that at some point long afterwards as a retrospective justification.
But back in 1997 when he did the dirty on us he admitted quite openly that he had not really expected to win such a large majority. He lost interest in PR once it became clear that Labour would be in for more than one term. Another big factor was that he didn't think he could persuade his MPs to support a system that would not return them. If he'd had a small majority or there had been N.O.C. then he'd have gone with the Jenkins Plan for sure.
- 27 May 2009 at 14:15
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Richard T said... In the latter example - well we all recall Paxo and Michael Howard on his accountability for prisons.
Michael Howard was the victim of a great injustice in that interview. He was misrepresented as shifty, evasive and trying to cover up something when in reality he had nothing to hide but wasn't sure enough off-the-cuff to give a definitive answer in case it was wrong.
If he'd known the question was coming he could have checked beforehand and said "No" or whatever it was that meant he had acted perfectly properly and correctly.
- 27 May 2009 at 14:18


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