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The First Rule of Fight Club…
- School: University of Kansas
- Location: Lawrence, Kansas
- Mascot: Jayhawks
- Conference: Big 12
- Coach: Bill Self (17th season)
- 2019-2020 Record: 15-3 (5-1 Big12)
- Notable Former Basketball Player: Wilt Chamberlain- While at Kansas, "The Stilt" was a 2x All-American, NCAA Tournament MOP, as well as put together a career that ended up with his number 13 put in the rafters. He also had a pretty successful professional career with the Harlem Globetrotters, as well as the NBA franchises that are today's Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, and Los Angeles Lakers. He was a 13x NBA All-Star, 4x NBA MVP, and 2x NBA Champion. Oh yeah, he also once dropped 100 in a game. He averaged 30.1 points per game over his career, and is enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
KU v. K-State = Smackdown v. Raw
I truly thought Silvio DeSousa was going to commit manslaughter, but was thankfully wrong. For the second time this season, Kansas got their trou in a wad when they weren't allowed to dribble out the clock, and this time it about got real ugly. I'm not here to analyze the brawl though; my concern is that on Saturday, the Jayhawks will be without Silvio DeSousa and David McCormack when they host the Vols. They together average the following stat line: 10.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 0.9 steals. I say that to make it very clear that Kansas is not going to miss these players. They may even be better without them, especially on the offensive side of the ball.
The two big studs for the Jayhawks are sophomore guard Devon Dotson and senior center Udoka Azubuike. First, let's look at Dotson. The Jayhawks' leading scorer (18.2 ppg), Dotson is an explosive athlete and has no hesitation when attacking the basket. He is also pretty unselfish, dishing out 4.2 assists per night. Where Dotson struggles though is shooting the ball outside of 12-15 feet. To slow Dotson down, and therefore cause the Jayhawks major issues, you have to prevent Dotson from scoring while attacking the basket. Furthermore, you can't allow him to get into and-one opportunities, as he is a +80% shooter from the stripe.
Azubuike is the Jayhawk that will cause the Vols the most trouble. Again, I am happy with the play out of our frontcourt this season. They haven't yet seen someone with the height and frame of Kansas' Senior Center, though. Udoka plays nearly 75% of games, on average, and leads the nation in FG% at 77.7%. He plays a clean game (only fouled out one time this season) and averages 12.9 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. Like Dotson though, Azubuike has a kryptonite; free throw shooting, as he is only hitting 40.5% of his attempts. If things get close, don't be at all surprised to see Bill Self sit Azubuike to prevent a "hack-a-Udoka" attempt by Tennessee, and instead play some small ball against an already undersized opponent.
What We Learned from Ole Miss
My biggest takeaway from our thrumming of the Rebels was that Josiah-Jordan James needs to be this team's primary ball handler. He is becoming more aggressive, gaining confidence and would serve as a matchup nightmare for most Point Guards in the SEC. I think Rick Barnes can see this, as well, and I wouldn't be shocked to see more of JJJ initiating our offense. James' handling and ability to size up his defender is in stark contrast to Vescovi's Point Guard make up, and I think will make for a more potent offensive attack should he continue his confident play.
Finally, Olivier Nkamhoua showed me that while it does look like he is going to trip over his own feet 80% of the time, he is slowly becoming a solid Power Forward for the Vols. He is still a little slow and unpolished, but has shown great strides since conference season began.
Final Prediction
Thank you for taking the time to read this article. While a win against the Jayhawks could do wonders for NCAA Tournament hopes/resume (as well as street-cred), I just don't see this one shaking out in the Vols favor, but I sincerely hope I am wrong. If we were to win, I will likely jump off my couch and scream much like I did a few years ago when a slight framed kid from Rutledge hit a pretty dagger three against Kansas.
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"It happens when it happens, and it happened for me now and I'm happy to move on"
by Than Acuff
After more than 25 years of ski racing, Crested Butte's David Chodounsky has decided to retire from the sport, closing out what has been an incredible rollercoaster of a ride. It's a ride that has taken him from the back of the pack to the top of the podium, from the Prater Cup to the Olympics and World Championships, from Buck Hill, Minnesota, to Crested Butte, to Dartmouth College, to New Zealand, all over Europe and Japan and all points and mountains in between. And in the end, he wouldn't have changed a thing.
"I think it worked out really well," says David. "I've got a college degree to fall back on, I skied for the U.S. Ski Team. Maybe wished I skied faster in a couple of races."
It all started for David as a kid on Buck Hill in Minnesota under the tutelage of renowned youth ski coach Eric Sailer.
"He's been around forever and he's made a lot of ski racers out of Buck Hill," says David.
At age 10 David and his family moved here to Crested Butte, where he spent his youth racing and training with the Crested Butte Ski Club and then moved on to race in high school for the Crested Butte Academy. While he notched a Giant Slalom (GS) and overall win at the Prater Cup back when he was 12 years old, his high school career was a series of mixed results and he never caught the eye of the U.S. Ski Team during a time when they were looking for the next great ski racer.
"I was never at the top of the group. I wasn't one of the guys the U.S. team was recruiting," explains David. "I wasn't one of the guys that was supposed to make it."
Although, he did make the most of his time here. It was rare when David missed a powder day, as he would often take the time to ski the deep with his dad or mom or friends rather than line up at the top of Buckley for more training.
Falling from the U.S. team's radar actually played out well for David as he attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, joining the ski team there.
Then something happened. Surrounded by a lot of fast skiers, David picked up his game and during his freshman year, worked his way onto the team and won the NCAA slalom title.
"That year, for some reason, something happened," says David.
He went on to become captain of the team his senior year, helping lead the Dartmouth ski team to the NCAA Division I team title in 2007.
"The NCAA title at Dartmouth is definitely a career highlight," says David. "We all meshed as a team and won the first title for the school in 32 years."
It was also during his senior year at Dartmouth that he got his first call from the U.S. Ski Team when they "invited" him to race on the Europa Cup circuit. David packed up in the middle of his winter term and headed to Europe for two weeks of racing. And while results were less than optimal, the experience made a mark on him.
"It was a rough couple of weeks and definitely opened my eyes," says David. "It helped me make the decision that I wanted to pursue the team."
With the dream implanted in his psyche, David decided to live, breathe and eat ski racing, taking a year off after graduating from college to pursue a spot on the U.S. Ski Team.
"I wanted to make it onto the team and onto the World Cup," says David.
Meanwhile, David was working as a surveyor with Gary Schaffer to earn enough money so he could train, race and travel and feels extremely fortunate to also get support from his hometown.
"The whole Crested Butte community got behind me when I was trying to make the team," says David.
It was a long and rough stretch for David as he pursued his dream. If David reached top 60 in the world rankings, he would get asked onto the team. In 2009 it came down to the U.S. Nationals, the final race of the season. David won the U.S. slalom title, bumping his world ranking to 60 and getting him a spot on the team.
Some team reshuffling, and a little bit of ski racing politics, had him dropped from the team and he was back on his own again trying to prove himself.
"I knew I had it in me, so I kept going," says David.
He earned enough money to head to New Zealand in the summer of 2010 to reboot his career once more, while the U.S. Ski Team was telling him that they might have a spot for him in 2011.
"There are really good races in New Zealand with a lot of the top skiers there training and racing, so a friend of mine and I rented the cheapest and smallest car we could afford and traveled, trained and raced," says David. "It's a good place to go and score points and drop your ranking."
His time in New Zealand had David in mid-season form when he slid into the starting gate at Loveland in November 2010, racing against some of the top racers in the world. David ended up beating Marcel Hersher, arguably the best slalom racer in the world, in Loveland gaining the attention, once again, of the U.S. Ski Team.
"It was a loaded field and he's won everything there is to win and I beat him," says David. "It was an exclamation point saying, 'I can do this!'"
Lo and behold, the U.S. Ski Team took him back that season, unofficially, but he kept plugging away on the World Cup circuit striving to move even further up the rankings.
In 2010 he also got his first taste of the Olympic qualifying scene with the Winter Games in Vancouver on the horizon. David attempted to make the team and, while he fell short, it only further fueled his fire.
"There were four of us battling for one spot left on the team and I got close," says David. "But I was still young, mid-20s, so I kept pushing because I knew I had it in me."
In 2011 things with the U.S. Ski Team became official as he was named to the "A" team and while he had been "on the bus" and in the hotels with the team on the road before, it was still erratic and on the periphery. But in 2011 his spot was secured and expenses were covered and he started his ascent on the World Cup circuit.
"That was basically the end of all of that drama," says David. "You can only take it for so long."
He scored his first World Cup points at a race in Zagreb, Croatia in 2012 and then cracked into the top 30 in slalom in the overall World Cup rankings during the 2012-2013 season.
"Once you get to there you're like, I made it," says David. "That's a tough spot to make it to, the top 30."
The ranking meant that David was guaranteed one of the first 30 start positions at races, making for better course conditions in his first run, a better chance to make it into the second run and, therefore, continue to score points and climb the World Cup rankings.
David reached the Olympic dream in 2014 when he qualified for the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia and then had the best season of his career in 2015-2016. He had his top World Cup result in Val d'Isere, France during the 2015 season. After whacking a gate with his face, he split open his lip on the first run—medics stitched his lip together at the bottom and he went back up for his second run, finishing in fourth place when it was over.
"I was just barely off the podium and looking back, that's not so bad, thinking back on where I started it all and where I got to," says David.
He posted additional top 10 results that season, saw success in GS races as well and climbed into the 14th spot in slalom and top 30 in GS.
"That was definitely my most successful season," says David, "to make top 15 in one discipline and top 30 in another."
David's favorite course was Adelboden, Switzerland.
"It's just a really cool hill that fits my style," explains David. "It starts out moderate before dropping into the steepest face on the World Cup circuit and you can see the finish line way down below you."
His favorite place to race was Schladming, Austria.
"It's a night race and there's 70,000 people there lighting flares," describes David. "You never notice the crowd when you're skiing but there you hear them the whole way down."
His favorite trip was two years ago for races in Japan.
"The people are so nice and the culture is amazing," says David. "Plus it snowed while we were there so we also got a couple days off to ski powder."
While David lives in Park City, Utah now with his wife of two years, he was just back in Crested Butte to see his parents and checked in on some local kids' dry land training for the upcoming season. His words of advice to them were fairly honest and straightforward.
"Don't give up. It's a grind sometimes," says David. "It sounds cheesy but it's true. If you really love something, get after it but you have to keep it fun and learn how to deal with failure. It's not success that keeps you going, it's how you deal with failure and move on, because it will happen."
David closed out his career in good form as well, making his fourth trip to the World Championships including an 11th-place finish in the GS at the 2017 World Championships.
"Moving into GS racing was a really cool part of the whole journey," says David.
But just last month he made the decision to step out of the starting gate for good.
"It happens when it happens, and it happened for me now and I'm happy to move on," says David.
He will continue to coach at a race camp on Mt. Hood but he is excited to see what's next in life. One immediate change for him now that he is done with racing is his season ski pass.
"When I was on the team we got season passes everywhere, though I really only got to use five or six days each year because I was always racing," says David. "This year I had to pay for my first season pass in a long time."

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Jan 9 (Reuters) – Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump have told special counsel Robert Mueller that he will not answer any more questions in the probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Reuters on Wednesday.Trump submitted written answers to questions from Mueller in late November. In an interview with Reuters, Giuliani said Mueller raised the possibility of follow-up questions but that the president's outside legal team told the special counsel before Christmas that Trump would not respond.
Source: President Trump will not answer any more questions from Mueller -Giuliani – AOL News


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I'm excited to share these Disney Costumes for Kids with you! I want you to be prepared well in advance of Halloween so that your kids get the costume they want! This year I am not procrastinating on buying costumes for my kids as well! I am going to get my kids the Halloween costumes they want before they're gone! I refuse to go through the stress of taking kids into a store that is picked over and doesn't have the costumes they want in the size they need! {Can you tell this has been a problem for me in the past?!?} 🙂
Today I'm sharing 10 Disney Costumes for Girls and 10 Disney Costumes for Boys! While there are hundreds to choose from, I chose these Disney Costumes for Kids because for the most part, they were reasonably affordable and I threw a couple in that were just really cool!
Check out these Disney Costumes for Kids!
Disney Costumes for Girls:
- ReliBeauty Princess Aurora Dress
- Disguise Frozen Elsa Costume
- Disguise Frozen Anna Costume
- Jasmine Classic Sparkle Costume
- Disguise Tinkerbell Classic Costume
- Peachi Princess Snow White Costume
- Disney Princess Ariel Dress
- Disguise Coronation Anna Dress
- Disguise Sofia the First Costume
- Disguise Doc McStuffins Costume
Disney Costumes for Boys:
- Dress Up America Prince Charming Costume
- Disguise Frozen Olaf Costume
- Disguise Mr. Incredible Costume
- Star Wars the Force Awakens Vader Costume
- Disney Peter Pan Costume
- Disney Deluxe Mickey Mouse Costume
- Disney Finding Nemo Deluxe Costume
- Disguise Jack Skellington Costume
- Disguise Disney Jack Sparrow Costume
- Disguise Toddler Jake and the Neverland Pirates Costume


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FIFA 11 will be the 18th title in Electronic Arts' FIFA series of football video games. Last week FIFA 11 PC Producer Ian Jarvis gave a presentation about the game, answered a few questions and then gave journalists the opportunity to have a play. FIFA 11 PC gameplay will be a combination of FIFA 10 Console and FIFA World Cup gameplay. The Windows version of FIFA 11 will be the first in the series to use the same game engine as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
We hate FIFA's dev team; every year we write about how they've perfected virtual football, how each new iteration of the series is the best yet, and then every year they go and trump themselves spectacularly, leaving us looking rather stupid in the process.
And so it is with FIFA 11; while the progression from FIFA 10 isn't as superficially vast as it has been in previous years, the suite of subtle additions make its game for a more convincing take on the sport than before, and one that plays with a wonderful flow and instinct. We're not going to say that it makes FIFA 10 look poor, but having played FIFA 11 our lunchtime sessions with last year's game are often spent yearning to get our hands on this year's model.
Pro Passing brings the manual passing that's been an option in the series for some time to the fore, tweaking it to ensure it's still an exercise in fun for less experienced players. Slotting the ball to other players is now more reliant on context – trying to spray it around with abandon is now a less fruitful option, and in the team's own parlance it puts an end to the 'ping-pong passing' of previous FIFAs. It's now important to think before laying the ball on, and the game benefits hugely as a result.
Then there's Personality Plus, which is marketing speak for a new philosophy that fuels a string of like-minded features. Player's physical attributes are now more varied – and subsequently more faithful to the source – and their behaviour on the pitch is also more pronounced. That means more player models covering a wider range, with the petite frame of Jermaine Defoe to the extra-terrestrial proportions of Peter Crouch accommodated, and the spectrum between is also served well. What's more, they're more than just player skins – older, bulkier players will move differently, their lumbering runs in stark contrast to the twinkle-toed pace of snappier players.
Player attitudes are also more faithful to what we see played out on the pitch, with the Berbatovs and Anelkas of this world sulking around the box before springing into life while more tenacious players like Gerrard and Rooney (or, at least, the Gerrard and Rooney we knew before their dismal performances in this summer's World Cup) will hound the ball at every opportunity. Tie this in with the recently announced partnership between EA Sports and the Premier League and Peter Moore's dream outlined two years ago of allowing people to play the game they saw the night before comes one step closer.
Another chance to play FIFA 11 comes alongside the announcement of another suite of new features. First up there's 360 degree physicality, an extension of the 360 degree dribbling that was introduced last year. It's introduced in a brief video showing Argentina and Man City's Carlos Tevez – raised by eels and the real-life inspiration for Blanka according to unsubstantiated reports – shielding whilst in possession, jostling a player who's attacking from behind and protecting the ball by moving it from foot to foot.
In conjunction with the unsurpassed dribbling it promises total control – but of course the defender's arsenal has been boosted to keep FIFA 11's balance in check. For the first time it's now possible to shove a player from behind, so when you're chasing a player down you can give them a hearty punt in the back. It's not something that's readily available, and while it's shown in full in a presentation in over an hour of hands-on time it only occurs once or twice – reassuring us that it won't be a cheap tactic for the desperate.
We've saved the best news for last, though. FIFA's Career Mode is getting a complete overhaul, and it's looking like a full-blooded response to the problems some users had with FIFA 10's Manager Mode. "We were very upset with some of the negativity around it last year," producer David Rutter tells us, "There were bugs in there and they did affect people – I can't think of any games without bugs, but that said it's terribly disappointing for the team, we're upset because it really did take the shine off of my personal success and the success of the team, and it's not something we want to repeat."
It's not just about getting rid of the bugs; FIFA 11's Career Mode has had a complete restructure. All of the previous options have been consolidated, so it's now simply an option of being a player (a mode that directly replaces the previous Be a Pro mode), a manager or a player manager in campaigns that run up to 15 seasons. A new simulation engine churns out more believable results while the calendar is now day to day calendar, and for the first time there's the ability to see results from across the globe.
All of which is great, but the most heartening thing is getting to play the game at leisure, an extended hands-on session showing the game in all its glory. Yes, it is a slower game than before but the added thoughtfulness required makes it all the more satisfying when a move comes off, and the ebb and flow of games can come eerily close to the real thing.
It's something that's apparent even when playing against the A.I, no doubt thanks to the work that's been done this year in this area to make playing against the computer almost as satisfying as playing another person. It's successful, and a face-off between Exeter and a computer controlled Colchester also reveals that, contrary to our early fears, the Personality Plus features do feed down to the smaller teams, the resulting scrap that's illuminated by occasional accidental genius true to what we'd expect of a League One game.
There are more announcements to come – and don't be surprised if controllable keepers are finally unveiled – but even as it stands it's shaping up to be another top year for FIFA. Looks like we'll be dishing out the hyperbole once again come October.
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Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented the
Mueller report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances
4. Few members of Congress have read the report.
I offer these conclusions only after having read Mueller's redacted report carefully and completely, having read or watched pertinent statements and testimony and having discussed this matter with my staff, who thoroughly reviewed materials and provided me with further analysis.
In comparing Barr's principal conclusions, congressional testimony and other statements to Mueller's report, it is clear that Barr intended to mislead the public about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's analysis and findings.
Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies which he hopes people will not notice.
Under our Constitution, the president " shall be removed from Office on impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." While "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not defined, the context implies conduct that violates the public trust.
Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.
In fact, Mueller's report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all of the elements of obstruction of justice and undoubtedly any person who is not the president would be indicted based on such evidence.
Impeachment, which is a special form of indictment does not even require probable cause that a crime (e.g. obstruction of justice) has been committed. It simply requires a finding that an official has engaged in careless, abusive, corrupt or otherwise dishonorable conduct.
While impeachment should be undertaken only in extraordinary circumstances, the risk we face in an environment of extreme partisanship is not that Congress will employ it as a remedy too often but rather that Congress will employ it so rarely that it cannot deter misconduct.
Our system of checks and balances relies on each branch's jealously guarding its powers and upholding its duties under our Constitution. When loyalty to a political party or to an individual trumps loyalty to the Constitution, the rule of law-the foundation of liberty crumbles.
Now this is Richard. I hope that Amash's tweets become a huge national story. Amash has spoken truth to power. I have heard for two years that Republicans are afraid of tRUMP. Is it possible that a second and then a third and then more Republicans will have the political courage of Amash? Then the Wizard Of Trump will come tumbling down. Take care all.
PS: Amash's parents are immigrants from the Middle East. tRUMP will probably tweet that Amash should go back to where he came from.


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CLICK to read part I – The Big Easy X Death By Humidity
I found myself laying flat on the humid floor of the Louis Armstrong International Airport. As my organs slowly shut down, I contemplated the stupid things I did in the few decades of my existence. I thought, "Im very thankful to have attempted every single one of them." In the midst of my contemplations, it had finally arrived. My brothers glorious rental had just turned into the pickup lanes of the New Orleans Airport. To other people PT was just another car, but for me at that moment, the Cruiser was a rolling glimmer of hope. When I opened the passenger door, I had hallucinations of fog slowly cascading onto the humid concrete floor like clouds before entering the pearly gates. After picking myself up off the floor I realized the depiction I had deemed to my brother was more appropriately deemed to myself. Other than sweat magically appearing on the surface of my skin, New Orleans was an adventure in waiting. As far as I knew school was out and I was there for relaxation. Never mind the weather, The Big Easy was just that. "Take a load off, Cris. You deserve this!"


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The Nigeria Chamber of Shipping says the ten per cent harbour dues slash for vessels using the Eastern Ports of Warri, Port Harcourt, and Calabar, will have a positive impact of the sector as it will encourage shippers to use the Ports more frequently.
Its Director-General, Mrs Obiageli Obi, made this known in an interview with in Lagos on Wednesday.
Obi, who described the measure as an excellent policy, said that the strategy would encourage patronage to the Eastern Ports and help to address the perennial gridlock at the Apapa port.
She said that the gridlock had adversely affected port transactions in the two ports in Apapa.
The policy of Ease of doing Business especially at the ports will now have meaningful bearing on the Nigeria Shipping public.
With this incentive, shippers will divert cargoes to the near inactive ports.
After all, about 80 per cent of the cargoes that will call at the ports located in that zone will end up in markets around the area.
This measure will divert the traffic being experienced in the Lagos ports to the eastern ports thereby providing a permanent solution to the four-year-old vehicular traffic gridlock that has defied several measures to check it, she said.
According to her, the measure which has been long awaited, will eventually reduce the huge cost of transactions experienced by both importers and transporters at the Apapa ports.
She added that the economics of scale of the measure was legion as it would help revamp the economy of the host communities and make the prices of goods in the market competitive.
Source: Voice of Nigeria


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Rheda Nightlord
Neutral though not in a good way, she has a few good morals due to being born in an arguably more "civilized" world than Mossflower, but many times they are clouded by her "just business" thought process or anger and anxiety issues.
_Was a 'Boss' of a small private army of mercenaries and brigands that was supplied to her by her father and uncle with the keen interest of sending off to Mossflower to set up a base of operations revolving around enslavement and mining. In Jandour, slavery is illegal and private mining can only be achieved by special circumstances. The only way to mine is to be willing to pay most of what you dig up as taxes to your lords or royal family. The Nightlord family, though high in the political pecking order, did not carry such titles of weight and if they set up such operations, would have to pay taxes. Needless to say, the Nightlords simply used their criminal connections and secrecy to set up mining outside Jandour's borders. Between Jandour, The Cold Lands, The Great South Coast and Zandor, there is huge unclaimed mountainous and forested territory that used to serve as a huge battlefield in a great war. However, it has long since been left unoccupied thanks to a treaty. The war left many relics, including complete or easily repairable fortresses and castles. In the public image, the Nightlord family owned a fort typical of most rich families in Jandour, however in secret, they also owned a mountainside cave castle that housed a immense slaving and mining operation within its walls. It also housed and was guarded by a small army of AWOL soldiers, bandits who had been bribed into service and violent mercenaries who are on their payroll. They were not the only wealthy family to do this.
Mossflower was a ripe opportunity for the Nightlord family, fresh resources to dig up and many 'savages' to enslave and best of all. Almost no type of authority to stop them from doing so at their pleasure._
_Rheda has the typical trademarks that makes a Marlfox stand out from all other foxes. She has the pale, glimmering eyes and the silver-white coat that is heavily mottled with black and dark blue-grey. However, her physique is a rather interesting one. She has the slender and well exercised athletic look blended in with a feminine hourglass shape, this came from a lifetime of her rougeish lifestyle and being forced to constantly make use of a fashion accessory popular in some far away and foreign places by those of the same gender to fit in with the locals of such places, the corset. A garment she had disliked wearing because although she never wore it too tight and therefore never suffered effects such as the small, presistant cough often associated from wearing a corset too tightly and eventually causing the lower part of the lungs to fill with mucus, it still forced her to walk like she was suffering from rigor mortis in the back and she did not always appreciate the attention it brought to herself. Making her feel objectified and not taken seriously. On a more interesting note, Rheda is a beast with a rather uncommon trait amongst other beasts, a head full of black hair that she has styled into a neck base ponytail with only the back gathered up that reaches slightly past the shoulder blades. It is held with a simple black silk cloth.
She also has multiple tattoos on her body and body piercings in the form of several silver stud muzzle piercings and opal earrings and also has multiple pawrings._
_Rheda doesn't like wearing dresses and corsets, mainly because they are uncomfortable to wear and objectifying, she only ever wore such when she was younger and her father took her to family meetings and political gatherings. She most commonly wears clothing that match up more with vicious nobles and duelists. Swordsbeasts. She typically wears renaissance-style breeches and long sleeved shirts that are either dull/drab green and brown, dark green, mint green, silver or white in colour. She also wears a pair of black sealskin leather boots, a black leather fencing glove on her right hand and a black leather thigh-length, short-sleeved, (just behind the elbow) with a pretty short stand-up collar jerkin that is special made to hide small steel plates between the leather and inside canvas that is held shut with silver buckles and also wears the hooded long cloak of dull/drab green and brown weave many Marlfoxes traditionally wear no matter their place of birth, though she is known to alternate between wearing the hood, a black cavalier hat with a multicoloured plumage stuck in it and with the brims down or a heavily engraved zischagge helmet complete with a spade shaped muzzle guard that is curved in a U-shape and hinges up when she puts it on and metal fin-like crests for added cosmetic appeal. When in a fight, she also wears a hybrid between a leather gauntlet with steel plating and an all steel vambrace with spikes sticking out of it, which allows her to 'catch' bladed weapons and push them aside for an opening for a counter attack or deliver a vicious left hook or sucker punch.
She has multiple weapons hanging from her elaborate belt, frog and baldric. These come in the form of a unremarkable side-sword thats only unique feature was the serrated blade that is commonly used by Cold Land beasts, and a sterling silver swept hilt rapier with a polished steel flamberge blade. She also keeps a short-guard stiletto dagger hidden on her person should she ever find dire need of it. A prized possession beside her cloak is her last weapon, a fearsome example of an ax made out of polished engraved steel and fitted with a handle made out of red ironwood from the South Desert Peninsula. It had a broad, bearded single blade and a armor piercing backspike with a head that had langets and a belt hook._
_Rheda's experience with the dirty dealings of both the criminal underworld and high class political society make her a thinker, an intelligent strategist who takes the time to think up and choose the most profitable and efficient plan to guarantee things will go her way. This also makes her a very manipulative, diplomatic and charismatic creature. Capable of convincing beasts to see and take her side of an argument or suggestion and let things go they way she wants it to go.
She is also a master with the weapons she carries around and can quickly draw any of them when the situation calls for any of them to be used. She knows the strengths and limitations to all of them and knows which weapon is best suited for which opponent. The proof of this comes from the lack of scars she has and the lack of any severe trauma that a defeat and near death experience would have most certainly brung about if it had happened before.
Like all members of the Marlfox race, Rheda can be naturally very stealthy and can easily hide herself with that large hooded cloak. All marlfoxes are also known to have magical stealth capabilities and are horribly feared by many beasts because of this. Marlfoxes are magical creatures capable of vanishing without a trace and Rheda is no exception to this rule._
_Can suffer anxiety issues if things somehow don't go her way on a subject that can mean the difference between life and death. Causing her to get excited and freak out, her frantic and slightly high pitched screams and yelling also have the downside of basically informing her allies that things are going arse up and causing morale to immediately hit rock bottom harder than a baby bird falling out of a nest and smacking a stone head first and also informing her enemies that they have the upper paw. She also does this when berating other beasts when they fail to do their part or otherwise screw up badly. Though there can also be the chance that anger along with anxiety sets in and her voice becoming a low pitched and through gritted teeth stream of venomous words and insults at the competence of said failure.
She also tends to underestimate the natives of Mossflower, seeing them as either idiot savages or easily manipulated civilized wannabes. Rheda finds herself easily frustrated by the lack of any immense civilization in Mossflower and often has her patience tested by the natives that make up much of this existence, especially their accents such as vermin and mole speak, which she has difficulty understanding.
Despite this being pretty much a assassin or rouge stereotype, Rheda is actually a rather poor shot with most ranged weaponry including bows and arrows, she never found much need to ever use them considering her kind being so naturally and magically stealthy. The only ranged weapon she is a decent shot at is with a crossbow and lets face it, you'd have to be the most pathetic creature in the world to fail at hitting anything with a crossbow. She was also an ok throw with axes, but she was never as good as her brothers were at throwing axes, she was terrible at throwing almost anything else such as javelins though._
_Rheda has the personality of a sophisticated assassin who has spent a good portion of her life neck deep in politics thanks to her father, studying war strategy under a mercenary leader uncle and being raised as a typical marlfox by them and the rest of her family. When in a foul or sarcastic mood, she is a hard nosed and venomous debater who doesn't hesitate to aim below the belt to win arguments and get her way. When in a good mood, she is manipulative and charismatic, often using logic and reassuring methods such as having better ideas to cause beasts to see things her way and take her side. This also makes her a magnificent liar with a near flawless poker face when required.
Being a marlfox means she has both learned and instinctive knowledge on stealth, tracking and stalking. She is also capable of quickly noticing the daily habits and routines of most beasts should she have to stay with them for extended periods of time and when she needs to find them, she usually can fairly quickly. Sometimes her inherited mastery of said subjects cause her to surprise other beasts or scare them because she rarely makes any noise when she approaches them and is not even trying to sneak up on them.
Although she is hardly a general, she is well knowledged in war, thanks to her uncle who had a long and successful career of being a mercenary leader fighting border skirmishes between the natives of his home Jandour and the foebeasts who live in the Cold Lands.
Despite all of this, she can have severe anxiety issues when things don't go her way or when other beasts screw up and typically makes this known with frantic yelling/screaming and frustrated growling, she also may nervously pace and pull on her own ears. (She's actually kinda based on me playing Halo 4 or Blacklight: Retribution and being stuck with a HORRIBLY stupid and incompetent team. xD )_
_Rheda was born in a wealthy and powerful, but also secretive family. Jandour is the birthplace of the Marlfox race and is also the birthplace of Genet kind. Both races have a shaky, but cooperative relationship all in all, willing to aid each other whenever grave danger comes to them in the form of invading Coldlanders. However, Genets never took kindly to the secretive nature of Marlfoxes and the Marlfoxes never took kindly to Genets trying to stick their muzzles into their business. Marlfoxes and Genets have fought long and hard in a political war to be the apex natives of Jandour. Often in the form of debating, spreading out their family numbers as much as they can get away with and through duels where they bring their champions to settle scores for them. Some families even sending one of their own family members as the champion. Rheda's father sometimes played the part as a rarely beaten duelist with a ax and/or a rapier. Her uncle sometimes dueled too with both ax and shield or a side-sword, her uncle was not a big fan of fancy blades and preferred war swords and also had a reputation of being a butcher that only took duels to the death. Sometimes when he felt particularly bloodthirsty, he dueled with both his his ax and his side-sword as his left paw struck as hard as his right one did.
Rheda was one of a set of two sets of twins. Rheda along with a sister where the first pair, but her father also wanted a son and as soon as they were both weaned. Her father and mother tried again, this time spawning two sons. Because of this, the births of both sets of twins are only close to two years apart from each other. Despite this, Rheda was not excluded from anything her father taught his sons when they were old enough for fencing lessons, however. It was her uncle that first taught her combat and because of this, became somewhat of a special student to him and when it came time for him to teach all he knew to her brothers, he had on purposely "forgot" to teach them some of his ax fighting techniques and due to this, Rheda had always been better at melee fighting with her ax than any of her siblings. Despite this, they were better at throwing theirs. All of them knew how to fence well, but all of them also took up fighting with a weapon of their choice. Rheda went with the side-sword to keep company with her uncle and_


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A TCC decision published last week has given further consideration to when a failure to serve payment or pay-less notices will preclude a paying party from subsequently challenging the true valuation of a payment application. This decision is particularly of note because it considers the Scheme for Construction Contracts and appears to give guidance which is potentially of general application.
"Smash and grab" adjudications explained
The so called "smash and grab" adjudication is one where payment is claimed under a construction contract in the absence of any payment or pay-less notice. In such circumstances, the amount claimed in any application for payment will have become the "notified sum" in accordance with section 111 of the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (as amended) (the "Construction Act"). The paying party is obliged to pay that sum regardless of any dispute over the proper valuation of the application.
In response to such adjudications, some paying parties had commenced parallel adjudications requesting a determination of the true value of the application in question. If commenced promptly these could effectively "cancel out" any decision in the "smash and grab" adjudication. A number of cases in 2014 and 2015 considered whether such parallel adjudications were permissible:
- In Harding v Paice an Employer failed to serve a payment or pay-less notice in response to a final application for payment from its Contractor following termination for default under the JCT Intermediate form. The Contractor was awarded the full amount of its application in an initial adjudication, but the Employer was held to be able to challenge the proper valuation of the application in a subsequent adjudication despite the absence of notices. This decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal late in 2015. See our Law-Now on the appeal decision here.
- In ISG v Seevic and Galliford Try Building v Estura a different conclusion was reached in relation to the interim payment provisions of the JCT Design and Build 2011 form of contract. Employers who had failed to serve payment or pay-less notices in relation to interim applications for payment, were deemed to have accepted the sums claimed in those applications and could not challenge the true value of the applications through adjudication (although they would be free to argue for a different valuation on subsequent interim applications). See our Law-Nows on these two cases here and here.
Kilker Projects Ltd v Purton
In this most recent case, the TCC has considered a scenario similar to Harding v Paice but under an oral contract governed by the Scheme for Construction Contracts. The Contractor submitted a final account application, which the Employer failed to respond to. The Contractor obtained an adjudication decision in its favour for the amount of its application in the absence of any payment or pay-less notice from the Employer. The Employer commenced a second adjudication to determine the true value of the final account and received a decision in its favour ordering the partial repayment of amounts awarded by the first adjudicator.
Applying Harding v Paice, the court ordered the enforcement of the second adjudicator's decision. The court noted that the Construction Act provisions with regard to payment and pay-less notices were concerned "only with cash flow and not the contract sum". It was not necessary for the parties to expressly state in their contract that the true value of a final account payment could be challenged as "payment of any final sum due to either party is based on enforcement of the contractual bargain".
By contrast, the court noted that interim payments would not usually be able to be reopened. That was because, subject to any express terms to the contrary, "usually there is no contractual basis on which the contractor's entitlement to that payment can be re-opened". Accordingly, if no payment or pay-less notice is given, the Employer will have lost its opportunity to challenge the valuation of an interim payment and will be required to wait until the next interim or final application before being able to correct any overpayment.
Conclusions and implications
The court's decision in relation to the final account application before it is unsurprising in light of the Court of Appeal's decision in Harding v Paice. In relation to interim payments however, the court's obiter comments may go further than the TCC's previous decisions in Seevic and Estura. Those decisions appeared to place at least some reliance on the particular provisions of the JCT Design and Build 2011 contract in differentiating between interim and final payments. The court in the present case, however, appears to indicate a more fundamental difference between interim and final payments which would "usually" apply in the absence of express terms to the contrary.
This decision is likely reignite debate as to the extent to which the Seevic and Estura cases, and now this present decision, are to apply across differing forms of contract. In that respect:
- The Court of Appeal in Harding v Paice had refrained from commenting on the correctness of the Seevic and Estura cases, noting that "In almost all construction contracts special contractual provisions apply to interim payments."
- The distinction between interim and final payments may be more difficult to justify on contract forms, such as the NEC, which do not differentiate between the two.
- The court's suggestion that there would usually be no contractual basis on which to reopen an interim payment in the absence of payment or pay-less notices can be contrasted with the contractor's ability to reopen an interim payment where such notices are served.
Employers who fail to serve payment or pay-less notices in relation to interim payments will usually be better off waiting to correct the account in subsequent interim payments. In special circumstances, however, an attempt to have the proper valuation of the Contractor's interim application determined by adjudication may be preferable. The remarks made in present case suggest that will rarely be a course open to the Employer, but it remains to be seen how broadly these will be applied in future cases.


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Cyberdome of Kerala police which received huge criticism when it failed to catch the rumblings of what is now referred to as the 'WhatsApp hartal,' Kerala police is a wiser force.
Now, it has a dedicated team of six social media geeks keeping track of even the faintest rustle in the virtual world. "Even the most subtle hate or scaremonger cannot hope to escape their notice," said Thiruvananthapuram range IG Manoj Abraham with evident pride. Abraham is also in charge of Kerala Police's cybersecurity centre, Cyberdrome. It was considered a major intelligence failure when most of North Kerala was engulfed in violence in the wake of the 'WhatsApp hartal.' This new team, called the Social media Cell, will be active 24×7.
The cell, this gang of six, works in a multitude of ways. Once they spot a problematic message or meme, they will promptly issue warning messages on newsgroups, forums, chatrooms, Facebook, twitter, and wherever possible to unsuspecting users about these mischievous trolls. "Such warnings are intended to goad people into using social media responsibly. Some users can fall for certain messages unwittingly, and begin to forward them," the IG said. Simultaneously, the team will also alert the cyber wing of the police about the existence of wicked trolls, and misinformation. The cyber wing of the police in Kozhikode were able to contain, to a large extent, rumours about the spread of Nipah.
And then in between, the team will also do some pubic relations exercise. "The police has been demonised in such a disproportionate manner that some of the fine things we had done had gone unnoticed," IG Manoj Abraham said. Abraham's 'gang of six', for instance, have now put out a social media card extolling the sacrifices made by the police force during the Nipah outbreak. There is also a new card against cigarette smoking that uses football to shoot the message. They have also put out creative video campaigns. For instance, a clip of a tall helmeted cricketer being felled by a nasty bouncer is used to drive home the point that it is just not enough to wear helmets but it should be worn properly, with the chinstrap firmly in place.
All this might give the 'gang of six' the image of a nerdish sober group. But sample some of the memes they have conjured up to combat the ruthless image the police force has been adorned with. These memes are as irreverent as any out in the virtual world, and they apologetically use comic Malayalam cinema moments to counter anti-police propaganda. The media, too, has not been spared. "We give back as good as we get," Abraham said.
Social media is now the police's best bet. "Now that section 66(A) of the IT Act has been struck down, we have no choice but to use social media aggressively to combat misinformation through social media," a police official with the Cyber Cell in Thiruvananthapuram said. This Section, which had laid down stringent punishment for spreading false and offensive information through social media, was shot down as 'unconstitutional' by the Supreme Court in 2015.
This has prompted the police to improvise, to employ the limited legal provisions at their disposal for the maximum effect possible. "Now we impose IPC (India Penal Code) sections like 153(A) and 490 on those fanning rumours through social media," the official said. 153A punishes attempts to incite hatred in the name of religion, place of birth and language. Section 419 deals with punishment for impersonation. In many cases, the person forwarding fake messages does so with a false identity. Conviction under these sections can invite a jail term of up to three years.


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The Fairly OddParents, Season 5 is a DVD that contains episodes from Season 5.[1]
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The complete fifth season of The Fairly OddParents - that's 21 episodes - on DVD: wishful thinking? Not anymore! Timmy Turner, with help from Wanda and Cosmo, explores the deep seas, discovers he's a huge TV star (in Fairy World, at least) and finds himself in a futuristic world where robots are attempting to conquer Earth. Then Timmy meets Wanda's soap opera-star sister, Blonda, and wishes an 18-year-old brother, Tommy Turner, into existence. And that's just the beginning of what's in store for you with Season 5 of The Fairly OddParents!
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Milestone is a private fast growing 300+ people Digital Marketing company. We are part of a $120 billion fast-growing digital marketing industry having a 15% growth rate. You will have the ability to work with unique platforms and cutting-edge technologies. Sr. Manager Digital Media will create, manage, and optimize Milestone's strategic clients' campaigns on Google AdWords, Bing Ads, Facebook, and additional media platforms across Display and Meta Search channels. Sr. Manager Digital Media is directly responsible for campaign performance and assisting Customer Success Managers with strategy and insights to achieve client's goals.
This role will work with different departments within the company and put together holistic strategy for customer success, based on industry trends and customers' needs. Ideal candidate should have heavy experience in digital media, social, organic search, client service experience, shopping campaign and feed management. The person will report to Associate Director of Digital Media and will manage our key strategic customers.
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY to this job if you have not directly managed AdWords or shopping campaign (Google PLAs, Amazon Ads, etc.)
Job Responsibilities:
- Create, manage, optimize, and analyze campaigns within Paid Search (Google AdWords, Bing Ads), Display (including Programmatic), Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram), Meta Search and additional media platforms
- Monitor online campaigns regularly and make recommendations to improve key performance metrics and drive revenue according to account goals
- Create and follow through with projects and initiatives that will benefit the majority of clients, including process development and new media tactic testing
- Communicate with Customer Success Managers on a regular basis to review campaign performance, and suggest additional online marketing strategies and testing opportunities to improve conversion rates and efficiency metric
- Keep current on the latest trends in the paid search, display, ad technology, and social media marketing channels and across the hospitality marketing industry
- Participate in meetings with clients to review Paid Media results and discuss recommendations and strategies
- Clear understanding of digital marketing attribution models
- Experience managing Shopping campaigns (Google PLA, Amazon Ads) and feed management (Google Merchant Center, Feedonomics, etc.)
- Work closely with AdOps team to launch new digital media campaigns, strategies, and initiatives.
- Experience in reporting, tracking, dashboarding, and data analysis
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- In-depth knowledge of paid advertising and measurement methods and analytic technologies
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- Experience utilizing multiple paid acquisition channels (search, social, display, programmatic, meta)
- Experience with Google Marketing Platform (SA360, Channel Manager, Display & Video 360)
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- Ability to align marketing channels to client goals & outcomes
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- Assist in team digital media trainings
- Strong understanding of programmatic is required (Display & Video 360) campaign setup, bid management, reporting, and audience management
- Fast-learner with demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
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- Working and presenting with internal teams as well in client facing presentations
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and campaigns while maintaining strict attention to detail
- Highly motivated and able to thrive in a constantly changing environment and execute in a timely fashion
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- Ability to organize and prioritize work, adhere to deadlines and timelines, and adapt quickly to changing schedules.
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For over 20 years, Milestone has been a leading provider of digital marketing software and services for location-based businesses. Over 2,000 companies in Hospitality, Retail, Financial Services and Automotive industries rely on Milestone to power their digital marketing strategies. Milestone has garnered over 500 awards, has been short listed 3 consecutive years for the US Search awards and won Search Engine Land's prestigious "Best overall SEO-SEM campaign" in 2018. Milestone has gained a reputation for blending outstanding digital marketing expertise with advanced technological capabilities and is one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's fastest growing companies and an Inc. 5,000 company.
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Solar panel electricity systems, also known as solar photovolatics (PV) capture the sun's energy using photovolatic cells. These cells don't need direct sunlight to work – they can still generate electricity on cloudy days. These cells convert sunlight into electricity which can be used to run household lighting and appliances. Most PV systems are made up of panels that fit on top of an existing roof, but you can also fit solar tiles.
The benefits of solar electricity:
- Cut your electricity bills: sunlight is free, and once you've paid for the installation, your electricity costs will dramatically reduce.
- You can get paid for the electricity you generate because of the government's Feed- In Tariff.
- If you are producing more electricity then you need, or when you can't use it, you can sell the surplus back to the grid.
- You can cut your carbon footprint and the country's massively – solar electricity is completely green, renewable energy and doesn't release any harmful carbon dioxide or other pollutants. A typical home solar PV system could save over a tonne of carbon dioxide per year – that's more than 30 tonnes over its lifetime.
The average domestic solar PV system is 4kWp and on average costs between £6,000 and £7,400. Costs have fallen significantly over the last year. Prices vary between installers and products, so we recommend getting quotes from at least installers.
However, if you 4kWp system can generate around 3,700 kilowatt hours of electricity a year – roughly equivalent to a typical household's electricity needs. It will save nearly two tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, and you could save £750 a year.
Solar PV needs just a little maintenance. You just need to keep the panels relatively clean and make sure trees don't overshadow them. In the UK, panels that are tilted at 15 degrees or more have the additional benefit of being cleaned by rainfall to ensure optimal performance. Keep an eye our for dust, debris, snow or bird droppings, as they should be removed with warm water. The panels should last at at least 25years, however the inverter will likely need to be replaced at some point during this period.
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text: All he did was give an old friend a ride to the Mexican border, but for private detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) this helpful gesture immediately backfires when the police accuse him of becoming an accessory to murder. Refusing to sell out his friend and not buying their version of events, Marlowe finds himself drawn into a world of casual violence and betrayal. Loosely adapting and updating Raymond Chandler's classic novel of the same name, Altman and veteran screenwriter Leigh Brackett make Marlowe an anachronism in a Los Angeles devoid of meaning. Print courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive.


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Ok this is a becoming a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" type situation now.
Cars today have tons of features. So touch screens and infotainment systems without buttons are all the rage today, party out of necessity.
If you were to give almost every feature a button, it would look something like the current Porsche's cluttered-yet-pretty center console.
So what the hell are we as buyers supposed to do if we like the tactile feel of buttons that we can press while our eyes are on the road, but still don't want to live in buttonsville?


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Masters of Arts in International Affairs, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society
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The MA in International Affairs, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society Development is a two-year, bilingual program with the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. Through this collaboration, you will join a community of scholars working in Paris across languages, cultures and different educational systems to develop conflict resolution and humanitarian skills, global solidarity networks and future civil society alliances.
Our close working relationship with the Sorbonne enlarges our community of scholars, permitting students of the program to focus on multidisciplinary study, ethical reflection and internationalism.
The joint program between AUP and the Sorbonne-Paris I provides several unique features:
Learning two languages and studying across two universities, you will be uniquely immersed in two ways of viewing the world.
International Partnerships
As part of the program, you will engage with the world outside of AUP through The Hague, Oxford and Ecole de Guerre practica, along with cultural trips offered by other programs, such as those in India, Fez and Cambodia. This type of on-site learning or fieldwork encourages you to interact with a professional environment and often within the context of another language and culture.
Program Requirements
As a student of the MA in International Affairs, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society, you will engage with discipline-specific theoretical constructs through modules designed to enhance critical thinking, as well as graduate-level research and writing capacities.
The program features core and elective courses, allowing you to focus on various fields of practice. We cover a rich scope of content from law to international relations and diplomacy, from conflict resolution to human rights, including:
Graduates from the MA in International Affairs, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society Development go on to meaningful careers in diverse fields. The interdisciplinary and rigorous nature of the program produces professionals and scholars equipped to engage with and lead in a rapidly evolving global landscape.
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After Telc we went to a little town right on the border of Austria called Mikulov for WINE TASTING! We tried 12 different types of wines. The first 8 were white wines, then we tried some sparkling white wine and champagne called Bohemian Sect (won 1st place at the world champagne tasting contest), and the last two were some delicious red wines. Of all the wines I liked the kind called Neuburske' the best, it was more of a sweeter wine, but oh man they were all VERY GOOD! So we were down in this cold moist cellar drinking this incredible...Jump to full entry
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"The Lottery" written by Shirley Jackson is a story based off of its point of view, the story would not be told or understood in the same way if it was written in a different point of view. This story keeps the interest of it's readers because it has a point of view where only the people in the story know whats going to happen and know more information than the readers do. If this story was written in first person the readers would know what the lottery was from the beginning of the story and that would make the story not have the surprise ending that confuses the audience.
"Hills Like White Elephants" written by Ernest Hemingway is also written in third person point of view. This story is written in a different way then "The Lottery" is written because in "The Lottery" everyone knows whats going on besides the audience, and in "Hills Like White Elephants" only the two main characters know what is going on and what the main conversation contains. Another main difference in these two stories is that Jackson tricks her audience and Hemingway never even demonstrated the reason for the conflict in the story.
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The two Generals, George B. McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant were very different as leaders of the Union Army.
What were the differences between their strategies when trying to capture the capital of the confederacy, Richmond, Virginia?
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The two Generals, George B. McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant were very different as leaders of the Union Army.
What were the differences between their strategies when trying to capture the capital of the confederacy, Richmond, Virginia?
McClellan tried to capture Richmond using the "peninsula" route between the York and James rivers, supplying his army by sea. His strategy was arguably the better of the two, but he didn't execute well, because he was a "paper pusher."
Grant used mainly the "overland" route. It's true that he sent a small force up the peninsula to try to capture Petersburg, south of Richmond, but that was an opportunistic, almost "diversionary" effort. Grant's was a more conventional strategy but he made it work, because he was a true field commander and "fighting man." He was a much better leader when it came to actual fighting.
I think it was Patton who said (and I'm paraphrasing), that a good attack today was more valuable than a great attack next week.
Question: How did McClellan's and Grant's strategies vary when capturing Richmond?
The two Generals, George B. McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant were very different as leaders of the Union Army.
What were the differences between their strategies when trying to capture the capital of the confederacy, Richmond, Virginia?
McClellan's strategy(May 1862) was to capture Richmond and hopefully the Confederate Leadership as a stepping stone to winning the war. Grant's strategy(June 1864) was not to take Richmond and was less concerned with capturing the Confederate Leadership. Grant strategy was to force Lee to defend Richmond. To bottle Lee up there while Grant set about winning the war by subduing and occupying the rest of the South. When Lee ultimately escaped Grant's siege of Richmond after 9 months, the war was already over. The Confederate Leadership also escaped Richmond, on a train route which was left open to occupy Lee's army during the siege, and would be rounded up piece meal over the following few months after the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender.
George McClellan graduated second in his class at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York (1846), he served in the Mexican War (1846–48), taught at West Point (1848–51) and went to the Crimean war(1855–56) as a military observer to report on European military techniques.
McClellan was popular with his men who would refer to him as "Little Mac", or "Young Napoleon". He was a competent General who excelled at the minutia of war. He excelled at logistics, training, and preparation for battle. He was a great hero of the Union initially who rebuilt the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous defeat at the battle of first Manassas. McClellan also was obsessive in planning his maneuvers. If he didn't see a clear advantage he did not commit to battle. McClellan's biggest shortcoming was he often overestimated his enemies strength resulting in him exerting caution when he should have been on the offensive. McClellan was the perfect General to fight against the Confederate's cautious Major General Joseph E. Johnston. During the Peninsula Campaign McClellan's systematic attacks and advances were matched by Johnston's systematic retreat.
By the end of May 1862 Union forces were so close to Richmond they could hear the church bells from the center of the city. General Johnston is wounded (At the battle of Seven Pines) and is replaced as commanding General of Confederate forces. General Gustavus Woodson Smith takes command for a single day. General Smith has a nervous breakdown his first day of command and is followed by the Confederates great general, Robert E. Lee June 1, 1862.
(*) Honorable mention goes to Jackson's Valley Campaign. That's General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson. He was able to engage and defeat multiple Union armies who's combined strength was significantly larger than his own forces and keep them from Joining McClellan on the outskirts of Richmond. Jackson did this by defeating his opposition "in detail". He avoided battle when the Union was massed, but when they were divided or stretched out and he had the numerical superiority he attacked with superior numbers. Jackson would fight six battles against a numerically superior Union Army, and have superior numbers in five of those battles, all of which he would win. Jackson thus was able to tie up 50,000 men which McClellan was counting on for his Richmond campaign. After defeating the Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Jackson joined with Lee in defeating McClellan in the seven day's battles.
Army of Northern Virginia: Temporary command under Major General G. W. Smith
Maj. Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith commanded the ANV on May 31, 1862, following the wounding of Gen. J. E. Johnston during the Battle of Seven Pines. With Smith seemingly having a nervous breakdown, President Jefferson Davis drafted orders to place Gen. Robert E. Lee in command the following day, June 1, 1861.
. After Seven Pines, and Lee takes command McClellan wastes the initiative and gives Lee valuable time to plan his next moves.
General George McClellen
McClellan spent the next three weeks repositioning his troops and waiting for promised reinforcements, losing valuable time as Lee continued to strengthen Richmond's defenses.
Lee understood McClellan and turned his caution and obsession for planning against him. Lee overwhelmed McClellen, not with troops but with activity. Lee's first sent out units to harass McClellan and take away his confidence. June 12, 1862 JEB Stuart makes McClellan look like a fool. Stuart takes 1,200 calvary and circles McClellan's army of the Potomac consisting of 105,000 men. JEB Stuart's forces captured supplies and horses, and destroyed the primary depot and rail line supplying McClellan's army. In the absence of solid intelligence, McClellan was frozen when called upon to take spontaneous action. Stuart's forces were at all times no further than a few miles away from McClellan's troops, and yet McClellan was unable to think in the moment to defend his army from the fast moving opponent.
Next Lee would utilize this same technique on a larger scale, Seven Days Battles (June 25 to July 1, 1862). Six major battles in seven days. McClellan was denied time to plan, denied time to prepare. His forces were routed. By the end of the Seven Days Battles, McClellan's larger army had retreated from Richmond to the safety of the James River where they were safeguarded from Lee's smaller force under the guns of the Union's Navy. McClellan would never threaten Richmond again. Lee was on the offensive and moved into Northern Virginia and eventually invaded Maryland, all the while dictating Mcclellan's movements before him. Mcclellan would be replaced as commander of the Union Army in Nov 1862. At the time Lee would write to his wife, "I hate to see McClellan go". McClellan would stand unsuccessfully against Lincoln in the Presidential election of 1864. Mcclellan would run for President, as an active duty General in wartime, on the platform of immediate cessation of hostilities and a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy. (McClellan resigned from the army on election day).
General Ulysses S. Grant was a good tactician, but ultimately what won the war and separated Grant from those who came before him was his Strategy. He pursued Lee, and with his aggressive pursuit he forced Lee into untenable situations. Grant was promoted as commander of all Union Armies March 2, 1864. His first offensive May 4, 1864 would consist of 14 major battles over 2 months, the Overland Campaign. Grant didn't defeat Lee in all of those battles, Cold Harbor for example was a defeat for the Union ( 52,788 Union casualties, nearly twice what the Confederacy Suffered). Cold Harbor would earn Grant the nickname, the butcher, but Grant kept coming. Grant constantly pursued, engaged, and pressured Lee. Strategically the Overland Campaign systematically took away all of Lee's options. Grant forced Lee backwards and ultimately forced him to again commit his forces to the defense of Richmond (June of 1864). It became a 9 month siege, where Lee's forces contained in Richmond could not go on the offensive, take pressure off, or assist the rest of the Confederacy. Mobile Alabama fell(August 1864), The city of Atlanta falls(Sept 1864), and Sherman completed his march to the sea (Dec 21, 1864) creating a devastating swath across the Confederacy. During the siege Grant made Lee expand his defenses, stretching out his lines(32 miles) in an attempt to preserve the City's railroad and supply line. This left Lee's forces thin and committed to the defense, unable to mass or conduct offensive action.
After 9 months of wearing down Lee, Grant orders a general assault April 2, 1865. Lee breaks out of the siege, but ultimately has nowhere to go. Union cavalry under Sheridan cut Lee's retreating army off from his supply train, and the end was nearly at hand. April 8, 1865, six days after he breaks out of Richmond, Lee and Grant meet at Appomattox Court House to discuss surrender.
The Confederate Leadership escapes Richmond by rail April 2, 1865. Jefferson Davis the Confederate's President would be captured by Union forces May 10th, 1865 near Irwinville, Georgia; 600 miles south and 5 weeks removed from the fall of Richmond.
McClellan's Peninsula strategy required the Army of the Potomac to execute better than the Confederate Army of Virginia in many ways; something that it was never able to do over the entire course of the war. Advancing on a narrow front with only two small attempts to truly leverage his overwhelming command of the waves, McClellan's advance was repeatedly blocked without difficulty by Lee, until his forces were exhausted. Perhaps a better army or commander might have made the strategy work, but the strategy itself required superiority in more than just numbers to work. To paraphrase a great commander of a half century earlier, McClellan "came on in the same old way, and was beaten back in the same old way."
By way of contrast Grant truly leveraged his numerical superiority and tactical shortcomings by utilizing a much wider front of advance. Repeatedly pinning Lee with the bulk of his army, Grant could battle to a tactical draw, or even a small tactical loss, and continue sidestepping towards Richmond and St. Petersburg to force Lee into continued strategic retreats.
Napoleon coined this strategy Manoeuvre sur les Derrières, and it was his favourite. B. H. Liddell Hart called it the Strategy of the Indirect Approach and on page 166 notes:
.... And in justice to Grant, it should also be noted that if his approach was direct in the broad sense, it was in no sense a mere frontal push. Indeed, he continuously sought to turn his enemy's flanks by manoeuvre, if manoeuvre of a small radius. Further, he fulfilled all the military precepts about keeping his army well concentrated and maintaining his objective [destruction of Lee's army] undeterred by alarms elsewhere.
. Grant executed it masterfully, and achieved in only 6 weeks of early 1864 a situation that finally dispelled any illusion that the Army of Virginia had strategic options.
To the excellent answers here, I would add that Grant's core strategy (independent of specific troop movements) was to simply engage Lee, over and over, using the Union's overwhelming advantages in men and materiel to win by attrition.
McClellan attempted to win a war of strategic maneuver, and combined with his perfectionist personality this led him to continually refrain from directly engaging Lee, much to Lincoln's ongoing and documented frustration. Lincoln famously responded to criticism of Grant's casualty rate (after Shiloh) by insisting, "I cannot spare this man - he fights," in an implicit criticism of his other more cautious generals.
Grant understood that he could replace his losses, and Lee could not. By engaging the Army of Northern Virginia in a series of high-casualty engagements, at the Wilderness and elsewhere, he broke Lee's back without ever really outmaneuvering him. Grant's Richmond campaign eventually evolved into an early version of trench warfare - and as soon as it did, the South was doomed.


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The Cambered Airfoil
Thin airfoil theory for a cambered airfoil is a generalization of the method for a symmetric airfoil discussed in Section 4.7. To treat the cambered airfoil, return to Equation (4.18):
Recall that Equation (4.46) was obtained directly from Equation (4.42), which is the transformed version of the fundamental equation of thin airfoil theory, Equation (4.18). Furthermore, recall that Equation (4.18) is evaluated at a given point, r along the chord line, as sketched in Figure 4.19. Hence, Equation (4.46) is also evaluated at the given point x; here, dz/dx and во correspond to the same point л: on the chord line. Also, recall that dz/dx is a function of во, where л: = (c/2)(l — cos0o) from Equation (4.21).
Examine Equation (4.46) closely. It is in the form of a Fourier cosine series expansion for the function of dz/dx. In general, the Fourier cosine series representation of a function f (в) over an interval 0 < в < ж is given by
/((9) = B0 + Bn cos пв [4.47]
where, from Fourier analysis, the coefficients Bo and Bn are given by
Bo = – f f (в) dO [4.48]
л Jo
and Bn — — / f {6)cosn6 d6 [4.49]
л – Jo
(See, e. g., page 217 of Reference 6.) In Equation (4.46), the function dz/dx is analogous to f(6) in the general form given in Equation (4.47). Thus, from Equations (4.48) and (4.49), the coefficients in Equation (4.46) are given by
1 Г dz
a – A0 = — —dOо Jr Jo dx
1 [л dz
Ao = a—— / — dOo
Jr Jo dx
2 Cn dz
An = — / — cos пво dOо n Jo dx
Keep in mind that in the above, dz/dx is a function of в0. Note from Equation (4.50) that Ao depends on both a and the shape of the camber line (through dz/dx), whereas from Equation (4.51) the values of An depend only on the shape of the camber line.
Pause for a moment and think about what we have done. We are considering the flow over a cambered airfoil of given shape dz/dx at a given angle of attack a. In order to make the camber line a streamline of the flow, the strength of the vortex sheet along the chord line must have the distribution у (в) given by Equation (4.43), where the coefficients A0 and An are given by Equations (4.50) and (4.51), respectively. Also, note that Equation (4.43) satisfies the Kutta condition y(n) = 0. Actual numbers for Ao and An can be obtained for a given shape airfoil at a given angle of attack simply by carrying out the integrations indicated in Equations (4.50) and (4.51). For an example of such calculations applied to an NACA 2412 airfoil, see pages 120125 of Reference 13. Also, note that when dz/dx = 0, Equation (4.43) reduces to Equation (4.24) for a symmetric airfoil. Hence, the symmetric airfoil is a special case of Equation (4.43).
Let us now obtain expressions for the aerodynamic coefficients for a cambered airfoil. The total circulation due to the entire vortex sheet from the leading edge to the trailing edge is
Г= f y(^)d^=C – [ y(0)sm0de JO ^ Jo
Hence, Equation (4.53) becomes
Г — cVqo (ttAq +
Recall that the coefficients A0 and A i in Equation (4.56) are given by Equations (4.50) and (4.51), respectively. Hence, Equation (4.56) becomes
Equations (4.57) and (4.58) are important results. Note that, as in the case of the symmetric airfoil, the theoretical lift slope for a cambered airfoil is 2jt. It is a general result from thin airfoil theory that dci/da = 2jt for any shape airfoil. However, the expression for c; itself differs between a symmetric and a cambered airfoil, the difference being the integral term in Equation (4.57). This integral term has physical significance, as follows. Return to Figure 4.4, which illustrates the lift curve for an airfoil. The angle of zero lift is denoted by <xl=q and is a negative value. From the geometry shown in Figure 4.4, clearly
dci, ,
ci = — (a – aL=Q) da
Substituting Equation (4.58) into (4.59), we have
ci = 2n{a — aL=o) [4.60]
Comparing Equations (4.60) and (4.57), we see that the integral term in Equation (4.57) is simply the negative of the zero-lift angle; that is
Hence, from Equation (4.61), thin airfoil theory provides a means to predict the angle of zero lift. Note that Equation (4.61) yields aL=o = 0 for a symmetric airfoil, which is consistent with the results shown in Figure 4.20. Also, note that the more highly cambered the airfoil, the larger will be the absolute magnitude of c/l=o-
Returning to Figure 4.21, the moment about the leading edge can be obtained by substituting у (в) from Equation (4.43) into the transformed version of Equation (4.35). The details are left for Problem 4.9. The result for the moment coefficient is
Substituting Equation (4.56) into (4.62), we have
Note that, for dz/dx = 0, A = Аг = 0 and Equation (4.63) reduces to Equation (4.39) for a symmetric airfoil.
The moment coefficient about the quarter chord can be obtained by substituting Equation (4.63) into (4.40), yielding
Unlike the symmetric airfoil, where ст с/4 = 0, Equation (4.64) demonstrates that cm, c/4 is finite for a cambered airfoil. Therefore, the quarter chord is not the center of pressure for a cambered airfoil. However, note that A1 and Аг depend only on the shape of the camber line and do not involve the angle of attack. Hence, from Equation (4.64), сш, с/4 is independent of a. Thus, the quarter-chord point is the theoretical location of the aerodynamic center for a cambered airfoil.
The location of the center of pressure can be obtained from Equation (1.21):
Cm, leC
Equation (4.66) demonstrates that the center of pressure for a cambered airfoil varies with the lift coefficient. Hence, as the angle of attack changes, the center of pressure also changes. Indeed, as the lift approaches zero, xcp moves toward infinity; that is, it leaves the airfoil. For this reason, the center of pressure is not always a convenient point at which to draw the force system on an airfoil. Rather, the force-and-moment system on an airfoil is more conveniently considered at the aerodynamic center. (Return to Figure 1.19 and the discussion at the end of Section 1.6 for the referencing of the force-and-moment
Section angle of attack a, degree
Figure 4.33 Lift – and moment-coefficient data for an NACA 23012 airfoil, for comparison with the theoretical results obtained in Example 4.2.
Note that the results from thin airfoil theory for a cambered airfoil agree very well with the experimental data. Recall that excellent agreement between thin airfoil theory for a symmetric airfoil and experimental data has already been shown in Figure 4.20. Hence, all of the work we have done in this section to develop thin airfoil theory is certainly worth the effort. Moreover, this illustrates that the development of thin airfoil theory in the early 1900s was a crowning achievement in theoretical aerodynamics and validates the mathematical approach of replacing the chord line of the airfoil with a vortex sheet, with the flow tangency condition evaluated along the mean camber line.
This brings to an end our introduction to classical thin airfoil theory. Returning to our road map in Figure 4.2, we have now completed the right-hand branch.


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