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There aren't many operas that manage to kill off all the principal characters by the end (although many have a good stab at it). But that's what happens in Tosca – and wonderfully too with one knifing, one firing squad and a sudden suicidal leap. Of the many explanations given about why it has become one of the most loved and watched of all operas, the appeal of the story must be a major one.
The plot is a simple one of love and jealousy. Cavaradossi is an idealist, and almost everything we want in our romantic hero (but a stronger sense of self-preservation wouldn't go amiss). Scarpia is the villain with no redeeming features (he may love his mother, but we are never told). The opera, however, is called Tosca, after the woman caught – and finally falling – between two completely opposed views of life. So we have the necessary ingredients for disaster on all character fronts, and can sit back to enjoy the hypnotic appeal of a car-crash in slow motion.
On the straight stage, Sardou's Tosca was a hit of its day, Sarah Bernhardt famously in the title role to lend it star appeal. But the opera has become international standard repertory, and we almost never come across the play. The music has made the difference. Puccini rises to the occasion to portray emotions of jealousy, rage, power, love, passion, hope with music that we respond to at a visceral level. It is tuneful, taut and overtly dramatic. This is not real life, but a piece of theatre presenting an acutely heightened version of real life. We aren't cajoled into exact identification with our own lives (at least I hope not!), but are swept away into the extremes of things we usually experience at a diluted level. Not so much 'escapist' drama as 'absorbist' drama. Suspend any disbelief and just go with it.
We extend our own emotional experiences each time we see the world through the heightened senses of those caught up in the drama. Tosca, Cavaradossi and Scarpia each have their chances to tell us what they think and – most importantly – feel. It is not about realism, but about hyper-reality. It's no coincidence that the finale to Act I of Tosca makes a great setting for evil conspiracy and the music from Act II for a slow-motion shoot out in Quantum of Solace. If Puccini was writing today, would he be writing opera or big-budget film scores?
Some people use Tosca's long-lived, global popularity as a weapon with which to beat it up. Can anything so popular actually be any good? Is it just a 'shabby little shocker' to amuse the undiscerning masses? Conventionally, popularity has been thought of as the opposite of quality, and there are plenty of TV reality shows to suggest there is a case to answer here. 'Extraordinary how potent cheap music is,' as Noël Coward had Amanda say in Private Lives. Which goes to the heart of the critical problem. If music is popular, must it automatically be of indifferent quality? Why can't something become popular because it is recognized as very very good? This question has plagued Puccini's reputation since his own day.
Often popular successes are dismissed early on as symptoms of the zeitgeist, with the expectation that they will sink beneath the waves as fashions change. But after a century, the idea of a passing fad really won't stand up to scrutiny. By the time Tosca finishes here this Season, it will have reached Royal Opera House performance number 471, in the top line-up since World War II with La bohème, La traviata and Carmen. (So we can also say that killing off the heroine in the title is good for box office.) I have read and heard many arguments that deconstruct Tosca in detail – psychological, musicological, dramaturgical. I've even written a few. They all have their merits. But I always come back to the same thing. However you package it up or pull it apart, Tosca is just wonderful theatrical entertainment. Isn't that enough?
Tosca runs 9 January–5 February 2016. Tickets are still available.


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Some robots were meant to scare people while others were created to provide people with companionship (but really, when will people learn that live pets just can't be replaced with robotic ones?) And then there's the awesome and amazing robot that has been programmed to mix drinks and cocktails on command to serve thirsty crowds at the party.
It's called the Inebriator and it's a cocktail-mixing machine that uses an Arduino microcontroller to do the deed. It's pre-programmed with 15 drink recipes so you and your guests are bound to find something you'd like on the menu. It's not for sale though, so if you want it, you're going to have to build your own.
Check out a clip of the Inebriator in action after the jump.
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Bruno Anthony is one of the most compelling evil geniuses in cinema. He is compelling because he is charming. He begins the film, Strangers on a Train, by attaching himself to Guy Haines, an amazing tennis player, and proposes a scenario
now lets say that you'd like to get rid of your wife... oh no no just suppose, lets say you had a very good reason, no no lets say, you'd be afraid to kill her, you know why, you'd get caught, and what would trip you up, the motive! ah now here's my idea... listen its so simple too, two fellows meet accidentally like you and me, no connection between them at all, never saw each other before, each one has somebody that he'd like to get rid of, so they swap murders...each fellow does the other fellow's murder, then there's nothing to connect them, each one has murdered a total stranger like you do my murder I do yours,... for example your wife, my father, criss cross.
That sets off a plot which twists and turns. Haines never wants to get involved- and Bruno spends the film trying to force him to murder Bruno's father and then attempts to incriminate him in the murder of his own wife (a crime that Bruno committed). It is a plot worthy of the finest artists of suspence and in Patricia Highsmith the novelist and Alfred Hitchcock the director it found those artists. Raymond Chandler was also involved but withdrew as a screenwriter. But the key here is in Hitchcock's version the character Bruno. Bruno is the charismatic centre of the film: he is charming and sinister, an artist- but this is also one of Hitchcock's most sexual films, filled with homoerotic tension between Bruno and Guy, phallic imagery- popping balloons with cigarrettes for example- and a conspiracy to murder which is in part a seduction.
One aspect of this deserves commentary- and that is the way that Bruno is a comment on Oscar Wilde's characters in his plays about Victorian London and hence a comment on European civilisation as a whole. Wilde's characters in his novels are typically idle aristocrats: they need no incomes and no occupations. They live lives without profession or usefulness: they are noble exceedingly witty and they are sexually ambiguous. These characters live in masks and disguises which hide their neverending expeditions to bunbury, to devise more time to waste time in London or to unfold their sophisticated plans. Wilde's plays often end with the good triumphant and married (eg the Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan) and conventional endings but their structures, their comedy is subversive. Hitchcock evidently knew Wilde well: his later films are indebted for instance for scenes and ideas to films of Wilde's novels and Hitchcock to some extent lived out a Wildean fantasy of life. But Strangers on a Train is a very Wildean film and its main character Bruno is deeply Wildean: a painting in Strangers just like in Dorian Gray reflects the true personality of a respectable man, Bruno even quotes one of the most famous lines from the Importance of being Earnest and there are many other examples of direct quotation. In the play Lady Bracknell commends Jack for smoking as 'a man should always have an occupation': are we surprised to find that in the first meeting between Guy and Bruno, Bruno tells Guy that he doesn't do anything- apart from smoking which he does too much of.
That cinematic quote of a theatrical line and Bruno's overall manner, his charm and disguises, not to mention the whiff of homoeroticism (indeed bisexuality- he manages to seduce Guy's wife into being murdered) is very Wildean. It reminds one instantly of Wilde's characters. Hitchcock though was no mere ingenue, quoting simply in order to quote. He knew what he was doing- and in the character of Bruno, indeed in the set up of Strangers on a Train, he was deliberately trying to do something. Hitchcock's intentions are not easy to elucidate: the film is dark and powerful. It ends with the best of endings: heterosexual unity in the face of bisexual criminality- but noone watches this film for Ruth Roman's performance as Guy's love interest. (Ruth Roman's pubescent sister is another woman semi-seduced by Bruno and their abortive romance is more interesting than the real romance between the sister and Guy- she is another with some amazing lines, 'Daddy doesn't mind any scandal, he is a senator'.) Everyone watches the movie for Bruno's act as a Wildean genius, a dark malevolent and yet charming and seductive presence on screen.
Let us for a second go back to Wilde. In Wilde's plays, the aristocratic dilletantes are the majority of the cast- in this play Bruno is alone as the sole member of the cast with Wildean characteristics. Whereas Wilde lauds leisure in the classical manner- as a Latin poet might laud otium, Hitchcock uses Bruno to express the value of a puritanical ethic. This isn't really about sexuality- there is no doubt that other members of the cast exhibit homoerotic characteristics- but it is about manner, it is about a judgement about psychology. Hitchcock's purpose here is in my view to reject the whole concept of leisure- instead of supporting character and enabling contemplation, Hitchcock tries to show that it fosters a spiralling of character out of control. Bruno is more clearsighted than most of the other characters: he has afterall experienced everything once. But his experience, his intelligence are redundent and he knows that he is a drone, he knows that he has been forced out of three colleges and that his position in society is not assured. In contrast to Wilde's assured aristocrats, Bruno's aristocrat has to realise that the twentieth century has changed the way that position works: employment now defines your status not your birth or even your cultivation. In a previous society, Guy the proletarian trier with a solid sporting and political career would be the outcast, in 20th Century America it is Bruno.
His reaction to that is interesting. Again for Wilde frivolous sparring reduces easily to conventional or even unconventional morality. In Hitchcock's darker view leisure creates the atmosphere which perpetuates triviality: and thence arrives at an even darker possibility as genius spirals into insanity and psychosis. Bruno is more charismatic than the rest of the characters, but he is not made happier, securer or stabler by this knowledge. Rather Hitchcock's movie is a sceptical statement about the possibilities of decadence, it is a statement about the psychological possibilities that lead on from leisure, that contrary to the Romans the devil makes work for idle hands. This insight is in part basically right- and Hitchcock far more than Wilde confronts the reality of leisure and aristocratic leisure at that- it gives the time for brooding, a brooding which can create genius but as in the case of Bruno also can create psychosis. The contrast to Wilde enables us to observe the way that Hitchcock makes a historical as well as a psychological case: the time of the aristocrats is over and in the new society of 1950s America leisure is, whether it was a sensible proffession in the days of Wilde's aristocrats when society was more leisured, corrupting.
Simply put, if your only profession is smoking, the consequences are likely to be devastating in our society.


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Started an hour later than yesterday, passed a time zone, lost an hour.
Red buds and dog woods really put on a show in Kentucky, further north, fields of yellow dandylions were special (even if they are weeds). Even saw some forsythia in full bloom.
Just south of Indianapolis we got one of those phone calls you don't like getting, the situation on the home front has gone from bad to mucho worse. I was very upset by the news, to say the least. SIGHHH
Man managed to get us around Indianapolis while I was on the phone trying to get some action on the home front. We were about to stop anyway, so pulled off just north of Indy, a small campground near Pendleton. We are off the road, again, safe. Cannot say sound, cause Carol, is NOT so sound. SIGHHH
To drive further would have been unwise and dangerous.
So, hopefully the doctors/hospital will keep Man's mother over night, we are off the road, trying to calm down, gosh, sleep might be hard tonight.
We have another 200 miles (give or take) to the stick built to do tomorrow. Man will have to turn on the water and a few other things before he can leave me there alone.
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Purification is the process of returning a Shadow Pokémon to its former self. It was major aspect of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness.
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Shadow Pokémon's hearts are locked behind several 'Doors' in which the player must open to get to the Pokémon's heart. To open up a Door, the player must continue to battle with the Shadow Pokémon he/she would like to purify. After every battle, a small piece of the door you are working to open will turn white, indicating that you, and your Pokémon have became closer. You must open each door before you can actually purify the Pokémon.
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Once you have opened up every Door to the Pokémon's heart you will need to travel to Agate Village and activate the Stone deep inside the Agate forest. Once you activate it, choose which Pokémon is ready to open up its heart and enjoy the scene afterwards. Your newly 'Pure' Pokémon will then gain experience points that it missed for being a Shadow Pokémon. The Pokémon will forget the Shadow Rush move. In XD, you can also purify by using the computer system in the Pokémon HQ.
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Every time Northwestern's football players slip on their workout shirts, they see just how close they came to an undefeated season in 2012.
Stamped on the back of each one is "5:03." It stands for the total of 5 minutes, 3 seconds the Wildcats trailed at the end of their three losses.
"I knew we were close," defensive end Tyler Scott said Wednesday on the Big Ten Legends Division spring teleconference. "It just really brought it to top of your mind when it said 5:03 and how little time that was we had to execute a couple more times to put us in the position of playing for the Big Ten title and going undefeated. It was scary to see that and know we're capable of it."
Northwestern would appear primed to make a run this fall with eight starters returning on offense and seven on defense.
Defending Legends champion Nebraska will have a potent offense led by fourth-year starting quarterback Taylor Martinez. The Cornhuskers might need every point that offense can muster to compensate for a defense that lost eight starters and surrendered 115 points in the last two games.
Michigan lost half its starters and is transitioning this spring from the spread to pro-style offense with quarterback Devin Gardner. Michigan State is breaking in a new offensive coordinator and planning for life without workhorse running back Le'Veon Bell.
The focus at Iowa is sorting out the competition among the three quarterbacks vying to replace James Vandenberg. Minnesota has all but one starter back on offense and is looking to move up.
Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said graduate assistant McNeil Parker was the one who pointed out the 5:03 time difference between 10-3 and 13-0 last season. The Wildcats (5-3 Big Ten) led Penn State until the last 2:37 and Nebraska until the last 2:08. In an overtime loss to Michigan, it took the Wolverines 18 seconds to score the winning touchdown.
"Our staff discussion was, `Are we that far away or are we that close?' We have to decide as a program," Fitzgerald said. "We've chosen to build on the positive."
There is a lot to be positive about at Northwestern, which is coming off its first bowl win since 1949. It starts with the alternating quarterbacks. "Kain (Colter) and Trevor (Siemian) can lead us to a championship," Fitzgerald said.
Venric Mark, who rushed for almost 1,400 yards, and three receivers are back. Fitzgerald also talked up a fourth receiver, fifth-year senior Mike Jensen, who is having a "terrific spring."
Fitzgerald said the defense has continued to add size and speed and is two deep at each position.
"It really doesn't matter from a standpoint of what we've done in the past and what we have coming back," Fitzgerald said. "What matters is how close this team is willing to get and what we're willing to sacrifice between now and the opener against Cal to come together and improve as a program. We're moving in the right direction."
Nebraska (10-4, 6-2) played its spring game last Saturday, and the offense scored five touchdowns and a field goal on the first six series. That did nothing to ease anxiety about a defense that gave up 70 points to Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship game and 45 more in the Capital One Bowl loss to Georgia.
"What happened last year happened," Huskers coach Bo Pelini said. "It's over. You move on. This will be a different team with different challenges."
Pelini said the situation isn't as dire as critics think on the defensive line, which went through the spring with several players out or limited because of injuries. "Our line made great strides the second half of spring," he said. "I like the potential there."
Coach Brady Hoke of Michigan (8-5, 6-2) said he's been impressed with how Gardner has prepared himself to take over at quarterback full-time this fall. Offensive coordinator Al Borges is installing more of the pro-style offense he has long preferred, and Hoke said Gardner has immersed himself in film study and embraced the system.
All-America offensive lineman Taylor Lewan said the offense is markedly different, with quarterbacks taking more snaps from under center and the emergence of more power running game.
"This is the style we need to be in," Lewan said.
Dave Warner has taken over as offensive coordinator at Michigan State (7-6, 3-5), and the Spartans are starting to open things up after Bell carried the ball 382 times. Three quarterbacks threw 55 times for 401 yards and four touchdowns in last week's scrimmage.
Andrew Maxwell and the other QBs are taking live hits in every practice, something that didn't happen last year.
"They get more game-time experience, as close as we can get it. I think it's been a positive for us," coach Mark Dantonio said.
The Spartans have three starting receivers back, and a fourth who could become a factor is DeAnthony Arnett, who caught three balls last season after transferring from Tennessee.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, who had one of the worst offenses in the Big Ten, is looking at sophomore Jake Rudock, junior Cody Sokol and redshirt freshman C.J. Beathard to replace Vandenberg.
"It's a three-horse race," Ferentz said. "We came in with no preconceived notions. We've rotated all three players."
Eight starters are back on defense, but the Hawkeyes (4-8, 2-6) are without conference defensive back of the year Micah Hyde.
Minnesota (6-7, 2-6) continues to build under Jerry Kill. The Gophers bring back almost everyone on offense but have only one experienced quarterback, Philip Nelson, after Max Shortell transferred.
Kill said he's noticed greater effort this spring from Donnell Kirkwood, who ran for 77 yards and a touchdown in the Meineke Car Care Bowl loss to Texas Tech.
"The bowl game really helped his confidence," Kill said. "He's grown up and matured and he's doing really good things."
Even with so many returnees, the question is whether the Gophers can become more competitive.
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Facebook has won an important ruling on its ban of pseudonyms across its social network.
A German court yesterday ruled that it had no jurisdiction over Facebook because its European headquarters are in Ireland and therefore, could not offer an opinion on the social network's pseudonym use. The Associated Press was first to report on the court's ruling.
The court's ruling comes just two months after data protection agency Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (ULD) in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein ordered Facebook to allow for its users to employ pseudonyms. The company has a policy that requires all of its users to use real names.
"It is unacceptable that a U.S. portal like Facebook violates German data protection law unopposed and with no prospect of an end," Thilo Weichert, the country's privacy commissioner and the head of ULD, said in a statement at the time. "The aim of the orders of ULD is to finally bring about a legal clarification of who is responsible for Facebook and to what this company is bound to."
For its part, Facebook has argued that requiring real names protects both adults and children.
The ULD's loss today might not be the end. According to the AP, the organization will appeal the court decision and has stuck to its argument that Facebook is violating the country's privacy law. It's not clear whether its headquarters in Ireland will provide the same protection in a higher court.
CNET has contacted Facebook for comment. We will update this story when we have more information.


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The African Origins of Hip hop
Senegalese Groups Says It's Bringing Rap music home
But Daara J are one of the success stories - the Senegalese rap group have just played the UK's Glastonbury and Womad festivals and won a BBC World Music award.
A good year then, and the message from Faada Freddy, Ndongo D and Alhadji Man is that rap is going home.
The title track of their album "Boomerang" claims that rap was born not in New York, but in Senegal - it is returning to its roots, like a boomerang.
Senegal of course is home to many griots, the legendary West African storytellers and praise-singers that live off their art. They used to make up what was in effect a caste apart, licensed observers and critics.
Sounds rather like how rap would like to see itself today.
In Senegal rappers have a lot of responsibility and you're given respect according to your message. "There's what we call 'Tasso' - it's poetry, an offshoot of griot music," says Freddy who does most of the talking in his fluent English. "It's been around since before slavery traveled to America with the slaves. Rappers of today are all modern griots. If you listen well to the record you'll find we're trying to give a projection of Tasso and 'Kebetu' - the ancestors of rap. Kebetu is another of the griot styles - a really fast rap."
Freddy proceeds to demonstrate in a whirl of Wolof, a Senegalese language, and French. I ask him what it means. "All hip-hoppers have the same standards - rhyme and reality."
Sene-rap is not exactly big business but it is enormously important - even politically influential. I ask Daara J what rap they first heard?
"We grew up with the PE," says Freddy in his fluent English, referring to US-based rap act Public Enemy. "That brought us together. Alhadji Man was more into reggae and Bob Marley," Freddy adds, and Alhadji nods vigorously in agreement.
"The US sets the tone for rap obviously, but it's not always a positivity that they're preaching. We, the Africans, have another reality - corruption, hunger, lack of development - we have to get out of our suffering, so we're more interested in conscious rap."
Public Enemy's lead rapper, Chuck D, famously said rap was the ghetto's CNN. I ask the group if they seem themselves in a similar role. All Daara J's lyrics are in their native Wolof language. "We're the camera of society. In Senegal rappers have a lot of responsibility and you're given respect according to your message and how you abide by your culture."
That goes for the music not just the lyrics. While US hip hop was built on the bones of sampled fragments of soul singer James Brown and R'n' B, Daara J like to use the sounds from their traditions. "It's good to hear a bass drum replaced by a calabash or a dumdum talking drum. We're trying to provide that cultural part in the hip hop, with African roots and a culture touch."
Whereupon Ndongo D - the human beatbox - spits into action on his mike and we're treated to an impromptu hip-hop shout out to Dakar, The BBC and Daara J. Socially conscious and musically adventurous - not for nothing does their name translate as "School of life".
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At the risk of making this the first and only blog dedicated to TUCK! sez criticism, how could I pass up his latest gem? It might be his
worst finest achievement to date.
My complaints:
- TUCK! thinks Josh Hamilton is the Rangers' first baseman.
- TUCK! thinks members of the BBWAA vote for the Gold Gloves (they don't)
- TUCK! thinks Felix Hernandez was undeserving of the AL Cy Young and Joey Votto was undeserving of the NL MVP.
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University Team Leverages Technology to Help Goodwill® Implement Innovative Solutions
NEW YORK & ROCKVILLE,MD; Feb. 5, 2014 —Winning student teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania will provide pro-bono management consulting services to help Goodwill Industries International and Usher's New Look meet growth and development goals as part of Accenture's Management Consulting U.S. Innovation Challenge.
The Innovation Challenge provides college students from across the United States with a combination of hands-on consulting experience and the opportunity to make a positive impact on society. The winning teams were selected following three rounds of competition throughout 2013. Final selections were announced in November 2013 in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
The challenge, launched in 2012, inspires students to put their community spirit and creative ideas to the test by participating in consulting projects to support nonprofit organizations. In 2013, more than 1,200 undergraduate and advanced-degree university students competed for the opportunity to develop and implement innovative solutions to key challenges faced by nonprofits Goodwill Industries International and Usher's New Look.
"The convergence of technologies and societal trends, especially in mobility, social media and analytics, are creating opportunities for leading nonprofit organizations, such as Goodwill and Usher's New Look, to increase their impact and effectiveness," said Marty Rodgers, Accenture Federal Services managing director who leads Accenture's nonprofit practice. "There are many opportunities for nonprofit organizations to develop digital strategies to support their core missions, and we are thrilled to have the chance to work with talented and compassionate students to help nonprofits that are doing amazing work for people in need."
As part of its mission to enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals and families through learning and the power of work, Goodwill and its partners needed help to catalyze financial wellness for one million low-income households. The winning team from the University of Michigan developed a solution to provide online tools and counseling resources to help families budget and learn to manage their finances.
"The process, from start to finish, was of such a high caliber that singling out any best component isn't really possible," said Luke Rondel, a MBA candidate at the University of Michigan and participant in the 2014 Innovation Challenge. "Overall it was one of the most demanding and rewarding aspects of my business school experience thus far."
Usher's New Look, which focuses on providing positive role models through peer mentorship, trains and certifies young people throughout the world in four areas – talent, education, career and service – to enhance their success as future leaders. The organization needed to identify and train 2,500 new peer trainers to mentor young members of the organization in time for the 2015-2016 school year. A team of students from the University of Pennsylvania created the winning solution, which tracks student performance, engages alumni and offers networking benefits to retain trainers.
In 2012, the inaugural year of the challenge, teams of undergraduate students from the University of Chicago and advanced degree students from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management worked with an Accenture team supporting nonprofit organizations, America's Promise Alliance and KaBOOM! In addition to pro-bono assistance from an Accenture team, America's Promise Alliance and KaBOOM! received grants to help kick-start implementation of their winning solutions, which have provided them tools to develop a stronger digital presence. America's Promise Alliance has the overarching goal of providing children fundamental resources needed to succeed at home, at school and in their community. KaBOOM!'s mission is to create great play spaces through the participation, engagement and leadership of communities, with a goal of creating a place to play within walking distance of every child in America.
Members of the winning teams participating in the Innovation Challenge are offered Accenture summer internships to implement components of their winning solutions.
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Declassified Opinion Shows The NSA Exploited Pen Register Statutes To Collect Internet Metadata On Millions Of Americans
from the the-box-has-no-edges... dept
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has just released a very large set of declassified documents, covering a variety of topics. (Just a friendly reminder: these documents are being released because of a court order, not because the ODNI loves transparency, no matter how it's phrased at I CON THE RECORD.) Of particular interest is one that appears to be the original court opinion that gave the NSA permission to collect bulk internet metadata on Americans, better known as the Stellar Wind program, which ran for a decade before being shut down in 2011.
Orin Kerr, writing for (watch your step) the Lawfare blog, breaks down the questionable arguments the government presented and the leaps the presiding judge (Colleen Kollar-Kotelly) made to grant this request.
To begin with, the government presents this collection as nothing more than a modern-day pen register. As Kerr explains, the privacy bar for pen registers is set incredibly low.
The federal pen register authorities use a mere certification standard. Under the national security version of the pen register statute, the FISC is required to approve an application for pen register surveillance whenever the Attorney General (or an attorney he designates) certifies under oath "that the information likely to be obtained" from the monitoring "is relevant to an ongoing investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities," 50 U.S.C. 1842(c)(2). As long as the government has issued its certification, and the judge concludes that the government's application falls within the statute, "the judge shall enter an ex parte order." 50 U.S.C. 1842(d)(1). The government doesn't have to say why it thinks the standard has been satisfied; it just certifies under oath that it does. And the judge has no authority to look behind the government's assertion to see if its factual basis is strong, weak, or completely absurd. See generally In re Application of the United States, 846 F.Supp. 1555 (M.D. Fla. 1994). The judge's only role is making sure the government checked the box and made the required certification under oath.There's a reason why the bar is set so low. It's inherently limited.
The pen register authority permits monitoring of a suspect's non-content metadata unprotected by the Fourth Amendment for a window of time, investigative steps outside the Fourth Amendment than are akin to tailing a suspect in public or obtaining a mail cover to monitor the outside of their mail.So, all a judge is looking for is a box ticked by a US Attorney. If that's present, then the pen register collection can proceed. But this is a surveillance method that is targeted at one particular suspect. It's not used to collect data on multiple persons at one time. Certainly multiple pen registers can be obtained in order to collect multiple sets of metadata, but each request is singular. Or was, until the NSA decided to extrapolate the singular pen register into a bulk collections program.
[I]t wanted an order forcing a provider to record and disclose Internet metadata in real time on an ongoing basis for potentially tens of millions of customers, all with a single order obtained with no judicial review based on a mere certification by the Attorney General.The government took this low bar and convinced a judge that there was technically no difference between collecting metadata on ONE person and collecting metadata on millions. It wasn't just the government doing the rhetorical legwork. Kerr points out that the presiding judge ignored several statutory clues within the pen register law that indicated it was never meant to be used for bulk, untargeted collections.
The statute authorizes the judge to issue an order requiring the installation of "a" pen register to monitor "the person who is the subject of the investigation." 50 U.S.C. 1842(d)(1)-(2). This is written in the singular, suggesting that each pen register requires a subject.Furthermore, she buys into the government's arguments that the ends justify the means.
She then concludes that the bulk collection is reasonable in a Fourth Amendment sense — not that the Fourth Amendment applies, as this is just metadata, but rather in the policy sense that the program represents a sensible balance between security and privacy along the lines of that required under Fourth Amendment reasonableness precedents. The application is thus granted because, all things considered, the program does seem to be a pretty good way to find terrorists. See pages 49-54.This argument has been used more than once by the government to defend the NSA's collections. The government extrapolates from the fact that if something isn't a violation of civil liberties for one person (i.e., bulk records collections) than it's not a violation when the program collects records on millions. The courts have backed this up: rights do not spring into existence ex nihilo.
The government used this argument to address Basaaly Moalin's claims that records obtained under the Section 215 program violated his constitutional rights. In the most basic terms, it claimed that if an intelligence (or law enforcement) agency can surveil one person without violating their Fourth Amendment rights (using bulk records, etc.), it can do it to everyone. (Perversely, it then spins around and claims this is why no one has standing to sue the government over these untargeted collections.)
So, the expansion of the previously targeted pen register program into a bulk internet metadata collection relied on the same basic argument. Even if the statute is written in a way that specifies singular targeting, the government would argue that the statute is equally applicable to collecting data on millions of people -- all of it needing no more authority than a signature of a United States Attorney.
All things considered, it's rather surprising the Stellar Wind program was shut down. The NSA certainly has shown no desire to eliminate a program, even if it produces large amounts of nearly-useless data. More than likely, the program was just supplanted by a better dragnet. Right about the time Stellar Wind shut down, a rules change to the Section 702 collections program gave the NSA "permission" (via a new loophole) to target Americans directly.
Also of note: while there's no date on this document (redacted, of course), the internal citations [Lamie V. United States Trustee, 124 S. Ct. 1023, 1030 (2004), p. 7; Engine Mfrs. Ass'n v. South Coast Air Quality Mqmt. Dist., 124 S. Ct. 1756, 1761 (2004), p. 14] suggest this opinion was the end result of another post facto search for permission by the NSA. The program supposedly began in 2001, but the court doesn't actually address the collection until 2004, at the earliest. This may be the point that the NSA first sought to collect metadata on Americans, with all previous collections being foreign only — but without further documentation (and factoring in the agency's tendency to collect first, seek approval later), there's no way to tell if the NSA was collecting internet metadata without even the barest minimum of legal approval previous to this opinion.
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In Greek mythology, Apollo was one of the most important Olympian deity and demigod. The son of the god Zeus and the Human Leto, he was the god of light and purity. He was often associated with prophecy, medicine, music and poetry, archery, and the care of flocks and herds.
He was also frequently associated with the higher developments of civilization, such as law, philosophy, and the arts. Finally, in Greek mythology, Apollo driving his chariot through the sky was associated with the movement of the Sun. He was twin brother to Artemis, goddess of hunting, though Athena was also a sister of his as well.
The image of Apollo was preserved for thousands of years in artistic works. One of these artistic works, the design for the mission insignia of Apollo 17, included a profile of Apollo facing to his left. Additionally, the mission insignia for Apollo 13 depicted the steeds of Apollo riding over Luna. (ENT: "First Flight")
In 2267, the USS Enterprise encountered Apollo on Pollux IV. There, they learned that the Greek gods were in fact a band of explorers who had visited Earth five thousand years earlier, and established themselves as gods to the people of that era. From things Apollo said to Carolyn Palamas, it seems that they may actually have, in some sense, considered themselves to be gods, but it is clear they also knew they weren't gods in the same sense the ancient Greeks believed them to be.
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Apollo came across as arrogant and accustomed to obedience from his 'children' (really, his slaves). While claiming to be in love with Carolyn Palamas, after she rejected him he showed signs that he wanted to control her like the slave-master her captain said he truly was (forbidding her to leave his presence and ordering her to stay there with him, for instance). When he seduced her, his words implied that he was offering her joint rule of Pollux IV, to sit by his side as his queen. During Carolyn's rejection of him, Apollo stated to her that he has "chosen her" for that duty, and earlier he noted her fearlessness, commenting that she is "fit indeed" to be his consort.
Despite this he did show some signs of a softer side. It is implied that the loss of his family and worshippers had left him terribly lonely. He did indicate that he would have truly cared for the Humans under his rule, and for the woman that would have had become his queen, despite Kirk's notions of him being a slave-master initially. He showed extreme despondency at being rejected by Humanity, and Carolyn especially, and knowing that he had waited in vain.
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Apollo claimed he and his fellow travelers visited Earth, and there thrived on the worship and love of its people. But eventually, mankind turned away from the gods. Unable to survive as memories, the gods returned to Pollux IV, their home. They found it an empty place without worshipers, but they lacked the strength to leave. So they waited. Eventually, all of the gods save Apollo lost hope, and "spread themselves upon the wings of the wind... thinner, and thinner, until only the wind remained."
Apollo claimed this was not death, at least, not as Humans understood it. But clearly, those who had departed in this fashion were beyond returning. Only Apollo was confident that mankind would one day leave Earth, and find the gods again. And when it happened, he planned to "restore the proper order" – to restore man to a worshipful species, provided for and loved by a new race of gods, fathered by him (He needed a wife to accomplish this task, and so chose Carolyn to be his queen based on her beauty and intelligence).
This, unfortunately for Apollo, was a state of affairs unacceptable to men. James T. Kirk and his landing party schemed continuously; between them, and members of the crew still in orbit, they were eventually able to overcome Apollo, and destroy the source of his power. With his temple gone and his power broken, Apollo spread himself upon the wind, imploring his fellow gods to take him, and vanished.
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Apollo, at various times, demonstrated command of an enormous reservoir of energy that he could evidently direct by acts of will. He was able to generate a powerful force field that caught and held the Enterprise, and resisted most attempts to break and disrupt it.
On approach to the planet, the ship encountered what appeared, visually, to be an enormous, translucent, green humanoid hand. In fact, it was a force field, conventional in composition but on unusual wavelengths, generated by Apollo. This field was powerful enough to stop the ship, and impulse engines could not break the ship free.
Attempts to push it away with the tractor beam, and to reverse its polarity were equally unsuccessful in disrupting it. In addition to merely holding the ship, Apollo could exert pressure beyond the ship's tolerance, and in this fashion, threaten the ship. Spock was eventually able to pierce the field with powerful bursts of M-rays on carefully calculated wavelengths. Although this did not destroy the field, it enabled the Enterprise to fire her phasers.
The tardigrade Ephraim observed the Enterprise encounter Apollo's green hand as part of her attempts to catch up to the vessel after laying her eggs aboard. (ST: "Ephraim and Dot")
Prior to 2263 in the alternate reality, it had been speculated that the USS Franklin's disappearance was possibly the result of an encounter with "a giant, green space hand" possibly being that of Apollo. (Star Trek Beyond)
Apollo could alter his physical form and the forms of material objects in his vicinity. He could hurl lightning-like energy bolts, interfere with Federation technology, transform Starfleet uniforms into ancient Greek clothing by simply waving his hand, transport himself and others from place to place, and alter the weather (at least locally). His senses extended great distances; while on the surface of his world, he was able to sense happenings on the bridge of the Enterprise and project his image and voice into her equipment for the purpose of conversation.
Apollo at one point claimed he could wipe out a man with a gesture, and bring him back again as easily. But he never demonstrated this particular ability.
A tricorder scan registered Apollo as a normal humanoid, but with an extra organ in his chest whose function was unknown to McCoy. It was presumed that this organ permitted him to tap a powerful field of energy generated within his temple. Even with this ability, Apollo occasionally overextended himself, requiring a brief period of rest during which his vitality was restored. Presumably, then, the organ tapped the energy field, stored some quantity of energy, and made that energy responsive to Apollo's wishes.
After the temple was destroyed, Apollo demonstrated that he still possessed some abilities when he expanded his corporeal form. However, from his reaction to the temple's destruction, it seems likely that when he expended the last of his stored energy, he would be powerless, or nearly so. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
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|Aphrodite • Apollo • Artemis • Asclepius • Athena • Atlas • Hephaestus • Hera • Hermes • Pan • Zeus
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Background information Edit
The depiction of Apollo in "Who Mourns for Adonais" was considerably changed during the episode's rewrite process. Writer and story editor D.C. Fontana offered, "He was [originally] something of an empty character and we needed to give him more character, more interaction with our regular leads." ("Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana", TOS Season 2 DVD & Blu-ray special features)
Apollo was played by actor Michael Forest. This portrayal varied from how Apollo has usually been depicted in mythological and artistic tradition, since the character is normally golden haired. The original casting choice for the role, Jon Voight is indeed blonde-haired.
Roman gods (which were based on Greek counterparts) also appear on planet 892-IV, yet it is unknown if Apollo and his compatriots visited this world as well or if the similarity is due to some other reason. Captain Kirk also shows little reaction to the Roman Gods when he learns of them, even though he had already met Apollo by that point. (TOS: "Bread and Circuses", "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
In the credits for Star Trek Beyond, what appears to be Apollo's "giant green hand" can been seen floating in space – a callback to Montgomery Scott's line regarding the mysterious disappearance of the USS Franklin earlier in that film.
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 125), Apollo visited Earth around the year 3000 BC.
Apocrypha Edit
Michael Forest reprises his role as Apollo in the first episode of the TOS fan series Star Trek Continues, "Pilgrim of Eternity".
In the comic book story "A Rude Awakening!", Apollo was mentioned as harassing space travelers.
External links Edit
- Apollo at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- Apollo at Wikipedia
- Apollo at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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All local matters from animal control to bylaw enforcement are dealt with through the MD's Protective Services department. If you have a non-critical issue, please contact Peace Officer Paul Mulholland at the numbers indicated on this page. Remember, if your matter is critical, DIAL 911.
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A post for the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories
You want the truth? Well, here it is.....I saw Santa today! Honestly, I have proof!
I had another encounter with Santa, aka Father Christmas once. When I was 7 or 8 I heard his sleighbells very distinctly one Christmas Eve. You know, when you factor in the different time zones across the world, it's not *that* hard for him to get around in one night.
While the elves are hard at work, Father Christmas hangs out at grottos in department stores (and on the odd Ford Model A in parades, evidently). This tradition goes back decades in England, as my mother reports going to see him back in the day. When she was seven her brother tried to claim that Father Christmas didn't exist but I'm sure the milk and mince pies were still left out for him, something that everyone did, even me!
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Suns end quick trip in Houston
The Houston Rockets will try to get back on track Wednesday night when they welcome the Phoenix Suns to the Toyota Center.
The Rockets had a five-game winning streak snapped Monday night when they lost in Salt Lake City to the Utah Jazz, 109-103. The loss also halted a two-game road winning streak.
"We just weren't ready to play," said head coach Kevin McHale. "They got a big lead. We kind of fought back a few times and tried to take it from them, but they gained a lot of confidence and they made some big shots. We could never get our hands back on the game."
The Jazz built a 13-point lead after the first quarter and held the Rockets to 48 percent shooting. Utah shot 54.4 percent from the field and 58.8 percent from beyond the arc.
James Harden led the Rockets with 37 points and eight assists. Dwight Howard had 15 points and Francisco Garcia, Omri Casspi and Aaron Brooks each scored 13 points.
The Rockets were without Jeremy Lin (sprained right knee) and Chandler Parsons (back spasms).
"We had plenty of guys to win this game today. It had nothing to do with who wasn't there. It's the guys who were here and how they played," acknowledged McHale.
The Suns will complete a two-game road trip Wednesday. Phoenix got pounded by the Memphis Grizzlies, 110-91 Tuesday at FedExForum in a game where it was ahead by eight at the half.
Memphis clobbered the Suns, 36-20 in the third quarter to turn an eight-point deficit into an eight-point lead. The Grizz cruised in the fourth and outscored Phoenix 64-37 in the second half.
"The second half was terrible ... We need a better effort on defense and need to be tougher," said Suns coach Jeff Hornacek.
Marcus Morris led the Suns with 18 points, followed by 16 from Goran Dragic, 11 from Miles Plumlee and 10 from Markieff Morris.
The Suns have dropped two in a row to fall back to .500. They allowed the Utah Jazz their first road victory of the season on Saturday, and head back home for four of their next five after Wednesday.
The teams split last season's four matchups with the home team winning each time. Phoenix has lost two straight and four of its last five in Houston.


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It is time for a new broom in Congress
For instructions on how to use it, let's take a ride in the Wayback Machine.
The date: 20 April 1653
The place: the House of Commons, London, SW 1
The event: Oliver Cromwell's Dissolution of the former Long Parliament, also known (derisively) as the Rump Parliament
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
"Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
"Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"
"Now, who will hold the dustpan for me?" said the Little Red Hen.
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Doctor killed in office
Police received reports at about 2:45 p.m. of six or seven shots fired at the medical office near Hoag Hospital in Orange County, Newport Beach police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe told The Associated Press.
Officers responding found a man dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the upper torso in a patient examination room on the building's second floor, Lowe said. They took into custody another man in the room.
The victim was a doctor, Deputy Chief David McGill told the Los Angeles Times. The doctor's name and relationship to the gunman weren't immediately clear.
Witnesses told several media outlets the doctor was a urologist, and the floor of the shooting includes the offices for Orange Coast Urology, which lists three doctors on its staff. An outgoing message at the clinic said the office was closed.
Becky Calderwood said she works two doors down from the officer where the shooting took place, and said the gunman was a patient.
"I sit right at the front desk, I would have caught the first bullet," Calderwood told the Times.
No one else was injured or targeted, Lowe said.
"It does appear to be an isolated incident," she said.
Detectives were interviewing employees and patients in the building.
Kristen Cotty, who works as an office supervisor at a lab on the third floor, said she thought the gunfire was construction noises.
"What's going on with the world today?" she told the Orange County Register. "I mean, schools, now I got to worry about going to work. This has got to stop."
The building and much of its parking lot were cordoned off with police tape and surrounded with many police vehicles several hours after the shooting.
A gold Kia Sedona minivan was taped off and being guarded by a police car.


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It took nearly 100 minutes to determine a winner, and it ended in a heart-breaking defeat for Kinston High.
It took nearly 100 minutes to determine a winner, and it ended in a heart-breaking defeat for Kinston High.
Edenton Holmes led the Vikings in pretty much every significant offensive category: shots, corner kicks, time spent on their opponent�s side of the field. In the end, it proved too much, as the Aces ended Kinston�s historic season with a 3-2 win in overtime Wednesday in the first round of the 2A state playoffs.
Kinston (7-10-2) jumped out to an early lead when junior Abby Sargeant found senior Becky Irvin near midfield just two minutes into the game. Irvin sliced through the Aces� defense and found the back of the net for her eighth goal of the season.
�We always want to test a team in the first five minutes, to see if we can go down the middle of the field,� Romig said. �That became a point of emphasis for us, and that�s what led to our second goal.�
Kinston, an Eastern Plains 2A Conference co-champion and the No. 2 seed out of the league by virtue of a draw, spent the remainder of the first half trying frantically to protect that lead as Holmes (8-9) pounded away at the goal.
The Aces spent almost the entire half on Kinston�s end of the field and out-shot the Vikings 20-3 in the half. Freshman goal keeper Vendela Safford was nearly up to the task, stopping nine shots in the half until senior midfielder Molly High drilled a shot from the middle of the box to knot the score at 1-1 with about eight minutes to play until halftime.
The Vikings were able to assert themselves more in the second half and reclaimed the lead in the 56th minute when junior Hannah Vermillion played a ball long down the middle to sophomore speedster Shannon Mayo, who ran away from the Aces� defense on a perfectly timed breakaway. Her go-ahead goal was the sophomore forward�s 11th of the season.
Though Holmes had several opportunities to tie the game, it looked like Kinston would hold on for its first playoff victory since 1997.
Aces junior Ellie Wichard had other plans.
With 2 minutes left in regulation, she took advantage of a Kinston miscue and broke free for a one-on-one opportunity against Safford, who stopped her on a similar attempt in the first half. This time Wichard wasn�t denied as her equalizing goal sent the game into a pair of 10-minute overtime periods.
The teams played 19 minutes of scoreless soccer before Wichard got another breakaway in the final minute of play, notching her second goal of the evening in what proved to be the decisive score.
�The equalizer was off a mistake,� Romig said. �The go-ahead goal was off a mistake. The rule of thumb in the state playoffs is that you can�t make mistakes, and our two mistakes ended up finding the back of the net. Other than that, I thought we played flawless soccer.�
The Vikings were hosting a playoff game for just the second time under Romig, just months after the boys team played and won its first home playoff game in school history.
It was also the fourth straight year the Vikings girls have earned a playoff berth and the first time Kinston earned a conference title. The Vikings finished the year in a three-way tie for first place with Wilson Beddingfield and Tarboro after consecutive 1-0 wins against those teams to close out the regular season.
�Tonight was tough to swallow, but the future looks bright,� Romig said. �This was by no means a disappointing season.�


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A White House official says President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint a new energy secretary and new head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Obama is nominating MIT scientist Ernest Moniz to head the Energy Department and EPA veteran Gina McCarthy to run the environmental agency. She currently serves as EPA's assistant administrator for air and radiation.
Obama will announce the nominations during a White House ceremony Monday morning. Both posts require Senate confirmation.
The official requested anonymity in order to confirm the nominations ahead of the president's formal announcement.


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New England Revolution head coach Jay Heaps
I thought it was a good game for us, complete from front to back. Philly's a good team and they've shown that they are a good team on the road. I thought that in the first half they showed why: they sit in and they let you attack, they give you chances and then they break. When they break they break well. I thought Danny Cruz did a nice job. I thought the Michael Farfan shot that Bobby (Shuttleworth) saved was pretty good. Then from there I thought we dictated a lot of the game. I thought we were playing some good stuff from midfield. I thought that Kelyn (Rowe) and Lee (Nguyen) did well. Kalifa (Cisse) cleaned it up behind them. Overall, I thought our front to back movement was pretty good. I thought that we felt the goal coming it was just a matter of when.
I thought tonight we put a lot of confidence in Kelyn (Rowe) and Lee (Nguyen) to step up there and be two kinds of playmakers, with Kelyn trying to penetrate, pick up loose balls and Lee to be more of the playmaker in the terms of with the ball at his feet. The two of them have a nice style. I think they did a nice one-two tonight. I think Lee has a nice way of playing balls and Kelyn reads it pretty well. Diego (Fagundez) had a nice night not only finishing off the goal, but overall in terms of the build of play. In terms of his commitment defensively, you see we want to be more offensive, but there are some responsibilities defensively and Diego fulfilled those tonight.
Those are the things you work on all the time. The first goal I think was really a nice goal. It was a nice one-two play, stuff we see a lot from our guys that we know they are capable of. Lee (Nguyen) breaks a nice pass to Kelyn (Rowe), who breaks the baseline and then finds Diego (Fagundez) and Diego finishes it one-time. Those types of goals are what we strive for and work for. We had opportunities in the first half and you could see it just felt that it was going to come. We were about to sacrifice a live chicken pretty soon if one of those go in, in the second half. I thought overall the performance, the gutsiness of the performance, to stay with it and not give up. I thought at halftime I looked into the guys eyes and thought we were going to have a good half.
We were disappointed in the way we started that match in New York. We worked a lot this week on that final third. Overall when we come home, after a loss, it was a night where we had to draw a line in the sand. Tonight has got to be the time when we get forward and attack, but also defend tough. You saw Maca (Stephen McCarthy) and Jose (Goncalves) the way they battled today. They were really though all the way around. (Chris) Tierney would get forward, but also he had to defend. (Andrew) Farrell was forward a little bit, but for me he did a nice job defensively. Across the line I think that everyone had to dig in deep. It is not easy. I thought we weren't playing that well (earlier this season), but we were getting some results. We could not score. The backline has had absorb a lot of that over the last few weeks. Tonight they continued to fight, but we had the goals to help them.
One of the things about this league is that it's really tough and here's a guy who came from the Premier league, played at Reading, played at a couple big clubs and so the league, it takes awhile. Someone like Kalifa (Cisse) is really good and you can see that when we're in possession. He can really switch it left to right, he can read the game, he's good in the air. I think the first few weeks have been him settling in and understanding what we want to do in front of him. Tonight was why we got him. I think he's tough. He gets in some hard challenges which we like but also he has the finesse with his feet to hit the ball over 20, 30 yards to really open up some defenses and give us some lines.
I've got a smile on my face so that counts. It's tough. I won't sit here and tell you these are professional sports, how can you level out the ups and downs? It's been an emotional couple of weeks. I think you saw that tribute. There wasn't a dry eye on our team and I think you saw us come together as a group. We've been dealing with some stuff and I think on top of that like you said, we haven't been hitting our peak performances offensively. It took a lot from our guys tonight and I think being a coach, I'm really proud of the group and the way they came together, the way they responded from the outside world to kind of breaking us. Negative criticism, slumps, those are things that are going to happen as professional sports, but on top of that we had the emotional pull and so I commend our guys and I'm a really proud coach to see the way they battled and stepped on the field tonight.
I don't want to speculate right now (on Andrew Farrell's status). I know he was getting looked at by the doctor. It's tough because we have a quick turnaround. We have a game on Thursday night so we have to be smart but I don't want to speculate because I don't know."
New England Revolution goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth
We had a lot of good chances in the first half, unfortunately we weren't able to take advantage of any of them. Philly's a good team and they've got a lot of very dangerous attacking players. They don't need much space to get a shot off, so just trying to stay in the game as much as I can even if we have possession of it.
It's just a comfort thing. The more games you get in a row, obviously the more comfortable you get, the sharper you feel. The guys across the backline were great tonight. I thought the communication between all of us was really good. Getting the shutout is just a plus.
I think there're moments in the game that are really important and I think (the save on Michael Farfan in the first half) was one of those important moments. Hopefully going along I can make saves that will keep us 0-0 and we can score goals.
I think this year more than any other year we have a lot of depth and there's a lot of competition for spots. I think that's what it is. I think there're a lot of guys who can step in and do a job. I think this year you're seeing that, especially across the backline. There're a lot of guys who can play back there and a lot of guys who can play multiple positions. There's definitely a lot of competition back there and a lot of guys ready and willing.
We've been talking all week. We had a good week of training, moving the ball really well. We needed to start scoring goals. We were creating chances, but that final pass, that final shot just wasn't there for us. Finally tonight, I'm sure for everyone, it's such a relief to see a couple goals go in and to build upon that for next week.
I'm always trying to keep a line where I think I can get to a ball and just play through. No matter what, if we have possession of it, if they have possession of it, I'm trying to put myself in a good spot to be able to react and end the situation.
Towards the second part of the first half, they started finding gaps on us a little bit. Especially Danny Cruz was able to find a couple of thru balls. That lively conversation was more just, we got to sort that out and figure it out going into the second half.
I thought everyone along the backline and Kalifa (Cisse) and everyone had a really good game and the communication was great. They had their chances, but I think we did well to kind of snuff them out as the game went on.
New England Revolution forward Diego Fagundez
We've been waiting for something like that for a while. We all wanted it and it was up to someone to make a play and Kelyn (Rowe) just gave a good ball to me and I just had to finish it and that's how it all started.
We knew as soon as we got first one we had to settle down and just have to go for the attack and as soon as we got that first one the game opened up and Lee got the second goal.
Yeah, (Lee Nguyen and Kelyn Rowe playing centrally) actually worked out very well. You can see Lee and Kelyn making plays and attacking with Jerry (Bengtson) and then me and Ryan (Guy), all five attack at once, it kind of helps Jerry and I to go forward and try and score.
It felt amazing actually. We saw the stadium pretty filled out today. So, getting this win for Boston and Kevin (Alston) probably felt good for everyone.
Every game you start and play, you definitely get confident more and more. So, every game I play and do something to help the team my confidence goes up.
Philadelphia Union head coach John Hackworth
Well I thought New England was the better team tonight. So congratulations to them, Jay Heaps and his staff and his team. They were the better team tonight. With that said, that was not reflective of the kind of game we're capable of playing at all: probably our worst performance on the year so far. In a lot of ways just frustrating that we've been playing so consistent and at least the way we try to play and tonight wasn't the same.
I just think we're a team that has to do things on both sides of the ball collectively. We didn't do that tonight. We were fortunate to not be down a goal in the first half. Yet we had chances too and we didn't take them well. (Bobby) Shuttleworth makes a couple of really good saves as well, keeps them in the game. Then I thought we came out in the second half and we were actually playing much better. We had good numbers forward on both goals and I just watched them and there were little details and guys just stopped playing. That is not reflective of our team usually.
It's not the same, it's not the same. Look we understand this league is tough that way. You have games where you are not your best. Certainly on the road if you don't rise to the occasion, especially on an emotional night like tonight for New England and this community. It doesn't help that we struggle a little bit with the turf. All those things said, it wasn't our best.
We just need to go back and review this game. Look at the game film, come up with a plan, just try to hammer home the things we've been doing well. Know that tonight on a lot of levels, this is not acceptable for this team.
Philadelphia Union midfielder Michael Farfan
Yeah, it was a hard loss. I think it could have gone either way. They had some chances in the first half, we had some chances in the first half and we were just unfortunate not to get the first goal and come out of here with at least a point … I think it was kind of both ways. With their one goal, it was a deflection and kind of just fell in a lucky spot for them. Like I said I think it could have gone either way.
It was a very emotional game. I mean to start the game with a nice little tribute to the tragedy that happened here. Our condolences go out to all the people affected by it, but in the end it's just a game and you kind of forget about those things.
Philadelphia Union midfielder Brian Carroll
Disappointing. We didn't really play like we're capable of. Part of that was due to them, part of that was, who knows why. It's a long year, it's a disappointing result but we have to move on and be better in the next one.
I thought there were a lot of things that we could've done better. It just wasn't our night, for whatever reason, offensively, defensively, possession of the ball making plays that we normally make. It just wasn't there tonight. They were the better team on the night.
It's hard to imagine what people are going through, still. Watching the video before the game, it doesn't matter what part of the country you're from I think it touches everybody. It was their night.
Philadelphia Union defender Jeff Parke
Disappointing. They're a decent team, but we made them look a lot better than they were. Gave them chances, and they punished us. It's a game that we felt like we should have come up here and at least gotten a result, and now we go home with zero points. It's disappointing.
It changes things, but at the end of the day, we still have to be a good enough team to weather that and be able to respond and not go two down. We didn't do enough tonight and we didn't create enough chances. I felt like we had a couple, but on the day, they had the better of the game.
I just think they were a more hungry team. We didn't come out and play our game and they took the game to us.
They just opened us up and put us on our heels and attacked with numbers. They made it difficult for us in the back. We didn't follow runners and didn't do enough to keep them wide. They came at us up the middle, played it wide then played it across and there's a couple of goals after it. They had a couple of chances, as well. On the whole and on the day, they were better and created more chances.


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