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Cecil the Lion

First off, “experts” in Social Media have told me not to write about stuff like this, it’s too off topic and will diminish my subscribers. Second off…. I don’t care.

A dentist from Bloomington, Minnesota killed a lion in Zimbabwe and the world has taken notice. Apparently most of what the dentist did was completely legal. Some of what he did was not, he broke some laws. He should be punished commensurate with the laws that he broke.

This is not the first time the dentist has allegedly crossed the line into illegal hunting. I don’t know the guy but the guy sounds like a very unethical hunter. If I didn’t care about being called judgmental I might even describe the guy as a jerk.

Also apparently, the lion he killed was “beloved.” He roamed “free” for years at a national park. He was described as a gentle giant. He never bothered anybody, he just did what lions do.

PETA has now called for the immediate execution of the dentist. No trial, no evidence, no lawyers, just kill the damn dentist. Other people who are “horrified” at the murder of this innocent lion have threatened to kill the dentist’s wife and kids.

Not far from my office in the same Bloomington, Minnesota a demonstration was held outside the dentist’s office. Hundreds of people gathered to protest this man they called an “abomination.” There was media coverage from around the world.

The death of Cecil the Lion was indeed a big deal.

Mere miles from the dentist’s office is the Hennepin County Morgue. As the protest for Cecil was taking place the body of a little boy was at the morgue. This child was also innocent, he didn’t bother anyone, he was beloved and he was also murdered while doing what children do.

But there was no outrage, there was no protest. The story of Cecil the lion was world-wide news, it was the lead story in Minnesota which is the other side of the world from where Cecil was killed. Cecil was discussed on talk radio for days, he still is as a matter of fact. The story of the murdered little boy was briefly mentioned on the radio, he was one of 30+ murders in the area in 2015…. so far.

Did I mention the fact that the child was a human being and the lion was an animal?

Has the whole world gone crazy?

The protestors in Bloomington and animal rights activists around the world say we must work to ensure no more innocent lions are killed…. ever! I’m fine with that but where are the human rights activists protesting to ensure no more little boys are killed…ever?

Perhaps if people had the same sense of outrage when a little boy is killed as they do when a lion is killed, perhaps then, just perhaps, fewer little kids would be gunned down while playing in the street.

Maybe the whole world isn’t crazy, most people questioned in Zimbabwe hadn’t actually heard about the lion and said they were too busy trying to make a living to care about it. But maybe some people truly do place more value on the life of a lion than they do on the life of a little boy. Judging from the events of the last week that would appear to be the case.

That would also be very, very sad.

The Approachable Leader

If you’re a very high level leader in a mid to large size organization you live a good part of your life in a bubble. The higher in your organization you are the bigger, and stronger, the bubble.

You may disagree with that but that’s because you live in a bubble, apparently the bubble can’t be seen from the inside but it is pretty obvious to anyone looking at it from the outside.

The bubble causes lots of issues for leaders. Generally speaking the bubble makes it more challenging to be an effective leader. That’s because not only can you not see the bubble, you can’t see the haze the bubble puts around everything you do see. The bubble also muffles the voices of a good many people you talk with.

Now, it’s not anything that a leader does that causes the bubble. A bit of the bubble is caused by people’s almost natural fear of being themselves around what I’ll call an “authority figure.” When you’re the boss you have a measure of control over a big part of your people’s lives and that tends to make a lot of them a bit skittish.

The biggest cause of the bubble however is what leaders don’t do. They don’t take concrete steps to escape the bubble or better yet, simply destroy the bubble entirely. They do not make themselves an approachable leader.

So, how does a leader get outside the bubble or eliminate it completely?

Communicate, communicate, communicate. Transparent, consistent, honest, open, frequent, wide-ranging, real, two-way communication. Communication is a great way to bring downs walls and burst bubbles. There are many ways to effectively communicate these days, even if your team is very large.

Nothing will ever replace face-to face conversations. No matter what anybody says, nothing will replace the personal touch. So as I suggest a couple of alternatives to live, personal interactions please understand that I’m not suggesting you use these instead of personal communication, I’m suggesting to use these along with your frequent human interactions.

Write a company or organization blog. Don’t have it written, write it yourself. Seriously, a blog post saying hey, here’s what happening lately should take less than 30 minutes to write. Once or twice a month is enough and a reply or two can be done on the fly.

Obviously you can’t share proprietary information or make anyone an inside trader but you can stay more visible. The reality today is that people read blogs, your people will most certainly read yours. You can share your weekend plans, tell a story about your family, discuss a topic in the news. You may wonder why your people would care but know this: they do. You had better hope they do because if they don’t care about you as a person they can’t care about you as a leader. Let them know you’re human, just like them.

Do a weekly Podcast. A two or three minute podcast with current information and a shot of motivation delivered straight to your team’s email each Monday morning. Again, it’s purely conversational, personal and connecting. A two or three minute podcast shouldn’t take much longer to record than, well than, two or three minutes.

Both of these ideas require time. The question is does interacting with your people seem like an expense of your time or an investment of your time? As a leader, remaining close to the people who make-up your organization is priceless. It costs so little yet means so much.

This is an investment that will pay returns almost immediately, and unlike most investments this one is almost a sure thing. Why wouldn’t a leader make this investment today?

How Much a Woman Should Earn

We can thank Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for this post. In the blunder of blunders he inadvertently shined a light on gender inequality during an event focused on women in tech. He suggested women shouldn’t ask for raises but rather trust that the system will take care of them.

“It’s not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along,” Nadella said in the interview, which was at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Phoenix. “And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that quite frankly women who don’t ask for raises have.”

“Because that’s good karma,” Nadella continued. “It’ll come back because somebody’s going to know that’s the kind of person that I want to trust. That’s the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.”

Now isn’t that special. Women may not have money to pay their bills but they have that karma thing working for them …. which is good.

To be fair, Nadella almost immediately took to social media to declare that he had misspoken, that he was wrong, that he was completely wrong, that he wasn’t clear, and he was just about anything he needed to be to make the whole thing just go away.

That he was wrong is obvious; why he was wrong isn’t so clear. Did he just misspeak or did he forget he was talking out loud and let his true thoughts go public. Oh how I wish somebody would have followed up with a question about how men should ask for a raise. I just can’t escape the feeling that his answer would have been very different.

But is he actually right?

I have compiled a list of all the reasons, yes, ALL the reasons why women should NOT be paid equally to their male counterparts. Here it is:

So, what do you think. I’m absolutely certain that’s all of them. Every one that makes sense anyway. So, it’s plain to see why women should just sit there quietly and trust the “system” that has been undervaluing them since, well, since forever.

Here’s the deal; everybody, everybody, who does the same job with the same results and with similar experience should be payed the same. The exact same! The job and how well it’s done is all that should matter. It’s time to fix this once and forever.

It can’t be that hard. If companies can’t afford to pay more than maybe men don’t get a raise until women catch up. Maybe the stockholders or owners take a hit until women are paid equally. Maybe it’s something else, but SOMETHING must change.

Here’s one thing that must change: I was talking with a friend of mine, a former CEO and CFO of a couple of fairly large companies. I asked about this topic and he said women are paid less “because their income is incremental” to the “main bread winner.” Any guesses as to the gender of the “main” bread winner?

Now my friend is a great guy and at 80 years old it’s been a while since he has influenced a business but while he’s retired his thinking in too many businesses persists. THAT MUST CHANGE!

Here’s another thing that must change: get rid of job descriptions. Replace them with Position Results Descriptions. Job descriptions are task oriented and allow a myriad of biases to enter a performance review. Position Results Descriptions are a truly performance based evaluation tool that considers only the key results areas required for the job and objectively measures, with predetermined measurements, whether or not the “result” was achieved successfully. It doesn’t allow race, age, or gender to enter into the picture. Not even subconsciously.

Fair is fair. I don’t know if there was ever a legitimate reason for women to be paid less then men but I can guarantee you there is no legitimate reason today. Karma doesn’t pay bills, equal pay for equal work does!

Massacre by Micromanaging

“The more you use your reins, the less they’ll use their brains” – The Horse Whisperer

This is going to be a post about a killer of professional development, micromanagement. But before I get too far ahead of myself, let’s begin with a basic definition of the topic.

“Micromanagement is a style of management that is characterized by an excessive need for
control and extreme attention to even apparently trivial details.”

Most leaders would accept the above definition as reasonable. Most micromanages would take issue with the term “excessive.” Therein lies the problem.

No one really thinks of the words “excessive” and “extreme” as positive. They bring to mind things like police brutality, abuse or worse. When used to describe a management style, many people envision a boss who has made it a goal to make the lives their direct reports miserable. That’s why so many people have a terrible reaction to being micromanaged and usually cite it as one of the worst management dysfunctions.

Here’s what real micromanagement looks like:

The manager tells direct reports what to do, how to do it and when to do it, giving no latitude to the employee. All decisions, no matter how small, must go through the manager. Delegation of authority is restricted or totally absent, this results in direct reports spending more time reporting on progress than making progress. The “guidance” provided by the manager generally offers minimal incremental value, for instance, nitpicking comments regarding grammatical or typographical errors on documents.

While micromanagement can be caused by a variety of issues it is most commonly just a learned set of negative behaviors that must be unlearned. It is not an easy change to make but it can be accomplished over time with some professional coaching and a serious commitment to make the necessary changes.

Whether you believe the definition I’ve provided you should make no mistake about this: micromanagers literally massacre the morale, motivation and growth of their people. I don’t think there is a worse problem in business today. Leaders who insist on micromanaging are very limited leaders. They have put good people in place but they refuse to turn them lose to excel.

When managers attempt to control every situation, employees become de-motivated (after all, they know their work is going to be scrutinized and reworked by the manager anyway, so why bother trying?) and more importantly, they fail to learn and adapt to new situations, since it is never truly up to them to succeed or fail. This will negatively affect their long-term ability to contribute to the team and ultimately the success of the organization.

Here’s the biggest problem of all with micromanaging; it cripples the development of future leaders. When you as a leader feel that you must control every decision and process you are not developing future leaders. When you fail to develop future leaders you miss the opportunity to experience explosive growth within your organization.

You cannot experience explosive growth in your organization by developing more obedient followers, you must grow more leaders. Leaders DO NOT grow in micromanaged environments.
If you’re not growing leaders then you’re not growing your organization, as least not as fast as you could. You simply must learn to let go. Risk letting your people make some mistakes, they may even learn from them. Maybe they will find a better way than your way (yes, it is possible) of doing something and you can learn too.

If you’re any type of authentic leader then you need to trust that you’ve put the right people in the right spots. If you believe in yourself then you’ll believe in your people. If you can’t do that then you might be able to manage your people but you cannot truly lead them.

Let go to lead!

How Hate Takes Over

“No one has ever gained a thing by hating.”

That was a tweet I sent out last week. It was the truth as I saw it and I didn’t think that there could possibly be any controversy over it at all. It was “harmless” and a simple fact.

Boy, oh boy, oh boy was I wrong!

To be sure, the majority of people who RT’d or commented on the tweet agreed with it but it was not a very big majority. I was shocked by the number of people who disagreed with it, some vehemently.

Some said I was just naive, they said that some of the most successful people in the world got that way by hating. They said their hatred “allowed” them to basically violate any law or any societal norm for their own purposes. Hatred was how they “gained” an advantage over people who didn’t hate.

As surprised as I was at the responses I was most surprised by the person several people held up as an example of “successful” hating.

Adolph Hitler.

They listed his “accomplishments” and said they could only have been “achieved” by hating. When I pointed out that he killed millions and then eventually killed himself two people said his suicide was his greatest accomplishment. They said he “got to” choose when and how he died and took that choice away from the allies. One person said only people who truly love themselves could kill themselves.

The responses came from all around the world but I was surprised by how many of these “Hitler” responses came from Europe. How soon people forget?

One woman from the UK said that “Hitler had made Germany the greatest world power ever” and the Americans “ruined” it by destroying Europe. Another person from France said that Hitler didn’t die at all, his “death” was just American propaganda and that Hitler is STILL alive today. (I assume he’s working as a mechanic in Detroit with his friend Elvis Presley.)

I just started blocking some of these people and eventually gave up and turned Twitter off. I didn’t block them for disagreeing with me, I blocked them because I refuse to let hate win. I refuse to let hate take over my timeline. I refuse to let hate take over anything.

(I am going to violate a basic Human Relations Principle here but this must be said) To the people who think they have something to gain by hating, let me say this: YOU ARE WRONG! Believing that there is ANYTHING to be gained by hating allows hate a place in your life. That is how hate takes over!

Hate destroys. Hate destroys and that is all it does. It destroys families. It destroys friendships. It destroys countries. It destroys companies and teams.

Most of all, hate destroys people.

If you have bought into the idea that something good comes from hate then get rid of that idea now. Get rid of it before it gets rid of you. Get rid of it before it costs you valuable relationships and maybe even family members. Get rid of it before it costs you your self-respect.

Haters ALWAYS lose more than the hated. It may not appear that way at first, it may take some time for hate to destroy but destroy it will.

Only you can keep yourself from becoming hate’s victim. It’s a decision you must make. Make it today, make it tomorrow and make it everyday.

Mountains to Climb

great-smoky-mountainsMountains are beautiful from a distance, especially when we don’t need to hike over them to get somewhere else.

Imagine what the mountains meant to the early pioneers traveling across the vast prairie in search of the Great Northwest. They were not a welcomed sight, but rather, the very definition of hardship. It took days to travel even a few miles. The journey was rugged, the work exhausting, the progress minimal. Joy in passing through the rugged range rested completely upon the attitude of the pioneer.

Trials and hardships in life are like mountains. They are inevitable, challenging, unwanted obstacles, and much more beautiful when looking back on those recently conquered.

Today, many of us live in the midst of mountains. And so the question must be asked – how is your attitude?

I speak often on the importance of maintaining control of our attitudes. The ability to “set the tone” for your day, everyday, is critical for success in the face of the mountains that challenge us each day. It is difficult; to say the least, to remain positive when it seems as if every light at the end of the tunnel is just another train on it’s way to running you over. It might even be impossible to do it alone.

So….I’d like to offer a small suggestion – don’t try to do it alone. Simul-climb! Simul-climbing is a technique used by experienced rock climbers to move up a rock wall with a steady pace, it also allows the peak to be reached much faster.

Simul-climbing is basically two climbers roped together climbing at the same time. While it offers many advantages there seems to be one big shortcoming, if one falls, they both fall. This causes simul-climbers to be very selective when choosing a partner.

Pick a partner, or mentor, that will help you maintain control over your attitude and someone that you can help as well. This is a person who you can share your challenges with, one that offers advice and encouragement and accepts the same from you. Tie yourself to this person and attack the mountains that stand in the way of your eventual success. Remember, if you fall and your attitude goes south on you, you will be taking someone else with you.

So don’t fall!

Gun Control – Yes or No?

GunsI’ve been thinking about writing on the subject of gun control for a while now. It is certainly top of mind for many people in the United States these days and rightly so. For some people in the United States, on both sides of the gun debate, it is their number one “issue” every day of the year.

It was a couple of articles in today’s edition of the Minneapolis Star & Tribune that finally prompted me to add my two cents on the topic.

Before we begin let me set the record straight. I am a gun owner. The most liberal among us would call me a gun nut, the people I might be tempted to call a gun nut would say what I own are nothing more than toys. Some people hate all things gun related and some people love all things gun related.

Such is the emotion that surrounds this important debate. As with most topics that are worth debating it is that emotion that makes the debate so unfruitful.

The first story I noticed in the paper was the story of a man who murdered his mother in 1995 with a shotgun when he was just 14 years old. He was found to be insane and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane. Under both state and federal law if he was ever released he would be forbidden from ever buying or owning a gun again.

Well, he was released, and there are NO RECORDS to indicate exactly when. Nice isn’t it, they really aren’t sure just when he got out, that would indicate to me that they also can’t say it was okay to let him out. Was he cured or not?

Well, apparently not.

In the time since his release he has been acquiring guns, “legally” purchased at local gun shops. A LOT of guns, the paper rightly described it as an arsenal. He just lied on his permit application, switched his first and middle names and presto – he’s good to go.  He managed to acquire 13 guns, including semi-automatic rifles, an AK-47, a Tommy gun, assorted shotguns and handguns, including a .50-caliber Desert Eagle.

Then he posted a photo on his Facebook page of all his guns laid out on a table. A local sheriff’s office saw the photo and recognized the name of the person as someone who was forbidden to own any weapon, much less this stockpile.

When the deputies arrived at his home, the same home where 18 years earlier he had murdered his mother, they discovered letters he had written (apparently to no one) that talked about the “monster” within him that wanted to kill, and kill and kill.

I wish I could say that the paper reported this was an isolated incident but apparently not being able to legally purchase guns in Minnesota is no hindrance to “legally” purchasing guns in Minnesota. The loopholes are so big you could drive a tank through them.

Why would we even need “debate” about closing those loopholes? Sorry folks, but I don’t want convicted murderers, crazy ones at that, standing next to me at the gun range blasting away.

The next story would almost be funny if it wasn’t so ridiculous. On Saturday, January 23,  2013, five people were shot at various gun shows around the U.S. All accidentally, and all will fully recover. But five people, in a day?

I probably wouldn’t have paid that much attention to this story except for the part about the guy who had just purchased himself a used 45 caliber handgun. Apparently one of the first things he did was point it at his business partner and pull the trigger. Well, guess what – unknown to the guy who purchased the gun it came with bullets and the bullets were in the gun. His business partner is hospitalized but recovering.

Now here’s the part that really caught my eye. It’s illegal to bring a loaded gun to that gun show but the person who did will likely never be prosecuted because no one knows his name. It was a simple cash transaction. No records and no ID required! We would probably never know who bought it either if the knucklehead knew anything about handling a gun.

Could we at least get a name of the seller? Just a name? Why would we even need to debate about that?

I went up to my neighborhood store for my morning diet coke this morning and there was a guy in front of me who looked to be about 40 years old. He was buying cigarettes, they asked for his ID and he showed it to them.

So remember, when buying cigarettes be sure to bring your ID, when buying a gun, be sure to leave it at home.

I do not want more gun control laws passed in the United States. I will not surrender my guns, I will not stop supporting those who choose to owns guns, lots of guns. It is a basic right of every law abiding citizen of the United States. It’s fun to target shoot, hunting is a great sport and having a gun for self-defense is a very reasonable thing to do.

Can we be reasonable people? Can we FULLY enforce the laws currently on the books? Can we track the buyers and sellers of guns in the manner that we track the buyers and sellers of certain cough syrups and cold medicines in the United States?

Can we ask people for a legal ID before we let them set up their table and start selling guns at the local gun show?

Worried about the “government” collecting all the guns? Stop deluding yourself; you and I know that is NEVER going to happen – 300 million guns are not going to go quietly into the night.

This really shouldn’t be so hard.

One last question to my fellow Conservative Republicans before you start ripping on me for this post ….  We want to pass “Voter Rights” laws that require people to show an ID before they vote (which I support) but showing an ID before buying a gun at a gun show is unconstitutional?

Help me out with that one.


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Vol. 6, Issue 286, pp. ec176
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The tyrosine phosphatase Shp2, encoded by PTPN11 in humans, is associated with various forms of blood cell cancer and syndromes associated with aberrant signaling through the Ras–mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. Inactivating mutations in PTPN11 also cause metachondromatosis, a bone disorder associated with excess bone formation (see Zaidi and Méndez-Ferrer). To investigate the mechanism by which loss of Shp2 function leads to metachondromatosis, Yang et al. engineered mice with a selective knockout (KO) of Shp2 in different sets of bone-associated cells. The LysM-KO animals lacked Shp2 in monocytes, macrophages, and osteoclast precursor cells, whereas the Cstk-KO mice lacked Shp2 in mature osteoclasts. Although the LysM-KO mice developed mild age-related osteopetrosis (an increase in bone density), the Cstk-KO mice developed many of the skeletal abnormalities seen in patients with metachondromatosis, including benign cartilage tumors. Lineage-tracing studies revealed that the Cstk-Cre reporter was expressed in a subset of perichondrial cells in the groove of Ranvier, and analysis of knee joint sections from the Cstk-KO mice showed an expansion of cells in the groove of Ranvier. Using yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) to tag the Cstk-KO cells, the bone lesions and most of the chondroid tumor cells in the Cstk-KO mice were found to consist of YFP+ chondroid cells at various developmental stages. Flow cytometry showed that within the YFP+ cell population, there were increased numbers of cells with mesenchymal progenitor markers, and, when cultured in vitro, these cells were able to differentiate into multiple different types of cells. Thus, these appear to represent a previously uncharacterized chondroid progenitor stem cell. Transcript analysis from the tumors from the Cstk-KO mice indicated that messenger RNAs encoding Indian hedgehog (Ihh) and parathyroid hormone-related protein (Pthrp) were increased. Shp2 activity is necessary for fibroblast growth factor 18 (Fgf18) to activate the Ras-MAPK-ERK (extracellular signal–regulated kinase) pathway and inhibit Ihh expression, and ERK signaling was decreased in the Cstk-KO progenitor cells. Treatment of the Cstk-KO mice with an inhibitor of the Hedgehog pathway reduced the severity of the skeletal overgrowth and improved mobility. Thus, this study identified a cartilage stem cell population that in the absence of functional Shp2 can become a source of benign bone tumors. In addition, this study delineated a pathway through which loss of Shp2 triggered excessive proliferation of these stem cells and showed that targeting Ihh signaling was an effective strategy for ameliorating symptoms.

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My name is Jane Gardner and I am retired.  I have lived in Edinburgh for nearly six years and have been volunteering in the Botanics Library for five years. I worked mostly in education, both administratively and teaching.

Through membership of NADFAS I became a “Heritage Volunteer”, joining a group project to clean all the books in the downstairs stacks in the Botanics Library. One of the other volunteers, Laura Gunstensen, was also involved in a project documenting the correspondence of John Hutton Balfour, Regius Keeper from 1845 to 1879.  That struck me as fascinating and, after discussion with Graham Hardy, l started my first historical project in April 2016: summarising and recording the letters from botanists sent to J.T.B. Syme (1822-88) as editor of the third edition of “English Botany”, a splendid 12-volume reference work complete with illustrations and “popular content” (medicine and folklore) by Phoebe Lankester. Reading (or deciphering) these letters took me back, for a few hours each week, 140 years to the world of Victorian plant-hunters and I was sorry to arrive at the end of Volume 12.

Next, from January 2017, I shared a project with Laura: to summarise and record the huge correspondence of Harold Fletcher, Regius Keeper from 1956-70.  There were many strands:  Kew; the RHS; the USA; Logan and others.  We had many chuckles over Fletcher’s firm opinions and ironic humour.

Then, from June 2018 until December 2019, I did the same with the correspondence of Sir William Wright Smith, Regius Keeper from 1922-56. He was a less colourful character than Fletcher but I enjoyed going back again to an earlier time, and was excited to come across two “Warrants” for Smith’s employment at the Botanics and the University of Edinburgh that had been signed by King George V!

Lastly, and currently (from January 2020) I have gone back to Victorian times with a group of fern-hunters of the 1870s and 1880s, some of whom had positions in the Indian army and took advantage of their location to hunt for new ferns. Unfortunately only one side of this correspondence has been kept:  the letters sent to Colonel Frederick Henderson by other fern-hunters. Some letters include lively descriptions of a colonial life featuring balls, tennis and badminton tournaments, picnics and house parties.  I am looking forward to getting back to these characters after our enforced break.

The book cleaning group has now gone on to projects such as the re-filing of botanical illustrations into acid-free files. There are usually three of us at a session and we have a good chat. The Library is a peaceful, studious place and the stepping back into history is the best aspect of the work to me. There is nothing to dislike, except that on occasion the air-conditioning in the Library misbehaves and we all get a bit chilled!


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A Pictorial Meadow at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

A rainbow of flowers was sown in the middle of spring during the Covid-19 lockdown by Herbaceous Supervisor Kirsty Wilson. At the time only key horticultural staff were on site to look after the valuable plant collections, the rest having been furloughed.  It felt emotional sowing it alone but gave her hope that by the time it flowered it would be in full bloom to welcome back our visitors.

A Pictorial Meadow is an annual seed mix that provides the simplest method to achieve a gorgeous breath-taking display of flowers with the minimum amount of preparation and after care. It is sown in situ and will grow on average type soils, where it will quickly start distinctive ‘waves’ of colour right up to the first frosts. This flowering display provides a rich nectar source for pollinators and is certainly putting a smile on the face of our returning visitors.

The flowers in the mix are a carefully blended selection of colourful annuals designed to provide high quality and cost-effective flowering displays with minimal effort.  They have been developed following many years of intensive trials at the University of Sheffield.  Unlike other seed mixes that are available, they have been designed to flower and provide visual interest over an extremely long period of time (from summer through to late autumn).

They have been used to inject large-scale colour impact into commercial landscapes, deprived social housing sites, roadside verges, roundabouts and in our own home gardens. They provide a colourful, wildlife-friendly replacement for mown grass; and can be sown formally in beds or to provide colour between shrubs, trees and perennials.  Leeds City Council included a meadow mixture in their magnificent Gold Medal winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2010 and these mixtures were used extensively in the London 2012 Olympic Park with great success. Here at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh we have sown this annual mix on the bed next to the public display glasshouses where the proposed Edinburgh Biomes glasshouse will be built. The plants in the bed were relocated in advance of construction work starting and rather than leaving bare soil this beautiful annual seed mix was sown.

The annual seed mix was sown at 2-3g per square metre with sand in spring 2020. It takes about 8 weeks from sowing to flowering.  Crucial to the success of this annual meadow is the cleaniness of the site prior to sowing. For good performance you need a weed free seed bed and in particular you need to ensure that you have removed all the perennial weeds and any grass. It is also important to lightly firm the soil after sowing the seed.

As well as the annual meadow display bringing a rainbow of hope to visitors and providing a nectar source for bees it allows people to think about meadow landscapes. The sheer joy of being immersed in a meadow – surrounded by the fluttering of butterflies, chirping of crickets and the buzz of bees is increasingly rare. Many of us won’t remember a time when the countryside was filled with wildflowers and grassland that rippled with dazzling displays of flowers. Without urgent action to tackle dwindling biodiversity – these memories will disappear.  97% of the UK’s wildflower meadows have been removed or destroyed since WW2 for intensive agriculture and increased food production. Just like our flowers the insects that feed on these flowers are in trouble with a third of the UK’s wild bee and hoverfly species showing decline in their numbers since the 1980s.

Why not try an annual Pictorial Meadow in your own garden next year for a burst of colour and to help our pollinators. The short variety can even be sown into a barrel or container.  This might lead you on further to consider converting an area of lawn in your own garden into a perennial wildflower meadow using native species local to your area. This type of perennial meadow will reappear every year and it will help encourage wildlife in your garden.

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  1. Christine Holloway

    Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos. I love meadow and pictorial meadows. I have tried a couple myself with limited success so find your information here fascinating- I will keep trying. I am so impressed with your plantings and will visit the gardens in the future.

  2. Wonderful Kirsty. Well done. Looking forward to seeing Mum’s.
    Diane Black. M in B.

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Final info STRAF_WERK x De Marktkantine

05 February 2020

It’s almost friday and that means: having a good time in De Marktkantine. Floorplan, Benny Rodrigues, Luuk van Dijk, AJ Christou, Makossa and Lieke Trienekens will make it an unforgettable night. With this last important information you are ready to go.

The doors open at 22:00. Make sure you will not come late so you don’t have to miss anyone. We will dance until 05:00.

SW Amsterdam is almost sold out. The very last tickets are available here: Make sure you get your ticket in advance to avoid disappointment. Don’t buy any tickets through any unofficial website. Ticketswap is the safest way to buy a ticket from anybody else. Tickets can be scanned on your mobile phone and do not need to be printed out.

Address: Jan van Galenstraat 6, 1051 KM Amsterdam

There are several ways to get to De Marktkantine:

Public transport

From Amsterdam Central Station, take the GVB bus 18 Slotervaart and get off at De Markthallen. From here, De Marktkantine is practically next to the busstop. The night busses also depart at this stop.

There is enough space to stall your bicycle.

We discourage you to come by car. There is a limited amount of parking spots.

Pin only

De Marktkantine is PIN ONLY.

Wardrobe and lockers

There is a wardrobe where you can leave your jackets and bags. Also, there are lockers where you need a €2,- piece for.

Cigarettes are available on location with a valid ID or driver’s license. Cigarettes can only be purchased with a debit card.

Please note: smoking is not permitted outside the designated smoking areas. If you do smoke outside these areas, access to the event can be denied.

Food/ drinks

Food and drinks can be purchased at the venue. It is not allowed to bring your own food and drinks.

Hearing protection

Hearing protection is available at the cash registers.

The events of STRAF_WERK are for 18 years and older. Take a valid proof of identity with you such as an ID card, passport or driver’s license, otherwise access may be refused.

Area 1

22:00 – 23:30        Lieke Trienekens

23:30 – 01:00        Makossa

01:00 – 03:00        Floorplan

03:00 – 05:00        Benny Rodrigues

Area 2

23:00 –   00:30      AJ Christou

00:30 –   02:00      AJ Christou b2b Luuk van Dijk

02:00 –   04:45      Luuk van Dijk

Did you lose something? Please send an e-mail to De Marktkantine will help you to get your stuff back.

STRAF_WERK has a full zero tolerance policy concerning drugs.

Use #strafwerk / #swdmk and tag @straf_werk, we love to see your photos and videos.

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Round Stamp Personalized Cutting Board Set #001

Board Selection & Personalization Options

Our personalized cutting boards are engraved with a beautiful design of your choice. They make a perfect gift for a family, couple, friend, or maybe that special someone in your life. Surprise others with a unique wedding, anniversary or housewarming gift. Show your appreciation with a one of a kind party favor for your bridesmaids or groomsmen, friends, or family members. In addition, a personalized cutting board would make an excellent corporate gift for a business partner or a prospective client. We do not include invoices or receipts in the package.

Set Size Selection *

Please select the desired set. Board and cheese plate sizes are in inches; use measuring tape for size reference. All boards are about 3/4 inches thick. See the wood selection picture for wood type reference.

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(MM.DD.YYYY). Please provide the date or write N/A if you would like to exclude it. *Date format cannot be changed.

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Please select any option or combination if you would like to add to your order.

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METAL DISPLAY STAND: The metal stand will hold all board sizes we offer. Dimensions: 10″ (225 mm) x 5.5″ (140 mm). (COMING SOON)

BOARD OIL: Straga’s own handmade, all-natural board oil enhanced with Vitamin E.

STRAGA AROMA: Straga Aroma Oil will fill the room with a mild scent of your choice while protecting your wooden kitchen accessories maintaining them in a perfect condition. Made in house with food grade mineral oil and food grade flavours enhanced with Vitamin E. Comes in 5 flavours (Orange Flavor, Green Apple Flavor, French Vanilla, Lemon Flavor, Sweet Hibiscus Flavor).

SPECIAL NOTES: We engrave one side of the board with the selected design for display purposes, while the other side is the functional side and can be used as any other cutting board.

BOARD COLOR VARIATIONS: Our boards are made from natural wood and are never stained in the process. Due to the natural origin of the wood, there will be color variations that might be different from what is shown in our pictures.

ENGRAVING COLOR VARIATIONS: Our cutting boards are engraved using a high density laser beam. Due to this burning process, the coloration of the end engraving varies dependent on that particular piece of wood and how it reacts to the laser beam.

TECHNOLOGY: Each and every board is made from a high grade natural wood. All boards are made by us in our own shop and carefully checked prior to the engraving process. Personalization is achieved by using the state of the art laser engraver. Last, but not least, each board is completed by application of Straga Cutting Board Butter for the board’s protection; therefore, you get a fine-looking FINISHED cutting board!

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As we begin a new legislative session and look ahead to the 2020 elections, it’s important to stay focused on the issues that impact our state the most, from medicaid expansion to education funding, from environmental accountability to equal rights and more. With that in mind, we are excited to present our 2019-2020 Legislative Action List.

Stronger NC has compiled a Top 10 Action List to serve as a touchstone and goal post. These include areas we’ve worked on since 2017, creating toolkits, websites, live-streamed interviews, and strong networks of citizens and experts. We’ve worked with coalition partners, our online community, and grassroots activists across the state to collate the top list. This year, we will continue to spotlight these issues, but grassroots and advocacy groups cannot create change alone.

As the 2019 NCGA session kicks off, we’re asking our newly elected and returning representatives to join us by taking legislative action on these issues. News outlets will conduct their own polls, parties will develop their own platforms, and groups will continue to advocate for their causes, but it is our hope that by presenting a comprehensive (though not exhaustive) Top 10 List, we can paint a fuller picture of what is impacting North Carolinians. As you’ll see over the coming year with the Budget and the Census in particular, these issues are truly intersectional, and will take collective action to effect meaningful change.

Over the coming months, we’ll structure the civic engagement information we produce around these issues with calls to action, blog posts and legislative updates. Finally, we’d like to issue an open and ongoing invitation to everyone to share your ideas, research, expertise and passion with us to answer the question “how can we make NC stronger for all who call it home?”

Fair Elections

Health Care

LGBTQ Rights

Women’s Rights

Gun Law Reform

Criminal Justice Reform

  • Cash Bail Reform
  • Racial and Economic inequality in sentencing, increase public defenders, address school to prison pipeline
  • Stand Up For Rape Victims; establish protocol for examining kits, training to law enforcement and funding to prevent future backlogs
  • Links: The Economy of Criminal Justice

Equal Access

  • Rural Broadband
  • Public transportation for jobs, healthcare, education
  • Affordable Housing for disadvantaged groups including seniors, the differently abled, minorities, and veterans
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Turning Your Invention Into Profit – Essential Tips for Beginner Inventors

When it comes to turning a bright idea into a tangible product, there is, unfortunately, no one-size-fits-all recipe. If we found a universal roadmap to success, we could all have at least one patent on our name. We are not trying to discourage you, but if you want to be an inventor, you need to do a bit more than just come up with a good idea.

Before you dream of seeing your product on the shelves, or attracting potential investors with it, you have to take all the necessary steps to protect it.

No matter if you plan to make the product yourself, or sell it to a different company, need to ensure no one else can steal your original idea. Filing a patent may seem like a scary process at first, but we are here to help you out.

Below are some essential tips you need to consider if you want to bring your idea to life:

What made you come up with the product idea? Document every step

It’s not enough to have a good idea to be a successful inventor. If you want to be taken seriously, you need real proof that this idea is yours, to begin with. Start documenting your process the moment you start working on your patent. Get yourself an inventor’s journal and record all the things that have to do with your product. And here you should spare no details: how you came up with the idea, what it’s used for, how it works, manufacturing and marketing suggestions. It might sound unnecessary and tedious, but legally speaking, this journal can save you from a lot of legal trouble. Not everyone who hears about your idea has good intentions; people will try to seal it and, when that happens, it’s good to have as many details as possible to back you up.

To avoid having to prove your inventor’s journal is real, have a witness sign the journal down. This way, you have concrete proof that the idea is entirely original and it belongs to you. If you want to go one step further, you can even number the pages yourself to make sure no one can alter it. There are even diaries that have been specially created for inventors, but you can do just fine with a traditional notebook, as long as the pages are numbered and you take into consideration the rest of the advice above.

Research patents and analyze the market

Before you submit the paperwork for a patent, you need to do some research, both to check that your product has a place on the market and to avoid any potential legal issues regarding the originality of your patent. Here is what to consider for each option:

  • Patent research: find out if your idea is original. You may not have stolen the idea from someone else, but that doesn’t mean other people haven’t thought of the same thing. You can do free research on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, to ensure no one has legally protected a similar idea. It is advised you also do a non-patent “prior art” search, to confirm there is not any design or related artwork, because you won’t be able to patent it otherwise.
  • Market research: don’t forget that your project needs to appeal to the market as well. It’s not enough if your family thinks your new garage door idea is excellent. You need to see if there is room on the market for it as well. Conduct proper market research to see if there is a need on the market for your invention, to get an idea if your product worth being developed, distributed, and marketed.

Time to build the prototype

Once you’ve made your product idea is original, it’s time to move on to the next step, which is building the prototype. A lot of investors are scared by this step, but you don’t have to allocate a large budget to it. The prototype just needs to be good enough to show how the product in action.

A prototype is basically a demo of your idea, and its role is to demonstrate how your invention is designed and how your ideas are put into practice. Having it done will help you present something palpable to potential investors.

Working on the prototype will show you what potential flaws there are to it, as well as new features that can be added. Do it before patenting your idea, or else you won’t be able to change these things.

The experts at advise inventors need to take into account the following rules when it comes to creating a solid prototype:

  •  Draw your product, and index all your sketches in your journal.
  •  Decide what materials you need to create a 3D prototype of your product and create a mock-up
  •  Once you like how the mock-up looks, go ahead and create a working model for your new invention.

If your idea is too demanding to prototype, be it because it’s too big or too expensive, you can always do animation or an explanatory video and use it when pitching to potential investors.

Which kind of patent is right for you?

Now that your design is finalized and ready to take real shape, you can move on to filing a patent – which is the most important step, really. According to the USPTO here are two types of patents you can choose from, depending on the type of product you are developing: utility patents and design patents.

The difference between the two can be hard to understand by a beginner, which is why it’s advisable to ask a professional for help.

Now, you might be tempted to take care of all of these things, but it’s better to have a professional review it before submission. You want to make sure no competitor can find an outlet to steal your idea, so it’s best if you talk to an agent or a patent attorney, who can help protect you from any potential legal issues.

Marketing – the final step

Once you have your patent registered, it’s time to do all it takes to put your product on the shelves and make sure people hear about it. First, you will need to come up with a solid business plan and decide on one aspect:

Do you want to oversee manufacturing and create a marketing strategy, or do you want another company to do all of these for you?

While the second idea may seem less profitable, it can actually do a lot of harm. If you don’t have any experience in marketing, you might make a lot of mistakes that will cost a lot to fix in the future, so it’s better to trust an expert instead. Besides, as the inventor, your job isn’t to deal with day-to-day processes. You can always consult with the marketing company, but otherwise, let them do their job and you can focus on your time and energy on big picture processes.

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Cosmetics and Beauty Products – Good For You Too

First it had been healthy food; then came a press for sustainable living. Now even clothes are organic. It only is practical that the products you put on the human body are good for you too. nha phan phoi my pham obagi

From shampoo to lipstick and perfume to manage creams, now you can live an entirely all-natural existence (won’t you sleep better during the night?)

Fragrance that does a human anatomy good

LAVANILA has introduced what they claim is “the World’s Premier Healthy Fragrance.” The idea is novel: as opposed to loading fragrances with harsh synthetic ingredients that dry and damage skin, they use healthy ingredients that nurture and condition the human body with each spray. In a time when everyone’s concerned with global warming (er, global climate change), and toxic chemicals, this product launch couldn’t be any timelier.

LAVANILA’s sensual vanilla blends are meant to “captivate the senses” but additionally they nurture skin with a healthier dose of pure essential oils, 100 percent natural botanicals, and super antioxidant technology-so it’s beneficial to you and the environment (Al Gore could be proud).

Plant those smackers

Once you consider corn you may picture neighborhood barbeques and roudy children with corn on the cob dribble running down their chins. You probably never considered wearing it in your lips. CARGO invites you to improve how you consider corn, an abundant renewable resource. PlantLove(TM) Botanical Lipstick is created entirely out of eco-friendly corn.

The manufacturing process emits less greenhouse gases, which many scientists believe to function as major reason behind “global warming “.The outer carton is made of flower paper embedded with real flower seeds, so all you have to complete is moisten, plant, and wait for a bouquet of wild flowers to develop! Now that’s utilizing the “whole animal” if you know what I mean. Even though you don’t buy into the global warming theory, you’ll love the smooth and silky texture, that will be infused with Orchid Complex(TM) and meadowfoam seed oil, jojoba and shea butter. Plus, CARGO is donating $2 from the sale of each shade to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Stella McCartney established fact for her stance on the environment and cruelty-free products (oh yeah, her dad’s famous too), and now she’s turn out with her own distinct certified organic skincare. CARE by Stella McCartney is just a luxury line skincare treatments formulated with 100 percent organic substances and zero percent petrochemicals or silicones. Types of products include her Purifying Foaming Cleanser that not merely washes away makeup and impurities, it’s made to leave your skin layer looking fresh, soft, and radiant through the organic extracts hawthorn and horsetail. Her Toning Floral Water the antioxidant green tea and linden blossom extracts to tone and soothe-and help enhance the action of the 5 Benefits Moisturizers. The Nourishing Elixir blends sebum, and a variety of soybean, nigella sativa, and musk rose abundant with omega 3 and essential fatty acids to help firm and revitalize the skin.

Lancôme turns eco-chic

L’oreal owned cosmetics giant Lancome has announced its eco-chic initiatives for 2007-initiatives that promise to help combat the damage done by the environment to humans and help prevent damage to the environment by humans.

One of the very most exciting initiatives may be the launch in June 2007 of Primordiale Cell Defense, which targets neutralizing 99 percent of the damaging free radicals brought on by UV exposure, pollution, and temperature extremes. An important part of the eco-chic program is an ideal partnership with, a nonprofit organization specialized in educating people about climate change. In the

second 50% of 2007, the four Lancôme boutiques positioned in New York’s Upper West Side; Short Hills, NJ; Dallas, TX; and Santa Clara, CA, will go Carbonfree.

The brand new herbal experience

Everybody remembers those annoying-slightly uncomfortable Herbal Essence commercials where in fact the actor who uses the product enjoys it a touch too much. By using these new shampoos by Vogue International, you may well be tempted expressing your delight. Fortunately you’ll be in the privacy of your shower, so feel free to let out a squeal of delight. The shampoos, appropriately called Organix, feature simply delicious scents like Soft & Silky Vanilla, which combines smoothing Tahitian vanilla bean oils with silk amino proteins to strengthen and seal the hair’s cuticles. Nourishing Coconut Milk Anti-breaking Serum will keep fly-aways and split ends at bay, and make you smell good enough to consume (be warned, strangers may stand only a little closer to you). Every one of the products within their five collections are sulfate free and contain active organic ingredients. See, there isn’t to suffer in the name of saving the planet!

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Samsung ML-2165W printer review

A few weeks ago, my old and trusty HP Deskjet 3845 Color Inkjet printer died while printing some envelopes. I don't even remember when I bought this printer, probably over 10 years ago. I happened to pass an electronics shop, so I went in and bought a Samsung ML-2165W for €59.45. This was an impulsive buy.

Black & white laser printer

I had no idea what to buy, but I did know I wanted a black & white laser printer. I don't print a lot, maybe 5 pages a month. Ink evaporates and cartridges are expensive and the same goes for color. As I never print photos (online print services are so cheap these days), the color ink was only used to print advertising on plane or train tickets, sometimes the occasional website. I figured a black & white printer would save me from checking the printer settings each time.

Bye, bye HP

My previous printer served me well, why wouldn't I opt for an HP again? The most important reason is probably their software. A driver is all I need so please don't include tons of other applications I don't need. It gives me the impression I have to pay for something I don't want. I buy a printer, not a photo manager. On top of that, HP has received some bad press lately. I assume they lose money on their hardware and make a ton of profit on the cartridges. Maybe all printer vendors do?

ML-2165W and USB

While unpacking the Samsung ML-2165W, I notice it has everything in the box; a power and USB cable, nice. I have seen printers where you were required to buy a ‘printer cable’ (= USB cable) separately in the past. I connected the printer with the USB cable and printed a test page. It worked out of the box. The laser printer is fast (compared with the old inkjet) and the quality is what I expect from a €60 printer. Not bad, not great, but certainly good enough for printing text and plane tickets. So far, so good.

Wireless printing

The Samsung ML-2165W is also a wireless printer and is compatible with Mac OS X, or so they say.

I installed the Samsung Easy Printer Manager on Mac OS X Lion to configure the wireless settings on the printer, as I don't have a router that supports WPS (well, I do, but that's another story). The Easy Printer Manager is as unpredictable as I had feared. The printer, still connected via USB, didn't show up in the Easy Printer Manager. Sometimes it did, but only to disappear again. The wizard did not find the printer and blamed me for not connecting the USB cable. If the printer did show up, it would sometimes tell me this model did not support WIFI. After continuously rebooting, I may be able to access the WIFI settings menu. The menu does not show any wireless networks. A few demotivating hours later, I gave up and booted the Windows VM and ran the installation wizard. I finished the setup process in 5 minutes.

Samsung, please, don't include Mac OS X software if you don't care about it. Don't include a support link on your website if it only refreshes the page. Don't show 4 out of 5-star ratings if you don't show the actual reviews and almost every other review on the internet makes you look bad. Samsung, please, care about your clients.

Once I was past the initial setup (thanks to Windows), the printer works great. All the Macs in the house pick up the printer and fetch and install the driver automatically.

Overall this is a great little printer for a great price (still have to see what a new toner will cost me). It's fast and the quality is what I expect from it. Could it be improved? Sure, fixing the Mac OS X software (or leaving it out and providing a web interface) would go a long way. Having some minimal customer support or an FAQ page might have made me a happy customer.

This post is open source. Did you spot a mistake? Ideas for improvements? Contribute to this post via Github. Thank you!


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As part of the Sugar Blue Burlesque & Fallen Feathers 'One-off Wonders' range, these Fancy Pants Bloomers are made out of a thick black stretch knit, have a plain front and a features two rows of red pleated trim and a cute black bow at the back.

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The Fancy Pants Bloomers are very comfortable and just pull on, so no zips, perfect for a dance class, especially if you are doing floor or chair work.

The front of the bloomers have beeen ruched by elastic on the inside at the centre front of each leg to give a longer leg line a very 50's pin-up styling to them.

They can be worn with tights underneath or are the perfect undergarment under a swing skirt! These bloomers were designed with Lindy hop and Rock n' Roll dancers in mind!

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Trollin’ Ben Volin Tries To Stir Up Controversy With Tom Brady And Patriots

Every single time this putz writes something about the Patriots, it’s must read stuff. The guy looks at everything through a critical lens when it comes to this team and this quarterback. And this bullshit article is no different.

The jist of it all is that the Patriots not giving Tom Brady a new contract shows how they are misusing the salary cap and how they don’t want Brady anymore….or they don’t know if he wants to play? It gets kind of confusing when Ben is jumping from point to point trying to grasp at straws.

It all stems from Brady’s post practice interview yesterday, which, if you haven’t seen it, is pretty light-hearted. Although you wouldn’t know so if you solely read Volins views on it.

Let’s dive right in, cause as the immortal Skip Bayless says, “I’m about to UNLEASH!”

From the opening tip you can tell this is gonna be a classic troll article by Benny Boy:

“The Patriots began training camp with only one major, big-picture question facing them:

Why hasn’t Tom Brady gotten a contract extension yet?”

Yes, because THAT’S the big question heading into training camp. Not how Brady is gonna handle so many new offensive weapons. Or how the offense as a whole is going to handle not having their offensive pillar in Rob Gronkowski. Or how the defense is going to perform after losing Flores to Miami and drafting/signing numerous players on that side of the ball.

Nope. What does Ben think the biggest question is? Why doesn’t the quarterback have a new contract!?

The next paragraph alone shows how inept Ben Volin is overall at his job. How he ignores facts if they don’t conform to his skewed viewpoint.

“I have been posed that question a lot this summer, and I don’t have a good answer. Because there really isn’t a good reason for Brady not to get a contract extension — even if he doesn’t know whether he wants to play past 2019.”

How many times does this many have to say that he is going to play until he is 45!? What doesn’t this ignoramus understand!? “Even if he doesn’t know whether he wants to paly past 2019” HE HAS SAID HE WANTS TO AND WILL PLAY PAST THIS YEAR! But Volin writes his garbage and hopes that you will take his word as gospel and not look into the actual situation.

Moving on.

Volin proceeds to say how Brady has never played in the final year of his contract which, is in fact a true statement which is rare for him, but it really doesn’t mean anything. Who cares? The only people making a big deal out of this are local/national reporters who just need something to talk about because they can’t go a week without trying to tear down the Patriots Dynasty.

He talks about how easy it would be to move most of Brady’s salary into a signing bonus and free up cap space. So ya gotta think, if a dimwit like Ben Volin knows this, you think Bill Belichick doesn’t? I put my trust in Bill before Ben.

Volin states that if the Patriots would’ve handled this contract earlier, they could’ve signed a guy like Jared Cook. Cook signed a 2 yr/$15 mil contract with the Saints that included a $6 million signing bonus and $8 million in guarantees. Something tells me the Patriots just weren’t willing to go that far. He also brings up the fact that New England can now possibly go after OL Trent Williams who’s contract is $11 million JUST this year. If you think the Patriots would go for that and make him your highest paid OL by FAR, then you have no idea how this team works.

Now we get the “Patriots aren’t using the cap to the fullest” argument:

“The Patriots potentially are wasting a golden opportunity to improve the team by not tinkering with Brady’s contract. The whole point of paying Brady less than market value is to spread the money around to other players, right? That’s not happening this offseason.”

I mean, have the Pats gone out and made a huge impact signing? Other than Bennett, now really, but at the same time, when has that ever been their MO? They sprinkle money around to numerous players and draft picks to improve their team. Which they have done this offseason. So this ‘point’ Ben is trying to make really makes no sense.

We get another tone deaf comment about how Brady isn’t sure about his future too!

“Finally, there’s Brady’s side of it. Maybe the quarterback isn’t sure about his future. Former teammate Rodney Harrison said over the weekend, “I do believe that Tom is kind of year-to-year, and I think that’s probably one of the reasons why he’s not pressing on a new contract.”

Why, in 2019. are we still questioning whether or not Brady is ‘sure about his future’? Please find another lane to drive in Mr. Volin because this one has been shut down for years. And as for Rodney’s comment? He’s right! At this age, he and the team know he is pretty much year to year. And it’s working fine!

“But signing a two-year extension doesn’t have to lock Brady in. He can still retire after 2019 if he wants. An extension would be more of a place-marker for 2020 and 2021 than a guarantee he has to fulfill.”

Oh my god are you kidding me!? STOP BRINGING UP IF BRADY WANTS TO RETIRE OR NOT! HE DOESN’T! YOU CLOWN! Holy shit how dumb can one man be!

He literally contradicts himself a few paragraphs down when he says that Brady sounded like a guy that still wanted to play til he’s 45 during his press conference. So I ask you Ben Volin, why do you keep bringing up that Brady may not be so sure about his future when, at every turn, he seems pretty DAMN sure to me AND YOU!?t

And now we actually get to some Brady quotes:

“We’re all day-to-day, if you think about it,” Brady said before turning more serious. “I’m trying to do the best I can do today, and let those things work themselves out.”

But the impression I got is that Brady is as curious as the rest of us as to why he hasn’t gotten a new contract.

Please, reader, go to the above video of the entire interaction and go to about the 6 minute mark. Now tell me, does that sound like someone who just turned ‘more serious’ or does that sound like someone who really doesn’t care about what you’re asking him and he’s just saying the same thing he says EVERY DAMN YEAR!? But the impression that good ol Trollin Volin got was that Brady is baffled by the fact that his team has not graced him with a new contract.

At the end of his interview, Brady was asked if he thinks he deserves an extension.

“Have I earned it? I don’t know, that’s up for talk-show debate,” he said. “What do you guys think? Should we take a poll? Talk to Mr. Kraft, come on.”

Talk to Mr. Kraft, come on. He said it with a laugh, but this is the second day in a row I’ll reference the adage: There’s truth behind every joke.

Could Brady be having trouble getting Kraft to sit down at the table?

“No, like I said, we’ve got a great relationship, so we’ll see how it goes,” Brady finished.

“There’s truth behind every joke”. Yes. You are correct actually. The truth behind this joke is that simpletons and Patriot haters alike are going to take these quotes and run with them like the sheep they are. Just hoping and praying that maybe THIS will be the year where dissension finally sets in and tears this team down.

And please, is Brady having trouble getting in touch with Kraft? Bob Kraft views Tom Brady as a son, I really don’t think this is a problem. And he reassured everyone of that immediately, but please Ben, keep trying to stir up trouble where there is none. It’s really all you’re good for.

And of course, we can’t talk about Brady having an issue with the Patriots without bringing up how Bill Belichick may not even want him past this year!

“Bill Belichick may have had the more telling response about Brady’s contract when he was asked about it Saturday by NFL Network’s Willie McGinest.

“Right now, all of us are just focused on this year. We want to have a good season,” Belichick said.

Sounds like code for the Patriots want to see how Brady plays at 42 before deciding how much to commit to him at 43.

This man can’t be more wrong on everything in this article even if he tried. Does this sound ‘like code’ for the Patriots being hesitant in signing Brady for another year OR does it just sound like the beginning of every other damn season with this team where Belichick shifts all the focus on the success of the team this year?

So if you’re one of those people who take everything local media says about this team as fact and disregards what’s actually happening, this article is perfect for you. But if you’re a halfway intelligent person and can actually look at this situation for what it is, this article is laughable at best.

Tom Brady knows a deal is going to get worked out. The Patriots know a deal is going to get worked out. The only one who seemingly is clueless as usual, is Ben Volin.

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