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Oh, lawd. I enjoyed reading Cora's report about Coach Caldwell's contract update. That is, UNTIL she tweaked a longtime editor pet peeve of mine: using the "amount" when it should have been "number." ("... update to the amount of trips Caldwell can take on a private or charter aircraft..." 😲)

Like mental nails on a chalkboard, that one! 😲 😅
 
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lvocd said:
Oh, lawd. I enjoyed reading Cora's report about Coach Caldwell's contract update. That is, UNTIL she tweaked a longtime editor pet peeve of mine: using the "amount" when it should have been "number." ("... update to the amount of trips Caldwell can take on a private or charter aircraft..." 😲)

Like mental nails on a chalkboard, that one! 😲 😅
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Yes. "Amount" of trips is only valid as a measure of LSD ...back in the day.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Thank you!
I submitted the question to our family text thread. My brother suggested Charlie Wilson’s War.
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I've watched Charlie Wilson's War several times. Fascinating story that makes for a thoroughly entertaining movie! It's kind of "spy movie meets heist movie" in genre. Worth watching just for Philip Seymour Hoffman's character! ["Gust Avrakotos" would be an ideal avatar for our more cynical denizens of volnation!]

But... with all we know today, I'm just curious how accurate the movie's story is. By whose efforts and motivations did Wilson fall into this role? As I always asked my history students, "What things are you comfortable leaving to chance, and what things do you try to research, plan well, and do your best to ensure the outcome you prefer?" Their logical answer is that it depends on how important it is.

I'd encourage anyone to "double feature" Charlie Wilson's War with the recent interview of Scott Horton by Tucker Carlson. Horton's a good historian, his research is good, and his facts are probably in order. But he's from the "Washington incompetence" school of history. "Mistakes were made, and so this happened."

My contention is that if the pattern of political incompetence nonetheless yields outcomes consistently favorable to a particular ideology or financial interest... well, maybe "incompetence" is the cover--not the error. (Political parties are non-factors at this level. Yesterday's peace party can be tomorrow's war party, and vi$a-ver$a.)

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Full disclosure: after decades of studying and reading in the field of what used to be called "Social & Intellectual History"... my conclusion at age 70 is that I was wasting my time. Throughout history--even ancient history--to the degree that power, money, and leverage is on the line, the less likely that anything will be left to chance.

Two subsequent corrolaries are that (1) the best way to "not let the left hand know what the right hand is doing" is to keep intel & policy information in silos, and (2) whenever people whose incompetence created some scandal, debacle, conflict, deaths of innocents, or PR nightmare, are later promoted to similar or higher levels of responsibility... then it's not illogical to conclude that their "incompetence" was actually the cover, or the op.
IMHO.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
I've watched Charlie Wilson's War several times. Fascinating story that makes for a thoroughly entertaining movie! It's kind of "spy movie meets heist movie" in genre. Worth watching just for Philip Seymour Hoffman's character! ["Gust Avrakotos" would be an ideal avatar for our more cynical denizens of volnation!]

But... with all we know today, I'm just curious how accurate the movie's story is. By whose efforts and motivations did Wilson fall into this role? As I always asked my history students, "What things are you comfortable leaving to chance, and what things do you try to research, plan well, and do your best to ensure the outcome you prefer?" Their logical answer is that it depends on how important it is.

I'd encourage anyone to "double feature" Charlie Wilson's War with the recent interview of Scott Horton by Tucker Carlson. Horton's a good historian, his research is good, and his facts are probably in order. But he's from the "Washington incompetence" school of history. "Mistakes were made, and so this happened."

My contention is that if the pattern of political incompetence nonetheless yields outcomes consistently favorable to a particular ideology or financial interest... well, maybe "incompetence" is the cover--not the error. (Political parties are non-factors at this level. Yesterday's peace party can be tomorrow's war party, and vi$a-ver$a.)

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Full disclosure: after decades of studying and reading in the field of what used to be called "Social & Intellectual History"... my conclusion at age 70 is that I was wasting my time. Throughout history--even ancient history--to the degree that power, money, and leverage is on the line, the less likely that anything will be left to chance.

Two subsequent corrolaries are that (1) the best way to "not let the left hand know what the right hand is doing" is to keep intel & policy information in silos, and (2) whenever people whose incompetence created some scandal, debacle, conflict, deaths of innocents, or PR nightmare, are later promoted to similar or higher levels of responsibility... then it's not illogical to conclude that their "incompetence" was actually the cover, or the op.
IMHO.
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A Most Wanted Man (2014) ⭐ 6.7 | Crime, Drama, Thriller A great flick!
 
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ttharp said:
https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/longformarticle/kim-caldwell-summer-interview-251526840/

A nice summer article from Maria. She was able to catch up with CKC.
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I think this sums up my excitement and also concerns for this year's team:

"I don't really want to set one [a goal] yet," Caldwell said. "We have talked about things privately. I think this group is going to be significantly more athletic than any team I've ever had. They are able to do things and fly around. We're faster and bigger.

"We don't have necessarily the knockdown three-point shooter that we would have liked to get, but we have a lot of players that are going to be really consistent from behind the arc. I am just excited to see how we blend it together.
 
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lvocd said:
Oh, lawd. I enjoyed reading Cora's report about Coach Caldwell's contract update. That is, UNTIL she tweaked a longtime editor pet peeve of mine: using the "amount" when it should have been "number." ("... update to the amount of trips Caldwell can take on a private or charter aircraft..." 😲)

Like mental nails on a chalkboard, that one! 😲 😅
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HHMMMMMM? All trips are not equal. AMOUNT of air miles might be a real limiter, that is how they will define cost. Bet 10 trips to Europe is not on the table, Atlanta on the other hand.
 
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SIAP: Only four (4) Lady Vols basketball players made the SEC First-Year Honor Roll. What's going on???

;)
Favor Ayodele – Agricultural Education, Communication & Education (Master's)
Alyssa Latham – Psychology (Master's)
Zee Spearman – Sociology (Master's)
Samara Spencer – Sports Management (Master's)
 
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BruisedOrange said:
SIAP: Only four (4) Lady Vols basketball players made the SEC First-Year Honor Roll. What's going on???

;)
Favor Ayodele – Agricultural Education, Communication & Education (Master's)
Alyssa Latham – Psychology (Master's)
Zee Spearman – Sociology (Master's)
Samara Spencer – Sports Management (Master's)
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We're slippin'! 😉

But seriously, I have always been so proud of how EVERY Lady Vol staff has maintained the high academic standard set by Pat Summitt. This is NOT an easy thing to do. Pat, then Holly, then Kellie, and now Kim were/are bound by a code that is NOT easy to abide by any stretch of the imagination. There are TOP PROGRAMS that still turn a blind eye to academic performance if a player is dominant enough to them to warrant it. But at Tennessee, every player is expected to perform well (on their own) in the classroom, and there is an effective, achievable-with-hard-work study plan made for each of them to succeed while still having time to go to practice and to travel to games.
 
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lvocd said:
We're slippin'! 😉

But seriously, I have always been so proud of how EVERY Lady Vol staff has maintained the high academic standard set by Pat Summitt. This is NOT an easy thing to do. Pat, then Holly, then Kellie, and now Kim were/are bound by a code that is NOT easy to abide by any stretch of the imagination. There are TOP PROGRAMS that still turn a blind eye to academic performance if a player is dominant enough to them to warrant it. But at Tennessee, every player is expected to perform well (on their own) in the classroom, and there is an effective, achievable-with-hard-work study plan made for each of them to succeed while still having time to go to practice and to travel to games.
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I am grateful Koach Kim has her team’s priorities straight. 🧡
 
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1reVOLver said:
And don't forget the vegetarian (are fungi veggies?) amounts.

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Listened to a long interview with Rob O'Neil, the Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden, toward the end of which he talked about his work with PTSD, for himself and others, and how Ibogaine treatments helped, and maybe once a year for "maintenance" now.

In my 70 years I've never had a minute that I wasn't sober. But I was listening to his story closely, thinking and wondering. Maybe (instead of the escape from reality we knew in the '60s) it strips away all the layers of artificial buffers we (and our First World society) have erected between us and reality. It's a legit question, for sure.
 
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