Early stab at things.
COACHING SEARCH
The Lions do not need a new head coach or anything like that, but they do have a vacancy at offensive coordinator after parting ways with Anthony Lynn. The big question here will be whether or not Dan Campbell wishes to retain play-calling himself or not. When head coaches do the play-calling themselves, the coordinator position really becomes the spot for their right-hand man/advisor, the most consistent voice in their head set helping them figure out what personnel the defense has on the field, what they may want to come back to etc. Essentially it becomes an advisory/input role rather than the formal developer and coordinator and caller of plays. Here's a list of some guys who check out as options, either due to league-wide hype or connection to Campbell:
- Ben Johnson, Detroit Lions tight ends coach
- Duce Staley, Detroit Lions AHC/running backs coach
- Zac Robinson, Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks coach
- Mike Kafka, Kansas City Chiefs quarterbacks coach
- Ken Dorsey, Buffalo Bills quarterbacks coach
- Kevin Garver, Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receivers coach
- Ronald Curry, New Orleans Saints quarterbacks coach
- Joe Brady, former Panthers offensive coordinator
- James Urban, Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks coach
- Ike Hilliard, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers coach
- Jeff Nixon, Carolina Panthers running backs coach
- Jason Garrett, former Giants offensive coordinator
Looking at this list, the first three external options are intriguing if Campbell is planning to give the new offensive coordinator play-calling, but likely would be in line for promotions to offensive coordinator at their current destinations if their offensive coordinators get snatched. From this group, Ken Dorsey is probably the most attractive, as the Bills have the most stylistically similar offense to the Lions, and his work with Josh Allen has been terrific thus far.
Overall, however, I do think the Lions keep this as an internal hire, likely promoting Ben Johnson from tight ends coach to offensive coordinator, thanks to his growing role in the offensive game plan, notably in the passing game. He also has prior experience with Campbell from their time in Miami, making this a pretty easy decision. So Detroit promotes Ben Johnson.
They'd then have to find a new tight ends coach, easy enough, and not overly important given both Campbell and Johnson have been TE coaches themselves.
... keep reading on reddit ➡>What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves. . . -AFFC, Brienne III
One thing that I thoroughly enjoy doing with the series is looking at what happened to a group of characters that were involved in a particular event/group (ex: Fate of the Kingswood Brotherhood). From a comment by u/RohanneBlackwood, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the fates of the different characters who were suitors of Brienne of Tarth.
The Fates of Brienne's Suitors
Background
Brienne was betrothed to three characters (unnamed Caron, Red Ronnet Connington and Humfrey Wagstaff) before she was subject to a cruel game in which men were betting on who could take her maidenhead. Several of these characters have popped up again/will pop up again. Let's take a look.
If interested (a somewhat similar post about the characters who killed Beric): Curse of the Lightning Lord: Revenge of the Brotherhood without Banners
Betrothals
Brienne has three total betrothals:
Unnamed Caron
Not necessarily a suitor, but Brienne's first betrothal was to a younger son of House Caron:
>Brienne had been betrothed at seven, to a boy three years her senior, Lord Caron's younger son, a shy boy with a mole above his lip. They had only met the once, on the occasion of their betrothal. Two years later he was dead, carried off by the same chill that took Lord and Lady Caron and their daughters. Had he lived, they would have been wed within a year of her first flowering, and her whole life would have been different. -AFFC, Brienne III
Fate: Died of Sickness
Red Ronnet Connington
Ronnet Connington was the second man to be betrothed to Brienne. He gave her a rose, stating this is all you will ever have of me:
>Ser Ronnet was a landed knight, no more. For any such, the Maid of Tarth would have been a sweet plum indeed. "How is it that you did not wed?" Jaime asked him.
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>"Why, I went to Tarth and saw her. I had six years on her, yet the wench could look me in the eye. She was a sow in silk, though most sows have bigger teats. When she tried to talk she almost choked on her own tongue. **I gave her a rose and told her it was all that she would ever
TLDR : This is a sum of the most important Universal Basic Income experiments (when you hand over enough cash to people to survive, for free, without any conditions), that shows that it works in alleviating all social issues, poverty, illnesses, unemployment and lack of education, proving to be far more effective than traditional traditional welfare state approaches, with its monstruous bureauratic conundrum, while costing much less money too !
London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. They are veterans of the street. Some have been sleeping on the cold pavement of the Square Mile, Europe’s financial center, for going on forty years. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.
Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, the city’s thirteen consummate drifters will be getting VIP treatment. It’s adiós to the daily helpings of food stamps, soup kitchens, and shelters. They’re getting a drastic and instantaneous bailout. From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return.
How they spend it is up to them. They can opt to make use of an advisor if they’d like – or not. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up.
The only thing they’re asked is: What do you think you need?
“I didn’t have enormous expectations,” one social worker later recalled.
But the drifters’ desires proved eminently modest. A telephone, a dictionary, a hearing aid – each had his own ideas about what he needed. In fact, most were downright thrifty. After one year, they had spent an average of just £800. Take Simon, who had been strung out on heroin for twenty years. The money turned his life around. Simon got clean and started taking gardening classes. “For some reason, for the first time in my life, everything just clicked,” he said later. “I’m starting to look after myself, wash and shave. Now I’m thinking of going back home. I’ve got two kids.” A year and a half after the experiment began, seven of the thirteen rough sleepers had a roof over their heads. Two more were about to move into their own apartments.
... keep reading on reddit ➡Erika is so lucky to be on RHOBH around these mostly spineless women who are mostly avoiding this like the plague. Trust and believe if she was on RHOA, Kenya would have invited the victims to dinner, Nene would have said keep your bank account closed to victims money, and Sheree would meet up Ronald Richards for lunch. Matter of fact, RHONY would demolish her especially if Bethenny was there and her being such a humanitarian which I respect. Ramona would have mentioned it all and Dorinda slurring you would demand where the money is right now. Don’t get me started with Megan Edmund, Nancy drew. Quit your fucking tears Erika. We all know you are crying because you miss your fraudulent lifestyle and geriatric thief of a husband who risked it all for you. I love to see them get so high and fall so hard.
1996 - Gore vs Buchanan: scandal was revealed earlier than OTL, and Bill Clinton was impeached. Al Gore became president, and surprisingly Buchanan was nominated by the Republican Party.
1988 - Jackson vs Robertson: Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson shocked the world and nominated by both party. Moderates are outraged, and some politicians are considering running for a third party.
1980 - Muskie vs Bush: George H. W. Bush beat Ronald "God of Conservative" Reagan and nominated by the Republican Party, while Edmund Muskie won the primaries through the "Draft Muskie Movement."
1976 - Humphrey vs Goldwater: HHH did not have cancer and won the primary election, and Barry Goldwater returned and won the primaries.
1972 - McKeithen vs Nixon vs McGovern vs Wallace: John McKeithen won an unexpected victory in the 1972 primary. George McGurban also ran as a third party, and George Wallace ran as a fourth party.
1968 - McCarthy vs Nixon vs Wallace: McCarthy was named Democratic presidential candidate with an unexpected victory and chose Mark Hatfield as his running mate after Nixon won the Republican primary. The result of the victory of the two liberals infuriated conservatives, and George Wallace's approval rating is soaring.
1964 - Rusk vs Nixon: In 1964, the United States fell into unprecedented chaos. After Kennedy was assassinated, an unidentified bomb attack broke out in Congress on New Year's Day, killing President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and President pro tempore of the Senate. Secretary of State Dean Rusk suddenly had to succeed the president while sleeping. In addition, former Vice President Richard Nixon returned to win the Republican primary.
1956 - Dewey vs Stevenson: Dwight Eisenhower decided not to run for re-election, and Thomas Dewey became the third Republican presidential candidate.
1952 - Disney vs Kefauver: Walt Disney has been selected as a Republican candidate since Eisenhower's declaration of non-election. In the Democratic Party, Estes Kefauver was elected as a candidate despite interference from the party's bosses.
London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. They are veterans of the street. Some have been sleeping on the cold pavement of the Square Mile, Europe’s financial center, for going on forty years. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.
Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, the city’s thirteen consummate drifters will be getting VIP treatment. It’s adiós to the daily helpings of food stamps, soup kitchens, and shelters. They’re getting a drastic and instantaneous bailout. From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return.
How they spend it is up to them. They can opt to make use of an advisor if they’d like – or not. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up.
The only thing they’re asked is: What do you think you need?
“I didn’t have enormous expectations,” one social worker later recalled.
But the drifters’ desires proved eminently modest. A telephone, a dictionary, a hearing aid – each had his own ideas about what he needed. In fact, most were downright thrifty. After one year, they had spent an average of just £800. Take Simon, who had been strung out on heroin for twenty years. The money turned his life around. Simon got clean and started taking gardening classes. “For some reason, for the first time in my life, everything just clicked,” he said later. “I’m starting to look after myself, wash and shave. Now I’m thinking of going back home. I’ve got two kids.” A year and a half after the experiment began, seven of the thirteen rough sleepers had a roof over their heads. Two more were about to move into their own apartments.
All thirteen had taken critical steps toward solvency and personal growth. They were enrolled in classes, learning to cook, going through rehab, visiting their families, and making plans for the future. “It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a difference.” After decades of fruitless pushing, pulling, pampering, penalizing, prosecuting, and prot
... keep reading on reddit ➡London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. They are veterans of the street. Some have been sleeping on the cold pavement of the Square Mile, Europe’s financial center, for going on forty years. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.
Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, the city’s thirteen consummate drifters will be getting VIP treatment. It’s adiós to the daily helpings of food stamps, soup kitchens, and shelters. They’re getting a drastic and instantaneous bailout. From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return.
How they spend it is up to them. They can opt to make use of an advisor if they’d like – or not. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up.
The only thing they’re asked is: What do you think you need?
“I didn’t have enormous expectations,” one social worker later recalled.
But the drifters’ desires proved eminently modest. A telephone, a dictionary, a hearing aid – each had his own ideas about what he needed. In fact, most were downright thrifty. After one year, they had spent an average of just £800. Take Simon, who had been strung out on heroin for twenty years. The money turned his life around. Simon got clean and started taking gardening classes. “For some reason, for the first time in my life, everything just clicked,” he said later. “I’m starting to look after myself, wash and shave. Now I’m thinking of going back home. I’ve got two kids.” A year and a half after the experiment began, seven of the thirteen rough sleepers had a roof over their heads. Two more were about to move into their own apartments.
All thirteen had taken critical steps toward solvency and personal growth. They were enrolled in classes, learning to cook, going through rehab, visiting their families, and making plans for the future. “It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a difference.” After decades of fruitless pushing, pulling, pampering, penalizing, prosecuting, and protecting, nine notorious vagr
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