5 coaches who would make a lot of sense at Ole Miss
Matt Luke is out and somebody else is in.
That's about all we know as of right now at Ole Miss. We don't know if the assistants will be retained, or if all of that $17 million buyout for Luke's staff will be forked over.
For now, we know that Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter is searching for his next head coach. It's worth remembering, in Mississippi, coaches can only get 4-year contracts. In other words, don't expect a Jimbo Fisher contract anytime soon.
But for the first time since 2011, Ole Miss will have an open search for its head coach. There are plenty of candidates who would make sense given where they're at in their careers and what would attract them to Ole Miss.
Let's dig into that list of (realistic) candidates:
1. Mike Norvell, Memphis
Norvell's name has been such a mainstay in terms of Power 5 openings that it's not necessarily a splashy hire, despite the fact that he beat Ole Miss and is a win from a New Year's 6 Bowl. A program that hasn't been to a bowl game in 4 years can do a whole lot worse than hire the coach who's under 40 and is on the brink of that kind of accomplishment. Any Ole Miss fans scoffing at the idea of Norvell are in denial about how good of a job he did building on what Justin Fuente established at Memphis.
The good news about bringing on someone like Norvell is that he obviously has recruiting inroads in the area with Memphis an hour up the road. His teams would have a high-powered offensive identity, though it would be surprising to see him build around a run-first quarterback like John Rhys Plumlee. He has a track record that's more proven than someone like Chad Morris, who also came from the AAC but never had a season as good as the 4 that Norvell has had.
The issue with Norvell is obvious. He reportedly talked with Arkansas and told them that he was holding out for a bigger job like Florida State. Sorry, Ole Miss fans. While the situation at Ole Miss is more promising than Arkansas, it ain't Florida State. Norvell was once upon a time an interesting candidate for the Tennessee opening a few years ago, but the Vols wanted to go for a bigger name (we saw what that search became). Is Ole Miss big enough for Norvell?
And what would that price tag have to be to sway him from the low-end Power 5 money that he's already making? He's getting a raise no matter where he ends up. The question is who that raise comes from.
2. Lane Kiffin, FAU
Let's talk about Lane, shall we?
Somewhat quietly, Kiffin is a victory from ending Year 3 at FAU with his 2nd Conference USA title and 2nd season of double-digit wins. That's pretty impressive. The issue with Kiffin isn't money. Coaching at multiple traditional Power 5 juggernauts and getting an NFL head coaching gig made that somewhat of a non-factor for the 44-year-old. Kiffin, by all accounts, is happy living in Boca Raton, Fla. Who wouldn't be?
Kiffin is still young enough where he can pick and choose the right opportunity if he really wanted to. He reportedly had conversations with Arkansas about the opening there, though Ole Miss would make even more sense given the rebuild that's needed in Fayetteville. He could have a yearly date with Nick Saban, which would be a nice little bonus. Kiffin would be an attractive option for a program that is stockpiled with young offensive weapons.
There would be no bigger realistic splash than Kiffin. That sells tickets. That recruits. That generates national headlines for the right reasons, which has been hard to come by in Oxford the last few years.
Could it happen? I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I also wouldn't rule it out. Kiffin has experienced what it's like to deal with scrutiny at places like Tennessee, USC and even as a coordinator at Alabama. There's a chance he might not be holding out for another big-time job. He likes the freedom he has at FAU, which is why he's not in any hurry to leave. Maybe Carter could give Kiffin all of that and more.
3. Bill Clark, UAB
Splashy? No. Potentially super smart? Absolutely. The guy who will face Kiffin in the Conference USA Championship is going to have Power 5 interest. The job he did at UAB is unlike anything we've seen in college football in recent memory. Nobody else that Ole Miss will pursue could say, "I rebuilt a program that was literally shut down."
And what have the Blazers done since their 2-year hiatus? Oh, just have 3 consecutive seasons of 8-plus wins with a 19-5 record in conference play. They're a win from their 2nd consecutive season with double-digit wins, which hasn't happened in Birmingham since … ever. The guy already delivered the best season in program history last year, which earned him the prestigious Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year honor.
Clark's background fits what Ole Miss needs, too. He spent the better part of 2 decades coaching high school football in Alabama. He understands the grind.
The aforementioned issue standing in his way about not being "splashy" enough could prevent him from getting this gig, as could his specialty on the defensive side of the ball. If Carter could somehow draw up a scenario in which Clark could retain Rich Rodriguez and let him run the offense, I think Ole Miss fans would be plenty pleased with that. That, however, is no guarantee to even be part of the plan.
I'd be stunned if Clark wasn't on the short list of candidates for Carter.
4. Tom Allen, Indiana
It needs to be mentioned.
He has done plenty since he spent 3 years on Hugh Freeze's defensive staff at Ole Miss. Allen went to Indiana and delivered the program's best season in 26 years. The 49-year-old coach is loved at Indiana now more than ever, and he has local ties having coached high school football in the Hoosier State for roughly a decade. In all likelihood, athletic director Fred Glass is going to be willing to give him a healthy raise.
But if you're Ole Miss, you have to at least knock on Allen's door to make sure he wouldn't entertain the idea of returning to the South, where he also spent more than a decade of his coaching career. Allen could go to a place that has a football-first mindset, unlike Indiana, which will always be a basketball-focused school (in 49 states it's just basketball …). He also has some major recruiting ties in the Tampa area. If he can get recruits to leave South Florida for Bloomington, he can get them to leave for Oxford, too.
Allen made less than $2 million last year, so he's essentially being paid like a Group of 5 coach. If Ole Miss could throw Allen a deal worth $4 million with plenty of incentives, would it at least make him think about it? Maybe, maybe not. It at least needs to be presented, though.
5. Mike Leach, Washington State
Before you tell me "of course the media just wants Leach because he'd make their job easier," stop. If anything, the guy who just berated a reporter this past weekend would be a reason I'd argue against him being a fit at anywhere but his current job.
Here are some things about Leach that I find impressive that have absolutely nothing to do with his antics:
He won 8-plus games 12 times at 2 Power 5 schools
He did that at Texas Tech and Washington State
He had 8 consecutive top 10 passing offenses
He turned Gardner Minshew from potential 3rd-string Alabama QB to No. 5 in Heisman voting
He had 2 losing seasons in 18 years as a Power 5 head coach
Coaches with those résumés don't grow on trees. Leach is one of a kind for a variety of reasons. That much, everyone knows.
So why would Ole Miss make sense for him? Had John Currie not been summoned back to Tennessee after meeting with Leach, he could be in Knoxville right now. Leach has reportedly had conversations with Arkansas about that opening. The common denominator is that both happened after Bill Moos, the former Washington State athletic director who talked Leach back into coaching after his 2-year post-Texas Tech hiatus, left for Nebraska.
As we know, Leach has always gone to the beat of his own drum. That's why many believe he's never landed a bigger job. Athletic directors are afraid he'll do or say something that upsets the people who cash those checks. That could scare off Carter.
Or, if Leach is Carter's top target, he could sell Leach on taking on the challenge of battling Saban on an annual basis. Leach made less than Morris last year, so theoretically money shouldn't be much of a hurdle, either. This would be about fit and giving Leach the freedom to be himself.
Crazier things have happened.
And about Rich Rodriguez and Mike MacIntyre …
Both are considered candidates. At least they should be. Ole Miss fans know that. Seeing what the Rebels had with them this year was promising. If they weren't candidates, we would have already heard by now that the staff won't be retained.
But I'm skeptical about that because it's pretty rare to see a Power 5 athletic director fire a head coach and try to retain the top assistants. Usually a move like that means you're willing to part ways with them. If the grand plan was just to promote Rodriguez or MacIntyre, why wait until 3 days after the Egg Bowl to fire Luke and open up the door for one of them? Why not just make the move as soon as Ole Miss became ineligible for the postseason and make one of them the interim head coach?
The timing of Carter shedding his own interim tag just before the Egg Bowl could have played a part in that, but I think he truly wants to open up this search. After all, he didn't bring MacIntyre and Rodriguez on board. Ex-Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork signed off on that move.
While Rodriguez would have a lot of short-term benefits — you'd keep all of that offensive talent in place, he's been a head coach at 3 Power 5 programs, etc. — there's also the elephant of the room. With the way the Freeze scandal went down, is Carter about to make the face of his program another coach who was fired after accusations of sexual misconduct? That might be a tougher sell than Ole Miss fans realize.
And for MacIntyre, as great as that defensive turnaround was, Carter might not be on board with someone who was run out of town after struggling in the favorable Pac-12 South. The SEC West is a different animal, and just because MacIntyre had 1 good year as a head coach and is a proven coordinator doesn't mean he'd be an obvious favorite for Carter.
How will this play out? I honestly have no idea. Sunday night's news caught a lot of people by surprise (myself included).
Carter could surprise us again by straying from this list.
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What about 'our version of Stoops' at Kentucky?
I bet he's on the short list of every coach opening in America!
I'm going to call you crazy uncle Paris from now on
rgo606 2 months ago
Just our Village Idiot.
but we love him well minus LSUMC
tx_hogfan 2 months ago
Buddy Stephens
bryanchip 2 months ago
Lol yeah ok. That man has found his niche in scooba. Oxford would give him a heart attack.
Texasphase 2 months ago
Even though it won't happen I think Buddy would be a winner at Ole Miss. I played against him in high school and with him at Jax State. He's tough, smart, old school, knows how to coach and relates to young men better than most head coaches. The fans and media would connect with Buddy way more than previous coaches.
Tigurrr 2 months ago
Someone just reported "Leach to Ole Miss" but it was based on a fake tweet, even some sports radio's picked it up, nice lulz SDS.
He could start the annual craig james(isanass) award, Leach and Saban could herd reporters into a room, have them fire hosed then doused with chicken feathers. I'm not sure why I thought of that, it just seems what they would do.
And the whole world would laugh.
Weagle99 2 months ago
Houston Nutt would like to throw his hat in the ring one more time.
Well I was shocked when they made Matt Luke HC anyhow. It's like they settled without going out and looking. Norvell makes the most sense. Kiffin has it made in Florida. Bill Clark is a good coach, but a good mid major coach not SEC caliber yet. Norvell knows all the recruits on the area. Makes the most sense. Hire Norvell and keep Rich Rod as your OC.
Yes, exactly how Odom got the job at MU, we'll just promote a guy already in the house even if it makes no sense at all.
I don't understand why SDS writers are incapable of considering guys who aren't current college head coaches as viable candidates for job openings. Sooner or later the lure of a head coaching salary will be too much for the likes of Dave Aranda, Brett Venables, or other successful, up and coming assistants.
blitzer13 2 months ago
I'm thinking the same. That Joe whatever at LSU that came in as the passing game coordinator will make bank next year. He is the main reason LSU is as good as they are this season. He'll either get a big bump from them, or someone else will scoop him up as an OC or possibly head coach. Probably not quite ready for a head spot yet, but a smaller schooling the right situation, in 5 years I could see him moving up to P5 and causing the old guard some trouble!
Still waiting on that edit button SDS…
AFan 2 months ago
Kirby…Your thinking is similar to mine. I know that there are some young, enthusiastic Head Coaches…who are coaching in lesser conferences and are ready to move to the big-time. Everyone had to get a break, sometime…right ? Hire one of these guys who have the fire to spend the long hours of recruiting and keep the buyout low, save the University some $$$$$
I sort of considered Rich Rod going to Ole Miss was because he suspected Luke wasn't a long term solution and wanted a foot in the door for the HC job.
Supreme Gump 2 months ago
Yeah, I'm surprised we haven't heard more of that. If they were bowl eligible he'd surely be the interim HC.
ND Reb 2 months ago
I hope Rich Rod gets serious consideration. Ole Miss cannot afford to lose any talent to the transfer portal. A familiar face may calm the unrest.
Obviously I'm on the outside looking in, but I always felt that Luke was a place holder until the NCAA sanctions were done. I mean, what other big name coach would come into a program with that over their head? Luke seemed like a guy that loved the program to the point that he would have done it for free. So get him cheap to get you through, if it works out, great. If not, find someone else after the punishment was done.
Quathos 2 months ago
kodyaufan2 2 months ago
It really was an unfortunate situation for him to be put in.
RebRun 2 months ago
That was my thinking as well. It put Luke it an impossible spot; he likely knew he wasn't up to the challenge, but saying "No" isn't exactly an option either. I like the guy and appreciate him stepping into a bad situation, but he wasn't going to lead the team to the next level. Glad he's getting a healthy payout.
tigersforlife 2 months ago
what about luke fickell at cincinnati or sonny dykes at smu(he wasn't good at cal but has "resurrected" at SMU? i think bill clark would be a perfect hire by the rebels. norvell will probably get a higher rated job than Ole Miss if one is offered, and why would he want to go to Ole Miss, a team that he beat this year? hate to say it but he's probably better off at memphis…
Wandering Jersey 2 months ago
Dykes burnt the bridge with the Mississippi schools a few years ago when he was at LA Tech. Otherwise he would be a good fit. I'm overwhelmed by the job Norvell has done at Memphis, but Ole Miss is highly unlikely to even contact him. But along the Ole Miss/Memphis lines, Ole Miss should look at Justin Fuente. That seems more likely to me than any name on this list aside from Rich Rod. And Fuente would likely keep a chunk of that staff intact. At least he did that at VA Tech.
Dykes couldn't win during the worst period the PAC has ever seen with a future #1 overall pick at QB.
rock sweden 2 months ago
Why would any of these coaches leave their current job for Ole Miss? It would make better sense to wait for another opening before dealing with Ole Miss's unrealistic expectations. Same goes for Auburn.
ruff 2 months ago
It could be argued that most, if not all, schools have "unrealistic expectations".
Goodgodafreshman 2 months ago
What about Napier at Louisiana? Hes done a good job and worked for Saban for 3-4 years. He would be a good fit at Ole Miss or Ark imo
Looks like he could have a bright future but he is too inexperienced for a P5 head coaching position at this time in my opinion.
If Mike Leach is not hired away from WaZu, it will be amazing. His name is the first one to come up concerning any Power Five job opening up. He is a great offensive mind, and a quirky guy…but he wins Football Games. would Ole Miss or Arkansas like to go to a bowl again ? Answer=yes !
Lane Kiffin has grown-up as a person & as a Head Coach. His stops at Southern Cal, Tennessee, Oakland Raiders, especially at Alabama…have matured him. And he sure can call the offense & develop Quarterbacks. He is in the position of being selective as to which school he goes to, either this year or next year. And I do wish him and his new University Success on the Football Field.
Biggie 2 months ago
Fingers crossed for you Ole Miss…hope you can land a good Coach. The Grove is THE most hospitable venue in the SEC. I always enjoyed going there and talking with the fans.
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Movies a Christian Can Enjoy
16 July 2006 February 5, 2016 Will Riddle1 Comment
As the film industry continues to produce movies with no morality, a pagan morality, or which are otherwise unenjoyable to the Christian who is pursuing God, it has become of more interest to me to find Movies which support a Christian worldview. This does not mean that life is sanitized, but that theme of the movie overall supportive or revelatory of ideals we should appreciate as Christians. Many of these are war movies, I guess partly because the struggle of good versus evil is one of the last values to leave a culture.
In the Face of Evil — Documentary of Ronald Reagan's life. This is bar none my favorite movie. Watching it edifies my spirit. It's like being deprogrammed from a liberal view of American life.
The Matrix — So this movie was not made with any conservative or Christian purpose, but it has deep parallels to Christianity in several key scenes, such as The Red Pill scene, the steak scene, the final victory scene, etc. It is a bit violent, but not in a traumatizing way.
The Truman Show — Not as good as the Matrix but good for the same reasons. That programmed fantasy land with the god who does not care about you is your real life without Christ. Time to get off the show, Truman.
Flywheel — Here is one I discovered recently. It's actually a Christian movie about a used car dealer who gets under conviction and turns his life around. It has some heartwarming elements and is generally pretty good for the "Christian" genre.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — This was a truly good film. It's a story about a good man who gets nominated to the Senate and ends up confronting the political powers that be. It is patriotic, and has some interesting scenes where we learn a little bit about how the machine can operate, including the news media.
Gettysburg/Gods and Generals — Both of these Civil War films are excellent in educating us. In Gettysburg we see the North in the crucible for its identity and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain holding the line. In Gods and Generals start to understand what the war was about for a lot of southerners, even if they were deceived. Stunning portrayal of Jackson here.
The Apostle — I know that some Christians did not like this film, and it does have that horrible scene where the apostle hits his rival with the baseball bat, but it also has many scenes which show a lot about the reality of southern Pentecostalism. DuVall is amazing in his portrayal of the psychology sin and redemption.
Braveheart — No Christian movie list is complete without Braveheart. This one truly is violent, but we learn a lot here about conviction and fighting for freedom against evil.
The Patriot — Somewhat like a sequel to Braveheart. This one is good partly because it too uses real historical figures, although some are amalagamated from several historical people. The portrayal of the British here is especially helpful in understanding the revolution.
We Were Soldiers — This is THE Vietnam movie. Although it could have been more patriotic, it definitely honored the soldiers, the family and the service, and showed us what Vietnam was like for those who served.
Top Gun — Minus the sex subplot, this film comes off as one of the standout patriotic movies of our time. Here the Americans are the good guys and the Soviets are the bad guys. It's about a young man's attempt to come to grips with himself and his father's legacy.
Star Wars: Episode IV – The original Star Wars in 1977. While the others got into more science fiction, this one is a simple struggle of Good versus evil. A seemingly unstoppable evil (Can you say Soviet Empire?) is pitted against a seemingly defeated "Federation" (Can you say USA?). Ultimately a farm boy finds the weakness in the Empire and destroys the "Death Star" Striking resemblance to what Ronald Reagan did to the Soviets just a few years later. In the context of the valueless movies of the 70's this one was part of a cultural shift which ultimately brought our nation back from the brink.
More to come later!
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beatthedrum says:
Braveheart… please…. As a work of FICTION it is great as a serious historical document its a tissue of lies.
Its about time Hollywood did a Scots bashing film instead of an English bashing one.


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122-Zone of Death?
April 2, 2018 camping, crime, government, hiking, History, Killers, law, Mysteries, narratted, obscure, odd, oddities, outdoors, strangeThe Curioso
Seven years after the ending of the American Civil War the commanding general of the Union army, Ulysses S. Grant, would be president and sign into law the United States first national park. Three states comprise Yellowstone Park with the largest part being Wyoming, then Montana and the smallest in Idaho. Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles. The park is home to grizzly bears, bison, wolves and elk, all of which can be very dangerous animals to interact with. We also don't want to forget the Yellowstone caldera. It is the largest supervolcano on our continent. It powers all the geothermal features within the park including hot springs, mud pots and of course the geysers, like Old Faithful. Experts say that if it explodes people within a few dozen miles would probably perish. Places like Denver would be covered in about a foot of ash. Cities as far as Miami, New York and Toronto would be covered in a finer layer, which would be enough to make water unpotable and stop cars from running.
Nature can be both cruel and beautiful; our American laws can mirror them. In 2005 Michigan State law professor Brian Kalt penned an article in the Georgetown Law Journal entitled "The Perfect Crime." It describes an area of Yellowstone of about 50 square miles where theoretically it is possible to get away with murder. This area has come to be known as the "Zone of Death". Currently this legal loophole is still open even though the professor wrote to lawmakers a year before publishing the paper on the off chance that someone might take advantage of the situation there.
When congress wrote the bill to create the park they gave Wyoming the legal jurisdiction to prosecute any crimes committed within Yellowstone's borders. The portions that are in Montana and Idaho also fall under the responsibility of Wyoming. The problem however is when this comes in conflict with our constitution and more specifically the sixth amendment.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense. -U.S constitution
If we focus on the part that describes where the impartial jury must come from you'll notice that there are specific guidelines. They must come from the State where the crime was committed. Also they must come from the district where the crime was committed. This creates a very small Venn diagram only seen in this area if the country. So if you happen to commit a crime heinous enough to require a jury trial, your jury would need to be pulled from people who live in that small stretch of land because they are the only ones who would fit these criteria. This shouldn't really be a problem for the portion of the park that falls in Montana because there are more than a dozen people living there making it possible to create a jury of twelve. The Idaho portion of the park however is completely uninhabited. Since there is no one that both lives in Idaho and falls under Wyoming's jurisdiction, effectively you cannot have a jury of your peers and could possibly be let go of the crime.
There is even a novel called Free Fire written by author CJ Box that bases its premise on the idea of this "zone of death". A Wyoming Senator, Mike Enzi, was a fan of Box's work and after reading the novel asked the Department of Justice to look into the issue. Absolutely nothing came of it. No one seems to want to address this issue legally before it becomes a reality.
One case however did make it to court that actually cited professor Kalt's article. Hunting or discharging of firearms are prohibited within Yellowstone park. Michael Belderrain illegally shot an elk in Montana in 2005 and tried to use the zone of death defense when his case came to court in 2007. He was in the Montana portion of the park when shooting the elk but was tried in Wyoming. The court dismissed his argument. Belderrain accepted a plea deal that specifically barred him from using that defense again. Otherwise, Belderrain could have appealed the court's decision, which could have shed more light on those fifty square miles. Now we might never know if we have an area where it is legal to commit murder.


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QZ&A
Rana Mitter, the historian teaching China's next generation
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Rana Mitter is a British historian who teaches about the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford's St. Cross College. He formerly directed Oxford's China Center.
Mitter specializes in the emergence of nationalism in modern China and has written nine books about China. He is working on another one based on the diaries of Chinese statesmen in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Quartz: What memories stand out about your time in China?
Mitter: I've been going to China for over 30 years, starting with the period when the reform era was beginning to get going, after the 1989 killings in Tiananmen Square. Those happened during the first year that I was a student in Cambridge. We were in Taiwan that summer, not in the mainland, for obvious reasons, and wondering whether this was the end of a story.
I've been able to see [China] go from this country that was really pushed on the back foot in 1989 to one that, for good or ill, is now this economic and military superpower.
As it turned out, horrific and tragic though the killings were, they did not stop the upward economic trajectory of China. In the years since then, I've been able to see it go from this country that was really pushed on the back foot in 1989 to one that, for good or ill, is now this economic and military superpower, and one of the three main bodies with the US and the EU that is setting norms and standards around the world.
How do you research China without being there?
Mitter: I have not been physically in China since the autumn of 2019 because shortly after that it became difficult for outsiders to go. Fortunately, we do live in a world where China can come to us much more easily, whether it's social media, whether it's tremendously rich amounts of reporting in both English and Chinese from China, and even now from Hong Kong, where there's still a lot of reporting about what's going on in the mainland. And I'm regularly speaking on video calls to friends in China.
How did a younger Rana fall into Chinese history and politics?
Mitter: The one thing I can't claim, and I wish that I could, is that this was something that [I] saw coming years ago when [I was] in high school, that China was going to be the next rising power and that it'd be good to get in on the ground floor. Actually, I had no idea of that whatsoever.
I'm of British Indian heritage. I grew up in the south coast of England, most of the time near Brighton. In the late 1980s, early 1990s, China was a tremendously remote place in terms of British perceptions. India has always, for imperial reasons, been the Asian connection that's been stronger in Britain. So this was a combination of a very challenging but interesting language, but also a culture that perhaps had as little to do with the things that I'd grown up with as could possibly be imagined. And although in later decades China has come much closer to us, that was by no means obvious. So it was a leap in the dark, but one that I've not regretted at any point since.
Did you have an 'aha' moment in terms of realizing that this rather niche area of study was becoming a big deal in the UK?
Mitter: There is a turning point taking place that we're privileged to witness in the relationship between the UK and China. It's driven by two things, one of which is the changing position of the UK in the world [after Brexit], and on the China side, under Xi Jinping, moving to a China that is clear about the fact that it is going to take a very global role.
Even three or four years ago, Britain still didn't have any great awareness of China either for good or ill. If you were in universities, you would see that the numbers of Chinese students were growing. If you were involved in certain types of business or investment related to Hong Kong, you might have a connection there. But other than that, China was not in a very central place in people's perceptions.
A whole variety of things have come together in the very recent past that put it on the radar screen in Britain, includ[ing] the controversy over Huawei 1, the pandemic, the changing tone of the Trump administration, but also the influence of that period which became nicknamed the golden era under prime minister [David] Cameron and chancellor George Osborne, in which there was an active attempt to look for investment from China.
The British Foreign Policy Group came out with a survey on what Britons think about China. Only 30% supported the idea of Chinese students attending UK universities. You're an academic who built your career on understanding China. How does that make you feel?
Mitter: It is absolutely imperative that we continue to have Chinese students in our classrooms, for one reason that I'm very upfront about: It is possible for us to teach elements of Chinese history and politics in the UK—elements of the Mao era's history, for instance—that are simply impossible to discuss in as free and frank a way within China as you can do in the UK. And many Chinese students value that. I think many Chinese officials and historians value it too, they just can't say it, because it means that some aspects of China's complexity in its past is preserved.
It is possible for us to teach elements of Chinese history and politics in the UK that are simply impossible to discuss in as free and frank a way within China.
It's very important to be talking to China's next generation, particularly the students in their teens and 20s now are going to be the decision makers in their 30s, 40s, and beyond. And I think that the UK having a role in training those people is a fantastic opportunity.
It's indicative that the Chinese middle classes know a great deal more about Britain than the middle classes of Britain know about China.
Overall, that survey makes for pretty grim reading for the Chinese, I'd imagine. Fifteen percent of Britons don't want their government engaging with China at all.
Mitter: Let me give you another statistic from the British Council (pdf), which did surveys of the favorability rating of different countries in the eyes of the Chinese. Britain came second, slightly defeated by France. That may be partly because the French, some say, have better cooking than the British 2. But it's not actually to do with the battle of the kitchens—it's more to do with a variety of perception of values. So there's a real imbalance in what the UK thinks of China and what China thinks about the UK.
What the UK thinks about China is mostly shaped by the fact that there is not that much information about China in the wider public sphere. And to some extent that is the fault of the Chinese authorities because they are very reluctant to let reporting on China actually take place. Journalists, who are the best conduit for actually educating people about a society, placed in China, find there are huge restrictions in terms of what it is that they can actually report 3.
Where does that leave the UK and where does that leave China?
Mitter: I think it leaves us with a challenge for each side. So let me start with the UK. [The government must] equip its business, academics, teachers, media, with an understanding of what China is and what it isn't and how it's of relevance to the UK. Too often [China] has been regarded either as a massive market which somehow people can sell into and that's its only purpose, or as the new Soviet Union, essentially an ideological enemy which has nothing but malign intentions and which we must keep away from at all costs.
China is a strong country, which is acting as if it were a weak country.
On the Chinese side, I would say that the greatest obstacle to China's rise in the world is not the Americans, it's China itself, because China is a strong country, which is acting as if it were a weak country. And because I'm a historian, I understand that not that long ago, China was constantly invaded, bombed, and attacked. All sorts of things would go on to shape the mindset of a political elite which felt itself to be under siege.
But today, China is not under siege. China is prosperous, it's got a party state system, which I personally think is quite embedded and relatively stable. It has a great deal of influence in the world. It's no longer a country which has to be defensive about absolutely everything. And the only thing that is getting in the way of China being able to tell [its] story is its authoritarian system of government, which it clings to when it has, I think, no real need to.
So you think that China could loosen some of those controls and still achieve the economic growth it needs?
Mitter: Absolutely. I am not saying that China has to become—well, I'm not saying that China has to do anything because I'm not in a position to tell China to do anything, I'm just a guy who writes books about the 1940s. It doesn't seem to me necessary for China to turn into an electoral democracy to achieve any of its goals, and the last decade in particular has shown that having an electoral democracy is not necessarily proof against authoritarian politics.
I'm not in a position to tell China to do anything.
Ten years ago let's say, under the same Communist Party system, there was an authoritarianism which had a bit more room to breathe. I would have liked more, but the late 2000s to early 2010s were a relatively open period in China in terms of discussion of certain issues. Since then, most observers would say that it's been much more difficult to speak out.
If you look at political systems not just in terms of, are they full liberal democracies or authoritarian societies, with nothing in between, instead of looking at the types of hybridity which do exist in the spectrum across the world, and supposing China fitted into one of these, could the world live with that? That, I think, is a question worth asking, within China as well as of China from outside.
You said that China is aiming for a larger role in the world. Can you paint a picture of what that world, one where China is in the place that the US, let's say, is in now, would look like?
Mitter: I don't think it is possible for China to take the exact role that the US has, because you would need a coordinated ideological position about what you think the world ought to look like. China's primary goal is to try and make sure that the world is friendly to China's interests, which is not the same as want[ing] to impose its system.
China's primary goal is to try and make sure that the world is friendly to China's interests, which is not the same as want[ing] to impose its system.
If China had, as it would like to have, a greater role in global governance, we would probably see a world [in which] strong norms of territorial sovereignty would be much more fiercely enforced—basically whatever goes on within the country's borders are its own business. Democracy, fine. Dictatorship, fine. Coup, fine. There would be a much greater emphasis on collective economic development. There would be no barrier to much greater levels of top down and quite monolithic state control of a variety of areas, and cyberspace would be the obvious example of that.
China is very keen that individual nation states should have rights over their own cyberspace, but also that countries should be able to police how other people use their cyberspace.
The possibility of that world seems to worry a lot of people in Britain—does it worry you?
Mitter: It doesn't worry me as long as we in Britain are fully aware of what the rise of China means and think clearly about how to preserve our own interests as that rise happens. I think that the likelihood of China being able to subvert our liberal values and institutions, assuming they wish to do it, is very low as long as we have confidence in those institutions.
In Britain, we have spent too much time subverting some of our own institutions, whether they are an independent judiciary or our broadcasting media. That has got absolutely nothing to do with China. That is what we do to ourselves.
There are many things that we ought to pay attention to, just as China pays attention to threats from outside. But becoming consumed by them to the effect that we put ourselves into a geopolitically impossible situation of having no engagement with this hugely influential growing power would be entirely counterproductive.
Even if we decided we weren't going to deal with China, if we can even manage that, the rest of the world is certainly going to be dealing with China one way or another. And I would rather have a significant outward looking liberal power that takes part in that engagement rather than being out of that conversation.


Reel Cinema registered as Asset of Community Value
Fans of the Reel Cinema (former ABC) gathered this week to celebrate a step foward in their efforts to save building. The modest victory came as Plymouth City Council announced that the Reel has been added to its Assets of Community Value register, giving the community the right to bid for the building should it be put up for sale.
The Asset of Community Value designation provides local communities with an opportunity to bid to purchase community assets when they are placed for sale on the open market. In the case of the Reel Cinema, it will mean that groups who have been fighting to save the building from demolition and redevelopment as student flats, may have 6 months in which to put together a bid to buy the building if the current owner decides to sell.
The building was nominated by local conservation charity Plymouth Architectural Trust, who worked with the Reel Cinema Preservation Group to prepare the application. "This decision provides a vital lifeline for the Reel, and is real endorsement of the principle of saving the building. The Asset of Community Value status acknowledges that a property is valued by the community both for the memories it holds and for the service it continue to provide." said Hilary Kolinsky, Secretary & Treasurer for Plymouth Architectural Trust.


Covid-19: Government announces $100 million support package for health services
Covid-19: Government announces $100m support package for health services
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Sun, 14 Jun 2020, 3:04PM
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Community midwives, who provided care to pregnant, birthing and postnatal women during lockdown, will get $2500 from the Government in recognition of the costs they incurred during the pandemic.
This is part of a new almost $100 million Covid-19 support package for health services across the country – details of which were announced today.
The funding was first unveiled in the Budget, but today's announcement from Health Minister David Clark provides more clarity on how that money will be spent.
It's split up into six different areas:
$37m for Covid-19 testing
• $18m for 365 critical community pharmacies
• $5.48m in funding for midwives
• $10m for DHB ventilator and respiratory equipment
• $7.33m to support hospices
• $14.8m to support the National Telehealth Service
Clark said some of the money would be used for people in health services who were called on to go over and above to provide care during the Covid-19 outbreak.
"The funding for community midwives enables a one-off lump sum of $2500 each in recognition of the additional costs they incurred as they continued to provide essential care to pregnant, birthing and postnatal women during lockdown."
But the big-ticket item in the funding announcement was the $37m for Covid-19 testing.
Clark said this money would make sure our testing capability remains up to the task of detecting and quickly containing the disease if it re-emerges.
"Our first Covid-19 test was completed on February 1. We can now process 12,500 a day and have completed over 300,000 individual tests. That's an incredible achievement by those working in our medical labs."
He also confirmed CRRF support for midwives, hospices and pharmacies who maintained vital services for New Zealanders during the outbreak.
"Many pharmacists and our hospices continued their work to provide valuable services to New Zealanders in the challenging lockdown environment," Clark said.
Today's funding package includes money for DHBs to purchase new ventilators and other respiratory equipment.
"Our success in countering Covid-19 over the last three months has given our health services the chance to further strengthen their readiness for any future outbreak and the Government is backing them to do that.
"All of these services and their staff stepped up when we needed them to, and I believe all New Zealanders will want me to again acknowledge their vital work to protect and care for us," Clark said.
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To All The Sims I've Killed Before
The iconic computer game tasked users with keeping digital humans alive. Instead, we set fires in their houses and removed the doors. Why?
By Jillian Capewell
10/25/2018 12:00 pm ET Updated Oct 25, 2018
Mortimer Goth settles in to one of the 15 wicker chairs that have suddenly appeared by his lit fireplace. He feels strangely compelled to sit and remain seated, as if guided by an unseen hand, even as the room he's in grows curiously hotter and hotter. Before he knows it, the chairs around him burst into pixelated flames. He's on fire! He calls for help, but his wife, Bella, can't hear him. She's swimming in circles in their backyard pool, searching fruitlessly for a ladder that doesn't exist.
For the uninitiated fiddling around their family desktop, the original version of "The Sims" was mostly about nurturing humanlike characters through life's minutiae. For everyone else, "The Sims" was and is a game about death, about wacky, inconsequential death, about fiery death and watery death, death by starvation and death by electric shock and death by skydiving malfunction ― Mortimer and Bella's worst recurring nightmare. And as the game evolved over the years, a kind of meta-game has formed around it: a subtle relationship between creative, death-obsessed "Sims" players and the game's ever-adapting designers, keen on raising the stakes of the simulated lives we so easily ended.
Today, death on "The Sims" can feel harder and harder to come by. But it's never impossible.
the point of playing The Sims was to spend a lot of time on the Sim's outfit and then delete the ladder so they eventually drown in the pool
— dylan gelula (@DylanGelula) October 18, 2016
In the scenario above, the deaths of Mortimer Goth and his wife were no accident. They were the result of a human player deciding to set in motion a series of events that would lead to the inevitable demise of digital beings brought to life in a simulation game. That human player could have ushered Mortimer and his wife into a room and removed the door, watching as the Sims starved inside. The player could have prompted the characters to start making a feast with their cooking skill at Level 1, tempting a shoddy oven to burst aflame and engulf them. The player could have even neglected the couple's guinea pig, only to have Mortimer pick it up and allow the rodent to administer one fatal bite.
But that player chose to cluster highly flammable chairs near the fireplace and hope they caught like tinder, and remove the ladder in the swimming pool once Bella, ignorant of the option of simply lifting herself out, dived in.
Back in the heyday of the game's first iteration, everyone killed their Sims. I feel confident in stating this even without hard data to back it up: Killing Sims wasn't exceptional behavior, it was the norm. Just look at the Reddit threads relaying depraved "Sims" activity with comments spooling into the thousands, or this Polygon article, where it is written, "It is a proven fact people love killing off Sims."
"That was the only enjoyable way to play 'The Sims'!" Maddy Myrick, 31, told me. She'd responded to my callout on Twitter, asking first-generation "Sims" players to explain the morbid habit of killing a thing you were ostensibly tasked with keeping alive. "Sometimes I would start a new family, convinced that I would let them live. But, inevitably, I quickly became bored with designing their house (which I was never able to finish)."
And so she killed them. Sims have died for less.
One of the most common tactics for killing a Sim, beautiful in its simplicity and effectiveness, is the "murdershed" method, as one "Sims" player described it: the doorless room.
"My favorite thing to do was lure my Sims into a seemingly normal space and then take away its exit," my colleague Sara Boboltz confessed in a direct message. "So, I'd make a tiny house and take away the door. I'd make a pool and take away the ladder. Make a two-story house, take the stairs. You get it. Sometimes my Sims would be teachers I didn't like."
"I made a guy who was a compulsive neatfreak," Reddit user vsanna wrote in a comment that rose to the top of its thread. "Put him in a really surreal little house with a wedding buffet and a hamster or something, deleted the door. Eventually he went insane from lack of cleanliness and depression over his little rodent friend dying, and starved to death once the banquet rotted. I put the resulting urn in the room. I then repeated an identical scenario several times, always keeping the urns in the room.
"Eventually the tenth iteration of this guy is up all night, every night, terrified of a parade of ghosts of himself."
Our penchant for serial killing has not gone unnoticed at "Sims" headquarters. According to "The Sims 4" senior producer Grant Rodiek, who's been with the company since 2005, the latest version of the game registers around 28,000 Sim deaths per day.
"I think [killing Sims is] a way players can express ultimate control over a thing. It's funny, mischievous, dark, without being grotesque," Rodiek said. "It's a kinder, gentler method of using a magnifying glass to burn insects."
Between life and death in "Sims 4," there's still no single path to playing. The vastly open-ended game nudges you toward certain goals — meeting your Sims' physical needs; securing them a means of making money — but no task or accomplishment is necessarily required.
Rodiek and his colleagues have had a lot of time to analyze the preferences and behaviors of "Sims" players. He's whittled users down to a handful of types: There are the "aspiring Frank Lloyd Wrights" who love tinkering in the game's Build mode; the Create-a-Sim artists who painstakingly remodel favorite characters or celebrities in digital form, or the narrative writers who play out classic storylines (think: mysterious new kid, star-crossed lovers, etc.) in Live mode.
"And then you have the sort of people ... we call them deviant players," Rodiek said. "People who like to mess with their Sims, people who like to poke at the system, people who like to have fun and break the game and do weird stuff." (These categories, I'd add, are not necessarily mutually exclusive.)
it's 3.30 am and ive killed 25 sims so far i might have a problem pic.twitter.com/xuVsL0yMqx
— teena halloweena (@toonafeesh) October 11, 2018
In the early years, these players, in an effort to discover all the ways they could ruin their Sims' lives, might've swapped stories with friends about building murder houses and endlessly upping their budgets for DIY torture devices using the "rosebud" money cheat.
As the internet's capacity to bring people together has evolved since the early 2000s, so have user-created parameters to keep gameplay interesting. Forums hold lists of restrictive challenges, which can involve everything from having one Sim birth 100 babies to re-creating consecutive historical eras with each generation of a family. On YouTube, players show themselves re-enacting "The Hunger Games" or building lengthy mazes meant only to make simulated life harder for their tiny humans. (One Simmer who orchestrated 12 seasons of Sim "Hunger Games" — complete with training days and sporadic gifts of food like apples — was recently hired on by Electronic Arts as an assistant producer.)
Over the years, the current base game — there are four total now — is supplemented with expansion packs to provide new ways to play the game — and kill your Sims. Rodiek said it's the first thing developers plan out with each new expansion, along with new places for your digital hedonists to hook up.
Much-beloved YouTuber "Call Me Kevin" has a series showcasing his comically deadly restaurant in "Sims 4," where unskilled chefs serve up the sometimes-fatal pufferfish nigiri introduced in the "City Living" expansion pack. It's the only thing on the menu. Watching him play, you see Sims dining casually together, only to be interrupted when one diner clutches at their throat and falls head-first into their food. He's amassed quite the graveyard behind the restaurant, complete with a coffin that you can WooHoo in — Sim-speak for sex.
so ive been playing the sims more and i just killed 28 sims to make a church graveyard
— 𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕚 (@sighcoIogy) October 12, 2018
Part of the widespread appeal of killing Sims might be that the actual moments of their demise aren't particularly disturbing. Generally, dying Sims just drop or crumple to the floor in distress, disappearing altogether in some versions of the game. Coming across a hungry cowplant provides the bizarre and delightful visual of a giant flower consuming a Sim, but there's no blood or errant limbs left behind. In a fire, Sims might become visibly odorous as their Hygiene levels plummet, but that's about it — no gore or horror-movie theatrics.
There are some deaths "The Sims" avoids altogether.
"We don't let toddlers burn to death," Rodiek said. "That's just gross. That's not funny, there's nothing humorous there. We don't let dogs burn to death because like, again, that's gross."
Eventually, the grim reaper, who can talk to but sadly not have children with Sims, comes to collect your character's soul, leaving an urn or gravestone in the Sim's place. The reaper himself has a cellphone or a tablet, ostensibly to process the Sim's soul, or something. It's all a little goofy.
The fact that players have long brought Sim death on themselves is all a part of probing the edges of an established world.
Philosophy professor C. Thi Nguyen, who has written extensively about the philosophy of games, likened the act of killing Sims to the innocent phenomenon of "speedrunning," where players try to complete a given game as fast as possible.
"One of my favorites is a speed run of '[Super] Mario [Bros.]' where you try to get zero points ... even though the traditional goal of 'Mario' is to max out your points. Trying to get to the end as fast as possible with zero points is actually much harder and much weirder," he said. "You're playing the game in an unintended way, which, for some people, I think it makes them feel more creative."
"The system seems to tell you, 'Look, the point of this game is to take care of the Sims,' and all the tools that are given to you are given to you to take care of your Sims," he said. "So if you want to kill your Sims, you have to do kind of creative and unexpected things and kind of remix the game."
However, Nguyen said it was also possible that, for the players who like "The Sims" for its narrative possibilities and engage with "the fiction of the game," explorations of death could have deeper personal significance.
"It may vary from player to player, but I think from talking to a lot of players it's actually about the creativity of using the system for a new purpose," he said.
Whatever the explanation, the game's creators have come to understand that we use "The Sims" not just to simulate life, but to play God. And it's impacted the way the game has shifted, from "Sims 1" to "Sims 4."
The first two versions of "The Sims" ― which Rodiek described as "disastrously hard" ― made it easier for the Goths to expire outside of a player's purview. Direct Sim-on-Sim homicide isn't possible, so accidents were more often fatal: a grilled cheese that burns down the house, a malfunctioning skydiving simulator, or a fatal shock delivered to a character standing in a puddle during an electric repair. In "The Sims 2," simply being in the front yard at the exact time a satellite falls to Earth could be the end of a Sim's brief journey.
But nowadays, compared to "Sims 1" and "Sims 2," it's a lot harder to deliberately kill off dear Mortimer and Bella. Anyone coming to "The Sims 4," the game's latest version, might notice their characters can now easily hop out of a pool, ladder or not. It's a change that came with "The Sims 3," effectively eliminating one of the preferred manners of Sims murder.
"I love how funny and surprising it is to say, 'Hey, we as a team recognize what you're doing and, ha-ha, we flipped the switch,'" Rodiek said. The decision was born out of developers' desire to further up Sims' intelligence and self-sufficiency with each new version. Players, he said, "got pissed at this."
"Basically, our thought was if Sims are smarter, and if Sims are less likely to just frickin' die all the time, well, maybe they're smart enough to pull their asses out of the pool," he said, noting that you can still kill them from exhaustion if you build walls around the pool. "They'll still fart at the wrong time and they'll still just pass out in a pool of vomit if they're tired enough and the timing is wrong, but that, at least, is a win for them."
Now, if you leave them unattended, "your Sims will basically default to neutral," Rodiek said. Players can worry less about making sure everyone has had a bathroom break or a meal. If you don't direct your Sim to do it, they'll likely figure it out themselves.
"Our tagline was, 'We want to move past peeing,'" he said of shifting Sims' needs beyond basic survival. "However, for them to really succeed, you have to nurture them. And nurturing your Sims comes from more emotional, higher-level fulfillment."
Now, Sims have aspirations generally based on interests or specific actions: One Sim might want to become a tech genius, while another wants to become the neighborhood enemy. Fulfilling these wishes results in rewards that make the Sim better.
Ever feel like a sims character where the player made you swim in the pool only to remove the ladder and now ur just,, stuck
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I'm usually a gentle "Sims" player, nurturing my families into fulfilling home lives and careers, watching as they level up in activities like baking and guitar playing, occasionally tossing in a love affair here and there. For the purposes of this article, though, I set out to kill as many Sims in "Sims 4" as I could.
Not wanting to delete doors and watch my Sims starve, I fell back on faithful killing strategies, like the classic fire scenarios. There were newer tactics I could try, too: In "Sims 4," even Sims' emotions, taken to the extreme, can be fatal; their hearts can explode from sheer rage or cease beating from hysterics.
In "Seasons," the most recent expansion pack, Sims who are skilled in flower arranging can whip up a mysterious plant, the scent of which ages or kills its recipient. A video from website Sims VIP illustrating this particular death demonstrates the cruelty: At first, an elder Sim is pleased to be receiving a gift. But upon realizing his bad luck, he becomes angry, shouting out "Narb!" He wipes his brow, swoons to his knees, and even checks his pulse one last time before the grim reaper arrives.
"Seasons" also allows the possibility of death by freezing or overheating, or getting struck by lightning. New kinds of warnings tip you off to these sorts of ends: The game indicates via a Sim's "moodlet" that your electronic buddy might die if he doesn't get out of the blizzard, or change out of his snowsuit during a heat wave, or run in from the thunderstorm.
One of the suggested ways to murder your Sims is through overexhaustion, though once a Sim becomes "uncomfortable," many actions, like jogging, become unavailable to a player. In "Sims 4," more Sims simply die of old age than tragically before their time: Age accounts for 30.5 percent of deaths in the game, compared to the 11 percent who die of hunger; the 10.7 percent who drown; or the 10.6 percent who die in a fire, according to statistics provided by Rodiek.
Maybe I'm unpracticed, but I couldn't murder my Sims. I made one Sim flirt with her husband's dad in front of her husband, enraging the husband until the spouses became enemies, then nemeses. I had them all fight — illustrated by a cloud of dust and occasional flashes of limb — but it only made them a little dazed. I had them all pee themselves, then installed a shower and had them all walk in on each other, but no one reached the deadly "mortified" level of embarrassment. I made the dad swim in the pool in wintertime, but he kept getting out once he started freezing. Without resorting to the walls-around-the-pool method Rodiek mentioned, I couldn't play God quite like I used to.
Defeated, I had the enraged husband and wife divorce before closing my game. It seemed only fair. When I opened up "Sims 2," however, I found that one installation of the "shoddy fireplace" did the trick in no time. My Sims freaked out and wailed, too frantic to obey my requests for them to stand directly in the flames — but the blaze got them in the end.
A "shoddy fireplace" did the trick to start a fire in "Sims 2." The cat, seen in the lower right corner, ended up running away. The fifth household member was swimming in circles in the pool.
Stakes, Rodiek acknowledged during our interview, are what make "The Sims" fundamentally interesting. Making death a part of the game from the start provided those stakes.
"It is really great when people have a Sim that they really care about, and they care about how they orchestrated their life, and they see them raise children, and maybe get a divorce, and then their children grow up and then they die. They go, 'Oh, man, I could just re-create them, but it will never be that Sim.'"
"Our game is about creating weird, quirky, erratic, strange little humanlike characters that we want you to care about deeply," he added.
In a perpetual quest, developers hope to keep inching "The Sims" toward a better reflection of real life and death, to keep raising the stakes and allowing customization in ways that matter to players.
In 2016, "Sims" released an update that expanded the possibilities of gender expression among characters, no longer restricting certain hair, makeup or clothing items to one gender or another and allowing players to select whether a Sim could impregnate others or get pregnant, regardless of outward appearance. Similarly, Rodiek said, creators are discussing the possibility of incorporating Sims who are deaf or hard of hearing, blind, or use a wheelchair. To help develop these, the team has been talking to players who have similar experiences.
"In actually talking to these players, talking about how it affects their lives, we've been thinking, how can we reflect this in a way that works in our game?" he said. "That's the stuff we're actually looking into that we really want to figure out, because it's scary to get it wrong, but I think it's so important if we can get it right."
In terms of death, Rodiek said he could envision developing a kind of long-term, terminal disease within the game from which Sims can't recover (but, seriously, don't ask him about it on Twitter, because they're not making this right now).
"I could see us approaching that in sort of a generic way that we're not saying that it's this specific cancer. But we're basically saying that your Sim has something that can't be cured and they will die before their time as a result of that," he said. Maybe, he added, it'd be an option players could toggle on or off.
"I think it's a reality of life ... in a way that is like, yes, it's real, and yes, it's sad. But maybe for someone who wants it, it's cathartic or its interesting and it helps you tell a story," Rodiek said. "Those are some of the things we're trying to grapple with and talk to our players about how to get right. And it's terrifying, but it's really cool if we could do it."
Illustration by Tara Jacoby for HuffPost.
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From the Eredivisie to the Premier League, the Dutch-born midfielder has taken the soccer world by storm. Here is his story.
Hakim Ziyech is a professional soccer player who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League outfit Chelsea and the Morocco national team.
After four impressive years with Dutch clubs Heerenveen and FC Twente, Ziyech caught the attention of Ajax, who purchased the player for a reported transfer fee of €11million. The move saw him make 112 appearances as Ajax won the Eredivisie title and the KNVB Cup, as well as reaching a Europa League final and a Champions League semi-final during his time there.
His consistent high-quality performances quickly made him one of the hottest properties in European soccer and this soon led to another transfer. On this occasion it was to Chelsea who acquired his services for a reported transfer fee of around $50million.
The player has built a reputation for his finishing and exceptional technique. He is also a well-skilled executor of free kicks. At the culmination of the 2018/19 season, The Guardian newspaper ranked him 29th on their list of the world's best 100 soccer players.
Hakim Ziyech and his early days in the Eredivisie
Ziyech was born in Dronten, Netherlands, and began his career with local outfits Reaal Dronten and ASV Dronten.
In 2007, the midfielder was picked up by Heerenveen, who were a top-tier club in the middle of a UEFA Cup campaign at the time. Ziyech was 14 years old and joined the club's academy.
In 2012, the player made his debut in a Europa League qualifying game against Rapid Bucuresti. Just a few days later, he made his league debut in a 2-0 defeat to NEC. Exactly one year later, Ziyech scored his first goal in a 2-0 win over NAC Breda.
In August 2014, FC Twente, who had just finished third in the Eredivisie, bought the player for a reported fee of around €3.5million. Ziyech enjoyed a stellar first season with the club, scoring 11 goals and creating 15 assists in the Dutch top flight alone.
His impressive performances saw him receive the captain's armband ahead of the 2015/16 campaign. However, in January of that season, Ziyech was stripped of the captaincy after making negative comments about the club and declaring he had requested a transfer. Despite the controversy, he enjoyed another strong season on the field, scoring 17 goals and creating 10 assists in the Eredivisie.
A big break at Ajax
Ziyech's transfer request was granted ahead of the 2016/17 campaign as he switched from FC Twente to Ajax for around €11million.
In his first season with the Amsterdam outfit, Ziyech helped guide them to the Europa League final. However, a 2-0 loss to Manchester United ended his hopes of a first European winners medal. Despite the disappointing result, the midfielder finished the Europa League campaign that year joint-fourth on the top assist charts, while his first season with Ajax also saw him bag the first of four spots in the Eredivisie Team of the Year.
His second season at Ajax was far less eventful, with the club failing to land a single piece of silverware and also enduring a below-par European campaign.
Things changed, however, in Ziyech's third season in Amsterdam. The club went on a historic Champions League run which saw them eliminate Dynamo Kiev, Real Madrid and Juventus on their way to the semi-finals. Tottenham Hotspur stood between Ziyech and a Champions League final appearance, but despite his assist in the first leg and a goal in the second, it was the English outfit that prevailed. This disappointment was partially alleviated by Ajax managing to win a domestic league/cup double that season.
Despite signing a new three-year contract with the club, Zieych would then only spend one more year in Amsterdam before moving to London.
Hakim Ziyech and Chelsea
Chelsea announced they had come to an agreement with Ajax over the transfer of Ziyech back in February 2020. The reported fee was in the region of €40million as Frank Lampard continued to build his Blues squad for the 2020/21 campaign.
The player agreed a five-year contract with the club and made his debut on October 17, 2020, when he came off the bench in a 3-3 draw with Southampton. A few days later, Ziyech bagged his first goal for the Blues as they thrashed Krasnodar 4-0 in a Champions League group-stage fixture.
Just three days later, Ziyech was back on the scoresheet, having helped his side to a 3-0 win away at Burnley in the Premier League. This goal made him the first Chelsea player since Diego Costa to score on his first two starts in all competitions.
In the following game, Ziyech received his first Premier League man-of-the-match award as his two assists helped Chelsea to a 4-1 win over Sheffield United.
Ziyech's international career with Morocco
Ziyech was born in the Netherlands and began his international career playing at youth level for the Dutch national team. He made appearances for the U-19s, U-20s and U-21s before switching allegiance to the country of his mother, Morocco.
On October 9, 2015, Ziyech made his debut for the African nation in a 1-0 defeat to Ivory Coast. Eight months later, Ziyech scored his first two goals for Morocco as he helped them to a 2-0 win over Congo.
Ziyech was part of the 23-man Morocco squad which travelled to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Facing a tough group which featured both Spain and Portugal, Morocco put up a strong showing, but ultimately finished bottom.
Ziyech was born on March 19, 1993, in Dronten. He is the youngest of nine children born to a Moroccan mother and Dutch father. When Ziyech was just 10 years old, his father passed away due to a serious illness.
As the youngster began his career, former Moroccan international Aziz Doufikar became his mentor. The former PEC Zwolle player is said to have helped Ziyech get back on track after the youngster began to miss training and reportedly show a bad attitude.
Reported net worth
Ziyech earns a reported £5.2million a year with Chelsea. This is reportedly twice the wage that the player was receiving at Ajax.
The Moroccan international is a car fanatic and has a Lamborghini Urus, a red Lamborghini Aventador, a Mercedes Benz SUV and a Volkswagen Golf GTi among his collection.
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Twitch streamer DrDisRespect is creating a TV show
And it'll focus on the backstory of his WWE-inspired persona.
Guy Beahm IV, a popular Twitch streamer known for his alter ego DrDisRespect, is developing a narrative scripted series about the character he created. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he's working on the project under a deal with Skybound Entertainment, the multi-platform production company founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. The WWE-inspired persona has almost 4 million followers on Twitch and is known for playing video games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in his streams with over-the-top production values.
The series will focus on "how the doctor became the doctor" and will explore the character's backstory. Skybound co-founder and CEO David Alpert said in a statement: "There are lots of incredibly talented streamers, but there's something special about what Guy has done in creating this character. We really believe there's a unique world around the doctor."
The project is still in its very early stages, however, so it doesn't have a network yet. Its format also remains up in the air, though Beahm told THR that there were "some early discussions around animation." He's also hoping that the project will "have an effect that reverberates and legitimizes the world of streaming."
Beahm is far from the only high-profile Twitch streamer who's recently taken on something new. Unlike ZeRo or Disguised Toast who both switched platforms for potentially lucrative deals, though, he's still staying with Twitch. He said the Amazon-owned website has been "extremely flexible" in providing the chances for him to work on the series.
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If you're responsible for digital governance at your organization, pay close attention to case studies of companies like Nike and Intel to learn how digital policies can be used to support, encourage, and inspire digital workers
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If you're even peripherally involved in marketing, you know how incredibly hard it is to gain audience attention in 2018. Just take a look at these statistics:
More than 50 million businesses have a Facebook business page
94% of B2B organizations use LinkedIn for content publication and distribution
There are over $25 million business profiles on Instagram
 A quarter of U.S.marketers run video ads on Twitter
And that's not counting the millions of personal updates posted each day.
So it's no surprise that businesses are always looking for a way to stand out from the crowd. Sometimes, that means being bold enough to do something no one else has done before...something that will shock or surprise your audience and create a social media buzz.
It's not hard to come up with daring, expectation-smashing ideas. Simply taking a glance at trending Twitter hashtags can provide you with all kinds of inspiration. But then you run in the ever-present, self-preservation speed bump of, "Should we?"
If you're lucky, you'll find the answer to that question in your digital policies.
Digital policies let you push the envelope
You can't push the envelope if you don't have one! Without guardrails that tell you what you can and can't do, marketers tend to keep doing the same old thing for fear of getting their wrists slapped for trying something different. Digital policies, on the other hand, can motivate you to see just how far you can push the boundaries without breaking them.
Need an example? There's none better than Nike.
Nike and Colin Kaepernick
Nike's new ad campaign featuring former NFL player Colin Kaepernick rocked the worlds of both advertising and social media. Taking a stand on a topic that had created such vitriol on both sides was a risky move. And the backlash was immediate: Twitter went into a frenzy, with many people declaring that they would boycott Nike and burn or throw away any Nike gear they already owned. Some even posted videos of themself doing just that.
The intensity of those reactions led a lot of people in the marketing world to wonder what the heck they were thinking (as well as how they ever got that campaign approved!). I think I can answer that. While I'm not privy to all of Nike's policies, I do know that they have a style guide for their football brand, and one of the top commandments is, "Be big, expressive, unapologetic." So their digital policy -- as it relates to football, at least -- not only allowsrisk-taking; it encourages it. Nobody needed to get permission; they already had it.
As risky as it was, their bold move soon proved to be a smart one. The company has sold 61% more merchandise since the campaign launched. Merchandise discounts are down (which means they aren't having to cut prices to get rid of excess merchandise), and the share price of Nike stock even got a nice little bump.
Moreover, take a look at these stats:
In the first hours after the campaign launched, Nike received more than $43 million worth of media exposure.
Also in the first 24 hours, Nike was mentioned 2.7 million times on social media, representing an increase of 1400% over the previous day.
In the first 72 hours, Nike received more than 5.2 social media mentions.
While I know it's a cliche, you just can't buy that kind of publicity!
However, it doesn't take a campaign shocking enough to blow up social media to demonstrate how digital policies provide freedom rather than constraint. Intel marketer Scott Rosenberg wrote an article for the American Marketing Association in which he described how Intel not only implemented digital policies, but evangelized them in a way that inspired marketers throughout the organization. How? They transformed the organization's marketing activities from something that resembled herding cats to targeted processes more along the lines of nurturing jaguars.
Just what did Intel do?
To start with, they got rid of the dead wood by setting criteria with which to evaluate their many types of content, and they dropped any content initiatives that didn't meet them.
They also used those criteria to make sure that, going forward, all content being produced would be directly and clearly linked to business initiatives. That produced a few immediate results:
It freed up key talent to focus their efforts where they would have the biggest impact.
Digital workers who had been feeling like they were creating content just to throw it into the abyss were infused with new enthusiasm, knowing that their content actually mattered. No more fluff pieces that just took up space without making a difference!
It greatly reduced the post-production approval process. Digital workers knew what goals the content had to meet before they produced it, so they wasted much less time producing content that would never see the light of day.
Then, inspired by Lisa Welchman, author of Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design, Rosenberg took the next step: an extreme makeover for the image of digital governance. He and his team didn't see digital governance as imposing rules; they saw it as providing support and enabling success, and they wanted the rest of the company to see it the same way. One of their main goals, for example, was to reduce boredom and anxiety and increase engagement by making sure all digital workers knew exactly what their work was supposed to accomplish, as well as why that goal was important. Making sure that employees knew their work mattered was encoded into their digital policies.
Intel's over-the-top change management process for digital policies included things like:
Making sure talent and technologies were being used effectively.
Reassuring marketers that adhering to digital policies meant they didn't have to spend time worrying about things like privacy, security, legal and regulatory issues, etc.
Enabling digital workers to focus on creating spectacular campaigns and customer experiences by eliminating the need to worry about things like evaluating the best channels, researching risks and best practices, etc.
Separating content decisions from the creator's emotional investment by using clear, objective criteria.
Championing the "One Intel" tagline to keep everyone focused, first and only, on the customer experience.
Presenting the digital governance team as consultants rather than enforcers.
Giving digital workers a central resource for new technologies, current trends, best practices, etc.
While Nike's approach to digital governance for their football brand was to inspire digital workers to be bold, creative, and aggressive -- and to not be afraid of taking risks -- Intel used digital governance to replace creativity-killing chaos with order and structure. By eliminating the need for front-line digital workers to spend time on necessary (but rote and repetitive) tasks, they freed them up to focus all of their talents and energies on creating the very best brand experience for Intel's customers.
Conclusion: Digital policies should be a resource, not a constraint
Sure, some companies take a heavy-handed approach to digital policies and end up hobbling their employees. But that's not how it's supposed to be. If you're responsible for digital governance at your organization, pay close attention to case studies of companies like Nike and Intel to learn how digital policies can be used to support, encourage, and inspire digital workers by giving them the freedom to do what they do best: represent your brand to the world.
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Switzerland vs Costa Rica Betting Tip (27.06.2018)
Switzerland vs Costa Rica Betting Tip
2018 FIFA World Cup | Wednesday, 27th June 2018 | 7:00 pm | Novgorod
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Switzerland vs Costa Rica | Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
Switzerland know what it takes to qualify from a World Cup group stage, having done so in the 2006 and 2014 World Cup finals. In 2014, the Swiss finished second to France in the group and if they are to continue in Russia, it is likely they will finish second again but must at least pick up a point in this game. Costa Rica enjoyed great success at the 2014 World Cup but have not been able to match their heroics of four years ago in Russia. They will feel disappointed not to have come into this game with a chance to qualify and are now playing for pride.
Switzerland have given themselves a great chance of qualifying for the knockout stages of the 2018 World Cup. They have their fate in their own hands and with Serbia meeting Brazil in the other final match of this group, the Swiss know they could even lose this game and still progress. Costa Rica's first result placed a lot of pressure on their second game against World Cup favourites Brazil and they failed to get what they required. It remains to be seen if the manager will use this game to give some squad players a taste of the action or if they will start with the same XI from the match against Brazil.
The Swiss started their 2018 Word Cup campaign with a great 1-1 draw against Brazil. Switzerland are not easy to beat and although they were fortunate not to see the equaliser disallowed, they battled back well to win a point. Switzerland also came from behind to defeat Serbia after conceding an early goal and will feel confident of winning this and sealing a place in the next round.
The defeat to Serbia in the first match was the big blow for Costa Rica in this tournament and it was always going to be tough to come back from that loss. They showed great fighting spirit in the second game against Brazil but could not hold out, conceding two late goals to lose the game and face elimination from the World Cup.
Switzerland vs Costa Rica Head to Head
Switzerland and Costa Rica have met twice in the past, with both teams recording a win. Switzerland won 2-1 in a four team tournament in 2006 while Costa Rica came out on top 1-0 in a 2010 friendly match.
Odds and Predictions
The Swiss are in a good position heading into this game but cannot afford any mistakes if they are to secure a place in the Round of 16. Given their previous results in this group and overall recent record, Switzerland are the favourites to win this game at 1.80. Costa Rica are 6.00 to go out on a high with a win and the draw is on offer at 3.30. Switzerland have lost only one of their last 19 matches and are a very difficult team to beat. However, they have won only one of their last 8 games by more than a 2 goal margin. You can get 5.00 for Switzerland to win the game by a 2 goal margin. Xherdan Shaqiri is the star man in the Swiss team as demonstrated by his goal in the win over Serbia. If the Stoke City man does not face any further action for his celebration in that game, Shaqiri makes a good bet at 6.50 to get the first goal of the match. Bryan Ruiz is Costa Rica's most creative player and the Sporting Lisbon playmaker is 5.00 to score at any time.
Switzerland vs Costa Rica Top Betting Tip: Switzerland (2-0)
Costa Rica have lacked a cutting edge at this World Cup and Switzerland will be hoping to keep their first clean sheet of the tournament. Much will depend on the mood and approach of the Costa Rica team but Switzerland have everything to play for and should come out on top with a clean sheet.
Top Betting Tip: Switzerland (2-0)
1,80 (Supabets)