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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
Seated, from left, are: Brigadier General Marshall B 'Brad' Webb, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command; Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Standing, from left, are: Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; Chief of Staff Bill Daley; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; Audrey Tomason Director for Counterterrorism; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
A home is seen protected from encroaching floodwaters by a levee near Yazoo City, Mississippi on May 18. Floodwater from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak.
Weeks of heavy rains and runoff from an unusually snowy winter caused the Mississippi River to rise, flooding thousands of homes and buy Hermes bags replica 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and evoking comparisons to historic floods in 1927 and 1937.
Full face transplant patient Dallas Wiens (Right) is seen with his four year old daughter Scarlette in this undated handout image.
The 25 year old Texas man has received the first full face transplant done in the United States, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said on May 9.
More than 30 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked for more than 15 hours to replace the nose, lips, facial skin, muscles of facial animation and nerves of Dallas Wiens, disfigured in an electrical accident in 2008
A US Army soldier with the 10th hermes bag black replica Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH 47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 in this US military handout image from March copy hermes bag blue 1.
The New York Times and other United States media have reported that a military canine accompanied Navy SEAL Team Six commandos into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Ivan Stoiljkovic (Right) carries an iron stuck to his chest in front of his home in Heresin near Koprivnica, some hermes bag replica 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Zagreb May 12.
Ivan, 6, has an extraordinary talent: the ability to attract metallic objects from spoons to heavy frying pans to his body.
He is said to be able to carry up to 25 kg of metal stuck to his torso. Ivan's family also claims that his hands can emit heat and his mysterious ability has also given him healing powers. Medical checkups so far have reaped inconclusive results.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
Seated, from left, are: Brigadier General Marshall B 'Brad' Webb, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command; Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Standing, from left, are: Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; Chief of Staff Bill Daley; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; Audrey Tomason Director for Counterterrorism; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
A home is seen protected from encroaching floodwaters by a levee near Yazoo City, Mississippi on May 18. Floodwater from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak.
Weeks of heavy rains and runoff from an unusually snowy winter caused the Mississippi River to rise, flooding thousands of homes and buy Hermes bags replica 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and evoking comparisons to historic floods in 1927 and 1937.
Full face transplant patient Dallas Wiens (Right) is seen with his four year old daughter Scarlette in this undated handout image.
The 25 year old Texas man has received the first full face transplant done in the United States, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said on May 9.
More than 30 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked for more than 15 hours to replace the nose, lips, facial skin, muscles of facial animation and nerves of Dallas Wiens, disfigured in an electrical accident in 2008
A US Army soldier with the 10th hermes bag black replica Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH 47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 in this US military handout image from March copy hermes bag blue 1.
The New York Times and other United States media have reported that a military canine accompanied Navy SEAL Team Six commandos into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Ivan Stoiljkovic (Right) carries an iron stuck to his chest in front of his home in Heresin near Koprivnica, some hermes bag replica 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Zagreb May 12.
Ivan, 6, has an extraordinary talent: the ability to attract metallic objects from spoons to heavy frying pans to his body.
He is said to be able to carry up to 25 kg of metal stuck to his torso. Ivan's family also claims that his hands can emit heat and his mysterious ability has also given him healing powers. Medical checkups so far have reaped inconclusive results.
Physicians' evaluations of patients' decisions to refuse oncological treatment
Objective: To gain insight into the standards of rationality that physicians use when evaluating patients' treatment refusals.
Design of the study: Qualitative design with indepth interviews.
: The study sample included 30 patients with cancer and 16 physicians (oncologists and general practitioners). All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment.
Results: Patients base their treatment refusals mainly on personal values and/or experience. Physicians mainly emphasise the medical perspective when evaluating patients' treatment refusals. From a medical perspective, a patient's treatment refusal based on personal values and experience is generally evaluated as irrational and difficult to accept, especially when it concerns a curative treatment. Physicians have a different attitude towards non curative treatments and have less difficulty accepting a patient's refusal of these treatments. Thus, an important factor in the physician's evaluation of a treatment refusal is whether the treatment refused is curative or non curative.
Conclusion: Physicians mainly use goal oriented and patients mainly value oriented rationality, but in the case of non curative treatment refusal, physicians give more emphasis to value oriented rationality. A consensus between the value oriented approaches of patient and physician may then emerge, leading to the patient's decision being understood and accepted by the physician. The physician's acceptance is crucial to his or her attitude towards the patient. The physician has to evaluate the patient's decision: Is it sensible, responsible, and judicious? Often the evaluation is then directed to the question: Is the patient's decision rational or not?1,2 The actual standards of rationality in these cases, however, are not clear. The question therefore arises: On what basis do physicians distinguish between their patients' rational and irrational arguments?
In medical ethical literature, rationality is described in various ways. Rational choice has for example, been described as the choice that maximises expected utility or that satisfies the patient's aims and values most.1 In other cases, having "good reasons" is at the centre of the evaluation of rationality.2 4 Savulescu and Momeyer state that "It is rational for a person to perform some act if there would be a good reason to perform that act if the facts were as he/she believes them to be."2 A pilot study revealed that a physician's evaluation of the rationality of the patient's decision is crucial to their attitude towards the patient: if a physician thinks the patient's refusal is not based on good reasons, he or she is often inclined to consider the decision as irrational and will keep trying to convince the patient to accept the treatment.4 The evaluation of "good reasons", however, raises another question: What makes a reason a good reason "good" in a medical context, "good" in a patient context, or "good" in both?
The purpose of this article is to gain insight into the standards of rationality used by physicians. We focus on two aspects of this issue. Firstly, we describe what is meant in daily medical practice by rational decision making and discuss what physicians understand by "good reasons" to refuse recommended oncological treatment. All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment. In this study refusal meant the patient did not start treatment at all; or stopped during treatment; or refused a part of a recommended treatment but accepted another (for example, accepted surgery but refused chemotherapy). A qualitative research method was adopted to explore patients' deliberations that led to refusal of a recommended oncological treatment and to determine physicians' evaluations of the treatment refusals. The study was approved by the medical ethics committees at the study sites. Another reason may be that after their withdrawal, patients no longer want to be involved in medical research, either because they do not want to be confronted by hospitals or doctors again or because they are too ill to be interviewed. The patients included in this study form a rather unique hermes bag replica sample and deserve our gratitude.
A total of 30 patients (mean age 58 years, range 23 91) were interviewed. The inclusion criteria were: (a) age more than 18 years; (b) able to speak and understand Dutch: (c) having cancer; (d) life expectancy of more than three months; and (e) having refused a recommended oncological treatment. The patients were asked to participate by general practitioners (n=5) and by specialists in a university hospital (n=6) or in general hospitals (n=2) in the Netherlands. Dutch associations for patients with cancer were willing to spread information about the study. Patient members of these associations (n=17) responded themselves to the call to participate. All patients recruited by the physicians or those who responded themselves between January 2001 and April 2002 were included in the study if they met the inclusion criteria. We included both patients who had refused a recommended treatment imitation hermes Birkin bag price with higher potential benefit (curative treatment, n=10) and patients who had refused a recommended treatment with lower potential benefit (non curative treatment, n=20). Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients are given in table 1.
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A total of 16 physicians were interviewed from among the physicians who recruited the patients. Eight general practitioners (50%) and eight (general) oncologists (50%) were selected, including younger and older (mean age 49 years, range 29 60), male (n=11, 69%) and female (n=5, 31%) physicians with few to many years of working experience (mean 18 years, range 2 29), and from different settings (general practice, university hospital, and general hospital). We used indepth interview techniques that is, the interviews contained some general topics and no close ended questions.5 The interview topics covered demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient; the course of the disease; communication with physicians about the recommended treatment; the patient's attitude to the recommended treatment; and the patient's perspectives of the future. The interview topics were formulated after examining the relevant literature and undertaking preliminary observational studies. In these studies, 72 patients were observed during their visits to five different oncologists at an oncological outpatient clinic in the Netherlands. From the transcripts, various aspects of the discussions between physicians and patients about recommendations for treatment were noted and converted into interview topics.
Each physician was interviewed at their office. The interview lasted between 30 and 60 minutes. The indepth interview topics covered the characteristics of the physician; working experience; curative versus non curative treatment and palliative care in oncology; the physician patient relationship, especially concerning treatment decisions; patient autonomy; physician's beneficence; and treatment refusals and their rationality. At the end of the interview, the medical history of one patient who participated in the study was presented as a case (see box 1), and the physicians were asked to give their opinion about the rationality of the patient's decision.
The case of Mrs S
Mrs S is 54 years old. After a period of fever and pneumonia, she was diagnosed as having bronchial carcinoma (non small cell lung cancer in the upper right pulmonary lobe). The attending physician recommended surgery in which part of the lung would be removed (lobectomy). Mrs S decided to refuse the recommended surgery.
Mrs S: "I was afraid, and this fear was based on the mediastinoscopy [a diagnostic procedure carried out behind the sternum in the upper part of the chest cavity, which she recently had undergone; TvK]. I awoke when I was still in the operating room. I think something was not timed very well. A tube was still in my throat. I don't know if the tube was in my trachea or in my throat. I don't know, but I heard someone say that the surgery had been successful. And I was choking, I pulled out the tube and immediately afterwards I was transferred to the recovery room and there, for one and a half hours, I had terrible shortness of breath. I really thought I would suffocate."
"At that moment I thought: What if Hermes classic Kelly bag replica I had to undergo such a lobectomy? Then I would be in intensive care for three or four days. What if I keep getting that suffocating feeling. I know that they may make it technically possible for me not to really suffocate, but the feeling is terrible. I took three days to reflect on that, and then I decided for myself, no surgery. I am afraid. It is fear, fear of the surgery, and what may come afterwards."All the patient and physician interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. A descriptive qualitative approach was used to analyse the interviews.6 During the analysis, we used computer software (Kwalitan hermes bag black replica 5.0; VAM Peters, Radboud University, Nijmegen) for multiple text management, including coding, locating, and retrieving key materials, phrases, and words. Each interview was divided into several segments. The segments were coded and the codes were organised into categories and put into a tree structure. A second independent researcher supervised the process of data management.
The medical perspective
Mrs S's case (see box 1) was presented to all the physicians in the study. They were asked whether they would judge her decision as rational or as irrational.
Physician 1: If it is related to previous communication breakdown combined with an enormous amount of fear thus preventing the patient from forming a good idea of what that cancer can do if it is not treated, and no good decisions are made, then I find it irrational. But when I have the feeling that it is not based on facts, I find it very irrational.
Objective: To gain insight into the standards of rationality that physicians use when evaluating patients' treatment refusals.
Design of the study: Qualitative design with indepth interviews.
: The study sample included 30 patients with cancer and 16 physicians (oncologists and general practitioners). All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment.
Results: Patients base their treatment refusals mainly on personal values and/or experience. Physicians mainly emphasise the medical perspective when evaluating patients' treatment refusals. From a medical perspective, a patient's treatment refusal based on personal values and experience is generally evaluated as irrational and difficult to accept, especially when it concerns a curative treatment. Physicians have a different attitude towards non curative treatments and have less difficulty accepting a patient's refusal of these treatments. Thus, an important factor in the physician's evaluation of a treatment refusal is whether the treatment refused is curative or non curative.
Conclusion: Physicians mainly use goal oriented and patients mainly value oriented rationality, but in the case of non curative treatment refusal, physicians give more emphasis to value oriented rationality. A consensus between the value oriented approaches of patient and physician may then emerge, leading to the patient's decision being understood and accepted by the physician. The physician's acceptance is crucial to his or her attitude towards the patient. The physician has to evaluate the patient's decision: Is it sensible, responsible, and judicious? Often the evaluation is then directed to the question: Is the patient's decision rational or not?1,2 The actual standards of rationality in these cases, however, are not clear. The question therefore arises: On what basis do physicians distinguish between their patients' rational and irrational arguments?
In medical ethical literature, rationality is described in various ways. Rational choice has for example, been described as the choice that maximises expected utility or that satisfies the patient's aims and values most.1 In other cases, having "good reasons" is at the centre of the evaluation of rationality.2 4 Savulescu and Momeyer state that "It is rational for a person to perform some act if there would be a good reason to perform that act if the facts were as he/she believes them to be."2 A pilot study revealed that a physician's evaluation of the rationality of the patient's decision is crucial to their attitude towards the patient: if a physician thinks the patient's refusal is not based on good reasons, he or she is often inclined to consider the decision as irrational and will keep trying to convince the patient to accept the treatment.4 The evaluation of "good reasons", however, raises another question: What makes a reason a good reason "good" in a medical context, "good" in a patient context, or "good" in both?
The purpose of this article is to gain insight into the standards of rationality used by physicians. We focus on two aspects of this issue. Firstly, we describe what is meant in daily medical practice by rational decision making and discuss what physicians understand by "good reasons" to refuse recommended oncological treatment. All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment. In this study refusal meant the patient did not start treatment at all; or stopped during treatment; or refused a part of a recommended treatment but accepted another (for example, accepted surgery but refused chemotherapy). A qualitative research method was adopted to explore patients' deliberations that led to refusal of a recommended oncological treatment and to determine physicians' evaluations of the treatment refusals. The study was approved by the medical ethics committees at the study sites. Another reason may be that after their withdrawal, patients no longer want to be involved in medical research, either because they do not want to be confronted by hospitals or doctors again or because they are too ill to be interviewed. The patients included in this study form a rather unique hermes bag replica sample and deserve our gratitude.
A total of 30 patients (mean age 58 years, range 23 91) were interviewed. The inclusion criteria were: (a) age more than 18 years; (b) able to speak and understand Dutch: (c) having cancer; (d) life expectancy of more than three months; and (e) having refused a recommended oncological treatment. The patients were asked to participate by general practitioners (n=5) and by specialists in a university hospital (n=6) or in general hospitals (n=2) in the Netherlands. Dutch associations for patients with cancer were willing to spread information about the study. Patient members of these associations (n=17) responded themselves to the call to participate. All patients recruited by the physicians or those who responded themselves between January 2001 and April 2002 were included in the study if they met the inclusion criteria. We included both patients who had refused a recommended treatment imitation hermes Birkin bag price with higher potential benefit (curative treatment, n=10) and patients who had refused a recommended treatment with lower potential benefit (non curative treatment, n=20). Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients are given in table 1.
View this table:View inline
View popup
A total of 16 physicians were interviewed from among the physicians who recruited the patients. Eight general practitioners (50%) and eight (general) oncologists (50%) were selected, including younger and older (mean age 49 years, range 29 60), male (n=11, 69%) and female (n=5, 31%) physicians with few to many years of working experience (mean 18 years, range 2 29), and from different settings (general practice, university hospital, and general hospital). We used indepth interview techniques that is, the interviews contained some general topics and no close ended questions.5 The interview topics covered demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient; the course of the disease; communication with physicians about the recommended treatment; the patient's attitude to the recommended treatment; and the patient's perspectives of the future. The interview topics were formulated after examining the relevant literature and undertaking preliminary observational studies. In these studies, 72 patients were observed during their visits to five different oncologists at an oncological outpatient clinic in the Netherlands. From the transcripts, various aspects of the discussions between physicians and patients about recommendations for treatment were noted and converted into interview topics.
Each physician was interviewed at their office. The interview lasted between 30 and 60 minutes. The indepth interview topics covered the characteristics of the physician; working experience; curative versus non curative treatment and palliative care in oncology; the physician patient relationship, especially concerning treatment decisions; patient autonomy; physician's beneficence; and treatment refusals and their rationality. At the end of the interview, the medical history of one patient who participated in the study was presented as a case (see box 1), and the physicians were asked to give their opinion about the rationality of the patient's decision.
The case of Mrs S
Mrs S is 54 years old. After a period of fever and pneumonia, she was diagnosed as having bronchial carcinoma (non small cell lung cancer in the upper right pulmonary lobe). The attending physician recommended surgery in which part of the lung would be removed (lobectomy). Mrs S decided to refuse the recommended surgery.
Mrs S: "I was afraid, and this fear was based on the mediastinoscopy [a diagnostic procedure carried out behind the sternum in the upper part of the chest cavity, which she recently had undergone; TvK]. I awoke when I was still in the operating room. I think something was not timed very well. A tube was still in my throat. I don't know if the tube was in my trachea or in my throat. I don't know, but I heard someone say that the surgery had been successful. And I was choking, I pulled out the tube and immediately afterwards I was transferred to the recovery room and there, for one and a half hours, I had terrible shortness of breath. I really thought I would suffocate."
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The medical perspective
Mrs S's case (see box 1) was presented to all the physicians in the study. They were asked whether they would judge her decision as rational or as irrational.
Physician 1: If it is related to previous communication breakdown combined with an enormous amount of fear thus preventing the patient from forming a good idea of what that cancer can do if it is not treated, and no good decisions are made, then I find it irrational. But when I have the feeling that it is not based on facts, I find it very irrational.
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They've been hunkered down all winter, but now Pacific great blue herons have returned to Stanley Park looking for love.
"The males are out there claiming nests and they're doing all kinds of awesome visual displays," urban wildlife specialist Greg Hart said Tuesday. "They're holding their beaks up, showing off their long chest plumes."
The Mick Jagger with feathers act fake hermes bag blue is all in the interest of breedingthe next generation of herons. Herons were first documented breeding in the park in 1921 near Brockton Point. They later moved to a spot near the old zoo, and have been nesting in a stand of trees near the park's Beach Avenue tennis courts since 2001.
Hart, who works with the Stanley Park Ecological Society, said heron colonies change their nesting spots every 20 or 30 years.
The population of these herons has declined steadily since the 1980s. Disruptions by bald eagles and by human development takes a toll during breeding season. Last year, Stanley Park had 83 active nests and an estimated 138 fledglings were raised.
As many as 5,000 Pacific great blue herons call Canada home, of which 3,300 live around theSalish Sea. The global populations stands at between 9,500 and 11,000 adults.
Hart said the birds are fun to watch at this time of year, but he cautioned spectators against feeding the birds.
The birds don't fly south for the winter, instead feeding on fish in the shallow intertidal eel grass beds along the Fraser River and the mudflats of Boundary Bay. Females bulk up on fish to give them the energy to lay eggs.
The birds were spotted in the Stanley Park trees at the beginning of March, but headed back to their fishing grounds when the snows returned. They didn't come back for good this year until March 11. music festival bubble burst?The 2017 Pemberton Music Festival was cancelled this week after organizers went bankrupt, leavingthousands.
Indigenous families, without answers for so many years, frustrated by slow start at federal inquiryAlong the Island Highway just outsideCampbell River, 16 year old Helena Howard and her sister Christine.
Burn Fund Centre provides much needed support for trauma victims and their familiesStasi Manser was just a child when, in 1969, she woke up early to the sound of her baby sister wanting.
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They've been hunkered down all winter, but now Pacific great blue herons have returned to Stanley Park looking for love.
"The males are out there claiming nests and they're doing all kinds of awesome visual displays," urban wildlife specialist Greg Hart said Tuesday. "They're holding their beaks up, showing off their long chest plumes."
The Mick Jagger with feathers act fake hermes bag blue is all in the interest of breedingthe next generation of herons. Herons were first documented breeding in the park in 1921 near Brockton Point. They later moved to a spot near the old zoo, and have been nesting in a stand of trees near the park's Beach Avenue tennis courts since 2001.
Hart, who works with the Stanley Park Ecological Society, said heron colonies change their nesting spots every 20 or 30 years.
The population of these herons has declined steadily since the 1980s. Disruptions by bald eagles and by human development takes a toll during breeding season. Last year, Stanley Park had 83 active nests and an estimated 138 fledglings were raised.
As many as 5,000 Pacific great blue herons call Canada home, of which 3,300 live around theSalish Sea. The global populations stands at between 9,500 and 11,000 adults.
Hart said the birds are fun to watch at this time of year, but he cautioned spectators against feeding the birds.
The birds don't fly south for the winter, instead feeding on fish in the shallow intertidal eel grass beds along the Fraser River and the mudflats of Boundary Bay. Females bulk up on fish to give them the energy to lay eggs.
The birds were spotted in the Stanley Park trees at the beginning of March, but headed back to their fishing grounds when the snows returned. They didn't come back for good this year until March 11. music festival bubble burst?The 2017 Pemberton Music Festival was cancelled this week after organizers went bankrupt, leavingthousands.
Indigenous families, without answers for so many years, frustrated by slow start at federal inquiryAlong the Island Highway just outsideCampbell River, 16 year old Helena Howard and her sister Christine.
Burn Fund Centre provides much needed support for trauma victims and their familiesStasi Manser was just a child when, in 1969, she woke up early to the sound of her baby sister wanting.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Each of Dwane Casey Toronto Raptors squads has upped the win total from the year before culminating in 56 victories and an appearance in the Eastern Conference final last time around. A lot of people who hand out predictions either didn notice or didn care though, and once again, Toronto isn a popular pick as a American hot air factories sorry, daytime sports talk shows have nearly completely dismissed Toronto, as if last year never happened.
Cleveland is the clear front runner in the East, but many pundits will bring up Boston (the annual pick for the team ready to put it all together that never does) and a trio of revamped, but question mark filled teams in New York, Indiana and Chicago as the best bets to finish second in the conference.
At training camp, much of the Raptors organization talked of no longer being the hunter based on last year success, pointing out that opponents would be gunning for them every night, using them as some sort of measuring stick.
Or, maybe not. And that quite fine with Casey. In fact, he would prefer it if everybody simply looked past this group.
like it, I like that people underestimate us. It should motivate us, putting us as underdogs, Casey said before Toronto penultimate pre season contest, a 103 92 win against the Detroit Pistons.
San Antonio or proven winners can emote confidence based on sustained success, not Toronto. Not yet.
have to earn respect and do it over. replica hermes handbags Can be a one day, one year wonder, we got to go out and prove to the league again that we for real, Casey said.
biggest fear is fake hermes leather handbags that we think we have done enough so let lay back on the beach and drink Mai Tais and chill out, he said.
A year ago, an embarrassing sweep at the hands of the Washington Wizards propelled the Raptors to unprecedented heights. This time around, the motivation has to come from elsewhere.
the end of the day, we got to do our job, not worry about what people say, said top player Kyle Lowry, adding that, motivates me.
see it, you read it, but at the end of the day, you just go out there and still got to work. Casey, starting small forward DeMarre Carroll is embracing the fact that other, less proven teams are being talked up while the Raptors quietly go about their work.
kind of what you want. You want to slide under the radar, you don want too much expectations because then everybody waiting for you, Carroll explained.
going to come in, play Toronto Raptors basketball. We going to surprise a lot of people like we did last year. We don care who believes in us or not. STILL NEED WORK
Stan Van Gundy Pistons haven been mentioned as an East contender, though Casey said before the game a top conference type of team. on Wednesday they weren Lowry was in mid season form, DeMar DeRozan shook off a rough opening quarter and caught fire in the second and reserves Lucas Nogueira and Cory Joseph also looked particularly sharp.
Lowry had 27 points and seven rebounds in 28 minutes, DeRozan 26 in 23, before they got the rest of the night off.
The Raptors will conclude the pre season on Friday in Washington, meaning the final two tuneups will come against first week opponents.
weird. It just how the league set it up so we got to deal with it, Lowry said of the scheduling.
SULLINGER AND ROSS CLOSE
There a good chance Jared Sullinger returns to the lineup against the Wizards. Sullinger, out since the pre season opener due to an injured foot and Ross, sidelined for the past three after hurting his knee on a dunk attempt, both were getting shots up with teammates before Wednesday game. It was the first time Ross has done that in a week or so, but Casey said Sullinger was more likely for Friday, because it is more important he gets acclimated to his new teammates.
are coming along, Casey said. not going to force it if they not ready to go. Would rather have them next week than force them in Friday. Both of them are smart guys, Terrence knows what to do, it just a matter of game conditioning or whatever. It not like we got to how much is a hermes bag see anything of what Terrence can do, he said.
Casey said Sullinger knows all of the plays, but just needs to get his game conditioning up to speed because he has been out so long.
going to be the hardest thing for him, because there a big difference between running on the sideline, treadmill and (actual) games. AUDIENCE
Before the game, nearly every Raptor was glued to the Blue Jays playoff game in the small, visitor locker room at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The players watched intently, especially during the bottom of the ninth inning for what was likely Jose Bautista last at bat with Toronto.
The Raptors were disappointed to see their sporting brethren eliminated.
AROUND THE RIM
It Hermes birkin bags fake nice that the Raptors have been supporting the Blue Jays, but Casey likely saw this season flash before his eyes when he saw Lowry nearly get smoked by a Kevin Pillar foul ball on Monday, only a few games after a flying Edwin Encarnacion bat into the stands went over his head. I asked Lowry if the ball nearly hit him Jonas Valanciunas nearly led the team in assists with three (Joseph eventually passed him with a fourth helper in the final quarter). That doesn happen very often The Raptors only committed 12 turnovers, which is a low number for a pre season game and out rebounded a big Pistons team by 10 Very few fans took in the game, which wasn broadcast on television in either city, resulting in rare courtside seats for those scribes who attended.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Each of Dwane Casey's Toronto Raptors squads has upped the win total from the year before culminating in 56 victories and an appearance in the Eastern Conference final last season.
A lot of people who hand out predictions either didn't notice, or didn't care, however, and once again, Toronto isn't a popular pick as a American hot air factories sorry, daytime sports talk shows have nearly completely dismissed Toronto, as if the 2015 16 season never happened.
Cleveland is the clear front runner in the East, but many pundits will bring up Boston (the annual pick for the team ready to put it all together that never does) and a trio of revamped but question mark filled teams in New York, Indiana and Chicago as the best bets to finish second in the conference.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Each of Dwane Casey Toronto Raptors squads has upped the win total from the year before culminating in 56 victories and an appearance in the Eastern Conference final last time around. A lot of people who hand out predictions either didn notice or didn care though, and once again, Toronto isn a popular pick as a American hot air factories sorry, daytime sports talk shows have nearly completely dismissed Toronto, as if last year never happened.
Cleveland is the clear front runner in the East, but many pundits will bring up Boston (the annual pick for the team ready to put it all together that never does) and a trio of revamped, but question mark filled teams in New York, Indiana and Chicago as the best bets to finish second in the conference.
At training camp, much of the Raptors organization talked of no longer being the hunter based on last year success, pointing out that opponents would be gunning for them every night, using them as some sort of measuring stick.
Or, maybe not. And that quite fine with Casey. In fact, he would prefer it if everybody simply looked past this group.
like it, I like that people underestimate us. It should motivate us, putting us as underdogs, Casey said before Toronto penultimate pre season contest, a 103 92 win against the Detroit Pistons.
San Antonio or proven winners can emote confidence based on sustained success, not Toronto. Not yet.
have to earn respect and do it over. replica hermes handbags Can be a one day, one year wonder, we got to go out and prove to the league again that we for real, Casey said.
biggest fear is fake hermes leather handbags that we think we have done enough so let lay back on the beach and drink Mai Tais and chill out, he said.
A year ago, an embarrassing sweep at the hands of the Washington Wizards propelled the Raptors to unprecedented heights. This time around, the motivation has to come from elsewhere.
the end of the day, we got to do our job, not worry about what people say, said top player Kyle Lowry, adding that, motivates me.
see it, you read it, but at the end of the day, you just go out there and still got to work. Casey, starting small forward DeMarre Carroll is embracing the fact that other, less proven teams are being talked up while the Raptors quietly go about their work.
kind of what you want. You want to slide under the radar, you don want too much expectations because then everybody waiting for you, Carroll explained.
going to come in, play Toronto Raptors basketball. We going to surprise a lot of people like we did last year. We don care who believes in us or not. STILL NEED WORK
Stan Van Gundy Pistons haven been mentioned as an East contender, though Casey said before the game a top conference type of team. on Wednesday they weren Lowry was in mid season form, DeMar DeRozan shook off a rough opening quarter and caught fire in the second and reserves Lucas Nogueira and Cory Joseph also looked particularly sharp.
Lowry had 27 points and seven rebounds in 28 minutes, DeRozan 26 in 23, before they got the rest of the night off.
The Raptors will conclude the pre season on Friday in Washington, meaning the final two tuneups will come against first week opponents.
weird. It just how the league set it up so we got to deal with it, Lowry said of the scheduling.
SULLINGER AND ROSS CLOSE
There a good chance Jared Sullinger returns to the lineup against the Wizards. Sullinger, out since the pre season opener due to an injured foot and Ross, sidelined for the past three after hurting his knee on a dunk attempt, both were getting shots up with teammates before Wednesday game. It was the first time Ross has done that in a week or so, but Casey said Sullinger was more likely for Friday, because it is more important he gets acclimated to his new teammates.
are coming along, Casey said. not going to force it if they not ready to go. Would rather have them next week than force them in Friday. Both of them are smart guys, Terrence knows what to do, it just a matter of game conditioning or whatever. It not like we got to how much is a hermes bag see anything of what Terrence can do, he said.
Casey said Sullinger knows all of the plays, but just needs to get his game conditioning up to speed because he has been out so long.
going to be the hardest thing for him, because there a big difference between running on the sideline, treadmill and (actual) games. AUDIENCE
Before the game, nearly every Raptor was glued to the Blue Jays playoff game in the small, visitor locker room at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The players watched intently, especially during the bottom of the ninth inning for what was likely Jose Bautista last at bat with Toronto.
The Raptors were disappointed to see their sporting brethren eliminated.
AROUND THE RIM
It Hermes birkin bags fake nice that the Raptors have been supporting the Blue Jays, but Casey likely saw this season flash before his eyes when he saw Lowry nearly get smoked by a Kevin Pillar foul ball on Monday, only a few games after a flying Edwin Encarnacion bat into the stands went over his head. I asked Lowry if the ball nearly hit him Jonas Valanciunas nearly led the team in assists with three (Joseph eventually passed him with a fourth helper in the final quarter). That doesn happen very often The Raptors only committed 12 turnovers, which is a low number for a pre season game and out rebounded a big Pistons team by 10 Very few fans took in the game, which wasn broadcast on television in either city, resulting in rare courtside seats for those scribes who attended.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Each of Dwane Casey's Toronto Raptors squads has upped the win total from the year before culminating in 56 victories and an appearance in the Eastern Conference final last season.
A lot of people who hand out predictions either didn't notice, or didn't care, however, and once again, Toronto isn't a popular pick as a American hot air factories sorry, daytime sports talk shows have nearly completely dismissed Toronto, as if the 2015 16 season never happened.
Cleveland is the clear front runner in the East, but many pundits will bring up Boston (the annual pick for the team ready to put it all together that never does) and a trio of revamped but question mark filled teams in New York, Indiana and Chicago as the best bets to finish second in the conference.
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was a very unusual project. I'd loved Own Private Idaho when I was growing up. Before I even started acting, I used to watch it repeatedly: there was something about the emotion of it, its aesthetic, and the makeshift family that the characters create which spoke to my teenage self. There is Bob Pigeon, played by William Richert, who can be traced back to Shakespeare's Falstaff; Scott Favor, played by Keanu Reeves, who can be traced back to Prince Hal; and Mike Waters, played by River Phoenix, who can be traced back to the character of Poins. They find each other on the margins of society, and help each other through that time in their lives with an intricate combination of humor, aggression, and understanding.
When I had the chance to work with Gus Van Sant years later on we did premieres in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Then Gus wanted to do a premiere in his hometown, Portland, and none of the other actors wanted to go. He knew I was obsessed with the film and he said "James, if you come to Portland I will give you a tour of all of the Own Private Idaho shooting locations" as, curiously enough, none of the film was actually shot in Idaho. It was a dream come true, and so together we spent an entire day in Portland driving to the various sites, and along the way he told me stories about that filming experience. "You know," he confided, "I kept all the old editor's film reels from the movie." It had been filmed in 1990 91, so they had cut it on actual film, which meant that Gus had hundreds of rolls of film in storage. "Are we gonna watch it?" I asked. "No," he replied.
But several months later we spent two days watching as much of the twenty five hours' worth of material as we could. It was a project just to watch it and it was incredible. Gus hadn't watched it since he had made the movie, and his style of making movies had changed in the intervening two decades. He had made a huge change in his aesthetic mid career, having been influenced by minimalistic films, and his later films were characterized by minimal dialogue, fewer cuts, and very long takes. So, when we were watching those Idaho rushes again after those two decades, the question became, "What if you had cut this movie now?" For instance, there is a scene early on where it is just Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix walking down the street, and we found ourselves wondering, "What if you just held on that shot, and you stay on River's head, and then you continue with him for much longer? What would that give to our sense of his character?"
They were intriguing questions, and after we got the reels digitized and I had my own copy of the material, I asked Gus if I could play around with it myself. When I suddenly had that uncut film that had been such a huge part of my teenage years right in front of me, it was poignant and exhilarating: we mark our memories by the cultural artifacts that we were engaged with when we were younger. I've done similar work before, using somebody else's material that was formerly a part of one project, and then used it for a completely different project but this was special because I felt like thematerial was incredibly valuable because of the film's place in cinema history, and in River's life. For those reasons, I didn't want to go in there in a disruptive way: I wanted to go in there in a respectful way. To me the archive had an inherent value, for every take was one I could just watch. replica hermes handbags outlet It was difficult to cut any of it out, and in the end I did two films. From the original twenty five hours, how much is a hermes handbag I cut one film that was twelve hours long and another that was 102 minutes. In the twelve hour version, there are multiple takes of the same shot, which was a way for me to deliver the material in a way that made it feel like it was an archive and yet also a portrait of the film making process. In the 102 minute cut I found a way to work so that it wasn't me trying to impose myself on it, but rather playing Gus, as though he were making the movie now.
When Gus wrote this script it was a compilation of three previous scripts. One was a movie that was about street kids in Portland; one was a movie about two Hispanic kids looking for their parents who eventually go to Europe; and then one was mostly Shakespearean dialogue in a contemporary setting. This last was based on Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight, which was a compilation of all the Falstaff sections of the Henry IV plays.
The other thing that Gus did, and which I pushed to the extreme, is that he focused on the Poins character, in this case Mike Waters, played by River Phoenix. Ned Poins is one of Prince Hal's sidekicks: he masterminds the double robbery of Falstaff in the comic Gad's Hill scene, but other than that plot function his purpose in the play is to bring the detail of character into that seedy but exuberant underworld. Shakespeare created 1,222 characters, and none of them are incidental: all are fully individuated. It is very moving to think about a side character, one out of all of these Shakespearean characters, then being given the spotlight. This attention is made even more poignant by Phoenix's incandescent performance. Whether he was revealing himself through the role or not is made moot by the fact that it is arguably his best performance and that he was dead two years later. The performance caught on film is now infinitely more valuable because it captured the best actor of his generation at the peak of his powers. By cutting together outtakes of the unused material of the film, I was able to give more emphasis to Hermes Kelly bag replica the essential beauty of Phoenix and his work. Phoenix in my remix film, Own Private River, is singled out from all other actors and film performances for that matter because it is presented in such an unflinching way just as Van Sant singled out Poins in his original film.
Now the significance of has changed because River is gone, but you want him to just be there, you want him to keep going, you want to see what he can do, and you want to find all that is still alive and is still around that exists of him. Consequently, those moments that would immediately pull you out of a normal film, pull you into this film at least they pulled me in because River is walking around, he is alive again. What I mean is that you just want anything you can have of him. That sense of wanting time to stop goes back to the original, too: Henry IV is, among other things, a coming of age story. Prince Hal's growing up is at once necessary and deeply poignant, and in many ways we want him to be able to remain a fun loving, irresponsible kid with Falstaff forever. In a way, the length of the footage of the film I was able to cut, especially the longer version, serves to extend that moment indefinitely since in an awful way River did grow up, hermes replica and in another way he's still in that happy hour before the end. Since I didn't have all the economic burdens of the initial film, I was able to make a film with a much looser narrative. So whereas the original was driven by the need to tell a certain story, the film I made was driven just by River's presence.
Shakespeare creates such a vivid, rich, and complex world that we can fruitfully focus on just one part of it and find inspiration for a whole variety of artistic endeavors: in this instance, the result consisted of two new films, created by the act of cutting and shaping a film ( about a film ( about a couple of plays ( IV It's an artistic genealogy, but at the same time we each bring something from outside and from ourselves to the relationship. As Shakespeare used British history for his material, Orson Welles used Shakespeare. Van Sant used Welles, and Shakespeare, and his own experiences to create his film. In turn, I humbly used Van Sant and Phoenix to reveal how much I love them. Reprinted with the permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
was a very unusual project. I'd loved Own Private Idaho when I was growing up. Before I even started acting, I used to watch it repeatedly: there was something about the emotion of it, its aesthetic, and the makeshift family that the characters create which spoke to my teenage self. There is Bob Pigeon, played by William Richert, who can be traced back to Shakespeare's Falstaff; Scott Favor, played by Keanu Reeves, who can be traced back to Prince Hal; and Mike Waters, played by River Phoenix, who can be traced back to the character of Poins. They find each other on the margins of society, and help each other through that time in their lives with an intricate combination of humor, aggression, and understanding.
When I had the chance to work with Gus Van Sant years later on we did premieres in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Then Gus wanted to do a premiere in his hometown, Portland, and none of the other actors wanted to go. He knew I was obsessed with the film and he said "James, if you come to Portland I will give you a tour of all of the Own Private Idaho shooting locations" as, curiously enough, none of the film was actually shot in Idaho. It was a dream come true, and so together we spent an entire day in Portland driving to the various sites, and along the way he told me stories about that filming experience. "You know," he confided, "I kept all the old editor's film reels from the movie." It had been filmed in 1990 91, so they had cut it on actual film, which meant that Gus had hundreds of rolls of film in storage. "Are we gonna watch it?" I asked. "No," he replied.
But several months later we spent two days watching as much of the twenty five hours' worth of material as we could. It was a project just to watch it and it was incredible. Gus hadn't watched it since he had made the movie, and his style of making movies had changed in the intervening two decades. He had made a huge change in his aesthetic mid career, having been influenced by minimalistic films, and his later films were characterized by minimal dialogue, fewer cuts, and very long takes. So, when we were watching those Idaho rushes again after those two decades, the question became, "What if you had cut this movie now?" For instance, there is a scene early on where it is just Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix walking down the street, and we found ourselves wondering, "What if you just held on that shot, and you stay on River's head, and then you continue with him for much longer? What would that give to our sense of his character?"
They were intriguing questions, and after we got the reels digitized and I had my own copy of the material, I asked Gus if I could play around with it myself. When I suddenly had that uncut film that had been such a huge part of my teenage years right in front of me, it was poignant and exhilarating: we mark our memories by the cultural artifacts that we were engaged with when we were younger. I've done similar work before, using somebody else's material that was formerly a part of one project, and then used it for a completely different project but this was special because I felt like thematerial was incredibly valuable because of the film's place in cinema history, and in River's life. For those reasons, I didn't want to go in there in a disruptive way: I wanted to go in there in a respectful way. To me the archive had an inherent value, for every take was one I could just watch. replica hermes handbags outlet It was difficult to cut any of it out, and in the end I did two films. From the original twenty five hours, how much is a hermes handbag I cut one film that was twelve hours long and another that was 102 minutes. In the twelve hour version, there are multiple takes of the same shot, which was a way for me to deliver the material in a way that made it feel like it was an archive and yet also a portrait of the film making process. In the 102 minute cut I found a way to work so that it wasn't me trying to impose myself on it, but rather playing Gus, as though he were making the movie now.
When Gus wrote this script it was a compilation of three previous scripts. One was a movie that was about street kids in Portland; one was a movie about two Hispanic kids looking for their parents who eventually go to Europe; and then one was mostly Shakespearean dialogue in a contemporary setting. This last was based on Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight, which was a compilation of all the Falstaff sections of the Henry IV plays.
The other thing that Gus did, and which I pushed to the extreme, is that he focused on the Poins character, in this case Mike Waters, played by River Phoenix. Ned Poins is one of Prince Hal's sidekicks: he masterminds the double robbery of Falstaff in the comic Gad's Hill scene, but other than that plot function his purpose in the play is to bring the detail of character into that seedy but exuberant underworld. Shakespeare created 1,222 characters, and none of them are incidental: all are fully individuated. It is very moving to think about a side character, one out of all of these Shakespearean characters, then being given the spotlight. This attention is made even more poignant by Phoenix's incandescent performance. Whether he was revealing himself through the role or not is made moot by the fact that it is arguably his best performance and that he was dead two years later. The performance caught on film is now infinitely more valuable because it captured the best actor of his generation at the peak of his powers. By cutting together outtakes of the unused material of the film, I was able to give more emphasis to Hermes Kelly bag replica the essential beauty of Phoenix and his work. Phoenix in my remix film, Own Private River, is singled out from all other actors and film performances for that matter because it is presented in such an unflinching way just as Van Sant singled out Poins in his original film.
Now the significance of has changed because River is gone, but you want him to just be there, you want him to keep going, you want to see what he can do, and you want to find all that is still alive and is still around that exists of him. Consequently, those moments that would immediately pull you out of a normal film, pull you into this film at least they pulled me in because River is walking around, he is alive again. What I mean is that you just want anything you can have of him. That sense of wanting time to stop goes back to the original, too: Henry IV is, among other things, a coming of age story. Prince Hal's growing up is at once necessary and deeply poignant, and in many ways we want him to be able to remain a fun loving, irresponsible kid with Falstaff forever. In a way, the length of the footage of the film I was able to cut, especially the longer version, serves to extend that moment indefinitely since in an awful way River did grow up, hermes replica and in another way he's still in that happy hour before the end. Since I didn't have all the economic burdens of the initial film, I was able to make a film with a much looser narrative. So whereas the original was driven by the need to tell a certain story, the film I made was driven just by River's presence.
Shakespeare creates such a vivid, rich, and complex world that we can fruitfully focus on just one part of it and find inspiration for a whole variety of artistic endeavors: in this instance, the result consisted of two new films, created by the act of cutting and shaping a film ( about a film ( about a couple of plays ( IV It's an artistic genealogy, but at the same time we each bring something from outside and from ourselves to the relationship. As Shakespeare used British history for his material, Orson Welles used Shakespeare. Van Sant used Welles, and Shakespeare, and his own experiences to create his film. In turn, I humbly used Van Sant and Phoenix to reveal how much I love them. Reprinted with the permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Marwood, who was in Melbourne last month on CFG business, was not impressed by the meek manner in which the A League's most expensively assembled squad bag Hermes copy bombed out of the A League finals at home to Perth Glory.
With caretaker coach Michael Valkanis not in consideration for the position made vacant by January's resignation of John van't Schip, the mantra is now to bring in a leader who will provide a copy Hermes Kelly handbag winning mentality and a no fuss style.
Melbourne City's director of football, Michael Petrillo, has already drawn up a short list of six to eight, with former Nottingham Forest and England under 21 coach Pearce bracketed alongside ex West Ham, Newcastle and Crystal Palace mentor Pardew and former Adelaide United turned Olyroos coach Gombau as the front runners.
Petrillo has a strong connection with Gombau, having recruited the Spaniard for the Reds, with Gombau winning the inaugural FFA Cup before departing in 2015.
Gombau is contracted to the FFA until 2020, and CFG would need to pay compensation hardly an obstacle for Sheik Mansour and his emissaries.
Pearce, though, has a strong connection with CFG, having coached Manchester City between 2005 and 2007.
Pardew, also on the market after being sacked by Palace in December, priced himself out handbag Hermes fake of contention for the vacant Newcastle Jets job with a $1 million per season wage demand.
But, with CFG's deep pockets, that figure will not necessarily deter Marwood and company.
The over riding priority is to appoint a coach who can transform the mentality of the playing group.
CFG will not be rushed into a decision but are conscious they may need imitation Hermes Kelly handbag to dip into the player recruitment market again and want a coach in place to execute that strategy.
While they are in the hunt for a coach, there could also be a change of CEO with incumbent Scott Munn believed to under scrutiny with the club struggling to reach a wider membership base and only able to attract an average crowd of 10,528 this season.
Former England boss Roy Hodgson, who was enlisted in a one month advisory role at the back end of this season, has compiled a report on the club's culture, structure and playing group and submitted it to CFG executive Brian Marwood.
It's understood that Hodgson, 69, has highlighted a fragility which he believes pervades the club, with the likes of tough guy coaches Stuart Pearce and Roy Keane joining established favourites Alan Pardew and Josep Gombau in strong consideration for the position.
Marwood, who was in Melbourne last month on CFG business, was not impressed by the meek manner in which the A League's most expensively assembled squad bag Hermes copy bombed out of the A League finals at home to Perth Glory.
With caretaker coach Michael Valkanis not in consideration for the position made vacant by January's resignation of John van't Schip, the mantra is now to bring in a leader who will provide a copy Hermes Kelly handbag winning mentality and a no fuss style.
Melbourne City's director of football, Michael Petrillo, has already drawn up a short list of six to eight, with former Nottingham Forest and England under 21 coach Pearce bracketed alongside ex West Ham, Newcastle and Crystal Palace mentor Pardew and former Adelaide United turned Olyroos coach Gombau as the front runners.
Petrillo has a strong connection with Gombau, having recruited the Spaniard for the Reds, with Gombau winning the inaugural FFA Cup before departing in 2015.
Gombau is contracted to the FFA until 2020, and CFG would need to pay compensation hardly an obstacle for Sheik Mansour and his emissaries.
Pearce, though, has a strong connection with CFG, having coached Manchester City between 2005 and 2007.
Pardew, also on the market after being sacked by Palace in December, priced himself out handbag Hermes fake of contention for the vacant Newcastle Jets job with a $1 million per season wage demand.
But, with CFG's deep pockets, that figure will not necessarily deter Marwood and company.
The over riding priority is to appoint a coach who can transform the mentality of the playing group.
CFG will not be rushed into a decision but are conscious they may need imitation Hermes Kelly handbag to dip into the player recruitment market again and want a coach in place to execute that strategy.
While they are in the hunt for a coach, there could also be a change of CEO with incumbent Scott Munn believed to under scrutiny with the club struggling to reach a wider membership base and only able to attract an average crowd of 10,528 this season.