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Bills firing of O.C. Dorsey after loss is just stupid. Teams rarely better themselves.
Sitting at 5-5, the Bills' offense has been inconsistent, unable to move the ball for stretches, lacking a reliable ground attack and struggling mightily with turnovers. Too often this season, the Bills' offense looked like an amalgam of plays rather than a cogent plan.
Buffalo's struggles have mostly come due to costly turnovers. The Bills turned the ball over four times (two INTs, two fumbles lost) on Monday night, with three pinned on quarterback Josh Allen. It marked the second game this season for Buffalo with four-plus giveaways. The Bills have 18 turnovers on the season, tied for the second-most in the NFL.
Ultimately, Dorsey, who earned a head-coaching interview during the last cycle in Carolina, took the fall for the struggles. But will the change be enough for a disappointing Buffalo club with a tough schedule down the stretch?
The Bills move forward with Joe Brady as the play-caller for the season's final seven games. The 34-year-old saw his star rise in 2019 as the passing game coordinator for LSU during their run with Joe Burrow to the College Football Playoff national championship. In 2020, he was hired by the Carolina Panthers as offensive coordinator under Matt Rhule. In two seasons in Carolina, the Panthers' offense barely got off the ground, ranking 21st and 24th in yards and points, respectively, in 2020 and 30th and 29th in 2021.
Monday night's loss signaled panic in Western New York, as Buffalo dropped to 10th in the AFC. McDermott moved to fire Dorsey hours later, looking for a spark to jumpstart a meandering Bills club.
Question: is The Times Of Israel a fair news source? Meaning, not a Right Wing news source?
Question: is The Times Of Israel a fair news source? Meaning, not a Right Wing news source?
The Times Of Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/
A fair news source?
The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012. It was co-founded by Israeli journalist David Horovitz, who is also the founding editor, and American billionaire investor Seth Klarman.[1] Based in Jerusalem, it "documents developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world."[2] Along with its original English site, The Times of Israel publishes in Hebrew (via its own edition, Zman Yisrael), Arabic, French, and Persian. In addition to publishing news reports and analysis, the website hosts a multi-author blog platform.[3]
In February 2014, two years after its launch, The Times of Israel claimed a readership of two million.[4] In 2017, readership increased to 3.5 million unique monthly users.[5] By 2021, the paper had on average over nine million unique users each month and over 35 million monthly page views, while the paper's blog platform had 9,000 active bloggers.[6][7]
History
The Times of Israel was launched in February 2012. Its co-founders are journalist David Horovitz,[8][9] and American billionaire Seth Klarman, founder of the Baupost Group and chairman of The David Project. Klarman is the chairman of the website.[10]
Several Times of Israel editors had previously worked for the Haaretz English edition, including Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren, and former Haaretz Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff – co-creator of the popular Israeli television series Fauda – joined as its Middle East analyst.[11] Amanda Borschel-Dan, who was the Magazine Editor of The Jerusalem Post, is currently The Times of Israel's Deputy Editor, responsible for the Jewish world and archaeology. She also hosts the paper's weekly podcast.
California is drought-free for first time in years. What it means.
California is drought-free for first time in years. What it means.
By Diana Leonard
November 8, 2023 at 10:44 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/11/08/california-is-drought-free-first-time-years-what-it-means/
California is drought-free for the first time in more than three years because of a remarkably wet, snowy winter and a rare tropical storm over the summer. The last remaining traces of drought disappeared in October, as autumn rainstorms grazed the northwestern corner of the state.
Last year at this time, California faced a deepening water crisis amid “extreme” and “exceptional” drought, and officials feared another dry winter because of La Niña, the climate pattern that tends to reduce precipitation in southern and central California. It was the culmination of the three driest years on record, a period defined by parched reservoirs, heat waves and record-breaking wildfires.
But, defying predictions, last winter was exceptionally wet. Now, major reservoirs sit at 125 percent of their average levels, heading into an El Niño winter that tilts the odds toward another wet year. The first significant storm of the season could arrive next week.
“We saw just a tremendous winter that we hadn’t seen in a long time,” Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Neb., said. “Not only did that bring moisture into the water projects — the reservoirs and lakes across the state — but it also did wonders for replenishing moisture in the ground and the soils.”
Danica Roem to become Virginia's 1st transgender state senator
Source: NBC
Danica Roem to become Virginia's 1st transgender state senator
Roem is only the second out transgender person elected to a state Senate, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride.
Virginia Del. Danica Roem has made political history once again after winning a seat in the state Senate on Tuesday. She is the first out transgender person elected to Virginia’s upper chamber and only the second trans person elected to any state Senate in the United States, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride in 2020.
Roem, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent, Bill Woolf, by more than 3 percentage points. Woolf, a former Fairfax County police officer, was endorsed by the state’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin.
“I’m grateful the people of Virginia’s 30th Senate district elected me to continue representing my lifelong home of western Prince William County and greater Manassas,” Roem said in a statement shared on social media Tuesday. “The voters have shown they want a leader who will prioritize fixing roads, feeding kids and protecting our land instead of stigmatizing trans kids or taking away your civil rights.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/danica-roem-become-virginias-1st-transgender-state-senator-rcna124175
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Congrats!
Video shows Palestinian workers abused in Israeli detention
Gaza death toll passes 10,000, health officials say; Blinken says more aid coming soon
Source: WaPo
The Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll in the enclave surpassed 10,000 after four weeks of war with Israel. The updated figure was released after another night of intense strikes on Gaza during a communications blackout. The Biden administration expects more humanitarian aid to begin flowing into Gaza within days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a news briefing in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday as he wraps up a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, his second since the Israel-Gaza war broke out. Blinken also said he was optimistic that there would soon be movement on U.S. efforts to push Israel to implement “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, though Israel has so far refused to agree to them.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/06/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-palestine/
Collusion in the Real Estate Industry, the clock is ticking on the 6% real estate commission
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/05/homes/nar-verdict-real-estate-commission-fee/index.htmlWhat was the case about?
The cornerstone of the plaintiff’s argument is that NAR is forcing home-sellers to pay an inflated commission that is then split between their agent and the buyer’s agent. The home-sellers argued commission sharing as a condition for access to the Multiple Listing Service was unfair and kept commissions artificially high.
Typically, when a home goes on the market for sale, the seller offers their broker a set commission. For decades, the commission has consistently been around 6% of the sale price, usually with a 3% split for the buyer’s and seller’s agent.
Close-up of for sale rider on real estate sign post in front yard of house
Realtors found liable for $1.8 billion in damages in conspiracy to keep commissions high
In a competitive market, the home sellers argue, the cost of the buyer’s agent’s commission would be paid not by the seller, but by the buyer who received the service. The sellers said that the buyers should be able to negotiate the fee with their agent, and that the sellers should not be on the hook for paying it.
NAR and the other defendants argued in court that their commissions are always negotiable. They also said that the system of having the seller’s agent split the commission with the buyer’s agent allows buyers, who are already weighed down with expenses like a downpayment, closing costs, inspections and appraisals, to avoid the added expense of having to pay an agent as well.
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A Seller's Agent will always say " your house will sell for what the market price will bear."
So how come I can't negotiate the commissions to be earned by a Realtor based on competition and what the agent market will bear?
Why must sellers turn over SIX PERCENT of the VALUE of their home?? It's been a SCAM forever.
I've bought as many houses as I've sold, always reinvesting. One time I had a house on the market that wasn't;t being shown to potential buyers because my listing agent and I were only offering 2% instead of the usual 3% for the Buyer's Agent. Basically BLACK-LISTED!
The MLPS ( listing service) shows to NAR members the commissions being paid, so if members don't like the lower commissions, they will say ill things about your house ('probably' needs a new roof, noisy neighborhood, bad neighbors, etc) and not show it.
I got my agent friend to go back to offering the 3% for the Buyer's side and my agent / friend only took 1%.
How Netanyahu helped turn Hamas into his Frankenstein's monster
How Netanyahu helped turn Hamas into his Frankenstein's monster
https://www.wionews.com/world/explained-how-netanyahu-helped-grow-hamas-which-became-the-frankensteins-monster-for-him-651336
Tel Aviv, Israel Edited By: Vikrant Singh Updated: Oct 26, 2023, 11:33 AM IST
Story highlights
The basis of this collaboration of more than a decade between Bibi and Hamas was their shared hatred for the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leader Mahmoud Abbas.
As the war grinds on between Israel and Hamas, one should not forget the decades-old “alliance” between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Gaza-based terrorist organisation.
The basis of this collaboration of more than a decade was their shared hatred for the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Let us break it down for you.
Netanyahu assumed the PM's office in 2009 and since then, he has tried to shore up Hamas in order to ostracise the PA.
Netanyahu always opposed peace efforts between Hamas and the PA
He opposed reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah, the political party backed by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas.
During that time, Netanyahu reportedly made all possible efforts to derail that deal, while claiming that “reconciliation between Hamas and the PLO makes achieving peace harder.”
Bibi believed that peace between Hamas and PA would pave the way for a united Palestine, essentially leading to a two-state solution, an idea Netanyahu vehemently opposes.
In May 2019, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak further confirmed this during an interview with Channel 13. “Netanyahu isn’t interested in a two-state solution. Rather, he wants to separate Gaza from the West Bank, as he told me at the end of 2010,” he said.
Netanyahu’s pro-Hamas policies
Under his rule, Netanyahu ensured Hamas got unhindered access to funds flowing in from Qatar and Iran. He did almost nothing to install checks and balances even as he knew much of it might be directed towards funding terrorism and the flowering of militant ideology.
Without these funds, Hamas would never have developed such a strong military arm, eventually carrying out the dastardly terrorist attack of October 7.
In March 2019, Netanyahu himself admitted that he supported the policy of enriching Hamas to keep the PA at bay.
This question needs to be asked. Why is it impossible to voice criticism of Israel as a political
body and not immediately be labeled as anti-Semite?
In my posts, religion is the furthest thing on my mind, just the policy of the nation and yet I get grief.
How can we have serious policy debate when sides takes a defensive/aggressive posture with their personal religion over policy matters?
Someone please explain this to me.
To moderators, there many, many posts here at Gen Discussion relating to Israel/ Palestine. It is the subject of the year.
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