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coimbrabertone · 3 days ago

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Hear Me Out...It's Not Logano's Fault

I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not a Joey Logano fan at all. I think the Shell/Pennzoil scheme is decent, but the two different shades of yellow are annoying, I wish Pennzoil would let them put the logo across the rear fender, and in my opinion, it looks worse with the next gen rims than most schemes.

As for Joey himself, well...I kinda find myself agreeing with the whole "two-faced" comments. He's this smiling, kinda awkward suburban dad type guy out of the car, but then in the car he's super hotheaded and aggressive. It doesn't line up. That doesn't inherently mean it's an act, just that racing brings out a different side of him.

All that being said...I don't really think he's to blame for the 2024 NASCAR championship.

So, for context: yesterday was the final round of the NASCAR playoffs. Sixteen drivers make the playoffs based on regular season performances: this year, fourteen won their way in, and another two (Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex Jr.) got in on points.

Three rounds of three races followed, whittling down the field from sixteen to twelve to eight and finally four.

This year, the final four were:

Tyler Reddick, driving the #45 for 23XI Racing - Tyler won the regular season championship, won at Talladega and Michigan in the regular season, and won Homestead in the Round of 8 to make the championship four at Phoenix.

William Byron, driving the #24 for Hendrick Motorsports - William won the Daytona 500, Circuit of the Americas, and the spring Martinsville race. In the Round of 8, he squeaked by into the finale thanks to the help of Ross Chastain and Austin Dillon, whilst Christopher Bell was penalized for a wall ride. You can read more on that in last week's blogpost.

Ryan Blaney, driving the #12 for Team Penske - Ryan was the 2023 champion, and this year, he won at Iowa and Pocono to make the playoffs, and then won Martinsville in the Round of 8 to make the championship four.

Joey Logano, driving the #22 for Team Penske - Joey had the most circuitous route to the playoffs. He won at Nashville off the back of five overtimes and Hail Mary fuel save, won the first playoff race at Atlanta to advance to the Round of 12, got eliminated in that round at the Charlotte Roval by Alex Bowman, and then got reinstated in the playoffs when Alex Bowman was disqualified. Joey then, back in the Round of 8, won the first race of the round at Las Vegas to lock himself in the championship four.

So, one win in the regular season, a plate race, advancing through someone else's disqualification, and then even at Las Vegas - Joey's most legitimate won of the season so far - Bell was clearly the fastest car that day, but Logano got out ahead through strategy and managed to hold him off for the win.

Naturally, people started taking notice of this.

Already, they started saying that if Logano won - who was 15th in points at this point - would be an undeserving champion.

Some went so far as to claim it would be the final nail in the coffin for the playoff system.

So of course...Penske shows up to Phoenix and dominates. Joey Logano gets out into first, holds off Ryan Blaney, and Penske finishes 1-2 in the championship.

Joey Logano wins the 2024 championship with an average finish of 17.11 and based on a full season points format like the Winston Cup was, he'd still only be eleventh, despite the three wins late in the year.

Some have deemed it the worst championship performance of all time.

However...

What did you want Joey Logano to do? Not win the championship?

I don't like the guy, but like...he's a racing driver, of course he's going to do whatever he can to win the championship. He hasn't been particularly good or consistent through the season, but this format has kept him in play, so of course he's going to try and win his way to Phoenix and take a third championship.

Joey Logano doesn't care if you think his titles are illegitimate. He still gets his name up there with the likes of Petty, Earnhardt Gordon, and all the other multi-time NASCAR champions.

If a driver can win, they're gonna try to win.

The problem is the playoff format. Logano was fifteenth in points with one win but because the playoffs start with 16 teams, he was allowed to fight for the championship. Then, the win and advance format let him lock himself in right away with Atlanta. The Round of 12 was weak for him, but Bowman got disqualified and Logano was next in line in the points, so of course he was going to advance.

He went from out of the playoffs to back within a chance of winning the title overnight. So...he wins at Las Vegas, locks himself into the championship four, and gets to use Homestead and Martinsville to prepare for Phoenix.

And that preparation shows, because Blaney and Logano were far and away the fastest cars in Phoenix.

Logano got ahead with a pass early in the final stint, Blaney was faster and tried to pass him back almost immediately, but Logano was able to hold him off. Aero blocking, forcing Blaney to use the useless upper lane in the corners, and focusing on maximizing his exit onto the brief straightaways.

In short, Logano and Team Penske have figured out how to min-max the NASCAR playoffs.

Logano effectively won the championship with the fewest wins possible.

Once in the regular season, twice to move on in the playoff rounds, and then at Phoenix to win the championship.

I suppose that technically speaking, the fewest number of wins would be one. Win in the regular season to get into the playoffs regardless of whether or not you're consistent, manage to advance each round by points, and then have a non-playoff car win at Phoenix so you can win the championship without having to win in the championship race.

So perhaps Logano's season isn't the bare minimum the format requires, but it's pretty damn close.

Which again, not the driver's fault. They're going to try and win the championship for as long as they can. Logano had a shitty season, but the playoffs kept him in it all the way, and he was able to do enough to win it.

The fact that's enough to win it is the format's fault.

Let's go back to 2003 for a moment. NASCAR says that the playoff format was in the works for a few years before the 2003 season, but 2003 was widely seen as the reason why the chase format was ultimately adopted.

Matt Kenseth in the Roush #17 won in the third round of the season at Las Vegas and then consistent results kept him in the lead.

Meanwhile, Ryan Newman in the Penske #12 won at Texas, Dover, Chicagoland, Pocono, Michigan, Richmond, Dover again, and Kansas.

People didn't like the fact that a driver winning one race won the title while another driver took eight wins.

Two problems with that.

One: It's not like Ryan Newman was like second or anything, he was sixth. He didn't lose the championship because wins weren't worth enough in the Winston Cup points format, he lost the championship because he was checkers or wreckers all year long. Ryan took his first win of the season at Texas, but after that, he was 39th at Talladega, 38th in Martinsville, 42nd at Fontana, and 39th in Richmond. One win, followed by four races where he barely scored any points at all. That is why he lost.

Two: This year, Kyle Larson was the winningest driver, winning at Las Vegas, Kansas, Sonoma, Indianapolis, Bristol, and the Charlotte Roval. So if the format is supposed to favor winning, it didn't exactly do that, given that the championship four consistent of four guys who each had three wins, with Logano taking a fourth at Phoenix to win the whole thing.

So, this format doesn't favor winning the most, nor does it favor consistency. Instead, it favors winning at specific times.

Technically speaking, someone could win all twenty-six regular season races and then lose the championship off the back of a poor playoff run. Would that ever actually happen? No, it's not realistic, but it does show the flaws of this format.

And if you want more realistic proof that the regular season doesn't matter in this format, then just look back to 2015. Kyle Busch broke his leg, missed eleven races, and then used the playoff system to win the championship.

This is what NASCAR is now.

Logano in 2024 is just the latest example of that.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Well...I suppose you can hate the player too, just understand that the game is the real problem here.

#motorsports #racing #nascar cup #nascar #nascar playoffs #joey logano #team penske

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tsims · 1 year ago

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AHMED

Post Miscarriage Fatima and Omar spend a lot of time together (mostly just testing new additions I've made to the town), they also pick up hobbies (Fatima, Knitting, and Ahmed Whittling.)

Now I'm sure people want to know who on earth Ahmed is writing a love letter to? It's Sarah Mcdonald. They initially met at the town laundromat, and both got the attractive moodlet prompt, Sarah sent Ahmed a love letter, and Ahmed kept throwing wants to speak to Sarah and eventually write her a love letter. I said, well, why the hell not, but apparently Sarah must have changed her mind because she replied to Ahmed's love letter with X's over his eyes asking him never to speak to her again. I assume her rocky patch with Ryan is being fixed. Alas, the first Affair in Pointoutbacker ends before it even begins.

#Rotational households #sims 3 #the sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 gameplay #ts3 gameplay

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novemberhush · 1 month ago

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Rules: list 5 of your favourite albums (can't have a repeat of the same artist/band) on a poll so people can vote which album they think best captures your vibe.

Thanks for tagging me, @portlandwithyou ! 😘 Sorry it’s taken me so long to get around to this, but I had to give deep consideration to what options I should offer and somehow whittle it down to just 5… and then I couldn’t do that so you get 12 options.

I tag anyone who wants to play, doesn’t matter if we’re mutuals or not. ❤️

#no no. 10 is not the actor Adam Baldwin #yes it’s a very (white) male-dominated list sorry about that #but I am a bit of a white middle-aged dad at heart #poll game #my polls

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brinaarcadia · 13 days ago

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Andrew Ryan. He reckoned the free market was some kinda holy spirit gonna lead us all over the rainbow -- and I reckon it's a big fat hooker too dim to spot a wooden nickel. So old Andy went an' became his own ghost, and I whittled nickels 'till I made a mint.

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antoine-roquentin · 1 year ago

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This series is shaping up to be about covert attempts by institutional power structures to undermine the health and safety of the international working class. The previous part, Part 4, is here. You can find a cool easter egg by seeing who the magazine in the bottom right image was delivered to.

The above is a dossier compiled by a right wing business intelligence group and purchased by the CIA not long after the events I’m about to share occurred. It is hosted on the CIA’s website for declassified files, the Reading Room. It was prepared by Fulton Lewis III, an outspoken supporter of the Rhodesian government and the son of a Hearst-sponsored anti-communist radio broadcaster, sort of the Tucker Carlson of the 40s and 50s. We don’t have the CIA’s own assessments because those are still classified.

When we last left the crew of the spaceship Ramparts, they were dealing with infiltration, incompetence, hedonism, an inability to secure funding, and the heady addiction of fame. Things were about to get worse as their own interpersonal disputes had come to the fore. Keating had seen his power at the magazine get whittled away as incentives in the form of shares for other backers became necessary. At the time, Hinckle counted among his friends Howard Gossage, an advertising whiz kid who helped popularize Marshall McLuhan and did the Sierra Club's first campaign. He frequently went to Gossage for advice. The two came up with a plan to push Keating into the 1966 Democratic primaries for the 11th district of California (later held by Leo Ryan, a CIA critic killed at Jonestown, and now held by Nancy Pelosi) as a way of reducing his influence on the day to day operations of Ramparts. In the midst of a meeting, they had two staff members slip away and come back with signs that said "Keating for Congress" and "Keating the people's choice".

By the start of 1966, however, the election bug had spread through the offices, both because it allowed Ramparts to make the news it reported on as salacious as possible, and because the Democratic Party had largely denied ballot access to anybody who was anti-Vietnam War. Bob Scheer, the foreign editor, ran in Oakland, and Stanley Sheinbaum, the Michigan State University professor who'd exposed the CIA's role on campus, ran in Santa Barbara. All gained 40-45% of the vote, mainly by cohering those opposed to the war. One thing in particular all three did was bring together the black vote (for instance, Julian Bond, mentioned previously in the series, campaigned for Scheer). Their campaigns were run by a coterie of Ramparts staffers, namely CPUSA member Carl Bloice as well as Berekeley lecturer Peter Collier, and were endorsed by a combination of black and Hollywood luminaries, for instance Dick Gregory, the civil rights activist and stand-up comedian, and Robert Vaughan, Napoleon Solo on the Man from Uncle and both a murderer and a victim on Columbo (see him argue about Vietnam on Firing Line with William Buckley here). Some of the opposition research on the three came directly from CIA files and was given to the establishment candidates by LBJ's press secretary Bill Moyers.

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With the elections lost, Ramparts needed a new spin on things to bring back all the anti-electoral politics radicals. Fortunately, in nearby Oakland, a new group had just been founded called the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale like to portray their group as their own innovation, two upwardly mobile college kids shooting the shit late at night. The group they'd been part of prior to the BPP, the Maoist Revolutionary Action Movement, described them as "adventurists" for their desire to put theory to practice and finally organize in the community instead of just talking about it. Whatever the case, Newton learned from Robert Williams' Negroes with Guns that California law, influenced by white supremacist vigilanteism, allowed anyone to openly carry a weapon even in the presence of police. He went to Chinatown, bought copies of Mao's Little Red Book for cents, and sold them for dollars in Oakland as part of a course in organized self-defence, then used the money to buy shotguns and M-16s for use by graduates of the course. By February 1967, Ramparts staff writer Eldridge Cleaver had made contact at a speaking event for Malcolm X's widow Betty Shabazz, where the Black Panther Party founders and their cohort were the only ones armed. Cleaver invited them to the Ramparts offices for a sit down.

Remember the bit from the last part about Shabazz' bodyguards? That was Seale, Newton, and Co. Their arrival caused Hinckle's police buddies to get worried, and they put out an APB and surrounded the building, much to Newton's consternation. Hinckle suggested they go out for a drink, but nobody was buying it. Newton stared down a cop, who undid his holster. Seale put his hand on Newton, who told him off. "Don't hold my hand, brother." Seale released it, because that was his shooting hand. Newton taunted the officer. "You got an itchy trigger finger?... OK, you big, fat, racist pig, draw your gun!" All the Ramparts' staffers who'd come to watch as well as the officers' backup got the hell out of Dodge. Eventually, even the officer backed down. It was the first time the BPP had ever gotten the police to back down. It brought admiration from the entire Ramparts staff, who soon made the magazine the semi-official outlet of the BPP. And it brought Cleaver into their fold. They appointed him spokesman/Minister of Information within weeks. The following is the only news footage from that day shot after the incident, the rest having been lost, with Scheer in the background at one point:

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And that wasn't even the most shocking thing going on at Ramparts. This series has previously mentioned the National Student Association as a bunch of debate nerds who essentially trained to have public speaking and organizing on their resume for future employers. The thing about the NSA was, it was a CIA front, and generally suspected as such. In 1947, there was an implosion of student politics' international facing groups. Those who had seen the Soviets fight in the Second World War generally accepted their claims to want world peace on their face, while the groups aligned with the Catholic Church teamed up with disparate right wing WASPs and Jews to fight back. The CIA had taken these students (to note, these were largely men in their late 20s or early 30s, grad rather than undergrad) under their wing and organized them into a front group that could report back on invitational events held in Eastern Europe. In turn, the top echelons of the NSA had to be sworn into legal secrecy as a prerequisite of participation, with the reward being entry into the old boys network of politicians and bureaucrats which virtually guaranteed a job.

The CIA fucked up. In 1965, the elected president of the NSA was Philip Sherburne. He was sworn into secrecy on the source of funding for their new HQ and general operations, as was normal for the group. But he disliked that they had only one source of funding, and he wanted the NSA to be independent. At the time, the grassroots in the organization who followed international politics and hewed to the left had managed to get some of their membership into power, but they had felt straitjacketed by the CIA's complete control of NSA finances. Many wanted to join in on the anti-war marches. Sherburne and others, spurred on by abrogation of Juan Bosch's regime in the Dominican Republic and the electoral fraud that brought the American-backed opposition to power, worked to find alternative sources of funding. They sent one an NSA man as part of the operation, but he got cold feet and worked with Sherburne to expose it. In response, the CIA had a number of top NSA men declared eligible for the draft in Vietnam. Bureaucratic fights ensued, involving the lives of students in America, Spain, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Finally, Sherburne went above the CIA's head to vice president Hubert Humprhey. In response, the CIA went and cut all of Sherburne's independent lines of funding. Unbenkownst to them, Sherburne had made a relatively radical student named Michael Wood his outside line to donors. He'd told Wood not to approach certain groups because they were backed by "certain government agencies". Wood had surmised that this meant the CIA and gone and picked up the only book out on the Agency: The Invisible Government, by David Wise and Thomas Ross. When he saw that the NSA's funding for 1966 had the same donor groups backed by the CIA, he realized Sherburne had lost and stole the files.

Twice the New York Times had published articles critical of the CIA in some form. In 1965, Texas congressman Wright Patman, initially elected on his support of the Bonus Army and ever a thorn in the establishment's side, had investigated 8 charitable foundations and found them to be CIA cutouts. The NYT had written an article on this as well as replies from the funded orgs (Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom). In 1966, spurred by Ramparts' articles on MSU, NYT reporter Tom Wicker wrote of the allegations and added details of other botched operations around the world he'd heard from sources over the years. This brought the ire of the agency. In 1961, in response to details of the Bay of Pigs invasion being published in The Nation before it occurred, President Kennedy told his aides to bother him when details showed up in the New York Times because it otherwise did not matter. The CIA had actually worked hard to kill the very same story before the NYT could publish it so by the time the invasion failed, Kennedy apparently exclaimed that he wished more details had been published in the NYT so that the invasion would have been stopped. CIA agent Cord Meyer made the postscript of Part 3 of this series as the handler of much of the CIA's work through cutouts and allied groups like AFL-CIO, especially in in regards to the effort to influence the media known as Operation Mockingbird. Meyer and his wife, Mary Pinchot, were next door neighbours to the Kennedy's before JFK became president. Pinchot divorced Meyer after their child was killed in a car accident in 1957. She moved in with her brother-in-law, Ben Bradlee, later of Pentagon Papers and Watergate fame and played by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post. In 1961, James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence at the CIA, tapped her phone and discovered she was in a sexual relationship with JFK, including visits at the White House. When Pinchot was murdered in October 1964 in what was termed a robbery (a black man was arrested but acquitted), a friend of the family heard (he said) about the murder on the radio and phoned Bradlee first and Meyer second. Bradlee went to go find her diary and found Angleton sitting in her house (his garage) reading it. They later destroyed it. After that, Meyer became an alcoholic and compiled an enemies list of the CIA that included the Vice President. He was already fearful of a leak and told his subordinates to go after NSA staff but did not determine who Sherburne had told until his wiretaps of Ramparts phone lines informed him.

Ramparts, of course, knew that they had been tapped and kept phone calls brief. Scheer phoned Judith Coburn of the Village Voice and asked for her discretion. Wanting to break into a field dominated by men, Coburn felt like she was being called by a rock star, but nonetheless found it absurd that Scheer believed his calls to be tapped. She knew the CIA to be involved in assassinations like Lumumba's and thought their dealings with a minor org like the NSA were absurd. Ultimately, she helped by confronting a number of figures on their work. Eventually, a young WASP Harvard undergraduate who was on retainer from Ramparts named Michael Ansara got the call. His blog about it is excellent reading, located here. I quote:

One evening in the cold months of early 1967, my phone rang. A strange voice, obviously from New York asked, “Is this Michael Ansara?”

“Yes.”

“This is Sol Stern from Ramparts. Bob Scheer says you are our man in Boston.”

“Well . . . OK.”

“Listen I need you to do some work for us right away. I cannot tell you what it is about. I am calling you from a phone booth. Will you do it?”

“Well, what kind of work and are you willing to pay me for it?”

“It is research into two Boston based foundations. We will pay you $500.” 500 dollars was a lot of money. I had no idea how to research foundations, but I thought, what the hell. I could really use the money.

“Sure. What exactly do you want me to do?”

“I can’t tell you anything more than to find everything you can on the Sidney & Esther Rabb Foundation and Independence Foundation. They are based in Boston. I will call you in several days. You cannot call me. You cannot tell anyone what you are doing. You cannot mention the name Ramparts. Can I count on you?”

“I guess so. Sure. Yes.”

Ansara knew a much older man, an economist and lawyer who had sway in the Democratic Party named George Sommaripa. Sommaripa suggested Ansara go to a guy he knew at the IRS. Ansara did, and was told that under no circumstances could he have access to the files on two CIA cutout foundations. Chastened, Ansara complained to Sommaripa, who'd gotten the IRS clerk his job. A few days later, Ansara went back. The IRS clerk told him he could have any box he wanted, provided he did not go past the 990 form on the cover. He went past for the first two foundations and found that money came from an anonymous donor and in equal amounts went right out to the NSA. Ultimately, he pulled the files for 110 foundations, every single known group that the CIA used. He would look at the incorporation files for the foundations, see a lawyers' name, and look him up. Every time, the lawyer was an OSS operative during WW2, the predecessor org of the CIA. One of the lawyers had founded a firm with Sommaripa, a man named David Bird. Ansara confronted Bird, and Bird did not even stop to hang up on Ansara before phoning a contact at the CIA.

Left to right: Hinckle, Stern, Scheer.

A major corroboration of the story came from three students in New York who were disgusted by American foreign policy in Latin America. One in particular, Fred Goff, had been sent to the Dominican Republic with Allard Lowenstein (part 3) to observe the election of the pro-American candidate over the anti-American one. Goff had discovered that a man that Lowenstein had said he trusted on the country was actually a CIA agent, Sacha Volman. Another, Michael Locker, had done a paper about the CIA based on the NYT articles. Together, they walked in the doors of the AFL-CIO's American Institute for Free Labor Development and asked directly about the CIA, prompting a crashing sound and the institute's director, Thomas Kahn, planner of the 1963 March on Washington and the long-term romantic partner of Bayard Rustin, to scream at them.

The problem was when it came time to do the story. Sometimes, the researchers were paid by Ramparts. Other times, they received cheques from the Interchurch Center, a strange agency that serves as a front for charitable giving from the Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, Methodist, and United Churches in America. James Forman, mentioned in previous parts, once led a picket in favour of reparations from them. Ramparts staff demanded they talk to them by picking up pay phones that would ring at designated times, a dismal failure. Other times, Hinckle, Scheer, and Sol Stern would fly in, book rooms at the Algonquin, and order massive amounts of takeout and booze. 15 to 20 people would be in a hotel room trying to negotiate who would be writing the story by continent, or by year, or by foundation. At one point, Coburn broke into the NSA HQ and unwittingly stole the original deed to their land, where it remained undiscovered in Ramparts' files till the 2010s.

On New Year's Eve, 1966, Lowenstein was hanging out with the new members of the NSA leadership when he informed them that Ramparts was writing about their relationship with the CIA. "The usual sloppy Ramparts piece, lots of flash, little substance," he said. The CIA had known since at least Thanksgiving. A lower level NSA official who'd just been sworn in went to meet with Hinckle and Scheer. The duo, while nonchalantly throwing darts, offered the Ramparts donor list as an incentive to tell all, but he refused. Sherburne attempted to find counsel in a lawyer who'd once opposed the CIA's new Langley HQ on NIMBY grounds. Meyer had threatened the lawyer's brother, working in Bogota with USAID, but the lawyer persisted. Undaunted, Meyer got word to Douglass Cater, the first president of the NSA and now an advisor to LBJ. LBJ bumped it to Lowenstein and the CIA to develop a response, which was to hold a press conference with an article in Henry Luce's (the man, not the monkey) Time Magazine that this was all well known since the 1965 congressional hearings, that the money was not that impressive, that the Soviets had done much more, etc.

This could have killed Ramparts. The IRS was already looking for any sign of foreign influence as an excuse to shut down the magazine. It needed some sort of relationship with the establishment press in a way that would let it gain influence without keeping it from the areas it wanted to report on. At the very same time, both Time and the NYT were reporting on the survival of Ramparts: Keating had attempted a coup and lost a board vote 13-1, with Mitford and other backers providing anonymous quotes that while they disliked the "Animal Farm-ish" nature of the issue, they needed Ramparts to stave off a fascist dictatorship in America. Hinckle followed by setting up an astounding agreement with the New York Times and Washington Post: they would get full access to Ramparts' files on the CIA right now, before the White House could set up a press conference, in exchange for letting them run full page ads for days for their next issue.

The day the Times went to press, February 13, 1963, was termed by former CIA director Richard Helms in his memoirs as "one of my darkest days". The press pushed, smelling blood. President Johnson ordered a suspension and review of CIA funding for outside orgs. The CIA initially tried to find a way to blame a dead president, Truman, but realized that its own documentation on the program, written by Cord Meyer, claimed that then-director Allen Dulles did not have any responsibility to inform the president of what he had ordered. Switching tactics, they turned on their press weapon, known as the Mighty Wurlitzer, and claimed that the CIA would have been remiss to not conduct these operations. "I'm glad the CIA is immoral" was the headline of an article by Meyer's boss, Thomas Braden. He described $250 million a year the CIA believed to be spent by the Soviet Union on cultural subversion, to which a mere handful of dollars from the CIA could not compare. No evidence for the accusations was provided, of course. Finally, Helms pulled in a favour from Robert Kennedy and had him testify to the press that his brother had authorized the funding, carried over from the days of Eisenhower. 12 former NSA presidents (including Lowenstein) came out and said the relationship was above board. All had worked for the CIA at least once after they'd left the NSA, but that was not revealed in their letter.

The strategy was a half-success. All the foundations funded by the CIA fell apart and students around the world became suspicious of CIA infiltration. Much of what Ramparts found was investigated by Congress repeatedly over the next decade, culminating in the reforms that came out of the Church Committee, which Helms claimed in his memoirs was sparked by Ramparts and Watergate. Certainly press readership was high, and many stories were published in the NYT and WaPo confirming and furthering the work done. At the same time, the CIA escaped with only a few new rules on its behaviour. President Johnson was a paranoic and was more concerned about using the CIA as a tool against his domestic enemies. He authorized a much larger role for MHCHAOS in punishing his enemies (remember the cryptonyms? MH was the most illegal, as it meant the USA). Many of those fingered were considered liberals in good standing and were part of the labour movement, particularly AFL-CIO higher-ups. They fell in line with the rhetoric about communist subversion because they knew they'd be the ones punished if things went further.

Interestingly, a few months later, the NSA held a vote on integrating an anti-Vietnam War and anti-draft stance into its platform. Traditionally, the CIA had worked from the shadows to suppress these votes. This time, Allard Lowenstein whipped in favour of the anti- stance and it won. Lowenstein soon became a fixture in the anti-LBJ movement, leading the call to bring Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy into the Democratic presidential primaries. To a large extent, the organizations that were closed to the CIA had been products of decades-old relationships and worked in ways that nobody had bothered to improve. Within the CIA, a tension had always existed between bureaucrats with their own fiefdoms and up and comers with new ways of doing things. To a large extent, this scandal simply pushed the former out and made room for the latter, who would not do things like create financial records with the exact same dollar amounts going in and out, or act so bluntly when it came to manipulating staff. While the CIA may have suffered a little in the short term, it was an act of "creative destruction" that improved how the CIA did business. For Ramparts, on the other hand, things were going to get much worse now that they had drawn the ire of the intelligence community. While the magazine reached its peak distribution of 250,000 copies a month, it still did not bring in enough money to cover its expenses, and it was about to be faced with a much larger funding crisis: the Six Day War.

AFTER ALLEN DULLES RETIRED, the director bragged about the NSA operation. “We got everything we wanted. I think what we did was worth every penny. If we turned back the communists and made them milder and easier to live with, it was because we stopped them in certain areas, and the student area was one of them.”... Edward Garvey, who also worked at CIA headquarters, puts it more dramatically: “My God, did we finger people for the Shah?”... Stephen Robbins, despite his limited CIA involvement during his year as president, echoes Garvey’s concern: “It’s South Africa that keeps me up at night.”

#i am finding that i am including way too much information yet the details haunt me enough to make me put it in #i guess ramparts gets yet another part

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idabbleincrazy · 2 months ago

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A bit of Ageless:

“Well, our friendly phone company just got friendlier. I was able to trace the 911 call back to a cell phone. His mother was Karen Gallagher. She was a senior here.”

Chloe hands him the Smallville High yearbook, showing him a picture of Karen.

“I remember hearing about her. Was she Wall of Weird material?”

Entering the office, Chloe heads straight for the computer, setting things up as they talk.

“I got a couple blips on the radar when I heard that she had a knack for shorting monitors whenever she walked into the computer lab, but I had no idea that super-fast pregnancy powers were part of the equation.”

“How long was she pregnant for?”

“Well, last weekend, Christina Varrano had a party at her house, and Karen apparently went NC-17 with some guy in the bedroom. Christina has no idea who the guy was.”

“So she got pregnant and delivered a baby a week later?”

Chloe nods an affirmative, just as bewildered.

“We need to find Evan's father. He's the only real hope we have at saving him.”

Chloe settles into her chair, Clark's pain obvious in his eyes. Even Lana had sounded like she'd been crying recently when she had called a few minutes before Clark showed up. This kid must really be something.

“Okay, gimme a minute.”

She's not typing for long before she finds a trail to follow.

“Looks like Christina used e-vite to send out all her invitations. I guess ours got lost in the electronic mail. Let's just check all the RSVP's and try to track him down.”

Chloe pulls up a list of names and Clark looks over them. She separates the boys from the list, and after five minutes of applied knowledge of the current rumor mill, whittles the list down to five names. Printing up the list, she turns to Clark. She feels a tug of guilt at what she really wants to ask, more leading questions that would push him into telling her about his abilities, and forces out a more relevant question.

“You really care about this kid, huh?”

“Yeah, Chlo, I do. And so do Lana and Lex. It's…it's really hard, knowing that this is mostly out of our hands, what happens to him.”

“I'm sorry there isn't more I can do to help, but if you need any more info, just gimme a call, okay?”

Clark nods and rushes out the door. Chloe turns back to her computer screen, unnerved. It's not often that Clark has been faced with something his powers couldn't fix, and she remembers how bad it got for him when he lost Ryan. She just hoped Lana could help keep him from sinking into that funk this time. Or Lex. Lex always had a special knack for brightening Clark's world; when they weren't on the outs, anyway.

@leatafandom

#wip wednesday

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companion-showdown · 10 months ago

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Let Companion Showdown 2k24 commence!

it is time to choose a new favourite companion, and whittle 166 contestants down to just one. There will be 16 polls posted every day except Friday, until there are too few contestants to achieve that (and slightly more in the group stage)

the submission form for contestant propaganda is still open, you can find it here

so without further ado, how far will your favourite make it?

Group Stage!

Day 2

Group 1

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

Leela

Group 2

Romana I

Romana II

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Group 3

Kamelion

Turlough

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Group 4

Sabalom Glitz

Ace McShane

Mags

Chang Lee

Grace Holloway

Group 5

Missy

Bill Potts

Nardole

Grant Gordon aka the Ghost

Group 6

Yasmin Khan

Graham O'Brien

Ryan Sinclair

Dan Lewis

Group 7

Karvanista

Inston-Vee Vindor

Rose Noble

Ruby Sunday

Group 8

Erimem

Hex Schofield

Alex Campbell

Molly O'Sullivan

Group 9

Iris Wildthyme

Evelyn Smythe

Charley Pollard

Narvin

Group 10

C'rizz

Helen Sinclair

Liv Chenka

Lucie Miller

Cousin Eliza

Group 11

Compassion

Homunculette

Trix MacMillan

Marie (Alien Bodies)

Rosie Taylor

Group 12

Jack McSpringheel

Peter Summerfield

Ruth Leonidas

Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)

Sibling Different aka Mae

Group 13

Hector (All Flesh is Grass)

Ikalla

Cinder

Anna (Good Companions)

Barusa

Group 14

Guinevere Winchester

Larna

Patience

Penelope Gate

V.M.McCrimmion

Group 15

Cindy Wu

Falanx

Gabby Gonzales

Grayla

Group 16

Jayne Kadett

Majenta Pryce

Rose-the-cat

Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer

ARC

Group 17

Child Master (The Then and the Now)

John Jones

Hattie Munroe

Weeping Angel (Origins)

The Squire

Group 18

Andy Davidson

Antimony (Death Comes to Time)

Brian the Ood

Dormouse (The Red and the Blue)

Group 19

Koschie

Romana (Battle for the Universe)

Splinx

day 1 under the cut

Day 1

Group 1

Susan Foreman

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Katarina

Group 2

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

Dodo Chaplet

Sara Kingdom

Group 3

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

Jamie McCrimmon

Zoe Heriot

Victoria Waterfield

Group 4

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

Liz Shaw

Jo Grant

Mike Yates

Group 5

Donna Noble

Jack Harkness

Adam Mitchell

Martha Jones

TARDIS

Group 6

Mickey Smith

Wilfred Mott

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Group 7

Canton Everett Delaware III

Clara Oswald

Kate Stewart

Handles

Group 8

Oliver Harper

Cass Fermazzi

Dalek test subject 2

Bliss

Group 9

Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)

Tania Bell

Anya Kingdom

Mark Seven

Group 10

The Mortimer Family (Ida, Alan, Helen, George)

Serena

Milena

Business woman (Time on a Vine)

Group 11

Badger

Cat Broome

Chris Cwej

Roz Forrester

Group 12

Wolsey the Cat

Zeleekhà

Anji Kapoor

Claudia Marwood

Group 13

Bernice Summerfield

Fitz Kreiner

Sam Jones

Irving Braxiatel

Group 14

Gillian & John Who

Frobisher

Izzy Sinclair

Josie Day

Group 15

Duh

Dave Lester

Angus ‘Gus’ Goodman

Maxwell Edison

Group 16

Ly Chee the Wise

Olla

Chantir

Destrii

Group 17

Fey Truscott-Sade

Kroton

Ssard

Shayde

Group 18

Alison Cheney

Emma (Curse of Fatal Death)

Susan Who

Tom Campbell

Group 19

Alan Turing

Claudia Winkleman

Jules Verne

Mary Shelley

Peter Cushing

John Lennon

links to previous tournaments

#doctor who

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vellatra · 5 months ago

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OC ASK! OC ASK! I select questions 1, 10, 21 & 22 ...for Tannufia & Nabikio!

Ahh thank you!

Let's see....

Do they have any motifs?

Tannufia's biggest motif is the rainbow hair. That's her thing she's known for, to us and to the other characters! But her thematic motif? Hmm. Comfort, I think. She's always trying to provide a place of peace and help, to her friends, her family, and anyone else who may be in need.

Nabikio's signature is... his dogged determination. Whether it's the armor that he won't let himself outgrow, the krahmen he refuses to stop harassing, or the home he won't give up looking for, when Nabikio makes his mind up about something, he never quits. His visual motif is definitely the color black - black hair, black clothing, heck, his name even translates to "black dragon"! XD

10. What kind of music do they enjoy?

Tannufia loves choral music. One of her favorite things to do in her free time is sing - and harmonize - with her sister Vixie. Trajeda is learning and loves to chime in too, much to everyone's delight!

Nabikio prefers instrumentals - especially upbeat or rousing tunes! His favorite instrument is the Ola - a giant woodwind that usually takes an entire team of people to play. (He's always wanted to learn that instrument, but never got the chance....)

21. Hobbies they enjoy?

Tannufia - gardening, sewing, knitting, styling hair, and going for walks in the woods

Nabikio - sparring, whittling, flying (just for fun, without a destination!), swimming, and doing group games like freeze tag or capture the flag

22. What is holding them back from achieving their goals?

Tannufia never quite has enough time in the day - a mother's work is never done, as the saying goes. Sure, she'd love to get better at speaking English, or visit her family more, or spend more time with Ryan, or dabble in unicorn hunting like her parents do, but all these things take time, and more than she has to spare. Maybe when Trajeda gets a little older... unless they decide to have more kids....

Nabikio cannot for the life of him find a way out of the underworld. That's because there is no way out - at least for the likes of him - but he doesn't realize that. If he could just track down that slave who's rumored to have earth shifting powers, maybe he'd finally get somewhere? But it might be just that - a rumor. So he keeps busy manually searching the tunnels, stealing food from the krahmen, and otherwise surviving....

#thanks for the ask!#lovely card queen #nabikio #nabikio tiz lucard #tannufia #tannufia tis candin #silen fah #oc ask game

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goalhofer · 4 months ago

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2024 olympics Australia roster

Archery

Peter Boukouvalas (Georges Hall)

Laura Paeglis (Melbourne)

Athletics

Josh Azzopardi (Camden)

Reece Holder (Gold Coast)

Jacob Despard (Hobart)

Cameron McEntyre (Sydney)

Rohan Browning (Sydney)

Calab Law (Cherbourg)

Nagmeldin Bol (Toowoomba)

Joseph Deng (Ipswich)

Peyton Craig (Boyne Island)

Stewie McSweyn (King Island)

Olli Hoare (Sydney)

Adam Spencer (Melbourne)

Morgan McDonald (Sydney)

Tayleb Willis (Melbourne)

Ben Buckingham (Myrtleford)

Matthew Clarke (Melbourne)

Lachlan Kennedy (Townsville)

Sebastian Sultana (Schofields)

Liam Adams (Melbourne)

Brett Robinson (Canberra)

Patrick Tiernan (Toowoomba)

Kyle Swan (Kantirna)

Rhydian Cowley (Melbourne)

Declan Tingay (Perth)

Joel Baden (Geelong)

Yual Reath (Ballarat)

Brandon Starc (Lidcombe)

Kurtis Marschall (Adelaide)

Chris Mitrevski (Melbourne)

Liam Adcock (Sydney)

Connor Murphy (Randwick)

Matthew Denny (Allora)

Daniel Golubovic (Manhattan Beach, California)

Ashley Moloney (Logan)

Kristie Edwards (Brisbane)

Aleksandra Stoilova (Sydney)

Olivia Sandery (Adelaide)

Ella Kennedy (Burpengary)

Bree Masters (Hurstville)

Torrie Lewis (Brisbane)

Mia Gross (Melbourne)

Ellie Beer (Gold Coast)

Claudia Hollingsworth (Mentone)

Abbey Caldwell (Warrandyte)

Catriona Bisset (Melbourne)

Jessica Jolliffe (Shellharbour)

Georgia Griffith (Canberra)

Linden Hall (Melbourne)

Rose Davies (Newcastle)

Isobel Batt-Doyle (Adelaide)

Lauren Ryan (Melbourne)

Shelly Jenneke (Kenthurst)

Liz Clay (Sydney)

Celeste Mucci (Melbourne)

Sarah Carli (Wollongong)

Alanah Yukich (Gingin)

Amy Cashin (Melbourne)

Cara Feain-Ryan (Brisbane)

Ebony Lane (Echuca)

Genevieve LaCaze-Gregson (Gold Coast)

Sinead Diver (Melbourne)

Jessica Stenson (Naracoorte)

Jemima Montag (Melbourne)

Rebecca Henderson (Dandenong)

Nicola Olyslagers (North Gosford)

Eleanor Patterson (Leongatha)

Nina Kennedy (Perth)

Brooke Buschkuel (Melbourne)

Taryn Gollshewsky (Bundaberg)

Stephanie Ratcliffe (Melbourne)

Mackenzie Little (Sydney)

Kelsey-Lee Barber (Canberra)

Kathryn Mitchell (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Camryn Newton-Smith (Logan)

Tori West (Townsville)

Badminton

Angela Yu (Brisbane)

Tiffany Ho (Sydney)

Setyana Mapasa (Sydney)

Basketball

Dyson Daniels (Bendigo)

Josh Giddey (Canberra)

Patrick Mills (Canberra)

Josh Green (Sydney)

Joe Ingles (Canberra)

Matthew Dellavedova (Canberra)

Danté Exum (Canberra)

Jock Landale (Geelong)

Nick Kay (Tamworth)

Jack McVeigh (Canberra)

Will Magnay (Brisbane)

Duop Reath (Perth)

Jade Melbourne (Melbourne)

Kristy Wallace (Logan)

Stephanie Talbot (Katherine)

Tess Madgen (Ashford)

Rebecca Allen (Melbourne)

Alanna Smith (Hobart)

Ezi Magbegor (Melbourne)

Marianna Tolo (Mackay)

Cayla George (Mt. Barker)

Isobel Borlase (Canberra)

Lauren Jackson (Albury)

Samantha Whitcomb (Ventura, California)

Anneli Maley (Melbourne)

Lauren Mansfield (Adelaide)

Marena Whittle (Melbourne)

Ally Wilson (Murray Bridge)

Boxing

Yusuf Chothia (Perth)

Charlie Senior (Butler)

Shannan Davey (Bundaberg)

Callum Peters (Adelaide)

Teremoana Teremoana (Brisbane)

Harry Garside (Melbourne)

Monique Suraci (Queanbeyan)

Tiana Echegaray (Sydney)

Tyla McDonald (Somerville)

Marissa Williamson-Pohlman (Werribee)

Tina Rahimi (Sydney)

Caitlin Parker (Perth)

Breakdancing

Jeff Dunne (Casuarina)

Rachael Free (Hornsby)

Canoeing

Tristan Carter (Canberra)

Timothy Anderson (Melbourne)

Jackson Collins (Gold Coast)

Noah Havard (Bondi)

Pierre Van Der Westhuyzen (Balgowan)

Jean Van Der Westhuyzen (Balgowan)

Thomas Green (Gold Coast)

Riley Fitzsimmons (Avoca Beach)

Jessica Fox (Penrith)

Noemie Fox (Penrith)

Ella Beere (North Avoca)

Ally Clarke (Caloundra)

Yale Steinpreis (Fremantle)

Alyce Wood (Maroochydore)

Alyssa Bull (Buderim)

Climbing

Campbell Harrison (Seaford)

Oceana Mackenzie (Melbourne)

Cycling

Simon Clarke (Melbourne)

Michael Matthews (Canberra)

Luke Plapp (Melbourne)

Logan Martin (Logan)

Izaac Kennedy (Gold Coast)

Matthew Glaetzer (Adelaide)

Matthew Richardson (Perth)

Leigh Hoffman (Adelaide)

Oliver Bleddyn (Adelaide)

Conor Leahy (Perth)

Kelland O'Brien (Kew)

Sam Welsford (Perth)

Lauren Reynolds (Perth)

Saya Sakakibara (Gold Coast)

Grace Brown (Camperdown)

Lauretta Hanson (Fern Hill)

Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Melbourne)

Rebecca McConnell (Canberra)

Natalya Diehm (Boyne Island)

Kristina Clonan (Maryborough)

Georgia Baker (Perth)

Alexandra Manly (Kalgoorlie)

Sophie Edwards (Adelaide)

Maeve Plouffe (Adelaide)

Chloe Moran (Adelaide)

Diving

Kurtis Mathews (Sydney)

Jaxon Bowshire (Sydney)

Cassiel Rousseau (Brisbane)

Domonic Bedggood (Southport)

Maddison Keeney (Perth)

Alysha Koloi (Brisbane)

Ellie Cole (Melbourne)

Melissa Wu (Sydney)

Belle Smith (Malvern)

Equestrian

Jayden Brown (Brisbane)

William Matthew (Stirling)

Chris Burton (Jondaryan)

Kevin McNab (Mareeba)

Shane Rose (Sydney)

Simone Pearce (Melbourne)

Thaisa Erwin (Middleburg, Virginia)

Hilary Scott (Valkenswaard, The Netherlands)

Edwina Tops-Alexander (Sydney)

Field Hockey

Lachlan Sharp (Lithgow)

Tom Craig (Lane Cove)

Corey Weyer (Gold Coast)

Jake Harvie (Dardanup)

Tom Wickham (Morgan)

Matt Dawson (Killarney Vale)

Joshua Beltz (Hobart)

Eddie Ockenden (Glenorchy)

Jacob Whetton (Perth)

Blake Govers (Wollongong)

Aran Zalewski (Margaret River)

Ky Willott (Lake Macquarie)

Flynn Ogilvie (Wollongong)

Tim Brand (Chatswood)

Andrew Charter (Canberra)

Jeremy Hayward (Darwin)

Claire Colwill (Mackay)

Brooke Peris (Darwin)

Amy Lawton (Emerald)

Grace Young (Grafton)

Penny Squibb (Tambellup)

Alice Arnott (Tamworth)

Steph Kershaw (Townsville)

Kaitlin Nobbs (Perth)

Jane-Anne Claxton (Adelaide)

Jocelyn Bartram (Albury)

Karri Somerville (Melville)

Renee Taylor (Everton Park)

Tatum Stewart (Toowoomba)

Mariah Williams (Parkes)

Rebecca Greiner (Bundaberg)

Grace Stewart (Gerringong)

Golf

Jason Day (Forest Lake)

Min Lee (Perth)

Hannah Green (Como)

Minjee Lee (Perth)

Gymnastics

Brock Batty (Frankston)

Jesse Moore (Adelaide)

Kate McDonald (Balwyn)

Emma Nedov (Sydney)

Ruby Pass (Shellharbour)

Breanna Scott (Melbourne)

Emily Whitehead (Mt. Waverly)

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva (Melbourne)

Judo

Josh Katz (Baulkham Hills)

Kathi Haecker (Melbourne)

Aoife Coughlan (Traralgon)

Pentathlon

Genevieve Van Rensburg (Ashtonfield)

Rowing

Simon Keenan (Melbourne)

Patrick Holt (Brisbane)

Alexander Hill (Loxton)

Fergus Hamilton (Jindera)

James Robertson (Melbourne)

Timothy Masters (Melbourne)

Joseph O'Brien (Dubbo)

Angus Dawson (Bedford Park)

Alexander Purnell (St. Leonards)

Jack Hargreaves (Wellington)

Angus Widdicombe (Geelong)

Spencer Turrin (Dungog)

Joshua Hicks (Perth)

Ben Canham (Melbourne)

Jackson Kench (Sydney)

Lily Alton-Triggs (Brisbane)

Samantha Morton (Rozelle)

Kendall Brodie (Sydney)

Tara Rigney (Westminster)

Annabelle McIntyre (Hamilton Hill)

Jessica Morrison (Melbourne)

Harriet Hudson (Warwick)

Amanda Bateman (Melbourne)

Molly Goodman (Rose Park)

Jean Mitchell (Melbourne)

Olympia Aldersey (Rose Park)

Caitlin Cronin (Brisbane)

Rowena Meredith (Sydney)

Laura Gourley (Narrabri)

Ria Thompson (Melbourne)

Kate Rowan (Brisbane)

Hayley Verbunt (Melbourne)

Lucy Stephan (Nhill)

Sarah Hawe (Bentleigh East)

Giorgia Patten (Perth)

Jacqueline Swick (Perth)

Katrina Werry (Noble Park)

Georgina Rowe (Sydney)

Bronwyn Cox (Perth)

Paige Barr (Bairnsdale)

Rugby

Tim Clements (Sydney)

Dally Bird (Manly)

Matt Gonzalez (Baulkham Hills)

Hayden Sargeant (Gold Coast)

Nathan Lawson (Sydney)

Nick Malouf (Brisbane)

Josh Turner (Hamilton, New Zealand)

Ben Dowling (Sydney)

Maurice Longbottom (La Perouse)

Dietrich Roache (Sydney)

James Turner (Sydney)

Lily Dick (Gold Coast)

Faith Nathan (Manly)

Dominique Du Toit (Toowoomba)

Teagan Levi (Gold Coast)

Maddison Levi (Gold Coast)

Madison Ashby (Penrith)

Charlotte Caslick (Brisbane)

Tia Hinds (Sydney)

Isabella Nasser (Brisbane)

Bienne Terita (Sydney)

Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea (Howick, New Zealand)

Sariah Paki (Manly)

Sailing

Grae Morris (Sydney)

Jim Colley (Sydney)

Shaun O'Connell (Sydney)

Conor Nicholas (Perth)

Brin Liddell (Belmont)

Matt Wearn (Perth)

Zoe Thomson (Fremantle)

Evie Haseldine (Sydney)

Rhiannan Brown (Belmont)

Breiana Whitehead (Townsville)

Olivia Price (Drummoyne)

Nia Jerwood (Perth)

Shooting

Joshua Bell (Camden Park)

Dane Sampson (Blacktown)

Jack Rossiter (Adelaide)

Sergei Evglevski (Berwick)

Mitchell Iles (Melbourne)

James Willett (Mulwala)

Dr. Elena Galiabovitch (Melbourne)

Catherine Skinner (Mansfield)

Penny Smith (Geelong)

Aislin Jones (Shepparton)

Skateboarding

Keefer Wilson (Nyora)

Keegan Palmer (Gold Coast)

Kieran Woolley (Kiama Downs)

Shane O'Neill (Melbourne)

Ruby Trew (Gold Coast)

Arisa Trew (Gold Coast)

Chloe Covell (Tweed Heads)

Liv Lovelace (Sydney)

Haylie Powell (Nambour)

Soccer

Mackenzie Arnold (Gold Coast)

Michelle Heyman (Shellharbour)

Grace Torpley (Brisbane)

Clare Polkinghorne (Brisbane)

Cortnee Vine (Moreton Bay)

Katrina Gorry (Brisbane)

Stephanie-Elise Catley (Melbourne)

Kyra Cooney-Cross (Torquay)

Caitlin Foord (Shellharbour)

Emily Van Egmond (Newcastle)

Mary Fowler (Cairns)

Ellie Carpenter (Cowra)

Tameka Yallop (Gold Coast)

Alanna Kennedy (Rosemeadow)

Clare Hunt (Grenfell)

Hayley Raso (Gold Coast)

Clare Wheeler (Coffs Harbour)

Teagan Micah (Redcliffe)

Courtney Nevin (Sydney)

Charlotte Grant (Adelaide)

Sharn Freier (Redcliffe)

Lydia Williams (Canberra)

Surfing

Ethan Ewing (Redland City)

Jack Robinson (Margaret River)

Molly Picklum (Gosford)

Tyler Wright (Culburra Beach)

Swimming

Ben Armbruster (Stanthorpe)

Max Giuliani (Hobart)

Joshua Yong (Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei)

William Petric (Melbourne)

Kai Taylor (Brisbane)

Cameron McEvoy (Gold Coast)

Kyle Chalmers (Adelaide)

William Yang (Sydney)

Thomas Neill (Brisbane)

Sam Short (Brisbane)

Elijah Winninghton (Gold Coast)

Isaac Cooper (Bundaberg)

Bradley Woodward (Kanwal)

Se-Bom Lee (Sydney)

Samuel Williamson (Melbourne)

Zaac Stubblety-Cook (Brisbane)

Matthew Temple (Melbourne)

Brendon Smith (Wollongong)

Jack Cartwright (Biloela)

Zac Incerti (Mt. Lawley)

Flynn Southam (Murdoch)

Kyle Lee (Perth)

Nicholas Sloman (Brisbane)

Raphaelle Gauthier (Montreal, Quebec)

Margo Joseph-Kuo (Northcote)

Putu Kusmawan (Werribee)

Zoe Poulis (Southport)

Milena Waldmann (Gold Coast)

Carolyn Buckle (Sydney)

Kiera Gazzard (Randwick)

Georgia Courage-Gardiner (Gold Coast)

Jamie Perkins (Melbourne)

Moesha Johnson (Tweed Heads)

Iona Anderson (Perth)

Jaclyn Barclay (Canberra)

Jenna Strauch (Bendigo)

Ella Ramsay (Ipswich)

Alexandria Perkins (Caloundra West)

Abbey Connor (Sydney)

Jenna Forrester (Sandton)

Olivia Wunsch (Sydney)

Meg Harris (Brisbane)

Shayna Jack (Brisbane)

Mollie O'Callaghan (Logan)

Ariarne Titmus (Brisbane)

Lani Pallister (Sydney)

Kaylee McKeown (Redcliffe)

Emma McKoen (Wollongong)

Elizabeth Dekkers (Brisbane)

Bronte Campbell (Brisbane)

Brianna Throssell (Perth)

Chelsea Gubecka (Nambour)

Table tennis

Hwan Bae (Sydney)

Finn Luu (Yarraville)

Nicholas Lum (Melbourne)

Min Jee (Seoul, South Korea)

Michelle Bromley (Blacktown)

Melissa Tapper (Melbourne)

Taekwondo

Bailey Lewis (Werribee)

Leon Sejranovic (Melbourne)

Stacey Hymer (Melbourne)

Tennis

Alex De Minaur (Alicante, Spain)

Alexei Popyrin (Sydney)

Rinky Hijikata (Sydney)

Matthew Ebden (Perth)

John Peers (Melbourne)

Alja Tomljanović (Boca Raton, Florida)

Olivia Gadecki (Gold Coast)

Ellen Perez (Melbourne)

Daria Saville (Melbourne)

Triathlon

Luke Willian (Brisbane)

Matthew Hauser (Maryborough)

Sophie Linn (Adelaide)

Natalie Van Coevorden (Campbelltown)

Volleyball

Zachery Schubert (Marion)

Izac Carracher (Sydney)

Mark Nicolaidis (Brisbane)

Thomas Hodges (Melbourne)

Taliqua Clancy (Brisbane)

Mariafe Artacho-Del Solar (Sydney)

Water polo

Lachlan Edwards (Melbourne)

Nic Porter (Peregian Springs)

Marcus Berehulak (Brisbane)

John Hedges (Perth)

Luke Pavillard (Perth)

Angus Lambie (Cronulla)

Charlie Negus (Sydney)

Chaz Poot (Cronulla)

Jacob Merčep (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

Matthew Byrnes (Sydney)

Miloš Maksimović (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Nathan Power (Newcastle)

Blake Edwards (Melbourne)

Tilly Kearns (Sydney)

Alice Williams (Brisbane)

Sienna Hearn (Allambie Heights)

Sienna Green (Mosman)

Genevieve Longman (Perth)

Danijela Jackovich (Cronulla)

Charlize Andrews (Brisbane)

Zoe Arancini (Perth)

Keesja Gofers (Sydney)

Abby Andrews (Brisbane)

Elle Armit (Townsville)

Bronte Halligan (Sydney)

Gabi Palm (Brisbane)

Weightlifting

Kyle Bruce (Blacktown)

Jacqueline Nichele (Rosemeadow)

Eileen Cikamatana (Rosebud)

Wrestling

Georgii Okorokov (Yakutsk, Russia)

Jayden Lawrence (Camden)

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