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No road name for U's at Manor Ground (From thisisoxfordshire)
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No road name for U's at Manor Ground
7:10pm Thursday 5th July 2012 in News By Damian Fantato, Council Reporter, also covering Oxford city centre. Call me on 01865 425429
Local residents Gill Clarke, left, with husband Bob, city councillor Ruth Wilkinson and construction site manager Ray Weston at the development
Residents have voted to name a road on the site of Oxford United's former home after a woman who lived in the area and took in stray animals.
The U's played at the Manor Ground in Headington for more than 75 years before moving to the Kassam Stadium and the site has already been partially developed as the private Manor Hospital.
But during a 30-minute debate, residents settled on naming the road Blackburn Close after a long-standing resident.
She lived in Sandfield Cottage in London Road between 1921 and 1960 and, according to local historian Stephanie Jenkins, was the mother of famous dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse.
Mrs Woodhouse wrote a number of books on dog training and became a household name through a TV series, Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way.
Local councillor Ruth Wilkinson, who held the meeting, said: "There has been positive feedback throughout this project and we look forward to seeing our new neighbours move in soon after Christmas."
Mrs Wilkinson said the meeting had been advertised widely and she was surprised no one had suggested an Oxford United-related name.
Mark Sennett, of U's supporters group OxVox, said it would have been nice to recognise the Oxford United connection.
He said: "The local residents are entirely entitled to call the road whatever they want but obviously Oxford United was an integral part of the heritage of that area.
"We had great times at the Manor Ground and we had some wonderful players."
Gill Clarke, from Beech Road, proposed Blackburn Close. She said: "There is the Manor Hospital already and I thought it would be a nice Headington thing to have. I lived in the house opposite her and she was always feeding strays. It is good to see the idea endorsed by so many."
Mrs Clarke said she did not know what Mrs Blackburn's first name was, and she was just known locally as 'old Mrs Blackburn'.
Developer GreenSquare, which is building 27 homes invited local residents to choose the name for the road.
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1:09am Fri 6 Jul 12
Kings_copse_NIA says...
Mrs Clarke said she did not know what Mrs Blackburn's first name was, and she was just known locally as 'OLD Mrs Blackburn'. Says it all really. Snobs!!!!
7:16am Fri 6 Jul 12
SNJ says...
In any case, "Old Mrs Blackburn" may herself have been a snob: her house and garden occupied the site of the present 44 houses and gardens of Horwood Close. Don't you remember the manner of her daughter, Mrs Barbara ("Walkies") Woodhouse?
No one suggested a name connected with the football. What would you have suggested, and why didn't you? There was plenty of publicity in Headington when the name was sought.
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We added four more Halloween coloring pages today. We uploaded a batty Bat, a poetic Witch (Brenda dressed up in her latest disguise), a black cat, and a cut and paste project/craft, we call a Monster Eggheads Hanger. Have fun.
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I will post some pictures in a Fun Kids Projects' blog, to let you see better how to make a Monster Eggheads Hanger. Look the results of our making our own in The Real Brenda Lu's blog.

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Braving the elements, the Ukrainian beauty was wise to wear not only a Pre-Fall look but tights – you won't hear me say that too often.
Despite the miserable day, she did her best to brighten up the occasion, wearing a Stella McCartney Pre-Fall 2013 maroon jacquard mini dress with feather embroidery, which was styled with tights and simple black pumps.
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Nuggets rookie forward Kenneth Faried finished the game with 10 points on 4-4 shooting (2-2 free throws), 14 rebounds (5 offensive), 2 steals, and 3 blocks in 36 big time minutes. In his rebounding duel with Kevin Love, Faried won it 14-13 (Love played 48 minutes) and helped ensure the win for the Nuggets, 103-101 in overtime. As my colleague Jeff Morton texted me after the game, "All things considered ... great win." Agreed.
If you watched the game, you can skip to the Game Recap section ...
1st quarter:
- Timofey Mozgov, Ty Lawson, Corey Brewer, Kenneth Faried, and Arron Afflalo starting again. Ricky Rubio, Luke Ridnour (two starting point guards!!), Nikola Pekovic, Kevin Love, and Wesley Johnson for the Timberwolves. Pekovic is huge! Nuggets doing a good job rebounding early and a horrific job taking care of the ball ... three straight turnovers for Denver, two by AAA. Moz has hair gel in again ... not sure how he decides when to wear it, but Rudy Fernandez's model girlfriend should lend him her stylist ... and if he's already using her stylist, she should fire that person.
- 6:21 mark and George Karl is forced to take a timeout, Denver is down 16-8 and looking like that brown stuff that a dog leaves behind after a walk after it has been eating all day. The Nuggets have 6 shot attempts and 5 turnovers ... pathetic effort thus far on the little things. A total of 9 rebounds have been available on the Nuggets defensive end and the Wolves have secured 4 offensive boards, not a good sign as Love and Pekovic are camped under the hoop on shot attempts.
- End of 1st it's 30-18 Wolves. Denver's answer to rebounding woes is to go small with Kosta Koufos, Al Harrington who is 0-3 to start the night (0-2 from deep, bleh!), AAA, Lawson, and Andre Miller. Sure would be nice to see K2 and Moz out there together when Minny goes back to Love and Pekovic or perhaps Birdman for one of them, and why not Faried at small forward? The Nuggets do not look good tonight, the defense is non-existent. You'd think the Memphis and OKC games would give the Nuggets life, instead they look drained, thus far.
- Karl stays small to open the quarter with Lawson, Miller, Brewer, "Big" Al, and K2. Wolves using Pekovic at center with rookie Derrick Williams at power forward right now. K2 needs to do some damage (Denver's D is just awful tonight). Nuggets need to find a way to get some stops or this game is going to stay out of reach. It's 34-22 right now in Minny's favor, this isn't the game to trade buckets.
- Martell Webster, usually a clean look, is sporting a long mohowk, he looks like a techno DJ ... am I crazy or are the Nuggets one of the worst shooting teams in the league? It's 38-26 Wolves and DJ Webster just made a runner as the shot clock was expiring. Seems like every team in the league is able to hit jumpers on a consistent basis ... except for this Nuggets team. It's like DerMarr Johnson and Yakhouba Diawara are back on the team with Miller.
- Nuggets lead 51-46 at the half (33-16 in the 2nd). The Wolves went cold for a small portion of the quarter and from the 8:59 mark to the 3:12 mark they scored just two points. Not totally the Nuggets defense as the Wolves just missing open shots, but Denver utilized an 17-2 run during that stretch and took a 43-40 lead. Lawson also sprained his left ankle in the period at the 4:51 mark and left the game after making two free throws ... he left 13 points, he came back with 1:16 left in the quarter. Faried checked back into the game around the five minute mark and gave Love all sorts of fits on the glass, game changing energy from the rookie and the rest of the team. After starting 0-3, Big Al goes 7-10 in the quarter and scores 14 points in the period ... Denver sorely needed his aggression as he hit layup-after-layup.
- Notes on starters: Miller in for Lawson (ankle sprain, wont return from his return) and veteran Brad Miller is starting for Pekovic (ankle injury). It's a 6-0 run for the Wolves to start the half (52-51) and AAA just sprained his left ankle at the 10:12 mark. What the hell is with the left legs of the Nuggets? Unreal. And my Altitude feed is freezing like crazy ... this should be a fun second half. Denver needs to recapture the energy they had in the middle of the second quarter, came out very flat here in the third.
- First sub at the 8:37 mark and it's Big Al for Mozgov ... not sure I like Al at center. Moz slams his warmups down on the floor from his seat on the bench, disappointed in his performance tonight. Both teams are freezing cold, Faried with a nice athletic up-and-under layup from the baseline ... it's 59-56 Denver and Faried is going against Love and Miller, he could dominate with his bounce. A Nuggets run here could really put the clamps down on Minny. Faried with a monster block on one end (on Rubio) and then gets a jam on the other end with tremendous hustle to save the play as AAA fumbled the ball to Brewer who fed Faried. Love this kid's energy, BELIEVE THE HYPE it's 63-56 Denver.
- At the 4:09 mark in the 3rd, Martell Webster went to set a screen on Afflalo under the hoop and tried to slap AAA in the groin area! Look at the replay! Right before he made his 4-point play.
- With 31.6 seconds left in the third, some ref made an awful call on Miller for an offensive foul. Miller gets a technical foul and then ejected from the game. Denver had a 76-69 lead there, Minny gets a few cheap ones and it's 76-73 Denver end of the 3rd. No Lawson, Miller, or Rudy Fernandez. It's Julyan Stone's time.
- The Nuggets are missing Miller, Lawson, Fernandez, Gallo, and Nene in this game and now quarter. Wowzah! It's 80-78 Wolves with 8:44 left to play ... Denver has Stone, Jordan Hamilton, Brewer, BIg Al, and K2 in there now, AAA getting ready to check in, likely for Hamilton - yep, for J Goin Ham. The officiating has been effing ATROCIOUS this game, as usual.
- 1:39 left and Harrington buries a three (after bricking two free throws) and it's 93-93. Can the Nuggets execute late tonight with their cast of assembled characters?
- 0:17 ticks left, Nuggets ball ... I can't take another overtime. What will Karl draw up here? Hopefully not a Big Al three-pointer, he's a bit cold right now. How about AAA? It's his time right? Right?! Afflalo gets the shot ... takes a baseline jumper and misses it at the buzzer ... are you kidding me. 93-93 end of regulation.
- Karl decides to ride his lineup into the ground again. Stone, Brewer, AAA, Big Al, and Faried ... hope they have the energy!
- 48.5 ticks left, Nuggets ball, and the offense has been horrific in OT. It's tied 95-95, only four total points scored in this OT by both teams.
- Well, the Nuggets won this one ... 103-101. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't easy, but they'll take it over a .500 team.
- Nuggets 1-9 from deep in first half and 8-11 from the foul line. In the second they were 4-13 from deep and just 16-24 from the foul line.
- Nuggets win the rebounding battle 57-50 (17-16 on the offensive boards). Not a ton of big center play in the second half as K2, Moz, and the Wolves Pekovic (injury) were all on the bench for most of it.
- Faried in 1st half: 4 points, 4 rebounds (1 offensive), 1 block on a sure Rubio layup, and 1 steal in 13 minutes. Faried in the 2nd half: 6 points, 10 rebound (4 offensive), 2 steals, and 2 blocks.
- Lawson left the game going 5-7 from the field with 13 points ... he was missed in this one.
- Moz with 8 minutes in the first half and just 3 minutes in the second half. Koufos with 12 minutes in the first half and just 7 minutes in the second half.
- Afflalo, minus the 0-4 from deep, had a nice game of 6-18 shooting and 8-10 from the foul line for 20 points and some solid defense. AAA missed a potential game winner, but he also hit a huge shot in overtime to keep the Nuggets alive.
- Miller might have done the Nuggets a favor by getting booted tonight, he was 0-8 on the evening, but had 12 assists and 6 rebounds.
- Koufos wasn't scoring tonight, but his 6 rebounds were needed, Mozgov had some nice offense in limited minutes (ankle issue?) with 4 points in the first quarter. Moz also had some fumble issues and 4 turnovers as he was visibly frustrated with his play.
- Brewer got some revenge on his old team with 12 poitns, 8 rebounds, and three huge end of the game free throws (3-4 on the night).


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Hello GSoM community, I have a new warriors blog over at Golden Stat Hoops which I thought you might enjoy, its a Warriors blog with more of a statistical emphasis. Here's the first post from it, let me know what you think/if you disagree with the ideas. Thanks.
When looking at a boxscore, the first thing most people probably notice is who scored the most points. It's only natural, the team who scores more wins, and thus players who score the most points are usually valued very highly. But the question that should be raised and is not asked often enough is did they score efficiently, that is could they maximize their scoring potential? Since I'm a baseball fan first and foremost, I especially like Kevin Pelton's analogy of scoring efficiency to on base percentage, arguably the most important stat in the game yet undervalued for a very, very long time.
So how can we expect the Warriors to fare in scoring efficiency this year? First, a few definitions and stats that will help shed some light on efficiency.
These are the stats your dad grew up with and the ones you typically find in newspapers and fantasy leagues. They are easily deduced from the box scores, FG% is simply the number of field goals made (FGM) divided by the number of field goals attempted (FGA), while 3P% is the same for 3 point shots (3PM/3PA). The Warriors ranked 12th in the NBA with a 45.9 FG% last year, just 0.2 above the league average. Their 3P% was much worse at 34.8, good for 26th place and 1.4% behind the league average of 36.2%.
Now your first though may be "wow, the Warriors can't have been very efficient look how poorly they shot from behind the 3 point line." This is actually looking at things the wrong way and demonstrates why straight FG% and 3P% are not the best evaluators of efficiency. It doesn't take into account at all that the Warriors had a lot more 3PA as an overall amount of their FGA (29.5% to be exact, tops in the league), but more importantly it doesn't account for the fact that a 3PM is worth 1.5 times a 2PM in terms of points. Which brings us to
Effective Field Goal Percentage (eFG%) is a stat which was popularized by Warrior legend Rick Barry in his Pro Basketball Bible series of books. The formula is simply eFG% = (FGM + .5*3PM)/FGA. Looks just like FG% except it takes into account the extra point a 3PM is relative to a 2PM.
This is especially relevant concerning the Warriors, who we all know shoot a lot of 3s. The Warriors 51.1 eFG% was good for 8th in the league last year, 4 spots higher than their FG% ranking and a whopping 18 spots above their 3P%. So while the warriors may not shoot 3 pointer at a high percentage relative to the league, their volume more than makes up for it with regards to efficiency. But there's one more shooting stat which more fully encompasses efficiency
True Shooting Percentage (TS%) incorporates free throws into the equation, TS% = Pts/(2*(FGA + (.44*FTA))). Notice the 2 multipliers in the equation, the 2 is to get the TS% to be closer to FG% (its less confusing to have Andris Biedrins 07-08 TS% to be 63.7 as opposed to 127.4), and the .44 multiplier is because of And-1s, technicals, flagrant fouls, clear-path fouls, or three shots after a foul attempt on a three point attempt, if there were none of these occurences than the multiplier would be exactly .5 since you would always get two free throws per a possession.
Notice that TS% doesn't care how you got your points per se (there's no 3PM, FTM in the formula), it only cares how many you got on how many shots. It also rewards players who get to the free throw line a lot (provided you make them). Say on one possession you got fouled in the act of shooting and missed your shot, but make both free throws. Your TS% for that possession would be 2/(2*(0+(.44x2))) = 2/1.76 =1.14, as opposed to the 1.00 it would be if you had just made the jump shot without being fouled.
I couldn't find league wide sortable TS% by team (if someone knows where I could that would be great), so I just calculated the Warriors TS% by hand and it turned out to be 55.5. I'm not sure where that ranks compared to other teams, but it is 1.5 percentage points higher than the league average team TS% of 54.0.
Enough with the mumbo jumbo, just tell me how the Warriors will do this year
Well, its hard to say. While I don't think individual shooting percentages fluctuate wildly from season to season, the Warriors are going to be a very young team (young players have less historical data to work with and can improve more dramatically than older ones) with a new nucleus of players (will Corey Maggette be able to sustain his excellent numbers from last year in a new system?), so trying to project their shooting efficiency this year from last year's data may not work that well. That being said, let's look at individuals' numbers last year (apologies for the formatting, new to Wordpress and struggled to find a better way to make a table):
Warriors 2007-2008 Shooting
Player TS% eFG%
Monta Ellis 0.580 0.536
Baron Davis 0.523 0.483
Andris Biedrins 0.637 0.626
Al Harrington 0.547 0.517
Stephen Jackson 0.536 0.481
Kelenna Azubuike 0.534 0.505
Mickael Pietrus 0.549 0.525
Matt Barnes 0.510 0.483
Brandan Wright 0.583 0.554
Austin Croshere 0.573 0.526
C.J. Watson 0.519 0.470
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Corey Maggette 0.595 0.497
Ronny Turiaf 0.539 0.474
Marcus Williams 0.499 0.471
The first thing to note from the numbers is that my man-love for Andris Biedrins is well grounded in the stats (and not just the hair gel). Now I know part of the reason Biedrins posts such high percentages is because his whole game is putbacks and dunks for the most part, but still he should have gotten much more than the 7.3% of the teams FGA. Shouldn't let that kind of efficiency go to waste.
Speaking of waste, Baron Davis did a bit too much of it with regards to this shot selection. His reputation as a chucker is well grounded in these stats, as his TS% was the worst on the team of the regulars (and his eFG% was no great shakes either), exacerbated by the fact that he took just under 300 more field goal attempts (20.6% overall) than anyone else on the team. From a pure shooting efficiency standpoint replacing, if you replaced Davis's percentages with Maggette's the team would see a dramatic improvement in TS%. Of course the game doesn't work that you can just change the numbers like that, but I still think Maggette would be an improvement over Davis with regards to shooting.
This year's team also won't feature Mikael Pietrus or Matt Barnes. Pietrus was surprisingly efficient by these numbers, probably because he mostly shot 3's all day (and made a lot of them). Barnes was very similar to Pietrus in the shot selection, except the part about making the 3 pointers, so his numbers are much worse. But both were still significantly better than Marcus Williams, who I assume would get a lot of their minutes. Williams still doesn't have much of a track record, but maybe there's a reason for that as his numbers from last year are terrible. Let's hope they don't expect him to do much shooting.
The man who should be doing most of the shooting (hopefully) is Monta Ellis. His efficiency was incredible last year, especially when you consider the volume (16.6% of the team's FGA) of shots he took. By now I'm sure all Warriors fans have heard about Ellis's injury. Personally I don't care what happened so much as how (hopefully not at all) it will affect his game upon returning (whenever that may be). If Ellis can return and be the player they expected when they signed him to that huge $66 million extension, I'm sure all will be forgotten.
Wait a minute, you still haven't answered my question. Will you get to the point already?
Sounds like I should be a Vice Presidential Candidate instead of a Warrior blogger, eh? Alright, here's what I think will happen. Assuming:
- Corey Maggette gets the bulk of Davis's playing time and shots from last year
- Monta Ellis can return some time reasonable (say before the end of 2008?) at a level close to his old form
- Steven Jackson gets some of the time at point instead of Marcus Williams like Coach Don Nelson is considering and as a result distributes a bit more than chucks like he usually does
- The team gets Andris Biedrins the freaking ball more asadjkhfajwhfajksdhf 63.7/62.6 C'mon!
- The other guys stay close to their levels last year
Then I think this team will definitely see their shooting efficiency rise, the TS% especially since Maggette is such a large (7.2%) improvement over Davis. If that happens and the Warriors keep the Pace they ran at last year, expect to see their scoring rise, which is hard to imagine considering it was already a league leading 111 last season. It would be fun to watch, that's for sure.


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February 27, 2014
Fukushima's missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan's harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed – successfully – at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn't keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies. Speculation on the ultimate impact ranges from the utterly harmless to the intensely apocalyptic.
March 11, 2013
March 11 will make the second anniversary of the triple catastrophes that occurred in Japan: the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima. Over the last two years people are asking whether the Fukushima nuclear disaster is worse than what occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl.
March 10, 2012
The myth that Fukushima radiation levels were too low to harm humans persists a year after the meltdown. Views like these are political, not scientific, virtually identical to what the nuclear industry cheerleaders claim. An October 2011 article in the journal Nature estimated Fukushima emissions to be more than double that of Chernobyl. How anyone, let alone scientists, could call Fukushima doses "too low" to cause harm in the face of this evidence is astounding.
August 29, 2011
The North Anna Nuclear Power plant reactors are located about 10 miles from the epicenter of the 5.8 earthquake that shook Virginia on August 23. The plant is built to sustain a 6.2 magnitude earthquake, but this does little to comfort those who live close by.
June 25, 2011
Given the detection of "hot particles" in Japan and as far away as Seattle, there is reason for concern. When ingested or inhaled, "hot particles" give intense radiation to local tissue areas. We acknowledge that many factors can cause infant deaths, but the critics who ignore Japanese fallout as possible contributing factors are acting irresponsibly.
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Gil Scott Heron is one of the greatest legends that Black music has breathing in this country. To many, his music is the soundtrack to different eras, the '60s, '70s and '80s. This piano player, songwriting and composing poet, has set the bar very high when it comes to passionately expressing a wide array of emotions. He is also a beast at getting a political message across through song, right next to people like Fela Kuti, Peter Tosh, Nina Simone and the likes. This is Part 3 of a four-part interview. Here's Gil Scott Heron in his own words …


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Last week I was a guest blogger at FoodRenegade.com. Click the link at the bottom to read the entire article.
Recently, The Washington Post reported about the FDA's reluctance to make a decision about gluten-free labeling. Under a 2004 law Congress gave the FDA until 2008 to establish a standard for food manufacturers who want to use the term "gluten-free" in their food label.
Alessio Fasano, medical director of the Center for Celiac Research and one of the authors of new research proving the existence of gluten sensitivity at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, feels it is a "no-brainer." Fasano believes that the incidence of Celiac disease is skyrocketing in this country because changes in agricultural practices have increased gluten levels in crops. "We are in the midst of an epidemic," he said.
Food manufacturers are jumping on this market potential with sales of gluten-free cereals, snacks and other foods projected to reach $2.6 billion next year. This is up from $100 million in 2003.
In typical fashion and because the labeling terms are unregulated at this point, many foods labeled by the manufacturers as gluten-free, in fact, have small amounts of gluten that could trigger an attack in a susceptible person.
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At home with his Mistress… first story of many!
The note on the door read, "Welcome to my home, come in, undress and wait." He hadn't seen her new place yet, and was, until that moment, expecting a quiet romantic dinner for two. She, obviously, had other plans in mind. He entered the front door


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Atlanta Falcons
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Falcons sign four rookies
The Falcons agreed to terms with four members of their draft class on Thursday.
Falcons re-sign pair of LBs
The Falcons announced Thursday they agreed to a five-year deal to re-sign LB Stephen Nicholas. The team also re-signed LB Mike Peterson.
Report: Falcons re-sign OLB Nicholas
The Falcons have re-signed OLB Stephen Nicholas, keeping one of their key defenders in the lineup.
Top 10 questions for Falcons to answer
The Falcons are worthy of preseason hype, but PFW's Dan Parr says there is also reason to temper optimism about the team's chances of breaking through and making a deep playoff run.
Falcons TE Gonzalez prepares for life after football
Heading into his 15th NFL season, Tony Gonzalez says there's only one thing that will guarantee this will be his last year in the league — a Super Bowl title.
Gonzalez: Ryan ready to join rare category of QBs
Falcons TE Tony Gonzalez tells PFW there's no doubt in his mind that Matt Ryan is capable of leading Atlanta to a title this season.
NFC South best bets to break through in 2011
PFW identifies four players from the NFC South who are ready for coming-out parties in 2011 (clockwise from left) — Sean Weatherspoon, David Gettis, Gerald McCoy and Jonathan Casillas.
Charges against Falcons CB Owens dropped
Domestic violence charges against Falcons CB Chris Owens have been dropped.
Falcons' Ryan, Jones establishing connection in workouts
The reviews of Falcons rookie WR Julio Jones' performance at player-organized workouts have been very positive.
Falcons promote Polk
The Falcons promoted DeJuan Polk to coordinator of pro scouting on Thursday.
Report: Falcons CB Owens trashed ex's apartment
Falcons CB Chris Owens is being investigated by suburban Atlanta police for trashing the apartment of his ex-girlfriend and destroying many of her valuable possessions.
Jones has earned respect of Falcons teammates, coaches
The Falcons believe that big, physical WR Julio Jones will be able to provide some pop to the team's controlled passing game right away.
Blank says Smith likely to consider 'Hard Knocks' in future
Falcons owner Arthur Blank told PFW last week that he is open to considering an appearance on "Hard Knocks" in future years and he doesn't think head coach Mike Smith will automatically dismiss doing the show.
Report: Falcons' front office takes minor pay cuts
The Falcons have implemented minor payroll reductions to members of the front office, according to Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Falcons counting on more from Weatherspoon
We hear the Falcons believe they were a better, more active defense early in the 2010 season when SLB Sean Weatherspoon was healthy and they expect he'll provide more of a boost in Year Two.
Samuel was active and started for the Falcons on Sunday against Carolina after being listed as questionable.||||||| Samuel aggravated a right shoulder injury against the Saints last week.
Linebacker Sean Weatherspoon and Samuel have returned to practice in a limited role on Friday for the Atlanta Falcons.||||||| Samuel is nursing a sore shoulder. He and Jerry were injured in last week's home win over Arizona.
Samuel returned an interception 79 yards for a touchdown in the closing minutes and Matt Bryant connected on a 55-yard field goal with 1 second remaining, allowing the Falcons to escape with a sloppy 23-20 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.||||||| Including the postseason, Samuel leads the NFL with 45 INTs since 2006.
Samuel says he doesn't care if he starts at cornerback Sunday against Kansas City.||||||| With the Falcons, the label of being a starting cornerback is somewhat less relevant. New defensive coordinator Mike Nolan is likely to use more schemes with three cornerbacks and two linebackers than he deploys in the base 4-3 scheme.
A person familiar with the deal says the Falcons have acquired four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Asante Samuel from the Philadelphia Eagles. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Wednesday because the deal has not been announced.||||||| The trade was made after Samuel agreed to restructure his contract to a three-year, $18.5 million deal with Atlanta. His current contract with Philadelphia calls for him to earn $9.9 million in 2012 and $11.4 million in 2013.


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The calculator is a tool to help you understand how current tax policy affects real families and what would happen if we changed that policy. With this version, you'll be able to compare today's law—with all of the 2001-2003 tax cuts still in place—against two alternatives to see how different taxpayers would make out.
The Tax Policy Center uses an Alternative Minimum Tax Exemption Amount of $45,000 -for married couples filing jointly-- which is what it is today (the same as in 2001 when the law was enacted). However, Congress has passed a patch for all years following 2001 and supposedly it was in President Obama's budget for the current year. One would expect the patch to be at least what it was in 2009 which was $70,950. We still have until December 31 for Congress to get its act together and pass the patch. Otherwise, as pointed out in the wsj.com article "Tax Wars" by Laura Saunders, 32 million will get hit paying AMT tax. Depending on how high a couple's income goes it could be thousands of dollars.
The results given by the calculator therefore, I believe, are misleading since the patch has always been expected to be passed. It might suggest that President Obama's plan offers a better deal than retaining the Bush tax cuts but no mention is made of the fact that the 2010 AMT exemption amount is unadjusted for inflation and that for the past 9 years, Congress has always passed a patch -- sometimes very late, but passed it nevertheless. The Tax Policy Center should have had a side by side comparison using at least an amount the same as in 2009 - $70,950 with an explanation alongside it.


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After having read a post detailing on the worst drafts of the decade and reading a specific comment noting that Vontae Davis is the worst starting cornerback in the AFC East (not to mention that the same person stated that he would not be surprised if Davis was relegated to the bench as an NFL player within a few seasons), I've decided to address this topic with my thoughts. Note: to that person who made that comment, I'm sure you know who you are. Once you read this post, please realize my intention wasn't to call you out, I just wanted to use that comment as an example from which to build off of with my subsequent point. I respect you, as I do most of the fans on this site, enough not to do this without having a reason for it.
Matty himself brought up a stat in another post showing that Vontae allowed 60% of passes thrown his way to go for completions. Yes, this is an awful percentage. A starting CB in the NFL who hopes to be successful at a high level should not be allowing such holes in coverage. You know what? In this case, I completely disagree with the common cliche that "stats don't lie." I firmly believe that even if Davis does not develop into the "shutdown corner" that a Nnamdi Asomugha is (or, that Sean Smith seems to be heading toward with proper coaching and further seasoning), he will still be one of the top corners in this league given similar coaching and seasoning, for our system, period.
Vontae Davis is faster than Sean Smith, on paper. He's also smaller. Sean Smith has the build, speed, quickness, and ball-hawking potential to be a shut-down, Pro Bowl corner. You can argue for or against that all day, but that's not the message of this post. Sean Smith has also already displayed that he is a "better" corner and shows more "potential" than our first round corner. Fact, or fiction?
Cue "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" phrase and image.
Vontae Davis is not better than Sean Smith, no. Nor is he worse. Let me explain how I see it: Sean Smith is, and will be, the better player as a pure pass-defender. He will likely be the lesser of the two in terms of ball-hawking, but merely because he will become a player in the mold of an Awesome-Wah (Asomugha). He will be respected more by quarterbacks and will not have the chances to make those plays as often. Otherwise, Smith will be the better pass-defense corner of the two. Where the common misperception comes in is this: Vontae Davis is not as good as Smith because he isn't as "good" in pass defense.
This is, to put it nicely, bogus.
Case in point: Channing Crowder, Akin Ayodele, Gibril Wilson, Yeremiah Bell, Jason Taylor, Joey Porter, Cameron Wake, etc., etc. Not a single one of these players are spectacular in pass coverage. Bell is decent, both ILBs are awful, Wilson seems to be awful as he is a natural SS, Taylor and Porter are average-to-below average in coverage (understandably), and Wake doesn't even really know how to drop back yet. Our entire defense, less Sean Smith, is the reason our defense is so bad: we cannot defend against the pass due to a lack of proper personnel and talent. Vontae Davis is not lumped into that group, however. Notice how is conspicuously absent? There's a reason for that. Why?
Vontae Davis does not, and should not, be a pure pass-defender. He should not be the same player as Sean Smith with a different physique. Now normally, I enjoy stats. At the very least, they complement a point. They shouldn't be used to prove one, but they complement it. Having said that, I do not know where to locate the stats I want to use to complement my point. If anybody could find that for me, I'd greatly appreciate it. No, but this time around, I'm going to throw stats out when making my point. The 60% stat does nothing to disprove my point.
So, what is my point?
Vontae Davis is and will be a great cornerback, and not for his pass-defending skills alone. Vontae Davis was drafted to be, and always will be, a hybrid pass-defending/run-stopping cornerback. And, might I add, he already plays that role VERY well. The reason I brought up the rest of our defense and how poor their coverage is, is because you cannot expect a hybrid cornerback to be put on an island (with Wilson back at FS, he might as well not have had a safety behind him on a number of plays) against the top wide receivers in the league in his rookie season and come out with spectacular numbers. That's just ridiculous.
We must all realize something, something I've mentioned but feel the need to harp on to mention another point: Vontae Davis was a rookie. He wasn't even slated to start until Will Allen went down, but that is not a damning fact. Smith won the other job outright (with Davis being sprinkled in early), while Allen was just needed there for his skill/leadership/maturity/experience. What does this mean? Neither he nor Sean Smith know how to properly play a Zone. Davis was played against most number ones due to his physicality and the staff's desire to attempt to bump said receivers off their routes or to jam them at the line. This is something he will be able to do in time, so it's good to have subjected him to this already. He gained valuable pass-defense experience in this way as well. But if people want to question why it was almost always Davis on the opposing team's number one, it's because they're rookies who need to get certain fundamentals and experience down before asking them to switch to the other side of the field or to play more advanced techniques (e.g. a zone).
I'm sure most Dolphins fans know or realize this. What some of us may not realize is that Davis is the perfect complement to Smith because of his run-defense ability. Smith is the shut-down cover corner. On run plays, Davis will add another line of defense and even set-up teammates for a nice stop. He alone will add another dimension to our run defense, making them instantly better at run defense, given enough NFL "time." A cover FS will allow Davis to play the run more often, making them a stronger defense. The ability to switch sides with Smith and play a zone technique will allow Davis to cover more of the field while still being able to watch the run. A cover FS instantly makes Davis better. Linebackers who can drop back instantly make Davis better. It's a wonder Smith played so well considering how little help these two had in defending these star wideouts and pass-catching tight ends. You give Davis more room to roam, more back-up, and he can take more risks and take more of an initiative to make plays in the backfield (including blitzing the QB--he'd be a monster in a blitz package--or stops for losses).
To sum things up, Vontae Davis is excellent. Vontae Davis will BE excellent. He may never go to the Pro Bowl, if only because his pass-defense skills and stats (primary "counting" stats for corners) may never be at the top of the league. He does not need to. As a hybrid, his pass-defending and ball-hawking are already above-average for a rookie. His run-defense is already equally solid. He will only get better at both. To call him worse than Smith, or even the "worst CB in the league," is pre-mature and completely mis-stated. He's just better suited to play a mixed role at the position, automatically requiring that we judge him in a different light than the "top" corners in the league.
A final note: I could be entirely wrong, but I'm almost positive Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain weren't both pure shut-down corners. My mind seems to recall one of the two being better suited to stop the run, and that's why the two were so dominant together: their skill sets just complemented each other perfectly.
Why do you think Parcells would draft both? Yes, draft two and hope one sticks, but it's more complex than that. He's not a drafting genius solely because he makes sure he gets at least one starter out of those two players: he knows Davis has a different skill set than a Darius Butler or Sean Smith, somebody they are likely targetting past that first round.
Yet another reason I really don't "care" who we draft. If Parcells is leading it, he can draft whoever he feels will better this team, and I'll be satisfied.
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Bosom Friends, Bradford's Support group for women living with or beyond breast cancer, is welcoming Norma Russell to its July meeting.
Norma was Bradford's first specialist breast care nurse in 1986, working with those having treatment at both St Luke's and Bradford Royal Infirmary. She understood how important emotional and psychological support were in addition to medical interventions.
Norma initiated the now annual fashion show – the first in the country – with the message that there is life after breast cancer.
In 2003, Norma was awarded the MBE for services to nursing, and is now retired. Bosom Friends holds meetings at 7pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the Bradford Cancer Support Centre, on Smith Lane, at the back of the BRI. The meeting is at 7pm on Wednesday, July 17, all welcome. For further details, call (01274) 674381.


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Valentine's Day is tomorrow, and what better way way to celebrate than to read up on the greatest of drugs – love? Once thought to be ruled by the heart, much research has been done to show that the brain is truly responsible for seeking, attaining and keeping an object of desire.
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Mt. Vernon's football team needed one final stop in the last minute against Althoff on Friday night.
Linebacker Jacob Williamson provided just what the Rams needed. Althoff quarterback Eric Mertens dropped back for a pass and fired a throw over the middle. Jacobee Marshall tipped the ball, and Williamson was waiting and picked the pass with 47 seconds left.
The interception helped the Rams to a 41-32 win over the Crusaders.
"I could not be more proud," Mt Vernon coach Jared Shaner said. "I think that it was huge that we got a road conference win, and that we came back like we did. We've got to use this and draw on it."
Demontez Miller-Gray put a highlight punctuation on the victory with a 38-yard touchdown run two plays at the interception. Miller-Gray ended the night with 192 yards on the ground to lead the rushing attack and three touchdown runs. All three scores came in the final quarter as the Rams rallied.
"He did a nice job," Shaner said. "Their defense was really good for most of the game tonight. We got loose on a couple of them, but their defense is really good."
The Rams entered the final quarter down 25-21. Althoff added another score early in the fourth to seize a 32-21 edge.
The Rams responded to score the final three touchdowns of the game.
The two teams engaged in an offensive shootout in the opening half. Mt Vernon and Althoff both scored on six straight possessions to start the game
Mt. Vernon went away from its dominating run game early and hurt the Crusaders through the air. Quarterback Dylan Reeves started the game with 10 straight completions. He divided the strikes between Doug Gardner and Jacobee Marshall. Reeves finished the game with 172 yards in the air and two touchdowns. Marshall and Gardner both caught a touchdown each. Marshall led the duo with 95 yards receiving.
Althoff also attacked through the air in the opening half of action behind the strong arm of Mertens. He finished the game with 221 yards passing and hurled a trio of touchdowns.
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Apple to Launch 2880x1800 Resolution 'Retina Display' MacBook Pro in Q2 2012?
Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution of 2880 by 1800 in the second quarter of 2012, setting a new round of competition for panel specifications in the notebook industry, according to sources in the upstream supply chain.The publication cites supply chain partners as the source for the information which would double the resolution of the MacBook Pro to 2880x1800 pixels.
This new high resolution MacBook Pro would presumably be a 15" model which currently carries a native resolution of 1440x900 pixels. By doubling the resolution in each dimension, Apple would achieve four times the number of pixels and provide developers an easy way to scale existing artwork.
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We've known about Apple's work to support these ultra high resolution screens, but we didn't necessarily expect them to arrive so soon. That said, support seems to be building for exactly such a thing.
Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processors are known to support resolutions as high as 4096x4096. Meanwhile, Apple has already added new "HiDPI" modes in Lion that support this resolution-doubling mode. Apple has even added ultra-high resolution artwork in Lion with desktop images at 3200x2000 pixels and icons at 1024x1024 pixels.
And Apple's not the only company preparing for the possibility. Microsoft is also building in support for high dpi monitors in Windows 8.
A Q2 2012 launch would place it near what has been expected to be the arrival of a 15" MacBook Air. Based on the expected timing of that product (Q1 2012), it seems this MacBook Pro may be a different product altogether.
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I'm just wondering if current laptop GPU solutions would be able to push this kind of resolution. And if they could, how would this affect performance; I imagine the resolution would need to be dropped when playing games.
Oh no not this again.
Yes, the laptop GPUs would be fine. Performance would be great. We're talking desktop framebuffers here people, not gaming. In 1996, GPUs could push out desktops at 1600x1200 without sweating. I think 15 years later, we're covered for way more pixels. ;)
As for gaming, just drop back to a lower res for 3D graphics.
Good! 1440x900 is waaaay to low. Even 1680 x1050. Laptops with that price should have full HD standard.
Hum... 2880x1800 is 1440x900, only "sharper". Quadrupling the pixels is nice. Keeping the same real-estate while doing so.... yuck.
Let's hope this is for the 13" model, not the 15". The 15" at the current 1440x900 is abysmal. The "optional" "hi-res" display (all in quotes yes) should be standard. There should even be a 1920x1200 option for the 15".
I personally would prefer to just have 2880x1880 of desktop space at the current DPI.
This would require you to have a 30" laptop. And if you mean you'd prefer to have the 2880x1880 resolution at the current screensize with the current UI dimensions, than that would make small text and UI elements completely unreadable.
This is not to say that increasing resolution without scaling the UI can't be good – the current MacBook Air models show that – but that wouldn't work for such a drastic resolution increase.
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Muriel Hirst, who celebrated her 80th birthday in June 2009, has a lifelong interest in cancer prevention research. This is why she decided to make a donation towards WCRF fellowship places for a 2-week international Nutritional Epidemiology course held at Imperial College London (Sept 2009).
Muriel has been a supporter of WCRF UK for more than 20 years and is a devoted advocate of healthy living to help prevent cancer.
"I understand the importance and impact this course will have had in educating prospective researchers in the field of cancer prevention," says Muriel. "I get great pleasure from supporting worthwhile projects, especially in this case as I had the opportunity to meet all six of the students who have benefited from the training this course provided."
Muriel's interest in cancer research was prompted by incidences of the disease in her own family. Her elder brother developed prostate cancer before passing away in 1994. Muriel has also set up a WCRF UK Forever Fund, a personal memorial tribute fund, in honour of her niece who battled cancer for a number of years.
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How to run HTML2PDF on a generated page
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I'm a little confused as to where I should call HTML2PDF from.
I followed this advice and HTML2PDF is working but I'm having trouble getting my head around how I can link to this.
I have made myself a non-page class that pulls the contents of a particular page and formats it in the way I want it (it's a big boring table of the contents of that page). This is fine but I can't work out how to combine the two, ie create a PDF of this HTML file that is generated with a whole load of children and other controls.
It is like I need to generate the HTML first, and then pass all that to my getPDFTimeTable(args) function (that just runs HTML2PDF on the content passed to it in the (args)). I'm just not sure how to do that. What am I missing?
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Having tried many libraries for this I can fully recomend http://www.tcpdf.org/
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No external dependencies, no need for java and converts mostly all the html fine for me without having to fiddle with it
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Thanks for the reply, sorry for the delay.
I think my problem lies elsewhere - more to do with the basic problem of how to send my HTML to the function. ie how to put what is generated by my .ss file into a variable to pass to the function...
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Mondays

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$MenuTitle	$Time	$contactName: $contactTelephone

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I can't put getPDFTimeTable( ) around the code above but I don't know what to do so I get all the html into a variable that I can send to the function. Am I being totally stupid?!
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how to put what is generated by my .ss file into a variable
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*Germany surprises by slipping into contraction. BERLIN/ BRUSSELS, Aug 14- The euro zone economy ground to a halt in the second quarter of the year, drained of vigor by contraction in Germany and stagnancy in France.» Read More
Spain is different than other euro zone periphery countries as its fiscal position is strong, Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, vice chairman of bank Santander, told CNBC Wednesday in an interview.
Hey, did you hear? The U.S. today is like Japan in the 1990s. (Well, maybe not.)
Despite denials by the Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates that the country will not be seeking financial aid from the IMF or the European Union, technical discussions are being held 'quietly' among European leaders about a possible bailout plan, the Portuguese newspaper Publico reported on its Web site.
Greek Finance Minister George Papanconstantinou sought to reassure investors over the country's debt burden on Tuesday, saying spreads between Greek and German bonds were high because of broader market turbulence rather than real threat of default.
Investors have very short memories and the major economies of the world are not as strong as the markets would have us believe, Pedro Noronha, fund manager at Noster Capital, said Monday.
Problems in Europe could end up dragging growth in China, hit commodity prices and derail the nascent American recovery, according to Satyajit Das, the author of "Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives".
The euro zone debt crisis has been playing second fiddle to the US-led rise in global bond yields over the last month. Tax reform led to a sharp rise in US yields and other markets followed, but the ongoing crisis in Europe could again be dominating investor attention, according to Citi Chief Economist Willem Buiter.
Austerity measures put in place by peripheral euro zone countries will eventually bear fruit, but going forward bond investors will have to start getting used to taking losses on their principal, Erik Nielsen, the Chief European Economist at Goldman Sachs, told CNBC Friday.
Greece has become the world's riskiest borrower in the fourth quarter of 2010, surpassing Venezuela, while Spain, Portugal and Ireland were riskier than Iraq.
The Greek government announced Thursday it is shutting down bars and nightclubs in Athens that are guilty of tax offenses in an effort to put more teeth into revenue collection.
Fears of a second round of the financial crisis are misplaced and investors shouldn't bank on another tranche of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve, Guy Monson, managing partner & CIO at Sarasin & Partners, told CNBC Thursday.
Large swathes of Britain's service sector suffered their first fall in output since April 2009 last month, a major survey showed on Thursday, pointing to a sharp slowdown in economic growth at the end of 2010.
The euro zone's strategy of slashing spending to reduce debt in the wake of the credit crisis is "clearly wrong" and is likely to be counterproductive for the region's economic growth, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, told CNBC Thursday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may resign in late 2011 as deflation continues to dash hopes of strong economic growth in the U.S. economy, Jim Walker, founder and CEO of Asianomics, told CNBC Friday.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to prioritize jobs and economic growth in 2011, but his New Year's message warns of tough times ahead with harsh budget cuts needed to tackle Britain's massive deficit.
It is what will lead the U.S. economy to a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle of increases in production, income, and spending, and it is what will enable risk assets to continue to outperform less risky assets. This condition will prevail for a while. The path to successful investing is to ride these trends and get off before they are discredited, says bond expert Tony Crescenzi.
The European banking sector does not need another round of stress tests because the exposure of large banks to sovereign debt is already public, Société Générale Chairman and CEO Frédéric Oudéa told CNBC Tuesday.
There is a risk of another recession next year, protectionism could cause major problems in 2011 and recent stock market strength could be curtailed, Roger Nightingale, strategist at Pointon York, told CNBC Monday.
A crisis in the municipal bond market in the US would be similar to the one sweeping through the euro zone now, Steven Major, global head of fixed income research at HSBC, told CNBC Wednesday.
Apple will buy Facebook, Congress will block a third round of quantitative easing and the S&P will reach a new all-time high. These are just some of the outrageous predictions for 2011 put forward by Saxo Bank in its annual "Black Swan Exercise."


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Coors Light presents RadioBDC Retro Halloween Ball!
Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 9:00 PM - Friday, November 1, 2013 at 1:00 AM (EDT)
Boston, MA
On Thursday, October 31st- HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
Dance the night away while Julie Kramer and Adam 12 spin your favorite retro tunes!
Doors are at 9pm -- Event is 21+
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Presented by Coors Light. Powered by Tito's Handmade Vodka and Ned Devine's.
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A decision that could save taxpayers an estimated $20,000 annually could be made by the Boone County Election Board at a noon Friday meeting.
At the meeting, in the clerk's office on the second floor of the Boone County Courthouse in Lebanon, the board could vote on whether to use election centers during the 2014 primary and general elections, cutting from 22 to eight the sites where ballots are cast on election days. The meeting is open to the public.
There are now 53 precincts, requiring 270 poll workers, County Clerk Penny Bogan said Monday. Each precinct requires one inspector, two clerks and two judges.
If the board — Bogan, Republican Party Chair Debbie Ottinger, and Democratic Party representative Jim Whelan — unanimously approve vote centers, the voting machines for those 53 precincts could be concentrated at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds in Lebanon; Boone County Senior Services, Inc., Lebanon; the Zionsville Town Hall and Zionsville Presbyterian Church; Traders Point Christian Church, Whitestown; the Thorntown Public Library; the Advance Christian Church in Advance; and the Elizaville Christian Church in Elizaville.
For more of the story, see Tuesday's Lebanon Reporter.


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The Mustang Dance dive popular with under-30 set
hours7pm-2am, daily
Aspen regulars are well acquainted with the 3am debauchery that often resulted from a night in the space formerly known as Club Chelsea. Not known for its ambiance, the club has gone through a modest reformation and remodel to debut as new The Mustang, hoping to lure adventurous diners with an all-day and all--night menu of Mexican comfort food from Taqeuria Sayulita and odd selection of bison or elk burgers, stews and pot pies. The bar is now home to over 7 new high-definition flat screen TVS with sports or hip-hop video du jour as well as a outdoor patio for dining during the summer. Still not known for its ambiance, an underground scene of rustic Alpine furnishings that mix the styling of a Colorado saloon with the sounds of a top big city nightclub. The club is divided between a cozy lounge with well-worn sofa seating, small dining room and wood-paneled dance floor flanked by parka-wearing revelers and freestanding DJ booth. Whiskey drinkers also find a great selection of malts, ports, and cognacs on hand in an on-site cigar bar. The crowd varies between early bar-hoppers on hand for winter's apres-ski scene and a livelier late-night crowd of shirtless snowboarders and bikini-busting babes that dance till last call.
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Hyman Avenue bar lures Aspen sexiest set of singles and top-notch DJs for weekly live music events and seasonal promotions.
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Men's Soccer: Merrimack Falls in NE-10 Title Game; Awaits NCAA Fate
- Updated: November 10, 2013
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A first-half goal by Southern New Hampshire superstar Pierre Omanga proved to be the difference as the Penmen picked up their second straight NE-10 championship over Merrimack College, 1-0, on Sunday afternoon at Larkin Field.
Omanga's goal, his 19th of the season, came in the 43rd minute when Jonathan Lupinelli sent in a low right-to-left cross to the box where Omanga headed past Merrimack keeper Jose Silva.
The Warriors (13-4-2) will now await the NCAA selection committee and tomorrow's NCAA selection show on NCAA.com. The top six teams in the region will qualify for the NCAA tournament. In an odd shift, the Warriors fell from fifth to eighth in the last regional rankings, despite not losing a game during that voting period – they did tie Franklin Pierce.
"It's out of our hands but I hope we'll live to see another day, these guys deserve it," Merrimack head coach Tony Martone said. "This is a special group, they're a soccer family, and I hope we're given the opportunity to play on next week. If we don't, it's been such a rewarding season. We have so many young players, no one expected anywhere near where we ended up today."
Since the last regional rankings were released, Wilmington University and Mercy College, the two teams that sit in the spots separating Merrimack from the NCAA tournament berth, both did not play a game. Merrimack beat Franklin Pierce on penalty kicks Friday and then suffered this loss to No. 3 SNHU (18-1) in the NE-10 finals; other teams ahead of the Warriors suffered a loss as well.
Regardless of its NCAA fate, the Warriors, who graduated a sizable senior class off of a team that went to the NCAA tournament last season, exceeded nearly everyone's expectations; everyone, that is, outside of the Merrimack locker room. The Warriors were ranked third in the NE-10 coaches poll.
"I'm very proud of these players," Martone said. "I'm extremely proud of the effort of our players from top to bottom. They stuck together through thick and thin and I think we deserve to be int eh NCAA tournament but that's out of our hands. But if it ends, from the coaching staff, to the support from the administration, it's just been one of those very, very special years."
The Penmen had 11 chances on corner kicks while the Warriors weren't award any. Merrimack's best chance late in the game came with about four minutes left. A foul called on the Penmen resulted in a free kick for the Warriors from the far sideline, but the chance was headed away by a Penmen defender and SNHU was able to keep possession for much of the final minutes.
Merrimack keeper Jose Silva made five saves and nearly helped score a goal of his own off of that free kick, where he moved all the way up to the attacking box on the offensive side to give the Warriors an extra man before hustling the length of the field back between his own pipes.
"We think he's the best goalie in the country," Martone said of Silva, who was named to the NE-10 All Tournament Team.
The Warriors, who played a double-OT game against Franklin Pierce in the semifinals on Friday, were forced to change their game plan in an effort to help the Warriors compete on tired legs; on Saturday, a day after Friday's OT thriller, the Warriors didn't practice, instead watching film and making sure players stayed hydrated for Sunday's title game.
"Having played 110 minutes the other night, we opted to play a low-pressure game in the first half and counterattack, but (SNHU) is a great team and they're well coached," Martone said. "They found a way to put one in the back of the net and it held up.
"Late in the game we switched from a low-pressure 3-5-2 and took a back out and put an extra forward in and played with the pressure we normally play with to hopefully create a one or two chances and we did, you know with another good touch those might have turned into something but it wasn't meant to be."


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Insane Terrain- 3rd Stage Get Entering Now!
Stage 2 of the 2013 Insane Terrain Running Series, supported by Merrell, took place at the idyllic yet extremely challenging surroundings of Grange Farm in Wansford, just north of Peterborough. The venue is used for horse cross country and off road driving experiences making it an ideal venue – and a very tough one!
Approx 150 people braved the cold conditions and there were some stunning times submitted, both in the 5k and 10k runs. With competitors having to conquer numerous obstacles from hay bale sky scrapers to spiders webs and cargo net crawls , 11 water challenges and muddy water tunnel crawls it was pure cruelty on the part of the organisers to add in the punishing hill climbs, particularly the brutal ascent at the end of the course.
In fairness, they did add in some lighthearted elements to ensure everyone had fun and the human slide at the very end of the course was a welcome relief to those exhausted runners brave enough to enter.
As with their first event in Woodbridge, the organisers set up the course to be firm but fair and make it an event that appeals to the elite athlete, the fun runner and the fundraiser; indeed there were a number of groups racing for charity and all of them commented on how much fun it was and that they'd managed to get lots of additional sponsorship when people realized what they were going to have to endure.
The 3rd stage of the series takes place back in Woodbridge on SUNDAY 9TH JUNE and the organisers have promised it will be bigger, better and tougher than ever!
We're delighted to be able to offer you a special 10% discount off the entry fee and suggest you click here to register for the next event. Remember to use our code MERRELLWD13 when applying and feel free to share this code with friends and family.


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Antonio, Domingo and Pepe are old friends in their late 40s and 50s. All unemployed, they meet most mornings for coffee and cigarettes in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square and rant about the government.
The nation's civil service is a particularly attractive target. The men grumble about what they imagine is the life of a government worker — long coffee breaks, siesta and lots of paid time off.
"They earn much more than they're worth," Antonio says. "That's something that's got to change. They earn a lot and they hardly do anything."
Jobs For Life
Spanish civil servants do earn a lot, compared to their private counterparts. Virtually all the best and brightest young graduates want to work for the government, and many are willing to stay on waiting lists for years — without pay — in hopes of snagging a position.
Civil servants took a recent hit when the government decided to cut their holiday bonuses this year, but even so, Spanish public workers are still the envy of their countrymen.
When Spain's economic crisis hit, the private sector immediately started shedding jobs and cutting wages. New labor reforms have made it even easier for companies to do so, and unemployment now tops 25 percent.
In contrast, most public employees still have jobs for life, says economist Gayle Allard of Madrid's IE Business School.
"They have had their wages frozen. Hiring has been frozen. But it's not the kind of severe adjustment you're seeing in the private sector," Allard says. "You hear people say, 'Wait a minute! In my company, we've cut all of our costs 30 percent. What's their problem? We're doing this, why can't they do it?'"
Strong Unions, Strong Numbers
One reason is the civil service's strong union contracts. Another is the sheer number of civil servants in Spain. Bureaucrats, doctors, teachers and other public workers amount to 2.6 million people, more than 11 percent of the population. That makes politicians think twice about crossing them.
Spaniards also have a different attitude toward the state. The Pew Research Center recently found that while six in 10 Americans say they want to be free of interference from the state, more than six in 10 Spaniards say the opposite: that it's the government's job to make sure nobody is in need.
"It's a funny thing," says Allard. "I think Americans … have a hard time understanding it, because we don't assign such a high value to security. But for Spaniards, that's really, really important."
And it's not just for the security. Last year, civil servants earned 30 percent more, on average, than the rest of Spain's workers.
That wasn't always the case. Sitting in a cafe near his Madrid home, retired public administrator Tomas Garcia Boado, 80, describes living through the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the military dictatorship that followed.
"We used to have to ration food," Gardia Boada recalls. "Under the dictatorship, being a civil servant was prestigious even if you weren't well-paid. It gave you guarantees that you'd be taken care of, and have security for the future."
Waiting Years For A Job
Memories like those have shaped the next generation's choices. Lorena Nieva worked in marketing in Madrid for almost a decade before moving back in with her parents in her early 30s to study for a government entrance exam.
"I stayed studying for it probably four or five years," says Nieva, who was also working at the time. "But … I couldn't get it because of the crisis."
With a degree in political science and experience in business, Nieva would have been a shoo-in for government work five years ago. But with the economic crisis, only a handful of the thousands who took the entrance exam last year got jobs. So Nieva is back to the private sector, in a temp job at a phone company.
At 36, she's making less money than she ever has — just like many in her generation.
"We are really worried. We don't have any door open for us," Nieva says. "Also, the politicians say constantly that we can go abroad."
For the next few years at least, going abroad may be Nieva's best option.