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9:00am Thursday 31st October 2013 in Sport By David Pritchard, Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458
JAMES Constable is desperate to hit his 100th goal for Oxford United and admitted Saturday's home game with Bristol Rovers would be a great time to reach the landmark.
The striker moved to 99 last Saturday with the opener in a 2-0 win at AFC Wimbledon.
It brought him within eight of Graham Atkinson's all-time record and one behind Tony Jones in second place.
The victory saw Chris Wilder's men move back to the top of Sky Bet League Two on goal difference.
Constable, who was the subject of multiple transfer bids by the Pirates last year, is focused on helping the U's stay there and would love to round off a century of goals in front of a big crowd at the Kassam Stadium.
"It would be a great occasion to do it in," he said.
"We will work hard and look forward to it. If I score, that would be great, but winning is the main thing.
"It's a local derby, they will bring a few and I'm sure with the position we're in, we'll have a lot of fans there.
"It makes for another good game where everyone is going to be desperate to perform well.
"We need to start like we did against AFC Wimbledon and try to do it for 90 minutes."
Rovers brought almost 2,000 away supporters to the same fixture in February, helping to boost the crowd to 7,608 – United's largest home league attendance of the season.
A slow start to the campaign means they are unlikely to bring quite so many this time, but a strong presence in the away end is still expected.
The 7,187 who watched the 1-0 defeat to Chesterfield last month is the biggest gate for the U's this season, but it could be beaten on Saturday.
Wilder is hopeful home fans will respond to his side's position in the table and flock to watch the game.
He said: "It's always been a tough game with Rovers.
"They will bring some support and hopefully there will be a great crowd cheering us on and giving us that push and drive to stay top."
United have already received a fitness boost ahead of the game, with Alfie Potter returning to full training on Tuesday.
The influential winger has missed the last four games with a minor hamstring injury, but is likely to be in the squad for Saturday's game.
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I would rather die a thousand times over via crushing by an anaconda while being torn limb from limb by a jaguar than see Mike Castle in the Senate.
I would rather be slowly run over by a road roller while listening to Janeane Garofalo dialogue from The Truth About Cats and Dogs than see Mike Castle in the Senate.
I'd rather see the Democrat get elected than see Mike Castle get elected. Seriously, I know many of you disagree with me, but if the majority depends on Mike Castle, to hell with the majority.
But I'm moving on from Delaware. The Tea Party Express has a poll coming out showing the race within 5 points. I wish Christine O'Donnell the best. I'd rather her than Castle.
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If Christine O'Donnell wins it'll be inspite of the help she has gotten. What has ultimately set me off is the "Mike Castle is gay" stuff, which is nothing more than the Will Folks hour come to Delaware. The failure of the O'Donnell campaign to deal swiftly with this tells me all I need to know.
As I noted in my original post on Eric Odom, parts of his American Liberty Alliance website became a site for Christine O'Donnell advocacy.
Subsequently, a number of the affiliated individuals went and worked directly for Christine O'Donnell's campaign. A few weeks ago they left. Around that time I began hearing rumors the O'Donnell campaign was imploding.
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Christine O'Donnell's campaign did distance her from the video, but the damage is done. These were the people she hired for her campaign. That's a judgment issue. Likewise, to my knowledge, neither Christine nor her campaign distanced herself until the next day when asked about it on a radio show. In doing so, the Hotline notes, "O'Donnell . . . call[ed] it an "insult" to both Castle and his wife. In the process, though, she repeats the rumor several times." [Emphasis added]
In the meantime, we have another problem.
The tea party movement has largely been about fiscal issues and the state of the country going forward. While the press has done its best to drag the tea party movement into the culture wars, the movement has wisely stayed above the fray, focusing on a handful of issues.
Racism, homophobia, bigotry, etc. have all been leveled at the tea party movement. There's been no evidence. It's all been lies.
And now we have this. A website billing itself as a hub for the tea party movement using something called "Tea Party HD" to boldly make accusations that Mike Castle is gay and having an affair.
This is Will Folks all over again. I don't care if Mike Castle is meeting up with Larry Craig at Stallknockers.com for some Union Station visitation — without proof it is meaningless and even with proof it is a distraction from the issues and not helpful to tea party activists or Christine O'Donnell.
It's amateur hour.
The O'Donnell campaign, whether they wanted to or not, needed to respond to this aggressively. But then it looks like it is amateur hour there too.
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The latest in a long string of recent exoplanet discoveries could be the most exciting one yet: A planet called HD 40307g, roughly 44 light years away, appears to be the most likely candidate to harbor life of any exoplanet we've discovered to date. Larger than Earth, but smaller than a gas giant, the planet seems to be in the "goldilocks" zone of its star system, the region with the right balance of heat and cold to potentially allow for liquid water.
To be clear, the discovery (described in a paper published yesterday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics), like nearly all other exoplanet discoveries, is indirect and theoretical. Rather than observing the planet with a telescope, a team of astronomers led by Mikko Tuomi of the UK's University of Hertfordshire analyzed existing public data produced by the European Southern Observatory and realized it contained hints of something rather interesting. While scientists had previously looked at the star HD 40307 and found it was orbited by three planets, these astronomers used more sophisticated detection techniques to discover that it's actually orbited by at least six.
One of these, HD 40307g, is the one that seems capable of potentially harboring life (exoplanets are named for their host star, along with lowercase letters starting with b and moving outwards—although some have argued that we really ought to be giving these distant planets more interesting names). The planet is roughly 7 times the mass of Earth, so is categorized as a Super-Earth, and orbits its star at a distance of 55.8 million miles, much closer than our distance from the sun, roughly 93 million miles.
This increased proximity is actually a good thing, though, because HD 40307 is slightly dimmer and colder than the sun, so the planet's closer orbit lands it smack in the middle of its system's habitable "goldilocks" zone, where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface. This distance also means that the planet likely rotates on its axis, rather than having one side always facing inward, allowing for a day-and-night cycle that some scientists say increases the chance of life evolving. Additionally, it orbits its star once every 197.8 days, potentially even allowing for a seasonal climate like we have on Earth.
The astronomers relied upon the subtle effects of the planet's gravity on its star to indirectly calculate its existence. "The gravity of the star causes the planet to orbit it, but the planet has gravity too. As it circles the star, the star makes a littler circle too," Phil Plait writes at Discovery's Bad Astronomy blog. "As the star makes its circle, half the time it's approaching us and half the time it's receding. This means its light is Doppler shifted, the same effect that makes a motorcycle engine drop in pitch as it passes you." By precisely measuring a star's Doppler shift, astronomers are able to indirectly tell if it is orbited by planets.
While this type of technique had previously been applied to HD 40307, Tuomi's team used new methods of digitally canceling out visual background noise (such as the star's solar flares and sunspots) to allow for the more sensitive detection of exoplanets that rotated out a little bit further. This led them to detect the presence of three more exoplanets in the system.
This indirect method allows us to determine the mass, distance and orbital period of each planet, but that's about it. We don't know the diameter of the planet, so it could have an Earth-like density with a much larger size, or it could have an Earth-like diameter with a super high density. The system is close enough to us, some speculate, that next generation telescopes might be able to see it directly.
Scientists have long sought to find planets in their systems' "goldilocks zones" because of the longstanding belief that liquid water is necessary (but not sufficient) for the evolution of life as we know it. So far, most planets that we had found in habitable zones turned out to be gas giants, or have other characteristics that seemed to disqualify the presence of life. So even if HD 40307g turns out to not harbor life, the fact that we've finally found a seemingly habitable planet in such an area is a clue that Earth-like planets might not be as terribly rare as some have assumed.
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If we can just figure out a way to the planet we can live on
Wow! Exciting news.
I just visited that Planet , it has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide , methane , argon . It has super heated water vapor . It's covered with gray clouds of sulfur dioxide.
just like earth !
This article is pretty interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing the next generation of telescopes, which can bring us to explore the new galaxy!!
The "habitable super-earth"….does not mean anyone from earth can habitate there. 44 light years away is a bit of a challenge even in a thousand years.
The critical part of interstellar travel is that we have to figure out a "Warp Drive" that is a Whole lot faster than anything we have now….. or we have to figure out a way to suspend bodily function to a semi comatose state. 44 yrs. to get there means that a 20 year old person with a fair amount of training in colonization would be 60 years old by the time they got there. That's not a prime age for reproduction or the rigors that they would be subject to.
Amazing everything all. thanks.
Amazing everything all. thanks
Not to mention that it's 7 times the mass of Earth, which would make the gravity…um…daunting.
I find it amusing that they are trying to find a planet like earth. Earth hasn't been a very good example. Getting hit with asteroids, turning into ice or floating into cold latitudes. New York could still be under a mile thick ice sheet but nobody knows why it isn't.
These discoveries are for the future generations to figure out how to get there to found a new Adam story, just like our Gods did.
We just have to settle our own human problems here on Earth first, in order to find a way to vanquish time and space.
We are still behind. -
Beware! this planet may contain excessive amounts of carbon monoxide!
Beware! this planet may contain excessive amounts of Hydrogen monoxide!
I truly love this new planet-finding technology- so clever! And I too cannot wait to actually see this and other new worlds. But you know what I think? Even if we solved the distance issue with some Star Trek-style McGuffin (and I've no doubt that there are young men and women, without appreciable social lives, earnestly trying to discover the warp drive as you read this post), the gravitational issue, the food issue, the terraforming issue, etc, we'd still be human beings. I'd assume that within a generation, the colonists would be polluting their pristine new environment, butchering/enslaving any autochthonous populations, inventing brand new class systems, controlling access to resources to the detriment of the majority, empire-building,etc. You can take the species out of the Acheulian environment, but you can't take the Acheulian adaptation out of the species…
I read every sci fi book I could get my hands on in my high school years (1956-59). I was sure that space travel and "other worlds" were out there and that some day I might be able to travel to one. Alas, we're not much closer to acheiving that goal than we were then. It's exciting to read about the possible existence of life elsewhere. I'd love to meet and ET……maybe!
Did not know I was on Smithsonian.
I still don't get it. If we had the technology to live for 44 years traveling the speed of light, why would anyone want to be stuck on another planet when there is so much of the universe to see?
Now you may not laugh when someone mentions the planet Kolub.
I'm so excited as a 71 year old man that so many questions I didn't even know to ask a half a century ago have been answered and so many quesions have been posed by the new knowledge that mere curiosity keeps me alive. This is the most exciting time to be alive and the Chinese proverb (or curse) "May you live in interesting times" has new meaning.
Once Nasa Has found out that I have given everyone information on this new break through technology to reach planets like HD 40307g I will no longer be alive or this information will never get out again!
Why do you all assume that when scientists refer to a planet as being "habitable" they mean habitable by US, as if our main goal is colonization or imperialist expansion, or even a tourist destination?
In their search for another planet habitable by life forms similar to those on Earth, most scientists are seeking to further our understanding of our own world, and perhaps trying to determine if we have company out there somewhere, rather than selfishly searching for another planet for humans to occupy (and potentially despoil). -
There is a great Sci fi book called The Dark Beyond the Stars. It is about generational star ships. Eventually with time, we will have to leave our planet unless we destroy it first. David Suzuki and Michio Kaku along with many other great scientists and humanists offer logical solutions to our condition.
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What it's like to be a single woman in her late thirties.
Apparently not, when compared to "Jane," a 35-year-old single woman active on three dating websites. I'm on only one. "I tell everybody that I am single and I go on blind dates," Jane says, since that's how she's met other boyfriends. While she agreed with me that dating is a second job, she thinks 2013 is her year.
"My New Year's resolution is to talk to an attractive guy once a week," she says, and explains that recently, she and her friend even chatted up a married guy at a bar, eventually becoming Facebook friends with him, because he might have single friends. I find this tactic interesting, as I tend to treat married guys as invisible, much like I would a pervert on the El.
Jane has even created a vision board, and though I didn't ask, I assume there's a picture of a hot, age-appropriate man pasted somewhere in the center. I'm not one to collage, but I give her credit. I work in advertising for a living. If there's one thing I know, it's that when you're selling something, you need a strategy.
Which reminded me of something: In 2009, I heard a segment on public radio's This American Life about a group of romantically challenged Harvard physics students who checked the population statistics for Boston to understand why they had a hard time meeting women. After zeroing in on the number of women in Boston in their desired age range who were single and college-educated, and then arbitrarily supposing they'd only be attracted to 20 percent, they had quantified their pool of datable women in Boston to 2,500.
Eager to see how Chicago's demographics are working for me, I hit up Rob Paral and Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm that specializes in the statistical study of human populations. His findings: According to 2009–2011 data from the American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau, my pool of datable men in Chicago is 43,439 (ages 35–44, single and college-educated). But if (like the Harvard guys) I'd find only 20 percent attractive, that reduces it to 8,688. In a city of 2.7 million.
And how many women am I competing with? Applying the same criteria, Paral found there are 50,386, which means for every 100 men, there are 116 women. Only a slight imbalance if all of these men are only seeking women their own age. Factor in women ages 25–34 and that's an additional 89,852 women, which means for every 100 men, there are 323 women. Yes, I could level the playing field and also pursue men 25–34, but I'm not interested in dating down more than five years. I hit it off well with younger guys, but common ground and emotional maturity mean a lot to me in a partner. Plus, down the road, they may decide they want children after it's too late for me.
So, now what? Are we single ladies supposed to get all Hunger Games on one another? Punch a girl in the ovaries if she's about to hook the last eligible man? It'd make killer reality TV but, truthfully, there's a great camaraderie among my single friends. When one of us gets a boyfriend (and it's happening, in spite of all these stats), the rest of us are happy for her.
So until the future Mr. Ensign enters stage right, I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing, which includes Internet dating and being as social as possible—though I'm learning to trade my favorite dives for more refined haunts. And I've informed my wingwomen we're getting sauced at the fancy Whole Foods in Lincoln Park and taking target practice in the produce aisle. Now somebody hand me a cucumber.


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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A very nice classic book and with some editions (mine included) some beautiful illustrations are included just to further immerse you in Alice's world. I enjoyed reading about Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson). I love "Alice in Wonderland." It is a great book with many hidden messages. I did not know that Charles was so shy and that that was the origin of the story. I feel like this book is very layered in many ways. You can hear the story as a child and really enjoy it, and then read it as an adult and think how amazingly odd it is. Truely a story I relate to. A fairly conventional edition of Alice with the Tenniel illustrations colored by Fritz Kredel. One of my two-year-old daughter's favorite movies is a made-for-television version of Alice in Wonderland, so after watching the movie several hundred times I thought maybe it was time to read the book. Though I show a book cover, I actually read this book using DailyLit, a website that sends excerpts of classic literature to my email once a day, which I wrote about in another blog post. I found the book to be an enjoyable romp through a world of nonsense and fantasy, though at times a bit dour as many of the characters did not seem all that happy. I understand that Alice is a child in the story, but I still find it difficult to understand how children can be as lacking in intelligence as she is throughout her adventures - I don't recall being quite so foolish as Alice is at this age. My favorite part of the book was actually after Alice exits Wonderland and sits with her sister, telling her all about her travels. I was able to appreciate the story more once I found an entry in Wikipedia on the novel that explained much of what I did not understand, such as the various poetry recitations and songs, the real people that the characters were parodied after, the mathematical concepts explored, and the elusive answer to the Hatter's riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Answer: "Because it can produce a few notes, though… they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!" Perhaps I have been disillusioned to the magic of this novel thanks to a combination of Disney's animated film and my daughter's obsession with her movie, but I would rate this book as a decently entertaining read, not one of my favorites. Though ,I am greatly looking forward to the upcoming movie Alice in Wonderland that stars Johnny Depp!!
Ingpen's art brings something genuinely new to it, a cloudlike insubstantiality tinged with a little bit of thunderhead. It's just a delicious, borderline hallucinatory, confection of a book. Invention and imagination tumble over each other in the excitement, and there is something in there to delight every reader. There are countless plays on words (the mouse giving a very dry lecture on William the Conqueror to restore those who have been soaked by Alice's gigantic tears is the one that, for some reason, pleased me most), verbal pyrotechnics and semantic shenanigans to please the "ordinary" reader. And although they entirely passed me by at the time, I know now from various more scientifically-minded friends that their childish interests snagged on the mathematician author's various numerical and logic puzzles. 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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 144042909X, Paperback)Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:47:55 -0400) A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. (summary from another edition) |
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The story is completely engrossing and the cinematography is stunning. Realize that filming took place in June/July when the Southern countryside was a lush, verdant green. That bone dry, depression-era dust bowl aesthetic is a wonder of digital editing.
The Coen brothers have done two things that are all too rare in Hollywood these days. First, their screenplay is original (yes, it's loosely based on Homer's Odyssey but to evaluate the film solely on this narrative framework is to overlook the other aspects of the film). Second, they've produced a film that captivates not with multi-million dollar action sequences and the latest Moby track but with great dialogue and an authentic blues/bluegrass soundtrack (well worth buying) that is as much a character in the movie as the three principals - Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Delmar O'Donnell (Tim Blake Nelson) and Pete Hogwallop (John Turturro). The eclectic cast (that also includes Charles Durning, Holly Hunter, Stephen Root and John Goodman) turns in superbly acted performances across the board. Clooney, who all too often plays 2 dimensional characters, gives an award-worthy performance in what is unquestionably his best role to date. Those not familiar with Nelson or Turturro will be impressed by these wonderfully skilled actors.
I will say that a lot of people have told me that they didn't care for this film, which I find incomprehensible. I'm not sure what more you could ask for in a movie.
This movie is a loose retelling of "The Odyssey" by Homer, set in the Depression-era Deep South. George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson make an unlikely team of escaped convicts who embark on a journey of the weird and wonderful. Watch for the appearance of many famous Odyssey allusions, such as the Sirens and the Cyclops (among others). The Coens' quirky take on this classic tale is delightful and perfectly executed, and the script is beautifully and humorously written. The sets and filming are artistic and a bit mythical, and the casting choices are just great. The film is peopled with interesting characters, in classic Coen brothers fashion. Look for great supporting characters played by John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Charles Durning, and others.
And that's not all! Interwoven in this film are great depression-era songs and some original songs, with excellent music direction by T-bone Burnett. Who says Moulin Rouge is the first movie in a long while to take the musical format? This movie is just as much a musical as Baz Luhrmann's much-hyped movie.
I really believe that this movie reaches heights that previous Coen brothers movies (even Fargo) haven't reached. In addition, I believe this movie was slighted by the Academy during Oscar time. This movie was one of the best films of the year, and excelled in every aspect a film can be awarded for.


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Sure, I could mention that last weeks Upset of the Week pick (Eagles over Redskins) might have been the worst decision since John McCain said, OK that settles it, then. Its Sarah Palin. But on this holiday, I prefer to emphasize what Im thankful for a bulls-eye on Jets upset at St. Louis, and Jaguars, Chargers and Steelers with the points. Give me 12-2 straight-up and 9-4-1 against the spread and Ill say thanks every time. [Thanksgiving Day picks: Texans (-3) over Lions, 31-24; Redskins (+3 1/2) over Cowboys, 24-23; and Patriots (-6 1/2) over Jets, 27-17].
Overall | Pct. | Vs. spread | Pct. | |
Last week | 12-2 | .857 | 9-4-1 | .692 |
Season | 105-54-1 | .660 | 71-82-7 | .466 |
Final 2011 | 159-97 | .621 | 127-105-24 | .547 |
Line: SEA by 3.
Cotes pick: SEA 23-17.
TV: 1 p.m., Fox.
Hope yall had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that this pick doesnt exacerbate your indigestion. There are teams that are distinctly better at home than traveling, even beyond the norm, and Seattle (1-4 on the road) is one of them. Likewise the Hawks rookie QB, Russell Wilson, commensurately has been much better in the Space Needles comforting shadow. These are reasons to look hard at Miami as a home dog. Alas, there are not many others. Marshawn Lynch (four consecutive 100s) is one of the best runners Miami will face all season, and Seattles defense is that, too. I cannot think of many tougher opponents in terms of Ryan Tannehill trying to shake a personal funk and get his bandwagon rockin again. Tannehill (needing 91 yards) surely will break Dan Marinos 1983 rookie record of 2,210 yards, but the phrase pyrrhic victory comes to mind. Seattle is coming off a bye and vitally in a playoff hunt in a way Miami is not. Also, Hawks are a sturdy 7-3 against the point spread. Sorry, Dolfans. Dont take it personally. Its just business.
Line: Off board.
Cotes pick: NO 31-27.
TV: 4:25 p.m., Fox.
Game of the Week committee was mightily challenged with stout, competing Week 12 presentations by Packers-Giants and even Falcons-Bucs, but ultimately the panel was wooed by a great 49ers defense dueling a great (and hot) Saints offense. Panel also liked that its a rematch of last years playoff game won by San Fran, 36-32. Game stayed off bet boards because of Niners quarterback situation, with Colin Kaepernick likely to start as Alex Smith continues with concussion symptoms and also with coach Jim Harbaugh inviting a QB controversy with his hot hand comments. But that isnt why I like NAwlins; Kaepernick is good. Like Cajuns because Frans are coming off a short week, and because Drew Brees at home he has a 20-yard completion in 100 staright games, a record is close to unstoppable.
Line: NYG by 2 1/2.
Cotes pick: GB 30-28.
TV: 8:20 p.m., NBC.
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