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Source: Philadelphia City Paper
Date: October 31-November 6, 2002
Byline: Howard Altman
LOVE Burns Bacon"Dont drop him," I think to myself as I hold up the old man who is in the process of becoming the worlds most ancient skate rat. "Just dont drop him. The last thing I want is The Bacon Brothers after me."
It is a brisk Monday morning in late October. A smattering of skateboarders, a world-famous architect, a couple of television crews, the merely curious, a cop and the homeless have gathered around the LOVE sculpture in LOVE Park. They are here to see Edmund Bacon, the former city planner who envisioned this space, stage a four-wheeled rage against the machine.
"Cutting this park off from skateboarders is a serious mistake on the part of Mayor John Street," says Bacon as he steps gingerly onto a borrowed board. "And by this act of civil disobedience, I am showing my displeasure with the mayor's actions."
Earlier this month, Bacon is sitting across from me in my office, laying out the most marvelous, harebrained scheme.
"I want to ride a skateboard across LOVE Park and get arrested," says Bacon, who, though he is 92 and has only one eye, exudes the rakish aura of a Little Rascal. "I want to protest what the mayor has done to LOVE Park. And I want you to cover it."
This is a fascinating offer, too good to pass up. I imagine the news ticker: "92-year-old father of Kevin Bacon arrested in Philly for skateboarding."
I have always been a big fan of Ed Bacon, a brilliant man with the unique talent of having a vision and being able to make it real.
Take LOVE Park. He came up with the concept for a plaza that would give people a place to congregate and reflect on the stunning architecture that lies between City Hall, to the southeast, and the Art Museum, to the northwest.
And for about $1 million, Mayor John Street trashed that vision, closing up the airiness of the open plaza with patches of grass and bulky fixtures.
So I can't agree more with Ed Bacon's criticism of Street, who dropped big coin to make LOVE Park safe from skaters, including posting police who spend a good deal of time shooing them away. In pure John Street style, the mayor made the decision to revamp LOVE Park even though the X-Games pumped tens of millions of dollars into the local economy. It was another bad move in a long string of economic snubs, like the time he blew off the Corporate Council on Africa's trade conference last year, angering people who are trying to put together what might be worth $1 billion of new business for the local economy.
So the question of helping out Ed Bacon is, to me anyway, a no-brainer.
"I would be honored to assist you, Mr. Bacon," I say, shaking his hand. Pulling out a small trick board I got in the mail, I ask Bacon if he wants to try out his plan. He agrees and in minutes I am wheeling him around my office.
"I feel so alive again," he bellows after stepping off the board.
In the greatest meeting of my heroes since Burt Ward waddled over to Adam West in the cavernous expanse of the Atlantic City Convention Center, architect Vincent Kling, who turned Bacon's plan into a park, strolls up and shakes hands with Bacon.
Kling, a short man with dark hair and bushy eyebrows, a sprightly 86 to Bacon's 92, taps the metal tip of his walking stick against one of LOVE's great marble slabs.
"I built this place so that people could enjoy it," he says, rapping the ground with his stick again, for emphasis.
"And that includes skateboarders," he says, with another tap.
Bacon and Kling hold forth on the park, past and present, and the cameras and the mics and the notebooks are out.
A police officer comes by, and the cameras focus in on her. But she does not want to talk to the press, asking camera operators to stop taking her picture.
"But this is a public place," says one shooter.
The officer, who won't give her name, is not amused.
By now, all are assembled -- the media, the man and, for lack of a better term, skateboard community leaders, like Josh Nims and Brian Nugent. The former is a budding attorney arrested for helping to build a skate park, the latter the owner of a burgeoning Old City skateboard lifestyle shop.
It is after 10 a.m. and time to get this thing done.
Scanning the plaza for police, I put my right shoulder under Bacon's left arm and, with the assistance of City Paper editorial design director Brian Hogan, steady Bacon on the board.
I really hope I don't let the old man fall as a shaky Bacon rolls for about 25 feet and decides he has had enough. He gets off the board and howls in delight, once again blasting the mayor.
"I think it is very ungenerous of the city that it couldn't spare one of its 2,864 blocks for the skateboarders of the world," says the world's now-senior skater.
(Mayoral spokesman Frank Keel will later say that Bacon is entitled to his opinion. "We have not heard any continuing complaints about the loss of LOVE Park to skateboarders, but we have heard repeatedly how much nicer the park is now.")
As a triumphant Bacon begins to walk away, a phalanx of Philadelphia's finest swoops in. A sergeant in charge, named J. Phillips, says they didn't arrest Bacon "because we use our discretion." What that means, he explains after a little badgering, is that "we didn't want to cause more trouble than it was worth."
In other words, slapping the cuffs on a nonagenarian father of famous children is not a very good idea.
But as soon as the cameras leave, police descend on the skaters, forcing them out of the park.
Another LOVE story from the city that smacks you back.
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Iranian lawmaker: Syria has a right to retaliate
Roi Kais
Published: 01.02.13, 11:43
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1. You have the right to remain Silent...
zob ,
Ashqelon, Is
Anything you say can and will be used against you in self defense. There will be NO further discussions.
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2. OIC....Organization of Islamic Corruption...
Ivan ,
South Africa
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3. Syria has a right to retaliate
Albrecht Klein ,
But do they also have the guts?
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4. Right to retaliate sure, but you won't
Jacob E ,
Holon Israel
Just like when we hit that weapons manufaturer a couple months ago. They said they had the right to retalliate... but did they? no... and they weren't even in the middle of a civil war. Neither is Syria. They know that by retalliating they will start an actual war so their right to retalliate turns into the right to get their asses handed to them by Israel and by the rebels all at once. So in the end, they will probably just use their right to remain silent.
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5. The truth
Gil ,
Tel Aviv
Iran before Israel attacked Syria: "Any attack on Syria will be deemed an attack on Iran and we will retaliate immediately". Iran after Israel attacks Syria: "Syria has the right to defend itself". So basically Iran are all hot air. They won't attack Israel at all or come to Syria's defence. The truth is that Israel will attack Syria again and Iran will do nothing. And by the way Iran - you're next. (written by a guy that lives in Tel Aviv not a "cyber warrior".
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6. There's nothing about this on the OIC website
Mark ,
London, UK
The main story is a condemnation of the burning Of Islamic manuscripts library In Timbuktu. The article goes further to say, " the Secretary General deplored the violence, intimidation and destruction carried out by extremists and bigots which can be no means be attributed to the pristine Islamic religion, which is innocent of such acts." Well, at least someone is able to call a spade a spade. Using their internal search engines, the most recent two stories are appeals for donations for Syrian refugees (some hope of that!) and the third is a condemnation of any threat to Syrian Christians. Interesting?????
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7. Iran, the mouthpiece of Syria and terrorists everywhere
Jacob E ,
Holon Israel
Notice how Iran is the one talking all the time for Syria. It is very obvious Syria is Iran's btch. I look forward to the day the Iranian regimes fall and free thinkers are not only in Israel in the middle east.
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8. Job well done Israel!!
United States
Syria and Iran have a whole other kettle of fish to fry. Their mutual aim of Israel's destruction will bring both Iran and Syria to her knees. Looks like Israel will also retake the Golan and eliminate another crisis with her war torn massacring neighbors. Iran and Syria will talk but no action they know better. Israel would eat them up and spit them out ....
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9. Show us photos of Research Centre that proves a raid occured
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10. Israel has NO choice !
moshe ,
Tivon, Israel
In Israel we are like a safe haven floating in a sea of hatred. When push comes to shove, Israel must use extreme measures to eliminate the immediare threat. It would be wise to conserve our strength to deal with further threats. Fellow Israelis: would be wise to keep QUIET so not to agitate the dogs that are snapping at our heels. If let with no choice: We will kick the sh## out of them instead of cleanly bombing arms shipments. moshe
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11. To: Gil at No. 5
Sarah B ,
U.S.A. / Israel
"Iran before Israel attacked Syria: 'Any attack on Syria will be deemed an attack on Iran and we will retaliate immediately'." "Iran after Israel attacks Syria: Syria has the right to defend itself'." * * * Sir, you have made my day. I can't stop laughing.
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12. Touchy situation......
Koose E Mack ,
Sure Syria has the right to retaliate...and unfortunately, even more innocent civilians will die. It's a very simple equation...leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. If you provoke the toughest kid on the block, you are going to get the beating of your life...Hence, you either go to the hospital or the graveyard. Your move!
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13. #11
israel israeli ,
tel aviv
That threat was directed at Obama, who the Iranians view as a coward and empty suit. The Iranians have only one objective: get nukes. If not attacking Israel will further the objective, they will not attack.
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14. The Syrian people
Mark ,
London, UK
Iran is in denial that the Syrian people don't like their despot. In their own country this is of minor significance as they are not facing a popular revolt. I hope the Syrian people are rather too tied up with their own future than to worry about a third party (Israel) destroying the arms that might otherwise be used against them. I wouldn't credit the Syrian people with enough sense to realise where their bread is buttered in the medium/long term, but I suspect they won't be placing much faith in Iran. Quite the opposite, the Syrian people seem to be amazed that "the West" will not setp in to save them. While remaining alert, I would leave the Syrians to sort themselves out and decide who their friends are.
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15. To: Israel Israeli at No. 13
Sarah B ,
U.S.A. / Israel
Then the Iranians should stop running their mouths, right? This American views Obama as a coward and an empty suit, too. He's the most incompetent president in the history of the United States -- and we've had some doozies.
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16. blindfolded
Anthony ,
His name 'asafari' means in my native language 'shameful'. He is truly to his name. Nobody should be worried about their empty slogans. their hearts are full of hate. so nothing will reason them. just ignore their tongues and woop their behind.
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17. Haji afarti Shut Your Pie Hole
You Have NO SAY in syrian internal affairs, your ILLEGAL regime in tehran has been Fomenting Violence And Mayham in the region and abroad for Too Long And The Day Of Reckoning Is Soon Coming To Pass? You Have NO CREDITABILITY WHATSOEVER ! So Nobody Cares What you Have To Say! Be Very Very Careful You Are Under A International Microscope And Oppions Are Swaying Against The Worlds Largest Terrorists! BOOM BANG KABOOM!
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18. Wonder if this guy has condemned 60,000 murders?
Carl ,
Or attacks across the border into Turkey. Or the countless other atrocities perpetrated by Assad and his government of thugs. I would suggest Iran reign in Assad, not condemn Israel. In Assfari's own words, "if a proper response is not given at present, Assad will not hesitate to carry out further attacks on Syrian people."
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19. OIC - Organization of Islamic Confusion or Organisation of I
What is this idiot talking about? Is it about OIC - Organization of Islamic Confusion or Organisation of Islamic Crisis. These are rubbish but hungry set of people.
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20. Hit em Again!
Chaim Ben Kahan ,
Efrat, Israel
Israel should strike Syria over and over as well as any Iranian targets in Syria and Lebanon. We cannot afford to allow Iran free reign on our doorsteps to foment terrorism.
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21. Iran's exhortations
Get Real ,
Since when were the Iranians concerned about the rights of the Syrian people? Tough talking as always from Iran but no action. Don't they realise that the Syrian regime has enough mess to contend with at home without opposing Israel's right to defend itself from the threat these weapons pose to Israel.
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22. And they retaliate
NT Green ,
the way they know how The coward way, killing innocents terrorism, kidnapping
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23. SHUT UP & buy more guns from daddy
Iranian Jew ,
Putin! He got you in tis mess and is laughing all the way to Kremlin. When will real Persians wake up!!!! They are getting played by the towel heads and keep going back to them.
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McLeish, Tom C.B. and Clarke, Nigel and de Luca, Eduardo and Hutchings, Lian R. and Graham, Richard S. and Gough, Tim and Grillo, Isabelle and Fernyhough, Christine M. and Chambon, Pierre (2009) 'Neutron flow-mapping : multiscale modelling opens a new experimental window.', Soft matter., 5 (22). pp. 4426-4432.
Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) has delivered significant insight into the rich and varied phenomena seen in the non-linear dynamics of entangled polymers. The lengthscales accessible by SANS are ideally matched to the strongly lengthscale-dependent relaxation in entangled polymers. This, in turn, has facilitated a detailed and challenging test for models of molecular rheology. Here, we review experimental techniques, along with the multiscale modelling required to predict these measurements. This approach has enriched our understanding of monodisperse linear polymers, model linear–linear blends and branched polymers. We also indicate potential future directions for this fruitful approach.
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Do defenses really wear out over the course of a game? Do defenses benefit from long drives that give them more time to rest on the sideline? Guest columnist Ben Baldwin investigates.
23 Jul 2010
by Bill Barnwell
Just like any other receiving statistic, catch rate is dramatically affected by both the scheme a receiver plays in and the quarterback throwing him passes. Even our new plus-minus statistic isn't immune; in the second part of our introduction to plus-minus last year, we noted how the plus-minus of receivers on a given team tends to flock together. That suggests that quarterbacks are the dominant factor in determining the catch rate of most players.
To get a true glimpse into which players are catching passes at a rate above or below expectation, then, we need to add another layer of adjustments to the process. Accounting for pass distance and the yards needed for a first down -- as we do in Football Outsiders Almanac 2010 -- isn't enough; we also need to account for the laundry a player's wearing. In this piece, I'll explain my methodology for doing so, and in Part II of our team analysis (or Part V of the ever-expanding plus-minus trilogy), I'll analyze what it tells us about the past few seasons and the upcoming 2010 campaign.
(Right about now, you might be asking why this research wasn't included in the numbers you've seen/will see in Football Outsiders Almanac 2010; the answer is that, unfortunately, ideas and research times don't always coincide with book schedules. The idea for how to perform the adjustments, as simple as it is, didn't actually come to me until the book was all but done.)
The process of getting the team-adjusted figures is actually reasonably simple. With plus-minus calculated for each player already, it's a few short steps:
1. Divide the player's plus-minus by his target total to get a per-play figure
2. Divide the combined plus-minus of every other player on the team by their target total to get a team per-play figure
3. Find the difference between the two figures
4. Multiply the difference by the player's target total to get a re-constituted, team-adjusted plus-minus
As an example, let's use a player whose figure is heavily affected by context: the Colts' Austin Collie.
After stripping out plays defined as uncatchable, our database figures that Collie caught 60 of the 86 targets thrown to him last year, which yields a catch rate of just under 70 percent. Plus-minus suggests that he caught 3.4 more passes than an average receiver would, given the raw distance of his routes as well as the relative down and distance they came on. Divide that on a per-target basis, and Collie was just about 0.04 catches above average each time he was thrown the ball.
Of course, Collie doesn't play in an average offense; he plays for the Colts, and he has Peyton Manning throwing him the ball. There were 465 qualifying targets thrown to the remainder of the Colts' players. On those plays, the rest of the team accrued 33.7 catches above expectation. On a per-play basis, that's 0.07 catches above average; because that's higher than Collie's average, it means that Collie was worse than his teammates.
Subtract the difference and multiply it by Collie's 86 targets and you'll find that the tune of his numbers has changed. While Collie was catching passes at an above-average rate according to both catch rate and plus-minus, adjusting the figure for his team context produces a plus-minus figure of -2.8, a figure below what his Colts teammates were producing.
Below, we've provided a table with these statistics for every Colts player in 2009 (except for Hank Baskett, whose numbers are a little more complicated because he played for two teams). As you might expect, the overall success of the offense drags each individual receiver's plus-minus down.
|Plus-Minus For The Indianapolis Colts, 2009
|Raw +/-
|Team +/-
|+/- per
|Reggie Wayne
|Dallas Clark
|Joseph Addai
|Donald Brown
|Tom Santi
|Colin Cloherty
|Mike Hart
|Chad Simpson
|Sam Giguere
|Gijon Robinson
|Austin Collie
|Jacob Tamme
|Pierre Garcon
Pierre Garcon is another excellent example of how context can make a player with below-average hands look good. Garcon's plus-minus was about league-average relative to the distance and nature of his routes, but once you factor in the context of his offense, he was actually pretty mediocre at catching the ball in 2009. That blends well with DVOA, which saw Reggie Wayne and Collie well ahead of Garcon a year ago.
The change in Wayne's figures is also very interesting. Wayne led the league in raw plus-minus in 2009, but some of that is thanks to a high target total and the presence of Peyton Manning. He drops to the middle of the top ten in scaled plus-minus, and because a lot of the passes that weren't thrown to him were also completed, his team-adjusted plus-minus was only the league's sixth-best. (We'll cover the 2009 leaders in Part II of this piece.)
Team-adjusted plus-minus tells a distinct story for the 2009 Colts -- Wayne and Dallas Clark caught a lot of passes at a well-above-average level, and everyone else was average or worse -- but the team's statistical signature isn't always so similar. In 2008, for example, Wayne's raw numbers declined, and his plus-minus figures were no different. He had a raw plus-minus of 10.4 on 124 targets; adjust that for the team rate, though, and he was only at 2.1. Anthony Gonzalez led the team, with a team-adjusted plus-minus of 4.4 catches above average on 77 targets.
In Wayne's dominant 2007 season, well, he was a one-man wrecking crew. His 18.3 raw plus-minus was met with mostly mediocre performances by the rest of the offense, producing a team-adjusted plus-minus of 16.7 that led the league. It's the second-best figure of the four-year stretch we have plus-minus available for, having been narrowly beaten out (16.74 catches above average to Wayne's 16.72) by a receiver in 2009. One of the main reasons why Wayne's figure is so high is because the only other Colts receiver with more than 50 qualifying targets that year was Dallas Clark, who had a raw plus-minus of -5.6 on 94 targets. After adjusting that for the team context, Clark was at a very disappointing figure of -9.5 catches, the worst figure in the league that year.
2006, of course, was the last gasp of Wayne and Marvin Harrison as anything close to equals. It's borne out in their plus-minus figures. After adjusting their figures for the Colts offense, Wayne was at 7.9 catches above expectation on 128 targets, while Harrison was at 8.2. (Clark, in part of a two-year stretch with a strangely low raw catch rate, was at a dismal -8.7 catches on just 55 targets.)
In Part II, we'll expand the focus to the rest of the league, breaking down the most bizarre out-of-context performances from the past four seasons while providing the numbers on who did the best job, relative to their teammates, of catching passes.
As a teaser, here's a quick contest. The player with the biggest per-play difference between his personal plus-minus and the plus-minus of the rest of his teammates in a given season over the past four years is a running back. I'll give everyone a lone guess at who that back is; the first person to guess correctly gets a free PDF of FOA 2010.
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Who is Kevin Faulk?
2006 LaDanian Tomlinson
Oh I think I know who it really is, dammit.
Erm... Ray Rice?
Who is Brian Westbrook?
Darren McFadden?
My guess is Brian Westbrook
This is a very interesting piece of research that seems to come very close to the holy grail of viewing individual performance independently of the team. As far as I can tell, teh only factor that is left out is how much of a spotlight a defense puts on a particular receiver, which is probably impossible to realise. Great stuff. (I still hate the name +/- though, surely there must be something more descriptive that gives nubes a better idea of what the stat represents.)
Aaaarrgghh! 7 new posts arrived since I started writing mine, and someone has stolen my guess, can I change to Frank Gore?
I'm gonna guess MJD?
I guess it must be 2006 MJD then.
Reggie Bush?
If the plan is to use team adjusted plus-minus to compare different wide receivers across the league (I don't have the book, so I don't know), doesn't that assume each team has the same type of receivers? That is, if one team had a wide receiver corps filled with guys who have great hands, and another team was filled with speedy guys that dropped every pass, all the players are going to be around 0 plus-minus. But that doesn't mean they all have the same catching ability.
Put another way, this doesn't tell us that Pierre Garcon had below average hands. It tells us that (last season, at least), Pierre Garcon had below average hands for a Colts receiver. It doesn't necessarily tell us how he stands in relation to the rest of the league.
I'm not trying to diminish the point of the article; it seems pretty obvious that having Peyton Manning as a QB is going to help a WR without reflecting his true skill, and I could well be missing something. But using this to compare across teams could be problematic if the teams are constructed differently.
The base +/- figure would be guilty of what you are saying, this helps to take the qb/system out of the equation, making comparisons more valid (I think.
IMO I'm not sure it can be used to compare recievers across teams. It helps compare players within teams though -- quite a bit!
Imagine a team with 5 HOF recievers: Jerry Rice x 5.
Their stats might all be different, since JR1 and JR2 will be on the outside, JR3 in the slot, etc, but after these adjustments ideally they all end up at 0.0 team-adjusted +/-.
Now, you have another team, full of Heyward-Bey's. This team similarly will have a team-adjusted 0.0 for its WR's.
There is no way you could compare the two sets of team-adjusted numbers to each other and conclude that the players are equally skilled.
At least, that is what the math looks like to me.
But wouldn't the all-Rice team have a very high +/- to begin with. The team adjustments would hover around 0.0 (with some statistical noise) but the +/- would still be high. That's what I think is the case if +/- is what I think it is.
Maybe. But what if the team of JR's had Jamarcus Russel throwing to them and the team of HB's had Joe Montana?
I guess what I'm saying, is Its unclear to me how this disentangles QB from WR play. The average +/- of the players on the team is affected by BOTH the QB and the skill of the average receiver on the team.
How that affects one player is even affected by how good the QB is on different kinds of throws and the distribution of types of throws to said player.
Dumping the ball to the HB in the flats is a hell of a lot easier than throwing a deep out. For most QBs at least (I'm looking at you, Henne). The deep out is going to be on a rope, maybe behind or in front of the WR if the QB isn't so good. A check down is a check down.
But the numbers are given relative to league-average QB's. So if you're QB is average at throwing the ball to a HB in the flats but slightly better than average at the deep out, then your RBs will be undervalued by this measure, and your deep receiver will be overvalued.
You're dealing with such small sample sizes that it would make any results very questionable, but ideally you'd take every QB and find his unique rate for each type of pass, and then use that rate when calculating your plus-minus figure for each player on the team. This would then be used to compare teammates.
Fair enough. Yet another example that I'm here for the discussion, not the stats. I always forget they're so adjusted.
Chris Johnson
2009 Chris Johnson
Chester Taylor
Matt Forte
Hey -- not saying if any of the above answers are right or wrong, but:
a) You'll need to give a player and a season in question.
b) The only qualifying guess, 2006 LT, is wrong.
Steven Jackson, come on down?
2008 Steven Jackson, that is...
2006 Deangelo Williams
As for the article I think it highlights what a lot of people are missing about the colts for this season and are similar (although way more detailed) to the findings i came through going through play by play data. And that is that you can't forget about Anthony Gonzalez. Yes Collie and Garcon played well but if you take into consideration their situation they weren't all world beaters where as Gonzo was actually above average last year and still has an elite 1st round pedigree. Whether he is 100% healthy is another question and I am sure that will play a big factor in the whole process but to completely dismiss him like a lot of people have done may be a mistake.
Brian Westbrook 2007
Matt Forte
2008 Matt Forte
Steven Jackson
A 73% catch rate on the team that led the league in drops? I'm going to go with 2009 Jamaal Charles.
Frank Gore 2007, the rest of the niners' receivers were garbage.
I will say this much: No one has come even close yet. I wouldn't run a trivia contest where the answer was something as obvious as Chris Johnson or LaDainian Tomlinson.
And for reference, I'll even give spots 2-5:
- 2: Brian Leonard, Bengals, 2009: +.11 plus-minus per pass vs. -.05 for rest of team
- 3: Ronnie Brown, Dolphins, 2006: +.10 plus-minus per pass vs. -.05 for rest of team
- 4: Chester Taylor, Vikings, 2008: +.11 plus-minus per pass vs. -.03 for rest of team
- 5: Jamal Lewis, Browns, 2007: +.08 plus-minus per pass vs. -.06 for rest of team
Shouldn't that be 2007 for Ronnie Brown?
wait I thought you need to have at least 50 targets to qualify?
DeAngelo Williams in 2006?
Ray Rice, Ravens 2009
2007 Kenton Keith
The original Adrian Peterson 2007 for the Bears.
Think I finally figured it out, too bad I already guessed.
Me too :(
i wonder if it could be.... Buckhalter '08
Great work. It's been hard to reign in the enthusiasm of Colts nation about Garcon and Collie because they had good playoff games, but both had critical mistakes in the Super Bowl that are largely forgotten.
Anthony Gonzalez, if healthy, is just a flat better player than either one.
Thinking the same BBS-related thing.....
2008 Matt Forte caught a huge % of passes and had terrible receivers on his team.
2009 Ronnie Brown?
"Just look at that pumpkin."
-John Madden, looking at the moon.
2009 Tomlinson
Chester Taylor in 2008?
Guess I should have checked comment #32 first. Damn it.
Michael Bush, 2009 Oakland Raiders.
Frank Gore, 2006.
Derrick Ward 2008
'09 Fred Jackson
Im going with 2009 Lex Hilliard. 100% catch rate. Closest player on Miami was Ronnie Browns 70% rate in the same amount of passes for less yards. I compared catch rates on teams and saw Lex's 30% difference and also saw that Lex was also about as good on a per play distance basis as Brian Leonard.
Hope I didn't blow my guess on a guy who doesn't qualify because of lack of targets.
That would be my guess after Bill's statement if I hadn't blown my load on 06 LdT
Dont feel bad. I woulda blown my load on LDT or 08 Forte if I had gotten to the article sooner.
Ick. What does Mister Tomlinson have to say about you, er... soiling him in that manner?
He said, "sorry for not being the correct answer."
Julius Jones 2007
Patrick Cobbs?
(2008 Patrick Cobbs, if year is needed)
Joe Addai 2007
MJD, 2008 ? Not sure how bad the rest of the team was overall, but it wasn't pretty.
Aw crap ... I think I should have looked at the question a little bit differently.
2007 Brandon Jacobs (He didn't say it was a positive difference.)
I didn't want to submit a guess since I already bought the book, but that's what I would have guessed.
Patrick Cobbs, 2008 Dolphins.
Rock Cartwright, 2009 Redskins?
Kenneth Darby, 2008 Rams.
90% catch rate at 9.6 yards/rec on a team with -26.1% DVOA passing.
Tatum Bell, 2006, Broncos.
Who is Willie Parker, 2007 season....damn replies are coming fast and furious
2008 Michael Robinson
Kevin Jones, 2006 Detroit
2006 Tiki Barber. He was reliable with a likely high catch rate, while surrounded by a team of WRs that was always overthrown by a still-erratic Eli. Right?
2006 Brian Westbrook
Great research Bill.
If this had been around 15 years earlier it might have been in time to stop Dave Wanstedt from shelling out massive money to get Michael Timpson off the Bledsoe QBed Patriots. Then again Dave the Dunce would probably have ignored it.
Now THAT's a grudge! Impressive work, sir.
Frank Gore 2008
Oops! Looks like I blew my wad on someone who was already picked...
2008 Kevin Faulk
(I also like the Eagles)
P.S. I still hate the name +/- for this stat.
Cadillac Williams 2009.
Mediocre performance on a miserable team == success?
2008 - Brandon Jackson
2009 Gary Russell, Oakland
There IS a 30-target minimum, so I'm going to let BigDerf pick again. No one has guessed correctly yet.
I wondered if there might be a minimum targets for this... can you tell me what Gary Russell's numbers were so I can see if my estimation is meaningful?
2008 Fred Jackson
Willis McGahee, 2007.
2007 - All Day
backup guess
2008 - Jamaal Charles
07 Earnest Graham?
2009 Kevin Smith Detroit
That would've been my first guess. My next would've been Jamal Lewis (2007), but then I saw that season at #5 on the list Bill posted...
Since my first choice was already picked by someone else, can I pick Leon Washington 2008?
How about the 2007 vintage of Leonard Weaver (SEA)?
Marion Barber, 2008 (Dallas)
oooh, are we all forgetting some of the awful receiving on the Raiders lately?
(I also like the Eagles)
My first guess was also picked by someone else 10 minutes prior, so I'm going to go again with some Justin Fargas, 2007.
Despite the fact that I made a guess, whatever Raiderjoe comes up with wins, is my alternative bet.
Jamal Charles, 2009.
I can't believe I wasted my guess on someone Bill had already said was wrong because I think found the answer and it was not someone I was expecting.
mewelde moore, 2006 vikings
Leonard Weaver, 2007 SEA
Dammit, I was going to guess 2007 Fargas. But I'll say Cedric Benson, 2008.
Frank Gore, 2007
whoops just saw someone already guessed that.
08 leron mcclain
didn't have 30 receptions to qualify
White 2007
Ray Finkle, 1984. Soccer style kicker graduated from Cauler high June 1976, Stetson University honors graduate class of 1980, holds 2 NCAA division 1 records one for most points in a season, one for distance, former nickname "The Mule," The first and oly pro athlete to come out of Cauler County and one hell of a model American.
Are you one of those Hard Copy guys?
If I hit a grand slam on this hole-in-one the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
2009, marshawn lynch.
With my reguess I'm taking Lamont Jordan of the 07 Raiders. Similar numbers to Leonard and an absolutely horrible Oakland offense run by Culpepper Russel ad Josh McCown.
That was my second guess - that team was pretty attrocious outside of Jordan - and even jordan was disapointing as I remember wasting a fantasy pick on him.
2008 Justin Fargas
2006 Edge James, ARZ
JERIOUS NORWOOD, 2007. already bought FOA 2010 and KUBIAK, but wouldnt mind reimbursement on the previous!!
2008 Matt Forte.
1996 Mike Alstott.
2006 Kevin Jones, Detroit Lions, Mike Martz Offense, FTW!
If I hit a grand slam on this hole-in-one the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Crap. Didn't see that someone had already guessed him.
If I hit a grand slam on this hole-in-one the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
2008 Mewelde Moore?
06 Ahman Green?
2007 Ryan Grant
2009 Ray Rice. Or was David Tyree catching all those passes?
Felix Jones 2008
2009 Jerome Harrison
Justin Griffith 2006 falcons
No one has got it yet. I'll give one more big hint: One person actually named a different running back from the team and season of the player in question.
2009- Ricky Williams
2009 Rashard Mendenhall.
Rock Cartwright 2009
my bad - already picked
Warrick Dunn 2007 (ATL)
Thomas Jones, 2008, NYJ
2009 Sproles?
2008 Marion Barber
i already used up my guess but he said unexpected... so pick a back that isn't really really well known for being a great receiver on a team with shitty hands at receiver.
Or the opposite, a RB -- with bad hands and poor open field ability on a team with a great passing game.
2006 Shaun Alexander
That should read 2005 Shaun Alexander
Seeing he said the last four years, you might want to rethink going with the 2005 version :-)
2006 Michael Pittman
Noah Herron, 2006 Green Bay Packers
Noah Herron caught 93 percent of the qualifying passes thrown to him, 28 out of 30. That's a 93 percent catch rate, and a +/- of 4.58 on 30 targets. No other Packers receiver -- not even players with one target -- that year had a positive plus-minus; Brett Favre completed 56 percent of his passes.
I'm amazed that anyone got it. Peregrine, shoot me an e-mail at bill - at - footballoutsiders.com to arrange your prize.
She wins the challenge on Work of Art AND the +/- contest. Peregrine is having a good week.
93%?? I was going by catch rate... which for Herron in '06 was 77%. Well, at least I am glad to know it wasn't actually guessable from stats on this site!
I believe the catch rate at which you were looking includes all passes while the catch rate Bill is quoting removes "thrown behind" and "overthrown" passes that are not considered "catchable."
tip of the hat to you. never even heard of this guy.
vernand morency 2007 green bay packers
Darren Sproles 2008?
Did anybody want to talk about the article now?
eh, not really... is it preseason yet?
I'm just as interested in the Loser League edition. Who is the WORST relative to his teammates, say minimum 30 targets?
My first thought was Aaron Moorehead 2007, who just misses the minimum. 8/22 for 65 yards in the Colts offense.
36% catch rate, when the team averaged 65%.
2.9 yards per attempt, when the team averaged 7.8.
-44.8% DVOA to the team's +40.6%.
That would be a good shout if not for the lack of targets. It's not even like he has the Jim Sorgi excuse - at most two of Sorgi's passes that season were intended for Moorehead. I wonder how many the charters deemed catchable though - he might have been listed as the target on a lot of throwaways.
2009 Darren Sproles
Before I posted this I thought the player needed to have at least 50 targets to qualify. If that not so then the running back must be 2006 Darren Sproles.
See post 143.
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On Tuesday, Johnston's manager, Tank Jones, announced that Bristol Palin's hockey-loving ex will run for mayor of his home town, Wasilla, Alaska, as part of a proposed reality series.
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In 1867 Captain Carter, in his ship, the Helen T. Cooper, started on a voyage around the world, taking his wife and son with him. They visited several European countries, doubled the Cape of Good Hope and passed into the Orient. In Burma, in 1869, both of young Carter's parents died and he was left, at the age of eight years, an orphan in a strange land. He found a friend, however, in the person of French gentleman, M. Fontenay, a former friend of his father, by whom he was adopted and taken to Calcutta. There he entered La Martiniere College, where he remained a student for nine years. He then went to sea, but soon tiring of that life, he returned once more to his native land to look after certain properties which he had inherited. After a year spent in fruitless law suits to recover his property, of which he was eventually defrauded, Mr. Carter, at the age of nineteen, returned to Florida and located at Milton, where he taught school for two years.
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Chinese Name: 钦州 (qīn zhōu)
Qinzhou Facts
Population: 3,485,600
Area: 10,728 square kilometers (4,142 square miles)
Nationalities: Han
Location: Qinzhou is seating in the south of Guangxi Province, facing the Beibu Gulf (or Gulf of Tonkin). It is bordered by the capital city of the province, Nanning, in the north, in the neighborhood of Yulin, Fangchenggang and Beihai. It can be the most convenient coastal channel from the sea in vast Southwest China.
Administrative Division: 2 districts (Qinnan, Qinbei); 2 counties (Lingshan, Pubei)
Seat of the city government: No.10, Yongfu Dajie (East), Qinnan District
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Tourist Complaints: 0777-3688759
Weather Forecast: 121
Zip Code Inquiry: 184
Bank of China Branch: No.10, Dongfeng Road, Qinnan District
China Post Branch: No.50, Yongfu Dajie (West), Qinnan District
Saniang Bay
Qinzhou Attractions - Things to Do
Location: 5 kilometers (3 miles) east of Xiniujiao Town, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from city downtown area
Description: top attraction of the city; hometown of Chinese white dolphins; 2,000 meters (2,187 yards) fine natural bathing beach, catching legends about the Sanning Stone (Three-lady Stone); wonderful site for watching sunrise
Longmen Islands
Location: northwest of Qinzhou Economic Development Zone, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the city downtown area
Description: over a hundred of islands in different sizes and shapes winded by interleaving streams
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Location: 8 kilometers east of Longshan county seat
Description: being the largest ancient building complex of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties; couplets hung on the columns of a hall created in old days
Other Scenic Spots: Liufeng Mountain, Bazhai Valley, Malan Island
Qinzhou is 110 kilometers (68 miles) from both Nanning Wuxu International Airport and Beihai Fucheng Airport for about one and a half hours. The local long-distance bus station is situated in Nanzhu Dadao, Qinnan District.
How to get to Qinzhou
-Enjoying a subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, the local weather in Qinzhou is characterized by long summer, relatively warm winter. There are six months (late April to late October) during a year with its monthly average temperature above 22 degree centigrade (72 degree Fahrenheit). Summer and autumn are damp and hot. June and August are the peak periods of rainfall.
When to Go: Qinzhou is an all-year-round tourist destination. Notable is that flocks of white dolphins will gathered at the Sanniang Bay from October to November.
Qinzhou Travel Tips
History: During the early years of the Southern Dynasties (420-589), Songshou Shire was established, and it was changed into Anzhou few years later. In the Sui Dynasty (581-618), the name of Qinzhou was fixed instead of Anzhou. Since then, the name has been called for over 1,400 years.
Physical Features: The city lies between the northern mountains and southern sea with the terrain declining north-south. Mountainous area is mainly distributed in the northeast and northwest of the city. In the south end of city is its biggest alluvial plain, Qinjiang River Delta. The rest land is occupied by medium and low hills.
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Like the rest of the world, the art of magic is changing with social media and YouTube. And there's the decline in brick and mortar magic shops and struggling magic clubs. But there are artists who are evolving with the changes and even pioneering how magic is presented in our age.
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David Copperfield
Copperfield is the highest profile magician of our era. While he's got lots of material that he's perfected over the years, he is always bringing out new and innovative magic. A visit to his show is always an entertaining experience.
This American illusionist was described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. He has sold millions of tickets and earned billions of dollars - more than any other solo entertainer in history.
When not performing in Las Vegas,... Copperfield manages his chain of 11 resort islands in the Bahamas, which he calls "Musha Cay and the Islands of Copperfield Bay".
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Penn & Teller are American magicians and entertainers who have been working together since the late 1970s. They are most well-known for their act that combines comedy with magic. The pair has been featured in many stage and television shows and currently headline in Las Vegas at The Rio.
Penn serves as the act's orator but Teller generally does not speak while performing and instead communicates through mime.
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Criss Angel
Criss Angel is an American magician and illusionist. Angel started out in New York City and now works in Las Vegas. He is known for starring in the television and stage show Criss Angel Mindfreak and his previous live performance illusion show Criss Angel Believe in collaboration with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He also had a main role in the television series Believe on Spike TV, the television show Phenomenon, and the 2014 stage show Criss Angel Magicjam.
Angel holds numerous world records... made during his magic performances and was named Magician of the Decade in 2009 and Magician of the Century in 2010 by the International Magicians Society.
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Mat Franco
Mat Franco is an American magician and the winner of the ninth season of America's Got Talent. Franco rose above tens of thousands of acts to become the first and only magician in history to win the television show, which earned him $1 million. Franco's TV specials marked the first time NBC produced a spin-off show around their AGT winner. Franco is currently headlining in Las Vegas.Continue to 5 of 9 below.
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Extremely popular in Asia and well known in the United States, this YouTube and television star is always reinventing and innovating. He's charismatic and fun to watch.
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Justin Willman
This magician maintains a high media profile and he's got a host of fantastic television performances under his belt.
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Justin Flom
Along with his Wizard Wars television series, Flom's career has soared with his ability to create a presence on social media and publish entertaining videos that go viral. Here's another magician who will increase his mainstream presence.
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DynamoWith his "Magician Impossible" television show, Dynamo has become a star in Europe and he's announced a world tour in 2015.Continue to 9 of 9 below.
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Jeff McBrideThe most influential teacher in the world of magic - many prominent magicians have trained in his "Mystery School" - McBride is magic's master and always worth following and watching.


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I am a professor of Global Political Economy at Leiden University where I am also a resident scholar at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. I am coordinator of Leiden University's MA specialization in Global Political Economy under the International Relations / International Studies MA program. Beyond this, I teach a course on World Capitalism and is Critics in the university's Philosophy, Politics, and Economics MA program and other courses in the university's undergraduate BA program in International Studies.
On the research side my interests could be characterized as falling within global and comparative political economy with an East Asia focus. I have a special interest in the political economy of welfare and stratification and a general inerest in all things political. I also am big on engaging and doing research that addresses public and policy debates. One example of this is my participation in a six-year study that will explore systemic determinants of learning among children in Vietnam. Speaking of Asia, I might as well add here that I have lived on three continents. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In my early to mid 20s I began roughly two decades of living and working in various parts of East Asia, and in Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong in particular. And now I'm in Europe!
On this site you'll find a selection of my writings, info on my various pursuits, and links to two blogs. The first of these, simply titled blog, and on which I right much more periodically than I would like, takes on matters of general interest, dwelling mostly in social, political, and economic themes. The second blog, Xin lỗi Ông, is my passion. It's in Vietnamese, and addresses social, political, and economic issues in, you guessed it, Viet Nam.
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CHICHESTER'S racecourse will host three huge musical acts as part of its Three Friday Nights events this summer.
Goodwood has announced the annual event is back in June, and Chase and Status, Naughty Boy and Zane Lowe are the headline acts.
Tickets are on sale from Saturday (March 1).
Chase and Status will perform on Friday, June 6, Naughty Boy will be at Goodwood on Friday, June 13, and Zane Lowe's set is on Friday, June 20.


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India Approves Samsung, Bosch Investment Proposals
Three companies get approvals under new electronics-manufacturing policy
NEW DELHI—Indian units of Samsung Electronics Co. and Robert Bosch GmbH are among the first set of companies which got approvals to set up or expand local operations under the country's electronics-manufacturing policy.
India announced its National Policy on Electronics in October 2012 as part of efforts to create jobs and reduce its trade gap by encouraging local manufacturing. The government projects electronics imports to reach as...


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Wiley Trading has the best trading books I've found. Timing Solutions for Swing Traders: A Novel Approach to Successful Trading Using Technical Analysis and Financial Astrology is no exception.
The curious thing about this book is "Financial Astrology", for me it was a first and caught my attention. What is financial astrology? According to Robert Lee and Peter Tryde, "Financial Astrology is an analysis of financial matters based on the observation of planetary movements." Fair enough, here's a site the book references and gives you an idea of why lunar cycles might impact turning points in the S&P. The authors suggest harmony with the planets is important. I can't disagree, yet… Well, ok but I have enough on my plate. Luckily they don't overdo lunar, solar, zodiak, or planetary cycles; it only adds color to an otherwise excellent technical discussion, and if you're open to the arguments they make, a fascinating potential indicator.
Essential Patterns, Elliott Waves, Volume, and Key Indicators make up the proportion of the book with excellent examples, the charts are in color which I appreciate, but they're a bit small. Hong Kong is their market of preference.
This book is worth keeping handy if you like to dig into Elliott Waves, decipher trend with common indicators, and refresh your pattern recognition.
* I've stumbled on a planetary cycle discussion board, if you're interested. (here)


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|A Handbook of Style for Criminal Justice
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IEEE West Central Mexico Section History
The section of West Central Mexico covers the states of Michoacán, Colima, and part of Jalisco. It set out in January 1994 at the initiative of renowned personalities of our educational and professional field, as Eng. Jose de Jesus Moreno Ruiz, Dr. Hector Ruiz Francisco Paredes, engineers Sofia M. Mendoza Machain, Lino Coria, Francisco Hernandez Cortes and Isaiah Elizarraraz, as well as Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garza among others, and with great auspices of Dr. Eduardo Arreola, who was President of the Region 9, Latin America, IEEE. The section of West Central Mexico has over 300 members at present: No. Students: 224 No. Members: 42 No. Senior Member of: 1 No. Life Member: 1 Associates: 89 Since its founding, the Section has been devoted to promoting activities that contribute to educational development and updating on technological developments around the world. Two examples of this are the First Biennial Meeting of the IEEE Power Fall in 1998, which attracted over 50 speakers from a nationally and internationally recognized level of excellence, and the conference given by Ken Foster in October 1998.
The Section is currently working at opening a Subsection of Colima, where there are already enough members and great interest in it.
The Section includes the Student Branch of the Technological Institute of Morelia, which comprises more than 200 students belonging to the areas of Electrical and Computer. Its current President is Ricardo Reyes, a student of electrical engineering. The Section is also currently working to form the Student Branch of the University Michoacán de San Nicolas de Hidalgo and the University of Colima, who already have the number of students required to establish it.
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After two and half years, Moneyville® has a new life as the personal finance section of the Toronto Star.
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Investments Tied to Genocide: Sudan Divestment and Beyond
Oral and written testimony to House Committee on Financial Services' subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade: "Investments Tied to Genocide: Sudan Divestment and Beyond" (November 30, 2010). Read a transcript of the hearing on the website of the House Committee on Financial Services.
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:12:02 +0200 From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org> To: gnome-announce-list gnome org, Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-devel-list gnome org>, Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org> Cc: Robert Jongbloed <robertj voxlucida com au> Subject: [Ekiga-list] ANNOUNCE - Ekiga 3.2.6 [STABLE] available This is the sixth stable release of the 3.2 version of Ekiga.
Ah.Is it available as a .deb package for installation on Debian 5 and Ubuntu 8.04?
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