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Here are some notes from Thursday's training-camp opening practice.
Mike Peterson is back — with a new nickname.
Just call the Falcons' linebacker "Unc." All his teammates have taken to the moniker for the 14-year veteran, who was brought back last week when Lofa Tatupu was lost for the season with a torn pectoral muscle. It was a torn triceps muscle that ended Peterson's season — and nearly his career — last year.
"I'm everybody's uncle around here now," Peterson said Thursday following the Falcons' first day of training camp.
Peterson spent the past three seasons with the Falcons, but was not re-signed after suffering the season-ending injury. He began the rehabilitation process and waited for a phone call. And waited. And waited.
"I can't say that I considered my career over, but I have to be honest, you have that in the back of your mind," Peterson said. "You keep pushing through it, keep training, keep rehabbing and wish for the best. Especially when you feel you can still play a little bit."
Peterson, who turned 36 last month, said he had calls from other NFL teams inquiring about his health and the status of his rehab, but that he always wanted to come back to the Falcons. He was available when they called and put him through a physical.
He is back on the field, wearing his No. 53 jersey, and back in the locker room, where he has re-assembled the Falcons D-Block. That's the self-titled name for the linebacker group.
"With Mike Peterson there is a comfort level because he's been in our system," coach Mike Smith said. "He's been in our locker room. He's been a leader. He is a guy who can play all three [linebacker] positions. He'll be a great mentor to the young guys."
Peterson missed the Falcons' final regular-season and playoff games, which he called the toughest part of the injury. He added it wasn't going to be down for long.
"I wasn't looking for a pity party," Peterson said. "I just put my head down and got to work."
Nicholas back
Linebacker Stephen Nicholas was back after off-season surgery to repair a toe injury that kept him out of organized team activities and minicamps.
Nicholas was running with the first-team linebackers Thursday.
"I thought I might be ready for the last minicamp, but we took our time and I'm ready now," Nicholas said.
Holmes also back
Offensive lineman Lamar Holmes also was cleared to begin practice just in time for training camp. Holmes, the team's third-round draft pick this year, said he suffered a broken foot while running just weeks after being drafted.
"I thought I was doing the right thing," Holmes said. "I tried to finish the end of my run strong, and I felt something in my foot, and that's what it was."
Holmes acknowledged it will take a little while to get back in the swing of physical football.
"I've got some rust," Holmes said. "I haven't been in pads since the East-West Shrine game. I haven't done any real physical activity since then so there is a little rust, but I'm going to get it off before you know it."
Pads on Saturday
The Falcons did not practice in pads Thursday, a byproduct of the new collective bargaining agreement. By rule, teams must wait three days, including reporting day, before a padded practice is allowed. The Falcons will hit for the first time in Saturday's afternoon session.
Early look at the O-line
There were no changes to the Falcons' first-team offensive line with the opening of training camp, but two rookies took a step forward.
The starting unit remained Sam Baker, Justin Blalock, Todd McClure, Garrett Reynolds and Tyson Clabo. However, Peter Konz, the team's second-round draft pick, practiced with the second unit at right guard behind Reynolds. Holmes practiced with the third unit at left tackle behind Baker and Will Svitek.
Rotating defensive backs
Brent Grimes and Asante Samuel rotated between left and right cornerback at times during Thursday's practice. In nickel packages, Dunta Robinson moves inside, and Samuel plays right cornerback. However, on a number of nickel alignments Samuel moved to left cornerback, the spot normally manned by Grimes. It's all part of defensive coordinator Mike Nolan's multiple-look packages.
Full roster
All 90 players on the training-camp roster reported and were on the field for the team's first practice. Defensive tackle Corey Peters (foot) was in attendance after being placed on the active non-football injury list. Smith reiterated Thursday that Peters was injured off campus before off-season workouts and will be re-examined in three weeks.
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
July 26th, 2012
8:51 pm
Let the good times roll …go Falcon's
July 26th, 2012
9:27 pm
Keep em Coming DOL!!!!!
July 26th, 2012
10:00 pm
Getting excited! Go Birds! Pads on Saturday will tell a lot.
July 26th, 2012
10:15 pm
Just hoping everyone stays healthy through training camp and the preseason and would be nice throughout the season too .
July 26th, 2012
10:17 pm
Glad to see Lamar Holmes is practicing. I hope he does well. Same for that DGD Akeem Dent.
July 26th, 2012
10:35 pm
They can line those corners up anywhere they like… People are only going to be keying on two things, where's no. 28? How can I clear Robinson from the short slot? Hello, I'm Dallas Clark, glad to meet you!
July 26th, 2012
10:37 pm
Mike Peterson, don't start wearin' those Cedric the Entertainer hats now!
July 26th, 2012
11:19 pm
That's one step closer to the grave talk! That and drinking E&J at family BBQs!
July 26th, 2012
11:55 pm
Uncle Mike hah?
July 27th, 2012
12:40 am
@ Ledbetter…
See what I mean then?
July 27th, 2012
8:01 am
Lets get it started..finally we gon RISE UP!!!!!!
July 27th, 2012
8:34 am
I expect nothing less then the SUPER BOWL. I still taste that nasty two point butt whomping the Giants gave us. Remember you are as good as your last game Dirty birds!!!!! PROVE ME WRONG FALCONS! Now let's get to work and bring me our Championship!
July 27th, 2012
8:55 am
Not only is he "Unc" on the field, or the past 3 years he's been "Uncle Mike" to the students at Grove park Elementary, a school mike adopted through his foundation when he first arrived in Tampa. By spearheading a new literacy program at that school, he is changing lives. It's a blessing to have Uncle Mike back in Atlanta for so many reasons!!! If you ever need a reminder, just check out the 400 kids at Grove Park chanting "We like Uncle Mike" every time he visits. It's awesome.
July 27th, 2012
1:33 pm
N E word on that looser Perrier Jerry? Has he ben cut yet?
U no UR team is no good when you have a 57 year old Mike Petermen at LB! LOLOLOLO
July 27th, 2012
1:35 pm
D-Block is back!!!!
July 27th, 2012
3:28 pm
Mike Peterson is another class act and it is sure nice to have him around. I sure hope that he is completely recovered and has the strength & stamina his position requires. If so, he will do his job well. He is a backup I will trust and I consider us fortunate to have him. Best of luck Mr. Peterson, we will be rooting for your continued success! GO FALCONS!
July 27th, 2012
9:20 pm
Ray Easterling's head injuries.


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There are some nights when San Diego has some good shows, but among my friends, we've been referring to this week as the Coachella Cradle because of all of the amazing shows. Tuesday, in particular, can be really great or make you cry because choosing one show means missing out on others that would fit right in your wheelhouse. At the Casbah, J Mascis performs his only solo show on the Dinosaur Jr tour, while indie lovers will certainly want to catch DIIV again. Youth Lagoon perform an all ages show at the Irenic in North Park, while Alt-J perform to a sold out crowd at the Belly Up, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform at the historic Balboa Theatre. There's certainly a lot of great music tonight, just choose wisely because tonight is certainly better than most.
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Saturday marks the start of the conference season for NDSU and with it, a milestone for three of NDSU's defensive stalwarts. Kyle Emanuel, Travis Beck and Christian Dudzik will each play in their 50th career game for the Bison this weekend. Think of that number, 50. If you're an average FCS team the most you can hope for is 44 and these guys have 50 and we're just four games into this season. Emanuel, Dudzik and Beck all are part of the incredible 2010 recruiting class and redshirted that season, now in place as NDSU's mainstays on the defense. I wanted to feature each of them and highlight what in my mind were their biggest plays to date in their NDSU careers.
Emanuel's arrival to Bison fans came in late October 2011, it what I billed as the biggest game in the history of the Fargodome, 2nd ranked Northern Iowa facing 3rd ranked NDSU. The Bison had not beaten UNI in the three previous meetings since NDSU joined the Valley, and Kolpack and I each picked against the Bison at home. Emanuel made a huge play, thanks to Beck, who forced a fumble, Emanuel scooped and scored and the Dome as we know it would never be the same. The loudness of the crowd was something not before heard, as NDSU would go to win that game and eventually a first D1 title. Emanuel's other major play came last year in Frisco, Towson had driven to the NDSU 24 and was going to try a field goal, when Colten Heagle blocked the kick and Emanuel scooped it up and ran down the same sideline Beck had run two years earlier. Emanuel ran down to the Towson five, NDSU scored on the next play and the game was over. His speed and strength has been on display in the first four games so far this year with five sacks in four games and being named to the Buck Buchanan Watch List. Emanuel was one of the early recruits out of Nebraska and has turned into one of NDSU's best.
He's NDSU's Iron Man, never missing a game since debuting in the lineup for the Bison in the fall of 2011. The big story when Dudzik debuted was he being moved from safety to cornerback after Brendin Pierre was academically ineligble and the rest they say is history. Dudzik went on to become a member of the Conference Newcomer Team and got better as the season went along, his standout play in my mind was in the 2011 playoffs on a 30 yard interception return vs Lehigh. He has continued to impress Bison fans with his speed over the last couple of years, adding punt returner to his arsenal, that was on display last October at Indiana State, where he returned two punts for touchdowns. His leadership may be his biggest value and maybe his biggest play was two weeks ago with the interception vs Montana. You could even nominate his pick versus Iowa State right before the half, that swung the momentum again and gave NDSU another three right before the half. His versatility is still being explored as he ran a few plays on offense against Montana, another Nebraska recruit and one of the best that's ever played in NDSU's secondary.
Bar none, one of the toughest players in NDSU history. Beck enters his 50th career game fully healthy, which is a rarity for him, not because he's brittle, but because of how hard the man plays. Look no further than last year at Kansas State, his leaping thru the air play to try and sack Jake Waters was replayed over and over, it came at great cost to Beck, who injured his shoulder and told me this week he went in easy on tackles last year because of it. He's a North Dakota legend for all-time thanks to his interception return and MVP performance in the 2011 FCS Championship Game and it bears repeating he was just a redshirt freshman at the time. He was the man that stripped the ball that led to Emanuel scoring the back breaking touchdown versus Northern Iowa, and he saved an even better performance against UNI a year later in Cedar Falls, picking up two sacks and two more tackles for loss as the Bison won at UNI for the first time since 1976. Beck will play in his 50th game, made more impressive he'll start his 44th in a row. Beck has had his off-the-field issues, but none can deny his toughness and unbelievable athleticism, another that will go down as one of NDSU's very best on defense.


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Publisher NotesAndré Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time ( Gaston Lagaffe ) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip ( Spirou , behind the untouchable Tintin ), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career ?Idées Noires? series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial , Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid ?blackout? pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell ? executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style ?covered in soot.?) Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete ?Idées Noires? collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh ), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson.
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The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
NOTE: This article has nothing to do with genealogy. However, one of my personal interests has always been saving money. Last year I found a cell phone bargain that was almost too good to be true, so I decided to try it. I wrote about my experiences at the time. The company later changed their offerings extensively. Now I have switched to a new service from the same company at roughly half the price of what I was paying earlier.
Apple made a number of announcements this week concerning new software for Macintosh as well as for the company's iOS operating system, which is used in iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch handheld devices. Numerous articles about the new announcements are now available online . However, one newly-announced feature hasn't received much notice, and yet, to me, it is perhaps one of the most useful features of all: use a cell phone to make telephone calls over a wi-fi wireless network connection.
This isn't new to the industry, however. Actually, I have been doing the same for more than a year on a non-Apple cell phone and have found it to work well. No matter how terrible your local cell phone reception is, you can always make crystal clear calls as long as you can connect to a reasonably fast wi-fi network. In general, calls over wi-fi are clearer and less likely to drop, which is a good thing if you live or work in an environment with poor cell phone reception.
In fact, you can find a dozen or more apps in the Apple iPhone app store that add the capability of making calls over a wi-fi connection, and the Google Play store has similar apps for Android smartphones.
What is different with Apple's new announcement and with the Android cell phone I have been using for months is that the wi-fi service is built into the cell phone by the manufacturer and allows for AUTOMATIC switching to the better-quality connection. The automatic switching between available networks is sometimes called "hybrid calling."
An available wi-fi network usually can obtain better telephone call quality than a cellular network. At other times, a wi-fi network may not be available, or else a publicly-available wi-fi network may be overloaded and too slow for placing telephone calls. All the user-installed apps that I know of require the user to decide which network to use in advance of making a call. The user then has to tap on various icons to enable or disable the wi-fi telephone app.
The Android phone I have been using—and apparently the new iOS8 operating system from Apple—will make the decision without user involvement. In fact, the phone may switch from cell phone network to an available wi-fi network and then back again as the user travels from one area to another, all without the user's knowledge. The phone does this by testing the available wi-fi and cellular network connections and selecting the cheapest and/or best quality connection available.
Best of all, wi-fi connections are always cheaper than cell phone connections, often MUCH cheaper. Normal (wired) telephone calls have become ridiculously cheap in recent years, but cell phone calls in the U.S. remain at astronomical prices. Wi-fi is changing all that.
In the January 8, 2013, newsletter, my article called (+) (Almost) Unlimited Cell Phone Minutes for only $19 per Month described my experience with a cell phone plan that costs $19 a month for (almost) unlimited incoming and outgoing calls to the U.S. and Canada.
In fact, I have been using this $19/month for service for more than a year and have been happy with it. The company provided only one service: $19/month, take it or leave it. Now the company has added two new phones and also switched to four levels of service. These four different services range from $5 a month (for a service that does not meet my needs) to $40 a month (for a service that provides more than what I need). I elected to switch to their new $10 a month plan and have been using it for several months. So far, it has met my needs perfectly when at home or when traveling around my home town area. However, when traveling longer distances, I usually upgrade to the $25 a month service, then downgrade when I return home. Since this company does not have contracts, I can upgrade, downgrade, or even cancel the service at any time with no penalty involved.
I am flying coast-to-coast later today and want a higher level of service while on my trip. I upgraded this morning to the $25-a-month service by using a few mouse-clicks on a web page. When I return next week, I will downgrade to the $10-a-month service again. The total cost to me will be about $3.75 for one week's service at the higher rate. (That's an extra $15 a month, but I only have to pay extra for about one-fourth of a month.)
To be sure, these bargain prices do have some restrictions; but, I found those restrictions to be so minor that I can safely ignore them, and I suspect that many others can do the same. If I wish, I can upgrade my service at any time to include additional features, although at higher prices. Even the highest-priced service at $40 a month is still cheaper than that of most other cell phone services.
I have now cut my cell phone monthly expenses from nearly $100 a month that I paid more than a year ago to $10 a month. I also found that the phone and the service work well. The people I call never know that I am
a cheapskate… uh, "thrifty." In fact, a few people I have talked with have remarked how clear the connection is. I have only received those comments when connected via a wi-fi connection.
Even better, I no longer own a standard, old-fashioned telephone. I can now use my new cell phone for all my calls, both at home and when outside the home, for a TOTAL of $10 a month for all telephone conversations. Compare that to your monthly telephone bill. Do you have a wired phone in the house plus a cell phone? If so, what is the total amount you pay for both phones? Or for three phones if your spouse also has a cell phone?
At these prices, you probably can also give another phone to a teenager in the house. His or her cell phone could cost a maximum of $10 a month although with a few restrictions. Actually, considering the amount of money to be spent, it is fewer restrictions than a normal cell phone.
I am using an Android "smartphone" that not only places and receives telephone calls but also surfs the web with a built-in web browser, sends and receives text messages, reads and writes email messages, takes pictures, plays music, plays videos, reads and updates my calendar, maintains a large phone book, displays maps, provides directions, plays games, and much, much more. In short, it is a normal Android cell phone.
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Roberts International Airport (IATA: ROB, ICAO: GLRB), informally known as Robertsfield, is an airport in the West African nation of Liberia. Located near the town of Harbel, the single runway airport is about 35 miles outside of the nation's capital of Monrovia, and as an origin and destination point is referred to as "Monrovia" in popular usage. The facility with its 11,000 feet (3,400 m) long runway is an emergency landing site for the United States' Space Shuttle program and the principal international airport in the country. The airport is named in honor of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first President of Liberia.
In 1942, Liberia signed a Defense Pact with the United States. This commenced a period of strategic road building and other construction related to US military interests in checking the expansion of the Axis powers. The airport was originally built by the United States government as an Air Force base as part of these activities. The runway was built long enough for B-47 Stratojet bombers to land for refueling, giving Liberia what was for many years the longest runway in Africa. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States had lunch with President Edwin J. Barclay at Robertsfield visit to Liberia in January 1943.
The story of Robertsfield is consistently intertwined with the history of Pan American World Airways. In fact, from the end of World War II until 1985, the airport was administered and operated by Pan American under contract with the Republic of Liberia's Ministry of Transport. Monrovia was consistently a key link in Pan American's African network, usually an intermediate stop between Accra and Dakar, from which service continued onward to Europe and New York. In the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the airport became Pan Am's principal African hub, with a non-stop service from New York JFK connecting at Robertsfield to such destinations as Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos, and Conakry, among others, and continuing on to Nairobi and even at times Johannesburg, so that for many years virtually every Pan Am passenger to Africa passed through Robertsfield. Pan Am's presence diminished during the 1980s, as Pan Am's African network was slowly pulled down. Pan Am ended its management of the airport in 1985 but as late as 1986 the airport was still a stop on the JFK-Dakar-Monrovia-Lagos-Nairobi route.