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Football coach removed from team after 12 players quit
12 Rio Americano seniors quit team last week
The coach of the Rio Americano football team has been removed by the school's principal after 12 seniors quit the squad last week. All of the players will be reinstated on the team, according to school district officials.
The principal of Rio Americano made the decision after meeting with players, parents and head coach Christian Mahaffey, a spokesman for the San Juan Unified School District said Tuesday.
Two assistant coaches will also be leaving the team.
Eleven seniors quit last week after senior wide receiver Guillermo Salazar -- a three-sport star athlete -- left the team when Mahaffey wouldn't let him attend a baseball competition in Arizona, which would require him to miss a football game on Oct. 13.
Salazar was hoping to showcase his skills for a potential Major League Baseball career.
A spokesman for San Juan School District said the principal made the decision in part because there were no clear, written guidelines for the players given in advance by the coaching staff.
The Rio Americano squad was down to 21 or 22 players for their remaining games.
The players will be suspended for one game due to insubordination. School district officials said the players will likely play during this week's game on Friday night against Cordova and sit out another game later in the season.
Mahaffey, who was a coach for the Raiders since 2009, will still be an employee with the school district, but not at Rio Americano, district officials said.
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Hosting Requirements
Installing Joomla! for the first time is very easy. Joomla!'s built-in web installer makes setting up your new site a breeze.
Before we start installing Joomla!, there are a couple prerequisites that need to be met to install Joomla! 3.1 successfully. These apply whether you have a dedicated server, a shared hosting plan server, or are installing a copy on a local computer for testing or development.
Software Recommended Minimum PHP (Magic Quotes GPC off) 5.3.1 + 5.3.1 + Supported Databases: MySQL[1] (InnoDB support required) 5.1 + 5.1 + MSSQL 10.50.1600.1 + 10.50.1600.1 + PostgreSQL 8.3.18 + 8.3.18 + Supported Web Servers: Apache(with mod_mysql, mod_xml, and mod_zlib)[2][3] 2.x+ 2.x+ Nginx 1.1 1.0 Microsoft IIS 7 7
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- ↑ The mod_suphp extension or mod_fcgid extension is recommended to enable Joomla to upload and execute files using secure file permissions.
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- The database user's name
- The database user's password
- Move the downloaded Joomla! installation package to the server. Use a FTP Client to transfer the Joomla! 3.0 files to your server. If you don't already have an FTP client, we recommend Filezilla
- Hint - This can be accomplished by simply moving the downloaded package to your server, then unpacking it. Or you can unpack the files on your local computer, then move the Joomla installation over to your server. Either way, the Joomla installation needs to be unpacked in the root of your site.
If you unpack the files on your own computer, then copy them to your server, be sure to move only the folders and files contained INSIDE the Joomla! package. If you unpack the folders and files into a folder, for example called,
Joomlaand then upload that folder, your site will have to be accessed at
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Main Configuration
With the above requirements met, a database created and the required Joomla! files in place, you are ready to install Joomla!. Start the Joomla! web installer by opening your favorite browser and browsing to the site's domain name. On host installation you will use
http://www.yoursitename.com. If your are installing Joomla! locally, you will use
http://localhost/, and you should see the installation screen.
Joomla! will try to identify the Select Language field automatically from your browser's language. You can change this if needed.
Fill in the following information.
- Site Name: The name of your website — this can be changed at any point later in the Site Global Configuration page.
- Description: Enter a description of the website. This is a the global fallback meta description used on every page which will be used by search engines. Generally, a maximum of 20 to 25 words is optimal. Again, this can be changed on the Site Global Configuration page at any time. For more on metadata, see Global Metadata Settings and Entering search engine meta-data.
- Admin Email Address: The admin email address. Enter a valid email in case you forget your password. This is the email address where you'll receive a link to change the admin password.
- Admin Username: Joomla! uses a default "admin" as the username for the Super User. You can leave it as is, change it now(which a good Security measure) or use My Profile in the Administration interface to change it later.
- Admin Password: Remember that super user has maximum control of the site (frontend & backend), so try to use a difficult password. Use My Profile in the Administration interface to change it later. Confirm the password in the Confirm Admin Password box.
- Site Offline: Click the Yes or No box. Yes - this means when installation is complete, your Joomla! website will display the 'Site is offline message' when you browse to
yoursitename.comto view the home page. No - this means the site is live when you browse to
yoursitename.comto view the home page. You can use the Site Global Configuration in the Administration interface to change the Offline status at any time.
When everything on the first page is completed, click the next button to proceed:
Database Configuration
You will need to enter the information about the database you will use for Joomla! now. It was suggested to write this information down under "Prepare for Install" tab. You may also read or review Creating a Database for Joomla!.
For simplification, these intructions are a reference to installing with a MySQLi database. The instructions on the installation page are self explanatory, but here they are again:
- Database Type: MySQLi is the common database used
- Hostname: Where is your database located? Common is
localhost, but some hosts use a specific database server such as
- Username: The username used to connect to the database
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- Old Database Process: Should the installer backup or delete existing tables during the installation of new tables? Click, Yes or No to select the choice.
All these choices can be edited on the Site Global Configuration page, under Server options after the installation is completed. Note, you will break your installation if you change these settings after installation unless you have a complete copy of the current database being used by the Joomla! installation. Common uses would be to update the username and password of the database or to complete a move of an existing installation to a new host with different parameters.
When all the information has been filled in, click the next button to proceed:
It is now time to finalise the Joomla! installation. The last page of the web brower installation contains all the information about the installation. This includes the options(at the top) for installing sample data and the installation's configurations(at the bottom).
Install Sample Data and Email Configurations
The first options are for automatically installing sample content to the website and emailing the configuration settings.
If you are new to Joomla! it would be benefical to install some sample data to see how Joomla! works. You can at this time choose to have the configuration settings emailed to you. If the Email Configuation choice is selected, the Email Password choice will appear. The email password is off by default for security. You can choose to have the password included, just click Yes.
Time to check the configurations of your install and the environment of the installation.
Checking Your Configurations
If everything is in order, you will see the install at the top of the overview page. If not, this is the place to check and see what may be causing an issue.
The section is broken into 4 groups:
- Main Configuration: All the website specific information, such as the website name, description, admin username, etc.
- Database Configuration: Contains the information about the database Joomla! will use.
- Pre-Installation Check: These requirements must all be shown as Yes, otherwise you will not be able to install Joomla! With the exception of the PHP Version, the rest are usually controlled in the php.ini. You may need assistance from your host in correcting these settings or checking to see if it is possible to adjust them. For more information, see PHP configuration file file.
- Recommended Settings: These are settings are recommended in your PHP configuration, but will not prevent Joomla! from being installed. You can refer to the above instructions on how they may be changed.
If everything is correct and all checks are passed, you may now click the Install button in the top right corner of the Overview page. This will start the actual installation process.
After you click the Install button, you should see a progress bar with additional information of the installation. Once the installation completes, you should see the success page!
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SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald
Bad things can happen in a dark alley.
In low-crime Durango, the danger might not be so much muggers lurking in the dark of night, but the black ice that threatens in the light of day.
Midday on Jan. 9, Durango police officer Greg Dodd found a 37-year-old male tourist who had slipped and fallen in the alley by the Abbey Theatre.
�You know how ice builds up and gets old? It�s literally dark black. That�s what he slipped on. His feet just went straight out from under him. It turned his ankle over,� Dodd said.
�He was complaining of ankle pain. The (emergency medical technicians) cut his shoelaces to get his boot off. It didn�t look pretty, I can tell you that,� Dodd said.
Some complain the city has fallen into the dangerous rut of not maintaining alleys in the winter, but officials respond that they have tried everything and are open to suggestions. There is just no obvious solution to getting at ice and snow in the narrow and congested alleys.
Taylor Folmar, a server at Randy�s Prime Rib, Seafood and Steak, said he frequently sees people take a �quick slip� in the Abbey Theatre alley near College Drive and Main Avenue.
�It�s been an issue for years. I would say it gets ignored,� Folmar said. �It�s tough for all these businesses taking out recycling and trash. Delivery drivers, I see, have problems (getting around) with the dollies.�
Doug Boykin, owner of Incognito hair salon, located in the alley between Main and Second avenues, contends the city has not plowed his alley in four years. Officials, however, respond that alleys do get plowed but are not a priority on a heavy snow day.
Boykin thinks the city has only �sanded it once when the ice ruts were 10 inches deep from (semitrailers). If it wasn�t for one of the neighbors plowing the alley, there would be nothing but ice out there.�
One of his clients, Daren Caldwell, owner of Access Wireless, 822 Main Ave., slipped and broke his ankle outside Incognito two years ago.
Caldwell said he was �walking down the alley, hands in pockets, (when) I essentially slipped in a rut. I spun around, but my foot did not. I tore every ligament and tendon in my ankle and broke my ankle in two places.�
�It was bad,� he said. �I never felt anything like it. I was going into shock, too. I was pale white and nauseous. It was not pretty. I laid there for 10 minutes, I was in excruciating pain. I could not get up. It was that bad.�
Caldwell, however, is not unsympathetic toward the city. He wonders where the city could plow an alley�s snow without blocking business entrances in the process.
When a foot of snow falls into an alley that is 20 feet wide and 300 feet long, that�s a �lot of snow� to remove, City Manager Ron LeBlanc said.
�You almost have to put a loader in there and haul it out, which is almost impossible because you have gas meters, electric meters. You have parking, Dumpsters, recycling bins. It�s narrow.�
�There�s no good option,� he said.
Low-hanging utility lines make it impractical to drive a loading truck into the alley because it would not be able to scoop up snow without hitting the wires, LeBlanc said.
So the city typically plows the snow to one side of the alley, alternating the sides after every snowfall, LeBlanc said.
�We get complaints from both sides,� he said.
Because delivery trucks will make runs as early as 3 a.m., the snow will get packed down, and �we�re just scraping off the top,� he said.
LeBlanc said the city wants to work with people. It will haul away people�s snow, for example, if they coordinate ahead of time.
The city �might be bringing the loader through at 3 a.m.,� LeBlanc said. �If you can get (the snow) to (an accessible space), we�ll take it away for you.�
Otherwise, alleys are fourth on the city�s priority list for plowing on a regular snow day, said Levi Lloyd, the city�s director of streets.
�We do try to get to alleys on storm days. It�s just that accumulation is the determining factor,� Lloyd said.
�If there is snowfall for two or three days, sometimes the alleys and residential streets get dropped so we can concentrate on the collectors and arterials � the streets that service the most people and are the designated routes for getting around town. (But) it�s pretty rare we drop residential streets.�
Because the city�s solid waste and recycling department must make pickups from alleys, it has its own plow, but its goal is just to make the alleys passable, LeBlanc said.
�Even though pedestrians use the alleys, we think pedestrians have an alternative, which is the sidewalk,� LeBlanc said.
�There�s no other choice for the deliveries,� he said. �Many of the alleys are substandard or unpaved, so plowing is problematic.�
Boykin said the city needs to find a solution.
�We live in a mountain town,� Boykin said. �You need to move the snow.�


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Ellen VINALL was my 2x great-grandmother, the seventh of the eleven children of Ambrose and Sarah VINALL of Buxted, Sussex. I don't have Ellen's birth date, her birth was registered in Q4 1857 in Uckfield Registration District. Her baptism was on the 8th November 1857 at St. Margaret's Church, Buxted.
In 1861 the three-year old Ellen is living with her parents and siblings (four sisters and two brothers) at Rocks House, Buxted. Her father was employed as a farm bailiff. Ten years later Ellen was still with her parents (and six siblings) but the family have moved to nearby Blackboys Common in Framfield, Sussex where her father was working as an agricultural labourer.
In 1879 Ellen married Thomas DRIVER, an agricultural labourer also from Framfield. I don't have the exact date or place for the marriage, but it was almost certainly at the parish church in Framfield. The couple had six children in total:
- Kate DRIVER (baptised 28 March 1880 in Framfield, Sussex)
- Asher DRIVER (born 1882)
- Minnie DRIVER (baptised 26 May 1884 in Lewes, Sussex) [my great-grandmother]
- Ambrose DRIVER (born 1885)
- Herbert DRIVER (born 1888)
- Anna DRIVER (baptised 8 November 1891 in Lewes, Sussex)
Although Kate was baptised in the parish church at Framfield, her sisters Minnie and Anna were baptised at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Lewes, Sussex. I have been unable to locate where Asher, Ambrose and Herbert were baptised.
Some time between 1885 and 1888 the family moved across the parish borders to Waldron, Sussex. In 1891 the couple and four children (Asher, Minnie, Ambrose and Herbert) were living at Hawkhurst Pit, Waldron, Sussex.
Ellen died in 1899 aged only 42, her death was registered in Q4 1899 (in Uckfield Registration District). I don't know what the cause of death was or the exact date and I don't know where she was buried, probably at the parish church in Waldron or the cemetery in Uckfield, Sussex.
Clearly there is much work that needs doing on the life and family of Ellen, starting with the parish registers for Waldron and Framfield. I also need to put Hawkhurst Pit on my list of places to visit, along with the parish church at Waldron.


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The NBA will appoint a chief executive officer to oversee the operations of the Los Angeles Clippers while they remain in limbo following the suspension to Donald Sterling.
Andy Roeser, longtime president of the Clippers, will remain with the team for now.
The NBA will immediately begin the process of identifying a CEO for the Clippers.
Via Sam Amick/USA Today
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Good news... I guess?
Anything that distances Sterling from the team. Seems like Doc is really invested in the franchise to take time out and visit the back office staff to reassure them. Him staying on after the playoffs is key. The players will follow his lead.
Doc sounded like he was staying during the doctrine.
what was he saying? I can't watch prime ticket.
We all know who should run the Clippers, Isiah Thomas.
Just give the job to DeAndre. He's already doing everything for us anyways.
First order of business for the CEO is to hire and GM and revamp our scouting team
Just a gut feeling...I think Doc stays regardless of what CEO comes and runs the team. Doc is just too well-respected in the organization to be run out.
I like the name - fits our ocean location and is unique. My second choice would be the dream - but I don't love it. Haven't heard any good alternatives
He glowed when ESPN (or TNT?) got his reaction to the possibility of Magic owning the Clippers. It was a GREAT interview!
The greatest Laker ever wants to own the Clippers. great story!
Just ran across this and who better than Doc to be the CEO, that would be freaking awesome, don't think the way Doc has navigated these murky waters has not gone unnoticed by Adam Silver.
Good read;
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2051 ... ippers-ceo
Doc has been the face of this franchise and the epitome of leadership during this turmoil. If he stays the players do the same. The key is just cleaning house and throwing all things Sterling related to the garbage, sorry Shelly. Once the organization is free of Sterlings appointed guys the league can deal with the legal aspects that Sterling is sure to bring up


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There is nothing much to report this week except for an almost complete lack of family history activity. Whilst time has been an issue, as always, the main cause of this in-activity has been a lack of motivation.
I just haven't really been inspired to sit down and do any family history this week. About the only positive thing that happened this week was the addition of three or four new relatives to my tree.
I realised that with a very small amount of work I would be able to add a seventh cousin. There was no real benefit to gained from doing this but it seemed like a fun thing to do at the time and nice to be able to say that I have a seventh cousin.
Challenging times: Sorting out Patrick Vaughan's information
Given my current lack of motivation it seems unlikely that I am going get around to sorting out Patrick Vaughan's information. It would probably be better for me to find another more interesting project (more interesting than sorting out files) to get me back on track.
Kent parish registers on familysearch.org
I made several attempts to access images of Kent parish registers on familysearch.org, hoping that at last I might be able to go back a bit further with my Gasson ancestors.
Unfortunately I was unable to view a single image for any of the parishes I tried, I don't know if it was me or the website, but I tried nearly everyday with the same result. Maybe next week I will be more successful.
There is another potential distraction coming up this week with a change in the weather coming at last. Hopefully it will be dry and warm enough for me to contemplate at least one decent evening walk this week.


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I was back up in London today, not walking (well not proper walking) or visiting an archive, but being a tourist, along with thousands of other people. My wife and I spent the day looking around London, but I just couldn't help taking her on a tour of some of the sights of KINGHORN interest in the City of Westminster.
So as well as seeing the sights like the London Eye (pictured above) and taking a cruise down the Thames to Greenwich, we also popped into St James's Church, Piccadilly, which is the first time I have actually been inside (but more about that another day).
We passed through several of the other streets nearby where the KINGHORN family lived, including Meard Street pictured below. When the KINGHORNs were living here this part of the street was known as Meards Court, but it is now all one street.


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LONDON � A British couple�s round-the-world cycling odyssey ended in tragedy when both of them were killed in a road accident in Thailand.
Peter Root and Mary Thompson, who had been chronicling their journey in a blog, died Wednesday when they were hit by a pickup truck in a province east of Bangkok, Thai police said Monday.
The couple, both 34 and from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, left Britain in July 2011 and had cycled through Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and China.
The trip was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the couple, who met in art school and spent six years saving money and planning their journey, Peter�s father Jerry Root told the Associated Press in an interview.
�They were both inspirational,� Jerry Root said. �They didn�t just talk about it, they did it. I couldn�t be prouder of them.�
He said they were both experienced cyclists who knew the rigors and risks of extended bicycle travel.
�They were camping wild, as they called it,� he said. �What helps me is to think of how happy they were with each other. They were leading the life they wanted to. It was the happiest, the most fruitful of lives.�
The couple had been posting photos and details of their trip on the website Two on Four Wheels. They also had many followers on Twitter and Facebook who were tracing their journey and vicariously enjoying their adventure, which included a trip through remote parts of Central Asia.
A video they posted from that part of the journey shows them camping in the desert, riding through hills, stopping to swim in rivers and lakes, and braving heavy snowstorms. They also cycle through tense situations as armed conflict breaks out during their journey through Tajikistan.
There is also footage showing Thompson suffering a gash to her knee after an apparent collision with a truck.
The couple look tanned, joyous and relaxed � if a bit windblown � in the footage. It is apparent life on the road agreed with them.
Thai Police Lt. Col. Supachai Luangsukcharoen said Monday that investigators found their bodies, their bicycles and their belongings scattered along a roadside, along with a pickup truck that crashed between some trees.
Supachai said the truck driver, 25-year-old Worapong Sangkhawat, was seriously injured in the crash. He told police his truck hit the cyclists as he was reaching down to pick up a cap from the vehicle�s floor, Supachai said.
The driver has been released on bail and faces charges of causing death by dangerous driving, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail.
Thai officials apologized for the accident.
�We are sorry and would like to express our condolences to the couple�s families. The ministry will provide any assistance they need in order to retrieve the bodies,� Tourism and Sports Ministry spokesman Vachara Kannikar told The Associated Press on Monday.
Police said the couple�s bodies were being kept at a rescue unit in Chachoengsao, 20 miles east of Bangkok, until they could be repatriated.
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Having learnt the surname and initials of Minnie's husband it was pretty easy work to find their marriage in the GRO Marriage Index. Minnie G Allison married Arthur E Collins in Alresford Registration District in Q4 1929.
The middle initial for Minnie enabled me to find her in the GRO Death Index as well (her death was registered in July 1995) which gave me her date of birth (30th December 1907) and told me that her middle name was Gladys.
Next stop the GRO Birth Index, and a birth registration for Minnie Gladys Allison in Q1 1908 in Tendring Registration District. Tendring wasn't a place I was familiar with, but it turned out that this was in Essex. This was the Minnie that I had looked at before, but felt would be an unlikely match.
Until now everything else had been in Hampshire and now I found myself in Essex. I didn't want to be in Essex, not that I have anything against Essex, it was just that it was a county of which I knew next to nothing and didn't seem to fit into the mental picture of Minnie that I had been building. I had been expecting a connection with East Sussex and the Hemsley or Driver family, but that hadn't happened.
All the data I had pointed to Essex, so I had no option to follow the trail, first stop the 1911 census. Given that Minnie was born in 1907 I hoped that she would be listed in the census with her parents. I wasn't disappointed, there she was with her parents Robert and Kate Allison and two older siblings, living in Beaumont in Essex.
Her father was employed as a horseman on a farm, her parents had been married for seven years and both her siblings were going to school. In short nothing that would suggest that Minnie was going to need adopting at some stage in the future. I was expecting some sign of illegitimacy, perhaps with a mother struggling to cope, but this seemed like a perfectly normal family.
There was one fact in this whole situation which told me that I had to be on the right trail. Kate's place of birth was given as Framfield, Sussex, this was the indication of a connection that I had hoped for. It seemed inconceivable that there wasn't a connection with my grandmother's family also from Framfield and surrounding areas, but what was that connection and how had she ended up in raising a family in Essex?


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It seems that we have a financial crisis in Washington at the end of every year over some important tax provision that was not properly addressed by our legislators until the proverbial gun has been placed to their collective heads. This year the stakes are much higher, since in their wisdom, Congress has pushed back the days of reckoning for several tax cuts that had been enacted or extended previously. The Bush tax cuts were passed in 2001 and 2003, and the Obama cuts were put into place in 2009, and they all will expire at the end of December. Additionally, temporary cuts of 2 percent in employee S.S. payroll taxes were implemented in 2010, and they will disappear at year end. Finally, Congress has managed to keep its record intact by not fixing the recurring escalation of the Alternative Minimum Tax threshold.
If no changes are made effective for Jan. 1, 2013, our total tax burden will go up by an estimated $536 billion in 2013, and that amount includes $24 billion in Obama care tax increases. As a consequence of Congressional inaction, 90 percent of all households would pay more taxes next year, and the average tax increase would amount to around $3500 per family.
If your AGI is $65,000, you are in the middle quartile; $108,000 puts you into the fourth quartile; and, if you are fortunate enough to earn $500,000, you are in the top quartile. The conclusions are certainly straightforward: 31 percent of taxpayers would face shouldering 77 percent of the total tax increase.
Given the amount of rhetoric that is emanating from our nations capital, it would appear that Congress and the president will act, and two changes that will undoubtedly be enacted are: first, to allow the payroll tax cuts to expire since they were never intended to continue; and, secondly to put into place another patch for the computation of the Alternative Minimum Tax. The betting money is that the Bush tax cuts that limited the top tax bracket to 35 percent and instituted a bottom bracket of 10 percent will be extended and that the personal exemption for estate taxes will be placed at $3.5 million and the tax bracket on the remainder of estates will be 35 percent.
Most of the conversations between Democrats and Republicans have been centered on two areas: how best to tax the rich, and dealing with the tax credits that were passed in 2009. The latter has a lesser tax impact, but Republicans will probably bridle over continuing the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the refundability of the Child Tax Credit (you get money back, even if you owe 0 taxes).
Taxing the rich is a big no-no for Republicans, but one way out for them is to reduce the value of itemized deductions by capping the dollar value of these deductions at, say, $25,000 or some higher amount. If some cap is implemented, it would provide the opportunity to repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax, since a dollar cap would have the same or greater tax revenue impact. Other limitations in the value of itemized deductions, such as mortgage interest or charitable contributions, are also possible.
Limiting the dollar value of itemized deductions would minimally impact most seniors, since many of dont have enough itemized deductions to reach the cap levels that are being bandied about.
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NBA.com article by Jeff Caplan. For some reason the article is titled, "Hot-Headed Clips Trying to Cool Down" even though "The Thunder is actually the league's runaway technical-foul leader with 90. The Clippers are second with 76." I guess the NBA doesn't want to portray their OKC golden boys in too negative of a light.
http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2014/04/09/hot-headed-clips-trying-to-co ol-down/
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Jack DeVine, a nuclear professional for 46 years, was the speaker for the January meeting of the Senior Men's Club of Aiken. He was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1965 and was a nuclear submarine officer for five years.
DeVine worked in commercial nuclear power for many years and held key management roles in the cleanup of the damaged Three Mile Island plant following the nuclear accident in 1979. Later in his career, he co-founded and led a nuclear engineering consulting firm, and he served as chief closure officer at SRS, responsible for decommissioning and waste management work at the site. Jack is still very much engaged in the post-Fukushima issues in Japan after a tsunami caused major flooding to the plant and surrounding areas in 2011.
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The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan was a major blow to nuclear power, according to DeVine. That natural disaster caused the deaths of over 20,000 people in Japan, and it also damaged emergency power systems at four nuclear plants in the region (some of those at the Fukushima station), leading to three nuclear core meltdowns and releases of radioactivity to the surrounding areas. Although there were no fatalities or injuries attributable to the radioactivity releases, large land areas were contaminated and many people were forced to evacuate.
To this day, more than 100,000 people in the Fukushima area are not allowed to return to their homes. DeVine pointed out that the radiation levels in most of these areas is quite low compared to levels considered harmful, but that the combination of public fear, liability concerns and lack of consensus among local, regional and national government bodies has thus far prevented needed agreement on how to proceed.
DeVine said the Fukushima accident was absolutely preventable. The sea barrier intended to prevent seawater flooding was not high enough to deal with a tsunami as serious as occurred, and many plant safety and electrical distribution equipment were located in lower parts of the plant and were "drowned" by the tsunami. Other nuclear plants nearby had safety systems on higher ground and survived without serious problem.
In short, the failures of those several plants at the Fukushima site did not reveal any fatal flaws in nuclear technology, according to DeVine, rather, they revealed design flaws that are understandable and correctable. But the huge impact on many Japanese people, on the energy production in Japan and on the Japanese economy is being felt on the nuclear industry in Japan and worldwide.
DeVine summarized, "The ball is in our court. For 50 years, nuclear has provided power more safely than all other major power supplies, even considering the accidents at TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima. The world has learned and shared much about peaceful nuclear power applications. But we need to make continuing improvements in design and operation of our plants. We need to have educators reach the present and upcoming generations to understand the risks and rewards of all types of electric power plant production. We need to make radiation and nuclear technology understandable, and we need to get to a point that energy decisions by our political leaders and public perception are based on solid, scientific facts."


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Postgame: Wood wins No. 1
There was no shortage of highlights worth mentioning from Wednesday's 10-2 Reds win over the Brewers. For starters, it completed a 4-2 road trip with two series wins.
The good —
*There always seems to be hand wringing about the offensive shortcomings but the NL's best hitting and scoring team cranked out 22 runs and 32 hits over the last two games to win this series. As Larry David might say "pretty, pretty good."
*Travis Wood finally got his first big league win. His outing was shortened by the long sixth inning and his turn coming up in the midst of a big rally. Wood pitched five innings and allowed two runs and five hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
"It feels good," Wood said. "Coming out today, every game, I'm trying to get that first one. Today I was able to throw well and keep the team close. We ended up getting a lot of big runs late. We battled and got it done."
*The most impressive moment of the five-run Reds' sixth was the sound execution of Ryan Hanigan's perfect suicide squeeze. Miguel Cairo was sprinting home from third base as Hanigan dropped his bunt back to the mound. Milwaukee was definitely caught by surprise there.
*Defense was nice today as Jay Bruce robbed Carlos Gomez with a diving catch in the fourth inning to save a run after Milwaukee had just taken a 2-0 lead. Trying for a triple in the seventh, Gomez was also nailed with a very nice one-hopped throw by left fielder Jonny Gomes.
*Brandon Phillips slugged a 450-foot grand slam off of Bernie Brewer's yellow slide in the eighth. Other than Sammy Sosa in the Home Run Derby in 2002, no one had ever hit the slide. I even asked Bernie and his handler. Bernie replied by nodding his enlarged head "no."
*Four more scoreless innings by the Reds bullpen gave them 15 scoreless for the six-game road trip.
*Jonny Gomes' RBI double in the sixth gave him 300 RBIs for his career. He is still sitting on 99 career home runs.
*Joey Votto hit his 26th home run of the season in the eighth. That established a new career-high and extended his NL lead.
What happened there? —
*Wood had oops moment when he walked off the mound and to the dugout after striking out Joe Inglett in the third inning. There were only two outs. Wood wasn't alone since Hanigan also went that way.
"He was strutting pretty good," Dusty Baker said. "Guys were all on him for strutting like the inning was over. The second one wasn't as good as his first one."
Why Leake? —
Some folks on Twitter wondered why Mike Leake was sent to pinch-hit in the eighth inning for Arthur Rhodes. It wasn't just because Leake was a .366 hitter.
"We were kind of short of people today," Baker explained. "We tried to stay away from Scotty after his big day yesterday. He was sore. We didn't want to use Ramon because he caught about 150 pitches yesterday. He was a little sore. I had to save Janish because Cabrera injured his shoulder a little bit on that slide into third. I took a chance of bringing Nix in early. I couldn't afford to use anybody else and I didn't think they'd walk him."
Give Leake credit for working a full-count walk to load the bases just before Phillips' grand slam.
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Chris Paul is NOT Lebron or Durant
We're not getting a Lebron or Durant, and we aren't moving to the East where we get an easier road to success. The quicker people realize that, the sooner they will at the least start appreciating the stars that we do have. That's really all their is to it. The Clippers were arguably a top 4 team in the league: Miami, SA, OKC, LAC, and they lost to one of the other top 4 teams. We have glaring faults we all knew about (SF position, backup C) that aren't related to our PG getting a sucky and stupid turnover when he averaged 23/4/12 on .611 TS%, whose presence on the floor always had the team playing well and who was our best player in the series.
CP's playoff production is above his regular season production, he was more aggressive, he took care of the ball as much as you can, he scored even more efficiently and at a higher rate, and that's all we can ask for. He isn't Lebron, he isn't Durant, so expecting him to be is futile as there are only two of those in the league. In the series, Paul evened out Westbrook, he scored about 5 points less a game, had the same scoring efficiency, got more assists, and had about 10 less turnovers (probably the biggest thing and caused the Clippers as a team to commit 5.5% less turnovers, about 5 less a game). Their production and impact basically cancelled out.
Chris Paul was by all measures a positive
Just think of all the games, when he came on / was on the court, whether Westbrook was blowing by him or he wasn't trying to attack enough by some people's standards, we played well and were better. That's how you know a player is high impact. Not only did our perception say this, the numbers back it up. The best way to see that something is really true is with multiple evidences. I believe the Clippers were (+) in the series when he was on the court. He screwed up in game 5 and we were still +11 when he was on the court. We won game 4 by 2 and he was +12, we lost game 3 and he was +4, we lost game 2 by 11 and he was only (-4)
Game 1 (+26) - 17 pt win
Game 2 (-4) - 11 pt loss
Game 3 (+4) - 2 pt loss
Game 4 (+12) - 2 pt win
Game 5 (+11) - 1 pt loss
Game 6 (-4) - 6 pt loss
A guy is only (-) in 2/6 games, and just (-4) in each and even still net positive for the team in those games. If we take out the blowout, he was +19 on the series while on the court. With the blowout, it is +36.
That's one set of stars, moving on to the next. Durant outproduced Blake by a decent margin, both in volume and efficiency, but we were expecting that I'd hope. He even matched him on the glass per minute, and that is one thing we keep wondering about Blake in the post season, his rebounding. Durant 33/10/5/4.0 tov./610 TS%, Blake 24/9/4/2.2 tov/.540 TS%. So among the 4 stars, we evened out at PG, but were in a deficit with the forwards, so we couldn't match their star production, which means our role players have to make it up.
Role / Complimentary Players
If we want to find places to blame, well here's the efficiency of of complimentary guys compared to OKC's:
Jamal: 14.2 ppg / 35.3% FG / 29.4% 3PT / .460 TS% / 95 Ortg
Redick: 12.2 ppg / 45.9% FG / 41.7% 3PT / .570 TS% / 114 Ortg
Barnes: 10.0 ppg / 39.0% FG / 31.4% 3PT / .487 TS% / 97 Ortg
Collison: 7.2 ppg / 40.0% FG / 00.0% 3PT / .461 TS% / 101 Ortg
Jordan: 6.9 ppg / 69.2% FG / 4/19 FT / .582 TS% / 100 Ortg
Ibaka: 11.3 ppg / 63.8% FG / 40.0% 3PT / .673 TS% / 115 Ortg
Jackson: 9.0 ppg / 42.9% FG / 33.3% 3PT / .541 TS% / 102 Ortg
Thabo: 6.2 ppg / 61.5% FG / 30.8% 3PT / .688 TS% / 131 Ortg
Adams: 5.0 ppg / 70% FG / .650 TS% / 139 Ortg
We are glossing over the reality that despite his vastly inferior scoring skills, Ibaka was a better offensive player than Jamal this series. A LOT better. Jamal had a 30.0% usage while on the floor, Ibaka had half of that with 15.2%. Our role players really didn't make up the deficit between Blake and Durant, Chris Paul not turning the ball over and being the main cog in limiting TEAM turnovers ended up being the main reason were were ahead or close in games. But not turning it over has its limits as we saw because we still needed guys that weren't Paul and Blake to make shots at a high rate (not 7/22 kind of making shots), and they didn't.
Skill vs Actual Impact
If the extra possessions Jamal used in comparison to Ibaka are spread to a guy with similar efficiency to Ibaka, and CP and Blake increase their usage to make up for it, they might be less efficient individually (or might not), but they would still beat Jamal's efficiency on those possessions, and combined with the super efficiency of this more contained role player, it is a positive for the team offensively. What kind of role player could this be? Well if you had Danny Green off the bench averaging 9-10 ppg on .600+ TS% in a more contained role, you actually net being fairly better on offense this previous series than with a superior individual offensive player in Crawford taking and missing a lot of shots, not to mention that you get extra defense too. That one extra made three or whatever means maybe you're up 16 or 17 instead in game 5, it means maybe you're closer in game 6, and in striking distance, etc. Yea, those little things make a difference when you're matching up similar level teams.
So yes, despite the ability to create, it hurts the team in the end when a complimentary player / scorer shoots a lot and misses a lot because those possessions could be used better. Missing a lot is always bad, but there are things that can at least alleviate it. 1) High level playmaking 2) Getting to the basket a lot and causing the defense to shift which again opens up playmaking with drive and kick, and might increase chances for offensive rebounds at the least. Sadly, Jamal tends to forget about playmaking and Jamal isolates a lot but shoots from the perimeter, so he doesn't even have the extras that while they don't make it okay, can at least soften the blow. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin iso ball even against a good defense can generally still get a team to produce average offense. Jamal Crawford iso ball doesn't produce the same results part of it is because those guys also consistently create and don't just look to score, but of course because they are high level stars / superstars, and Jamal is still just a role playing scorer and just below All-Star level at his best.
We were close in this series because we turned the ball over less. 5 less turnovers a game meant about 5-6 more PPG for us. Paul was the reason we didn't turn the ball over so much. OKC out shot us from the field in 4/6 games. The two they didn't were game 1 and game 5 even though we lost that one. Even in our game 4 win, they out-shot us, but we had 7 less turnovers and 6 more offensive rebounds, so we extended 6 more possessions and had an extra 7, and we won by just 2 points because they shot 5% better from the field and 7% better from the line. Paul's ability to be on the ball so much and not turn the ball over as well as Blake limiting his turnovers (and Jamal despite his horrific shooting) kept us in games and kept us in the series, but we were massively out-shot from game 2-5.
It is good to make shots, duh (including FT's)
Game 2
OKC: .552 eFG% / 72.7% FT (16/22) / 16 TOV
LAC: .500 eFG% / 78.3% FT (18/23) / 14 TOV
Diff: -5.2 eFG% / +5.6 FT% / +2 FTM / -2 TOV
-this game we were only +2 in turnovers and got killed on the offensive glass (35.7% to 19.6%), so +2 turnovers and 5% FT isn't going to make up being out-shot by 5.2% and -6 on the offensive glass.
Game 3
OKC: .595 eFG% / 85.7% FT (24/28) / 14 TOV
LAC: .489 eFG% / 84.0% FT (21/25) / 6 TOV
Diff: -10.6 eFG% / -1.7 FT% / -3 FTM / -8 TOV
Game 4
OKC: .487 eFG% / 76.5% FT (26/34) / 16 TOV
LAC: .435 eFG% / 69.0% FT (20/29) / 9 TOV
Diff: -5.2 eFG% / -7.5% FT / -6 FTM / -7 TOV
Game 5
OKC: .474 eFG% / 88.9% FT (32/36) / 12 TOV
LAC: .500 eFG% / 80.0% FT (16/20) / 16 TOV
Diff: +2.6 eFG% / -8.9% FT / -16 FTM / +4 TOV
Game 6
OKC: .521 eFG% / 87.9% FT (29/33) / 15 TOV
LAC: .453 eFG% / 60.0% FT (12/20) / 9 TOV
Diff: -6.8% eFG% / -27.9% FT / -17 FTM / -6 TOV
OKC had 5 players who played significant minutes with a TS% over .600 (Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka, Thabo, Adams), Clippers had Paul and Davis. We were down 5.2% eFG% or more in 4/5 games. The difference between 40% FG and 45% FG, and I'll admit, the FT difference in games 5 and 6 is a bit wild, and we progressively shot worse and less at the FT line, but it was those 8, 7 and 6 less turnovers keeping us in games.
....and there ladies and gentlemen is why it is a TEAM sport. If you're so focused on trying to find out what the stars did or didn't do (and sometimes they are at the deficit, but not always), you'll miss all the little things that in a tightly contested series will make the difference between a win and a loss. We can talk about whether they deserved their FT's, blah, blah, but if we're talking about Paul, he scored a lot and efficiently, he created, and he limited his and the teams turnovers except for the little stretch. Now, if the role players don't make OPEN shots, cause if they weren't getting open then it is the offenses fault, but open shots, then well what are you going to do?
We had two options to give us the edge, not to crawl away with victories. 1) Blake matches Durant's offensive production in terms of volume and efficiency which just isn't fair, not just because Durant is better, but even considering who is defending each of them and 2) Our role players outplay their role players. Blake did fairly well, but he wasn't close to Durant's production, and our role players lost the battle of efficient role play (and defense), so we were living on one advantage the whole series and that was "Chris Paul doesn't turn the ball over much and doesn't let his teams turn the ball over a lot". That's not the best advantage to live or die on.
Great post Agent- thought it deserved its own thread as a new blog entry. Your argument backed up with statistics clearly shows that Chris Paul certainly cannot be the culprit of the Clippers vs Thunder series, but rather the problem is mainly with the below par performances by the supporting cast. Repped!
Problem is CP Stans put him in the same category as LJ and KD
You're right that CP3 isn't LeBron or Durant.... those guys have actually been past the second round of the playoffs. CP3 is more of a T-Mac.
At this point, we're just beating the horse to death. He made his mistakes, some of the supporting cast played below average etc. etc.
It IS a great post.
Unfortunately, the mob has to shake their pitchforks at somebody, however simplistic and misplaced their fury may be.
Jquick32 you really don't know when to shut up do you all I get ever ever see you do is whine a bitch about how bad this team does and your so damn negative. CP3 and T-Mac are not the same player T-Mac was a scorer and C3 is a leader a pass first PG it's annoying how negative you are and how much your troll this team the players.
The mob needs to find a new team if they can't take what happened. That is the bandwagon mentality, not the fan of the team no matter what happens mentality. Always have to find someone on the team to blame so go for the highest paid guy. He makes the most, must be his fault. I would not trade CP3 for any other PG in the league.
I am sort of shocked no one was calling for Docs head on a stick. He didn't take us further then VDN,maybe it's his fault.
Or maybe it is my fault. I forgot to wear my black socks and I forgot to take my shot of MAker's MArk in my car before I went in.
Wait you're telling me a 6' PG does not have the same influence on the game as two players over 6'8''. Also I don't remember anyone saying Cp3 is better than Lebron or Durant.
Please refrain from personal attacks. It's fine to disagree but this goes into a personal attack when you say things like "you don't know when to shut up" and "all I ever see is you bitch and whine". You're entitled to your opinion, just please present it more respectfully.
Pretty sure if Lebron or KD was 5'11 they wouldn't be as effective as they are now. Just saying lol
I think Cp3 played arguably his best defensive series in the first round. I was amazed how well he controlled Curry by making him a passer instead of a scorer most of the series. Aside from one game, he did his job better than I have ever seen him play defense. That deserves credit. Enough to make him MVP or Co-MVP of that series in my eyes. Against OKC, he played well up until, late in game 5. There are no words to describe the blunder CP3 made. Yeas, maybe he took care of the ball most of the series but not when it counted. Maybe CP3 isn't LBJ or Durant but he was brought here to be our leader and Co-face of this franchise. He was brought here to help bring us a ring. He was paid to be our LBJ and Durant whether stats show that or not...The salary reflects what LBJ and Durant make.
I appreciate what CP3 has done for this team but I ain't forgetting what he did to ruin our chances to advance. That's what it boils down to. He looked defeated after that and it showed in game 6. If we can't count on our floor general in the most important time, then who can we count on? Our role players? While CP3 ain't LBJ or Durant, we sure are paying him like them.
you cant compare an apple to a banana
i don't know why Chris Paul gets a bad wrap, look at the past champions in the last 10 to 15 years they all had multiple all stars and numerous amount of players that contributed to the wins. You have to take in account that at 6 foot he can only do so much and Blake is finally starting to come in his own.outside of Chris Paul , Griffin and Jordan the rest of this team has been inconsistent. They would be hot for a few game and the complete opposite for a few games we are a few pieces away. Look at the teams that won in the past few years:
Heat had 3 stars in Lebron, Wade, and bosh
-with a supporting cast of veterans such as ray allen, shane battier and haslem and more
Mavericks won with a collection of multiple all stars pass their primes with a Dirk to anchor their offense and Chandler and Marion to anchor their defense
-with a sixth man in Jason terry
Lakers had kobe, gasol and bynum with on of the best coach
-with a supporting cast in odom, metta world peace
celtics had their big 3 kg, pierce, allen, and a rondo who came into his own at the right time
-had glue guys such as tony allen and james posey
Heck even the Spurs has 3 all stars in parker , duncan and ginobli
My point being although there were mistakes that can be called out about cp3 this year, all champions had an collection of talent to get it done , and to be honest how supporting cast was mediocre and to inconsistent, and our 3rd players in our alleged big 3 in deandre jordan is limited to rebounds and dunks. we need a players who can score or an consistent basis on the wing who isn't 6 foot.
For real. JQuick is not a "real" fan in my eyes. Sometimes I wonder how this dude is still allowed to post on this board. He contributes nothing but negativity and bullsh*t.
You've been given an official warning for this post. I've said it about 20 times, this attacking people as not being "real" fans WILL NOT be tolerated. It's about the most offensive thing you can do on a sports forum. Somebody with opposite views can be just as much of a fan as the next person. Please post more respectfully in the future. The way this forum has ALWAYS been... is we have a balance of more optimistic fans... and more skeptical fans. Neither way is "right", they are just different. If every fan on here was optimistic and thought everything around them was roses, this would be a boring forum.
CP3 is not Lebron or Durant, he's CP3. It's so obvious, he's his own man and legend.
On the Lakers LTB board, there were guys like you even in the title years. They were called Kobe haters. If the Lakers won, it was because of Shaq, Pau, Ariza. Metta, DFish, the ball boy, the guy who mops the wet spots, the cheerleaders -- anybody but Kobe. If we lost there was ONLY ONE culprit -- Kobe Bryant. He shot too much, he shot too little, he played too many minutes, not enough minutes, he missed a free throw in the first quarter. No matter what, he was to blame.
You are like that with CP3. Doesn't matter that the refs took away his victory. Or DJ missed a bunch of free throws. Jeez, if Danny Granger had made ONE SHOT IN A BLUE FRIGGIN' MOON, and shot even slightly better than Stevie Wonder, we would have won every game against OKC.
Chris' career is far from over. For the three years he has been here, he has put the Clippers in a position to win. That is all you can ask for a player in a TEAM game.
What's so bad about saying that in "his eyes" he's not a real fan. Harmless but I guess your the boss. In my opinion you're the one who should lighten up a bit