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Company on the roads: Granite State police departments look to enforce safety rules over the holidayBy SUSAN CLARK
Union Leader Correspondent
July 04. 2013 1:34AM
Area police are advising drivers and pedestrians to be extra careful on the roads during the Fourth of July.
Some police departments are stepping up patrols beginning today, but all departments will be making sure drivers adhere to traffic laws to save lives.
The Bedford Police Department will be out on the roads, thanks to a grant providing for extra patrol shifts.
"We're high visibility," said Bedford Police Capt. Dan Douidi. "We're out there and keeping an eye out for aggressive drivers and DWIs."
Bedford Police ask drivers to heed speed limits throughout town to avoid accidents. Excessive speed is a significant factor to many accidents, as well as distracted drivers and failure to obey traffic signals.
"Unfortunately, people are driving too close and, although it's against the law, some are still texting while driving" said Bedford Lt. Michael Bernard.
Goffstown Police will also have extra patrols, said Lt. Pierre Pouliot. His department will be ever vigilant, he said, and advises people to do the same.
"Drive responsibly and be careful of extra traffic and pedestrian concerns, especially at night and during fireworks," Pouliot said.
Dunbarton police will also be out in full force.
"We have money allocated for additional patrols on July 3 and 4th," said Police Chief Daniel Sklut. "The town allocated additional money, enough for five holidays."
For drivers who have been on the road most of their lives or for young drivers, the basic rules are the same: Keep 100 percent of your attention on the road. Use defensive driving and be aware of what others are doing – and expect the unexpected. Have money for tolls within reach. Always wear your seat belt. Don't speed, and don't drive inebriated.
"The first line of defense is your own senses," said Sklut.
New Boston will be celebrating its Fourth of July, beginning at 10 a.m. with a parade and ending with fireworks display at 9:15 p.m. Officers will be on hand for the activities, said Police Chief James Brace.
"We'll be out there all day. We'll have extra detail officers at the parade, and at the fairgrounds for the chicken barbecue and the Fourth of July fireworks," said Brace.
Like other police, Brace asks people to be aware of their surroundings.
"Be attentive to the roads and other drivers, especially be cognizant of people at the fireworks and walking out and about during the parade," Brace said. "Take plenty of time to get to and from your destination."
Douidi said people should also take extra steps to keep their home and valuables safe, especially while on vacation.
"Lock doors. Neighbors helping neighbors by keeping an eye out on a vacant home. And, if you have an alarm use it, and be sure to activate it," Douidi said.
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Seeking inspiration for a musical commission to mark the 50th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, composer Yotam Haber turned to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Oral History Project. Combing through the files in the Alabama city, he came across a 1998 interview with Henrietta Tripp.
He was struck by the former hairdresser's description of hearing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak at the church in the spring of 1963, several months before the horrible blast.
"That was hallelujah time," she told the interviewer. "And he was talking about Birmingham being one of the hardest cities to crack. It was the hardest city to crack."
When a chorus of 100 voices performs Haber's piece later this month, Tripp's words will soar along with those of King and others — famous and unsung — who fought to defeat Jim Crow.
"My little words? My little part is so minute in comparison to these great people," the 77-year-old retired clerk, who became one of the first African-Americans hired by the city police department, said recently. How, she wonders, are "my words going to fit in?"
Perfectly, says Haber.
Rather than focus in a literal way on the Sept. 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four black girls during Sunday services, the Dutch-born composer sought to evoke Birmingham's role in the larger struggle.
"I'm not telling Birmingham her own story," says Haber, whose work the Alabama Symphony will premiere on Sept. 21. "She knows it far better than I will ever be able to tell it."
The composition is titled "A More Convenient Season," a phrase borrowed from King's famous "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."
Arrested in April 1963 on a charge of parading without a permit, King drafted the open letter to fellow clergy who had condemned his activities as "unwise and untimely." King declared that, more dangerous than a Klansman was the white moderate who "paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who ... constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'"
Haber's piece — which he says "falls somewhere between an oratorio and an opera" — is divided into three movements. Before the choir gets to King's letter, the audience will hear the words and, through archival recordings, voices of ordinary foot soldiers whose names are likely unknown to them.
Names like Pamela Walbert Montanaro.
"One of the things they taught you/ You can't eat in the same place/ You can't go to the same place," says the libretto, quoting Montanaro, who was 15 in 1960, when the civil rights movement reached "Bombingham."
Among her mother's closest friends were Deenie Drew, at whose home King stayed while in town, and Willa Adams, who worked to integrate the schools and get rid of racist textbooks. But Pamela Walbert, as a white teenager, never interacted with African-Americans her own age.
She had been reading about sit-ins in other Southern cities, and when she learned that the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth had helped organize a local campaign, she wrote him a letter, expressing admiration.
It wasn't long before she received a phone call. It was a "Negro girl," and she was inviting Walbert to gather with sit-in participants at Shuttlesworth's Bethel Baptist Church.
Walbert and three friends sat in a circle of chairs. It was warm, and there weren't enough drinks to go around. Someone opened a can of soda, and Walbert watched as it passed from black hand to white, each person taking a sip — taboo in a rigidly segregated society where there were separate drinking fountains for white and "colored."
When the can reached her, she drank without pause. It was a religious experience.
"I felt flooded with the holy spirit," she said during a recent telephone interview from her home in Berkeley, Calif. "And I thought, 'This is what holy communion is supposed to feel like.'"
Later, when an Episcopal clergyman explained "why he couldn't get involved in the movement," the Walbert family left the church.
"And so our family was essentially born again in the civil rights movement," says Montanaro, whose parents subsequently became close with the parents of bombing victim Denise McNair.
Montanaro moved away in 1964, married and raised a family. But her experiences growing up in Birmingham launched her on a lifelong search for social justice.
Now 69, she calls the 1960s an inspiring time. "It's like the agony and the ecstasy. I mean, you were seeing the best that people can be and the worst that people can be — in very quick succession."
"How high is height?/ How far is distance?/ How many stars in the sky?"
These "rather innocuous sounding questions" that Haber quotes in his second movement were typical of those posed to black residents who tried to register to vote during Jim Crow.
Henrietta Tripp remembers them well.
"It worked your patience," she said, recalling how she prayed "to keep from saying the wrong thing. Because you were never addressed like a person."
Tripp was walking to a service at her church, Zion Hill Missionary Baptist, when the 16th Street Baptist bombing occurred.
"Why so much so hatred?" she thought to herself. "Why so much anger?"
She wanted to lash out. But her father was a minister, and he, like King, preached against retaliation. And so she put that out of her mind.
"I just used to cry myself to sleep, and why? When you are so helpless, there's nothing you can do. I mean, who could you hit?"
She got a day job at a beauty shop and studied typing by night. In August 1965, she landed a job as clerk-typist with the police department that only two years earlier, under Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor, had turned fire hoses and dogs on black protesters.
The captain who hired Tripp was "a wonderful person," but her white female co-workers were far from welcoming. When someone from the Birmingham News interviewed Tripp about breaking the color barrier, that just made things worse.
"They harassed me about that. 'You must think you're a celebrity,'" she recalls.
She later worked for the Jefferson County Board of Education. Following her retirement, Tripp, who is ordained, started a youth drug ministry "the Lord gave me."
When she learned that her testimony would appear alongside that of Shuttlesworth and King, she could not "find the words in my vocabulary to say" what an honor it was.
"God," she says, "He works in mysterious ways."
"I have heard the word wait/ It rings in the ear with piercing familiarity/ This wait has almost always meant never/ We must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied."
These words from King's jail letter anchor Haber's final movement. They resonate with Birmingham residents like the Rev. Isreal Grant.
The day he turned 18, Grant went to register to vote and confronted the white registrar's question:
"You just couldn't wait, could you? You just couldn't wait?"
Grant stiffened and replied: "No sir, I just couldn't wait to vote. ... People have lost their lives for this."
His father, Oscar Lee Grant, a porter for a furniture store, begged his youngest child to stay away from the demonstrations. But trouble would find him anyway.
When he was 15, Grant — a basketball player who was tall for his age — boarded an overcrowded bus and, finding no place at the back, sat down beside an elderly white woman. He was arrested and jailed overnight, without even being given a chance to call his parents.
"My father found me the next morning," Grant recalls. "They had been checking all the funeral homes and all the police stations. My father cried like a baby."
Because of his good grades and lack of a record, the judge agreed to dismiss the charges.
Grant went on to work for Alabama Power, rising to field service representative. He retired last September after 44 years.
And he says he has never missed an election.
"My father quoted to me that there would never be a black president," the 63-year-old says in a tone of amazement. "If he were alive today, it would be too much for him."
"We shall overcome."
The piece's final movement begins with a recording Haber found in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution of folk singer Pete Seeger leading a chorus of the civil rights anthem.
Haber took a 25-second snippet of that and stretched it out digitally, so that just the word "we" takes almost a minute to play out.
"You hear every frailty and strength of the voice," says Haber, 36, who grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. "To me, it's like waves in the ocean — like each word that the choir sings is like an almost infinite ocean of sound."
The entire work runs about 75 minutes, with no intermission. The words "bomb" and "16th Street Baptist" do not appear in the libretto.
"For this piece to resonate out with others, there needs to be a larger message here," says Haber, whose family's losses during the Nazi Holocaust informed this work. "And the message is that we cannot sit idly by when we see injustice. We need to act."
Thomas Blount, a symphony patron who approached Haber about a commission after hearing a work he'd composed about the Jews of Rome, says this is "not a didactic piece."
"Most of the action takes place in the person's head," says Blount, who was moved to tears when Haber gave him a preview. "I think everybody will get it."
Many of those whose voices will echo through the concert hall have passed — including King, Shuttlesworth and Colonel Stone Johnson, who once carried a bucket containing 16 sticks of dynamite away from Shuttlesworth's church before it could explode.
Tickets will be waiting at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center for Tripp, Grant, Montanaro and the others who are still alive.
"Isn't that something?" says Grant, humbled that his story was included.
Montanaro plans to attend the performance with her 92-year-old mother, who still lives in Birmingham. She hopes she will be able to sit through it "without completely dissolving into tears.
Although she cites continuing setbacks to true equality, she says what she witnessed as a youth in Alabama prevents her becoming a complete cynic.
"Because I SAW people do it," she says. "I saw people rise up against something that looked like it could never change — and changed it in a very short period of time through the power of love."
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Birthdays come but once a year, which is a drag because on that one day I'm treated like a queen and even get away with not having to cook dinner. Mine was yesterday, and I'm sure by the time this is published I will be basking in the afterglow of a wonderful day. Do not fret, however, if you missed it, because in my house we have birthday week, which allows me to get away with a lot for the week, except preparing dinner. I will graciously continue to accept gifts, and if you need a hint, I'm still waiting for my Rolex watch, preferably in rose gold.
One of my jobs here at The Star is to write the holiday "Relay" columns. Since August is devoid of national holidays and the only ones I could find online were Water Quality Month, Admit You're Happy Month, and Eye Exam Month, I thought my birthday would present a good excuse to write a column.
And since my license expired on my birthday, I did commemorate Eye Exam Month by having an eye exam at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Riverhead on Monday — a big mistake, as Monday, I learned, is their busiest day of the week. Instead of celebrating and drinking champagne in honor of Eye Exam Month, I sat on those wooden benches waiting for my number to be called for almost two hours! And don't even get me started on what the traffic was like.
At times I've hated having a summer birthday. It meant there were no cupcakes in school or a special crown to wear for the day. I really wanted to be queen for the day at my Catholic school just to see if the nuns would be nicer to me.
When I was in St. Thomas of Aquinas High School in the Bronx I had a nun who absolutely hated me for no reason. She was a mean, nasty old bird who I'm sure is long gone by now, so I can talk about her. I was blond and usually smelled of the cigarettes we all sneaked in the back of the public buses we rode. She was ugly and forced to wear a black-and-white habit every day, which I'm sure was uncomfortable, as she constantly wore a pained, pinched look. We were bad little high school girls and wanted to ask her if her panties were in a pinch but knew we'd get a good smack across the face for it. It still amazes me that they were allowed to hit us.
She told me I was disgusting and made me move to the back of the class so she wouldn't have to look at me or smell my 15-year-old tobacco-stained fingers. To this day my self-esteem suffers from her cruel remarks. I guess I should be glad my birthday was in summer, as she may have made me sit in the corner wearing a dunce cap to celebrate. Yes, she was that mean, and a dunce cap never would have worked with my naturally frizzy hair.
When we were kids, birthdays were a big event. I got to pick out whatever I wanted for dinner that night and usually chose lobster or spaghetti and meatballs. As we got older, on our big day we wore special corsages that were decorated according to our age with things like bubble gum, Tootsie Rolls, lollipops, or dog biscuits. They were supposed to remain pinned to your shirt for the whole day. But when a line of hungry-looking dogs started following me on my 14th birthday, I gave up and tossed them the corsage and ran like hell all the way home, with two of them following me the whole way.
Okay, maybe it wasn't a pack, but there were three of them. Okay, maybe two of them were mine and the third my next-door neighbor's dog, Buffy, but they were gazing longingly at my dog biscuit corsage, and I wanted to make it to my 15th without being torn apart by hungry dogs. Oh, and did I mention I was a bit of a teenage drama queen?
Having an August birthday usually meant good weather. I remember waking up in our beachfront home on City Island and smiling because it was my day and not one I had to share with my three siblings. The sunny, cool days were the best. I could always tell if it was a windy day from the sound of the sailboat riggings clanging against their masts from the boat club next door to us. To this day when I hear a sailboat rig clanging, I smile a little smile, and look over my shoulder for a pack of dogs.
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Last time I blogged about SSDs the focus was on performance and capacity. Both characteristics are absolutely vital to the attractiveness of SSDs in enterprise class disk arrays. No doubt SSDs are all about performance, but capacity can't be ignored either. We've seen nice strides in SSD capacity with introductions from Intel, Seagate and STEC. Performance also continues to rise now that we are over the initial seismic improvement as compared to our beloved but hopelessly slow hard disks.
All good work on the incremental evolutionary front.
[Angry reader: "INCREMENTAL! WHAT DO YOU MEAN INCREMENTAL? I THOUGHT YOU SAID SSDs WERE AN EVOLUTIONARY LEAP?]
[Calm and detached analyst: "that was way back in 2008, that's ancient history. remember we live in internet time…]
In September 2008 I commented:
"…take the Humanoids running around an ancient continent. They made slow and deliberate progress using that opposable thumb to hit each other with sticks (remember the opening scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey?), and then one day there's an evolutionary leap, and we have fire. Bam. New era ….."
Time to make an evolutionary leap: Dump the hard disk form factor.
The gene's (no pun intended) are in place, and indeed some vendors have explored new possibilities. There's Fusion-IO with their PCIe based storage adapter, TMS with their similar products and SUN pushing a memory stick form factor as well as their own PCIe adapter.
Why make SSDs look like a hard disk drive anyway?
Well for one, there's a lot of legacy hardware designs in the world. From servers to mini laptops, physical space, connector and power has long ago been allocated for the hard disk. Likewise, in a midrange or enterprise disk array, disk enclosures are where you put storage devices, right? Isn't that how the storage chromosomes get built? And don't we need that to bridge from the high capacity hard disk to the high performance SSD?
Well, yes, at least for a little while.
But consider: If designers removed all the encapsulating hardware and protocols that surround legacy hard drives, disk array systems would get much simpler and cheaper. BAM. I see a new, yet evolved storage system emerging. A system using FLASH memory with no definitive form - and more interestingly - hidden inside the body of a disk array.
Losing the hard disk drive form factor sheds the mechanics necessary for mounting a disk, the wasted space around the mounting hardware, connectors, power supplies, fans, …you get the picture.
With all that extraneous hardware gone, just lay the FLASH chips down on a motherboard with or near the disk array controllers inside a common enclosure.
Some progress has been made on this idea, there's the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array, TMS's RamSan products and Violin's 1010. All interesting products but not quite what I'm hoping for:
Image integrating FLASH memory into the controller design of a enterprise capable disk array. Resident with the controller hardware and connected onto the back side bus of the controllers via PCIe (or InfiniBand). Forget using SAS or fibre channel to the FLASH memory; part of the game is to drive down latency and that's where PCIe or infiniBand can help.
NetApp and BlueArc have taken a stab at this approach by partnering with TMS, but the FLASH SSD's enclosures are not fully integrated into the disk array frame. NetApp also offers a FLASH based cache card which gets close to the concept I'm promoting but lacks disk heuristics.
IBM get's closer with its inclusion of SSDs (derived from the quicksilver demonstration product) in its SVC storage virtualization appliance. And Fusion-IO products keep showing up as add in adapters for enterprise servers.
So vendors are making progress but customers need an evolutionary leap from disk array vendors to get them to the next level. That next leap in the evolutionary tree promises higher performance, simplified operation and lower costs. All desirable traits in any species of disk array.
When that day arrives, FLASH memory loses the solid state "disk" tag and just becomes solid state "memory".
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It must have been a moment of insanity, but I found myself, a few weeks ago ordering this Luna Twilight Femme Fatale lipgloss from ASOS.
I must state now that I am neither for or against Twilight.
I've seen the first Twilight film where I thought Rob Patz was very handsome and the girl in it was mega sulky and in real life would never pull someone as hot as Rob Patz because we all know that's not how it works, unless her surname is Hewlett-Packard or Rockerfeller.
I also read a bit of the book but then decided to put it down as I had palpitations accompanied by visions of my beloved Edgar Allen Poe spinning in his grave. That's all I'm saying.
Anyway, that is that and this is this. MAKE UP!
I think this was £15 and there were a few bits and pieces to choose from but decided this Luna gloss was just up my alley. It comes in a pretty box and a very pretty tube. I got Kindle, which looked like a sheer peach with sparkles:
In real life its more sheer than I thought. The peachy-ness is there, but its lacking in pigment a bit:
I love glitter, thats why I picked this particular shade although I must say, its a very chunky glitter…The Twilight range has lots of other colours too – some lipsticks, eyelid primer, body shimmers etc. Nothing else really piqued my interest.
Here is the gloss:
The texture is runnier that I expected. I thought it would be like a MAC Dazzleglass, which I really like, alas – it was more of a runny, thin texture which I am not as fond of. It seemed to have a very mild tingly sensation – that might just be me and my dry lips though!
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Gah! I wanted more pigment in the colour. Unfortunately its pretty much sheer which some sparkles in it. Other shades may be nicer though. This is a bit non descript for me, one I can live without for £15.
It's alright. Wouldn't buy it in any other shades but its an ok gloss. At least if I ever get myself into a situation where a load of Twi-hards are about to beat me up, I'll just whip out this gloss and go. "See? See? I'm a Twi-Hard! Please don't hurt me! Please!'


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Fortunately Bergdorfs has no qualms about putting anyone in fancy dress no matter how many feet they have...
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Magic and whimsey are always in short supply so why not?
Bergdorfs calls this years extravaganza 'Carnival of the Animals'
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Of COURSE I never drape a scarf on Ozzie....without adding a dashing trench coat, too! Wish I had that mouse in Attu too!ReplyDelete
I can't decide which is more wonderful, the goat or the mice?ReplyDelete
Yet I like the little white fox too.
I would love an invitation to that soiree.
Invitation is in the Mail Julie!!!ReplyDelete
Interesting how animals are such a part of the holiday season.ReplyDelete
Starting with turkeys, and the cows and donkeys in the manger, and Santa's reindeer, and all those frosty critters in Bergdorf's windows.
And let us not forget cute little BEAR!
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Mice play well with others and are empathetic and altruistic!ReplyDelete
On NPR this morning..
A rat will help free it's cage mate before grabbing the chocolate chips.
Who knew :O
Wonderful .. one of the many holiday sights that I miss , living down here at the bottom of the world.ReplyDelete
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I love the white seal with the Tea cup and saucer on his nose. Some are a little strange to me. Is there a story behind these animals in windows in NY at this time of year? Look forward to Monday and the bird pix and sale.ReplyDelete
I always love the Bergdorf windows—especially their excessiveness at the holidays. Can't wait to get a little closer to these myself!ReplyDelete
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I just have to tell you, I so look forward to each and every post. I love your viewpoint and your excellent eye out there capturing the world.ReplyDelete
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Wonderful Carol... thank you for taking me as close as I am going to get this year... I love them! xvReplyDelete
Incredible that so many shots are just from one window! That exhibition sounds fabulous. Look forward to reading about it, Carol. Love the cutie bird on that cup in your painting.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for showing the Bergdorf windows and for the photos from Storytelling in Japanese Art at the Met.ReplyDelete
I wish I could come to NY and see all this myself but my husband doesn't want to go. He has never been in NY at holiday time. I adore Japanese art especially Utamaro 's portraits of the floating world. So at least I got a tiny look.
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Naomi Watts & Liev Schreiber: 'Ray Donovan' Premiere!
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber hit the red carpet at the premiere of his new show Ray Donovan held at the Directors Guild of America on Tuesday (June 25) in Los Angeles, Calif.
The 45-year-old actor was joined by his co-stars Austin Nichols, Jon Voight, Devon Bagby, Paula Malcomson, Kerris Dorsey, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Steven Bauer, as well as Benjamin McKenzie, who came out to show his support.
The trailer for Naomi's new film Adore, also starring Robin Wright and Xavier Samuel, has just been released – check it out below!
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Duke Roufus Responds to Team Members' Abuse Allegations: "Things Have Changed"
(MMA H.E.A.T's Karyn Bryant talks with Rose Namajunas, Pat Barry, and former Roufusport training partner L-Dogg.)
The death of kickboxer Dennis Munson Jr. in March was a horrific, completely avoidable tragedy, and one that has spurned several former students of Duke Roufus to speak out against the allegedly abusive and negligent training methods employed by the Roufusport fight club. Chief among the dissenters has been TUF 20 contestant Rose Namajunas, a Milwaukee native and former UFC fighter Eric Schafer, who referred to Roufus as "one of the worst people I have ever met" on a recent UG post in support of Rose. The hard numbers haven't helped either — Roufusport was recently determined to be the most injury-prone camp in MMA, with fighters withdrawing due to injury in 16.6% of their scheduled fights.
But so it goes, there are always two sides to a story. In an interview with MMAJunkie last night, Roufus — along with former UFC/Roufusport fighter Danny Downes — responded to Namajunas' allegations.
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You know, when I see Rose and (former UFC fighter) Pat Barry, they don't seem disgruntled. They're very nice to me. Pat asked me advice at the last Glory (kickboxing) event. Rose came and trained at our gym in spring. Eric Schafer, I know we've had some issues. I've tried to reach out ever since he left Roufusport, and he didn't want to ever sit down and chat with me. It's tough.
I think they left in 2010. It's 2014. If you look at the results of what the kids are doing right now, and just the evolution of MMA, things have changed. Back then, I don't think we embraced strength and conditioning as much. We were trying to spar ourselves into shape. My philosophy now, four short years later, is completely opposite of that.


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Personally, I think it is good to see a bhikkhu critique the teachings of another bhikkhu. If a bhikkhu's words are never held to account, or to any standard, then the renown of bhikkhus would come to be based on attributes such as charisma and popularist story-telling.Mr Man wrote:Bhante but you are taking Ajahn Sumedho's teaching out of context and forgetting that he is speaking in English to an English speaking audience. He is not teaching as a scholar. Perhaps you could address the OP rather than criticise your fellow monk's teaching?


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(BPT) – What can a kid do in two minutes? If they want good oral health, they'll spend that time brushing their teeth twice a day, recommends the American Dental Association.
When it comes to racing, NASCAR driver Greg Biffle can do a lot in those two minutes – run three laps in his racecar, do nine pit stops or two victory burnouts!
Race fans of all ages can join Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, to put good dental health on the fast track. With good brushing and flossing habits, a smart diet and regular visits to the dentist, they can have a great smile just like Biffle in Victory Lane.
Biffle is not only making race fans cheer, he's also helping give kids a new reason to smile. Through his work with the American Dental Association's Give Kids A Smile program, he is supporting an ongoing education program for parents and children through dental offices, community events and media. Throughout the year, there will be more than 1,700 Give Kids A Smile events around the country providing dental services to more than 400,000 underserved children.
"The Give Kids A Smile program is great in that it helps thousands of children improve their dental health, helps their ability to learn in school and enhances their lives. We're excited to help share the message about putting good dental health on the fast track. I hope I can inspire kids to brush for two minutes with what I can do in two minutes on the track," said Biffle.
During the 2013 NASCAR season, dental leaders 3M ESPE Dental, Henry Schein Cares, ADA Foundation and Care Credit will be hosting Give Kids A Smile oral health screening events and education events for local children in need in select race markets, and Biffle will even be driving a special No. 16 3M ESPE Give Kids A Smile Ford Fusion for the Michigan race in June.
Biffle and the ADA's Give Kids A Smile program offer the following tips for the race to good dental health:
* The ADA recommends that a child be seen by a dentist as soon as his or her first tooth erupts but at least no later than the first birthday
* Help children maintain a lifelong healthy smile by providing them with a well balanced diet, limiting snacks, ensuring that they brush twice per day and floss once per day, and scheduling regular dental checkups for them
* The ADA recommends replacing toothbrushes every three to four months, or sooner if bristles are worn
* Flossing removes plaque from between teeth, where a toothbrush can't reach
* Many injuries that occur on a playground, or even while skateboarding, can be prevented by wearing a mouthguard
* A dental examination is as important as booster shots and should be a regular part of back-to-school preparation
* A painful tooth or chronic dental problem can lead to difficulty eating, speaking, learning and concentrating
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* Frequent snacking or sipping on sugar-containing beverages such as soda, juices, sports drinks – even flavored waters – creates an environment for tooth decay because it exposes your teeth to acid
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Former Saints starlet Alex Chamberlain admitted he wouldn't have believed he would get a Euro 2012 call up a year ago.
The 18-year-old Arsenal winger has just completed a first season at the Emirates after his big money move from Saints and has now been picked by Roy Hodgson, alongside another former Saint turned Gunner Theo Walcott, for this summer's Championships.
"I would have probably laughed if someone had told me I would be in the Euro 2012 a year ago," he told the club's website. "Obviously you would like to think that and it is what you aim towards but sometimes you have to be realistic and realise it might take a little bit longer than that.
"So for everything to happen as quickly as it has, it has been surreal and I don't think it has really sunk in properly yet. I know I haven't made it and I have a long way to go but this is the first step in what I hope to be a long and successful international career.
"It is a good opportunity for me to go and learn from everyone and if I do get a chance, work as hard as I can to make an impression and prove myself."
"I'm obviously delighted, to be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus," he told Arsenal.com.
"I am just looking forward to going there, learning from all the experienced players, training with them and trying my hand at everything. I am absolutely buzzing.
"I got a call this [Wednesday] morning from the manager and he just explained it to me then - that was about two hours before it was announced. He said it was down to merit and I just have to prove him right.
"I think I play with no fear, I run at players regardless of who they are and try to make a difference. I have a youthful enthusiasm and I am so excited about this that I will try and take any opportunity with both hands.
"I will just try and make things happen, although I know there are other players who can do that. It will just be nice to get the opportunity and I will see what I can do."


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32nd Revision (5/2018)
James S. Evinger has been involved with the prevention and intervention of sexual boundary violation cases in religious communities since 1995.
This extensive annotated bibliography on clergy sexual abuse provides resources on sexual boundary violations within the religious community. While the bibliography focuses on the position and role of clergy, the concept of sexual boundary violation by someone in a religious role is applied here to include other positions that also involve fiduciary trust and power (for example, a missionary or youth worker).
The bibliography is divided into four parts: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Materials are arranged primarily by type and then alphabetically by author. The annotated entries are descriptive and intended to summarize the contents of the work in relation to the focus of this bibliography.
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No time to comment at length, but I saw this USA Today headline on an airplane this morning: "Federal Aid Programs Expand At Record Rate":
A sweeping expansion of social programs since 2000 has sparked a record increase in the number of Americans receiving federal government benefits such as college aid, food stamps and health care.
A USA TODAY analysis of 25 major government programs found that enrollment increased an average of 17% in the programs from 2000 to 2005. The nation's population grew 5% during that time.
It was the largest five-year expansion of the federal safety net since the Great Society created programs such as Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s.
UPDATE: This comment from today's Evans-Novak Political Report is pertinent:
The serious efforts to cut spending proposed by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, represent only a minority Republican view. The Republican consensus is still committed to bringing home the bacon for constituents.
SCOTT adds: On today's show Rush expanded on John's post and memorialized his comments at the Limbaugh Institute in "Social program enrollment expands at record rate."


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WITF reprises Celtic Thunder Mythology, their latest show. Filmed on location at the Helix Theater in Dublin, it's fitting that Celtic Thunder have chosen to return to their roots in order to film this musical odyssey.
Celtic Thunder Mythology tells the story of our ancestors in Ireland, their legends, their history and their stories. It's the lifeblood of modern day Ireland and it's influences from our Celtic past that are that are still reflected in its people today. Like the Celts, Mythology is bold, challenging, strong, proud and steeped in history. All six Celtic Thunder principals feature prominently in Mythology, from haunting solo numbers to rousing ensembles and great original tracks that were written especially for Celtic Thunder Mythology, such as the show opening number "Voices" and the finale "My Land".
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Admiral Ozzel
Admiral Ozzel commanded the Super Star Destroyer Executor, Darth Vader's mighty flagship and the linchpin of the squadron searching the galaxy for the Alliance's secret base. Ozzel led the initial attack on Hoth, but his choice of tactics infuriated Vader, leading to a sudden and permanent demotion.
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Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious
Scheming, powerful, and evil to the core, Darth Sidious restored the Sith and destroyed the Jedi Order. Living a double life, Sidious was in fact Palpatine, a Naboo Senator and phantom menace. He slowly manipulated the political system of the Galactic Republic until he was named Supreme Chancellor -- and eventually Emperor -- ruling the galaxy through fear and tyranny.
Darth Vader
Once a heroic Jedi Knight, Darth Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force, became a Sith Lord, and led the Empire's eradication of the Jedi Order. He remained in service of the Emperor -- the evil Darth Sidious -- for decades, enforcing his Master's will and seeking to crush the fledgling Rebel Alliance. But there was still good in him…
Admiral Piett
An ambitious Imperial officer, Piett rose through the ranks to captain and was assigned to the Super Star Destroyer Executor, Darth Vader's flagship. There, he chafed at having to serve under the foolish, vainglorious Admiral Ozzel. When Vader strangled Ozzel, Piett was granted a battlefield promotion to admiral -- and given a grisly warning of the penalty for failure. Miraculously, he survived his time as Vader's underling, but died when a Rebel starfighter destroyed the Executor's command bridge.
Super Star Destroyer
The Super Star Destroyer is one of the largest, most powerful Imperial vessels ever created. A smooth hull presents an arrowhead shaped profile when viewed from above. Resting in the center of this hull is an "island" of habitable volume. Weapons emplacements bristle on the layered city-like surface. The trapezoidal command tower stands near the aft end of this island, capped with two geodesic communication and deflection domes. The underside is a busy network of engineering and superstructure. Thirteen colossal engine thrusters glow blood red as they push the immense craft through space.
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For over a thousand years, the Galactic Republic stood firm as a democratic union that governed the galaxy. The Republic was governed by the Galactic Senate, consisting of elected officials from each system and world, and Jedi Knights served as peacekeepers. With the rise of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, however, the Galactic Republic -- and democracy -- would crumble.


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Theodore R. Carr Sr., 89
Theodore R. Carr, Sr., 89, of Beacon Avenue, passed away Saturday, July 25, at South County Hospital. He was the beloved husband of Alice (Zukowski) Carr for 61 years.
Born in Jamestown, he was a son of the late George and Hope (Higgins) Carr.
A 14-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Mr. Carr served in WWII. He later worked for the Jamestown Newport Ferry Boat and was a supervisor for the R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority before retiring.
He was a member of the American Legion Arnold Zweir Post 22 and the VFW Post 9447. He enjoyed fishing.
Besides his wife he leaves a son, Theodore R. Carr Jr. of Jamestown; three daughters, Mollie Schafer of Jacksonville, Fla.; Barbara Carr of Warwick; and Lisa Brennecke of England; three brothers, Thomas Carr of Maine, Perry Carr of Calif. and Walter "Bud' Carr of Jamestown; two sisters, Phyllis Lowell of N.H. and Nancy Sonne of N.C.; two grandchildren, Mollie L. Price and Colin Brennecke and two great-grandchildren. He was the brother of the late Lucy Jenkins, and David, Robert and George Caleb Carr.
His funeral will be held today at 10:15 a.m. from the Fagan-Quinn Funeral Home, North Kingstown, followed by a committal service at 11 a.m. in the R.I. Veterans Memorial Cemetery Chapel, Exeter. In lieu of flowers, send memorial contributions to Jamestown EMS, P.O. Box 8, Jamestown, RI 02835. For information and guestbook, visit www.FaganQuinnFuneral- Home.com.


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This Web site was started by a U.S.-based attorney to help raise awareness about Western Civilization's taboo epidemic, wrongful rape claims. In recent years, our society has declared war on rape, and numerous measures have been adopted to make reporting rape easier than ever. It also has become easier to make false rape claims. In the process, we have allowed an entire class of victim -- those falsely accused of the vile crime of rape -- to be treated as nothing more than flotsam, collateral damage in what many regard as the more important war on rape, despite the grievous harm falsely accused men and boys often suffer.
Every unbiased study ever conducted on false rape claims shows that they are a significant problem, and objectively verifiable data indicates that likely close to half of all rape claims, and possibly more, are false. Yet sexual assault counselors often disingenuously refer to false rape accusations as a "myth."
Victims of false rape claims cut across every socio-economic class but are almost exclusively male. The crime of making a false rape report has become unnecessarily gender-politicized and so embroiled in the radical feminist sexual assault milieu that it has been improperly removed from the public discourse about rape.
While we have made reporting rape claims, both true and false, easier than ever, we refuse to address the special needs of the presumed innocent men and boys who are charged with rape, and who too often turn out to have been falsely accused. By any measure, denigrating the experience of the wrongly accused by dismissing their victimization as a "myth" or as unworthy of our discussion, much less our protection, is not merely dishonest but morally grotesque.
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SALEM - The Board of Selectmen had a lot to discuss during this week's meeting, and not all of it was cordial.
At the start of Monday night's meeting, when board members elected the year's new officers, Selectmen Stephen Campbell nominated himself as secretary, Everett McBride Jr. as chairman and former chairman Patrick Hargreaves as vice chairman. It was then that the former vice chairman James Keller voiced his objections.
"I'm abstaining from this vote for simple reasons," Keller said. "It's disappointing to me, personally."
Keller said that while he has no problem with McBride on a personal level, he became irritated with the selection process after phoning McBride the previous week to ask him why he wasn't included in the selection process.
"He told me three votes were all that were needed," Keller said. "He didn't ask me for support, he didn't ask me to collaborate. It's very disappointing, as I felt we'd all worked hard to cooperate with each other last year."
Keller abstained from the vote on new officers Monday night.
Selectmen Michael Lyons abstained as well, though he didn't offer further comment on the matter. The remaining three selectmen voted in favor of the board reorganization, and Campbell's motion passed. Taking over the gavel and shaking Hargreaves' hand, McBride said he didn't foresee "any great changes with how the board works."
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Lyons was visibly angered by Campbell's accusations and said he read the article in question and didn't see any wrongdoing on his part.
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|September 9, 2012, 08:05 PM
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Group spread from temperature...
For the last couple of months been fine tuning a load for 22-250, this morning went to the range with some loads with a variety of oval changes. Typically groups have been .3-.6, this morning I couldn't get anything less then 1" most were 1.25 and larger. Previous range days had all been in the mid to upper 80's, this morning it was 64. Would the temperature have that much effect?
Velocitys seemed higher, but was having a problem getting readings on the chrono, it was either too close or to overcast.
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Does your rifle have a wood stock and does it touch the barrel anywhere? If so the temperature / humidity may have had an effect of the wood. What powder are you using? Some are less temperature sensitive, but I don't think 65° to 85° is enough range to make much difference.
Or you may have just had a bad day shooting...
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|September 9, 2012, 08:20 PM
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Using varget, barrel is free floated, stock is laminated
it could have been me, I never rule that out, though i felt comfortable.
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|September 9, 2012, 09:43 PM
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Those numbers in the examples are all from a stability factor model.
I'm not buying it - I would need to see it!
I've never seen a stable bullet at one temp/humidity go unstable with a change in temperature, humidity or air density!
Anyone else have this reaction to that article or anyone have actually had this to happen?
|September 10, 2012, 04:18 PM
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When the M852 7.62 NATO match ammo with Sierra 168's came out, folks with barrels that barely shot them fast enough from 22 inch 1:12 twist barrels with tight bores in warm, thin-air weather at high elevations did OK at 1000 yards. They stayed supersonic all the way from muzzle to paper.
Same rifle and ammo lot in temperatures in the 30's at low elevations created a situation where the thick air slowed bullets down enough to go subsonic around 800 yards. Accuracy beyond that range was measured in feet, not inches. Been at the Nationals when folks unaware of this happening on cold mornings listening to them say four-letter words about the accuracy of that ammo; 'twasn't "nice," "good" or words of that ilk. I've heard that some folks had 1:10 twists in their M1A's 22 inch barrels and they had better luck with the same ammo in the same conditions; bullets were spun about 20% faster in RPM's.
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With Varget you should'nt be seeing those kinds of changes with that small of a temperature spread. I love and Shoot plenty of Varget. Everyone has good and bad days. Just think you maybe not of shoot you A game that particular time. I shoot tons. Sometimes after drinking coffee or a monster drink you can feel a jittering going on, sometimes not. Sometimes I can shoot perfect three or four days in a row and for whatever reason things just dont come together. Try again the next day. Hopefully youll be tearing up the bullseye again!
|September 10, 2012, 06:16 PM
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Farmerboy I agree hole heartedly, the last trip to my range I only had a breakfast of pancakes, maybe had too much syrup cause I had those sugar jitters and I grouped poorly, with a rifle that puts 'em in the same hole, and I knew about four rounds in that I was moving, and coudn't steady properly.
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You guys are probably right, feel like I wasted a bunch of time and resources in load development. My eyes have good days and bad, sometimes it's hard to stay in focus. I felt steady, but I was fighting blurred vision, I guess unsuccessfully. Any tips or drills for scoping?
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Anything different in the barrel cleaning routine...as in not cleaning it, or copper removal, etc.?
Given that you're using a temp stable powder, and minor temp changes you describe would have no noticeable effect at such short range (100), that might be your culprit?
|September 10, 2012, 07:39 PM
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I pretty much do the same thing, hopes powder solvent, brush, carb cleaner till clean then shooters choice copper solvent for 10 min followed by carb cleaner, dry patch then oil. I rarely shoot over 30 rounds in one shooting and I clean after every outing. I did push shoulders back, i usually neck size. I checked every case with an rcbs mic, nothing seemed excessive, push back averaged .002 with variations of up to +-.002.
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When you know right from start you're not on your A game. (can't keep bullets shooting tight groups or you see cross hairs floating alittle and can't keep em still) put rifle away and don't shoot for groups. Instead either get rifle or pistol and concentrate on what you can get benefits from. Like polishing trigger control or speed drills or come back to why we all really starting shooting in the first place. (it's just really fun). Ever like to watch young kids shoot? Some don't do so well but they have a smile from one side to another. Sometimes just have fun for no other reason than that!!!!
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Never rule out shooter error. But...
It's quite possible that the Varget was showing some temperature sensitivity.
The best load my .270 Win has ever seen was something like 52 gr RamShot Hunter, under a 140 gr Partition. It provided the proverbial "one-hole groups".
But... it would only do that around 40-50 degrees F. Once the temperature came up to even the mid-60s, the groups opened.
And... don't buy manufacturer's claims of powders not being temperature sensitive. I've seen the same sensitivity with some of Hodgdon's "Extreme" powders.
Yet... one of the most temperature insensitive powders I've encountered is RL-19. ....something that most reloaders, ballisticians, and gun writers constantly flaunt as very temperature sensitive, due to its "primitive" double-base chemistry and extruded shape.
Just like charge weights and accuracy... you never know how a powder will react at any given temperature, until you try it. (Getting data for RL-19's temperature tolerance took me nearly 2 years, because I had to wait on the weather. (I tested a few others, as well.))
Don't even try it. It's even worse than the internet would lead you to believe.
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Seems like writers and columnist say things of temperture problems with IMR 4350, I just don't see the problem, as we shoot that stuff all year round with great performance.
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After two games against out-of-area teams, it's time for East Gadsden to face a familiar foe.
The Jaguars take on the Rickards Raiders Thursday night, Sept. 15 at Gene Cox Stadium on Tallahassee.
East won their regular season game last year, 14-10, and won this year's preseason jamboree game, 7-0. Game time is 7 p.m.
Jaguar spirit filled the air on Friday Sept. 9 when the East Gadsden High School football team took on the Crescent City High School Raiders, hailing from Putnam County. Many showed up to witness the first home game of the season as hopes are high for this year's Jaguars despite the loss to Niceville.
At the start of the first quarter, defensive end Zemaric Holt blocked the punt, picked up the blocked punt and ran into the end zone scoring the first touchdown of the game. The extra point failed, so the score remained at 6-0. Crescent City's quarterback Bennie Norris completed a pass to wide receiver Laron Moore, resulting in a Raiders first down. However, Crescent City's fourth down came up short and the ball was turned over to East Gadsden.
With advantage of size and numbers, the Jaguars offense was alive in the first half, scoring one touchdown in the first quarter and three touchdowns in the second quarter. Running back La'Javier Turner ran an approximately 50-yard drive for the Jaguars. A defensive pass interference was counted against Crescent City, giving East Gadsden an automatic first down. Jaguars running back Jarrell Reynolds ran 8 yards, scoring an East Gadsden touchdown. The Jaguars decided to go for a two-point conversion instead of the extra point. Wide receiver Jaron Reynolds scored the two-point conversion, making the score to 14-0. Minutes later, East Gadsden recovered Crescent City's kick off fumble at the 36-yard line.
Three minutes later, Jaguar running back senior Curtis Alexander scored on an 8 yard run. The extra point was good and the score was 21-0.
At 2:01, East Gadsden wide receiver Chris Daniels caught an 8-yard touchdown pass. The extra point was good and the score increased to 27-0. Jaguars line backer Geomarey Smith made a big sack against Crescent City's quarterback and Jaguars defensive lineman Darius Johnson recovered the ball, which resulted in a 1st and goal for East Gadsden. Jaguars running back Jarrell Reynolds scored on an eight yard run, which boosted the score to 33-0. The extra point was good, so the score increased to 34-0.
There was a slow start to the second half of the game. The third quarter saw a lot of mistakes by both the Jaguars and the Raiders. Both teams were unable to generate any sparks due to the number of penalties. Crescent City wide receiver Varsha King scored the lone Raiders touchdown. The team decided to go for a two-point conversion but failed, so the score remained 34-6.
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Minutes after the start of the fourth quarter, Jaguars wide receiver/defensive back Janorris Cunningham scored on a 35-yard interception return. The extra point was good and the score was 41-6. After four quarters of action and drive, the Jaguars prevailed over the Raiders with a final score of 41-6.
La'Javier Turner led the Jaguars with 68 yards rushing. Jaleel Reynolds led the Jaguars in receiving with five receptions for 50 yards. Jaron Reynolds had three receptions for 31 yards and a touchdown. Jaguars quarterback Treveze Robinson completed 13 out of 14 passes for 150 yards.
"East Gadsden is a very good team," said Raider coach Quintin Lewis after the loss. "They will be good for years to come."
"This is probably best team we will play all season," he said. "I just tested our guys to see how they were going to fight and compete – that's all it was about tonight – we'll be better next week."
Lewis added that despite the loss, the trip to Gadsden County has given the Raiders a taste for Panhandle football, They meet FAMU High in Crescent City Oct. 11 and will face them in Tallahassee next year.
"We got the win – that's good – we move back up to a bigger team next week," said Jaguar coach Corey Fuller. "That team was pretty good, they're a good small team, they've got some good players."
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Fuller acknowledged that with comfortable first lead they slacked off enough in the second half to let the Raiders score. However, he had praise for his defense and said they've playing good.
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