Jacoby Ford gets another chance

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Watching Monday's preseason opener, one would never guess that receiver Jacoby Ford has had a good training camp. He dropped two passes and muffed a punt against the Cowboys.

Some writers, as well as fans on Twitter, got in a tizzy, especially those who thought Ford also didn't fight hard enough for a Carson Palmer deep pass that was intercepted in the first quarter.

Former Raiders great Cliff Branch even jumped on a radio show the next morning and said Ford "has to clean up his act."

Two words everybody:

Breathe.

Preseason.

"It's nothing that needs to be talked about," Palmer said. "I have complete faith in him, and he'll catch the next one. I told him right after it happened, 'I'm coming right back at you to give you another chance.'

"I know the next ball I throw to him, if it's a bad ball, he'll go up and make a play on it and make a play for me."

The pass-catching opportunity should come Friday night when the Raiders take on the Arizona Cardinals in the second preseason game.

Ford is ready, and has put Monday night behind him.

"I definitely did not want to come out and put anything on film like that," Ford said. "But, you know, games like that happen, and that's why you've got to have a short-term memory and put that behind you."

Ford thinks he might have been too anxious, since it was his first action since missing six of last season's final seven games with a sprained left foot.

"I was excited to get back out there, and I just want to go out and just perform better for the team," he said.

After a rookie season in which he scored seven touchdowns, Ford caught only 19 passes for 279 yards and a touchdown last year.

He has a big role this season, from lining up inside or outside on offense to returning kickoffs and punts. And Ford said he and Palmer have "been on cue every day" since offseason workouts began.

"We've been clicking well, and that's why the ball was coming to me (Monday), and I'm pretty sure he's going to keep throwing to me," Ford said. "He's not going to go away from me at all."

Palmer said Ford's drops Monday "are the only two balls I remember being dropped with him from last year to this offseason to (organized workouts) to minicamp to this training camp."

Said head coach Dennis Allen: "It's one football game. It's not the end of the world. He knows, we all know, we all got to get better, every single one of us out there. ... He's done a good job of putting it behind him.

"He's ready to go back to work, and we've got all the confidence in the world in Jacoby Ford."

Friday's game

Who: Raiders at Cardinals

When: 7 p.m.

TV/Radio: Channel: 2 / 105.3

Exhibition schedule

Date	Opponent	Time/Res
Aug. 13	Dallas	L, 3-0
Aug. 17	at Arizona	7 p.m.
Aug. 25	Detroit	4 p.m.
Aug. 30	at Seattle	7 p.m.

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Avis aux m?dias : Les gouvernements du Canada et de la Saskatchewan c?l?brent la cr?ation de logements abordables

AIR RONGE, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwire - 17 ao?t 2012) - Rob Clarke, d?put? f?d?ral de Desneth?-Missinippi-Churchill River, au nom de l'honorable Diane Finley, ministre des Ressources humaines et du D?veloppement des comp?tences et ministre responsable de la Soci?t? canadienne d'hypoth?ques et de logement (SCHL), et l'honorable June Draude, ministre des Services sociaux et ministre responsable de la Saskatchewan Housing Corporation, prendront part ? l'inauguration officielle d'un nouvel ensemble de logements abordables pour les a?n?s ? Air Ronge.

Date :	Le 20 ao?t 2012
Heure :	10 h
Endroit :	139, rue Cessna Ouest
	Air Ronge, Saskatchewan

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94% Moonrise Kingdom

All Critics (176) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (165) | Rotten (10) | DVD (1)

Anderson never loses his core themes - young love, the need to escape, the bind and bluster of family. His "Kingdom" may not be large, but it is perfectly appointed.

Though undeniably smart and charming, "Moonrise Kingdom" loves itself the way the callow Holden Caulfield loves himself: unconditionally. Salinger understood the problem with that. Anderson may not.

The latest unadulterated delight from Wes Anderson, director of "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox."

The usual complaints and caveats about Anderson - he's precious, his characters have no grounding in the real world - can be made about Moonrise Kingdom, but so what?

Anderson and his actors are able to convey more genuine feeling through these devices than most filmmakers can with more-traditional means.

One knock against some of Anderson's previous efforts is that they're too clever - so clever, in fact, that the humanity gets sucked out of them. That doesn't happen here.

Summer lovin' just got a whole more stylish thanks to Wes Anderson.

Quirky, random, and surprisingly endearing for a Wes Anderson film--likely his best.

Funny, touching, sweet and drenched in '60s nostalgia, but reverberating with distant, haunting echoes of adolescent longing for practically anyone who grew up anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

"Moonrise Kingdom" is the type of movie that is charming for the soul and makes your brain happy in the process. All in all, it's just a heartfelt and well-written experience that will appeal to everyone.

These charming kids give "Moonrise Kingdom" the warm glow of a summer fairy-tale, one you'll want to hear again.

Pure Joy. This film's heroes may be pint-sized but their emotions and dreams are larger than life.

My immediate response is that it's a masterpiece and the best film to come out so far this year.

The offbeat, pixilated universes created by writer/director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox) are an acquired taste.

It's hard to judge a movie as a movie when you want to live inside it.

Magical Moonrise a Romantic Delight.

Intermittently amusing, distinctive, not always easy to digest

Moonrise Kingdom left me thunderstruck. ... Anderson contrasts a world in disorder with a well-pitched campsite, where everything is in its right place.

Anderson's movies work best if they're about kids or cartoon animals.

Among the all-stars, Edward Norton made me repeatedly chuckle, and it's always a pleasure to see Bruce Willis when he's not operating in paycheck-whore mode.

A sweetly kooky ode to the intensity of young love. The movie balances broad comedy with occasionally surreal quirk, while still holding the emotional center.

The adults who are so desperate to return the kid fugitives to their care actually envy the children's freedom, irresponsibility and, yes, love -- in a word, their youth: The kingdom that makes exiles of us all.

The frustrating Anderson is improving, and he may one day shed the collegiate hipster aura that infuses his work.

The plot isn't as fetching as the presentation, starting with the tersely whimsical dialogue. There aren't punch lines for big laughs, but rather a seamless series of non sequiturs for smiles.

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Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moonrise_kingdom/

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Google Street View expands to cover swaths of Brazil and Mexican ruins, won't substitute for a vacation

For a country that dominates the Latin American landscape, Brazil hasn't had much of a presence in Google Street View outside of major cities like Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo. A fresh update to Street View coverage has just gone live that fleshes out the the more far-flung corners of the map. It's now possible to see what it's like on the ground in much of the southern tip of the country as well as the northern coastline. Further north, Mexicans get their own treat: Google is now providing the panoramic views for ancient ruins such as Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan, just in case you'd rather not try to blend in with all the other tourists. The widened reach is undoubtedly no match for booking a flight and visiting in person, but it will save you the trouble of brushing up on your Portugese or ancient Mayan.

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SNPs and Bacterial Clones: What Does ?The Same Clone? Mean ...

A while ago, I argued that the way genomics can shake its money maker is to get involved in microbial epidemiology, especially bacterial epidemiology, for the simple reason that the genome sequence itself is the clinical intervention. If you can tell a hospital?s (or a hospital network?s or local public health officer) infectious disease specialist, ?Last month you had two of this clone, and this month you have ten of the same clone?you might be experiencing the beginnings of an outbreak?, that is useful information. Preventive measures can be taken.

Importantly, this is something already being done, but with mid-twentieth century methods (albeit automated), and has poor resolution, typically at the species level of resolution.

The question is what does ?the same clone? mean? This isn?t a ?how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?? question (besides, the answer is 433,234. Everybody knows that). There is a technical issue and a biological one.

When we ?call SNPs??that is, look for individual nucleotide changes (e.g., an ?A? to a ?T?) which are called single nucleotide polymorphisms or ?SNPs??we typically, even with the best methods, have somewhere between a 1 out of 1 million to 2.5 million error rate. And that?s under the optimal conditions: we?ve decided not to look at hard to call regions of the genome, we have dialed in the best parameters, and we have a good reference genome for comparison.

This is pretty good until you realize that, if you sequence the same bacterial isolate multiple times, you probably will get 1-3 ?unique? differences each time?and these are all false. Problem. Now, there are things we can do to rule out some, maybe even most, of the false SNPs, but I don?t think they?re feasible in a high-throughput clinical setting (research projects are a different matter?we can identify and fix those).

So accuracy is one problem. But then there?s the biology too (stupid biology!).

It?s hard to know what ?the same clone? means. In long term infections (e.g., here) that last for weeks, multiple SNPs can accumulate within the same patient. Not many mind you, but enough that it becomes difficult to distinguish among what SNPs evolved within a patient (if the infection lasted for a while), what SNPs evolved between patients or facilities, and what SNPs are found in strains that actually represent multiple origins for your outbreak.

Ultimately, for this to be useful to a clinician, we have to translate the genome data into ?you have ten of this clone?, but, even with the best methods, what ?this clone? means might not always be easy to determine.

For the cognoscenti: I?m talking about routine surveillance akin to what clinical laboratories do with antibiotic resistance phenotypes. If you?re working with a small number of isolates from a single outbreak, you can usually figure this out (especially if you have some genomics researchers backing you up). But that?s not how routine ?background? surveillance systems work.

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Source: http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2012/08/16/snps-and-bacterial-clones-what-does-the-same-clone-mean/

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Justice Dept to order changes in Verizon deals

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department announced Thursday it will order changes to protect consumers in deals between Verizon and four of the nation's largest cable companies.

If left unchanged, the department says, the agreements would harm competition by reducing incentives to compete ? resulting in higher prices and lower quality for the public.

Late last year, Verizon Wireless announced deals to buy spectrum from Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Bright House Networks and Cox Communications. The deals call for the companies to market each other's products in their stores.

The Justice Department says it will limit the scope and duration of the agreements. While the government will allow Verizon's proposed acquisition of spectrum from the cable companies to go forward, it says the acquisition will be contingent on the purchase of a significant portion of that spectrum by a competitor, T-Mobile USA.

The government's announcement follows a coordinated investigation with the Federal Communications Commission and assistance from the New York state attorney general's office.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/justice-dept-order-changes-verizon-deals-143614737.html

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Russia issues warning to Britain over Assange

Russia on Friday warned Britain against violating fundamental diplomatic principles after London suggested it could arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside Ecuador's embassy.

"What is happening gives grounds to contemplate the observance of the spirit and the letter of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and in particular the Article 22 spelling out the inviolability of diplomatic premises," the Russian foreign ministry said.

Ecuador on Thursday granted asylum to Assange -- whose website enraged the United States by publishing a vast cache of confidential government files -- but Britain has vowed not to grant him safe passage out of the country.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said his government was obliged under its own law to extradite the Australian national to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes.

Britain has angered Ecuador by suggesting it could invoke a domestic law allowing it to breach the usual rules and go in to arrest Assange, who has been holed up in Ecuador's London mission since June.

This would challenge a fundamental principle of the diplomatic system, and the threat has left Britain in unchartered legal waters.

At the same time, Moscow warned Britain against interpreting the law selectively, stressing that London has given refuge to "dozens of people suspected of committing grave crimes" who are wanted in other countries.

"What to do with a right to refuge for Julian Assange when London turns the observance of this right for this category of people into an absolute principle?" the Russian foreign ministry asked, referring to a number of high-profile figures granted asylum in Britain.

Russia has for years sought the extradition of top Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky as well as several other figures.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-issues-warning-britain-over-assange-150413492.html

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