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Giants - Eagles game on MNF was not as bad as it looked.
Neil Greenberg, The Washington Post
The Eagles beat the Giants on Monday night, despite a game filled with miscues and mistakes. (Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports)
The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants on Monday night, despite a game filled with miscues and mistakes.
The Eagles sacked Eli Manning three times, had three takeaways and forced two intentional-grounding penalties. Sam Bradford, meanwhile, routinely made bad throws and saw three of his passes intercepted.
“We were stagnant,” Giants Coach Tom Coughlin said. “They did more with their opportunities than we did.”
The Eagles and Giants are now both tied atop the division at 3-3. The Dallas Cowboys, at 2-3, were on a bye and the Washington Redskins are, well, let’s just say they are a 2-4 team in transition. But the NFC East still isn’t the worst division out there.
According to Pro Football Reference’s Simple Rating System, which adjusts a team’s average point differential for strength of schedule, the NFC East is the only division in which all their teams are in positive figures. SRS is predictive because it weights all games and points equally, ignoring wins and losses, and is easy to use.
For example, the Eagles’ rating is currently 8.9. The undefeated Carolina Panthers, the team they play on Sunday, has a rating of 1.1. So, based on SRS, the Eagles are 7.8 points better than the Panthers this season. If we assume a three-point home-field advantage, then the system has the Eagles favored by 4.8 points in Carolina. Theearly Vegas line has the Panthers favored by 2.5, making this a game ripe for an upset.
And the Cowboys SRS is sure to improve once they get injured quarterback Tony Romo and wide receiver Dez Bryant back on the field.
Football Outsiders had the average NFC East team ranked No. 15 in their Defense-adjusted Value Over Average metric, which measures a team’s efficiency by comparing success on every single play to a league average based on situation and opponent, through Week 5. The AFC East was the strongest (average ranking of 10.8) followed by the AFC North (average ranking of 11.0). The NFC South and AFC South were the bottom two.
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Earl Lloyd, first black NBA player, dies at 86. Videos.
Earl Lloyd, the first black player in NBA history, died Thursday. He was 86.
Lloyd's alma mater, West Virginia State, confirmed the death. It did not provide details.
Lloyd made his NBA debut in 1950 for the Washington Capitals, just before fellow black players Sweetwater Clifton and Chuck Cooper played their first games.
"The State family mourns the loss of a fellow Yellow Jacket and trailblazer who was a true champion both on and off of the basketball court," West Virginia State President Brian Hemphill said in a statement. "When Earl stepped out on the court on that fateful date in 1950, this remarkable man rightfully earned his place in the historic civil rights movement and, more important, he opened the door to equality in America."
Lloyd helped the Syracuse Nationals win the 1955 NBA title, joining teammate Jim Tucker as the first black players to play on a championship team.
The 6-foot-5 forward averaged 8.4 points and 6.4 rebounds in 560 regular-season games in nine seasons with Washington, Syracuse and Detroit. He missed the 1951-52 season while serving in the U.S. Army.
Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003 as a contributor, Lloyd was 22-55 as Detroit's coach in 1971-72 and the first nine games in the 1972-73 season.
Lloyd's alma mater, West Virginia State, confirmed the death. It did not provide details.
Lloyd made his NBA debut in 1950 for the Washington Capitals, just before fellow black players Sweetwater Clifton and Chuck Cooper played their first games.
"The State family mourns the loss of a fellow Yellow Jacket and trailblazer who was a true champion both on and off of the basketball court," West Virginia State President Brian Hemphill said in a statement. "When Earl stepped out on the court on that fateful date in 1950, this remarkable man rightfully earned his place in the historic civil rights movement and, more important, he opened the door to equality in America."
Lloyd helped the Syracuse Nationals win the 1955 NBA title, joining teammate Jim Tucker as the first black players to play on a championship team.
The 6-foot-5 forward averaged 8.4 points and 6.4 rebounds in 560 regular-season games in nine seasons with Washington, Syracuse and Detroit. He missed the 1951-52 season while serving in the U.S. Army.
Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003 as a contributor, Lloyd was 22-55 as Detroit's coach in 1971-72 and the first nine games in the 1972-73 season.
Google reverses decision to ban adult content on Blogger
Google has reversed its decision to ban sexually explicit content on Blogger, according to a post on the company's product forums by Social Product Support Manager Jessica Pelegio. Users of the blogging platform were told earlier this week that Google would no longer allow "graphic nude images or video" on the site from March 23rd. However, Pelegio's post states that this is no longer the case, with Google deciding the ban would've had a "negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities."
THE BAN WOULD HAVE AFFECTED ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE BEEN RUNNING FOR "10+ YEARS."
"Rather than implement this change, we’ve decided to step up enforcement around our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn," writes Pelegio. She says the users submitted a "ton of feedback" after the announcement, particularly regarding the retroactive enforcement of the new policy, which would have affected accounts that have been running for "10+ years." Pelegio adds that as before, "blog owners should continue to mark any blogs containing sexually explicit content as 'adult' so that they can be placed behind an 'adult content' warning page."
American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
Protests in Dhaka after Avijit Roy, whose blog championed liberal
secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation, attacked along with his
wife
So much for the " religion of peace " bullshit. -TGFP.
Bangladeshi secular activists take part in a torch-lit protest against the killing of Avijit Roy.
A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, after he allegedly received threats from Islamists.
The body of Avijit Roy, founder of Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site – which champions liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation – was found covered in blood after an attack that also left his wife critically wounded.
“He died as he was brought to the hospital. His wife was also seriously wounded. She has lost a finger,” local police chief Sirajul Islam said.
The couple were on a bicycle rickshaw, returning from a book fair, when two assailants stopped and dragged them onto a sidewalk before striking them with machetes, local media reported citing witnesses.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Dhaka to denounce the murder, chanting slogans including “we want justice” and “raise your voice against militants”.
Imran Sarker, the head of the Bangladesh bloggers’ association, said the protests would continue until those responsible were apprehended. “Avijit’s killing once again proved that there is a culture of impunity in the country,” Sarker told AFP.
“The government must arrest the killers in 24 hours or face non-stop protests.”
Roy, who was 42, is the second Bangladeshi blogger to have been murdered in two years and the fourth writer to have been attacked since 2004.
Hardline Islamist groups have long demanded the public execution of atheist bloggers and sought new laws to combat writing critical of Islam.
“Roy suffered fatal wounds in the head and died from bleeding ... after being brought to the hospital,” doctor Sohel Ahmed told reporters
Police have launched a probe and recovered the machetes used in the attack but could not confirm whether Islamists were behind the incident.
But Roy’s father said the writer, a US citizen, had received a number of “threatening” emails and messages on social media from hardliners unhappy with his writing.
“He was a secular humanist and has written about ten books” including his most famous “Biswasher Virus” (Virus of Faith), his father Ajoy Roy told AFP.
The Center for Inquiry, a US-based charity promoting free thought, said it was “shocked and heartbroken” by the brutal murder of Roy.
“Dr Roy was a true ally, a courageous and eloquent defender of reason, science, and free expression, in a country where those values have been under heavy attack,” it said in a statement.
Roy’s killing also triggered strong condemnation from his fellow writers and publishers, who lamented the growing religious conservatism and intolerance in Bangladesh.
“The attack on Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed is outrageous. We strongly protest this attack and are deeply concerned about the safety of writers,” said Sarker.
Pinaki Bhattacharya, a fellow blogger and friend of Roy, claimed one of the country’s largest online book retailers was being openly threatened for selling Roy’s books.
“In Bangladesh the easiest target is an atheist. An atheist can be attacked and murdered,” he wrote on Facebook.
Atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 by members of a little known Islamist militant group, triggering nationwide protests by tens of thousands of secular activists.
“It seems it was carried out by a reactionary fundamentalist group.”
After Haider’s death, Bangladesh’s hardline Islamist groups started to protest against other campaigning bloggers, calling a series of nationwide strikes to demand their execution, accusing them of blasphemy.
The secular government of Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina reacted by arresting some atheist bloggers.
The government also blocked about a dozen websites and blogs to stem the furore over blasphemy, as well as stepping up security for the bloggers.
On Friday Sarker said: “Communal and militant groups have threatened the very spirit of our nation. Yet instead of crushing them, the government was keen on appeasing them by arresting secular bloggers.”
Noman said police were investigating a tweet by the pro-Islamist group Ansar Bangla Seven that appeared to celebrate Roy’s murder.
“Target Down here in Bangladesh,” the group tweeted from the @AnsarBn7 handle.
The US embassy to Bangladesh offered its condolences to Roy’s family and said it was providing consular assistance.
Roy’s wife, who is also a blogger, was moved to a clinic for further treatment on Friday.
Bangladesh is the world’s fourth-largest Muslim majority nation with Muslims making up some 90 per cent of the country’s 160 million people.
A tribunal has recently handed down a series of verdicts against leading Islamists and others for crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
So much for the " religion of peace " bullshit. -TGFP.
Bangladeshi secular activists take part in a torch-lit protest against the killing of Avijit Roy.
A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin has been hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, after he allegedly received threats from Islamists.
The body of Avijit Roy, founder of Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site – which champions liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation – was found covered in blood after an attack that also left his wife critically wounded.
“He died as he was brought to the hospital. His wife was also seriously wounded. She has lost a finger,” local police chief Sirajul Islam said.
The couple were on a bicycle rickshaw, returning from a book fair, when two assailants stopped and dragged them onto a sidewalk before striking them with machetes, local media reported citing witnesses.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Dhaka to denounce the murder, chanting slogans including “we want justice” and “raise your voice against militants”.
Imran Sarker, the head of the Bangladesh bloggers’ association, said the protests would continue until those responsible were apprehended. “Avijit’s killing once again proved that there is a culture of impunity in the country,” Sarker told AFP.
“The government must arrest the killers in 24 hours or face non-stop protests.”
Roy, who was 42, is the second Bangladeshi blogger to have been murdered in two years and the fourth writer to have been attacked since 2004.
Hardline Islamist groups have long demanded the public execution of atheist bloggers and sought new laws to combat writing critical of Islam.
“Roy suffered fatal wounds in the head and died from bleeding ... after being brought to the hospital,” doctor Sohel Ahmed told reporters
Police have launched a probe and recovered the machetes used in the attack but could not confirm whether Islamists were behind the incident.
But Roy’s father said the writer, a US citizen, had received a number of “threatening” emails and messages on social media from hardliners unhappy with his writing.
“He was a secular humanist and has written about ten books” including his most famous “Biswasher Virus” (Virus of Faith), his father Ajoy Roy told AFP.
The Center for Inquiry, a US-based charity promoting free thought, said it was “shocked and heartbroken” by the brutal murder of Roy.
“Dr Roy was a true ally, a courageous and eloquent defender of reason, science, and free expression, in a country where those values have been under heavy attack,” it said in a statement.
Roy’s killing also triggered strong condemnation from his fellow writers and publishers, who lamented the growing religious conservatism and intolerance in Bangladesh.
“The attack on Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed is outrageous. We strongly protest this attack and are deeply concerned about the safety of writers,” said Sarker.
Pinaki Bhattacharya, a fellow blogger and friend of Roy, claimed one of the country’s largest online book retailers was being openly threatened for selling Roy’s books.
“In Bangladesh the easiest target is an atheist. An atheist can be attacked and murdered,” he wrote on Facebook.
Atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 by members of a little known Islamist militant group, triggering nationwide protests by tens of thousands of secular activists.
“It seems it was carried out by a reactionary fundamentalist group.”
After Haider’s death, Bangladesh’s hardline Islamist groups started to protest against other campaigning bloggers, calling a series of nationwide strikes to demand their execution, accusing them of blasphemy.
The secular government of Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina reacted by arresting some atheist bloggers.
The government also blocked about a dozen websites and blogs to stem the furore over blasphemy, as well as stepping up security for the bloggers.
On Friday Sarker said: “Communal and militant groups have threatened the very spirit of our nation. Yet instead of crushing them, the government was keen on appeasing them by arresting secular bloggers.”
Noman said police were investigating a tweet by the pro-Islamist group Ansar Bangla Seven that appeared to celebrate Roy’s murder.
“Target Down here in Bangladesh,” the group tweeted from the @AnsarBn7 handle.
The US embassy to Bangladesh offered its condolences to Roy’s family and said it was providing consular assistance.
Roy’s wife, who is also a blogger, was moved to a clinic for further treatment on Friday.
Bangladesh is the world’s fourth-largest Muslim majority nation with Muslims making up some 90 per cent of the country’s 160 million people.
A tribunal has recently handed down a series of verdicts against leading Islamists and others for crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
MASS MURDER-SUICIDE 8 dead in Missouri after late-night shooting rampage. Videos.
9 dead, including gunman, at multiple scenes in Missouri, police say
Published February 27, 2015
Nine people are dead in an apparent mass-murder suicide at separate
locations around the southern Missouri town of Tyrone, police said early
Friday.
The Texas County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that officers were called to a home Thursday at 10:15 by a "juvenile female" who reported hearing gunshots inside a Tyrone home. The girl fled to a neighbor's house to call authorities, and police responding to the scene found two people dead, according to officials.
Further investigation revealed five additional victims who were dead and one additional victim who was wounded in three additional residences, according to Sgt. Jeff Kinder of the Missouri Highway Patrol. All the residences involved are in Tyrone.
A search of another residence revealed the body of a deceased elderly female who appeared to have died from natural causes, officials said.
Kinder told reporters at a press conference Friday morning that investigators could not yet confirm if the woman was related to the other victims.
"I'm sure there's some type of relationship there but we don't know what it is," Kinder said. "We're not calling her a victim at this time."
The suspected gunman, a 36-year-old man from Tyrone, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a parked vehicle in Shannon County, authorities said.
Kinder said authorities were investigating six scenes in total Friday morning -- including the spot where the suspected gunman shot himself. He said police will not release the names of the victims and the suspect until next of kin are notified.
A neighbor of one of the crime scenes told the Houston Herald newspaper that police came to the door at 3:45 a.m. Friday to check for victims. Authorities told residents in the area to stay in their homes and not to open their door to strangers. The paper said the Houston School District has informed staff to arrive early work for counseling sessions.
"In our job we see a lot of bad stuff and this is bad," Kinder said.
The Texas County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that officers were called to a home Thursday at 10:15 by a "juvenile female" who reported hearing gunshots inside a Tyrone home. The girl fled to a neighbor's house to call authorities, and police responding to the scene found two people dead, according to officials.
Further investigation revealed five additional victims who were dead and one additional victim who was wounded in three additional residences, according to Sgt. Jeff Kinder of the Missouri Highway Patrol. All the residences involved are in Tyrone.
A search of another residence revealed the body of a deceased elderly female who appeared to have died from natural causes, officials said.
Kinder told reporters at a press conference Friday morning that investigators could not yet confirm if the woman was related to the other victims.
"I'm sure there's some type of relationship there but we don't know what it is," Kinder said. "We're not calling her a victim at this time."
The suspected gunman, a 36-year-old man from Tyrone, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a parked vehicle in Shannon County, authorities said.
Kinder said authorities were investigating six scenes in total Friday morning -- including the spot where the suspected gunman shot himself. He said police will not release the names of the victims and the suspect until next of kin are notified.
A neighbor of one of the crime scenes told the Houston Herald newspaper that police came to the door at 3:45 a.m. Friday to check for victims. Authorities told residents in the area to stay in their homes and not to open their door to strangers. The paper said the Houston School District has informed staff to arrive early work for counseling sessions.
"In our job we see a lot of bad stuff and this is bad," Kinder said.
Eeek ! Heresy ! Young Americans ditching coffee for tea. Forbes.
BUSINESS
Niall McCarthyContributorYounger Americans Are Ditching Coffee For Tea
Few places can compete with the United States when it comes to coffee consumption. After the European Union, Americans are the world’s greatest coffee lovers, with the average person drinking 23 gallons of it in 2013. However, research conducted by YouGovsuggests coffee is starting to lose its traditional dominance.
Tea consumption has grown 20 percent since the turn of the millenium and it’s becoming the beverage of choice for a whole generation of young Americans. When people under 30 were asked if they preferred coffee or tea, both proved equally popular, garnering 42 percent of the vote each. The most likely explanation for tea’s rise is its perceived health benefits, with green tea in particular proving a hit.
Coffee still finds favor among older Americans, especially those aged 65 and over. 70 percent of people aged 65+ said they preferred coffee compared to just 21 percent who preferred tea. However, with tea’s momentum and popularity among young millenials showing little signs of waning, coffee’s dominance is set to erode over time.
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