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NFL Divisional Round Preview: Which Teams Will Advance?
Joe Student
Only eight teams remain alive in the NFL postseason. Here's a preview of the divisional round playoffs:
NFC Divisional Playoff: (3) Seattle Seahawks at (2) Atlanta Falcons
Georgia Dome, Atlanta | 4:35 p.m. (ET) on Fox
How They Got Here: The NFC West-champion Seattle Seahawks (11-5-1) advanced to the postseason thanks to their defense and the play of quarterback Russell Wilson. They used the same combo in last Saturday's 26-6 demolition of the Lions in the wild-card round, and also showed off a formidable running attack featuring Thomas Rawls.
The Atlanta Falcons (11-5) used a high-powered offense featuring quarterback Matt Ryan, receiver Julio Jones and running back Devonta Freeman to run away with the NFC South title and earn a bye into the divisional round.
History: The Seahawks edged the Falcons, 26-24, in Seattle on October 16. The teams have only met one other time in the playoffs, a 30-28 thriller won by Atlanta at the Georgia Dome in the 2012 postseason.
Outlook: The Falcons have several favorables in this game: an extra week of rest, home field advantage and a seemingly unstoppable offense. What they don't have: the Seattle defense. If the Falcons can protect Ryan, who was hit eight times in the first half of the teams' first meeting, and control the tempo, they can win this game. Atlanta's huge rally in the second half of the October game showed that the Seahawks defense isn't impenetrable, but it will take work. Cornerback Richard Sherman wants to lock down Jones in the worst way.
If the game stays close, it's hard to bet against Wilson vs. the Falcons' defense. The Seattle quarterback always seems to extend plays long enough to get his team down the field in the fourth quarter. The Atlanta defense has to contain Rawls and keep Wilson from making game-changing plays.
AFC Divisional Playoff: (4) Houston Texans at (1) New England Patriots
Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass. | 8:15 p.m. (ET) on CBS
How They Got Here: The New England Patriots (14-2) are always here. Despite the four-game suspension handed out to quarterback Tom Brady at the beginning of the season for his role in 'Deflategate,' the Pats captured their eighth consecutive AFC East title and showed that they are still an NFL win machine. They tore through their schedule unscathed other than losses to the Bills and Seahawks.
The AFC South-champion Houston Texans (10-7) rode the NFL's best defense to the playoffs. Pro Bowl pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney led the team to an easy 27-14 win over the injury-plagued Raiders in an AFC wild-card game last Saturday.
History: New England mauled Houston, 27-0, on Sept. 26 with third-string quarterback Jacoby Brissett under center in place of Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo. The teams have met only once before in the postseason, with the Pats winning, 41-28, in the 2013 playoffs.
Outlook: With quarterback Brock Osweiler leading Houston's offense against the stout Patriots defense, this game should be an easy one for New England, right? Well, the only two teams to stop the Pats this season have featured aggressive defenses, and that's the key to the Texans' chances. If Clowney and Co. can pressure Brady and stop the run, they can slow this game down and make it close.
More than likely though, Brady will find a way to beat the Houston defense and put them in an early hole. That's bad news for the Texans, because they really can't be counted on to get the score into the 20s. A Brady turnover or a LeGarrette Blount fumble could change everything, but those are unlikely: the Pats were third in the league in turnover margin.
NFC Divisional Playoff: (4) Green Bay Packers at (1) Dallas Cowboys
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Tex. | 4:40 p.m. (ET) on Fox
How They Got Here: Thanks to the inspired play of quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers (11-6) won their last seven games, claiming the NFC North title and drubbing the Giants in last Sunday's NFC wild-card game, 38-13. There is no hotter team in the league.
Bolstered by the play of rookies Ezekiel Elliot and Dak Prescott behind the league's best offensive line, Dallas (13-3) steamed through the league on the way to the NFC East title. Included in their gaudy record was an 11-game win streak during which they seemed unbeatable.
History: The Packers committed four turnovers as Dallas beat Green Bay, 30-16 on Oct. 16. This will be the eighth time the teams will have met in the postseason. The Cowboys have won four of the seven previous meetings, but lost the last one in the 2014 playoffs.
Outlook: This should be a fantastic game. The defenses will be tested. Can Green Bay stop Elliott and force the nearly mistake-free Prescott into turnovers? Their playoff lives depend on it. Rodgers is in a historic groove, but a little pressure from the Dallas front seven could change everything.
Play-makers like the Packers Ty Montgomery and Davante Adams and the Cowboys' Dez Bryant and Jason Witten could seize the spotlight and get their team to the championship game. Plenty of pundits might tell you that this IS the NFC title game. It's hard to argue the point.
AFC Divisional Playoff: (3) Pittsburgh Steelers at (2) Kansas City Chiefs
Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City | 8:20 p.m. (ET) on NBC
How They Got Here: The Pittsburgh Steelers (12-5) shook off a few early season stumbles to win the AFC North title with a seven-game winning streak at the end of the regular season. Behind huge days for Pro Bowlers Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh crushed Miami, 30-12, in last Sunday's AFC wild-card game.
Blessed with a ball-hawking defense and the play-making abilities of returner/runner Tyreek Hill, Kansas City (12-4) played consistently good football for most of the season. The Chiefs nabbed the AFC West title with two wins over Oakland.
History: Behind five touchdown passes from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, the Steelers crushed the Chiefs 43-14 on Oct. 2. The teams have only met once before in the playoffs, a 27-24 Kansas City overtime win during the 1993 postseason.
Outlook: Pittsburgh is extremely hot. The Steelers are scoring at will and grinding down opponents on both sides of the ball. If they stay turnover free, it's hard to see a scenario where Roethlisberger, Bell and Brown don't just outscore Kansas City, much like the October game.
The onus will be on the Chiefs' defense to stop the attack and allow Alex Smith and the offense a chance to control the ball and eat up yards and clock. If the score stays in the teens and 20s and Big Ben coughs up the ball, Kansas City has a shot.
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When Ken Sayer felt discomfort in his bowels, he wanted to get it checked out.
"Dad was pretty good at going to the doctors — for a man!" joked his daughter, Heidi.
Tests revealed that Ken had pancreatic cancer. Fully aware that chemotherapy may only prolong his life by months — possibly years if lucky — Ken happily accepted a course of treatment. He remained upbeat and was determined to get through it. Ken decided that if he had an exact life expectancy, he didn't want anyone to tell him how long he had left.
Ken's GP suggested Saint Francis Hospice, should the effects of chemo become too much for him. Ken was against the idea. "He could be a stubborn old so-and-so!" said Heidi.
Heidi visited us for a guided tour to see what we were all about. She admitted she had reservations too. Much like her dad, Heidi was expecting a hospital feel. She wasn't prepared for private rooms where patients can step out to beautiful gardens.
Heidi went straight to her dad's house to tell him how far hospices have come since he was a young man. Ken finally started to come round to the idea of spending some time at our Hospice.
In September 2019, Ken's health suddenly took a turn for the worst. "We went from expecting him to live for years down to hours within the space of a day," Heidi recalled.
Sadly, Ken never made it to our Hospice. Heidi knows her dad would have loved it here. Our Hospice at Home nurses arrived at Ken's home to care for him in what turned out to be the final day of his life.
"He wasn't aware he was near the end — that's how he wanted it," Heidi said. Ken was asleep for most of the day and passed away peacefully with his loved ones and our nurses around him. He was 81.
"It's nice to know that Dad passed away still thinking he was going to beat it," Heidi declared. "I don't know what we would have done without the Hospice. We were running around the house, not knowing what to do before the nurses arrived. They treated him with so much dignity.
"Moments after Dad died, the nurses cleaned him, dressed him in fresh clothes, and prepared him wonderfully. The guidance they gave us in Dad's final moments was fantastic — they were constantly telling us what was happening with Dad, and knew to the very moment when he would take his last breaths."
Heidi's daughter and Ken's granddaughter, Caitlin, was just 12 years old when she lost her beloved grandad. She's now undergoing bereavement therapy at our Hospice.
"It's been really helpful," Caitlin said. "I'm creating a memory box of Grandad, and I talk about how I feel. I picked a beach stone and wrote a message for Grandad on it during art therapy. I'm going to put it on his grave as a present for him. Grandad was funny and really nice."
Ken was a big West Ham fan, as is Caitlin. In December, we treated her to visiting the players at the club's training ground in Rush Green.
"I jumped around the room when I found out I was going to meet the players. It was so cool. They talked to me and were so friendly."
"A lot of things happened in 24 hours," Caitlin admitted. "If I raise some money for the Hospice, I hope the patients who are ill can get better for their families. They support everyone and explain things."
You can help create treasured moments like this by volunteering for our Hospice. We need people to do all sorts of jobs.
If you'd like to find out more, please visit www.sfh.org.uk/volunteer, email volunteering@sfh.org.uk, or call 01708 758614. If it's retail that you're interested in, then we'd love to see you at one of our stores.

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rmory is that science of which the rules and the laws govern the use, display, meaning, and knowledge of the pictured signs and emblems appertaining to shield, helmet, or banner. Heraldry has a wider meaning, for it comprises everything within the duties of a herald; and whilst Armory undoubtedly is Heraldry, the regulation of ceremonials and matters of pedigree, which are really also within the scope of Heraldry, most decidedly are not Armory.
"Armory" relates only to the emblems and devices. "Armoury" relates to the weapons themselves as weapons of warfare, or to the place used for the storing of the weapons. But these distinctions of spelling are modern.
The word "Arms," like many other words in the English language, has several meanings, and at the present day is used in several senses. It may mean the weapons themselves; it may mean the limbs upon the human body. Even from the heraldic point of view it may mean the entire achievement, but usually it is employed in reference to the device upon the shield only.
Of the exact origin of arms and armory nothing whatever is definitely known, and it becomes difficult to point to any particular period as the period covering the origin of armory, for the very simple reason that it is much more difficult to decide what is or is not to be admitted as armorial.
Until comparatively recently heraldic books referred armory indifferently to the tribes of Israel, to the Greeks, to the Romans, to the Assyrians and the Saxons; and we are equally familiar with the "Lion of Judah" and the "Eagle of the Cæsars." In other directions we find the same sort of thing, for it has ever been the practice of semi-civilised nations to bestow or to assume the virtues and the names of animals and of deities as symbols of honour. We scarcely need refer to the totems of the North American Indians for proof of such a practice. They have reduced the subject almost to an exact science; and there cannot be the shadow of a doubt that it is to this semi-savage practice that armory is to be traced if its origin is to be followed out to its logical and most remote beginning. Equally is it certain that many recognised heraldic figures, and more particularly those mythical creatures of which the armorial menagerie alone has now cognisance, are due to the art of civilisations older than our own, and the legends of those civilisations which have called these mythical creatures into being.
The widest definition of armory would have it that any pictorial badge which is used by an individual or a family with the meaning that it is a badge indicative of that person or family, and adopted and repeatedly used in that sense, is heraldic. If such be your definition, you may ransack the Scriptures for the arms of the tribes of Israel, the writings of the Greek and Roman poets for the decorations of the armour and the persons of their heroes, mythical and actual, and you may annex numberless "heraldic" instances from the art of Nineveh, of Babylon, and of Egypt. Your heraldry is of the beginning and from the beginning. It is fact, but is it heraldry? The statement in the "Boke of St. Albans" that Christ was a gentleman of coat armour is a fable, and due distinction must be had between the fact and the fiction in this as in all other similar cases.
Mr. G. W. Eve, in his "Decorative Heraldry," alludes to and illustrates many striking examples of figures of an embryonic type of heraldry, of which the best are one from a Chaldean bas-relief 4000 B. C., the earliest known device that can in any way be called heraldic, and another, a device from a Byzantine silk of the tenth century. Mr. Eve certainly seems inclined to follow the older heraldic writers in giving as wide an interpretation as possible to the word heraldic, but it is significant that none of these early instances which he gives appear to have any relation to a shield, so that, even if it be conceded that the figures are heraldic, they certainly cannot be said to be armorial. But doubtless the inclusion of such instances is due to an attempt, conscious or unconscious, on the part of the writers who have taken their stand on the side of great antiquity to so frame the definition of armory that it shall include everything heraldic, and due perhaps somewhat to the half unconscious reasoning that these mythical animals, and more especially the peculiarly heraldic positions they are depicted in, which nowadays we only know as part of armory, and which exist nowhere else within our knowledge save within the charmed circle of heraldry, must be evidence of the great antiquity of that science or art, call it which you will. But it is a false deduction, due to a confusion of premise and conclusion. We find certain figures at the present day purely heraldic—we find those figures fifty centuries ago. It certainly seems a correct conclusion that, therefore, heraldry must be of that age. But is not the real conclusion, that, our heraldic figures being so old, it is evident that the figures originated long before heraldry was ever thought of, and that instead of these mythical figures having been originated by the necessities of heraldry, and being part, or even the rudimentary origin of heraldry, they had existed for other reasons and purposes—and that when the science of heraldry sprang into being, it found the whole range of its forms and charges already existing, and that none of these figures owe their being to heraldry? The gryphon is supposed to have originated, as is the double-headed eagle, from the dimidiation of two coats of arms resulting from impalement by reason of marriage. Both these figures were known ages earlier. Thus departs yet another of the little fictions which past writers on armory have fostered and perpetuated. Whether the ancient Egyptians and Assyrians knew they were depicting mythical animals, and did it, intending them to be symbolical of attributes of their deities, something beyond what they were familiar with in their ordinary life, we do not know; nor indeed have we any certain knowledge that there have never been animals of which their figures are but imperfect and crude representations.
But it does not necessarily follow that because an Egyptian artist drew a certain figure, which figure is now appropriated to the peculiar use of armory, that he knew anything whatever of the laws of armory. Further, where is this argument to end? There is nothing peculiarly heraldic about the lion passant, statant, dormant, couchant, or salient, and though heraldic artists may for the sake of artistic appearance distort the brute away from his natural figure, the rampant is alone the position which exists not in nature; and if the argument is to be applied to the bitter end, heraldry must be taken back to the very earliest instance which exists of any representation of a lion. The proposition is absurd. The ancient artists drew their lions how they liked, regardless of armory and its laws, which did not then exist; and, from decorative reasons, they evolved a certain number of methods of depicting the positions of e.g. the lion and the eagle to suit their decorative purposes. When heraldry came into existence it came in as an adjunct of decoration, and it necessarily followed that the whole of the positions in which the craftsmen found the eagle or the lion depicted were appropriated with the animals for heraldry. That this appropriation for the exclusive purposes of armory has been silently acquiesced in by the decorative artists of later days is simply proof of the intense power and authority which accrued later to armory, and which was in fact attached to anything relating to privilege and prerogative. To put it baldly, the dominating authority of heraldry and its dogmatic protection by the Powers that were, appropriated certain figures to its use, and then defied any one to use them for more humble decorative purposes not allied with armory. And it is the trail of this autocratic appropriation, and from the decorative point of view this arrogant appropriation, which can be traced in the present idea that a griffin or a spread eagle, for example, must be heraldic. Consequently the argument as to the antiquity of heraldry which is founded upon the discovery of the heraldic creature in the remote ages goes by the board. One practical instance may perhaps more fully demonstrate my meaning. There is one figure, probably the most beautiful of all of those which we owe to Egypt, which is now rapidly being absorbed into heraldry. I refer to the Sphinx. This, whilst strangely in keeping with the remaining mythical heraldic figures, for some reason or other escaped the exclusive appropriation of armorial use until within modern times. One of the earliest instances of its use in recognised armory occurs in the grant to Sir John Moore, K.B., the hero of Corunna, and another will be found in the augmentation granted to Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, K.B. Since then it has been used on some number of occasions. It certainly remained, however, for the late Garter King of Arms to evolve from the depths of his imagination a position which no Egyptian sphinx ever occupied, when he granted two of them as supporters to the late Sir Edward Malet, G.C.B. The Sphinx has also been adopted as the badge of one of his Majesty's regiments, and I have very little doubt that now Egypt has come under our control the Sphinx will figure in some number of the grants of the future to commemorate fortunes made in that country, or lifetimes spent in the Egyptian services. If this be so, the dominating influence of armory will doubtless in the course of another century have given to the Sphinx, as it has to many other objects, a distinctly heraldic nature and character in the mind of the "man in the street" to which we nowadays so often refer the arbitrament between conflicting opinions. Perhaps in the even yet more remote future, when the world in general accepts as a fact that armory did not exist at the time of the Norman Conquest, we shall have some interesting and enterprising individual writing a book to demonstrate that because the Sphinx existed in Egypt long before the days of Cleopatra, heraldry must of necessity be equally antique.
I have no wish, however, to dismiss thus lightly the subject of the antiquity of heraldry, because there is one side of the question which I have not yet touched upon, and that is, the symbolism of these ancient and so-called heraldic examples. There is no doubt whatever that symbolism forms an integral part of armory; in fact there is no doubt that armory itself as a whole is nothing more or less than a kind of symbolism. I have no sympathy whatever with many of the ideas concerning this symbolism, which will be found in nearly all heraldic books before the day of the late J. R. Planché, Somerset Herald, who fired the train which exploded then and for ever the absurd ideas of former writers. That an argent field meant purity, that a field of gules meant royal or even martial ancestors, that a saltire meant the capture of a city, or a lion rampant noble and enviable qualities, I utterly deny. But that nearly every coat of arms for any one of the name of Fletcher bears upon it in some form or another an arrow or an arrow-head, because the origin of the name comes from the occupation of the fletcher, who was an arrow-maker, is true enough. Symbolism of that kind will be found constantly in armory, as in the case of the foxes and foxes' heads in the various coats of Fox, the lions in the coats of arms of Lyons, the horse in the arms of Trotter, and the acorns in the arms of Oakes; in fact by far the larger proportion of the older coats of arms, where they can be traced to their real origin, exhibit some such derivation. There is another kind of symbolism which formerly, and still, favours the introduction of swords and spears and bombshells into grants of arms to military men, that gives bezants to bankers and those connected with money, and that assigns woolpacks and cotton-plants to the shields of textile merchants; but that is a sane and reasonable symbolism, which the reputed symbolism of the earlier heraldry books was not.
It has yet to be demonstrated, however, though the belief is very generally credited, that all these very ancient Egyptian and Assyrian figures of a heraldic character had anything of symbolism about them. But even granting the whole symbolism which is claimed for them, we get but little further. There is no doubt that the eagle from untold ages has had an imperial symbolism which it still possesses. But that symbolism is not necessarily heraldic, and it is much more probable that heraldry appropriated both the eagle and its symbolism ready made, and together: consequently, if, as we have shown, the existence of the eagle is not proof of the coeval existence of heraldry, no more is the existence of the symbolical imperial eagle. For if we are to regard all symbolism as heraldic, where are we either to begin or to end? Church vestments and ecclesiastical emblems are symbolism run riot; in fact they are little else: but by no stretch of imagination can these be considered heraldic with the exception of the few (for example the crosier, the mitre, and the pallium) which heraldry has appropriated ready made. Therefore, though heraldry appropriated ready made from other decorative art, and from nature and handicraft, the whole of its charges, and though it is evident heraldry also appropriated ready made a great deal of its symbolism, neither the earlier existence of the forms which it appropriated, nor the earlier existence of their symbolism, can be said to weigh at all as determining factors in the consideration of the age of heraldry. Sloane Evans in his "Grammar of Heraldry" (p. ix.) gives the following instances as evidence of the greater antiquity, and they are worthy at any rate of attention if the matter is to be impartially considered.
"The antiquity of ensigns and symbols may be proved by reference to Holy Writ.
"1. 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names.... And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward.... And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts' (Numbers i. 2, 18, 52).
"2. 'Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house' (Numbers ii. 2).
"3. 'And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers' (Numbers ii. 34)."
The Latin and Greek poets and historians afford numerous instances of the use of symbolic ornaments and devices. It will be sufficient in this work to quote from Æschylus and Virgil, as poets; Herodotus and Tacitus, as historians.
The poet here introduces a dialogue between Eteocles, King of Thebes, the women who composed the chorus, and a herald (κηρυξ), which latter is pointing out the seven captains or chiefs of the army of Adrastus against Thebes; distinguishing one from another by the emblematical devices upon their shields.
Awful in beauty, forms her peerless light."
In golden letters—'I will fire the city.'"
'Not Mars himself shall beat me from the Tow'rs.'"
In fierce effusion wreaths of dusky smoke.
Glares terror from his eyes ..."
'Gainst this let each brave arm direct the spear."
Bears the rich fruit of great and glorious deeds."
This new invention fatally design'd.
'Tis fit we should the auspicious guide obey.
But their destruction, and the Trojans' good?
Let fraud supply the want of force in war.
His painted buckler, and his plumy crest."
The Latian plains, with palms and laurels crown'd.
By his broad shoulders and gigantic limbs."
Proud of his manag'd horse, and painted shield.
And bore, with wings display'd, a silver swan.
Love was the fault of his fam'd ancestry.
Whose forms and fortunes in his Ensigns fly."
"And to them is allowed the invention of three things, which have come into use among the Greeks:—For the Carians seem to be the first who put crests upon their helmets and sculptured devices upon their shields."
"Those who deny this statement assert that he (Sophanes) bare on his shield, as a device, an anchor."
"They relinquished the guard of the gates; and the Eagles and other Ensigns, which in the beginning of the Tumult they had thrown together, were now restored each to its distinct station."
"Hence comes the frequent mention of ships called Pegasi, Scyllæ, Bulls, Rams, Tigers, &c., which the poets took liberty to represent as living creatures that transported their riders from one country to another; nor was there (according to some) any other ground for those known fictions of Pegasus, the winged Bellerophon, or the Ram which is reported to have carried Phryxus to Colchos."
To quote another very learned author: "The system of hieroglyphics, or symbols, was adopted into every mysterious institution, for the purpose of concealing the most sublime secrets of religion from the prying curiosity of the vulgar; to whom nothing was exposed but the beauties of their morality." (See Ramsay's "Travels of Cyrus," lib. 3.) "The old Asiatic style, so highly figurative, seems, by what we find of its remains in the prophetic language of the sacred writers, to have been evidently fashioned to the mode of the ancient hieroglyphics; for as in hieroglyphic writing the sun, moon, and stars were used to represent states and empires, kings, queens, and nobility—their eclipse and extinction, temporary disasters, or entire overthrow—fire and flood, desolation by war and famine; plants or animals, the qualities of particular persons, &c.; so, in like manner, the Holy Prophets call kings and empires by the names of the heavenly luminaries; their misfortunes and overthrow are represented by eclipses and extinction; stars falling from the firmament are employed to denote the destruction of the nobility; thunder and tempestuous winds, hostile invasions; lions, bears, leopards, goats, or high trees, leaders of armies, conquerors, and founders of empires; royal dignity is described by purple, or a crown; iniquity by spotted garments; a warrior by a sword or bow; a powerful man, by a gigantic stature; a judge by balance, weights, and measures—in a word, the prophetic style seems to be a speaking hieroglyphic."
It seems to me, however, that the whole of these are no more than symbolism, though they are undoubtedly symbolism of a high and methodical order, little removed from our own armory. Personally I do not consider them to be armory, but if the word is to be stretched to the utmost latitude to permit of their inclusion, one certain conclusion follows. That if the heraldry of that day had an orderly existence, it most certainly came absolutely to an end and disappeared. Armory as we know it, the armory of to-day, which as a system is traced back to the period of the Crusades, is no mere continuation by adoption. It is a distinct development and a re-development ab initio. Undoubtedly there is a period in the early development of European civilisation which is destitute alike of armory, or of anything of that nature. The civilisation of Europe is not the civilisation of Egypt, of Greece, or of Rome, nor a continuation thereof, but a new development, and though each of these in its turn attained a high degree of civilisation and may have separately developed a heraldic symbolism much akin to armory, as a natural consequence of its own development, as the armory we know is a development of its own consequent upon the rise of our own civilisation, nevertheless it is unjustifiable to attempt to establish continuity between the ordered symbolism of earlier but distinct civilisations, and our own present system of armory. The one and only civilisation which has preserved its continuity is that of the Jewish race. In spite of persecution the Jews have preserved unchanged the minutest details of ritual law and ceremony, the causes of their suffering. Had heraldry, which is and has always been a matter of pride, formed a part of their distinctive life we should find it still existing. Yet the fact remains that no trace of Jewish heraldry can be found until modern times. Consequently I accept unquestioningly the conclusions of the late J. R. Planché, Somerset Herald, who unhesitatingly asserted that armory did not exist at the time of the Conquest, basing his conclusions principally upon the entire absence of armory from the seals of that period, and the Bayeux tapestry.
Fig. 1.—Kiku-non-hana-mon. State Mon of Japan.
Fig. 2.—Kiri-mon. Mon of the Mikado.
Fig. 3.—Awoï-mon. Mon of the House of Minamoto Tokugawa.
Fig. 4.—Mon of the House of Minamoto Ashikaya.
Fig. 5.—Tomoye. Mon of the House of Arina.
The family tokens (mon) of the Japanese, however, fulfil very nearly all of the essentials of armory, although considered heraldically they may appear somewhat peculiar to European eyes. Though perhaps never forming the entire decoration of a shield, they do appear upon weapons and armour, and are used most lavishly in the decoration of clothing, rooms, furniture, and in fact almost every conceivable object, being employed for decorative purposes in precisely the same manners and methods that armorial devices are decoratively made use of in this country. A Japanese of the upper classes always has his mon in three places upon his kimono, usually at the back just below the collar and on either sleeve. The Japanese servants also wear their service badge in much the same manner that in olden days the badge was worn by the servants of a nobleman. The design of the service badge occupies the whole available surface of the back, and is reproduced in a miniature form on each lappel of the kimono. Unfortunately, like armorial bearings in Europe, but to a far greater extent, the Japanese mon has been greatly pirated and abused.
Fig. 1, "Kiku-non-hana-mon," formed from the conventionalised bloom (hana) of the chrysanthemum, is the mon of the State. It is formed of sixteen petals arranged in a circle, and connected on the outer edge by small curves.
Fig. 2, "Kiri-mon," is the personal mon of the Mikado, formed of the leaves and flower of the Paulowna imperialis, conventionally treated.
Fig. 3, "Awoï-mon," is the mon of the House of Minamoto Tokugawa, and is composed of three sea leaves (Asarum). The Tokugawa reigned over the country as Shogune from 1603 until the last revolution in 1867, before which time the Emperor (the Mikado) was only nominally the ruler.
Fig. 4 shows the mon of the House of Minamoto Ashikaya, which from 1336 until 1573 enjoyed the Shogunat.
Fig. 5 shows the second mon of the House of Arina, Toymote, which is used, however, throughout Japan as a sign of luck.
Fig. 6.—Double eagle on a coin (drachma) under the Orthogide of Kaifa Naçr Edin Mahmud, 1217.
Fig. 7.—Device of the Mameluke Emir Toka Timur, Governor of Rahaba, 1350.
Fig. 8.—Lily on the Bab-al-Hadid gate at Damascus.
Fig. 9.—Device of the Emir Arkatây (a band between two keys).
Fig. 10.—Device of the Mameluke Emir Schaikhu.
Fig. 11.—Device of Abu Abdallah, Mohammed ibn Naçr, King of Granada, said to be the builder of the Alhambra (1231-1272).
The Saracens and the Moors, to whom we owe the origin of so many of our recognised heraldic charges and the derivation of some of our terms (e.g. "gules," from the Persian gul, and "azure" from the Persian lazurd) had evidently on their part something more than the rudiments of armory, as Figs. 6 to 11 will indicate.
One of the best definitions of a coat of arms that I know, though this is not perfect, requires the twofold qualification that the design must be hereditary and must be connected with armour. And there can be no doubt that the theory of armory as we now know it is governed by those two ideas. The shields and the crests, if any decoration of a helmet is to be called a crest, of the Greeks and the Romans undoubtedly come within the one requirement. Also were they indicative of and perhaps intended to be symbolical of the owner. They lacked, however, heredity, and we have no proof that the badges we read of, or the decorations of shield and helmet, were continuous even during a single lifetime. Certainly as we now understand the term there must be both continuity of use, if the arms be impersonal, or heredity if the arms be personal. Likewise must there be their use as decorations of the implements of warfare.
If we exact these qualifications as essential, armory as a fact and as a science is a product of later days, and is the evolution from the idea of tribal badges and tribal means and methods of honour applied to the decoration of implements of warfare. It is the conjunction and association of these two distinct ideas to which is added the no less important idea of heredity. The civilisation of England before the Conquest has left us no trace of any sort or kind that the Saxons, the Danes, or the Celts either knew or practised armory. So that if armory as we know it is to be traced to the period of the Norman Conquest, we must look for it as an adjunct of the altered civilisation and the altered law which Duke William brought into this country. Such evidence as exists is to the contrary, and there is nothing that can be truly termed armorial in that marvellous piece of cotemporaneous workmanship known as the Bayeux tapestry.
Concerning the Bayeux tapestry and the evidence it affords, Woodward and Burnett's "Treatise on Heraldry," apparently following Planché's conclusions, remarks: "The evidence afforded by the famous tapestry preserved in the public library of Bayeux, a series of views in sewed work representing the invasion and conquest of England by William the Norman, has been appealed to on both sides of this controversy, and has certainly an important bearing on the question of the antiquity of coat-armour. This panorama of seventy-two scenes is on probable grounds believed to have been the work of the Conqueror's Queen Matilda and her maidens; though the French historian Thierry and others ascribe it to the Empress Maud, daughter of Henry III. The latest authorities suggest the likelihood of its having been wrought as a decoration for the Cathedral of Bayeux, when rebuilt by William's uterine brother Odo, Bishop of that See, in 1077. The exact correspondence which has been discovered between the length of the tapestry and the inner circumference of the nave of the cathedral greatly favours this supposition. This remarkable work of art, as carefully drawn in colour in 1818 by Mr. C. Stothard, is reproduced in the sixth volume of the Vetusta Monumenta; and more recently an excellent copy of it from autotype plates has been published by the Arundel Society. Each of its scenes is accompanied by a Latin description, the whole uniting into a graphic history of the event commemorated. We see Harold taking leave of Edward the Confessor; riding to Bosham with his hawk and hounds; embarking for France; landing there and being captured by the Count of Ponthieu; redeemed by William of Normandy, and in the midst of his Court aiding him against Conan, Count of Bretagne; swearing on the sacred relics to recognise William's claim of succession to the English throne, and then re-embarking for England. On his return, we have him recounting the incidents of his journey to Edward the Confessor, to whose funeral obsequies we are next introduced. Then we have Harold receiving the crown from the English people, and ascending the throne; and William, apprised of what had taken place, consulting with his half-brother Odo about invading England. The war preparations of the Normans, their embarkation, their landing, their march to Hastings, and formation of a camp there, form the subjects of successive scenes; and finally we have the battle of Hastings, with the death of Harold and the flight of the English. In this remarkable piece of work we have figures of more than six hundred persons, and seven hundred animals, besides thirty-seven buildings, and forty-one ships or boats. There are of course also numerous shields of warriors, of which some are round, others kite-shaped, and on some of the latter are rude figures, of dragons or other imaginary animals, as well as crosses of different forms, and spots. On one hand it requires little imagination to find the cross patée and the cross botonnée of heraldry prefigured on two of these shields. But there are several fatal objections to regarding these figures as incipient armory, namely that while the most prominent persons of the time are depicted, most of them repeatedly, none of these is ever represented twice as bearing the same device, nor is there one instance of any resemblance in the rude designs described to the bearings actually used by the descendants of the persons in question. If a personage so important and so often depicted as the Conqueror had borne arms, they could not fail to have had a place in a nearly contemporary work, and more especially if it proceeded from the needle of his wife."
Lower, in his "Curiosities of Heraldry," clinches the argument when he writes: "Nothing but disappointment awaits the curious armorist who seeks in this venerable memorial the pale, the bend, and other early elements of arms. As these would have been much more easily imitated with the needle than the grotesque figures before alluded to, we may safely conclude that personal arms had not yet been introduced." The "Treatise on Heraldry" proceeds: "The Second Crusade took place in 1147; and in Montfaucon's plates of the no longer extant windows of the Abbey of St. Denis, representing that historical episode, there is not a trace of an armorial ensign on any of the shields. That window was probably executed at a date when the memory of that event was fresh; but in Montfaucon's time, the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Science héroïque was matter of such moment in France that it is not to be believed that the armorial figures on the shields, had there been any, would have been left out."
Surely, if anywhere, we might have expected to have found evidence of armory, if it had then existed, in the Bayeux Tapestry. Neither do the seals nor the coins of the period produce a shield of arms. Nor amongst the host of records and documents which have been preserved to us do we find any reference to armorial bearings. The intense value and estimation attached to arms in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, which has steadily though slowly declined since that period, would lead one to suppose that had arms existed as we know them at an earlier period, we should have found some definite record of them in the older chronicles. There are no such references, and no coat of arms in use at a later date can be relegated to the Conquest or any anterior period. Of arms, as we know them, there are isolated examples in the early part of the twelfth century, perhaps also at the end of the eleventh. At the period of the Third Crusade (1189) they were in actual existence as hereditary decorations of weapons of warfare.
Luckily, for the purposes of deductive reasoning, human nature remains much the same throughout the ages, and, dislike it as we may, vanity now and vanity in olden days was a great lever in the determination of human actions. A noticeable result of civilisation is the effort to suppress any sign of natural emotion; and if the human race at the present day is not unmoved by a desire to render its appearance attractive, we may rest very certainly assured that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries this motive was even more pronounced, and still yet more pronounced at a more remote distance of time. Given an opportunity of ornament, there you will find ornament and decoration. The ancient Britons, like the Maories of to-day, found their opportunities restricted to their skins. The Maories tattoo themselves in intricate patterns, the ancient Britons used woad, though history is silent as to whether they were content with flat colour or gave their preference to patterns. It is unnecessary to trace the art of decoration through embroidery upon clothes, but there is no doubt that as soon as shields came into use they were painted and decorated, though I hesitate to follow practically the whole of heraldic writers in the statement that it was the necessity for distinction in battle which accounted for the decoration of shields. Shields were painted and decorated, and helmets were adorned with all sorts of ornament, long before the closed helmet made it impossible to recognise a man by his facial peculiarities and distinctions. We have then this underlying principle of vanity, with its concomitant result of personal decoration and adornment. We have the relics of savagery which caused a man to be nicknamed from some animal. The conjunction of the two produces the effort to apply the opportunity for decoration and the vanity of the animal nickname to each other.
We are fast approaching armory. In those days every man fought, and his weapons were the most cherished of his personal possessions. The sword his father fought with, the shield his father carried, the banner his father followed would naturally be amongst the articles a son would be most eager to possess. Herein are the rudiments of the idea of heredity in armory; and the science of armory as we know it begins to slowly evolve itself from that point, for the son would naturally take a pride in upholding the fame which had clustered round the pictured signs and emblems under which his father had warred.
Another element then appeared which exercised a vast influence upon armory. Europe rang from end to end with the call to the Crusades. We may or we may not understand the fanaticism which gripped the whole of the Christian world and sent it forth to fight the Saracens. That has little to do with it. The result was the collection together in a comparatively restricted space of all that was best and noblest amongst the human race at that time. And the spirit of emulation caused nation to vie with nation, and individual with individual in the performance of illustrious feats of honour. War was elevated to the dignity of a sacred duty, and the implements of warfare rose in estimation. It is easy to understand the glory therefore that attached to arms, and the slow evolution which I have been endeavouring to indicate became a concrete fact, and it is due to the Crusades that the origin of armory as we now know it was practically coeval throughout Europe, and also that a large proportion of the charges and terms and rules of heraldry are identical in all European countries.
The next dominating influence was the introduction, in the early part of the thirteenth century, of the closed helmet. This hid the face of the wearer from his followers and necessitated some means by which the latter could identify the man under whom they served. What more natural than that they should identify him by the decoration of his shield and the ornaments of his helmet, and by the coat or surcoat which he wore over his coat of mail?
This surcoat had afforded another opportunity of decoration, and it had been decorated with the same signs that the wearer had painted on his shield, hence the term "coat of arms." This textile coat was in itself a product of the Crusades. The Crusaders went in their metal armour from the cooler atmospheres of Europe to the intolerable heat of the East. The surcoat and the lambrequin alike protected the metal armour and the metal helmet from the rays of the sun and the resulting discomfort to the wearer, and were also found very effective as a preventative of the rust resulting from rain and damp upon the metal. By the time that the closed helmet had developed the necessity of distinction and the identification of a man with the pictured signs he wore or carried, the evolution of armory into the science we know was practically complete.
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While the verses speak of the putting out of stars, the planets, not light sources, will scatter. The Arabic word for a star is "najm," while "kavkab" is a planet. Given the fact that the planets are dependent on a central star, when this star is no more, the planets will necessarily scatter. (There have been translators who translated both words as stars without heeding the difference between them.) Planets are not light sources, therefore their extinction is out of question. The Quran displays its miraculous attribute in all its statements.
An earthquake will pulverize mountains, hot lava will burst forth from many corners of the earth. Volcanoes will erupt and lava will rise from the sea. It is unlikely that the depiction of the end of the world was an exaggeration of natural disasters that Muhammad experienced in his lifetime. The area where Muhammad lived was not on a major earthquake fault-line, and those who spent most of their lives in the middle of desert, most likely, never witnessed the eruption of a volcano in mid-ocean!
The Quran draws our attention to the herding together of animals. We know today that animals react to a tremor even before we, as human beings, realize it. For instance, in the zoo in Seattle Woodland, the odd movements of elephants and the restlessness of gorillas in their cages were observed before the earthquake was felt by human beings. This is a domain in which further research studies are being conducted. In view of this statement of the Quran, we think that this research should be intensified.
The contents of the earth, the magma, the molten rock, will rise to the surface as lava.


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Q: trouble writing a dql query I'm using a plugin to add tags to the contents of my database, and I'm having some difficulties in writing the following query :
I want the list of tags that are tagged to at least one published content, so I tried :
$this->tagsNumber = Doctrine_Core::getTable('Tag')
->createQuery('t')
->select('t.name, count(tg.tag_id) as nbr')
->innerJoin('t.Tagging tg')
->innerJoin('Content c on c.id = tg.taggable_id')
->where('c.state = ?', 3)
->orderBy('nbr DESC, t.name')
->groupBy('tg.tag_id')
->execute();

But the relation between Tagging and Content isn't specified in the plugin, so Doctrine throws a "unkown relation alias" exception.
EDIT
I tried using the functions in PluginTagTable.class.php :
$q = Doctrine_Query::create()
  ->select('tg.tag_id, t.name, COUNT(tg.id) AS t_count')
  ->from('Tagging tg, tg.Tag t, Content c on tg.model_id = c.id')
  ->where('c.state_id = ?', 3);

$this->etiquettesOrdre = PluginTagTable::getAllTagNameWithCount($q,Array('model' => 'Content', 'sort_by_popularity' => true));

But it still shows all tags, and weird numbers as the count.

A: I think it's a good practice to:

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*Create a relation between them

*Implement a CountCache behavior

So in this case you can easily work with tagging routines.

A: Got it ! I thought about downloading Apostrophe plugin and searching
for getAllTagNameWithCount calls
    $q = Doctrine_Query::create()->from('Tagging tg, tg.Tag t, Content
c');
    $q->andWhere('c.id = tg.taggable_id and c.state_id = ?', 3);

    $this->tagsInOrder =
PluginTagTable::getAllTagNameWithCount($q,Array('model' => 'Content',
'sort_by_popularity' => true));

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On Tracking Scoring Chances, Part II
By Rob Parker Aug 28, 2012, 11:30am EDT
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Yesterday we talked about the process of tracking scoring chances, including the difficulties that arose and the insights we gathered. We showed how a different set of eyes could yield different results, and how a particular team or player might be viewed differently based on those results. Today we'll get into some of the specific chances that we disagreed over. The following examples are grouped based on postural similarities. Location is always going to be key when evaluating a scoring chance, so we'll look at how some other factors influenced our grading of these chances. The factors that will be focused on below are puck possession, puck movement, and defensive posture (of the defense and the goalie). We'll provide video of some of the chances that we disagreed on internally, and then provide short statements defending our ultimate decision. Let's start with a chance that was referenced in Part I, the Mike Knuble backhand shot attempt from the slot. First the video:
Join us after the jump for our thoughts...
SME, Renstar, and GOULD marked this as a chance.
JP: A wild backhand through a maze of sticks and players? It'd have been a miracle goal and not the result of converting a dangerous chance.
Gouldie: This was a tough one for me. Richard Park is all over Knuble like pink on an AHL Valentines Day commemorative jersey. Knuble can't get a good shot off. Ultimately, I think it was Jeff Halpern's derriere in the face of Marc-Andre Fleury that swung this to "chance" for me. I've almost never seen a player as mobbed as Knuble was score a goal, but Halpern's screen and the chance for a tip-in make that a dangerous play.
D'oh: Echoing J.P., a goal from this shot would have been more a matter of luck than of skill. Maybe Halpern deflects that shot in, but this was a "just get it on net and hope something good happens" type of play.
SME: I'm with Gould on this one. If Fleury has a clear and unobstructed view on this, I wouldn't consider this a chance. But Halpern is sitting right in front of Fleury creating a good screen for Knuble. Similar to the Letang goal, the traffic in front of the net makes a shot more dangerous than it otherwise might be. The high chance for a tip or a rebound, especially since the PIT D that was on Halpern left him to alone in front of Fleury. Considering that it was a backhand through pretty much every player on the ice, it would have definitely been quite a bit of luck had it gone in. That said, I still counted it as a chance as he got the puck through to the net, right from the slot, he didn't flub the shot and made Fleury make the save. That kind of play I wouldn't be surprised if the puck had gone in.
Rob: I just don't see this as the kind of play where the Capitals broke down the Penguins D, or the Penguins made a defensive mistake. Knuble is able to walk the puck out of the corner, but he never has a clear look and this isn't the kind of play where I'd expect a goal to result. The PIT defenseman was with Knuble the whole way, and even had a little help. I could see Bylsma not being very happy that Knuble drove the puck to the slot, but it's not a particularly difficult backhand for the goalie to handle and the D is all over Knuble (who isn't known for his shot, anyway). This isn't the kind of play that really pulls me off the edge of my seat. I think D'oh makes a good point about it being a "hope" shot: is it really that much more threatening than a point shot?
renstar: For me, it didn't have anything to do with who the shooter was or that Fleury had an obstructed view. The shot wasn't the most important thing for me on this play. The chance for a deflection is what stood out. Without Halpern there for the chance at a deflection, I probably don't count that. This is a good example of what I meant above by a reasonable chance to play the puck in the danger zone.
Let's take a look at a two more potential chances from right in the heart of the slot. First up is a play from the first period involving Jason Chimera and Alexander Semin:
renstar: This one should be among the most controversial chances we consider. It was also the first one I encountered, so I found myself using the short rewind feature of Gamecenter to watch it over and over, trying to figure out how I felt about it. I ended up going with a chance here simply because Semin was a quarter step off from getting there, and that short step is, in my opinion, no different than having the stick turned slightly wrong and stuffing one into the goalie's pads. The Penguins won't want to keep giving that play up, because if it connects, it is a goal.
JP: It should have been a chance. A better pass and it is. But no Cap ever had the puck in a good scoring area, so it's not in my book. At no point was a shot even attempted, so I can't call it a scoring chance. But does that mean that an otherwise perfectly executed 2-on-1 where the puck skips over the would-be shooter's stick isn't a chance? I'd argue that it isn't, but that the result is not capturing what's really going on on the ice in terms of quality offensive opportunities.
Gould: If a guy has an open shot and whiffs the opportunity, that's a blown chance. If a guy can set up his teammate with a pass and the timing is slightly off, I think that's got to be a chance too. I don't think any kind of pass/shot distinction is helpful. Chimera and Semin beat the defenders and had an opportunity for an easy goal if the timing had been right. Semin's nearly alone with the goalie out of position and the puck on his stick. Seems like a chance to score a goal to me.
D'oh: Football has the "catchable ball" clause for pass interference, and I'm invoking the "receivable pass" clause to strike this down as a scoring chance. Semin can't get his stick on that pass, and even if he does, he'd just be poking at it. Fleury has plenty of time to get over and square up to the puck. Therefore, it's not a scoring chance in my estimation.
SME: I'm with Gouldie. It was still a chance despite the blown pass/reception. We see goals all around the NHL on that sort of play all the time. Even though Semin isn't able to get his stick on the puck it's still a very dangerous play.
Rob: I'm with and against J.P. I'm with in the sense that close isn't enough. Almost isn't a chance. But simply because it's no shot doesn't mean it's not a chance. If bad ice made the puck bounce over Semin's stick on an otherwise tape-to-tape pass then I'd probably call it a chance. But it wasn't a threatening pass, and you could argue that if the angle of the pass changed such that the puck could have gotten to Semin, maybe the D intercepts. No chance.
Compare the above play to this next play. In contrast to the play above, this following play will involve clear possession in the slot. However, contrary to the Knuble chance above, there will be no shot on net.
Rob, Renstar, Gould, and D'ohboy counted this as a chance.
renstar: I had this as chance because there should have been a goal scored. It was an odd-man break and the puck was put on net. A better shot or one more pass and it is a goal. Not the play you can give up if you want to lead hockey games.
JP: I treated this the same way I did the Chimera-Semin 2-on-1 - no shot, no chance, even though the opportunity for both was right there. Tough call, I guess.
Gould: Pens broke down the Caps' defense and were one easy pass away from an easy shot into an open net. This was a golden opportunity to score a goal.
D'oh: At first glance, this is a no-brainer scoring chance, but watching the replay it's not as clear-cut. Yes, it's a two-on-one, but it's very brief - it's not as though Sullivan and Park had a chance to really set up. This is probably why Sullivan and Park are skating parallel to each other, which allowed Carlson to simultaneously cut off the passing lane and pressure Sullivan. It's a scoring chance, but it's not a great one.
SME: I didn't have it counted as a chance, but treating it the same way as the Chimera-Semin chance, I have to revise my decision. It's something that should, or very easily could have been a goal with a quick cross-ice passing play on a 2-on-1. The passes and shots could have certainly been better, but that was still a dangerous play that often leads to a goal.
Rob: This is why I disagree with J.P. on the Chimera/Semin play. There was no shot, but a clear two-on-one in the slot is always a chance to me, no matter how you look at it. The offense earned an opportunity, the defense broke down, the defensive coach will hate it. Sullivan made a bad play, but an objectively dangerous situation was created for the Pens. The replay with the high angle behind the net really confirms just how much real estate the Pens had with the Caps vulnerable.
Let's transition and look at another factor in judging a scoring chance: defensive posture. First up is a shot from the left wing circle by James Neal:
J.P., SME, and Gould counted this as a chance.
JP: This was similar to that Dupuis chance we discussed earlier [ed. we had that play counted as a scoring chance 5-1, SME in dissent] - it's a scorer in a decent spot with a quick shot. Is it no chance because he flubbed the shot? That seems to be ex post facto - the chance, in my opinion is when he has the puck in position, whether he buries it, shanks it or otherwise.
Gouldie: Nice passing leads to an open shot on net. Sure, it was a bit far out, but I've seen that goal scored in the past.
D'oh: This is similar to, but significantly different from the Dupuis shot that I earlier rated as a chance. In both cases, the puck comes from behind the net to a Pens player around the circle for a quick shot. In the Dupuis chance, the puck comes quickly from almost directly behind the net. On this play, the puck comes out to Neal a bit slower and from the corner. The former causes a more rapid change of angle for the goaltender and defensemen. The biggest difference, however, is the presence of defenders. The Caps have Neal pretty well bracketed here, with Knuble taking away his stick and Laich moving in to block his shot. This was much better defensive coverage than that provided by Wideman on the Dupuis chance, and it's what prevented Neal from getting away a good shot.
renstar: Any power on this one and it is a chance, but it just wasn't there.
SME: When I re-watched this, I had the same reaction as J.P. But watching this in tune with the game I considered it a chance because of the shooter and location. Pens work the Caps down low to get him open in the slot area for a one timer that he misses, but is still a chance.
Rob: This is one of the rare cases where I differ from J.P. Yeah, it's close, and similar location to the Dupuis chance, but the D is on Neal and that's a huge part of the reason it's a flubbed shot. This isn't a pure flub like the Michalek shot. While Neal is the kind of guy that coaches say "don't let him beat you," the D being on him is important to me, so I have it as no chance. Or what D'oh said.
Unlike the Neal shot, this next play features an open shooter, and a different overall defensive posture:
Gould, Renstar, and SME counted this as a chance.
renstar: I counted this due to the one-timer, plain and simple. That sort of puck movement is going to result in a goal eventually.
JP: I might have counted that as a chance if it was a Shea Weber teeing it up, but that's still a fairly unscreened shot from way downtown - a goalie with a working groin shouldn't have much trouble with it, despite the movement.
Gouldie: The two Pens down low are closer to Neuvirth than the two Caps defenders -- not something you want to see. Mchalek flubbed the shot. If he doesn't flub, but instead takes a hard, low shot, and there's any kind of mistake by Neuvirth on the rebound, then that's an easy goal for one of the two guys in front of the net.
D'oh: Sullivan's pass across to Michalek wasn't great, and Michalek couldn't really get good wood on his shot. Kunitz is in front of the net, but Neuvirth sees the shot the whole way - not a scoring chance.
SME: I counted this as a chance because it was a cross-ice one-timer, even if it was a poorly executed one. It wasn't a very good chance, but I still counted it as one. (Also, I'm fairly certain that it's Niskanen, not Michalek...)
Rob: I'm with J.P., the fact that it's not a very difficult shot (or shooter) is important to me on this one. In terms of culpability, it's not great D for the Caps, but Michalek isn't the kind of guy coaches say "don't let him beat us" so I'm OK with this.
Finally, consider this last opportunity and how the goalie's posture impacted our thought process:
J.P., Rob, and Gould counted this as a chance.
renstar: I had this as a potential chance but ended up not counting it because the angle was too sharp, Sullivan was too close, and there just wasn't any dynamism in the play. If he cut inside and not out, it probably would have counted.
JP: What was Hamrlik doing there? Jesus. Anyway, it's a chance in my book, even if the angle was a bit severe - there's some space upstairs and maybe some five-hole; if the shooter is unscreened from there and there's net to shoot out, it's a chance, says I.
Gouldie: This is like the Halpern play. The forward beats the defenseman and ends up one-on-one with the goalie. Seems like that's always a chance to me, even if the forward is a little off balance and the angle is less than ideal.
D'oh: The angle was just too sharp on this shot. Maybe Sullivan would have had a better chance if he had a teammate right on Neuvirth's crease, serving as a distraction. Even though Hamrlik looks like a turnstile, he at least prevents Sullivan from cutting back to the slot. Neuvirth could hug the post and Sullivan, as a right-handed shot, has pretty much nowhere to go but top right corner under the bar. That's an unbelievably difficult shot and therefore not a scoring chance.
SME: Sullivan made the Caps D look silly there, but I never considered it a chance because he was at a very tough angle when he finally got open enough to shoot and Neuvirth was with him even if there were a couple gaps on his person. That's not a goal I would ever be OK with a goalie giving up, therefore I don't give it the distinction as a scoring chance.
Rob: Sullivan is inside the home plate with no D on him. Neuvirth is square, but it's a shot that you see end up in the net not infrequently. It isn't quite as dangerous as Dupuis' sharp-angle chance [ed. scored as a chance 4-2] so I can see how it's borderline; this is the kind of chance that makes me really wish we could implement a system that was more than binary. This is a weak scoring chance, in my book.
Now, having seen some concrete examples, you can see the thought process behind our determinations. There are so many factors at play (and we only really touched on a couple of them) that it was tough for us to develop a clear-cut definition of a scoring chance. Obviously location is going to be a big part of it, but when you start considering the context of the defensive and offensive players, the location-based definitions begin to breakdown (at least in our opinion). Tomorrow, in Part III, we'll wrap things up with our concluding thoughts on the process and the value of the information.
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[by:原版英语学习网www.en8848.com.cn] [00:04.76]Cameron Todd Willingham [00:07.40]Irrevocable [00:09.31]Texas may well have killed an innocent man [00:14.12]ON THE morning of December 23rd 1991 a fire destroyed a home in Corsicana, [00:19.79]Texas shared by Cameron Todd Willingham, his wife and their three daughters. [00:25.37]The fire killed the girls; Mrs Willingham was at the Salvation Army store shopping for Christmas gifts. [00:31.92]Mr Willingham survived. The next year he was convicted of setting the fire. He was sentenced to death and executed in 2004. [00:41.12]His conviction rested on arson investigators'findings and the testimony of Johnny Webb, [00:47.29]a jailhouse informant who claimed that Willingham had confessed to him. [00:51.82]Shortly before the execution, Willingham's lawyers sent the governor and parole board a report from Gerald Hurst, [00:58.42]another arson investigator, detailing multiple flaws in the first investigation. [01:04.90]He concluded that the fire was caused by a space heater or faulty electrical wiring. [01:10.00]Officials appear to have received this report before Willingham's execution, but did nothing with it. [01:16.17]Several independent arson investigators reached similar conclusions. [01:20.99]Willingham insisted on his innocence, refusing to plead guilty even to avoid execution. [01:27.57]Mr Webb testified that, as he was passing Willingham's cell, [01:31.52]he heard him confess to having done the deed to cover up child abuse committed by his wife. [01:37.44]But no bruises or signs of abuse were found on the children's bodies. [01:42.57]Mr Webb recanted his testimony in 2000. He then recanted his recantation, [01:48.30]but admitted to a journalist that "It's very possible I misunderstood what [Willingham] said." [01:54.75]Mr Webb also testified that he was promised no benefit in exchange for his testimony. [01:59.92]In February, however, lawyers working to get Willingham a posthumous pardon revealed a note discovered in Mr Webb's file with the Navarro County prosecutor promising a reduced charge "based on coop[eration] in Willingham". [02:14.73]On April 3rd Texas denied Willingham a pardon. His lawyers can reapply in April 2016.
Texas may well have killed an innocent man
ON THE morning of December 23rd 1991 a fire destroyed a home in Corsicana,
Texas shared by Cameron Todd Willingham, his wife and their three daughters.
The fire killed the girls; Mrs Willingham was at the Salvation Army store shopping for Christmas gifts.
Mr Willingham survived. The next year he was convicted of setting the fire. He was sentenced to death and executed in 2004.
His conviction rested on arson investigators'findings and the testimony of Johnny Webb,
a jailhouse informant who claimed that Willingham had confessed to him.
Shortly before the execution, Willingham's lawyers sent the governor and parole board a report from Gerald Hurst,
another arson investigator, detailing multiple flaws in the first investigation.
He concluded that the fire was caused by a space heater or faulty electrical wiring.
Officials appear to have received this report before Willingham's execution, but did nothing with it.
Several independent arson investigators reached similar conclusions.
Willingham insisted on his innocence, refusing to plead guilty even to avoid execution.
Mr Webb testified that, as he was passing Willingham's cell,
he heard him confess to having done the deed to cover up child abuse committed by his wife.
But no bruises or signs of abuse were found on the children's bodies.
Mr Webb recanted his testimony in 2000. He then recanted his recantation,
but admitted to a journalist that "It's very possible I misunderstood what [Willingham] said."
Mr Webb also testified that he was promised no benefit in exchange for his testimony.
In February, however, lawyers working to get Willingham a posthumous pardon revealed a note discovered in Mr Webb's file with the Navarro County prosecutor promising a reduced charge "based on coop[eration] in Willingham".
On April 3rd Texas denied Willingham a pardon. His lawyers can reapply in April 2016.


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A representative of the Dish Network informed the Sheriff's Office they do not perform upgrades via the telephone and these callers are not associated with their company.
The public is cautioned to be aware of this fraudulent activity and to report any calls they may receive to law enforcement at 304-647-6634.


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