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Goalkeepers are a different breed of a footballer. A great goalkeeper makes impossible saves, provides unfailing consistency, dominates his defence and gives belief to the whole team.
But which of the great shot-stoppers would make it in a list of the top ten greatest?
GMS Academy member Thanos Batzios looks at the ten best ever:
10. Jean-Marie Pfaff
Some would say that goalkeepers like Edwin Van Der Sar, Peter Shilton or Rinat Dasaev could earn a spot in this list, but anyone who have witnessed Pfaff in his good days, would say that he truly deserves this spot.
The Belgian keeper was one of the best in the '80s, mostly remembered for his time at Bayern, where he celebrated three Bundesligas.
9. Michel Preud'homme
Right after Pfaff was starting to age, another great shot-stopper appeared for Belgium.
Club Brugge's current coach, Michel Preud'homme, was well-known for his terrific reflexes and agility. He was voted as the greatest goalkeeper in the world in the year 1994.
8. Oliver Kahn
The goalkeeper from Germany is greatly remembered for his stunning performances in the 2002 World Cup. He also was the hero for Bayern Munich in the 2001 Champion's League final, where he stopped Mauricio Pellegrino's last penalty in the game's shout-out - and gave the title to the German side.
With his crude looks, unkempt hair, titanic frame, terrifying war-cries and overall fearlessness, Kahn was more than just a talented keeper. He was, and remains, an icon.
7. Sepp Maier
The greatest German goalkeeper of all-time, Sepp Maier won absolutely everything there is to win. Maier played his whole career at the Bavarians of Bayern Munich, where he celebrated three consecutive European Cups. He was also a pillar under 1974 Germany's success in the World Cup. His goalkeeping skills where so perfect and his reflexes so fast, that fans used to call him "Die Katze von Anzing" (the cat from Anzing).
6. Dino Zoff
The Italian Dino Zoff is the man who holds the record for the longest playing time without allowing goals in international tournaments (1142 minutes) set between 1972 and 1974. Mostly remembered for his time at Juventus, he is also voted as the 3rd best goalkeeper of the 20th century.
5. Gordon Banks
Banks is included in the category of the footballers that will always be remembered for one moment. His famous moment, is the save of Pele's header in the 1970 World Cup, showing his impossible reflexes and making his save be considered as the greatest ever.
He was though, more than a man of a moment... One of the most important pillars under England 1966 World Cup win, he is one of the greatest players to ever put on a pair of gloves.
4. Gianluigi Buffon
Gigi is widely considered as one of the best goalkeepers we've ever seen. His outstanding shot-stopping ability and his great personality are the reasons he is the most capped player in the Italian national team's history, with 137 appearances. He is also the most expensive purchase in the history of Juventus, where he is the current captain.
3. Iker Casillas
Casillas is Real Madrid's and Spain's best shot-stopper of-all-time.
His name should be etched on the goal posts of the Bernabeu. Real Madrid's defence was a shambles for years just as well "Saint Iker" was plugging the gaps season after season.
Besides all that, his brilliant anticipation, presence in the box and incredibly fast reflexes made him a true saviour in the first and only World Cup that Spain has won, in 2010.
2. Peter Schmeichel
Peter Schmeichel is arguably the best goalkeeper this world has seen for the past 50 years. A colossal presence under the bars and with his wise-inducing physique and his outstanding agility, Peter Schmeichel was more than just a stopper of balls – he was an icon. He was part of Manchester United's title-winning sides for nearly a decade.
He was voted as the best goalkeeper in the world three times and he has the insane record of 42 per cent clean sheets in the Premier League, more than any other goalkeeper.
1. Lev Yashin
Yashin is unquestionably the greatest goalkeeper that ever lived.
The "black spider" was a mythical and legendary presence under the bars. He stopped more than 150 penalties during his great career. He also kept a clean sheet for 270 games.
The Russian player is the only goalkeeper to ever win a Ballon d'Or - and he gave the name to the prestigious Yashin award, the award that goes to the best shot-stopper of the World Cup.
Honourable mentions : Edwin Van Der Sar, Peter Shilton, Petr Cech, Amadeo Carrizo, Rinat Dasaev.
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SWMBO has just purchases an ASUS Taichi dual-screen (one normal, one touchscreen) NetBook with Windoze 8 pre installed (just the OS, no other software).
I'm trying to run the Ubuntu 12 live DVD from the last LXF; going into BIOS Boot menu has only the Windows boot option that seems to be some form of image as there is an almost Linux-like path statement.
There is a menu item to add another boot source, but no way I can determine of adding the USB DVD I'm trying to use. It certainly does not detect it, nor is there the usual list of drives, NetBoot etc as in previous BIOS (we have an earlier ASUS desktop).
Naturally, "Secure Boot" is enabled; I'm not about to play around without sufficient knowledge but can this be the problem?
Any idea how to articulate a path to a removable drive in this Brave New BIOS?
Right now, all we have is a fairly pricey electronic User manual without many hints on how to actually do anything useful.

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I'm in love with the alternate uni #1 with the Chicago flag on the sleeve, love them all but I love that one the most.
I like it too, however I would remove the side piping from the pinstripe pants.
If the SOX ever decided to change their uniforms, I would welcome the old-school SOX logo on those uniform designs. I always liked that logo.
As long as they don't go back to the Batterman logo. It served its purpose through the late 70s/early 80s, but to me it's very dated. Either stick with the current script logo or go with the old-school logo.
Of course my dream would be for the team to actually wear white sox like the old school uniforms, but I doubt today's players would go for it, unless there were uniform mandates like the Reds used to have.
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Zuckerberg meant: The IPO Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake.
There, fixed that for him.
Hardly, the IPO was an amazing success for facebook. They managed to sell the company for twice the current market price!
That doesn't mean it was a success for Facebook, only that it was a success for:
Anyone who had facebook shares before the IPO (which is who facebook was doing the IPO for) did rather well out of the deal.
Don't confuse the share holders with the company. Collect all the share holders and put them together, and they'll produce nothing. The value of the company is its assets (physical and intellectual), employees, customers and in true evolutionary spirit, its ability to adapt.
The money the IPO brought increases assets short term, but long term, the investors want their money back, and more. Unless a company can continuously out
Unless a company can continuously outgrow the investors' increasing demands, it will, in the end, get the short stick.
So far practically everything on the web has been supplanted by something else. What's really and truly long-running, and in the No.1 spot? Has any of it occupied that spot since the beginning? The internet archive is still the first archive, but where is Hotbot? Where is IUMA? Who cares about Myspace? Are people still using Microsoft for email? Etc. (Lycos, Internet Archive, Apparently some musicians still, and only Microsofties, respectively... they're rhetorical questions you bastards.)
Google dominating for what, 8 years now?
Our young geeks may NOT remember a time before Google, but there was a time where the "hot" search engine changed every two years, and there were new engines launching all the time.
The Wild West phase of the Internet is over, but we're still on the frontier.
Hardly, the IPO was an amazing success for facebook. They managed to sell the company for twice the current market price! Anyone who had facebook shares before the IPO (which is who facebook was doing the IPO for) did rather well out of the deal.
Actually they managed to sell the company at ten times the market price. The estimated value of the company according to valuation terms used in finance would have been $10bn and the company sold for over $100bn. The valuation is made on the basis of the profits a company is making and market price is a max of 10 times that so Facebook was a huge bubble when it had its IPO at 100 times the profits of the previous year. That said, the early stakeholders in FB made a great deal when the IPO was done.
Huh, why? Didn't it make him, you know, rather rich?
Zuckerberg meant: The IPO Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake.
There, fixed that for him.
You meant: The IPO Was Investors Biggest Mistake.
There, fixed that for you.
Zuckerberg meant: The IPO Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake.
There, fixed that for him.
You meant: The IPO Was Investors Biggest Mistake.
There, fixed that for you.
You meant: The IPO Was The Biggest Mistake of Speculators Trying to Get Rich Quick Off an IPO Pop.
The investors who actually SOLD shares on the IPO made out like bandits.
I said the IPO was FACEBOOK's biggest mistake, not Mark's. If you don't see the difference, oh well...
The IPO debacle hurt Facebook's image as a company. Share prices expect to soar, they fell instead. Company image affected.
Making Facebook exclusively a teenaged time waste instead of giving it a single redeeming quality for business or professionals was probably a bigger mistake. When the fad ends, Facebook will inevitably go the way of MySpace.
Company-wise, their IPO certainly was a bigger mistake than using HTML5 in iOS.
The IPO was inevitable and unavoidable. It was a bad idea, but it was inevitable and unavoidable.
First, Facebook had already taken more than a billion dollars from investors, including half a billion from Goldman-Sachs alone. So that means that an IPO (aka pump and dump) was inevitable.
Second, Facebook is the new MySpace and everyone knows it. An IPO (aka pump and dump) is the fastest way to cash in on the latest fad before the bubble pops.
Wait, no matter how much money from whom.....I thought that one person had control......no? That was the claim
He who can destroy a thing controls it.
And the most important thing, the IPO put a LOT of money into facebooks own coffers. Facebooks IPO was a resounding success for the company. they sold out every share they were offering.
The only thing the IPO was a mistake for were the speculators that thought it was a good idea to buy an overhyped stock that current available financial data was absolutely unable to justify the price they were asking.
i could even link some of my past comments, saying how overvalued i thought it was. however i still don't
Sorry Apple has growth, billions in free cash flow, lots of cash on hand, significant IP and real property, and multiple income streams, both hardware, software, services and media/content and a so far very loyal userbase.
Facebook has some cash flow financed by ads and market research, and shrinking usage in their primary markets.
> Apple is a far far far larger bubble than Facebook.
Apple's net revenue doesn't match the sharp downward slope, that Facebook kept under wraps, until Facebook's IPO. Apple is not a bubble by the simple fact that there's almost no speculation involved. People who own an iPod will get the next iPod etc. Apple's income is not dependent on leveraging potential advertising monetization (read: we'll figure it out later). Google's income is derived from potential advertising profits, with a great track record, in stark contrast to Facebook's published metrics and inability to come up with a working profit model.
You think apple sales are consistent? You might want to look at what they admitted in the samsung vs apple case, in which they acknowledged that was not the case at all. People simply were not aware of alternatives and the lawsuit has raised this to people's attention.
Apple most certainly is a "bubble"... It's not going to burst though, its going to be a "slow" leak back into mediocrity. One of the reasons Apple is so involved in lawsuits is they see the writing on the wall. History repeats itself. (see the 80's and Apple vs PC's). Their "profits" are based off the insane prices they charge. They can charge that much because of the "perception" by the public that Apple products are that much better.
The gap between iphone and the others (android,windows) is MUCH smaller then 2 years ago. There's still a perception of a much larger gap then really exists and that is being propped up isheeple AND the wireless carriers. That is what is keeping Apple's dominance "a float" right now. Carriers are so desperate for the "iPhone" that they are eating the insane premium Apple charges themselves, making it seem as though the iphone is comparable. That is changing though. In a year or so the price of a iphone compared to a Android of the same quality is going to double/triple. Once "Consumers" start seeing they'll have to pay 500 for a iphone of 150 for a Android that works as well or better... Repeat the PC market, Apple will slip back into being a niche company...
The fact is that Facebook's use of HTML5 was distinctly sub-par, thus making their apps incredibly frustrating to use. Losing all the data, no apparent caching, etc, on a platform that you are using on a mobile device that often loses connectivity. Madness.
The problem with html5 apps is javascript. That language is just not designed to delopment of huge applications.
If that were really the problem in this case then the Facebook website would have exactly the same issues, and you'd have to download a Facebook client app for desktop use.
The real problem is that browsers on mobiles still suck.
Thing is, a web thing can have many of the things that we expect from a non-web application these days and usually do it well, things like drag and drop should work smoothly even on most portable platforms if the browser is worth one tenth of one crap.
Chrome for Android actually does rather well, as does firefox for android... It's the default browser that has issues and really should have died with 4.0 (ICS) android, but instead it stays the default (for backwards compatibility) as much as it sucks. Ironically it was also the browser flash worked in up til the most recent android flavor (even Chrome couldn't use flash on a 4.0 setup).
Facebook probably should have looked at how even Google has a native app for youtube on android and taken a similar route
The problem is more complex than that: Mobile devices lack CPU grunt to do things which are easier to do on a desktop systems.
Because of this the mobile OS builders concentrate what little CPU they do have to make sure their apps run the best as they can at the cost of anything else you may wish to run on top of that. In fact I think they even cripple Javascript on iOS to make sure the OS keeps ticking nicely, for example native scroll events take precendence over Javascript scroll events. I think the main
The problem is more complex than that: Mobile devices lack CPU grunt to do things which are easier to do on a desktop systems.
Because of this the mobile OS builders concentrate what little CPU they do have to make sure their apps run the best as they can at the cost of anything else you may wish to run on top of that. In fact I think they even cripple Javascript on iOS to make sure the OS keeps ticking nicely, for example native scroll events take precendence over Javascript scroll events. I think the main reason that flash was killed in iOS was because it was a closed source CPU hog that they couldn't cripple.
The only thing that will change this for mobile development is more CPU power, which is difficult if we don't want to have personal hand warmers in our pockets.
I don't have a problem with JS for application GUI development as long as there is enough juice to run it.
I suppose that *is* a problem, but really the big thing that Facebook has screwed up in mobile is not having the infrastructure (server side) to push all content as updates to the app. Instead, each time a user wants to browse their wall, they have to download the whole flogging thing again. The absolute biggest threat to mobile experience is the actual content download itself, it requires the user to stand around and wait, and it eats battery like crazy. Twitter got this right, partly because that's the entire model of their service, but if you look at how well their app runs on mobile you kind of get tired of even tolerating Facebook at all.
Javascript isn't a real problem, it's the developers writing code using it. We're talking about a client application that is mostly doing REST/JSON calls to the main backend servers, and then displaying it in the correct place on the existing page, and persisting it to a HTML5 local DB. Except it didn't do the latter, and all too often lost even the in-memory cache of data, making the app a PITA to use, especially scrolling back in history.
You only need to look at Twitter clients to realise that timeline-ba
The problem with html5 apps is javascript. That language is just not designed to delopment of huge applications.
A conspiracy theorist might conclude that Apple is making html5 difficult intentionally, because it is against their interest f
Not supporting the type of moble App Facebook were trying to write is a feature of HTML5 not a wrinkle to iron out.
Just because HTML5 might have wrinkles to iron out doesn't mean that it's a failed endeavor. Rather, it means that the browsers, companies behind said browsers, and the users have created a massive cluster of epic proportions.
So, basically, blame everyone but the people who wrote the spec? Sounds like the consortium's made up of entire middle-managers.
HTML5 is the poster-child for designed-by-committee, slow-as-molasses processes that are out-paced by everyone else because, in the real world, things actually need to get done this decade, and the rest of us can't wait. HTML5 has been in development for eight years, and their current target is another two years before it becomes a Candidate Recommendation. Bearing in mind that they've already missed all their previous targets, Ian Hickson estimated that they'd have the requisite two, independent working implementations in 2022. That's eighteen years from start of development, 10 years from now.
By the time the spec is completed, devices will have been forced to roll their own solutions, simply because the spec isn't done. Now, they might have some inter-operable features, if that aspect of the spec had been fully codified before they had to implement it, but that's precisely the situation we had in the Netscape v. IE browser wars - each had a somewhat common base, but were independently adding new features to try an improve the browser. The features they added were mutually incompatible because there was no common standard - and we're staring straight down that road again. It's a very clear example of perfect being the enemy of good.
HTML5 is the poster-child for designed-by-committee, slow-as-molasses processes that are out-paced by everyone else because, in the real world, things actually need to get done this decade, and the rest of us can't wait.
HTML5 was compromise of existing implementations and small improvements, adopted because the XHTML standards were being ignored. Your rant is misdirected: HTML5 is a solution to the lack of standards progress, not a cause of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#History [wikipedia.org]
HTML5 was compromise of existing implementations and small improvements, adopted because the XHTML standards were being ignored. Your rant is misdirected: HTML5 is a solution to the lack of standards progress, not a cause of it.
HTML5 was pushed through by the very same people who refused to implement the new XHTML standards. So, in that sense, it's a solution to the problem that they have created themselves.
The w3c started out describing how web browsers worked and somehow they mistakenly decided they were a standards board. They still get ignored. They will always be ignored fro connivence.
HTML5 is projected to be finished in 2022. By that stage, vendors will have adopted proprietary standards, not because they want to, but because the open standard was simply too damn slow to get done.
Also, as HTML5 is still in its infancy and not yet a finished standard, I think it's kind of early to make this statement.
Don't stop believing! Hold on to that feeling!
So not any of FB's many privacy "mistakes" then?
Those weren't mistakes.
Zuckerberg isn't dumb. This judgement on the whole HTML 5 craze goes to show. Techwise HTML5/CSS3/Ajax is a huge step backwards compared to other approaches, like, for instance, Flash. Flash is proprietary and invites doing all kinds of non-sense (sic), but it *is* a far better x-platform VM.
Going HTML5 is not to be triffled with and will bog down your systems performance way further than other VM solutions such as Java or Flash/AS. Any web developer worth his salt could have told Zuckerberg that.
The "problem" (lets just call it that for now) here is that geeks, i.e. opinion leaders, are willing to make huge technological concessions if the technology is more open than the alternatives. Some devs would rather chop their right arm off than develop against (semi)prorietary systems like iOS or countless versions of Android. Hence we've got native looking apps, that are web UIs in disguise, slowpoking about at speeds we know from Windows 95 Applikations back in the day. I presume Zuckerberg got himself talked into this by his devleads, who are, just like any respectable geek, probably way more concerned with system openess and anti-lock-in development wise than with business critical performance and end-user experience issues. That's my guess anyway.
You can say and think what you want about Zuckerberg and Facebook - I dislike the whole direction thinks have taken with this FB thing just as much as the next geek - but his conclusion is spot on. He's a developer himself and it's to his credit that he recongnises where his company bet on the wrong technology. You have to give him credit for that.
My 2 cents.
Some would say that those who hedged their bets on HTML5 in the first place, especially from so early on, were the dumb ones and not the naysayers.
To be honest - I don't see much advantage as a user (the last time I touched HTML seriously was just after CSS became popular, so I don't really speak as a developer here). Take Facebook for example - what do I get from all the fancy code that adorns those pages and slows down my browser (design decisions like Timeline aside)? I get little buttons to hide posts
"Zuckerberg isn't dumb. This judgement on the whole HTML 5 craze goes to show. Techwise HTML5/CSS3/Ajax is a huge step backwards compared to other approaches, like, for instance, Flash. Flash is proprietary and invites doing all kinds of non-sense (sic), but it *is* a far better x-platform VM."
So by going Flash for mobile one of two things would have happened....
1) They would develop a Flash web app that didn't work on a platform that garners 65.9% of the mobile web traffic and was abandoned by Adobe for th
This is about mobile apps. They don't even HAVE Flash or other VMs on the iPhone. You either use HTML or write a native app.
From the actual quote [tobie.me], it does not sound like Zuckerberg is really down on HTML5 overall. I think, rather, he is saying that the company invested too much time trying to optimize the HTML5 client for mobile clients, when the company was ultimately able to get better performance with less effort by developing native apps.
The "HTML5 vs. Native controls" nerd-war is currently being waged where I work, and for whatever reason, emotions really run high on this one. It's much uglier than Windows vs. Linux or whose text editor is best. It's a fight over whose skills are relevant. When half of your developers are HTML/Javascript people and the other half are Obj-C/C/Java (native) people, and a new mobile project is proposed, every tech lead makes passioned arguments that THEIR TEAM should get the project and that those other teams
Zuckerberg isn't dumb. *HE* probably would have read the article before posting and realized this is about mobile apps and not the main Facebook.com web site.
Maybe I am being dense, but surely there is some way to optimise it. Better machine-specific interpretors, the kind of pre-execution optimisation that compilers do, anything....
I'm just glad that they're finally working on the issue. The Facebook apps for both iOS and Android were complete rubbish, and was often both faster and more reliable just to use the mobile version of the web site.
The new iOS version of the app seems a lot more responsive. I hope that they do something similar for Android soon.
Nothing to do with their Android app once wiping out your phone contact's email addresses and replacing them with @facebook.com equivalents?
People use the web version not because it's more convenient but because it's safer and you KNOW what it has access to.
Anything that causes pain for Zuckerberg is fine by me.
Yeah! Go HTML5!
... HTML5 is probably the way that we should have done it."
If you think that's an HTML5 approach, I have some lean agile behavior-driven coaching hours for which I'd like to bill you.
Facebook is a webpage, not a 3D game that pushes the hardware. Is it possible he is blaming the technology for the failure of his coders? After all, we're talking about an app that when you viewed the comments on a photo you had to back out and come back several times in order for it to "refresh". Or sometimes clicking on a friend's name would take you to an entirely unrelated part of the app. And photos would take ages to load. Sometimes entering in a comment would work, sometimes it would say "you can't comment on something that doesn't exist" even though you could open up Facebook on a desktop computer and make a comment in the same place without a problem. I don't know of any other "webpage" app on the iPhone that performed that poorly, and granted I don't know what the Google+ app used but in comparison it blew the doors off of the Facebook app. Was it really the technology to blame?
Iunno, I found it ironic that when Flash first came out, it was a way to create and inbed animation and sound into a website with very little weight. I actually used to make Flash sites actually smaller than HTML ones with raster graphics.
Then everyone decided to make Flash sites really heavy. Instead of going the route I thought it would go. The computers and the internet back then were too slow to handle those sites.
Now that we have the bandwidth and computing power, everyone seems to be bashing on Fla
BlackBerry has had a native client since 2008 and it is solid. It ties in with BB's unified inbox and can interact with other apps like BBM if you choose to do so.
Once again, iOS is 4 years behind.
If he had been around awhile he would have known that when you hear "write once & run anywhere" that it may not be all it claims to be.
HTML5, which pulls in data much more slowly than native code
How can this be? HTML5 is not relegated to some throttled network interface. the data all comes through the same pipe. I've made plenty of html5 implementations that had small streamlined exchanges of data with the server. My observations indicate that the facebook apps just pull in obscene amounts of unoptimized crap.
Well, since it's facebook data, i guess no implementation can get around the fact that you are pulling down crap.
Actually from all my observations their Achilles heel is their slow-ass web services. Both the desktop and mobile web apps initially load quickly enough, it's the subsequent data pulls via web services to refresh GUI fragments that lag badly. Haven't checked the granularity of their services, but on mobile fine granularity is particularly bad because of the typically atrocious latency (although LTE is heaps better than HSPA). Regardless, even in the desktop site you can see these ws call latencies, when you
Really? Betting on HTML5 was Facebook's biggest mistake? You sure about that?
Zuckerberg didn't say HTML5 wasn't ready. They stuck in a mashable quote hoping to make it look like it was Zuckerbergs.
Zuckerberg did say native but he was clearly talking about mobile apps (which are of course native).
C'mon Slashdot, that kind of stuff really makes you look bad.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The team Jim Haslett inherited four years ago was stripped of draft picks and patched together with free agents.
He took it to the franchise's first-ever playoff victory.
Now the New Orleans Saints carry Haslett's mark. Only one player, center Jerry Fontenot, remains from the Mike Ditka era, and more than one playoff victory is expected.
"We are at the point where all the players that we have drafted since I have been here in 2000, starting with Darren Howard, are the guys that we are relying on to win a lot of football games for us over the next few years," Haslett said. "There are no draft picks left from the 1990s. That tells you the age of your football team. It tells you that your team is something that you have built."
Haslett's first three years with the Saints were successful on a number of levels. His 26 regular-season victories ranks second in club history through three years, trailing only Jim Mora's 29 wins from 1986-88.
The success has been offset with bitter disappointment the last two seasons, however. In each, the Saints seemed on a sure path to the playoffs, but collapsed late in the season and were home for the postseason.
Haslett and his coaches did plenty of soul-searching and decided they needed more speed and better athletes.
"Last year was disappointing for all of us," Haslett said. "We analyzed everything and looked at why it happened. It really boils down to not making enough plays."
Especially on defense.
New Orleans was the NFC's highest-scoring team with 432 points. But while Aaron Brooks, Deuce McAllister, Joe Horn and the rest of the offense was putting up big numbers, the defense was struggling.
New Orleans gave up 20 or more points in every game except the finale, a 10-6 defeat.
Along with needing more speed, the Saints wanted less bulk. Norman Hand, Grady Jackson and Martin Chase, known as the "heavy lunch bunch," couldn't stop the run up the middle.
Hand and Chase are gone, Jackson is slimmed down, and the defense is faster and more athletic.
Free safety Tebucky Jones replaced Sammy Knight. Ashley Ambrose was added at cornerback. The No. 1 draft pick was used for defensive tackle Johnathan Sullivan.
"We are a fast football team," Haslett said. "We are a talented football team. We are a young football team. I think it comes down to how fast we mature."
Fans panicked when the Saints went 1-3 in the preseason, but Haslett dismissed the games in which most of the starters played a limited role.
Haslett is concerned about injuries, however.
New Orleans will be without starting safety Mel Mitchell, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the final preseason game. Also missing will be linebacker Derrick Rodgers, suspended by the NFL for violating the league's personal conduct policy.
The two best pass rushers, defensive ends Howard and Charles Grant, also are injured and may not play against the Seattle Seahawks in the opener.
"The concerns are always the injuries," Haslett said. "You would like to be at full go when your football team plays, but that is something that I can't control. You put in a game plan and deal with it as it comes about."
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Well - I hope Haslett is as good an evaluator of talent as many on this board make him out to be. This is a double-edged sword you guys realize that. If they\'re great, then Haslett is the man and all of you guys who back him completely right now are justified. If they falter, there\'s only one place to point the finger. I hope the only fingers being pointed by saints players and fans alike come season end are pointed at the sky.
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How prevalent do you think voter frauds is in Montana?
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Question: How prevalent do you think voter frauds is in Montana?ReplyDelete
Answer: How organized is the Democrat party?
It's not fraud if it's done in Butte. There, it's just business as usual.ReplyDelete
But here's a proposal: If you are going to register at the time you vote and you don't have a photo ID, then we need to take your picture and fingerprint you for use in a criminal prosecution if you lied.
Of course the real problem are all the nursing homes where the staff vote for their patients. Haven't figured out a solution to that yet.
The New York Post isn't the only paper churning out this story, however, all of the articles mention that voter-ID puts minorities at a disadvantage.ReplyDelete
While the Supreme Court has ruled that voter-ID is constitutional, the DOJ is still looking into the practice to determine if it does put minorities at a disadvantage. A quick search for information on this reveils several law suits against Holder and the DOJ from places like South Carolina and Texas. The DOJ categorizes disabled voters and senior citizens without IDs as minorities in this issue.
However, the Black Caucus is calling the voter-ID as "a specific attempt to derail what surely would be and ought to be the re-election of Barack Obama" ~Rep. Donna Christensen (D-VI)~
But wherever we find this argument, there are no reasonable nor rational explanations for it. Is it impossible for minorities to get an ID?
The DOJ is looking at people who don't have an ID and the burden that would be placed upon them to obtain an ID. The Black Caucus and others say this is a burden upon ethnic minorities that would surely vote Democrat come November.
Let's extrapolate and combine these two. Minorities without IDs. Aside from disabled Americans, how many minorities are without any form of ID? One source with some information on the number of illegals in this country is fairus.org. They are an NGO seeking immigration reform and they put the number of illegal immigrants in this country at 12 million back in 2010 (their last year for data) which shows a steady growth from 7 million in 2002.
We can call my opinion here as conjecture, but it puts together more of a reason than the Obama administration puts together when they simply state that voter-ID will be a disadvantage for minorities with no further explanation as to why that would be.
It is interesting that 1.8 million voters have died since the last election and 2.8 million voters have moved or become dual residents since the last election, but I find it far more interesting to look at the opposition against voter-ID because of the supposed oppression of minorities. It only raises the questions; "Why would it be a disadvantage to minorities?" and why can't any of those touting that excuse explain why?
Voter fraud? You betcha there's voter fraud in this country. All one has to do is look deeper than RAG articles to find that out.
Don't know about the dead voting but hundreds of incompetents in group homes, nursing homes and other places vote with a little assistance from party people.ReplyDelete
I have witnessed it with my own eyes
Isn't this a crime?
Freddy, it's only a crime should a Republican do this.ReplyDelete
I have been hearing for years about people voting out on the Reservation and then driving into Havre to vote again, and then laughing about it.ReplyDelete
If you want to ensure no voter fraud just follow the lead of the Republican Caucus in Iowa, no wait, they were not sure who won! Was it Romney or Santorum? I guess it depends on what day it was. How about the Republican caucus in Main? How many districts were not even counted when the party announced the winner? If these are the kind of people you think should ensure the quality and accuracy of voting in our state you need to look at all sides of the issue, not just what fits your preconcieved notion of how to fix the problem. A simple fix for part of the problem would be to mark a persons finger as some other countries do. Pretty simple solution if you think it is a problem. There are many ways to fix the various problems, quit whining and blaming the other guy, some constructive ideas would be a refreshing change.ReplyDelete


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Lance Armstrong recently met with the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency to explore a ''pathway to redemption,'' according to a report Wednesday night on ''60 Minutes Sports'' dealing with the investigation that cost the cyclist his Tour de France titles. The New York Times reported last week that Armstrong and USADA CEO Travis Tygart had been meeting about a possible confession. Armstrong's attorney, Tim Herman, denied the meetings had taken place. During the show, Tygartdetailed his mission to investigate Armstrong, calling the cyclist's refusal to help in the probe ''one of the lowest days of this investigation, quite honestly." Tygart also said he had been subject to numerous death threats from anonymous e-mails and letters.
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Investor Chris Hansen has contacted the Maloof family about buying the Sacramento Kings, setting up the possibility of the NBA's return to Seattle. Hansen's interest was confirmed Wednesday by people with knowledge of the situation. They spoke on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press because no deal has been reached, but said the deal could be worth more than $500 million. The Kings' future in Sacramento has been uncertain because the Maloofs and the city haven't been able to come up with a long-term arena solution. Yahoo! Sports reported the sale could land the Kings in Seattle for the 2013-14 season where the team would play at KeyArena as a temporary home until a new arena is constructed . . . Cavaliers center Anderson Varejao needs surgery to repair a muscle that split near his right knee and could cause him to miss two more months, a major setback for a young Cleveland team struggling through another miserable season. The NBA's leading rebounder, Varejao was injured Dec. 18 vs. Toronto . . . Timberwolves forward Kevin Love is expected to miss 8-10 weeks after needing surgery to repair a right hand that is broken for the second time this season, the team announced . . . Wizards guard John Wall, who has been recovering from a left kneecap injury, said he'll make his season debut Saturday against the Hawks if he can get through the next couple of days of practice pain-free.
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Boston College linebacker Nick Clancy and Harvard quarterback Colton Chapple will receive the 74th Bulger Lowe Award Thursday at the Gridiron Club's annual Bob Whelan College Football Awards night at the Waltham Westin, presented to the top Division 1 defensive and offensive players in New England. Other honorees include: BC tackle Emmett Cleary and MIT guard Ethan Peterson (Swede Nelson Award, exceptional achievement in sportsmanship, academics, athletics); Middlebury QB McCallum Foote, Framingham State RB Melikke Van Alstyne, and Bridgewater State DT Paul Melicharek (Joe Zabilski Award, Division 2-3 Players of the Year); New Hampshire's Sean McDonnell and Trinity's Jeff Devanney (Coaches of the Year); Harvard's ScottLarkee and MIT's Al Pogarian (Assistant Coaches of the Year); Jeff Akers (Joseph McKenney Award, top official); and Howard Vandersea (John Baronian Award, lifetime contributions) . . . Ted Roof left Penn State after one season as defensive coordinator to take the same job at his alma mater, Georgia Tech . . . Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year Tajh Boyd will return to Clemson for his senior season. The junior quarterback led the Tigers to a 21-6 record the past two seasons. Michigan offensive tackle Taylor Lewan, a first-team All-American, and Virginia Tech cornerback Antone Exum also announced they would return for their senior seasons . . . Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray, wide receivers Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson, and defensive end Darrington Sentimore are bypassing their senior seasons to enter the NFL draft. Also declaring for the draft was Eastern Washington receiver and two-time FCS All-American Brandon Kaufman . . . Mirko Jurkovic, a former University of Notre Dame football standout who was part of the 1988 national championship team, died of cancer in Indiana, according to the university's athletic department. He was 42 . . . Duke announced that forward Ryan Kelly will be out indefinitely with a right foot injury. The senior is averaging 13.4 points for the No. 1 Blue Devils.
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An auction house expects six-figure bids when it sells a rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a yard sale in rural Maine. Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford said a man found the card by chance in a photo album he bought in Baileyville, on the Canadian border. The card is a photograph of the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club mounted on a card. Saco River manager Troy Thibodeau says he's aware of only two such cards in existence . . . The Pirates acquired righthander Jeanmar Gomez from the Indians in exchange for minor league outfielder Quincy Latimore . . . First baseman Jonathan Singleton, a minor league player in the Astros' organization, was suspended 50 games after a second violation for a drug of abuse . . . John Isner has withdrawn from the Australian Open because of a knee injury, leaving No. 22 Sam Querrey as the highest-ranked US man at the season's first Grand Slam tournament.


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The are currently not a team suited to paying a CB the money he will most likely want. There is a lack talent at pretty much every position except DE.
I think the biggest problem with this line of thinking is that revis won't be happy with his new contract...ever. You'll have to keep negotiating every single year and that's why trading cromartie is an option but I'm not sure it's the best option. If the jets could give revis a contract that will keep both parties happy then that's great, do it. I'm not sure that's possible though.
The are currently not a team suited to paying a CB the money he will most likely want. There is a lack talent at pretty much every position except DE.
I don't think Cro has ever said anything wrong in the media. Your gonna crucify him for sticking up for his teammates? Another terrible article by another media hack, and we are the JACKA$$ES who keep reading them and giving their sites traffic.
Stop letting your hatred of Revis get in the way of your good judgement haters.
It's a big risk considering that injury.
Cimini LOL. A small contingent of people want to trade Cro instead, he says.
I guarantee you he was reading that on message boards and thought it was an interesting angle so he tries to attribute it to a team source.
Herschel Walker got traded after week 5 from Dallas to the Vikings. Dallas got 3 1st and 2nd round picks, and a 3rd round pick among other things in return.
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Cro is the better athlete and he is cheaper to cheap. **** that.
My hope is that Idzik decides to deal Cro, get rid of one of the problems within the lockerroom, and lock up Revis long term.
A guy like Cro can be replaced. it may take another 20 or so years to replace a guy like Revis and that's the big difference the way I see it.


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CHAPEL HILL – On Friday, Chapel Hill will play host to the Pink Heals tour–a national firefighters' tour to raise money for cancer research–with not one, but two parades on Franklin Street and a display of pink fire trucks at University Mall.
The Pink Heals tour is the project of Guardians of the Ribbon, a six-year-old nonprofit with 34 chapters nationwide and a fleet of 80 pink fire trucks that travel around the country to help fight cancer. This will be its first-ever stop in Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones and UNC Lineberger Center special events coordinator Jennifer Bowman joined Aaron Keck on WCHL's Thursday Afternoon News to discuss the event.
The tour begins at 10:00 a.m. as the trucks arrive at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital, greeted by the Chapel Hill FD's signature Carolina blue trucks and UNC's Rameses; firefighters will visit with patients at the hospital for the rest of the morning.
At 12:30, the trucks will lead a parade in downtown Franklin Street, westbound from Hillsborough to Graham Streets and back up Rosemary to 140 West, where the pink trucks will be on display for the early afternoon. Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt will deliver remarks at 1:15.
Then at 2:30, the trucks will be on the move again–down the Franklin Street hill to University Mall, where they'll be on display again until leaving at 5:30. (Donations will be accepted at both 140 West and University Mall.)


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Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic will not face any suspension despite his red card in Sunday's fiery Community Shield defeat to Manchester City.
Ivanovic was sent off by referee Kevin Friend near end of the first half. The Serbian caught fellow countryman Aleksandar Kolarov with a high tackle which Friend deemed worthy of a straight red card.
It was thought Ivanovic would be banned for three matches, starting with Chelsea's opening league fixture at Wigan. However, it now appears the FA changed their rules after an incident during an Amsterdam Tournament in 2006, when Manchester United pair Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney were both sent off and ended up serving three-match bans.
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The England Academy showed the senior Great Britain side the way forward with a resounding 30-10 victory to level the Two Series 1-1. The side led 28-0 at half time producing five scintillating tries and although the Australian Institute of Sport came back with two tries to win the second half 10-2 England centre Steve Tyrer had the last word with a penalty ten minutes from time to finish with a personal tally of 14 points.
In a team superb effort by England loose forward Paul Clough was outstanding never taking a backward step making massive holes in the Institute defence in creating tries for his side. Scrum half Thomas Lee linked well with his partner stand off Scott Moore bringing the backs and forwards together and he capped his performance with a brace of tries.
The early moments of the game were scrappy with loose ball by both sides but England Academy opened the scoring after four minutes when Lee finished off a move following a penalty which they decide to run rather than kick for goal. Tyrer added the extras.
They doubled the lead four minutes later when Clough made a break down the short side and he passed inside to substitute Thomas Coyle who had come on for a blood spattered Moore, and he passed to fullback Chris Frodsham who scored to the left of the posts and the conversion made it 12-0.
Clough made two further break down the middle of the defence and his fellow forwards Sam Burgess, Joe Walsh, Steve Bannister served him well and Michael Mllorum quick play the balls gave them the go forward they required.
In the 17 minute Clough made another 25 meter break down the middle and on the next tackle Lee combined with Bannister to put Tyrer through for an angled run to the corner and he converted his kick as England were scoring at a point a minute.
The Institute although initially shell shocked dug in as stand off Joel Moon and scrum half Bradley Payne tried to get his troops moving and props David Taylor and Alex Switzer certainly put themselves about as did substitute Nathan Strudwick. Matt Smith?s introduction helped his sides go forward with some probing kicks.
Moore who had returned to the fray was prominent with his kick and chase game for England and put in some shuddering tackles on his opponents who went down to twelve men on 33 minutes when Strudwick was sin binned by referee Craig Halloran.
The Academy again decided to run the penalty and were rewarded for there enterprise on the second tackle when Mllorum?s quick play the ball saw his pass find centre Sean Gleeson who flicked the ball out to Riley who scored in the corner to make it 22-0.
Three minutes from the break England scored the decisive try when more indiscipline from the Institute saw another penalty against them and Lee took the ball up from the play the ball and scooted over from 20 meters. Tyrer?s conversion made it an impressive and unbelievable 28-0. The first had had shown England?s attack and sliding defence at it?s best.
In the second half the Institute took the game to England and they were rewarded when winger Mitchell Griffiths went in at the corner, following a move down the line by Switzer, Smith and Zac Russ. Talon couldn?t add the extras and the Academy were still in control.
They then took the game to England and during this spell sloppy passing let the Academy down giving the Institute the initiative and good field position. Indiscipline came into the England ranks and following this the Institute scored a converted try on the hour. Following two quick penalties Smith put a grubber kick into the in goal behind the posts and Talon reacted quickest to touch down and he added the extras to make it 28-10.
With the Institute comeback in the First Test from 14-4 down to a 28-14 lead England coach Lee Crooks must have had a feeling of de javu, but his side buckled down with a strong defensive stint in the final quarter, although at times they lost the ball in good positions in the final twenty of the Institute?s half.
With ten minutes remaining they made sure there was to be no comeback when they were awarded another penalty. This time they decide to go for goal rather than run with it and Tyrer duly obliged from 35 meters out to put the final points of the game on the board.
It got a little fractious towards the end but as the whistle blew for fulltime it was time for England celebrations in front of 700 happy England supporters.
The Australian Institute of Sport Man of the Match was awarded to Joel Moon and Paul Clough was awarded the England man of the Match.
England Academy second row forward Steve Bannister who had two cracking games for the side was named as the Man of the Series.
ENGLAND ACADEMY U/17S: 1. Chris Frodsham (St Helens), 2. Chris Riley (Warrington Wolves), 3. Sean Gleeson (Wigan Warriors), 4. Steve Tyrer (St Helens), 5. Dean McGilvray, 6. Scott Moore (St Helens), 7. Thomas Lee, 8. Sam Burgess (Bradford Bulls, 9. Michael Mcllorum (Wigan Warriors), 10. Joe Walsh (Leeds Rhinos), 11. Steve Bannister (St Helens), 12. Danny Colquitt (Warrington Wolves), 13. Paul Clough (St Helens), 14. Thomas Coyle (Wigan Warriors), 15. Dale Ferguson (Wakefield Trinity Wildcats), 16. Michael Cooper (Warrington Wolves), 17. Ben Kavanagh (Wigan Warriors).
Tries: Lee 2, Frodsham, Tyrer, Riley
Goals: Tyrer 5/6
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT: 1. Zac Russ, 2. Daniel Greaves, 3. Alex Talon, 4. Isillell Folan, 5. Mitchell Griffiths, 6. Joel Moon, 7. Bradey Payne, 8. David Taylor, 9. Harry Witt, 10. Alexander Switzer, 11. Martin Lewis 12. Mitchell Aubusson, 13. Nathan Beckett, 14. Matthew Smith, 15. Nathen Strudwick, 16. Zachary Padzkowski, 17. Jay Aston.
Tries: Griffiths, Talon
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Hi everyone,
We are having our first of many work weekends for trail building, mapping, and maintenance for Camp Jeep Wisconsin Saturday May 13th. We hope to be marking the new routes and clearing them. Plan on doing more hiking than driving in search of obstacles hidden in the woods. We also have some repairs to existing trails we must get started on. There will not be any open trail riding.
There is camping and hotels available if anyone is interested @
, visitors center/camping and lodging. You will need to make arrangements on your own.
We will meet at the staging area at 8 a.m., Road America, Saturday morning May 13th. Staging area for all work weekends will be Gate 3 off of Cty Hwy J @ Road America. We will have more details there of the day's events. We will be done Saturday at 5 p.m. Sunday we will start again at 8 a.m., and be done by 2 p.m. Bring lunch, and be gassed up and aired down so we can get started quickly. Bring your GPS, shovels, rakes, cutters, gloves, chain saws, etc. Please bring your safety gear for your equipment, too. One thing I cannot stress enough out there is safety. The property owners are all very safety conscious, and so are we. PLEASE BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS, AND WHO IS AROUND YOUR WORK AREA WHILE USING A CHAINSAW. We do not want any accidents.
Please e-mail or call me at
/ (920)667-4940 with your name, vehicle make, vehicle model, and vehicle tag# that you will be driving. If you use a tow rig to get your vehicle to Elkhart Lake, please send me the make/model/tag# for your tow rig as well. I must have this information prior to the work weekend because I am obligated to report our information to each of the property owners so they know who is legitimate and who is not. If you are not on my list you do not have permission to be on the properties.
Please e-mail me by 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 10th 2006 if you plan to attend the May 13-14th work weekend. Please place camp jeep and the work weekend date in the subject space. Please do not show up "unannounced".
Legal stuff:
As with all activities for Camp Jeep Wisconsin, there will be absolutely ZERO TOLERANCE for alcohol in your vehicle on the trails, or any illegal substance at any place on the properties. Violators will be removed from the trails and escorted from the properties. NO exceptions.
The Camp Jeep Wisconsin trails are all located on private property. Please respect the rights of the property owners. We are allowed on the properties only for this specific work weekend. Please do not jeopardize our relationship with the property owners by trespassing. Thank you for your cooperation.
Additional Work weekends:
**Please signup for as many or as few individual weekends you are able to work by the Wed prior to that weekend. Work weekends are not mandatory however all help is appreciated.
May 20-21st We will meet at the staging area Saturday morning at 8 a.m., Road America. We will be done Saturday at 5 p.m. Sunday we will start again at 8 a.m., and be done by 2 p.m.
May 27-29th We will meet at the staging area Saturday morning at 8 a.m., Road America. We will be done Saturday at 5 p.m. Sunday we will start again at 8 a.m., and be done by 2 p.m. Monday we will start again at 8 a.m., and be done by 2 p.m.
June 3-4th We will meet at the staging area Saturday morning at 8 a.m., Road America. We will be done Saturday at 5 p.m. Sunday we will start again at 8 a.m., and be done by 2 p.m.
More dates to follow if needed
These are work weekends; it is not mandatory in order to be a trail guide. Mandatory PRE RUNS will be scheduled later. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Fremont, WI 54940-9120
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Work Weekend May 20-21st 2006 info:
First off we would like to extend a huge thank you to every one that signed up to work last weekend! We had a good turn out and accomplished a lot. THANK YOU!!
To sign up for May 20-21st Work weekend you will need to send the following information to
by Wed. May 17th 2006. We will need your Full name (including middle initial), home address, cell/home phone # (or best way to contact you#), vehicle Make/Model and Tag # of your tow rig and trail runner if you plan on attending this weekends Work weekend. If you are bringing any passengers we will need their names as well.
If you would like to car pool to save on fuel that would be fine, just make sure I have the information on the vehicle you will be showing up with. We will meet at Gate 3 @ Road America 8am on Saturday and Sunday. Please bring with you a lunch, water for drinking, and tools (ie: nippers/loppers, chain saws, bow saws, etc. These are the tools that worked the best last weekend).
Thank you to everyone that has already signed up! If you sign up and are unable to make it, please call (920)379-6075 Amanda Cottrell or (920)379-6074 Chris Hannis as a curtsey to let us know you will not be making it.
This is a great opportunity for W4WDA!
*** Trail Guides are still needed for The actual event of Camp Jeep. The due date has been extended. Please sign up ASAP @
... Your help is greatly appreciated, and you get paid to have fun. Please remember that the trails can be run with STOCK vehicles, so you don't necessarily have to have a "off-road" jeep. It can be your daily driving jeep. SIGN UP NOW...
Chris Hannis & Amanda Cottrell
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To anyone attending May 20th-21st work weekend:
Road America will be quite busy this weekend. We will still meet at gate 3 however please make sure you park off to the side of the entrance as to make sure vehicles can enter the Road America Grounds. We will be meeting at 8am and should miss the busy traffic.
Thanks much!
See you all there!
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"The point (1,8) is on the graph y=f(x). Find the corresponding coordinates of this point on each of the following graphs:
... c) y= -2f(-x)-7."
The textbook answer is (-1,9). I don't understand how they got this answer. The only way that that would make sense is if the corresponding y coordinate was doubled and positive, then subtracted by 7. But why would it be positive? The equation for corresponding coordinates is (x/k+d,ya+c) (where the parent function is y= af(k(x-d))+c). Accordingly, the y coordinate should be negative. Specifically, I think it should be -23.


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[Sucks! as a contemptuous interjection used by British schoolboys is found by 1913]


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It seems as though many people are just looking at the US market as a gauge for RIM's success. Although it is a big part it's not the only part to measure the success of RIM. The fact is RIM is very popular in other parts of the world, and actually account for more of RIM's market.
According to The Financial Express a publication from India, the BlackBerry brand was voted the second most aspirational brand in India. BlackBerry came in at second place before its competitors Apple and Nokia. BlackBerry also dropped in on the publications most visible Brands of 2011.


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A sampling of works by Oklahoma Christian faculty and staff members:
Dr. James D. Dvorak - Published and co-edited with Dr. Gordon Heath from McMaster Divinity College, Baptism: Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspectives
Dr. James D. Dvorak and Dr. John Harrison - The New Testament Church: The Challenge of Developing Ecclesiologies
Dr. Phil Lewis - From Boardroom to Whiteboard: A New Generation of Leadership
Dr. Stafford North - Published a video series with 21st Century Christian - Every Member Reaching Out - 13 lessons on DVD that encourage congregations to be more active in local outreach.
Dr. Philip Patterson - (co-author with Lee Wilkins) - Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, 7th edition. The textbook has been translated into Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Ethiopian.
Dr. Philip Patterson - (co-author with Michael W. Herndon) - Right-Sizing Your Life. Also published and translated into Indonesian and Korean.


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A 10-goal scoring burst in the second quarter spurred the University of Maryland (#5 media/#7 coaches) men's lacrosse team to a 16-8 victory over (#2/#1) Syracuse in front of 5,283 at the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon.
Maryland (3-0) was led by junior attackman Jay Carlson and freshman midfielder Connor Cannizzaro, who each had four points on three goals and an assist. Syracuse (2-1) got four points on three goals and an assist from Henry Schoonmaker.
The Orange got off to a quick start with Kevin Rice and Donahue scored unassisted goals in the first six minutes of the game to give Syracuse the early 2-0 lead.
Maryland got on the board with 7:59 left in the first when a quick restart off of a missed shot gave freshman attackman Matt Rambo rifled a shot from the right wing off of a feed from junior midfielder Bryan Cole.
A sideline violation on the Terps gave Syracuse the first extra-man opportunity of the game and Schoonmaker converted off of a feed by Donahue to extend the Orange lead back to two with 4:53 left in the first.
Senior midfielder Mike Chanenchuk made it a one-goal game again when he dodged the Orange long pole multiple times before getting off a low shot that trickled through Syracuse goalie Don Lamolinara to make it a 3-2 game at the 3:47 mark.
The second quarter started off with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on junior faceoff man Charlie Raffa, but the Maryland man-down unit held strong with senior goalie Niko Amato making a big save on a shot by Schoonmaker near the end of the penalty.
The Orange did push its lead back to a pair when Randy Staats found Derek Maltz for a score with 12:37 left in the second to make it a 4-2 Syracuse lead.
But the game would take a turn there as the Terps would go on an 8-0 run to take its first lead of the game.
Starting the run was a typical goal for Carlson, as he dipped and ducked under a SU defender before tip-toeing the crease and finishing past Lamolinara with 10:27 to go in the second.
Sophomore Henry West tied the game at 4-4 for the Terps with an unassisted laser from the left wing at the 9:41 mark.
Cannizzaro, who grew up 16 miles from the Carrier Dome, scored the next two goals for the Terps to extend the lead to 6-4. After an unassisted goal by the freshman to make it a 6-4 lead, he then took a feed from Rambo and finished from the left side to up the lead to 7-4 with 8:23 left in the second.
Syracuse gave Maryland several extra-man opportunities on faceoff violations and the Terps used on of those to make it an 8-4 lead as Carlson scored his second of the game off of a feed by junior midfielder Joe LoCascio at the 8:08 mark.
Raffa scored two of the next three goals for Maryland, winning faceoffs clean and running in unchecked for inside goals. Sandwiched in between was Rambo's second goal of the game, which combined to give Maryland a 10-4 lead.
Syracuse stopped the bleeding as Hakeem Lecky scored an unassisted goal at the 5:42 mark of the second, but Chanenchuk answered back with 2:32 left in the half on a runner down the right alley to push Maryland's lead back to six at 11-5.
Syracuse had the ball and looked to cut the lead back to five, but junior defender Goran Murray caused a turnover by Rice and junior defender Casey Ikeda came out of a scrum with a tough groundball to give the Terps the ball back with 41 seconds left.
That effort led to the Terps' 10th goal of the quarter as Cannizzaro made a great look across the crease to junior attackman Kevin Forster, who showed a lot of patience as he waited for an opening before finishing past Orange goalie Bobby Wardell with just nine seconds left on the clock.
Maryland opened up the third quarter with Carlson finishing his hat trick from in tight off of a feed from Forster to make it 13-5 Terps at the 12:53 mark.
Wardell made a stop on a Channenchuk shot on a Maryland EMO, but his clearing pass was knocked down by Cannizzaro right in front of the goal. Wardell was out of the crease and Cannizzaro had a clean look at the goal, but his shot bounced over the crossbar. Carlson collected a ball from the endline on the quick restart and fed Cannizzaro on the crease, who finished past a recovering Wardell to make it 14-5 at the 7:47 mark.
LoCascio made it a 16-5 lead for Maryland with a laser off a stepdown from the right alley off of a feed from Forster with 5:16 left in the third.
Schoonmaker stopped the Terps' 6-0 run with his second of the day for the Orange at the 1:34 mark to make it a 16-6 game heading into the fourth quarter.
Staats scored the first goal of the fourth quarter for the Orange to trim the Maryland lead back to single digits with 6:16 left to play and Syracuse added its final tally with 0:02 on the clock.
Raffa was dominant at the faceoff X, winning 19-of-26 faceoffs with a game-high 11 groundballs.
Maryland's defense was stout all afternoon and Amato backed it up with an 11-save performance.
Maryland stays in conference when it hosts 2013 NCAA champions Duke at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium on Saturday, March 1. Faceoff for the game between the Terps and Blue Devils is set for noon and the game will be streamed live on TerpsTV.
Game Notes:
• With today's 16-8 win Maryland is now 10-6 all-time vs. Syracuse.
• With two points on two goals, senior Mike Chanenchuk now has 30 multi-point and 22 multi-goal games for his career.
• With four points on three goals and an assist, junior Jay Carlson now has six hat tricks, 15 multi-point and 12 multi-goal games for his career.
• With two points on a goal and an assist, junior Joe LoCascio now six five multi-point games for his career.
• With three points on two goals and an assist, freshman Matt Rambo registered his third multi-point, and multi-goal game of his career.
• With four points on three goals and an assist, freshman Connor Cannizzaro registered his first hat trick, third multi-point and second multi-goal game of his career.
• With two points on a goal and an assist, junior Kevin Forster now has two multi-point games for his career.
• With two points on a goal and an assist, junior Bryan Cole registered the first multi-point game of his career.
• With two points on two goals, junior Charlie Raffa registered his first multi-goal and second multi-point game of his career.


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JAGA is an extensible and pluggable API for implementing genetic algorithms (GA) and genetic programming (GP) applications in Java.
JAGA is looking for new maintainers / co-maintainers!
The JAGA developers no longer have the resources to continue developing the core system. We are looking for volunteers who would like to support the framework and to continue developing the API.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Sep 2009 14:57 UTC, submitted by Alexander Bisogiannis
With the imminent release of the Haiku Alpha, Haiku-Files is now releasing ISO images for testing. Note that these are not the actual alpha release, but only daily builds of the branch which will eventually become the alpha! "With the upcoming release of Haiku R1Alpha1, we are providing candidate imagefiles. They are X86 GCC2 Hybrid images and provided as Raw HD, VMware, and ISO images. As per the R1Alpha1 specifications, they are built from the releases/r1alpha1 branch code and utilize the alpha-* build profile."
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I must say I'm VERY impressed with the progress Haiku made. Yesterday I tested it and it worked EXCELLENT both on my desktop and new netbook computer. Of course WiFi was not detected, but the FreeBSD-derrived framework is probobly not finished yet. Anyway - everything worked out of the box - multimedia [BeOS was a multimedia OS!], graphics, sound [the desktop sound was bit buggy - AC97 sound, although the netbook's Intel HD Audio worked as a charm], and even touchpad with the multitouch and scroll spaces! not mentioning improved network security, closed ports; sshd turned off by default. This is a milestone. I'm looking forward for the other improvements.
Thanks HAIKU TEAM!


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Franchises: Should you buy an existing location or open a new one?
Purchasing an existing franchise or deciding to become a new franchisee are both great options for prospective business buyers.
With the brand, operating plan and offerings already established, many of the most difficult owner tasks are already handled. The question for those entering the franchise market however is which option to chose. Is it best to purchase a currently operating franchise location or start from scratch with a new franchise location?
The truth is there are advantages to both choices. As a prospective buyer, it's up to you to decide which of the benefits most suits your needs.
The general consensus may be that buying an existing franchise is the safer bet. While there are both pros and cons of doing this, existing franchises do offer several advantages worth considering.
First of all, purchasing an existing franchise opportunity can be a fairly quick turnaround. The business is likely already running fairly successfully and will have a track record of profitability. You do not need to hire and train employees to run the franchise, as the previous owner would already have done this, and would have employees in place.
An established franchise also benefits from its existing location. Previous local marketing campaigns and promotions have created a loyal customer base, which are all familiar with this location.
Finally, purchasing an existing franchise allows you to have an income from Day 1, whereas starting a new franchise location requires you to build up customer demand over many months.
While existing franchises offer the safer bet, a new franchise's higher risks offer potentially higher rewards.
The most obvious advantage that new owners may enjoy is that chance to start with a clean slate: a business opportunity unaffected by the habits, preferences and/or shortcomings of a previous owner. Although it may be more work to get the business off the ground, you don't have to worry about negative customer experiences for a particular location that may have occurred during past ownerships.
While there is usually little negotiation opportunities, new franchises are often less expensive because you aren't buying existing cash flow from an established customer base. A business with a solid reputation and a strong customer following is clearly worth more than one that is just getting off the ground.
Finally, when you buy a new franchise, you'll have the advantage of the most up-to-date equipment and technology. Outdated equipment can be especially problematic in industries such as food service. It's important to make sure the business is outfitted with reliable machines and the latest designs.
Ultimately, the decision to buy a new or existing franchise boils down to your personality, preferences and risk threshold. Existing franchises are usually a safer investment, but if the idea of breaking ground in a new franchise area doesn't faze you (or even appeals to you), then a new franchise might be a better option.
There's no right or wrong answer to the new versus existing franchise dilemma. Both approaches have benefits and drawbacks.


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Remnants of a Roman statue in North Africa could be the "first-ever depiction of tartan", according to a BBC Scotland documentary.
A piece of a bronze statue of the Emperor Caracalla contains the small figure of a Caledonian warrior wearing what appears to be tartan trews.
The third century Roman emperor Caracalla styled himself as the conqueror of the Caledonians.


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From Iron Chariots Wiki
Reincarnation is a belief that after death you are going to be born again as either another human being or an otherwise conscious creature.
The first type of this claim clearly fails to take in mind the population growth but can be rescued if one assumes that the conscious beings born as humans may have been intelligent aliens in their previous life. The population of the universe as a whole may be steady.


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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
1978 Schwinn Paramount
I'll bet most of you don't have one of these. Either do I for that matter. A friend just purchased this bike from the original owner for the grand sum of $ 75. I think the pedals alone are worth more than that. The rear Der. had a '73 stamp on it but the original bill of sale was dated 1978. Perhaps this bike spent many years hanging in a shop waiting to be ridden. I guess it has sat for a good number of years but now it is getting used a bit. Other than the rotten old tires and some funky shifting , this bike is pretty choice. The front wheel is mysteriously unoriginal.....no reason given by the seller. Odd, as the entire rest of the bike is stock.
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- limom said...
I pray for deals like that, but my prayers go unanswered.
- January 6, 2011 at 12:46 AM
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Riddle me this, Batman: What is the opposite of a pop-up store?
If your answer was "mom-and-pop retailers," you shall live to shop in East Hampton Village for another day.
A recent ad from Manhattan Skyine Management Corporation, heralding retail space in East Hampton on the Circle and Park Place, appealed to "mom and pop retailers," with the bonus that the landlord "will set lease terms accordingly." It's been noted by locals and real estate agents that the pop-up store business, while a successful stopgap measure for landlords, is not a long-term solution.
"Village government would encourage mom-and-pop stores," said East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach. "When entrepreneurs come in, we wish them well."
White's Pharmacy and a handful of other East Hampton retail establishments have the increasingly uncommon distinction of staying in business, in the same spot, for over four decades, year round. So how do they manage to do it?
White's, at 81 Main Street, was established in 1873 and has occupied the same space since then, making it the oldest continually-operating retail business in the village.
Bradley Marmon purchased White's in 1954, although the business was recently sold to the pharmacist Vincent Alibrandi. Elise Marmon, Mr. Marmon's daughter, is still the cosmetics buyer at the store and can be found there more days than not.
"As the town has changed, so has our clientele," said Ms. Marmon. One can no longer buy remedies for cholera, dyspepsia, or nervous prostration (at least not over the counter), but the shop is chock-full of high-end cosmetics and perfumes, keeping up with new brands as they emerge, and offers a full-service pharmacy as well.
Sam's Pizza has occupied the same beige-colored spot on Newtown Lane since 1947, and remains virtually unchanged since Sam Naska opened the place with his family, when it catered to the year-round community, including Jackson Pollock, who lived in Springs. In a place where restaurants go toes-up about as often as goldfish, Sam's is one of the oldest eateries on eastern Long Island.
East Hampton Village Hardware — now known as Village True Value Hardware — sold its first hammer in 1971, a few doors down from Sam's, the same year as Tennis East on Main Street opened half a block away from White's. Bernard Kiembock said that at the time it was a gamble to open across the street from East End Hardware, which closed several years ago.
Tennis East, which was profiled in The Star five years ago for its 35th anniversary, has been stringing rackets and marketing duds for the courts for 40 years. Renee Fertig, Adrienne Pizzolato, and Alexis Glowa are the owners.
Although, according to Ms. Fertig, they are selling the business, it's sort of staying in the family. The new owners are Michael Donahue and Robert Rahr of M.D. Tennis in Westhampton. Mr. Donohue worked for Ms. Fertig at Tennis East a dozen years ago.
"The secret has been, we love our customers," she said. "And also to be very careful about inventory going into the winter. Winters can be hard," she said.
Even though it has moved its location at least three times in the past four decades, it wouldn't be right in a list of decades-old village retailers to leave out BookHampton, which has been a comfortable literary hidey-hole for the year-round community of bookworms for over 40 years.
The outcry that arose when East Hampton Cinema changed from a one-screen movie theater to two screens during the late 1970s would be laughed at today. But the large single-screen theater, which offered smoking and non-smoking sections, had been serving up popcorn and entertainment since 1926 as the movie house built by Leonard Edwards. That incarnation, the Edwards Theater, burned to the ground in the mid-1960s, and was rebuilt as the East Hampton Cinema that exists today. It reopened on Aug. 3, 1965, with a showing of "The Finest Hours," a documentary about Winston Churchill narrated by Orson Welles.
Vered Gallery, Obligato, Gubbins, Khanh Sports, the Party Store, Bonne Nuit, Second Nature, Wittendale's, the Palm restaurant — these businesses will probably still be serving customers, along with the other places mentioned, as additional stores and restaurants continue to pop up and fizzle out in the coming years.


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Tech Data Corporation has expanded its relationship with ASUS to distribute the new ASUS Taichi, a convertible notebook and tablet device. The system is designed with a back-to-back dual-screen design that enables users to switch between tablet and notebook in a single touch.
"We are always looking to align more strategically with our vendors, and we've certainly seen a significant growth in Asus' commitment to product innovation and to the channel," said Greg Parsonson, vice president of product marketing for client systems at Tech Data. "We have the entire line of Asus products including their notebooks, the tablets, and now their convertible devices."
Parsonson went on to say that Tech Data was drawn to the Asus convertible based on the customer value of getting two devices in one. "Our customers can get the benefits of the notebook with the flexibility and form factor of the tablet, both of which are becoming more prominent, given the capabilities of Windows 8. In addition, the real differentiator with the Taichi is the dual-screen format. So, this is an especially great option for situations that require face-to-face interaction."
[Related: Tech Data Rolls Out Warranty Offer For Channel]
In addition to Windows 8, the overall value proposition includes an Intel Core processor and two back-to-back full HD screens.
"I think this could be a great opportunity out of the gates for both Asus and Tech Data," said Parsonson. "There are two sides to Asus. They began on the component side and in recent years have demonstrated excellent innovation on the finished goods hardware side. They may not be a household name, but the products speak for themselves. They're definitely ready for prime time in the business world."
ASUS claims more than 11,000 employees around the globe, including a team of 3,100 research and development engineers. Company revenue for 2011 was approximately $11.9 billion.


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BEERSHEBA, Israel, May 27 (UPI) -- An Israeli man says he wants to divorce his wife because she refuses to part with her 550 cats.
The man, whose name was not reported, petitioned the Rabbinical Court in Beersheba for divorce from his cat-loving wife this past week, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem, reported Sunday.
He told the court he was unable to sleep in the couple's bedroom because his wife's hundreds of cats were constantly sleeping on the bed.
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Wow, it's been a while since my last blog post and also since I've last added content to my genealogy website. Unfortunately, I've been busy with some other "projects." One of those "projects" is my PSP program. PSP (Paint Shop Pro) is a photo-editing/graphics program. I've been using it several years for the photo editing part, but lately I have been trying to learn more of graphics design tools. One reason is that I would really like to digitally scrap my vintage photos and then publish them in a photobook. I've found many very talented designers who have created beautiful digital papers and scrap kits using PSP. I have considered using their papers and/or kits, but have decided I would really like to create my own designs. I've read through many tutorials to get a feel for how to create different designs and effects. But, of course, the way to really learn is to play with the software and try different things. (After all, there's always the delete key if you're not happy with the results!)
To start, I decided to create a my own custom header for my genealogy site (and this blog). The hardest part about this, is trying to decide on a size – particularly a width. Not only will people viewing the website have different size monitors but they may set their browser window to any arbitrary width to accomodate viewing multiple, overlapping windows. For the website banner, I settled on a width of 728 pixels, which may look "short" on wider monitors/browser windows, but (hopefully) won't get terribly cut off on narrower ones. If you're visiting my website, I hope you like it!


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Green Bay, WI (SportsNetwork.com) - The Green Bay Packers released 18 players as part of their final roster cuts on Saturday.
Also, the team placed defensive lineman Khyri Thornton on injured reserve. He was the team's third-round pick in this year's draft. Also place on IR were offensive lineman Aaron Adams, linebacker Nate Palmer and tight end Jake Stoneburner.
The releases included: guard Jordan McCray, safeties Tanner Miller and Chris Banjo, tight end Justin Perillo, running backs LaDarius Perkins and Michael Hill, defensive end Luther Robinson, cornerbacks Jumal Rolle and Ryan White, tackles Jeremy Vujnovich and John Fullington, wide receivers Myles White, Kevin Dorsey and Alex Gillett, center Garth Gerhart, defensive tackle Carlos Gray and linebackers Jake Doughty and Adrian Hubbard.
Green Bay has three quarterbacks on its roster, as Matt Flynn and Scott Tolzien survived the cuts to join Aaron Rodgers.


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