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Should drunken motorboat operators continue to get away with a slap on the wrist if they get caught?
Or should sharper teeth be added to the law to curb their enthusiasm for tipsy boating?
State Sen. Julie Morrison, a Deerfield Democrat, and Pam Althoff, a McHenry Republican, favors the latter approach.
A bill sponsored by Morrison and Althoff, which passed the Illinois Senate on Thursday, 54-0, certainly would give pause to motorboat operators statewide, if it becomes law.
The Boating Under the Influence bill would authorize the Secretary of State's Office to suspend a person's driver's license if that individual is found to be operating a motorboat while intoxicated.
A blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent or higher would indicate intoxication, the same level as is applied to vehicular drivers.
Piloting a boat while under the influence of drugs or other intoxicating compounds would also put operators in jeopardy of having their motor vehicle driver's licenses suspended.
The bill received "yes" votes from three area state senators: Althoff; Dan Duffy, R-Lake Barrington; and Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles.
With the Fox River and the Chain O' Lakes in our region, boating safety is a constant concern, particularly now as warmer weather approaches.
Some people may believe the bill to toughen penalties for drunken motorboat piloting is a stretch. After all, the offense takes place on the water, not on roadways. Why suspend driving privileges on land for something that didn't happen there?
We don't buy that argument.
Boats are required to be licensed by the state. Drunken motorboat operation occurs on state-owned waterways. Extending the punishment for a moving violation on water to the operation of motor vehicles on land provides a sensible incentive for boat operators to stay sober.
We note that operators of boats with no motors would not be subject to the harsher penalties. Neither would passengers on recreational boats, however the boats are powered.
The bill will now be considered by the Illinois House. We hope its members show the same wisdom as their Senate colleagues.


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Here's what I thought was an interesting test of our tactical baseball managerial skills.
While this scenario was ripped from the headlines (I think I owe Dick Wolf $1 now) this is a generic scenario with no teams or player names attached. If you want to talk about the game last night please do so in a game thread.
Here's the scenario: Down by 1 in the top of the 8th (you are the visiting team). 1 out. Runner on 3B and 1B. Solid contact hitter at the plate, but he's been struggling latley so he isn't the guarenteed hit he usually is. Also, he is slow so the chance of hitting into an inning ending double play is pretty good. Guy on 1B has some wheels but does get caught so he isn't a guarenteed steel either.
As the coach of the Cyber-Galatic Cincinnati Somethings do you try to steal 2B to put the runner in better scoring position and reduce the chances of a double play OR do focus on getting the tying run on 3B home and trust your slumping hitter will save the day?
You make the call! (crud, now I think I owe NFL $1).


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In a bid to halt rising health care costs, local insurance carriers are pushing lower-cost plans with fewer choices of physicians and hospitals.
The tradeoff: In exchange for lower overall health care costs, some Americans may have to switch physicians or end up paying higher out-of-network rates to keep their longtime family doctor.
The trend isn't new. But it has been accelerated by the Affordable Care Act and the creation of Accountable Care Organizations, a new kind of health care model, says Gary Shorb, president and CEO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
"It results in a lot of thinking about how we work with health plans and how we configure our different contracts," Shorb said.
Already, many insurance carriers have purged the most expensive physicians and hospitals from their in-network provider ranks.
Insurance companies control costs by negotiating to pay hospitals and physicians lower reimbursement rates in exchange for creating limited provider choices. While physicians and hospitals receive less money for each service, the narrower networks drive more patient volume to in-network providers.
"If the insurance companies want to send consumers to really good places – then it is fine," says Dr. David Mirvis, a professor with the departments of preventive medicine and internal medicine at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center. "The problem is that if not-so-good players come into the market and undercut the prices, then insurance carriers have to decide between quality and pricing."
Historically, providers have had more pull than insurance companies and consumers in setting health care prices, said Mirvis, who also is a senior research fellow in the Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Health Care Economics at The University of Memphis. But by restricting networks, payers gain more bargaining power.
That tug-of-war between payers and providers has forced consolidation in many larger markets – something that is unlikely to happen in Memphis, Mirvis said.
That's because the Memphis market is already very consolidated and there are a handful of local players that provide care for the region.
In Tennessee, the rates for plans that will be sold this fall on the state's health insurance exchange haven't yet been released. But plans that will be sold on California's state-run exchange are cheaper than expected, but with fewer choices of physicians and providers.
Consumers who want UCLA Medical Center may only have one carrier choice: Anthem Blue Cross, the Los Angeles Times reported. Likewise, consumers who purchase Blue Shield of California plans will have access to about 36 percent of the carrier's statewide physician network.
West Tennessee residents who purchase insurance coverage through Community Health Alliance on the state's exchange this fall will be directed to providers at Baptist Memorial Health Care facilities.
The Knoxville-based insurance carrier was created with a $73 million federal loan in August 2012 to provide competition to other for-profit insurance carriers.
The exclusive agreement could be a boon for the Memphis-based Baptist system, which operates 14 hospitals across West Tennessee, North Mississippi and eastern Arkansas. Locally, many insurance carriers already market lower-cost plans with fewer physician and hospital choices to employers.
Cigna Corp., which provides coverage for a number of employers in the area, including FedEx Corp., the city of Memphis, and Shelby County employees' plans, offers some plans that exclude Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. hospitals and physicians, but include Methodist-affiliated providers.
The carrier's plans may also soon exclude Saint Francis-affiliated providers and hospitals.
A Cigna spokeswoman confirmed Tenet Healthcare Corp., the parent of Saint Francis, and Cigna can't agree on a new contract. The current contract ends Sept. 5.
"We are willing to continue negotiations and would like for Saint Francis to remain part of our network. However, we have an obligation to protect the interests of our clients and customers and ensure that they have access to high-quality doctors and hospitals at a reasonable cost," Cigna said in a prepared statement.
Mirvis says the shifting market dynamics driven by the Affordable Care Act are putting pressure on both insurance carriers and providers.
"Everyone is going to get squeezed in terms of what is going to be expected of them in exchange for less money," he said. "This is market reform at multiple levels, and it changes the way people are paid – and you have to react to that with constraints … especially when you have patients who expect certain things."
Shorb says he thinks the move to narrower networks isn't just about fewer choices for consumers. It's about a move to a model of care that will create financial incentives for large managed groups that include primary care doctors, specialists, social workers, pharmacists and nurses to work together to manage a patient's overall health.
The way for a company to make sure it is delivering care efficiently is to make sure it has a network of closely aligned physicians, he added.
While the creation of accountable care organizations like the one Shorb described is in its infancy, many experts think that's where health care is headed. Accountable care organizations are reimbursed one lump sum to manage a group of patients, rather than billing individually for each service. If they are successful in keeping patients healthy, they make a profit.
"What's going to matter is where that extra money goes," Mirvis said. "Does it reduce premiums and improve overall care?"
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Levena Irene (Turner) Gregory, 88, of Kirksville, Missouri, passed away Wednesday (February 13, 2013) at Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville.
Born October 3, 1924 in Kirksville, Levena was the daughter of Roy Lester and Myrtle Olive (Darnell) Turner. On January 31, 1948 in Edina, Missouri, Levena was united in marriage to Alden Glen Gregory, who passed away January 20, 1987.
Levena was also preceded in death by her parents and five brothers: Charles, Tommy, Donnie, Chester, and Leroy Turner.
She is survived by three brothers: Earl Turner and wife, Phyllis of Queen City, Missouri, Roy Turner and wife Carolyn Turner of Kirksville, and Clifford Turner and wife, Donneta of Kirksville; three sisters: Lorena Darnel of Kirksville, Betty Beerbower and husband, Don of Novinger, Missouri, and Kathryn Vincent and husband, Pearley of Queen City, Missouri; one sister-in-law, Odilia Turner of Kirksville, Missouri; longtime friend, Mattie Horton; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Levena attended Kirksville High School and lived her entire life in the Kirksville community. After high school, she worked at International Shoe Company for forty-five years. Levena was a member of the First Church of God in Kirksville. She enjoyed cooking, collecting recipe books, listening to music and spending time with family.
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IRVING, Texas – Baylor's Logan Vick was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Week, while teammate Trent Blank earned the league's Pitcher of the Week award, the conference office announced Monday.
This marks the third time in program history the Bears have had the Big 12's Player and Pitcher of the Week at the same time. Chris Slater and Logan Verrett were honored on March 14 last season, and Josh Ford and Mark McCormick earned the awards on March 22, 2004.
The weekly awards were the first career honors for both Vick, a junior outfielder from Kerrville, Texas, and Blank, a senior right-handed pitcher from Columbia, Ill.
Blank went 2-0 and allowed only one hit – a single – in 7.0 innings over two appearances last week. He earned both wins against ranked opponents, knocking off No. 15 TCU at home on Tuesday and going on the road to beat No. 22 UCLA on Friday.
Blank threw 4.0 no-hit innings in a pre-determined short start against the Horned Frogs. He struck out two, threw 62 pitches and helped the Bears carry a no-hitter through 7.2 innings in a 7-1 win. Three days later, Blank tossed 3.0 innings of shutout relief on only 30 pitches in a 15-3 win at UCLA.
Vick hit .400 (8-for-20) with four doubles, a home run, five RBI, four runs scored and one stolen base to help the Bears to a 3-2 record for the week. He drew four walks and struck out just once, posting a .480 on-base percentage and a .750 slugging percentage for the week.
Vick had a single, a sacrifice fly and a walk in Tuesday's win over TCU, and he walked twice in Wednesday's win against Texas State at The Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas. Vick doubled in four consecutive at-bats in the Bears' series-opening win at UCLA on Friday, coming one double shy of Jeremy Dodson's school and NCAA Division I record for doubles in a game set on March 24, 1998 against Hardin Simmons. Vick also singled and stole a base in the second game at UCLA and hit a solo home run and a single in the series finale.
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Crystal Palace manager George Burley insists he has no regrets about bringing Edgar Davids to the club.
Dutch legend Davids came out of retirement in August at the age of 37 to join the Eagles but managed just seven appearances and left earlier this week.
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"He'd been out the game for two years, he's 37 and he also missed a month with a family bereavement.
"But it was a great experience for everyone at the club and if you asked me to do it again I would. He was on pay as you play, so he didn't cost the club anything and he wanted to come. So I didn't see anything negative at all."
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I was thinking the same about "Outlook"...
One time at a startup we were trying to figure out what e-mail system to use. I asked my boss what the Magic 8-Ball was (although I knew because I had one as a child). I asked it, "What e-mail system should we use?"
He said, "You can only ask it yes or no questions."
I got the answer: "Outlook good."
We ended up using Outlook.
And yet, IE remains.
It's just a disfunctional Chrome with Opera branding now.
It died when they abandoned their own codebase.
It died right at the start when it was `pay up for love the ads`...resuscitated briefly when it was the only decent browser for pre-smartphones, then got finished off when Safari and stock/Chrome was let free on smartphones/tablets.
It's just a disfunctional Chrome with Opera branding now.
Chrome is just a dysfunctional Webkit, which is just a dysfunctional Khtml....
While losing Presto, which has been around since the early days [wikipedia.org], sucks it's not exactly cheap "me-tooing" the other guys. Besides, one of the reasons for the lack of popularity was the obscure rendering issues occasionally encountered with pages. "Whelp, my banking site just doesn't work, gotta switch browsers" type situations weren't exactly uncommon and arguably speak more about the markup than the engine itself but an end user might not be so understanding. Operas approach makes a lot of sense from a technical standpoint. One could dream about an opensource Presto but with the whole software patent blight I don't see that occurring any time soon.
It died when they abandoned their own codebase.
Seems more like a fork, doesn't it? Feature branch the engine, keep the UI. Granted it's still under heavy development, I'm excited about seeing it mature - I'd like to see how their development tools will be integrated (element inspection and whatnot) since the "old" Opera is known for having many useful features baked in. I'd like to see a webkit with some sweet extensible architecture so we might have Firefox level plugins, see Adblock. I realize this is available now but the effectiveness varies from Chrome to Firefox due to how webkit handles network requests, I'd like to think there is an opportunity here. If development time is ultimately saved as a result, hopefully additional features will once again be the focus instead of reinventing the wheel.
It's just a disfunctional Chrome with Opera branding now.
Chrome is just a dysfunctional Webkit, which is just a dysfunctional Khtml....
Except that I find more websites work when I enable the KWebKitPart plugin in Konqueror than when I use KHTML for the renderer. So, while they may have had similar origins, WebKit seems to be getting more love.
Except that I find more websites work when I enable the KWebKitPart plugin in Konqueror than when I use KHTML for the renderer.
Is this due to webkit specific markup or missing features KHTML side? Have an example page we can examine to see where the issue lies?
So, while they may have had similar origins, WebKit seems to be getting more love.
That's how forks work, it was split not simply for the awesomeness, but because they wanted to add features. If they were so satisfied with KHTML they wouldn't have forked it.
Is this due to webkit specific markup or missing features KHTML side?
It's typically missing features and unresolved bugs on the KHTML side.
Have an example page we can examine to see where the issue lies?
He wasn't filing a bug report, just remarking that KHTML tends to be less useful on [admittedly, foolishly magazine-imitating] popular websites. KHTML simply can't compete on resources with Google and Apple (despite their current status, they put a lot into WebKit). Kudos to the Konqueror team for making t
Kudos to the Konqueror team for making their rendering engine pluggable, though!
Indeed! To clarify, my point wasn't to slam KHTML, or the GP, but to objectively see where the issue lies. After all Slashdot is frequented by movers and shakers, which the NSA even targets
dakira > TruthNow â 3 days ago
Wow. They took a piece of cross-platform software and made it stop working on Linux by applying their skin. That's just sad.
http://blogs.opera.com/desktop... [opera.com]
CrashNBurn71 > dakira â 3 days ago
Or you know, instead of the past year of this nonsense, Opera DESKTOP could of used WebKit/Blink to render the page, and kept Presto to render the Opera UI. It would of been more memory intensive, but at least it would of been a usable browser.
A thread for every single open Tab is beyond ludicrous. A thread for every window *maybe*.
Opera 15+ is worse than MS Office + the Ribbon
Why anyone is bothering with Opera any longer is beyond me. A year later there's not even a hint of a customizable interface or the Side-Panel. M2 has been flat out abandoned, not a single update since it was split into its own "App".
Other Browsers have a handful of developers or less, and are blowing Opera out of the water. (See Maxthon or Slepnir -- the whole Fenrir Inc only has 50-200 employees.)
(*) And yeah some of us actually do Software Development beyond throwing a couple webpages onto the internet, and actually know what CAN be accomplished in a day or a month or a year.
No bookmarks in a year? Opera doesn't want to add bookmarks. Or it would of been done in a week, maybe a month. Its not f'n rocket science.
Many? long-time Opera users would likely agree that Opera was quite possibly one of the top 10 software products ever. quite possibly one of the top 10 software products ever.
(*) Chopera defenders (and the Dev's themselves) on the blog frequently spout about how software development takes time... as the excuse for why almost none of Opera's old functionality has made its way into the new Chrome "clone".
clone - implies something that is a copy of its "parent"
I used it all the way up until about 6 months ago when the rendering problems finally got the best of me. It's unfortunate, because it has the best UI customisation bar none. I had my back gesture bound to a small history drop-down menu, so I could jump back to any point in the tab's history. And the way I could group tabs together into collapsible bundles was amazing.
It was things like that that made me start using it, like, 10 years ago. I'm sad that the new version is so non-functional by comparison. Sur
Mouse gestures are what I'll miss the most when I finally grudgingly upgrade to the new version {unless they have managed to put them in} or something else. I've not checked for a while does any other browser have them.
It's just a disfunctional Chrome with Opera branding now.
It died when they abandoned their own codebase.
This is why I never upgraded from the 12.x series. Once that stopped working on a variety of sites (namely Mega, and incomplete support for Google Docs), I moved back to Firefox (via Pale Moon -- for some reason my system doesn't like 32-bit Firefox but 64-bit is just fine).
Stripping out Bookmarks functionality and then not replacing it for three straight releases was when I knew the Opera goose was well and truly cooked.
Their only hope is to open the codebase of desktop Opera. As it stands, mainstreamers see no reason to use it over Chrome or Firefox, and FOSS geeks are turned off by its closed source, cathedral nature. They really don't offer good reasons why they aren't doing this, other than the paranoid notion that the bigger boys will steal their precious code. Sad, really. With the amount of bitching about Firefox losing its way ("muh firebird/phoenix"), Opera could be really quite popular among geeks. I think they'r
I used it on Linux until last week, when I switched to Firefox.
I've still not got enough extensions set up, but Facebook and Google Mail now work 100% of the time. Under Opera 12, I was down to about 80% of the time -- I think Facebook and Google stopped testing a few months ago.
Fuck. FUCK! That's when they got rid of the menu bar and/or when they moved the tabs above the address bar with no way to change it (as far as I can tell). Now I'm too lazy to upgrade because I fear another damn UI change. Firefox gets free reign to upgrade as it pleases (though their choice of embiggening version numbers to the EXTREEEEEEMME still annoys me) as it and its addons seem to upgrade without doing the UI Elements Shuffle Game.
So an obscure platform that only a small band of hardcore fans used was never ported to GNU/Linux?
but the Linux distributions are far more likely to remain stable.
Not really. I used Opera years and years ago when it was faster than Mozilla browsers on Linux. Then they came out with some point version that really messed with the UI dialogs, I didn't like it and it was time to abandon ship.
Other than the UI changes I didn't like, it was a pretty decent browser... I am a crusty old curmudgeon that doesn't like UI changes just for the sake of change ( also hence why I use Seamonkey / Iceape - you know, pretty much the same UI from the 90's ).
Alright story time is over, n
Opera 12 had a Linux version, and even (IIRC) FreeBSD.
Then Opera rewrote the browser, basing it on Webkit instead of their own engine, and the next version was only available for Linux and Mac.
Opera 10 still supported Solaris (Sparc and Intel) and Linux on PPC.
Funny that you say that, when the market share of Opera among browsers was more or less the same as the market share of GNU/Linux among desktop installs.
*sigh* That's the joke.
I guess from the responses (and even the +1 Interesting) I better rule out "comedy writer" as a career...
Oh, so we're now down to this entire list of browsers (minus Opera)? [wikipedia.org]
What the hell is that? [wikipedia.org]
Anyway, Linux users can continue running Opera 12, I assume it's still out there somewhere. It's the last good version of Opera that still ran Presto.
You can still download Opera 12 for Linux. And that's actually a good thing, since Presto is still the least buggy engine when it comes to SVG and, as far as my experience is concerned, MathML.
I should see if it still works on Solaris just for fun (if it ran on IRIX that would be even better...)
It was an option on the desktop browser, there was a small button in the status bar. It occasionally popped up a prompt asking if I wanted to enable it (e.g. if I was using crap public wifi).
and then they offered server side "rendering"
LOL, what was the idea behind that? Did it parse the html/javascript code and send you an animated
and then they offered server side "rendering"
LOL, what was the idea behind that? Did it parse the html/javascript code and send you an animated
There are actually two features.
The first is actual server side rendering, where they would send you some kind of compressed image. This method is used by Opera Mini for android, "feature" nokia phones and I guess even iphones.
The other feature is a server side filtering, at the moment its called on the road mode, it strips unnecessary parts of the page (html comments, unused javascript..) and compress it, then it also recode embedded images with higher compression level. This feature s available on all p
You do realize that the server-side anything was, and is, an option that's off by default?
Yup, this was a glorious coup by company higher-ups.
Grats, Opera management. You managed to kick out a good founder [slashdot.org], kick out a good engine [slashdot.org], and kick out any certainty that you won't be sold out to Facebook [slashdot.org] (Facebook, ffs!). You even made me wonder, between Tolfsen's account and the second engine change (from WebKit to Blink) [slashdot.org], if Google has simply stuffed your ranks with their management just to Elop the place.
Products are things that you pay for. Desktop Opera was not a product for well over a decade. I was really sad when they didn't want my money for it anymore.
Yup, this was a glorious coup by company higher-ups.
Wait, what? Are you really saying that the people in charge of the company made decisions about the company?
Shock! Horror!
Even Wium Lie, the father of CSS and long-time Opera manager, backs the switch. But I guess he's part of the conspiracy too.
Grats, Opera management. You managed to kick out a good founder, kick out a good engine, and kick out any certainty that you won't be sold out to Facebook (Facebook, ffs!).
Facebook? Why? They said they weren't plan
Opera users typically were hardcore about it, and would only let go when you pried their cold dead hand away from it.
Truly, Opera is the Eudora of the web browser world.
Truly, Opera is the Eudora of the web browser world.
I was thinking the same thing. The only difference being that if you're still using a mail client compliant with 10-year-old standards, you're doing just fine. The old-Opera users will die off much faster than the old-Eudora users.
It died when it became bloatware just like the rest of the browsers.
Who remembers when it was lean mean small and fast?
I remember a time when surfing with Opera was 3x as fast as ie.
IE got better and Opera got worse and firefox stole the thunder.
Bloatware? its still probably the smallest footprint browser with a builtin email function.
Emacs is still probably the smallest footprint operating system with a builtin editor function, but it still sucks.
There are only two rendering engines for Linux, and they are Gecko and Webkit, both of which have horrible support for a lot of advanced web standards such as SVG and MathML, because the focus today is on who makes the fanciest sliding div effect rather than on actually properly implementing existing stuff. The loss of Presto and the reduction of alternatives is a very sad day for the web.
A web rendering engine in source code form is pretty much cross-platform by definition, so I don't see what's so Linuxy about gecko or webkit.
No, there is plenty of mediocre browsers on GNU/Linux. Even Firefox is a mediocre browser let alone Chrome.
People that haven't use pre-15 Opera because of "oh no its not open source" have no fucking idea what a good browser really is. Completely customizable, could be controlled exlusively by the keyboard (something neither IE, nor Firefox nor Chrome are capable of doing). Had native mouse gestures that ridiculed any other half baked solutions you may find on other browsers and so forth and so on. The UI co
> No, there is plenty of mediocre browsers on GNU/Linux.
Sound like the situation on ANY platform.
Also sounds like sour grapes from one of those diehard Opera fanboys.
It's not about the inability to promote anything, it's about not having, you know, an actual desktop product that people pay money for. Desktop Opera should have been killed long ago. It was a waste of money for the company, I have no idea why they still offer it. It makes zero financial sense. If I was their shareholder/owner I'd have been royally pissed long ago. I would absolutely love to have a spin-off company offer paid-for version that uses the Presto engine. Ideally, that company should only work on
I had been an avid Opera fan since I first started using it quite a few years ago. I used it when it was the only browser that had tabbed browsing. A feature that is now part of every browser out there. The folks behind the Opera browser were innovators. They had tabs, the speed dial, Opera link (which would sync bookmarks and other items between your browsers), and gestures years before other browsers and they fully believed in being standards compliant. When I heard they were moving away from being a browser developer to being a browser repackager, I stopped using it. They went from innovating to tagging along for a ride. I recently fired up the new version of Opera to be very, very disappointed because it was simply a repacked version of Chrome. Most of the features that I had grown to love were gone and I found no reason to continue using it.
I do occasional web development. Opera's dragonfly is a great compliment to Firefox Web Developer toolbar. If Opera were to go, it would be a great loss.
One of the strengths (and simultaneous weakens) of Opera was that it used it's own unique rendering engine. That gave it an advantage in specialized situations where others would not quite fit.
Since they changed to using webkit, they are, in my opinion, basically irrelevant now. They might have well just become another one of those circa 2000 Microsoft Internet Explorer shells.
Say what you will about Presto not working on site x, y, or z, more diversity is good, and it helps keep real standard in check. There were once too many sites that were only viewable in IE, I do not look forward to a future internet that is only viewable in Google Chome.
Is there any hope at all that they might open source the Presto Rendering engine?
Hell no, why would anyone want it open sourced? Then it'd be impossible to make any money on it, seriously, unless there was a big benevolent backer like Google is to Firefox. I would gladly pay USD45 for a home license for Opera as long as it would be maintained and I'd feel like the users have input into the development. By home license I mean a license for all members of the household, on all their supported desktop platforms.
While as a developer, I appreciated the diversity in rendering engines Opera brought to the table, as a user, I don't think I would care. If Opera was better than Chrome with Presto, it could be better with Blink--with the added benefit of lots of obscure sites actually working.
How many Opera users actually celebrated that Opera worked on less websites than Chrome as a good thing?
Now, if Presto was faster (which it could be, at times), then that's another argument. But diversity wasn't what made them fans
If Opera was better than Chrome with Presto, it could be better with Blink
Just this. It seems unlikely that Opera could not, in theory, implement all of the things its users loved on top of Chrome.
But when we see them dumping their rendering engine developers instead of setting them out to do this, we know that they have cash-flow issues, and apparently they're going to follow the death-march pattern that so many managers seem to choose when faced with such problems.
But when we see them dumping their rendering engine developers instead of setting them out to do this
They didn't. Hardly any engine developers were let go. Of the 90 people who left or were fired in total (out of about a thousand employees), less than half were engineers. Engineers include testers and developers, so in reality maybe 20 or so developers out of several hundred actually left.
In fact, I read a while ago that Opera was one of the main contributors to Blink. How were they going to do that if they
Since they changed to using webkit, they are, in my opinion, basically irrelevant now.
Since most people don't care about the engine, this is clearly not true. If more sites work they are more likely to get more users, and that makes them more relevant than before.
Say what you will about Presto not working on site x, y, or z, more diversity is good, and it helps keep real standard in check.
Yeah, but who is going to pay for it? They spent insane amounts of money trying to catch up with other engines.
Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support From the Opera Browser
FTFY. Linux will always be there for Opera to run on, if it wishes to.
I don't think anyone is wanting that anymore.
As a long time Opera on Linux user, the "pivot" the company has taken towards Webkit and a dysfunctional UI is like "being held down and watching your family get raped on a beach"
So I actually have been actively using Opera for a while now. As well as it having a place in my history as my primary browser back in the day. And by now you might have then inferred that while I use Opera it is not my primary browser. Let me explain.
Since, at least as far as I'm aware, you still can't give a command line options to any Windows browser to tell it where/what size to open it has been convenient for me to use Firefox on my main monitor for my primary browser and then a 2nd browser that opens up on my 2nd monitor. Further it is nice having my 2nd monitor browser be different since then I can keep 2 effective sets of bookmarks. Since my 2nd monitor browser is in effect more a media device than my primary browser.
And for that Opera has worked great. In fact it still is working right now on my 2nd monitor where a YouTube video is playing right now. The UI was decent, it did not eat up a ton of resources, and overall did exactly what I wanted it to do and did it pretty well.
Well just a week ago I wanted to do a reinstall and so I packed up all my programs config/data files and did the deed. Opera's data files sit in:
C:\Users\$UserName\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera x64
Notice that last bit...my archive said just Opera not Opera x64 which I thought was a little odd since Opera kept auto updating for me so I thought I was running exactly the same thing that I had been not 45m prior. But whatever, I could see why that could happen between version installs but not updates. I was wrong.
I had been running Opera 12.x. I did not really keep track of it since all the dev's lost their heads and went for version number bloat and all that. So when I hit Opera's download site I just grabbed the latest version, installed, turned it on once, killed it, replaced the default config files with mine, and turned it back on and...
It was like installing Win8. Total UI change for the worse. (This was now Opera 19 btw.) No way to even put up a button for bookmarks. Everything had to go though a "quickdial" type page. Options were dumbed down. Just bad bad bad. It took me to realize that I was running what amounted to a whole new Opera and not the old one that had served me well.
Here: http://www.opera.com/download/... [opera.com]
You can see where the change was. The old Opera, which they appear to still be doing some updates to, stops at 12.x and then the reboot starts at 15 and is up to 19, lol, now. That version is something that again I liken to a Win8 version of Opera. I did not use it long enough, the new version of Opera, to give it any sort of proper review. All I know is that it was bad for me, reeked of some sort of desire to force tablet UI on desktop computers, and dumbed down everything as if I was using some Apple OS/app.
I am not opposed to change but where Opera is going now will not have me as a follower.
I cannot think of a single reason to use Opera browser over Chrome or Firefox. Their email client is a minimalistic joy to use though.
Firefox is the only full-function browser that is:
1) Native multiplatform for all the major desktop platforms (Linux, MS-Win, MacOS).
2) Fully Open Source.
3) Managed by the community.
And on top of that, it has fantastic extension/addon support, performs very well, is very standards based, is actively supported and enhanced, has great site support, and is available for mobile too. So I am shedding no tears over the loss of Opera.... and I did use it many years ago.
To me, a distant second is Chromium, but it
Unfortunately, Firefox has a problem. Single-thread. Those UI freezes keep getting worse and as web pages become more complex. And this problem has been acknowledged by Firefox devs on Mozillazine multiple times. Solving this is no easy task and will require a complete rewrite of the XUL rendering engine, potentially breaking everything. The days of Firefox as it currently is are numbered.
Here is Bill McCloskey's blog post [wordpress.com] about the efforts from Mozilla to rescue the situation.
I've been a loyal Opera user since version 3. It was awesome using tabbed browsing on dialup. I'd click to open windows in the background and finish reading the page I was on, and then close it and go on to the already-loaded page. I remember all the brouhaha about IE's slow page loading, and wonder what all the fuss was about. But, now that Opera is over (don't even talk to me about the "new Opera", a dysfunctional skin of Chrome), I'm wondering what to do next. The last version of Opera will last another 6-12 months, I think, before it stops working with new websites. What browser is for me?
Chrome? Nope. I don't like it, plus Google's gone evil.
IE? Nope.
Firefox? Well, I'd really prefer a different answer. I hate adding plugin after plugin, only to have them all go incompatible when FF does an upgrade. Opera just worked and had every feature I wanted. Plus, FF is just sluggish on my system, a laptop from 2012.
What else is out there that a diehard Opera user will love?
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.


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In 1938, Lawry's the Prime Rib opened its original restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard on the edge of Beverly Hills. Fields of mustard grew along the street, which is now referred to as Restaurant Row, and the price of dinner — a thick-cut roast prime rib of beef au jus — was $1.25.
On June 11, the original Lawry's (also the birthplace of Lawry's seasoned salt) celebrates its 75th anniversary by offering prime rib at the same 1938 price: From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the first 1,000 customers pay $1.25 for the "Lawry cut" prime rib with Yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes and a "Spinning Bowl" salad.
All proceeds from the event will be donated to AbilityFirst, a nonprofit organization benefiting adults and children with disabilities. (Guests also can donate part of their savings to the charity.)
Lawry's, where slabs of prime rib are cut and served from a cart table-side, was the vision of Lawrence Frank and his brother-in-law, Walter Van de Kamp, who already had established the Van de Kamp's bakery empire and Tam O'Shanter Inn. The Frank and Van de Kamp families still own Lawry's, partly inspired by an English restaurant, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, known for serving large cuts of meat from trolleys.
Frank had not visited Simpson's prior to opening his own restaurant, said his grandson, Lawry's Chief Executive Richard Frank. And that was fortunate, he said, because Simpson's meat-cutting carts weren't more than chafing dishes, "not impressive at all." Meanwhile, Lawrence Frank came up with his own design — a gleaming Art Deco cart on wheels, 5 feet long and weighing 700 pounds. It's the same design used today.
Much about Lawry's has remained the same over the last several decades. Except in 1938 the Spinning Bowl salad — prepared by a server who spins a stainless bowl over ice in front of diners — "might not have had croutons," said Frank.
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Lawry's opened with a full menu, but within six months every entree but prime rib had been taken off. There was the thick-cut prime rib and, for 50 cents more, the Diamond Jim Brady extra-thick cut. You could get prime rib steak with julienne potatoes, cold prime rib and prime rib hash with a fried or poached egg. The prime rib sandwich came on toasted French bread or rye. For dessert, there was apple pie with American cheese, fruit Jell-O or a quarter of a fresh pineapple served "Hawaiian style."
According to the restaurant's history, Lawry's also was a pioneer of valet parking and the "doggy bag."
By the mid-1940s, Lawry's had outgrown its home in a former grocery store and moved across the street to where the Stinking Rose is currently located. The restaurant moved back across the street again in 1993 to the original property (which it owns) but in a newly constructed building with an expanded kitchen. During both moves, drivers on La Cienega might have witnessed the spectacle of a parade of Lawry's employees rolling their carts across the street, aided by traffic police.
Many of its servers have been working in the restaurant for more than 30 years, wearing the same uniform, also known as the "Brown Gown." Every employee in the company, no matter his or her title, refers to one another as "co-worker." "People are very protective of the culture here," Frank said.
Today, the Lawry's on La Cienega is the most-booked reservation on Open Table in Los Angeles and Orange County. There are Lawry's restaurants in Las Vegas; Chicago; Dallas; Singapore; Hong Kong; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
The key to its success? "We're open to change, absolutely," Frank said, "but fortunately we haven't had to make many over time. My feeling has always been, as long as the restaurant is as popular as it's ever been, why change?"
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Lionel Messi extended his Spanish league scoring streak record to 18 games, getting two goals to move into seventh place on the La Liga career list and lead Barcelona over visiting Rayo Vallecano 3-1 Sunday.
Messi set up David Villa for Barcelona's opener in the 25th minute, and Villa returned the favor in the 40th. Messi made it 3-0 in the 57th with a delicate chip, his league-leading 42nd goal this season and 55th overall.
With his 19th multigoal game this season, Messi increased his La Liga total to 211, one more than Pahino. The 25-year-old trails only Telmo Zarra (251), Hugo Sanchez (234), Raul Gonzalez (228), Alfredo di Stefano (227), Cesar Rodriguez (223) and Quini (219).
Barcelona (24-2-2) holds a 13-point lead over defending champion Real Madrid (19-5-4) with 10 games left.
In the second division, American defender Carlos Bocanegra was dressed but did not play in Racing Santander's 1-1 home tie against Xerez. The U.S. captain hasn't played since Feb. 2.
LONDON (AP) — Frank Lampard scored his 200th goal for Chelsea, and the Blues beat visiting West Ham 2-0 Sunday to move past Tottenham into third place in the English Premier League.
Lampard scored in the 19th minute, moving with two of Bobby Tambling's Chelsea record, and Eden Hazard added a goal in the 50th. Lampard has 12 goals this season; the 34-year-old midfielder's contract expires at the end of the season and Chelsea has not offered him a new deal.
"Everyone keeps talking about the goal-scoring record," Lampard said. "I would rather people kept quiet. The important thing is trying to score goals to win games."
Lampard played for West Ham from 1995-01 and West Ham fans appeared to throw coins at him after he scored, although they failed to hit him.
Chelsea (16-6-7) has 55 points, one ahead of Tottenham (16-8-6) and five in front of Arsenal (14-7-8). The top three teams earn spots in the group stage of next season's Champions League, while the fourth-place team goes to the playoff round.
Tottenham lost 1-0 at home to Fulham, with Dimitar Berbatov scoring against his former club in the 52nd minute. American midfielder Clint Dempsey returned from a calf strain and entered at the start of the second half, his first appearance since Feb. 21.
Wigan beat visiting Newcastle 2-1 on Arouna Kone's stoppage-time goal and Sunderland was held to a 1-1 tie at home against Norwich.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — American forward Jozy Altidore scored his 25th goal of the season as AZ Alkmaar lost 3-2 at home to first-place Ajax in the Dutch Eredivisie.
With the hosts trailing 3-1, Altidore scored in the 74th minute, his 18th league goal this season.
Siem de Jong scored twice and Daley Blind once as Ajax won at Alkmaar for the first time since 2009.
MILAN (AP) — Napoli kept its slim Serie A title hopes alive with a 3-2 win over Atalanta , while AC Milan maintained its challenge for second place by beating struggling Palermo 2-0 on a pair of goals by Mario Balotelli
Edison Cavani scored twice for Napoli and Goran Pandev got the go-ahead goal in the 81st.
Juventus (20-4-5) has a nine-point lead over Napoli (16-4-8), which is two points in front of Milan (16-7-6) with nine games remaining.
Francesco Totti moved past Gunnar Nordahl into sole possession of second on the Serie A career scoring list, helping Roma beat Parma 2-0. Erik Lamala also scored for the hosts.
American midfielder Michael Bradley entered in the 68th minute. He hasn't played a full match since Feb. 24.
PARIS (AP) — David Beckham made his first league start for Paris Saint-Germain, which wasted a two-goal lead and tied 2-2 at fourth-place Saint-Etienne.
Javier Pastore scored in the ninth minute and Zlatan Ibrahimovic converted a twice-taken penalty kick in the 19th for his league-leading 25th goal. But the hosts rallied when Alex had an own goal in the 37th and Francois Clerc scored on a curling shot in the 72nd.
PSG (17-5-6) has a five-point lead over second-place Lyon (15-6-8), which lost 4-1 at Bastia on Saturday. Marseille (15-8-6) is another two points back.


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To keep it brief, my (not-very) old HP printer expired so I bought a Canon Pixma MP499.
It didn't work in Mint but Canon's Linux drivers solved that and also got scanner working (not under SimpleScan but under Canon's own front-end).
The only problem I now have is that there is no means of controlling printer resolution. Everything to be printed - from OOo, pdf, GIMP or whatever - outputs at 600dpi.
Googling has helped me resolve most of the Canon Pixma MP499 issues, but I'd appreciate any assistance with the resolution issue.


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5 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - The selected training offer provided by UNOSAT has known an unprecedented success in the last two years. More than 30 knowledge sharing activities and training courses have been designed and delivered by UNOSAT by end 2011, reaching some 600 active professionals in more than 40 beneficiary countries worldwide. These figures reveal a different facet of UNOSAT, an applied Research Programme mainly dedicated to operational work.
UNOSAT training has become rapidly popular because it is based on the operational experience gained by UNOSAT in over ten years of work in crisis response and satellite analysis. Over 40 countries have already benefited of standard and tailored courses.
UNOSAT courses are designed for national experts and international organizations' staff. All courses are based on modules designed in-house and based on the practical experience accumulated at UNOSAT while applying satellite technology and GIS solutions in concrete situations ranging from disaster response to complex emergencies, and from humanitarian assistance to human security and human rights.
This experience‐based training method is reinforced by results coming from applied research and additional certified training material that cover also strategic territorial planning and local development planning, stretching to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change.
Teaching methods are centred on sharing practical knowledge and systematise theoretical notions. The focus is on active learning and hands-on experience through computer‐assisted exercises based on real case scenarios derived from recent disasters and conflicts. This is combined with theory lectures, round tables, visits and field simulations.
The UNOSAT portfolio of training ranges from 1-day generic workshops to intensive training courses (3 days/ 1 week/ 2 weeks/ 3 weeks), and medium‐long term capacity development programmes tailored according to needs and delivered either in‐country or at UNOSAT premises in Geneva.
The current UNOSAT training and capacity building portfolio inlcudes:
- Master level course: Use of satellite imagery for emergency response mapping
- Basic and advanced courses in the use of satellite imagery for human security, emergency response mapping and strategic territorial planning;
- In-country capacity building programmes to strengthen local capacities in the use of satellite imagery for disaster risk management and territorial planning;
- Introductory e-learning training course in the area of geospatial information technology;
- Workshops and information sharing sessions on the use of geospatial information technology for decision makers.
All courses are updated each year with new modules. Additional courses are planned for 2012-2013. Scheduled events are announced on the training pages of the UNITAR website. For tailored and in-country activities, please contact the UNOSAT Team at unosat<at>unitar.org.
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To the Editor:
My husband and I feel very blessed to have such great neighbors.
Becky and Greg have three wonderful children, which they should be very proud of – especially their oldest, Alex. During these winter months, when we have had significant snow, we have come home to find our driveway shoveled.
With the snow March 5, I was home from work and heard our neighbors running their snow blower. Looking out our front window, I saw Alex shoveling our driveway. I did yell out that he didn't have to do it, as my husband would use the snow blower when he got home from work. Alex continued to shovel the whole drive and walkway up to our front door.
I then asked Alex if he had been the one to shovel the previous two times, and he smiled and said yes. Alex didn't want to accept pay for his hard work, but I insisted, and told him his parents should be proud of him.
To see the quality of doing good deeds in a middle school person instilled in me that there is still much good being done in this world.
Maureen Crowe
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Verisign Scrooges envisage £4.86bn festive forfeit
Ghost of insecure Christmases past for etailers?
Online retailers have rubbished claims from the security industry they stand to miss out on billions of pounds of trade this Christmas because of lingering public mistrust in internet transactions.
According to Verisign's 2006 online shopping research, 54 per cent of UK consumers have abandoned a transaction because of security collywobbles. By its reckoning £4.86bn could escape online stores in the run-up to this year's festivities.
The extent of the problem was disputed today by Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) chief executive James Roper. He said: "We won't be missing out on that kind of figure."
The IMRG represents big names in online commerce such as Amazon and Lastminute.com, along with the electronic incarnations of high street perennials Argos and John Lewis.
Roper said: "People have gotten better at online shopping. Credit cards offer excellent protection." He said the IMRG was receiving very few complaints about dodgy online shopping experiences these days.
The IMRG is anticipating another bumper Christmas with the growth of broadband making customer experiences more direct. It said yesterday the industry was growing at £50m per month, and sales of £2.73bn made this October was the best month ever.
Roper said a new wave of investment had come in once the industry recovered from the dot com crash which meant customers had renewed faith in etailers. Twenty-five million Brits will shop for pressies online this Christmas, according to the IMRG.
The research from Verisign is part of a bid to get its "Verisign Secured" seal on more shopping sites, which Verisign reckons would give consumers more confidence. Verisign marketing programs manager Andrew Horbury told us the firm was catching one site a week in Europe displaying a fake security seal graphic. Although it offers the service free to its SSL customers, only a third have taken it up so far.
The firm itself is missing out this Christmas thanks to Microsoft missing its Vista deadlines. The "traffic light" address bar system in IE7, which Verisign hopes to flog a new generation of SSL certificates on the back of, won't be turned on until consumers get their mitts on Vista in January. ®
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Oct. 9, 2008
Complete Release in PDF Format
The Schedule
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008
SoCal Tournament hosted by Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount
First Round: No. 7 UC Santa Barbara vs. No. 8 UC Irvine, 9:20 a.m.
at Pepperdine's Raleigh Runnels Aquatic Center
Second Round: No. 7 UCSB vs. No. 1 USC or Pomona-Pitzer, 1:20 p.m. or 2:40 p.m.
at Pepperdine's Raleigh Runnel's Aquatic Center
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008
SoCal Tournament hosted by Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount
at Pepperdine's Raleigh Runnels Aquatic Center or LMU's Burns Aquatic Center
Action TBD based off of Saturday's bracket play
This Week In Water Polo
No. 7 UC Santa Barbara will join 15 other teams this weekend at the SoCal Tournament being hosted by Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount this Saturday and Sunday. The annual tournament boasts 14 of the nation's top 18 ranked teams, including UCSB. The first of the Gauchos' four scheduled games will be against No. 8 UC Irvine at 9:20 a.m. on Saturday at Pepperdine's Raleigh Runnels Aquatic Center, the match-up will mark the third this season between the two programs.
For The Record
UCSB carries a 9-4 overall record into this weekend's action. The Gauchos have posted a 5-2 record in neutral site contests this season. After holding the No. 9 ranking in last week's Collegiate Water Polo Association Top-20 Coaches Poll, the Gauchos have been bumped up to the No. 7 ranking in this week's poll.
Gauchos Open MPSF Play with 1-1 Split
Last Saturday UCSB opened its MPSF schedule at No. 1 USC. The Gauchos hung tight with the Trojans through the first quarter, trailing by just one after the first eight minutes of play, but UCSB proved to be outmatched with USC capturing the 17-5 conference victory. The following day, the Gauchos rebounded and upset then-ranked No. 8 UC Irvine, defeating the Anteaters 14-12. With the split, UCSB now holds a 1-1 mark in the MPSF. On Tuesday, the Gauchos hosted Iona College for a non-conference game at Campus Pool. UCSB outscored the Gaels 16-2 to pick up its second home win of the 2008 season.
And The Awards Go To...
Sophomore utility player Milos Golic was named the MPSF Mikasa Co-Player of the Week in addition to earning UCSBgauchos.com/Golden 1 Gaucho of the Week honors. Golic led the Gauchos over the weekend, tallying 10 of the team's 19 goals between UCSB's pair of MPSF contests. In Sunday's win over UC Irvine, Golic notched a career-best seven goals. The previous day, he had three of UCSB's five goals against No. 1 USC. This season, Golic has collected 39 goals with an average of 3.25 goals per game, which currently leads the MPSF by almost an entire goal. The sophomore is amidst a 17-game scoring streak, dating back to the 2007 season. This year he has scored in all 12 contests and has had multiple goals in 11 games. Additionally, he leads the team with 10 assists this season.
He's A Brick...House
Golic was not the only one that had a career-best showing on Sunday in Irvine. Junior goalkeeper Michael Robinson also had a standout performance as he tallied a career-best 14 saves in the victory over the Anteaters. This season, Robinson has evenly split time in the cage with sophomore Fraser Bunn and has averaged 9.3 saves per game, ranking fourth among MPSF goalies. Bunn manned the goal against USC and tallied eight saves and collected seven blocks in the first half of the win over Iona. He currently averages 9.1 saves per contest.
The Price Is Right
The only other Gaucho, next to Golic, to crack double-digit goals this season is senior Miles Price who has tallied 19. His average of 1.73 goals per contest at the beginning of the week ranked him ninth among MPSF players. In the Sept. 6 contest against Loyola Marymount, Price tallied his 100th career goal and has now recorded 116 in his four-year career with UCSB, ranking him 15th among all-time Gaucho career goal leaders.
News From The Ant Hill
UC Irvine has posted a 2-6 overall record this season, with a 10-8 win over UC San Diego last weekend and a narrow 10-9 victory over UCSB on Sept. 20 accounting for its only two victories of the season. Sophomore Brandon Johnson leads the team, and ranks second in the conference behind Golic, with his average of 2.38 goals per game. Goalkeeper Matt Johnson leads the squad with his average of 6.14 saves per game, ranking ninth in the MPSF, and averages 7.86 goals against.
Coming Attractions
Following this weekend's SoCal Tournament UCSB will return home on Saturday, Oct. 18 for a non-conference game against a very familiar foe - UC Irvine. The Gauchos and the Anteaters will face-off for the fourth, but possibly not the last, time at noon at Campus Pool. Admission, as always, is free to all Gaucho water polo home games.


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Southampton's fast-increasing "prestige" can help keep England new boy Luke Shaw at St Mary's beyond the summer, according to manager Mauricio Pochettino.
Saints boss Pochettino hailed full-back Shaw's first senior England call-up for Wednesday's friendly clash with Denmark at Wembley.
Pochettino said teenager Shaw's England elevation can aid the fight to fend off the circling Manchester City and Chelsea, with both Barclays Premier League giants keen on prising the 18-year-old away from the south coast.
The Argentine manager backed Southampton's England quartet to force their way into Roy Hodgson's World Cup squad for the summer tournament in Brazil.
"That's clearly our intention; we want to keep hold of our young players, such as Luke Shaw: we want to keep hold of our young, talented players, and that's our intention for the future," said Pochettino.
"It's very important that Southampton have four players in the England squad, that's a massive boost for this club, but it also enhances the prestige of this club, so it's a very important thing."
Southampton academy graduate Shaw has joined Rickie Lambert, Jay Rodriguez and Adam Lallana in the full England squad.
Saints boss Pochettino believes all four have a realistic opportunity to make England's final World Cup roster.
"For any player it's a massive boost to get called up to the English national side, especially looking at the fact there's such a short time until the World Cup," he said.
"It's a great opportunity for them, and it's a great chance for them to actually be on that plane to Brazil."
Pochettino believes Shaw's selection indicates England boss Hodgson views him as similar quality to experienced full-back pairing Leighton Baines and Ashley Cole.
Proud that Southampton can identify youngsters and turn them into full internationals, Pochettino vowed the club will help the likes of Shaw cope with the transition from Premier League to the England arena.
"We all know Luke's quality, and it's clear that if Roy Hodgson has selected him it's because he feels he's capable of performing well, and complementing Baines and Ashley Cole in that position," said Pochettino.
"Overall it's a positive thing for him and for the English national side.
"It's very motivating for Southampton as a football club, I think we have 17 or 18 players who have been called up to the international break next week at all levels in the club.
"It's great to see that Southampton has the capacity to develop and create new players, especially of the calibre to go on and play for the full England side.
"Getting an England call-up creates a certain stress, because you must travel and compete the entire week.
"That creates a different stress on the player, and it's down to the technical staff at Southampton to balance that stress out, and find equilibrium between the excitement of making the England squad and keeping your feet on the ground, basically.
"Big clubs have players that are well used to playing international football, but when a player like Luke Shaw gets called up for the first time, that can demand a lot more physically and mentally.
"So it's up to us to keep the equilibrium of this club, over time trying to help our international players not see that as such a big demand, physically and mentally."
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Talking soccer
Now, it's my turn. It's a strange feeling being the one on the other end, the one being interviewed, the one whose thoughts are prodded.
It's there now and if you care to read it, just click the link. It's not quite as personal as Andrea's interview but I give plenty of my opinions on MLS, Mexican-Americans, Chivas USA and the Galaxy.
Anyway, thanks to TIAS and David Keyes (who runs Culture of Soccer and did the interview) for seeking me out.
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I've be an occasional reader to your blog. Coming from a Mexican-American background myself, I can relate to many of the issues and view points that you cover on your blog.
I wanted to comment on the recent interview of you gave for TIAS and David Keyes.
I think you "hit the nail on the head" when you said the following:
>I think of the youth academy that >Chivas has set up. I think if >they go out and target Hispanic >communities. That's an area where >they could pull in fans, not just >for the short term but for the >long term. I think they need to >target more Mexican-Americans >than Mexicans.
Being that I am involved with one of the official Chivas Academy here in the Central Valley. Mexican people just here the "Chivas" name and you get there interest. You talk to them about personally knowing Leonardo Cuellar (MWNT Coach) or Jesus "Chucho" Ramirez (MWNT Coach) and you really get their interest. Claudio Suarez, Ramon Ramirez, etc are household names. So when people hear that in some way you are a part of the Chivas organization they want to join.
>But I think it's mostly >financial. The clubs have to >consider that. It takes work, >combing local fields for the next >hidden talent. It's hard and >that's why I think they go to >more established soccer leagues >like California South. A lot of >the kids there are Anglos, >whites. It's easier there because >it's more established. So the >Galaxy has a scout, they're going >to go there because that's how >it's always been done.
GREAT POINT! I think the US is missing out on alot of talent because of this! Having been thru a childhood where I had to pick grapes and oranges on weekends and sometimes on weekday evenings, I can honest say there was no room for soccer. The priorities here in the Central Valley are very different than in the LA area or any other metropolitian area.
Lets just take into account the Cal South/CSL clubs that charge an arm and a leg to play on their teams. How can families afford those fees with what they make here. I have seen it to many times where the Mexican-American player can't afford to play, so they end up playing in the Mexican "pirata" youth and adult leagues. No affiliation to any organization like CYSA, US Club, etc.
Which brings me to our case. If you think you have it bad in the LA area we have it worst here in the Central Valley. We live in one of the poorest county of California (Tulare County) which produces most of the fruits and vegatables which everyone else in the United States enjoy. I haven't currently seen the population and demographic studies of the area but my guess would be that we are 60-40 here and it is leaning more for the miniorites side. We have towns here in the Valley that if you were to walk the street you won't hear a word of English being spoken. Alot of the Mexican people who live here work 7am-5pm picking grapes, oranges, lemons, etc for minimum wages. On top of all this add the fact that we have one of the highest poverty, dropout, pregnancy, crime per capita, pollution rate in the state and in many cases in the US. And lets not talk about our schools and how they rank when you compare then to other schools in the state.
So as you can see playing soccer at the club level here is really a luxury and for some just a dream because they can't afford to. There is lot of talent in the Mexican youth "pirata" leagues but unfornuately that is as far as their soccer career goes.
For that exact reason we decided to become a Chivas academy. We wanted to make sure that the mexican-american players had chance to play club soccer and at the same time be able to expose them to that atomsphere. For those who have the talent be able to expose them not only to Chivas USA and Chivas Guadalajara but to other Mexican professional soccer teams, national teams both here in the States and in Mexico.
Unfornuately in order to be seen by any US national youth scout you have to be on a winning and well known club which just happen to be the ones that charge the $$$ (Real So Cal, ISC, LAFC, Arsenal FC, So Cal Blues, Nomads, Surf) and the list goes on. And usually these scouts only attend tournaments which have fees at least $500 and up. How can I ask a parent who just earned $60 working in the 100+ heat, all day long to give up some of that money. It is not going to happen and unfornuately there is not a rush of US national youth scouts to go see them play there because they are to busy going to Showcase tournaments or Development Academy Showcases that are attended by those club who charge $$$$ to play.
So what ends up happening is the kid with talent never gets seen and ends up playing in the "pirata" league all his life. Very unfornuate..
And just to "add salt to the womb" you want to get help for fields from the city governments and they are always tied up doing other projects which involve the "American" sports football, basketball and baseball. You let them know about the US Soccer Foundation and their annual grants and they said ahead of your we still have to build these other fields.
We have been very fornuate to have met a bunch of soccer. Unfornuately most of them our part of Mexican national or professional teams. For some reason they have been more receptive and more open to giving kids a trial. To mention a few Leonardo Cuellar (MWNT), Jesus "Chucho Ramirez (MMNT), Jaime Parajito (Chivas Guad.), Jose Luis Real (Chivas Guad.), Vinicio Bravo (America), Cristobal Ortega (America), Jesus Paredes (San Luis) and not to exclude are great buddy from Dennis Te Kloese (Chivas USA) and Sasha der Most (Chivas USA).
Anyways, in ending I would like to praise you and thank you for expressing your points of views and for being involved with the Mexican-American soccer crowd. I believe you can be very influencial in openning up some eyes to soccer people about the reality of the Mexican American soccer player who is being missed completely by the so called "radar".
If you are interested and want to know more about our organization please visit: www.chivassouthvalley.com or email us at email@example.com
Have a look at some of our members (Amber and Alexis Hernandez) being showcased on the Chivas USA website http://web.mlsnet.com/t120/youth/news/ and http://web.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20080227&content_id=140778&vkey=news_cdc&fext=.jsp&team=t120
Thank you again y
- March 12, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- A.C. said...
I think the class issues definitely play a part - I wonder for example, what's the best way to integrate African-American talent. While many Latinos have a deep love for the game, African-Americans don't necessarily have that history. How many Cobi Jones or Eddie Johnsons are being missed because they're simply not introduced to the game?
Perhaps the Galaxy, with two coaches with African roots in charge, can push the youth development of their team in the direction of more outreach there. The team, as does Chivas USA, plays and trains in a community with a significant African-American population.
- March 12, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Hey, good job blowing the lid off the Galaxy's white supremacy!
Fucking asshole.
- March 12, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- A.C. said...
Wow, what a horrible, extreme and negative reaction to another person's valid viewpoint. It actually lends credibility to the assertion that it supposedly denies.
- March 12, 2008 at 3:51 PM
"salt to the womb" EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW that must hurt... just kidding . excellent point Gil
- March 12, 2008 at 4:12 PM
While I don't necessarily agree with the way it was said previously on this post, I have to worry about the non-white involving implicit racism in positting that the Galaxy are the "white" LA team just because they don't have a ton of hispanics. Last I checked, an LA starting lineup could be comprised of Alvaro, Edson Buddle, Carlos Ruiz, Mike Randolph, Abel Xavier and Troy Roberts. That's 6 out of 11. Not to mention I expect Sean Franklin, McDonald, Sesay (who I believe is not causasian) and Valentin (though I am not sure of his nationality) could get some quality time.
How that could possibly be conceived of as a "white" team is completely and utterly beyond me. Pretty clear case of some personal biases combined with the two big names not being hispanic enough for you.
- March 13, 2008 at 10:48 AM
- L.B. said...
Yeah, I'm aware there are plenty of non-white players on the Galaxy. Actually, I've interviewed quite a bit of them.
I was merely thinking about the fan base and how it might evolve. And if someone from the outside brings it up, then it seems the perception is there, which is what I said in the first place.
And I just am puzzled about these biases. I mean, you don't even know me. How can you say I am biased towards anything?
Thanks for not calling me names, though. It's good to see some people can have civil discussions with someone from whom they have a differing viewpoint.
- March 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- David Keyes said...
Since I am the one who originally made the suggestion that perhaps the Galaxy are becoming the "white" team, I feel I should comment here. I was not referring to the players on the team itself so much as the aura that surrounds it. I was wondering if the Galaxy is becoming identified as the team that goes after the suburban soccer mom crowd, which, in the public imagination at least, is almost always white. If I were asking the question again, I would perhaps put it as the Galaxy becoming identified as the "American" team versus Chivas becoming identified as the "Mexican" team, but that's more a matter of accuracy in word choice than any kind of ideological difference from what I actually said.
- March 13, 2008 at 6:43 PM
"And I just am puzzled about these biases. I mean, you don't even know me. How can you say I am biased towards anything?"
That's the price of profferring your opinions for consumption by the general public isn't it? You expressed an opinion and that's how we judge your personal biases. If you don't think your proper views are reflected by the inferences we make in reading your material at least part of the blame lies with you for a lack of clarity.
Given David Keyes' post below I can see a difference between LA the suburban white fan base and Chivas the hispanic urban fan base v. the composition of the teams themselves. That being said, that clearly did not come through in the piece in question (to at leat some of us) and I'm not sure you have a right to get real defensive about that. Very few people to blame for that lack of clarity.
- March 14, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- A.C. said...
There's getting confused (which is the perfect time to ask for clarification) and then there's jumping to conclusions and moving past that to aggressive name-calling.
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The London Metro reported yesterday how scientists have just given the green light for a Polynesian pepper shrub/vine – Piper methysticum - and that it does have properties that can be used medicinally to help deal with anxiety problems.
Well good for science to confirm this, but the back story includes that Sydney Parkinson the artist on Captain Cook's first voyage in the Endeavour (1769) was one of the first people to ever record the ethnographic use of the past. Polynesians chewed the leaves into a pulp and ate the brew to get intoxicated (Parkinson a tee-total Quaker disapproved, but also noted that at that time the Polynesians really disliked the alcohol the crew offered them). Much of the society drank the Kava Kava ('Ava 'Ava) brew to chill – its anxiety alleviation being pretty obvious!
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Balsamic-garlic chicken breasts with orzo
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
� tsp salt
� tsp pepper
2 Tbsp olive oil
� cup fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
� cup balsamic vinegar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp honey
1 cup uncooked orzo pasta
� pint grape tomatoes, halved
2 cups fresh spinach, chopped
2 Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
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1 lb shrimp, peeled and de-veined
2 tsp minced garlic
� pint grape tomatoes, quartered
4 green onions, sliced
1 cup dry white wine or chicken broth
1 splash hot sauce (or more to taste)
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp dried basil
� tsp salt
� tsp pepper
� cup crumbled feta cheese
� cup fresh parsley, chopped
1 baguette
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1 lb shrimp, peeled and de-veined
2 zucchini, cut into �-inch half-moons
1 pint grape tomatoes
1 lemon
� tsp salt
� tsp pepper
� tsp dried thyme
1 cup brown rice
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