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(Pocket-lint) - The Navigon 8410 comes in near the top of Navigon's range of satnavs, topped only by the 8450 Live which brings connected features such as live traffic, weather and local Google search to the mix, pitching it against the top of the range TomTom HD device.
The 8410, then, brings you all the other premium elements, without the ongoing costs associated with those "live" features, so you buy the unit and you get all the services, with 2years of Navigon's FreshMaps service included, enabled by hooking up to your PC.
The 8410 is very much a premium device, with a premium price tag to match. With a slim profile and brushed aluminium bezel, the 8410 will look at home in the interior of your BMW. Navigon used to have a beast of a window mount with some previous versions of their navigation devices, but the 8410 has a solid mount that is easy to attach and secure.
The windscreen mount has the added bonus of also including a mini-USB socket, so you can connect the mount to the power, rather than the unit itself, making it much easier to remove. Considering that the 8410 wants to pass itself off as a media player too, this makes sharing it around the car much easier, as well as those moments you have to dive out of the car and want to take it with you.
The 8410 features a 5-inch display, making it among the largest satnav displays available, which really plays to the rich visuals that it provides. The display is gloss in its finish – another nod to media player functions – so will give you more reflections than a matte finish, but at the same time it is bright enough to cope with most driving conditions.
A single power button lies discretely on the top. A nearly invisible hole provides a mic on the front for the Bluetooth phone link, and the bottom edge provides another mini-USB charging hole, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microSD card slot. It is excruciatingly well designed, making the curvy plastics of a TomTom look like a toy: the Navigon is industrial and sophisticated by its simplicity.
Dive into the satnav itself and all control is handled by the resistive touchscreen display. The icons are generally big enough and first-time responses from the buttons are the norm, but occasionally, we'd find a second press was needed. The layout is relatively simple, but it does take some time to drill down into all the options that are presented.
The opening screen gives you four options: navigation, phone, media and TV. (The TV module is a £54 accessory that plugs onto the side; we didn't have one to test.) Navigation gives you full Europe (40 country) mapping. You can save destinations, including those that you might import from Outlook or your mobile phone connected via Bluetooth. But be warned, your addresses need to be in the right format, including country, to get the right result, which ours weren't.
Entering an address is simple, you simply tap in the postcode, town, street, number or crossing and the 8410 will calculate the route, show you on the map and give you up to three route options, giving distance and time estimates. Navigon's MyRoute steps in as a rival to IQ Routes, offering up the best route considering the time of day, your driving style and so on. It seems to work, too.
You can also navigate to POIs or get direct guidance to petrol, parking or restaurants. You can add POIs on your route as you go too, and one neat thing is as you approach your final destination you'll get a parking shortcut appear on-screen, to guide you straight to a car park. We also like the option to navigate straight to a definable POI type from the start of the navigation pages – so you can opt for fuel, food or parking within a few presses.
The 8410 also offers voice command, which can be activated by swiping a finger across the display. It is a little inconsistent and you have to learn how to get it to play nice, and we found that some words it just wouldn't recognise, regardless of volume or pronunciation. When voice control is offered, a green icon appears in the corner accompanied by a sound. You simply say what you want after the sound and off you go. This will let you speak a complete address for navigation (town, street, number). It works pretty well too within basic functions.
A correction procedure is available for when it makes a mistake, so it will ask you if the town is correct, etc and you say "no" to change a part. After speaking again, it then presents you with new and similar sounding options in the right area and you can pin down the exact name by saying the number on the list. It's not a perfect system, but it's pretty clever.
A word of caution though. You can use voice commands to access the phonebook too, so you can attempt to navigate to a contact with an address. If the address is incomplete, it makes the best guess it can. A contact in Germany (street name and postcode, but no country), for example, gave us a route to somewhere south of Paris. An extreme case, but one to watch.
You can also use voice commands to dial a number or answer a call too. It lets you speak numbers in phrases and waits for you to say "call" before you go. If that person is in your address book, it displays the contact name too, which is tidy. The same applies to incoming calls, where all you have to say is "accept" to take the call. Very smart.
We found the speaker was plenty loud and it can also be adjusted using voice control although you have to touch the speaker icon to get this to go. Callers reported that the voice quality they were hearing was perfectly acceptable too.
Back to navigation and the driving display is extremely rich. This isn't just a two-tone map. First up you get Real City 3D. This fleshes out your map with 3D building blocks in major cities. Major landmarks or significant buildings are given a full rendering, so Westminster Abbey looks authentic. You might find this a little distracting, but as a tourist, or using the unit on foot, it's great fun and can be turned off if you don't like it.
The second big feature is Panorama View 3D. This is actually one of our favourites, because it is more like driving over a topographical map. You can see the ridges of mountain ranges and have a sense of perspective. It makes the navigation experience more visceral. Again, if you don't like it, you can switch it off. The best thing is that the maps are spread across the large 5-inch display and move around very smoothly, it's a pleasure to watch, which is a good reason in itself to switch it off.
You also get the more useful functions like lane guidance indicators and real signs and some questionable inclusions, like notifications of sharp bends. We turned this off pretty quickly, because you're better off watching the road for sharp bends than a dashboard-mounted device.
The 8410 gives you a rich POI experience. You can navigate directly to these POIs and they also appear on the map as you drive around and not just generic icons – you get the Golden Arches for McDonald's, the Esso logo for their fuel stations and so on. Banks, restaurants, parking and shopping is richly displayed and seems comprehensive.
Turn-by-turn navigation commands are accurate and well-timed, and the map provides all the detail you need for complicated junctions. Spoken street names and road numbers help you to navigate complicated junctions. The lane guidance isn't as rich as TomTom's offering, but it is there. Route recalculation is very fast too. Traffic comes in the form of TMC in this device, with spoken delay notifications so you can make route alterations.
With full European mapping, you'll find that with the language set to English, the spoken interpretation of foreign place names becomes rather too Anglicised. Depending on how well you speak European languages, you might love or loathe this.
Turning to the media functions, the Navigon 8410 offers a media player supporting video, images and music. The music might be a little unnecessary as you probably have a car stereo, but with the 3.5mm jack on the bottom, the kids in the back could use it for entertainment whilst you are driving on a long stretch of motorway.
The media player is a little cumbersome and it won't match your iPhone for simplicity, however you can set a route and then dive into the media player, of course using caution. The system isn't designed to let you drive from Manchester to London watching last night's Eastenders, it's for those moments when you want to shut the kids up or are stuck in a mediocre lodge overnight with no TV.
However, all isn't as rosy as it seems. The media player is rather basic, asking you to explore the microSD card or internal memory in a folder/file system to find the files to then play. It should scan any card, update a library and offer you audio, video or photo options, but it doesn't. We had no problem with viewing photos that we had on a card, but we couldn't get it to work with music or video.
This is likely to be an issue that would be fixed with a software upgrade on the unit at some point in the future, thankfully the device comes with the software onboard, so you can easily install it and upgrade maps and the device software.
Battery life isn't the best unfortunately given the large screen, so you'll only get a couple of hours from it. It is also easy to put it into standby rather than shutting it down, so you'll come back to a drained device if you are not careful.
Overall we were really impressed with the basics that Navigon have got right in the 8410. The navigation is top notch with timely and clear instructions and the rerouting is lightening fast. Gone are the days of continually asking you to turn around and head back to the old route.
The voice commands won't be for all, but once you know what it is good at, you'll find yourself using it. We found it useful for setting a new destination whilst driving. We like the ease of access to POI and we are totally sold on the rich display. For those moments when you need to look at it and visualise where that elusive restaurant is, it really comes into its own.
The design is also very good with the fantastic 5-inch display, we've found it a wonderful driving companion. Don't buy it for the media features though, not until they work. But without those working media features, you are paying top dollar for your satnav device, so you have to be really sold on size and the slick design, or else you'll find many of the solid features here for less.


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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
Jan 26, 2012
The grocery money is nice, all things being equal, which they are not. But I'm far too old to have any gratitude for work, or for being directed around the stock room by a child. Work blows hot dog chunks. Orange-pink flecked half digested kibbles of mechanically separated trademarked meat substance.
Even more especially when what's playing on the overhead is country music. I'm not suggesting to you, by way of vicarious memory, the dulcet melancholy of a blue grass which gets low to the ground and stays there, or the dusty and dirty back shack moonshine fiddling of Appalachia and the bayou. I mean what was coming out of the speakers, all fucking day, was New Country.
If you want a reliable formula for cracking the code of New Country, I'll give it to you.
Aaah, that's a lie. I'm going to type it whether you want it or not. So...
Start with today's date. Dial your mental clock and calendar back twenty years. Try to recall whatever was topping the charts as mainstream pop-rock those long, lost twenty years ago. Remove any bass lines which groove. Add a steel guitar. Stir in one or more white people willing to confuse nasal warbling for singing, and have them improvise a "story" based in dialogue written by George Lucas or Michael Bay.
New Country.
And I could almost ignore it, by hour three, except that it seemed like every twenty damned minutes the station was airing this nasty little gem:
I'm not surprised the god goons of NHforMarriage and the NOFM finished up their moral figuring and settled on a New Country station as the best outlet for the melted butter bigotry of, ahem, compromise. And I'm probably the second or third last person who thinks that a law is the way to keep Teh Gays from being discriminated against, or from being married in the naves of Christ-moldy church-holes.
But fucking aye, you'd think the shitclowns at NHforMarriage - and in all their brother organizations - would have kenned by now that pretty much the only people in New England who give a fuck about the cohabitating and vow-making of homosexuals are the kind of people who also think it's a good gods-be-damned idea to drop tonnage on Iran and send das troops into Syria.
If you're looking for what degrades or corrupts the, heh, marriage bond, you ain't ever going to find it the affections and affectations of homosexuals. But, you will find a whole lot of sundered wedded union in the wake of deployment, military industrial centralization and the austerity which follows war upon war. That shit is disruptive. The gays, not so much.
Not that any of it matters. The same fucking lackwits who can reconcile their affirmations with endless war, and who can even come to believe in it, are certainly capable of scapegoating dykes and queers for their own broken marriages.
Still, by the sixth or seventh time I'd heard it, I wanted to crawl up into the rafters and shake loose the speakers. There's only so much ign'ant a person should allow through the sensory filters on any given day. And then you just got to go find a motherfucker what needs some punching...
24 comments:
- fish said...
I learned early on that a short route to madness at work was any kind of background music on continual loop. Better to have silence than have to listen to the same #$%^& Garth song 20 times a day.
- January 26, 2012 at 4:02 PM
When I learned my hatred of Country, new or old, was a class affectation it transformed everything. Some people (I believe a sizable minority) really like hearing the same songs over and over again, and they want it sung by someone like them. There is a huge market for such things.
- January 26, 2012 at 5:46 PM
- anne said...
are there any better ear plugs around these days ? .. . and if questioned you can say that you are too easily distracted / this is why i work from home in part .. of too easily distracted ..
- January 26, 2012 at 6:25 PM
- Unknown said...
What do you get when you play a "country western" song backwards? Ya gits yer dawg back, yer truck back, and yer Woman backs.
Being a musician I try not to crap on other people's taste in music but if there is one thing I cannot stand its "country western", and line dancing, and that whole scene. I mean, jesuS Kee-riste. So I can certainly understand your grumbling over your working environment. Still, I'm glad you got some bread coming in.
I didn't read Oblabmmers SOTU except for the first paragraph after which I had to puke in ye olde barf bucket, take three showers, and wipe myself down with Clorox bleach just to get the smell and the stench off from reading said paragraph but I understand Oblumper filled the rest with praise for the military and what a fine job they is doin' a-chopping up the heathens. I now feel I have lived far too long in this hell hole we calls Uhmerricuh filled with the shit for brains ignoramuses that blight this land from the country western ilk to the rich white liberals that benefit from the slave labor abroad and the military complex and all the rest while they sing the praises of a slimy mass murderer who they will vote for no matter what he does.
In the end country western is anti-syncopation. If they played a note on the upbeat they would turn purple, then green, then red, swell up to the size of a blimp, and then explode into a spray of red ichor and gore. That's the secret of country western.
I rest my case.
Great post, Jack. I needed that.
- January 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM
- anne said...
rob, you're someone that might know , are there any good ear plugs out there , ones that ..keep the out from getting in .. but also don't crawl about in your ear .. ?
- January 26, 2012 at 6:57 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi anne,
Absolutery, if you go to a pharmacy and look for ear plugs they should have them there. perhaps the type for swimmers or wearing in a shower.I hope you are doing well these days.
- January 26, 2012 at 7:35 PM
- anne said...
those are okay for you ? i've tried most of those from the pharma types .. not quite right in some ways ,no matter how much i play with them .. / it's funny that you commented right after me here at first .. because as i was thinking about the at office and ear plugs in reading pen jack's post here .. i thought of you , my uncle roderick only likes jazz mostly , so in the last years of his time at the globe and mail here he would go around with ear plugs to any other sounds ,he is retired now ..but when we go out to films together he brings his plugs for the noise level when we get in to the theatre .. ,he has something that he made himself .. i'll look at them again when we are out , i mostly don't need them here ..as i said i work from home ..
- January 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM
- Unknown said...
That's a great story regarding your uncle, Anne. Jazz is my favorite but I still enjoy some other types of music as well but I do like the story of the ear plugs, too much. Yeah, the ear plugs aren't perfect that's for sure but they work though I wouldn't want to wear them for long periods of time. There are some that are soft and malleable that have a similar consistency to clay or dough. There are also head phones that the makers claim reduce all sound though in the end I would imagine all these things would be uncomfortable after a while. I haven't been to a movie theatre in a while, the last time I went the volume level was completely absurd, just way too loud which I fail to see the need for plus I don't want to go deaf.
- January 26, 2012 at 11:58 PM
- anne said...
i like what pen jack calls the ".. grass which gets low to the ground and stays there, or the dusty and dirty back .. . fiddling of Appalachia and the bayou. " .. to a ..something of my humming,baroque ..of in song ./ and i love the larger screen .. of films ,for the landscaping ...(don't you miss that ? ) so i have a pass to an old theatre up the road that i use quite a bit , the sound is not over done there ,but when i go across to meet roderick for a film ..it's just the clips at the start that are too loud , the films are always fine ..he removes the plugs then, the funny part is more why he wore them at the globe, but it is too much of a telling for here..
- January 27, 2012 at 1:42 AM
- Randal Graves said...
We've got both kinds of music, country *and* western.
- January 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- Richard said...
New Country is not Country, at least not in the Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn sense that I grew up with.
Instead, it's just another form of machismo pop music, like metal and hard rock.
- January 27, 2012 at 11:57 PM
- zencomix said...
Have you tried introducing them to Old Country/Bluegrass?
KGNU in Colorado has a couple of great shows, Honky Tonk Hereos and Old Grass Gnu Grass, on Saturday mornings from 6 until Noon, Mountain time.
- January 28, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I think it's curious that this has been a comment thread about the country music. It's funny how music can gloss over and seem to remedy our ills.
- January 28, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- zencomix said...
Being down so far you're working a crappy job just to have grocery money might not be something you can fix, at least right now. Improving the quality of the music you have to listen to all day long at the crappy job might be something you can fix right now.
- January 28, 2012 at 6:52 PM
- antonello said...
I once worked at a job where the management decided to play an "Easy Listening" station. (What sadist first labeled Muzak easy listening? It's deathly: music that has been slaughtered, gutted, stuffed and mounted.)
Although employees had virtually no say in how things were run, the reaction against the Muzak was so strong that it startled the powers-that-were. The dialogue that followed could be represented like this:
Management: We've decided to play this music because studies have shown that it has a beneficial effect in the work environment.
Employees: We hate it.
Management: Are you sure? The studies say-
Employees: We're sure. We hate it.
Management: Yes, well, perhaps we can work out a compromise. We'll play it in the hallways and bathrooms. You'll only be in those areas for minutes at a time.
Employees: Why play it at all? We hate it.
Management: But the studies say...
And so, from that point on, you would only have to hear Little Green Apples, Seasons in the Sun or McArthur Park for a few ghastly moments a day. The job was still hell, but the devils were no longer mocking us with "the mellow magic of a thousand silken strings," or whatever it was that the station liked to call it.
- January 29, 2012 at 4:01 AM
- Richard said...
I'd would have said something about the conditions of the job itself, except that you pretty much said it. There is one thing, though. People can assume a role to get through the workday, one that is different than who they really are. You might be surprised if you spent time with them on their days off.
- January 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM
- anne said...
to this person richard here, ..isn't this about .. of our comments to his post .. making pen jack's time at work less painful ,.. not about making friends while away .. .
- January 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I have no preference for how the conversation turns, but the set-up with New Country was a preface to ad regarding repealing gay marriage in NH. That's what really bothered me.
I don't care about the law, one way or the other, but that shit is just sour grapes nastiness.
As for "class affectation," though, I quite enjoy bluegrass, folk country, western and cajun country. New Country is just pop-rock from twenty years ago.
- January 29, 2012 at 2:16 PM
"If you're looking for what degrades or corrupts the, heh, marriage bond, you ain't ever going to find it the affections and affectations of homosexuals. But, you will find a whole lot of sundered wedded union in the wake of deployment, military industrial centralization and the austerity which follows war upon war. That shit is disruptive. The gays, not so much."
Well said.
And I also agree that New Country is awful.
- January 29, 2012 at 6:22 PM
- antonello said...
Does your country station play Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue"? It sounds as if they might. I'm sure you'd remember if they did:
Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly,
And there's gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
It's gonna feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue!
Enthralling, no? Which hand, though, is Lady Liberty using to make a fist? The one with the tablet or the one with the torch? Wouldn't want her to drop the tablet: we wouldn't have any more law! If she dropped the torch, she might start a conflagration. Never mind: I just answered my question.
- January 29, 2012 at 11:02 PM
- Richard said...
my point about people being different outside the workplace is that the social tone of the workplace can be set by a certain group and then everyone else goes along
so, the homophobia may be shared by most people there or maybe not
and, perhaps, some have been engaged on it, and others not
drawing conclusions about what people actually believe based upon how they conduct themselves in the workplace, which is inherently coercive, is a challenging endeavor
- January 30, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- antonello said...
Jack: I'm glad you're not grateful for your new job. Few things are more depressing than the way we console themselves for being in some lousy situation. We're lucky, we say; it could be even worse. Gives a new definition to the word "lucky," which then means "not quite as unendurably loathsome as it could have been." He was held up? Wow, he was lucky; he could have gotten hurt. So where, in the matter of his luck, does the robbery fit in? What does it say for our view of the world that we're willing to speak like that?
It goes beyond mere denial: it's an attempt to work out a justice in our miseries. It's as if we would be willing to sacrifice anything, even ourselves and our loved ones, so long as we can imagine our lives to be just.
It hardly counts as a paradox, I suppose, that the people most inclined to tell us "Life is unfair" are the ones who are doing their bit to make it even more so. Sometimes the powerful play on our hope; at other times they play on our despair. Either tactic will do. Many of our hopes are despairs rather badly disguised.
- January 31, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Jack Crow said...
That should be a post of its own. Really.
- January 31, 2012 at 11:04 PM
- Chuck Butcher said...
congratulations on the grocery money anyhow...
- February 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM

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**Now Skinned for users of ELV UI and TUK UI. Those without these UI customisations will just get the default look, matching the standard Character Frame.
Many thanks to Camealion @ The Forgotten Coast US for doing most of the work on the skinning.
I got tired of wasting Lavascale Minestrone and asking druids or pallies to buff me so I could check my Defense stats (Dodge/Parry/Block) when Raid Buffed to ensure I was reaching the CTC cap (102.4%)when raiding, and having to use a spreadsheet to enter values if I wanted to regem/reforge or simply got a new item.
This adds 3 new lines to to your Character Stats pane showing your CTC breakdown and also allows you to change your stats to allow for raid buffs, or to use if you want to reforge or change gems / items. The changes you make are updated to your Character Frame showing your RAID Buffed / gemmed stats.
To open the Stats Adjustment Panel, Simply click the new button on your Character frame or type /rds.
The adjustment panel will only show when your character stats panel is showing.
The CT Coverage will tell you your Combat Table Coverage, and if you hover over it, the tooltip expands on the info given.
The tooltip tells you your NEW Dodge/Block/Parry % and your Combat Table Coverage with all your modifications included in the values, along with your new Dodge : Parry ratio.
How to use it:
Lets say you want to change a fine Lava Coral to a Fractured Lightstone
By doing so, you no longer get the socket bonus of +20 Parry.
The changes that you would make are :
In the Gem 1 Selection, Enter '1' into the box, and Click the '+' to change it to a '-' (for removing the gem). Select 'Fine Lava Coral' from the dropdown box.
In the Gem 2 Selection, Enter '1' into the box, and select 'Fractured Lightstone' from the dropdown.
In the 'Parry' box, enter '20' and click the '+' to change it to a '-'. this removes tthe +20 parry socket bonus you currently have, but are going to lose.
The CT Coverage now tells you your new Stats, and if you hover over it, breaks it down into Dodge, Parry and Block, along with your new Dodge: Parry ratio.
The Dropdown box has a selection of 18 Rare and Epic Gems to choose from.
**If you use a trinket like 'Resolve of the undying' which provides a buff to your rating, add the total from your stacks into the 'Dodge' adjustment box (e.g. LFR version = +780 dodge, DS10 Version = +880 Dodge)**
The addon does not (nor should it) factor in procs or 'on use' from enchants (Windwalk) or trinkets, but you can see the effect these have by adding the relative amount to the Stats adjustment panel.
This addon is only suitable for LVL 85 Chars.
Known Issues:
1: Dont let your buffs change if you are checking your new stats with Raid Buffs selected. If you DO gain a buff (e.g. Horn of winter) and you already have that buff (or Battleshout) selected from the dropdown, you will need to re-select the relevant buff from the dropdown, or change it to 'none' for the addon to NOT factor the buff in twice. The addon only checks your buffs when you make a buff selection from the dropdown to check and see if you already have it.
2: If you change the number of gems in the 'Gem' selection, you need to reselect the gem from the list. The addon only checks the NUMBER of gems you want to add/remove when you make a gem selection from the dropdown, not when you change the number. (this one I will try to fix)
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The next stop on our continuing global journey into football culture finds us pulling into Western Asia. Israel to be more specific and their pride and joy Maccabi Haifa FC. Some people refer to them as The Greens, others just simply מועדון הכדורגל מכבי חיפה. Being - as they are - the EFW team of choice in Israel, we wanted to get to know them a bit better and so we dialled up our Israeli correspondent Ofer Prossner to find out more:
Tell me a bit about yourself and why you support Maccabi Haifa. I'm a 27 year old aspiring screenwriter who currently works as a sports write in Tel Aviv, which is the cultural centre of Israel, and is 100km from Haifa. Support for Maccabi Haifa is a family thing, at least for me. My Dad gave me and my brother the gift/curse. He took my brother to his first game when was 3 years old, and mine, if I remember correctly was at 8 years old.
What sort of crowds in terms of numbers does Maccabi Haifa attract? Well, it depends. We actually sold out the national stadium for the Champions League games with crowds of 40,000 (unheard of in Israel, especially as that stadium is in Tel Aviv), but in the Israeli Premier League, usually home crowds are in the region of 6-7,000.
Do you get any away supporters at the Kiryat Eliezer? Of course, since Israel is a very small country, away supporters always come to the Kirya - they are housed in the worst seats though.
How good is your away support? Well, I'm not objective, but I rather like it. We used to often outnumber home fans - which was fun. There is a feeling nowadays though that since we became the most successful side in the league (over the last decade), our attendances, both home and away have dwindled a bit.
Is there an ultra culture in Israeli football? Jerusalem, Yes there is. Each one of the big 4 (us, BeitarHapeol Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv have rather good ultras). I must say that in terms of creativity, and if you are a neutral supporter, Hapoel's ultras give you the best entertainment. But the Green Apes, Maccabi Haifa's ultras, are very good and extremely passionate, sitting in the famous Gimel (the 3rd letter in the Hebrew alphabet) block in the Kirya.
Who are your rivals? Well, we consider the other 3 of the big four our rivals, and it usually depends who is running against us in the championship race. But we really dislike Maccabi Tel Aviv, it's kind of the peripheral team (us) against the big city up-nosed-know-it-alls. And of course, we have our local rivals, Hapeol Haifa, which I consider my top most hated team.
What is derby day like in Haifa (v Hapoel)? Well, we share the same stadium but we have more fans than they do. During the mid to late 90's, the derby was great because Hapoel had a very strong team that even won a championship - their only one. This season the derby is on the weekend of the 26th December and it should be awesome.
Is there a bigger game in your season than that one? The biggest games each season are the European cup games; they are the most anticipated and the most important.
Is it easy to get tickets for home matches? It usually is, since for the average league game, we usually only fill half of the stadium.
If the EFW team cam to Haifa for a match, would we be made welcome? Very much so! People in Israel are very friendly and like speaking with foreigners about anything - apart from politics. You'd be most welcome, just come already.
What is the beer situation in and around the ground? Could you recommend us a nice pre and post match drinking venue? You've hit on a touchy subject there. Beer is not sold in Israeli grounds and is not considered a staple in the Israeli football food and drink plethora. Also, the stadium does not have pubs near it. You can buy cheap bottles in nearby shops. There's no such thing as a license in the holy land.
How many games can you feasibly see in one weekend in Israel? Oh well, since I know EFW's liking of lower leagues, I say that 4 or even 5 is not too hard to achieve - and I shall explain. In Israel, the weekend starts in effect on Thursday evening. You can catch a 2nd Division game on Friday afternoon, sometimes two games on a Saturday, one on a Sunday and another lower league game on Monday afternoon and one Premier League game on Monday evening. Remember that Israel is a small country, so if you rent a car you can see at the very least three matches but the stadiums aren't that great.
How much would a match ticket cost us? Tickets usually cost between 70-90 shekels - 12 to 15 quid for Premier League matches.
We sell terrible food in English stadiums at silly prices. What sort of food can we procure in Israeli grounds? Not that good either, but in Haifa, the best donner in the city is right outside the stadium. Israeli grub is one of the best in the world, ask anyone.
How safe is watching football in Israel? Watching a game is usually a safe experience although we get the occasional problem. Lately, things are quiet. Our biggest problem in the stadiums, in my opinion, is the fact that we don't have stewards but policemen. Police special forces are in charge of security in the stadium, a thing that causes clashes sometimes.
Is there a hooligan problem? The only team that has a hooligan problem is Beitar Jerusalem. Their fans have been known to taunt Arabic players and even yell racist remarks. But most of the time, no hooligans, although you might see or hear some off colour signs and chants.
What is the Kiryat Eliezer stadium like? Well, I've had many good times there, so I have emotions towards it, but it's old and I can honestly say it's a dump. It's like an old dog in a way.
I've heard you are in the process of building a new one? Yes we are, a top notch modern 32,000 all seater which should - according to the plans - be the best in Israel and even a good match to some European stadiums. Knowing my country and the way things are, I'm pessimistic and I just hope it'll be built before Lewes FC's next Champions League game.
And the best stadium in Israel? I have to say Bloomfield - the municipal stadium of Tel Aviv, which is located in Jaffa (but doesn't sell Jaffa Cakes). Its the only stadium in Israel that is totally enclosed and it has great site lines. It's home to Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv and also to the third team from Tel Aviv - Bney Yehuda. Second best is Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium.
Playing Champions League matches in Cyprus must have been a bit of a pain? Our first Champions League campaign was played in Cyprus, 7 years ago and it was indeed a pain. But this year we played in the national stadium and actually made a record as the worst team ever to appear in the Champions League. Did I mention I absolutely freaking hate the national stadium? And it's not just me - almost every football fan in Israel hates it.
Does politics play a part in Israeli football? Where to even start, of course it does. Politics plays a part in every aspect of the Israeli life. I won't go into details about how the IFA is being fun, but from a fan's prospective I will say that of the big 4 - Hapoel tend to see themselves as lefties and anti institution while Beitar see themselves as right wing. This is why games between those two are hotly contested. Beitar are the only team in the Premier League never to have fielded an Arab player, although Jerusalem is a very big Arab city as well as Jewish.
What is the biggest match in Israeli football? The two biggest are Hapoel Tel Aviv v Beitar Jerusalem (for the reasons I listed above) and the Tel Aviv derby between Maccabi and Hapoel, which was given it's own chapter in the Andy Mitten book - "Mad For It".
How big is Israel's version of the FA Cup? Ahhh...the Israeli Cup - how I love it. For years, one of the best fixtures in the Israeli football calendar is the semi final day. A double header in the national stadium, which brings out lots of fans. It takes place in the spring and is great fun to be in. Cup games are loved in Israel.
Does football dominate the press? Yes, but basketball is our No.2 sport. We have one team that won the European top competition a few times but in recent years basketball is losing it since there are too many foreign players. Also, at the start of this year, a famous basketball official hung himself which led to an ongoing investigation about the purity of the game. It's a shame really - I don't follow Maccabi Haifa's basketball team anymore because of that.
What has been the highlight of supporting Maccabi Haifa? It's so hard to pick one but the first ever Champions League game of an Israeli team at Old Trafford was something else. We went 1-0 up early on and that was absolutely amazing. We lost 5-2 in the end but in the return leg in the group we beat Man Utd 3-0. That game took place in Cyprus and I couldn't attend because of my army service. There was also a famous last minute win against PSG (3-2) and in Israel; I shall always cherish the derby victory after Hapoel's championship season - a remarkable game.
Obviously, we've heard of Avram Grant and Yossi Benayoun but who is the next star you are going to let loose over here? Look for a young talent by the name of Eyal Golasa - he wears Benayoun's No.15 shirt, has long hair and he looks like he dances with the ball. Also, there is Muhammad Gadir, a young striker with excellent pace.
What is the club song like at Maccabi Haifa and can we swing a fast shoe to it? Oh, it's hard to translate but here is a YouTube clip.
Do you have a mascot? Nope, but we used to have a lovely lion. It's been 15 years since him going away. (I feel an EFW campaign coming on there don't you? - Ed).
Is there any interest in English football in Haifa outside of the big four? We love English football. Some are Tottenham fans after Ronny Rosenthal (who grew up in the ranks of Maccabi Haifa) and flock to England each Christmas to watch matches. But generally, the big four and any team that has an Israeli player or coach.
Presumably, Lewes FC has their own Israeli fan club? My lower league heart lies with Leyton Orient but I know that next time I'm in England, if I go to a Lewes game - I'll be hooked.
As well as our European football, we love our non-league stuff here at EFW. Is there much of a non-league scene in Israel? The biggest and most passionate non league (the lowest 3 leagues in Israel are not professional) teams are found in Arab villages and cities. As a former referee in the lower leagues in the north, I have to say that attendances vary but they do not exceed 1,000. Having said that - a lot of Premier League matches are poorly attending as well.
What sort of wages are players on? Is it all about money, money, money in the Israeli Premiership? Money is a very big part of the game nowadays and Maccabi players get paid some of the biggest wages in Israel. There is a big parity between teams because of those financial issues.
Tell us something we don't know about Maccabi Haifa. We once lost a cup final 12-1. For years there was a Brazil flag in the stands as Maccabi is synonymous with beautiful football. We have the longest serving owner of a football team in Israel - Yaakov Shachar - who has been here almost 20 years.
Anything else to add? A nice tidbit -as far as I can remember - Maccabi Haifa have used at least 10 grounds in European competitions, which I believe is some sort of record. We've played games at four different grounds in Israel, and also home games in the Ukraine, Holland (2 different ones), Bulgaria, Turkey and Cyprus.
And so concludes our little chat with Ofer which I hope you enjoyed. I'm now a lot more clued up about Maccabi Haifa and Israeli football in general. We've stuck Haifa at the top of our 'to do' list for 2010 and we'll be over there for the derby if you want to join us? Right, I'm now off to pen a letter to the club to get that lion mascot reinstated. In fact, I want to be in that lion costume for the derby match next season - just you watch.


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How Ray Lewis takes the pep talk to new levels
- Ravens linebacker has speech, will travel
- Former coach Marv Levy says pregame speeches are overrated
- "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" was historically inaccurate but effective
OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- His teammates will tell you that Ray Lewis is the greatest living practitioner of that rip-roaring piece of performance art known as the locker room pep talk. But don't take their word for it. Find him on YouTube and see for yourself.
Here is the Baltimore Ravens linebacker appealing to the pride of University of Miami football players: Know what you carry, when you carry that 'U' on your chest.
Here he is riffing on the essence of team with Loyola of Maryland men's lacrosse players: Nothing else matters but the man that's beside me.
And here he is channeling anger with Stanford's men's basketball players: If you ain't pissed off for greatness, you're OK with mediocrity.
Lewis played at Miami. He didn't play for Loyola or Stanford. But he'll talk to most anyone who asks, and even some who don't, such as football players at Elon, where he once showed up unannounced just because he happened to be in the neighborhood.
"Ray is the best motivational speaker anywhere," Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo says. "It's not just what he says, but how he says it. He gets inside your soul."
Aristotle called the sort of speech that summons our emotions epideictic. We know the locker room version of the genre better as Win One for the Gipper, a rallying cry that echoes across generations.
The rousing pregame speech is a staple of Americana — and of American cinema. If the climax of most sports movies is the slow-motion moment of triumph, it is typically preceded by a rhetorical call to arms from a gravel-voiced coach offering fire-and-brimstone wisdom to his room full of doe-eyed underdogs.
Some of these great movie moments are made up, such as the speech given by fictional Miami Sharks coach Tony D'Amato in the 1999 film Any Given Sunday. Al Pacino repeats the word inch a dozen times in his stem-winder.
We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the (blank) kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell, one inch at a time.
Some of these great movie moments are taken from real life, such as the speech by U.S. men's Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks, played by Kurt Russell, in the 2004 film Miracle. This one is based on what Brooks told his young Americans the night they upset the mighty Soviet juggernaut in 1980.
If we played them 10 times, they might win nine, but not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can. Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world.
It's no secret that a pep talk delivered with passion and cadence works theatrically and thematically. Shakespeare had that figured out long ago. Witness King Henry's bravura elocution before the Battle of Agincourt in Henry V:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
Ray Lewis couldn't have said it better himself.
Pep talks overrated
Here's the advice of one coach enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Forget everything you know of pregame speeches from the movies.
"Pep talks are the most overrated item you can think of," Marv Levy says. "There are far, far fewer of them than the public perceives."
When Levy coached the Buffalo Bills from 1986 to 1997, he often salted his oratory with Churchillian exhortations about finest hours and never giving up. But he typically delivered those talks the night before games, not in the locker room.
Levy says he preferred offering perspective to raising adrenaline, which risks revving motors so high that players go out and make mistakes. "I wanted to spur them to thoughtful action," Levy says, "not stupid, over-the-cliff emotion."
Levy, 87, who holds a masters degree in English History from Harvard, was rarely at a loss for words. Some coaches are.
Mike Sellers is an assistant football coach at Huntingdon (Pa.) Area High School. He remembers a night in 2007, before he was an assistant, when he was in the pregame locker room as the Bearcats' webmaster. The coach had nothing to say so he asked his assistants if maybe they did. They didn't. So the coach threw it to Sellers.
"I had nothing," Sellers says. Then a light bulb went off — and now he is proprietor of pregamespeeches.com, which bundles prefab pep talks for coaches in need.
The site gets 800 to 1,000 hits a day but sells only 20 to 45 packages a year, $14.99 for bundles of eight generic speeches. Here's a taste:
The time is now. This is the day. This is the hour. It has been set aside, marked and reserved for you. This is your time to succeed. Your destiny awaits you.
Win one for the Gipper
George Gipp, Notre Dame's first All-America football player, died of pneumonia in 1920. Eight years later, Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne delivered a halftime speech that propelled the Fighting Irish to a 12-6 upset of Army. Or so the legend goes.
Murray Sperber, author of Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football, believes Rockne made up the deathbed scene in which Gipp asks Rockne to tell the team some day — "when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys" — to win just one for, well, him.
Two years after that Army game, a Collier's story ghostwritten for Rockne tells the tale pretty much as Hollywood would render it in the 1940 film Knute Rockne All American. Pat O'Brien, playing Rockne, gets a faraway, misty-eyed look, his voice wavering slightly as he gives the locker room speech against which all others are weighed.
"I knew a guy who played for Rockne, that's how old I am," Levy says, "and he told me that wasn't really Rockne talking" — that was Hollywood.
Still, the real-life Rockne could clearly punch-up a speech. Find him on YouTube wearing a jaunty fedora, hands tucked casually in suit coat pockets, except when punctuating a point with his fists .
And don't forget, men: Today is the day we're going to win. They can't lick us. … The first platoon men — go in there and fight, fight, fight, fight, fight! What do you say, men?
Robert N. Sayler, co-author of Tongue-Tied America: Reviving the Art of Verbal Persuasion, says coaches must "build up a reservoir of credibility" with their players to make such appeals work.
"The gripping speech that has the feeling of let's go win one for the Gipper will have a memorable theme and great phrasing, sentences that you remember when you walk out of the locker room," Sayler says. "Simplicity is crucial to the epideictic, moving, power-house speech. And, obviously, they have to be well delivered, with cadence and dramatic pauses to set up the theme."
Parody and hilarity
Nothing is over until we decide it is. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi, as Bluto Blutarsky, utters those immortal if historically inaccurate words in the 1978 film Animal House during a pep talk without the locker room that has become so much a part of American culture that you can get it as a ringtone.
It's a parody of pep talks — and the movies' convention of them — but hardly history's only one to elicit laughs.
Time was drawing short before kickoff of 1964's AFL championship game and referees knocked on Buffalo's locker room door. Paul Maguire, the Bills' punter of that era, recalls running back Cookie Gilchrist yelling at coach Lou Saban to get the team moving. Saban jumped up on a table.
"I only have one thing to say to you," Saban shouted. "Heads down, toes up!"
Gilchrist started to open the door, then stopped, closed it, and looked at Saban.
"What the (blank) does that mean?"
"I don't know," Saban said. "I'm as nervous as you are."
The Bills burst out of the room, laughing uproariously, and beat the San Diego Chargers 20-7.
"I never found out if Lou did it on purpose to get us loose," Maguire says. "I don't think so, but knowing him, maybe he did. Every time I asked, he just got that grin on his face."
Lewis motivates, leads
Lewis declined comment for this story through a Ravens spokesman. The guy who talks to everyone is not talking to anyone from the news media as he rehabs from a triceps injury that has kept him off the field since mid-October.
"Ray has a talent as far as talking and leading," Ravens safety Bernard Pollard says. "The passion he has is crazy, man. The players respect it. We know his life, what he's been through. He puts it all on the line for this team, this organization, this city."
Sometimes Ayanbadejo watches Lewis on YouTube. "It's like a time capsule, takes you back to the moment," he says. "They all make you feel excited. It's his energy, his emotion, his rawness, his words, his delivery, his sincerity."
And it doesn't hurt that Lewis is an all-time great.
"Ray has Greek god status around here," Ayanbadejo says. "He has a special gift. He can have a career in motivational speaking when he retires."
No matter how many times you hear him, "listening to Ray never gets old," Ayanbadejo says. "You always come away with something new."


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These are some of the things that are happening in the nether regions of the sports gossip world. This news is not breaking. It is not exclusive. There are no exclamation points. We did not pay for these photos. (NSFW)
Rams quarterback Kyle Boller was having a pleasant time vacationing when a wave summoned by Perez Hilton tried to rip off the top of his girlfriend's bathing suit. (NSFW)[TheSuperFicial]
Yes, fans, Tiger Woods is apparently in a sex addiction facility in Mississippi. Why don't they just call "sex addiction therapy" what it really is: "how to stop being an asshole therapy." [Benoit/WUP]
An angry professional snowboarder gets in an entertaining shouting match with some corporate folks after he busted their ice sculpture. [TMZ]
There are some sporty individuals listed in this mind-bending gallery of women wearing pants that are too tight in the crotch region. Suspiciously absent from this gallery? The Clemson rowing team. [Caveman Circus]


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Due to time constrain, AD Minh and I started working on this piece before the article was written. So we only had a rough concept to work with. Minh liked what I did with the "The ghost of tax return" for the NYT a month back and suggested we could use a similar approach to show someone staring at the screen with their head bobbing up and down. I usually like to come up with my own ideas, but this time I found the idea suggested very fun and was happy to play along. It turned out to be a great collaboration, thanks Minh for all the insightful inputs!
Friday, March 16, 2012
Crazy Eyes, New York Times
I drew some crazy eyes for New York Times's Sunday Technology page. The article is online now and will be in this Sunday's paper. (March 18th). Many bifocal glasses wearers have to bob their heads up and down for the right focuses when looking at computer screens, a new type of lens is introduced to ease this strain.
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Big South champion Andre Washington will compete in the first round of the men's 400 hurdles, Thursday at 5 p.m.
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From the newly remodeled and expanded press box overlooking North Carolina A&T's Aggie Stadium, LibertyFlames.com will provide live blog coverage of all three days of the 2013 NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round meet.
Twelve will be the magic number, as that many competitors in each event will earn the right to compete in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore.
Seven of Liberty's 13 athletes at this meet will compete today. Here's how the Flames' schedule breaks down.
1 p.m. – Men's Long Jump (Aaron Johnson) 3:30 p.m. – Women's Discus (Mychelle Cumings, Jennifer Nicholson and Jocelyn Williams) 4:30 p.m. – Men's Pole Vault (Cody Bingham) 5 p.m. – Men's 400 Hurdles First Round (Andre Washington) 6 p.m. – Men's 1,500 First Round (Isaac Wendland)
I will once again use the interactive CoveritLive blog interface. This format allows readers to submit comments and questions throughout the day, as you track your favorite Flames and Lady Flames' progress.
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SAN DIEGO — Now that the George Zimmerman murder trial is over, let's hope we've heard the last of the awkward term "white Hispanic." For the most part, it is a media concoction that has only served to stir resentment from both whites and Hispanics.
Whites think the media were intent on telling a tragic tale in terms of a white villain and a black victim, and so that's why they tacked on the modifier "white" before "Hispanic." Hispanics are just as cynical. They believe that a half-white, half-Hispanic person who wins the Nobel Peace Prize will likely be referred to as "white" but one who kills an unarmed black youth and becomes a reviled member of society will always be called "Hispanic."
Welcome to multicultural America, circa 2013, where you can't tell the players without a program.
The confusion started just a few days after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting when Robert Zimmerman Sr. insisted that his son George couldn't be racist because, well, after all, he's Hispanic. Soon thereafter, Robert Jr. seconded the motion, telling reporters that his brother identified himself as "Hispanic."
I'm sure the Zimmermans meant well, but they tried to defend George based on the faulty assumption that Hispanics couldn't be racist. That would mean Hispanics couldn't be human.
We may never be sure just how authentically "Hispanic" George Zimmerman really is or how much he relates to the language, food and culture of his mother, who was born in Peru. Like many people with mixed cultural backgrounds, the 29-year-old was able to choose, I suspect, whether to identify more with his mother or his father, who is white and of German descent.
In any case, since the verdict, when liberals feel like slamming Zimmerman, a lot of them forget the "white" part and take the express train right to "Hispanic."
From the beginning of this story, the media haven't known what to do with Zimmerman, or where to put him in America's racial and ethnic spectrum.
Media reports say that Zimmerman's voter registration record lists him as "Hispanic," and that's good enough for me. For better or worse, he's one of ours. However, this doesn't mean that Hispanics are cutting him much slack for the mess he helped create by playing cop and ignoring the admonition of a 911 operator not to pursue Martin.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, Hispanics disapprove of his acquittal by a 2-to-1 margin, and 60 percent of Hispanics say that nonwhites do not receive equal treatment in the criminal justice system.
Maybe that's one reason why the national organizations that are supposed to defend Hispanics have, for the last year and a half, shown no interest in defending Zimmerman. A more likely reason is that groups such as the National Council of La Raza have strong relations with their African-American equivalents, and they'd like to keep it that way.
Still, it's shameful that these organizations can't even muster the courage to condemn what seems to be a rash of anti-Hispanic hate crimes in cities like Baltimore and Houston after the verdict. Besides raising money, and putting on conferences, what are these groups good for?
Given that the dominant media narrative in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman saga is largely drawn in black and white, and that most of the commentators who were booked on cable television during the trial were either black or white, you might have thought it would be difficult for Hispanics to find an entry point into this story.
No such luck. The nation's largest minority couldn't have avoided this difficult national conversation if it wanted to. And now, unfortunately, we're right in the middle of it.
Ruben Navarrette is a Washington Post columnist.


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Some 46% of global information workers say using social tools has increased their productivity, while 9% say such tools have reduced productivity, according to a recent report by Ipsos Public Affairs and Microsoft.
In addition, 42% of say that social tools have resulted in more workplace collaboration—something that 39% say there is not enough of at their workplace.
Employees in the Asia-Pacific region are most likely to attribute higher productivity levels to the increased use of social tools, followed by Latin America and Europe.
Below, additional findings from the report, which was based on a survey of 9,908 employees across 32 countries.
Popular Social Tools in the Workplace
Most information workers say they use email (93%), team sites/intranets (58%), instant messaging (56%), and videoconferencing (51%) for professional purposes.
Though external social networks are more likely to be used for personal than professional purposes, they are being used in the workplace by nearly one-third of workers (31%).
Less prevalent workplace social tools include internal social networks (22%), blogging platforms (17%), microblogging (17%), and Web aggregators (14%).
Access to Social Tools
Six in ten survey respondents (62%) said they have access to all of the tools and technologies they need to do their job well, and many report that their employer encourages them to use social tools, such as email (80%), team sites/intranets (45%), video conferencing (42%), and instant messaging (38%). Over a quarter (27%) say their company encourages news feeds, while 19% say their company supports public FTP/cloud storage.
One-third (34%) of workers surveyed say their management underestimates the benefits of these tools, and at least a quarter report that there are restrictions in place for using external social networks (32%), microblogging (30%), and internal social networks (25%).
Reasons for Restrictions
Across all countries, security concerns (68%) and productivity loss (58%) are the top two reasons social tools are restricted. Roughly a quarter of information workers also say social tools are restricted because of Human Resources concerns (28%), concerns about company image (25%) and data loss (24%).
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About the research: The report was based on data from a poll conducted between March 25 and April 24, 2013. For the survey, an international sample of 9,908 information workers (defined as those employed at a company with at least 100 employees who use a PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone for at least 75% of their job function) in 32 countries was interviewed online.
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Mets collapse in ninth, lose 5-4 at San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — The New York Mets missed multiple opportunities to build a bigger lead and hold it.
The San Francisco Giants took advantage of the chances they had when it mattered most.
Anthony Recker had a crucial misplay behind the plate in the ninth inning and Jenrry Mejia blew his first save of the season as the Mets lost their fifth straight game, 5-4 at San Francisco on Saturday night.
"We're not happy with what's happened but we've been in all the games," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "All it takes is a base hit here or there to turn things around."
Former Mets outfielder Angel Pagan had three singles, two RBI and got on base five times. He reached leading off the ninth when Recker dropped the third strike and his throw pulled Lucas Duda off first base. Collins challenged the play but lost.
Hunter Pence hit a tying double that scored Pagan and advanced to third on Buster Posey's deep fly to left-center. After Mejia (4-3) intentionally walked Pablo Sandoval, Michael Morse sent a game-winning single to deep right and was mobbed by teammates before he reached second.
"The ball got away from me a little farther than I would have liked," Recker said of the dropped strikeout. "I didn't have to rush, but I rushed more than I should have."
Jeremy Affeldt (2-1) tossed one scoreless inning to help the Giants (41-21) extend baseball's best record.
Bartolo Colon gave up three runs — one earned — and eight hits in 52/3 innings for the Mets. The 41-year-old, who spent the past two seasons across the bay in Oakland, struck out four and walked two.
Tim Hudson, who began the game with a majors-best 1.75 ERA, allowed season highs of nine hits and three runs. Even with the tough outing, Hudson (1.97 ERA) is the first pitcher in San Francisco history with an ERA below 2.00 through his first 12 starts with the team.
The Mets grabbed leads of 3-0 and 4-1, but stranded 12 runners to help Hudson's team rally.
"At this level you can't give good teams more than three outs, if you do, you are going to get burned by it," Collins said.
The Mets ended Hudson's scoreless streak at 16 consecutive innings in the second, when Duda doubled and scored on Recker's single. In the third, Duda broke his bat hitting an RBI single off the wall in right and Recker drove in another run to give the Mets a 3-0 lead.
The Mets might have had more if not for a baserunning blunder. Ruben Tejada was tagged out between second and third after Duda stopped at third and Recker ran to second.
With the bases loaded and no outs in the fifth, Posey grounded into a double play to score San Francisco's first run. Colon then got Sandoval to fly out.
New York extended its lead to 4-1 on a wild pitch by George Kontos in the sixth, but couldn't overcome an error by third baseman David Wright in the bottom of the inning.
Wright fielded a grounder and misfired to second trying to get the lead runner with two outs. Pagan followed with a two-run single to bring the Giants within 4-3 and chase Colon.
Pence's single loaded the bases for Posey again, but Jeurys Familia struck out Posey on a sinking fastball clocked at 96 mph.
"We were in control of the game most of the way," Recker said. "And we let them back in it and they took advantage of it."
The Mets optioned C Travis d'Arnaud to Triple-A Las Vegas after the game and called up C Taylor Teagarden. … Collins said Wright, who has started the first 62 games this season, will likely get Sunday off. The Mets don't play Monday. … Former Giants prospect Zack Wheeler takes the mound for the Mets against San Francisco's Tim Lincecum (4-4, 5.01 ERA) in Sunday's series finale.


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The mother of a Southbridge Middle-High School student said the administration filed a no-trespass order against her because of her reaction to her son being assaulted by a schoolmate.
The parent, Laura Laboy, complained during the School Committee meeting Tuesday about officials� handling of the alleged assault on her son last Thursday.
According to a police report, Ms. Laboy acted �out of control� at the high school after the alleged assault in which her son, a ninth-grader, suffered a concussion.
Ms. Laboy said she did not believe she was out of control.
Ms. Laboy said as of Tuesday night her son still had blurred vision from the assault. She asserted that there�s a problem with bullying at the school.
School Committee member Scott S. Lazo said yesterday that he was going to hold regular news conferences about problems at the school, which he said was �imploding.�
In an email to school officials that was provided to the Telegram & Gazette, Ms. Laboy said she received a call about the attack from the school nurse. The parent said she was told her son had been punched in the temple from behind four times.
Ms. Laboy said she went to the school but administrators were nowhere to be found, so she called for an ambulance and police.
A police summary indicated Ms. Laboy�s son and the alleged assailant had an ongoing problem, for which they had participated in mediation earlier in the fall. The statement said the other student punched Ms. Laboy�s son in the head several times, resulting in minor injuries. The report did not say if the injuries included a concussion. A detective also advised the mother about the process of seeking a criminal complaint for simple assault.
Ms. Laboy said she would go to court yesterday to pursue the complaint.. She said the concussion ended her son�s football season.
At the request of Principal Tammy M. Perreault on Friday, police issued a no-trespass order forbidding Ms. Laboy from entering the school and McMahan Field, the site of football games.
Ms. Perreault, who was promoted to principal this summer, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
In an interview yesterday, police Chief Daniel R. Charette said he spoke with the school resource officer and believes the school followed the proper protocol in handling the incident.
Superintendent Eric D. Ely said he was out of town last week at a conference. But he said he�d spoken with the principal and administrators and was assured that all student discipline would be handled according to the student code of conduct. He said the administration was on top of the issue.
Ms. Laboy said her son doesn�t want to return to school because he is afraid.
School Committee Chairman Patricia Woodruff said the issue is a personal matter that should be resolved between Ms. Laboy and Mr. Ely in private.
Mr. Lazo said he was baffled. He said that some teachers have told him this has been the most violent two to three months of their careers.
The police chief, who was not at the School Committee meeting Tuesday night, said he did not agree. The chief said he remembered weeks in which four ambulance trips were made to the former high school. The new Southbridge Middle-High School on Torrey Road opened in September.
This year, the chief said, �there have been some interactions, no question.�
Mr. Lazo said that lately the committee has tried to make meetings �run a certain way, where things can�t be said in public.�
To combat this, he vowed to hold regular news events about the school.
Committee member Lauren McLoughlin said that legal reasons, rather than lack of concern or interest, precluded the committee from speaking more about some parents� concerns.
School board member Tanja Dominko said the public school system was not the FBI or CIA, and with the exception of collective bargaining and personnel, most of what it handles can be aired in public.


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In the latest political show trial in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, the anticorruption activist and charismatic opposition leader, was sentenced to five years in jail — for corruption. Apparently there is no move too cynical for Russian leader and former KGB operative Vladimir Putin.
Only last week, a dead man — Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblower who was jailed and beaten to death in prison — was judged guilty of the very embezzlement scheme he had exposed (which was committed, in reality, by top government officials).
Then there's Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oil magnate, who has been repeatedly jailed in another series of show trials — because he mounted a political challenge to Putin.
These trials — even more than the games Putin is playing with the American leaker and asylum-seeker Edward Snowden — should signal to President Obama that it's time to cancel a planned summit with Putin in September. The same mind-set that drives the Russian leader to lock up any political opponent ensures that a summit would be a waste of time.
"No to robbers"
Just look at the case of Navalny, Russia's most promising opposition leader and a new kind of Russian politician. He came to prominence after mounting a series of Internet investigations of his country's staggering official corruption.
When I interviewed the tall, blond, 35-year-old Navalny in Moscow last year, he told me: "This regime is based on corruption." He was referring to the massive wealth funneled to Kremlin favorites and the disrespect for law that pervades the system. "I focus on this issue," he said, "and that's why people appreciate my efforts."
Navalny's slogan was: "No to robbers, no to thieves, yes to citizenship."
This crusade made Navalny an icon for Moscow's growing middle class. The anti-corruption campaigner was set to run for mayor of Moscow in September. No question, the incumbent (a favorite of the Kremlin's) would win. But a strong Navalny showing might have embarrassed Putin — and still could, since his name is already on the ballot. So first they jailed him, then they suddenly freed him after 24 hours, pending appeal.
However, at any moment, Navalny could be tossed back in jail. The Navalny tale illustrates Putin's blatant indifference to domestic and international opinion — both are critical of the Navalny verdict. Russian polls show that 56 percent of Russians believe Navalny's arrest was either aimed at halting his anti-corruption crusade or preventing him from running for mayor. But Putin, confident he can manipulate the Russian system, doesn't care.
G-20 summit in Russia
Which brings us to the question of whether Obama should cancel the summit in Moscow, where he is scheduled to stop before attending a September meeting of leaders of the G-20 (the major industrialized and developing nations) in St. Petersburg. Just as Putin imagines he can manipulate Russians, he seems to believe he can manipulate Obama as well.
After Putin was re-elected president early last year, Obama attempted (for a second time) to reset U.S.-Russian relations. Yet, in a put-down to Obama, Putin declined to attend a May 2012 meeting of the leaders of the G-8 (eight of the most powerful industrial countries), which was held at Camp David. The excuse he gave was so silly as to be demeaning.
The White House and Secretary of State John Kerry have invested much effort in urging Moscow to help mediate a compromise solution to the Syrian civil war, yet Putin has steadfastly backed President Bashar al-Assad. Obama dearly wants to negotiate another round of nuclear arms cuts with Putin, but the Russian has made clear he is not interested.
Meantime, the Russian leader continues to toy with Snowden at Sheremetyevo Airport — cynically using him to decry American "human-rights violations." There's no chance that Putin will hand him over. Yet Putin clearly still wants the September summit. He has said "squabbles" over Snowden shouldn't derail bilateral relations.
The new Russian czar wants to project himself as a global leader and Russia as a rising superpower (despite its shrinking population and Third World-style economy that depends on the export of natural resources).
Although he thinks America is declining, he still wants a photo-op that shows him as an equal of the U.S. president. Isn't it time for the White House to administer a reality check? Isn't it time for Obama to stop playing by Putin's rules? There are plenty of transparent excuses — busy schedule, daughter's school play — for bowing out of a pointless summit. And Vice President Joe Biden could certainly fill in for Obama at the G-20 meeting. Putin seems to believe that Obama will come calling, no matter how many times he insults him. It's long past time to show him he is wrong.


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Crossing guard helps makes Wauwatosa students get to school safely
As kids head back to school this week, one man is making it his mission to make sure they get to class safely.
Each morning and afternoon, students who attend Wauwatosa East High School, Roosevelt Elementary School and Longfellow Middle School are greeted by Chuck Cooney as he helps them cross 73rd Street and North Avenue.
Cooney is a retired Milwaukee Public Schools teacher and became a crossing guard last year.
"It makes me feel good. I'm doing something important," Cooney said.
He makes each student feel important.
"He makes me feel so much more safe, and he's always so friendly," Wauwatosa East High School senior Kiara Klink said.
"They're really polite, and fun. They look out for each other. The drivers are another matter," Cooney said.
He said drivers need to leave more space between cars and slow down, and I found that out first hand.
"It means a lot that there's someone out here making sure the kids are getting across the street safe," a parent said.
"I get more thank-yous than I ever did when I was teaching," Cooney said.
The deputy chief with the Wauwatosa Fire Department told WISN 12 News Cooney and the other crossing guards are making a difference and keeping kids safe.
He said they haven't had any recent accidents, and if drivers keep an eye out for students, it will stay that way.


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So I decided to come up with a fun and easy recipe involving Nutella that would be easy for all of my readers to make: Nutella Croissants! Dear readers, if you've ever seen the movie Sleepless in Seattle, you'll know why we call this combination MFEO - Nutella and croissants were Made For Each Other!!! They turned out to be soooo delicious - no surprise considering Nutella is involved. Flaky, tender, buttery croissants with that rich, gooey, hazelnut-chocolate pillow hidden on the inside. We had them for dessert, but they would also be a wonderful addition to brunch, or just a tea time snack!
For even more Nutella-fun, check out my Dawg Ball Cookies - they are seriously Nutellicious! ;-)
1 tube Pillsbury "big 'n' fluffy" crescent rolls
6 heaping tablespoons of Nutella
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Spray a large baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.
Open the tube of crescent rolls, and unroll and separate your triangles of dough. Place 1 heaping tablespoon full of Nutella at the base of each triangle.


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