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A little bit of news from the morning skate and then we get into the storyline of the day: Brad Stuart's first game against the Detroit Red Wings since leaving them to return to San Jose for family reasons.
But first. . . .
No real surprises on the likely Sharks lineup tonight. Rookie defenseman Matt Irwin was paired with Dan Boyle, just as they were when the season began. Stuart skated with Marc-Edouard Vlasic and, based on who left the ice when, it looks like Douglas Murray and Justin Braun form the third tandem on the blue line.
Irwin said he watched most of the San Jose games on TV back in Worcester. What did he see that looked different?
"Getting pucks to the net," he said. "We were doing a good job of that in those first couple games. The goals we were scoring were right around the crease and you've got to be lucky, too. Those pucks just squirt out and land on someone's stick and it was an open net. It didn't seem like we were getting those lucky bounces in those games we were losing."
It also looks as if Ryane Clowe's return from a two-game suspension won't be in a Top Six role, something Todd McLellan telegraphed yesterday. Clowe skated with Michal Handzus and Tim Kennedy while James Sheppard centered Adam Burish and TJ Galiardi.
Which is the third line? The fourth? We probably won't know the answer until we see the minutes played on the post-game stat sheet?
McLellan played down what appears to be a demotion for Clowe, who has six assists, but is stilling looking for his first goal of the season.
"He's playing with some good players and his job is to make those players better," the coach said. "His line has some size and some physicality to it. We'll see how it works out."
In case you need a reminder, the top two lines appear to be Couture-Thornton-Pavelski and Marleau-Gomez-Havlat.
Based on who left the ice when, look for Andrew Desjardins and Jason Demers to be the odd-men out.
*****Back to Brad Stuart. We've written a lot already about his decision last summer to sign with San Jose so he could be with his family, which had remained back in Los Gatos, where his wife grew up. We'll skip the particulars.
But playing against his former team, where he won a Stanley Cup, was definitely the storyline of the day for the Detroit media. Stuart graciously went through interview after interview. And both coaches talked about the circumstances afterward.
Stuart acknowledged that if the game were "in Joe Louis, it's probably a little stranger. But it should be fun, too. I've moved on, but it's still going to be a little weird playing against those guys."
"Thefact I got to be part of a lot of unique opportunities – Stanley Cup finals, Winter Classics, going over to Europe. And just being part of that culture and learning a lot from guys like Lidstrom and Zetterberg and Chelios and Draper, just how to win, how to be a winner. All those things have been invaluable as far as my career goes."
And his life now?
"From a personal standpoint, it's been awesome just getting to be home as much as possible and not having to jump through hoops to see my family. I think I've fit in well with the team, so that's been good, too."
McLellan talked about how Stuart's decision to leave Detroit and return to San Jose offered a rare reflection on the human side of pro sports.
"Players have families, players have other interests away from the game and in Stuey's case, his family was here," the Sharks coach said. "It's hard to live away from two little ones, a teen-age girl and your wife. For him to come home to them – not necessarily to us – was real important to him as a family man.
"Him having started his career in San Jose and being able to come in now and hopefully finish it here is a real good thing for him and for us."
On the ice, McLellan added, "he's made us a more competitive back end. Our penalty kill has improved immensely and he's had a huge role in that. He's a physical player. Just the overall intensity of our blue line has gone up due in large part to his competitiveness."
Detroit Coach Mike Babcock said he got a glimpse of how important family was to Stuart when the Red Wings were in San Jose last season and his two young sons joined him on the ice.
"When they were little little it was one thing," Babcock said, using the same word twice for obvious emphasis, "but when they became little people, you want to be around them. San Jose got a good deal and ended up with a good player. We miss him – you're always going to miss him as a player, but you miss him as a man much more. He's a great person and we appreciate what he did for us."
The Babcock, too, emphasized the importance of family above all else.
"Money doesn't make you happy," he said. "I tell people all the time. We don't laugh any more at my lake house than we did with my trailer and my deck that we had for years before we were in the NHL. What makes you happy is being around good people and doing what you love to do."
*****Back to tonight's game before wrapping things up. The Sharks are going with Antti Niemi in net and expected to be facing Red Wing back-up Jonas Gustavsson. San Jose hasn't strung together two consecutive wins all month and Detroit is coming off a 2-1 loss in Los Angeles last night.
"They need a win, we need a win. It should be a good hockey game and a desperate hockey game," Babcock said. "But the mental toughness ot do it right is so important to us."
For his part, McLellan wasn't attaching any significance to the fact the Sharks were facing a longtime rival.
"I don't think we're in position to pick and choose who we win the second game of a two-game winning streak," McLellan said. "Detroit plays us hard all the time. It's been a real good rivalry. That's what the fans can look forward to enjoying.
"The players and coaches," he added, "can look forward to picking up some points one way or the other, and we like to think we can put them in our bank account tonight."


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The mysterious Treasury rally of 2014 has been pinned on a number of factors. And while there is sure to be more debate about what has caused yields to defy most investors' expectations and fall, one common theme is the notion that the rally has been aided by investor positioning.
Simply put, investors who shorted the market thinking rates would go higher got caught flat-footed as rates actually fell. They closed out their short positions by buying back into the market, which gave yields an extra push lower. Yields fall as prices rise. There's vibrant discussion about whether the short positions need to get expunged from the market before rates will rise again. For more, see this explainer on this phenomenon, called short covering.
One way to track positioning is to look at the weekly Commitment of Traders report released by the Commodity Future Trading Commission, which has been shifting in recent weeks. The latest round of data from last week showed that investors reduced their short positions substantially for a number of maturities. According to Cheng Chen, U.S. Strategist at TD Securities, futures positioning in the Treasury market actually turned net long last week.
If you recall, Treasurys also accelerated a rally last week., with the 10-year Treasury note yield dropping to its lowest point in nearly a year.
Chen writes in a note to clients Friday:
"Treasury market futures position turned net long for the first time since August 2013, with net longs totaling $9.7 billion in the latest week."
That result is obtained by converting the 2-year, 5-year, 30-year, and Ultra futures to a 10-year equivalent and adding them together, including the 10-year future position. That means even though some maturities are net short -- such as the 10-year and 5-year tenors -- the result is an overall position that turned net long. Here's what that looks like in chart form:
The Brown Brothers Harriman Currency Strategy team, led by Marc Chandler, breaks it down for the benchmark 10-year note in a Monday report:
"The Commitment of Traders for the 10-year Treasury note futures show a large adjustment to positions. The shorts appeared to capitulate. The gross short position was slashed by 131k contracts to 398.4k, which was the highest since before the financial crisis. The short covering was the largest since December 2012. The net short position fell to 19.1k contracts from 97.9k. At the same time, the longs took profits. The gross long position was cut by 52.1k contracts to 379.3k."
Will that help take the wind out of the Treasury rally? The 10-year yield is up 8 basis points on the day at 2.536% on Monday. But, as we've learned over the past few months, where interest rates are headed next is anyone's guess.
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When the Patriots traded for Aqib Talib, they may have done more than just solidify their cornerback position for the rest of the season.
They feel the move also helps them at safety. Shalise Manza Young of the Boston Globe reports that the team plans to keep Devin McCourty at safety for the rest of the season after he moved back to cornerback to help the team deal with their ineffective play at the position in the first half.
That plan is in place even though Steve Gregory and Patrick Chung are both expected back from injury in the near future. Young believes the best safety combo for the Patriots is McCourty at free safety and Chung at strong safety, an alignment that is much easier to employ with Talib installed at one of the corners. Talib returned an interception for a touchdown against the Colts, as did rookie Alfonzo Dennard, as part of a defensive performance that was much better than what we saw from the Patriots earlier in the season.
Once healthy, the Patriots should also have a lot of options when it comes to deploying players in the secondary. They can employ multiple corners or multiple safeties against opposing passing games without the sense of just throwing players out there in hopes that it will all work out somehow.


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) Demitrius Conger netted 12 points and pulled down seven rebounds as St. Bonaventure toppled Bethune-Cookman 65-55 in a nonconference affair in each team's season opener Friday night.
After letting the Wildcats cut a 29-25 halftime lead to 33-32, Conger and Matthew Wright hit back-to-back 3-pointers and Wright and Eric Mosley made layups to stretch St. Bonaventure's lead to 43-32.
After that, Bethune-Cookman only threatened briefly, cutting the Bonnies' lead to 55-49 with 2:25 to play. But a 3-pointer and a free throw by Mosley and then a dunk by Conger stifled Bethune-Cookman's charge.
St. Bonaventure scored 21 points off turnovers to Bethune-Cookman's 5.
Prior to the game, St. Bonaventure raised banners honoring the team's first Atlantic 10 championship and its NCAA Tournament Second Round appearance from a year ago.
The Bonnies are now 33-0 in season openers hosted at the Reilly Center.
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- "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's 1911 bat goes for nearly $1 million at auction
- Babe Ruth's pocket watch, given to him after the 1923 World Series, nets $717,000
- The gloves Muhammad Ali wore when he beat Sonny Liston in go for $836,500
- The auction was held at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City
Several items that once belonged to sporting legends such as Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson went up for auction Saturday evening in New York, fetching millions of dollars.
The auction, organized by the Heritage Auction House, took place Saturday evening at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City.
The item which brought in the most money was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's game-used rookie bat from 1911. The bat sold for an "incredible" $958,000, according to Noah Fleisher, a spokesperson for Heritage Auctions.
Jackson is remembered today as the biggest star of the 1919 Chicago White Sox to be banned for life from organized baseball for throwing that year's World Series.
"This bat serves as a key piece of evidence for the many millions who believe that Jackson deserves enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame," said Chris Ivy, director of sports collectibles at Heritage Auctions.
Going into the auction, the Heritage House anticipated that Babe Ruth's pocket watch would bring in the most money. Ruth was presented the watch after helping the New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in the 1923 World Series. The watch, which for a time was believed to be lost, was auctioned off for $717,000, according to the auction house.
"As the Babe's personal award for the first world championship in New York Yankees franchise history, I believe that this is the most important piece of New York Yankees memorabilia that exists," Ivy said.
Boxing gloves worn by Ali in the 1964 fight in which he shocked the world and unseated heavyweight champion Sonny Liston sold for $836,500, Fleisher said.
Ali -- who had yet to change his name from Cassius Clay when he first met Liston in Miami -- had previously won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, but he didn't become a household name until after beating Liston.
Another item that made headlines were shards of the bat that Roger Clemens threw at Mike Piazza during the 2000 World Series after Piazza broke his bat after making contact with "The Rocket's" pitch. The shards went for $47,500, according to Fleisher.


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CHRIS Wilder says he fully understands supporters being unhappy with Oxford United's league position.
But the U's manager stressed the players and staff were hurting just as badly.
United dropped to 18th place in npower League Two following a last-gasp 2-1 defeat at Chesterfield on Saturday – their tenth loss in 18 matches.
Johnny Mullins had put the visitors in front after 60 seconds, but the Spireites levelled in first half stoppage time and netted a 91st-minute winner.
United felt the officials, who also turned down two penalty appeals, played a part in both goals for the hosts.
But Wilder acknowledged results have not been good enough, something which was deeply felt by players and staff.
"I understand people won't be happy with the league position and if they think we are then, they don't really understand the mentality of the staff and the players," he said.
"We are all committed 24/7. Go and ask my family what part Oxford United play in my life and how much focus and attention it takes up. "We give it everything and we're coming up short at the moment. It's not happened many times, but we are as a group."
The United boss compared the season to keeping a series of spinning plates turning.
In addition to being on the receiving end of some questionable refereeing decisions, the squad's problems with injuries resurfaced.
Top scorer Tom Craddock will be out for between three and six weeks with a rib problem, while fellow striker Deane Smalley is missing until the new year following an operation on his groin.
Wilder, who has to regroup his squad for tomorrow night's trip to Barnet, said: "I do still think there are a hell of a lot of things going against us. "The last two games we've not got (penalty) decisions and they do play a part.
"People talk about making your own luck, but I think sometimes things go against you.
"It's a big blow to lose a player like Tommy that's bang in form and a partnership (with James Constable) that's looking pretty decent.
"Deane Smalley's had an operation and will be out until mid-January, these are things that are definitely going against us."
He added: "It's a continual spinning of plates, but we have to hang tough and dig in. "We certainly have to affect it pretty quickly.
"It's been a mixed bag of performances in the last three games and the results say we've picked up one point from nine, which is not enough to get in touch with teams at the top."


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The Democrats "GOP War On Women" rallying cry got a major lift from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker today, with the news that the Republican darling repealed a Wisconsin law that made it easier for women to fight wage discrimination.
The Huffington Post reports that Walker quietly overturned Wisconsin's Equal Pay Enforcement Act last night, bowing to pressure from the state's Republican lawmakers. The equal pay law was designed to deter wage discrimination by making it easier for workers to press charges against their employers.
Walker, who is facing a recall election over his support for Wisconsin's controversial anti-union bill, has become a favorite among Republican party leaders. GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney praised the Governor repeatedly during campaign stops in Wisconsin last week, and even pitched in to phonebank for Walker's recall campaign.
But Walker's decision to overturn the equal pay law could put the GOP in an awkward position as the party tries to convince female voters that Republicans are not making a collective effort to roll back women's rights.
The Obama campaign has already seized the issue, making it clear that they will try to tie Romney to Walker's decision to overturn the law.
Here's a statement from Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith:
"As he campaigned across Wisconsin, Mitt Romney repeatedly praised Governor Scott Walker's leadership, calling him a 'hero' and 'a man of courage.' But with his signing yesterday of a bill [making] it harder for women to enforce in court their right to equal pay, Walker showed how far Republicans are willing to go to undermine not only women's health care, but also their economic security. Mitt Romney has repeatedly dismissed the effect of Republican efforts to roll back access to contraception and other health care services, on the women's vote, saying that he would appeal to women by talking about their economic concerns. If this is the case does Romney think women should have [the] ability to take their bosses to court to get the same pay as their male coworkers? Or does he stand with Governor Walker against this?"


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The United States is in open competition with the very countries from which we buy our goods and finance our government. These countries supply our consumption while simultaneously competing fiercely against our companies in international markets. India, Japan, China and the European Union consistently rail against "protectionism" in the U.S., because they do not want their unfettered access to the U.S. market tampered with.
The U.S. is told that it must oblige to its commitment to free trade — not because it is in OUR best interest, but because it is in our foreign creditors' best interest. Foreign exporters finance our government so the U.S. can continue functioning, and then they make all of their money back through the goods we buy from them. The U.S. government then pays back its finance charges, and over time foreign financiers virtually double their investments. The United States is told that it must keep up its end of the free trade bargain, while other nations seem to skirt the rules. They often use hostile practices to put American companies out of business and capture sectors of the market.
Other countries limit and restrict the amount of American-made goods flowing into their markets. The United States puts up no such regulations, and is thus flooded with foreign-made goods. The WTO, NAFTA, and other free trade agreements favor the major producers in this equation, and right now, the U.S. is not one of them. We are told by these international trade regimes that we cannot protect our own economy, because we must instead open our markets up to all foreign interests.
Our government has softened its own regulations regarding capital infusions, mergers and acquisitions, and foreign-takeovers. To make matters worse, many successful American companies are for sale on an open stock market. As a result, the U.S. has lost thousands of companies to foreign takeovers in the past 30 years, and stands to lose even more if the economic crisis deepens. The same cannot be said of other countries, where takeovers are closely regulated, and major industrial champions rarely get purchased by an overseas interest.
It is crucial that we start to follow the successful examples set by these other countries. The United States cannot continue allowing the rest of the world to walk all over our economy.
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Retired Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, the most decorated Marine aviator in history, who had the dubious distinction of having been shot down in three wars, died June 20 at age 89.
According to newspaper reports, Reusser flew a total of 253 combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was shot down in all three, five times in all. His 59 medals include two Navy Crosses (second only to the Medal of Honor), four Purple Hearts and two Legions of Merit.
In 1945, while based in Okinawa, he stripped down his F4U-4 Corsair and intercepted a Japanese observation plane at high altitude. When his guns froze, he flew his fighter into the observation plane, hacking off its tail with his propeller.
In 1950, in Korea, he led an attack on a North Korean tank-repair facility at Inchon, then destroyed an oil tanker, nearly blowing himself out of the sky.
In Vietnam he flew helicopters and was leading a rescue mission when his Huey was shot down. He needed skin grafts over 35% of his badly burned body.
Reusser, who lived near Milwaukee, Oregon, was born Jan. 27, 1920, the son of a minister. He raced motorcycles to help pay for college and flying lessons before WWII. After retiring from the Marine Corps he worked for Lockheed Aircraft and the Piasecki Helicopter Corp.


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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Six puppies abandoned in a Lake Tahoe trash bin have found permanent homes in the Reno-Tahoe area.
Becky Goodman of the Pet Network Humane Society in Incline Village says the dogs were adopted after being featured at a community reception a week ago.
She told the Tahoe Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/1gqX1sv ) that her organization received as many as 75 adoption applications from across the country for the animals, but sought to place them in local homes.
Volunteers nursed the pups — a Doberman-border collie mix — back to health after they were discovered July 23 in a box in a South Lake Tahoe, Calif., trash bin only hours after they were born.
Four other puppies in the litter were not so lucky and died a couple days after the person who found them took the animals to the Incline Village organization.
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There are 2n+1 identical books to be put in a bookcase with three shelves. In how many ways can this be done if each pair of shelves together contains more books than the other shelf?
x1 = number of books on shelf 1, x2 = number of books on shelf 2, x3 = number of books on shelf 3
I have the following inequalities:
a+b > c
a+b+c > 2c (don't understand where this one comes from)
2n+1 > 2c
c < n+ (1/2)
c is an integer, so c =< n. Same for a, and b.
=> a+b+c = 2n+1, where 0 =< a, b, c =< n
At this point, I don't know how to finish the computation of the number of integral solutions. The answer is (n+1) choose (2).
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Tough-talking sheriff tapped for Homeland Security position
Milwaukee County (Wisc.) Sheriff David Clarke just confirmed he is leaving the Sheriff's Office to become deputy secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
"It's going to be a huge learning curve for me," he said. "I'm going to get in there and figure out the landscape, learn the people. I'll be developing who I have interplay with, and then figure out, after I talk with Secretary Kelly, a strategy to create this better liaison between the Department of Homeland Security and our state and local partners."
Clarke made the announcement Wednesday afternoon on Vicki McKenna's show on WISN radio.
Rumors have been swirling since Donald Trump was elected president even as recent as last week when Clarke's name was mentioned for a FBI director.
Clarke, whose outspoken style and support for President Donald Trump put him on the national radar during the 2016 campaign, said he told Gov. Scott Walker a couple of months ago that he might be leaving, but has not spoken to him this week.
"I have to retire from law enforcement," Clarke said. "But I won't have to abandon it totally."


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The TenAsys INtime RTOS works alongside Windows to provide fully deterministic processing of real-time tasks, completely independent of Windows task scheduling. On multicore processors such as the new dual-core Intel Core processors, INtime can run on its own core(s) to maximize performance in running real-time tasks.
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The second at his Pottery Painting birthday party on Saturday
The third baked by Granny Biscuit (a birthday tradition)
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In order to be able to use your mobile phone in Denmark, your normal provider will need to have a roaming agreement with one of the Danish mobile phone operators. This is normal practice but it is a good idea to check both the availability and cost before you travel, as it can be quite pricey depending on where you're from or where you're calling.
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The idle speed may be too low or inconsistent on your 1980 - 1988 Eagle automobile. If this condition exists, the following items must be adjusted to obtain proper engine operation.
Ignition Timing
Fast Idle Speed
Curb Idle Speed
Sole-Vac Throttle Postioner
Adjustment is as Follows:
Engine Timing
1. The engine must be at operating temperature and all electrical accessory switches in the OFF position.
2. Remove the air filter assembly -- make sure to mark where any vacuum hoses connected.
3. Set the parking brake or better yet block the wheels. Shift automatic transmissions to PARK and manual transmissions to the NEUTRAL position.
4. With the ignition switch OFF, connect an ignition timing light to the number 1 spark plug (Figure A) and tachometer to the coil ignition negative terminal (Figure B).
5. Diconnect the 4-in. and 10-in. Hg vacuum switch assebly wire connector located adjacent to the vacuuum switch assembly (Figure C).
6. Disconnect and plug the distributor vacuum advance hose (C) (Figure D).
7. Clean the timing degree scale and mark the notch on the front crankshaft pulley with a white crayon. (Figure E). Start the Engine. Increase the engine speed to 1600 rpm and check the ignition timing. If necessary, adjust the the timing to the specification listed on the Emission Control Label (typically 15 degrees plus or minus 1 degree BTDC and for High Altitude cars 21 degrees plus or minus 1 degree BTDC). You must loosen the distributor hold-down clamp in order to gradually rotate the distributor to achieve the correct timing. Tighten the distributor hold-down clamp and verify timing is correct.
Turn off the engine and remove the timing light. Reconnect the hose to the distributor vacuum mechanism. Reconnect the wire connector to the vacuum switch assmebly. Leave the tachometer connected for the next section.
Setting Fast Idle Speed
1. Disconnect and plug the EGR vacuum hose (D) (Figure F).
2. Place automatic transmission in the PARK position and manual transmission in the NEUTRAL postion.
3. Start the engine.
4. Position the fast idle speed adjustment screw (E) (Figure G) in contact with and against the shoulder of the SECOND step (F) of the fast idle cam.
5. Refer to the Vehicle Emission Control Information label located under the hood. Adjust the fast idle speed to the correct RPM (Typically 750 RPM plus or minus 50 RPM) Adjust by turning the fast idle speed adjustment screw (E) (Figure G).
6. Remove the fast idle speed ajustment screw from the fast idle cam and allow the engine to return to curb idle speed.
7. Turn ignition to OFF.
8. Reconnect the vacuum hose to the EGR valve.
Curb Idle Speed and Sole-Vac Throttle Positioner
NOTE: During this operation you should consider having a second person assist you.
1. If your Sole-Vac accuator is equipped with a vacuum hose remove it and plug (G) (Figure H)
2. Disconnect the Sole-Vac holding solenoid wire (H) (Figure I).
3. Start the Engine.
4. Have your helper set the parking brake and also depress the service brake. Manual Transmission cars are to be placed in NEUTRAL and Automatic Transmission Cars placed in DRIVE. If you do not have a helper make sure to firmly block the wheels and set the parking brake.
5. Have your helper (or you) increase the engine speed to above 1200 rpm for 3 - 5 seconds and then allow the engine to return to curb idle speed.
6. Adjust the carburetor curb (slow) idle speed adjustment screw (J) (Figure J) to obtain the desired curb idle speed rpm. Refer to the Vehicle Emission Control Information label (Typically 500 rpm, plus or minus 50 rpm).
Steps 7 - 10 apply to cars with a vacuum accuator on the Sole-Vac.
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SKF awarded Technical cooperation award by Goldwind
2014 March 27, 09:00 CET
Long-term relationship continues to be successful
Gothenburg, Sweden, 27 March 2014: SKF has been awarded the Technical cooperation Award by Goldwind, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines in China and among the largest globally. The award was received during Goldwind's Annual Supplier Conference.
Jiming Zhu, President SKF China says, "This is an important recognition of the commitment on innovating and delivering new technologies and services that we offer to the market. It also shows SKF's long term commitment to supporting our customers by providing high quality products and solutions, as well as contributing to a sustainable community."
"Being one of the leading bearing suppliers for Goldwin's mainshaft, SKF has maintained close communication and cooperation with Goldwind's technical team over the years and has been a major contributor to several of Goldwind's new strategic new projects being developed in 2014 and 2015," says Wu Kai, Executive Vice President of Goldwind.
Goldwind and SKF have worked closely together for many years which has resulted in advanced technology being developed at the same time as the demand for the clean energy provided by wind turbines has rapidly increased in China. During 2013, SKF has been fully involved in the development of Goldwind's 1.5MW, 2.0MW, 2.5MW and 3.0MW main shaft bearing for wind turbines. SKF products and solutions delivered to Goldwind include bearings, WindCon condition monitoring, seals, lubrication systems and lubricants.
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Dominick Dunne, the bestselling novelist and Vanity Fair writer who chronicled the misdeeds of the rich and famous with wicked glee -- most memorably in his highly personal accounts of the trials of Claus von Bulow, the Menendez brothers and O.J. Simpson -- died Wednesday at his home in New York City. He was 83.
The cause was bladder cancer, according to the Vanity Fair website, where his death was announced.
Dunne had recovered from prostate cancer in 2001 but was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year. Although ill, he covered Simpson's recent armed robbery trial in Las Vegas, which resulted in a pronouncement of guilt -- a verdict that Dunne awaited for more than a decade.
Covering the last Simpson trial capped an extraordinary career that had bloomed from tragedy. Dunne was a television and film producer for two decades until drugs and alcohol ruined him. He had started life over as a writer when his daughter, Dominique, was slain in 1982.
Dunne wrote an article for Vanity Fair magazine that raged at the injustice of the crime and the leniency of the killer's punishment. The story propelled its author into a new career reporting from the intersection of celebrity, society and scandal. He filled the niche with panache, becoming, according to the Cambridge History of Law in America, "one of the nation's premier popular chroniclers of notorious criminal trials and lawsuits involving celebrities."
He wrote a column, "Dominick Dunne's Diary" and hosted a Court TV program, "Power, Privilege and Justice." His absorption with money and privilege led one writer to call him the "Boswell of the bluebloods," while another less charitable critic dubbed him "the Jacqueline Susann of journalism."
What was indisputable was that Dunne -- with his silver hair, tortoiseshell glasses and Turnbull & Asser finery -- became a celebrity in his own right, sympathizing with crime victims, skewering the perpetrators and riding in limousines to his front-row seat at their trials.
He unabashedly declared his belief that Simpson was guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ron Lyle Goldman. He disparaged Erik and Lyle Menendez, the handsome brothers convicted of shooting their parents to death at their Beverly Hills mansion. Dunne slyly dissected Phil Spector, the eccentric record producer convicted of murder this year, calling him "a drama queen, albeit straight."
When Dunne wasn't covering a sensational trial, he was writing intimate profiles of movie stars, socialites and newsmakers -- "the only person writing about high society from inside the aquarium," former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown once said. Many of his subjects were friends from his previous life, such as Elizabeth Taylor and Gloria Vanderbilt. Others were highly placed friends of friends, such as former Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos, who gave him an exclusive interview shortly after she and her husband took up life in exile, and Lily Safra, the international jet-setter whose banker-husband Edmond was killed in a suspicious fire.
Like Truman Capote, another social chronicler, Dunne often bit the well-manicured hands that fed him. A friend of Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale of the department store fortune, he turned Alfred's relationship with his mistress, Vicki Morgan, into a roman a clef, "An Inconvenient Woman" (1990). Similarly, Dunne, who had been a guest at the 1950 wedding of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel, turned his theories about the culpability of Ethel's nephew, Michael Skakel, in a long-unsolved slaying into another novel, "A Season in Purgatory" (1993). Skakel ultimately was tried and convicted. His cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blamed Dunne for the conviction and told talk show host Larry King that the writer was "not a journalist. He's a gossip columnist."
If, as Capote said, all literature is gossip, Dunne was a believer. He loved to "dish," giving rumor equal time with news in his Vanity Fair reports. His story on the Safra slaying, for instance, was an engrossing brew of fact and rank speculation as only Dunne could produce. He repeated hearsay and used unnamed sources liberally, such as a "well-connected woman once married to a prominent figure in the film world" or "a waiter serving me risotto" at a dinner party. Dunne had everyone whispering in his ear.
His willingness to entertain nearly any source made him the target of an $11-million defamation lawsuit by former California Rep. Gary Condit after Dunne told a bizarre, unsubstantiated story on national television and radio programs that implicated Condit in the 2001 disappearance of Washington intern Chandra Levy. He apologized to Condit and paid an undisclosed sum to settle the lawsuit in 2005.
Born Oct. 29, 1925, he was the second of six children in a wealthy Hartford, Conn., family. One of his brothers was John Gregory Dunne, the late screenwriter and novelist who was married to another literary celebrity, Joan Didion.
His early life was marked by a poor relationship with his father, a prominent heart surgeon, who belittled his son for being a sissy. Dunne himself professed astonishment when he earned a Bronze Star during World War II for rescuing a wounded soldier at the Battle of the Bulge.
TV stage manager
After earning his bachelor's degree at Williams College in Massachusetts in 1949, he moved to New York and found work as a stage manager for the "Howdy Doody Show" and later for "Robert Montgomery Presents."
In 1954, he married Ellen Griffin, an heiress. They had two sons, Griffin and Alexander, in addition to Dominique. Two children, both girls, died within days of being born.
Ellen Griffin Dunne, from whom he was divorced in 1965, died in 1997. He is survived by his sons and a granddaughter, Hannah.
In 1957, Dunne moved to Los Angeles to work on the CBS showcase "Playhouse 90." Two years later he was executive producer of the ABC drama "Adventures in Paradise."
By 1970, he was producing films. His credits include "The Boys in the Band" (1970), "The Panic in Needle Park" (1971), "Play It as It Lays" (1972) -- based on the Didion novel of the same name -- and "Ash Wednesday" (1973).
He and his wife hosted lavish parties at their Beverly Hills home, most notably a black-and-white ball for their 10th wedding anniversary in 1964 with a guest list that included Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Natalie Wood, David Niven, Billy Wilder, Gina Lollobrigida and Capote, whose fame was about to peak as the author of "In Cold Blood." The party inspired Capote to give his own black-and-white ball two years later at New York's Plaza Hotel, a legendary affair that included 500 of the biggest names in literature, Hollywood and society. "He didn't invite us," Dunne noted whenever he told the story.
Another favorite Dunne story took place at the Daisy, a Rodeo Drive club popular with the Hollywood set. He was dining there one night in the 1960s when Frank Sinatra, with whom he'd had a testy relationship, paid a waiter to punch him in the face.
Although Dunne led a famous person's life, he felt like an impostor whose success did not match that of his peers. "Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough," he wrote in Vanity Fair's 25th anniversary issue last October. His social ambitions ruined his marriage, and he began drinking excessively and abusing drugs. In 1969, he was arrested for possession of marijuana.
The final act in his self-destruction was when he told an offensive joke about the powerful Hollywood agent Sue Mengers and the Hollywood Reporter printed it. That was when he knew that "my demise as a film producer was imminent." He had no more work and was so broke he sold his dog.
"When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing," Dunne said years later.
In 1979, he left Hollywood and drove to Oregon. He decided to stay, stopped drinking and using drugs, and contemplated his failures. One night he went to bed with a knife beside him, intending to kill himself, only to be jarred awake by a phone call telling him that his youngest brother, Stephen, had committed suicide.
After his brother's funeral, Dunne decided to start over in New York as a writer. He had gotten the idea a few years earlier, after a chance encounter in the Beverly Hills Hotel with a Washington Post writer who went to college with Stephen. The reporter came to Los Angeles to investigate reports that David Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures, had been embezzling funds by forging the signatures of some of its top stars -- most notably Cliff Robertson -- on studio checks. No one in Hollywood would return the reporter's calls so he asked for Dunne's help.
"Nothing could have pleased me more," Dunne recalled in his 1999 memoir, "The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper." "I knew all the players. I knew all the phone numbers. I knew everyone's back story. And I was furious that I had become a reject." He found the investigative work exhilarating and told himself that he "could do what these reporters do."
His first assignment was to write "The Winners," a sequel to gossip columnist Joyce Haber's popular novel "The Users." Released in 1982, it was poorly reviewed but for Dunne it wasn't a bad start.
Then came the tragedy that would define the second half of his life: His actress-daughter, Dominique, 22, was strangled by her boyfriend, John Sweeney, a chef at a tony West Hollywood restaurant.
The day before Dunne flew to Los Angeles for Sweeney's trial, he attended a dinner party where he met Brown, who had just taken over as editor of Vanity Fair. She asked him to keep a journal during the trial and come see her when it was over. "If I hadn't kept that journal, as Tina suggested, I would have gone mad," Dunne later wrote. "What I saw in the courtroom filled me with the kind of rage that only writing about it could quell."
The 1984 article that his journal became, "Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer," was a powerfully dry-eyed indictment of the legal proceedings that found Sweeney guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
Dunne signed a long-term contract with Vanity Fair but also tackled fiction again, this time producing a bestseller, "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" (1985), based on the sensational Woodward murder case in 1955. His last novel, "Too Much Money," is scheduled for release in December.
But his trial coverage became his signature.
"He was unique," veteran Associated Press trial reporter Linda Deutsch told The Times recently. "He always said, 'I'm for the victims.' "
Dunne wore his sympathy for victims of heinous crimes like a badge of honor. "I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder," he wrote in his memoir. "I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person."
He reported the juicy details that others ignored -- how Menendez defense lawyer Leslie Abramson strode down a courthouse corridor giving the finger to the swarm of photographers following her and how fans sent bouquets to Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark. He also was a wily analyst of character, revealing mores, conceits and other flaws through well-observed details and scenes in which he was as much a participant as a reporter.
After Von Bulow's acquittal in a 1985 retrial on charges he attempted to kill his wife with insulin injections, Dunne interviewed the aristocratic former defendant at the opulent apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue that he was then sharing with the woman Dunne described as his "self-proclaimed" mistress, Andrea Reynolds. In a surreal scene, Dunne found himself following Reynolds into Sunny von Bulow's former bedroom, where Reynolds had expensive garments laid out on the bed. It seemed to Dunne the appropriate moment to ask about the rumors he'd heard: Was it true that as Sunny Von Bulow lay unconscious in a nursing facility Reynolds wore her clothes and jewels?
"Not true!" she told Dunne. "I have far better jewels than Sunny von Bulow ever had."
'Great listener'
Dunne's stories were filled with revelations such as these. "He was a great listener," said New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin, who became friends with Dunne during the first Simpson trial. "People just loved to talk to him."
When the Simpson trial opened in 1995, Dunne's sympathy for the victims was so well-known that Judge Lance Ito assigned him a front-row seat in the courtroom. Reporters for major newspapers, including The Times, were relegated to the rear. One annoyed reporter called Dunne "Judith Krantz in pants."
Privileged or not, Dunne worked very hard, always arriving at the courthouse early and recording every wink and nod.
Dunne's insider accounts of the Simpson trial for Vanity Fair and commentaries on Court TV elevated him to a new echelon of celebrity. He covered the proceedings by day and dined out on them at night, entertaining the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Nancy Reagan and Princess Diana with stories from the so-called trial of the century. "O.J. Simpson improved my social position," he told USA Today in 1997.
His obsession with the case inspired "Another City, Not My Own" (1997), a "novel in the form of a memoir" based on his involvement in the Simpson murder trial.
Dunne felt it was fitting that Simpson's armed robbery trial should be the last one he would cover. The octogenarian attended the trial against doctors' orders, unable to resist what promised to be the final curtain in a protracted saga.
"I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points," he told a London paper as the trial drew to a close. "Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it. I don't want to die under anesthesia. I'd rather be shot to death in the Plaza or Monte Carlo by Lily Safra. I want something in the papers."


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Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Xbox 360) review
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HWA Rocks BookExpo America 2010!
For the third consecutive year, HWA had a visible presence at BookExpo America – the country's largest gathering of publishing professionals. At this year's event, which took place May 25th through the 27th at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, the HWA debuted its new trade show display in a highly-visible, premier location beside our friends at the Mystery Writers of America. Among the 500 authors featured throughout the event were several HWA members – including Jonathan Maberry, Alexandra Sokoloff, Ellen Datlow, Roger Ma, Jameson Currier, Gary Frank, Kelly Jameson, Martel Sardina, and Connie Corcoran-Wilson – who all enjoyed long lines of librarians, retailers, educators, and fans and gave away hundreds of books. And, for the first time ever, three of our authors scored coveted spots on the main autographing floor where celebrated authors like William Peter Blatty, R.L. Stine, and Justin Cronin also signed this year!
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Pregnant Katie Price has announced she is splitting from her husband after accusing him of having a seven-month affair with her best friend.
The model-turned-TV star, who is six months pregnant with her fifth child, sensationally took to Twitter on Wednesday to tell fans she is planning to divorce her third husband, Kieran Hayler, over allegations he has been unfaithful.
She writes, "Sorry to say me and kieran are divorcing him and my best friend jane pountney bee (been) having a full blown sexual affair for 7 months."
She went on to lash out at Hayler, adding: "Kieran is a disgusting human being doing this after I've just had a baby and still doing it till I caught them.
"No human being deserves this especially being 6 months pregnant."
Price has been friends with Pountney since she was a teen.
The 35-year-old wed stripper Hayler in the Bahamas in January 2013. They welcomed a son, Jett, who was born last August, and it emerged over the weekend that she is pregnant again.
She has been married twice before, to Australian pop star Peter Andre and cage fighter Alex Reid. She has two children, Junior and Princess Tiaamii, with Andre, and a son, Harvey, from a previous relationship.
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A guy you can build the DL around for the next 5-10 years. Improves every aspect of the D...
Lets look at the draft from the inside out. What do the Jets need to do FIRST to get where they want to go? The need to win the division. Period. Thats Goal #1.
Lets break it down...Can the Jets handle the bills with the team they have as-is? Yes. No problem imo.
How about the Dolphins? Can the Jets sweep the Fish this year with the team being as constituted? Well, they lost to them on bad clock management and bad STs last year...but that was before the Jets Defense became what it became. As for Specials, coverage was atrocious because of some guys left off the gameday roster. I think with a year of experience for both Rex and the Jet D, as well as leaving STs ALONE, these are easily fixable rookie mistakes. So yeah, I think that as the roster stands today, 4/2/10, the Jets can and would sweep the Fins in '10.
Patriots are the true test for the Jets. This Jets team AS-IS right now split with the Pats, so yeah, the Jets have the ability to beat the Pats.....but they also have the ability to lose. And HOW did the Jets lose to the Pats in that second game? By being helpless to cover a 5'8 Slot Receiver the entire game. Welker ate the Jets D up all game. Nobody could go with him.
So the Jets won some games they should have, and lost a bunch they shouldn't have. A LOT of that was lack of experience showing itself from Sanchez and Rex. Not worried about that....going to a Conference Championship gives you a lot more experience than just any first year.
So then the Playoffs started, lets face it, The Jets, On the road, were able to pretty handily beat Cincy and the Chargers. So what kept the Jets from going all the way?
The Colts. They hung with them for a bit, but after a couple of early sacks and hits, the protection solidified and Peyton went to work.....working the Jets secondary. The Jets had NO ANSWER for Garcon AT ALL. Austin Collie had a decent day. Wayne and Clark were pretty well bottled up, but it didn't matter. The Colts go 5 Solid deep at WR.
Lets also take a look at another "Player" in the AFC. The Steelers are no longer your daddys "Pound the rock and play Defense" Team. Roethelesberger and Holmes et al want to THROW the ball all over the field.
So whats the point of all this? The Jets CAN play DAMNED GOOD Run Defense as is....heck, they did it last year without Jenkins and got better! Think how they will be up front with Jenks added to the mix. Revis is awesome, but how good will cromartie be with the Jets? Will Poole stay healthy?
As for the pass rush, the Jets last year needed to blitz in order to free guys up to get sacks. Pace is good coming from the edge, but isn't elite. B Thomas is serviceable and a good role player, but not t real threat from the edge......and remember, after hitting Manning twice early, the Jets NEVER got a sniff of his jersey the rest of the game, leaving him to pick the weakspots out and light up the Jets.
So what do you do? Go "BPA" and snag Demaryus Thomas? Or take the BEST AVAILABLE Edge Rusher or DB, whoever is rated higher on my board. Next round, Same damned thing, or maybe then I move up to grab the BPA at whichever position I didn't grab in the first.
That way I KNOW I'm potentially adding a possibly elite edge rusher and a solid CB to the defense. That way, the next time I see the Colts I know I'm bringing a UMP .45 to the gunfight instead of a six shooter....
After that, go BPA. But I shore up that D. I don't want to see Rex on the Sidelines of another AFC Championship yellig, "DO we have ANYONE that can F$&#^&ing Cover!?"....
I'm not for drafting all and only Defense....I WOULD love to see the Jets grab a WR to compliment Cotch and Braylon....as well as a possible future RT or G. Faneca and Woody, I love the guys, they are bad and play like MEN, but time waits for no man....
Last edited by Jet_Engine1; 04-03-2010 at 10:49 PM.
A guy you can build the DL around for the next 5-10 years. Improves every aspect of the D...
Last edited by SenorGato; 04-03-2010 at 10:53 PM.
OK Mr. Cat. I'll play your silly Game. DO you think that if Kris Jenkins played at 100% in that Colts game, the Jets win? Was a giant NT the answer? Because I think even best case scenario for Cody would be as a servicable situational NT, but no Jenks...
I want the Jets to get the elements they need NOW to go one step further. DT is not the reason why the COlts beat the Jets. Inability to cover options 3 & 4 as well as inability to keep getting to Peyton lost that game for the Jets.
We're just fine at DT (Pouha, Jenks, DeVito). We have no force as a Pass Rusher (Pace is good, not elite), and outside of Revis, we have NOTHING but ?????????? in the secondary right now.
1. No, but that's because the Colts are a better team. It probably would have been closer and/or more exciting to watch.OK Mr. Cat. I'll play your silly Game. DO you think that if Kris Jenkins played at 100% in that Colts game, the Jets win? Was a giant NT the answer? Because I think even best case scenario for Cody would be as a servicable situational NT, but no Jenks...
2. No, but we're not trying to beat the 2009 Colts over the next 5-10 years.
3. A giant DL is the key to this whole D Rex runs.
4. A giant DL improves our pass rush.
5. A giant DL improves our secondary player.
6. Try not overvaluing the fact that we lost to the Colts in the AFCCG. That game has nothing to do with anything anymore.
7. The Ravens best pass rusher (Suggs) has had 17.5 sacks combined over the past 3 years. Pass rush isn't about sacks or one guy in this D....
8. I can already garaun-f'ing-tee that DeMaryius Thomas isn't the BPA at 29.
Last edited by SenorGato; 04-03-2010 at 11:35 PM.
Good thread, good points made.
Now he's down to 348. He's got 3 months until camp. He can be down to a pretty decent rookie (still flabby) 335-340. Dude's going to be a really good player in this league if he gets into shape, and I buy that he wants to do it by what he's done.
Thomas isn't a first round WR. Maybe someone makes a reach, but if there's a 3rd and 4th WR drafted in the first it's Tate and Benn (given Bryant and Williams). His resume isn't as good as Cody's, he's not from a pro style offense, he doesn't run crisp routes, his routes aren't varied, he's not all that quick like Bryant, Tate, Williams, and Benn are "on tape," and he just broke his foot. Yes, he has strengths and the strengths are very valuable. He's got a good frame, he finds the ball in the air and goes up and gets it, he's a high character guy, and he learned alot from Calvin Johnson. Sure, guy can definitely be eased into our offense, but I'd rather "ease in" a DL with elite potential over WR with the same anyday.
Also, there are tons of fat NT at one point or another. They're naturally very large men, that will happen if they don't watch their weight. Cody didn't even know how to watch his weight until recently in life. Every single big DT in this league has been fat at one point or another. Cody happens to be fat right now. Our current NT was a "fat DT who'd always be fat" when we got him. That's a great mentor, this is a great environment, and this is the perfect D for his size and athleticism.
All that's moot because it's more likely he doesn't make it to 29 than he actually makes it to the 2nd round. Thomas still wouldn't be BPA at 29, but he'd be alot closer. Carlos Dunlap would be nice if he was there at 29, but I'd take Cody over him probably.
Last edited by SenorGato; 04-04-2010 at 03:08 AM.
to get the jets to the next level within the next 2-3 years:
1) sanchez must improve, which we all know is obvious;
2) the jets need a better pass rush. whether that comes from the linebackers or defensive ends, that's rex's/tanny's decision on draft day.
3) the jets need another weapon in the passing game.
in terms of last year, the guy on the jets roster who would have helped against the dolphins, colts and patriots was leon. the first answer many will give is that the jets need another cb to cover the welkers, and i don't disagree.
however, sometimes the other team's offense is going to score no matter what. that's what can happen when you play against hall of fame qbs. and in those games the best way to counter that is to have an equally explosive offense. a guy like tate or damien williams would really open up the offense, as well as having leon back (or someone like him, should he get traded).
Cody is a good prospect for a 3-4 team and his size just doesn't come around often. Thomas is very similar in this regard at WR. 6'3" 225, runs sub 4.4 and has tremendous hands and leaping ability. He'll be a #1 WR in 2 years.
On my big board for the Jets, Cody and Thomas are very close and both are top 25 on that board.
And Benn has no business anywhere near the 1st round. I'll be pretty unhappy if they take Benn at all.
I personally don't want Benn on this team, but he's more likely to be a first round prospect at WR than Thomas is just because he's closer to being a finished product. He's quicker than Thomas, he runs more routes, and all those little things.
Thomas is basically a frame, some straight line speed, awesome run blocking, and a sh*tload of potential. After that, his flaws are large and obvious. The fact that he broke his foot doesn't help him right now, even if there is this video of a 4.38 40 out there somewhere.
Last edited by SenorGato; 04-04-2010 at 11:19 AM.
I think he'll take to coaching very well and will be running routes in no time with an NFL staff. Reading coverages will be a different, more drawn out process with him. But I don't think it will take very long for them to show him how to properly run a slant or a dig or an out.
One thing that he does, and does very well, is find the endzone.
There's tons of non-1st round WRs who are top WRs...it's not an insult on Thomas...it's that guys with his profile coming out of college rarely actually go in the first, even if they get the talk. I think where Thomas went in our big mock is right where he'll go in real life...very early 2nd to a WR starved offense like TB. Hell, TB is probably the team that would pick him there if they didn't grab Bryant at 3 (which they might not).
Last edited by SenorGato; 04-04-2010 at 11:46 AM.
It's all about finding hard working guys with top tier ability. And it's not like he doesn't have any of this polish you speak of. He makes plays on the ball better than anyone not named Bryant. What players that came out in recent memory have a similar profile to Thomas?
I'll stand by my position of if he was able to work out, he would be going top15, polish or not. Players that big, fast and athletic with ball skills don't last very long.
You act like teams only take WRs from a Pro-Style system with 3 years of playing time and unquestioned route running in the 1st round. That just isn't the case. I mean, Matt Jones was a QB convert and taken in the 1st round. The 1st round is where athletic freaks go. Does JPP have any business being a top 15 pick? Probably not. But it's where he's going because teams fall in love with size and speed.
The fact is, the position has a ton of athletes at it...it's WR it's a position made for athletes. The minor things separate guys, and Thomas doesn't have that full package of little things that add up into big things. Sure, he CAN be there in two years, but alot of guys at alot of positions can have that said about him in this draft.
Also, Matt Jones is not a pick any team would make twice, and Jones didn't have a broken foot at the time. JPP...well at least he has positional value on his side, even if I don't think that means anything for a guy with what...6 Big East starts?
Maybe if Thomas comes back and has a workout that shows off better agility than he showed in college then sure, but there's alot in his way of going in the first round. Teams don't exactly fall over themselves for WRs in the first either...Bryant and Crabtree are two ridiculously talented WRs and 10 might be the highest spot either goes in their drafts.
Last edited by raysdaone; 04-04-2010 at 02:41 PM.
And why isn't Cody strong enough to play NT in the pros again? Game tape? On top of that, he's dumb too? Where'd this one come from? Are you just making things up at this point? Saban isn't an easy or simple coach to play for here...and the fact that he felt comfortable using Cody like he did says the exact opposite about Cody than what you're telling me.
Also, Thomas and Hughes would be in the exact situation...Thomas isn't seeing the ball over Edwards, Cotchery, Keller, Leon, LT, and Greene on offense...Hughes isn't seeing the field over the 4 starting LBers, Gholston, and Westerman unless he absolutely blows people away. Same for DBs, where we have quite a few.
We can do whatever we want on draft day...getting a guy we can build the post-Jenkins/Ellis DL around would be huge. Iunno why you wouldn't go to the source when fixing a problem...a defense and an offense is built on their lines and improving the lines improves every facet of it. I'd much rather have Cody at 29 than pretty much any other player we can get at 29, if we can actually get him at 29. His resume certainly sh*ts on most of the other options.
Also, Strickland and Stuckey weren't such major pieces that they had to be replaced immediately...Not that we didn't trade Stuckey for a bigger, better WR or anything...or replace our mediocre, old #2 corner with a much higher upside, younger CB (allowing Lowery to be moved to the slot WR in his 3rd year)...It's not as if we didn't upgrade the depth at both of those guys positions in some way. WR and CB are just as much wants as they are needs...same for my DL want, but at least DL is DL.
Also, considering that we have guys like DeVito, Pito, and Pouha, why would I want another future backup/late round pick type DL? If I'm not going to take one early I barely have the urge to take one at all.
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Georgia in Dublin's Hustle and Bustle Jacket is a love or hate piece of cycling kit. If you love it, it's a truly innovative design, that looks a bit different and raises the spirits, whilst still managing to be functional and technical cycle wear. Or you'll hate it. It's a fact.
Bizarrely you may even find yourself doing both at the same time. Its style is definitely different, harking back to Edwardian times with a nipped in waist, ruffled cuffs and flouncy tail and it's certainly a jacket that sits most easily with a more genteel ride such as a Pashley or one of Halford's new Pendleton bikes. It's designed to look good with a skirt as well as trousers and to elevate cycling attire to a whole new, more elegant level.
But it's not all style over substance as this jacket and gilet combo is fully waterproof and breathable. The jacket comes in two parts, an outer waterproof jacket with button fastening at the front, and a waterproof fronted gilet with mesh back.
Both parts can be worn separately if desired, although the jacket does look a little strange without the gilet underneath. The jacket has an internal Velcro fastening phone pocket, full mesh lining and a large Velcro fastening pocket in the tail area. The collar can be worn up or down, and has a button to secure if desired, while the long ruffled cuffs can either be worn down to cover hands or gloves, or turned back. Both cuffs and main jacket are generously decorated with reflective trim. The gilet is reminiscent of old fashioned waistcoats in style, and actually looks great on its own, for less hostile conditions. It has two side pockets with no fastenings, a decent high collar, an adjustable back to accommodate bulkier layers, but no reflectivity.
OK, so the style isn't going to suit everyone, and to be honest, I'm not sure it entirely suited me. But, having seen it on other women, of a taller and more willowy variety, it can look very good indeed, especially when paired with a long skirt, skinny jeans or the waterproof skirt Georgia in Dublin also make.
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Yes, it's expensive, there's no denying that, but it's a designer jacket, with genuine technical features and you're not going to see every other Tamara, Dyllis or Harriet riding about in one. If it suits your style and your shape, and you want to look a little bit different, then it's a good investment.
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Make and model: Georgia In Dublin G and N Jacket
Size tested: Black, Large
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Aimed at the more stylish and chic female rider looking for a practical waterproof jacket.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
100% PU coated polyester
Reflective trim
Velcro fastening interior pockets x2
Gilet and jacket can be worn separately
Lovingly made from good quality materials
As a stylish waterproof jacket for more casual riding it performed very well.
Pretty much bombproof construction and materials.
Not light, but it's not designed to be a lightweight packable waterproof
Fabric pleasant to wear, breathes fairly well and vents well. Gives good protection against the elements.
As a designer item, it's inevitably going to be more expensive. If it suits your style though, it's going to be worn a lot (both as jacket and gilet) so worth the investment.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Performed very well.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Different style, fabric, reflectivity, useful separate gilet design.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Price & that the style didn't suit me!
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Probably not, due to the fact that it didn't suit me.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? A particularly stylish one, yes.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Unusual and innovative, this is a waterproof jacket that will appeal to cycling women with a certain style and panache.
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I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: commuting, touring, general fitness riding, mtb,
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I've a strong suspicion I like this, the shoulders are excellent, but it'd be good to get a better sense of the shape of it. If it's still around, could you bear to give us a full figure photo?
The black always seems a shame to me. I'd like to see it in teal I think.


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CHICAGO (AP) ? A relieved Miguel Cabera said he was feeling better after sitting out the Detroit Tigers' 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night because of an injured left hip.
CHICAGO (AP) ? A relieved Miguel Cabera said he was feeling better after sitting out the Detroit Tigers' 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night because of an injured left hip.
He also said he did not go for an MRI and was not sure when he would return to the lineup. Manager Jim Leyland said that could happen that could happen within the next two days against Chicago, and he doesn't expect Cabrera to wind up on the disabled list.
"I doubt very much he'll play (Wednesday)," Leyland said. "I can assure you, he's not going to play both these games the next two days. ... Will he play one? I can't answer that. But if he played (Wednesday) night, he certainly wouldn't play the day game. I don't know if he'll player either of the two, to be honest with you."
The American League MVP and Triple Crown winner, Cabrera left Monday's 7-3 win over Chicago in the fifth inning. He was replaced at third base by Don Kelly with one out in the bottom half of the inning ? after scoring in the top half ? and walked off holding his left side.
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In other injury-related news, Leyland said second baseman Omar Infante, on the disabled list with a sprained left ankle, could soon begin a rehab assignment. Assuming no setbacks from Tuesday's workout, Leyland said Infante would leave for Class A West Michigan on Wednesday and could rejoin the Tigers this weekend.
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The Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati has a great story out about how Andy Rubin, the genius behind Google's mobile operating system, Android, is nervous about the success of Samsung.
At a Google event last fall for its executives…Mr. Rubin also said Samsung could become a threat if it gains more ground among mobile-device makers that use Android, the person said. Mr. Rubin said Google's recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which makes Android-based smartphones and tablets, served as a kind of insurance policy against a manufacturer such as Samsung gaining too much power over Android, the person said.
So, why is Rubin so nervous about Samsung? Shouldn't he be happy that it's selling so many phones, loaded with his operating system?
There are two reason he's so nervous.
The first reason is that slowly but surely, people are starting to think of the phones that Samsung sells not as "Android" phones.
Increasingly, they are thinking of them as "Galaxy" phones.
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So why is Rubin nervous?
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It could use that money to develop a new operating system — or even just its own "fork" of Android, similar to what Amazon is doing with Kindle tablets.
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Samsung would do this because Apple has proven the profitability of owning both the hardware and software in smartphones.
The reason this possibility is so scary to Rubin is that if Samsung were to significantly alter Android or come up with its own mobile OS for Galaxy phones, that would interrupt Google's direct line of connection to hundreds of millions of mobile Internet users.
That's scary for Google because ever since it paid to become AOL's search engine back in the 1990s, it has noticed that consumers don't really care who provides their search, just that there is search at their access point to the Internet.
Since then, Google's entire strategy is based around the idea of putting its search engine as close to consumers' access point to the Internet as possible.
That's why it made Android. That's why it made the Chrome browser and now the Chrome laptop: to move closer to the start point.
Google worries: If Samsung were to open up a little space between Google and consumers, who knows what other kinds of Web-discovery engines might worm themselves in?
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It's the kind of thought that is scary enough for Rubin to call a meeting over.
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