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The Giants hope their season ends with a Super Bowl title in the comfortable confines of their home field, MetLife stadium. Their season begins in much less hospitable place: Big Blue travels to Dallas Sunday night to take on the Cowboys in the first Sunday Night Football game of the season. The games airs on NBC.
2012 results: The teams split the season series in 2012, with each club winning on the road.
Key injuries: Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul (back) is the biggest unknown on the injury front. He practiced on a limited basis throughout the week and is listed questionable for Sunday.
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Giants running back Andre Brown (fibula), right tackle David Diehl (thumb) and center David Baas (knee) are out. Left guard Kevin Boothe will replace Baas at center, with James Brewer moving in at left guard. Rookie Justin Pugh steps in for Diehl at right tackle.
Wide receiver Victor Cruz (heel) is probable -- a nice dose of news for the Giants' offense, to say the least.
The Cowboys' primary injury concerns are along the defensive line. Starting defensive end Anthony Spencer (knee) is doubtful after not practicing all week. Reserve defensive end Ben Bass (shoulder) is out. Defensive tackle Jay Ratliff (hernia) will miss the game, too.
Reasons why the Giants can win Sunday: The Giants have scored 29 points or more in five of the last eight meetings with the Cowboys, and the New York offense could again give the Cowboys a host of problems. Dallas' front four is not deep and could tire if New York can sustain some drives. Earlier in the week, we mentioned the importance of the running game in this regard, but the Giants' passing game could also prove a big challenge for Dallas to stop.
Also, the Giants' defensive line, whether Pierre-Paul plays or not, gets a favorable matchup in the Cowboys' offensive line, which looks somewhat unsettled up the middle. The Giants, save for a 48-yard run allowed to DeMarco Murray in the 2012 season opener, were adept at stopping the Cowboys' running game a season ago. The more the Giants can make the Cowboys one-dimensional, the better.
Reasons why the Giants could run into trouble at Dallas: The Giants' defense has the unenviable task of stopping the Cowboys' passing game, which is one of the NFL's best. Can the Giants' defensive backs match up well enough for an entire game against Tony Romo and Co.? Frankly, the Cowboys may not need much from their ground game if Romo takes care of the ball.
The Giants are going to need to be sound on defense to have a chance at beginning their season on a positive note. However, they probably need to take some calculated risks, too. Five of Romo's 19 interceptions a season ago came against the Giants. Can New York force Dallas' quarterback into a big mistake or two?
Finally, the Giants enter Week One already in a somewhat challenging position from an injury standpoint. Injuries along either line or at running back could be problematic for them in the season opener.
Prediction: The fantasy-football fans of the world will be entertained on Sunday night. Both defenses look a little shaky, and both offenses could be sharp right off the bat. In short, this looks like a coin flip, but the inclination here is to go with the Giants, who have won the last four games between the clubs that have been decided by less than a touchdown.
Predicted score: Giants 28, Cowboys 27.


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At its February meeting, the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council rejected a proposal by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries that would provide harvest accountability and allow Louisiana's recreational fishermen to choose their own season dates for recreational red snapper.
"It's obvious when looking at recreational landings of red snapper for the Gulf of Mexico," said head of Fisheries for Louisiana, LDWF Assistant Secretary Randy Pausina, "that the current federal system of controlling recreational harvest isn't working. For the past six years the recreational quota was exceeded five times. The only year the quota wasn't exceeded was in 2010, likely a direct result of massive fishery closures resulting from the BP oil spill. Overages ran from a low of 19 percent to a high of 89 percent in those six years and exceeded 7 million pounds of red snapper which is almost twice the current recreational quota."
"Our proposal for regional management would have allowed Louisiana to manage its recreational fishery by closing the red snapper season when our allocation of fish was harvested. In turn, the Gulf Council would allow Louisiana recreational fishermen through the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission process to set the red snapper season dates and daily bag limits," added Pausina.
In related action, the Gulf Council gave the Regional Director of NOAA the authority to close federal waters (EEZ) beyond those states that are determined to be non-compliant with federal regulations.
"This is how that action breaks down: because our season doesn't fit that of the federal season, we will be penalized with an EEZ closure. The irony is that if we comply with the federal season, history tells us the recreational fishery will overrun its quota. And the Gulf Council rejected our offer to account for our own recreational harvest and close the red snapper season when our allocation of the resource is reached thereby eliminating an overrun in Louisiana," concluded Pausina.
Furthermore, a notice of intent was filed today on behalf of the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission to set a Louisiana, weekend-only recreational red snapper season that would begin Saturday, March 23. In that notice of intent, LDWF Secretary Robert Barham maintains the authority to modify the season based on further discussions with our federal counterparts and the Gulf Council.
LDWF officials encourage fishermen to use caution and their own personal judgment when fishing beyond the three mile boundary that is currently recognized as federal waters, as it is fully expected that federal agents will continue to enforce federal law. Until the time when the US Congress confirms Louisiana's action, the battle will continue over Louisiana's state water boundary.

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Pennsylvania Railroad's huge fleet of H21a 4-Bay Hoppers were some of the most common coal hoppers in North America. Bowser brings this iconic freight car to HO Scale. Constructed as H21 quad hoppers between 1911 and 1917 these hoppers became a PRR standard for hauling coal and coke with over 36,000 built by the railroad. During their lives some were sold off to other railroads including the B&O class W1, N&W, Union Railroad and VGN, affiliates and successor PC. Originally built with clamshell doors they had them replaced during upgrading in the 1930s and 1940s. Other cars were modified for special service such has hauling coke. The cars lasted into the 1960s and a few remained in work train service into the 1980s. The H21 and H21a were some of the most common coal hoppers in North America, so they'll look right at home on your steam- or early diesel-era layout. Ready-to-run H21a Hoppers from Bowser come equipped with knuckle couplers, metal wheels and feature authentic paint schemes.


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For those who aren't in a hurry and want to eke out as much fuel as possible before filling up, the 2012 Explorer with the 2.0-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder engine – a new-to-the-U.S. engine – might be worth consideration. Available for a $990 premium over the standard 290-hp 3.5-liter V-6 with 255 lb-ft of torque, the 240-hp 2.0-liter I-4 has 270 lb-ft of torque and has been designed to deliver claimed best-in-class fuel economy on the EPA's cycle. The only other additions for 2012 are new paint colors. The 2012 Explorer is now available in Ginger Ale Metallic, Dark Blue Pearl Metallic, Cinnamon Metallic, and Black.
The 2012 Explorer continues to offer standard seven-passenger seating this year. While the Explorer's interior may look roomy, in our testing we discovered that looks can be deceiving, and that seating is rather tight for a seven-passenger crossover. The 2012 Explorer also comes loaded with tech like Sync, and MyFord Touch.
Body style: SUV
Engines: 3.5L V-6, 2.0L turbocharged I-4
Transmission: 6-speed automatic
Models: Ford Explorer, Ford Explorer XLT, Ford Explorer Limited
New for 2012 is the North American debut of Ford's 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine under the hood of the Explorer. Available in front-wheel drive only, and for a $990 premium over the more powerful and slightly less fuel efficient V-6, the 240-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter I-4 nets an EPA-estimated 20 mpg city/28 mpg highway. For 2012 Ford has also made new color options available. The new color choices are Ginger Ale Metallic, Dark Blue Pearl Metallic, Cinnamon Metallic, and Black.
The 2012 Explorer's looks proved polarizing among the Motor Trend staff. A significant departure over the previous model, some staffers described it as pretty good-looking while others weren't so kind, comparing it to a larger, frumpier Range Rover Evoque. Both the Explorer and Explorer XLT feature chrome grilles, while the top-trim Explorer Limited gets a body colored grille. Base Explorers also come with 17-inch steel wheels, while the Explorer XLT gets 17-inch alloy wheels, and Explorer Limited gets 20-inch alloy wheels.
While most staff members agree that the Explorer's interior looks pleasant enough, we ultimately found that it could make better use of its interior space. In our First Test of an EcoBoost-equipped 2012 Explorer, we wrote, "It's just such inefficient packaging…It looks roomy, but it's not. It looks sporty, but it's not. And the interior looks good, but that MyFord Touch is a mess." We also found seating in the Explorer on the tight side, with both the second and third row likely to draw vocal complaints from teenagers. On the plus side, we did like the Explorer's option power-folding third row that, with the hatch open, will fold 90 degrees backwards, proving a comfortable seat for tailgating.
Simply put: get the V-6. In our testing we found the 3.5-liter 290-hp V-6 to be adequate enough to squeeze through traffic, and merge onto busy freeways, although it could use a bit more torque. The Explorer XLT AWD model we tested took 7.9 seconds to hit 60 mph from a standstill. Though it may be adequate in a smaller, lighter vehicle, we found the four-cylinder EcoBoost in the Explorer we tested, to be "dynamically lifeless," and, "woefully slow." The 240-hp 2.0-liter I-4 took the Explorer from 0-60 mph in 9.2 seconds. We also found the Explorer to be rather lifeless in the bends, "Wallowy in the slalom and figure-eight with understeer being the flavor of choice." Fuel economy didn't prove to be the EcoBoost Explorer's saving grace either. Because the EcoBoost engine is tasked with hauling around 4500 pounds, our observed fuel economy failed to match EPA estimates.
Safety may be one of the Explorer's saving graces as it's loaded with safety features. The 2012 Explorer comes standard with AdvanceTrac with Roll Stability Control and Curve Control. The Explorer also is features second-generation first-row airbags, side-seat airbags, and side curtain airbags. Optional on the Explorer are second-row inflatable rear belts. Packaged together with Ford's Blind Spot Information System, the inflatable rear seat belts are designed to spread the impact of a collision across a broader area, reducing the pressure that a conventional seatbelt would cause.
Explorer: 18 mpg city/25 mpg highway (FWD, V-6); 20 mpg city/28 mpg highway (EcoBoost I-4); 17 mpg city/23 mpg highway (AWD, V-6)
Explorer XLT: 18 mpg city/25 mpg highway (FWD, V-6); 20 mpg city/28 mpg highway (EcoBoost I-4); 17 mpg city/23 mpg highway (AWD, V-6)
Explorer Limited: 18 mpg city/25 mpg highway (FWD, V-6); 20 mpg city/28 mpg highway (EcoBoost I-4); 17 mpg city/23 mpg highway (AWD, V-6)
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Pocket God Episode 42: Bone Soup Details Revealed
Pocket God continues to build on its phenomenal success with update after update, giving players a ton of content for very litte outlay. Developer Dave Castlenuevo and the gang at Bolt Creative continue to spearhead efforts to release frequent episodic updates. The last one was in October of this year.
Episode 42, entitled Bone Soup, unlocks the powers of the underwater pyramid, itself released back in October with Episode 41: I Sting the Body Electric. The new pyramid powers include the elements of fire, ice, oil, and acid, and air, allowing players to unleash them upon the poor Pygmies to comedic and fatal effect. Check out the video below to see how this will play out:
But wait, there's more! In addition to a new Candyland skin pack that lets gamers festoon their islands with holiday-flavored treats, Episode 42 adds another annual new Fishmas dance to Pocket God. This year's edition, titled "12 Days of Fishmas," can be seen at the video just below - it's a fun and fatal animated short that has a bit of a sneak peak at the next Bolt Creative game as well - Pocket God: The Runs!
Pocket God Episode 42: Bone Soup will release as an update tomorrow to all current owners of the Pocket God app, while the app still costs a extremely affordable $0.99 - an amazing deal considering the vast amounts of content within it.


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The Australian Transgender Support Association of QLD (ATSAQ) was formed in 1990, to help, advise and assist the transgender community in Queensland. It is run by transgenders for transgenders and provides emotional/moral support for people with Gender Dysphoria (formally known as Gender identity Disorder) their families and friends.
We also educate and try to dispel misunderstanding and combat discrimination, which is still sometimes a common experience for transgender people in Australian society. We liaise with all forms of government to assist in better policy practices and medical professional's etc.
ATSAQ is a confidential, non-profit, un government funded organization, relying on donations and membership for financial support. We provide support and information on all aspects of gender reassignment, for the general community and people who are experiencing difficulty with their gender identity.
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The Australian Transgender Support Association of QLD (ATSAQ) holds its monthly luncheons on the last Saturday of each Month (except December). At these activities one can enjoy a lunch and a general get-together with mostly people who are or who have transitioned.
The luncheons are held in a friendly back yard outdoor home setting and have recently had over 30+ attending. Current costs are $15 for visitors which includes Lunch, and DIY tea and coffee. You are welcome to bring any nibbles as well and of course your own personal beverage.
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Jordan Green, out of Flower Mound High School in Texas, had a pretty epic dunk this weekend. So epic, in fact, that he knocked over a player on the opposing team. So while Blake Griffin was jumping over cars in the dunk contest this weekend, Jordan Green was jumping over people. The only way to upstage them both, of course, is to dunk over a Transformer.
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Harry jokes about ex Chelsy during Estonia tour
Prince Harry has met an old military friend from his days in Afghanistan - and reminisced about using his computer to email former girlfriend Chelsy Davy.
Harry had not seen Estonian Captain Tanel Tarlap for more than six years but they quickly shared a laugh about how the royal would make a beeline for the officer's laptop and contact home.
They chatted in a muddy field in the Estonian countryside where Harry was meeting troops from the Baltic state, Britain and America taking part in a major military exercise.
As Harry approached Captain Tarlap he said: "I remember him, that's a familiar face"
The prince, who was joined by Major General Riho Terras, the head of Estonia's Armed Forces, said to his pal: "I was trying to explain the reason why we became friends, because you had the internet, the computer, do you remember?"
The Estonian officer smiled and said: "So you could email your girlfriend."
The two men had shared a room with a number of other officers during the prince's first tour of Afghanistan during 2007-08, when he worked as a forward air controller co-ordinating air strikes on Taliban positions.
Captain Tarlap, 34, then a lieutenant, was a liaison officer between the British forces and an Estonian company of around 150 men under UK command.
They only worked together for a few weeks but quickly struck up a friendship and exchanged battalion emblems as a sign of their closeness.
Harry was pictured proudly wearing the Estonian Guard Battalion's Eagle on his body armour during his 10-week deployment.
Joking about the military emblem that Captain Tarlap had given him, Harry said to his friend: "I've got no Velcro on me, so you can't stick anything to me."
The Estonian officer said later: "I was the only guy in the camp who had a computer with internet access so he had the chance to chat to his girlfriend or family.
"I think everyone was trying to get a connection with people at home.
"We were sharing a room and he would just knock on my shoulder and asked if he could use my computer."
At the time Harry was dating girlfriend Chelsy Davy. The pair split up and were reunited a number of times before the relationship finally ended a few years ago.
Speaking about his days working with Harry at Forward Operating Base Edinburgh in Helmand province, Captain Tarlap added: "When the Estonian company wanted to do some patrolling in the area we ordered some air support and I would ask Harry if this was possible and he always tried to do it.
"It was always planned but sometimes it was a last-minute call."
He added: "He was usually in a good mood and happy - he was always positive.
"He would make jokes and just talk about simple things usually. He was very friendly and always happy and excited to get new tasks from his commander.
"You know what he is but when you speak to each other you use first names like everyone else."
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DescriptionThis is the scrolling beat 'em up by Technos which started the Kunio / Nekketsu High series. The original takes takes place in a Japanese city, whereas its western version named Renegade is set on the mean streets of Brooklyn. This conversion later produced unofficial sequels Target: Renegade and Renegade III: The Final Chapter. You must venture through to meet your girlfriend, and then rescue her from her kidnappers. This is split into five levels, taking you through the subway and the docks as well as some inhospitable streets. A wide range of aggressive moves are on offer, including headbutts, kicks, punches and flying kicks. Much of the game's violence is depicted in a fairly tongue-in-cheek style, with an element of attempted humour along the way.
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- "熱血硬派くにおくん" -- Japanese spelling
- "热血硬派" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
- "Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun" -- Japanese title
- "Ghetto" -- Italian title
- "Arcade Archives: Renegade" -- PS4 title
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User Reviews
|A fine masterpiece of an arcade conversion.
|ZX Spectrum
|SpecMaster (2581)
|Obvious source of Double Dragon and The Combatribes
|Andrew Fisher (688)
Critic Reviews
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Amstrad CPC
|Oct, 1987
|87 out of 100
|Commodore User
|Commodore 64
|Oct, 1987
|8 out of 10
|Happy Computer
|Amstrad CPC
|Oct, 1987
|77 out of 100
|Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library
|SEGA Master System
|Aug, 1993
|7 out of 10
|Retro Archives
|SEGA Master System
|Sep 12, 2018
|13.5 out of 20
|Retro Archives
|Sep 12, 2018
|13 out of 20
|ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
|Commodore 64
|Nov, 1987
|500 out of 1000
|Video Chums
|Nintendo Switch
|Jul 09, 2018
|3.9 out of 10
|Nintendo Life
|May 05, 2008
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German indexOn February 27, 1988, Renegade was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.
Japanese releaseThe original Japanese version (Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun) was the first title in the Nekketsu / Kunio-Kun" series which always revolve around the Nekketsu highschool and it's gangs. As such the Japanese Renegade has all characters dressed in school uniforms, and the backgrounds include schoolyards and other recognizably Japanese locations. The graphics were all re-drawn to fit into the "street fighting gangs" theme that was so popular at the time for the foreign releases however.
ZX Spectrum versionsThere are two versions of the game: 48K and 128K. The latter is an enhanced edition that contains an additional level, in-game music and a shoulder throw manoeuvre.
- October 1988 (issue #13) - Included in the Top-100 list of 1987/1988 (editorial staff selection)
- Commodore Format
- July 1993 (Issue 34) - Modern Classics: Beat-'em-ups
- Computer and Video Games
- May 1988 (Issue #79) - Golden Joystick 1988 Award: Third in category Game of the Year
- May 1988 (Issue #79) - Golden Joystick 1988 Award: Runner up in category Arcade Game of the Year
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- 1987 - #3 Best CPC Game '87
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Bryan County police are investigating Wednesday night after a toddler was killed in a dog attack.
About 6:30 p.m., Bryan County dispatchers received a call that an 21-month-old girl had been attacked and killed by seven dogs, Sheriff Clyde R. Smith said.
Police say the girl's grandmother was sleeping when she was awakened by a commotion in the yard. She looked out her window and saw the attack, but was not in time to save the child.
The dogs, which belonged to the child's family, were pit bulls and pit bull mixes. They have been euthanized by Bryan County Animal Control.
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White House changed report, implying experts supported moratorium -- IG
The White House tampered with language in a controversial Interior Department report on its deepwater drilling moratorium, implying a group of independent scientists supported language recommending the ban, according to the agency's watchdog.
Interior's inspector general said edits made by the White House to the Interior report "led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer reviewed by the experts."
At issue is the May 27 report on oil and gas drilling safety that was compiled at President Obama's request after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, sparking the nation's worst oil spill. The report made several recommendations for safety improvements at offshore drilling rigs and called for the six-month ban on deepwater drilling and permitting.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tapped 15 experts to review the safety recommendations made in the main body of the report, but they never endorsed the moratorium and later blasted Interior's use of their names to support the ban.
"There is an implication that we have somehow agreed to or 'peer-reviewed' the main recommendation of that report," the advisers wrote in a memorandum to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and the state's U.S. senators, Mary Landrieu (D) and David Vitter (R) in June. Salazar "should be free to recommend whatever he thinks is correct, but he should not be free to use our names to justify his political decisions" (E&ENews PM, June 9).
Interior Inspector General Mary Kendall said the White House made the changes during the editing process implying the advisers had reviewed the moratorium language.
After reviewing e-mails exchanged between Interior and the White House, Kendall said the Interior version of the report discussed the moratorium on the first page of the executive summary, while the language describing the advisers' role was discussed on the second page, immediately followed by the summary list of safety recommendations included in the peer-reviewed main body of the report.
But when the White House returned the edited version to Interior, the language describing the advisers' role had been moved to immediately follow the moratorium language, Kendall said.
"This caused the distinction between the Secretary's moratorium recommendation -- which had not been peer reviewed -- and the safety recommendations contained in the 30-Day Report -- which had been peer reviewed -- to become effectively lost," Kendall wrote in her report made public today.
While the inspector general's account says the report could have been "more clearly worded," it does not fault Interior or the White House for deliberately misleading the public. And it cites Steve Black, a counselor to Salazar who led the Interior team that produced the report, as saying the rush to finish it led to the oversight.
"Black stated that it was no one's intention to imply that the peer reviewers reviewed the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling policy decision," the IG report says. "He explained that due to the rush to complete the report and the executive summary, time did not allow for careful editing and review of the executive summary."
Interior spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff also said there was no intent to mislead the public. "The decision to impose a temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling was made by the secretary, following consultation with colleagues including the White House," she said in an e-mailed statement.
Barkoff noted Interior's efforts after the report was released to apologize to the reviewers. And several of the advisers interviewed for the IG report said that after Salazar explained the issue, they believed that it had been a "mistake."
But the Gulf state lawmakers who called for Kendall to prepare the report are not convinced.
"This report reveals exactly what I suspected all along -- Obama administration officials appear to have deliberately disregarded the Information Quality Act to push their destructive moratorium that has crushed job growth along the Gulf Coast," Vitter said in a statement.
"I initially requested this investigation on June 16 because I wanted to make sure that the federal government was basing policy decisions that would directly impact so many Louisianians on science -- not politics," he added. "Unfortunately, this report reveals the contrary."
The original moratorium discussed in the May 27 report was overturned by a federal judge in June, but Interior quickly imposed a new ban in July. That suspension ended last month.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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Hostel Hutteldorf
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We're located only 20 minutes by subway from downtown and 5 minutes from the famous Schönbrunn palace. We have 60 bright, friendly and clean rooms (2-7 bed dorms). Several dorms feature private shower and water tap and all feature lockers - just don't forget to bring your own padlock with you!
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- 24 Hour Reception
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Take local train S7 or CAT to 'Landstrasse/Wien Mitte', change to U4 (green underground line) until 'Hütteldorf' - take exit 'Hadikgasse' on left side at station - cross the footbridge and follow the sign '300 m hostel'...
If you approach Vienna from the west. It's best to change trains in St. Pölten (one stop before Vienna). From there you can take a REX (regional express train) to Wien Westbahnhof. It stops directly at Hütteldorf. You will safe 15 - 30 minutes!
From railway station 'Wien Meidling' :
Take U6 to 'Längenfeldgasse', change to U4 to 'Hütteldorf - rest as above ....
From railway station 'Wien Hauptbahnhof/Main Station' :
Take U1t to 'Karlsplatz', change to U4 to 'Hütteldorf - rest as above ....
From the Vienna International Busterminal(VIB), Erdberg
Take U3 to 'Landstraße', change to U4 to 'Hütteldorf' - rest as above
See you soon in Vienna ...
Located Near
Schloss Schönbrunn - Palace Schönbrunn
Lainzer ZOO - nature reserve within the city
Disco 'U4' at U4 station 'Meidlinger Hauptstrasse'
Football Stadium - home of Rapid Wien
Ottakringer Brewery - one of Austria's finest beer breweries


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LODI - The first major housing project to be proposed in Lodi since 2006 could break ground by April.
LODI - The first major housing project to be proposed in Lodi since 2006 could break ground by April.
The Lodi City Council on Wednesday night approved the FCB Homes Rose Gate subdivision, a 232-home project in west Lodi.
The subdivision previously received unanimous approval from the Planning Commission with a recommendation for council approval. The City Council also voted unanimously to approve the project, which is located on a 50-acre triangular parcel just west of Lower Sacramento Road and north of Lodi Avenue, near the Raley's shopping center.
Approval is significant, city officials said, because Lodi has seen very few homes built since the housing market collapsed in 2006. FCB Homes had originally proposed Rose Gate as part of two major subdivisions in 2002, but those plans stalled for more than a decade because of the economy's downturn.
That ground could be broken in April is being called a "historic" moment for the city.
"It's been called a historic event, and it's not that often when your project is categorized in that way," FCB Homes President Tom Doucette said. "We've received a lot of great feedback from the community."
Plans for Rose Gate include three "villages" around a centralized park that includes a storm basin. Homes will be built on lot sizes ranging from 4,000 to 7,000 square feet in the styles of European, California Colonial and American Traditional.
One feature that has raised eyebrows is a large roundabout at Rose Gate's entrance that will control traffic instead of a signal light.
City Manager Rad Bartlam said the roundabout is less expensive than a light and will allow traffic to flow smoothly. Doucette said he's thought "both ways" about the roundabout but thinks "it will be a great addition to the community."
Floor plans for homes in Rose Gate will start in the 2,000 square foot range and will likely be priced above $300,000.
"Quite frankly, this is pretty exciting for Lodi. ... It's good, because it creates jobs and additional housing opportunities," Councilwoman JoAnne Mounce said.
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The Top White Folks' "Struggle Faces" On Election Night Pt 2: Mitt Romney Supporters Mourning, Mad, Hurt, And Hugging Loved Ones [Video]
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Karl Rove couldn't come to grips… along with a bunch of the paler portion of America.
Turn the pages to see folks crying, business' closing, and people hugging their loved ones after the Black President was reelected….
The next pages have thee funniest Romney Loser faces you will see this year.
Deal with it… Ethel!
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This guy donated millions… read it and weep, geek!
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A special day for a champion on two wheels. Cairoli visits Ferrari
Maranello, 20 January – Antonio Cairoli, three times MX-1 Motocross World Champion had a really special day today, visiting the Ferrari factory. During his tour, Cairoli got to see the main production areas, as well as the Fiorano track, the FI Clienti department and the Ferrari Museum.
He also met the Scuderia Team Principal, Stefano Domenicali, thanking him for this truly special opportunity. "I am happy to have been able to see at first hand a company that is really special in Italy and the world," said Antonio, "particularly because, as an Italian rider, I have been passionate about this team since I was a kid."
At the end of his day in Maranello, Cairoli could not deny that he was literally in love with the beautiful cars produced by Ferrari. "My favourite has always been the 599 GTB Fiorano but, having been here, I was left speechless by the aggressive lines of the 458 Spider and the fabulous interior of the FF." The factory tour ended with a visit to the Atelier, where Ferraris are personalised and Cairoli was able to see the innumerable combinations that can be put together to deliver a made to measure car.


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Unilever was formed in 1930 by the merger of Dutch margarine producer, Margarine Unie and British soap maker, Lever Brothers. Today, the consumer goods giant sells food, home care, refreshments, and personal care products in over 190 countries. Unilever has headquarters in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and subsidiaries in over 90 countries. The company employs more than 170,000 people. In 2012, Unilever reported more than €51 billion in revenue.
Unilever North America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey needed to re-design its infrastructure to support Unilever's digital marketing approach. Unilever previously used on-premises data centers to host its web properties, all of which had different technologies and processes. "We needed to standardize our environment to support a faster time-to-market," says Sreenivas Yalamanchili, Digital Marketing Services (DMS) Global Technical Manager. Unilever optimizes its business model by testing a marketing campaign in a pilot country. If the campaign is successful, the company deploys it to other countries and regions. The IT organization wanted to use the cloud to implement the same process.
After a comprehensive RFP and review process involving more than 16 companies, Unilever chose Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unilever's priorities in choosing a digital marketing platform included flexibility, a global infrastructure, technology, as well as a rich ecosystem of members. "With AWS, we have the same hosting provider for all regions, which means we don't have to customize and tweak hosting solutions per region," says Yalamanchili. "Unilever is focused on delivering great brands to consumers; it's not an IT shop. We're able to spend less and get more innovation by working with AWS and members of the AWS Partner Network."
The Unilever IT team had two goals for the AWS migration: deliver a common technology platform for websites with regional content delivery architecture, and migrate existing web properties to the cloud.
To develop the platform, Unilever attended an AWS workshop to design the architecture. Then the DMS team built a pilot platform (a disaster recovery site for third-party hosting in Miami) for stakeholder review. After obtaining business approval, Unilever chose CSS Corporation, an Advanced Consulting Partner member of the Amazon Partner Network (APN), for system integration and application development. The DMS team worked with CSS to develop a global content management system (CMS) . The CMS platform lets agencies build brand web sites globally and publish them across several AWS regions. Unilever uses a HAProxy load balancer to improve performance of its web sites and runs its databases on Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL.
For disaster recovery, Unilever stores backup data, snapshots, product and recipe media files in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and uses EBS Snapshot Copy to copy Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots from the US East (Northern Virginia) Region to the US West (Northern California) Region. "We designed a disaster recovery solution to protect our content management system, content deployment architecture, and many GOLD-classified web properties—and to give the business confidence in the AWS Cloud," says Yalamanchili. Figure 1 demonstrates Unilever's architecture on AWS.
Unilever and CSS created Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) running Windows and Linux for use on approximately 400 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) provides flexibility for deployments and access to the Internet. Nick Morgan, Enterprise Architect for Digital Marketing comments, "What's nice about using AWS is how easily we're able to scale the instances based on the nature of a campaign's popularity. We used Auto Scaling as well as manual scaling for sites such as Recipedia.com and Axeapollo.com. We can deploy instances across different AWS Regions and Availability Zones and use Amazon EBS snapshots to bring services back."
To migrate its web properties to the cloud, Unilever built pre-production and production environments on AWS for several existing websites. Once Unilever's creative and production agencies certified the website in the pre-production environment, Unilever switched the DNS address for production environment to go live on AWS.
After a successful pilot launch, Unilever migrated more than 500 web properties from its data centers to AWS in less than five months. Since then, Unilever has more than 1,700 web properties running on AWS worldwide. "Throughout our business globally, we strive to create repeatable models and it's easy to standardize our hosting environment with AWS," says Yalamanchili. "If a marketing campaign that we deploy in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region is successful, we can easily replicate it to Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region for the APAC countries."
CSS supplied Unilever with machine images of different operating systems, APIs and tools to automate the process of launching a new project. "The way CSS automated launching instances reduced the time to launch a project by about 75 percent," says Morgan. "What used to take four days now only takes one day. We're not rebuilding web and database servers from the ground up all the time. We can just clone and re-use images."
For Unilever, moving to the AWS Cloud improved business agility and operational efficiency. "Previously, requesting a website for a marketing campaign was a lengthy process," says Yalamanchili. "By using AWS, we improved time to launch for a digital marketing campaign from two weeks to an average of two days. That's more than seven times faster than our traditional environment. If a brand manager has an idea, he or she can implement it before the competition,"
"Using AWS saves us time," he continues. "I can simply go to the AWS website and plug in numbers to calculate costs. That makes it easy for me to set up a standard billing model for websites. It takes our partner, CSS, less than 12 hours to calculate pricing for a campaign website. I can comfortably say to my marketing folks that we have the capacity for anything we want to do. We can focus on innovation rather than infrastructure."
"The other advantage is the responsiveness of the AWS Cloud," says Yalamanchili. "By using AWS, one of the brand managers was able to completely alter a campaign within 24 hours, which wouldn't happen with the physical infrastructure."
"AWS listens to us and helps come up with ideas to do things differently that are beneficial," says Morgan. "I really enjoy the rapid rate of innovation from AWS." Yalamanchili adds, "With AWS, it's the customer's way, always. AWS has proved to us that it's the customer that matters by listening to us and innovating products and services."
To learn more about how AWS can help you run websites, visit our Marketing Websites page: http://aws.amazon.com/websites/.
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A female deer mouse has a monitor attached to her left ear at the Adirondack Ecological Center in Newcomb, N.Y. Yosemite National Park is trapping and killing the deer mice, which can carry the deadly hantavirus, after an outbreak there over the summer.
SAN FRANCISCO - Yosemite National Park has begun trapping and killing deer mice whose growing numbers may have helped create the conditions that led to a hantavirus outbreak that has infected eight park visitors, killing three, public health officials said Tuesday.
Yosemite officials in recent weeks have warned 22,000 people who stayed in the park in California over the summer that they may have been exposed to the rodent-borne lung disease, which kills over a third of those infected.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also sounded a worldwide alert, saying visitors to the park's popular Curry Village lodging area between June and August may be at risk. Park officials have closed nearly 100 tent cabins in Curry Village infested with deer mice, which carry the virus.
"From an ecological perspective, it appears that there was an unnaturally high population of rodents in the area. We are being proactive and reducing the population," Danielle Buttke, a veterinary epidemiologist for the National Park Service, told Reuters.
California's Yosemite National Park is warning more than 20,000 past visitors they are at risk of exposure to the potentially deadly Hantavirus after it claimed another victim. Three people have died out of a total eight people infected after using cabins in the park this summer. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.
Buttke said the mice were being trapped in several areas of the park for monitoring purposes but believed they were being killed only in the Curry Village area, using snap traps.
Seven of the eight people confirmed to have been infected are believed to have contracted the virus in the village, while one stayed elsewhere in the park.
Yosemite doubles scope of hantavirus warning to 22,000; third death confirmed
'Perfect storm'
Public health officials trapped three times as many deer mice in the park's Tuolumne Meadows last week than were caught in a 2008 period, indicating that the deer mice population has grown, said Dr. Vicki Kramer, chief of vector-borne diseases at the state Public Health Department.
Dr. Charles Chiu, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, said the growing deer mice population might help explain the outbreak.
"This could be an explanation for why we're seeing this particular cluster," Chiu said. "What you may have is the perfect storm of conditions: Increasing prevalence of deer mice and campers with the same or common exposure to (lodging) infested with deer mice."
Officials are concerned that more Yosemite visitors could still get sick because the virus can incubate for up to six weeks after people breathe it in. There is no cure for the syndrome but early detection and hospital care increase survival rates.
The CDC warns that thousands of campers at Yosemite National Park could be at risk for the hantavirus. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
The virus can cause severe breathing difficulties and death. Early flu-like symptoms include headache, fever, muscle aches, shortness of breath and coughing.
Mice's role in ecosystem
Last month, authorities began trapping rodents in Yosemite to examine whether deer mice there were more likely to be infected with the hantavirus than deer mice elsewhere, Buttke said, but found they were not.
When authorities first identified the Yosemite hantavirus outbreak, rangers balked at the idea of trying to exterminate the deer mice, arguing that the mice play an important role in the Yosemite ecosystem.
US officials sound worldwide alert for Yosemite hantavirus
But when they realized the deer mice population had swelled, they decided to thin it in an effort to rebalance the ecosystem, Buttke said. She theorized that weather combined with visitors bringing in food led to Yosemite's abundance of deer mice.
Deer mice release hantavirus in their urine and droppings. People can contract the virus when they breath contaminated air. Children rarely contract the virus, probably because it is often transmitted when adults sweep or vacuum droppings or cut and stack wood.
'Fortunate to be alive': Girl, 7, contracts bubonic plague at Colorado campground
People usually contract the virus in small, confined spaces with poor ventilation. They also can become infected by eating contaminated food, touching tainted surfaces or being bitten by infected rodents.
The disease has killed 65 Californians and some 600 Americans since hantavirus was identified in 1993, but it has never been known to be transmitted from one person to another.
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Their legal country of registration is United Kingdom. Private Limited Companys are required to file accounts on a regular basis and their last set of accounts was made up until 31/10/2017.
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If you have never seen this movie, you must. Not because the brilliant Nora Ephron—the movie's screenwriter—passed away yesterday, but because it's a brilliant simple movie. A funny, clever, sometimes poignant, every time spot on look at relationships. A romantic comedy that is actually good cinema, not just the candied crap cakes made out of canned pink goo that populate movie theater nowadays.
If you have seen it, you know what I'm talking about. If you have never seen it, you will know. Oh, and Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal actually look like themselves in this one.
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SYANGJA, Nepal - The Gurkha Army Ex-servicemen's Organisation on Tuesday began holding funeral rites for Nepalese soldiers who died fighting for Britain, the organizers said.
The three-day ceremony was for the 60,000 Gurkhas who died serving in the British Army in various conflicts including both world wars.
"We are organizing this event to pray for the peaceful departure of the souls who lost their lives fighting in different battles under the British Empire," said former soldier Rajesh Kulung.
The organization said members of at least 14 different hill castes who fought in the British Army were being honoured at Syangja district in western Nepal, home to most of the deceased soldiers.
"Britain has neither publicised any data of Gurkha casualties nor has the Nepalese government shown any interest in the whereabouts" of the soldiers, the organisation said.
It urged the governments to respond to the plight of the Gurkhas.
Gurkhas are Nepali soldiers who first joined the British East India Company Army in 1851 and later served in the British and the Indian armies. Known for their use of the curved traditional Nepali knife called the kukri, the Gurkhas mostly served in the infantry.
More than 200,000 Gurkhas fought for the British in the two world wars. They have also served in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Borneo, Cyprus, the Falklands and Kosovo. More recently, they have been stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They have been petitioning the British government for rights on par with those of other British soldiers. In 2009, retired Gurkhas won the right to live in Britain. But they are still fighting for pensions and pay equal to the rest of the British Army.


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Mitt Romney made several big gaffes during the presidential campaign, but the biggest by far was his assertion to a room full of rich donors that 47% of Americans refuse to take responsibility for themselves.
As even conservatives quickly pointed out, the half of the country that Romney was referring to--those who don't pay federal income taxes--includes tens of millions of dedicated professionals who pay other taxes and perform services and make things that everyone in this country needs.
So, viewing these folks as not taking responsibility for themselves was not just stupid and wrong; it was deeply insulting.
Romney quickly disavowed the remarks, and as the campaign progressed, many Americans seemed to forget about them — including the tens of millions of less-well-off Americans in rural "red states" who voted for him.
But yesterday, in a post-mortem conference call with rich donors, Romney made new remarks that say the same thing a different way.
Obama won the election, Romney said, because Obama is giving "gifts" to many segments of the population, including women.
The remarks on the conference call reveal three things about Romney, two of which we already knew:
- He tailors his remarks to what he thinks the people he's talking to want to hear. (There's nothing inherently wrong with this. Most good salespeople do it. But it's certainly valid to ask what these salespeople actually believe, and in the case of Romney, we still haven't gotten a clear answer. It's also strange that Romney hasn't learned by now that when you say anything in the context of a presidential campaign, you're talking to the whole country.)
- He really doesn't have much respect for people who aren't rich — or, at least, for those who accept any sort of government services, benefits, or help. Perhaps this is a common view of those in Romney's social circles. If so, it reflects the worldview that Republicans seem desperate to cling to, that the world is made up of "makers" and "takers" and that only the former deserve any respect. The wholesale embrace of this view would be more understandable if so many Romney voters weren't — in the Republican definition — in the "taker" category.
- He's a sore loser.
Romney's remarks on the call actually provided a very clear explanation of why he lost. The explanation just doesn't happen to be the one he gave.
(He lost, it seems safe to say, because he doesn't understand or care about the circumstances of most people in this country. You can argue about the effectiveness of social and poverty programs, civil rights laws, and other attributes of a progressive, modern society, but viewing all these things as "gifts" is deeply polarizing at best.)
Romney's concession speech on election night was gracious. Too bad he didn't stop with that one.
SEE ALSO: Romney Blames Loss On Obama "Gifts" To Minorities, Women, And Poor People


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This lighthearted, sparkling novel presents the adventures, romantic and otherwise, of a man, his dog, his mother's ghost and other assorted characters.
Schoolteacher Chesterfield is a man satisfied with life: His parents and his dog are "in super fettle," his sixth-graders are doing well and he's happily married. Or so he thinks, until the "one rummy morning" his wife, Deborah, (having grown impatient of Chesterfield's low pay and despairing of his ever inheriting the perhaps-mythical family fortune) leaves him for newly rich Benedict Hoepplewhite, "mortgage broker, wife-stealer and cur." This sets in motion a series of events, including an aborted revenge attempt, tenure struggles at Chesterfield's school, wrongdoings at a fitness club, a new romance with a pretty kindergarten teacher and not a little heroism. Then there's his mother's death and reappearance as a ghost, her arrival signaled by the tinkling of ice cubes in her ever-present drink. In these adventures, Chesterfield is joined by "the smashingest girl ever, name of Carrie Hahn, and the stellar dog Daisy, who sniffs out villains a mile away, and the lioness-hearted 'gym-chick' Jeanine, who carried the day when I fell wounded, and who made a man of my gormless pal Larry." Chesterfield—whose American father was "the fightingest blood and guts Marine of his day"—talks like someone out of P.G. Wodehouse. It's because, he says, his father was always out of the country, while his British mother "spoke the language and ethic that I breathed in: 'There never was a time like good King Edward's, dear. For fun, for peace, and for talk. It was Shakespeare and Elizabeth with proper drains and no bear-baiting.' " Even in Britain, Chesterfield's what-ho slang would probably be out of date, but no matter; it's fun. Chesterfield's gentlemanly ethic includes not initiating his divorce ("only a swine" would do that) and declining to entrap Hoepplewhite, finally wishing him no harm: "I sensed approval by the good old Anglican deity who made dogs and trout streams, has humour, and stands like a Gentleman mostly out of the way." Literate, funny and romantic, with amusing comments on American culture, this novel has its heart in the right place.
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Generally, Top New Womens Fragrances in South Africa one essential thing that most people will think about to be the most precious thing is women's fragrance. Let's see that every woman will have one of several types of fragrances such as cologne, perfume, or even eau de toilette. This is because women's fragrance is the thing that is useful to groom women.
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ARMANI By Giorgio Armani
This scent is a necessity in the collection of the gentleman of style. It is a clean, citrusy scent with notes of lavender, bergamot, cedar, clove, nutmeg, and patchouli. This dashing cologne compliments the three piece suit as well as evening attire.
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Launched by the design house of Dolce & Gabbana in 1994, DOLCE & GABBANA is classified as a refined, spicy, lavender, amber fragrance. This masculine scent possesses a blend of lemon, orange, lavender, sage, cedar and tobacco.
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Pour Homme Blue Label by Givenchy is fun, exciting for any man. This masculine scent possesses a blend of bergmot, grapefruit, tangerine, pepper, cardamom, cedarwood and vetiver. Cool, invigorating and at the same time sensual.
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Dior Homme By Christian Dior
Top notes of lavender, sage, and bergamot; a heart of iris, cocoa, and amber with a vetiver, patchouli, and leather dry down.


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Monday, January 12, 2009
The Tao's (Absurdly Obvious) Wandering Eye: Manny Ramirez
Which, in itself, is kind of idiotic, because OF FREAKING COURSE WE WANT THE JAYS TO SIGN MANNY RAMIREZ!
Not at any price, mind you. But if Manny's value in the free agent market were to fall (supposing it has), and if a shorter-term deal could be struck and if that deal were at a reasonable per annum salary that wouldn't remove all of the team's payroll flexibility, then by all means sign Manny up and stock up on officially logofied Jays do-rags.
Then again, if Evanka Osmak had a pendulous ball-sack, they'd call her Evan.
The point to some of these time-wasting free agent pool excavations that we do on occasion is to find guys who we think might fit on the active roster and in the Jays' likely diminishing payroll structure. We thought that was a given, but apparently not.
Steve Simmons - Still an idiot after all these years
It's always a treat when our Google News alerts turn up something from Sun Media tree-killer Steve Simmons. Simmons' Sunday column is a craptacular thing of beauty, in which the tiresome hack fills the tabloid with more than a thousand words worth of meaningless speculation, thoughtless piling on and drive-by putdowns on any number of subjects.
This weekend, as per ususal, Steve-O drops in a gratuitous swipe or two at J.P. Ricciardi's expense:
"Shouldn't the Blue Jays at least pretend to be interested in somebody this winter, like a Ben Sheets? Couldn't they just fake it for our amusement?"
Absolutely, Steve-o-rino. J.P. should pretend to blow his budget to amuse you so that you have something to write about next Sunday. Lord knows that executives make their best decisions when they are trying to keep the baying jackals in the media entertained or at bay.
And moreover, we really appreciate the lack of context that you've provided in your snappy one-liner. (You must have been a big fan of Cracked Magazine's "Shut Ups" too!) It makes it so much easier for us to shape our opinion on J.P.'s inactivity this offseason when you neglect to mention that the vast majority of teams are also sitting back and waiting for the price of the remaining free agents to fall.
Why are Ben Sheets, Manny Ramirez, Adam Dunn, Oliver Perez, Orlando Hudson, Orlando Cabrera, and Bobby Abreu still unemployed? Obviously because J.P. Ricciardi is a big stupid head who hasn't signed them all!
Fire J.P.! Hire Steve Simmons! Ignorance is stregnth!
13 comments:
- The Ack said...
I've been singing a modified Barry Manilow song in my head for a few months...."Well you homered and stopped me from shaking, and I need you today, oh Manny...."
That's just wrong, right?
- January 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Torgen said...
Better than a modified version of Looks Like We Made It.
- January 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
As Stephen Colbert would say:
- January 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I wish I like Colbert. Then I would have an hour of appointment TV instead of 30 minutes.
- January 12, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Brendan said...
Ack's a Fanilow.
- January 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Brendan said...
Oh, and fuck Manny, I wanna get Wiggy with it.
- January 12, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- dave said...
I just assumed you had never heard of Manny, Tao.
- January 13, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Tao, you failed to mention one important fact. J.P. moron knew before the last pitch was thrown in the world series that Burnett was gone, but he pretended to go through the motions to say they had sixteen million to spend on him. If Riccardi was a real GM instead of the worst mistake in Toronto history, he would have inked a DH, and two starting pitchers with the cash and then said, Look board of directors of Rogers, I understand we can't sign Burnett now, but at least you can't cancel the funds for your own greedy pockets when Ted Rogers passed on and Who cares if Burnett walked. The Jays would be stronger in 09, instead of going through the motions now without three players that could help. Instead of Clement and Maroth, they would have had Garland and Wolf, etc starting that actually would have played a game.
- January 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- The Ack said...
Anon 12:59, you say this as if Ricciardi's name is the one that actually endorses the cheques.
I'm quite certain that, given his druthers, Ricciardi would be in on Manny, Derek Lowe, and Raf Furcal. You think he's enjoying sitting out the offseason (to date)?
- January 13, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- Torgen said...
Anonymous: You think the Jays should pay Garland to pitch for them? Doesn't that discredit the rest of your argument?
- January 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Here are three things that we find lacking with your argument:
1) Rogers isn't putting the money back into their pockets. With the change in the value of the Canadian dollar and the increases in salaries to the other players on their roster, Rogers is going to be putting the same amount of money (or more in Cdn $) into the payroll.
It's just that the US $ figure will likely decline, and that wasn't something that they were banking on in September 08.
2) If J.P. had gone out early to try to sign these players, he would have paid a premium to get them, which would have been dumb. You'll note that Garland and Wolf are still out there, and their value is going down by the day.
(And P.S., Wolf wants to pitch in the NL, so there's no way he would have signed right off the bat with the Jays.)
3) As we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Mel Lastman calling in the Canadian Armed Forces to clear the snow in Toronto, we find it hard to hang the title of "Worst Mistake in Toronto History" on J.P..
- January 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- Joanna said...
- January 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Tao, this is what I find lacking with your argument:
1 The Rogers have had a record profit last year ,no? They could pull a REd Sox or Yankee deal and plow some money short term to get fannies into the seats. Instead, the Red Sox make all these smart lost cost major league signings , what do the Rogers do? They tie Jp's hand behind his back. I don't care how much the Canuck dollar has gone done etc so on, the Rogers can spend a little money to keep up with the Joneses in order to compete in the division instead, the Jays get the garbage beneath the bottom of the barrel.
2 Garland and Wolf? From the looks of it, Colon and Pavano were not affordable to the jays, so why Garland or wolf? Look , Toronto is not a premimium spot for free agents to come to UNLESS they are paid ex AJ and BJ. They couldn't even afford cheap players like Colon and Pavano, or even Tim Redding how in heaven's name can they afford Garland and Wolf, even now. Also, a team like Toronto (if they wanted to win) , have to be aggressive in getting people they want. It seems like the Rogers are content with what , they are doing. Like Darren Priest said, wouldn't it be great if Cuban bought this team? Now the Jays get the scraps.
3 JP? JP shares the record with Ed Wade of being the only GM to be GM this long and not make the playoffs.He's had ample team to improve the situation and he has missed his mark. If you wanna defend him, be very mindful that the vast majority of GMs would be fired after this period of failure, like Wade was with the Phillies. Gillick came on AND got them over the hump. It would be cooly ironic if Gillick came back and made Toronto a great team again with Cito at the helm ,because things are not working right now. I love wilner's stupid spin about the Jays not being as bad as the ASH era etc so on. They didn't make the playoffs either and were n't sniffing them either. the sad thing this season is that everybody is saying 2010. 2010? Yeah, I forgot the Red Sox, yanks and Tampa will suck and let the Jays into the playoffs, right? Wrong! That will be in my estimation, the year Doc walks because of this BS from JP, the cheapwad Rogers and all the excuses.
- January 15, 2009 at 1:57 PM