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Sinclair Not A Toon Target - According To Ashley's Website
Obviously Mike Ashley does not vet everything that goes on his Sports Direct football website, but it was interesting to note that site rubbished talk of Scott Sinclair coming to NUFC.
Sinclair had been cut from 40/1 to 1/4 to join Newcastle after a run of bets.
The 24-year-old, who has struggled to make an impact at Manchester City since joining last year, has been subject to a flurry of sudden interest with Sky Bet to move to St James' Park, prompting the Magpies to replace Everton at the head of betting on his next club.
Sinclair made just 11 appearances including two starts in his first season at the Etihad Stadium.
Sky Bet Football Trader Chris Spicer said: "In a market which has previously seen very little money, we have taken a strong run of bets on Sinclair's next club being Newcastle, prompting the price to plummet.
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Thanks. It's got character, so I'll just keep it as it is and keep it well oiled. However, I will strip the stock, fill that hole and oil the wood.
I think thats a great project. Most of the guns we charish the most are the ones that were shot hard and put up wet.
Calling this an assult rifle might just get these great hunting rifles banned as well. Just thinking out load.
Yup, gonna' leave it be.
I can't get the firing pin retention pins out of the bolt no matter how much penetrating fluid I put on it. I'm going to have to go to a gunsmith or machine shop and have then pressed out. I want to clean out the firing pin channel. At this point, I'm almost ready to just spray some brake cleaner in there and then blow it out rather than mess with it. I'm still waiting on the parts from Brownell's.
Very nice project CA, good choice not re-bluing it, it looks much better the way it is.
Are you going to put swivels on it? A sling is handy on a huntin' rifle. Did you have the bolt in a solid vise when you tried removing the pins? It makes a big difference.
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RALEIGH (AP) -- North Carolina's unemployment rate increased to 4.9 percent in January, matching the nationwide rate.
Numbers released Tuesday by the Employment Security Commission showed an increase in January after seven straight months of the unemployment rate remaining stable at 4.7 percent. Officials said total employment went up by 5,372 in January to 4,325,582.
Employment Security Commission Chairman Harry Payne Jr. says North Carolina is feeling the effects of the nation's economic situation. The U.S. unemployment rate was also at 4.9 percent in January, down from 5 percent in December.
In January 2007, the state's unemployment rate was 4.5 percent.
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TELL CITY—Nick Bower, Greg Clayton and Justin Peter each won two individual events to lead Tell City past Boonville 89-59 in boys swimming Monday.
Bower won the 50 freestyle in 25.36 seconds and the 100 free in 57.67.
Clayton won the 200 free in 2:05.03 and the 500 free in 5:51.43.
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LEOPOLD—Perry Central's boys basketball team may not have the dominant scorer the Commodores have had in recent years with Aaron Carter and/or Nick Huber.
But Coach Matt Carter said the Commodores will have more quickness and depth than they've had in several years.
Carter is starting his second year as head coach after five years as the Commodores' assistant coach.
OAKLAND CITY—Wood Memorial outrebounded Cannelton 38-22 and beat the Bulldogs 73-52 in their boys basketball season opener Wednesday.
Cold shooting by the Bulldogs, who looked a little hesitant or nervous in their season opener, didn't help their cause.
They fell behind 11-1 before Ethan Herzog scored their first field goal on a 15-footer with 1:03 left in the first quarter.
TELL CITY—Reitz hit 10 of 18 free throws in overtime to beat Tell City 62-58 in girls basketball Tuesday.
After trailing by 15 points with 11 minutes left in regulation, the Marksmen rallied to tie the score 52-52 on Lauren Goffinet's three-point basket with 11 seconds left in regulation.
But Tell City made a couple of turnovers and missed a shot in overtime to fall behind 57-52.
The Marksmen pulled back within two points on Goffinet's three-pointer with 0:21 left and again with 2.8 seconds left when Emily Dauby hit the first of two free throws.
TELL CITY—Tell City's boys swim team should be strong in freestyle races but lacks depth overall.
The Marksmen have 11 boys on their roster, three fewer than started last year.
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BOONVILLE—First takedowns led to wins for Tell City as the Marksmen beat Boonville 39-32 in wrestling Tuesday.
The Marksmen scored the first takedown in 10 of the 13 matches (the other weight class was a double forfeit) and won nine of those 10 matches.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Free agents can begin signing contracts with teams today. LeBron James is the most coveted free agent, of course, and his destination is unknown.
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LA Dodgers leads 1-0 (as of 4/29)
Game 1: Tuesday, April 29 | ||
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Game 2: Wednesday, April 30 | ||
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Marlins 6
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MIAMI (AP) -- When Florida Marlins catcher Mike Rabelo spiked the ball to punctuate an inning-ending play in the eighth inning, the Los Angeles Dodgers took note.
"Excitement from a kid, and he'll probably learn from it," Los Angeles second baseman Jeff Kent said.An inning later, it was the Dodgers doing the celebrating. Kent's two-out single broke a ninth-inning tie, and the Dodgers won their fourth game in a row Tuesday night, 7-6.Andre Ethier walked with one out against Kevin Gregg (3-1), took second on a groundout and scored easily on Kent's single. The Dodgers won even though Derek Lowe was unable to protect a 6-1 lead, and with the score 6-all, twice failed to convert scoring chances.Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla made a strong relay on a double by Mark Sweeney to throw out Blake DeWitt trying to score from first with two out in the eighth. Rabelo held onto the throw despite taking a tumble in a collision with Sweeney, then rose and slammed the ball to the grass as he headed for the dugout.Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez said Rabelo's show of emotion was excessive."That's not the way we want to be portrayed as an organization," Gonzalez said. "I spoke to him afterward, and he'll be fine."Los Angeles, coming off three-game sweep at home against the NL champion Colorado Rockies, improved to 4-8 on the road. The game started a stretch where the Dodgers play 19 of 31 games on the road."It was a great grind-out game, especially with our record on the road where we haven't seemed that comfortable," manager Joe Torre said. "It's just good practice for us, because with the type of pitching in our division, there aren't going to be many runaways. You're going to have to get used to playing games like this."Three Los Angeles relievers combined for four shutout innings. Joe Beimel (2-0) pitched the eighth, and Takashi Saito followed with a perfect ninth for his third save in five chances.Kent drove in three runs and Ethier scored three times for the Dodgers, who had 14 hits and scored all of their runs with two out. Gold Glove catcher Russell Martin twice threw out Hanley Ramirez trying to steal.Lowe allowed eight hits and six runs, three earned, in five innings. Uggla hit his fourth homer for the Marlins, and they scored three unearned runs in the fifth for a 6-all tie."Every inning they had men on base," Lowe said. "There really weren't many easy innings. But the bottom line is we found a way to win."Florida's Andrew Miller lasted only three innings, allowing six runs and nine hits, even though only one ball was hit hard. His ERA rose to 9.12."I felt like I was throwing the ball pretty well," Miller said. "I got a lot of soft contact, but it seemed like it was always finding holes."Torre used his 25th lineup in 26 games, and it clicked early thanks to several seeing-eye grounders. Martin singled home a run in the first, and Matt Kemp and Kent hit two-run singles in the second. Andruw Jones scored on a wild pitch in the third.Florida trailed 6-3 before the fifth. After the first two Marlins were retired, Dodgers first baseman James Loney bobbled a grounder by Ramirez for an error. Uggla walked and both scored on Jeremy Hermida's double. Jorge Cantu followed with a single to make the score 6-all.The Marlins rank next-to-last in the NL in fielding, but fine defense helped them prevent the Dodgers from scoring with the game tied in the sixth.Second baseman Uggla tumbled into the first row of seats, landing upside down, to catch a foul pop. Center fielder Alfredo Amezaga followed with a diving catch of Ethier's shallow fly with a runner at second to end the inning.Game notes
Dodgers RHP Jason Schmidt, recovering from shoulder surgery last June, threw 78 pitches in a bullpen session and may start a rehab assignment this week. ... Dodgers RHP Jonathan Broxton (strained right side) was unavailable. ... Marlins LF Josh Willingham (stiff back) was a late scratch from the lineup. 1B Mike Jacobs (finger) sat out but may start Wednesday, Gonzalez said. ... LHP Scott Olsen, scheduled to start Wednesday, is 0-2 in two starts against the Dodgers with an ERA of 7.36.
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Regular Season Series
Scoring Summary
1st | R Martin singled to left, A Ethier scored, M Kemp to second. | 1 | 0 | |
2nd | M Kemp singled to left, D Lowe and R Furcal scored, A Ethier to second. | 3 | 0 | |
2nd | J Kent singled to center, A Ethier and M Kemp scored. | 5 | 0 | |
FLA | 2nd | L Gonzalez singled to center, J Cantu scored. | 5 | 1 |
3rd | A Jones scored, B DeWitt to third on wild pitch by A Miller. | 6 | 1 | |
FLA | 3rd | D Uggla homered to left. | 6 | 2 |
FLA | 4th | M Rabelo hit sacrifice fly to center, J Cantu scored. | 6 | 3 |
FLA | 5th | J Hermida doubled to deep right, H Ramirez and D Uggla scored, J Hermida to third on throwing error by right fielder M Kemp. | 6 | 5 |
FLA | 5th | J Cantu singled to left, J Hermida scored. | 6 | 6 |
9th | J Kent singled to center, A Ethier scored, J Kent to second advancing on throw. | 7 | 6 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Sun Life Stadium, Miami, FL |
Attendance | 11,334 (29.4% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:48 |
Weather | 79 degrees, partly cloudy |
Wind | 13 mph |
Umpires | Home Plate - Ted Barrett, First Base - Dana Demuth, Second Base - Lance Barksdale, Third Base - Doug Eddings |


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Detroit Pistons at Chicago Bulls Saturday October 30 8:00 pm Local TV: Nat'l TV: Radio: WWJ 950 AM Chat is open!!!! http://www.pistonsforum.com/playoff-chat/
As a subscriber to NBA league pass, I shall indeed be watching this game tonight. Hopefully I won't be the only one though; I look forward to other subscribers populating the game thread and (hopefully) PF.com chat with their ever so incisive commentaries. Go Pistons! DETermination!
Well I'll be counting on you guys because I don't have League Pass, and I'm really bummed out about not being able to see this game. Stuckey has been MARVELOUS through the first 2 games and I really want to see him and D-Rose go at it tonight.
what da f**k was that??? this is a weird team - they choke when win is at the hand (now)and and they try to win when choking is better at the moment - the last season last games.
We don't have athletes who believe in themselves. Until we get one of our guys to be the team's takeover star, we're in trouble. Candidates - Stuckey, Gordon and Daye No way are they that: Prince, Rip I don't think he's that: CV, Bynum Wait to see: Monroe (in a few years) Hopefully the guy is on our roster - but I'm not sure.
Points Scored 2nd Quarter: 39 Points Scored 4th Quarter: 9 These types of losses make me wonder why I even watch piston games at this point. I watched us when we were the best team in the league and I continued to watch these past few years as the team has deteriorated...but these types of losses are so frustrating, and twice in three games at that. It got to a point in the 4th quarter where I truly believed that I could have been subbed in to the lineup and done a better job. BG had none in the fourth, and he seemed to be really passive. Tay didn't do a good job of running the offense while Stuckey was on the bench either, it was extremely stale. Coach Kuester is a horrible coach. Absolutely awful. We should have won the game in NJ, it wasn't the players fault, it was the coach. It's his job to maintain the pace and make sure the team continues to get quality looks. In this game we had a huge lead, and over the course of an ENTIRE 12 MINUTE PERIOD, we could not pull it together. Any other quality coach would have stopped the bleeding and the momentum. Another thing I have to question is the heart of our roster...At some point in a game like this, certain players rise to the occasion and take into their own hands. Just got done watching the finals against the Trail Blazers back in 89-90, when we were down 90-83 with 2 minutes to go. Vinnie Johnson rose to the occasion. Why couldn't anyone at least put in an effort tonight? How can they just watch it slip it away and say "No disappointment. Can't dwell on the past...time for the next game." I know if my team was in a struggling situation like that, I would force the issue, be aggressive, do SOMETHING.
Speechless.......19 pt halftime lead 21 pt lead to open the third and DRose victimized us and ran right by Stuckey and whomever got in his way. Pistons played their best quarter of the season in the second and then did played their worst in the 4th. Tmac-Monroe-Gordon-Tay-CV pretty much put a spanking on the Bulls in the second with a nice 16-2 run. Highlights were Gordon going 5-5 from the floor and 10-10 from the FT......he did not score in the second half..... Monroe played 7 mins during this run (for +11) but did not play in the second half. He grabbed three boards, including an offensive one where he grabbed a missed 3 ball shot by CV and put it back in. TMac was a good facilitator during this run and scored his first Piston bucket.....the problem is when he came back in the third I think he took two ill advised shots and I almost certain they led to a score on the other end. In the second half, we went away from what we did in the second qtr..taking to many jumpers instead of getting in the paint and then getting to the FT line where we were 21-23 in the first half. When it rains it pours as not only did they shoot bricks from the field, they were 3-12 from the FT line in the second half. How about 2 assists in the second half for those 28 pts scored.... The Bulls open the 4th on a 19-2 run with Rose basically running the show with 39 pts and 7 assists....basically putting an even worse hurt on the Pistons than Devin Harris did to us on opening night. As good as we think our guards are, they can't stop anyone. Somebody has to go Rip, Tay, or Kuester...
Perhaps an embarrassing losing streak will force Joe D to do something? He said the goal for this season is to make the playoffs. YouTube - Jim Mora Playoffs ! ? Long Version
Tay is THE worst go-to option in the league, and we continue to play as if he's viable that way. The team really misses JJ - with him our D is so much better. The team also misses Bynum. If we'd had him tonight, it's unlikely we'd have gotten killed so bad when Stuckey was on the bench. By the time Stuckey got back in there, after a too long rest IMO, the Bulls had all the momentum and at home their fans were going ape%%%%. But the thing really is that we are, overall, just an awful defensive team - especially when we have Gordon and CV in there. Daye at least gives us a bit of length, but at this stage of his career, overall he's too weak and inexperience to be a consistent defensive presence. If we had JJ, we might be just below average to bad defensively - not awful. Finally for now, the Maxiell as a key rotation player on this team needs to end. We've got to develop Monroe, and Maxiell is after lots and lots of chances, but a journeyman.
unlikely to some posters here - can't blame coach Q much. Why? Q's options are really limited: starting C is a veteran and Ben's age is finally catching him. Starting PF is actually SF/SG type - he simply is better defensively than CV - and that not a compliment because in D charlie simply sucks. starting PG - plays well but with very obvious flaws. starting SG is simply 5th wheel under wagon. maybe replace rip with Gordon in starting 5 but there is politics and political games are usually out of coaches reach, especially when coach is sophomore in the club. offence flows when stuck and gordon flow and that is the only option Q has NOW. sure when Not So Iron Will is back and eventually JJ, this team will be much better but for PO spot it may be already too late. You can blame a GM for this mess.
Ditch the politics by trading Rip for ANYTHING. Start BG. Swap Monroe for Daye in the starting lineup to kick-start the rook and give this team some size/ball-movement. I've seen nothing from CV and Max to make me think "we need to play these guys to win".
The team was +8 when Stuckey was on the bench. We were -18 when he was in the game. To be fair, Rose was murdering us, which had more to do with it. In the little gap that Stuckey was out of the game to start the 4th quarter, we lost 7 points. 6 of them were in the first 2 minutes when the Bulls had Noah in the game and we had no center... Gordon Prince McGrady Villanueva Maxiell "medium ball" lineup I guess. Monroe was +11 during his brief appearance, but it is best to let him sit on the bench and watch and learn.
We don't have a coach. We could really use one. I say name Hill coach for now. I watched him coach many, many games, and yes, I had a few doubts here and there about his decision making - but man is he a step up from Kuester. Whole stairways. Whole buildings full of stairways. Whole cities full of buildings full of stairways. Etc. First of all, and hey, I am in large part just repeating thoughts of many - why on earth start Daye at power forward if 1) You never on your life would go back to that in a clutch situation 2) No #2 needed. Just quit the nonsense. Anyone notice the contrast between the 2nd and 4th quarters. Sure, some would say just a coinkeedink. We started out the 2nd quarter with Monroe at center, looked like an NBA team. And just pounded Chicago no end. On the other hand, no Monroe to start the 4th quarter. No real center. Nothing even resembling a real center. Sure, lots of effort from a pair of 6-5 and 6-6 guys who we play as our center - but nobody who looks like a center. Chicago kind of liked that, and we got slaughtered. Note to coach, play Monroe. At least look like an NBA team. It does help. Yep, Gordon was on fire. But Gordon was on fire in a quarter where we were playing a center. Pay attention coach. No, Gordon can't solve your problems. You put that starting unit out there that you do - and nothing short of discarding the whole thing and starting from scratch is going to help. I was very interested in the learning curve Q would show on an important issue. Result: Continues to be clueless. No, you can't have Tay play 80 minutes in a back to back set. Do I expect you to learn Mr. Q? No. Just pointing out the obvious. Sure, you might actually know how stupid this is, but in the "heat of the battle" you tend to forget. You were a rookie last year, not this year. No more excuses. As impressive as Gordon was in that first half, I was really impressed with Stuckey, how he was hitting his outside shots, setting up his drives. But hey, you got to pass the ball too. Start studying Billups. Look at old tapes. Faint in, make somebody shift, immediately make the right pass. Billups did this in his sleep. You would think wide awake you could figure it out. Trend so far: We absolutely play no better, nor any worse, with or without Stuckey on the floor. Although tonight, it is starting to swing in the favor of without. TMAC, as many have noted, is our most plus player. No, he is not really healthy yet, but he has a lot of talent in regards to passing the ball around. In contrast, it makes Tay look quite amateurish. Made his first hoop for us. Nice to see that. My pet peeve. TMAC beat out Summers for playing time, without even playing. Tonight, hey, TMAC could have gotten the very same minutes, while Summers got some of those excessive minutes Tay got to our detriment. JMAX would be considerably more effective if he could make his free throws. Makes me mad to see him miss so many. Lately, he is not making his shots either. Still need him for defense at center, even if Monroe is added to the rotation. One adjustment Q would not try. A very obvious one. CV is not much of a defender. Why not add defense if the other team is scoring at will play after play. Oh, thats right, a coach would have to have a clue as to what is going on in front of him to figure something out like that. By the way, I do like that CV made some efforts to shoot closer to the basket tonight. That does help - but why should the coach be giving CV "development time" to work on skills he should already have. Kind of needed a W, tonight was certainly not the time to ignore reality and leave CV in there to work on his inside game which he has let go to rust. No comments on Rip's game tonight really. We certainly have gone away from the catch and shoot game though all the sudden. A good thing, but if Rip ain't doing that - why start him. What Gordon proved tonight, he can do very well with a logical unit out there. (One with a center, one with a power forward, etc.) Start Gordon. And start Monroe along side Wallace to keep him settled down. With Gordon and Stuck providing the O, all Tay, Monroe, and Ben Wallace need do is play D and haul in the bounds. Two more comments. Still not a moment of using Daye at shooting guard or small forward. Total non-sense still going on. Some people thought it was ok that he was starting at pf, thinking he would also play elsewhere. Ain't happening - but it should. And, well, that last 18 seconds of this game was pretty silly. Get your guys off the floor, avoid injury. If you do get a clue Q, you will need these guys healthy.
And if Rip isn't valuable enough, throw in Max too to sweeten the deal...he is another guy who probably either sat on the bench to long in his rookie year or was the wrong draft pick to begin with when we could have had David Lee who was drafted 4 picks later by the Knicks... In highnsight, Monroe's 2 pts and 3 brds in 7 minutes were a tad better than the 4 pts and 4 brds that Max managed to grab in his 14 minutes. Please start the dude at the 4 or 5 at least and let Daye come in to spell if you just got to play him there Yep some will say that we should be 3-0 now, but if we keep having defensive lapses and getting out matched down the stretch, I am thinking that the end of the season we will be saying that we could have been 82-0 instead of the 30 games that they might win.
This is starting to look like a bottom five team--I hope I am wrong. This is really not a rebuild either as there is no player to build around. Gordon is a nice piece but needs a center and a point guard so that teams cannot load up on him. The difference between Rose and Stuckey is the 1st pick versus the 15 pick. There is a difference. Stuckey is a nice piece but without his ability to hit the three ball, something Rose is now doing, his contribution is circumscribed. The team simply can't get inside in the fourth quarter. And when CV tried near the end of the game, he passed up an easy jumper to get a charge called. CV is a factor as a long ball shooter. He is not going to be much else, at least for now, so that is how he should be used. But he loses confidence quickly. Tay and Rip need to be sent to contenders for their fine service. The team misses JJ but it misses Cousins even more. The Pistons are a team that has not drafted in the top five (except Darko--minus 20 something tonight) for an eternity. Those silly wins at the end of the season gave the team Monroe (looks two years away) instead of Cousins.


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NZ Resident 16s played the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) rugby league team in a one off game today in front of a good crowd gathered at Massey Park in Papakura.
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The Linux Foundation, which also employs Linus Torvalds, has welcomed Adobe as a new member in a press release.
The company is looking in particular to extend Linux to a platform that supports Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Web 2.0 technologies. Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's CEO, welcomed Adobe's decision as a further step en route to open standards and Open Source.
David McAllister, who is responsibility for standards and Open Source with Adobe pointed to Adobe's existing Linux products, Flash and AIR. He referred to the Linux Foundation as a valuable source to ensure improved Linux compatibility for Adobe's products.
Adobe will officially join the Linux Foundation at the annual Collaboration Summit in Texas early in April. The organization will be meeting with several major Linux players to promote better coordinated work on the free operating system.
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Reading manager Steve Coppell hopes to be able to strengthen his struggling squad with several new arrivals in the January transfer window.
The Royals lost Steve Sidwell to Chelsea and Greg Halford to Sunderland in the summer and Coppell was reluctant to bring in any replacements.
Even though the 1-0 win against rock-bottom Derby County on Sunday lifted his side into mid-table, Coppell knows he needs reinforcements for the second half of the campaign.
He told the club's official website: "We have a collective desire to get to the next level. We're going to have to appreciate that everybody else's level has been raised higher, so we've got to react.
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"Every signing is a gamble, but it's amazing how the gamble diminishes when you pay more. You want the odds in your favour, we're trying to push our parameters and get the best we can.
"We're always working hard, we've got scouts all over. We're refining the network and isolating players who can help us.
"I always say we have a fairly limited market because of our perception, but money talks. It can be very persuasive.
"We might have to pay more than the going rate to become stronger, better and more resilient in this league."
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According to Vincent the Charlotte coach the reason that they traded Brezec for Nazmo, is because they can and are using Nazmo in the low post which allows Okafer to play up higher, whereas Brezec is a true blue Euro and prefers to plays only at the elbows or higher. If Cheikh can return and show good progress at Fort Wayne and maybe even play some for us and add a bit more weight over the summer Brezec will gone before next Oct 1st. It seems to me that Dr. D will keep Herrmann around for the rest of the year as an emergency measure in case Tay or Jarvis get injured. As far as next year goes, I think it will depend on who we draft. Now that the guards are covered and we are looking pretty good at the 4 and 5 for the next couple of years and maybe even further with the personnel we now have, I think Dr. D. may be looking for a #3 in next years draft, but of course it is way too early to speculate about that. Besides, there is always the take the best player available approach regardless of the position.
Thanks for all the recaps. I think that was the first game I missed all year and I immediately wanted to read our home brewed analysis. Now I sort of feel like I saw it.
i didn't see much of the game but oh my god...some of the comments...wow. i saw amir up close and he wasn't sulking, and he didn't seem less confident or more tentative. you guys are trying to analyze his personality and you don't even know him or see what happens in practices! i guess there always has to be something to nitpick though...all of our starters are playing substantially fewer minutes this year, jmax is getting consistent playing time and has hit 70% of this FTs in december, afflalo is winning a role, stuckey has played both games since coming back, we got rid of a bad contract while adding size and depth at C and SF, nazr is gone, and flip murray is out of the rotation. 27 games into the season, i'd say that's a success.
Great post, Hogg. Lee, not so much. Its not our goal to be 27-0 and averaging 120 PPG to our opponents 79 PPG. THe other teams DO come to play. I believe 20-7 is wonderful because we only have TWO fluke wins: Boston and Atlanta, but we only have 2 BAD losses, Chicago and Chicago. We look like a 20-7 team and could finish 61-21 season IF we push our starters, BUT I'd like to see MORE time off between games 40 and 60 for the FaveFive. I want to see at least 3 games where CB , Rip or dYESS DONT PLAY AT ALL. And at least 2 for Sheed and Tay(Tay, no chance). Also NO team in the West looks THAT better than us; Spurs are =. COME PLAYOFFS: Stuckey: Will round into shape after allstar break. Not concerned that he'll be up and down. He will be a 9PPG scorer and a slick passer. First guard off the bench. X-MAX: Has developed ,IMO. I believe he will be a 8 and 8 guy with some great blocks. Also, he will be the guy no team can match up with sans Varejo and Nocioni. The KEY to our next 'ship.\ AA: Will combine with Hunter to cause alot of Havoc. Will he play more than Evans down the stretch? Possibly..remember he's our future, not Jarvis , who will end his career one oneyearcontract at a time. Johnson: He's 20 years old with no ass. Still growin. But certain things I see are startling. He's 7' with his long arms and hops. But he needs a more Tyrus Thomas demeanor: COME IN ANDMAKE NOISE!! Who cares what the score is. That's how Rodman ran Dantley out of town and out-minuted Aquirre. When he does that...WOW!
Good post. I agree with the points. I think J-Max could average double-digits in scoring, especially if he sticks around the basket. And don't forget about developing Samb. He should help in the middle.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - View original article
Type | Sporting goods |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1902 |
Headquarters | Fargo, North Dakota |
Number of locations | 24 |
Key people | Steve D. Scheel, CEO |
Products | Apparel, sports equipment, shoes, exercise equipment |
Website | http://www.scheelssports.com/ |
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Type | Sporting goods |
Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1902 |
Headquarters | Fargo, North Dakota |
Number of locations | 24 |
Key people | Steve D. Scheel, CEO |
Products | Apparel, sports equipment, shoes, exercise equipment |
Website | http://www.scheelssports.com/ |
Scheels All Sports is a privately held, employee owned and operated sporting goods and entertainment chain store headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. Scheels operates 24 store locations in nine U.S. states. Their slogan is Gear. Passion. Sports.
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Three acres of potatoes were the seed for the first Scheels store in 1902.[1] Frederick A. Scheel, a German immigrant, used the $300 he earned from his first harvest of potatoes as the down payment on the first Scheels, a small hardware and general merchandise store in Sabin, Minnesota.
Firmly planted in the hardware business, Scheels started adding a small selection of sporting goods to their stores in the year of 1954. Customer interest grew, and more and more sports lines were added with athletic shoes and clothing being introduced in the Scheels product mix in 1972.
Over the years, Scheels opened in surrounding communities, including Fargo, North Dakota, where the corporate office and the second largest all sports store in the world are now located. Scheels' first all sports superstore opened in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1989.
CEO Steve D. Scheel, great-grandson of Frederick A. Scheel, oversees the company of over 4,000 associates. His son, Steve M. Scheel, is the company's president and has been working for Scheels since 1989.
Scheels owns and operates 24 stores in nine U.S. states.[2] Scheels can be found in Springfield, Illinois. In Iowa, Cedar Falls, Coralville, Sioux City, West Des Moines, and Waterloo. In Minnesota, stores are located in Eden Prairie, Mankato, Moorhead, and St. Cloud. Montana has two locations, in Billings and Great Falls. Nebraska is home to Scheels in Lincoln and Omaha. At 295,000 square feet (27,400 m2) the store in Sparks, Nevada is both the largest Scheels store and largest all sports store in the world.[3]
Corporate headquarters is located in Fargo, North Dakota along with two stores, one traditional all sports store, and a store focusing on home and hardware store that is now in the old sports store after being in its University Ave. location since 1962. All sports stores are also located in Bismarck, Grand Forks, and Minot. Stores can also be found in Rapid City, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Scheels is also located in Appleton and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. On June 25, 2011, a new Scheels location opened in Springfield, Illinois. Another all sports store is planned for Kansas City, Kansas' Village West, and a store in Sandy, Utah is scheduled to open in October 2012.
Scheels Outfitters is a premium brand exclusive to Scheels. Since its conception in 1902, Scheels has outfitted the outdoors enthusiast with everything from camping equipment to hunting clothing. Merchandise is designed for field experts by Scheels Experts.[4]
Scheels carries a large selection of products, sportswear, and footwear, including a number of top brands in the sporting goods industry like Nike, The North Face, Mizuno, Under Armour, Asics, Columbia, Browning, Benelli, Kelty, Garmin, and Lowrance.
Scheels Experts[5] are Scheels associates who train, teach, and participate in the activities of their expertise areas. They are passionate about their particular activities, staying current on new technology, trends, and techniques that allow them to recommend products tailored to customers' needs.
Scheels Experts not only receive ongoing classroom training, but also have the opportunity to participate in a special internal program called "Scheels University." These continuing education and hands-on training sessions are held throughout the year, often in the outdoor settings where they can personally test and study new products in the sporting goods industry.
Scheels actively supports the communities in which they operate by providing financial resources, educational opportunities, and leadership when needed.
Association Support: Scheels supports many sporting associations and non-profit agencies, including: United Way, Salvation Army, Special Olympics, American Cancer Society, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Ducks Unlimited, National Rifle Association, Pheasants Forever, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and Whitetails Unlimited.
Community Outreach and Volunteerism: Scheels and its associates volunteer in their communities through organizations such as United Way and Meals on Wheels.
Athletics: Scheels supports all types of athletics by sponsoring teams and leagues throughout their respective communities.
Education: Scheels helps students explore learning outside the classroom by hosting field trips and other learning opportunities to schools in communities that host Scheels stores. Scheels also contributes by donating to local schools' general funds and creating college scholarships.
Conservation: Scheels Associates and Experts are involved with teaching and building awareness for sports they participate in. From Hunting and Boater Safety classes to The Refuge Garden Project and youth fishing outings, Scheels provides many opportunities to learn about the outdoors.
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Both teams suffered losses in their season openers and will be determined to get their first points on the board when they line up in Porirua.
Both teams had patches of impressive play in their season openers, but both sides also failed to walk away with the competition points.
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Eneru has Mantra, Ace doesn't. Eneru wins. Simple as that.
Eneru has Mantra, Ace doesn't. Eneru wins. Simple as that.
I don't think Ace would mind losing if he ended up having mad sex and imperial treatment on Virgin Island.
And I don't think Eneru minds because he's too Eneru-centric.
i could see enel using his thunder alchemy to encase ace inside something, like some kind of metal. But I could see ace just heating things up to the point where the metal melts. I'd hafta go with stalemate i guess
Ace all the way. Ace is stronger than luffy, but one thing luffy had going for him against eneru was the rubber fruit. I still got Ace over eneru.
isnt a battle of logia fruits point less? the only one that could harm ace would be water but that nly existed in a movie and i guess water could short enel out. If they fought each other, they could just revert to their element forms and have that be the end of it
well i would say Ace n that'z jus becuz i think he'z gangsta.
Enel, why cause he's the best villain shown in OP so far. You gotta love the crazy guy who wants to go to the moon.
Most likely it will end in a stalemate like how when Ace fought against Smoker. But I rather side with Enel ... the speed and power of lightening + mantra = win!
ace for sure
Ace would just ask Luffy to take care of Eneru cos it's a total waste of time.
man. how do you fry electricity? Eneru wins.


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Cloud computing is heralded by many as the future of IT, but it's an occasionally obtuse subject despite the government wanting the public sector to embrace cloud migration.
However, selling cloud services to the public sector, often seen as stuck in the analogue age of paper documents and Windows XP, can be a bit of a challenge even for hardened IT suppliers.
So, in a creative attempt to solve this, the Government Digital Service (GDS) has created three fictional 'government buyers' for cloud vendors to target.
With names as everyday as Gareth Holmes, Patricia Greene and Jess Clarke these are three characters that have been assigned persona-specific 'buys', 'hopes' and 'fears' when it comes to cloud procurement so vendors know how to pitch their products accordingly.
GDS also indicated how evangelical the three are when it comes to technology, procurement processes and desired outcomes.
I just don't want to get into trouble
First up is Gareth, a tech architect working for the government. Gareth is a cloud buyer who has good technical knowledge but needs a helping hand with procurement, according to Mark Branigan, a researcher at the Cabinet Office and Gov.uk blogger.
"Gareth wants a straightforward process he can follow which will reassure him that he's following the right procurement steps," he said.
Poor Gareth is made out to be a bit of a feckless coward, desiring "short and convenient processes" and shunning anything that requires innovative thinking and investment in time.
Still, he's noted for his rock climbing and love of the great outdoors, so perhaps he's simply wasted in the stuffy confines of government IT.
Two chickens and an eye for procurement
Meanwhile Patricia (pictured right) is an IT procurement specialist but lacks Gareth's technical prowess. She hopes to end up with the right cloud service to suit her department's needs, and fears the opposite result.
Branigan, perhaps erring on the side of patronising, explained that customers like Patricia need to "understand how services are described by suppliers so that she can find services that will meet her requirements".
GDS felt it was important to note that Patricia enjoys spending time looking after her two chickens, something V3 was not aware of as having a direct influence on cloud procurement desires.
'She enjoys Zumba and vampire books'
Last, but by no means least, is Jess (pictured), a project manager who cares about services that are delivered on time, on budget and provide direct outcomes.
Branigan paints Jess as an uncompromising customer. "Any delays caused by a procurement process are unacceptable to her, and she is very price sensitive," he said.
Jess does not like to waste her time understanding technology or procurement, either, instead preferring to dedicate herself to Zumba and vampire books.
"Jess needs a service which allows her to very quickly analyse her options and find the right product. She does not want to concern herself with the intricacies of the procurement process, and relies on others around her to look after this part," he said.
It's interesting to see the government exploring ways to simplify the process of selling cloud and IT services to the public sector, particularly given the focus on digitalising public services.
However, Branigan added: "We know that users don't always fit neatly into boxes and we test these personas regularly against the buyers we talk to in the lab."
With a get-out clause like that, V3 is left wondering whether the whole exercise was really worth it. We are, however, curious to learn more about this 'lab' Branigan mentions.
Politicians, eh? The incoming digital economy and society commissioner for the European Commission, Günther Oettinger, has not even set up his office with a plant and a picture and already he's in hot water for ill-considered comments.
During a meeting earlier this week he said that celebrities were "dumb" for putting nude pictures of themselves online.
"If someone is dumb enough as a celebrity to take a nude photo of themselves and put it online, they surely can't expect us to protect them," said Oettinger. "I mean, stupidity is something you can not - or only partly - save people from."
This statement, blaming the victims of a breach of their privacy and showing a slight misunderstanding of the cloud, has been rounded on by digital activists who see it as clear proof that Oettinger is not the right man to take on such an important digital post.
Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda has posted a blog criticising Oettinger, noting that it is somewhat worrying - as V3 would agree - that someone set to be in charge of European digital policy has either a misguided moral stance on the issue or a worrying lack of understanding of technology - or both.
"The person applying to be in charge of shoring up trust in the internet so that Europeans do more business online just victim-blamed people whose personal data was accessed and spread without authorisation," she wrote.
"By picking this example to make that point despite lacking an understanding of the facts, by making a mockery of what he should recognise as a serious problem and by doing it in this aloof and insulting tone, Oettinger is seriously calling into question whether he is qualified for the job of shaping our digital society for the next five years."
The BBC reported that a spokesperson for Oettinger said he was trying to make a point about cloud security, although he denied the chance to apologise for the remark.
"Everybody has a right to privacy. The EU Commission wants to make cloud computing safer." A noble aim, sir. But perhaps we may be so bold as to suggest that starting this mission by siding with the victims of a theft rather than blaming them tends to help.
One thing is for sure, Neelie Kroes would never have said any of this.
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For many years mobile operators have complained that their ability to make money has been curtailed. This has come from a combination of factors, chiefly falling revenues from phone, text and data services, and, conversely, the need to spend billions upgrading networks.
As such, the rollout of new services, such as 4G around the UK over recent years, has been seen as a chance for operators to finally start recouping some of these losses by charging consumers more for data.
However, there is one issue with this. Consumers still don't spend huge amounts of money. Well, not the amounts operators need to start turning over serious profits.
But, as businesses become increasingly mobile, there is a silver lining on the horizon in the form of 5G, which will take capacity, speed and coverage and improve them all massively. This could open a whole new possibility for telecoms operators to sell enhanced mobile services to businesses as a key part of their IT and communications needs.
This idea was espoused by Mischa Dohler, the chair professor in Wireless Communications at King's College London, while speaking at the 5G Huddle event in London on Monday, attended by V3.
His argument was that because the speeds and capacity of 5G are likely to be so far beyond the needs of consumers, many operators will gain more financial joy by focusing on B2B industries, such as oil and gas, construction, nuclear energy or transportation.
"The good news is that these sectors have lots of cash," he added. "They all complain about a shortage of cash but really they have huge revenues and margins."
Dohler said the downside of pushing mobile services to businesses would be the high cost of entry to a new market, but he said that any incumbent or new players who do become established should be able to make good money.
"With a high entry barrier comes a high exit barrier, so unless you screw it up you shouldn't make a loss on this [5G]."
This will be music to the ears of telecoms operators, if it comes true.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has handed down a huge $7.4m fine to Verizon for failing to give new customers the ability to opt out of marketing calls from the company.
The FCC's scary-sounding Enforcement Bureau's found that Verizon failed to notify approximately two million new customers on their first invoices or in welcome letters, of their privacy rights. This included how to opt out from having their personal information used in marketing campaigns.
The fine is a huge amount for something so, ultimately, trivial as to be rung a few times by sales reps from the company, but it underlines the vast disparity between the US's stance on data privacy and the UK's.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which oversees issues of data protection and privacy in the UK, has come down hard on marketing firms in recent years, issuing fines of £45,000, £50,000 and £90,000 against companies that bombarded people with calls, despite being told to stop.
Comparing the two situations, the latter error seems the more egregious. While it may be annoying to not be told you have the right to opt out of marketing calls, to actively tell a company not to contact you and have them ignore that, seems so much worse.
Of course, it should be noted that the fines handed down by the ICO were against small to medium-sized companies, rather than a telecoms giant such as Verizon, and the FCC may have been making a point to other similarly sized companies of the seriousness of the situation.
Even so, though, a UK business giant could only face a fine of £500,000 from the ICO for any data or privacy error, so perhaps it's no wonder that, despite fines repeatedly being handed out by the watchdog, data breach incidents continue to happen.
London's Tech City and Silicon Roundabout are beacons of technology industry success, creating jobs in the capital and courting significant investment. But, arguably these achievements come at the cost of tech hubs beyond the city boundaries.
Head up the M1 and you'll encounter several other tech hot spots dotted across the North. Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle all have their own takes on east London's Tech City.
Yet independent research by Policy Exchange has indicated that the capital is sucking up the lion's share of investment, and is luring northerners with digital skills to the city bright lights. This could end up putting the success of the North's technology sector at risk.
It noted, for example, that for those who have studied Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (the STEM subjects) 35 percent, 34 percent and 52 percent of graduates end up leaving the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber respectively.
To combat these problems, Policy Exchange believes that setting up a transport infrastructure which better connects the North's tech hubs is the best way to further boost the nation's technology industry.
"Slow journeys make it harder for people to move between clusters to access and share work, ideas and opportunities and is a major barrier for foreign and London-based investors," it said in the report.
This may help, but Stuart Lynn, chief technology officer of Newcastle-based Sage, is not completely convinced. "The North is home to a wide talent pool of skilled business people and entrepreneurs but it's not just transport infrastructure that can help unlock business potential," he said.
Instead Lynn believes that investment in an improved communications infrastructure will be the key to invigorating the growth of technology hubs outside London.
"Technology acts as the bridge to cross any physical boundary. Effective communications infrastructure can link the North to the South and the rest of the world quicker and more effectively than any physical infrastructure ever could, and that should be the goal for these ambitious projects," he explained.
Whoever's recommendation is the correct course is slightly academic, as reworking either a transport or communication infrastructure will require significant investment which the North is failing to secure.
So it would appear that the North is in a catch-22 situation that might require a more innovative approach to give its tech sector a competitive chance against the might of London.
Whenever a disruptive technology arrives on the scene those who are threatened usually respond with anger and derision.
From the Luddite machine breakers of the early 1800s to Steve Ballmer's cheery dismissal of the iPhone, such reactions are commonplace. The outcome, though, is usually the same, as the disruptive ground-breaking technology continues to thrive and the older system struggles.
So, with this short revisionist history lesson, let us turn our gaze to the streets of London where on Wednesday afternoon black cab drivers staged a protest against taxi app Uber, claiming it is unfairly muscling in on their patch.
The cabbies say that because Uber allows unlicensed, untrustworthy individuals to run their cars as private hire vehicles, they are not only putting the public at risk but breaking the law by using a meter to calculate journey costs.
Transport for London referred the situation to the High Court as it said it wasn't sure whether an app generating a fee for a journey did represent an infringement of this law, but the cabbies are protesting anyway.
This means that streets across the capital have been gridlocked, causing mayhem for millions.
You wait all day for a taxi, then 80 come along at once #uber pic.twitter.com/ipd6CXuuHd
— Jess Shankleman (@JessicaBG) June 11, 2014
The timing of the protest was seized on by Uber for a fairly nifty piece of marketing, as it announced that its service can now incorporate black cabs, so that those seeking the nearest vehicle could end up in a traditional Hackney Carriage.
Whether black cabs want to be included on the service remains to be seen, as judging by today's protests they may well choose to have nothing to do with it in the future. Those who willingly reject the offer could well end up regretting it, though, if history does indeed repeat itself.
With some reports that downloads of the app have increased 850 percent as a result of the protest, the taxi brigade could have inadvertently started their own demise. Time will tell.
The appearance of PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden at any event is always going to cause controversy. However, turning up to speak at an event happening in the US – albeit on a satellite video feed – meant Snowden's appearance at the SXSW conference in Austin caused a storm.
The controversy began before Snowden even had a chance to open his mouth, when it was revealed that US congressman Mike Pompeo had pressured conference producers to retract their offer for the whistleblower to speak.
Specifically, Pompeo sent a letter to the organisers that said: "Mr Snowden's appearance would stamp the imprimatur of your fine organisation on a man who ill deserves such accolades. Rewarding Mr Snowden's behavior in this way encourages the very lawlessness he exhibited.
"Such lawlessness – and the ongoing intentional distortion of truth that he and his media enablers have engaged in since the release of these documents – undermines the very fairness and freedom that SXSW and the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] purport to foster. I strongly urge you to withdraw this invitation."
Putting aside the question of whether you agree with Pompeo's argument, for us here at V3 the really scary part is quite how removed it was from the opinions of most technologists at the conference. The moment he appeared live on the video feed Snowden was met with a rock star's welcome, with attendees clapping and cheering. One particularly enamoured attendee even wolf whistled.
The divide in opinion was further showcased during the question and answer session. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web, extended his thanks to Snowden for leaking PRISM documents to the press.
This proves our worst fears are coming to pass and the PRISM scandal is causing a gradual, but increasingly large, rift between technologists and government agencies.
As we noted in our New Year PRISM feature, this is a terrible state of events that can only cause more harm than good. On one level this is because the PRISM revelations will undoubtedly damage international trade, with governments fearing that the NSA's far-reaching surveillance powers mean any US company cannot be trusted to handle data. This was already showcased in August 2013 when reports broke that the Chinese government planned to investigate IBM, Oracle and EMC, following concerns that the NSA could be using the firms' technologies for cyber espionage.
It's also bad because it has the potential to undo a lot of the positive work agencies such as the Cabinet Office and GCHQ – which is known to have used PRISM data – have done with the private sector to fight cybercrime.
Since launching the UK Cyber Security Strategy in 2011, the UK government has announced a steady stream of new initiatives designed to increase collaboration between the public and private sectors. The campaigns have had some success, but given the constant flow of new cybercrime campaigns it's clear there is still much to be done, which will require the public and private sectors to continue working together.
This schism shown by Snowden's SXSW appearance indicates that many technologists – and as a result companies – may no longer be quite so happy doing this. As a result, perhaps the most notable is not what Snowden said, but how it demonstrated the growing divide between government agencies and industry.
Here's hoping this isn't lost on the two sides and we can use the SXSW fiasco as a starting point for building bridges and finally have a frank discussion about mass surveillance and what needs to be done to repair the relationship between the public and private sector.
By V3's Alastair Stevenson
For years data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was regarded as a toothless tiger.
It sounded big and scary and delivered stern warnings about the importance of data protection, but it could do very little about any data breaches, except perhaps wag its finger.
Then in 2010 everything changed. It was given fining powers to the tune of £500,000 and since then it has levied over £4m against organisations. But some may now consider it something of a heartless hound.
The latest to fall foul of the ICO's desire for justice is the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS). The charity provides help and guidance for women with an unplanned pregnancy, from abortions to counselling and more besides.
For some its work is contentious and in March 2012 an anti-abortion hacker used his computing skills to wreak havoc on its website, defacing it and stealing details about those who had contacted the charity for help.
The hacker – James Jeffrey – got almost three years in prison as a result of the incident.
As the hack affected personal details of members of the public, the ICO got involved and its investigation found several technical lapses at the BPAS that made the incident worse than it should have been.
The long and short of it is that the BPAS now faces a fine of £200,000 for an incident which, as its CEO Ann Furedi understandably points out, was caused by a hacker who is now almost seeing his actions rewarded.
"We accept that no hacker should have been able to steal our data, but we are horrified by the scale of the fine, which does not reflect the fact that BPAS was a victim of a serious crime by someone opposed to what we do," she said.
"It is appalling that a hacker who acted on the basis of his opposition to abortion should see his actions rewarded in this way."
Furedi also said the fine was "out of proportion" when compared with others the ICO has handed out, especially when those organisations' breaches were not caused by criminal behavior.
A trawl back through recent fines suggests this claim is not without merit:
- Glasgow City Council fined £150,000 after losing 74 unencrypted laptops, including one containing more than 6,000 people's bank records.
- Aberdeen City Council fined £100,000 after a member of staff inadvertently posted data relating to the care of vulnerable children online.
- Islington Council fined £70,000 after details of over 2,000 residents were released online due to a basic misuse of Excel by a staff member.
Even if the BPAS pays its fine early – by the end of March – it still faces paying £160,000, more than any of those listed above.
None of this is to say the ICO has acted unreasonably though: it has to enforce the law and if it encounters incidences of poor data protection – as in this case – it must take a stand so others sit up and take notice. If other firms and charities up their game after seeing a fine being levied, the public are better protected.
Conversely, if it does not issue a fine, it will be seen as weak and unwilling to take a stand, while any organisation that is fined can make a claim to being harmed. A council delivers vital frontline services and a fine will hamper its efforts to do this, it could be argued.
Clearly, this is a controversial case, driven by the scale of the fine. The fact this money will end up in government coffers – having been given to charity – is also questionable, as noted by Stewart Room, partner at law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse.
"The users of the BPAS charity services have high expectations of privacy and any security weakness that could expose them is bound to trouble the regulator," he said.
"But the financial penalty regime here is moving money from the collection jar direct to The Treasury. Perhaps the cash could be better spent on improving security and data protection at the charity?"
The BPAS is now appealing the fine in what could prove a fascinating case to see if the ICO's desire to fine can be tamed.
By V3's Dan Worth
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Today we have Lindsay Lohan, everyone's favorite Mean Girl and Hollywood hottie.
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Lindsay Lohan does all the things that should make a girl sexy, but we're just not sure it's working. She's posing in front of the camera again -hold the groans- and her attempts at being a sex kitten are just kind of ZZZzzzzz. Again.
When it was announced that Lindsey Lohan had done a photo shoot for "Playboy" magazine, it was a foregone conclusion that it would be a hot seller. No doubt Hugh Hefner hoped it would be a hot seller since sales for his magazine a recurrently in one of the worst slumps in its 50-plus year span
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Lindsay Lohan had a second round of nude photographs taken Friday for her upcoming 'Playboy' spread, thanks to magazine founder Hugh Hefner, who was worried that the results of the initial shoot were not in line with Playboy's standards.


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William & Kate wedding: Most Americans won't tune in
Most Americans aren't enthralled by the royal wedding. Rather than get up at 4 a.m. to watch, they're more likely to be interested in what Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert have to say.
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Mrs. Ross Hunt uses expletives to describe massive, global interest in the royal wedding. An American who left communist Prague 40 years ago, she will not be among the projected two billion worldwide television audience on April 29 to witness the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
She is evidence, say media watchers and sociologists, that Americans are looking at the royal wedding through a different cultural lens than the British. When 750 million watched the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981, it was the largest TV audience in history. But much has changed since then, especially on this side of the pond, they say.
"Today we look at this wedding with a more jaundiced eye," says Debra Caruso, founder and head of DJC Communications, a New York-based media firm.
"More of us are waiting to see how Jon Stewart, David Letterman, and Stephen Colbert will frame the event," she says. "We're attracted to the negative. Will there be a slip-up? Will someone mouth words on camera that will make headlines? Guaranteed, the fashion 'don'ts' will make more news than the fashion 'dos'."


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I was really surprised to see this article on Freedom Outpost email that I got.
According to the article.... Freedom Group owns Remington, along with several other gun manufacturers, including Marlin, DPMS, Para, and Bushmaster.
Personally, I will NOT be purchasing anything from them as tax revenue moneys from the
sales will go to NY, the biggest anti-gun city in the US. They will make serious money off
this deal, while trampling the rights of honest citizens to protect themselves.
Anybody thinking like myself, pass this own and let gun owners know their purchases may be
making it taxably possible for the anti-gunners to take away their rights.
April 13, 2013 by Tim Brown
Remington Sells Out To NY For $80 Million "Sniper" Rifles Government Contract
Back in February, several gun manufacturers decided to boycott law enforcement in states that are hostile to the Second Amendment, states like New York for instance. They would not be providing weapons or ammunition. Within a week that number had grown by over 700%. In the first article I provided information for several gun manufacturers that could be contacted to come on board with this boycott, including Glock, Sig Sauer, Smith & Wesson and Remington. Well, now we know where Remington stands. They stand on the side of government as they have let it be known that they will be staying in New York and they have now acquired a government contract worth $80 million.
Remington informed New York state lawmakers that they were planning to spend $20 million to upgrade their manufacturing facility in Mohawk Valley. The word was that they were considering moving if New York implemented stricter gun control laws as they have in the NY SAFE Act. Remington had been approached by several states to move.
Lawmakers spoke with Remington about their expansion. The company has received $5.5 million in state incentives over the past five years.
While that is in the past, news has come out from New York Congressman Richard Hanna regarding an $80 million contract. According to his website:
UTICA, N.Y. – U.S. Representative Richard Hanna today announced that Remington Arms has been awarded a nearly $80 million contract to produce more than 5,000 sniper rifles for the U.S. military. The work will be done in Ilion by Mohawk Valley employees.
The federal contract comes from the Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense. The contract will be awarded over the course of 10 years.
"The award of this contract to Remington Defense further shows that they are the premier manufacturer of sniper rifles for our Armed Forces," Rep. Hanna said. "I have full confidence that this contract will be fulfilled with the high quality and standards that define our Ilion workforce. I fully support Remington Arms and will continue working to ensure that the company and its dedicated employees can thrive in Herkimer County for generations to come."
Sniper rifles for the military, eh? At $80 million, that comes out to $16,000 per rifle over the next ten years. This comes on the heels of Serbu firearms saying they would not be providing their .50 caliber sniper rifles to the New York Police Department.
While these rifles are being manufactured for the U.S. military, one does wonder if this would also keep channels open to provide firearms to New York Police as well.
The irony in all of this is that New York, which has a clearly anti-gun government, will profit tens of millions of dollars from the production of guns through employee's taxes, sales tax and more.
While I own at least one Remington firearm, I will not be purchasing further products by Remington, including ammunition.
Freedom Group owns Remington, along with several other gun manufacturers, including Marlin, DPMS, Para, and Bushmaster.
Read more: Remington Sells Out To NY For $80 Million Government Contract
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