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Set against the backdrop of the 1850s California Gold Rush, the novel follows Eli and Charlie Sisters, two hard-bitten hired killers as they hunt down Hermann Warm, a prospector with a mysterious chemical formula for creating gold. A playful homage to the classic western, The Sisters Brothers is an offbeat, entrancing read full of dark humour.
The Sisters Brothers won the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
From the book:
"I was sitting outside the Commodore's mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job. It was threatening to snow and I was cold and for want of something to do I studied Charlie's new horse, Nimble. My new horse was called Tub. We did not believe in naming horses but they were given to us as partial payment for the last job with the names intact, so that was that. Our unnamed previous horses had been immolated, so it was not as though we did not need these new ones but I felt we should have been given money to purchase horses of our own choosing, horses without histories and habits and names they expected to be addressed by. I was very fond of my previous horse and lately had been experiencing visions while I slept of his death, his kicking, burning popping eyeballs. He could cover sixty miles in a day like a gust of wind and I never laid a hand on him except to stroke him or clean him, and I tried not to think of him burning up in that barn but if the vision arrived uninvited how was I to guard against it? Tub was a healthy enough animal but would have been better suited to some other, less ambitious owner. He was portly and low-backed and could not travel more than fifty miles in a day. I was often forced to whip him, which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I did not like to do; and afterward he, Tub, believed me cruel and thought to himself, Sad life, sad life."
From The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt ©2011. Published by House of Anansi Press.
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Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer wanted to be a big player in the 2014 midterm election, but ended up spending tens of millions of dollars without much to show for it. Steyer was by far the biggest political donor of the cycle, contributing a whopping $74 million to Democratic candidates and outside groups in a futile effort to stop the GOP wave.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — His name is drawn on the napkins and chop sticks at his more than 30 restaurants around the world, but chef and restaurateur Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa prefers to stay out of the limelight.
"Normally I am the chef. Today is a tie and suit and I feel bad," he told The Associated Press, referring to his preference of being in the kitchen than in front of a large audience for a tribute dinner.
Nobu, as he prefers to be called, was honored Saturday at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival for his fusion cuisine that blends Japanese and South American ingredients.
"I've been cooking all my life. Life was not easy, but finally I'm here."
Life has been busy — and quite successful — for the Japanese-born chef who started cooking at the age of 18. He opened his first restaurant Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills in 1987 and today has 31 restaurants in more than two dozen cities around the world, from the Bahamas to Beijing. Nobu Tribeca was named "The Best New Restaurant" by The James Beard Foundation in 1995.
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Glad to see Rich and the family back on YouTube.com – they've had a lot of bad press lately and lost the show over politics and anti-gun hatred..
Here's one of the latest episodes….. even if you aren't a gun fanatic – Rich has a little to say about Ford owners… watch from about 2:00 – 4:00 in, although you may want to watch the whole thing because it's entertaining, and it may apply to you , if not today – SOME DAY!
I would have LOVED to sell Rich or his family a Camaro or new Stingray… well, in a way I can since I still have ties to the dealership!
Check it out, and all the episodes
Not a pretend Detroit Lion either…. a REAL LION!
Like I said in my Stingray review – the C7 seats ROCK! Here's why:
Thanks to a friend of mine, I had an opportunity to really bond with the new C7. The more I see this car, the more I am bonding with it. But instead of just a 10 second sitting in the driver's seat as I did at the Chicago Auto Show, I drove this one! The first thing that amazed me was, I actually had to move the seat forward! I haven't had this feeling since the C5, and the C6 just did not go back enough, so SCORE right out of the box! Everything else about this car is precision. You can tell by the sound, this is a Corvette. Smooth shifting, amazing kick your keester acceleration, and amazingly from the new seats, a VERY comfortable ride. I don't have any doubts I could drive this car for hours. Even with my "larger" framed body, these seats are a win. I do agree with Al, the cars owner, that it is best to take your wallet out of your back pocket before driving – especially if it is like mine.
I didn't track drive this car – you know what, I didn't feel the need. I KNOW it's there. The C6 was a very capable car. Anyone familiar with it will know as soon as they drive the C7, everything is there and even more. A new model is supposed to have improvements over its previous model – for the Corvette, they have succeeded. Beautiful well laid out gauges, comfortable steering wheel….this car feels like it was built around me. I wonder why people would pay more for another car and not have no where near the resume this car has.
When I got one of the first Camaro's in my area, it was fun to get the thumbs up from people as you drive by. I got that and more. I noticed most everyone I drove by paused and looked at the car as it went by. It certainly draws more attention….just coast in gear and make the engine pop pop pop as it slows…..it draws them in so they can't look away.
We took a few pictures and then I came home in my Chevy Cruze. But for a moment today, I felt like a kid again. Thanks Al for the opportunity! The Chevrolet Corvette is an American Dream – you shouldn't hesitate to live it.
Mike Judge is having a work anniversary.
31 years this August at General Motors of Canada !
Congrats Mike on your years of service and for the thousands of things you went above and beyond on for Camaro owners all over the world! It was a pleasure meeting you – and I look forward to my next opportunity to visit you in Canada again… perhaps in 2015!
A friend I helped with his new C7 Corvette purchase wrote me about his recent trip to Ron Fellows Driving school…. this makes me want to win the lottery even more….nothing would complete my bucket list more than getting to do this every weekend…here's his letter…
The Ron Fellows school road trip went really well… no issues. Three days out and three days back, to Pahrump, Nevada… with side trips to Death Valley and Las Vegas (to visit a friend I worked with in New Berlin).
Not sure if you follow the Stingray forum… I posted comments and link to a video from one of my track sessions there.
Car performed flawlessly during entire trip… 31.0 mpg on the way out… 30.5 for entire road trip (see photo of trip display). Also, my car with Death Valley in the background.


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Teaches about looking into the future. Message covers both the arrogance of thinking that a person can control the future, but also offers hope that tomorrow brings a better day to some.
Series: Sermon on the Mount
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The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow! Do good anyway!
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How to Live in a Better Day: ◆ Look to a Better Day ◆ Start Each Day with God's Perspective ◆ Don't Live in the Past ◆ Get Rid of Bitterness
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All things become new in Christ; old things, bad things, horrible things all pass away. Jesus makes curses in our past blessings by drowning them in His precious blood!
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As a winter sports enthusiast, I always find the wait for the first real snowfall of the season is one of the most difficult of the year.
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(WASHINGTON) -- Jobless claims continued to climb last week, rising by 28,000 to wrap up the month of March, the latest figures released Thursday by the Labor Department show.
For the week ending March 30, the number of people filing for benefits shot up to 385,000. The previous week, claims stood at 357,000.
The four-week average also went up, increasing by 11,250 to 354,250.
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Posted by Eve Maler on August 28, 2013
If you ever need a belly laugh, visit the site DamnYouAutocorrect.com (warning: it's often not safe for work). It's also a great illustration of why you shouldn't just force users through the same exact login procedure when they use mobile apps versus full-fledged browser windows: hitting all the right tiny keys is hard work, and often the software behind the scenes is helpfully trying to "correct" everything you type.
Responsive design is all the rage in consumer web app design, and for good reason: users can put down one device, pick up another, and change the screen orientation in mere moments, and app developers can't afford to miss a trick in optimizing the user experience. Similarly, in researching current authentication methods and trends, we've come to believe more strongly than ever in adapting your user authentication methods to your population, the interaction channel they're using, your business goal, your risk, and your ability to pick up on contextual clues about the user's legitimacy or lack thereof. Call it responsive design for authentication.
When we published our recent Customer Authentication Assessment Framework research (the report comes with a spreadsheet tool), we deliberately focused on onboarding, login, step-up authentication, and account recovery for – yes – customers, most particularly consumers. Why? Because the framework takes into account usability characteristics just as much as security characteristics, and security pros delivering solutions to Marketing had better have good answers when they propose adding friction to the login experience.
Posted by Rick Holland on August 18, 2013
Last year I wrote a blog post titled, "Incident Response Isn't About Point Solutions; It Is About An Ecosystem." This concept naturally extends beyond incident response to broader enterprise defense. An ecosystem approach provides us an alternative to the cobbling together of the Frankenstein'esque security infrastructure that is so ubiquitous today.
Many of us in the information security space have a proud legacy of only purchasing best in breed point solutions. In my early days as an information security practitioner, I only wanted to deploy these types of standalone solutions. One of the problems with this approach is that it results in a bloated security portfolio with little integration between security controls. This bloat adds unneeded friction to the infosec team's operational responsibilities. We talk about adding friction to make the attacker's job more difficult, what about this self-imposed friction? S&R pros jobs are hard enough. I'm not suggesting that you eliminate best in breed solutions from consideration, I'm suggesting that any "point solution" that functions in isolation and adds unneeded operational friction shouldn't be considered.
Posted by Tyler Shields on August 13, 2013
Enterprises are struggling to understand the risk and privacy impacts of the mobile applications in use in their environment. As the consumerization of mobile continues to shove BYOD into the enterprise, the number of applications in use is growing exponentially. Organizations must get a better handle on just how much risk is accumulating from the proliferation of mobile apps on their user's devices.
I'm currently researching a concept designed to help an enterprise know where they are on the mobile application security maturity curve. Understanding where one currently resides is the quickest method to determine the path required to improving your standing in the future.
Does your organization allow BYOD?
Do you inventory all of the mobile applications in use in your environment?
Do you execute security and privacy analysis on mobile applications in an organized fashion?
How do you define and enforce policies around mobile application security?
I've created a survey to determine current baseline enterprise mobile application maturity levels. If you are involved in the mobile management and security decisions of your enterprise now is your time to help. Please go to the survey link below and fill out the form. I will summarize some of the findings in a future blog post.
Posted by Heidi Shey on August 12, 2013
What happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas. I was out at BlackHat with other members of the Forrester team over a week ago (seems like yesterday!). It was two jam packed days of popping into briefings, guzzling copious amounts of green tea, and meeting new people and learning new things. In general, I like to keep an eye and ear out for startups to see what's bubbling up, and came across a few at BlackHat:
Posted by Manatosh Das on August 5, 2013
On July 2, the government of India released the National Cyber Security Policy 2013. This policy extends to a spectrum of ICT users and providers, including home users, SMEs, large enterprises, and government and nongovernment entities. The policy aims to serve as an umbrella framework for defining and guiding the actions related to the security of cyberspace. The policy has been much delayed but has now been released amid reports of snooping by the US globally — and ever-increasing threats to India as a country.
The policy defines 14 diverse objectives that provide an overview of the government's approach to the protection of cyberspace in the country. A few objectives that will have a positive impact on S&R professionals in India caught my attention:
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OA )) Pictures Of The Cabinet
OA... I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to the Dr today...natch. Anyway, after the kids left for school,
I took advantage of the extra time to take these pictures and post them for you this morning.
The first one is a Full View of the Front
DH designed it to look like there were small drawers,which are faux, to give it some interest.
Side Profile...
Here you can see the detail of the top portion...and the little hinges, where the top folds down...(note) little magnetic clip which helps to keep it closed..
Top portion folded down...with TV inside
Extended out and swiveled towards the table....
Here you see the 'swivel mechanism' attached at the back.
I bought this online, at a fraction of the cost that Walmart was selling it for.
Here it is swiveled in the opposite direction.
Bottom Portion, where you see the cables and wires...
I took advantage of the space for some cookbooks.
Everyone is blown away when they see it in there because it's so 'low profile'. I love it cause it's a piece of furniture... serves a purpose and looks good to.
Hope this was helpful.
We have a kitchen cabinet where we want to do something quite similar to what you have done--we need to put the TV (which we haven't bought yet) on a swivel just like you have. I'll show these pix to DH and see what he thinks!
I'm just a little conflicted about it, though. Since we moved in a year-and-a-half ago, we have had no television. It's so peaceful without tv! I miss the sports and the HGTV (although I thought HGTV was going downhill some--don't know if it's improved). But there may be new channels that I'll probably like.
- Magpie
Magpie - I would say you are better off without TV - I hate myself sometimes because I get glued to it and watch senseless stuff and waste so much productive time. It is on pretty much all the time as background noise
Slinky - that cabinet is such a clever idea - your husband did a GREAT job. I showed it to my husband also ......
Jane, I am so impressed with your DH's ingenuity and vision! The tv cabinet is wonderful and fits into your home so well, open or closed. I love the faux drawer look! TFS
Jane, your husband sure did a wonderful job on your television cabinet. I am so impressed at his carpenter skills and his design choices--which are probably influenced by you too. This piece fits your home's style perfectly and is a wonderful way to hide the television.
Jaybird, I have to accept DH's big tv too--I just bought a big cabinet to surround it and accept it! LOL
Thanks Ladies for all the nice compliments.
I passed them on to DH, who just smiles and is amazed that we ALL have this connection to one another here! lol
OA...and to anyone else, I hope this was helpful...
Any further questions, just let me know.


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High School: Won the Roy Jones-Clarence Rose Junior Classic in 2008, shooting a 70-69 ... Shot a personal-best round of 61 in the summer of 2012 ... Graduated high school at the age of 17 ... Won all but two matches in high school ... Four-time conference Player of the Year ... Four-time All-Conference Team MVP.
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What does it mean to posses the power of Thor?
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Here's some of Thor's feats of strength and power:
Thor flexes and snaps adamantium alloy cables like they were nothing, from Thor #309:
Does this look familiar? Twenty years later, Thor literally re-performs his feat of lifting a metal railway and sustaining the weight of a passing train as it races by, from Thor #319:
Early on, Thor pushes over the Leaning Tower of Pisa with his finger, from Journey Into Mystery #92:
And large numbers already are quantified as Thor leg presses millions of tons of rock onto the Destroyer, from Journey Into Mystery #119:
After the villain, Graviton, finds his powers uncontrollable, he compresses an entire floating city into a sphere, and Thor, along with several other Avengers, find themselves supporting and then heaving millions of tons of weight into the Atlantic, from Avengers #159:
Thor tows the small island, Hydrobase, into New York harbor, from Avengers #301:
At the conclusion of Acts of Vengeance, Thor closes a chasm of a "million tons of earth" over Loki, from West Coast Avengers #55:
Here Thor crushes a force-field of the Power Cosmic (amped by Loki's power) that keeps him from Mjolnir, from Silver Surfer #4:
Here, Thor destroys another of Silver Surfer's force-fields with a single strike, from Silver Surfer #4:
As for pure collateral damage, a single punch met with the same force has leveled a countryside, from Thor #338:
And with repeated blows? Thor and Red Norvell literally wreck Asgard with their fist-fight and almost deafen Heimdall, from Thor #476:
Thor literally matches a Savage Hulk's strength in a grappling contest for an entire hour, from Defenders #10:
Indeed, his punch is so powerful that combined with a punch of equal strength, it is capable of actually closing dimensional rifts, from Avengers #100:
Here, he stalemates immortal Hercules in a contest of arm-wrestling, from Thor #222:
Thor resists a force "as though half a planet" were bearing down on him, from Thor #140:
Thor resists the gravimetric pull akin to "that of a neutron star" and busts out, from Thor #281:
A neutron star has 200 billion times the gravity of earth. That level of acceleration means a neutron star's gravity is faster than light.
Thor actually lifts the Midgard Serpent who is powerful enough to crush the earth. Note that the catastrophic effects of such a feat are actually physically felt on Earth, from Thor #32:
Survives the weight of twenty planets in Thor annual vol 1. #9 :
Thor has resisted extreme ranges of heat throughout his career. Thor doesn't even register a reaction when immersed in lava, from Avengers #5:
Thor walks around inside the furnace of the trolls, whose fires were used to forge Mjolnir, from Thor #211:
Magical fire-bolts engulf Thor to no effect, from Thor #292:
Ghost Rider's pure hellfire blasts are useless in Avengers #214:
Cosmic fire-bolts from the Herald, Firelord, have a similarly negligible effect in Thor #306:
And Thor has literally stood in the center of the Sun while confronting Atum in Thor Annual #14:
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Thor effortlessly resists arctic forces summoned by the Executioner in one of his first fights in Journey Into Mystery #103:
Here, Thor resists the "devastating energy of an exploding sun" from the Executioner's axe, from Journey Into Mystery #103:
Thanos' fleet nails Thor with a salvo of energy blasts and the mere indirect impact knocks both Captain Marvel and Ironman unconscious in Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2:
Thor is not only immune to electricity blasts, but indeed refreshed by them as shown in Thor #288:
One of his most impressive feats, Thor survives being rocked by multiple blasts by the Fourth Host of Celestials, from Thor #300:
Thor's unconscious body isn't even destroyed by a Doomsday Bomb capable of destroying a planet, from Thor #387:
And while empowered by the Odinforce,Thor has resisted the Destroyer's beam of total disintegration in Thor vol. 3 #5:
Here, we see Thor flying outside a window and when Jane Foster gets his attention, Thor manages to intercept Cobra's poison dart within a split-second. The dart is fired before he even is inside the room, just to give you the proper frame of reference to understand the speed and reflexes necessary in Journey Into Mystery #98:
Thor digs a trench in a blur of motion that is "almost too fast for the human eye to follow." From Marvel Team-Up #26:
And here, while helping rebuild Asgard, Thor hammers down repeatedly on a pillar and "becomes a blur of motion" in Thor #267:
Thor's reflexes have always allowed to react at lightning speeds faster than the human eye can perceive.Even in a hail of attacks or debris. There's something about this feat is that Thor speed and moves faster than the sight of Heimdall , a god endowed with super-senses , able to hear the grass grow, the sap running in the trees or the beating of the wings of a butterfly on the other side of the galaxy and whose eyes see light years away. Whatever the case, the fineness of Heimdall's senses are greater than those of any being.
Here, Thor fights Heimdall and swings his hammer down on him at speeds "moving too swiftly for the eye to follow," even too fast for Heimdall in Journey Into Mystery#125:
Here, Hela only has to touch Thor in order to ensnare his soul in 1v1 combat, but is unable to do so because of his speed, "His speed, his anger, are beyond comprehension!" From Thor #354:
Here, while fending off two Herald-level foes, Adam Warlock likens his ability to catch his staff mid-swing and his combat speed to that of lightning, "He moves like the lightning he commands, much quicker than I remember." From Infinity Watch #23:
Here, in the space of one and one-fifth seconds, Thor dives out of the sky, smashes Mjolnir down and causes a supersonic shockwave to divert a runaway truck from killing a young boy ACROSS the city in Journey Into Mystery #108:
Here, in the space of micro-seconds before a zooming cursed Mjolnir will strike Thor from behind, Thor lays a haymaker onto an Enchanter and spins around in time to snatch Mjolnir in mid-air, from Thor #144:
Here, Thor is about to have his face smashed by a cursed Mjolnir which is zooming back to him, but he moves swiftly enough on reaction to dodge it inThor vol. 2 #27:
Thor has dug a ditch so fast that neither Quicksilver was valoz enough to escape it (Quicksilver was already in motion before Thor has started digging the trench).
Thor punks Quicksilver once again:
Thor reacts to Wrecker swinging his mystic crowbar onto Thor's head from behind. Literally only inches away, Thor moves so swiftly once again, he snatches the crowbar with his hand in Thor vol. 2 #29:
And it looks like current Thor hasn't lost that bare-handed touch as he catches Bor's axe inches from his face in Thor #600:
With his great speed, without the use of his natural control over the weather, he can create winds of hurricane force or greater- than-hurricane-force air shockwaves in Journey Into Mystery #100 and #84:
Here, he literally snatches a fired tank shell out of mid-air with his bare hand and bats a barrage of them back in Journey Into Mystery #93:
And similarly snatches a fired missile with his bare hand in Marvel Team-Up #148:
Here, with FTB speed, he deflects two bullets with a single swing way back in Journey Into Mystery #100:
Here, he blocks a single bullet with the head of Mjolnir before whirling it to create a field in Thor #246:
And many times again...
Here, Thor flings Mjolnir to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in Thor: Whom The Gods Would Destroy:
And he can fling the hammer many times the speed of light and transcend the boundaries of time and space in Thor #392-393, Thor #140 and Thor #274:
He could also imbue Mjolnir itself with superheat to create an atomic flare attack, from Thor #132:
As for FTL reactions that can be measured in nanoseconds (light travels one foot per nanosecond), he's swung and swatted away Blastaar's energy blasts inThor #270:
Far from a one-off FTL feat, he does the same to Mole Man's energy blaster shot in Marvel Two-In-One #96:
Here, Enchantress shoots a blast at Captain America and Thor reacts with FTL speed to cut off the energy blast in mid-flight, from Marvel Comics Presents#44:
Thor can spin Mjolnlr around fast enough to shield himself from lasers, from Thor #218:
Phoenix shoots a telepathic blast at a groggy Thor at the moment Thor's arms are at his side. AFTER the shot is fired and already traveling at him, Thor raises his arms and reflects it back with Mjolnir. Telepathy being instantaneous traditionally (as noted in the narration), we can assume for the sake of argument that it was only traveling at light-speed, making this another FTL feat, from Excalibur#428:
He can even block a constant barrage of laser vision from Count Nefaria, from Avengers #166:
He bats away a possessed Iron Man's repulsor rays in Avengers vol. 3 #3:
And again bats away ray blasts in a training session in Avengers vol. 3 #23:
and again......
Mjolnir also allows for simulated flight whereby when thrown it could pull it's wielder along. Basically, Thor flies by flinging his hammer really hard and then hanging on for ride:
And no matter what, it's been explained that "Thor can always control the course of his flight," from Thor #400:
And in Thor #2(2014)
In terms of flight speed, he's flown at least three times the speed of light, from Thor #185:
Thor has trapped Hermes the god of speed, and well, that's just say that ... but are spears spears thrown by gods thousands of times stronger than any human, imagine how fast would travel those spears =).
During the saga of Surtur , commissioned by Nick Fury (Nick Fury), Thor reached and surpassed in speed to a spaceship traveling at a speed came many times that of Light and even outside our solar system, Thor increase their 100 times speed to overtake the ship.
Travels from Earth to Sun in a matter of moments:
Saves Rulk from a Black Hole(ANOTHER FTL feat):
Thor intercepted Ego whom was moving at hyperspace speeds:
Catches Ego again after getting shot at by Stranger:
Skyfather Thor blasts Gorr several lightyears and both Thors catch up relatively quick.
Thor flying without Mjolnir.
He could also make swirling force-fields powerful enough that even the Savage Hulk couldn't get past in Journey Into Mystery #112:
He uses it again in a fight with Absorbing man in Journey Into Mystery #114-15:
often during time travelling or time freez or opening time vortex he uses hammar spin or himself spinning.. which speeds axceeds ftl speed... and he have fairly used the hammer spin speed in the fight too
at the time of force teleportation
Thor vs Mongoose in The Mighty Thor #391:


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HOCKEY; Koivu Returns, and So Do the Canadiens
By JASON DIAMOS
Published: May 9, 2002
MONTREAL, May 8— Whiskers are a sure sign of spring in the National Hockey League. But Saku Koivu's scraggly, strawberry blond beard means more than the tradition of facial hair worn by players who are pursuing the Stanley Cup.
A few days before training camp began in September, Koivu, the 27-year-old captain of the Montreal Canadiens, was flying from his native Finland to Montreal when he felt a sharp, pounding pain in his back and stomach. He checked into a hospital, thinking it was food poisoning, but instead non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, was diagnosed. Doctors estimated Koivu's chances of surviving the next five years at 50 percent.
But after undergoing eight cycles of chemotherapy and four months of rehabilitation, Koivu, a 5-foot-10 center, made an emotional return to hockey on April 9.
''Three months ago I don't think I even expected to play this year,'' Koivu said today. ''To play in the playoffs, and to play every game, I thought was too far-fetched. It was a dream. Now, when I wake up, I wonder how I am able to feel this good and not have the fatigue.
''Even before the playoffs, I had some doubts as to whether I'd be able to play every game.''
While Montreal goaltender José Théodore, a finalist for the league's most valuable player and most valuable goalie awards, has propelled the Canadiens' unlikely playoff run, Koivu's saga has provided his teammates with inspiration all season.
Koivu has certainly surpassed all expectations, and is even tied for third among playoff scorers with 10 points (4 goals and 6 assists).
''I've enjoyed every moment,'' said Koivu, who scored a goal in the Canadiens' 2-1 overtime victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.
The Canadiens, who squeezed into the playoffs as the Eastern Conference's eighth-seeded team, lead their four-of-seven-game semifinal series, two games to one. In the first round, Koivu scored the game-winning goal in a pivotal Game 3 victory over top-seeded Boston. The Canadiens stunned the Bruins, four games to two.
''It's not just a matter of Saku coming back, but the way he's come back and performed that's phenomenal,'' Montreal Coach Michel Therrien said.
Koivu's ability to simply come back would have been exceptional enough. ''We had set goals for him,'' said Dr. David Mulder, the Canadiens' chief physician, who directed Koivu's recovery. ''And it was my innermost belief that he wouldn't meet those goals. But he did.''
When Koivu skated onto the Molson Center ice on April 9 he received an eight-minute standing ovation -- the longest in the six-year history of the arena. When the public-address announcer, Michel Lacroix, tried three times to step in, he was drowned out.
Koivu played a bit more than eight minutes against the Ottawa Senators that night as the Canadiens clinched their first playoff berth since the 1997-98 season.
''I've never seen anything like it,'' said Doug Gilmour, Koivu's 38-year-old teammate, who has played 19 N.H.L. seasons. ''And it's something I hope I never see again.''
Surrounded by a throng of reporters here today, Koivu admitted that he was still uncomfortable talking about his ordeal. ''There were a lot of low points,'' he said.
''I didn't have time to prepare myself for that,'' Koivu said of the eventual diagnosis. ''Everything happened in two days. It was just a shock to hear the word cancer and that I have it.''
The chemotherapy treatments left Koivu weak and violently ill, but sometimes he would sneak into the Molson Center for a solitary skate.
''When I was out on the ice, even if it was for just 20 minutes or half an hour, I forgot everything I was going through,'' Koivu said. ''And when I could watch practice, I felt like I was living a normal life, like I didn't have cancer. Those days helped me a lot.''
At the end of January tests revealed that the cancer had gone into remission.
''That was probably the happiest moment of my life,'' Koivu said. ''We had to wait two hours for the results. Those two hours were pretty long. Then the doctor came out and gave me the thumbs-up sign.''
Koivu wept.
Koivu eventually regained his normal playing weight of 181 pounds. ''Actually, I have to lose a couple of pounds,'' said Koivu, who said he now weighs 185.
Mulder said: ''The next milestone is one year after the completion of his chemotherapy. If there is no regression, his chances of survival are over 90 percent.''
Koivu said: ''I feel special. When I look around the dressing room, I have something that they don't have. I can't say it's a good thing. But it's a huge experience. I probably appreciate things more. I can't say I'm a better person. But I'm enjoying this moment more than I probably would have.''
The shock of Koivu's whitish blond hair has grown back. Some may consider his uneven beard unkempt, but Koivu says he will keep it.
''For a while, I didn't have any hair at all; I'll shave it after we win the Stanley Cup,'' Koivu said with a smile.
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The Day the Google Music Died
Normally, I write about making games here, and I am woefully behind on my duties, but I have been trying to figure out why I was so upset that Google killed Reader. I think I figured it out, and I have to get it off my chest.
For the last ten years I have been the world's biggest Google fanboy. From the first time I ever used their "magical" search engine I was hooked. They literally made my life better in many ways, but while I might have been in love with search, but I was totally blown away by GMail. It just worked, and it gave be a GIGABYTE of storage. Boom, mind blown. After years of running our own email servers or using some bullshit isp mail address, I could finally relax, fall back into Google's arms and never worry about email again.
After Search and GMail, everything else was automatic. If Google came out with, I used it and recommended it to friends. Even if they didn't quite get it right the first time, they would iterate until it was great. I signed on for Calendar, Reader, Picasa, Apps, Drive, YouTube, Chrome, G+, Android, EVERYTHING.
Google was a bunch of geeks, just like us, but they had this other thing that made a ton of money (ads) that supported all of the cool things we all wanted to do, but couldn't afford. They thought big. They shot for the moon, and created things beyond my imagination. I mean, how could a company even think of running a million servers, or creating self driving cars, or gigabit Internet? I cheered them on, bought their stock, and was over the moon in love.
I always joked that Google knew way too much about me for my own good, but I was willing to go along because we were buds. They were not going to do "evil", their founding story always told us that, and I believed them. Yeah, I was naive, but happy.
Even though our company was one of the only ones in the world using it, when they cancelled Buzz, I didn't think twice because they replaced it with G+, which was a much better product. Even though they stole the design from Diaspora, I still thought the product was awesome (we use it as a free private Yammer-like service). Kind of like a free, much better UI, much more private, less spammy version of Facebook. So, I was still hypnotized by the big G.
Then it happened. Killing Reader was like a glass of cold water thrown into a drunk guy's face. I've woken up and realized that the geeks are no longer in control of Google. They are not on our side any more. It's not just the death of Reader, it is the death of a rich, geeky friend that I could count on to solve big problems for me.
I realized that I had gotten lazy, relied too much on a single vendor for incredibly important services in my life. I need to get hard again, like the old days when all good geeks had to rail against the Microsoft Borg to keep their vision of the future from coming true. I need to look into Linux again. Consider using markdown text and storing it on my own servers or on Dropbox to replace Docs, spread my photos and documents out onto different services, look into Linux or Firefox OS powered tablets. Everything is on the table. It's going to take a lot of work.
It sucks when a friend dies.
-Jeff Tunnell, Game Maker
That's a perfect distillation of my thoughts, thank-you.
Damn, my Disqus comments were turned off for this article. I just turned them back on. Please leave your thoughts now.
I felt burnt when Apple bought-just-to-kill Last.fm and all my purchases vanished, so I switched to another similar service that I can't remember the name of. Literally 2 weeks later they shut down too. Now I stream my music on a private system I wrote myself and couldn't be happier. I do the same for rss with a custom reader I wrote.
Sucks for the general public but if you're able then write your own private "cloud" apps for things that don't revolve around sharing between users. Maybe the UI is ugly because I'm not a designer, but when I want a new feature or want to change something, I just add/change it. No ads, nobody else owns my information and nobody else is going to decide to shut it down.
I completely get it! My feelings have been similar and I've also started reminiscing about all the feeds I've collected over the years. I too started feeling guilty about becoming so lazy – I've been calling it "old fart" syndrome to my friends. I've become too comfortable relying on Google and Tweetdeck for that matter. I've started to feel good about it though – and doing a sort of spring clean with my feeds – also revisiting some of my favourite blogs that I never seem to have time to read anymore.
Google has disappointed me immensly with Drive and now shutting down my Reader – but it has also introduced me to new fantastic things such as Feedly.
I am, however, increasingly worried about how attached I am to my GMAIL!
Truth. AdWords used to be great too, especially for small business, and now they are driving us out. If you are looking for 5 cent clicks, they don't care about you. Sadly this is the eventual fate, sooner or later, of EVERY public corporation. The function of the stock market is to turn companies into cash factories with no soul. Think about it: the only reason to buy a company, is because you know a way to make more money with what they have. That way is to do things that the current owners won't: discard culture, traditions, quality, respect for employees, and turn the company into a factory. It doesn't matter who the CEO or workers are – the owners will eventually win, every time.
Every time I hear of a company going public, I think "crap, so much for that". Nobody cares about long term legacy any more, the lure of easy money is apparently too hard for mortals to resist. If your company is worth $1 billion, and the market offers you $10 billion to turn it into a factory, who will say no? I could give a rat's ass for a company like Facebook, but It's really sad when the company was formerly so inspirational, like Google, Disney, and 1000+ others.
I'm glad you're back Jeff. From one Jeff to another…keep this site going!!! The Dynamix crew and their follow up work has been "comfort foods" for me over several years, from GG to PBL and now Spotkin…I still follow and watch. So keep talking, old friends are listening.
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So, this week, man, oh man, oh man.
We started packing my father in law out of his house on Tuesday. Today is Friday and we are mostly done. He has lived in his house for more than 25 years - and he's a bit of a hoarder, so it's been a challenging, difficult experience. My husband - who should be up for canonization right now - took a week's vacation. Not to hang out with his kids, visit the beach, or take naps. He took the vacay to clean out an attic, 2 sheds and a house that filled the largest rental dumpster possible.
I did not take vacay. So I worked my full schedule, in addition to moving him and cleaning out his house. And did I forget to say that one of my kids has an ear infection, which has been somewhat, shall we say, slow to heal, and she's woken me multiple times every night for more than a week? And two of my kids started college, and we had meet the teacher for the three youngest, music lessons, voice lessons, dentist check ups, doctor check ups, therapy appointments, weight checks, haircuts, medications to fill for school, forms to fill out and drop off for said medications, and I also needed to pay the bills, buy groceries and take care of 293539 minute little details that could not wait?
Excuse me. Last night's temper tantrum hasn't finished yet, apparently.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me back up.
Moving an older person is a challenge under the best of circumstances. This week was not the best of circumstances. Everyone's nerves are on edge. Everyone is exhausted. We have fallen into bed each night too tired to think, but not too tired to be annoyed and short tempered. I've been working really super very hard to be understanding - I've pulled out my best Mary Poppins each and every day. I've bit my tongue and bit my lip and walked away and
Despite this, last night, it all came crashing down on my head.
I had arranged a special trip to go to our minor league baseball team, as a "Hooray! We made it!" kind of thing. My father in law is 92, and loves baseball. LOVES it. He saw Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle play! He knows the national level team stats and players and watches game after game after game. I contacted the team, who gave me five entrances, special parking and allowed my son to be a bat boy - and yesterday, after four very stress filled days, proved too much for my father in law's fragile health and he wasn't able to make it.
I do not fault him for that. Not at all. Getting old sucks under the best of circumstances and he's not facing the best of circumstances. If I was in his shoes, I wonder if I'd handle it half as well. I have to remind myself over and over that he's not feeling well, hasn't for a long time, and his daughter, who was also very ill, did pass on last week. But when he told me he wasn't going to the game - a game that took me multiple emails and phone calls to coordinate, and my more timid son to cajole that, yes, you will be a bat boy and it will be FUN! and you will try it even though you are nervous and unsure and no, there is no way I'm letting you out of it -
and then my husband was irritated that I'd planned this and he said that there was too much work to do and HE wasn't going to go, and then my boy said HE wasn't going to go - and I just completely and totally flipped out. I was so upset - I feel like I've done nothing fun with my kids, I feel terrible for them that they've had a pretty crappy summer, and I really really was excited about being able to do SOMETHING fun. Also, I'd worked to get the baseball dealing going, and everyone had been super excited - and then, it just wasn't. The more I asked - and I asked really, really politely and tried to encourage and talk about how FUN it would be, and that if people wanted to leave early they totally could and wouldn't it be great to see just a bit of a real game? - the more aggravated and upset everyone got with me. And I understood the reasoning, in my mind, but I was still unhappy. It kept on and kept on and I came home and someone was napping and someone was eating dinner and I had to unload a truck with very little help
And I lost my damned mind. I flipped right straight out. I was SICK of being yelled at, tired of trying to be nice and keep everyone from killing each other, trying to keep it all straight in my head, tired of trying to get everything done on time and not miss one thing, tired of trying to remember to contact utilities and doctors and change addresses, pack shoes, order a dumpster, argue when the dumpster driver came 24 hours EARLY, arrange for furniture to go in 46 different places, find a thrift store who would do a pick up from the front room of the house and not require everything to be on the curb, remember the medical forms and don't forget to stop and buy the extra book covers and notebooks that were left off the school supplies list, pacify everyone, keep everyone's best interest at heart while still trying to get everything done, tip toe around all the feelings that are inherent in this chaos and make sure that no one got their feelings hurt and keep everyone happy and realize that I'm still mourning my sister in law and I haven't even really processed her passing
And I just - popped.
I made an executive decision to take my little girls and my son and just - go. My husband and his brother could meet me there - or not. I didn't care. I told everyone about 25 times that I just didn't care who ate what for dinner, who slept where, who got what special picture/dish/painting/book/dresser, and we went to the game. My brother in law came - he told me that he'd planned on bailing out of the game, and took one look at my face and decided that it was in his best interest to go to the game - and my husband came to the game and we just watched our son do this.
These pictures are, for the most part, blurry - but he absolutely loves these pictures and requested that I post them. We both really like the fact that, for the most part, his feet are off the ground - that's how fast he was running. He told me that, at first, he was so scared that his stomach was aching, and he really wanted to be anywhere else but on the field. He said as soon as he did it once, the fear was gone and he loved it more than anything ever - he called it the best day of his life.
Much of baseball, this is the view. BORING. I mean, I like guy butts as much as the next gal (and maybe more than some) but it's pretty boring after a while.
But seeing this - man, it was so amazing.
I'd wanted to do something nice for my father in law, but it ended up being something nice for me.
And something amazing for my son - and as far as I'm concerned, it was a WIN in my mind. Even though I cried during the game when I thought about everything, and then when the Star Spangled Banner made me think of my sister in law - I'm still happy I went.


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The second African Organic Conference (AOC2) "Mainstreaming organic agriculture in the African development agenda" will take place in Lusaka, Zambia from 2 to 4 May 2012. The objective of the conference is to report and further promote mainstreaming of organic agriculture in African Government policies, in African intergovernmental organizations as well as among development partners. It is aimed at presenting successful small-scale organic agriculture projects and case studies in organic production including biodiversity and seed production, livestock, climate mitigation, demonstrating impacts on food security; presenting successful organic agriculture projects and case studies in marketing and trade of organic products, including how organic guarantee systems can be shaped to be supportive of both local, regional and external trade; and highlighting successful initiatives and case studies in public policy, research and sector development.
Based on this, the conference will propose ways ahead for organic agriculture to reach its full potential and contribute substantially to the African agriculture and development agenda. The AOC2 will build on the successes of the First African Organic Conference, at which more than 250 participants shared views on fast tracking sustainable development in Africa through harnessing organic agriculture and Bio-technology.
OPPAZ (Organic Producers and Processors Association of Zambia) requests proposals from practitioners and farmers, policymakers, scientists, researchers and other interested persons for presentation during the conference in Lusaka. Abstracts for oral-slide presentations (15 to 20 minutes) and poster presentations focusing on the following topics are welcome:
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The NIE, which was established in 1946, was granted academic autonomy by Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in 2007. This was the first graduation day after the institute was granted autonomy.
H.P. Kincha, Vice-Chancellor of the VTU, gave away the degrees to students. Later addressing the gathering, he urged the students to preserve the bond with the institution and live up to the expectations of society. V. Prakash, Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute, gave away the endowment awards to the students and urged them to turn to entrepreneurship and help lead the country in global competition. Dr. Prakash touched upon the role played by the NIE in the field of engineering education ever since its inception.
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Well you watch what Bell, Rogers and the other indies do. I can almost guarantee if they are targeted they will not inform their customers and simply pass on their records.==============================================... on the other hand they could be watching what's going in here and decide to oppose any motion to disclose when they get targeted. And if they win? More customers to them? No?Of course, you could be right, they may just cave in right away! Oh well..
So we should all be happy Teksavvy isn't opposing Voltage because they will save money and that means our monthly bill won't go up? Come on.
If Bell, Rogers & Shaw can stand up for their customers then so can Teksavvy.
It happened in 2005 and they haven't tried to target their customers ever since.
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You're right - »www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/201 ··· 024.htmlDid the ISP's oppose this?
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No, it's just not realistically the ISPs job to protect you from the law. If you crossed the street at a red light, bit of an odd example but would you expect the traffic light manufacturer to bail you out of jail?
No, but that's not a comparable scenario. In the ISP case, you've got the concern that the plaintiff is making an overly broad request for massive disclosure of private information without having to prove the merits of their case; they could in fact have put any random IP on the list even if not relevant to their case, because there is no penalty for making an error. All they have to do is allege infringement and, if their motion is granted, they've got free access to your private information.
There are cases in the US of the copyright trolls sending extortion requests to babies, the dead, those who don't know how to use computers, even those who don't even own computers. With such a terrible track record with even their extortion requests, and presumably these requests were sent out AFTER they had been granted discovery, how can it be reasonably argued that they have a reasonably belief that the owners of the ISP account the IP address is associated to committed the alleged infringement?


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Around 500 people marched to show their support for the NHS and protest against what they say is a 'gradual destruction' of the service.
Members of the Royal British Legion were shocked to find their club house had been broken into and robbed last night in Kingswinford, Dudley.
According to their Facebook page the items that were taken included a television and several bottles of spirits.
They are appealing for anyone who has any information about the robbery and are urging people to get in touch with the Police.
Nicky Harris told ITV News Central that big supermarkets are holding dairy farmers to ransom.
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