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FreeBSD is starting to make waves in the desktop arena, and not just as the Darwin core of the popular Mac OS X operating system. Several FreeBSD-based desktop projects have emerged in the past few years and have matured to the point where a nontechnical user can easily install a system fully configured for sound, a network, and applications. In addition to ease of use, benefits include no cost, the BSD license, and the stability and security inherent in FreeBSD.
One of these projects is PC-BSD, which provides two additional features that will make it a strong contender in the desktop market. The first is the Online Update Manager, which with a click of the mouse allows a user either to schedule or to manually check for updates to the operating system and installed applications. If necessary updates exist, the system automatically downloads and applies them, making it a trivial task to keep the system patched.
The second feature is a GUI application installer and uninstaller. While advanced users can still use the FreeBSD ports and packages collection, casual users can simply download a PBI (PC-BSD package) from the PBI application directory, double-click on it, and watch as the GUI installer performs its magic.
PBIs have the advantage of being entirely self-contained. That means casual users won't inadvertently overwrite existing libraries or files by installing and uninstalling applications.
This article shows how to create your own PBI, using Digikam as an example of a rather complex package with many library dependencies. While most PBIs will be easier to generate, I want to demonstrate most of the gotchas you may run across when generating your own PBIs.
While casual users won't be making their own PBIs, you don't have to be a programmer to do so. If you have basic Unix skills, are comfortable with the FreeBSD packages collection, and have a meticulous nature, you can easily create your first PBI in the space of an afternoon. This article assumes that you are working on an existing PC-BSD system.
Also, double-check that there is an existing FreeBSD package in the packages/All/ subdirectory at the FreeBSD ftp site for your FreeBSD release.
Note: at the time of this writing, 6.0-RELEASE had just come out, so there weren't that many packages in 6.0-RELEASE/packages/. Check 6.0-RELEASE/packages first, as it will contain the most up-to-date packages; if yours isn't there, use the one in 5.4-RELEASE/packages/.
Next, become the superuser and create a directory for the application in your regular user account's home directory:
% pwd
% su
# mkdir -p pbi/digikam
# cd pbi/digikam
Using the exact name of the package, you can fetch it directly:
# fetch ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/packages/graphics/digikam-0.7.2.tbz
Next, install the package to make sure you don't have any missing dependencies. If you're lucky, it will just install and you'll get your prompt back. If you instead get error messages, you will have to fetch the missing dependencies:
# pkg_add digikam-0.7.2.tbz
pkg_add: could not find package libltdl-1.5.10 !
pkg_add: could not find package libexif-0.6.10 !
<snip 9 other missing packages>
# fetch ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/packages/All/libltdl-1.5.10.tbz
# fetch ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/packages/All/libexif-0.6.10.tbz
<snip 9 other fetches>
Then try to install the package again:
# pkg_add digikam-0.7.2.tbz
Don't worry if you receive warnings indicating that some software has a greater revision number than is required. You can double-check the install was successful with:
# pkg_info | grep digikam
digikam-0.7.2 Photo album manager for KDE with gphoto2 backend
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Packages are really compressed tarballs, so start by uncompressing them:
# bunzip2 *.tbz
As you untar each package, you can remove the original tarball:
# tar xvf digikam-0.7.2.tbz && rm digikam-0.7.2.tar
# tar xvf libltdl-1.5.10.tbz && rm libltdl-1.5.10.tar
<snip 10 other untars>
Notice that this created several subdirectories, one of which is bin/. The PBI you create will be a compressed snapshot of this bin/ directory. The rest of this article will show you how to put all the required pieces into it.
The first piece will be a new tarball named base_changes.tar, which contains everything except the contents of bin:
# tar cv --exclude bin -f bin/base_changes.tar .
Next, create an install script and set it as executable:
# vi bin/PBI.SetupScript.sh
cd /usr/local/MyPrograms/$1
tar xvjpf base_changes.tar
rm base_changes.tar
# chmod +x bin/PBI.SetupScript.sh
Then create an uninstall script:
# vi bin/PBI.RemoveScript.sh
cd /usr/local/MyPrograms
rm -Rf $1
# chmod +x bin/PBI.RemoveScript.sh
Notice that when the PBI installs, everything it needs (base_changes.tar) untars into /usr/local/MyPrograms/$1, where $1 represents the name of the PBI. Uninstalling the PBI removes that entire directory.
Because you can use these scripts with any PBI, I keep a copy in my pbi/ directory so I don't have to re-create them:
# cp bin/PBI.* ~dru/pbi
Now it's time to create a lib/ directory in your staging area's bin/ directory:
# pwd
# mkdir lib
Unless you have a very simple application, there can be many dozens of libraries that you need to locate and copy into that custom lib/ directory.
ldd will give you the names, but you don't want to spend hours copying pathnames when a script will do it in under a second. This script will work every time, so ~user_account/pbi/ is a good place to keep it. (I've put
--- at the beginning and end of the script to make it easy to cut and paste.)
# more ~dru/pbi/lib.sh
# this script requires you to input the name of an executable
# which is referred to as $1 in the script
# copy the output of ldd into a file
# ldd gives the paths to required libraries
ldd $1 > $1_lib.sh
# these statements clean up the output of ldd
# and transforms it into a series of "cp path lib" statements
cat $1_lib.sh | cut -d = -f 2 | cut -d '(' -f 1 > $1_tmp1
sed 's/\>/cp/g' $1_tmp1 > $1_tmp2 ; mv $1_tmp2 $1_tmp1
sed 's/$/ lib/g' $1_tmp1 > $1_tmp2 ; mv $1_tmp2 $1_lib.sh
# this transforms the first non-path line
# into a shebang
sed 's/.*\:.*/\#\!\/bin\/sh/'g $1_lib.sh > $1_tmp1 ; mv $1_tmp1 $1_lib.sh
# this makes the resulting file executable
chmod +x $1_lib.sh
echo "Run the script $1_lib.sh to copy the required libraries"
When finished, make the script executable:
# chmod +x ~dru/pbi/lib.sh
As this script takes an executable as an argument, find out the names of your package's executables:
# pwd
# file * | grep LSB
dcraw: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for
FreeBSD 5.3-CURRENT (rev 5), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
digikam: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for
FreeBSD 5.3-CURRENT (rev 5), dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
<snip 36 other executables)>
This particular package has 38 executables, so you need to run lib.sh that many times. Note that lib.sh makes a script that copies the libraries needed by that executable. As you create each script, run it and then remove it:
# ~dru/pbi/lib.sh dcraw
Run the script dcraw_lib.sh to copy the required libraries
# ./dcraw_lib.sh && rm dcraw_lib.sh
# ~dru/pbi/lib.sh digikam
Run the script dcraw_lib.sh to copy the required libraries
# ./digikam_lib.sh && rm digikam_lib.sh
<snip other 36 iterations>
When you finish, you'll have a populated lib/ directory:
# ls lib | wc
79 79 1055
Looks like there are 79 libraries.
Next, double-check whether your package has any lib/ subdirectories:
# ls -F ~dru/pbi/digikam/lib | grep "/"
If there are any, create those subdirectories in your bin/lib/ and copy the appropriate library files over:
# pwd
# mkdir gphoto2 gphoto2_port imlib2 kde3
# cp -R ~dru/pbi/digikam/lib/gphoto2/* gphoto2
# cp -R ~dru/pbi/digikam/lib/gphoto2_port/* gphoto2_port
# cp -R ~dru/pbi/digikam/lib/imlib2/* imlib2
# cp -R ~dru/pbi/digikam/lib/kde3/* kde3
Adding an icon to your PBI is nice. Check whether one came with your package:
# grep -w icons ../+CONTENTS
<snip large output>
This package definitely came with many icons, and this is the one I'm looking for:
# cp ../share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/digikam.png .
If your package doesn't have any icons, choose your favorite from a subdirectory of /usr/local/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/ and copy it to bin/.
When you finish, uninstall the package and its dependencies so they won't interfere when you test the PBI:
# pkg_delete -rx digikam
Finally, double-check bin/ to ensure that it contains only the tarball, the install and uninstall scripts, the binaries, and the lib/ directory.
PC-BSD provides a GUI tool, the Package Creator, which turns the contents of your staging area's bin/ directory into a PBI. Simply double-click on the downloaded file to install the Package Creator. By default, it will place an icon on the desktop and an entry into the Programs menu.
Open up the Package Creator and fill in the first screen with your details:
Package Name: Digikam
Package Version: -0.7.2
Author: Gilles Caulier
Website: http://www.digikam.org/
Note: The FreshPorts description for your application should include the URL to the application's website. The name of the primary author of the application is usually somewhere at the website for the application.
In the next screen, you can keep the default No for Display License unless the PBI requires otherwise.
In the next screen, browse the Package Directory and select your bin directory:
Under Library Support, select Specify Library Directory, click on the Browse button, and double-click on lib/.
In the next screen, click on Default Program Icon and select your PNG.
Click on Add under Package Executables and type in the program name. Click on the Browse button for Program Executable and select the executable. (In my case it was digikam).
Some programs (for example, Ethereal) need superuser access in order to run. Digikam does not, so I didn't select that option. Click on Save, and then on Next when finished.
Some programs require Mime Types, which you can add in the next screen. (Digikam does not.) The program will then create your PBI--it may take a few minutes, depending on the size of the tarball and the number of libraries. It will tell you when it finishes, and it will place the PBI in that user account's home directory. If you like, click on the Save preset button, which will save all the details to a .pbc file. That can save you some typing the next time you create a PBI.
It's important to test that your PBI successfully installs and uninstalls and that the program works with all its features.
I like to move the PBI to the Desktop so I can double-click on it:
# mv ~dru/Digikam-0.7.2-PV.pbi ~dru/Desktop/
Now leave the superuser account so you're acting as a regular user, and double-check that the application is not currently installed:
# exit
% pkg_info | grep digikam
Double-click on the PBI and see what happens. It should prompt you for the superuser password; click on Next twice and then on Finish. You should now have an icon for your application on the desktop. Double-click on it to launch the application, and try all its features to make sure they work.
Once you've confirmed that the application works, double-check that your uninstall script works:
Go to Computer -> PC-BSD Settings -> Remove Programs and remove your program. When that finishes, make sure there is no longer a directory for your application in /usr/local/MyPrograms/.
If you get an error when you launch your program, double-check the contents of the subdirectory for your application under /usr/local/MyPrograms/. If you're missing subdirectories or files, check for a typo in your install script that prevented the tarball from untarring. Likewise, if your application directory remains after uninstalling the program, you have a typo in your uninstall script.
If all the files seem to be there, you may have inadvertently missed running lib.sh on one of the executables and therefore have some missing libraries. Review your history, and if you find your error, add the missing libraries, regenerate a PBI, and test again.
Sometimes the application will launch but features will be missing. In the example of Digikam, the initial splash screen was missing, as were most of the menus. That happens when an application shares files with existing applications such as KDE. To find those files, I checked out the package list for Digikam online.
It was the share files I missed. Because I don't want to interfere with existing applications or copy files outside the self-contained application directory, I used symbolic links. I like to add links one at a time at the command line and relaunch the application to see what happens. Once I knew which symbolic links added the missing features, I added them to PBI.SetupScript.sh and regenerated the PBI. In the case of Digikam, the following links added the missing features. (On the command line, replace
$1 with the name of the directory, as
$1 will work only in the script.)
% ln -s /usr/local/MyPrograms/$1/applications/kde/showfoto.desktop \
% ln -s /usr/local/MyPrograms/$1/share/applnk/Graphics/digikam.desktop \
% ln -s /usr/local/MyPrograms/$1/share/apps/digikam/ \
% ln -s /usr/local/MyPrograms/$1/share/icons/hicolor/ \
Note: don't forget the trailing
/ when creating directory symbolic links.
Finally, if your application relies on GTK+ or Pango, follow the directions on the GTK+ and Pango PBI packaging page.
Once you've tested your PBI, you can submit it for inclusion on the PC-BSD site so other PC-BSD users can use it.
This is a two-step process. Start by posting a message to the PBIs ready for test wiki; make sure your posting includes the required PBI information. If the PBI testers run across any problems with your PBI, they will reply to your posting. Otherwise, they'll let you know when the PBI is approved and added to the pbiDIR website.
Next, upload your PBI to a FTP server. If this is your first PBI, click on the private message button on the PBI team profile. The PBI team will send you the login information you will need to access the ftp server.
If you haven't had a chance to check out PC-BSD for yourself, I highly recommend it as a desktop for both advanced and casual BSD users. If there currently isn't a PBI for your favorite application, set aside an afternoon and see if you can generate one yourself. You'll find it to be a very satisfying, and possibly addictive, experience.
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
Read more FreeBSD Basics columns.
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This past weekend we attended a 100th Anniversary Homecoming combined with the Redneck Games at Major, in west central Saskatchewan. This is Holly's home community, while my own early school days and our joint farming years occurred just down the road at Superb. One highlight of the weekend was the Edmonds family winning the Redneck Slow Pitch Tourney. Another was the parade, where our granddaughters rode in a float representing their great-great-great grandfather's store that at one time claimed a place on Main Street. And much was made of the fireworks display, "as good as the Calgary Stampede!"
Sunday morning included an ecumenical worship service. I had been asked to do a little reminiscing about Superb Mennonite Church, one of the area churches. Those remarks follow.
Though I haven't lived in this part of the world for more than 20 years, Major continues to hold a significant place in my life. After all, I found my life's partner here, among you.
Another place that is very significant to me is Superb Mennonite Church, about eight miles east and a little south from here. The person that I swiped from this community and I were married there in 1972.
It's probably fair to say that in my growing up years, Superb Mennonite had a very "family" feeling for me. That just could have been because the minister was my grandfather, that all four of my grandparents were in the congregation, along with a whole whack of uncles and aunts, and about a thousand cousins. I expect that on any given Sunday, about three quarters of the gathered faithful were family.
My grandfather, Reverend Peter Warkentin, was a gentle, peace loving man, and, probably not surprisingly, the church he led took on those qualities as well. Grandpa's first language was German, and sermons and family conversations were carried out in that language. But Grandpa could see that his grandchildren were being socialized in English, and he certainly didn't want to stand in the way of that changing reality. When it was time, he stepped down from leadership gracefully.
That gentle way of being and doing church was evident as I went through those years where I felt the need to make a bit of a different statement, to define myself differently from the quiet and obedient minister's grandchild that I had always been. Some of those stories have been retold enough that they're barely recognizable, why there's even one about somebody sneaking one of mom's pies to church in a coat sleeve and eating it with cousins in the balcony during a worship service. If you knew my mom's pies, there was truly reason to give thanks!
When a particularly long winded traveling preacher expounded, bets were made in that same balcony as to when the sermon would finally wrap up. But we all admitted defeat when he was finally, finally done, and with much giggling, all the change was dumped into the offering plate, under the suspicious gaze of Uncle Henry.
There's also an ugly rumour of champagne being swiped, but that could never happen on a Sunday morning in a Mennonite church yard, could it?
The church waited patiently while I carried on with whatever degree of outrageousness felt important at the time. When I was ready, they warmly made a place for me and my family, even though, in those outrageous years, I had convinced an Anglican gal to share a life with me. There was room for Holly as well.
Mennonites have probably historically kept to themselves to a degree. That was complicated a little when we held our barn raising bees, or our cementing bees, or our Christmas Eve church service, and "English" neighbours kept showing up. Our community soon realized that there were fine folks all around us, and that our lives, and indeed, our spirituality, were only made richer through these relationships.
Possibly some of you remember the accidental death of my cousin, Norm Wiebe, in 1990. At his funeral in our crowded little country church, Father Glenn Zimmer, a neighbour and friend from just down the road, came and offered some words of comfort and hope. Hearing Glenn's warm words about who God is during hard times undoubtedly played a part in my decision a few years later to leave the farm and the community and pursue some pastoral directions as well. I felt a need to get to know the God that Glenn described.
Superb Mennonite continues to offer gentle spiritual care and encouragement, though the numbers are smaller now. The church isn't as filled with my family anymore, as is the way of tiny rural settings. But it is still a good place to be, still feels like family, still reaches back to those historical roots of warmth and acceptance. It continues to equip folks to go into the world confidently and gently.
Superb Mennonite Church holds my spiritual roots.
Ed Olfert is a Prince Albert freelance writer.


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The Pharmaceutical Sciences are generally divided into the following subdivisions:
- Pharmacology: the study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs on organisms
- Pharmacodynamics: the study of the cellular and molecular interactions of drugs with their receptors
- Toxicology: the study of the harmful or toxic effects of drugs
- Pharmacokinetics: the study of the factors that control the concentration of drug at various sites in the body
- Pharmaceutics: the study and design of drug dosage forms for optimal delivery, stability, pharmacokinetics, and patient acceptance
- Medicinal Chemistry: the study of drug design to optimize the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and synthesis of new drug candidates
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"People are so obsessed with how much vert they're getting," says Glen Plake. "It's stupid. Turn off the vert meter. Take the time to enjoy each run. Every ski hill is different, and 99 percent don't have massive bowls, miles of grooming or a high-speed heated quad. That's not what makes a ski area," insists Plake. And that's not lip service. Skiing's original shock jock—known for skiing the biggest, gnarliest lines on earth—has been visiting the country's rinky-dinkiest, locals-only ski areas every winter since 1991 and ripping it up with racer kids, newbies and guys still skiing in rear-entry boots. Plake says it's a privilege. Here's his take on how to have a great day on the slopes, even when the mountain is more of a molehill.
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W.Va. going to the dogs, horses
For years, some people maintained we West Virginians were allowing ourselves to be victimized by what at one time were called "the interests." Coal companies, it was said, had governors and legislators under their thumbs. More recently, some have suggested chemical firms, along with oil and gas drillers, ought to be added to "the interests."
Well, maybe they're right – but are pointing their fingers in the wrong direction.
Think about it: What coal baron would have the nerve to demand the state pay out $92 million a year to subsidize his industry? What gas driller or chemical company has the nerve to insist West Virginians cannot live without it?
Last spring, reporter Casey Junkins looked into the haul – and that's the word for it – reaped by the dog and horse racing industries in West Virginia. He found the total was about $92 million a year.
Most of that, about $66 million, goes to the horse folks. During the year before Junkins investigated, they raked in nearly $57 million to fund "purses" for winners at the racetracks in Chester and Charles Town. Another $9 million went to thoroughbred breeders.
Dog racers at the Wheeling and Cross Lanes tracks are not exactly shortchanged. Their industry received $20 million in money for "purses" and another $6 million for breeders. Incidentally, one of the breeders, Freda Tomblin, happens to be the governor's mother. During 2012, she received $220,495 from the breeders fund.
The money comes from legalized gambling at the four tracks. It is raked off – by law – to go to the racing industry.
And the horse- and dog-racing industries benefit from another section of state law: The four tracks cannot operate their gambling casinos and machines unless they offer horse or dog racing. The casinos themselves are a state-sanctioned monopoly, but that's a story for another day.
As I've pointed out previously, money now diverted to the dog and horse racers could do an enormous amount of good for West Virginia. How many new schools would that much money build?
Or how much of a pay raise could the state give school teachers with $92 million a year?
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and leaders in the Legislature finally have worked up enough courage to take a tiny bite out of the racers' pot of gold. Desperation – a state budget dramatically out of balance – prompted them to propose the breeders funds be reduced by about 15 percent. But that's a one-time thing.
Rest assured, those in the racing industry and their highly capable lobbyists already have been stalking the corridors of the Capitol, warning of doom and gloom if the cuts go through. Why, the tracks have to have dog and horse racing to attract gamblers, they insist.
Nonsense. When they are being candid, some in the casino business admit they could do without racing quite nicely. A few even say they'd be happier if it went away.
Think about "the interests" of the past. Indeed, coal barons in the past were known to use state government to block unionization, fight proposals to keep miners safer, and lobby against changes needed to safeguard our soil, water and air.
But how many of them would have had the gall to ask for state laws requiring, in effect, that their industry exist? How many would have thought they could get away with seeking $92 million a year in state subsidies?
That $92 million a year would just about close the hole in the state budget. Yet Tomblin and lawmakers are content merely to reduce the racers' take. What does that say about the power the industry wields in Charleston?
Yes, indeed, West Virginians are being victimized by "the interests." But they may not be who you think they are.
Coal operators are under fire from President Barack Obama's administration. Maybe the mining companies need to buy some race horses and greyhounds.
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FHA To Issue Annual Report
By Chris Arnold • Nov 15, 2011
The Federal Housing Administration today issues its annual report to Congress. A Wharton School professor is warning the FHA's problems are worse than the agency is letting on. The professor predicts that taxpayers will have to provide another multi billion dollar bailout if the economy doesn't improve soon.


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I like Mike Bibby. Hes better then Douglast
He's gotten a lot of flak this season (not much hate or anything, didn't play enough to), people said he could barely move, etc., but out of all our PGs he probably makes the least mistakes. I hope he becomes the permanent back-up for the rest of the season. He handles the ball well, doesn't try to get fancy, has made some nice passes, doesn't take a lot of shots, and ya never know, his shot might come back. He's not slow, just hasn't had the shooting in a long time. Otherwise I feel confident when he's on the floor.
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I like Mike Bibby. Hes better then Douglast
He also now beats out Bosh as the most unintentionally funniest player in the league after the jokes and him looking like Eminem in nyk_nyk's sig.
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I gotta agree. He is no where near as mistake prone as BDiddy right now. Smart heady player. You could make an argument to start him.
BDiddy hasnt caught on that he cant make the plays that he did as a kid. His reaction time is off by a tick. He has to adjust and stop trying to make the great play every time he's on the court...
Mike Bibby proving zombies do exist.
I mean for a corpse, he was kinda alive tonight
Bibby is far from great at this stage, but with Baron Davis playing like horse**** (apart from that one fluke-game) we honestly need to talk about who our starting PG in the Playoffs should be.
I think Bibby fits the job better at this point. He seems to be more solid and makes less mistakes. He won't score, but I can live with that as long as he can do the things a PG is supposed to do. Davis on the other hand either turns the ball over, takes a stupid shot where he hits the front of the rim or makes a mistake on defense...
A shame about Lin, with him we could be pretty good right now.
I never understood why we didn't go for Iverson. He's still better than every healthy PG on our roster and we took the gamble on J.R. Smith character wise, so why not Iverson too?
I feel like PG is what's holding us back from winning a Playoff series this year.
We're back to where we were at the beginning of the season, running the team w/o a PG. If D'Antoni were still running the team we would have a 5 game losing streak and blaming the injury to Stat and a washed up BD for it. Thank god for Woody.
Bibby is trusted by woodson to go out there, not turn the ball over, pass to the right player and set up a play in the half court. His shooting has dropped off significantly but could come back with some work, but we don't ask him to shoot much so it's probably best that he just plays his game like this.
Bibby steps on the court and slows the pace down and brings somewhat vet leadership thats about it, maybe he'll give you one or two three pointers within 5 games.
Bibby had a nice game vs Boston all of a sudden he's a nice backup PG lol just a few days ago some of you were screamin for Toney Douglas to get back out there.
I dont have anything against bibby at all, but if you dont got it anymore you just dont got it.
I rather be called a landry Fields hater than anything, I bash him just about every game with no hesitation =p
If Bibby can just be more consistent with his 3 point shot, then most people would not mind playing him every game.
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As long as he does very little to hurt us I'm ok with him. I don't expect anything other than him bringing the ball up and passing it off. Made shots and a few assists are bonuses to me.
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Woman dies in Upshur car accident
A 22-year old woman died from injuries suffered in a three-vehicle accident along Corridor H in Buckhannon Thursday night.
According to a press release from the Buckhannon Police Department, Porscha Heston of Carolina was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital following the accident at the intersection of U.S. Route 33 and WBUC Road in which two vehicles struck Heston's 1998 Oldsmobile. The accident occurred at about 7:38 p.m.
According to the press release, Heston was exiting the WBUC Road, crossing U.S. Route 33 East when a 1986 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Carl Mick of Weston reportedly struck the driver's side of her car. Heston's car then traveled across Route 33 into the westbound lane where it was reportedly struck by a 2006 Ford Ranger driven by Colton Hall of Weston.
An 8-year-old boy riding in the back of Heston's vehicle was transported to St. Joseph's Hospital, according to the press release. Information about his condition was unavailable.
Mick reportedly suffered minor injuries and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital.
Buckhannon Police Chief Matt Gregory said weather does not appear to have been a factor in the accident, but added that the investigation is continuing.
He is asking anyone with information about the accident to contact the Buckhannon Police Department by calling 304-472-5723 or go to www.buckhannonpolice.com.
The Upshur County Emergency Medical Service, the Warren District Vol. Fire Department, the Buckhannon Fire Department and the Upshur County Sheriff's Office also responded to the accident scene.


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Each day when the Legislature is in session, busloads of school children come from throughout the state to witness democracy in action.
Let's hope none of those impressionable youngsters were in attendance on the final morning, when the House squelched debate, ignored the clock and muscled through a 35-page bill that only a handful of members had the chance to read before voting on.
It wasn't exactly the way they teach it in civics class, but the bill will make New Mexico's tax structure more competitive with neighboring states.
It will phase in a reduction in the state's corporate income tax rate from 7.6 percent to 5.9 percent over five years, give a break to state-based manufacturers that sell most of their goods or services outside New Mexico and increase rebates to 30 percent for television series that shoot at least six episodes in the state. To offset some of the revenue loss, it also reduces certain business tax incentives.
We believe this tax reform will help in the always competitive process of trying to lure new businesses with good-paying jobs to our state.
The bill represents a last-minute compromise hammered out between Gov. Susana Martinez and legislative leadership. Its passage salvaged what has been a frustrating session for the governor, as most of the high-profile initiatives she had outlined in her State of the State Address went down to defeat. And, it ended threats by Martinez that she would veto the budget and call lawmakers back in a special session.
There were other notable successes as well.
Topping that list for our area is a lawsuit liability bill for parts suppliers at Spaceport America that will put us on a more level playing field with other fledgling private space-launch facilities throughout the country. The bill had been defeated last year, due in part to a lobbying effort by the state Trial Lawyers Association. This year, spaceport officials and the trial lawyers were able to reach an agreement ahead of the session on a compromise.
Also this year, lawmakers and the governor reached agreement on a health insurance exchange the state will set up as part of the federal Affordable Care Act.
Perhaps the most contentious issue of the session was not a piece of legislation, but rather the ongoing saga of Education Secretary designate Hanna Skandera. For the first time in three years, the Senate Rules Committee finally held confirmation hearings for Skandera this session — but still no vote. We suppose that could be considered a win for the governor, but are reluctant to name any winners in a soap opera that has done nothing but marginalize the secretary and make a mockery of the confirmation process.
Other education reform bills sought by the governor were defeated, as was her third attempt to prevent immigrants in the country illegally from getting a driver's license.
A bill to raise the minimum wage garnered a great deal of attention this session. While it passed both houses, it seems destined for a veto by Martinez. What other bills fall to the governor's pen remains to be seen. It is only after the signing process is complete that we will be able to get a complete picture of what was done this session.
But it does appear that the session was more productive than it seemed like it would be going into the final days.
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Some of the best and brightest future business leaders in our area went head to head Wednesday in a simulation.
It's the fourth year of the Junior Achievement Competition.
48 students from La Crosse, Onalaska Luther, West Salem, and Bangor are assigned a business industry. The two person teams take on the role of CEO and handle all the company's decisions.
They were paired up with actual business people from the community.
As the students strived to do better business than their competitors, they said it was a great real world simulation. "You've gotta think what kind of things you have to do and what you have to put out there in order for people to make a profit, to sell the product to the people," said Bangor senior Molly Arentz.
The winners from the competition were Chad Seitz and Christian Schran from West Salem. They both receive a $500 scholarship and advance to the state competition next month.
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Emergency Operations Center, Bethel, NY – Sullivan County Manager David Fanslau issued the following statement: "A limited State of Emergency remains in effect through 12:01 AM Thursday regarding the gasoline purchases. We are in the process of communicating with fuel suppliers to determine whether that will need to remain in effect, or could be rescinded. We had a conference call at 11:00 with NYSEG, and we have a call at 4:00 this afternoon with County and Town officials.
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o White Lake Fire Department (noon-6pm)
o Monticello Fire Department (noon-6pm)
o Lumberland Town Hall (ongoing)
o Village of Woodridge Municipal Hall
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o O&R – 1491
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o Neversink Fire Department (Water refill, warming)
o Lumberland Town Hall (8am-5pm)
o Thompson Town Hall
o Ted Stroebel Building (Jefferson St, Monticello) Warming only
o Smallwood Fire Department
o Village of Woodridge Municipal Hall (Food, water, warming, dry ice)
o American Legion Ambulance Bldg (showers and food)
o Literacy Volunteers of Sullivan County, 36 North St Monticello (warming 8 AM to 8 PM, can accommodate 50 people, call to reserve; Connie Keller on Sunday (845)866 8713, or the Literacy Office on Monday 794 0017)
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Bedlam! Yay!
Get ready world, the Second City is about to take second stage (duh, the Cardinals and Tigers are playing) as Ozzie Guillen and his White Sox make their annual vomit inducing trip to that sacred dump on the Northside, Wrigley Field. Emergency rooms from East Chicago to Oak Park, all the way up to Waukegan are expecting a full flow of the black and blued.
The only bad thing about this series is that it's simply too short — and, for whatever lame reason (to curb unwanted drunken injuries perhaps?) the schedule puts chapter one of the 2009 Crosstown Classic on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday rather than stage the regular weekend raucous which often leads to… well, death. Insatiable bloodsuckers like myself will have to find another way…
Still, this will be a memorable occasion. Think Bob Probert with fangs versus Chris Chelios with brass knuckles, both of them drunk enough to do Phyllis Diller in a well lit room. To celebrate the awesome combination of equally bitter/mediocre clubs sharing this fine city, we would like to continue what has become an RSBS tradition, with the sacred presentation of the worst rap song ever made:
"Black and blue, daz wha you gonna be!"
"Oh, yeah? It's the Crosstown Ri-val-ry!"
No ball game — no matter how poorly played or mismanaged or lackadaisical — could be more embarrassing than that.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
*Remember, starting tonight, the Cardinals try to put an end to the blasphemy spewed by my Tiger-lovin' colleague, Mr. Krause, and his incessant yet feeble attempts at revisionist history. You had your Denny McLain, Mr. Krause. We had our Wainwright. Get over it.
**Special shout-out to Tom Walsh from Rocky Mountain Way for taking the time to meet with me on Monday. Good times. Post to come.
***Oh, and a special thank you to Sammy Sosa for making this Crosstown Classic buzz with juicy revelations!
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Trust me Jeff, people get confused when you break out the hockey comments.
Yes, that would be the worst rap ever. Maybe if it wasn't Piniella, it might be better. Actually, I take that back. It would be bad no matter who the managers were. But it still makes me wish I was in Chicago for the Crosstown Classic. 😦
Are you going to this love fest, Jeff? Sounds like it'll be great blogging material.
I think Ozzie said it best: "It might be the battle of who's the worst in town". And what's with all the day games at Wrigley? Is there some sort of curfew on the North Side?
Prince — You're right. I should know better. Still, doesn't everyone know Probert and Chelios?
Jen — Raining now… hope it makes the blood flow a little lighter this Crosstown Classic😉
Jane — Not going tonight. Watching at a White Sox bar on Southside. Next two games are days games and I gotta work. Catching them at the Park though next weekend.
Erin — If you haven't been, Erin, yeah. I seriously think that's what's going on. The wasted drunkard to normal baseball fan ratio is super high during day games, a hundred times worse at night.
Julia, agreed!
Lori — I know the feeling. Chicago, love it or hate it, leaves everyone longing…
At least your Cardinals beat the Tigers, Jeff. How many times has Albert been walked? Yikes.
49 times so far, Jane. I know. He also has 23 HRs and just 25 Ks. Amazing. Tell me he ain't a perennial MVP.
Good pun at the end there, Jeff. Cross-Town Classic is always a great series– I need to get myself to Chicago.


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Complaining gets a bad rap, but it's actually a pretty important skill: We're identifying problems, and we have to identify problems before we can solve them. If no one smells the proverbial fart, then it's impossible to identify the perpetrator and start slipping proverbial powdered Beano into their proverbial Crunch Wrap Supreme when they aren't looking.
But the problem is that complaining is just too much damn fun. We're so used to indulging in it that we've stopped paying our complaints the attention they deserve, and we've started sneaking gas-prevention pills into the wrong fast food. My point is that it's time to change the way we mumble bitterly to ourselves about ...
4 Being "Facebook Stalked"
What We Complain About:
Like any social environment, Facebook comes with a whole bunch of unwritten rules about conduct. You don't "Like" posts about your neighbor's kid being eaten by a huge reptile in your apartment's lobby, you don't "Comment" on posts from people wondering how a creature like that got into the building in the first place, and you don't "Post" your frustration about how hard it is to find a litter box big enough for your huge, green, scaly, and surprisingly water-friendly cat.
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Her name's Loki.
But the most important rule (or at least the only one that everyone agrees on) is about Facebook stalking: It's not cool to dig through someone's old pictures and like stuff from several years ago, and it's way worse to bring up all the stuff you learned about your friends from their profile in real life. Only a total creep would do that.
The Problem:
Here's an uncomfortable fact: Every picture you have on your Facebook profile has been stalked, multiple times, by everyone. All your friends, exes, former professors, employers, acquaintances, friends-of-friends, and prospective OKCupid dates have seen every picture of you there is. In fact, Facebook stalking is what Facebook is for -- so much so that some think the website is actually training us to be voyeurs.
Remember, the whole point of Facebook is connectivity, so complaining about privacy on it is just, like, the weirdest goddamn thing. At the end of the day, Facebook is basically just a weird blog platform, right? And yet it has somehow convinced us to think of it as a private place to put our personal information -- even though it's on the Internet. Seriously, how insane is it that we all fell for that? Thank God Mark Zuckerberg didn't go into drug dealing.
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"Don't worry, this shit's totally safe. It's like the Facebook of heroin."
Why do we keep doing this? I think it's because we've convinced ourselves that we can get that thrill of exhibitionism that comes with sharing something without having to face the consequences of people remembering and reacting to that stuff. We think that pictures, like memories, fade with time. And every time we catch one of our friends Facebook stalking, we're getting mad at them for reminding us that we gave up all our privacy in exchange for the opportunity to conveniently stay connected to people we don't actually like.
3 Asking "Why Isn't Flirting Simpler?"
What We Complain About:
Getting people to want to fuck you is one of the most strange and nuanced games in the world. First one sexy person starts what seems like a totally innocuous conversation (perhaps by making a casual reference to how they think cats are a pretty great pet). Then the other person replies with an appropriate comment (saying they agree, maybe praising cats' elegant ability to stalk and kill water buffalo). Finally, bam: It's Get-Friendly-With-Your-Genitals Time.
Taking your date out for sushi is a good way to show that you're not picky about what goes in your mouth.
That is ... as long as you know "the secrets." You know the secrets I'm talking about. The "flirting secrets" that we've decided a certain percentage of the population isn't allowed to know. Flirting and getting people to have sex with you is an ancient and closely guarded secret, which is why there are so few people who manage to procreate.
The Problem:
There are no flirting secrets, and it's not even really its own skill. In fact, according to science, flirting is pretty much the same for absolutely everyone who indulges in it. Rather than being a talent in itself, flirting is just a subconscious demonstration of skills and traits we have and are proud of (which is why really muscular people will flex or pose, wealthy people will flash their expensive watches or make reference to their nice cars, and smart people will be charmingly funny. Wink).
(I just winked at you.)
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"But I get nervous every time I flirt!" Yes, but that's not because you're bad at flirting; it just means you get nervous around new people. You're not actually lacking an ability. People who pick people up in bars a lot aren't doing that because they practiced flirting on weekends all through high school, but also because they're comfortable around people they want to bone and have other traits that give them a lot of sex appeal. "Practicing flirting" wouldn't even make sense anyway, because there are no universal flirting techniques to practice -- some women aren't actually all that into smooth-talking Joseph Gordon-Levitt types (I know you don't believe me, but I've met these women, and they're real). Think about it this way: The "flirting" talent is a perk, not a skill, and not a prerequisite for a happy life full of bruised crotches.


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American University in Beirut - Lebanon - Middle Eastern MBA
AUB is one of the region's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning. It has been offering business education for more than 100 years, initially as part of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and since 2000, through its stand-alone School, the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.
- Continuously reviewed and updated programmatic content, benchmarked against international best-practices in graduate management education
- Rigor of admission standards unparalleled in the region
- Alignment with AACSB accreditation standards, whose fulfillment is a strategic target of the program
- Maintaining a careful balance between a holistic core and a flexible menu of focused concentration electives
- Academic computing and technical support that ensures maximum e-learning opportunities
- An explicit focus on leadership, in keeping with the AUB tradition of producing corporate and business executive talent of the finest caliber
- An educational process that is student-driven, team-based and group-oriented
- on-going assessment of learning outcomes geared toward continuous improvement
Programs InfoPrograms Offered: MBA, Executive MBA
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MBA: Full Time or Part-Time
Executive MBA: Part -time format: (Thursday, Friday and Saturday ) 3 days every 3 weeks
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MBA: September (Fall) and January (Spring)
Executive MBA: September (Fall ) and/or March(Spring)
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MBA: 18 months to 48 months
Executive MBA: 20 months
Student Body (MBA)Ratio of Applicants to Places: 100 applicants to 30 places
% Women: 44
% Non-Lebanese: 4
Age Range: 23-30
Average Age: 27
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Average class size: 20
% Women: 17
% Non Lebanese: 25
Age Range: 30 - 50
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% residing outside Lebanon: 52
AdmissionsMBA:Degree: Bachelor's Degree from an appropriately accredited University
Minimum TOEFL: 583
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Minimum GPA: 80%
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Bachelor's degree from an appropriately accredited University (all transcripts required)
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MBA (48 credits – including foundation courses): US$ 41,000
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Dividing Your Assets Between Stocks, Bonds and Cash
Step 1: Why Is the Allocation of My Assets Important?
At first glance, many investors assume that the basic asset allocation decision is easy. After all, at this level you are focusing on only three choices—stocks, bonds and cash (money market funds and short-term certificates of deposit).
While the choices are few, the way you allocate your portfolio among these three categories will have by far the greatest impact on your performance of any investment decision you make, assuming that you don't violate the basic investment principles.
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Why Is the Allocation of My Assets Important?
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Why? If you follow basic investment principles—and in particular are well-diversified within each category—you will eliminate many of the specific risk characteristics that are unique to a single investment. Most of what will remain, however, are the broad risk and return characteristics of the overall category. For instance, assuming you have a well-diversified stock portfolio of, say, 20 stocks, your decision several years ago to invest in IBM instead of Apple may have caused you to kick yourself once or twice, but it will have cost you far less than a decision several years ago to invest only 10% of your total portfolio in the stock market and the remainder in cash investments.
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Ozzy Osbourne through the years
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With Ozzy Osbourne turning 67 on Thursday, let's take a look back at the rocker's career, from Black Sabbath to today.
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Garry Schofield to coach South Africa
Posted 12 July 2010 - 07:40 PM
Posted 12 July 2010 - 07:54 PM
"Right lads, todays game is absolutely rubbish, and you're not nearly as good as the players of the 70s and 80s. Here's a jar of wintergreen and four orange segments, let's go discuss why the 6 tackle rule was a bad idea."
Posted 12 July 2010 - 07:55 PM
Good news. We seem to be exporting our more colourful characters.
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Widnes Vikings also to get a franchise - RIGHT
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 09:39 PM
Bad news if you play for the South African national team though.
Posted 12 July 2010 - 09:43 PM
Theres more than enough comment on here doubting that the game exists at all in South Africa.
Does this, and the recent BARLA tour, finally add some credence to the efforts there?
Or is it just easier to mock Garry Schofield for being old school?
Posted 12 July 2010 - 09:49 PM
sounds good schoey has a wealth of experience and the climes of J'sberg and durban will be better than south leeds!
next time our lass goes back to her native city i will be treated to a SARL shirt rather than the usual union 'stormers' tripe!
kelly as Ireland coach, goulding in france, schoey in S.A who's up next.... send them aussies home!
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 10:12 PM
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 10:12 PM
it does seem to be the default setting for some on here whenever Garry's name pops up.
And everyone's always very quick to accuse the media of being lazy when it comes to RL
So regardles of what I think on his views of the game I'd like to wish him luck
Posted 13 July 2010 - 10:16 AM
Surely it'd be more like "Right, hands up anyone from Lancashire or Yorkshire! What, none of you? You shouldn't be playing Rugby League, then. I'd advise you to give up, 'cause it'll never work out."
"I always enjoyed it more if there was a body or two lying about, it made the job a bit more interesting" Vince Karalius
Posted 13 July 2010 - 10:54 AM
One, the story wasn't a Guardian story. It broke in League Express on Monday morning.
Second, the totally unjustified criticism of Garry Schofield that appears on threads like this.
Having sat with Garry earlier this year at the World Club Challenge game, and discussed the match with him as it went on, I can say without any doubt that his insight into the game is as good as that of any other coach I have yet come across. Garry pointed out lots of things about that game that I wouldn't otherwise have noticed.
The idea that he trashes the modern game with reference to when he played is ridiculous. But he isn't afraid to be critical when he feels that players deserve to be criticised.
In my opinion Garry would have been a top coach by now, if he hadn't been thrust into the job at Huddersfield in the early days of Super League when he was too inexperienced for the responsibility he was given.
As we often find in this country, when you get the push from one job, you don't usually get a second chance elsewhere.
But it bugs me to see unjustified criticism of a bloke who always played brilliantly for GB against the Aussies, and probably enjoyed more wins against them than any other player in the modern era.
Posted 13 July 2010 - 11:24 AM
Posted 13 July 2010 - 11:34 AM
From what I remember of the story Garry was stitched up more than a bit in his first foray into coaching. Let's hope he can bring the South Africans along a bit.
"I always enjoyed it more if there was a body or two lying about, it made the job a bit more interesting" Vince Karalius
Posted 13 July 2010 - 12:25 PM
From what I remember of the story Garry was stitched up more than a bit in his first foray into coaching. Let's hope he can bring the South Africans along a bit.
Just to clarify, my post wasn't aimed at your posting, but at the more general tone that you also responded to.
Posted 13 July 2010 - 12:45 PM
Having laughed at how odd it seems for him to be coaching an emerging nation, I hope he gives it a good go and is a great success. If he then grows to appreciate that emerging parts of the league world need a disproportionate amount of help that would be no bad thing.
Posted 13 July 2010 - 12:51 PM
Oh for gods sake Martyn get over it.
Garry's moaning is well known within the game, it was a tongue in cheek post and he isn't a precious little flower.
Posted 13 July 2010 - 01:10 PM
That's your opinion though, and what do you know?
Does he still shave his sideys right up above his temples?
Posted 13 July 2010 - 07:25 PM
Posted 13 July 2010 - 09:40 PM
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 09:58 PM
If he is as knowledgable about the modern game as Martyn suggests then he should try giving us his insight into it rather than his constant harping back to his past.
Maybe he should have a column in League Express everyweek where he gives his insight into a game that week without using "when I".
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 11:43 AM
IMO RL is missing the boat with South Africa, that's more aimed at Australian clubs then SL clubs. Last year Roosters signed a South African teenager and I can't see why NRL clubs aren't looking there for some young gems. NRL clubs shouldbe looking to PNG and South Africa a hell of alot more thna they do already, people complain about lack of talent yet there is a country of 6 million who are RL nuts untapped but no club can really be bothered going over and looking for the best. South Africa have alot of juniors who may not fancy their chances of making one of the 4 Super Rugby franchises and be willing to try something new. Do this and in 5 years they is a crop of players from each country coming through which will improve their national teams.
Another thing they should be looking at is staging trial games there with the eventual aim of taking the odd regular season game there. Maybe one of the newly built stadiums will be looking for events to host that's where an NRL club could offer up a game. The most important thing is get trial games there. The Broncos seem to have the strongest connection to South Africa, so maybe them V Storm, Dragons, Rabbits etc or perhaps even get English clubs envolved. How about Wigan V Broncos and market it as "the World's two biggest Rugby League clubs" or something.
FFS the AFL is doing more development work abroad that the NRL and it's clubs...
anyway that's my thinking out loud done.
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