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December 12, 2013
With Texas A&M opening up Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park this Friday, construction continues to be at a fever pitch.
On February 3rd, we showed you what the stadium looked like with two weeks to go till the season opener. Now with just four days to go, the progress is incredible.
Most of the exterior brick work is now done and crews are working on the stadium grounds.
Now there's still plenty of work to be done inside the stadium. Not a single seat has been installed in the upper deck as of yet and construction crews are finishing up the press box.
The playing field is ready to go for Friday's opener and despite the fact Blue Bell Park may not be completely done, the game will still be played in the new stadium.
This Wednesday on KBTX News 3, we'll have an inside look at the new Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.

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Finding a 'Lost and Found' room for the whole of Dublin
Posted on Monday, November 01, 2010 at 05:23 AM
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It started on Saturday night, when I left my laser card in the card machine at a music venue where my friend's band was performing. Somewhere between typing in the digits on a keypad, and hearing the first blast of the brass section, I left the darned thing behind me.
The following day(after going through two bags of garbage, piece by piece, and tearing up the house), I realized what had happened, and immediately contacted the venue to see if I could come pick up my card. But the woman on the phone referred me to a company that "takes care of that for us." A company to deal with their lost items? How many people lose that many things?
Apparently a lot. Or at least enough to support a business. Meet WeFoundIt: a 3-month old startup whose business it is to reunite people with their lost items.
Disheartened by the idea of having to contact a third party, but still hoping to find my card, I followed WeFoundIt.ie's instructions and submitted my claim online. I fully expected to wait for a week and not hear anything back. But lo and behold, within ten hours, my email inbox informed me that, indeed, WeFoundIt had found my lost item, and I could come pick it up that afternoon.
It was with delight, but more than a little inconvenience, that I took two buses to the company's office, which is tucked away in the back of a warehouse in the less-than-glamorous Jamestown Business Park in Finglas.
After reuniting me with my card, Richard McGuinness, founder of WeFoundIt, explained the way the company works.
WeFoundIt receives lost items from its clients – hotels, schools, nightclubs, car rental outfits, etc. – and stores them in its warehouse. For 5 Euro, people whose items have been found can pick up their lost items, or for an additional fee, have it shipped to their houses.
But McGuinness and his colleagues don't just store items until they're retrieved - they actually track down owners for each and every item they possibly can.
"We got a coat back on a dry cleaning tag one time," McGuinness offered excitedly, in a little room above WeFoundIt's massive storage space, before giving me a tour of the premises.
It was like a high school "lost and found" room, only for the entire city of Dublin.
Racks with clothes of every different shape and size imaginable; a stack of garbage bags labeled 'OxFam' and 'Electronic Recycling' in the corner, and rows of neat plastic boxes on shelving units holding shoes, purses, cell phones, passports, and the most random selection of people's possessions.
"I don't know what the heck that is," McGuinness said, looking at a 6-pack of black and red plastic water bottles in a milk-bottle carrying case on one of the shelving units. Moving on to a shelf with Wellington boots and nightclub-worthy ankle boots, he, naturally comical, observed, "We have a fair amount of odd shoes."
He then picked up a dirty, used-looking plastic tennis racket toy, played with it a little. While still swinging it back and forth, he admitted, some things may have been deliberately left behind.
"We hold everything regardless of its value," said McGuinness, "because it could be valuable to somebody."
The way the company works is somewhat like one of those companies that reunites long-lost relatives.
An item comes into the warehouse, the team works to get every scrap of identifying information it can about its owner, and then, staffers track that person down through any means possible – even sifting through Facebook and Myspace profiles.
If a laptop or USB storage device is found, for example, WeFoundIt staffers will search through files to find the owner's name in a document, on a playlist, etc., and then, they will contact the owner through his employers, school officials, or online social media profile.
It does smell of an invasion of privacy of sorts, but McGuinness assured me that he "met and discussed these issues with the data commissioner, and he gave me the thumbs up." Since the items are lost, technically, they are out of the owner's control anyway. Besides, he reasoned, most people would rather have their privacy invaded than lose all of their term papers or important documents because of a lost USB drive.
WeFoundIt has collected over 2000 items, and has reunited about 300 items with their owners, since the company took off in August, McGuinness estimated. He also said that about "60-70% of the owners, we have found." That is, the company has personally tracked down the majority of its customers, while the rarer cases are people who come to the company looking for the items they've lost.
Like a grandmother scolding her grandchild for not clearing his plate, McGuinness shook his head as he recalled the amount of valuables that were never been reclaimed by owners.
"In that Oxfam bag, there's Gant, Ralph Lauren, you know, some spanky stuff that nobody's bothered looking for," he said. "In a recession, you'd think people wold be more conscious."
McGuinness recounted hearing a potential transportation client mention that its lost and found contained things like Zimmer frames, walking sticks, and even, fake legs.
"I just don't understand," he pondered, "how could people get on at one end with a fake leg and not need it when they get off?"
Everything that isn't reclaimed by its owner after 8 weeks is, depending on the product, donated to OxFam, sent to textile recyclers, donated to electronic recyclers, or shredded; passports are sent back to the government, and laser cards are disposed of after the WeFoundIt team calls the bank to report them lost. Some of the electronics are sold for value after their hard drives or sim cards are shredded to retain privacy.
McGuinness' approach to the business is, in a charming way, as personal as it gets.
He said he often takes photos of his happiest customers after they've been reunited with their items(hence, the tagged photo). I've already been Facebook-friended and tagged in a photo by WeFoundIt.
During our meeting, McGuinness even mentioned one story about trying to return a missing wallet. He had tracked down a woman through the contents of her wallet, called her, and she confirmed that it was her lost item. She said she'd come and pick it up, but, even after several more phone calls, she never arrived.
"I took it as a personal affront that she hadn't bloody come in for it," he said, and despite the humorous way in which he relayed the story, he meant it.
Maybe it says something about our society that a company such as this even exists.
We have become so used to being hand-held and spoon-fed that we need somebody to track us down, tell us we've lost something, and that they'll hang onto it until we can come pick it up. Sometimes I think we behave more like spoiled children than responsible adults.
But then again, we all make mistakes. Forget appointments. Miss birthdays. And even, leave laser cards in machines when we're not paying attention. In this case, I'm all for someone, or some company, giving me a helping hand.
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Conjoly | Nov 20, 2010, 03:36 AM EST
Good idea. Good for Richard McGuinness
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Towngate | Nov 02, 2010, 07:35 PM EDT
Did you see Ireland in there, by any chance?
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Towngate | Nov 02, 2010, 07:34 PM EDT
(!)... by any chance?
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Towngate | Nov 02, 2010, 07:32 PM EDT
Did you see Ireland in there, chance?
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walter3ca | Nov 01, 2010, 05:37 PM EDT
"We have become so used to being hand-held and spoon-fed that we need somebody to track us down, tell us we've lost something, and that they'll hang onto it until we can come pick it up. Sometimes I think we behave more like spoiled children than responsible adults." Oh, so true. We never make mistakes. It is always someone else's fault.
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cavantown | Nov 01, 2010, 10:26 AM EDT
Glad you got your card back!
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antoman | Nov 01, 2010, 08:02 AM EDT
Reading this reminds me of the time I lost my dog years ago.Actually I did'nt lose her she lost herself.Anyway.I placed an advert in the lost and found section of my local newspaper.After a couple of days I received a phonecall from the paper asking would I like the advert/notice to continue.The dog was still missing so I said yes.A week passed and one day there was a knock at my door.It was a fella from the newspaper looking for money from me for the advert.My dog was at my feet as I stood at the door talking to the guy."I see the advert in our paper worked says he"..no says I,,"that dog came home of her own".I refused to pay at first for an advert that did'nt work but finally agreed to pay the fecker.
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D. Green to Michigan
Too bad that pic originated from a tTUN website...wish I had ran into her at OSU pregame festivities. I sure would have liked to stare at her....shirt;-)
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
"I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose."
Woody Hayes 1913 - 1987
I don't call him 0-4 Hart. I call him 0-5 Hart after his famous quote the week after scUM lost in the biggest upset in college football history (which of course scUM fans will try and argue that Stanford beating USC a few years back as a bigger upset YEAH RIIIIIIIIIIIGHT) to App State..... "I would rather lose to App State than Ohio State." He jagov what was your combinded record vs. App State and tOSU.... Yep that would be 0-5 you pathetic scumbag!
Because they wouldn't let me go for 3!
Woody Hayes 1913-1987
I know a guy who played at App. St. and was a freshman the year they played TTUN. The first time I met him, he was wearing an OSU hat. Knowing he wasn't from Ohio, I said I liked the hat but wondered why he was wearing it instead of an App. St. hat. His reply was, "We beat Michigan, so it's basically like we are Ohio State." I couldn't do anything but laugh. He made it seem like the entire team became OSU fans after that game.
It still blows my mind that they thought they could get a pulling guard around fast enough to block Clowney. They didn't even bother to chip him first, he just ran through untouched. Reminds me a bit of the WR screen we ran against Michigan from the 2 yard line that got Braxton destroyed. Sometimes OC's get too cute for their own good!
i don't think that's what they thought at all, althought i completely agree with you about OC's getting too cute. i read that there was a protection audible called on the line, and the walk-on tight end next to lewan missed the call. there's a decent chance clowney gets through anyway, but is at least slowed enough to possibly let smith secure the ball. either way, his helmet still pops off
and also, while i would be thrilled to see plays like this in THE GAME in the future, let's be realistic. we don't have anyone on our DL that even comes remotely close to clowney (yet). not to mention michigan isn't likely to be lining up too many 5'6" 180lb running backs very often
we don't have anyone on our DL that even comes remotely close to clowney (yet).
Not yet is right...we will though and it won't be that long till we do.
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
"I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose."
Woody Hayes 1913 - 1987
Can't believe people are this upset...with the defense we've been able to recruit last year and this, combined with our S&C and player dev. abilities, D. Green will prove to be nothing more than a nice tune-up for our defenses before our Big Ten title games.
I don't wish anything bad upon him, and he should know that even the best skunk bear HBs never beat the Bucks. He'll be a legend up there!
Urban Warfare
Good get for ttun. He should be a very good player. Had he signed with us we would have reacted as if it was the second coming of christ, but now hes apparently chopped liver because he signed with ttun. Thanks for bringing this information to our attention. Sorry that you werent treated better, but you gotta watch the "your mom" comments when you are not popular on the site. If you were popular, you could call someone a troll and get upvotes.
Still, it's pretty terrifying when you think about a Morris-Green backfield. Do you know that Morris averaged ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY-THREE yards per game and ONE touchdown as a senior? Oh what's that? He's a QUARTERBACK? Yeah, Green should be ready to get tackled behind the line of scrimmage. A lot.
I know it's not always a popular thing to say here, but it is good for the B1G. The conference needs more recruits of this nature spread throughout it...It's no good for OSU if the world sees B1G football as slightly better than the Big East...
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
Seems like a pretty easy choice. A team that's determined to have a power running game, has recruited something close to a dozen OL in the past two classes, and has no power running back. Definitely an important pick up for Michigan. Of course, they're about to lose Poggi to Bama. So, we can enjoy that meltdown instead.
Gotta say, not having Green in this class is a bit of a bummer for me. The kid was all S&G his whole life, and helped sway Curtis Grant here. I understand he didn't really fit Urban's system, and he didn't want to take more than one RB, but it would've been nice to see him playing for Ohio State.
Spilt milk. Kid's an animal for sure, & I imagine he'll do well there as they are growing into a pro-style offense. That's great for those dudes, but I'm more than content with our dudes...At least once a year, I'll be hoping for his stats to be in the negative column.
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
He's a good player. No one will say otherwise. Or doubt that. Hoke is doing a nice job of recruiting to win big ten titles. Same way tressel recruited. I know it was thought he wanted to be a buckeye come signing day. He wanted to play the game...elliott wanted in early. And urban decided that was enough for this class. Especially after he saw the way the guys on the roster already performed in the new offense. Elliotts skill set fits the offense in multiple facets. Green fits what tsun is trying to implement offensively. They got their back. We have ours. Raises the big ten recruiting profile a little bit as well. Won't change their fate come that 4th Saturday in november.
He would have been nice to have.
However, this will just improve TTUN and make them better competition for the rivalry.
As far as the kid has been S&G his whole life. I'm not sure if I buy that. Okay, he loves Eddie George. However, a kid that has been a buckeye his whole life would not want to play for TTUN.
I downvoted you because your comment was uncalled for. Its all in competitve nature. It wasn't like he was trolling or anything. We might hate Michigan but at least have some repsect for those Michigan fans who show it on 11W. Comments like
Urban will be pissing on u scum bums for years get used to it
...are not needed.
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Soooo.....you somehow believe the team/school someone roots for plays a role in whether or not that person is respectable...? Wow. I can tell I won't be able to convince you otherwise, so instead please allow me simply to congratulate you on successfully trolling a site devoted to your own favorite team. Well played.
Does the fact that he got a +1 bother you that much? He's entitled to opinion just as much as we all are. For the record he's a Mgoblog & 11W user just like I am and while we are rivals, it helps to put down your scarlet and gray glasses and see things from a different point of view. Lastly, who cares about his picture, are you really gonna bitch about it. If it makes you any happier go watch the banner incident video on youtube.
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I appreciate the post. I come on 11 warriors b/c I like to see what you guys are talking about and most of the time you are very respectful, even of Michigan fans and I respect that. Mgo gets a little crazy sometimes with all their talk, so sometimes it's refreshing to get on here and see what the other side are talking. I'm not too worried about if buckeyefan717 wants me here or not.
Not here to troll...Go Blue
Yeah, I'm with the above that I'm sorry that we cooled on him. Seemed like he was OSU all the way until that happened. I know I've gotta keep in mind that Urbs is recruiting for his offense, and to give it time. It's just going to be weird to me for a while that OSU is looking for "scatback" types that look more like Denard Robinson, while scUM is getting I-back types that look like Eddie George. Role reversal. I hope this works out for us, this kid is a stud...
Agree. Wish we could've had him. Everyone can say what they want, that our d-line is going to blow him up for the next 4 years, but their jobs would've been a lot easier without having to face him. Dude is a stud, no way around it. A big missing piece to their offense.
I'll say this in regards to what you've said here - I hope they don't strictly recruit smaller fast guys in the future either (although at 205lbs, Zeke is not exactly small) as Carlos Hyde worked out very well this year. Then you have Brionte & Rod Smith on board too, so there are some bruisers. It's always good to have a guy who can run right over people when needed & I do hope that tradition is around for a while at OSU. I think it will be..
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
I'm a fan of all 3 of the backs you mentioned above. Hyde more than proved his mettle down the stretch this year, Smith has shown a lot of what he can do (if he holds on to the ball), and I thought Bri'onte Dunn looked great when he got his chances. I'm with you, I hope that Urban noticed that his spread still works when you have a punishing style back. In some B1G games (MSU and scUM come to mind) it was Hyde who salted it away at the end for us with YAC first downs. I also hope we always have that. Maybe I've been stained by Mo Wells and Jaamal Berry, but I haven't seen the smaller-quick type back work yet for us. Maybe those guys would have worked in this offense too? Like I said, I'll give Elliott time and the benefit of the doubt, but it hurts to lose Green to scUM.
I agree that Urban will keep with the big backs. I remember him saying he used smaller backs at UF because he had Tebow as his power back. Now that he has XBRAX360, I think he keeps with the bruisers up the middle. Green told the staff he wanted to wait to commit, If he really wanted to be part of this class, he would be. We're stocked right now and '14 is loaded with power backs who have legit interest (Hurd, Chubb, etc.) Good luck to him playing for that poor excuse of a team for the next 4 years!!!
Do not get it. Just watched Greens highlight video from 2012, some eleven minutes. There has to be a wow factor in the #1 RB as some call him. Can someone watch this and tell me at what point he has an amazing run? Is it because he can run over people? At the 4:50 mark or so he gets caught from behind and tackled at the one yard line by a one hundred fifty pounder after an eighty yard run. He is supposed to be ultra fast, right? Keeping in mind he is a two hundred twenty pound muscled HSer and should break a few tackles but he should also show more for the rating he is given IMO. Zeke looks like a better back to me.
Not trying to belittle the kid just trying to justify how everyone gushes over him and how he is a five star recruit. He looks identical to Deveon Smith in running style and in fact, Smith shows more on film than Greene to me. I am glad he is going to ttun for the B1Gs sake. More likely for a bigger name recruit to pick OSU when seeing this and one less for the SEC to spout off about. Here's the link.
He ran a 4.58 at Nike according to JC Shurburtt from 247. His appeal isn't so much his speed as it is the rest of his intangibles (power, vision, cuts). He has enough speed to get by, though. I think he looks like he'll be a very solid RB, fits the mold you usually see in a Bama backfield.
Zeke definitely fits what we're doing better, though. But I would have loved to grab Green as well.
Amen, brother.
I've seen a bunch of his highlights and just see a solid back, nothing more. Great pickup for UM? Sure, especially when you factor in speed and size, and from what I've heard, coachability. I just don't see any wiggle or breakaway and, in my heart of hearts, I'm thinking that's what our staff saw as well when they got past all of the drooling recruiting sites and rated him themselves with our offense in mind. Don't be shocked in 2014 when Smith gets the PT and people start asking, "what ever happened to...?"
Don't get me wrong really love this years class so far, but would have been really great to land him. If there's any solice at least from our side we know we had a really strong chance to land him and we told him no. All that said, congrats to him going to a great school (even though I hate it) and to a program that is on the rise (seems strange to say that since its tsun). However, in the end of the day not only will this add more hype to the rivalry but its also a great pick up by the Big10 over two SEC schools. Again, congrats to the kid, have to remember he is a high schooler and he just made a huge choice.
Regardless of whether this young man idolized Eddie George or not, going to Michigan was by far the best choice of the opportunities that were presented to him. None of the SEC schools he was considering would have made him into a star running back. While we OSU fans may be confident that our defense will contain him for The Game, the fact that Michigan has a dozen (at least it seems that many) OL recruits in this class will only benefit his potential to be a significant contributor at the college level, especially against most of the Big Ten defenses that are not up to par with The Silver Bullets.
My only issue with his decision is the arrogant fools who follow that program and are now making all sorts of boisterous claims. You picked up a talented high school running back, you didn't gain a commitment from Adrian Peterson or Bo Jackson.
Talk is cheap man...any true fan knows this.
If he goes out next year and just runs all over people (including us) I will tip my hat to him. I seriously don't see that happening though. He's going to be a freshman with a lot of expectation on him. Even with the great year Beanie had as a freshman he still played behind Pittman who was more experienced and really catapulted Beanie to that next level that we remember from his soph/junior years. Green is going to come in and they will expect him to be THE man right away...I just think that's too much to ask of a freshman RB in a very physical conference.
Not too worried with Mitchell running a 4.39 he'll be all over green for the next 4 years. It feels to me like hokes recruiting is alot like Tressels and we know what urban did against that. Hokes building teams to be big ten contenders while we build for national championships.
Problem wasn't Tressel's recruiting (other than, possibly, not taking enough guys), it was his coaching. That awful NC game wasn't a talent gap. It was men against boys, but on the coaching staff, not on the field.
Remains to be seen if Hoke, like Tressel, isn't quite good enough. Nothing I've seen out of him so far tells me he can rise to Meyer's level, which is why I love seeing all the "who cares about Meyer, we have HOKE (and MANBALL!!)" post on mgoblog.
Green is going to be a good player. With that said, I'd take Hyde over him next season, and Dunn will be comprable the year after that (I'm not high on Rod Smith, too many fumbles, I think he's missed his opportunity here.) Best of luck to the young man, every game but ours.
I understand the point of view that Green got what he deserved in having his OSU offer pulled (I'm assuming that's what happened?) after waiting too long. But does anyone really expect him to rule out Michigan, despite being VERY heavily recruited by them, after having his OSU offer pulled - just because he's too much of an OSU fan?
Think about it this way - you date a guy for a while, you keep hinting, or actually outright saying that you want to get married, but he just isn't ready. Eventually you get tired of waiting and break up with him. Then a while later you hear that he married a bitch you really, REALLY hate. Sure, you could insist that "if he'd ever really loved you, he wouldn't have married that total bitch." But deep down you know - you pulled the trigger on the break up. It was probably even the right decision. But it also probably crushed him, and you can't be surprised that he'd enjoy the opportunity to get back at you.
And yes, I presented that from the point of view of a girl, even though I'm a dude, and so are most of you. But it just wouldn't have made sense with the gender roles reversed.
If Green had come to OSU, we'd all be saying that he was the next Eddie George. Because he's going to Michigan, he's so overrated and his film sucks and all the analysts are wrong. Come on. He's a great player who will present a real challenge for the Buckeyes. Just accept that.
Kid is definitely a player. Should be a good back behind the line they've brought in. Number 1 RB in America? I don't think so by his tape, but definitely very good. Very college ready. My main doubts are his rumored speed (4.3 something? Not in his film) and his lack of power for his size. I personally think EzE shows a better combo of wiggle, speed, power, hands, and vision.
Green doesn't break nearly as many tackles at the high school level as everyone seems to think. He has no film of trucking over four or five guys, which is what a lot of people seem to believe he does. He gets brought down by guys who weigh 40 pound less A LOT.
That, and if you read what I wrote I said EzE has a better COMBO of traits than Green, which if you think he doesn't, then you haven't watched much film.
Completely agree. There is nothing special in any film I have watched. You have to take in the fact that all of these HS players that are physically gifted at that age will be superior to their competition in HS. So they should look spectacular. I have watched HS football for many years and can list many backs that look just as good if not better. Am glad someone else sees it like I do. At the college level these guys are playing equal talent. No advantage. Good luck to him and I mean that. If he did get too much hype he will have a lot of pressure to shoulder. Do not wish that on any kid. That said, I have zero concerns about our rivals take here.
He looked pretty good in the all star game he was in. If he isn't the best back in the country, he is close. He is a perfect fit for their offense and should be very good for them. As long as um continues to have no receivers and don't have any QBs with accuracy, I will still not be worried, but Green definitely makes them a lot better.
All i know is, urban proved he loves and needs a quality, powerful back in his power read option offense. Derrick green could have been that and a lot more. I wish he committed at the start but that sit happens. Good thing is we have Brionte Dunn. Bad news is green it's at our rivals.
"Get him a body bag, Yeah!"
I personally don't make a huge deal about class rankings but I thought I would pass along the updated class rankings with Green now in the fold.
Rivals: OSU 4, TTUN 6
Scout: OSU 3, TTUN 1
Remember also that TTUN has 27 as oppsed to our 22. TTUN max is 28. With Poggi prob leaving, that leaves 2 more spots. I know they are really targeting Durham Smythe from TX as their last "big" recruit.
I see OSU taking 3 more. Any combo of Bell, Wilson, Clark, Skipper, Hunt, Smith, or signing day flip.
"Because ya dance with them that brung ya." Meaning, I'm more concerned with Ohio State football than I am Michiscum. I think we've got better facilities, a better coaching staff, a better condition program, and I think that it's a proven fact we turn out better players to the NFL. So, no I don't care at all what 17 or 18 year old kid is going to Michiscum. I'd look in at MgoBlow if I felt the need to check on Choke and company.
An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches
Based on post content, concern, and wording, I think SEBUCKEYE is /u/TheTenYearWar & /u/ISpeakTheTruth. I could be dead wrong, but I get the same vibe in content/structure/concern.
I think your on to something URBZ. There's something vaguely familiar about the subtle defense of Michiscum. You know what they say, "if it smells like shit, it's colored piss yellow and blue." Hit me with a little downvote SE.
An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches
New users typically with Buckeye names usually don't jump in, defend Michigan with their first 5+ posts, and write with similar sentence structures as the two banned users. I pay extreme attention to details. We need an IP ban if it's him again. Just seems fishy.
He did go after Green very hard early on. Green wanted to play the recruiting game and wait it out til signing day after visiting several times and Meyer stopped recruiting him as did a lot of other schools. Hence why is top schools early on were OSU, Bama, Oklahoma, USC, Georgia, South Carolina and he ended up picking from scUM, Ole Miss, and Tennessee.
Let Michigan enjoy the Derrick Green pick-up, then continue the full court press on Jalen Hurd (a transcendent RB) for next year's class if I'm the OSU staff:
We should turn this into a Jalen Hurd thread so we can start talking about a real RB! haha j/k
Talk about someone who could actually fill #27's jersey/shoes one day!
Eddie George - 6'3", 235
Jalen Hurd - 6'3", 210 (it'll be 230 easy once Coach Mick gets ahold of him)
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The line of shame - thousands of unemployed Irish get in line to get out of Ireland
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The Overseas Jobs Fair in Dublin two weekends ago attracted thousands of Irish |
No doubt you will have seen the pictures last week of the long line of people queuing to get into the Overseas Jobs Fair in Dublin. Effectively they were lining up to get out of Ireland.
It's a shameful thing, when you think about it. But the shame is not theirs.
The shame belongs to the politicians, senior civil servants, bankers and speculators who got this country into the mess it is in.
Inside the fair were exhibition stands with staff from companies in countries like Canada and Australia where they have shortages of skilled workers in all kinds of areas from cow milkers to carpenters, plumbers to painters, truck drivers to teachers.
Outside, the line started early, hours before the exhibition was due to open.
The organizers were taken by surprise at the scale of the demand, with 15,000 or so people turning up.
Eventually, as the day wore on, people in the second half of the line were told they had no hope of getting in. I heard one young woman who had driven up from Waterford being interviewed on radio. She had left home at five that morning.
Now she was going home again, without even getting in to see what was on offer and where. But she didn't sound bitter or angry, just resigned.
That's what being out of work for a couple of years does -- it beats the spirit out of you.
The Overseas Jobs Fair was happening in the RDS, the Royal Dublin Society's huge exhibition center and showjumping arena, just south of the city center. In another part of the complex, at the same time, there was another event taking place, the ard fheis (annual convention) of Fianna Fail. Such irony.
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Outside the RDS there were thousands of people lining up to get a job somewhere overseas. Inside, in another part of the complex, the political party which had ruined the economy was in session.
Outside, those in the jobs line looked worn out and depressed. Inside, Bertie Ahern was grinning away, shaking hands. Brian Cowen stood sheepishly to acknowledge applause.
The party delegates and members from all over the country - over a thousand of them -- were determined to show that, whatever about the mistakes of the past, the party is far from dead.
The new leader of Fianna Fail Micheal Martin, at least, had the good grace to sound embarrassed by the situation and to say sorry. He said he regretted the errors of the past, but he was focused on the future.
And there is such anger out there among ordinary people at the scale of the cutbacks in state spending that Fianna Fail could be back sooner than anyone thinks. As time passes the new government will be blamed for the cutbacks, not the old government.
At least Fianna Fail are contrite. Which is far better than being smug, which the present government manages to be in spite of the situation the country faces.
The present government has nothing to be smug about. Granted they inherited an economic nightmare, but their attempts to grapple with the situation and take the hard decisions have been unconvincing.
Last week they were a year in office and they have little to show for it. Over the past year they have failed to stand up to the vested interests here -- from the state sector unions to the wealthy professional groups -- and have instead squeezed the easy targets, mainly the middle class private sector people who can't defend themselves.
Last year, for example, the government put a new tax on private sector pension funds to pay for a new jobs initiative. This particularly sneaky tax will suck hundreds of millions out of private pensions this year, even though a lot of these pension funds are already in trouble.
The government wanted to be seen to be doing something about the 14% unemployment rate, but they can't get any money for their jobs schemes thanks to the new fiscal rules imposed by the EU and the IMF. So they raided private pension funds.
And how many jobs have been created by this initiative? None, of course.
In spite of what the Labor Party thinks, governments can't create jobs. The money has vanished into the black hole of general state spending.
The only policy this new government appears to have is a relentless positivity, an insistence that we have turned the corner, that we're not Greece, that we're on the path to recovery.
The line of people queuing to get into the Jobs Overseas Fairs in Dublin and Cork last week exposed just how wrong that view is.
Our economy is a mess, and thousands of bright young people are leaving the country every month because they feel there's no future for them here.
Meanwhile, the government is radiating sunshine as though everything is fine.
Instead of taking bold decisions to tackle the size and expense of the state sector we can no longer afford, they are tinkering at the margins of the problem. They are so afraid of provoking a reaction from the inefficient, overpaid army of state workers that they are failing to take real action.
Instead of new stealth taxes and extra charges on private sector workers and their pension funds, the government should be cutting its spending much faster so it can give people an incentive to work harder and expand business.
The scale of the problem is staggering, and it's worth recalling how it happened.
Before the boom here really got going, Irish banks funded most of their lending the normal way, from deposits. Once the boom took off, however, that was too slow and too limiting, so the Irish banks started borrowing from other banks, mostly in Germany and France.
In 2003 foreign borrowing by Irish banks was below €15 billion. By the time the boom was peaking in 2007/'08 the Irish banks had borrowed €110 billion.
Most of this was loaned out to fund property speculation here in a boom that was obviously unsustainable. The European banks involved in the gamble, and the European Central Bank (ECB) which was supposed to be regulating banking in Europe, should now be sharing in the cost of the crash.
Instead of doing so, however, they have insisted on getting all of their money back, and the ECB has insisted that the Irish taxpayer must carry all of the cost.
That has placed a huge burden on our national finances since billions have to be diverted every year from anything productive into simply repaying our debts.
This month, for example, we have to repay €3 billion of around €30 billion in debts run up by Anglo Irish Bank which is now being wound up.
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Unless the government can cut some deal from the EU on the promissory notes involved, we will have to go on paying €3 billion a year every year for the next decade for the debts of a private bank that doesn't even exist anymore.
That ordinary Irish people have to carry the cost of the lunacy that went on in Irish banks during the boom makes no sense. Yet in the warped world of international finance this is accepted as justifiable, if regrettable.
To their shame, the present government, despite huffing and puffing during the election, seem to accept this as well.
The result is that a huge amount of money that could now be helping us rebuild our economy is instead being sent out of the country to repay the foreign banks that speculated on the Irish property boom.
Most of them have been paid off by now, and to do so the government here borrowed tens of billions from the ECB. That's a big part of why we needed the bailout.
The other half of the bailout was needed because once the property boom here collapsed tax revenue dried up, leaving a huge budget deficit. The rising number of people out of work and needing welfare made the situation even worse.
Also, state spending here during the boom went completely off the rails and we are now left with a system of high welfare and benefits payments of all kinds that people have come to expect but the country can no longer afford.
Spending on welfare and the health system here almost doubled during the boom. Adjusting that now with close to half a million people out of work is going to be very difficult. But it has to be done because we're still spending almost a third more than we raise in tax revenue.
Rather than getting lost in the billions, let me give you just one example of how far state benefits in Ireland are out of line with most other places.
One of the most sensitive subjects you can raise here is the old age pension. In Ireland, you get what they call the contributory old age pension at age 66. It's €230.30 a week, which adds up to €11,975 a year.
In Britain the old age pension adds up to £5,311 a year, equivalent to €6,357 a year. So the Irish state pension is almost twice as much as the U.K. state pension.
The average pay of state workers in Ireland increased by 60% between 2000 and 2009. As a result senior civil servants here are paid around double what their counterparts in other similarly sized countries in Europe earn. Teachers in Ireland, for example, earn almost a third more than their counterparts in the U.K.
Yet any suggestion that old age pensions or pay for teachers or nurses has to be reduced is greeted with fury here. Any attempt to do so is likely to end up in street protests which could quickly descend into Greek-style chaos.
Another huge burden being carried by the taxpayer here is the enormous cost of pensions for state workers, which are guaranteed and paid out of current tax revenue (or state borrowing). They don't depend on stock market performance like private pensions. They are pitched at around two-thirds of earnings.
In some sectors (like the police), state workers can get them at age 60 or even earlier. The cost runs into billions for taxpayers every year.
Yet there has been no reform of the system to reflect what has happened to pensions in the private sector.
Other inefficiencies and anomalies crop up regularly. Last weekend, for example, the lead story in The Irish Times revealed that workers in the state sector taking sick leave costs us over half a billion a year.
Workers in the state sector can take seven uncertified sick days in a 12-month period without losing any pay. Or in other words, they can take a long weekend once a month for seven months of the year. If they are on certified sick leave (they get their doctor to sign a form) they get full pay for six months and half pay after that.
No one is saying that people who are sick should not be supported, but clearly this system invites abuse.
Similarly, no one is saying that state welfare payments and benefits should be reduced below what is necessary, but the wide disparity between benefit levels in our system and in the U.K. needs to be explained.
All of this -- and it's no accident that our senior civil servants and politicians are major beneficiaries of the system as it is -- is a drain on what's left of our economy and a serious blockage to our recovery.
Until we change it and until we stand up to the EU on the bank debt issue, the long lines of young people here attending overseas jobs fairs won't be getting any shorter.
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MichaelMcGrath | Jul 25, 2012, 08:21 PM EDT
Actually in every day life we would refer to them simply as "The Guards" or "The Gardai" - but I have heard them, occasionally I admit, being referred to as "the police".
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Bythebay | Jun 05, 2012, 02:47 PM EDT
It's highly doubtful John Spain lives in Ireland, he's called An Garda Síochána "the police". They're not called the police. He obviously was away with the fairies when all of this happened in Ireland and rendered mute at that time. His feeble attempt to belittle Ireland by labeling this shame only reflects badly on him, shame on him.
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Bythebay | Jun 05, 2012, 02:38 PM EDT
John Spain has missed understanding Ireland's economic situation miserably and exhibits little or no understanding of how to remedy it. Not only does Spain not have any journalism training, he likewise has no econimic training or understanding.
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MichaelMcGrath | Jun 05, 2012, 02:26 AM EDT
The Irish spawned famous children abroad , like The Beatles and JFK - and none of the Irish I knew in Britain back in th 60's or 70's knew where the dole offices were, and cared less. No Irish navvy would be seen dead drawing the dole¬!
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MichaelMcGrath | Jun 04, 2012, 10:24 AM EDT
And btw the Irish not willing to work in lower-paid manual jobs has changed, there are more and more Irish working in and looking for jobs in Supermacs and Dunnes Stores for instance since the crash, so over the past four years that requirement for immigrant labour in Ireland no longer exists, so why quote the position of four and five years ago, Ciaradexy, and ignore the real situation in Ireland today, why parrot the old justifications for immigration that no longer exist in present day Ireland, why do you do that, what's your agenda ???
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MichaelMcGrath | Jun 04, 2012, 10:18 AM EDT
So why quote Irish emigration to justify mass immigration into Ireland, where is the logic in that?
The Irish don't emigrate to Nigeria or Pakistan , so how does an Irishman who decides to emigrate to the USA justify a Nigerian to immigrate into Ireland?
I don't get that? Anybody???
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MichaelMcGrath | Jun 04, 2012, 10:04 AM EDT
So, Ciaradexy, just because some Irishmen decides to emigrate to the UK, USA,Australia that means that Nigerians and Pakistanis are then entitled to immigrate into Ireland???
Nothing to do with the fact that the UK was our country up to recently in historical terms, nothing to do with the fact that the UK stripped Ireland to create England as the industrial centre of the UK, nothing to do with the fact that we are "immigrating" within the British Isles, that there are 44 million Irish-Americans because we were amongst the original people that made and built up the USA whereas Ireland has absolutely no links with Nigeria or Pakistan at all.
So why should we let them in? To give them "new lives" though we can't afford a life for ourselves in Ireland now rated as a Junk Economy by the international credit agencies, that will probably get a second bail out loan at the end of 2014 to last us for two years to the end of 2016, what then? And in the meantime we have 80,000 immigrants here on the Dole, rent allowances, child benefits, health and hospital services and schools and universities for free and so on.....yet according to you "everybody who needs a new life is to be taken into Ireland" ???
BTW the community welfare officers pay immigrants the equivalent of the dole, rent allowance etc from the moment they enter Ireland for the two years residency until they qualify for the dole, but you conveniently didn't know that, did you?
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MichaelMcGrath | Jun 04, 2012, 09:29 AM EDT
And, Ciaeadexy "everybody who needs a new life"is to be taken into Ireland? How, why, please explain???
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MichaelMcGrath | Jun 04, 2012, 09:25 AM EDT
Ciaradexy, so now it's time to take in masses of immigrants into an Ireland with over 14 per cent, half a million unemployed?
How is that?
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ciaradexy | Mar 16, 2012, 05:48 AM EDT
That was it Dan! Her name is Audrey McLoughlin. She was there from about 1995 I reckon. She is from Roswell in Atlanta but now lives in LA. Small world!
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DanOLoingsigh | Mar 15, 2012, 08:29 PM EDT
Hey Ciara..Georgia Tech? one of my boys studied there...civil engineering...when was your cuz there?
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ciaradexy | Mar 15, 2012, 06:36 PM EDT
My cousin studied engineering in uni in Atlanta. She couldnt get a job when she graduated and she now runs her own clothing line in LA. She chose to study for a career that there was no call for at the time. The jobs in Ireland for the future will be jobs that require people to have a non EU language so we will have even more migrants into Ireland to do these jobs and thats just how it is. Like in EVERY country in tghe world, if you cant get your own to do the jobs, you get in the migrants who will. If someone is legally in my country and wants to work, then fair play to them. The Irish went abroad to work for years and we were taken in now its time to take in those who need a new life here.
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ciaradexy | Mar 15, 2012, 06:32 PM EDT
Section4, so what are you suggesting my friend who runs the pub should do? Should he just cloes up shop or leave people standing around waiting ages to get served a pint or should he hire someone who is not Irish but who is here legally?
There is a 2 year habitual residency rule in Ireland so you cannot claim the dole here. This law was introduced a couple of years ago when migration into Ireland started. There are very well paid jobs on Nixers. I live in Kilmainham and the Hilton here is constantly looking for staff and the pay is good. I dont need a job as I already have one but I got a job in City West hotel a few years ago on that site and it paid very well however, I was the only irish memeber of staff in the restaurant as we couldnt get Irish people to take the jobs. They wanted the much better paid jobs and wouldnt work for a tenner an hour plus tips.
George, Im glad to think so highly of Sir Pete and I that you have done exactly what I said you would do! You are now using the nickname we gave YOU and are incorporating it into your posts! I am flattered!
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Towngate | Mar 15, 2012, 06:14 PM EDT
John, a fine article. Pity you didn't include the Irish farmers who fleece the State with their Subsidies and hold the people to ransom. The Single Farm Payment for 'area' alone, is enough to make your eyes water! Unionised Public State and welfare payments are simply unjustified and the Child Allowance which increases with subsequent children is obscene. ~~~ The image of the 'dole queue' in the plush surroundings of the ROYAL Dublin Society is heartbreaking. It will take a very special person to stand up for ~ and TO the Irish people to save them from themselves. We do not have such a person; ... and the bitter truth is; that we never had! ... time to give Patrick a rest ... a Prayer to Saint Anthony,I think ~ the Patron Saint of Lost Causes!
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GeorgeDillon | Mar 15, 2012, 03:29 PM EDT
Section4, you've written a number of good posts. You're wasting your time with SirDildo, note how he cursed at you. You see, he's a member of the Fianna Fail party, the party which brought Ireland to ruin and impoverishment. First they gave Ireland Mass Immigration, then they gave it Mass Emigration. The unfortunate part is that this creep hasn't emigrated yet, though outside the EU where they have to accept him it would be hard to think of where he could go.
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- What is the single BEST thing that happened in the past year?
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* "Korean language evolves into Konglish?"
* "Hangeul still best Asian writing system for fucking up English word the least."
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* "Too much English in Korea? Yep, and don't look at us, it's not our fault."
is my latest piece in the Korea Herald, trotting out one of my hobby horses, the overuse of English in Korea. Here are a few excerpts:
I've been treated to some articles in the papers lately dealing with English in Korea and asking if there's too much of it, specifically in restaurants, on billboards, and on product labels. I strongly believe there's too much English used in Korea, that this overuse has negative consequences for students of English and regular citizens alike, and that it'd be healthy to use more Korean in Korean. However, one point I always like to make is that the overuse of English in Korea is a domestic phenomenon, one created and continued by Koreans, and any campaign to replace it ought to be a fight for thoughtful language use, not a crusade against a foreign invader.
Some of the English here is what I call "Gibberlish," a portmanteau of gibberish and English that means words or combinations of letters used for decoration. Gibberlish is found when online translation tools are used, creating a meaningless arrangement of words such the sign in Suncheon that reads "Rain blood vessel & skin the government serviece." It is found in pop songs, where rappers and singers will randomly insert English words and phrases, and it exists to such a great extent in the fashion industry that it's tough to buy a t-shirt without ridiculous English on it.
Because much of the English in Korea doesn't make sense to native speakers, isn't created with the intention of being correct or comprehensible, and certainly isn't understood by Koreans, it's fair to ask, why use it at all?
I first read about The National Institute of the Korean Language last week, and the webpage on which they offer suggested replacements for imported "English" terms. I like what they're about: after all, why the impulse to borrow words when Korean ones are perfectly suitable? Their website might be translated as "Pruning Our Language Together" (모두가 함께하는 우리말 다듬기), and you can take a look at some of the words recently reviewed here.
But what I'd really like to emphasize is the recent changes to "Our Language" were brought about by Koreans, and campaigns to prune it shouldn't be waged against English itself or its speakers, but rather against the thoughtless use of it. It's Koreans who choose to import these words, to use mangled English instead of Korean, to write their advertisements without Hangeul, to isolate Korean speakers, and to limit their language's creative power. This isn't a foreign invasion, and any efforts at Koreaning-up the Korean language really ought to be a fight against incomprehension and thoughtless language use, rather than a xenophobic one against a foreign language.
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Global-warming bureaucrats shouldn't get their hands on American cash
The private jets are on the tarmac fueling up in time for the Wednesday kickoff of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Pampered United Nations busybodies are gathering at this event whose slogan is "The future we want." A more accurate motto for the confab would be, "The money we want."
As many as 50,000 attendees are expected in the Brazilian resort city of Rio de Janeiro, including 130 heads of state. U.N. globalists hope to recapture the spirit of the first earth conference 20 years ago by returning to its original site. The movement that began as a philosophical argument for a "greener" planet has whiffed three times in recent years – in Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban – in trying to convince countries to back their hot air with cool cash.
Global-warming fear mongering failed to open purse strings in the past, so organizers have revised the theme into a larger hodgepodge of: "A green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication." A mixed-up wish list of specific priorities includes "decent jobs, energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster readiness."
Rio+20 is the moment of truth that will determine whether participating nations will approve the creation of a global green tax. Backers propose the kitty start at $30 billion a year, but they want to ratchet up the figure to $100 billion by 2020. A collection of radical nongovernmental organizations dissatisfied with that amount want developed nations to sacrifice 0.7 percent of their gross national product. A commitment of that size would surpass $100 billion annually from the United States alone. Not surprisingly, poorer countries eager to get a slice of this action have been the first to sign up. Formerly wealthy European nations and America, on the other hand, have balked.
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For decades, child advocates have tried legislative measures,
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effective have these strategies been at altering daily practice? The
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Black holes in the Mediterranean
The books are everywhere, shelved in alcoves and lining rooms. Not paperbacks (there are those too, in piles and cupboards) but proper books in solid bindings with gold lettering, heavy enough to need one of those tables with patterns let into the top that stand around not looking too useful until Lord Curzon of Keddlestone's account of life in India is taken down and weighs so much it has to rest on one of them.
Lord C. got into a dreadful bate about the denial of the Black Hole of Calcutta atrocity by later, indigenous historians, writing a century and more afterwards. He gives 20 or so pages of contemporary accounts, travellers' tales, drawings of the monument erected over the ditch where the bodies were thrown the next morning (with asides on the inborn incapacity of French and other non-English observers to correctly recount anything they saw, never mind these matters).
He locates the exact site of the notorious store room, since over built, outlines the original old fortress in brass lines let into ground and extant buildings; the floor area of the Hole itself he has laid with black marble.
The first monument having been demolished after falling into dereliction, he has a life-size statue of an illustrious former statesman moved from where he has occupied the site, and builds a fine monument in lasting materials (marble shipped from southern Italy) paid for from his own pocket; he even adds to the numbers of the commemorated and finds out their Christian names. After having carved on another face of the monument a harsh condemnation of the Nabob responsible, and a brief account of the even harsher reprisals taken against him, he reckons the whole thing is nailed.
Mentioning this at dinner, someone said, " Oh, I was reading something recently about the Black Hole of Calcutta and that it was all made up to justify later repressive measures against the local rulers' resistance."
Did I hear 'sigh' from Lord Curzon in the next door room?
10 comments:
- Newmania said...
I`m slightly confused HG where are you ?
Nice to hear from ,( I `m afraid I have very little time for Blogs) - 22 May 2007 23:39
- Newmania said...
... Sorry I mean I don`t have much spare time at the moment for Blogs that "came out wrong"
- 22 May 2007 23:41
Terrible atrocity, whether the dead prisoners were 46 or 143. But just what was the Company of the Indies doing with Fort William, building up military strength against the Nabob's orders?
- 23 May 2007 08:00
- hatfield girl said...
N, I had gone to see the gardens on the Mediterranean coast that were planted there when it was usual for the 'comfortably off' to spend much of the winter months around Menton and Nice and Ventimiglia. The grandest gardens and houses are now sort of national monuments, the Hanbury belongs to the University of Genoa for instance, though some of the family descendents are still there; other, smaller gardens are open to the public too, and some are still in private hands.
You must be harried with work if you haven't noticed it's May and a good month for looking at plants and flowers? - 23 May 2007 09:18
- hatfield girl said...
The history of India and its relations with the British must be one of the most instrumentalized of all, but I'd never have thought to doubt the Black Hole till Lord Curzon's hammering detail and recasting of all obscurities in accounts of the time and later surprised me enough to mention it.
Is this your area of interest Citizen? What was going on between Bengal and the Company? And why the vehemence more than a century later? - 23 May 2007 09:28
- Newmania said...
I look at nothing but Insurance Policies HG (Prufcock meets Pooter )Never mind , if I measure out my life with coffeee spoons at least HG will "come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."
I remember the Duchess Of Devonshire occassionally wrote about flowers and country things for the Telegraph and I thought at the time what a good writer.
Well she would be wouldn`t she ( Oh thankyou for you support chez Dale I had gone too far actually ahem...) - 23 May 2007 09:35
- hatfield girl said...
Back now N, sigh, and it's like 'His Dark Materials' round the house; someone's making dust on purpose.
I want to read about Bengal, not do the work.
It's the wrong choice for the UK to be in the EU not least because it's so much duller than being joined with all the Commonwealth countries; who wants to know about Poland or Bulgaria, or the Baltics when we could be in with India? The old EU countries we're intertwined with anyway, but I find I'm just not interested in the new ones as I am in the Commonwealth states. - 23 May 2007 11:08
- Newmania said...
I read the Pullman films look tremendous HG the Compass one is due out soon .
Pullman ...Dune ...do I detect a guilty taste for easily consumed Gothic Fantasy ? - 23 May 2007 13:14
- hatfield girl said...
I was reading Lord C of K on Bengal; I claim full status as a grown up, N.
Children's books are a taste acquired young and never lost. I have signed copies of all the Adventure Stories, (Welwyn Stores used to do book signings by Famous Authors). - 23 May 2007 15:36
- hatfield girl said...
Catherine Morland is a lovely person, what is more.
- 23 May 2007 15:43


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Whiners, all.
Pick one up, buy a 16gb memory card and Touch My Katamari. Plenty of other titles available. Get a cork to plug your cry-hole and enjoy the ride (or flight, or couch).
Give Sony all your money for a good system. Or don't. They'll continue to be Sony. I know they're not perfect but I for one am glad they're around.
No need for a price drop, but if that will shut people up, I won't squawk.
FearLES wrote: All of the systems are overpriced and at this point in the console cycle should be $99 by now By what metric? Besides the "I'm a cheap bastard" one. A Blu-Ray player with built-in Wifi costs more than $100. And you're suggesting a video game system that is that AND MORE should be $100? I think people's views of how much something costs is a function of how much they pay for their cell phones. "Why should I buy a $250 handheld system when I can pay $100 for an iPhone?" Completely neglecting the fact that said iPhone is subsidized by the cell phone manufacturers and requires you to sell your first born to AT&T/Verizon to get that price. When you look at the real MSRP of these phones, you will burst out laughing. Okay, you want a $100 Vita? Sign a contract saying you will sign up for Verizon 3G for the system for $60 a month for 2 years. That would be apples-to-apples. No matter what the Vita is priced at, though, it has even fewer games than the PSP and even fewer games worth playing. That was the 3DS's problem, not the price. If the price was still 250, sales would have picked up big time once the games started rolling in. Albeit not as much obviously. Sales didn't pick up after the price drop. They picked up after the worthwhile games came out. Remote play was a big selling point, and would easily make the $250 pricetag viable if it were implemented as it would add every title in the PS3 library to it. Unfortunately, when people found out that wasn't really going to work as well as we were told, interest tanked. |
Also, Sony has had egg on their face from their last 3 hardware releases (PS3, Move, Vita.)
Remember how the cell processor was going to make PS3's graphics infinitely better than the 360? What happened to that? Remember the railing on the look of the wiimote and motion games? Move controller is practically identical. Remember the railing of the 3DS's battery life (with all features on)? Vita's is worse (when all features are on.) Remember the railing on the DS' touchscreen vs the PSP? Now VITA has a touchscreen too. Sony seems to have no clue what they're doing. So they've resorted to just watching what other people do, and following them. Which isn't really a bad strategy... but when you spent the last 3 years mocking your competitors for having that feature you just adopted... you always look a step behind. |
I'm a little stunned that Kyle missed this prediction, but if there's going to be a price drop announced in the near future--it'll be at E3.
Just wait for it. And more games. |
Nisuo wrote: Sony seems to have no clue what they're doing. So they've resorted to just watching what other people do, and following them. Which isn't really a bad strategy... but when you spent the last 3 years mocking your competitors for having that feature you just adopted... you always look a step behind. Who was it that just released a second joystick peripheral for their handheld? Oh yeah...the great innovator, Nintendo. Every console manufacturer steals technology to some degree. I've stopped playing games on my iphone and ipad since I got the Vita (got the launch 3G which came with a 4GB card, case, and game). The screen quality is night and day. Both iDevices and the Vita may wash out in the sunlight, but until transflective displays make a serious comeback that will be an issue with every handheld/phone. The difference is the Vita is just as vibrant and clear from a hard angle as it is straight on. When you deal with reflections all the time being able to change the angle without losing clarity makes it far easier on the eyes. As for games, I've got too many. Most of my time is taken up by Unit 13 or Pinball Arcade...I haven't beaten a single game out of my collection yet, not enough time. I prefer games that last a while. The number one capability I enjoy with my Vita is being able to lock it in the middle of a game, no matter where I am or what I'm doing in the game, then come back to it hours later (or the next day), unlock it and the game is right where I left it. It makes loading screens trivial. Second in line would be REAL dual analogs on a handheld. Apple can take their touch-only scheme and choke on it. I was looking forward to Dragon's Crown too, but blame Disney for that f__kup. It's sad to see one of the key devs of D&D arcade games deal with the hassle. The games I'm currently looking forward to are Resistance and Gravity Rush..and Starlight Inception if it makes the deadline. People that complain of the short games list, check out the backlog of psp/mini games on PSN. I own a few already since I missed the PSP generation (couldn't deal with the flawed screens and that crappy joystick), the OLED screen can even make Powerstone look good. Haters gonna hate, and gamers wanna play. We'll see what the Vita looks like after E3. Right now the Vita hardware is hands down the best portable platform (besides a gaming laptop). All it needs is more games to beef up my pile of shame. |
Paying 250€/$ for the Vita isn't that high if you compare the hardware to twice as expensive smartphones, the problem with it for me is that there isn't a single game on it I'm interested in. When you combine that with the relatively high pricetag on the games the bar to actually buy the console is quite high.
Maybe if they included 2-3 of the better games, or even better let the consumer decide which games they want with it, more people would probably jump on the offer. At least I would be more interested in that over a flat decrease in the price for the system. Also if they did something to make the customers feel valued, especially when dealing with the PSN, maybe more people would buy their stuff. Right now both my PSP and PS3 are completely offline systems. I was keeping them up to date for a while to keep up with new releases but got increasingly annoyed with the 10 min+ wait times for every single update. Even small ones that don't add or change anything noticable took the same time as (supposedly) bigger ones. It didn't help much that many of the "Major" ones only added extra clutter on the XMB for payed services from Sony that I had no interest in (that music service and some coming stuff) |
sidran32 wrote: I paid full price for the 3G version of the Vita and do not regret it. It's such a beautiful piece of hardware and I've already spent many hours playing on it that I think Sony deserves my money. While I know not everyone can afford to pay full price (especially these days with the economy), I understand why a price drop may be necessary, but it's the market's call. Not that anyone claimed it was, but personally, I feel the Vita is priced just right, based on the power it's packing and build quality. It's not overpriced or anything. Also, I hear that the Vita will eventually allow remote play for any PS3 game, and not just a select few things. A (ridiculously simple) 3rd party hack enables this functionality. Rumor has it that it will become an official feature in the future. You can play PS1 games remotely, though, which is pretty cool (since I'm still playing Metal Gear Solid that way, these days). I also paid full price and I know about the 3rd party hack and have used it. Just so you know, it STILL doesn't work for every game, only some. |
squidz wrote: While it's interesting to see some sales data used to support the "make it cheaper" arguments, the data used leaves quite a bit to be desired. So far as I'm aware, there haven't been any shortages of Vita units. That means, if I want to go buy one today, I can wander over to the nearest Walmart/Target/Gamestop/etc and pick one up for $250+ tax. Since that's the case, why would anyone pay any more than $225 to get it on ebay? Unless you're getting some sort of deal, why would you put up with a provider like eBay (which is less reliable than conventional retailers) and wait for the product to be shipped (which can take a signifcant amount of time depending upon the seller)? You said it yourself: "+tax." If you buy a Vita on eBay for $249.99, you're still saving about $20 in sales tax alone. If you could get it for $225 shipped? That'd be $45 in your pocket. If you choose a seller with a good reputation, you've got nothing to worry about, and you're getting the equivalent of 20% off the price. A 20% sale on the Vita is pretty significant. Personally? Don't want one. Already regret my 3DS purchase... I end up just playing games on the iPhone/iPad 99% of the time anyway. |
willcapellaro wrote: Whiners, all. Pick one up, buy a 16gb memory card and Touch My Katamari. Plenty of other titles available. Get a cork to plug your cry-hole and enjoy the ride (or flight, or couch). Give Sony all your money for a good system. Or don't. They'll continue to be Sony. I know they're not perfect but I for one am glad they're around. No need for a price drop, but if that will shut people up, I won't squawk. The $600 PS3 proved that no matter what features a system has, if people ain't buying like you hoped, you priced it too high and need to be willing to eat your pride. The early PS3 likely was worth the money IMO, it's just that the price kept mainstream away. You usually can't sell high priced items in bulk. Now they have PS3 under $300 USD, and I bet they are selling far better. As for the Vita, it may be worth the price but that 16GB proprietary card plus a game adds to the cost, so it's way higher than just $250. Which is probably one reason people are hesitating. Sony should have included the memory cards for one, that alone would have shut many people up. |


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