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MONTREAL — When Saku Koivu was back in town with the Anaheim Ducks last month, there was some debate among Canadiens fans about whether the former Habs captain deserves to have his No. 11 retired one day.
My answer to that would be no, and even Koivu sounded like he knows it won't happen.
"Yes, that would be amazing," Koivu told reporters about the possibility of having his number retired after the Ducks lost 4-1 to the Canadiens on Oct. 24. "But when you look at the numbers that have been retired here, I think those players are in their own class. To be even mentioned among them is an honour, but to have my number there might be a little too much. But it's nice to hear even if there is discussion about that."
Arpon Basu of NHL.com described Koivu's career with the Canadiens perfectly when he tweeted: "A fan born in 1990 would have been 3 last time #Habs won Cup, but 5 when Koivu debuted and 19 when he left. For him/her, Koivu was the #Habs".
The 17 Canadiens who have had their numbers retired have two things in common: They won at least two Stanley Cups with the Habs and are in the Hall of Fame.
With that in mind, there is a number I would love to see the Canadiens retire: No. 5 for Guy Lapointe.
As part of the Canadiens' Big Three on defence during the 1970s — along with Larry Robinson and Serge Savard — Lapointe won six Stanley Cups and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993, seven years after Savard and two years before Robinson. Lapointe still holds the record for most goals by a Canadiens defenceman in a season with 28 in 1974-75 and ranks second in career goals by a Habs defenceman with 166, trailing Robinson's 197. Savard scored 100 goals with the Canadiens.
In Ken Dryden's classic book, The Game, here's how he described Lapointe:
"In the early and mid-1970s, except for Bobby Orr, Guy Lapointe was the best defenceman in the NHL," wrote the Hall of Fame goaltender, who has come out with a 30th anniversary edition of the book, including a new chapter. "He was strong and powerful, an explosive skater with a hard, low shot, but what made him unique was the emotion he could bring to a game. During flat, lifeless stretches, uncalculated, he would suddenly erupt with enormous impatient fury, racing around the ice, daring and inspired on offence and defence, giving the game a new mood; turning it our way. It is a rare ability, and even as (Denis) Potvin and Robinson matured in mid-decade to push him onto second all-star teams and beyond, it was a skill that even they couldn't match."
But while Robinson's No. 19 and Savard's No. 18 hang from the rafters of the Bell Centre, Lapointe has not received the same honour. No. 5 was retired in honour of Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, but two other numbers have been retired for two players: No. 12 for Dickie Moore and Yvan Cournoyer, and No. 16 for Henri Richard and Elmer Lach.
Why not the same for Lapointe?
That's a question Lapointe's daughter, Stephanie, has been asking herself.
"My autistic son (10-year-old Ryan), who knows everything about hockey, asked: 'How come Grandpa's not up there? He's in the Hall of Fame and he's got all these trophies,' " Stephanie said this week. "I was like: 'You know what? I don't have an answer for you.' I went to bed that night and told myself: 'This is not OK.' It was the Big Three and why is my Dad not there?"
Stephanie, who runs her own human-resources consulting firm and lives in Île-Bizard, decided recently to start an online petition at guylapointe5.com to find out how many Canadiens fans agree that her father's number should be retired, hoping to start a movement.
"I know he was lower key than Savard and Robinson, but the stats are there, he's in the Hall of Fame, he's still in hockey," Stephanie, 38, said about her 65-year-old father, who is now the coordinator of amateur scouting for the Minnesota Wild. "I think he deserves to be up there.
"Off the ice he was a real prankster … and he's still like that … he gets us all the time," she added of her father, who earned the nickname Pointu. "I'm sure he lightened the mood in the locker room when it was stressful because he's always joking around."
Stephanie — who has two brothers, Guy Jr. and Jordan — wanted to make it clear her father has nothing to do with her online petition.
"He would not allow me to do this," she said. "He's so humble. I'll be honest, I've been dodging his phone calls a bit because I'm not sure what he's going to say. But it's my cause … 100 per cent. I really want to be clear this is not him. I haven't heard him complain, but I think it's unfair. I just don't understand. They were the Big Three … they played as three. My father was equally part of the Big Three … why is his jersey 30 years later not up? I don't want to see him in a wheelchair like Butch (Bouchard), or what happened to Boom Boom or even Larry Robinson. His whole family was gone when they retired his jersey. What are they waiting for?"
Bouchard was 90 and in a wheelchair when his No. 3 was retired on Dec. 4, 2009 — he died three years later — while Geoffrion died at age 75 on March 11, 2006, only hours before the ceremony to retire his No. 5 at the Bell Centre.
On her Twitter account (RavenMontreal), Stephanie describes herself as a "Hockey Brat and Habs fan for life!"
"I was young (during her father's playing career) and my parents were divorced at a very young age, so my Dad had to take my brother and I to practice," Stephanie recalled. "We'd get on the ice with the guys … Guy Lafleur helped teach me how to skate with a chair. We had to go to practice.
"I used to get up early with my Dad and have spaghetti for breakfast before practice," she added. "We were three kids — two boys — and I was the one who wanted to play hockey. My Dad was like, 'Girls don't play hockey.'"
Times have changed.
"I wish I was younger," Stephanie said about the hockey available for girls today. "I figure skated instead, but I always wanted to play hockey against guys. I love hockey. It's in my blood … it's been part of my life since the day I was born."
What does Stephanie think her father's reaction would be if he ever does have his number retired?
"It would mean the world to him," she said. "I remember seeing him at the Hall of Fame, not being able to finish his speech because he started crying. I never see my father cry … maybe twice in my whole life. He played so hard for these guys, he's lost vision in one eye, he's had a broken jaw, broken nose … he took a beating. To me, it's all there … you've got all the ingredients and I think he should be reunited with the Big Three."
What do you think?
To sign the online petition to get Guy Lapointe's No. 5 retired, go to guylapointe5.com
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St. Louis Tea Party Leader AGAIN Promotes Racist Websites
St. Louis Tea Party leader and right-wing blogger Jim Hoft (aka Gateway Pundit) has once again promoted a racist website on his blog. Today he posted a link to a racist youtube channel promoting a blog that repeatedly uses the n-word and portrays black people as criminals and drug addicts while complaining about the victimization of white people. I'll have more on this disgusting incident below, but first I provide some background explaining how this is not the first time Hoft has promoted white supremacist websites.
In 2009, Hoft linked to a video that claimed, without any evidence, that a white child had been beaten up by black kids on a school bus. Though it was true that the boy had been beaten, the race of the attackers was never mentioned in any of the news reports (this is not to be confused with a different incident in which there was video of a bus assault). Hoft had gotten his account from the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization based in St. Louis, and he originally linked directly to them in his post. This was not the first time Hoft had linked to white supremacist organization Council of Conservative Citizens.
After being criticized in the comments by fellow conservatives, Hoft moved the link to the Council of Conservative Citizens blog to a new location but still kept it on the blog (see update #2; note that this is from the blog of a conservative blogger). He finally removed even that link but kept up his link to the misleading video from the youtube page of KillTheCensors. Here's the screen shot of Hoft posting the video (note that this is before he moved from blogspot):
And here's a screenshot of the video on KillTheCensors' page:
KillTheCensors youtube channel was a white supremacist propaganda outlet, posting items like, "Liberal chimpout after White Pride stickers appear at high school:"
KillTheCensors is also blatently anti-semitic, complaining about "JewTube:"
Hoft was repeatedly warned about the racist content of his links and video, as can be seen below, but he kept the videos up and deleted the comments:
Hoft never removed the video from KillTheCensors, despite these warnings, though youtube eventually suspended the account for violating their site policty.
Flash forward to today. Hoft covers a story about a kid who was beaten up in May, and he writes, "White Boy Beaten Because of Slavery." Of course, it is terrible that the guy was beaten so badly, and even more abhorrent if the charges about racism are true. However, the youtube video Hoft posts is from a user called DiversityIsOurStremf:
A brief perusal of the user's recent activity reveals him/her to be a unapologetic racist:
That comment, by the way, came after a video of a 2 year old smoking pot.
Hoft's video also prominently promotes the website DiversityIsCrap.com:
This website is even more offensive than the name suggests, repeatedly calling black people names like the "niggers" and "chimps":
In another post titled "So glad to be born white," the author writes, about an abused 14-year-old: "Like the little negros breath didn't smell bad enough this gives new definition to shit breath."
In a different post, they refer to a two-year-old child as a "niglet:"
It is absolutely despicable that Jim Hoft, even after being warned repeatedly by others (including conservative bloggers) continues to promote racist, anti-semitic, and white supremacist websites from his blog. Maybe one incident like this could be seen as a simple mistake, but this is a clear pattern of behavior on Hoft's part that demonstrates that he is either doing this intentionally or simply does not care. Hoft needs to remove his links to racist sites and videos immediately, and apologize for promoting such filth.
And in the meantime, the St. Louis Tea Party, if it really wants to claim to be diverse and open-minded, should kick Hoft out of their leadership and repudiate his abominable behavior.
Update: Based on some feedback, I'm providing a little extra information. First of all, it looks like the site "DiversityIsCrap.com" has now been taken down, which is pretty fascinating considering that it was up before I wrote my post. Anyway, it's still easy to track down the content. If you google, "Diversity is Crap" you'll see a link to the old website and it's racist content.
Or, alternatively, you can click on the google cache content to see the page with the links I mentioned.
Also, since people were wondering if Hoft had taken the original video down, the answer is no. In fact, it's still up on his site, although it doesn't work because youtube disabled the racist account KillTheCensors:
I have a lot more documentation then I've provided here, so feel free to ask if you have further questions.
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Excellent investigative work, as usual. Thank you for keeping the electorate informed of Jim Hoft's deeply troubling behavior. I hope St. Louis Tea Partiers take notice and take action ASAP.ReplyDelete
Was there another site he could have gotten the video from that was not racist? I mean, it's not as if this website added its own reportage to this video -- it's just a straight scan off the television.ReplyDelete
The St. Louis Tea Party community organizers will do NOTHING to Hoft. He promotes their agenda. He justifies them. Hoft gives them a certain degree of leverage. He provides another face to their leadership.ReplyDelete
I imagine most of his followers don't follow his links or delve into the actual issue at hand. He appeals to the people who blindly follow his every utterance and treat such as "fact".
As I've said before, he's the poor man's Drudge.

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Shilin Hora, "Wind Landscape: Southwest Michigan" (detail), various collected seeds and plant material, wood, thread, Plexiglas, June 9, 2018
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Shilin Hora is a multidisciplinary American-Canadian visual artist and educator based in the Chicagoland area. She pokes, prods, bends, dissects, harvests and sorts materials found in the natural environment in order to build unique artwork. Hora was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, studied at Grand Valley State University (BFA 2002) and has held positions at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Through installation, prints and sculpture, Hora explores ideas about our relationship to place and the natural environment. In Seed Museums, she presents some of her most recent sculptural work, inspired by natural history museum displays and 19th century Wardian cases used by botanists to import foreign plant species to Europe. Seeds are dried, arranged, and placed behind Plexiglas, emphasizing their unique inherent qualities. Hora has strict commitments to sustainability, utilizing repurposed and sustainable materials to house seed collections, becoming part of a larger ecological narrative.
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Somehow I managed to talk Amu into trotting down to the theater to see Watchmen on Friday. I'm very glad she did. I won't talk too much about specifics because I think this is a movie it's very important to see for yourself to determine if you like it or not. Seeing as how reviews are literally across the board, you honestly do have to see it for yourself to make a judgement.
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I read the graphic novel twice, the most recent time probably close to 10 years ago. I purposely did not read it again prior to seeing the movie because I didn't want my brain bogged down looking for inconsistencies between the two. I know people who did that, and they admitted they had to see it a second time to enjoy it because their first viewing was spent not watching the movie to enjoy it, but instead analyzing the movie for how it differed from the comic. You're only sabotaging your own experience if you do this.
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Staked to a quick lead, Zito (2-0) won his 11th straight decision, including last postseason. San Francisco earned its 16th consecutive victory in games he started, the longest such unbeaten run by a Giants pitcher since 16 in a row by Carl Hubbell for New York in 1936, STATS said.
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Intel's interest in the OLPC project has been growing for a while. Back in September, Intel announced it intended to compete with AMD to provide CPUs for the OLPC XO. At the time, the company was talking about designing its OLPC solution around either a modified ultra-low power Celeron or the upcoming 45nm dual-core Silverthorne. The company now appears to have scrapped those plans, and intends to design a new architecture for the laptop from the ground up.
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Ray's Take I'm always emphasizing the importance of saving for retirement. However, you need more than a savings plan if you want to improve your odds for a more fulfilling "third act" of life. You also need to have a plan for what you actually want to do with your time.
After all, that list of home projects isn't endless, and there's only so much golf one can play. Religious, civic and charity interests can be fulfilling, but can become consuming if not set within the boundaries of a plan. It's not uncommon for retirees to find that retirement isn't nearly what they had hoped for.
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Football is here. Allow that to sink in for a moment. I repeat… football is here. The 49ers will run out onto the Arrowhead Stadium turf tonight in the preseason opener against Chiefs.
Welcome to Patrick Mahomes day … err, the Chiefs 2019 preseason opener against the San Francisco 49ers. The Chiefs have been up at training camp in St. Joe for the past few weeks getting ready for the season. This is the next step in their preparation as they get real, live game action. It doesn't count, of course. But it's something.
We have all the nuts and bolts for the game below, along with a few pregame notes on, who else, Patrick Mahomes, as well as the starters playing time and injuries that will affect the game. You can access the Chiefs roster and depth chart right here. They won't follow that depth chart exactly but it will be close. Andy Reid says he's going to try and get every player in the game tonight.
Alex Smith will start the game but Andy Reid says he's only playing a quarter or so. The 49ers say their starters won't play more than a quarter either. Tyler Bray will get the second quarter and Mahomes will get the third quarter followed by Joel Stave in the fourth.
I get excited for the first preseason game and then quickly disappointed once the first team is out. It'll be a little different this year as we await Mahomes in the third quarter. He will be playing with second and third stringers but he can still show off what he can do.
Because of injuries, the Chiefs are also going to feature some other players we don't always see a lot. Eric Berry has been out with a heel injury so if he doesn't play we could see Eric Murray playing more safety. With Travis Kelce likely out, the Chiefs will feature Demetrius Harris, Gavin Escobar and Ross Travis a little more at tight end. If Bennie Logan doesn't play (which would suck), we would see more new signing Roy Miller. So, even though it's preseason, there are still some new-ish things to be looking for.
THE NEW COACHES: Yes, Shanahan has been an offensive coordinator for several franchises, but this is the 37-year-old's first chance to call the shots. It's also the first opportunity for his coaching staff to work together in a game-like setting.
QUARTERBACK COMPETITION: Brian Hoyer will start for San Francisco and Alex Smith will start for Kansas City, and neither veteran is getting much pressure at this point. But that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of competition for the guys barking at their heels.
Matt Barkley will be the first off the bench for San Francisco, but Shanahan said "we'll see how that goes in the second game." In other words, there's a good chance that rookie C.J. Beathard — who has looked good throughout training camp — will be first on deck with a good performance in Kansas City.
Smith will give way to Chiefs veteran Tyler Bray in the second quarter, while first-round draft pick Patrick Mahomes II gets the third quarter. Those two are in a spirited battle for the backup job.
"They've put in a lot of work, Tyler in particular," Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy said, "and he's done a really good job at mentally getting into it. He's had some opportunities in preseason, so I know he's really looking forward to just coming out here and trying to do the best he can."
TASTY REUBEN: The 49ers are salivating at the thought of insider linebacker Reuben Foster playing alongside NaVorro Bowman. But whether that happens Friday night is questionable after the former Alabama standout was hobbled by an ankle injury in practice this week.
"His ankle has been bothering him a little each day," Shanahan said after Wednesday's workout. "It looked like he kind of did the same thing, just kind of got stepped on a little bit."
SPEAKING OF INJURIES: Rookie tight end George Kittle is unlikely to play for San Francisco with a hamstring injury, while offensive lineman Joshua Garrett is out for a month after knee surgery.
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A beetle the size of a grain of rice may turn the whitebark pine tree into North America's most potent symbol of global warming.
Bark beetles have decimated millions of acres of pine forest from New Mexico to British Columbia, leaving landowners with no choice but to cut down up to 75 percent of the trees on their properties. Whitebark pine trees are especially prone to infestation because they've been weakened by blister rust disease, but other pines are falling prey to the beetles as well.
More than 4 million acres of pine trees have been lost in Wyoming and Colorado alone since 2006, and British Columbia has lost 33 million acres of lodgepole pine forest. Strangely, a "freak wind event" in 2006 blew mountain pine beetles, a species of bark beetle, over the Continental Divide into northern Alberta. In Colorado, the outlook is also grim: About 5 million acres of the state's lodgepole pines more than five inches in diameter will be lost in the next three to five years.
Forest directors say they're seeing "exponential growth" of the infestation, which began when warming temperatures and a decade of drought allowed the beetles to flourish. Mature trees are more at risk than younger trees, and because wildfires have been managed so successfully for so long, all the forests are roughly the same age.
The bark beetle drills a hole through the pine bark and lays its eggs inside. When the larvae hatch, they eat the cambium layer that provides nutrients to the tree and inject the tree with a fungus that stops the tree from moving sap, which could drown the larvae.
"The Latin name is Dendroctonus, which means tree killer," says Gregg DeNitto, a Forest Service entomologist in Missoula, Mont. "They are very effective."
Efforts to fight the bark-beetle infestation are under way, but the task is overwhelming. Landowners are using "aggregator pheromones" on healthy trees in an attempt to trick the insects into moving on, but that doesn't always work. They mimic the chemical scent given off by the bark beetles when the tree is full. Large, old trees can be sprayed with insecticide, but that gets expensive quickly when treating hundreds of trees.
The pine trees are an essential part of the ecosystem, providing food and shelter for countless species. Whitebark pines produce fat-rich nuts that grizzly bears depend upon to survive. The roots of these pines prevent erosion, and without them mudslides are likely as is a buildup of silt in rivers and reservoirs that nearby communities depend upon as a water source. As the trees die, the threat of catastrophic wildfires increases dramatically, hence the need to cut them down.
Now the National Resources Defense Council is seeking to get the whitebark pine added to the endangered species list in an attempt to force the government to look at options for preserving the trees. The future threat of global warming puts the whitebark pine tree at even greater risk. The Fish and Wildlife Service has 90 days to review the NRDC petition, filed Dec. 9, to determine whether the tree is threatened or endangered, and the whole process could take up to two years.


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New Covers, New Releases, Mini-Tour with Maureen
If you follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, you've already seen the link to EW's (!!!) cover reveal. But for the rest of you:
My wonderful publicist Elizabeth made the cover reveal happen, and I am still picking my jaw up off the floor. Thank you, Elizabeth! Hurrah!
I love them, you guys.
They're my absolute dream covers—simple, colorful, elegant, fun, romantic. Setting-based. Strong type. I couldn't be happier or more proud. An ENORMOUS thank you to Julie, Eileen, and everyone else at PenguinTeen who has been working so hard to make these look so good. My books are lucky to be in their hands.
And . . . I'm thrilled that your online response has been so positive! I knew you would approve. It's because of you, my dearest readers, that these books are getting a second life. :-)
If you'd like to see the new covers bigger, you'll find them here. (Scroll down.) And now! Answers to your FAQ:
Why the new covers?
Well, there are many reasons. But I assume you can tell by looking at them that we're hoping to broaden the readership. I'm happy these will have a wider appeal.
When will they be out?
Anna and Lola's new covers (paperback and ebook) will be released July 16th. Isla and the Happily Ever After will be published (hardcover and ebook) sometime this fall. The date on Amazon/B&N is listed as September 17th. I have no idea if that's correct. Publishing is weird like that. I'll let you know when I have a firm date.
Will I be able to purchase hardcovers of Anna and Lola with the new look?
I'm not sure. I assume this decision will be made in the future, based on sales. But I could be wrong. Again, I'll let you know.
Will there be a box set?
Man, I hope so! Wouldn't that be cool?! But I don't know. This is another decision that my publisher will make in the future.
Will there be a paperback version of Lola with the old cover?
No. Lola will be released as a paperback with the new cover on July 16th.
Will the paperback of Lola contain an excerpt of Isla?
I'm not sure. Maybe? I'm really not sure. Sorry.
Will there be an opportunity to purchase an Isla that matches the old covers?
No. For readers who are sad that their hardcover set will not match, I'm sincerely sorry. As an avid reader and perfectionist, I understand your frustration. I like matching sets, too. But—as the author—please allow me to be clear that I am one hundred percent behind this new look.
But wasn't there a photo shoot for Isla ages ago?
Yes. But I never saw any of the pictures, so . . . I doubt you will either.
Are you done writing Isla?
No. But it's going well! Except, of course, the days like THESE:
(From this great Tumblr.)
SPEAKING OF ISLA! Here's the latest book description:
From the glittering streets of Manhattan to the moonlit rooftops of Paris, falling in love is easy for hopeless dreamer Isla and introspective artist Josh. But as they begin their senior year in France, Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality that happily-ever-afters aren't always forever.
Their romantic journey is skillfully intertwined with those of beloved couples Anna and Étienne and Lola and Cricket, whose paths are destined to collide in a sweeping finale certain to please fans old and new.
Yay yay yay!
Okay, time to move on? Yes. Time to move on.
There are *THREE* new releases this week that I want you to know about:
I'm a huge fan of Robin Benway's intelligent, funny contemporary novels, and her latest, Also Known As (AKA), is about a teen safecracker and spy. And seeing the world! And a private school! And a cute boy! If you like Ally Carter or E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau Banks, absolutely check it out.
In debuts, Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park is so phenomenal that I blurbed it:
"Eleanor & Park is a breathless, achingly good read about love and outsiders."
—Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door
(Don't tell her publisher that I'm not a New York Times bestseller, okay? Only in Brazil. I LOVE YOU, BRAZIL. YOU ARE MY FAVORITE.)
It's the best contemporary YA debut that I've read in ages. It's crazy romantic, it's punk rock, it's heartbreaking, it's eighties, it's hilarious, it's beautiful. Need more nudging? It's received three starred reviews, it's an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and it's one of the Indie Next List's current top ten picks. Incredible.
Also? Rainbow's Twitter feed is hilarious. And she loves Harry Potter. (I met her at LeakyCon last summer!) And her next book, Fangirl, is illustrated by NOELLE freaking STEVENSON.
I just about died when I learned that.
And finally . . .
The second book in Maureen Johnson's Edgar Award-nominated, kickass Shades of London series is OUT NOW. And I'm psyched to be—very, very, very last second—crashing three stops on her tour! Starting TODAY, catch us here:
MARCH 1: FLYLEAF BOOKS—Chapel Hill, NC, 7pm
MARCH 2: QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS—Raleigh, NC, 3pm
MARCH 3: LITTLE SHOP OF STORIES—Decatur, GA, 2pm
Maureen and I toured together a few autumns ago, and we stole golf carts and wore velvet pirate hats and ate donuts and, basically, you don't want to miss this.
Not that we will be doing those EXACT things this weekend.
I'M JUST SAYING. Join us if you can!


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While bummed by blowing Sunday's bout with the Bengals, Browns players were conscious of the calendar. "Hopefully," kicker Phil Dawson said, "with Christmas being (today), we can put this one to bed, focus on what's really important the next two days then come back refreshed and focused on winning a game."
Certain grizzled warhorses say football is not a matter of life and death. It's more important than that.
The Browns weren't looking at the game quite that severely. While bummed by blowing Sunday's bout with the Bengals, they were conscious of the calendar.
"Hopefully," kicker Phil Dawson said, "with Christmas being (today), we can put this one to bed, focus on what's really important the next two days then come back refreshed and focused on winning a game."
Dawson is a central figure in a season that winds to the regular-season finale against the 49ers with the record at 9-6.
Pro Bowl return man Joshua Cribbs couldn't quite break a long one that might have made the record 10-5, after a playoff-clinching win. He didn't think it changed his manhood.
"I can honestly look myself in the mirror and say I did everything I could," Cribbs said.
"I'm gonna go home and enjoy my family. You know ... Christmas. Enjoy the Christmas holidays, and then come strong Wednesday."
The quiet locker room was clearing out. The plane back to Cleveland was waiting. At that moment, the Titans were playing the Jets in a game that could have backed the Browns into the playofffs.
"I don't even want to watch it right now," defensive lineman Shaun Smith said. "I just want to go see my family."
Sunday should be fun for any family that follows the Browns. They will face the 49ers at 1 p.m. in a game they don't even have to win. All they need to get to the postseason is for the Titans to lose at Indianapolis. But the Titans did beat the Jets to stay alive.
Talk about pregnant pauses. Titans vs. Colts won't kick off until 8:15 p.m.
Running back Jason Wright wasn't thinking that far ahead as he walked out of Paul Brown Stadium Sunday at nightfall.
"I'm gonna go home, hang out with my fiancee, enjoy the day before Christmas eve, eat some dinner, kind of just let it go," Wright said.
The loss didn't wipe a gleam from his eye.
"I'm expecting to have an opportunity to win and get in," he said. "It's just something I believe in."
It's hard to believe the Browns don't need to win to get in. But if Tennessee wins, the Titans are in; the Browns are out. That didn't have to be. Cleveland beating Cincinnati would have eliminated Tennessee.
"It was on us, and we didn't get it done," said frustrated Bengal-turned-Brown Eric Steinbach.
As the week goes on, playoff anxiety figures to build. To think the Browns could have clinched at Cincinnati. It wasn't the only thing to think.
A while after recovering a fumble that might have led to a win, linebacker D'Qwell Jackson wasn't in the mood to mourn a loss.
"We've got our heads up," he said. "Christmas is here. Let's enjoy Christmas with our families and then get back to work."
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LONDON (AP) - Royal Bank of Scotland was once the biggest bank in the world. Now it's not even the biggest in Britain. And it is about to get smaller still.
LONDON (AP) � Royal Bank of Scotland was once the biggest bank in the world. Now it's not even the biggest in Britain. And it is about to get smaller still.
RBS was saved in 2008 by a 45 billion-pound (about $80 billion at the time) government rescue after its move to become the world's largest bank through a massive debt-fueled acquisition backfired. The bailout left the British government with an 81 percent stake � and mounting losses.
On Thursday, after reporting another whopping loss � 9 billion pounds ($15 billion) for 2013 � RBS said it would stop trying to be a world player and cut its losses. Amid pressure from the government, Chief Executive Ross McEwan unveiled plans to reduce its global presence and to make operations less risky.
"Let me spell it out very clearly: the days when RBS sought to be the biggest bank in the world � those days are well and truly over," said McEwan, who became CEO in October. "Our ambition is to be a bank for U.K. customers."
McEwan pledged to make the bank "smaller, simpler and smarter," shrinking it from seven divisions to three. British media have reported that it would lose as much as one-quarter of its 120,000-strong workforce, some of which is likely to come from the sale of businesses.
RBS plans to sell shares in Rhode Island-based Citizens Bank, which employs about 18,500 people. And it will further shrink its investment arm, which is already two-thirds smaller than before the crisis.
"It's a watershed moment," said Iain Martin, author of "Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy." ''It's the end of RBS' global dream."
Once a provincial institution, RBS became a global bank after former CEO Fred Goodwin spearheaded a string of purchases, including of Dutch lender ABN Amro, which ballooned its balance sheet to as much as 2.2 trillion pounds on the eve of the crisis, bigger than the U.K. economy. Among the many acquisitions was Coutts, banker to the Royal Family and an institution that traces its history to the patronage of Queen Anne in 1708.
Goodwin became a knight of the realm, a corporate titan pictured with his rifle folded over his arm while on the shoot or chatting with Jack Nicklaus. Once the pride of Scotland, politicians sought to claim RBS's success as an example of the country's resourcefulness.
The fall was equally spectacular. Hobbled by disastrous takeovers, it fell victim to the subprime crisis and turned to the government for cash.
Anxious to get the RBS house in order before the next national election in 2015, the government has been pressing for action. But Thursday's announcement underscores that returning to the private sector is still a distant dream � even as the cuts will make it harder to make money. Shares dropped 8 percent on the news, to 325.70 pence.
The new strategic vision makes it less focused on investment banking and peripheral interests � a strategy described by Ian Gordon, an analyst at Investec, as one that eliminates "flag planting" to stake out interests around the globe.
He estimates RBS may be able to deliver a profit "in 2018 - but certainly not before."
But there may never be good news for those who bailed out the bank. Martin predicted taxpayers can expect a loss of up to 10 billion pounds when the government finally sells shares to investors. Such a loss would be roughly equivalent the cost of staging the 2012 London Olympics.
"The bank being sold to investors will be much smaller and a very different proposition from the financial behemoth that had to be rescued," he said.
In a somber speech that bordered on penitence, McEwan pledged he would do the "hard graft" to regain the trust of customers.
"We are the least trusted company in the least trusted sector of the economy," McEwan said. "That must change."
But one aspect of its latest earnings statement failed to build confidence � the 576 million pounds it will pay out in bonuses. Business Secretary Vince Cable was sharply critical.
"If RBS is to become the sensible, boring bank envisaged by the CEO, the bonus culture will have to go."


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Lightning strikes cost $790 million in insured losses in 2015, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Many times, these strikes can land on or near residences, wreaking havoc on the home's electrical system, appliances, or electronics. "There's so much more valuable electronic equipment in homes today," says Bud VanSickle, executive director of the Lightning Protection Institute (LPI). "The loss from lightning can be tremendous."
Fortunately, by following these pointers, you may help safeguard your property — and yourself — from the damage inflicted by lightning.
Know the numbers
Lightning is not always taken seriously — but it should be. "It's an occasional danger, but a tremendous hazard," says VanSickle. The stats prove it:
- During a thunderstorm, don't let dry conditions fool you. Lightning can strike up to 10 miles away from an area of rainfall.
- Lightning causes an average of 55-60 fatalities yearly.
- The air surrounded by a lightning strike can heat as much as 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's about five times hotter than the sun.
- Each year, the United States experiences 25 million flashes of lightning. Florida and other Gulf Coast states see the most lightning; Pacific Coast states see the least.
- A single strike of lightning can pack up to 100 million volts of electricity.
Invest in lightning protection
"A direct lightning strike with no path to follow will use any available path, such as electrical wiring not designed to handle lightning, metal plumbing pipes, or metal gas system lines," says VanSickle. Your best bet for stopping lightning damage in its tracks? A lightning protection system tailored specifically to your home's architecture. Such a system creates a pathway for lightning bolts, guiding them safely into the ground.
Install surge protection devices
Lightning strikes on or near a power line or utility service are a frequent cause of power surges. Point-of-use surge protection devices (SPDs), combined with a good grounding system, should protect your electronic and electrical appliances from most electrical surges. An SPD does not suppress or arrest a surge; it actually diverts the surge to the ground.
Service entrance SPDs provide protection for your entire electrical system and are usually installed at the electrical panel(s) or at the base of the service meter. These devices help prevent the entrance of overvoltages which can cause a fire. Surge protection devices are typically installed in conjunction with a lightning protection system.
Hire a professional
Installing a lightning protection system is not a do-it-yourself task due to all of the intricacies involved in completing the job accurately. Fortunately, you can find a reliable certified installer by visiting databases from the LPI and UL. "LPI certifies members in accordance with national safety standards," says VanSickle.
Seek certification
Make sure your professional installer uses only products that bear proof of UL certification. This ensures the equipment complies with national industry standards.
Get a second opinion
If you move into a home with a lightning protection system in place, or you have structural repairs done to your home's exterior that could compromise your current system, it's wise to have your system checked out by a third-party independent follow-up inspector to ensure it still properly stands up to strikes.
Safeguard yourself
During a lightning storm, the inside of your home or office is the safest place to be — but you still need to practice precaution, says VanSickle. Don't touch anything that can conduct electricity, such as:
- Electrical appliances
- Metal surfaces, such as a sliding door
- Anything connected to your plumbing system
- Anything served by gas lines, such as water heaters, ovens, furnaces and fireplaces
Take action in an emergency
"Lightning travels at 90,000 miles per second in air," says VanSickle. "The time it spends on or in your home is measured in micro-seconds, so when you know you've been struck — it's gone." Following a damaging strike, VanSickle recommends inspecting the roof and attic areas to ensure there isn't a fire above your smoke detectors. Then check utility rooms to see that there isn't a problem with water, gas, or electrical system components. "Just be aware that the lightning could have followed metal systems concealed in walls, the attic, under floors, etc., and there is a potential for a leak or a smoldering fire concealed from view," he says.


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Carrots love sandy soil. Add well-rotted manure to improve soil texture and increase nutrients.
- Have you ever seen a carrot that has grown "legs" or forked itself into a strikingly human form? Fresh manure, or even recently applied rotted manure, can cause carrots to fork and send out little side roots. Don't use it before you plant your seeds.
- Thin overcrowded seedlings by snipping them with scissors, instead of pulling them out, to prevent damage to the roots of remaining plants.
- To store freshly harvested carrots, twist off the tops, scrub off the dirt under cold running water (use a vegetable brush, if necessary), let them drain for a few minutes in a large colander, seal them in airtight plastic bags, and refrigerate. If you simply put fresh carrots in the refrigerator, they'll go limp in a few hours.
- Carrots taste much better after a couple of frosts. Following the first hard frost in the fall, cover carrot rows with an 18-inch layer of shredded leaves to preserve them for harvesting after frost.


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Islamic / Muslim iPhone App: Prayer App - Sun Dial: A Mobile Call to Prayer Application
Sun Dial: A Mobile Call to Prayer Application
Sun Dial is a mobile phone application that supports Muslims' prayer practices. Unlike similar systems ours relies on imagery, rather than text and graphs to communicate prayer times. The sun's gentle movement through the sky prompts Muslim users to their five daily prayer times. Users' drove this choice, by telling us that tracking the sun was the most religiously valued method to determine prayer times. Additionally, our system was developed for Muslims practicing in the United States, who told us that they have different needs from those living in regions where Islam is more widely practiced.
YouTube - Sun Dial for iPhone
jazakAllah brother
میں نےجو کیا وہ برا کیا،میں نے خود کو خود ہی تباہ کیا
جو تجھے پسند ہو میرے رب،مجھے اس ادا کی تلاش ہے
Beautiful Apps. I think Islam is a Modern religion and we should prove that Muslim's are not in dark from the up-to-date technology.


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Will The Chinese Buy A Tesla?
Will the Chinese buy A Tesla? The management of Tesla Motors, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TSLA) certainly hopes so.
At the Detroit Auto Show, Tesla announced its plans to open a dealership in Beijing — its first store in China — this spring. George Blankenship, the company's vice president of worldwide sales, said the store will house an 8,000-square-foot facility, much larger than its U.S. stores, which typically have 2,500 to 3,000 square feet of floor space. "The China market is incredibly important to us," Blankenship said. "We think our timing is perfect."
2013 is an important year for Tesla. The maker of battery-powered Model S sedans has a goal of becoming profitable this quarter, with vehicle deliveries forecast to rise to a record 20,000 units this year. In fact, Tesla, which received $465 million in U.S. Energy Department loans to develop and build electric cars, is so confident about its prospects that it predicted it will repay the funds five years ahead of schedule.
Despite the confidence of management, though, the company has its doubters, as evidenced by the 50 percent short interest in Tesla's stock. Production snags in last year's second half boosted operating expenses and triggered a wider fourth-quarter loss for Tesla than analysts anticipated. Moreover, a recent New York Times article, Stalled Out on Tesla's Electric Highway, has sparked a running feud between Tesla and John Broder, the article's author. Tesla management admits that the article has cost the company $100 million in sales.
With pressure mounting to achieve its sales targets in 2013, where else to look for buyers but China, the largest automotive market in the world? The $64,000 question, though, that will only begin to be answered when Tesla's Beijing showroom opens is: "Will the Chinese be willing to buy a Tesla?"
Tesla supporters cite a number of reasons for optimism. First, Beijing is enduring an unprecedented amount of smog, which has reduced visibility on many days to a few yards. Electric vehicles are seen as at least part of the solution for improving air quality. Secondly, The Chinese government wants to decrease the country's dependence on imported oil, and electric vehicles effectively transfer fuel requirements from internal combustion engines that burn gasoline, to power plants that burn coal, which China has in abundance. Third, for these and other reasons, electric cars enjoy many favorable policies from the local governments. For example, Beijing has begun offering free license plates and a $19,000 rebate to private buyers of electrics. And finally, the luxury car segment is one of the fastest growing in China's large and growing car market.
In considering all of the variables, however, it seems clear that, if Tesla is going to make it in China, it will have to make it as a luxury brand, not as an electric vehicle. At a base price of $59,900, Tesla's Model S electric sedan already costs up to twice as much as a similar sized conventional car. Optional features can take the price to $100,000, and then a 25 percent import duty, 17 percent Value Added Tax and a Consumption Tax must be added before it reaches the consumer. At that price point, Tesla's potential customers will be the wealthy individuals that have made China the world's largest market for luxury brands.
Moreover, Tesla is not likely to benefit from favorable government policies in China because, for the most part, they are reserved for electric cars manufactured in the country. In order to promote sales of its Chevy Volt, General Motors has been urging the Chinese government to extend its electric vehicle subsidies to imported models since 2010, to no avail. Even if subsidies were extended, however, they wouldn't be enough to move the Model S out of the luxury category.
As far as pollution, it's not clear how large an impact electric vehicles would have on air quality in cities like Beijing. Because Beijing already requires that all cars being sold in the city meet Euro V emission standards, with other cities following suit, passenger cars are not really the problem. By the time a car achieves Euro V standards, emissions of NOx and particulate matter are negligible. The real culprits are diesel burning trucks and buses, many of which are still operating at Euro III emission levels, factories, and the coal fired power plants that will supply the electricity for the electric vehicles. The net result on air pollution of a large population of electric vehicles may well be negligible.
As a practical matter, sales of electric vehicles have been weak in China, and largely limited to government and corporate customers. "The government's been trying to promote them [electric vehicles], but it's not an easy sell," said Tim Dunne, director of Asia-Pacific market intelligence at consumer-research firm JD Power and Associates. "While everyone [who does business with China] would like China to reduce their dependence on oil and reduce emissions," Dunne said, "EV sales are anemic in most markets around the world."
In the first three quarters of 2012, only 3,000 electric vehicles were sold in China. Global consulting firm McKinsey & Co predicts the Chinese market will remain mostly unchanged, at least for the next five years, as individual buyers continue to be indifferent to electric vehicles.
That leaves Tesla in competition with BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley and Rolls Royce and other well established luxury brands that provide the "face" that every brand conscious buyer of a luxury car in China desires. Whether Tesla can do the same remains to be seen.


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This ornate needle case is carved with beautiful detail and it has a lovely old patina and grain pattern. It's decorated with Chinese figures and buildings on a ground of foliage. The top is in the form of a sunflower. It was carved in China in the early 19th century for an English workbox.
Aside from a tiny chip at the edge of the top, the condition is excellent with no cracks or other damage and it screws together perfectly. It measures 2 5/8" long. This style of needle case is shown on p. 84 of Nerylla Taunton's book "Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries".


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A holiday celebrated by the wizarding community and the Muggle world.
- "Call this a holiday!? The exams are ages away, what're they playing at?"
- —Seamus Finnigan roaring in Gryffindor's common room during Easter holidays in 1994.[src]
Easter, sometimes known as Easter Day or Easter Sunday, is an important annual religious feast celebrated in both the Muggle world and the wizarding world. Easter is the last day of Holy Week. Easter falls between late March and late April each year, as its date is not fixed.
In the wizarding world, Easter is celebrated as a week-long holiday. During this week, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has holidays, during which students may return home or stay in the castle without classes.
Historical eventsEdit
Hogwarts professors piled a great deal of work on students, prompting Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger to feel that the Easter holidays were not nearly as much fun as the Christmas holidays. The trio spent most of their free time in the library trying to get through all their extra work.[1]
The second year students were very busy, thinking seriously of what elective subjects they wished to take the next year. Neville Longbottom had been sent letters from various relatives, all giving him different advice on what to choose.
In the meantime, the Gryffindor Quidditch team prepared for the match against Hufflepuff's team.[2]
At the beginning of the 1993–1994 school year, Professor Trelawney had predicted in a third year Divination class that "one of their number will leave them forever" around Easter[3].
A few days before the Easter holidays began, Professor Trelawney claimed to see the Grim in Harry Potter's future, which she had done multiple times before. Hermione Granger scoffed at this, having little respect for the subject of Divination and even less for its professor. Trelawney became irritated, snapping that Hermione did not have talent for Divination and that her mind was "hopelessly mundane." Hermione abruptly stood up, swung her bag over her shoulder hard enough to nearly knock Ron off his chair, and announced that she gave up. To the astonishment of the class, Hermione — who was generally very respectful toward professors and school — strode over to the trapdoor, kicked it open, and left, dropping the subject. At this moment, Lavender Brown remembered what Professor Trelawney prophesised before.[4]
Molly Weasley sent a package of Easter eggs with her son Percy's letter and enclosed it to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Both Harry and Ron received eggs the size of dragon eggs, full of homemade toffee, while Hermione's were smaller than chicken eggs. Her face fell when she saw this. Mrs. Weasley's cold treatment of Hermione was due to a story Rita Skeeter had printed in Witch Weekly which falsely claimed that Hermione was toying with the affections of both Harry and Viktor Krum.[5]
- George: "Now, you might have noticed that we have been rather quiet on the mayhem front during the Easter holidays?"
- Fred: "What was the point, we asked ourselves, of disrupting leisure time? No point at all, we answered ourselves. And of course, we'd have messed up people's revision, too, which would be the very last thing we'd want to do... But it's business as usual from tomorrow."
- — Fred and George Weasley[src]
During Easter in 1996, Hermione spent her time in Gryffindor Tower to revise Ancient Runes, and Ron had Quidditch practice. Ginny and Ron Weasley received a box of Easter eggs wrapped in brown paper, but it had already been unwrapped and carelessly re-wrapped. There was a scribbled note across it in red ink, reading: Inspected and Passed by the Hogwarts High Inquisitor. Fred and George Weasley took a brief break from their rebellious efforts against Dolores Umbridge so as not to disrupt others' leisure and study time during the holidays. When they said this to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, Fred nodded in Hermione's direction, and she looked "rather taken aback by this thoughtfulness". Once the holidays were over, however, they resumed their campaign against Umbridge.[6]
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were captured by a gang of Snatchers led by Fenrir Greyback after Harry broke the Taboo curse on Lord Voldemort's name. The Snatchers brought the trio to Malfoy Manor, Death Eater headquarters. Dobby arrived to rescue the trio and the other prisoners, and a skirmish ensued in which he was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.
By this time, many students were not returning to Hogwarts, due to the events of the Second Wizarding War. These students included Ginny Weasley, as her entire family was forced to abandon their home and go into hiding after Ron's assistance of Harry and Hermione was discovered at Malfoy Manor.[7]
Behind the scenesEdit
- As a religious observance, Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The Harry Potter novels, however, focus on the more secular aspects of the holiday-- a break from work/classes (though not necessarily homework) and treats such as Easter eggs.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco International Airport will shut down two of its four runways this summer to complete a federally mandated safety project, increasing the possibility of flight delays and intensifying airplane traffic over northwestern San Mateo County.
The airport plans to construct safety zones at both ends of runways 1L and 1R, a pair of northeast-facing strips that typically handle most of SFO's departures. So all flights will use the airport's two other runways from mid-May to September.
The work will cut the number of flights that can arrive in clear weather at peak hours by about 15 percent and change departing flight paths, sending all Southern California-bound flights over San Bruno and Daly City.
The airport will take various steps, however, to reduce delays of arriving and departing flights, said spokesman Doug Yakel. And the impact on travelers will not be dramatic, he said, noting the airport typically shuts down two of its runways 100 days of the year during strong winds.
"There is the possibility of delays during this period," said Yakel, "but we're working very hard to minimize whatever effect that this construction would have on passengers."
The airport already completed the safety project on 28L and 28R, the southeast-to-northwest-oriented runways it uses for arrivals. SFO lengthened and redesigned those runways last year to provide more room for aircraft that undershoot or overrun them, though even those measures could not prevent the pilots of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from crash-landing July 6, killing three people and injuring many others.
But SFO's two departure strips are shorter than the arrival paths and cannot be sufficiently lengthened to meet Federal Aviation Administration requirements. So the airport will install "engineered materials arresting systems" at both ends of the runways. Instead of pavement the ground will consist of a material designed to collapse under the weight of an airplane, slowing its momentum.
The project will have a major impact on the flight patterns of departing aircraft. Rather than have most planes take off to the northeast, the airport will direct all departing aircraft to the northwest. That will mean more noise for some northern San Mateo County communities and less for others.
The impact may be most acute in Daly City, which normally sits beneath only those planes headed for Asia or Hawaii. This summer, at peak times in the morning and evening, it will see as many as 10-12 more planes per hour bound for Southern California. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is SFO's top domestic destination with about 500 weekly flights.
Daly City Vice Mayor Carol Klatt lives in the Serramonte neighborhood, the part of the city most affected by aircraft noise. Overhead planes often wake her up at night and drown out conversation during the day. When she's outside talking to a neighbor, for instance, they have to pause for a few seconds to let the planes go by.
The Serramonte area will be "heavily impacted," she said, but she praised SFO for its public outreach regarding the plan. The airport has given presentations to the Brisbane, Daly City, Pacifica and South San Francisco city councils, according to Yakel.
"I don't like it, but what choices do I have?" Klatt said. "They're doing everything they can to educate the community."
Work on runways 1L and 1R is scheduled to begin May 17 and wrap up by mid-September. The total cost of the runway safety project is $214 million, said Yakel, with all the money coming from the federal government.
Contact Aaron Kinney at 650-348-4357 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/kinneytimes.


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... you could buy a Merlin XU870 HSDPA ExpressCard.
I bought one for my ExpressCard "enabled" HP laptop, and it's a fantasic piece of kit when coupled with a T-Mobile Web'n'walk MAX connection.
Announced last August and shipping today, Vodafone's Mobile Connect Modem is pitched at anyone who owns an Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro or, indeed, any other modern notebook made by a manufacturer whose products don't have old-style PC Card slots. ExpressCard is all very well, but it won't accept Vodafone's 3G Broadband data card …
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This Vodafone service had been available in Hong Kong through its partnership company SmarTone-Vodafone for almost half a year.
The device sells for HKD2488.00 (approximately USD320.00 / GBP168.00), which is less than a HSDPA ExpressCard, like the one suggested by the other reader, Dave Fox.
What I do not like is the cost of the service plans:
Without Contract = HKD100.00 (USD12.84 / GBP6.77) / 50MB
With a Contract = HKD488.00 (USD62.68 / GBP33.00) / month with a 18 months commitment and only available to SmarTone-Vodafone voice plan subscribers.
The Contract plan is restricted from using VOIP, BitTorrent and any video streaming. To add VOIP to the Contract plan one will have to add HKD88.00 (USD11.30 / GBP5.96)
Both plans come with a roaming rate of HKD0.12 (USD0.015 / GBP0.008) / KB.
Mean while other local telcos are offering wireless (WiFi) access at various brick-and-mortar locations for approximately HKD68.00 (USD8.73 / GBP4.60) / month of unlimited access with no contract or commitments.
Yes, the Vodafone service offer the freedom of Internet access anywhere including by the beach in the park or any where the local WiFi access provider is not reachable, but when comparing HKD68/month to HKD576.00 (USD73.98 / GBP38.99); including the VOIP access, plus the cost of purchasing the HSDPA access device. The choice is quite obvious.
Alternatively, hook your laptop up to your mobile phone via Bluetooth - no extra gadgets, no extra contract (just add data to your voice contract, T-Mobile have an "all you can eat" for just £8/mo I believe). Not only that, but you can use the same connection/contract for more than one laptop and/or PDA.
Works for me anyway.
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Game 6: Toronto at Cleveland pregame
Some more on Adam "A Mighty" Lind after yesterday's performance against the Tribe:
Since RBIs were first recorded in 1920, only four players have launched at least three home runs and knocked in at least 10 runs in their team's first five games. The list includes Bobby Doerr (1941), Lou Brock (1967), Kal Daniels (1988) and Larry Walker (1997), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Now, those four have some new peers. Adam Lind has three homers and 11 RBIs through the first five Jays games and Detroit's Miguel Cabrera has three homers and 10 RBIs through five for the Tiggers. Lind also happens to lead baseball in RBIs right now and he ranks second with 10 hits.
The last Blue Jays player to have three homers in the club's first five games is Carlos Delgado, who accomplished the feat in 2001 — he had five in that span. Also, Lind didn't have 10 hits last year until his 14th game, needing 45 at-bats to achieve that many knocks.
Speaking of 2001, the Jays are off to their best start since that season, when the team opened the year 5-1. Toronto hasn't been much of an April team over recent seasons. In '01, they finished the month 16-9. In the seasons since, they never ended the first month more than one game over .500.
Asked manager Cito Gaston today if he thought the Jays and Indians should've tried to play through the rest of the fifth inning last night to make the game official in the books. He replied with a stern, "Absolutely." The game was called in the top of the fifth with Toronto up 4-3 and then sat through a 3:47 rain delay — the longest in team history.
Today's lineups:
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Alex Rios, RF
4. Vernon Wells, CF
5. Adam Lind, DH
6. Scott Rolen, 3B
7. Kevin Millar, 1B
8. Rod Barajas, C
9. Jose Bautista, LF
Starter: RHP Roy Halladay
1. Grady Sizemore, CF
2. Mark DeRosa, 3B
3. Victor Martinez, 1B
4. Shin-Soo Choo, RF
5. Jhonny Peralta, SS
6. Ryan Garko, DH
7. Kelly Shoppach, C
8. Ben Francisco, LF
9. Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B
Starter: LHP Cliff Lee
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Talk about missing a bullet, great job by Halliday.
I can't beleive that Ryan almost blew Halladay's win. Man, something needs to happen with the closer situation. Downs looked pretty good in his inning. That would have been criminal. Nice outing by Doc……as usual. Good win (whew!)
Oh, and add me to the folks complaining about this site. Very slow lately and goes to a unable to locate site message. Did post my response eventually though.
Great game by Scutaro, Hill, Lind and another excellent start by the Doc. Fireman of the year award to Fraser for closing this one out. Talk about high trauma.
Ryan needs to be sent down to Florida to see if he can work this out. He's over throwing to try to keep him velocity back and as a result, he's losing control and movement.
He went 3-2 for almost every hitter, walked 3 of 6 hitters he faced, gave up 2 hits, 3 runs which could have been 4 if Fraser hadn't saved him. I just hope he's not done.
Downs should be the closer. Hopefully, Jansen recovers soon and Cecil is ready soon. I now think we need Janssen in the pen as the 8th inning guy.
Not to whine about Wells too much, BUT it's now 6 games and he's only driven in 1 run. We're lucky Lind has been so hot right behind him or we wouldnt be 5-1.
I still think Rolen should hit 4th and Wells 6th until Wells gets going, we can't expect Lind, Snider, Hill and Scutaro to stay hot forever.
There is nothing worse then the pen almost blowing a great starting pitcher outing.
Particulary two in a row by the so called closer
Watching Frasor pitch today, I thought he was different but couldn't figure out what it was until I read an article in the Globe, part of which is as follows:
With his new "generic" split-finger fastball, Frasor struck out Cleveland first baseman Victor Martinez for the save.
That's exactly what Frasor was able to do against Martinez. The Jays reliever first began flirting with a splitter in 2005 with bullpen coach Bruce Walton. But Frasor refined the pitch when he made an off-season stopp in Tennessee to visit and work with former Major Leaguer Doug Bochtler.
"I stopped in for a minute," said Frasor, who added the get-together was setup by a mutual friend. "Tomorrow it could be a knuckler. I'll keep throwing it as long as it works."
**This brings a total different dimension to Fraser, going from two pitches to three. Now he's got a 95 mph fastball, slider and the split in the arsenal.
Results so far have been great with 2.1 innings, 1 hit, 2 k's and no bb's and no runs. Couldn't have came at a better time.
Ryan has done this before, when he came on in a non-save situation and made things interesting. I'm just hoping there's nothing wrong with his shoulder that they are keeping mum about, and that he can work through this. Of course, the rest of the team can help by piling on enough runs that the save situations are kept to a minimum!
I actually thought Wells was having a pretty good start this year, considering that he's a notoriously slow starter. 7 hits in 24 AB (.292) with 3 doubles is a pretty good start for Wells. If you know this, you don't go disturbing your lineup, especially when the rest of the team can pick him up, and they are winning games. If Wells stays healthy this year, he will hit .300 with 30 taters, and a lot of those come in August and September when the money is on the table.
This team is off to its best start since 2001, so if it ain't broke, don't go fixin' it!


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District investigator Debra Horne and staff attorney Scott Martin quit amid the Rod Frazier investigation.
Two Manatee County school district officials have stepped down in the wake of the Rod Frazier case, and three others were suspended without pay despite impassioned arguments from their attorneys.
Former district investigator Debra Horne has retired from the district and former staff attorney Scott Martin agreed to resign from the district, both decisions effective Nov. 2.
The three other administrators involved — assistant superintendent Bob Gagnon and former Manatee High assistant principals Matthew Kane and Gregg Faller — were suspended without pay by the School Board with unanimous 5-0 votes on each.
On Sept. 25, Superintendent Rick Mills notified the five administrators in writing that he recommended their terminations and they received administrative complaints on Oct. 4.
Gagnon, Kane and Faller have 21 days from receiving the administrative complaint, or until Oct. 25, to request a hearing contesting Mills' decision.
The five administrators have been paid more than $75,000 in salary since being put on paid leave in August.
Horne, Gagnon, Faller and Kane are facing felony charges of failure to report child abuse by the state. Gagnon, Faller and Kane have also been charged with lying to police.
Criminal charges have not been filed against Martin.
Frazier, former assistant football coach and parent liaison at Manatee High, has been charged with seven counts of misdemeanor battery and three counts of interfering with a student's attendance.
Attorneys for Gagnon, Kane and Faller attended Monday's meeting and unsuccessfully argued their clients should not have their pay stopped until a hearing is conducted.
"What happens if a home gets foreclosed on?" said Richard Reinhart, Gagnon's attorney. "What happens if there is financial ruin?"
Reinhart, who made an animated argument on Gagnon's behalf, raised the possibility of a lawsuit because suspension without pay was being voted on before a hearing has taken place.
"If you do not want to incur any more financial loss, do not take the steps you are taking," Reinhart said to the board before the vote.
Terry Harmon, an attorney advising Mills, addressed the superintendent after Reinhart finished.
"The threat of a lawsuit and getting loud does not mean what you did was wrong," Harmon said to Mills.
Reinhart opened his argument by comparing Gagnon's situation to the Salem witch trials.
"This will not stand," Reinhart said. "He has done nothing wrong. His suspension is based on political bias."
Board member Bob Gause, who recommended Gagnon become interim superintendent in September 2012 when Tim McGonegal resigned amid serious budget mismanagement, voted to suspend Gagnon without pay, but did voice a concern with the district's report on Gagnon.
"I've got some real concerns," Gause said.
Horne, meanwhile, was hired in 2005 as the lead investigator for the newly created Office of Professional Standards. She transferred amid the district's investigation into Frazier on Jan. 28 to Prine Elementary, where she served as assistant principal.
Martin was hired as staff attorney in 2010 and was promoted to Assistant Superintendent of District Support Services in June 2011. He was moved back to staff attorney this spring, before being put on paid leave in August. The district went over two years without a staff attorney.
After being alerted to possible misconduct by Frazier, Horne interviewed seven Manatee High employees on Nov. 15, 2012, and was given information as well as names of potential victims.
A teacher told Horne she had seen a student sitting on either Frazier's lap or his knee inside his office.
After Horne's interviews were conducted, a meeting was held consisting of Horne, Faller, Kane and Manatee High principal Don Sauer. Martin was on a speaker phone and school attorney John Bowen was also aware of the situation.
Bowen told the Herald-Tribune he recommended that Horne not call the state-mandated hotline at that time because nothing he heard constituted child abuse and no victim had come forward.
Frazier had been put on paid leave Nov. 15, and returned to school the next day. According to a district report it was Martin who made the decision for Frazier to return.
Horne interviewed Frazier on Nov. 16.
Gagnon, through Martin, told Horne her investigation needed to be swift because Frazier was needed back on the sidelines for Manatee High's playoff football game that night.
Through her attorney, Derek Byrd, Horne said she was simply following the directions of her superiors, Martin and Bowen.
On Jan. 9, a letter was delivered to Sauer by a former Manatee student who said Frazier had grabbed her, asked for a nude photograph and said that he loved her.
Horne interviewed the girl and her mother, but little else was done, according to a district report.
On Jan. 28, Horne transferred to Prine Elementary, and Martin took over the investigation until the Bradenton Police Department began an investigation of its own on Feb. 8.
Horne and Martin also came under question last week when the Herald-Tribune reported a Bayshore High cafeteria manager remained on the job for over a year as several school district officials abandoned concerns the employee had gotten a student pregnant.
Horne briefly interviewed the girl, who denied the worker was the father. Horne did not investigate further.
A more thorough investigation would have revealed that Leverna Williams, the Bayshore High employee, had been having sex with the student when he was 40 and she was 16. The student became pregnant by Williams when she was 18.
Horne, through her attorney, said she did not continue to investigate on the advice of Martin, her superior.
Williams' resignation was approved at Monday night's meeting.
Also at Monday night's meeting, several dozen players and students associated with the Manatee High baseball program showed up in support for coach Dwayne Strong.
The district is currently investigating Strong, and sources say the investigation is centering around possible financial improprieties and ethical concerns.
The Florida High School Activities Association is aware of the district's investigation, according to a spokesman.


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Annabella Freestanding Bath Magnifying Makeup Mirror with Lavender Purple base and Chi Chi Pedestal
Annabella Freestanding Bath Magnifying Makeup Mirror with Lavender Purple base and Chi Chi Pedestal
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Treat yourself to this Victorian styled Freestanding Magnifying Makeup Mirror from Elegant Home Fashions. You can easily set it on your bathroom counter when you need it and can easily be pushed aside when you want more space. The Lavender Purple base has a rippled/tiered effect that adds a little touch of extra decoration on this simple mirror. The mirror is constructed of steel and features a Satin Nickel finish. It has 5X/1X magnification.
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