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I enjoyed Danny O'Neil's article ("Hawks practice-squad players share house, car and common goal," Seattle Times, Dec. 26). I wish they had kept the term "taxi squad." The late Paul Brown named them that because they worked part time for the owner's taxi-cab business. We always root for the underdogs, so I hope they all make the team one day. — Bill Hemmenway, Issaquah Sonics There are other reasons for downfall Steve Kelley's column ("Allen has it all wrong — Sonics made right deal," Seattle Times, Dec. 28) about the Sonics trade of Ray Alen to the Celtics was right. But not for the reasons he cites. One playoff appearance in five years? That has a lot more to do with the previous ownership group shoving Nate McMillan out the door than with Ray Allen's abilities.
Welcome to Adlon Hotel in Stockholm
Can anybody tell me what is expected from my c.v and covering letter in Sweden. I am soon hoping to apply for my first job in Sweden and really don't want to mess it up! I was planning to get help writing my covering letter in Swedish, but even these letters seem quite different form any covering letter I have written in England. I was told recently that it should be a general introduction letter about myself, perhaps even with a photo, not just work related, mentioning my age my partner my interests etc....is this correct? As for the c.v should I translate it into Swedish? What order should things be in...my english c.v starts with contact info, then education, then previous employment, then additional skills/experience and finally referees....does this order stay the same? As you can see...I am not sure .
Ex-mobster a big hit warning college, pro athletes about gambling's ...
FAIRFAX, Va. -- It's clear right away - long before the woman sitting up front asks, ''Did you shoot anyone?'' - that this guy with the straight-out-of-central-casting Brooklyn accent and gold chain is not your typical college lecturer. It's clear from Michael Franzese's life story - the 17 years in the mafia, the millions upon millions of ill-gotten gains, the ''Yuppie Don'' nickname, the prison term - that he is a breed apart from the professors usually addressing this crowd. And it's clear, from the wide eyes and dropped jaws in a George Mason University auditorium on a recent evening, that these kids in their gray hooded sweat shirts are listening intently, drawn in by Franzese's message and mien. They're hearing Franzese deliver the same, simple points he makes to college athletes and coaches, to NBA rookies and Major League Baseball players and umpires, to professional tennis players and NFL veterans.
Apple refreshes its MacBook Pro lineup
Apple on Tuesday updated its MacBook Pro notebook lineup with the biggest additions being the latest Intel Core 2 Duo chips, more memory and the multi-touch trackpad that's found in the MacBook Air. Apple also updated its MacBook lineup. Apple rolled out a 2.4 GHz, 15-inch MacBook Pro starting at $1,999. The refreshed lineup, which was flagged as imminent by Jason O'Grady last week, will be closely watched by Wall Street, which is increasingly worried about growth for Apple's iPod and iPhone businesses. The consensus view is that strong Mac sales will carry Apple for a few quarters. By the specs: 15.4-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1440 x 900 LCD display; 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache; 800 MHz front-side bus; 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB; 200GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor; A slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+/-R DL / DVD+/-RW / CD-RW) optical drive; NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory; DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video adapter sold separately); Built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display; Built-in iSight video camera; Gigabit Ethernet port; Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot; Two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port and one FireWire 400 port; One audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog; Multi-Touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard; and 85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.
Engineering to move to UHS site
After all, Yale Engineering facilities are already centralized in the area. Mason Laboratory is one building down from the current UHS site on Hillhouse; Dunham Laboratory and the Becton Center are both in the block between Hillhouse and Prospect Street; and Cesar Pelli's new Malone Engineering Center, the home of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is across the street, its dramatic glass facade visible from UHS. The new engineering building has not been officially announced, although University President Richard Levin made a passing reference to it in his 4,345-word treatise released Feb. 18 on the prospect of building two new residential colleges. The earliest the University would be able to break ground on the new facility is 2011 or 2012, assuming UHS vacates its building by late 2009 or early 2010, outgoing Dean of Engineering Paul Fleury said, and that would be “on a very aggressive timetable." Fleury, who Vanderlick said had been pushing for the new building for several years during his tenure, is the new director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering.
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Breakers primed for hostile reception
The Breakers are ready to step into the cauldron of playoff basketball for the first time, adamant the Taipans' fanatic home crowd won't affect them in Cairns on Thursday night. The Breakers' first tilt at a quarter-final in the NBL will take place in front of 5335 orange-clad Taipans fans. Coach Andrej Lemanis says the atmosphere will be electric, but the team's final regular season match in Perth last Saturday was "great preparation" despite the 98-85 loss. "It doesn't get more hostile than Perth," Lemanis said. "We as a team did a good job of focusing on what we had to do in that environment and the crowd didn't affect us at all. "When all you have is each other you get an 'us versus the world' mentality. You can derive strength from that.
Garcia - leading fancy for Major breakthrough (Allsport).
Many of them, of course, like Colin Montgomerie, Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia, are hoping this is the week they will achieve their first major, although no European has won this title since Tommy Armour way back in 1930. But Tiger Woods, inevitably, presents the biggest stumbling block to their ambitions. Blown off course in the Open at Muirfield last month, the world number one won a staggering 45th tournament in 151 starts as a professional on Sunday and still commands the stage like few before him - in any sport. Nothing, but nothing, appears to deflect his focus away from capturing as many majors as he can. Not a Swedish beauty for a girlfriend and not the nearby "attraction" of the world's biggest shopping complex. Asked if he would be visiting the Mall of America Woods replied: "House, course; course, house; house, course; course, house.
Infinite Loop
Unlike the iPhone ads, Apple's iPod touch ads are a lot more... erm, musical, and less blatantly informative of what the device does. So in that same fashion, the new ad just visually demonstrates various things you can do on the device while playing against a cheerfully happy background song. The ad made its debut last night during Fox's American Idol, and has now appeared online in Apple's iPod + iTunes section. The new ad marks the second iPod touch ad since the "Music is My Hot, Hot Sex" ad that was originally conceived by an 18-year-old Brit named Nick Haley. To be honest, I kind of like the iPod touch ads. They make me feel warm and fuzzy inside, and make me want to touch things. No, not like that. .
CBC should receive stable, multi-year funding: report
I actually think they all do a pretty bad job.
CBC needs public funding with stricter guidelines to what is shown.
For instance,
Jpod is a great show
so is Tudors and LIttle Mosque shows viewership
Rick Mercer and 22minutes are a bit tired but they are at least doing a better job of news than the rest of Canadian tv media.
I think CBC needs to re-format into several stations,like the BBC.
And lastly, if thes CONs want to drop public funding and the television fund, then ya CBC needs a 'capital investment' which can be paid back.
This CBC bashing isn't helping Canadian identity. I am sure we are all tired of jsut being known for an old beaver and those mountie uniforms.
BTW, jimmy, did you realise the acts that were at the Grammys this year? and all the other reward shows? ALL Canadian.
Finding Political Strength in the Power of Words
Not since the days of the whistle-stop tour and the radio addresses that Franklin D. Roosevelt used to hone his message while governor of New York has a presidential candidate been propelled so much by the force of words, according to historians and experts on rhetoric. Obama's emergence as the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination has become nearly as much a story of his speeches as of the candidate himself. He arrived on the national scene with his address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, his campaign's key turning points have nearly all involved speeches, and his supporters are eager for his election-night remarks nearly as much as for the vote totals. But his success as a speaker has also invited a new line of attack by his opponents.
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