CASTLE PARK MEN SWITCH TO FULL TIME
The News Review:
- CASTLE PARK MEN SWITCH TO FULL TIME
- NBA Draft Becomes Swap Meet
- The rappers are revolting
- Opinion: School’s out: Time to order new Macs?
- Morrison headed to Charlotte with No. 3 selection
- Crash.net preview - US Grand Prix.
CASTLE PARK MEN SWITCH TO FULL TIME
Doncaster Today - Jun 29, 2006
Also joining the club are Cornish Pirates back Wes Davies, Newcastle second row Luke Gross and Otley back row Glen Wilson. As well as captaining the side Forster will also work with Griffiths as forwards’ coach and Doncaster will utilise the skills of Phillips as a performance analyst. Among the existing players turning professional are home grown youngsters Tom Davies and Dan Storey who both made an impact in Yorkshire’s Under 20s championship victory at Twickenham in May. Davies is rated as a top future prospect at prop and Storey will focus on playing at scrum half this season after appearing in the backs during last season’s injuries crisis. Four other home grown players are part of the squad – James Rothwell and Scott Plevey, who are both on full time contracts, and Craig Deakin and the long serving Simon Greenslade. The other existing players given professional contracts are Steve Baretto, Steve Boden, John Cannon, Oliver Cook, Simon Grainger, Brad Hunt, Richard List, Ryan Peacey and Ngalu Tau. Blending the squad training of professionals and part-timers will provide a significant challenge for Griffiths as a number of his key players have opted not to give up successful careers outside rugby… Among the existing players turning professional are home grown youngsters Tom Davies and Dan Storey who both made an impact in Yorkshire’s Under 20s championship victory at Twickenham in May. Davies is rated as a top future prospect at prop and Storey will focus on playing at scrum half this season after appearing in the backs during last season’s injuries crisis. Four other home grown players are part of the squad – James Rothwell and Scott Plevey, who are both on full time contracts, and Craig Deakin and the long serving Simon Greenslade. The other existing players given professional contracts are Steve Baretto, Steve Boden, John Cannon, Oliver Cook, Simon Grainger, Brad Hunt, Richard List, Ryan Peacey and Ngalu Tau. Blending the squad training of professionals and part-timers will provide a significant challenge for Griffiths as a number of his key players have opted not to give up successful careers outside rugby. The other part-time players are Jon Benson, John Boden, Simon Bunting, Dan Cook, Russell Earnshaw, Glen Kenworthy, Jimmy Rule, Donavan Van Vuuren and Michael Wood. All the full time players will train three or four days a week with Griffiths blending their activities with those of the part-timers who will continue to train two or three evenings a week.
NBA Draft Becomes Swap Meet
Wall Street Journal - Wall Street Journal (subscription) - Jun 29, 2006
The positive stuff does not seem to stick. Every time he gets a big hit, it is treated as if it is his first big hit in pinstripes. Maybe it is all the money he makes or all the talent he has or the fact he is not a home-grown Yankee or simply that he has a persona that so many find off-putting. Whatever the reason, there is something about Rodriguez that has not allowed him to win this home crowd, at least not yet. "Found a good column from the world of sports? Don’t keep it to yourself — write to us at. com and we’ll consider your find for inclusion in the Daily Fix.
The rappers are revolting
The Age - Jun 29, 2006
THE LONG AND tricky relationship between popular music andpolitics has been getting a lot of media attention recently, atleast in relation to the US. There has been so much ballyhoo aboutthe Dixie Chicks’ Bush-bashing - first came their chance remark ata London concert four years ago, then the apology, then, morerecently, the retraction of the apology - you’d think they’d becomeglobal political pundits. It’s not as if there’s much in the way ofpolitical reflection in their music, but the extensive coveragethey’ve received would seem to indicate that if you’re a mainstreamAmerican music star, you’re given more vox-pop gravitas andcredibility than politicians, intellectuals and journalists puttogether. Even Neil Young, who hardly counts as mainstream, has devoted anentire album, Living With War, to impeaching George Bush andexpressing his disaffection with the war in Iraq. Not one of hisstrongest musically, still, the sentiment is deeply felt and it hasbeen so widely reviewed in the press that it’s as if he is fillinga huge vacuum in political protest music… “Where are the Australian singers spitting rage?” asked GoodWeekend columnist Julia Baird in a piece titled “Right-onSong” (June 10). She called on the normally astute musicwriter Bernard Zuel to opine that “very few Australian folk andbush songs have been about taking it to the Government”. Both Bairdand Zuel might do well to find themselves a copy of Warren Fahey’sThe Balls of Bob Menzies: Australian Political Songs1900-1980, which contains the lyrics to more than 300home-grown political folk songs since Federation,including Pig Iron Bob, Poor Wee Billy McMahon andHawke is My Shepherd. As Fahey notes in his introduction: “It is interesting tosurmise why politicians offer such wonderful material for thesongwriter. Broadcasts from Parliament House are full of intrigue,name-calling and verbal action that would do a soap operaproud. No doubt someone is penning a satirical song about Tony Abbottand his “snivelling grubs” as I write. These songs may not beperformed or recorded by singers as globally prominent as BruceSpringsteen, Bono, Madonna or Bob Dylan, but they are part of apopular local folk song tradition that runs deep, as Fahey’s morerecent book, Ratbags and Rebel Rousers: A Century of PoliticalProtest Song and Satire, illustrates.
Opinion: School’s out: Time to order new Macs?
Macworld - Jun 29, 2006
Some users and administrators have managed to craft universal Mac OS X configurations and images. However, the potential problems of this unsupported Mac OS X configuration (which doesn’t function properly with Software Update) should keep them out of a live production environment. While maintaining multiple image sets may be a lot of work, it is by far the best approach in terms of stability, security and troubleshooting any operating system or application problems — regardless of whether the problems are a result of the home-grown configuration. That means extra thought needs to go into any allocation of Intel Macs or any decision to postpone a Mac upgrade until 2007 in the hopes that a universal Mac OS X release will be available. Delaying upgrades presents its own problems as PowerPC-based Macs become scarce. It may be difficult by then to locate PowerBook G4s, iBooks, iMac G5s and Mac minis. Older minis have pretty much disappeared from Apple’s order book and even though eMacs are still available to education, they’re reportedly in short supply and could soon be replaced with a similarly designed Intel eMac.
Morrison headed to Charlotte with No. 3 selection
nwsource.com - Jun 29, 2006
“It would be awesome if he gave me special instruction,” Morrison said of Jordan. “If he told me how to tie my shoes, I’d listen. ”
Skipping his final collegiate season to try his hand at the pros, he was drafted higher than any other state collegian or home-grown schoolboy except Seattle University forward Elgin Baylor, selected first in 1958 by the then-Minneapolis Lakers, and Bremerton High and North Carolina forward Marvin Williams, taken second by the Atlanta Hawks last year. Washington center Bob Houbregs was also a third pick in 1953. 1-point scorer as a junior and a decidedly confident player, confirmed he had entertained thoughts of becoming the draft’s top overall pick before giving way to a pair of big men, Andrea Bargnani and LaMarcus Aldridge, taken by Toronto and Chicago, respectively. “Maybe for a second, but when I heard they were going big, there went my chance,” he said.
Crash.net preview - US Grand Prix.
crash.net - Jun 29, 2006
Indeed, the United States Grand Prix is the most participated race of the year but that only served to make the boos and jeers louder and with calls from spectators for Formula One never to return, it seemed the sport’s future in such a crucial market for the teams was doomed. Nonetheless, Formula One has returned and the teams are more determined than ever to rebuild a shattered reputation to the American audience. Their cause will no doubt be aided by the appearance of. The main spectacle though will be up at the front, with.