2013 LIONS SQUAD bound for oz

2013 LIONS SQUAD:
Full-backs: Leigh Halfpenny (Wal), Stuart Hogg (Scot), Rob Kearney (Ire)
Wings: Tommy Bowe (Ire), Alex Cuthbert (Wal), George North (Wal), Sean Maitland (Sco)
Centres: Jonathan Davies (Wal), Brian O’Driscoll (Ire), Jamie Roberts (Wal), Manu Tuilagi (Eng)
Fly-halves: Owen Farrell (Eng), Jonathan Sexton (Ire)
Scrum-halves: Mike Phillips (Wal), Conor Murray (Ire), Ben Youngs (Eng)
Props: Cian Healy (Ire), Gethin Jenkins (Wal), Adam Jones (Wal), Dan Cole (Eng), Matt Stevens (Eng), Mako Vunipola (Eng)
Hookers: Richard Hibbard (Wal), Tom Youngs (Eng). Dylan Hartley (Eng)
Locks: Alun Wyn Jones (Wal), Paul O’Connell (Ire), Richie Gray (Scot), Ian Evans (Wal), Geoff Parling (Eng)
Flankers: Dan Lydiate (Wal), Sean O’Brien (Ire), Sam Warburton (Wal), Tom Croft (Eng), Justin Tipuric (Wal)
No8s: Jamie Heaslip (Irel), Toby Faletau (Wal).
FIXTURES:
Sat 1 Jun: v Barbarians at Hong Kong Stadium
Wed 5 Jun: v Western Force at Patersons Stadium
Sat 8 Jun: v Queensland Reds at Suncorp Stadium
Tue 11 Jun: v Comb NSW-Qld Country at Hunter Stadium
Sat 15 Jun: v NSW Waratahs at Allianz Stadium
Tue 18 Jun: v ACT Brumbies at Canberra Stadium
Sat 22 Jun: v Australia at Suncorp Stadium
Tue 25 Jun:v Melbourne Rebels at AAMI Park
Sat 29 Jun: v Australia at Etihad Stadium
Sat 6 Jul :v Australia at ANZ Stadium

How do RSS users want to share content? Digg and Feedly try to find out

Gigaom

With time ticking down until Google (s GOOG) Reader’s demise, competing RSS services are trying to perfect products that will lure in former Reader users. Digg, which is working on a Google Reader replacement, and Feedly, whose product is already up, running and gaining popularity, both posted the results of surveys this week in which they asked current Google Reader users how they share content.

A theme that comes through in both surveys is that RSS users still often rely on email to share content. Of the 8,600 Google Reader users who responded to Digg’s most recent survey, nearly 80 percent say they share news via email.

That’s not particularly surprising since Google Reader got rid of many of its social features in 2011 and no longer allows for easy posting to Facebook (s FB) or Twitter, while there is still a Google Reader keyboard shortcut…

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I Want a Handsome Butler

Yangsze Choo

I’ve been thinking very hard about my priorities, and have finally come to the conclusion that what I really, really want is a handsome butler.

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Victory Day – May 9th, 2011 (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Life in Russia.

Victory Day, May 9th, is a day which commemorates the capitulation between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany after the German Army had invaded St. Petersburg (then known as Leningrad), leading to a fatal 872 day siege, which brought severe famine upon the city and claimed the lives of many.  As I watched the parade today, there was one young woman screaming “Спасибо!” (thank you) at the top of her lungs throughout the entire parade as the veterans made their way down Nevsky Prospekt.  Little children came with balloons and carnations and ran into the street to give them to the veterans as they passed by.  People everywhere were seen wearing the orange and black Ribbon of St. George, which became one of the Soviet symbols of military valor after victory had been achieved.

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