| Bone chips may sideline Ohlund for season
The Vancouver Canucks received some bad news Thursday when they learned defenceman Mattias Ohlund has bone chips in his left knee. In an attempt to reduce the swelling in the joint, Ohlund has been administered anti-inflammatory drugs. He will be given four to six days to see if the swelling has gone down enough to return to play. If Ohlund has not recovered enough to play at that time, he will undergo arthroscopic surgery. "Hopefully when it settles down I'll be able to finish out the year, hopefully get into the playofs and play for a long time," Ohlund said. "We're going to have to wait and see a few days." Ohlund would miss the rest of the regular season as a result of the surgery. Even if Ohlund avoids surgery now and is able to continue playing, he will still have to go under the knife after the season.
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PERRspectives (via politicalhumor.com) provides a "separated at birth" featuring George Bush and Darth Vader here. 3. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, Today's Birthdays (Clint Eastwood) here, and Word of the Day (niggling) here. 4. World Mag Top of the News Fix: Bush calls human rights report absurd here, Consumer confidence unexpectedly rebounds here, Court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction here, Saddam to face trial within 2 months here, and Mom killed in fight over cleaning room here. 5. Poll Fix: Most Americans support President Bush's plan to allow younger workers to invest part of their Social Security payroll taxes through personal accounts, according to a Zogby poll, here. 6. Opinion Fix: Ralph Nader & Kevin Zeese/Boston Globe (Impeach Bush, Cheney), Brendan Miniter/Wall Street Journal (The McCain myth), Dennis Byrne/Chicago Tribune (Amnesty's irresponsible claims), G.
City actors shine in film on Baba Deep Singh
The plan, if there was is still in the records and has not been translated into reality. Established in the early 90s with over 300 industrial units, which produce a variety of goods, the area contributes large chunk of taxes to the state and the municipal exchequer but without receiving any advantage. The roads in the area are almost non-existent and the sewerage system perpetually over flowing, making the movement of both, the goods and the people difficult. The chairman of the Focal Point Association, Mr Harminder Singh, said the corporation had taken over the industrial area for maintenance but had totally failed to carry out their responsibilities. The industrialists paid exorbitant house tax, besides Octroi and other taxes but the corporation had completely ignored their claim for better civic amenities.
Auto industry suffering as sales continue to erode
Consumers continued to apply the brakes to purchasing new vehicles last month, adding to the pall hanging over the shrinking auto industry. Fallout from record-high energy prices has continued to hit sales of pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles particularly hard at both Ford and General Motors. .
Revealed: the £160m income of top private schools
Scotland's 17 leading independent schools have a combined annual income of more than £160m, fuelling the debate over whether they should retain their charitable status. Figures released for the first time yesterday show top private schools, including Fettes College and Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, Hutchesons' Grammar in Glasgow and Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire, are among the top 300 charities in the country for income - the main source of which in their case is fees. Edinburgh Merchant Company Education, which runs Mary Erskine School, Stewart's Melville College and George Watson's College in the capital, tops the list of independent school trusts with an income of more than £39m - ahead of the National Trust for Scotland, the National Galleries and the Roslin Institute in the overall rankings.
MacBook Air Now Shipping
MacBook Air has a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support so users can pinch, rotate and swipe. MacBook Air is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1. Apple TVs software update will allow movie fans to rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV, users can just click a button on their remote to effortlessly rent movies from a catalog of over 1,000 titles by the end of February, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, with no computer required.
Woomail Wants To Woo You Away from Spam
The recipient gets an e-mail saying, "I only read secure e-mail" and a link that takes the recipient to a reply page on the Woomail server , so that no part of the communication travels through cyberspace. Putting Users in Control John Halloran, a Puerto Rico-based precious-metals dealer, created Woomail after struggling with the huge amount of spam his brokers and office staff were dealing with. He said that his goal was to put users in charge of their communications, inbound and outbound. "The problem was that anyone in the world can send you communication from anywhere, and I can't stop them from sending it to my servers," he said. "If I can get them to come to me by typing in a URL or Woo to Woo message, then I can control communications on my server and so I can prevent fraudulent use." (A "Woo to Woo" message is one in which both parties have Woomail accounts.) Sending a message from within the site cannot be done without a challenge-and-response question, putting the kibosh on automated spammers.
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