| Tension ratchets; Patriots deployed in Haifa
Meanwhile Kassam rocket attacks on Israeli targets increase. June 30 to July 5: The IDF invades first southern, then northern, then central Gaza, continuing its strikes against Palestinian Arab terrorists, some of which are successful. Others, botched, see civilians killed. Kidnapped soldier Shalit is not recovered. Kassam rocket attacks are not stopped. The death toll among Palestinian Arabs climbs. July 7 to 9: Iranian President Ahmadinejad warns of ?Islamic explosion? over IDF action in Gaza. July 12: Iranian proxy militia in Lebanon, the Hizb?allah, attacks targets inside the internationally-recognized sovereign territory of Israel. Eight soldiers are killed in a decoy artillery and rocket strike. When the IDF responds to the attack scene, Hizb?allah gunmen abduct two Israeli soldiers from a different point on the border.
May 2006
I drive past centuries of style with every supermarket run, and return to my 1960s Cape on its concrete-block foundation, knowing that if a pipe bursts or an electrical outlet shorts out, I won't need an architectural-history degree to make things right again. My last two homes in Chicago each had their own unique historical aspects, each an example of a classic style unique to that city's storied design past. My spacious condo in a circa 1904, six-unit apartment building, had a gracious, airy floor plan made for entertaining, with a split-parlor living room, beamed-ceilinged dining room and original windows throughout. My most recent home, in the city's famed Bungalow Belt, was one of about 80,000 brick houses built between the early 1910s and the late 1920s, in a collar around the city's outer borders.
Rams say VP Softli’s not out — at least not yet
GLENDALE, ARIZ. - Rumors of Tony Softli's demise with the Rams have swirled for weeks. But they intensified Sunday with Internet reports that he would be out as the Rams' vice president of player personnel after just two seasons on the job in St. Louis.
"He's not out," said Jay Zygmunt, Rams president of football operations-general manager, shortly after the team's 48-19 loss Sunday to Arizona. "I don't know what else to say. He's continuing to prepare for the draft, as usual."
But Zygmunt added that all aspects of the team and the organization would be evaluated in the coming week as the Rams contemplate what changes to make in the wake of a 3-13 season.
Softli normally attends all Rams games, but he was not seen Sunday and could not be reached for comment.
Apple and Google ruled a year to note in your Facebook
The Apple phone is what corporate strategists call a 'game-changer'. It's really a powerful Unix computer in a tiny, sleek package. It happens to make voice calls, but in a way that's the boring bit. More interesting is its wi-fi capabilities and the way it makes web browsing feasible on a small screen. Its only serious drawback on launch was the fact that it is shackled to slow mobile phone networks. Its significance is that, at a stroke, it made everyone else's mobile technology look lame. Even more intriguing was Apple's success in steam-age bricks-and-mortar retailing. It now has 203 stores worldwide and derives 20 per cent of its revenue from them. In the quarter ending September 2007, Apple reported that its retail stores accounted for $1.25bn of its $6.2bn total revenues, up 42 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2006.
The Chris Webber Karma Could Hit Pacers’ Coach Jim O’Brien
He clearly was toward the end of his career. It became very apparent he wasn't going to give the 76ers everything we had hoped for. Webber didn't practice at all that year prior to coming to us. He didn't practice at all the previous six weeks. I think he was just at the point where he didn't necessarily feel where he was in need of practice, or could practice, or couldn't practice and play at the same time. "He said, 'Coach, I don't do the low-post thing anymore,''' O’ Brien recalled. "We just made a major trade to bring in this (6-foot-10) guy and he said, 'No.' I said, 'Yes, you do.'' My Quick Take: Not exactly a glowing reference for C-Webb, huh? O’Brien, his former coach in Philly, is right. After surgery, Webber’s game changed. Shifting from the post to a jump-shooting big man limited his effectiveness.
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