Scarlet Pimple

Needs must when the devil drives. Good luck to him in whatever role he chooses.

And will Management give Calderwood the money? The likes of Miller , who was excellent, speedy, direct and a bit of heart and push, will be missed. Rebuilding can be a bitter and slow process but it's really sad to see the decline of Hibs up to this point. I watched them for 6 years in the 'sixties' and they always had a bit of success and were an entertaining team to watch--Pat stanton and all.

Well with Fansey Tansey ( no slight intended) in midfield does that infer that Duff will not be back? Anyway let's hope he turns out to be as good as touted and is not a duffer. No pun intended, but was Duff not a much better player in midfield than as a back? Be good,now..no duff gen please. I remain, as always, at your service and the backward Elmer FFud.

But not if he's mince.

Yes, folks, the North American ice hockey playoff cup final, the Stanley Cup, is scheduled to start the final series of 7 games here in Vancouver tonight at 5p.m. Pacific Standard Time. That's 1 a.m. in Inverness, tomorrow. Vancouver has had a fabulous season and won everything in sight. The North American Hockey League overall title, the Western Conference Final, and individual player's National trophies and so on.. They have been to the Final twice in their 47 year history but never won it. This year's team has been honed to perfection and has just about everything, skill, physical power,the best two players in N.A. hockey, the best power play teams and a very intelligent coach who seems to have done the trick in making trades to strengthen and balance the team to make it the the best ever. 30,000 people showed up in the streets of the city to view the Western Final on big screens set up in streets which had been blocked off for vehicles. All games are on National T.V. And the city and fans have been going crazy. The pubs, bars and hotels have been buzzing with activity. With hockey being the National Game of Canada, this is the BIG game. It's impossible to not be part of it, to not have a wee tremble in the knees and a gripping of the stomach as the start of the first game draws closer. We all know what's coming--frenetic pace, spills, thrills, brutal body checks, guys playing with broken noses , maybe a broken toe, dislocated shoulder and one player got a puck in the eye the other night and may be playing even having had eye surgeries recently. The fastest speed of a puck from a stationary position has been clocked at 109 miles per hour!. Imagine getting hit anywhere with that hard rubber , yet the guys will be trhowing themselves in front of goal to stop these missiles any way they can in order to win at all costs. Each line change will be made about every tweny to 30 seconds so that the players don't burn out too quickly. There are three twenty-minute periods with small stoppages for TV advertising and a break of about 15 minutes between each period. Total Time about 3 hours. And that is assuming the game is not tied at the end of three periods, in which case another one or two overtime periods will have to be added on to get a result. Then there are the goals; when you know that every one counts triple in importance than anything that has gone before in the entire season just finished it is a thrill when it happens and no mistake.For some players --most really--a shot at the Stanley Cup Final medal is something that is the apex of their career and a lifetime dream, rarely achieved. And, of course we must not forget the noise..more like pandemonium with 24,000 people inside the stadium all waving something and cheering every play to the rafters. Their opponents, the Boston Bruins, are not touted as favourites nor are they as skilled and fast as the Canucks but certainly know how to play blue-collar hockey; rough and tough and flat out, desperate , like. The home team, however, are blistering fast with great inherent skills and great player depth where every player on all the four lines (of five players each line) can be called upon to insert himself into the game at any time and do a job. Now I am off to get a cuppa before the two National Anthems are blared out by the singers standing on the ice. Wish us luck..... C,mon Scotty, tune in I know you will enjoy it --an American team versus a Canajin one. Man, it will be like the fInal at last year's Olympics and you know what a great game thta was. Cheers, you all S.P.

Good thinking, Scotty. Adobe's tech also says online that it only happens with computers running Intel HD Graphics which, unfortunately is what was installed in my new computer. All's well that ends well, thank goodness. I supppose getting used to the new IE9 browser is part of the frustration of meeting and grappling with all the changes all at once. Alright? In retrospect it is probably a good browser and has some good features. Chrome is twice as fast but it sure has elemental flaws --importing favourites, for example. With some users of Chrome their import function seems to work flawlewssly but with others. like me, not al all. I gave up eventually since their forum's posters mostly just repeat Chrome's instructions which..... I remain a devotee of the mantra .."if it aint broke, don't fix it."

Mr MacLeod is on form today.

But will ICT not be awarded costs to come out of Marius' pocket? Their lawyers' fees will not be a small sum of money since they had hired "the leading sports lawyers in Scotland" did they not? Loser generally pays. Timje to move on.

Final Update on the Adobe issue: Adobe have feverishly been working on the problems with errant advertising messages (popups) appearing on the top left hand side of webpages. They have found the cause of the problem and issued a fix namely Adobe Flash player Active X 10 : 3 : 181 :16 which is the latest and most up to date Flash Player. I downloaded it after getting rid of the previous version by uninstalling it then downloaded the new update, I also followed their instructions to re-enable the accerated hardware thingy returning mny suystem to the original default position. The results are excellent--no pop-ups ads on the ICT site, the ICT video page is fast and working great with no problems and my browser (I.E. 9) is working much faster. In view of the number of posters to the Adobe forum that have experienced the problems associated with this bug I am surprised that more ICT members have not mentioned that they also have been troubled by it. I had a problem also with Adobe several months ago, last year I think, and it was only by a process of elimniation that I found that it was their Adobe active X that was causi ng it. Then I unisnstalled the running version and downloaded an updated version and this made a huge difference inthe running of my computer, But can anyone tell me why the Adobe Flash Player 10 active X is not showing in ..Tools , Manage Add-Ons despite the fact that it shows as an installed programme. Does it matter if it works? I alwyas saw it in there before. Scotty?

Scotty Wow! Comprehensive examinatuion and suggestions. I have gone through all the links and spent time reading everything. I have temporarily disabled grapghics acceleration and initiated software rendering, Seems to have worked, No more Vista Print pop-ups. The symptoms seen by other posters on these forums mirror exactly what I saw.The shimmering, repetitive pop-ups etc. Now your" time run-down for the start of the next season' display is showing in full mode at the bottom right whereas formerly it was showing in a very small thingy on the top left. Adobe is talking extensively about working on a fix for the Flash 10.3 bug which appears to be causing all this mayhem. They have asked for trialists for the beta fix and meanwhile have disabled the auto update function. Meantime,I considered their suggestion of updating the Graphics driver butmy syustem msays I am running the best driver and when I went to Intel they said that any OEM installed driver may have been different from their Intel one and if you are still in warranty , as I am , not to risk screwing up the OEM installed driver which may have been "worked" to suit your system. Oh My--what a tangled web weave others to deceive. Windows Live Mail is a combination of Outlook Express from XP and Windows Mail which was running on Vista apparently.Some hybrid. I am now thinking that it is my new keyboard that is causing all the lost text problems because it is happening on here right now also as I am trying to complete this post. Thank you to all the guys who contributed to this thread and all it's subsequent explorations into unknown territory. I cannot believe that such experienced operators as Adobe can allow such a c..ck up in their10.3 flash update --they are recommending that we do not download this update until further notice. By the way, The version of M/S Office 2010 that I purchased does not include "Outlook" nor do I know if Word 2010 is defective or not. The latter i installed separately.So I need to just thole it until i can find the root cause . Looks like it's back to the flipping retailer again to ask for another keyboard. Can't surely be the mouse --he is asleep beside me right now so I will just let sleeping mice lie..eh? Scotty you are a gem and a fount of knowledge and great suggestions. I will update as time goes along on this issue.. Many thanks ! Scarlet

Thank you 12th Man. I have already purchased a new computer, installed Windows 7 and Word 2010. Problems already, although not of the freezing variety. Seems to be slow to boot up although hardly anything is running in the start-up menus apart from the Computer Management stuff.The new computer is much more powerful than the previous one so ...go figure. Internet Explorer 9 is also slow to get web pages to come up.Click until you drop seems to be required here. An example is accessing this webpage today. Refused to come up at all and I don't remember the ad on the top left of the site being so persistent...at least it has changed from Vista Print who only offered me 65 pop-ups per minute, one after the other in quick succession. Vista Print offers excellent quality business cards dirt cheap, including very prompt delivery, which I useto great advantage when I was in business but .. When I first accessed this site and set Tools,POPUPS,to deny all popups I was absolutely deluged with popups one after the other with all the text on the page being obscured. Now, at that time, I think that these advertisements had detected a new system and got in the door before the popup control got a handle on it.Fortunately they have all disappeared bar one . Windows Live email will not allow you to send a page; either the page itself or the link. It does offer "Send page by Windows Live email " but this only sends you to the Hotmail sign up page and nowhere else. If I switch to hotmail then my scads of addresses will all have to be changed to hotmail I assume -- and that is not going to happen. My beef is simple...with Outlook Express everything was smooth and simple; no problems and using it I had NO texting issues when composing an email for onward transmission.W. Live Mail offers you so may options that you need a manual to understand the site. Smile. Although XP has been stated by "experts" to be verfy stable yet they have to change the operating system to Windows 7. This way they can gouge another $100 out of you to buy the new Outlook and $125 if you have it installed as I did when the guys built my computer. Incredible, since they announce that they have sold 185,000 Windows 7 sets, which amounts to over two thousand, million dollars folks! When is enough not enough? Answer...simple. NEVER. Now, with Windows Live email, the moment I press enter after inserting the cursor between a couple of letters, half the paragraph disappears without a rational reason.... and so on. If this Windows 7, as compared to the stable XP, is progress then you will have to tell me where it is. It's change for the sake of change it seems.Windows 8 is about ready for launch too I read-- Oh! I can't wait, my knees are trembling. Does anyone know whether the text typing programme in Windows Live Mail is, by any chance, the 2010 Word programme that I installed on the computer or is it a stand-alone word processing programme that Microsoft has attached to this Windows Live email thing? Please tell me it is the latter .

Doofers Dad That wee Japanese fella--good ball control , cool under pressure and has a low centre of gravity. Perfect as a future prospect but wouldn't his mum have to come too? Thinks--perfect, she probably is an expert in Shiatsu and the boys would be energised like you would not believe. His pants would have to be shortened though--they are dragging a bit and image is important these days.

So long as they don't chicken out in the tackle and stand and de-liver, who really cares.......?

Manfer...be nice now!

Adam will have been,or very shortly will be, offered a contract and a wage that he will be unable to turn down. The duration of the contract will not be for more than a year or two years but accepting it and leaving ICT will strengthen his financial position greatly. Wish him well. He deserves it. My fear is...... where will ICT get a player of his developing calibre to quickly replace him. No doubt terry and Mo have something up their sleeve. Time will .......TEL.

How long to go now?

No punch. Just a handbags retaliatory chest push. The other player went down awfully easy. Nearly a dive if anything. Such a *****. Farce if ever I saw one. Disgraceful, actually. Russell Duncan--Terry sign him for another season , if only to give the finger to the SFA. Gadzooks.

Phew!! I,m so glad that's over. Still, pneumatic tires can't last forever and they always burst eventually. Caley D --I am going to be nice to you from now on. YOU ARE SOO BIG AND HANDSOME, bUT....How do you get into yer bus, man?

Split--no but Money--yes. Which do you want? Personally speaking I think the money should be split according to the points total , not the place.

Yeovil Here in Vancouver I watch all the MLS games involving the Vancouver Whitecaps on the TV --best seat in the house. So I get to see all of the MLS(Major League Soccer) teams here in North America for free. There are now only two Canadain teams in this league, Toronto and Vancouver the latter having their first season in the MLS. They started with a bang beating Toronto in Vancouver but frankly have been struggling a bit since then . No bad beatings but having a hard time winning.Early days, however. Otherwise, I can view EPL on the T.V. also but currently we are all glued to the National Hockey League (ice hockey, that is) play-offs where Vancouver is the favourite to win the Stanley cup. If they beat the Nashville Predators this evening at home here in Vancouver, they advance to the Western Conference Final and the glittering prize becomes even closer. For each round it's the best of 7 games and, man, is it exciting with all the players playing as hard and as fast as they can.In the play-offs most of the shifts are about 30 seconds and then off to the bench to be instantly replaced by the next line (4 lines available for each team with the top players being in the first line.The 4th line for each team is often the tough guys who can skate and hit but are not necessarily extremely skilled--the grafters, like). Anyway that's a wee insight into the National sport here in Canada. The Olympics Final last year , Canada versus the U.S.A. was the best game I have ever seen. WOW! I must say , hoewever, some of the games featuring Vancouver in the play-offs this year(eg. versus Chicago Blackhawks) have been on a par and you either pick your nails to the quick or you are almost limo at the end. Smile. Gates at the Whitecaps at home have been very good since they entered the MLS --about 20,000 fans. Keep posting Yeovil--always glad to hear from you.

And from what country did the aforementioned "foreign" ref(s) hail? They must surely be in a bigger league than the SPL? Was it Englandterre then?

Nice one Cyril

Scotty Yeah that's all true but I guess I was a wee bit lazy this morgen. I did open the match report from the front page but all it said was --report to follow here so I didn't search farther because I was anxious to get to the thread expecting a few more posters et c. Must have missed the other link. But thanks for your helpful reply. Next season......

And the final scorline is 1-0 ?

Russell probably had a wee flare up due to an accumulated stress build-up from events recently Let's just forget it and wish him the best if he is not staying.