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A Judi Domino Online Race that never ends

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Chris Hughton’s dismissal from Norwich City yesterday was the ninth sacking  in the Premier League this season.

Eight of the twenty teams have fired their managers since the campaign began last August, Fulham have pulled the trigger twice (on Martin Jol and Rene Meulensteen) and the result is a tableau of carnage with only six clubs employing the same coach they had in 2012.

Three of the top ten longest-serving managers currently working in the top flight were appointed as recently as last summer: Mark Hughes, Roberto Martinez and Jose Mourinho.

It is unlikely any more heads will roll before the end of the season, but expect another round of blood-letting in the summer. Last year five new Premier League bosses were appointed during the close season.

Despite the incessant opprobrium heaped upon Arsene Wenger, Spurs’ Tim Sherwood is the bookies’ favourite to be pushed next, followed by West Brom’s Pepe Mel and Newcastle’s Alan Pardew.

The merry-go-round is revolving so fast, the rewards of top-flight survival so high and the desperation of directors to avoid relegation so painful that at least half of the coaching roles on offer must be, as Graham Taylor said of England, impossible jobs.

If Michael Laudrup could bring Swansea their first major trophy and a host of admiring suitors but then be shown the door less than a year later following one win in ten, nobody is safe.

A fear of relegation is of course not the only reason for dismissal: Andre Vilas-Boas was booted out by Spurs with the team in seventh and having won eight out of sixteen matches.

A lust for short-term success militates against the sort of long-term  judi domino online  planning the best teams have benefited from, leaving the hapless managers in Catch-22 positions, with no job security and an ever-present fear of the boot after a run of duff scorelines. Forget that new youth policy, the psychologist, advanced conditioning and new playing style you had in mind when you took the job, we need to get the ball into the box or I am out of a job on Monday.

Give him time is the perennial mayday call for managers in trouble, but since no-one can specify how long is enough, directors tend to plump for the fear factor, shift the blame and wield the knife. If Fulham go down this season, the owners can always blame it on Martin Jol instead of the mid-season upheaval his abrupt departure and the hasty appointing of his inexperienced assistant brought.

As of today, the bottom seven teams in the Premier League have all fired their managers this season, which makes Norwich’s move with five games to go look like a clueless card, a last-ditch throw of the dice, or what they aptly call in American Football, a ‘Hail Mary.’

God help us indeed.

 

Queen’s Club Judi Bola Casino – Review

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Queen’s Club Casino is one of Boss Media’s latest offerings, with the same beautiful 3D-rendered graphics that you’ve come to expect from them, combined with high-quality multiplayer games and tremendous support services.

Boss Media’s multiplayer software has proven itself to be in a class of its own – no muss and fuss with clunky avatars or silly wasted time walking to various rooms just to play a game. If I wanted to walk into a room I would go to Las Vegas… not with Boss Media – if you want to chat with others you simply type in the box below – and you have the ability to make rooms private if you wish!

Also known as Queen’s Club at Judi Bola Monte Carlo, this casino provides the usual selection of Boss Media games – blackjack, jacks or better video poker, roulette, slots, progressive slots, baccarat – all with the highest quality of graphics available in any online casino today.

Following my usual pattern, I tried out blackjack – which seemingly plays more fairly than the other blackjack games I have played anywhere else. No wondering how the dealer managed to snatch a 21 out of nowhere when you had 20… no sudden losses when you raised your bet or doubled down… everything played just as I would expect it to at the tables in Vegas. I made a few bucks here and decided to proceed on to some of the other games.

Jacks or better video poker has lately become one of my favorite games, as it provides an opportunity to hit a large win for a small investment, yet at good casinos provides a very low house advantage. I did okay here too but it was apparent that, while the royal flush pays 5000, the regular hands pay less, and that probably would have hurt me had I played for the long run. So what the heck, off to the next game.

Being a recent convert to the world of progressive slots, I headed on over to the progressive slot banks, sat down and – this is one of the good things here – chose which denomination I wished to play for. Cheap Charlie here decided to play the quarter slots because, after all, the objective was to review the game and the casino, not break the bank.

I found the progressive slot machines to be reasonable – never hit anything remotely big, and even when the bonus screens came up I always won the smallest or next smallest of the five payouts available. But I did manage to make my money last quite a while here, and I have heard that some friends have nothing but the most incredible runs of luck playing these machines – wish it would happen to me sometime!

Roulette? Ok, why not – just for the heck of it, I played once, betting 1-18, even, red, 14. Came up 21 – aw shucks! Didn’t win a single bet but I’m sure the game is quite fair, and the graphic layout easy to use. Beware, though – this roulette table does not take quarters… $1 is the minimum bet.

By this time I was convinced that the games were quite good, so I headed off to play some normal slots before retiring… and my belief was reinforced as over a reasonable amount of time I broke even. Just didn’t stay long enough for the big payoff, I suppose…

Support at Queen’s Club is of a high standard – you can normally expect responses to your requests within a few hours. The payment system, like all Boss Media casinos, is processed by WebDollar (www.webdollar.com) and is very efficient – winnings usually credited within a few days. The check is the cheapest transaction – $1 to process – and seems to be the favored method of payment. I personally prefer ACH or wire transfers, so I hope one day these costs will be lowered as in fact they incur less overhead to process. Remember that you have to request a PIN by snail mail for cumulative deposits of more than $500, or any withdrawal – this is for your protection only, but being the impatient sort I hope that Webdollar comes up with a faster alternative soon. Wonder how much a telegram costs…

 

 

Bell cuts unlimited data plans

Initially Bell Canada has offered unlimited data plans to Pre owners but has since decided to change the offered plans a bit. Since launching their new GSM network and the iPhone hopping on board Bell has gone the route that Telus and Rogers have previously gone and stopped offering the unlimited data plans.

The low end of the plans start at $45 for just 500 MB of data which is terrible. The high end of the data plans is $100 for a 2GB limit but with the Palm Pre being so data intensive we know that these are not hard to reach, especially if you are one who loves to tether your phone via 3rd party hacks.

If you are a current Bell subscriber you are in luck as you can still continue to use your plan without any changes being made but once your contract is up its time to choose from these limited data plans. Its times like these that I am proud of Sprint and their unlimited data plans.

Bell Canada offering the Pre for just $99

Bell Canada is in a bit of trouble with the Palm Pre and how well it is selling. With all the changes going on over there they need to move the Pre at all costs even if that means discounting it which is why you can now go pick one up for the new low price of just $99.

Unlike in the US you will have to get this deal on a 3-year plan rather than just a 2-year. Why the Pre is not doing so well in Canada is beyond us but if anyone knew about the upcoming changes happening at Bell with the iPhone 3G selling at just $99 as well we wouldn’t suspect the general public to go with a new Palm device over the well known Apple iPhone. Poor Pre, let’s hope that future webOS handsets de better in Canada the next time around.

New webOS update to boost speed?

We are receiving word that the new webOS update will be considerably faster than what we are currently experiencing on the Pre. Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer spoke a bit about changes made in regards to CSS transformation support.

We are hearing that the new webOS 1.3.1 update is going to be centered around speeding up webOS as a whole. Keep your fingers crossed because as is webOS has a bit of a problem with speed and response time. I often tap things a few times before getting any confirmation of a touch so I end up hitting the wrong thing repeatedly. Does anyone else want some added speed on their Pre?

Sprint drops the ball, Pixi apparently has Wi-Fi

Someone over in Sprint’s advertising department has really dropped the ball with this one. The new holiday ad for the Palm Pixi gives us some very inaccurate information about the handset that they will be offering very soon.

According to this ad the Pixi ships with Wi-Fi included but we all know that for whatever reason the Pixi does not include Wi-Fi of any kind. I wonder if there is anything that can be done about the false advertising on Sprint’s website. For those who didn’t hear the Pixi will become available on November 15th.

Daylight savings time causing webOS bug to act up

The Pre has been experiencing a few issues since late last night with time and the switch to daylights savings times. Here in Arizona messages have been coming in with a timestamp of an hour earlier than the time sent even though the phone shows the correct time.

Others briefly had calendar issues such as the calendar thinking that it was December 1st. It seems like the Pre had a Y2K-like thing going on yet none of them crashed sending the world spinning. These kinds of issues though seemingly small are a bit harder to take care of and happen more often than one would imagine.

Have any of you experienced this issue with your Pre? If so where in the US do you live? Arizona doesn’t participate in the daylight savings thing but others outside of AZ are reporting issues as well. For me the timestamp issue is only on a Pre to Pre basis and only happens about 80% of the time off and on.

Official fix for GSM APN entry problem on the way

For those of you who waited for the GSM Palm Pre to release so that you could have it in all of its unlocked goodness you may have run into a roadblock along the way with the APN. Turns out that the Pre was never programmed for the entry of an APN but the customer.

They have realized this and a fix is on the way according the O2’s German site:

“Palm is working on a fix to support the entry of APN by the user. This update will be automatically be [sic] installed on the device. After that, you will have the possibility [sic] to enter the APN data yourself.”

We are glad to see this type of support and so quickly after reports came in. Now if only all manufacturers were so aggressive about making their customers happy with their purchase.

Palm holds Pixi Q&A on November 2nd via Twitter

Pack when Palm announced the Palm Pixi they pretty much gave us any info we needed but as they do questions begin to arise in time. Palm is now giving us a chance to get these questions answered via a nice hour long Pixi Q&A via Twitter.

How does one get their questions answered? It’s just post a question to @palm and make sure to include the hashtag #pixi on November 2nd between 2:30PM and 3:30Pm EST and Phil McClendon will answer as many of your questions as he possible can in 140 character increments. For those who still don’t know, Phil is the Director of Product Marketing over at Palm.

We will be following the Q&A and watching for any gems that we were not previously aware of and report back here so be watching.

New apps added to the App Catalog, Oct 30

It’s the eve of Halloween and Palm has nothing better to do than release a slew of new apps into the App catalog. Hey we are not complaining, Palm is really on the ball with this type of thing. Now if only they would hurry up and give us a nice little webOS 1.3.1 update or at least some candy.

  • Advanced Calculator, $1.99.
  • BackGammon, $1.99.
  • Chess for webOS v1, $0.99.
  • DigiClock, $0.99.
  • Find Jack, $0.99.
  • findMYcar, $2.49.
  • Graphing Calculator, $3.99.
  • GroupE, $0.99.
  • Halloween, $3.99.
  • LightSword, $0.99.
  • Location Manager, $0.99.
  • Mind Master, $1.99.
  • The Word For Today Full, $1.99.
  • Where My Car At, $1.43.