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LiveLens MFT adapter brings aperture control to Canon EF lenses

It may be serving a somewhat small niche, but we’re guessing that niche will be plenty pleased that something like the LiveLens MFT adapter now exists. That’s MFT as in Micro Four Thirds , and the adapter is for Canon EF lenses. Nothing too special there, but this particular adapter now also allows for aperture control for the first time, which is actually done on the adapter itself, not the camera — the only remaining drawback is a lack of autofocus. Expectedly that ability comes at quite a premium — you’ll have to fork over $442 for the adapter and an extra $52 for the necessary 9V battery cable. LiveLens MFT adapter brings aperture control to Canon EF lenses originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Nebraska football player drops F bomb live on ABC. Tug-a-war football with Emily Nebraska Football Prayer CashWebFree says: http://t.co/GwYBhpni NU soccer team readies for visit from Michigan and Michigan State nebraska football

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Brother Printer HL-2220 Monochrome Printer

Type: CE Title: Brother Printer HL-2220 Monochrome Printer See all customer reviews Product Description: The HL-2220 is a compact monochrome laser printer. Perfect for home or home office use, it features fast printing at up to 21ppm, up to 2400 x 600 dpi resolution for high-quality output, and a Toner Save mode for less critical business documents. In addition, the printer’s stylish, space-saving design fits virtually anywhere.The HL-2220 also provides flexible paper handling via an adjustable, 250-sheet capacity tray and a manual by-pass slot for printing thicker media. To help lower your operating costs, a high-yield 2,600-page replacement toner cartridge is available. Features: Prints up to 21ppm Adjustable 250-sheet capacity paper tray Compact size fits virtually anywhere Up to 2400 x 600 dpi resolution Toner save mode for less critical business documents See the details

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My Bloody Valentine

Watch My Bloody Valentine Online Movie Cinderella Coming Soon Part 1 (Team Sweden) My Bloody Valentine – Live At Melkweg, Amsterdam (1989) AltFashionWeek says: My Bloody Valentine are an _alternative_ rock band formed 1983 in Dublin, Ireland. The band’s founding …… http://t.co/BIBgtuKw

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Hes Just Not That Into You

♡ Ask Nikki – But I’m Not That Into Him! ♡ pro scout monologue ♡ Ask Nikki – He’s Just Not Into You ♡ sillysamanta says: Samread:: He’s Just Not That Into You , Wedding Planner, Nancy Grace http://t.co/OYxDB699

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Delonte West To Regency Furniture? NBA Guard Lands New Job During Lockout

In case the All-Star front court players appearing on episodes of Law & Order: SVU hasn’t clued you in, the NBA is still in a lockout. According to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, commissioner David Stern is aiming to strike a deal with the players’ union this weekend. But just in case that doesn’t work out, there is one player who seems to be very motivated to find honest work outside of basketball… Delonte West. The free agent guard tweeted Wednesday evening that he has applied for a job at Regency Furniture. “Applied at Regency Furniture, need a 2nd job to stay afloat during the lockout,” he wrote, including a picture of his application. An hour later, the 28-year-old tweeted that he is officially an employee of the company and attached this photo. While the lockout has prohibited West from re-signing with the Boston Celtics or signing a contract with a new NBA employer, he has been quite open about his job search, previously tweeting about applying to work for Home Depot back in August. Around that time, West also revealed that he could not play basketball overseas due to his legal troubles. Now, we have to give it up for the seven-year veteran out of Saint Joseph’s. West, who suffers from bi-polar disorder, is actively looking for a paying gig during the work stoppage and apparently already has two jobs. Although West has previously been embroiled in his share of off-the-court trouble, he certainly seems to be working hard to overcome some of the same economic obstacles as the rest of us. The same thing cannot be said for some other players who have made headlines for the wrong reasons over the last few months. Earlier in the summer, Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley was cited for marijuana possession and speeding. Even when he tried to work on his game by playing in an exhibition, he ended up losing his cool and shoving a fan in the face. Other players like Marcus Camby and Ben Wallace have also spent their downtime getting in trouble with the law. While West’s significant legal missteps, blue-collar job endeavors and alleged romantic dalliances make him an easy target for some, it’s awfully hard to disparage the earnest way that he faces all the struggles in his life — financial and otherwise. RELATED: Does anyone care about the NBA lockout?

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Bolton v Chelsea | Evan Fanning

• Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Email your thoughts to evan.fanning.casual@guardian.co.uk • Follow Evan on Twitter, if that’s your thing • More stats than you can shake a stick at • Follow all today’s live scores across Europe 39 min: Sturridge gets in over the top and for a moment it looks like he’ll be able to secure his hat-trick (provided he can beat Bogdan, but I think we can take that as a given at this stage) but Sturridge can’t quite gather until the angle is too tight but which time Bolton have several men back. Ryan Dunne enters the history debate: “Personally I don’t think that 1997 is all that long ago, but it surely depends on how old one is (the office junior-y ‘casual’ in Evan’s email address perhaps suggesting a young and thrusting teenager? ;)). Currently I’m debating whether, as an (early) 30-something, it’s ethically permissible to date someone younger than one’s favourite album (Achtung Baby, 1991).” Unfortunately, despite the ‘casual email address, I was at my peak teenage years in 1997 and that seems like a long time ago. I’m staying out of your dating dilemma. 35 min: Chelsea win a corner which infuriates Gary Cahill – he’s going to solve Arsenal’s defensive problems, isn’t he?. Lampard takes and Ramires nearly meets it on the six yard box. It comes off a Bolton head instead and could easily be an own goal but ricochets to safety. 33 min: Bolton look like they want to go home. Martin Petrov may have already done that. Once again Sturridge is an acres of space on the right flank but he loses his footing before he can inflict any more damage on the home side. This is the first time Chelsea have scored four times in the opening 30 minutes of a match in Premier League history. 30 min: Bolton have pushed Kevin Davies up front with David Ngog. That should do it. It seems my Spanish isn’t any better than wot my English is as Shaun Thompson points out. “Can I be one of 1,056 sad, Spanish-language pedants to point out that when you wrote that ‘John Terry has just felt the full force of David Ngog’s boot in the cajones’, you surely meant to type ‘cojones’. Cajon is ‘drawer’ as in somewhere to put that offensively-worded Christmas card from Wayne Bridge.” Goal! Bolton 0-4 Chelsea (Lampard 25) This is officially ridiculous now. David Luiz marched 50 yards upfield – Bolton electing not to bother trying to tackle the centre back – he fired goalwards. Again it should have been a simple save by Bogdan but it bounced off his chest into the path of the onrushing Lampard who finished neatly. Goal! Bolton 0-3 Chelsea (Sturridge 25) This is getting ridiculous. See entry at 20 minutes for build-up. This time Sturridge cut in from the right and fired a shot which should have been easily saved but Bogdan somehow managed to palm the ball into his own net. 22 min: Kevin Davies comes up with some good work to win a corner on the right. Petrov’s delivery is perfect but Lampard gets the slightest touch which takes it away from Boyata. Petrov scampers to the other side to take another corner which Boyata meets but his header drifts harmlessly wide. Ian Copestake writes: You referred in your preamble to a Bolton win as being “all the way back in 1997.” Now call me age sensitive, but 1997 doesn’t seem that long ago, so I was wondering how you would describe Blink-182 having been formed in 1992? Back in days of yore?” If it only takes a second to score a goal 14 years is a long, long time. 20 min: This might be over-simplifying it a little but Chelsea’s tactic appears to be: kick the football to the right hand side where Martin Petrov isn’t and then Daniel Sturridge has the freedom to do whatever he wants. This time Sturridge finds Juan Mata who blazes a right-footed shot over the crossbar. Petrov shakes his head ruefully. More from Ryan Dunne: ” Isn’t Ashley Cole starting a restaurant with Jay-Z? That suggests that the Chelsea dressing room rocks to the beats of Brooklyn’s finest (perhaps where Ashley got the idea of popping that cap in the work experience boy’s ass from?” 19 min: I might need to put Ryan Dunne in touch with Tom Bryant directly. ” Thanks to Tom Bryant for that!” the Dunnster writes. “Always like Tom the best on the grounds that he was the funniest Boy Band member in the All the Small Things video. I do much prefer Blink 182′s self-titled album to Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which hopefully bodes well for an appreciation of the new album. And am I the only person alive who thought that Guns n Roses Chinese Democracy was really rather good? It had like a dozen musical genres in each song!” 17 min: This could turn into a rout. Lampard is denied a quick second by Bogdan while moments later Ramires’s touch is heavy when played in by Sturridge and he can’t get his shot on goal. “Being “that guy” I can’t help but marvel at the fact that John Terry has a set of drawers as part of his anatomy,” says that guy Jesse Galdston. “I knew the man was solid and not that fast but I didn’t know he was literally a piece of furniture.” Goal! Bolton 0-2 Chelsea (Lampard 15) It’s beautiful football from Chelsea but it’s far too easy from a defensive point of view. Ramires and Mata are heavily involved before Sturridge squares across the area and Lampard sweeps past Bogdan in the Bolton goal. 13 min: Bolton seem to be pursuing an odd tactic of selective pressing. One minute they’re hounding the Chelsea players’ every move. The next they’re letting David Luiz amble 40 yards upfield before Gary Cahill makes a challenge on the edge of the area. 11 min : Bolton have responded well to going behind and Darren Pratley picks up a loose ball at the edge of the area but is fouled from behind by Meireles who escapes a yellow card. Where is the consistency, eh referees? At least Martin Petrov is consistent – he blasts his free kick into the wall as usual. “David Ngog’s kick to the berries just did what I think half of England has wanted to do EBJT for years,” says Bruce Cooper. 9 min: Gardner makes a break through the Chelsea midfield but good covering defending from David Luiz snuffs out the danger before the Brazilian is dumped on the ground by Ngog who picks up a yellow card. “Does Mr Bryant know what Didier Drogba thinks of Blink-182′s new album?” asks Jon Wilks. “Or is he more of an Usher man (Didier, not Tom)?” 7 min: John Terry has just felt the full force of David Ngog’s boot in the cojones. He’s down on the ground getting treatment. Alan Parry points out that “it’s a female physio as well”. Careful lads. Remember what happened to Gray and Keys? “She’s a lovely girl as well,” Wilkins chips in. As well as what? 5 min: Sturridge’s goal – timed at 92 seconds – is the quickest in the Premier League this season. I told you I’d get a review from Tom Bryant. And I told you he’d met them. “I have indeed met them,” Bryant confirms. “I like Mark the best. He’s normal. Tom’s crazy and Travis is weird. Their new album, should Ryan Dunne like to know, is better than you’d expect from a comeback of this nature – but nothing like as good as their best.” Goal!! Bolton 0-1 Chelsea (Sturridge 1) Bolton have taken one minute to show exactly why they are bottom of the table. Daniel Sturridge is given a free header from six yards from Juan Mata’s corner and makes absolutely no mistake. It’s a simple header for the man who was on loan at the Reebok last season. The corner came after Bosingwa was given acres of space on the right and Boyata was forced to deflect his cross behind. An all-round shambles from a Bolton point of view. Peep!!! We’re underway at the Reebok as Chelsea, all in blue, kick off playing from right-to-left. Bolton, as tradition would dictate, are playing the other way. Ray Wilkins reckons Bolton’s tough start to the season is the reason they are at the foot of the table. “They’ve played everybody,” says Ray. You can’t argue with that. A perceptive email. “I know you’re not in charge of the Guardian’s music section,” writes Ryan Dunne. “But I’ve been browsing and clicking refresh all week and am yet to find a review of the new Blink-182 album! WTF? I’m sure the sports desk are a down-with-da-kidz bunch of lads, so is there no chance of MBMing said album whilst doing the regular fitba commentary?” Having not heard the album I would say there is little chance of that but when my colleague, the aforementioned Mr Bryant, returns from his lunch I will pester him for his opinion. He knows everything there is to know about Blink 182. At a guess I would say he’s even met them. In the Sky Sports studio Gareth Keenan Gary Neville reckons Owen Coyle will be concerned about how easily Bolton have been brushed aside in games this season. Is there a manager more committed to the cause of constantly referring to it as the Barclays Premier League than Owen Coyle? No is the correct answer to that question. Stats can prove anything. My colleague Tom Bryant has tried to convince me that Chelsea have the worst record at Bolton in the history of football or something like that (to be honest I stopped listening halfway through his sentence). Chelsea have won 19 drawn 14 and lost 24 of the previous 57 games keeping 13 clean sheets, he reckons, but I know I’m right. The summer (otherwise known as 1 October) is over. At least it is in Bolton. It’s pouring down. That should suit [insert name here]‘s slick passing game. That should suit [inset name here]‘s tough tackling game. Chelsea always win at Bolton, don’t they? You have to go back to November 2002 for the last time Chelsea travelled to the Reebok and left with anything less than three points, and even then it was a draw. Dean Holdsworth was the goalscorer the last time Bolton beat Chelsea at home in the league all the way back in October 1997. But these are desperate times for Bolton. Rooted to the bottom of the table with just one win all season and 16 goals conceded in six games. Owen Coyle’s side will face a Chelsea side featuring Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Daniel Sturridge, who spent six happy months at the Reebok season. Here are the line-ups for today’s game Bolton: Bogdan; Steinsson, Cahill, Boyata, Robinson; Petrov, Pratley, Reo-Coker, Gardner; Ngog, Kevin Davies. Subs: Lainton, Muamba, Eagles, Sanli, Knight, Mark Davies, Vela. Chelsea: Cech; Bosingwa, David Luiz, Terry, Cole; Ramires, Meireles, Lampard; Mata, Drogba, Sturridge. Subs: Turnbull, Ivanovic, Romeu, Mikel, Malouda, Lukaku, Anelka. Referee: Peter Walton (Northamptonshire) Premier League 2011-12 Bolton Wanderers Chelsea Evan Fanning guardian.co.uk

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Britons warned to avoid Kenya-Somali border

Foreign Office warns against travel to area within about 100 miles of Somali border after spate of kidnappings The Foreign Office has warned British citizens to stay away from all Kenyan beaches within 93 miles (150km) of the border with Somalia after a spate of kidnapping raids by armed pirates in speedboats. The updated travel warning against all but essential travel to the area comes after an elderly disabled French woman became the third foreigner to be attacked by pirates in Kenya’s northern coast in recent weeks. On Saturday, despite a boat chase and shootout with pirates, local coastguards failed to rescue the woman, identified by Kenyan authorities as 66-year-old Marie Dedieu, as her attackers fled with her into Somalia. The FCO had previously warned holidaymakers to stay 37 miles away from the border after British publisher David Tebbutt, 58, was killed and his wife Judith taken hostage as they holidayed at a luxury resort 25 miles from the Kenya-Somalia border on 11 September. In 2010 British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were snatched from their yacht and held for 13 months. They were released after a ransom was paid . Dedieu’s kidnappers had stormed a seafront property near the island of Lamu after arriving by speedboat in the early hours of Saturday. Neighbours reported shots as the gang burst into the thatched house and rounded up staff before carrying off the woman. Officials chased and surrounded a “suspicious vessel” reportedly heading towards neighbouring Somalia with six to 10 gunmen and the elderly hostage on board. Despite wounding several of the gang, officials admitted that they had failed in their rescue mission. Colonel John Steed, in charge of the UN’s counter-piracy unit in Nairobi, said that as darkness fell it had become impossible to give chase further. “Now it reverts to normal kidnapping negotiations,” he said. John Lepapa, 39, described by local journalists as Didieu’s partner, reportedly said that the kidnappers ordered him and the house staff to lie face-down on the floor. “All they were saying was, ‘Where is the foreigner, where is the foreigner?’” he said. “My girlfriend pleaded with them and told them to take whatever they wanted from the house, including the money, and to spare her life. But they would not listen.” One of the gunmen, he said, grabbed Didieu and carried her on his shoulders to a waiting boat. Kenyan police said they had not established if the assailants were Somali pirates, al-Shabaab Islamists or a local gang. Najib Balala, the tourism minister, said coastguard vessels surrounded the boat and there was a standoff between the Kenyan coastguards and the gunmen. Balala said the gang had fired into the air in an attempt to scare off the coastguard and circling aircraft. In a statement, the FCO said: “We advise against all but essential travel to coastal areas within 150km of the Somali border, following two attacks by armed gangs in small boats against beach resorts in the Lamu area on 11 September and 1 October 2011. “This advice will be kept under review. Both attacks were on beach-front properties, with two westerners kidnapped and one murdered. “Beach-front accommodation in that area and boats off the coast are vulnerable.” Somali pirates have frequently seized crew from merchant ships in the coastal waters off the Horn of Africa, but in recent years have targeted private yachts, snatching westerners and demanding – often successfully – huge ransoms. The Lamu archipelago, famed for its pristine beaches and luxury villas, is often included in package holidays to Kenya – the FCO warning is likely to damage the country’s billion dollar a year tourist industry. France has already strongly advised travellers to avoid the region. Kenya Piracy at sea Somalia Africa France Foreign policy Kim Willsher Shiv Malik guardian.co.uk

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Former Car Czar: Suskind Book ‘Drive-by Shooting’ Of Obama

“It's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that — that heals, not in a way that wounds .” — President Obama, speech at Tuscon memorial service, January 12, 2011. “The [Suskind] book amounts to a drive-by shooting of a president and his key economic advisers who deserve encomiums, not unfounded second guessing and inaccurate revisionist history.” — Former Obama car czar Steve Rattner, writing at the Politico, October 2, 2011 [emphasis added].

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Sony cuts the VAIO SA’s starting price to $1,000, starts shipping the 15-inch VAIO SE

Lots of PC news flowing out of Sony Electronics’ US headquarters this fine Sunday morning. First, the company slashed the starting price of the 13-inch VAIO SA laptop from $1,250 to $1,000, while the lower-end SB series now starts at $780 (it had been going for $800 after instant savings). We asked Sony’s PR team what that means for folks who recently purchased either of these through Sony’s online store, and still haven’t gotten a response, but the company was quick to remind us that it’s up to retailers such as Best Buy to set their own price protection policies. ( Thanks , Sony!) Moving along, that 15.5-inch VAIO SE series we reviewed a month ago is at last up for sale, beautiful 1080p display and all. You can find her on Sony’s site starting at a thousand bucks with a Core i5-2430M processor, 4GB of RAM, a 640GB 5,400RPM hard drive, DVD burner and, of course, that 1920 x 1080 panel. So, is all that is worth a flaky trackpad and poor battery life (sans $150 slice)? That, friends, is a decision you’ll have to make for yourself. Finally, in more granular news, the 14-inch C and E series are getting expanded Sandy Bridge processor options, while the 16-inch F series and L series all-in-ones will come with Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum, Sound Forge Audio Studio and ACID Music Studio pre-installed. In addition, the SA, L, F and E series are all getting speed bumps, as are pre-configured SB and Z series laptops. Oh, and the SB is now available in red. Got it? Good. Lots of up to date specs at the source link. Sony cuts the VAIO SA’s starting price to $1,000, starts shipping the 15-inch VAIO SE originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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