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Achievement Guide
I bring to you another achievement guide from the mind of razzle. I hope you enjoy it!
A couple things I want to throw out there:
1. You do NOT need to collect honeycombs for any achievements! All they do is give you money for clothes, vehicles, and video games. However, if you're low on money just replay a mission where you have to pollinate flowers as you'll get WAY more money.
2. If for any reason while reading this guide you don't get an achievement, simply replay it until you do. The mission select computer is located in the hive next to the runway. (if you're facing the runway from the Honex entrance it's directly to the right of the runway)
3. The achievement order is a bit screwy, I would have arranged it my way but I felt it should be true to how the developers made it. If I were you I'd make a list of achievements that are obtained in each mission. Also, I recommend going for pollinating first, then speed in a replay (rain levels).
4. On the "Flawless" achievements it may look confusing on why I have them broken up the way that I do. I separated them by sequences; so they go combo, cutscene, combo, cutscene, etc.
5. All the job missions have 10 missions (except for the racing one which has 15). For the achievements you do NOT need to beat the bonus rounds.
Now, with that said, here's the guide!
Bee Visionary
5 Activate Barry's Bee Vision
In mission 1.2 (the training level) you'll be taught many things. One of which being your bee vision. Simply press Y when directed and the achievement will be yours.
Hovering Bee
5 Hover in New Hive City
Another simple achievement while in the hive. Simply press LT to hover while you're in the hive and the achievement's yours.
Bee Quick or Bee Dead
5 Activate Barry's Bee Reflexes
In mission 2.1 before much of anything happens you'll be prompted to activate Barry's bee reflexes by pressing B, press it and you'll get the achievement.
Why walk when you can drive?
5 Get inside a car in New Hive City
For this achievement simply walk up to any parked car (or walk infront of a moving one to stop it) while in the hive and press Y to hop in.
Sniper Bee
10 Take down a total of 200 insects using pollen projectiles
This one will eventually come while going for the individual insect achievements.
New Hive Protector
10 Don't let the Hive suffer too much damage in Chapter 3
This is in mission 3.1, once you pollinate the 20 flowers to satisfy Vanessa you'll start a cutscene and find out the hive's under attack. You'll re-spawn in front of the hive and find yourself surrounded by baddies. Simply fly around firing like crazy (lock on with LT, then fire with RT), make sure to use bee vision (B) as it'll help greatly.
Honey Farm Protector
10 Don't let any bee get taken away during the wasp attack in Chapter 4
In 4.2 you'll first have to fight through traffic then you'll arrive at the farm. First take all the pictures, then you'll activate a cutscene where you see the wasps. There are three beehouses you need to protect, for each you need to kill 15 wasps (lock on with LT, shoot with RT). Once you kill 15 wasps at a single house it'll notify you that you only have the others to protect.
For the achievement do the above but watch for an opaque red arrow. Those are indicators for bees that are being carried away by a wasp, just locate the wasp by turning in the direction of the arrow, activate slow-mo, and save the bee by killing the wasp.
Dragonfly Buster
10 Take out 100 dragonflies
To get this one easily simply replay level 3.1 about three times, you have to kill some both at the beginning of the level and when they attack the hive.
Wasp Buster
10 Take out 100 wasps
Easy level for this one is 5.1, simply beat it three times and the achievement will unlock soon after you start killing on the third one.
Hornet Buster
10 Take out 100 hornets
Easiest way to get this is to play mission 7.2 for kills. Sometimes you'll get some "emergencies" where the hive will be under attack and you'll get some kills that way. But for extras just play through 7.2 and you'll have an easy 25 kills.
Flower of Discovery
10 Pollinate the entire Pollination 101 sector in Chapter 1.
For all the pollination achievements follow this same rule. Use your map! Yellow dots are flowers which you can harvest pollen from, and blue dots are flowers that need to be pollinated. So simply go to the yellow dots, harvest honey (LT to lock on, RT to harvest), then take it to the blue dots and deliver the pollen (LT to lock on, RT to deliver). You can keep track of how many flowers you have left to pollinate by pressing start. It'll show a picture of a flower with XX/XX with the X's being flowers you've pollinated/total flowers to pollinate. Once you pollinate the final flower in that mission you'll get the achievement.
This one can be done on mission 1.2.
Flower of Courage
10 Pollinate all the flowers in the rainy streets of New York in Chapter 2
See Flower of Discovery, but apply it to mission 2.1.
Flower of Will
10 Pollinate all the flowers in Vanessa's apartment in Chapter 2
See Flower of Discovery, but apply it to mission 2.2.
Flower of Heart
10 Pollinate all the flowers in the park in Chapter 3
See Flower of Discovery, but apply it to mission 3.1.
Flower of Abundance
10 Pollinate all the flowers in the restaurant of Chapter 6
See Flower of Discovery, but apply it to mission 6.1.
Flower of Bravery
10 Pollinate all the flowers in the rainy streets of New York in Chapter 7
See Flower of Discovery, but apply it to mission 7.1.
Flower of Justice
10 Pollinate all the flowers in Montgomery's office in Chapter 7
See Flower of Discovery, but apply it to mission 7.2.
Race Driver Award
10 Clear all racing jobs in New Hive City
As the title says clear all racing jobs. If you can get ahead of the pack early on you shouldn't have a problem winning. When you're not in the lead your power-up can be anything, but when you're in the lead you only get one of three power-ups, honey slick, honey upgrade (armor and speed boost), and boost.
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Delivery Boy Award
10 Clear all food delivery jobs in New Hive City
This one can be tricky one your orders start stacking up. Just race from point A to point B as quickly as possible while losing as little meals as possible. Counter the stacks by using either LT or RT.
Taxi Driver Award
10 Clear all taxi jobs in New Hive City
IMO, the taxi jobs were by far the worst part of the game, it was way too repetitive. I mean, a lot of the game was but these guys took the cake. Isn't much to explain on this one, pick up a passenger and take them where they need to go.
Arcade King Award
10 Get the highest score in all arcade games in New Hive City
For this you first have to go to the arcade in Hive city, then buy each of the arcade games and beat the high scores in each.
Here are the four games in the order they unlock and their high scores
Pollen Jack Rescue - 5000? (I'm not sure on the high score, can anyone help me out?)
Once you beat all four high scores, the achievement will unlock once you finish the final game.
Auto Mechanic Award
10 Clear all Auto Repair jobs in New Hive City
This one's probably the easiest job, all you do is follow on-screen commands. Either press a button or rotate the LS, not exactly rocket science.
Golden Museum Curator Award
10 All wax statues found and concept art unlocked
For all locations please see THIS thread.
Honex Employee of the Month 1
10 Clear all Honeycomb Collector jobs in Honex
For the honeycomb collector missions all you do is move your jar left and right while collecting the golden honeycombs and letting the black ones fall to their death. These jobs get a bit repetitive with the higher levels but at the same time they don't change the difficulty. Just focus on not catching the black combs and don't worry about running out of combs to catch as once one group's done, another will be loaded.
Honex Employee of the Month 2
10 Clear all Magnet Crane Operator jobs in Honex
This job isn't too hard, just pick up the honey tanks (A) once the gas tank passes the pink line and you'll be golden.
Honex Employee of the Month 3
10 Clear all Honey Drafter jobs in Honex
This one isn't too hard. Just be careful. Move the drafter with LS and press A to drop some honey. Aim for the empty vats and you'll be golden. The honey gun can hold 10 vats worth of honey, so you'll have ot learn to refill. Lucky it doesn't take long, once you finish with a set of vats, rush to the honey pot and press A to refill, you should be refiled and ready before the next set of vats arrive.
Flawless Buzz Battle 1
10 Defeat Hector the Delivery Guy without taking any damage in Chapter 4
In mission 4.1, Hector has three waves. First he'll be in his fighting stance. Fly as far up as possible and wait for the bee warning, as soon as you see it strafe down (X + down on LS), once you're at the bottom wait until you get the bee warning and strafe up. Repeat until Hector starts panting, once he starts lock onto his face (LT) and try to annoy him. Stay in the upper half of the honeycomb until you see a warning, once you see it quickly strafe down. Then annoy him in the bottom half of the honeycomb until you see the warning then strafe up. Once he's annoyed you'll start the button cutscene, you'll get three notifications for single button presses, then a final button mash. Once you pass the button mash Hector will go back into fighting stance.
Repeat the above process three times without getting hit and the achievement's yours.
Flawless Buzz Battle 2
10 Defeat Freddy the Beekeeper without taking any damage in Chapter 5
This one's on mission 5.1, first you have to take pictures, then you have to fend off some wasps, and finally you'll be able to battle Freddy.
Freddy's generally the same as Hector. First avoid his smoke by strafing left or right. Be careful not to strafe too far or you'll wrap all the was around Freddy back into the smoke. Once you have the chance, get in his face and annoy him. Avoiding being swatted as a group of bees is way harder than just Barry. Try and stay towards the middle of the honeycomb while annoying and when you see a warning quickly shoot up or down. Once he's annoyed you'll have a button sequence.
After you get past two button sequences he chances his style. Now his smoker will shoot out of the sides, just get behind him when he starts spraying and stay there. He'll shoot three times this way before you can annoy his ass.
Make him run into the three without being hit, running into smoke, or pressing the wrong button and the achievement's yours.
Flawless Buzz Battle 3
10 Defeat Ken without taking any damage in Chapter 9
In mission 9.1 you battle Ken. This buzz battle's pretty difficult to not get hit in. First you have to follow up or down commands to avoid being hit by Ken's magazine, make sure to use strafe (X). Once you lock on his face use RT to spray pollen in his face. You'll then have a 6-7 button sequence to follow.
Now you have to lock onto the magazine in his hand and fly inside. When you're inside you'll have to lock onto his eye, then press RT to spray pollen in his eyes. Every 1/4th of the bar he'll sneeze and you'll have to counter with a button. After you fill the bar he'll fall into the tub and grab the shower head.
This part's a bit tricky, but not too hard. He'll spray water at you, but an easy way to counter it is to fly in a big square. Just make sure to use strafe to avoid the water and you'll never get hit. Once he's tired get in his face and spray him will pollen (RT) once the bar's filled you'll have a five button comb. Do the above twice and then he'll sneeze, fall, and grab some hair spray.
To avoid the spray use strafe and a zig-zag pattern to avoid getting hit (like /\/\/\). He'll spray about three times, then you'll be able to lock onto his face and spray pollen in his eyes. Once the bar's about 1/2 way full you'll have to do a 5-button sequence. Yet again zig-zag, then spray him in the face until the bar's all the way full. Do another 5-button sequence and you're finally done!
If you managed to do all that without being hit by anything or hitting the wrong button the achievement's yours!
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Flawless Buzz Battle 4
10 Defeat Montgomery without taking any damage in Chapter 11
First things first this is on mission 11.1. You have to battle Montgomery. First things I recommend doing is hitting the three switches to activate the fans. They're the green exclamation marks on your map. One's on the left side of the front-left audience bench, one's on the right side of the front-right audience bench, and the third's on the right side of the witness stand if you're facing the judge's seat. Personally I went in a circle starting at the right, then the witness stand, then getting the one to the left of where you spawn. It's really not that hard not to get hit while doing this part, just fly up down up down and make use of objects to block the line of sight between Montgomery and you. Also, your bee sense is great on this level!
When you activate one of the fans it'll make a wind tunnel, fly into it and perform the 4 or 5 button combo which'll result in Montgomery's spray going into his own face. Once you do all three you'll active a cut scene where you and your bee friends get into a group to fight Montgomery.
From here use the square strafe method I explained in the Ken fight to avoid the spray. When possible lock onto his face and annoy him, Make sure to use your bee senses when you see warning because as a group of bees you move MUCH slower than when you're just Barry.
Once the bar's full you'll get a 7 button sequence and bam, you're done.
Do all that with avoiding being sprayed or hit and the achievement's yours. NOTE: You MUST watch the short cutscene directly after the fan falls on Montgomery or you want get the achievement! You'll get the badge, but not the achievement.
Operation Guaca Mole
10 Neutralize Ken using the 3 party guests without a scratch in Chapter 2
In mission 2.2 you'll start by landing in some guacamole, mash whatever button it tells you to and free yourself before getting eaten. Once you're free, fly up to one of the three guests (girl in living room, girl in dining room, guy in kitchen) while avoiding Ken (guy with the boots). Fly up to one of the guests and lock on (LT) to their face and start annoying them. Stay in the upper half of the honeycomb until you see a warning, once you see it quickly strafe down (down on LS + X). Then annoy him in the bottom half of the honeycomb until you see the warning then strafe up (up on LS + X). Once he or she is annoyed you'll start the button sequence. Each guest has three buttons to pres.
Repeat for each guest, once the third guest hits Ken the level's over and you'll get the achievement.
Operation Buzz Boy
10 Reach Montgomery's table without taking any damage in Chapter 6
On mission 6.2 you have to listen to Montgomery's conversation without being hit.
When you start the mission go to the waiter on the phone and annoy him until you get a three button combo. Once he walks out take a picture of the reservation chart on the podium. Now go into the main restaurant and go straight ahead, you'll see the next picture marker you need. Once you take the picture go to the old man and annoy him until you get the button combo. Now Montgomery and his guest will be outside. Hit the first wind tunnel, then the second and now you'll be at a spot to take the picture. Take the picture then get into the third wind tunnel. Once you land you're golden. After the level you'll get the achievement.
You can NOT be heard by Montgomery in this level! That counts as being hit.
Operation Gamma Code
10 Collect 3 parts of the code and unlock Montgomery's safe without a scratch in Chapter 7
This is one of the easier "operation" achievements. When you spawn on level 7.2 go forward then into the room on the right. Now go to the paper shredder on the right side of the room and turn it on (aim with LT, dash with X) now activate your bee sense and rush to the keyboard. Hit the red button on the keyboard then take the picture of the keycode on the screen when it appears. Once you have that exit the room by taking a right, then enter the next room by taking a left.
Once you're in the second room you're going to have to annoy. Get in the guys face and annoy then do the button combo. You'll have to annoy/combo trice, then once he smacks himself in the face aim at his cup of coffee and dash into it to spill it. Once the guy runs out hit the red button on the keyboard, then take the picture of the keycode on the screen.
Only one left! Exit the room and take a left and go down the hall into Montgomery's office. From here go to his computer and go under his desk to see the tower of his PC. Aim at the red button to turn his computer on. Once it's on, hit the red button on the keyboard and take the picture of the keycode when it appears. Now you have all three parts of the keycode!
All that's left is for you to fly over to Montgomery's portrait by the suit of armor, and hit the red button on the bottom left side. Hit that button without being hit or hitting a wrong button and the achievement's yours.
Operation Sting Ray
10 Collect 3 ID's and reach the secured room without taking any damage in Chapter 10
EDIT: Alright, this one's a LOT easier that I originally thought. I just had to use my brain. The hardest part of this achievement is avoiding the laser fields. I originally though this was super hard as Barry's depth perception is horrible, but you can do one of two things. 1. Either hide in the door frames as they provide perfect cover or, 2. Fly parallel to the walls. If you fly like: | | with the walls you'll never touch the lasers, but be careful, if you fly even close to| \ you'll most likely hit your feet.
As soon as you spawn, turn left and look for the red button on the wall, lock on and dash into it and to the left of the button a drawer will open. Fly into the drawer and exit into the other room.
Once you're into the first lab, get into the guy's face and annoy him and then do the 4 button sequence. Once he falls, zoom on his face and extract his breath. Once you're back into the main hallway go to the control panel on the right and lock onto the bottom ID receiver (silver w/ a picture of a mouth) and press RT to submit the ID check.
Now hit the red button next to the middle door and hop into the tray. In this room you have to wait for the scientist to take a slide off the conveyor belt and place it on the table. To lock on be near the table and press LT. Now annoy him and perform a 4 button combo and he'll fall over. Once he's down go to his left hand and lock on to take a part of his glove that has his finger print. Now that you have his fingerprint you'll be taken back to the main hall. Go to the control panel again and this time LT onto the finger print scanned and RT to verify identity.
Now go to the third door, press the red button and hop into the tray. For this scientist just get in his face annoy and press the 4 button sequence until he runs into the wall. When he's down fly onto his desk and lock onto the picture to cut out the retinal image. Once in the hallway head back to the control panel and verify the retinal scan on the top scanner. Once verified lock onto the checkmark to the left to the control panel and you'll enter the control room.
Enter the control room without being hit or hitting the wrong button and the achievement's yours.
Baptism of Water
10 Reach Vanessa's apartment under 4: 00 in Chapter 2
Mission 2.1, once the level starts just activate your bee reflexes (B) and fly into the nearest wind tunnel. Once you're out of the wind tunnel either fly to a safe spot (press Y to activate bee vision if you don't know where to hide). Just keep flying in wind tunnels until you get to the window. Very easy to make it in 4 minutes.
Washed Away Picnic
10 Reach Vanessa under 2: 00 in Chapter 3
Once the rain starts after you defend the hive on mission 3.1 the clock starts. Easiest way to beat this to press B as soon as your spawn and head to the right into the wind tunnel. Once you're under the bridge deactivate your bee senses and let it recharge. Once it's full activate it and head strait towards the end of the level (glowing thing) remember to boost while flying (X) and you won't have a problem making it.
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No Pain No Gain… in Rain
10 Reach Montgomery's Office under 3:30 in Chapter 7
Alright, mission 7.1. As soon as you start activate your bee sense and head towards the middle of the road into a wind tunnel. As soon as you exit turn right and head downwards into another wind tunnel near the middle of the road. This wind tunnel will take you a tree don't stop though, head to the other side of the tree and you'll see another in front of you. Once you exit this one, you'll be in an actual tunnel, head up and into a wind tunnel. Once you exit you'll hit a checkpoint. You can do this whole first part without ever stopping to recharge your bee senses.
Here's where it gets a bit tricky. As soon as you spawn, head up and towards the tree, don't activate your bee sense until you get hit, it'll save a lot of your senses. You have to go over the road to avoid cars. Once under the tree let your bee sense recharge and direct yourself to a garbage can that's to your left near the checkpoint. Again, go towards it but don't activate your bee sense until you get hit. Make sure of the dash (X) and aim inside the trash can. Once inside let your senses charge. When they're charged head into the rain (again, don't active your senses until hit) and fly like hell towards the end of the mission.
You MUST watch the ending movie all the way through or you wont get the achievement!
Sprinkler Shower
10 Reach the fire exit under 0:30 in Chapter 8
This one's super easy. On mission 8.1 you'll first have to take all the pictures and wait for Montgomery to turn the fire sprinklers on, when they do go into the hole in front of you, then once you exit just head for the end of the level (star on your map). If you find some cover stop and recharge your senses, but don't recharge more than once.
You shouldn't have any problems with this one.
Flawless Sortie
10 Reach the Flower Patch without a scratch in Chapter 1
This one's on mission 1.1
L = Left, R = Right, U = Up, D = Down, B = Button, BM = Button Mash.
L U R Bx4 BM
Escape from the frog's tongue without being hit or hitting the wrong button and the achievement's yours.
Flawless Game
10 Survive the tennis rally between Ken and Vanessa without being hit in Chapter 1
This one's on mission 1.3m it's a bit different from the others because you don't simply press a direction you have to hold it to rotate you're body away from getting smashed.
L = Left, R = Right, U = Up, D = Down, B = Button, BM = Button Mash.
Once Ken gives you that final whack the achievement's yours.
Flawless Truck Chase
10 Follow the Honey Farm truck to its destination without any damage in Chapter 4
This one's on mission 4.2
L = Left, R = Right, U = Up, D = Down, B = Button, BM = Button Mash.
D R U U D L R R Bx4
L D U R L L D R R D B BMx2 B
Make it into the truck's horn without being hit or hitting the wrong button and the achievement's yours.
Flawless Limousine Pursuit
10 Follow Montgomery's Limousine to its destination without any damage in Chapter 6
Mission 6.1, this one's pretty damn lengthy! Beat this and bask in the glory that you are all that's holy.
L = Left, R = Right, U = Up, D = Down, B = Button, BM = Button Mash.
Bx7 Bx4
Bx3 BM
B BMx2 B
If you made it through that intense journey withing getting hit or hitting the wrong button you'll gain a while 10 points! Woo!
Squadron Leader
50 Acquire all aerial combat badges
For this achievement you need the following badges:
Sniper Bee
New Hive Protector
Dragonfly Buster
Wasp Buster
Hornet Buster
Master Pollinator
50 Acquire all pollination badges
For this achievement you need to get the following seven badges:
Flower of Discovery
Flower of Courage
Flower of Will
Flower of Heart
Flower of Abundance
Flower of Bravery
Flower of Justice
Speedy Bee
50 Acquire all rain drop dodging badges
For this achievement you need the following badges:
Baptism of Water
Washed Away Picnic
No Pain No Gain… in Rain
Sprinkler Shower
King of New Hive City
50 Acquire all New Hive City badges
For this achievement you need the following badges:
Race Driver Award
Delivery Boy Award
Taxi Driver Award
Arcade King Award
Auto Mechanic Award
Golden Museum Curator Award
Honex Employee of the Month 1
Honex Employee of the Month 2
Honex Employee of the Month 3
Survivor Bee
50 Acquire all human encounter badges
For this achievement you need the following badges:
Flawless Buzz Battle 1
Flawless Buzz Battle 2
Flawless Buzz Battle 3
Flawless Buzz Battle 4
Operation Guaca Mole
Operation Buzz Boy
Operation Gamma Code
Operation Sting Ray
Lightning Reflex Bee
50 Acquire all staged action badges
For this achievement you need the following badges:
Flawless Sortie
Flawless Game
Flawless Truck Chase
Flawless Limousine Pursuit
You Rock Pollen Jock!
200 Acquire all badges
For this achievement you need the following badges:
Squadron Leader
Master Pollinator
Speedy Bee
King of New Hive City
Survivor Bee
Lightning Reflex Bee
Bee Gone!
100 Complete the game
Just play through the story, once you beat mission 11.1 (the Montgomery fight) you'll get this achievement. You MUST watch the ending movie all the way through or you wont get the achievement!
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This looks like a great guide. Definately not an easy 1 night 1000 game like the other kids games. Too bad I gave up and mailed this back to Gamefly before I gave it a shot. There were no guides out so I didn't want to buzz in there blind, ya know??
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Good guide helped a lot
Thats a very detailed guid. Im going to probley going to play this game now.
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thanking you great guide, urm could you mention that in Operation Buzz Boy if you hit anything in the wind tunnels you wont get your achievement ant that it is possible to do it with out going in the wind tunnles. "when you enter the last room go to the farthest left wall and dash along it to get to the first camera take the picture wait until montgomerys circle is small the fly high, use you B senses and dash into the end of the thrird wind tunnel". hope this helps sombody
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One piece of advice for the final fight.
You will SOUND like you get hit a lot. No matter where you are, you will make the sound of being hit. If you don't see the screen distortion, then you were not actually hit. It might be easier to simply turn the audio off entirely before the fight starts.
Took me running to the bathroom after the fight to learn that.
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For the flawless buzz battle 3 I found that on the last stage with the hairspray if you let Ken start to spay and activate Barry's bee reflexes then strafe either way you can easily avoid the hairspray. The trick is to only use reflex's enough to get out of the way and deactivate them. You can then keep strafing until it fills up again as Ken will spin in a circle. I was able to get the achievement on my second time very easily. should of had it on my first but did something stupid. Hopes this helps. Also on the last flawless battle when you get to the smoke when you see the warning hit the B button and slow time then watch his eyes. If he looks up and to the right for example go to the bottom left. Was able to get it on my second try this way. All credit goes to Sha0l1nstyl3 for the tip.
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For one i will have to agree w/ Calzod.. thats how i got my cheeve, after getting hurt in a wind tunnel the first time... also to clarify arcade high scores.. the Freeway is incorrect. at least for me the Freeway HS was 7. Hive Incursion is way off. HS was 25,000. Pollen Jock and Hive Attack are both correct at 5,000 and 4,000 respectively. Lastly, maybe it was different for me, but i noticed i did not have to watch any cutscene all the way through to get cheeve. i skipped through most of them and still got all mine. By the way, i've read alot about having to play the game twice if you miss anything. this is incorrect. At the entrance to the hive from the outside, there is a Kiosk to Replay past levels for Badges, and Achievements. Got my 1000 in first run.
I also went back to seperate levels and unlocked every achievement without any glitching happening as far as that goes. (Buzz Battles, Flight levels, pollenating) I unlocked by going back without a problem.
However, don't complete all of the side missions before the last level. Beat Montgomerie, then return to hive and finish up the side missions in that order, otherwise you'll most likely have to play the game all the way over again. It happened to me eventhough I beat the bonus race and beat high scores on several other bonus missions but they didn't count.
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Tadpeters is def right about not completing all Side Missions before getting to Montgomery. I did and had to play the bonus race (Ironman) and Win to unlock my Chpater 11 story. Also, i still have not gotten any help or an answer regarding which pictures are the first 2 on your right, past the intersection. This guide and another guide say 2 different locations for the Concept Art #6. one says Pinic Chapter, another say Honey Farm. I can't find ANYTHING on either level. Have checked all other levels as well. Need a CORRECT guide checklist. Please help, last cheeve to pop.
From what I can remember, the photo on the picnic level is straight where she is looking and it's up in the air next to the lamp post. You'll be taking a photo of her sitting on her blanket in the grass.
For the honey farm one, I remember it was above the red smoker sitting on the bench next to the tree in the middle of the level. You'll turn around and take a photo of the bee hives off in the distance.
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i appreciate your help friend, but im pretty sure you are confused with one of the 5 pics of evidence you need to take on that level of hives in the distance... i dont want to have to replay whole game for a concept art im unsure even exists or where could be located. some of those badges were a pain in the ass.
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ok.. i finally found the missing Concept Art.. Apparently i had already gotten the one in the Honey Farm that i thought i missed (no wonder i was flying around forever unable to find it, lol). When actually, after i knew for absolutely sure i had gotten the one in Montgomery's Office as soon as enter, on the right overlooking the receptionist, I went back one by one searching, and there it was... still there, after i 100% had gotten it.. something must have glitched, or who knows.. anyway to all that helped or at least made an attempt to help. I thank you, and now offer my services as now being an expert of the game, lol.
This game seems like an easy 1000. Need to put it on my gamefly list.
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Hi , please can someone tell me where exactly the Mission Select Computer is !? I dont find it on the Runway -.-
Anyway , nice Guide
Edit : Ok i think i have found it but i can not use it -.-
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Thanks This game was so easy and your guide just made it easier.
3rd In The UK To 200/200 In Uno Rush, 13th In The World.
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umm ez i doubt it
reading the threads on the board im seeing that almost all of them are related to the game being not ez having problems here glitches there im def gonna pass also its a disney movie game which dosent bode well either to many great games and live arcade to play rather than this ...
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I've acquired all aerial combat badges, but still no Squadron Leader achievement, what can I do?
EDIT: I got it, I saw i had all my combat badges but when I went into the wall of badges menu, I saw I didn't have the dragonfly badge even tho I had the achievement, so I killed about 50 dragonflies and got my Squadron Leader achievement.
I can say the game doesn't have glitches, just after you get any achievements go into the wall of badges, 'cause the game doesn't record it there sometimes.
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Don´t know if this is the right thread to post but how do you unlock the last arcade and jobs? I have beaten story chapters, do I need to play bonus battles or what ?
EDIT: Beat chapter 11 again and now it opened the rest of the jobs, stupid glitch.
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alotta 10 G achievo's...
Thats good to see thoughh
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I'm having serious problems with this one. No matter what I do or where I go with the swarm, the fat guy ALWAYS manages to slap me. Even if I move immediately out of the marked area there are always a couple of bees inside it when he starts to attack. Really dont know what to do anymore.
I can't count how many times I've tried this. Any advice?
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Ignore the audio. Unless the screen SHOWS a hit, you likely weren't hit. I'd say finish the fight and you will have unlocked it most of the time.
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the high score for high incursion is 25,000 not 2,500
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Major glitch.
I did the Honex Employee 2, and then turned my Xbox 360 off to watch Season 5 of LOST, I then turned it back on, and checked my badges wall, and theres no badge for HE2. And there's no way in hell I wanna play through all of them again. But I might have to for 1000/1000.
So guys, save your game before you turn your Xbox off, so your not like me :P
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This Diskeeper software along with an 8GB SanDisk SSD apparently cut Windows boot times and program launch times significantly.
Scheduled to launch in the first quarter, Diskeeper's new program is designed to quickly and automatically clear up any fragmentation on your hard disk.
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Its set-it-and-forget-it ease of use makes Diskeeper 7.0 the best defrag tool available. It's pricey, however, so if you're not picky and don't need granular defrag control, Microsoft's free utility should suffice.
Executive Software announced that Microsoft has agreed to include a manual version of Executive Diskeeper defragmenter in the Microsoft Windows NT 5.0 operating system. Periodic defragmentation of disks in certain circumstances maximize system performance, according to the company. Suggested retail prices are $75 for Diskeeper for Windows NT Workstation and $399 for Diskeeper for Windows NT Server. Available platforms include Intel and Alpha. There are no client-access charges.

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Filipino boy, 6, dies after being hit by taxi in Sharjah
Sharjah: A 6-year-old child died of injuries after being hit by a car in King Faisal road on Monday evening in Sharjah.
According to police, the victim, a Filipino boy, was hit by a Sharjah taxi while crossing the road on his own.
The child died on the spot due to the impact of the collision.
Police patrol and paramedics rushed to the scene of the accident where they pronounced the victim dead. His body was moved to hospital.
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We have a multisite where everyone uses the same theme, but some of the sites needed the theme tweaked for them a little.
I need to change the name of the theme, but only in Appearances so I can detect which theme goes to which site.
I'm not looking to steal a theme nothing that devious, just need to be able to Activate the correct theme for the correct site - right now I have 4 themes that all say the same theme name.


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Advertising Agency: Lanmeng, Shanghai, China
Creative Director: Nm Jiang
Art Director / Copywriter / Illustrator: Nm Jiang
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This is not a campaign, actually it looks like the alternate photo for the ad (the city is better). Anyway, the concept is there: Your attention is all over something else (the girl), now give some more three or four turns to the nut, because this looks like the very first idea.
Boobs is so big it block the female driver's view? Totally tasteless scam ad!
This is the result when one person tries to do the work on 4! Creative Director, Art Director, Copywriter, Illustrator....well, I bet he's the client as well. LOL
1. school work.
2. now i know why china agencies need talents from malaysia & singapore.
3. they don't know what is team work. CD, AD, Copy?
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National team: Iceland
Which player most inspired you and why? Edda Gardarsdóttir. She's honest, plays with her heart and she's hardworking. She has also done a lot for me as a player.
Which coach most inspired you? Jónas Leifur Sigursteinsson told me to go to Stjarnan when I was younger, he believed in me. Andres Ellert Olafsson my goalkeeper coach has done so many things for me as a player and a person, he is one of the best coaches I've had.
Best player you've played with? Gunnhildur Yrsa at Stjarnan and Annica Sjölund at Jitex BK.
Toughest opponent? Myself.
What are your memories of your first club as a child? Going to a tournament when I was around eight years old. I was playing with the boys and the goalkeeper was sick so someone asked me if I could be in goal. I did so well that I started to be a goalkeeper after that.
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Forget your prior things; pay no attention to ancient wonders. "Behold, I make new" (Isa. 43:19).
Forget your prior things; pay no attention to ancient wonders. "Behold, I make new" (Isa. 43:19).
Renewal of a deep down kind is a dramatic and dramatically divine intervention enacted through ceremony.
The Christian story is one story, Jesus Christ our Lord. Wherever we look, there he is.
Recapitulating all humanity, Jesus is a morphing icon and yet he is one Word, the only Word from the Father.
Faith believes with the heart that the gift of God is the gift of salvation through his beloved Son.
Those who stand in Christ stand where Moses did upon the holy mountain, and so are transformed into the divine light.
Prophets are formed, consecrated, and appointed for a job they would have never chosen.
Ask yourself, when you read the Bible: "What kind of a human being do I want to be?"
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2 arrested on heroin charges in Vt.The Associated Press | February 07,2013BRATTLEBORO - The Vermont Drug Task Force has arrested two men on charges of possessing and trafficking heroin following a three-month investigation.
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key promised subsidies for workers as he started a two-day visit to Christchurch, which was hit by a magnitude-7 earthquake that cut power, damaged hundreds of buildings and closed the central business district.
The government has pledged NZ$350 ($252) a week for workers at companies with 20 or fewer staff, Key said. The plan will keep employees in work, Key said after arriving in Christchurch today, according to a statement on his website.
New Zealand faces a NZ$2 billion damage bill and Christchurch, a city of 348,000 on South Island, is under a state of emergency after the quake struck on Sept. 4. Key plans to meet today with local mayors in the Canterbury region and visit welfare centers after canceling plans to fly to Europe on Sept. 10, spokesman Kevin Taylor said.
"I can well appreciate the magnitude of loss that people have suffered," Key said. "I was awestruck by the power of the earthquake and the damage that it has caused in the city I grew up in."
The water supply and damage to as many as 100,000 homes are among the biggest problems to be addressed, Key said in a speech yesterday after a Cabinet meeting. The quake buckled roads, ruptured sewer lines and water pipes and ripped facades off buildings.
The state of emergency will remain until at least tomorrow, when schools in the city and two surrounding districts may be allowed to open, the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management said on its website.
The NZX 50 Index of stocks rose 1 percent to 3,174.14 at the 5 p.m. close in Wellington. New Zealand's dollar fell 0.43 percent to 72.02 U.S. cents at 8:31 a.m. London time.
A Ghost Town
Parts of the city center remain cordoned off by police and troops, with access being granted to business owners and those involved in the cleanup. Some city hotels are also open.
By late yesterday, some of the buildings worst hit by the quake were already demolished. A block of two-story, brick shops about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the city center was razed after engineers assessed it as beyond repair. An aftershock around noon on Sept. 6 further stressed the already damaged buildings.
Evidence of damage and the repair job ahead marks most of the city. Cranes and trucks work in residential streets removing broken chimneys, reroofing and repairing buckled streets. Walls and shop verandahs slump over suburban footpaths surrounded by emergency tape. More than 30 streets are without water.
In the city center yesterday, a busy pedestrian-only shopping street was silent and cafes normally frequented by crowds of business people sat empty.
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About 500 buildings were damaged in the quake, 90 in the downtown area, the Christchurch City Council says. Between 300 and 400 farms have been affected, 150 "severely" with most damage done to buildings, the prime minister said yesterday.
Power has been restored to most of the city with fewer than 1,000 customers without electricity, Orion New Zealand Ltd. said on its website. About half the utility's 200,000 users lost power immediately after the quake.
Lyttelton Port Co., which handles coal exports about 12 kilometers southeast of Christchurch, is "fully operational," according to a statement on its website
The main quake struck about 50 kilometers from the city, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. One person received serious injuries and about 100 others minor ones, the government said.
Aftershocks followed, including four of magnitude 5 or higher, the USGS said on its website. A 5.2 aftershock struck at 11:40 p.m. yesterday.
The last quake to cause casualties in the nation hit in December 2007, when buildings in Gisborne collapsed. Eleven people were injured and one died of a heart attack, according to GeoNet, an earthquake-monitoring site.
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New York State Judges Will Get Their First Raise in 12 Years
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By DJ Montoya (SMDC/ARSTRAT)March 20, 2013
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Four women working within U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command gave valuable insight into their struggles and triumphs of achieving success in one of the following disciplines: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, during the 2013 Women's History Month observance on March 14.
This event took place in the training rooms of SMDC/ARSTRAT Operations headquarters Building 3 before a group of women and men. Robert Howard, SMDC/ARSTRAT Operations Equal Employment Opportunity manager, opened the lunch-time program stating that this year's theme was 'Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.'
After opening remarks, four women within the command locally (three contractors and one government civilian) addressed the audience giving a retrospect of how they achieved their current job position.
"Today, women are earning about 17 percent to 18 percent of the bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics," said Joan E. Rousseau, tactical space operation course manager, SMDC, Future Warfare Center, Directorate of Training and Doctrine, Space Training Division.
"Where are the women? They are going into the career fields of physical science. Fifty-eight percent are earning master's, bachelor's, and doctorate's in biology. With exception very few of those women are making the amount of pay as their male counterparts. You are seeing more and more women with STEM backgrounds in the military basically because it is equal pay for equal work. We still don't make the same amount in the civilian sector outside of government service as our male counterparts."
"The point I'm trying to get across here is that we run the gamut within our organization. Within Space and Missile Defense Command not everybody you meet is going to be an engineer. You are going to meet a mix. You take the people with the skills and knowledge and the ability to learn and you place them where they can be most effective."
Mary Spohn, a contractor software engineer with Quantum on task to the SMDC Battle Lab, highlighted her top 10 rules -- lessons she has learned in her life.
"Rule number six: never stop learning," said Spohn. "Science and technology move extremely quickly. You really cannot stop getting qualified, taking classes, and keeping up with what is going on. It is an on-going process in the technology core field."
Her number three lesson was to act with integrity.
"Always be honest and always be professional. In this environment, it is easy to do because in this military environment people are extremely professional. I've worked a lot in the commercial world as well and it is not always like that. I want to emphasize that people do notice when you do your best and you act on your best behavior."
Spohn closed her remarks with her number one rule of supporting other women.
"We are all here together. We are all here struggling against the same challenges," Spohn said. "One thing I try to do is be supportive of the other women around me."
According to Jessica H. Schafer, a contractor systems engineer with Femme Comp Inc., SMDC G-6 Satellite Communications Division, the path of a woman becoming an engineer "has never been easy."
"I have enjoyed overcoming some challenges. But I've also struggled in confronting some other challenges along the way," Schafer said. "My dad was my inspiration in becoming an aerospace engineer. Looking back I wish he would have prepared me for the vast gender imbalance of engineers, but he didn't.
"My hope is that my generation of female engineers becomes the new mentors for the next generation and that our struggles do not become their struggles," she continued. "I hope that opportunity is there regardless of gender and will leave no young or new female scientists, mathmetician, or engineer in the dark about the amazing magnitude of opportunity available to her."
The last woman to speak was Noemi "Amy" R. Wikstrom, system engineer, Femme Comp Inc., SMDC G-6 SATCOM Division, who said, "I believe that we have to seize the opportunity to make a difference, to encourage, to inspire, to foster science and mathematics to our children, regardless of gender.
"It is our responsibility to leave behind cultural bias and give them the opportunity to strive," Wikstrom continued. "I encourage anyone who will listen to never settle, to reach inside, and to move forward. Nothing that is worth having in this life is easy, but when you get it -- man it feels great!"


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The ripple effect of the recent school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has touched those from all subcultures and walks of life. On December 14, Randy Blythe, frontman of metal band Lamb of God, called for 60 seconds of silence to honor the victims of the massacre, while performing at his show in Medford, Oregon. Many fans, however, refused to pay their respects, opting instead to scream and curse. Outraged, Blythe criticized what he viewed as the disconnect of America's youth culture from tragedies like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
After the massacre that left at least 27 - including 20 children - dead, Blythe asked his fans to join him in mourning for just one minute; many did so, but others utterly disregarded the request, according to Crave Online. Infuriated, Blythe took to his Instagram account that evening and vented.
"I have never been more disgusted with an audience in my life," he said. "I wish we hadn't played. We asked for sixty seconds of silence during our first set break to honor the dead children and teachers in Connecticut. It seemed appropriate - it's a goddamned national tragedy. Most of the crowd complied, but several didn't - some cursing, and some even laughing. I wanted to walk off stage. I am so disgusted right now. If you were one of those who wouldn't shut up for sixty lousy seconds to honor murdered children, go look in the mirror. You are looking at a piece of sh*t."
The school shooting has cut like a knife through the metal community, which itself has experienced its own fair share of tragedy, including the horrible, fatal 2004 shooting of Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell by the hand of a mentally ill individual.
Other metallers and hard rockers also offered their condolences. All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte tweeted, "It's tragic what happened in Newton. We need to focus on mental health issues."
"Another one," lamented Disturbed frontman David Draiman on his Twitter account. "It's time for a change, people."
"To the fans [at the show] who were respectful," added Blythe, "thank you. I am also sorry you have so many goddamned assh*les in your community. This would not have happened at a Lamb of God show where I live, and that is a fact. We have more manners." He noted that not only do those who mock the tragedy give metal music a bad name; they "give humanity a bad name. Grow up." He concluded, "With that I will go to bed, say a prayer for those suffering, and hope for a better day tomorrow."
In the wake of the deaths of children aged between 6 and 7, the debate over gun control in the U.S. has been re-energized. In the end, most would agree that sparing sixty seconds to honor this American tragedy is not much to ask at all - and that those with true decency ought to have done it.
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Back by popular demand, author and Georgia Backroads editor Dan Roper shares stories from Georgia's history, most set here in the northwestern part of the state. These are tales of bravery and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal, kindness and cruelty, and of life and death. Stories will include "No Darker Field of Crime," "Rotten from the Beginning," "They were Devils and I Killed Them," "Enemy on the Home Front," and others.
Dates: Tuesdays, February 23 – April 19 (no class on March 8)Time: 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.Cost: $80
Back by popular demand, Barry Benton, a former operational asset profiler for the CIA and Army Rangers, returns to teach on a subject near and dear to his heart. Do you know your personality type? Do you prefer being organized and following a schedule, or playing by ear? Are you energized by being around people, or by spending time alone? Whatever your personality type is, it affects all aspects of your life. Find out your type and how knowing more about it can help you when communicating with people.
Barry Benton received his bachelor's degree from Davidson College, a master's degree in estate planning and taxation from Emory University, and a master's degree in diplomacy and international commerce from the University of Kentucky. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Benton has lived with his wife in Calhoun, Ga., for the past 20 years.
Dates: Tuesdays, February 23 – April 19 (no class on March 8)Time: 11 a.m. – noonCost: $80
Join Kenneth Studdard, a fan favorite among the Senior Scholars, as he discusses books that have shaped his life. Through this exploration you will learn about the importance of books, how they influence your life and why they still matter. Kenneth has owned Dogwood Books for nine years and is a recent winner of the coveted "I Beat Norm" t-shirt. This will be an excellent class for book lovers of all genres.
If you can hold a pencil, you can use a paint brush. This introductory class, perfect for beginners with no previous experience, is led by Bill Thompson, a recently arrived Roman with a master's degree in visual art from Florida State University. This class's purpose is to gain an understanding of color relationships through the mixing of paint, the art of brushwork and how it relates to texture, and the use of light and dark values to create dimension. Students will receive a list of required art supplies upon registration. Each class lasts two hours. Easels will not be available; however, if you have a French easel, you are welcome to bring it. Otherwise, students will lean their canvasses against the edge of the table while painting.
Dates: Tuesdays, February 23 – March 22 (no class on March 8)Time: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.Cost: $120
The third semester of our Life Stories series will present three people, all of whom share the distinction of making an indelible mark in our community and schools: Hal Storey, Nelle Reagan, and Paul Ferguson. Hal's impressive military career included combat duty in the European Theatre, for which he was awarded four major battle ribbons, the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for Gallantry in Action. He was wounded during the Battle of the Bulge, fought in the 5th Infantry Division of Patton's Third Army and won the French Legion of Honor.
Nelle Reagan is the "talk of the town," serving our area as an on-air radio personality since the early 1960s. She has worked to promote Rome and causes such as advocating for area children and promoting Rome Floyd Animal Control. Her years of broadcasting have garnered many awards, including induction into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.
Last but not least is Paul Ferguson, M.D., former President and CEO of the Harbin Clinic. A native of Waycross, Ga., Dr. Ferguson received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Emory University and completed his neurosurgery residency at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital. He served in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a Captain in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star, Combat Medical Badge and other military awards. He practiced medicine for more than 40 years.
Dates: Tuesdays, February 23 – March 15 (no class on March 8)Time: 11 a.m. – noonCost: $30
Captain Dennis Nordeman will weave the stories of the many persons and moments of Rome's three-river history. As you drift down Rome's waterways, you will learn about the importance of the Oostanaula, the Etowah, and the Coosa Rivers in the history of the region. From the time of the Native Americans through the reign of steam ships and riverboats in the 19th century, stories of the river will allow passengers to visualize a time when cotton was king and the region's commerce depended upon this vital route to the Gulf of Mexico. Learn why the Coosa River Valley watershed is one of the most diverse and robust river systems in the nation — where even the character Popeye comes to life.
Sulzbacher Holiday Riverboat will launch from Heritage Park, and lunch will be provided.
Date: Thursday, April 21Time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.Cost: $26
One of the fastest-growing sports in the country, pickleball combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping-pong — a pickleball paddle is smaller than a tennis racket but larger than a ping pong paddle and uses a ball similar to a whiffle ball. Bill Thornton, a lifelong tennis enthusiast, will present the history of the game, explain the equipment, and give instructions on how to play. Participants will practice serving, drop shots, smashes, spins and volleys — and all classes will have practice time as well as play time. The social and health benefits of this sport are immeasurable and the number one rule is to have FUN!
All equipment needed to play will be provided.
Dates: Tuesdays, February 23 – March 22 (no class on March 8) Time: 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Cost: $30
Exercise is the key to longevity, and the many healthful benefits of Yoga are well known: better flexibility and joint mobility, better sleeping, reduction of chronic pain, reduction of anxiety, improvement of breathing, and assistance with mental clarity. Led by Rebecca Roberts, RYT Yoga Instructor, Senior Scholars' eight-week yoga course allows students to progress to deeper poses meant to strengthen and stretch the body — as well as to increase breath awareness and mindful living. Poses will be adapted to individual abilities, and students will learn about the benefits of each posture; this slower-paced class will build a basic understanding of yoga postures and breath work. Students are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and to bring a yoga mat, if possible. Other accessories such as a yoga strap, block, and blanket can be extremely helpful as well — extra mats, blocks and straps may be available.
Dates: Thursdays, February 25 – April 21 (no class on March 8)Time: 11 a.m. – noonCost: $80
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Giants' Mota Appeals 100-Game MLB Ban for Second Drug Violation
San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Guillermo Mota will file an appeal after receiving a 100-game suspension from Major League Baseball for a second violation of the sport's drug policy.
Mota, 38, tested positive for clenbuterol, a banned performance-enhancing substance, the office of baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said yesterday in an e-mailed release.
"A 100-game suspension for taking a children's cough medicine that contains trace amounts of a prohibited substance, which is what happened here, is severe and unfair and does not reflect the intention of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program," Mota's agent, Adam Katz, said in an e-mailed statement. "We will appeal it."
The Giants said in a statement that they were "disappointed" to learn of Mota's suspension and support baseball's drug prevention and treatment program.
Mota, who received a 50-game suspension for drug use following the 2006 season, has an 0-1 record with a 5.06 earned run average in nine relief appearances this season. He's allowed 13 hits and six earned runs in 10 2/3 innings.
Mota is 39-45 with a career 3.92 ERA in 14 seasons with the Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers and Giants.
Clenbuterol is a decongestant intended for use by people with breathing disorders. It has been linked to several high-profile doping cases in sports and was the drug that got cyclist Alberto Contador stripped of his victory in the 2010 Tour de France.


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Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
This is musical instruments that play like drawing the picture.
You can use eight "sketch" and four "item".
Rhythm pattern can be made by using "Rhythm-ya".
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Increases in blood pressure may pose particular problems because ma huang is a common ingredient in over-the-counter diet aids, he says. "An obese patient is already likely to have [high blood pressure], so taking a product to lose weight, which is a desirable goal for decreasing the risk of heart disease, may actually put the person at increased risk because of its effect on blood pressure."
Supplements cited by Jacobs as potentially problematic are "Herbal Ecstasy," "Nature's Sunshine," and "Metabolife." Randy Smith, MD, medical director of Metabolife, tells WebMD that while he agrees with Jacobs's recommendation that clinicians should monitor all supplement use, he has no knowledge of ephedrine-induced psychoses or mood disorders associated with use of his company's product.
Smith confirms that Metabolife is standardized to contain 12 mg of naturally occurring ephedrines, which are derived from the ma huang plant. But he says that even though approximately 2 million Americans use Metabolife, "we just don't see significant health problems when the product is taken as directed by healthy adults."
Smith, admits, however, that the product can cause temporary mild side effects. "Anyone taking ephedrine and caffeine to create a [fat burning] effect is likely to show some mild side effects during the first two weeks of use. These side effects could include insomnia, jitteriness, dry mouth and restlessness," he says, but the person will "adapt and after two weeks the symptoms will return to baseline, and the effect that persists is essentially the [fat burning] or weight-loss effect."
In 1995, the FDA proposed rules for supplements containing ma huang. Not yet adopted, the new rules would prohibit supplements from containing more than 8 mg of ephedrine per dose and prevent supplements from containing combinations of ephedrine with other stimulants. The rules would also require improved information labels for consumers.
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- Ma huang, a traditional Chinese medicine, seemed to cause violent and suicidal mood swings and psychoses in otherwise healthy Marines. The effects were reversed when they stopped taking ma huang.
- Americans may be attracted to the health claims of this 'natural' product, but the FDA reports between 1993 and 1997, ma huang use led to 34 deaths and 800 medical and psychiatric complications.
- Patients should tell their physicians about all the supplements they take. Alternative therapies can sometimes cause complications that patients may not realize.


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Hi, first of all great plugin thank you :)
I know this was raised a year or so ago but I wondered what the position is with getting it to update every day or every 7 days? If you do not want to change the main plugin would you be able to point me to the bit of code that needs changing so I can manually set it?
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Quinton Friend
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Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa
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Quinton Friend (born 16 February 1982) is a South African domestic cricketer as well as a regular representative in the South Africa A cricket team. He bowls right arm fast-medium with an action similar to Damien Fleming and is a tail-end right handed batsman.
Friend, who was born in Bellville, Western Cape, debuted for the Warriors in 2002 in List-A cricket, and in 2002 in first class cricket at Pietermaritzburg.[1] He took career best figures of 3/36 against Western Province Boland in a one day match on 17 November 2004,[2] and the following year in January 2005 he took 5/93 in one day again against Western Province in a first class match,[3] ending with final figures of 6/114.[4] Against Western Province again Friend was the pick of the bowlers with 4/65 on 2 March 2006 during a one day game,[5]
In 2007, Western Provinces merged with Boland to become the Cape Cobras, who then released Friend on 12 July 2007 to join the Dolphins.[6] He led them to victory against the Titans on 22 October 2007,[7] however eight days later was suspended for one match along with Titans' Martin van Jaarsveld for verbal abuse.[8]
- ^ Player profile: Quinton Friend from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ Warriors waltz to win in the rain at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ Runs flow as SuperSport Series restarts at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ Klusener in among the wickets at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ Morkel shines with bat and ball at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ Dolphins sign up Quinton Friend at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ Dolphins and Eagles ease to victories at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008
- ^ van Jaarsveld and Friend suspended at CricInfo retrieved 24 April 2008


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Q: There is a new law for reading/literacy in Iowa. What is this?
A: All schools in Iowa, including Boone, will be implementing the expectations of Iowa Code section 279.68 and 281—Iowa Administrative Code 62. This law was passed by the Iowa legislature to promote effective, evidence-based instruction and assessment practices so all students are proficient readers by the end of the third grade. All requirements are to be implemented by August 1, 2014 unless otherwise indicated. These requirements include:
• Provision to screen reading levels for students in kindergarten through third grade.
• Progress monitoring for students who exhibit a deficiency in reading.
• Provision of intensive instruction for students who exhibit a substantial deficiency in reading
• Notice to parents that a student exhibits a deficiency and progress in reading, including strategies the parents can use at home to help the child succeed.
• Provision of an evidence-based summer reading program for students who exhibit a substantial deficiency in reading (Effective May 1, 2017).
• Retention of any student who is not proficient in reading by the end of the third grade, did not attend the summer reading program, and does not qualify for a good cause exemption from the retention requirement (Effective May 1, 2017).
The Boone Community School District has many of these requirements either fully or partially in place. The district will be utilizing the state Early Literacy Grant to meet all requirements and have them fully implemented by the identified date, if not before.


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Printed USB memory sticks remain one of the most popular promotional give-aways with millions being handed out every year in the UK alone. The companies that buy these USB memory sticks often leave the buying decision right until the last minute with a growing number wanting their order printed and delivered within hours rather than days or weeks.
At USB2U we're happy to oblige and turn around orders in whatever timeframe is needed and we're fortunate enough to be able to print (and engrave) in-house from our own stock and of course we use our own design and print team to manage the whole process – keeping everything under one roof makes life that much easier and of course we have full control over the quality of the sticks, the printing and any data-loading that might be needed.
But, to achieve the often challenging deadlines we're set it does help if a few simple things are done in advance and during the ordering/manufacturing process. If they can be then everyone's stress levels and heart rates will easier to manage:
Here are the five most common issues that crop up that makes life more challenging that it needs to be:
- Poor Artwork – garbage in garbage out is a phrase more synonymous with the computer industry but it's equally appropriate when it comes to printing anything – if the artwork you supply is poor then then final printed product will be poor. We're good and we have some fantastic state of the art printing equipment but even we can't get a good print from an image "grabbed" from your website or "cut and pasted" from Microsoft Office document. Before you place your order it really helps if you could make sure you can get high quality vector artwork files in any of the following formats; .eps. .ai, .pdf, .cad or .swf.
- A common attempt to "work around" this request is to cheat and save a .jpg or .gif file as vector file. Sadly this won't help – all you do is create a low quality image that will result in a low quality print.
- Pantone references – if you need an exact representation of the colours in your logo then we'll need you to supply the Pantone reference numbers for each colour. Without these the only option is to "best match" the colours. If you're using our digital print service then the colours will always be "best match" because that's how digital printers work. If this is likely to be an issue we can silk screen print the individual pantone colours for you but we can't do this on any of our "Rush Services"
- Please be available – once you have committed to an order for printed USB sticks there are several stages that your order will go through and at each stage you (or a colleague) will need to be available to sign off the proof, to sign off any data that is being loaded onto the sticks and finally to make payment for the sticks. If you or another member of your team can't be reached it may delay things and you could miss your preferred delivery date.
- Delivery address – please think about where your USB sticks are going to be delivered to. We ship 99% of our orders with UPS on a next day service but if you live in certain Post Codes this actually means two days. If for example you live in the Highlands or Islands or other remote parts of the UK then allow an extra day for delivery. Equally, make sure you double check the address you supply for delivery, offer a contact phone number and make sure someone is going to be in on the delivery date to receive the printed USB sticks. If you need delivery on a Saturday then please let us know because our standard deliveries are Mon-Fri.


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SALINA, Kan. (AP) _ A third trial has been set for a murder defendant whose previous two trials ended in hung juries.
The Salina Journal-World reported Monday that 21-year-old Cameron Nelson is scheduled to go on trial again Sept. 9 in Saline County District Court in the April 2008 shooting death of 38-year-old Mark Simpson.
Jurors were unable to reach unanimous decision during his previous trials in December and May.
Saline County District Judge Daniel Hebert has said that the next trial would likely be the last if it also ends in a hung jury.
Nelson remains in Saline County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
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Is there a minhag that one should not pass a child over a table to another person to hold? In my family we would pass a child from person to person all the way around the table, but nobody could ever explain the reason. Is there a source for that?
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The reason that we have become accustomed not to pass children over the table is because a table is akin to a mizbeach. (An Altar). The Altar was the place where they would sacrifice animals. Enough said :).


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I'm trying to install winswitch on CentOs 6. It requires 'nxagent'. But in centos, the package name is 'nx'. Is there a way to tell yum to skip checking the 'nxagent' dependency (i installed 'nx' already)? Specifying --skip-broken skips the whole thing
Generally yum dont have option to ignore single package from dep. Option --skip-broken ignore all unresolved dependences. You can try "yum --exclude=packagename" but it exclude a specific package by name or glob from updates on all repositories not from deps.
The rpm command has the --nodeps option that you can use. The following command will install or update the package ignoring dependencies but automatically looking up the download URL from your repositories.
After that, a regular "yum update" will likely succeed without dependency errors.
Fire this command line then go to ZzZz
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Round 6 of the Northwest Cup race series at Stevens Pass Bike Park.
The Northwest Cup Finals at Stevens Pass Bike Park.
Lots of images from the 2013 summer season.
WBA race #4 with end of season picnic at Stevens Pass Nordic Center.
This will be the first race in a five race series taking place on Thursday nights at Stevens Pass!
The Leavenworth Disc Golf Club is hosting this 18 basket disc golf tournament and fundraiser at Stevens Pass. Come play in the mountains and support a great cause!
Come Shred with She Jumps for this SheShreds Mountain Bike edition at Stevens Pass Bike Park! You won't want to miss this ladies day out in the mountains with free clinics, post-ride raffle, bike rental discounts and much more.
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Save the Date! UBM's 48th Annual Upper Shore Decoy Show
The Upper Bay Museum is proud to present the 48th Upper Shore Decoy Show on October 16th – 17th at the North East Fire Hall on Mauldin Avenue in North East, Maryland.
The decoy show will open on October 16th from 4-6 pm followed by the Auction Preview Party at 6 pm and our Fundraising Auction at 7 pm.
On Saturday October 17th the show will be open from 9am-4pm and will be packed with demonstrations and activities.
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When I plug in two wired NICs to the computer, I can get two IP addresses on the same network. Is such a setup possible with one wired ethernet card and one wireless card?
If so, how?
If not, is there a good reason for not having that capability? (and why?)
Update: To explain the reason to have that capability, here is the scenario I'm dealing with:
1) I have a web server which needs to use 2 IP addresses so it can use 2 different SSL certificates for different domains. This wouldn't be a problem if the server wasn't sitting behind a 2wire router via AT&T, which, from what I can tell, imposes a limit of one IP address per MAC address. (not that it imposes it specifically, but that I could find no information on how to get it to work otherwise, and while I got it close to working, there were lots of strange errors occurring, which have gone away now that I've moved closer to how they strongly encourage you to set it up).
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Most of the Right Moves
Someday Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders will be assessed a technical foul for impeding a referee or opposing player with his courtside gyrations. During Wolves home games, Saunders, who almost never sits, frequently strays onto the edge of the playing surface while prancing along the sideline from his team's bench to center court. After more than five years, fans have become familiar with his array of antics: the cupped-handed exhortations and whirling arm movements; the spin-and-wince after a turnover or ill-advised shot; the balled-up crouch and sideways scuttle when he feels the ref has blown a call; and, most common, the reflexive, Tourette's-like lurch of the neck, an internal tic akin to the cough of a car engine craving more fuel.
Saunders's exuberance is in sync with the personality of his youthfully passionate team, which, given its inexperience and the loss of two all-stars (Tom Gugliotta and Stephon Marbury) over the past fifteen months, remains a fragile, dangerously inconsistent bunch. Saunders has done a masterful job of coaching them thus far this season, rebuilding their confidence after an eight-game losing streak that included devastating defeats by such putrid opponents as the Clippers and Golden State. Less than two weeks after the streak ended, the Wolves improbably became the NBA's best team during the month of January, compiling a 12-3 mark that included eight victories over opponents with winning records. By the end of February, injuries and inabilities had compelled Saunders to deploy eleven different starting lineups, yet the Wolves' 32-24 record was the best 56-game start in the history of the franchise--ahead of the pace set by the 1997-98 squad that featured Googs, Marbury, and Kevin Garnett.
Saunders has engineered this unprecedented success by forging an unabashedly close relationship with his players that in turn has fostered an uncommonly synergistic chemistry among the troops both in the locker room and on the court. Sure, it helps that the contract distractions of Marbury and Googs are gone (not to mention the previous departures of congenital assholes Christian Laettner and J.R. Rider). And a coach couldn't ask for a better tone-setting tandem than Garnett and Sam Mitchell to help him instill character in a team. But listening to the affection and respect engendered by Saunders from both players, it's clear that he's more than a passive beneficiary of the situation.
"Flip and I definitely have a unique relationship that I value a great deal. It's more than player-coach; it's human beings. In this vast business of the NBA, it's different, and I treat it as something special," says Garnett, who has been known to call Saunders, a fellow insomniac when the team is losing, at four in the morning just to chat.
"Flip is demanding, but he's fair. If you've got a problem with something he does, you can go into his office and talk to him and he won't make you feel intimidated or uneasy," Mitchell adds. "What guys like about Flip is that, first, he's a good guy and you know this--you'd have to be stupid to try and screw him. You understand there is a line you can't cross with Flip because he is fair. I tell guys all the time, 'If you can't come to the Timberwolves and play for Flip Saunders, you're going to have trouble in this league.'
"I think the thing I respect about him the most is that he does care about players," Mitchell continues. "I've been around coaches who say they care but who just worry about themselves and two or three individuals. But Flip cares about the twelfth man on this team as much as the number-one guy. And I want to win even more because of that. I think it would be really nice if we could win the Midwest Division, because it would be a big feather in his cap--to go from the worst team in basketball to the division champion in the short time he has been here."
Other players offer similar testimonials. Wally Szczerbiak talks about how Saunders, a fellow Ukrainian, took him and his fiancée out for pierogi to get acquainted. Malik Sealy notes that Saunders is one of the few coaches he has had who don't keep harping on past mistakes and allow players to occasionally improvise during set plays and take a freelance jump shot. Says Dean Garrett, who ranks eleventh on the team in minutes played this year: "He can sit there and talk to you as a coach or he can talk to you as a friend. Not a lot of coaches can do that, and he can do it with everybody. That's really important--to know him from another aspect. We don't look at him and think, Oh, he's just a coach, and treat him that way. No, he's also a friend. But he has the separation when he needs it because he has the respect of everybody."
Saunders says he has always tried to be a player's coach. "When I was in the [minor league] CBA, my wife used to cook a big dinner and we'd invite the entire team over every couple of weeks," he recounts at a recent Saturday-afternoon practice. "We'd do it here, but there are too many games. But the guys are having pizza today--KG said it might be a good idea after practice and I told him to go get some.
"I think the players understand that from a basketball standpoint, I know the right way to play the game," Saunders goes on. "But my philosophy has always been that it is also important to be a friend. If the player knows that you really care about him when you are in the trenches and you look each other in the eye, then you have a better chance to make something happen in that situation. Plus, then the players are self-patrolling. I don't have a rah-rah speech for every one of our 82 games. At some point it's up to the players to take care of each other, because we are a family."
Or, as center Tom Hammonds puts it: "I don't think Flip would have a problem keeping our respect, because the veteran players would not allow it any other way. There is not anybody on this team who could come up and disrespect Flip without myself or Sam saying something about it."
From the Zen koans of Phil Jackson to the buttoned-down autocracy of Pat Riley, there is no single blueprint for a successful NBA coach--one size of id or ego doesn't fit all. After five years of personnel decisions by Saunders and his more renowned buddy Kevin McHale, it's not surprising that the Wolves have players whose collective nature is decent enough to benefit from their coach's philosophy of respect through compassion. But there are other ways in which the coach and his team match up. After years of obscurity, the franchise has achieved a modicum of success and is hungry to make the next step forward. To get there, its players have to be both scrappy and thoroughly prepared, aware of but not discouraged by the limitations on their talent and experience. Already this year the Wolves have proven that they can't afford to take even the weakest teams for granted, and that they can play with confidence against elite opponents. Saunders is well suited to remind them of both sides of the equation.
The particulars of his upbringing are solidly blue-collar. His father Wally was the son of Ukrainian immigrants, an ex-Marine who worked as a carpenter and a custodian for the Cleveland public school system, making carvings for Ukrainian Catholic churches on the side. Kate Saunders was a beautician who worked out of her home--Flip was nicknamed after the son of one of her clients.
Saunders grew up in Cuyahoga Heights, about five miles south of downtown Cleveland, during tumultuous times. The Cuyahoga River infamously caught on fire in 1969, when he was 14. A year later four students were killed by the National Guard at Kent State University, less than an hour's drive to the south. Jobs in the neighborhood steel mills and other areas of what would soon be known as the Rust Belt had begun to trickle away. His father was frequently out on strike.
At Cuyahoga Heights High, Saunders was a sports hero, a starter in baseball for five years and in basketball for four (just five-foot-ten, he led the team in rebounding), earning 13 letters in all. Though he was recruited to play both sports for the University of Minnesota, a knee injury restricted him to basketball, where as a senior point guard he teamed with freshman McHale and future number-one NBA draft pick Mychal Thompson in leading the Gophers to a 24-3 record in 1977. (That squad is also remembered for its official record--0-27, owing to NCAA-imposed sanctions stemming from a recruiting scandal under former coach Bill Musselman.) Beset by the bum knee, Saunders was cut from the Cleveland Cavaliers' camp, then decided to go into coaching, taking over the reins at Golden Valley Lutheran College, where his teams didn't lose a home game during his four-year tenure. In 1981, at the ripe age of 26, he was named assistant basketball coach at the U. Five years later he accepted a similar position at Tulsa, after Gophers head coach Jim Dutcher resigned in the wake of the Mitch Lee rape allegation.
In 1988 Saunders left Tulsa for a head-coaching position with the Continental Basketball Association's erstwhile Rapid City Thrillers, and for the next seven years he was a stalwart of basketball's bush league, serving as head coach for three different franchises, and adding the duties of president and general manager to his résumé in La Crosse. As with Golden Valley, he dramatically improved each team's performance the year he arrived, while developing the flexibility and crisis management required in a league where the personnel was constantly in flux and the living conditions were less than ideal. To this day, whenever a chaotic situation erupts for the Wolves, Saunders is quick to cite times when he'd lose his best CBA players to the NBA on a moment's notice, or be forced to try to create chemistry on teams where it often benefited players to play selfishly in front of NBA scouts, or drive all day on a frigid bus to arrive just hours before game time. By the same token, he fondly remembers the two CBA championships he won and the many players who parlayed his tutelage into a promotion to the NBA.
Saunders is proud of the dues he has paid. He also knows he's lucky he's not still paying them. Nearly two-thirds of the NBA's head coaches are former players in the league, most of them former stars. Were it not for his 20-year relationship with McHale, it's likely that Saunders's only shot at coaching would have been as an assistant.
In some respects, Saunders will always carry himself as a working-class outsider. Despite an upgraded wardrobe more in keeping with his $2.5 million annual salary, clothes hang on his 45-year-old frame like yesterday's wash. And while he's not a nebbish in the mode of, say, the Knicks' Jeff Van Gundy, his relatively small stature and nondescript appearance don't convey the star athlete he once was. A true basketball junkie, he has taken more than one pay cut to move to what he felt was a better coaching situation, and despite the millions he now makes, he says his modest suburban home is just right for him, his wife, and their four children: "I believe in remembering where you come from."
When McHale brought in Saunders as the Wolves' general manager in May 1995, insiders knew it was only a matter of time before Bill Blair would be deposed and "coach" would be added to Saunders's job description. When it happened less than a third of the way through the 1995-96 season, many in the press (myself included) were skeptical. Blair, dubbed "The Salty Sea Captain" for his coarse invective, was popular with members of the media, in part because he used them to fan the flames of his ugly little feud with J.R. Rider. By contrast, when Rider was late to practice, Saunders, obviously well-versed in Dr. Spock, took pains to say he was penalizing the action and not the person.
Saunders's winning percentage was only marginally better than Blair's the rest of the season, and the Wolves didn't demonstrate significant progress until Rider was dumped and Marbury was drafted the following year. Yet even Sam Mitchell, who had become close to Blair when both men were with the Pacers in Indiana, acknowledged that the team's level of professionalism rose when Saunders took over. In his third game as coach, Saunders established a lasting bond with Garnett by inserting the rookie into the starting lineup. Combining the work ethic he had learned from his parents with the people skills and basketball knowledge he'd honed over the previous two decades, Saunders was quick to make his mark.
If player relations is the most important aspect of coaching in the NBA, backing it with expertise in the strategic elements of the game deepens the harmony into respect. Players soon discovered that Saunders was far less considerate of their feelings if they didn't work hard and absorb the intricacies of his vast playbook. As Mitchell puts it: "We've had good athletes come through here, but if they couldn't learn the offense, they couldn't make the team."
For the past three years, the Wolves have simultaneously been among the best in the league at generating assists and reducing turnovers. The players say that's because Saunders's offensive schemes preach rapid ball- and player movement yet rarely have them receiving the ball in an uncomfortable situation. With more than eighty plays executed out of ten or twelve different offensive settings, Minnesota also has more offensive options than almost any team in the league.
"A lot of teams have plays with one option and then it pretty much stops," Saunders explains. "Ours keeps going, so that if the first option isn't there, then there's the second, third, and fourth option, and then it keeps on churning. The goal is to keep getting people to the right spots, and because we have [so much] ball movement and player movement, what we are doing can be very unpredictable. When teams can't predict what you're doing, it's difficult for [the defense] to trap you, and so you're able to get into what I call nonturnover situations. We can play aggressively and yet not beat ourselves."
Consequently, despite the lack of a reliable scoring threat in the low post, the Wolves still rank among the league's top five teams in shooting percentage.
Another frequently cited Saunders strength is his ability to recognize and adjust to what opponents are doing, a key virtue in a league where each team's tendencies are assiduously scouted. "He's the best coach I've had, because he's a great counter-coach--he'll counter what the other team does," Marbury says. Adds McHale: "Through process of elimination, he'll find something that works and see how [opponents] adjust, then adjust off of that, so that in the last four or five minutes of a close game, we'll be running something that gives us a chance to win."
Saunders's stock has risen steadily since he came into the league. "Because Kevin [McHale] has the Hall of Fame credentials and is so well-known, especially here, fans probably attribute [the team's success] more to Kevin," says Wolves television broadcaster Chad Hartman. "But among players and coaches, more and more, you hear about Flip."
All this praise and recognition of his ability might lead you to believe Saunders has the Wolves poised for a championship run this season, right? Not even close, and there's the rub. For all his considerable skills, Saunders is also the coach who presided over Minnesota's dreadful eight-game skid in December and who has yet to win a single playoff series. As much as one can cite the team's youth and the loss of Marbury and Googs as mitigating factors, there remain some sizable holes in Saunders's curriculum vitae. Thus far he has proven he can motivate a team of relatively mediocre talent to overachieve on a reasonably consistent basis while sowing the seeds for what could be a bright future. But as Hartman emphasizes, "For Flip to get to the next level, he needs to get his team to the next level and win a few playoff series." Right now that looks to be a steep hurdle that all of the coach's supportive friendship and courtside gyrations can't surmount.
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