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"Mama's Still Believe In Miracles" a.k.a. Mira has been born and bought! She will be ready to leave her birth home in St. Louis and head to NW Louisiana on Dec. 7 (I'm all about that 49th day!). We've looked at multiple methods of getting her here. Southwest flies directly from St. Louis to Dallas-Love and to Little Rock, both about 3 1/2 hrs drive for me; but I'd have to drive, fly, fly back, drive home. Could fly her from STL directly into Memphis, but 5 1/2 hr drive in either direction for me. Could fly her Delta Dash from STL via Memphis on into Shreveport. BUT...I am worried to death about her making the connection in MEM. There's a 2 hour layover, but Delta assures me she will be well-cared for during the loading process and during the connecting process. Flying her directly into Shreveport on that Friday would be ideal...she would arrive about 3:00 pm and since I am a teacher, I can pick her up right after school and be with her all weekend before I have to return to school on Monday. (My husband is home during the day.)
Have any of you flown your new pups on a connecting flight? Problems? Praises?
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Fernando de Santibanes and family own Haras Mayed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They also own the magnificent stallion Magnum Psyche and an incredible collection of Arabian Horses. Haras Mayed is a haven for all the creatures; both wild and domesticated, that have the good fortune to reside there. It is a working establishment, designed for the comfort and well-being of the magnificent animals that are its heartbeat.
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Last week I broke my palm by installing something on there that I knew may require a hard reset... wasn't till after I'd done it that I realised I'd not got a recent full backup... and I can't boot windows to get palm desktop to install some of the stuff I want, so sod it, I think I'm going to resort to a clean install using jpilot some time this week (first I need to rebuild my PC though, as I pulled lots of the cards out for a resource conflict that only happens in windows). It's a shame, means that I might not be able to get back on there some of the software that was on the 'windows' cd that came with it... OK - fair enough, it was non-free software, but still, would have been handy to have some of it (Photos springs to mind, but I think I've found something that will do that for me :)
Still looking around for a nice Palm OS 5 Free Software web browser, and am still rapidly coming to the conclusion that one's not been written yet, so, what do we need, a set of libraries for parsing files (html, xhtml, css), a graphics library (jpg, gif, png) and a frontend that can then use the libraries in a sane manner. It'd be nice to have a 'zoom' function on a palm device, too, in my opinion.
What I don't follow is why the only web browser I've found thus far that works is EudoraWeb, and that is text only (sigh).
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"Ya don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
- B. Dylan.
PS and it somtimes blows long and hard on the prairie.
"Ya don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
- B. Dylan.
PS and it somtimes blows long and hard on the prairie.
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Just dropped by to stir a little more. Any of your followers been to an Algore class recently?
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2008: Another Grim Year for the Global Warmers
By Michael Fox, Hawaii ReporterThe year 2008 marked the tenth consecutive year of no global warming. This is not widely reported or known. In fact the Earth has been cooling for the last 6 years.
Richard Lindzen: A profound analysis of the global warming issues including huge political issues was written and presented in August this year by Dr. Richard Lindzen, climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He asks two very important questions:
1. Has the global warming alarm become the goal itself, instead of the result of scientific research?
2. Is climate science really designed to answer questions or promote political goals? Too often we witness climate alarmism being promoted while solid science is ignored, misrepresented, or downplayed.
This makes great fodder for scary movies, scary news articles, and scary documentaries, but it is still bad science.
We also note that the nearly $5 billion/year being spent on global warming research is buying a lot of name-calling, ad hominem attacks, and all around nastiness by many of the indentured recipients of that money. Such behavior certainly is not scientific. In fact it inhibits the progress of science, and the intelligent formulations of science and energy policies. If half the participants are ignored by the science journals, insulted with ad hominem attacks by the promoters, and ignored and dismissed by the media, then the simple and rational scientific processes are stopped.
Lindzen describes the origins of global warming alarm, the political agenda of the alarmists, their intimidation tactics, and the reasons for their success. Also, in painstaking detail, he debunks their key scientific claims and counterclaims.
This Lindzen paper, although quite lengthy, is must reading for all decision makers, energy policy makers, and their staffs. Of course it would also help if the entire US population and the media read it as well, to help them understand the unscientific political processes taking place right before their eyes.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
It looks like sea ice is at the same level as 1979.
I guess the trend is moving twords a new ice age.
Yep. just looked out the door here, and sure enough, it's cold. Must be wintertime in the northern hemisphere.
BTW http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13834 is a wiki. Kinda like snopes. Anybody can add anything they like whenever they like. Opinion driven objectivity... works for me if it works for you
It's on the internet, it must be true, regards,
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One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Just in our local paper the other day. 12th coldest since 1872 even with all our evil hogs and cattle spewing GHG
2008 officially among coolest, soggiest years ever in Iowa
By Steve Gravelle
The Gazette
Eastern Iowans who endured it now have the numbers to back it up: 2008 was one of the coldest, wettest years in state history.
It was the fourth-wettest and 12th-coldest year since 1872, according to the annual summary compiled by state Climatologist Harry Hillaker. With temperature readings from 130 sites and precipitation from 170 locations, the summary through Dec. 29 is based on preliminary data for the year's final four months.
With 48.9 inches of snow statewide 16.5 inches more than usual 2008 was also the seventh-snowiest on record, and could be the second-snowiest when final figures are tallied.
Those factors, and a very wet mid-spring, led to June's record floods along the Cedar and Iowa rivers.
Heavy snow and cool weather "kept the river levels higher than they would have been otherwise," Hillaker said. "Areas upstream from Cedar Rapids did keep their snow on the ground through the winter.
"We had three months' worth of moisture stored up in that snowpack, and it all melted in March."
So rivers were high and the soil saturated when heavy rains fell in April and early March, followed by an exceptionally wet period May 29 through June 12. A statewide average of 9.03 inches fell during that period, compared to the usual 2.45 inches, which Hillaker called "probably the wettest 15 days in state history."
The year's statewide average temperature of 45.8 degrees was 2 degrees below normal, making it the coldest year since 1996. Only September and November recorded warmer than normal temperatures.
The year's coldest temperature was minus 30 Jan. 30 at Stanley in Buchanan County. Hawarden, in Sioux County just west of the Missouri River, was the state's hottest spot with 100 degrees Aug. 3 the year's only three-digit reading.
The state's utilities felt the cooler weather, said Dave Koch, spokesman for Alliant Energy.
"The cooler than normal summer did decrease electrical demand, which did decrease revenues," Koch said.
The National Weather Service reports a preliminary total of 105 tornadoes in Iowa in 2008, tying 2001 for the second-greatest annual tornado total after 2004's 120. The average annual number of confirmed tornadoes since 1995 in Iowa is 56.
So far, this winter is less snowy than last. Through Tuesday, Cedar Rapids had received 11.7 inches of snow in December containing 1.97 inches of moisture, compared to December 2007, when 19.2 inches of snow and 4.06 inches of moisture were recorded.
Oh, and thanks for the update on Iowa's 2008 weather.
I believe in global warming
And the earth is flat too.
I know there's a link somewhere to confirm that
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No problem Tarnya - Peter knew where he was going hey Pete - you just drive down the coast and then - CHUCK A LEFT!
Still got both those hands on the wheel Pete hmm! Just checking! You know what it is like with all those baby boomer bikies on the roads these days!
A spot of golf anyone?
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The drive further down the coast to Big Sur was amazing, the scenery is breathtaking. Peter just wanted to enjoy the drive, he likes driving it is one of his favourite past times. Big Sur is not one particular place but the region along the coast where the Santa Lucia mountains rise abruptly out of the ocean creating amazing coastal scenery.
We enjoyed the drive then headed back to San Francisco to rest, before heading to Lake Tahoe the next day.
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No problem Tarnya - Peter knew where he was going hey Pete - you just drive down the coast and then - CHUCK A LEFT!
Well done, Tarnya - you see you set a precedent. We all come home every night and tune in and you weren't there, so you had us all worried when you decided to sit back, take a couple of days off, and enjoy your holiday. We all began to think - where the bloody devil are you. Ha! Ha! Only Joking Girl!


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Shinya Aoki vs Yuichiro "Jienotsu" Nagashima 2010 NYE
- Written by Dave Walsh
Aoki vs Jienotsu was a strange fight to begin with. The fighters come from different disciples, Aoki an MMA champion, and Jienotsu a K-1 MAX Japan champion. Putting them into the ring together was "gimmick fight," as a commentator notes. Both fighters would likely run in the round with their opponent's ruleset, as the rules dictated an automatic draw in the event of a decision. This... was half correct.
Give Aoki his due. His creativity in stalling was unparalleled. A list of tactics (not all-inclusive): jumping kick ending in a flop to the canvas, tight Muay Thai clinch, taking Nagashima's back, rolling kick mostly executed on the ground, and ducking all the way to the canvas to avoid a punch.
As predicted, Nagashima chased Aoki around the ring for the opening K-1 round, trying to plant his fists on Aoki's face while Aoki ran away. Nagashima got his wish and caught Aoki in the opening seconds of the second round, however, as Aoki apparently decided that it would be his round as much as the last was Jienotsu's. That was not quite the case as Jienotsu's first strike, a flying knee, caught him flush and Aoki was finished with a weapon of his own trade: ground and pound.


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NARRATOR: In one part of this section, we have five studies for Office at Night, and the painting itself. The drawings include three earlier compositional sketches as well as two more finished studies.
CARTER FOSTER: They're really among his greatest drawings. And they have a degree of finish that's unusual in his work. They show him developing this very strange, hovering point of view that's such a key part of the painting.
NARRATOR: In the earliest of the drawings, on the smaller pieces of paper, we see the figures more or less head on—as if we occupied the same space that they do. In the final two drawings, executed more subtly on larger paper, we seem to look at the figures as though through a camera that has pulled back and up. The scene seems to play out as if on a movie screen. By the final two drawings, Hopper is treating the space expressively rather than realistically.
CARTER FOSTER: In the drawings for Office at Night you see Hopper going from a fairly rational perspective where you have the walls, and the floors, and the ceilings all fitting together in a normal way, to him pulling back and creating the irrational space that you end up getting in the painting with a turned up, tilted up floor, and a hovering perspective that isn't rational at all. And the walls, in fact, don't meet at right angles. They're splayed out and opened up. You can see that, step by step, in the drawings. And when you get to the two very finished drawings, which are among the most materially worked drawings in Hopper's entire career, where he's using these incredibly subtle combinations of white and black chalk to explore the light effects, but he's also looking at ways to make the space tilted up and unusual.
Hopper clearly was thinking about creating this sense of spatial anxiety that you get in the painting in between these two drawings.


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Realized yesterday that I had missed five episodes already. Looks like a marathon is coming up this weekend, so I shall record and watch them then.
Realized yesterday that I had missed five episodes already. Looks like a marathon is coming up this weekend, so I shall record and watch them then.
Tomorrow is the season finale, so make sure to catch the new ep too.
I've been really disliking the show lately. Ever since they went to America, there's been an ugly tone to the show, a cheap one that puts action and stupid twists and cheap-outs over Doctor Who storytelling. Amy has become incredibly 1-note and cliche', while the Doctor has just fallen flat, and they don't GO anywhere anymore. And what they did with River, while an interesting idea, turned out really sour this season. I blame Steven Moffat, his writing has been consistently mediocre since he's taken over and there's just this sense that he really doesn't get it, that he's running a show like Hollywood, not like Doctor Who.
That said, the last 3 episodes turned out pretty good. None of them had Moffat involved, IIRC, and they were better for it. I had actually been putting off watching episodes about 4 or 5 eps back, and then finally started catching up a few weeks ago and found them pulling out of the trashy hole they had dug for themselves. But tomorrow's ep, I do worry they're going to mishandle the hell out if it.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Word is there will be no new episodes until 2013!
Grrr, an entire year with no episodes.
May the force be with you.
I remember reading something about a "Year of Specials" for 2012 like Tennant had before his departure. I do hope they keep to that, I'd hate to go a full year w/out anything at all...but if the tradeoff is a spectacular 50th Anniversary 2013 season...I might take that trade.
Well, who watched the Doctor Who Christmas Special "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"?
Great episode as usual! I enjoyed the ending/reunion.
May the force be with you.
Very good episode, but I'm hoping we've seen the end of the "when I was a little girl" intro.
Has anyone else caught the latest episodes. They did a 1/2 season and just finished the Christmas Special. Amy and Rory are gone and the new character looks very promising.
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By Rheta Grimsley Johnson
SOMEWHERE IN THE FREE STATE OF TEXAS – It was Cormac McCarthy cold, the wind rushing through deserted and dark buildings, whipping at loose trash that increasingly piled up on the rutted streets.
So the man threw another book on his fire. A big, fat book that should last a while. He let out a big Rebel yell that echoed through the urban canyons. The sound pleased him.
In the days following the riots, he had camped just across from the city's former library, so there was plenty of fuel. The library windows had been broken the first day after secession succeeded. What a glorious and confusing day of celebration with others who had had enough.
A citizens' group objecting to Mark Twain and other vile writers – John Steinbeck and Shakespeare and other strange idea bed-wetters – had swept the shelves of offensive literature. They had missed a few books, thank goodness. The better now to keep warm.
Other rebels had claimed the nearby park, and he knew it now was dangerous to walk there. People were justifiably skittish these days, and everyone was packing. There wasn't a gun left on Texas shelves. They were in the hands of citizens, the way God intended.
The park had been a federal one, so now no pesky rangers told people what they could and could not do. Nobody could figure whose responsibility it was to empty the trash or clean the toilets, so the buildings were padlocked. You could pick off a squirrel or two if you were hungry.
But, even so, he preferred this spot. Nobody much came to the library, he figured, even when there had been lights and librarians. This was Texas, after all. Books were sissy stuff.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. A Texan wrote that.
The man longed for news of the fight. Had Kansas broken loose? Was Alabama part of the confederacy? You could depend on some states always to be on the right side of history. Now the debate was whether the states that had seceded should band together or remain on their own.
The man didn't know what his leaders were thinking. The government-controlled airwaves now were blocked in the Free State of Texas, even if one had a television or radio. He did not. Those had been lost to enthusiastic looters the state police couldn't stop.
Texas was smart to go first, he reasoned. No more federal taxes. No more federal intervention into state affairs. No more regulatory agencies. No more Social Security and Medicare. Who needed those things, anyhow?
He still was surprised at how quickly the feds had agreed to the secession idea. Washington mainly insisted on keeping Willie Nelson, but pretty much said, "Hey, take the rest of it. Maybe leave us Austin."
And so, quite suddenly, things were upside down and inside out. That would teach'em to mess with Texas. That would teach'em to impose radical ideas like health insurance for the masses.
The man reached into his pile of books, picked out one called "Atlas Shrugged" and threw it on the fire. Freedom, he thought to himself. Freedom.
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All the figures could say is: "The number you have reached has been disconnected or is no longer in service."
All the figures could say is: "The number you have reached has been disconnected or is no longer in service."
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Will they make a St. Peter's Square playset, complete with toppled statue of Palpatine?
That's my jacket!
"Henceforth, you shall be known as Darth... Francis."
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Here's a stab at a bit of a touchy subject, but it would be nice to see how they answer if you don't feel it's too impolitic a question. Feel free to re-word it or ask for clarification or whatever.
"We've been told in the past that the heavy focus on main characters (and away from female characters) across the Hasbro boys' lines is due in large part to retailer demands. However, it seems like the norm that the biggest 'pegwarmers' are usually these same main characters (Clonetroopers in the Clone Wars line, Vader in the main Star Wars line, Bumblebee in Transformers, Snake Eyes and movie Roadblock in G.I.Joe, etc), simply because more of them are being produced and some buyers don't see the need in having multiple versions of a character -- and, on a related note, female characters tend to move quickly when they are actually made (the obvious exception being Yarna d'al Gargan). You as the manufacturer are obviously more involved in production and work more closely with kids and collectors than the retailers,. Though understandably the information couldn't be made public, do you collect data regarding the tendency of these main characters to be less desirable? If so, have you considered pointing out to the major retailers the real danger of 'main character burnout' that often seems to plague various lines?"
That's my jacket!
Oooh. I support Chuxter's question!!!
However, I wonder if Hasbro will look at it and think, "We'll take the money anyway we can get it. If the buyers know BumbleBee and not Cyclonus..."
But Chuxter is right. This hurts Hasbro getting more purchases by the retailers in the long run (and the retailers too of course).
You know, I keep a shopping list of things I will need in advance - like buying replacements for my bathroom items before I run out of the supplies I already have. I time my visit to a Target at like 7:45 am so I am the first one in when the doors open at 8 am to see what they've stocked.
I know that I need to buy tonic water for example (Quinine totally assists any leg cramps). Instead of making multiple trips to the store, I'll pick up my water, pet food, soap, lotion, whatever I need when I think I can have first picks at whatever they've stocked for toys.
That being said, and fortunately because gas prices suck, I don't "hunt" any more. (Nothing new that I really want is coming out anyway until Springer ships for TFs).
So if I sound like any other collector here, there might be at least a few of us who Target or Wal-Mart would benefit from the business they'd get by purchasing more new SW and TF toys that collectors would pursue. That's why these retailers stock toys in the first place. And Hasbro does better business with more purchases of course.
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Well, even with the kids, every kid who plays with them will want a Vader, a Luke, etc. But what parent wants to buy an army of Vaders at ten bucks a pop?
That's my jacket!
I asked a similar question at CVI and got a response that addresses your question:
Well, I think they solved the over-ordering problem for Droid Factory and Clone Wars by just cancelling them both.SirStevesGuide.com: Over the past couple of years, especially right now with Qui-Gon and [Ep 1] Obi-Wan, you've packed the same - not just the same characters but even the same figures - in multiple lines at once, like Vintage and Movie Heroes and they're kind of hanging around. Is there any worry that that's kind of accelerating the ceiling on those figures being hit, or are they still selling through?
Hasbro (DD): Well, yes, so we've actually found the ceiling, that's...
Hasbro (BM): (laughing) That's the good part!
Hasbro (DD): Well, that's the key to learning so that we can apply that learning to our future releases. Previously, those figures would kind of sell every month in, month out, they were greatest hits, and we need those, we need those to help offset all the new tooling in other figures, but now we've had... the surprise is that we've kind of reached saturation on these. Obviously we want them to continue on and find new audiences all the time, which kind of underscores a challenge that we have right now with Star Wars is we don't have an inexhaustible collector base, and we have to learn from the current release quantities and use that to influence what we're doing next year, say with Droid Factory or Clone Wars and any other lines, to make sure we don't over-release.
Hasbro (BM): Are we going to be smarter selecting figures? Yes. Are those main characters gonna go away? No they're not, because imagine a kid coming into Star Wars and not having the ability to get an Obi-Wan, it's just not a good solution.
And hey, I totally called the scanning crew Kmart sets!
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Seems like an answer, but what do you think Chux, can you pick any meat off the bones here?
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Some non-SW ones for you (since SW seems kinda "asleep" right now):
1) Circuit Breaker. Marvel owns her. She's from a Hasbro property. Hasbro has the Marvel license. Can we get her, even if she's a ridiculously overpriced convention exclusive?
2) Any word on the second wave of discount store G.I.Joes? The first wave went only to Dollar General, and was distributed about as well as could be expected. The second wave, a few popped up at Marshalls at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013. Does Marshalls have more that, for some reason, haven't shown up? Are they going to more stores, but haven't actually hit shelves yet?
3) Female Transformers and Joes: why aren't we getting more? Sure, there's the old "boys don't buy figures of female characters," but that's not entirely true, and there are more female fans of both than Hasbro seems to recognize. Even if they wound up being store exclusives, why have we never had a female Cobra troop builder, or a Generation One Arcee? They would probably outsell the fourth Snake Eyes and sixth Bumblebee in any given year.
4) A proper G.I.Joe/Transformers crossover has never been done. If you're willing to make a $150 Metroplex, wouldn't at least a one-off Generation Two Megatron scaled to work with Cobra forces be a no-brainer? (And, hey, repaint him as Bludgeon. We're down with that.)
5) [Granted, this one might seem a little harsh, but I'll be a friend forever and ever to anyone who can ask this, even if it's not on the record.] Why is G.I.Joe the "redheaded stepchild" of the Hasbro boys' lines? Yes, it's not as popular as Transformers or Star Wars. However, practically no effort goes into marketing G.I.Joe, and some of the decisions have been questionable from a fan perspective. The Resolute miniseries was buried in a midnight time slot and aired once, despite being well-received and penned by a highly regarded writer of both novels and comics. Despite being at least as high-quality as Transformers: Prime, which was heavily promoted on the Hub and elsewhere, Renegades was practically buried in a Friday night time slot and hardly ever advertised. (Also, the only Renegades toys were thrown into the 30th Anniversary line as a seeming afterthought, months after the final episode aired, and with many of them being repaints of older figures that didn't bear much similarity to the Renegades cartoon.) Hasbro is teaming with IDW to bring fans figures of the IDW versions of various Transformers, but Joe fans have literally begged for years for the same thing with not even a single figure produced. Even on Facebook, Hasbro runs an excellent Transformers fan page that discusses all current incarnations of the property and even shows sneak peek photos of upcoming figures, but there is absolutely nothing like this (remarkably inexpensive) marketing for Joe.
True, G.I.Joe is not currently as popular as Transformers. But it has been in the past (even moreso, at times). The line is a cultural icon, and probably more recognizable with the general public (outside kids and fandom) than Transformers. And, for the most part, the figures are arguably the best Hasbro is producing in any current line, and both the original and updated incarnations of the comic are going strong. So why produce such high-quality toys and not take the seemingly simple step of marketing them to potential buyers?
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For the record, yes I designed the badge, and changed it from "spin master" as the admins requested who approached me - not vice versa, to "spin meister" which seemed to depict the reality better. So much for your delusion that most anyone here values your presence as anything other than the court jester and **** stirrer - you know like the proverbial wrestling villain who ends up never winning! I'm just surprised you didn't whine that time about removing it - or maybe you did.
In terms of being il-informed:
Who claimed they wouldn't trade 2 first round picks for Buttchez vs who said he couldn't start on 30 of the 32 teams?
Who said they wouldn't trade Sanchez for any starting QBs excepting the top 5 vs who laughed his azz off hearing that.
Who said Rex is a great HC vs who said he's in over his head, will sooner or later revert to inbred "Buddyism" and that Ozzie Newsome knew what he was doing by hiring a position coach from outside risking losing a good DC (who really never developed his own Ravens defenders he inherited)
Who called the Jets "elite" vs who pointed out that they couldnt even close the deal at home in 09 vs a dead Atlanta and Indy scoring 24 unanswered points when the starters were in drove the point home that this was a 7-7 team that stepped in such **** that the league changed their scheduling policies immediately.
Who told you that Calvin Pace would not perform at the same level after his contract year in AZ (and is now gonna be thrown out with the trash)
Who claimed that The Meatball had success calling plays for Dallas vs who told you that 2/3rds of the yardage was due to Todd Haley's receivers and designed passing schemes? And that Tony would fail miserably?
Who kept sticking up for Woody Johnson, making fun of the Fins minority owners vs who told you that Woody was a joke as a father, a trust fund baby who never worked an honest day in his life, and owner, less interested in winning than in selling PSL's and wrestling back page headlines from their big brother, the Giants (even before he forced them to sign Teblow)
Oh **** I could go on and on but anyone here who reads your garbage about Eli not being elite, and the Jets ever being elite, let alone into 2011 on a bull**** residual effect knows you're a delusional joke of a aqua. Suffice it to say, if it involves the jest, from your vantage point they can do no wrong.
haha, vaark calling someone a aqua.
Rex is a great HC, despite all the uinjuries and problems on O he had us in the playoff race in December.
The Jets were elite, the only team from '09-'11 who made 2 title games and they won the most playoff games in the league.
Calvin pace played very well for us, better than he evre played in AZ(there's more to the game than just sakcs).
The meatball didn't have a chance and I never said he's be great, I told you all summer I had no idea how good he would do but I pointed out a fact that the year he called plays his O was top 5.
Woody as an owner has had one of the top teams in the AFC, your owner has yet to see a playoff win.
this is funny coming from the guy who said rex would never win a playoff game b/c his father never won a playoff game and that other Bal Dcs never succeeded despite marvin lewis succeeding in Cincy.
the same guy who said mark would never succeed b/c other USC QBs
the same guy who told me how great Tony Sparano was
the same guy who told me how great Chad henne was
the same guy who tells me every year how great Miami will be and how the Jets will suck
yep, you sure do know your football
Don't forget "the puke-green tinted Baghdad Bob" also. I know, reality bites. But what's even funnier is that you're clueless most everyone here on FH and now most of your TGG brethren consider you a delusional aqua.l
that's awesome that the legion of average fans that don't understand this game bash me, ever notice the folks that do know this game never seem to have a problem w/ me?


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BALDWYN – Neither Hamilton coach Jason Cobb nor Baldwyn coach Jessica Taylor saw it coming.
After five innings Tuesday night, Cobb was fine with the unexpected result, Taylor not so much.
On Baldwyn's turf, Hamilton scored seven first-inning runs and tacked on 13 more in the second inning in a 20-5 romp in Game 3 of their MHSAA Class 2A second round fast-pitch series.
"We played with a lot of focus tonight. That's where we've been trying to get," Cobb said. "That's what we've been wanting. It's huge to come to somebody else's field and be able to jump out early."
Hamilton scored all seven first-inning runs with two outs. With Baldwyn already down 2-0, three errors by the Bearcats made way for RBI singles from Caitlyn Atkins and Kelle West.
In the third, winning pitcher Shelby Savage had a two-run double, Miranda McCorminck a two-RBI single and Lexus Jordan a two-RBI bloop single. Hamilton sent 17 batters to the plate in the inning.
The Lady Lions had an 11-day layoff before this series began.
"We've been kind of playing a little flat and the break really hurt us," Cobb said. "We were playing a lot better when the break happened. Maybe we can knock the rust back off and we'll be back in shape."
Baldwyn (14-12) scored two runs in the second inning to pull within 7-2 on Andrea Underwood's two-run single. Mallory Hill and Genee Grace Thomas added RBI singles in the third and Merica Turner had an RBI sacrifice fly in the fifth to round out Baldwyn's scoring.
Familiar results
Hamilton (11-10) has now eliminated Baldwyn's softball team four straight times – two in slow-pitch, and in fast-pitch last season.
Taylor said that fact wasn't a factor.
"I saw it in their eyes today. They were ready to beat them," Taylor said. "I don't know what happened. I didn't see this.
"I'm worried about my girls when we don't score first. Hamilton's been there. They've done this. We haven't. We're getting there."
Savage struck out six in the win. Kayla Carpenter took the loss after leaving with two outs in the third. Jordan went 3-for-3 with two RBIs for Hamilton.
"We've been playing kind of decent this year, but we're finally getting better," said Hamilton first baseman Lyndsey Williams, who drove in two runs. "We were scared about losing so early."
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A children's zoo includes a petting corner and a playground with an adjacent snack bar for watchful parents. On holidays, the Friendly Animal Houses (Bayit Hai in Hebrew) enables guided, hands-on encounters with less-fearsome animals. And the Noah's Ark Sculpture Garden is an exotic new playground designed by sculptress Niki de Saint Phalle (creator of the renowned Mifletzet or Monster children's slide in Kiryat HaYovel) and architect Mario Botta (designer of Tel Aviv University's Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Cultural Center). The zoo's visitors' center, which overlooks the African savannah - is shaped in the form of an ark, with an auditorium, a temporary exhibits gallery, computer information stations, a souvenir shop and a cafeteria situated on the ark's deck.
The zoo reopened in 1993 in the city's south-western sector - nearby the Malha Mall and industrial park, the new train station, and the up-and-coming Malha neighborhood. A joint effort of the Municipality of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Foundation, the Jerusalem Development Authority, and the Israel Ministry of Tourism, its current management stresses its role as an educator - primarily in topics of nature and animal protection, preservation and environmental awareness. Recreational and educational activities target all ages and social groups, with an inclination towards inter-racial encounter programs. These include after-school activities, summer camps, guided tours, and other activities that involve observation and physical contact with the animals.
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Sources of support
Support from friends and community
People with life-threatening illnesses have a strong need for other people in their lives. They need others to help them deal with their illness and its emotional effects. These people provide what is called "social support." Patients who have social support are often better able to adjust to their situation.
Support can come from family and friends, members of a church, mental health professionals, support groups, or community members. Asking for support is one way you can take some control of your situation.
If you don't get enough support from friends and family, look for it elsewhere. There are others in your community who need your companionship as much as you need theirs. The mutual support of others with cancer might also be a source of comfort. Check with your health care team or member of the clergy for resources in your community.
What else can friends do to help?
One of the first things a friend or family member will often say is, "What can I do to help?" You may be tempted to say, "Oh, nothing right now. We're just fine." You may turn down help because you want your privacy. Or you don't want to feel like a burden. Or maybe you feel like you have all you can handle without having people around you right now.
Remember that people really do want to help, and you will likely need some extra help during this time. Your friends and family want to do things for you and support you. It allows them to feel less helpless and helps them feel as if they are a part of your life. Let them help you. Be as specific as possible about the kind of help you need. For example, ask them if they can give you a ride to the doctor on a certain day, or find out if they can help you with housecleaning, meals, yard work, or child care. There will probably be times when you won't know what you need, but sometimes even just saying that will help them better understand what you're going through.
Religious or spiritual support
Religion can be a source of strength for many people. Some find new faith during a cancer experience. Others find cancer strengthens their existing faith or their faith provides newfound strength. On the other hand, those who have never had strong religious beliefs may not feel an urge to turn to religion.
Spiritual questions are common as a person tries to make sense of both the illness and his or her life. This may be true not only for the person with cancer, but for loved ones, too.
Here are some suggestions for people who may find comfort in spiritual support:
- A spiritual counselor can often help you find comforting answers to hard questions.
- Religious practices, such as forgiveness or confession, may be reassuring and bring you a sense of peace.
- A search for the meaning of suffering can lead to spiritual answers that can be comforting.
- Strength through spiritual support and a community of people who are there to help can be priceless to the patient and family members.
For those who are interested, a minister, priest, rabbi, other clergy member, or a trained pastoral counselor can help you identify your spiritual needs and find spiritual support. Some members of the clergy are specially trained to minister to people with cancer and their families. Some hospitals have chaplains available to visit patients.
Ask your health care team about the resources available at your hospital. You can also contact your American Cancer Society to find out about sources of support in your community.
Support programs
Support programs exist in all kinds of formats and include one-on-one or group counseling and support groups. A support group can be a powerful tool for patients and families. Talking with others who are in situations like yours can help ease loneliness. You can speak without feeling judged. And you can often get useful ideas from others that might help you. The American Cancer Society can help you find many different support programs in your community.
Some groups are formal and focus on learning about cancer or dealing with feelings. Others are informal and social. Some groups involve only people with cancer or only caregivers, while others include spouses, family members, or friends. Some groups focus on specific types of cancer or stages of disease. The length of time groups meet can range from a certain number of weeks to an ongoing program. Some programs have closed membership and others are open to new, drop-in members. For those who cannot attend meetings or appointments, phone counseling is offered by some organizations.
Online groups are another option. Some people find online support groups helpful because they like the privacy it can offer. It may be comforting to chat with other people in situations much like yours, without having to share any more than you want to. But it's important to remember that chat rooms and message boards are not the best source of medical information, especially if they are not monitored by trained professionals or experts. Each person's situation is unique, and what helps one person might not be right for someone else.
Regardless of the group's structure, you should feel comfortable in the group and with the facilitator. If you have any fears or uncertainties before entering a group, feel free to discuss them with the group's facilitator.
Support in any form allows you to discuss your feelings and develop coping skills. Studies have found that people who take part in support programs often have an improved quality of life, including better sleep and appetite.
Caregiver support
People helping to care for someone with cancer need to take care of themselves, too. Taking care of oneself means taking time to do things you enjoy. It also means getting help from others.
Having the support of friends and family is critical to both the person with cancer and the caregiver. Caregivers often tend to feel isolated, depressed, anxious, and are less likely to reach out for help. Physical problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep problems, and fatigue have been linked to caregiving. Caregivers may not think much about it, but they can't help their loved one if they don't also take care of themselves.
Overwhelming concern for a sick loved one may be distracting. The caregiver may find there's conflict between the needs of the patient, their own needs, and the needs of the family. Many caregivers forget to eat, don't get enough sleep or exercise, and ignore their own physical health concerns. It's important for them to keep their doctor appointments, get enough sleep, exercise, eat healthy foods, and keep a normal routine as much as possible. It's also important that they not feel guilty or selfish when asking for help or taking time for themselves. By taking care of themselves, they are better able to take care of the person with cancer. This means taking time to do things they enjoy.
Advanced Cancer
- Advanced Cancer
- What is advanced cancer?
- What is metastatic cancer?
- Can advanced or metastatic cancer be prevented?
- How is advanced cancer found?
- How is advanced cancer treated?
- Surgery for advanced cancer
- Ablative techniques for advanced cancer
- Radiation therapy for advanced cancer
- Drug treatment for advanced cancer
- Clinical trials
- Complementary and alternative therapies for advanced cancer
- Managing symptoms of advanced cancer, by location
- Managing general symptoms of advanced cancer
- What should you ask your doctor about advanced cancer?
- Coping with advanced cancer
- Sources of support
- Choices for palliative care
- Advance directives
- Additional resources for advanced cancer
- References: Advanced cancer
Last Medical Review: February 7, 2014 Last Revised: March 6, 2014
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Family: Phyllostomidae, New World Fruit Bats view all from this family
Description Usually gray-brown (sometimes dark brown) above; paler below. Surface of interfemoral membrane well furred. No tail. Short, rounded ears; small tragus. Large eyes. Thickened, M-shaped fold of skin over nostrils. Outside lower incisor has 7 fan-shaped lobes (unique among bats); cheek teeth reduced.
Dimensions L 2 1/2-3 3/8" (65-87 mm); HF average 5/8" (18 mm); FA 2-2 1/4" (50-56 mm); Wt 7/8-1 1/2 oz (24-43 g).
Breeding Female bears 1 young, apparently at any time of year.
Habitat Mainly humid forest. Usually roosts in caves, but also in mines and hollow trees.
Range Central Mexico south into South America.
Discussion Discovered in Mexico in the 16th century by the Spanish conquistadores, who named them after the blood-sucking creatures of eastern European legend, vampire bats feed entirely upon blood and occur only in the New World. The vampires are among the few bats that use their wings for walking on the ground. Sleeping by day in caves or other dark, protected places, Hairy-legged Vampire Bats feed at night, chiefly on the blood of birds, such as chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, and geese. The bat uses sharp upper incisors to quickly inflict a wound so shallow that the victim rarely notices. It bites chickens on the lower legs or near the cloaca (anal opening), where there are few feathers. Curling the tongue into a tube that fits a V-shaped notch in its lower lip, the feeding bat sips the blood, which flows freely due to an anticoagulant in its saliva. Unless the victim is very small, the amount of blood taken by the bat is not harmful; more serious, after the bat has flown away, is the potential for blood loss owing to slowed clotting, the vulnerability of the open wound to infection, and the possibility of rabies transmission. These large-eyed bats have good vision, but a poorly developed system of echolocation. They usually congregate in small groups of only 1 to 3 per cave, rarely more than 12, though in one cave 35 were found. The carcass of a single Hairy-legged Vampire Bat was found in an abandoned railroad tunnel near Comstock, Val Verde County, Texas, in 1967, but no records have been found in, or even near, the United States since. Biologists believe that vampire bats do not exist in this country.


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In today's environmentally conscious social environment, building and operating a business that implements as many green practices as reasonably possible is not only healthy for the environment, it's also a case of excellent PR. Numerous companies have actually boosted their sales revenues and client retention rates by through implementing eco-friendly practices and publicizing this fact.
In some cases, clients are even willing to accept slightly higher costs of doing business if they're made aware of the fact that your company is honestly attempting to ease the footprint it leaves on the environment.
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I'll take James b/c that pick led to Landry. I'll take work ethic and by far the most exceptional hands out of all 2014 drafted WR's (only 2.5% drop rate @ LSU. Well to do college WR's avg 6-7%) over a little flash n dash any day. Plus, you can't ask too much more out of James so far as he looks to start from day one at RT (though, it could be argued that wasn't a difficult spot to upend).
Brandin Cooks is gonna light it up in this league imo
Well...it's early but they both appear to be good players.
Cooks is the superior player but I can see why James was the pick. He's a good starting right tackle and it was a HUGE need. This is one of the rare cases where need outweighs BPA because your quarterback was sacked 58 times the year before. I had him as a mid/late round 1st so it's not like they reached for him, he's a plug and play RT. If they would have been able to seal the deal with Zach Strief, then Cooks should have been the pick. James was a good pick.


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Almost four years after her home-going, Dottie Rambo was honored with a Dove award for her composition "Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing" as recorded by The Isaacs on their project Naturally.
Her grandchildren, Israel and Destiny McGuire, were at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and received this award on her behalf. Israel shared how much GrandDot loved and admired The Isaacs.
The 43rd Annual GMA Dove Awards opened with a powerhouse performance of another one of Dottie's Dove award-winning hits "I Go To The Rock" as sung by the late Whitney Houston. Yolanda Adams, Crystal Lewis, Angie Stone, and Karen Peck (pictured left to right) did an outstanding job paying tribute to Whitney!
Rambo McGuire (pictured left to right: Dony, Reba, Destiny, and Israel) was also honored with Bluegrass Album Of The Year for Grassroots Rambos. This album is first in a series Remembering The Rambos celebrating the sounds of The Rambos and the timeless songs of Dottie Rambo.
Click HERE for a full list of all the Dove winners. Gospel Music Channel will broadcast the awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 24, at 8 PM and 10 PM EST.


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This year, Jews begin celebrating Hanukkah at sunset on December 1. The holiday lasts eight days and nights. In Hebrew, the word "Hanukkah" means "dedication." Hanukkah honors a struggle that dates back to 165 B.C., when Jews defeated an invading army and regained the Temple at Jerusalem. According to legend, Jews found a lamp inside the temple with just enough oil to light their holy lamps for one night. By some miracle, the legend goes, it burned for eight nights. Today, Jews celebrate Hanukkah by lighting a candle in a special holder, called a menorah, for each of the eight nights.
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel!
Last night, two students at Yeshiva University in New York City set a new world record for dreidel spinning in the Guinness Book of World Records. The two students, along with 616 others, set a new record of 618 people spinning the four-sided tops at the same time. The old record was 541 and took place in New Jersey five years ago. Guinness still has to certify the dreidel record before it becomes official.
And… It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Elsewhere in New York City last night, thousands of people of all faiths gathered in Rockefeller Center to watch the lighting of the country's most famous Christmas tree. Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped turn on the 30,000 energy-efficient lights that decorate the 74-foot Norway spruce. The ceremony, which included performances by Jessica Simpson, Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban and Charice, was broadcast on television. The towering tree will be lit until January 7, 2011.


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The Constitution doesn't say anything about a LOT of matters. But it does delegate authority to congress to make laws, the executive branch to enforce those laws, and a judiciary to determine whether they are allowable, when challenged.
I don't recall seeing anything in the Constitution about having to stop at a red light, but we are all ok with that. The logic that "it doesn't say anything in the Constitution about such and such..." is easily proven bogus in most cases.
Duck's point is right on. However, we should be careful in how we define "American culture", especially if we start legislating from such a position. There's not many things in the world as diverse as the American culture.


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- The boy who asked for your number at a bar or at a party probably only wants to get into your pants and is probably only going to love you long enough for you to stay in his bed.
- Your first job is never the best job. But you'll meet some of your best friends there.
- Sometimes things don't go the way you expect them to at all.
- People are usually never who they say they are.
- If you love someone, you need to tell them. Nobody is good at the guessing game.
- If your best friends don't like the boy you're involving yourself with, chances are he's bad news.
- If a boy starts an invitation with, "Are you home alone"/"I'll be home alone", say no. You are a human being, not a toy to be played with.
- If some boy invites you to "the backseat of his truck", he's a piece of shit. Tell him to fuck himself.
- "Sorry" doesn't always fix what you messed up.
- Stop wasting time wishing you could take back what you already did.
- You are at fault sometimes.
- There's going to be a boy that you let get away. Yes, you loved him. It's for the best, though.
- Toxic people hardly ever start off toxic.
- It's always nice to make new friends, but never forget who your real friends are.
- Never lose the friends that would answer their phone at 3am if you called
- Never lose sight of who you are because of a boy.
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Alternate name: California Sweetshrub, Spicebush
Family: Calycanthaceae, Spicebush view all from this family
Description A mound-shaped, deciduous shrub, Western Sweetshrub grows 6-15 ft. tall, with erect, multiple stems and glossy, aromatic, leathery, dark-green foliage. Terminal blossoms are solitary and dark red with numerous overlapping, strap-like petals. Unlike its eastern relative, the flowers of this sweetshrub are not fragrant. Leaves become yellow in fall but are usually not effective.
Habitat Moist stream banks below 4000 ft.
Range California Coast Ranges and w. Sierra Nevada from Tulare County to Shasta County.
Discussion Calycanthus occidentalis will develop leaf burn if planting site is too dry.
Comments Calycanthus occidentalis will develop leaf burn if planting site is too dry.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial sun.
Flower April - August
Native Distribution California Coast Ranges & w. Sierra Nevadas from Tulare County to Shasta County
Site Preference Moist stream banks below 4000 ft.
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F-16's - Tanks - free, Why??
F-16's - Tanks - free, Why??
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Watch out yall. If you keep thinking logically by asking questions like this, you might join me and Franco in the Ron Paul camp.
Its starts out with the question of the muslim brotherhood, then the next question is who are we supporting in syria? yep thats right al quaeda... But what i thought they didn't exist thanks to Bush and Obama. Well at least we didn't aid terrorists in Libya,...woops ok we did that too. Well at least we are promoting Just Warfare and only engaging in enemy combabtants when we do strike, oh wait,...nevermind our drones killed more children this year than all the mass shootings combined x 2. Why are we giving Egypt weapons? Because those in power like war, dems and repubs alike. It makes it a whole lot easier to trample rights and less likely to get voted out of office
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It should be pointed out that the F-16's being sold to them are the export models...seriously downgraded versions of what we and NATO .... and the Israelis fly. For that matter, Israel flies the F-15 in both the interceptor and Strike Eagle model. In a street fight, the Israelis would win by a long shot. Time and again it's been shown that superior pilots can overcome the shortcomings of their aircraft while lackluster pilots can not make superior aircraft perform up to snuff.
Don't know about the tanks. I have a sense that the army is not fully under the control of the Egyptian political leadership but rather sort of marches to it's own drummer. I do know that for many years the US and Egyptian armies have had fairly close ties, including a long standing biennial joint exercise know as Bright Star. A bit of research revealed that General Dynamics has a factory in Egypt which is producing the Abrams M1A1 model, again a somewhat downgraded model.
WRC HR Lennoxlove's Run with Wolves JH, WCX ("Cheyenne") ... still so fondly remembered
HRCh Struan's Devil's in De Tails SH, WCX ("Lucy") ... as is her daughter
SR CH Struan's Flight of Fancy JH ("Muse")
Struan's Master of the Hunt JH, WC ("Charlie")
Struan's Just Plain Perfect ("Jane")
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October 11, 2004, 04:41:44 PM »
Well, as GG isn't up, and I hadn't seen a thread yet, I thought I'd post this topic here.
I really liked this episode, and was really rooting for the guys to win. I feared the worst, as this was pretty much the first time in a couple of weeks that they showed some "strife" within the guys team, with the setting of the price point. The high price point seemed to have saved the task, although at a price of 69.99, they might have sold a lot more grills.
Couple of random points and tidbits:
- The Project Leader for the guys was almost invisible. It seems like Kelly is a natural leader that naturally flows into the role. The only memorable moment of the project leader (His name is Chris, I think?) was that he answered the phone in his boxershort, and you could see he had his nipples pierced. I mean, seriously...yuck
- What a great reward for winning
Anna Kournikova was superhot, Raj is my new hero for betting with her for a date and it looked like they had genuine fun (aside maybe from McEnroe who seemed to find it a bit dissapointing that most of the attention went to Anna's boobies
- I don't really like Pamela, but she was dealt a tough card by having to switch teams. Especially since she had to be project leader right away. She's a hard bitch, but I do think she's quite a good leader. The price point of those silly spunge thingies was a big mistake though.
- Maria's performance on camera was hilarious
I think she's annoying anyway, but that was a new highlight of looking stupid
. I loved the remark Pamela made: "It looks like she's having a seizure"
-Firing Pamela was probably the right choice. I thought nobody on the women's team did an exceptionally bad job, aside from Maria sucking as a salesperson. Still, the price point was definitely the reason why they lost in the end. So, it seems reasonable to hold her accountable, as project leader, for that mistake. However, that didn't seem to be the reason for firing her at all. Trump was going on about her bad people assessment skills...I mean, what? She came into the team for the first time, generally seemed to have placed everyone in the correct position, and when she saw that someone didn't perform, she quickly reassigned her (Maria).
Fire her because of the pricing mistake, or because of her incredibly hard way of dealing with people, okay, but not for something as lame as people assessment skills.
It also seems that George is content with just remaining silent when Trump fired Pam for the (IMHO) wrong reason. Carolyn is a friggin' suckup though. She MUST've slept her way to the top.
All in all, fun episode though!
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Damn you, Yellowking and Rob Morton...I hear you're around here, so you'd better respond!
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October 12, 2004, 12:10:24 AM »
Sorry! The phone rang earlier today when I was reading your post and I never got back to make a reply. I don't have much to add and my wife needs the computer so I'll just say one thing:
At first I thought Raj was just the weird guy but lately he's emerged as my favorite apprentice. He's got a good head on his shoulders and I love how he tried to court Anna Kournikova.
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October 12, 2004, 10:08:12 AM »
A thought struck me today though...it's time for Stacie the small lawyer to finally put her money where her mouth is.
For two weeks now, someone was fired with whom she couldn't get along, first Jen C, and now Pamela (although Stacy Crazy was also a person she didn't like). She's been culling the herd, so to speak, it's time for her to prove herself, I think. Has she been project leader already? I don't think so. Time for her to try it out
I also really liked the very beginning of the episode, when Stacie and the other chick got back from the boardroom, and Stacie proudly proclaimed: "The witch is gone!". You can hear one of the men say: "Which witch?" Hilarious!
One more observation: is Sandy useful for anything other than decorating? I mean seriously...that's all she ever does.
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October 12, 2004, 12:14:33 PM »
I hate to spoil the Pamela lovefest, but the woman was a bona fide bitch. I have never seen someone act so rude and condescending to a team she basically just "met." I think part of good management is good people skills, and coming in and treating grown women like school children is not an example of good people skills. She handled the transition entirely inappropriately in my opinion. Yeah, the team she inherited sucked, but the "drill sergeant" approach just came off as so incredibly egotistic.
I agree about Raj. When the season started I thought he would be the token "crazy guy" like that wacky little dude from Season 1. However, it's obvious that Raj might be eccentric, but he's certainly not crazy. His ideas seem sound, and I can't help but think if the team had listened to his pricing ideas they would have won by a lot more than $10. His thing with Anna Kournikova was very funny and almost inspirational.
I think Trump ultimately fired Pamela because the board room only had enough room for one enormous ego.
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October 12, 2004, 03:55:30 PM »
I flipped on the Sat night version with the extended boardroom. It was EXTREMEMLY different than the Thursday version. First, Trump asked Pamela why she didn't bring Sandy since QVC specifically told HIM that they "hated her". He basically accused her of picking people she didn't like, rather than someone who didn't perform.
Also, Pamela said something about lawyers not having good business sense and George got very angry and said on behalf of lawyers, he was personally offended. He also said that Pamela didn't know what kind of business training lawyers had before law school. Stacy piped in to say that she worked at an auction house before law school.
BTW, both Stacy and George both went to my alum, Brooklyn Law, so i thought it was great :lol:
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October 12, 2004, 04:38:58 PM »
Wow. I always forget to watch Saturday's EXTENDED boardroom. It was obvious that Pamela didn't like lil Stacie. And I agree that Pamela's way of coming into the team and taking charge immediately was pretty egotistical. As a leader you want to be respected, and she lost that the minute she opened her mouth.
I agree, at first I thought Raj was very strange, but I have grown to like and respect him. Challenging Anna was pretty funny and entertaining.
I am interested to see what happens this week. Not too many guys have impressed me, maybe I have just been concentrating on the girls too much (more entertaining to see how stupid they act)
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October 12, 2004, 05:50:16 PM »
It was a lot clearer on Saturday why Pamela deserved to be fired.
If NBC is going to do this, why not just break the show up like American Idol - have the task be the focus of the first night, with the cliffhanger being the winning team, and devote the second to the boardroom.
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October 12, 2004, 06:29:47 PM »
Yeah, I hate how the repeat has more content than the first airing of the new episode. F*cking retardo.
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October 12, 2004, 10:26:32 PM »
Based on the extented boardroom on saturday, it looked to me like Pamela sealed her fate with the comment about Sandy, "Sandy is useless, but at least she doesn't get in the way". That's a big WHOOPS. That and her insistence on setting the final price herself.
I don't know about anyone else, but every time I see Stacie walk into the boardroom and sit down, I just think, wow, she graduated from the kids table and gets to sit with the grown-ups now!
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the doctor is a timelord. his ship can travel through time and relative dimensions in space. the chameleon device that allowed his ship to appear as anything in order to blend in with any location is broken so the ship is stuck in the shape and outwad appearance of a british police phone box circa 1960.
the doctor is a little bit of a renegade. his people laid down rules of engagement regarding dealings with alien races and situations. the doctor disagreed with those rulings/laws and often ran in conflict with his people.
The doctor encountered the daleks and thus his greatest foe and successfully defeated them several times until the final battle where he destroyed them all at the cost of also destroying his own people.
he has a deep affection and vested interest in the people of earth because he believes that Earth people are basically good people who can go far and do good things with guidance. And seeing as he has no home planet to go to he seems to like returning to earth as a rest stop and usually fixes some small problem like megolomaniac alien invaders hellbent on destroying the earth or the bizarre return of the daleks thanks to meddling individuals/organisations.
The doctor can be very preachy, very opinionated, very wrong. but he has his hearts in the right place and always believes his actions to be for the betterment of mankind or the particular alien race/species he is around at the time. He believes in the rights of the individual and liberty, egality and equality. Though at times will pretend not to be concerned with such issues.
over the yeas he's taken onboard various 'assistants' who he seems to treat fairly badly but in actual fact like a skilled tutor teases great strength and fortitude out of these individuals. many of them earth dwellers originally.
The show was originally intended as light entertainment. had no budget and incredibly limiting technology was used to produce the show. the ingenuity and creativity of cast and crew plus the writers brought something fresh to the small screen. nothing like Dr Who had ever been seen before at its time of launch.
the ingenious device of having the doctor regenerate when different actors took on the role meant longevity with little interruption to the flow of the show. it allowed for a segue between different actors and didn't really alienate any viewers.
the show was made with tongue firmly in cheek. but with deep affection. the wobbly sets and dodgey costumes on aliens made it amusing and entertaining to adults and kids hid behind the sofa scared witless by the daleks and cybermen etc. generations grew up watching the show and it became a british institution almost.
it was cancelled just as it was starting to really find it's feet in terms of utilising technology to enhance the show but also at the point where no-one was really taking it seriously anymore due to poor writing and ridiculous scenarios. however, after the made for TV big budget movie version which went down ok it was felt that the time was right to bring back the doctor and pimp da show.
The latest incarnation takes parts of the history of the old show and weaves it into the 'lore' but embelishes upon that lore and thus moves the story arcs forward. re-using old foes but presenting them in a way that is palletable to modern audiences.
Doctor Who has never been serious sci-fi. it's not in the same league as say star trek or babylon 5 or stuff like that. it's still aimed at kids with the odd wink to camera for adult viewers. it's just supposed to be entertainment pure and simple. the science is bogus but sounds good when said really fast in a tense situation. the scripts are shakey and have amazingly huge plot holes.
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So I am looking to add another dog but I drive a 4Runner, and no getting a pick-up in not an option right now. Anyway I was looking for a two dog crate. I can always just put two side by side but I didn't know if anyone knew of something say under 500.00 that would hold two dogs more efficiently. This would be great:
I have seen a few at this level but a grand is a little too much for me. Any other options out their. Does anyone make a two dog wired crate?