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What genre are they? Are they underground?
does anyone listen to "the calling". i think it's a great band, but not many people have heard of them.
What genre are they? Are they underground?
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I think its a under ground band i have never ehard of them either...
ARE u needing information on the band or something?? if not i don't see any reason for this thread much longer.
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yes i have heard of the calling i like that song they did where they say "i'll go where ever you will go" but i like thin lizzy more because im a rocker
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yeah! i love that song. the other song that really sticks to me is anything. i do like rock, too though. i havent heard of thin lizzy though. i do like a little korn...
hmm, i've never herd of "The Calling", but at the same time it does seem familiar.
Im into rock/metal/progressive metal Lol.
Bands like AperfectCircle, not Tool,(i know the same singer, but in APC he has more rythm).
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As "The Attack" opens, Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), an Israeli-Arab surgeon practicing in Tel Aviv, is seeing off his wife, Siham (Reymond Amsellem), as she departs by bus for a trip to Nazareth. They have been married 15 years and it's clear that their bond is close.
Soon after, he accepts an award – the first given to an Arab in 41 years, he gently adds – at a convocation of Israeli surgeons. When, the next day, a bomb goes off nearby, the shock is compounded by the fact that, for these doctors, the ensuing chaos has become routine. The victims of the terrorist attack arrive at the hospital in ambulances. Seventeen people, it turns out, including nearly a dozen children, have been killed.
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The Neurosciences Institute (NSI) is a small, nonprofit scientific research organization that investigates basic issues in neuroscience.[1] Current work at NSI is limited to computation, but past work has included not only computational studies but theoretical studies and experimental studies involving humans and animals.[2]
NSI was founded by Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman in 1981 in New York City. In 1993 it moved to San Diego, California—first into temporary quarters and then, in 1995, into a newly constructed complex on the campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). Designed by the firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien, the three-building complex received much acclaim for its style[3][4] and especially for an auditorium[5] that became a favored venue for music and performing arts in the area. In October 2012, plagued by financial problems and as part of a sharp contraction in its research efforts, NSI moved into leased space in an office building in the village of La Jolla, several miles from its old location.[6][7] Its former home, including the auditorium, is now formally part of TSRI.
The Institute's size has varied considerably over the years of its existence.[2] At its peak it included three dozen Ph.D.-level research scientists (called "Fellows") and a comparable research support staff. Following the 2012 contraction, fewer than half a dozen Ph.D.-level research scientists remain.[8]
NSI was established in 1981 as an independent entity on the campus of The Rockefeller University in New York City. In founding the Institute, Edelman argued that the quest for fundamental understanding of brain functions was being impeded, at most existing institutions, by artificial barriers between scientific disciplines and by a reward structure that favored modest, incremental research rather than high-risk, high-payoff research.[9][10] Edelman asserted that he would be able to break from this reward structure by securing private, unrestricted funding for research at NSI.
In its very early years, NSI sponsored conferences, workshops, and other activities for visiting scientists; these programs were generally organized around a focused research problem. More than 1000 scientists from 300 institutes and 24 countries visited the Institute over its first two decades.[9] NSI's financial problems in the decade before its 2012 contraction curtailed these activities, save for the Neurosciences Research Program meetings (see below).
In 1988, NSI began its own program of research in theoretical and computational neurobiology. Carried out by a small group of resident Fellows, the program was designed to develop biologically-based theories of higher brain functions.[9] In 1993, following its relocation to San Diego, NSI added a program of experimental research, which would eventually include molecular, cellular, systems, and behavioral studies and would utilize flies, rodents, non-human primates, and humans.[2]
In 2012, severe financial problems forced NSI to vacate its San Diego complex, reduce its computational programs, and shut down its experimental and theoretical programs entirely.[6][11] The three buildings constituting its former home were ceded to TSRI. What remains of NSI is currently housed several miles away in rented office space in the La Jolla business district.[6][7]
Between 1995 and 2012, NSI occupied a three-building complex located on Torrey Pines Mesa in San Diego. It was bordered by TSRI to the west, the Sanford-Burnham Institute to the north, the University of California, San Diego to the south, and numerous biotechnology and pharmaceutical research companies to the east and in the immediate surrounding area.[12] Following NSI's 2012 restructuring, the buildings were taken over by TSRI.
NSI commissioned the buildings in the early 1990s. Edelman has said that, in selecting an architect, his goal was to find one who could realize his vision of a "scientific monastery" where creative study of the brain could be conducted with few constraining rules and unlimited opportunities for communication.[10] The resulting complex, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, has been awarded numerous honors, including the Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects in 1997.[4]
One of the complex's three buildings is an auditorium designed to accommodate both scientific lectures and musical concerts. Noted acoustician Cyril Harris worked with the architects to create the 352-seat auditorium. Considered to be among the most acoustically impressive small performance halls in the United States, the auditorium was built with an original system of faceted, sound-dispersing plaster panels that cover its walls and ceiling, so that the same sound can be heard in every seat.
Though it was founded in 1981, NSI traces its origin to 1962. It was in that year that a small group of scientists from diverse backgrounds began to meet regularly to discuss basic ideas about how the brain works. Their motivation was the idea that traditional barriers between different scientific disciplines had to be broken down if complex brain functions were ever to be understood.[13]
Led by Francis O. Schmitt, this informal collection of research scientists was organized as the Neurosciences Research Program (NRP) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next two decades, and through over 250 meetings and 125 scientific publications, the NRP developed innovative formats for intellectual exchange and disseminated knowledge to the worldwide scientific community.
The central group today exists as an honorary society, whose members number no more than 36 at any one time and serve seven-year terms.[14] Over the past four decades, 17 Nobel laureates have been members of the NRP.
The Neurosciences Institute itself developed from the NRP as an independent institution on the campus of The Rockefeller University in New York in 1981.[15] The NRP moved from Boston to New York in 1983, and became part of the Institute when it moved to San Diego in 1993. It is not clear whether the NRP will continue following NSI's 2012 financial contraction.
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All 30 of the CEOs on our list for 2013 meet the Buffett test. The share prices of their companies have outstripped the S&P 500's return during their tenures. Some even have better annualized numbers than Buffett, although none can match Berkshire's total gain since 1965.
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Other CEOs whose shares have produced 25%-plus yearly total returns are Oracle's orcl -1.476266182148535% Oracle Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD43.38 -0.65 -1.476266182148535% /Date(1425420137595-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9785128 AFTER HOURS USD43.38 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 273611 P/E Ratio 17.778688524590162 Market Cap 193351891905.069 Dividend Yield 1.1065006915629323% Rev. per Employee 318205 More quote details and news » Larry Ellison, Monsanto's mon -0.9068425391591096% Monsanto Co. U.S.: NYSE USD120.2 -1.1 -0.9068425391591096% /Date(1425420199802-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2316790 AFTER HOURS USD120.2 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12515 P/E Ratio 23.99201596806387 Market Cap 58660922832.0373 Dividend Yield 1.6306156405990018% Rev. per Employee 695045 More quote details and news » Hugh Grant, and three overseas chiefs: Pablo Isla of Inditex, which owns the Zara clothing retailer; Ma Huateng of Tencent, one of China's top Internet companies; and Yang Yuanqing of Lenovo, the fast-growing maker of personal computers that is giving fits to Dell and Hewlett-Packard. hpq -1.002290950744559% Hewlett-Packard Co. U.S.: NYSE USD34.57 -0.35 -1.002290950744559% /Date(1425420047719-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13557098 AFTER HOURS USD34.5 -0.0700000000000003 -0.20248770610355799% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 129332 P/E Ratio 12.996240601503759 Market Cap 63815844808.0681 Dividend Yield 1.8513161700896732% Rev. per Employee 364560 More quote details and news »
For the second straight year, there's a lot of turnover in our list, as 13 new CEOs are joining our shrine. Yang is among the newcomers, along with Leslie Moonves of CBS, cbs 1.7004048582995952% CBS Corp. Cl B U.S.: NYSE USD62.8 1.05 1.7004048582995952% /Date(1425420045705-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9936747 AFTER HOURS USD62.8 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 79234 P/E Ratio 24.880155302880233 Market Cap 30759504288.7909 Dividend Yield 0.9554140127388535% Rev. per Employee 601831 More quote details and news » Bernard Arnault of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, mc.FR 0.4002463054187192% LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE France: Paris EUR163.05 0.65 0.4002463054187192% /Date(1425494263000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 330802 P/E Ratio 14.546372273395018 Market Cap 83645505664.0625 Dividend Yield 2.3919043238270468% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » David Cote of Honeywell, hon -0.5163511187607573% Honeywell International Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD104.04 -0.54 -0.5163511187607573% /Date(1425420126030-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2366588 AFTER HOURS USD103.9 -0.140000000000001 -0.13456362937331795% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 118649 P/E Ratio 19.302411873840445 Market Cap 81850900577.3859 Dividend Yield 1.9896193771626298% Rev. per Employee 317331 More quote details and news » and Carol Meyrowitz of TJX. tjx -1.2379444364473873% TJX Cos. U.S.: NYSE USD68.61 -0.86 -1.2379444364473873% /Date(1425420250775-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2947322 AFTER HOURS USD68.61 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4229 P/E Ratio 21.77079338246417 Market Cap 47427170681.3965 Dividend Yield 1.020259437399796% Rev. per Employee 152243 More quote details and news »
We try to set a high bar for keeping CEOs on our list. We removed 13 from last year's list. Some deletions were an easier call than others. Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil xom -0.4770558836892322% Exxon Mobil Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD87.62 -0.42 -0.4770558836892322% /Date(1425420070971-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13057637 AFTER HOURS USD87.67 0.0499999999999972 0.05706459712394431% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 436202 P/E Ratio 11.539120013696285 Market Cap 369300506281.76 Dividend Yield 3.1499657612417256% Rev. per Employee 4357980 More quote details and news » is gone because the oil giant's production and returns are under pressure. Joe Tucci of EMC emc -1.6966759002770082% EMC Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD28.39 -0.49 -1.6966759002770082% /Date(1425420006685-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10899345 AFTER HOURS USD28.19 -0.199999999999999 -0.7044734061289186% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1035016 P/E Ratio 21.186567164179106 Market Cap 57415951935.0466 Dividend Yield 1.620288834096513% Rev. per Employee 382473 More quote details and news » is out because revenue growth is slowing at the maker of data-storage systems. Lew Frankfort of Coach coh -2.089072543617998% Coach Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD42.65 -0.91 -2.089072543617998% /Date(1425420136787-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4771425 AFTER HOURS USD42.8993 0.249299999999998 0.5845252051582649% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 53199 P/E Ratio 20.703883495145632 Market Cap 12015198462.2923 Dividend Yield 3.1652989449003517% Rev. per Employee 261282 More quote details and news » is off, as his firm's profit growth has slowed and the stock price has slumped. It's contending with competitive pressure in handbags and other accessories from hot brands like Michael Kors and Kate Spade.
Our group is global. Sixteen CEOs come from the U.S., eight from Europe, four from Asia, and one each from Canada and Mexico. For profiles of the 30 leaders in alphabetical order click here.
We don't rely on any formula to draw up this list. It's based on the views of Barron's reporters and editors, and reflects insights from investors, analysts, and industry executives.
We like to see CEOs on the job for at least three years before we consider them, and we prefer a five-year minimum. It takes time to have an impact on a large organization, and developments in the initial year of a CEO's tenure often have more to do with what the predecessor did than any new initiatives. We made an exception for Google's GOOG 0.4025623971715616% Google Inc. Cl C U.S.: Nasdaq USD573.64 2.3 0.4025623971715616% /Date(1425420000473-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1677536 AFTER HOURS USD573.75 0.110000000000014 0.019175789693884667% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22548 P/E Ratio 28.306514090588344 Market Cap 390118128469.246 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1228170 More quote details and news » Larry Page, who became CEO in 2011, because he's a co-founder of the company along with Sergey Brin and has played a key role in building the Internet giant into the country's third-largest company, with a market value of $270 billion.
THERE ARE NO EASY JOBS at the helm of large companies, but some businesses are particularly hard due to narrow "moats" around their markets. A longtime member of our list, Michael O'Leary, heads Ryanair, the no-frills European airline that has thrived in a brutal industry. The outspoken O'Leary last week inked a huge order for Boeing 737s and defended the aircraft maker, saying "regulatory crap" was behind the grounding of its 787s amid concerns about battery fires.
The pressures are unrelenting in retailing, and the CEOs of Japan's Fast Retailing 9983.TO 0.27150304083405735% Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. Japan: Tokyo JPY46165 125 0.27150304083405735% /Date(1425502800000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 20m) : 363900 P/E Ratio 54.202721583637626 Market Cap 4969550795312.5 Dividend Yield 0.693165818260587% Rev. per Employee 45419600 More quote details and news » and Spain's Inditex ITX.MC -2.4134871339840283% Industria de Diseno Textil S.A. Spain: Madrid EUR27.495 -0.68 -2.4134871339840283% /Date(1425494259000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1559176 P/E Ratio 35.86616227498043 Market Cap 88497334966.6901 Dividend Yield 1.032915075468267% Rev. per Employee 136451 More quote details and news » have done especially good jobs. Fast Retailing's Uniqlo chain and Inditex's Zara aren't well known in the U.S., but they have become two of the leading clothing retailers in the world.
TJX has built a business with a $33 billion market value -- double that of Macy's -- by selling designer labels at sharp discounts in its T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores. Shoppers like the treasure-hunt aspect of the stores and the ability to get a Michael Kors handbag for $150 that supposedly once retailed for $350. TJX somehow manages to regularly source enough designer stuff to fill almost 2,000 domestic stores. Credit CEO Carol Meyrowitz with that feat.
You probably won't find Louis Vuitton bags at T.J. Maxx. CEO Arnault of LVMH zealously protects the image of his company's most important brand and insists that slow-selling items be destroyed rather than marked down or sold to off-price retailers. That attitude has helped create the world's top luxury-goods company.
Moonves has generated strong returns through superior management of an old-media portfolio that was deemed to be inferior to that of Viacom, with its cable networks, at the time of the two companies' split in 2005. CBS is the longtime leader in prime-time ratings, and Moonves has pushed hard to get paid for its costly content, wresting sizable annual "retransmission" revenue from cable operators.
Sometimes we make mistakes in jettisoning CEOs. Warren East of ARM Holdings armh -2.1233754347428153% ARM Holdings PLC ADS U.S.: Nasdaq USD53.47 -1.16 -2.1233754347428153% /Date(1425420000012-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1236785 AFTER HOURS USD53.47 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 43548 P/E Ratio 59.96411349108445 Market Cap 25631116022.468 Dividend Yield 0.45226856181036096% Rev. per Employee 397470 More quote details and news » and Grant of Monsanto return to our pantheon this year.
East, who announced last week that he would retire in July, has fended off larger competitors, notably Intel, to dominate the processor market for mobile devices. He goes out on a high note, with ARM Holdings shares at a record. Since we removed Grant in 2010, Monsanto has cemented its hold on the market for genetically modified seeds, and profits have rebounded. We welcome them back.
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Hayes AT command set, the historyModems have been used since the beginning of computer history. The word modem is a combination of the words modulator and demodulator and this typically defines what modem devices are doing. Digital data comming from a DTE, data terminal equipment is modulated in such a way that it can be sent over transmission lines. On the other side of the line a second modem demodulates the incomming data and forwards them.We are talking about the age when internet, tele-banking and other common communication applications as we know them now didn't exist yet. The main reason for people to use a modem was to connect with BBSes, Bullitin Board Systems. Main computer systems operated by companies or volunteers where people could communicate with each other using message boards and up- and download software and utilities. Low-cost easy to use modems were necessary to make this possible. Ideally, those modems should be able to dial the desired phone numbers without interference of the user or an external dialer. As can be seen in the RS232 port layout, the RS232 standard describes a secondary communication channel on the 25 pins DB25 connector that was originally projected to send control commands to the attached modem. This could include commands to dial a specific phone number. Unfortunately on the low-cost RS232 implementations present on the home computers in the seventies, that secondary communication channel wasn't implemented. Therefore a method had to be defined to use the existing data channel to not only transfer data from one end to the other, but also control commands intended for the local modem only. Dennis Hayes came in 1977 with the solution. His Smartmodem used the single RS232 communication channel to the attached computer to transfer both control commands and data. Because every command started with AT of attention, the control language defined by Hayes soon became known as the Hayes AT command set. Because of its simplicity and low-cost implementation, the Hayes AT command set was soon implemented on modems of other manufacturers. As functionality and complexity of modems increased in time, so did the Hayes AT command language and soon every modem manufacturer implemented his own dialect. Nowadays the Hayes AT command set includes command for data, fax, voice and SMS communications. Data mode and command modeDennis Hayes managed to use only one communication channel for his Smartmodem, by defining a data mode and a command mode. Switching from command mode to data mode was easy, a control command could be used for this. Switching back from data mode to command mode with in-band signalling was a little bit more tricky. One possibility would have been to use the default ASCII DLE data link escape character as a trigger to switch back from data mode to command mode. But this will give problems when binary data is transmitted as that byte value may well be present in the data transmitted. A binary data stream intended to be transmitted over the modem connection to another modem can consist of any combination of characters. Defining a specific byte sequence as trigger to switch from data mode to command mode could result in the modem to switch back to command mode every time when that specific sequence is detected, even if it was just by accident part of the regular data stream. The escape sequence to jump back to command mode was defined as "+++", three plus signs. The chance that three plus signs within a data stream would trigger the switch was reduced by adding an additional rule: only when the "+++" data sequence was preceded and followed by one second of silence on the line, the modem would recognize it as an escape sequence. If additional data is sent from the attached computer to the modem within a second, the modem will assume that the three plus signes are part of a regular data stream and they will be trasmitted to the other modem. In practice, the chance that three plus signs in a data stream are preceded and followed directly by a pause of at least one second is neglectible.Basic, extended, proprietary and register commandsThe rules of the Hayes AT command language are quite simple. First of all there are some basic things to know:
As said before, as soon as other manufacturers started to implement the Hayes AT command set in their modems, dialects started to occur. Dialects only add new commands to the existing AT command set, but in general do not change the original commands. This is possible by defining three levels of command sets within the modem, the basic command set, the extended command set and the proprietary command set. The basic command set consists of all the necessary commands to use the modem. Basic commands can be recognized by the alphanumeric character directly following the "AT". Extended commands are used for functionality not present on the first Hayes Smartmodem implementation. These commands are still considered standard and they are available on almost all modern modems. Extended commands are recognized by the ampersand "&" directly following the "AT". Proprietary commands differ from one modem manufacturer to the other, and even between different models. Modem manufacturers use various characters after the "AT" to define their own proprietary commands. Often the backslash "\" and percent sign "%" are used, but there are other implementations. To store values inside the modem, like the default timeout time to be used when dialing a telephone number, registers have been defined. Registers have a unique number. In a command string, registers are defined as "Sxxx", where xxx is the specific register number. Register values can be stored, read and cleared from memory using basic AT commands. Basic Hayes AT commands
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Your feathered friends will thank you for a nice clean birdbath. You can use household bleach, but, as you noted, you must cover the birdbath while it is "working" so the birds don't get to it. You can try one of two steps.Either empty the fountain and pour some bleach in, scrub well and then rinse. Allow to dry completely before you fill it back with water. Or add about 1/2 cup regular bleach to the water, let set (covered) for about 20 to 30 minutes, then scrub, rinse and let dry. Depending on where you live (climate, heat, sun, etc.) you may have to clean the birdbath often to prevent a buildup.
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Super-FogAs smoke moves south, crews make progress on Pender fireSubmitted by Cliff Pyron on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 3:30pm.READ MORE:
Waking up this morning you may have smelled or seen smoke where you live. As winds in the Cape Fear region shifted, smoke from the Pender County fires is pushing southward affecting residents down the coast and across the state line.
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Captain Jack's no leader. They put him in that role in Golden State, and he did an ok job for a few months until he got bored and disgruntled. But, my problem with Captain Jack trade is not that. Considering his track record, I would be very concerned with Joe accumulating cap space entering FA period.
Yes he is our best player in terms of all around skills, send him to the Lakers and you will see just how much Tay still has left, much like Rip in Chicago. And yes, believe it or not Tay is the face of the Franchise. True Story: The guy who works in the Pistons marketing dept, and created and shot this years commercials is a good friend of my fiance, we're talking with him at the Piston/Hou game and I say, "We really need to trade Tayshaun" dude looked at me cross eyed and said, "Trade Tayshaun? He's the face of the franchise!" Sad, I know. WRONG! Most people who attend Piston games aren't actually basketball fans. Which is why I loathe actually going to the Palace, it's basically a circus.
Tayshaun Prince is a flat tire. Not only does he slow down any sort of offensive flow, he's slowing down the progression of this team with every single minute he plays. He is also peeing in the poo of Pistons leadership. How are Brandon Knight and Greg Monroe supposed to become th faces of the franchise when Tay's tiny luggage is sitting in the way? ...Stuckey too! I too am in Marketing and actually have a good freind who was the Sales Manager for PS&E under Davidson and for the early stages of the Gores regime. He's shared some stories with me. I'm gonna go out on a limb and declare that selling the public on the idea that coming out to Auburn Hills for an evening of Gladys Knight and Tayshaun Prince is not a winning marketing strategy. I think that the paid attendence numbers from the Palace box office will back up my argument. This franchise needs an infusion of energy on and off the floor. Old stale players need to go and the faces of the next generation need to be promoted. Old marketing "tactics" need to go in favor of an actual marketing strategy. Given Gores' business success, I am surprised at what I've seen since he took over the reigns. The Pistons are a case study in bad marketing right now! They have good ideas (like those black & white TV spots) that have absolutely no marketing tie-in with the rest of their communications initiatives. No focus, no consistancy, no brand. The public will buy the future. The ballance sheet shows that they have no interest in buying the past. The economy in the Metro area sucks and the PR department needs to exploit this opportunity. Lower ticket prices and freebies to hard working Detroiters is good PR and is a proven way to build a fan base from the ground up. It's a helluva lot better than keeping prices high and trying to pawn off a bunch of cheap washed-up entertainment (half time shows, Prince, etc.) as "value added". Those black & white TV spots are VERY well done. If your wife's friend did those, (I thought it was Foth advertising) he needs to convince the Pistons Communications/Marketing people to swim in that stream. Right now the team is being sold as "We finished .500 During the Last Half of the Season in 2012!" It needs to be sold ashere's a ground floor opportunity for fans to get on the bandwagon of a team that will be competing for a championship in 3 years"! We realize that the hardworking economy in Detroit is in rough shape. We're temporarily lowereing our prices and in doing so, we're lowering the barrier to entry to become fans of our team. We're young! We're exciting! And we're on our way! We've had a dim future for the last several seasons but now, we have some damn good reasons to be optimistic! It's essential for the Pistons to become the "in" thing again. Ownership needs to realize that for the time being, it's much better to have 20,000 fans paying $30 bucks per seat than 10,000 fans paying $60 per seat. They need to realize that empty luxury boxes are pointless and they only way to fill them is to put a better product on the floor. No business guy wants to offer a client tickets to go see Tayshun Prince palm a basketball throw killer pump-fakes. The Pistons need to become young, new & exciting on AND off the floor. Out with the old. In with the new!
Great post BDL. We need a new mantra if we are to be relevant again. Bad Boys Going to Work Finished the second half of a lockout shortened season at .500 We need something better to rally around.
Shot clock killing backdown fadeaways Come watch the enigma of the draft sit on the bench Guaranteed blowouts every night at the Palace We put the con in contenders I reckon we should just sell Frank as 'Lawrence the Lobster' because he always goes red when the other team are just delivering the blowout.
We're more plucky with Stuckey. Down the floor we'll be racin.....because we have jason Try not to wince...when we play Prince.
How about, "After that win, we will be trading Stuckey immediately." If I lived in the area I would be opening the wallet for that.
Free small curly fries if any Piston gets a triple double. Arby's is really going out on a limb with that gamble.
Hey guys, next year is the final year of Stuckey's contract and it is only partially guaranteed, only $4M is guaranteed, this makes him extremely tradeable now for a team looking to save money. Even if we can't move Stuckey, we can certainly cut him and save $4.5M and with an amnesty move for CV, we may be able to revamp this team!
Stuck's too good to cut. IMO he has value, just not the $8.5 mil value that Joe sees in him. I think with this partial guarantee clause in his deal, Stuck could be traded for something of value. ...A late 1st rounder? ...another role player? ...2 2nd rounders?
Dream on my friend, the gig is up on Stuckey. The rest of the league clearly sees what we see and you'd be hard pressed to find a team willing trade value in order to pay Stuckey $8.5M. In order to move Stuckey we either have to take back another team's garbage or pair him with an asset.
Oh no doubt. I was thinking - a partial buy-out of Stuckey in the trade scenarios that I mentioned. At his current salary, he's a negative asset fosho.
WARNING** WARNING** Prisoner of the moment post Let's assume a few things shall we: BoT returns to Chaz form like he did against Portland and becomes an "instant offense" guy off the bench. Singler continues his effective and efficient play at SG. The light bulb stays on for BK7. Then that means we only need to upgrade the wing and PF position to get into playoff contention. I'm thinking that replacing Max with Paul Millsap would be a great move and replacing Corey Maggette with Georgetown's Otto Porter would be a great move too. Drafting Trey Burke would also be a great move. And cutting Stuckey to save $4.5M would be a spectacular move! PG: Knight / Burke SG: Singler / English SF: Prince / Porter / Middleton PF: Monroe / Millsap / CV C: Drummond / Kravstov
Also let's keep an eye on OJ Mayo out in Dallas. He has a player option for next season, at this rate I think he'll opt out of it, he's averaging 21.5ppg, shooting 49% from the field and 53% from beyond the arc. He's going to cost more than Ben Gordon did, but adding a LEGIT 20ppg scorer at the SG position is worth it!


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Congressional Democrats and a top White House official said Congress will extend soon-to-expire tax cuts for low- and middle-income Americans after the Nov. 2 election. Republicans said the delay and the threat of higher taxes for top earners will hurt the economy.
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin said Democrats will come together to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the first $250,000 of a married couple's income, including lawmakers who also want to keep the lower rates for high-earning Americans.
We'll see. I still don't see how this would be anything other than an election-year plus if they did it now, but I guess I'm not as smart as the Blue Dogs.
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Each member of the family has their own tower with a dressing room and sleeping area. The parent's tower, the largest of the five, also has a rooftop patio, from which they can watch the on goings of their dungeon-like abode. The common areas connect all of the towers together, and unlike a dungeon, they are naturally day lit from skylights. Concrete and masonry construction provides thermal mass for the home, keeping it cool in the summer. Simply furnished and decorated, the home addition is a striking departure from the 18th century architecture and seems more like the Bastille than a family home, although a very interesting one at that.
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Elevation: 7,500'
We reached the small village of Azau last night as daylight shrank from the mountains, their presence only hinted at by the dark forms obscuring the stars around us. Thankful to put an end to the traveling for a bit we dumped our bags in our rooms, grabbed a quick bite to eat in the restaurant, and collapsed into our beds.
Upon waking this morning we immediately caught glimpses of the mountains, the craggy summits of the Caucasus visible through the skylights of our rooms. With the morning sun quickly burning away the cool mountain morning we set off on a day hike, walking down the valley to the village of Cheget. The rural areas of Russia are a contrast in times, old homes of concrete slabs and rusting corrugated roofs sit along the road, gardens sprouting in the front while livestock grazes on the hillsides behind, while a store next door advertises rentals for the latest ski gear from Western companies. This was even more pointed yesterday as we drove past old Soviet factories used to build tractors and parts for their space program, long since abandoned and now occupied by grazing cows that walk the roads, causing the Mercedes and vans of climbers coming from the airport to weave between the wandering bovine.
Yet overlooking the continually changing landscape stand the stunning summits of the Caucasus. Upon reaching Cheget, we hopped on an old single seat chairlift, each chair painted in bright colors to hide the age, and quickly emerged from treeline. To the south lay the jagged heart of the Caucasus, the knife edge ridgelines cutting through the sky and delineating the Russian/Georgian border, to the north loomed the glacier capped twin summits of Mt. Elbrus, the mountain we traveled so far to climb. At 10,000' the air was thin and we walked slowly along narrow trails weaving through slopes, exposing our bodies to the new altitudes, which will benefit us tonight when we return to 7,000' to sleep. With that exposure to higher elevations our bodies will work harder to prepare for the increased effort needed at high altitudes.
Returning to Cheget for lunch we dined on "Shashlik" - chicken kabobs roasted on the open fire burning on the patio, before returning to our lodgings in Azau to sort our gear for tomorrow and get some rest. Tomorrow we leave the valley and ascend to the toe of the glacier on the south side of Elbrus. We plan on spending some time in the afternoon to climb a portion of the glacier before returning to our hut for the evening.
The team is doing well and pleased to be here in the mountains. We are looking forward to pulling out our climbing gear and heading onto Elbrus.
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Madison - The Jack Ikegwuonu saga continues and the most recent twist is almost comical.
Here, according to the office of the assistant state's attorney in DeKalb, Ill., is the latest regarding the former Wisconsin cornerback:
Ikegwuonu's trial, on charges of residential burglary (a felony) and criminal trespass (a misdemeanor), has been delayed again.
The last scheduled trial date was set for today.
But that was before Ikegwuonu's Rockford-based attorney Debra Schafer filed a motion with the court to be removed from the case.
Her reasoning? According to Stephanie Klein, the assistant state's attorney assigned the case, Schafer contends in her motion paper that she has not been paid.
"I don't think it would be appropriate for me to comment," Schafer said today. "But it is true that I have withdrawn from the case."
According to Schafer, she withdrew from the case on Sept. 3
Ikegwuonu is scheduled to be in court Thursday with a new attorney.
To refresh everyone's memory, Jack and brother Bill Ikegwuonu were arrested on Nov. 25, 2006, after they allegedly broke into an apartment in DeKalb, Ill., and tried to steal an Xbox. Bill Ikegwuonu was a reserve defensive back at Northern Illinois at the time.
Jack Ikegwuonu was suspended from the UW team because his alleged actions violated the school's student-athlete discipline policy. He was eventually reinstated and played a key role in UW's 17-14 victory over Arkansas in the 2007 Capital One Bowl.
After an up-and-down junior season in 2007 with UW, Ikegwuonu entered the 2008 NFL draft. He wasn't selected until the fourth round by the Philadelphia Eagles, in large part because he suffered a devastating knee injury while working out, and eventually signed a four-year contract.
Ikegwuonu isn't expected to play until 2009.
It is worth noting that nearly two years have passed since Ikegwuonu was reinstated to the football team by UW officials.
Yet the original charges remain in place and Ikegwuonu still faces possible jail time.


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In physics and chemistry, monatomic is a combination of the words "mono" and "atomic," and means "single atom." It is usually applied to gases: a monatomic gas is one in which atoms are not bound to each other. All chemical elements will be monatomic in the gas phase at sufficiently high temperatures.
The only chemical elements which are stable single atom molecules at standard temperature and pressure (STP), are the noble gases. These are helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon. The heavier noble gases can form chemical compounds, but the lighter ones are non-reactive or inert. For example, Helium, being the simplest Noble Gas, has only two electrons, thus meaning it is satisfied with a complete outer shell, making it relatively non-reactive, hence it is a Noble Gas.
The noble gases, when grouped together with the homonuclear diatomic gases, such as nitrogen (N2), are called "elemental gases" or "molecular gases" to distinguish them from molecules that are also chemical compounds.
Monatomic hydrogen comprises about 75% of the elemental mass of the universe.[1]
Chemists noticed very long ago that when some gases (e.g. hydrogen, oxygen, chlorine) are being created e.g. during electrolysis or in reactions of metals with acids (hydrogen), they are radically more reactive than normally. This state of gases has been named "in statu nascendi" (Latin, pron. nahstzendee), meaning "in the state of being born". That aggressive reactivity can be used to intensify some chemical reactions. The source of that high reactivity is the fact that such gases remain monatomic radicals for some time. The presence of a catalyst such as e.g. arsenic can prolong that monatomic state.[citation needed]
The motion of a monatomic gas is translation (electronic excitation is not important at room temperature). Thus in an adiabatic process, monatomic gases have an idealised γ-factor (Cp/Cv) of 5/3, as opposed to 7/5 for ideal diatomic gases where rotation (but not vibration at room temperature) also contributes. Also, for ideal monatomic gases:[2][3][4]
where R is the gas constant.
The biblical, historical, and mythological references to, and scientific properties and applications of, m-state metals, particularly gold, are pivotal to the plot of James Rollins' second SIGMA Force novel Map of Bones (2005).[5][6][7] On page 1 that book's Author's Note, Rollins writes:[8]
As to the heart of this novel, it would take volumes to discuss the truth behind both m-state metals and the long trail they trace throughout history. Luckily, that volume has already been written, following in great detail the path from the Egyptians to modern times, including the strange effects of Meissner fields, superconductivity, and magnetism. I encourage anyone with even a slight interest in this topic to pick up Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark by Sir Laurence Gardner.[9] It was my own personal bible for this novel.