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February 2014
Rain, rain and more rain
What a very wet and rainy January we had bulb buddies! It felt like it rained nearly every day! But how much rain did we really have compared to average?
Weather Scientists at the Met Office have created this map of the U.K. to show how much rain we had in January. You can have a closer look by following this link.
How did they calculate average rainfall? The Met Office Scientists have been keeping weather records for a very long time! They added up how much rain fell in January for 30 years (from 1981 to 2010) then divided by 30 to calculate how much rain fell on average each year.
Can you see the two different shades of dark blue? Rainfall in these areas was between two and three times the average for January. Can you see the black areas in the south of England and in eastern Scotland? Rainfall in these areas was more than three times the average for January!
Top tip for using this map:
- 100% of average means that the rain was the same as average.
- 200% of average means that there was twice as much rain as average.
Can you find where you live on the map? What colour is the map where you live? How much rain fell in your area? Is it more than average? Or less than average? You may want to ask your teacher to help you answer these questions!
Your questions, my answers:
Gladestry C.I.W. School: Our school was closed on Thursday because of a power cut so our head teacher recorded the results that day. Prof P: We done to your head teacher! I am very glad your head teacher is helping you with your investigation.
St Mellons Church in Wales Primary School: Hello Professor Plant. It has been so windy this week that our thermometer has blown off the wall and broken. We have been using the car thermometer. L, J and L-b. Prof P: Hello L, J and L-b at St Mellons School! I am very sorry to hear that your thermometer is broken, I will email your teacher and arrange to send you a new one. Well done for your quick thinking in using the car thermometer.
Bleasdale CE Primary School: It is very cold and wet. Prof P: I agree BleasdaleSchool!
Ysgol Gynradd Dolgellau: Yn anffodus mae ein thermometr wedi torri ar ol cael ei chwythu gan y gwynt mawr yn ystod yr wythnos. Athro'r Ardd: Trueni mawr i glywed hyn Ysgol Gynradd Dolgellau. Bydda i'n e-bostio eich athro i drefnu anfon thermomedr newydd atoch chi.
Manor Road Primary School (Lancashire): on Wednesday there was a red weather warning but luckily the plants stayed in place. Prof P: I'm very happy to hear that your plants are okay!
Stanford in the Vale Primary School: It is very rainy here but we are not flooded. Prof P: I am very glad to hear that Stanford! What colour is the rainfall map is your area?
Burscough Bridge Methodist School: The heavy gales have caused the rainfall measurements to be unreadable as the measuring vessel was continually disrupted and blown over. Prof P: Gosh it must have been very stormy. Thanks for letting me know, keep up the good work!
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1st flower records for England and Wales!
Fantastic news bulb buddies, we have our first flower records!
Carnforth North Road Primary School in Lancashire, England were the first school to send in flower records. Their first crocus opened on the 4 February.
Raglan VC Primary School in Monmouthshire, Wales were the first Welsh school to send in flower records. Their first crocus opened on 7 February.
Well done to both these schools for sending in your flower records!
Archbishop Hutton's Primary School in England have also reported that the crocuses that they have planted in the ground have started to flower. Plants in the ground often flower sooner than ones in pots, has anyone else noticed this?
These flower records are much earlier than last year, when the first crocuses were reported on the 1 March. Why do you think this might be?
If we look at the results from the Spring Bulbs Project in previous years, flowering has been earlier in years with higher rainfall, warmer temperatures and more hours of sunshine. Why not have a think about what the weather has been like where you live? Do you think this year's weather will help your flowers to grow?
Your questions, my answers:
Ysgol Terrig: Our bulbs are now growing above the soil. Prof P: Fantastic new Ysgol Terrig, hopefully it won't be long until you start to see flowers.
Glyncollen Primary School: we are very exited because are bulbs are going to open soon. next week we are going to measure them. Prof P: Great investigating Glyncollen, have fun with your measuring.
Manor Road Primary School (Lancashire): It rained a lot and it was very cold and windy. It has not been minus yet. Prof P: I haven't recorded a minus temperature in Cardiff either.
Stanford in the Vale Primary School: We have had alot of rain recently but the bulbs continue to grow bigger and bigger. Prof P: It certainly has been very very rainy, I hope you haven't had any flooding.
Greyfriars RC Primary School: Me and D. are watering the plants really well. We enjoyed it alot. D: I am really enjoying the bulbs. My one is called xdox and pop. It was supposed to be xbox and pop. Thank you enjoyed this week. Prof P: What funny names for your plants! Very imaginative.
Freuchie Primary School: The children were really excited on Monday 27th January when they realised that 40mm of water had been collected over the weekend! Prof P: Wow - that really is a lot of rain!
Woodplumpton St. Anne's Primary School: We are very excited because the first shoots are beginning to appear. It has been very wet but so far the temperature has not dropped below zero. We wonder if this is unusual. Prof P: Great question Woodplumpton! I have had a look back over our weather data for previous years and it looks like this is not that unusual. The average daytime temperature for the month has only dropped below zero once in the 8 years we have been running the Spring Bulbs investigation. This was in December 2011 when there was heavy snow. I do think it has been less cold this January than in previous years. I look forward to receiving the weather data from all the schools so I can compare all the data in my Spring Bulbs Report!
Newport Primary School: Horrible wet weather most of the week. Prof P: The trouble with the rain is that it gets in the way of playtime doesn't it?
Manor Road Primary School (Lancashire): The weather has been cold, wet and windy this week. We have spotted our first shoots peeping through in our pots though. Prof P: It seems like your bulbs don't mind the wet weather too much.
Chatelherault Primary School: Bad news some people have been pulling out our bulbs but some are growing. And we have had a lot of rain and sun. Prof P: Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that someone has disturbed your bulbs. I hope that the ones that are left will be okay. Sun and rain are the perfect combination to make them grow!
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Neighbors thrilled by NJ man's $338M Powerball win
Store employee Pravin Mankodia stands outside Eagles Liquors in Passaic, N.J. Monday, March 25, 2013. Mankodia sold the winning $338 million Powerball ticket that was claimed by an unidentified New Jersey Resident. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
Store employee Pravin Mankodia stands outside Eagles Liquors in Passaic, N.J. Monday, March 25, 2013. Mankodia sold the winning $338 million Powerball ticket that was claimed by an unidentified New Jersey Resident. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
Carole Hedinger, Executive Director of the New Jersey Lottery, announces that the winning ticket in the $338 million Power Ball was sold at Eagle Liquors in Passaic N.J.. The announcement was made from lottery headquarters in Lawrence, N.J. Monday, March 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
Pravin Mankodia, sells a lottery ticket to Nature Haley at Eagles Liquors in Passaic, N.J. Monday, March 25, 2013. Mankodia sold the winning $338 million Powerball ticket that was claimed by an unidentified New Jersey Resident. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — Pedro Quezada's neighbors see a lot of themselves in the winner of the $338 million Powerball jackpot: hardworking, a family man, an immigrant, and someone who has known hard times.
That's why they're so thrilled that one of their own has finally struck it rich.
Quezada, 44, entered Eagle Liquors store, where his ticket was sold, late Monday afternoon. The Passaic store's owner ran Quezada's ticket through the lottery machine and, as a newspaper and television outlets recorded the moment, validated that it was a winner.
"This is super for all of us on this block," said Eladia Vazquez, who has lived across the street from Quezada's building for the past 25 years. Quezada and his family "deserve it because they are hardworking people."
Quezada told reporters in Spanish that he was "very happy" and that he intends to help his family.
"I still can't believe it," his wife, Ines Sanchez, told The Record in Bergen County. "We never expected it, but thank God."
The New Jersey Lottery confirmed that the winning ticket was validated at Eagle Liquors at 4:30 p.m. Monday, but officials said they didn't yet know the winner's name.
The numbers drawn Saturday were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes. It's the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history.
The Quezada family's apartment sits at the end of a short dead end block that abuts a highway in Passaic, 15 miles northwest of New York City.
The block has a half-dozen three-story brick apartment buildings on each side, and Vazquez says it's a neighborhood where everyone knows everyone, including what car they drive and what parking space they use.
Alberto Liranzo, who lives two floors below Quezada, said the lottery winner has five children and owns a bodega in Passaic.
Dominican immigrant Jose Gonzalez said he barbecues and plays dominoes with Quezada in the summers in a backyard on their street.
"He sometimes would work from six in the morning to 11 at night, so I did not see him much," Gonzalez said in Spanish Monday night. "I am happy for him. … I don't know where he is now but I imagine he will drop by to say hi to his friends."
Neighbors told The Record that the Quezada family has suffered bad luck in recent years. Two years, ago, thieves broke into their apartment and stole everything from clothing to jewelry. The year before, a fire destroyed much of their bodega, they said.
Now, the family's luck has changed with their Powerball success.
"It's a blessing for the neighborhood," resident Daphne Robinson told The Record. "It gives people hope that there is a blessing somewhere, for somebody."
Richard Delgado, who lives down the block from Quezada's building, also described Quezada as "a hard worker, like all of us here. We all get up in the morning and go to work."
Delgado said he got up Sunday morning and was going to take his dog for a walk when he heard the radio announce the Powerball results.
"When I heard there was one winner and it was in New Jersey, I immediately went and checked my tickets," Delgado said. "I wanted to be that guy."
When asked what it would be like to suddenly win such a large amount, Delgado said a person would have to set priorities.
"No. 1 is your health, because if you don't have that, the rest doesn't matter," he said. "No. 2 is your family. You take care of your own and live the rest of your life in peace. That's all anyone can do."
No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets — one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man — and the jackpot was split.
Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket — $365 million — by eight workers at a Lincoln meatpacking plant in February 2006.
Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million.
Associated Press writers Claudia Torrens in Passaic and Angela Delli Santi in Lawrenceville, N.J., contributed to this report.


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Two little girls sit side by side on an oversized armchair. Their mothers sit across from them on a sofa, beside and across from their grandmothers.
All three pairs are best friends.
Inez Brackett and Lana Parker have been friends since they were in elementary school.
"We lived across the road from each other," said Inez. "We just started playing together and walking to school with each other."
Back then, the bus didn't stop and pick up children who lived in the Casar town limits, so they walked together.
"I remember walking in the rain. In the wintertime, we had to walk. I wore pants under my dress," said Inez.
Although the two were never in any classes together, their friendship blossomed.
"My first beach trip was with her and her family," Inez said. They went to Windy Hill. "From then on, we have went to the beach together for the last 30 years."
Both Lana and Inez went to work, got married, and had children. Inez is now retired. But their long-time friendship remains.
They go on cruises together, take road trips, visit theaters, and especially love going to bluegrass festivals.
"We've been through thick and thin together," said Inez, "She's been a great, wonderful Christian friend for me."
Lana remembers giving Inez a special gift when she was 16 years old.
"When I was 16, I got a princess ring," said Lana. Because Inez didn't have a ring, Lana gave it to her. "I gave her the first ring she ever had," she said. Inez later gave the ring back when she got one, and Lana still wears it today.
'We've stayed good friends'
Their close friendship has inspired another generation of best friends in their daughters, Ashley Peeler, Inez's daughter, and Nicole Waters, Lana's daughter. The two grew up spending time together.
"We had no choice of being friends, but if we had a choice, we would be," said Nicole, "We've stayed good friends. And we ended up in the same church."
Both the daughters and their mothers said they talk to each other at least twice a week.
"We probably talk more than we see each other," said Inez. "Ashley and Nicole are together every Sunday and Wednesday."
Nicole and Ashley said they often used to pretend they were driving to the beach. They would pack and get in one of their dad's cars, shifting the gears of the straight drive like they were really driving.
"We never did try to crank it," said Nicole.
But those pretend trips to the beach have become reality.
"Last year, our families went to the beach together," said Ashley.
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Inez said that they all have other friends, but there is a difference with this kind of friendship.
"I think God had already planned this for us," she said. "You've got someone you can trust. If I tell Lana something, it's not going to go somewhere else."
She spoke of the "bond" created between longtime friends.
"Make new friends, but keep the old ones," she said.
Their granddaughters are carrying on the best friends' tradition. The little girls smile when they talk about their sleepovers and birthday parties, and of course, the candy. They went bowling for the first time on April 4, one of them finishing with about 70 points.
"They stay together and giggle and laugh as little girls do," said Inez.
Ashley said that growing up together helps create that bond of friendship.
Lana agreed, "Being in a small town, we began our friendship as young girls."
Inez added that forgiveness is also important to strengthen a friendship.
This year, Lana and Inez are hoping to visit the beach again. Ashley and Nicole have finally taken a real trip to the beach. And one day, their daughters might, too.
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NORFOLK - Nearly 1,000 of the more than 5300 children in foster care in Virginia live in Hampton Roads.
The Up Center is holding three information sessions for families to consider getting involved to helping these youngsters.
Foster parent information sessions:
January 17
12:00-1:00 p.m., 6350 Center Dr., Bldg. 5, Suite 210
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Participants will be introduced to the foster care system, learn about the criteria and benefits of becoming a foster parent, the primary population of children in foster care, the job description of foster parents, and the role of the foster care agency.
Up Center officials say you do not have to be young, married, rich or the modern day Ozzie & Harriet family to be foster parents. They say couples should attend together.
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One of the best books I've read this year was called "Slavery By Any Other Name: The Re-Enslavement of Blacks in America from the Civil War through World War II" by Douglas Blackmon. The book focuses on the convict labor system that developed in the South and the author brilliantly crafts the book around specific examples. It's a part of history I knew little, if anything about. It will enlighten you on the times our ancestors in 1900, 1910, 1920, etc. suffered under especially if they were indigent. It's good background for writing your family history especially if your family lived in one of the areas where this ran rampant (Alabama was one). I found a terrific 2-part DemocracyNow! interview with the author that I am posting below. His discussions about the Chattahootchie(sp?) Brick Yard outside Atlanta, the banking system's complicity, and World War II putting an end to most of it are intriguing. (There's about a 1:15 minute photo/song montage at the beginning, then the interview will start.)
Slavery By Any Other Name
Very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing this. It strengthens my belief in the case for reparations.
Thanks. The book is really–really–good. Makes me sad, like such of this does, but information is power.
Heading to the bookstore today — now I know what I'll be reading.
Thanks Robyn!:-)
P.S. We already know where I stand on reparations — probably lost half of my OGR following from voicing my opinion but hey, it is what it is. This is our ANCESTORS just due.
Thanks Luckie–the book is heartbreaking, but I'm all for getting as much information on our African holocaust as I can….
Thanks for posting this Robyn. Very sobering and one can only weep at the thousands of lives that were destroyed for so long.
So very sad and we all know it to be true.
Angela, yes— and hopefully we all collectively will add to the narrative by recording for our descendants to histories we are all uncovering with our families. Thanks for commenting!


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We have great news—the neglected horses we've been helping to care for in Spokane, Washington, since mid-November have made tremendous progress!
We're pleased to report that 47 of the horses have been placed with adopters, foster families or rescue groups to be made available for adoption. An additional four horses will be transported to 808 Equine Rescue in Calhan, Colorado, on December 21. Spokane County Regional Animal Protective Services (SCRAPS), an ASPCA Partner Community agency, will soon transport the remaining horses to a boarding facility.
When we first arrived in Spokane one month ago, the horses were severely emaciated and dehydrated from having had no access to water or acceptable food. They were discovered living on an abandoned property, and were seized as part of a cruelty investigation. We've been on the ground assisting SCRAPS by helping to shelter and care for the horses, as well as working to find them new homes. We'll continue to support the agency remotely with boarding costs and placement for the remaining horses.
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This is beautiful Christmas news. I hope all the abused and neglected horses fully recover and get new homes. Thank you to all the people and organizations who helped to rescue these poor animals.
How could people neglect/abuse a horse? Such pretty animals that are God's creatures. It has to be stopped! Thank you for helping.
Thank you ASPCA for saving these horses and all the hard work you do throughout the year with saving of all the animals. God Bless everyone in your organization.
it warms my heart to know there are people out there busting thier hump to try and place and adopt out thee poor animals. so glad there is a happy ending here!
Please sign my petition on horse tripping, if you've never heard of this cruel practice, look it up. Starving, these animals is horrific, can you imagine a horse running from being terrified, then roped by his front legs falling to the ground, most likely breaking legs. And that's for entertainment, the Hispanic community needs to be called on this, abusing animals is part of their culture. They need to be educated, please help. MoveOn.org petitions horse tripping


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Don Nguyen PhD
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Departments & Organizations
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Office of Student ResearchStem Cell Center, Yale: Transcriptional Regulation of Stem and Progenitor Cells; Stem Cell Niche and HomingSignal TransductionPathology: Nguyen Lab; ExPath
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Metastasis; Lung cancer; Cancer genomics; Tumor microenvironment more...
- BS, McGill University, 1998
- Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2004
Selected Publications
- Cheung, W.K.C., Zhao, M., Liu, Z., Stevens, L.E., Cao, P.D., Fang, J.E., Westbrook, T.F., and Nguyen, D.X. (2013). Control of alveolar differentiation by the lineage transcription factors GATA6 and HOPX inhibits lung adenocarcinoma metastasis. Cancer Cell, 23 (6): 725-738. Featured article.
- Nguyen DX. (2011). Tracing the origins of metastasis. J Pathol. 223(2): 196-205.
- Nguyen, D.X., Chiang, A.C., Zhang, H.F.X., Kim, J.Y., Kris, M.G., Ladanyi, M., Gerald, W.L., and Massague, J. WNT/TCF signaling through LEF1 and HOXB9 mediates lung adenocarcinoma metastasis. Cell, 138(1): 51-62 (2009).


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No more generating and running SQL seed scripts! tapestry-hibernate-seedentity module is a simple, object-oriented way to seed your database either for development or production environment or both. This works for any Tapestry5 application using Hibernate and is independent of the rest of Tynamo modules.
To use the feature, you need to add the following dependency to your pom.xml:
Simply contribute your entities in the right order (starting from the leaf node) and you are done! Take a look at the following example:
The module uses standard Hibernate annotations
to identify seed entities. An entity that is found (based on the unique properties) will not be re-seeded if an existing entity is already found in the database. In case there's no uniquely identifying property (or properties) the entity is seeded (inserted) every time the application is run. Sometimes this is wanted, but more often you want only a few seed entities even if you don't have any uniquely identifying properties. In that case, you can wrap your entity in SeedEntityIdentifier. Consider the following example: if properties start date and name only together identify a Game uniquely, but for your testing you want only one game to exist, you can write the line configuration.add("game1", game); as configuration.add("game1", new SeedEntityIdentifier(game, "name")); You can also declare a unique property for the whole type (the entity class) for seeding purposes. Contribute configuration.add("gameType", new SeedEntityIdentifier(Game.class, "name")); and name property will be used as an identifier for each seed entity of type Game contributed that follows.
With more complex entity relations, it's sometimes difficult or impossible to save the objects "all at once", i.e. in a single transaction. For birectional relationships (the typical owner/part relationship or many-to-many with an inverse association), this is not a problem as long as you save the relationship from the "right end", but for unidirectional two-way associations, you cannot save the entity in a single transaction. A simple example of a case where unidirectional relationships are required is when you need to keep two lists of items, say a User has a prioritized list of unfinished Work and a list of finished Work (both OneToMany), and Work is assigned to a User (ManyToOne). You have to create and save a User first, then the Work and finally update User to add this new Work to his queue of items to work on. To achieve this, you can use SeedEntityUpdater. You create a User object first - you don't have to populate more than just the unique properties for it - and contribute it and then the Work object. Then you create another User object with the same unique properties, add Work to User's list and contribute it using configuration.add("updatedUser", new SeedEntityUpdater(user, updatedUser));. The current transaction is committed and the user is updated as part of the new transaction. Similarly to not seeding existing entities, the entity is only updated if it is newly created (during the same invocation of SeedEntity service). If you want to update the entity on every invocation of seedentity, you can use SeedEntityUpdater(Object originalEntity, Object updatedEntity, boolean forceUpdate).


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An anonymous reader writes "Contiki, the open source operating system for the Internet of Things, just got a regression test framework ported over from Thingsquare Mist that allows the Contiki developers to test the entire system on 9 platforms, 4 CPU architectures, and 1021 network nodes, for every new commit."


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Associate Professor of Art & Co-Director of Gallery
Mr. William Weidner, Associate Professor of Art, joined the faculty in 1989. He is an award-winning painter whose repertoire includes work with drawing and design. Additionally, Weidner composes, records, and performs his own music. He is also very interested in environmental issues, an interest that has prompted him to undertake a reforestation project at his home. To date, Weidner has planted thirty trees, which he and others affectionately refer to as "Weidner's Woods."


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The Terrace on Pittwater
On the shores of picturesque Pittwater
The 'Terrace on Pittwater' restaurant is ideally located on the shores of picturesque Pittwater, Sydney with breathtaking 180 degree waterviews to Bayview & Ku-Ring-Gai National Park and contemporary Mediterranean cuisine.
The waterfront restaurant itself offers diners exquisite contemporary cuisine served by a dedicated kitchen and floor team that pride themselves on delivering modern food, great service, great wines from Northern Beaches largest wine selection (+200) and an overall thoroughly enjoyable restaurant dining experience.
The restaurant has regularly enjoyed acknowledgement as Finalist in Restaurant & Catering Awards in Sydney for "Best restaurant in a pub" annually from 2004 to 2012.
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It is conveniently located just 45mins from CBD in the heart of the Northern Beaches in Sydney and a short 25 mins drive north from Manly.
OR via bus Take 155 or 156 or 169 bus, Stand A, Manly Wharf to Warringah Mall (10 min) then change to either the L88 or L89 or L90 bus to the door of The Arms. Call 13 1500 for the Ferries Infoline for timetables.
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Cool or free, classic or modern, swing or Dixieland: in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Düsseldorf, jazz is king.
The Düsseldorf Jazz Rally is Germany's biggest jazz festival, and during its 20-year history it has given jazz lovers some goose-bump moments that they've never forgotten. The Düsseldorf Jazz Rally is the perfect forum for jazz. Its commitment to diversity and experimentation is never in question. The exciting programme includes almost 100 concerts in around three dozen venues from the airport to the opera house, the old quarter to the Rhine riverbank.
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Any news on where Scott Macahado is going yet?
Any news on where Scott Macahado is going yet?
Hibbert is one of the tallest center in the league, can post up, shoot at mid range and protect the rim. He dominated when the opposit team has no center ( like Miami and Orlando).
He has just one good season, but he has imporve every year. Indiana would be crazy not to match portland offer... No way i would spend all my money on Grander and let Hibbert walk away...
You dont need a really good C to win and they are way overpaid, Hibbert is the 3rd best player on a good team and hes about to paid like a #1
Noah received a 5 year/60 million contract not too long ago. Is Hibbert receiving 4 year/58mil that big of a deal?
Ask yourself this. If you were the Blazers, why would you not do it?
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Batum(Assuming they retain him)
I've always thought it was a smart investment if a player like Hibbert completes a team. We're not talking about signing him to be their cornerstone. We're talking about signing him to complete it. That's an extremely young team there. I would expect the Hornets to do the same thing once Davis/Gordon/Rivers establish themselves.
That's a scary team. Could do some legit damage in the west...
If Portland gets Hibbert, I think they can be Top 4 in the West honestly, depending on how Lillard plays
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League sources believe the Johnson-to-Brooklyn deal has a strong chance of happening in the next 48 hours. If it does, it just goes to show you that you can have any collective bargaining agreement you want -- there's still no substitute for having one of the richest men on the planet own your basketball team. CBSSports.com
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I've been to about 50 interviews in my life. Many of them I've done just to get experience, and keep doing.
The question I keep hearing again and again is
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I program mostly for the web, but 2-3 years ago I was database developer, and even wrote a desktop app. And if I remember correctly, I heard this question at interviews that had nothing to do with the web.
I can't remember exactly what I was answering. IIRC, usually I would say: it's hard to tell and that I had programmed an application X, Y and Z, and W. Last time I started answering and then said "Wait, how do you define backend?"
Now, does this question, whether I'm better at frontend or backend programming, really make sense nowadays?
- a website has a front end, true. But it's backend is usually the admin website. There's little difference between them.
- if I write a DB driver for a Django-driven website, is it really a front end thing?
I remember at some interview I asked what are front and back ends, and got an answer that front end is for clients and used or visited a lot, and back end is something for internal use. Well, it makes no big difference. Things must work and work efficiently on both sides.
I also led a dozen of interviews myself, and have never made this question, because it makes no sense and doesn't come to my mind.
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NorthTexas resident Michael Wray captured the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003 from his rooftop in Arlington,Texas.
He uploaded the video toFacebook and wrote: Sad day. 10 years ago the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost on re-entry. Cindy and I climbed on our roof in Texas to watch the re-entry. We'd seen two night time re-entrys so this morning's event was going to be beautiful. Here's my video from that morning.
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I like the dark look of the film. I feel it adds a serious tone and comes off serious.
LOVED the original with Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, and Bela Lugosi. Can't wait for this one!
(And no, I didn't see it at the theater when it came out. I'm old, but not as old as Vic!)
This film is going to be awesome. Gotta love the wolf.
Hey…. on the 3rd page…
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"typically weak February release date"
Say Rob why is their so much and not just here, anti-studio sentiment? Is it that hard to get a statement out of Universal's PR department?
Approximately 85 percent of all valentines are purchased by women. What better way to get your fav in your arms after Valentines day than going to an old fashioned scary movie? This one's theme is about as old fashioned as it gets…
I too loved the original and the utterly sad pathos of Lon Chaney Jr. Plus it scared this sh*t out of me!!! Anything with Claude Rains is alway superior. I have high hopes for this movie but I think Del Toro is allllllllllllllllll wrong.
Hope I'm wrong
Very dark, very spooky, very gothic. I'm impressed!
I do have a question … the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held during the middle of February, so, will TV viewership for the Winter Olympics (which will be held in Vancouver) cut into the box office for The Wolfman, as well as other films, like Shutter Island, whose release dates will fall during the Olympics?
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Initially, I thought Del Toro wouldn't pull off the pathos necessary to make the character of Talbot (that's the name I heard in the trailer) effective and compelling, but from what I've seen so far, I think that this film will be amazing.
i love the dark look as well. universal know how to make great movies they add great story,cast,practical and cgi mixed well, and they do their horror films with a perfect darkness to them. cant wait to see the remake. and i hope they still plan to do a creature from the black lagoon remake and make it a dark film deep in the amazon jungles and maybe add in some giant tranchulas,and snakes, to kinda fit in with the untouched part of the world theme. kinda like the new king kong,and anaconda.now that film would be sweet.


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The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University, or simply Oxford) is a university in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group, the G5, the League of European Research Universities, and the International Alliance of Research Universities. It is also a core member of the Europaeum and forms part of the 'Golden Triangle' of British universities (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: University of Oxford)
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As I've mentioned quite a few times in past blog posts, I grew up playing soccer, I played in college and when I'm not pregnant I play on an adult coed team. It's in my blood! It is my ultimate favorite workout and here is why:
Running without realizing you're doing any work. Seriously, play any sport and you will find that if you focus on the task at hand, ie: chasing the soccer ball, you won't even realize that you're working out. Okay, maybe you'll get a little winded. But I prefer chasing down a ball or player to aimlessly running on the pavement.
Interval Training. How many times have you heard that doing interval training is so good for you? One minute you're jogging down the field, the next minute you are sprinting for a pass. Just make sure you catch your breath!
60 – 90 minute workout. Soccer games are LONG. Sure, you have subs, but for the most part you are getting a long, intense workout in. There's no better feeling than leaving the field nice and sweaty with a few bumps and bruises thrown in.
Camaraderie. My absolute favorite thing about playing soccer is my team. I love the friendships I've made along the years -- there is a special bond you form when you travel to out of town tournaments every weekend. I look back fondly at all the silly games we played on long bus rides and the tears we shed at our last high school game when we lost at States. Now that I'm on an adult team, the camaraderie is different, but still fun. I'm counting down until this baby is born and I can get back to my team -- NOVA UNITED FC!
I can think of a million other reasons why soccer is an intense workout… I mean, who can forget Brandi Chastain's abs when she tore off her jersey after putting the winning goal in the back of the net during the 1999 Women's World Cup? That just goes to show you what playing soccer 24/7 can do to your body!
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Listen up! I bet you didn't know that most puppies sold in pet stores come from puppy mills, which are large-scale breeding facilities where people value money more than they do the welfare of the dogs. The dogs in puppy mills don't get to play, don't get daily walks and don't get the love that animals deserve. Imagine man's best friend living in a cage only six inches longer than its body in each direction—for their entire lives! And that's completely legal. It's messed up.
If a pet store tells you they don't get their puppies from puppy mills, don't believe them. It would be like me telling you I don't use hair gel. The ASPCA launched a new tool on its "No Pet Store Puppies" website showing that "USDA licensed" doesn't mean much. The current USDA standards are so weak that dogs in these breeding facilities are often mistreated and suffer from lack of vet care.
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- Sunday, July 21, is "No Pet Store Puppies" Day. Help us spread the word and share the news with your friends and family via Facebook and Twitter.
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Help us put an end to puppy mills and protect man's best friend. Say no to pet store puppies—and adopt, don't shop! Yeah, Buddy!!!!
Thank you for bringing more light to this problem. I'd like to add that some stores, like Pets Mart have animals from shelters or humane societies for adoption. So lets not confuse them with the individual stores that DO buy from puppy mills. They are horrid!
i agree that with Kathleen that not all pet stores you should associate with puppy mills. You should be able to tell the difference between a healthy puppy and a sickly one. Use more of your "star" power to get your point across.
Pauly, This is GREAT,That your speaking out against puppy mills. Good For You, Hun ,Keep doing what your doing ...
Thank you for bringing more light to this problem. I'd like to add that some stores, like Pets Mart have animals from shelters or humane societies for adoption. So lets not confuse them with the individual stores that DO buy from puppy mills. They are horrid!
I, from day one, have been an animal lover. And a committed viewer of Jersey Shore. So to see you, a person that has such an impact on youth today, do something and stand up, AMAZING. I've always been a supporter of the ASPCA, but I'm glad to see people of my age and heritage are taking a stand for these innocent animals that deserve the best life that god and us have in store for them. So let's keep this moving. I also feel like a hypocrite because all of my three dogs are from pet stores. They are older dogs now, but then, I saw the condition of the dogs and I felt sooo bad for them, I had to bring them home. I could not leave them behind to suffer. And yes, I've had MANY problems to say the least. Breathing problems, behavior problems, and thousands of dollars in surgeries for hip displacement. $12,000 to be exact......but we love our animals so much that the money had to be made. But NEVER will I EVER buy a dog from a pet store again. But they need to be saved and those stores and puppies mills need to be shut down for good. Instead of G.T.L. it's, S.D.P.M.....SHUT DOWN PUPPY MILLS!!!!!! God Bless!
Paul D, I have always liked you and your cool attitude. Now you've given me just another reason to like you even more. Thanks for helping and doing your part in the fight against animal cruelty. Yeah, buddy!
Thank you for fighting this fight!!!!! This is something that is dear to my heart and I love my dogs more than life itself!!! These photos brings tears to my eyes to see how people treat these poor babies!!! They do not deserve this kind of life! I applaud you for spending your time getting the word out! If I was a celebrity or I came into alot of money I would spend my life, my time, and my money helping these puppies!
Completely agree, but don't we want to save these puppies from puppy mills? We should buy from pet stores to give them a loving home! Puppy mills need to be shut down, but refusing to buy those pups won't stop them.
Jess, actually if we all stopped buying puppies from pet stores, these pet stores would go out of business. Then, puppy mill breeders would lose a huge client, and go out of business as well.


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LOL!Another thing that gets me is the general chat when inside the Garrison. It totally reminds me of every prison film I've ever watched. The prisoners confined to their cells are talking to each other through the walls. Their chat is mostly pointless, vulgar and revolving around stuff they ll do once they get out. This is EXACTLY the content of every Garrison chat I've ever had to tolerate.
I know there was a group during Cata that did 21 hour sessions with 3 hour naps and got right back to the next 21 hour session, constantly swapping people in as they needed to sleep. It was on the Race to World First video.
If you want to be first, you need to raid. A LOT.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. -Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
My stance on those get a life posts - you're pretty wrong on this one.
Cutting-edge world class guilds actually put LESS time to raiding than your average guild when we take a look over whole patch duration.
Their raiding is highly concentrated at the beginning, when they are progressing fast, possibly resulting in a world first, but then - almost no raiding, except for farming gear, alt runs etc. Casual playing after this hardcore progression period.
Then we take an average heroic-raiding guild that does clear whole heroic mode while it's current (say 6 months - 25 resets). They raid say 4 days a week 4 hours each - 16 hours a week times 25 = four hundred (400) hours put into progression.
World class guild puts 15 hours a day times 14 days (I don't count Ra'den as 15 hr/day due to limited attempts) = this gives 210 hours of raiding. This is HALF of the amount of your average heroic-raiding guild. After those 2 weeks of intense progession they are essentially free to do what they like, or doing alt runs to gear their characters in BIS for next tier - but in no way this intensive playing.
In the end this world class guild player has a lot more "life" than standard HC raider, which devotes to progression during whole patch, or at least significant portion of it.
And on top of this all - no one forces them to play 15 hours a day. They chose to join such guild, this isn't chinese goldfarmer sweatshop.
To really think they raid less than noob guilds is naïve at best. They still keep raiding after the World first to gear up their mains, do pvp, play the ah, farm, gear alts or fly with their uber drakes in sw for e-peen. Just to be recruited on one of those guilds you need to have a vast experience playing Wow so i find hard to believe that they only play hardcore for a couple weeks and then casual.
Its their lives, if they want to spend it playing that much its their decision, but i cant believe the people defending them saying they actually play less than a noob.
I'm not one of those people who thinks hardcore raiders need to "get a life" or anything like that. I know what it's like to be passionate about something and spend (arguably) excessive amounts of time on it. But I also think the people suggesting that 16 hour/day raiding for 2+ weeks is behavior that an average person could get away with need a reality check, lol.
The bigger issue to me is how worked up so many get about the amount of time spent by strangers playing a game. We should all enjoy whatever we do as much as we can and let others do the same. Now if the thing you really enjoy doing is trying to crap all over how somebody else spends their time then I guess go crazy and keep worrying about what they do.
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Obviously raiding and pushing for world firsts isn't something everyone can do. Those of us who enjoy the competition, camaraderie, challenge of the new bosses, and are able to make the timing of IRL stuff work out have a blast. Most of us have flexible scheduling at work, or go to school. When we recruit someone new, usually one of the first questions that we ask is if they're able to make raid times that first week. Once the weekend has come and gone when a new tier arrives, we know people are back to work/school, and schedule raid times accordingly. Our raiding time is entirely front loaded, and while we do have some alt raids once progression is over, it's a much more laid back and relaxed atmosphere and raiding schedule.
The reason it takes us a decent amount of time to clear the instance the first week or so involves a few different variables:
-Enrage timers exist, and they're usually brutal. We are extremely under geared, and have to find ways to squeeze out every bit of dps while perfecting the mechanics of the fight. Durumu/Animus are good examples. Durumu you had to have nearly perfect Life Drain management, fast beam phases so the dps could have time to tunnel the boss before the next Ice Walls, do as much damage as possible during the dance, and so on. On Animus, we knew how much time we had to kill him before he hit max anima, and basically required a perfect pull. If a dps died, and wasn't instantly ressed/buffed, you were behind on damage.
-There aren't any videos/guides for us to consult. PTR definitely helps, but only to a point. For instance, Dark Animus. Even after PTR testing we were still quite confused about what to do, and the best option regarding anima usage. For every fight, we have to find the optimal way to approach it. Look at the kill vids between Method/BL, and you'll see a LOT of similarities regarding positioning/cooldowns/etc.
-Fights can be buggy/overtuned. Twin Consorts is a great example here. Both Method and Blood Legion spent about three days on this boss, despite the fact that the health values were way too high, and even on a perfect pull, there wasn't much of a chance of killing it. Both guilds had the mechanics down, as evidenced by quickly killing it once the hotfix went through. Animus would also cast his abilities at seemingly random times before his hotfix went in as well. His initial Interrupting Jolt also did just about as much damage as most people had total health. Without a cooldown, even if you were full health, you were dying unless you hit the threshold of needed hp. It was so sketchy for a few of our raiders that we honestly considered having them use a tank flask.
So yes, it takes us awhile to do that initial clear. But once that's over, everyone knows the fights inside and out, and the resulting weeks are usually very fast clears.
TL;DR - Hardcore progression raiding is not for everyone. It requires a lot of IRL flexibility, which we are fortunate to have.
When they are finished with main in those two weeks, they are running at the very least one altraid, most likely more, so the time spent in the instance is doubled or tripled just by doing those.
They raid on PTRs/betas, dunno why that shouldnt count.
Regular guilds raid 3-4 hours 3 times a week.
Now to some basic math.
As posted here, they raided (as in raided, not counting breaks) 12 hours a day for 2 weeks, thats 168 hours, regular guilds raid 10-12 hours a week, thats at least 14 weeks before those guilds "catch up" to only those two weeks of hardcore playing.
In those 12 weeks that normal guilds are "catching up with playtime", the HC guilds still raid, with mains, with alts and possibly with another set of alts. I dunno how fast they can clear the place, lets say 3 hours, and lets even assume their altraids are as quick as mainraids (they arent first couple of weeks), so that would be 6 hours a week, minimum. thats another extra 70+ hours to "catch up", or in other words, 6 weeks, after that its extra 3 weeks, then give or take extra 2 weeks.
So you see, for regular guild to catch up with playtime, they would need to raid about 6 months.
Now unless its the end of the expansion, new raiding tier is already live (which means the "lowbies" would never catch up to them) or at the very least its on the PTR already and HC guilds are doing what they do - storm PTRs and raid extra hours there.
And this was with pretty generous benefit of the doubt to the HC guilds. they are likely running more than 1 alt raid, so the catch up would be much longer than 6 months.
I think the point is more broadly that these guilds don't raid 12 hours a day the entire time. Sure, they probably spend more time raiding on the whole than a random 12 hour a week guild, or at least a similar amount over a whole tier and a lot more at first. But once the first couple of weeks of a tier are done, they raid the same or less. They'll mostly clear their farm on Tuesday or Wednesday and be done for the week, give or take an alt raid. So it's a heavy time investment initially and then a moderate to small time investment until the next tier comes out.
And as I'm sure we all realise, more time raiding isn't the same thing as more time playing the game. I'm a hardcore raider and I play a lot, and there's people I know in game who play as much/more than me and are 4/12 in normal mode right now. They just don't spend all their time in game raiding. It's just about how you spend your leisure time.
well... I dont get why some people are like: "oh they raid that much, haha get a life, what a waste of time" but, here you are, talking about them, flaming/cheering for them since heroic ToT opened... I think you are actually wasting more time complaining on forums, cause nobody gives a damn(well, i do now) while they are wasting their time on something they actually want to do, on something many people watch and on something they are good at and have fun while doing it..
or what do you think when you see pro athlete in tv? its something like: "oh, he sucks.. he train for few hours EVERY day while there is only like 3-4 prestigious races per year and one olympic games once per 4 years.. what a waste of time!" ?? cause I dont think so..
you all should just accept that they are using a lot of their free time into something they are good at and are achieving something(and dont tell me getting world first, second, third, fourth and so on, in wow is no achiev at all and its waste of time and nobody gives a damn.. there is 256 pages long thread about heroic tot progression which could easily be 350+ if didnt lock - full of flame and congratulations and everything related to hc tot progress... and a few other topics about it.. )
so give them props and move on...
What I want to know is--
When do they have the time to sleep/shower/work?
How does that work?
Edit: well I actually read the thread after posting and can see that they would get vacation time. But man, that seems so exhausting.
I would love to see a documentary that included the dramas of playing that much. Sleep deprived and stressed people would make for an excellent watch. I saw race to world first, but I feel it could have been more raw.
Yes I get that after they get to the end they don't play as much, but it's the time they do that intrigues me.
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There's always time before/after raids to shower/sleep/etc.
For me, I'm able to work during breaks and before/after the raids. Not nearly as efficient as I am outside of progression, but the work still gets done.


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