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When assessing your rearing stock and noticing an obvious fault, it can be very disheartening. An otherwise-fine specimen is ruined for show and breeding. However, If the fault in question is observable in the bird's parents or grandparents, perhaps you only have yourself to blame?
We would all breed from near-perfect specimens if we could, but in many cases they're not available for selection. The question has to be: 'Why?' I believe much of it has to do with weakness. Those specimens that look really promising as growers (and probably would be superstars), are becoming more difficult to get to fully grown.
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A common question in relation to breeding is: what will be the outcome of crossing a black to a white fowl? The answer to which, no-one really knows. This may seem a bold statement, but there is an explanation...
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I was obsessed with certain pages in Bantams in Colour - particularly the Wyandottes and Hamburghs. The different plumage patterns were stunning, and I couldn't help but question if, or how they were all interlinked.
If you are familiar with showing and breeding then you will almost certainly recognise the reference to a 'line' or a 'strain' and this becomes immediately obvious when you start to look at show winners.
A particular exhibitor will have a row of birds all appearing exactly the same, and in fact the average member of the public visiting the show would be hard pressed to spot even the smallest difference.
This range of related birds will all have been bred in a specific way to maximize the preferred features and minimise or even eradicate those physical traits which fall 'foul' of the breed standards. The line is fixed to such an extent that a judge will recognise instantly a specific breeder's stock, and would even be able to tell which line a new exhibitor's bird originates from.
Grant Brereton is a published author and frequently contributes to poultry magazines on a monthly basis. He is editor of UK magazine, Fancy Fowl. He is regarded as the leading authority on poultry plumage genetics in the UK and has produced a number of E-Books on the subject. Here, Grant looks at what is achievable when you focus your efforts...
Whether you are an experienced poultry breeder or relatively new to the hobby, there are some common factors which have to be learnt in order to improve your stock. The principle factor in breeding is the 'art of selection.' This basically means acquiring the knowledge to understand what is and what isn't desirable when assessing the stock you will keep, and what will be moved on to the less 'picky' among us. For example, garden poultry keepers are more than happy to pay a little less (or quite considerably less) for a reasonable example of a breed but which is not quite good enough for the show pen.
When learning about how Gold and Silver genes work in poultry, it can be very gratifying to realise that much can be made of the sex-linked cross (Gold male over Silver female). This produces sex-identifiable progeny in the day-old offspring (yellow males and brown females).
When it comes to colour, the Silver gene is dominant over Gold and so beneath a Silver Pencilled Wyandotte lies a Partridge Wyandotte, for example. A pure Silver Pencilled Wyandotte male has 2 doses of Silver and the female only has 1. This is because she can only carry a single copy of the gene (on her male sex chromosome).
However, this is not the end of the story. A good job too, otherwise some of the beautiful colours and varieties wouldn't be possible. I'm talking about a kind of Gold that's unaffected by the Silver gene, and this can be found in the breast of the Silver-Grey Dorking female. It can also be observed on the backs of Salmon Faverolles females and other varieties.
Photo Right: Silver-Grey Dorkings with the Ap gene clearly visible in the breast of the female
Following on from Making your Own Line of birds, Laurence Beeken looks at how to fix specific traits into your line, and how to introduce fresh blood when necessary.
So you've selected your birds and your first season has gone well, and now you're ready to look to the future and create the line that, hopefully, will be associated with you and become sought after by those who show and by those who wish to start off.
You are now ready to start fixing the good and eliminating the bad. Remember that the sole point of all of this breeding is to improve the quality of your birds year on year without losing the vigour of the line - both in terms of how robust the birds are and how well they reproduce - a poor doer is unlikely to produce good offspring as weak birds invariably produce weak chicks which are then prone to disease.
Grant Brereton, a lifelong poultry breeder, is an internationally acclaimed authority on poultry plumage genetics and has written a book and several e-books on the subject. Here in part one of his series on poultry plumage, he looks at where it all began...
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When learning about poultry plumage there is only one starting point: the Red Jungle Fowl, assumed to be the ancestor of all domesticated fowl.
Although there have been recent studies to suggest that other Jungle Fowl such as the Grey and Green varieties contributed certain attributes, the 'Red' best resembles poultry as we know it and was likely the original ancestor; a theory first put forward by Charles Darwin.
There are only two types of pigment when it comes to poultry: black and red. Black is quite obviously black, but the term 'red' describes a host of tones from the lightest lemon to the darkest mahogany; something to keep in mind.
Autosexing is when pure bred day old chicks can be sexed by their different appearances when they have hatched. This is a characteristic that is highly desirable so that chicks can be raised as guaranteed pullets, keeping food costs down. There are a number of birds (note: that are pure bred birds) that will autosex, the Cream Legbar being an example. The offspring will breed true and remain autosexing.
The lavender variety of poultry is very beautiful. The effect is born from the lavender gene being present in a black fowl and reducing the quantity of pigment allowed to express on each feather; instead of black, the feathers appear a much softer shade of pastel blue.
This shouldn't be confused with the blue gene, however, as lavender fowl breed true so confusing or crossing the two varieties is not a good idea.
Being a recessive gene, lavender has to be present in pure form (2 doses) in a fowl to be visually observable. Black birds can carry the lavender gene without showing any traces of it. And, many breeders outcross to black varieties of their chosen breed in order to improve their lavenders. They know that the black offspring must be lavender-carriers, so they can either breed back to the lavender parent and get 50% of each, or carry out a sibling mating where they will only get 25% lavenders (not personally recommended).


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Lagos — In one of his speeches, the President of Nnewi Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Chukwuemeka G. Nzewi, once said that over 95 per cent of industries in Nnewi are built by indigenes. And this is a fact. However, the absence of a developed industrial estate may be the single most important factor why the non-indigenes have not contributed noticeably to the industrialisation of Nnewi he also said.
The Nnewi Chamber had in the past initiated steps for the provision of land for the industrial estate. The estate, according to him would help existing small and medium industries and lead to a planned industrial development. It would also ensure that the indigenously driven industrial revolution in Nigeria for which Nnewi has come to be known is sustained. The 76 hectares of land already earmarked by the government should be developed.
The assembly of motorcycles in Nnewi with local brand names was a good development that positively impacted on further industrialisation of Nnewi. The emergence of such motorcycle assembly industries as Innoson amongst others is definitely in the right industrialisation path. There are many informal manufacturing activities in this area and this gradual approach of conversion from importation to manufacturing and assembly, Nzewi predicted would augur well for the future of industrialisation.
The origin of industrialisation or industrial development the world is witnessing today is traceable to the industrial revolution in the 18th century. Industrial revolution applies to a set of technical, economic and social changes associated with a rapid development of industry.
It was Arnold Toynbee who popularised the phrase "Industrial Revolution" when his book "The Industrial Revolution" appeared in 1884, a year after his death. It was then used to describe basic changes in the British industry during the previous one hundred years.
These changes were in the transformation of the coal, iron and textile industries; the mechanisation of the cotton and wool industries and the use of steam power. Britain is therefore regarded as the first country to undergo full-scale industrialisation. Hitherto the changes were slow. Industrial revolution acquired this meaning because in mid-18th century Britain, these changes took on a new pace and became cumulative. It changed the structure of the economy. The social and economic relations of the people were also affected.
The political environment became bound up with the new economic momentum. Generally, Industrial revolution in itself is the shift, at different times in different countries, from a traditionally agricultural based economy to one based on the mechanised production of manufactured goods in large-scale enterprises.
Once it begins, industrial revolutions rarely stop. There may be a decline in the relative importance of early centres of industrial growth and significant shifts in location. This can also be the story of what is happening in Nnewi, Anambra State, south east of Nigeria; it is gradual, but the industrialisation is steady.
And one of the companies that is hugely involved in the industrialisation of the area and Nigeria in general, is Innoson Group. The company's latest foray is in the area of auto manufacturing through its Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Company Limited. In no distance future, the company will launch its series of IVM vehicles into the Nigerian auto market. The unique thing about the vehicles is that they are wholly Nigerian made. All the parts and other raw materials are sourced locally except the engine blocks that are sourced from Toyota, China.
If the company finally pushes the vehicles into the market, which it hopes will crash the cost of vehicles in the country, it will make history of not only manufacturing world tested vehicles, but further mark the first time vehicles are manufactured locally in this part of the world. Presently, the company is manufacturing a 43-seater bus, 17-seater bus, an SUV (Jeep), pick-up trucks for various purposes, while the IVM saloon cars will soon be added in the production line.
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Group, Chief Innocent Chukwuma told THISDAY in Nnewi last week that despite the fact that the vehicles are manufactured, the prices are going to be competitive and affordable. He intends to crash the cost of new vehicles in the country as he did few years ago when he crashed the cost of motor bikes when the price of the imported ones were getting astronomical for the common man on the street who needs it. At the end of the day, he said there would be no reason for one to go for second hand vehicles when he can afford new ones from the IVM range.
The journey for the Nigeria made vehicles by Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Limited did not start yesterday. It is the fruit of a long term planning and huge infrastructural investment. Incorporated in February 2007, with head office and plant located in Akwa-Uru Village in Umudim, Nnewi in Anambra State, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company, was established to produce a wide range of automotive products like cars, commercial buses, making use of substantial local input.
According to Chukwuma, when fully operational, the plant which is built in the collaboration of a consortium of Chinese auto-makers, is expected to produce other vehicles like trucks, pickup vans, tricycles and purpose-built vehicles like Police patrol vans, refuse collectors/compactors as well as sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Samples of the vehicles that rolled out of the plant were displayed at the recent Nnewi International Auto Trade Fair and the vehicles were highly commended by the Federal Government officials.
With an employment target of about 500 Nigerians and a sprinkle of Chinese expatriates, Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Company Limited is expected to have an installed capacity for 10,000 vehicles per annum and a turnover of N30.4 billion. As the initial units displayed and test-driven in Nnewi last November are pointers to the foray, the IVM-badged vehicles will compare favourably with imported ones in terms of performance and durability, but will have the advantage of affordability owing largely to high level of local content.
The company's chairman said there is no doubt that Innoson is poised to replicate in the auto industry the revolution it set off in the motorcycle market some years back with the products from its Innoson Nigeria motorcycle plant in the same Nnewi.
Those who have followed the growth of IVM believe that the story of Innoson Group began with foresight, hardwork, perseverance and investment acumen of Chukwuma. They also said that it is about an investor who as a young man ventured into trading in tyres, motorcycle parts and accessories of mainly Honda brand, under the business name of Innoson Nigeria Limited in 1981.
With time, the company flourished remarkably and from being well known as leader in the business of motorcycles and accessories, the company launched into the importation of products from China. By 1990s, Innoson Group had become such a force that its products were dominating the market in all parts of the country and the West Africa sub-region with demand some times outstripping supply.
As a visionary investor and businessman, Chukwuma immediately realised that time was now to domesticate the production of motorcycles with substantial local input. Business watchers said the integration had attendant benefits of enhancing Innoson grip on the market and contributing positively to the development of the economy by way of technological transfer, employment opportunities and competitive pricing of motorcycles.
As the parent company, Innoson Technical and Industrial Company Limited later in 2002 veered into other lines of productions. Located in Emene, Enugu, Enugu State, the company engages in the manufacture of top-grade plastic products for household use, industrial applications and export.
Known formerly as Easter Plastics and owned by the old Anambra State government, the company was at the time of the acquisition by Innoson, derelict with obslete machinery. Chukwuma later reequipped the factory with modern machines and tools and transformed it into the biggest plastics company in Nigeria with products widely acclaimed to be among the best in the market. Presently, the company makes more than 60 plastics products with the list expanding every day.
Satisfied by the quality of the company's products, in 2008, the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), at an elaborate event in its factory in Emene, presented the company with a MANCAP quality certificate after rigorous tests on some of its lines of products including the internationally acclaimed Innoson plastic chairs.
Innoson Group is bound to grow further when the General Tyres and Tubes Limited also located in Emene Industrial Layout, Enugu comes on stream in no distant future. When completed, the tyre factory will have the capacity to meet the nations motorcycle and motor tyres and tube needs. The company is being established in partnership with other Nigerian investors and Chinese technical partners. With this and other companies in the pipeline, Innoson has continued to grow into the country's formidable industrial giant with the presence in various vital productive sectors of the economy and affecting the lives of families across the country in various ways.
Why Chukwuma expands his lines of business, he is asking government to grant the companies some incentives like tax reliefs. He said his companies are not getting any such relief from any government quarters.
Interestingly, there are four distinct modes of investment financing in Nnewi and other parts of the country. This excludes the isolated case of partnering with foreign investors already mentioned. The first is where the owner finances the investment 100 per cent with own funds and then with some support from the banks for working capital.
This is the dominant mode with very few not receiving any support from banks. There is always the problem of post founder succession and success. The second is where a few people collect money from others to set up factories that did not work. This second mode is replete with a lot of credibility as well as succession problems. The third mode is by going public by raising money from the Stock Exchange.
Innoson Group, according to its chairman, may explore the stock market option. "But certain things has to be on ground before this move is made, he told THISDAY in his office in Emene, Enugu. Other companies like Cutix Plc and Adswitch Plc have adopted this approach. Chukwuma preferres to go public rather than use private placement for three main reasons. He wanted the shares to be marketable. He believes it would be easier to raise more funds in future.
The fourth mode of financing that is available for companies like Innoson is from the 100 per cent bank financing. This cannot be sustained as funds are diverted into other areas and compounded by the position of major local banks. The indiscipline in the management of such funds created problems that caused the failure and closure of both trading and manufacturing businesses.
According to a recent report, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Project Development Fund (APDF) are jointly mounting a program aimed at developing the Nnewi Automotive Industrial Cluster to a self-sustaining standard. This is a big boost to the industrialisation of Nnewi. Nnewi at present is the source of more than 80 per cent of motor spare parts trade in Nigeria (both for automotive and motorcycle).
There are medium and large-scale industries. There are also micro and small-scale entrepreneurs, and importers of new spare parts. Four main associations coordinate activities in the Nkwo market. These are old and new motor parts dealers associations and old and new motorcycle parts dealers associations.


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The more the Denver Broncos win, the better the chance they lose - coordinators, that is. Defensive boss Jack Del Rio and his offensive counterpart, Mike McCoy, figure to be hot commodities for any head coaching vacancies when the season finally winds down. That's simply the price of success. Coach John Fox says: ''You like to see people get opportunities and have those options. I'm sure it will be no different this year.'' The Broncos (11-3) have won nine straight heading into a game against Cleveland (5-9) on Sunday.
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The fierce election fight between Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin may be destined to go down as one of the most negative U.S. Senate races in recent political history.
In a 30-day period ending Friday, 99% of the ads aired on broadcast television were negative, the highest percentage of any Senate contest in the nation, according to data provided by Kantar Media CMAG, which tracks campaign advertising.
"In one of the most phenomenally negative years ever, the Wisconsin Senate race stands out this fall as perhaps the most negative race in the entire country," says political scientist Ken Goldstein, who heads CMAG.
In CMAG's data, a "negative" ad is simply one that criticizes one of the candidates in the race. It can contain a mix of "positive" and "negative" information, but it isn't purely positive. ("Negative" is used here as a descriptive term, not a judgment about an ad's accuracy or propriety). What the numbers tell us is that, compared with other races around the country, the Thompson-Baldwin battle has been an argument over the two candidates' flaws and weaknesses, not their strengths and virtues.
Democrat Baldwin, a member of Congress from Madison, has been relentlessly portrayed as an "extreme liberal" by Thompson and independent groups on the right. Republican Thompson, former health secretary and governor, has been relentlessly portrayed by Baldwin and independent groups on the left as a D.C. insider making money on his political connections.
By comparison, in the 2010 Wisconsin Senate race between Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson, 69% of the ads were negative from Sept. 1 until election day. Each side has pointed fingers at the other for the tone of this race.
"It's pretty ugly," Baldwin said in an interview last week with the Journal Sentinel editorial board, while condemning a recent Thompson ad that showed the ruins of the twin towers in New York and attacked Baldwin for opposing a 9-11 resolution in Congress.
Baldwin called it an "absolutely new low and deeply personal, dishonest, desperate tactic." Her campaign answered in kind with an ad accusing Thompson of profiting from 9-11 through a federal contract granted to his health care company.
PolitiFact Wisconsin rated both 9-11 attack ads as "Mostly False."
The Thompson camp, meanwhile, blames Baldwin and her allies for setting the negative tone of the race with a blistering wave of negative ads after Thompson came out of the Aug. 14 GOP primary with an empty campaign war chest.
"She has spent millions of dollars tearing me down because she has no record to run on," Thompson said during Friday's debate with Baldwin.
The first phase of the general election ad wars was in fact a one-sided onslaught of anti-Thompson ads. In the 30 days from Aug. 19 to Sept. 17, Baldwin and independent groups on the Democratic side aired 7,477 ads - 95% of them attacking Thompson. The Republican candidate ran only 465 ads in that time, all of them positive.
It's clear from the polls that the ad blitz worked: Thompson's negative ratings climbed and Baldwin surged past him.
Then came the second phase of the ad wars: The barrage against Thompson continued, but groups on the right came to the ex-governor's aid, unleashing a wave of anti-Baldwin ads: About 80% of the GOP ads aired from mid-September to mid-October were aired by groups or a Republican party committee, not Thompson, and they were 100% negative.
In recent weeks, the two candidates, both parties and groups on both sides have maintained their fire.
In the 30 days ending Friday, there were 25,647 Senate ads aired in Wisconsin's different TV markets. Of those, 321 were positive.


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The company petitioned the court to keep under wraps documents relating to a separate court case the state filed against the company regarding the state's claim ICL underpaid its royalties to the state by $291 million.
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would be nice if i could get help from someone one on the internet with this crap besides hearing o just buy it sthu... really sick of this idk yth i want to get this to run so bad i really don't.... i get it installed into vmware workstation 8 like im supposed to and i go to power it on and it hangs at the grey apple logo screen all this crap is really pissing me off
Well the method I posted for VMWare or regular installation requires you to have an Intel CPU. You, nate, need a modified kernel, which comes from those hackintosh distros out there.
Google some sites or go check out Insanely Mac forums. There are a lot of sites out there, just search for "hackintosh amd snow leopard vmware" or some combination of those words.
And if you get frustrated easily, this whole hackintosh thing probably isn't for you. I bought Lion back in July 2011, and I just found a way to install it on my Dell laptop a few weeks ago. So, patience is key. You have to keep taking baby steps until you get to where you want and it can be very confusing and frustrating.
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We're just left to haggle over price: Should the successful pay forward 36% of their success or 39% or 28% or what.
Finally, the Hagel haggle highlighted a critical lesson for the pro-Israel community.
haggle over the numbers and details, attack the Senate for their failure to pass a budget, and then cut the best deal possible.
1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (v.1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away. Related: Haggled; haggling.


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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The ongoing H1N1 swine flu pandemic may be driving a recent spike in dangerous pneumonias among younger patients, a U.S. health official said Wednesday.
"We are seeing an increase in serious pneumococcal infections around the country," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a press conference. "Pandemics put us at risk for not just flu problems, but also bacterial pneumonia problems," she added.
These bacterial infections commonly infect the lungs and sometimes the bloodstream. During most flu seasons, secondary infections such as pneumonia typically occur in people 65 and older, she said.
However, in this pandemic the increase in pneumococcal infections is being seen primarily among younger people, Schuchat said.
For example, in Denver, the average number of severe pneumococcal infections in October typically averages about 20. "But in October 2009 they had nearly triple that number -- 58 serious pneumococcal cases," she said. "Most of that increase has been in adults under the age of 60."
The findings mirror trends in other parts of the country, Schuchat said.
Schuchat noted that a vaccine to prevent pneumococcal infections is available, but "only about one-quarter of high-risk adults have received the pneumococcal vaccine," she said.
People with diabetes, emphysema, chronic heart, lung and liver disease should get this vaccine, Schuchat said.
The supply of H1N1 swine flu vaccine continues to grow, she said. As of Wednesday there were a total of 21.2 million doses "available for the states to order," Schuchat said, and since last Friday, the supply has increased by over 7 million doses. The total number of doses is now 61.2 million, she said.
Questions about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine have lingered, but Schuchat sought to assuage any fear with some of the first safety data available since mass vaccinations began.
"So far, everything we have reviewed is extremely reassuring," she said. "In our look at all of the safety data in the U.S. so far, we are seeing patterns that are pretty much exactly what we see with the seasonal flu vaccine."
The majority of reports (94 percent) are classified as not serious, Schuchat said. These reports concern mostly soreness in the arm or tenderness at the vaccination site. These are common with any injected vaccine, she said.
The CDC has specifically looked at cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, she said. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was associated with increases in this rare but serious neurological disorder.
But the current vaccine has not led to any problems with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Schuchat said.
Currently, there are 10 reports of potential cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome among vaccinated individuals, Schuchat said. However, "the number of reports, given the number of doses that have gone out there, are not at all notable," she said. "With conditions like Guillain-Barre Syndrome, we think it's important to remember that that happens with or without vaccines, that every week between 80 and 160 people in the United States are diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. So it's not really surprising that we have a few in our reports right now."


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1. In a pressure put the corn beef brisket along with 5 cups of water and cook it for about 45 minutes. If cooked in a regular pot, cook for 120 minutes.
2. Once the beef is cooked, take it out and slice it into bite sized pieces.
3. In the pot/pressure cooker with the broth (liquid the beef was cooked in, add in the sliced pieces of beef along with carrots, yellow onion and potatoes. Add a pack of sinigang sampalok seasoning and stir well to dissolve. Cover and cook till the potatoes are half done on medium heat.
4. Add the cut diakon pieces and some fish sauce to taste. Continue to cook until the potatoes are done.
5. When the potatoes are done, add a bunch of fresh spinach. Cover, and let it stand till the spinach is wilted.
6. Serve hot with steamed rice.
Different vegetables that can be used for Sinigang are taro, long bean, bok choy or cabbage.
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Alibaba Computing Cloud Is Growing
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba's cloud computing business is growing fast, and will soon have a large amount of cash, which has industry insiders wondering if it will start competing with the American cloud giants. Cloud computing is a multibillion dollar business that is growing each year, and it is led by Google, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, with IBM and other companies planning to join the fold.
Right now, there are 15 companies that are considered big players in the cloud computing business, 13 of those companies are American, if Alibaba starts competing with the American cloud giants, it will be the third international company to be considered a major player in the cloud business. According to documents Alibaba filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of their initial public offering, the company had revenues of $102 million from cloud sales last year, which was a 26 percent increase from last year, while it isn't as high as the 50 percent increase Amazon Web Services saw, it isn't bad either.
Although Alibaba has invested a fortune in American technological companies, and even hired Morgan Stanley to help them find a partner or company that can acquire them, they are not yet an international cloud contender. Industry insiders believe that the main reason they aren't a contender is because they have their hands full handling their business in China.
Alibaba's cloud business, which was started in 2009, still has a long way to go before they can really compete with the cloud giants, they have only three large data centers in China, and a small one in Hong Kong, compared to the 25 regional data centers and 52 smaller centers that Amazon Web Services has around the world, with another currently being developed in China. When it comes to their performance, Alibaba also lags behind Amazon Web Services. They handle $5.8 billion on China's biggest shopping day, which is very impressive, and according to their filing with the SEC, their cloud service does 3.6 million computing transactions per minute, which is a lot, but it pales in comparison to Amazon, which does 1.5 million transactions per second.
For now, Alibaba's focus is on their business in mainland China, where they are planning to learn more about the cloud business before venturing out in the future. From there, they will probably expand across Asia, where they have a lot of business relationships, then Africa, which is still an open territory for cloud computing businesses. Alibaba's cloud computing business is growing quickly, but isn't ready to take on the cloud giants in America for now. Expect them to be a major player in the cloud computing business a few years down the road.
What Are The Most Best Selling Board Games?
The present age may be of games like 'Call of Duty' or 'Halo' but it is always fun to play games or look back at the ones from where all it started. It was initially the board games which required pure luck, strategy or combination of both. There were a set of rules to guide every player throughout the game. Those games were really popular and really simple in its approach. Some popular board games are now getting converted to video games for better experience. There are few games which are played for centuries, show the impact it has created amongst players.
The best-selling games are no doubt the games that are most popular in the market. Here is a list of popular board games that were huge hit and still running.
- Chess: This game started from India way back in sixth century and till modern day is successfully running all across. The game is played with 16 pieces of keys that are of different types. The main aim is capture opponent king. Quite an interesting and common game across different platforms.
- Checkers: Checkers has been in the market for around centuries. The game is meant for two layers and every player has to make diagonal moves. However there are several versions such as American checkers that came up with time, slightly different compared to the original game. Check out this link to play checkers online.
- Scrabble: This game is around the market for almost eighty years. Players place single letter across a board, in all direction o form any work and accordingly score points. There is a scrabble dictionary available to avoid any debate or confusion related to existence of word. The game is still popular and has been a huge hit in market, now available in several online platforms too.
- Backgammon: Backgammon is doing the round since 3000 B.C. The game is an ideal combination of probability and strategy with all new tactic involved. Quiet interesting one for players involved with the game. There is a piece of dice which is basically used to determine number of space any player can move. The moves should be made based on the opponents counter move, huge across the world.
- Clue: The game is also known as Cluedo that needs lot of deductive skill to play the game. The game was invented way back in 1949, considered amongst the popular board game in the world. The player has to move across several rooms to find out the weapon and identity used to kill Mr. Black, which is popular used in international edition.
- Monopoly: The game was introduced in the year 1934 by Parker Brothers, few finds its trace way back in the year 1903 but the game was widely popular across the globe. Monopoly game moves around the simple logic of buying as much property as possible. Rent is collected from opponents, bankrupt lead to eviction from the game.
These were some popular board games that amazed millions across the world. Even today all such games are played, however there are many more in the list such as Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary and Othello.
PS! The list of strategy games is presented by BoaGam. Thanks to Joseph Butler and Kate Rodgers.
Legalization of marijuana in Native American reservations
The legalization of marijuana has always been a subject for debate for the past decades. Despite the medicinal characteristics that marijuana has for its users, United States of America still has a firm stand over the continuous ban for growing and eventually selling these stuffs. Many years have passed and the law that prohibits one from getting their hands on this addictive plant has been implemented. Because of the addictive traits of this plant, it is banned everywhere because of the threat to abusive use.
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Luckily, Justice Department has issued an announced regarding the legalization of marijuana in Native American reservations. This was after how many decades of banning them to grow this plant. It was stated that the Justice Department will not anymore subject one to legal proceedings when it comes to federal laws that support the regularization and commercialization of marijuana within the reservation even when the state law itself has been strict into implementing complete ban of this said to be medical drug.
Conditions and limitations
U.S attorney for North Dakota, Timothy Purdon explained that federal prosecutors won't prosecute anyone in the reservation for growing marijuana as long as they will follow the guidelines. Purdon further stated that they will still give their support for any marijuana bans that the tribal government will pass. On the contrary, U.S Attorney for Oregon stated that set guidelines were given as an answer to the inquiry of the tribal government whether marijuana bans still apply on states which legalize the use of marijuana if it is used for recreational purposes. The bottom line is that the final decision whether reservations will be legalized depends on the tribal government. Whatever the decision will be, it will be supported by the state.
Factors affecting the decision towards legalization in the tribal government perspective
Existing negative cases as a result of marijuana usage will be one thing to look into. There are reservations which are currently suffering from the negative effects of marijuana due to abusive use. This is most likely to affect the decision that the tribal government can make. In fact, many of them have sought the help of the police to get rid of these people.
When will the state come to intervene?
If it happened that reservations fail to follow the agreed guidelines, the state has the right to intervene and to exercise appropriate actions that need to be done when course of actions that violate the guidelines were done. These include when marijuana is sold or used by minors. When the state learned that marijuana are used by people who are under the legal age, they will step in with the agreement and prosecute those who are found guilty. Also, carting marijuana to a place where it is illegal are also prohibited even if it comes from a place where it is legal. Disconformity to the guideline will lead to the intervention of the state law. The next thing that will be taken into consideration is the corresponding tax that comes with it.
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James Crieg Interview: How to Avoid Injuries in The Gym
If you are serious about building muscles or losing excess fat, the last thing you need is an injury. Of course, it is not possible to avoid injuries, every athlete knows that it happens from time to time, however, it is possible to minimize the chance of injuries by following the tips that you will find below.
Incorrect technique is one of the most popular causes of injuries in the gym. Out body has very specific biomechanical pathways and if you do exercises incorrectly breaking the trajectory of the move, you are guaranteed to either pull your muscle or tear it. If you do not have a personal trainer of an experienced friend who can show you the right technique, go to youtube.com, http://jackedgorilla.com/ or bodybuilding.com. There you will find enough videos demonstrating you how to do any exercise.
The more does not mean the better
Some people always try to surprise others by using too much weight. Every athlete has ever seen beginners in the gym who try to do biceps curls with insane weight with terrible technique. The truth is, the more does not necessary mean the better. You can cheat in last reps, but you should always start your exercises with clean technique. If the weight that you use makes it impossible, decrease it.
Warm up
I have been training for more than 10 years and understand the importance of adequate warm-up. I have once torn my deltoid muscle because I started pull ups without warming up. It took me 6 long months to recover from the injury. During this time I could not do most of the exercises for upper body and a result, I lose so much weight. I recommend you to warm-up at least 5-10 minutes before starting your workout. Usually I do some stretching and high-rep weight lifting with light weight (1 set). I have never had any injuries since than.
Training too often
Remember, muscles grow while you rest, not while you train. That is why it is very important to give your body enough time to rest and recover your muscles. Many athletes, especially beginners neglect this simple principle and train every single day. In most cases this leads to over-training, fatigue, muscle loss, decrease in testosterone production (more info here: http://jackedgorilla.com/best-testosterone-booster) problems with nervous system and weakness. Feel your body, if you feel that it has not fully recovered from the previous workout, give it one more day.
I hope these 4 tips will help you avoid serious injuries in the gym and achieve your goal. In my next article I will talk more about the right technique in complex exercises. Good luck!
5 Paintball Tips You Will Not Believe
Learning the basics in paintball is pretty easy, but to become a really good paintball player, you have to know a few strategic tips that will be beneficial for you and your teammates to be successful. Some of the tips and tricks that you can use to become a better paintball player are listed below.
Walking the Trigger
According to pbguy.com. This technique turns your paintball gun into a fully automatic gun, allowing you to shoot a lot of paintballs in succession, which in turn allows your teammates to change positions quickly, with a low chance of getting hit, because your opponents are bunkered down, trying to avoid the rapid fire coming at them. All you have to do is place a couple of fingers over the trigger of your paintball gun, and tap the trigger quickly with both fingers, which allows your gun to shoot the paintballs rapidly, like an automatic weapon.
Switching Hands
If you are behind a bunker, you should switch the hand you are shooting with depending on which side you are firing from. If you are shooting from the right edge of the bunker, you should shoot with your right hand, and if you are firing from the left side of the bunker, you should switch the gun to your left hand. The purpose of the hand switch is to limit your exposure while firing, decreasing the chances of being shot. Shooting with your right hand when you are firing from the left edge leaves most of your body unprotected, making you an easy target for your opponents, and shooting with your left hand while shooting from the right edge does the same. Switching hands give your opponents a very small target to hit.
Swabbing the Barrel
When you have a ball break in your barrel, it makes the barrel wet and slippery, the paintballs become less accurate, and you get more ball breaks easily. By using a long swab to clean out the barrel while playing, you dry it out, which allows it to fire accurately again, without having to remove the barrel to clean it out.
Reloading While Shooting
A lot of new players make the mistake of pointing their gun down to reload, which allows any opponent you were pinning down to hit you because you were focused on reloading the gun. An easy way to reload while shooting is to crouch on your knees, with your paintball pointed at your opponent, and use your free hand to add more paintballs into the gun, without having to stop shooting at your opponent, which keeps them pinned in the position they were before you had to reload.
Hitting the Sweet Spot
This is when you shoot at the area your target is going to, and not where they are. If you see an opponent trying to move between bunkers, aim for where you expect him to be by the time the paintball gets to him, and you can hit him before he gets to the next bunker. These are some techniques that will help you become a better paintballer, and will come in handy if you learn to do them right.


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If you want more than one manual get the Haynes and the Clymer. The OEM is not too complicated, it's just not really needed with the other two and the internet. The OEM does have more torque values an explanations about what pistons and which cylinders are made, 30 years ago. I'm not against people getting this, I have one myself. but you can get the OEM manual next year or the year after. And they do show up on Ebay and at Flea markets. October Fest is almost here.
The owners manual is nice for a lot of basic info. I have one somewhere. There may be one on the bike. These are often with the bike.
Good, you may have a tool kit. I did learn tonight a bit about posting pictures tho.
There is a simple method to sync the carbs that doesn't use an expensive tool. You may want to get one of the expensive tools but you don't need it now. I'll describe how to make the shorting tool and explain a little about it's use, but later I'm about to turn in, big day tomorrow.
We do a lot of transmission stuff on these bikes. And then after all the bother and sweat and money, more tools, we end up with something that shifts like a John Deere. There will be transmission work in your future or you will send it out, the option that really is best for most riders. But if you are one of those that are driven, or think you can handle it or want the experience then we can help a little. The one thing you don't want to tell yourself is that you want to rebuild a transmission to save yourself money. Not very likely that anybody ever saves any money doing the first two or three transmissions. And the guys that have done a few hundred of them, there are a few, they know stuff we can't learn, they will do a better job than any part timer. Just the way it is. But some of us just want to do our own, that's me, and we are allowed.
When's the bike get to you? Does it run? Any known problems? Mileage?
BTW, I've been meaning to tell you. I think you might have something of a rarity in that fairing. Would like to see more pictures of that set up.
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