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This morn, all eyes are on the takeover proposal, in a letter from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's Board of Directors, stating an offer of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock per share for Yahoo (YHOO). The total deal valued at $44.6 billion — a huge 62% premium to Yahoo's closing price of $19.18.
The most interesting part of this is that Mister Softee seems to have waited until Google had its first bad earnings report — missing the earnings consensus by 2 cents, and perhaps looking in their eyes, vulnerable. Perhaps it was coincidence, but the timing looks fortuitous.
A few questions immediately pop up:
Why is Ballmer & Co. paying such a big premium? Does this imply the entire Tech market is hugely undervalued — or is Microsoft (MSFT) desperate to catch up with Google (GOOG)?
And since Mister Softee was so desperate to stop the Google/DoubleClick deal on Anti-Trust grounds, it makes me wonder if there will be any legal issues between a marraige of Yahoo and Microsoft. Obviously not for search — their combined market share is still tiny compared to Google. But consider what these two companies are: the biggest software maker now wants to get together with the biggest web portal. That could certainly raise some valid anti-trust issues.
What is not known yet is how the two different search technologies — Yahoo's Panama, and Microsoft's — will integrate.
I'll go even a step further: Mister Softee's biggest cash cows –
Windows and Office — look shakier than they ever have. There are real
competitors for PCs (Apple, Linux) and lots of free or nearly free
office software (Open Office, Google Apps). I assume Microsoft is
projecting out current trends 5 and 10 years; they might truly believe
that if they can't compete in the online search/advertising space, they
are in trouble.
Here's the ironic part: The 2 most visible losers in the search area
may be getting together — and somehow, that's worth 150 point swing to the Dow futures.
I guess the negativity isn't quite as excessive as some people claim!
Some recent, related headlines:
• Yahoo Says Former Chief Semel Steps Down as Chairman (Bloomberg, 1/31)
• Google posts 17% profit gain, but shares slide lower (Marketwatch, 1/31)
• and the WTF headline: Google's Loss Is Murdoch's Gain (NYT's Bits)
Microsoft Letter to Yahoo!
PRNewswire-FirstCall, February 01, 2008: 06:30 AM EST
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maybe MSFT can improve YHOO's sludgy web code the same way they improved XP into Vista.
oh, wait, i guess that wouldn't be a good thing ;-)
A couple of other strategic questions that should be on the table but first a pointer. Ken Auletta was recently on the Rose show talking about GOOG, YHOO and the B2C business in general. A very good show, some useful insights with the caveat that Auletta is a writer and reacting to things rather than a technologist who's seeing deeper:
MSFT has gotten very large and unwieldy indeed so 1) how're they going to make Yahoo re-build it's organization and then 2) align one big mess with another ? Do a search on Code Red the emergency MSFT efforts to save Longhorn which brought it out late, emasculated by 3/4+ and with a resource intensive and non-appealing APPL-imitating feature set. So 3) what makes anyone think MSFT is the champion coders and will be able to save YHOO there ?
What is YHOO's fundamental business model and why isn't it working ? The COO was recently interviewed at Davos and couldn't tell the MoneyHoney what their strategic plan was. Any good exec should be able to be clear & compelling with an elevator speech if they know it. So (4) Yhoo have a clue as to what their business is and should be ?
Bottomline – this one behemoth over-paying because it can for another, smaller behomth which is much worse shape strategically, technically and structurally. A C+ firm buying a D/D+ firm. Yet both have inherent strengths that could be their salvation. Just not in this form.
All of course IMHO :)
I am watching CNBC discussing the takeover — there is absolutely zero critical thinking going on. None.
They picked up the pompoms, and they are doing cartwheels. No intelligence whatsoever.
I picked up more issues and thinking here in a short blog post and a few comments than in their past 45 minutes of coverage.
It boggles the mind.
watching CNBC money shows for insightful information is an exercise in foolishness….the whole crew, with the exception of David Faber, are clowns
Short tech at the open
I can't believe Microsoft is buying a company with a questionable business model for such an absurd amount of $$. I guess now is a good time to short MS stock.
This must be the top of Bubble 2.0 in IT, sort of like TimeWarner buying AOL for 20bn.
What is not known yet is how the two different search technologies — Yahoo's Panama, and Microsoft's — will integrate.
Does it really matter? Does anyone seriously believe this will help them take significant search share from GOOG? I could not be that atypical: I use GOOG to search (sometimes AltaVista), but never MSFT or YHOO. I seriously doubt this will change.
MSFT has serious delusions of grandeur.
Hey Barry,
FBN has got your picture on yahoo ads. Check the print screen:
Saw that while browsing http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo
Let's see…YHOO gains 13.75B in market cap at current bid…but MSFT is losing 13.5B. So let's rally Nas futures off weak GOOG numbers and staring at a horrible housing number. Not even going to discuss the myriad of ways this "deal" will fall into the "Synergy Trap".
Short with both fists.
I'm not sure where Yahoo has value. I use Yahoo Finance, and find it excellent, it's 100 times better than Google's dire offering. But I've no idea how they monetise my use. Maybe they should start a brokerage firm and link it in?
As for search, I don't think I've ever used Yahoo. I'll be amazed if a competitor to Google appears even within the next 10 years. And the whole idea of a "portal" just seems bizarre to me…I guess it's your average mom who doesn't know how to change the home page that drives traffic there…
If this is what's taking the market up, I'm using it as a great opportunity to dump bad longs and get short.
I use Yahoo Finance, and find it excellent, it's 100 times better than Google's dire offering.
AOL Finance is every bit as good and gaining market share.
OK, some dose of reality to the pesssimist MSFT bashers on here.
First, MSFT has incredible financial power-it has $20 billion in cash and ZERO long term debt to go along with its $350 billion mkt.cap. It could borrow $50 billion in a nanosecond. Ballmer probably has a platoon of assistants fielding the calls from the investment bankers now.
Second, and I know this may be a surprise to you, YHOO is the #1 page count site on the internet…that's right, the #1, more than Google. See:
Third, the problem with YHOO is margins–they suck. If YHOO doubles its margins to industry norms, that's $6B annually in added net. MSFT can bring that discipline.
Fourth, MSFT's position in the corporate market is so strong it's virtually inviolable. Open Office is not threat. Google apps? You're joking. They have no real application power.
Fifth, Vista. As someone who is reluctant to move from XP to Vista, guess what? I am going to HAVE to. And so are all of you. It is just a matter of time. And guess what? As MSFT releases its service packs, it will get better and better and more stable because it is a the first time…in 20+ years…MSFT has made a true un-kluged operating system.
Bottom line. IF MSFT wants to make this deal, it's gonna happen
QQQQ will get slaughtered today…MSFT AND GOOG tanking plus these shocking jobs numbers
1 Crappy Search & Email Provider + 1 Crappy Search & Email Provider = Legitimate Threat to Google?
I don't think they will integrate the search algorithms. They will more likely kill one off (while talking about integration) and save significantly by cutting engineers. Msft should be able to make more profits from yhoo than yhoo could if only through cost savings.
Barudjian (sp?) on CNBC is a great contrary indicator…he is spinning the jobs positive due to low wage pressure. When he turns bearish, time to cover shorts.
Awhile back, just after Ray Ozzie took over at MSFT, they published a strategy letter including a focus on ad revenues from search. Their long-time strategy has been to buy a technology (86-DOS, Sybase) or company in the space they're interested in and refine it to become/overcome a market leader. Sometimes they buy tech leaders to kill off a competing product (FoxPro).
Compared to Microsoft, Yahoo has a more modern technology base for delivering large-scale web applications. Windows really isn't going to do it, and this may be a recognition of that on their part. Unfortunately for them, Google is light-years ahead of Yahoo on this, and huffing and puffing a little harder isn't going to help them catch up. It's sort of sad to see MSFT in their dotage.
The two companies deserve each other. However, it does not matter because the sale/merger will not be approved. Microsoft has burned too many bridges and thumbed it's nose at too many regulators. It is a monopoly and it has acted like one and shown no remorse for it.
the only company in all of tech with a cash hoard just pissed it away. portfolio theory would tell MSFT to distribute that cash to shareholders, let them buy YHOO at $19/sh IF THEY LIKE, not the gigantic premium. two failing companies. MSFT had a good idea 30 years ago
dance, Monkey Boy, dance!
I think it has something to do with Tivo's court victory yesterday coupled with a deal with CBS to develop a TV ratings system. Google is a large holder of Tivo and a potential future colaborator. It has been rumored that Tivo and Google are working on a TV on demand service. Anyway, Microsoft saw the future staring them in the face and they weren't apart of it. So, they went out and made themselves apart of it.
Your son is a fine Dancer
Which one is the drunk and which the light pole?
Oh well, it gives Justice something to do instead of doing a RICO on the banks…
OK lets look at an analogy: GM buys Ford – how will that affect Toyota? This is clouding a very bad jobs number – and the talking heads – as dumb as they are – this will be a pre-superbowl game that might be better than the main attraction!
Classic case (for many reasons mentioned above) of much more money than brains.
Marriage of mediocrity….I guess those stock options are worth something now…..Mr. Yang and Ms. Decker
Sorry, Karl, I will never use Vista. I got off the Microsoft train a long time ago and I will never go back. If this deal for Yahoo goes through, that will be the end of my Yahoo usage.
The deal is now destroying value…MSFT down 14B, YHOO up 12.5B. So much for Merger Friday.
How were those jobs numbers?
Just looking at mechanics of deal You can buy YHOO now at 10% discount to cash offer and get a call option on .95 shares MSFT that would be in the money if MSFT trades at 32.65.
"Barudjian (sp?) on CNBC is a great contrary indicator…he is spinning the jobs positive due to low wage pressure."
Since when has wage pressure been a significant factor in the econ big picture in this country?
This guy need an urgent visit from the Clue Fairy.
You would think given economy, stock market, credit crisis, housing that we would see overly bearish 10 day total put/call on the markt. To the contrary….it has plunged today to .99 and needs to get to 1.3 to mark a good market bottom. This is a tremendous short opportunity. Dow is hitting massive resistance at 12750 also the right shoulder of a massive topping pattern.
and msft's own attempts to do anything creative are miserably lacking. Has anyone tried LIve.com Maps in 3D. It's slower than a salted slug. Live search.. on windows mobile.. aarrgh. It works but it's just incredible how needlessly cludgy you can make something. Know anybody who LIKES Vista? but then YHOO is even worse in these creative genius sort of areas.
Really, reading this set of comments is totally amazing. It is amazing how totally totally wrong people can be is such a short amount of time.
No wonder most folks lose money in the market.
Let's take 'em one at a time.
I can't believe Microsoft is buying a company with a questionable business model for such an absurd amount of $$.
Can anyone on here do arithmetic? If MSFT gets YHOO's margins up to industry norms — and that's BEFORE any strategic synergies — MSFT will get a return of 7% on its investment. It's borderline, but it's not absurd.
Does it really matter? Does anyone seriously believe this will help them take significant search share from GOOG?
It's not JUST about search. It's about the entire suite of offerings. And as I noted in my post above, YHOO is the #1 site in page views. MORE THAN GOOGLE.
the only company in all of tech with a cash hoard just pissed it away.
Do people here know how to read press releases?? MSFT has proposed to acquire YHOO for $31 per share in cash or stock. The consideration would be payable in the form of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of MSFT common stock.
The two companies deserve each other. However, it does not matter because the sale/merger will not be approved.
Really? If anything, one can make the argument that this merger will actually INCREASE competition as Google is on its way to dominance (thought it isn't there yet).
The deal is now destroying value…MSFT down 14B, YHOO up 12.5B. So much for Merger Friday.
Uh…I have a word for you here…wait, it's on the tip of my tongue…oh, yeah, that's right, arbitrage. That's markets working.
Oh, and some more arithmetic. If the two companies were netted now with those numbers, the combined entity would be down just $2B which is way way under 1% of total cap.
Why buy Yahoo now?
The MS ANTI-Trust remedies, most of which were to expire by Feb 2008, were just extended to Nov 2009. That's a long time in IT and probably squashed any plans MS had to leverage their OS/browser to gain share over Google.
This week Yahoo announced layoffs (1/14 employees) so how can Yahoo say "no" to this offer?
"Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) had hoped the United States government would lift a significant portion of its anti-trust restrictions against the company at the end of the month. That's not happening. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Tuesday extended monitoring of Microsoft until November 2009."
Arbitrage is when the stocks involved are trading not exactly at the deal price. What seems to be happening here is value going from MSFT stock into YHOO stock, with the synergy of the deal causing 1.5 B to evaporate. Synergy is supposed to be 1+1>2, not 1+1<2. But it is no surprise because these mega mergers usually destroy shareholder value and MSFT has never done one this size. It is doomed to fail.
Nice to see all the common sense over here on the Big Picture. The SekkingAlpha crowd seem largely whipped up by the hype (or the opportunity to dump YHOO shares) at this time.
Did Ballmer promise not to throw a chair at them if they accepted?
So assuming the deal goes through(which is a big assumption)
Why would you buy MSFT instead of YHOO here? Can anyone think of a reason? You have a 31.00 put on Yahoo so you will at least get that and a call on MSFT so you participate in upside in MSFT above 32.65.
As A nerd, I think this would be a disaster. Yahoo has been a big contributer to the open source community. They just bought Zimbra for instance which is an open source collaboration software suite (think Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, etc).
What happens to these projects if Microsoft buys Yahoo? Killed most likely or at least severely curtailed.
In short I think this is a bad thing on many different levels.
Smells of Time Warner + AOL to me.
If the google doubleclick deal is approved (or it seems it's about to) then why not this one?
This administration has shown that it doesn't care what it is just as long as it makes money from it. Look at the FCC and the FTC they are approving deals that wouldn't see the light of day in previous administrations.
People that think it won't get done for anti-competitive reasons do not understand how the rubber stamp known as Bushco operates.
It will get done because simply because we will be presented it as "good for the economy"…..'nuff said
and the Justice department????
Please spare me that as they are more interested in investigating chocolate prices than why the NYMEX trades oil at a $30 premium
"People that think it won't get done for anti-competitive reasons do not understand how the rubber stamp known as Bushco operates."
The EU will be annoyed. I don't know whether that makes any difference……
Tie two rocks together and they still sink.
Steve Barry wrote:
Arbitrage is when the stocks involved are trading not exactly at the deal price. What seems to be happening here is value going from MSFT stock into YHOO stock, with the synergy of the deal causing 1.5 B to evaporate.
Excuse me..I should have said RISK arbitrage.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't be so hasty as to conclude that today's trading is somehow an indicator of the value creating/destroying prospects of this deal.
And, again, based on the combined entity, $1.5 billion down is nothing…it's a third of 1 percent. That can be made up in a an hour of trading next week.
No one seems to have mentioned it (or I missed the comment) but;
Time Warner and AOL was greeted favorably by the business press also.
Didn't turn out so well.
Ed Hopper
No one seems to have mentioned it (or I missed the comment) but;Time Warner and AOL was greeted favorably by the business press also.
Didn't turn out so well.
And there have been dozens of mergers/acquistions that have worked out well.
This means nothing.
"And there have been dozens of mergers/acquistions that have worked out well."
I saw AOL/TWX as a train wreck immediately. But, contrary to my expectations, HP/Compaq appears to have not been a disaster. One factor easily missed, though, are opportunity costs. IMHO, the amount wealth created by a merged company is often less than it would be had the companies stayed separate. And this can be true even if the merger looks profitable and successful on the balance sheets. I guess I'm talking about "rate of wealth creation". I'm a small time investor– maybe you pros have ways to model this.
Vermont Trader – IMHO, I think part of the MSFT buying yahoo is to kill off the Linux/Open Source threat. It is not just Apple, Linux is definitely a very viable threat to MSFT dominance. Yahoo has been a great sponsor spearheading Open Source – so buy the sponsor and jam the brakes on Linux and return another day to deal with Apple.
Also, I don't buy any bit of that 1+1 > 2 theory that those cheerleaders on CNBC were going on about that it will be a threat to Google.
Microsoft + Yahoo! = Kmart + Sears
Walmart wasn't too worried by the merger of the two rivals it beat out to become number one. I don't think Google's got much to be concerned about, either.
(That said, if Yahoo! loses its stupid name w/ the exclamation point, then for me, the merger was worth it.)
"And there have been dozens of mergers/acquistions that have worked out well.
This means nothing."
You obviously think I just pulled a bad merger out of my ass for comparison.
There are many parallels between this and the TW/AOL merger.
The areas on the surface that seem to make this merger worthwhile , are on closer inspection, not sound. IMHO
first, i own yahoo.
they have cash, ali baba, finance web site, yahoo japan etc. I started to use yahoo search. it is excellent. google search does not give the manufacturer's web site if you search for a product. i hated this. then i switched to yahoo. 1 week later i bought yahoo shares and sold some puts. I closed my puts today though. i find google searches too commercialized.
Yahoo is the new AOL They can't even make their email program work right, you gotta wonder…
Must be for the chance to stomp on OSS/Linux stuff.
Good thing this came up..I was about to go short.
What about a name?
MicroHoo? Or do you prefer YaSoft!
AOL (an overpriced, nightmarishly kludgy internet service and content provider) bought Time-Warner (a once-great but by then wildly out of sync content provider). The Deal from Hell, as history has shown.
Microsoft (an oversized, kludgy and often clueless software company) is proposing to buy Yahoo (a highly successful Internet ACCESS provider in lucrative partnerships with AT&T, Verizon, and others, with darn good Finance content to boot).
It could work. Time will tell.
Early this morning Goldman made an awfully timely call, putting out an analyst note at 3:56am PST suggesting that Microsoft should buy Yahoo — only to freeze analyst coverage of Microsoft at 6:55 AM PST on the news that Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo and it is providing i-banking support. Yay! Boo! Yay! Or something.
Yahoo! Inc(Y!Inc) does not "have" Yahoo Japan(YJ) in any sense. YJ is a joint venture between Y!Inc and Japan's Softbank. Y!Inc has a 33% stake in YJ, Softbank is the largest shareholder with 41%. The relationship between Y!Inc and YJ is best thought of as a licensing arrangement in which Y!Inc receives fee income for YJ's use of the same and some search-related technologies.
Y!Inc seems to have no interest in the Japanese market, as evidenced by this sale of Overture Japan (a very profitably business) to YJ for pennies on the dollar:
Interestingly, no one in the financial press (or in the crowd that is constantly monitoring the search engine and paid search market) seemed to have noticed that ridiculous sale, so kudos to Eric Jackson for making that info available on his Breakout Performance website.
That sell-off of Oveture Japan is what hurt Y!Inc's 2007Q4 international segment revenue decreased from 2006Q4. YJ had a great Q4.
You are probably right. Most IT folks know this is more true than not: "Boy, one thing that I've always said, and it's truer now than ever, is that M$ is a marketing company, not a software company." If you ask Borland folks, they'll say MS even "bought" Anders Hejlsberg from Borland ;-)
Yahoo has a lot of technology components, everything from mail, groups, shops, yui, flickr photosharing, etc. Just do a search on "yahoo buys". Hey, even Mark Cuban was rewarded handsomely from Yahoo. :-) According to Alexa, yahoo is ranked #1 for traffic.


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Bioblitzing the creepy crawlies
Years ago, I read a book by David Bodanis, The Secret Garden: Dawn to Dusk in the Astonishing Hidden World of the Garden, and was enthralled by this vibrant, busy, teeming world that we so heedlessly pass through. I have since spent many a peaceful evening examining the inner parts of tiny plants and the beasties that live on and under them.
So it was inevitable that I would start and end the Bioblitz with my eye to the magnifying lens.
This, however, is my first attempt at photographing what I am finding. Not the best photos, but definitely better than my scrawled notes and sketchy drawings.
These are all inhabitants of the soil around my back door; most too small to see with the naked eye; some, even with the 40x hand microscope are just little dots with legs. You'll see what I mean here:
The larger beetle-like thing* here was barely visible without a lens. Up on the left, there is a tinier beetle. I found quite a few of them; I could see them walking around, sometimes see that they are green, sometimes even see the two antennae. Nothing more.
About that larger one; they hop, like a grasshopper, whenever they are disturbed. There were many of them in a couple of pine cones. (*Later: these have been identified as springtails, Orchesella cincta. See note below photo on Flickr.)
This one was big enough to track without a lens. I caught him and photographed him on a paper towel. About 1 1/2 cm. (5/8 inch).
A millipede. Very tiny.
A pale brownish mite.
A centipede, the "large" variety. A bunch of smaller ones were impossible; too fast, too pale, too tiny.
A spider on a clay pot.
On the bottom of that pot, collembola, springtails. Isn't this one cute? I love these things; so busy, always, so shiny white, even in a bucket of mud, so irrepressible. (See note by Frans Janssens.)
Miniatures: red, shiny mites. These guys are really, really tough; put a piece of Scotch tape on them to hold them still while you go for a better light, come back and find them walking around in the glue. Pour alcohol on them, to disolve the glue; they slow down a bit, then recover and go on about their business as if nothing had happened. (Other beasties would die instantly.) I don't know if they get a hangover.
And macro-biota; an earthworm, trying to get out of the light. I left this in the larger size, so you can click on it and see the "ribs"; it looks rather like one of those outlet hoses for your dryer.
Not photographed: something that scuttled out of view very quickly. Baby slugs. Sowbugs. And, in the water in the bottom of that pot, some tiny swimming worms, about the length of the springtails, but much skinnier, of course.
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Doctor Who is definitely one of the most unique and well done shows on television. Oh, but I'm preaching to the choir, aren't I Nerdfighteria? I don't have to explain to you how awesome is EXPONENTIALLY increased every time that show airs. Anyway, I've pretty much been up the walls waiting this past week for last night's episode to air (Seriously, I'm pretty sure my parents thought I was on crack cocaine. And not the good kind). I was SO pumped. By the time 9:00 P.M. EST rolled…Continue
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Hey guys, i was going to post some different lyrics today, but i wrote this quickly for a celebrity that died today. i presume the death is drug related, but i am not the type of person that can judge people in death, because at the end of the day, a human has died and thats a sad thing.Even more so as she was only 27. So here is something i wrote quickly. I dont have time to go over it, and i may make changes to it, but this is the copy you will see.
Added by Alex Chapman on July 23, 2011 at 4:57pm — 2 Comments
Probably one of the biggest cliffhangers in the history of Doctor Who; and I am probably not the only fan who is going to go insane this summer while waiting for the next episode to air. Man do I hate BBC right now. ;)
This episode revealed so much.
Doctor Who Episode 7 Prequel - A Good Man goes to War
The only water in the forest is the river.
Melody Pond = River…Continue
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I had a blog on a different website, and I used to leave three periods after the title [like above], to show a continuation. I think that's what I'll do here as well.
The reason for this blog post is quite simple, I have a new favorite song. Its not what most people who 'know' me would think I would listen to. Not for stupid reasons,…Continue
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Was I the only one really freaked out by the gangers?!?!?
Their white, cracked faces....ugh
And the very end, when the Doctor's Doppleganger comes and..."Trust me, I'm the Doctor". Too! Freaky!
I really hate it when the episodes are in two parts, because the…Continue
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This week's episode of Doctor Who didn't have as many plot twists as the first two, but that doesn't "make" a Doctor WHo episode. Though it's one of the major characteristics, there is so much more...
Doctor Who - Episode 3 Preview
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Muslims in America in the Face of Terrorism
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Lawful & Prohibited
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Seeing Allah in the Hereafter!
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The Qur'an Reasons with Man
Position of Deviant Sects by the Sahabah
Sahabahs Readiness in Following Allah and the Messenger (saw) Part1 Part2
Benefits of Ramadan
Signs Before the Day of Judgement
Cure for the Cancer of Globalization
The Muslim Identity
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Chemtai Kaidar(LEFT)i, 19, a student, Amudat District
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Seasonal Update
Water: Water is now off in the campground sanitation building.
Drinking Water: Drinking water is available year-round at the park office.
Bathroom Facilities: Restroom facilities are now closed in the campground and falls area. Vault toilets are available year round.
Showers: Showers are now closed for the season in the campground.
Dump Station: Dump Station is now closed for the season.
Campgrounds: The campground has 61 drive-in campsites. Camping is available year-round. In winter, the park has campsites available for use in the B-loop of the campground, including electric (30 amp) and non-electric sites. The park's group camp is available for use year-round. The park's camper cabin is available for use year-round. Camper Cabin users must call to arrange for cabin key.
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I hate the fact that I don't see the default forum view now.
/me edits bookmarks to skip the new homepage.
When I first saw the 'portal' I didn't like it at all, I skipped fast to the forum instead...
Though we will see what the future brings, it might be more usefull than
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I hate the fact that I don't see the default forum view now.
/me edits bookmarks to skip the new homepage.
Everyone hates change. I will not decide how I feel about it for a few days
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What the hell!?!
I came onto the forum...and I got lost.
I no likey.
What is going through your head?
Why...why did you change it?
First, thanks to everyone for all of the feedback -- both here and privately.
I should have explained more about what I am trying to achieve and I should have run vBAdvanced for much longer before testing it as the home page.
vBAdvanced solves two requirements.
The first thing that vBAdvanced gives us is a way to store static content within the vBulletin framework. This will become important as we grow and develop even more really great premium content.
We already have a lot of great content, and members are having difficulty finding it. It's just not structured properly for easy access and step-by-step learning.
vBAdvanced can meet that requirement without being set as the communities front page.
The second thing that vBAdvanced gives us it the ability to highlight our premium content to new visitors and casual visitors. This is something that stickies just don't do well enough. This is something that pretty much requires a replacement of the home page.
If we look at what our members want, a lot of it is tutorials and training. We need a way to store that information in a structured manner and make it obviously available to new and casual members.
We're all webmasters here, and many of us are forum admins. What would you guys recommend to meet these two requirements?
I probably should have posted this message first. Sorry guys.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Looking at our top dozen competitors, here's what I see:
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- WarriorForum - Default forum home with useless stats display
- NamePros - Nicely customized forum home
- Black Hat World - Nicely customized vBAdvanced
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I have no interest in creating a sales-oriented front page like DigitalPoint or SEO.com.
The models I'm looking at are SitePoint, Cre8asite, and v7n.
I am hoping to do this inside of vBulletin, instead of implementing an integration with a CMS software like Joomla. Those integrations never "feel" tight enough.
What do you think?
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Create a forums.netbuilders.org pointing to NetBuilders - We Build The Net and I'll be very happy.
Also, top logo and all "home" links should point there imho.
In response to massively negative feedback, I've done a rollback on this new feature.
vBAdvanced is still installed, because it may still be useful for the first requirement.
We still need a solution for the issue of highlighting quality content for new and casual members.
As it is today, there is little "obvious" that distinguishes us from "just another webmaster forum." We may be the best webmaster forum on the Internet, but we still have to do something to get that message in front of both prospective members and casual members.
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
1) I've seen, and I use such on my forum, a recent posts addon. That in and of itself is not the suggestion, but is there a way to either mod such an addon, or create one specifically for this, that would instead list sticky posts and other posts you want to highlight?
2) When I ran a photography forum, and as such I was the most active member, I would put links in my own sig to posts I felt were important for newbies. You would, or whomever contributes their sigs, need to increase the number of allowed sig links, for that person only; of course, if possible.
3) Place links to the sites in my sig on the front page. (of course, this would solve nothing, it would just benefit me)
When I had my webmaster forums (Web Goro before 1and1 screwed me over and stole my domain), I had a featured site / community section on the front page that seemed to be popular with users as a lot of them would keep trying to get on my home page. When the votes came in though it was a festival of newbies though, then again some of them stayed around cause they liked all the articles I had (which in a few weeks if I can connect my old hard drive I will be sure to share them here).
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Research Topics
Ole L Munk
Affiliation: Aarhus University Hospital
Country: Denmark
Detail Information
- Model-independent plot of dynamic PET data facilitates data interpretation and model selectionOle Lajord Munk
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
J Theor Biol 295:1-8. 2012..The vi-plot is a model-independent and informative plot for data exploration that facilitates the selection of an appropriate method for data analysis...
- Impulse-response function of splanchnic circulation with model-independent constraints: theory and experimental validationOle L Munk
Positron Emisssion Tomography Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 285:G671-80. 2003..Similarity between our parameter estimates in pigs and parameter estimates in normal humans suggests that the proposed model can be adapted for use in humans...
- Capillaries within compartments: microvascular interpretation of dynamic positron emission tomography dataOle Lajord Munk
PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Norrebrogade 44, Aarhus DK 8000, Denmark
J Theor Biol 225:127-41. 2003..They are suitable for analysing dynamic PET data from any capillary bed using either intravascular or diffusible tracers, in terms of physiological parameters which include regional blood flow...
- Determination of regional flow by use of intravascular PET tracers: microvascular theory and experimental validation for pig liversOle Lajord Munk
PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
J Nucl Med 44:1862-70. 2003..The microvascular models, which account for concentration gradients in capillaries, are validated and compared with the standard model in a pig liver study...
- A method to estimate dispersion in sampling catheters and to calculate dispersion-free blood time-activity curvesOle Lajord Munk
PET Center Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Med Phys 35:3471-81. 2008..Once characteristic parameters are estimated, input functions can be corrected before applying kinetic models. This allows bias-free estimation of kinetic parameters such as blood flow...
- PET kinetics of radiolabeled antidepressant, [N-methyl-11C]mirtazapine, in the human brainOle L Munk
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark
EJNMMI Res 1:36. 2011..abstract:..
- Detection of alpha2-adrenergic receptors in brain of living pig with 11C-yohimbineSteen Jakobsen
Aarhus University PET Centre and Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus, Denmark
J Nucl Med 47:2008-15. 2006..As a prelude to human studies with (11)C-yohimbine, we determined the whole-body distribution of (11)C-yohimbine and calculated its dosimetry...
- Effect of hypercapnia on cerebral blood flow and blood volume in pigs studied by positron emission tomographyAage K Olsen
PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospitals and Aarhus University, DK 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Comp Med 56:416-20. 2006..086 ml blood/ml brain tissue (n = 6) during hypercapnia. Our observations indicate that pCO2 levels have a major influence on porcine CBF and CBV and should be controlled in studies where a constant level is crucial...
- MDMA-evoked changes in [11C]raclopride and [11C]NMSP binding in living pig brainPedro Rosa-Neto
Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University and PET Center, Aarhus University Hospitals, Aarhus C, 8000, Denmark
Synapse 53:222-33. 2004..Distinct properties of MDMA such as simultaneous release of dopamine and serotonin in brain may account for the present finding of progressive decline in the availability of [11C]NMSP binding sites in striatum...
- Hepatic blood perfusion estimated by dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography in pigs: limitations of the slope methodMichael Winterdahl
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Invest Radiol 47:588-95. 2012....
- Distribution of PK11195 binding sites in porcine brain studied by autoradiography in vitro and by positron emission tomographyPaul Cumming
PET Centre and Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Synapse 59:418-26. 2006..Thus, [11C]PK11195 binding was not highly sensitive to constituitively expressed PBBS in brain of young Landrace pigs, and did not clearly demonstrate the expected microglial activation in the MPTP/xenograft model of minipigs...
- Hepatic encephalopathy is associated with decreased cerebral oxygen metabolism and blood flow, not increased ammonia uptakeGitte Dam
PET Centre and Department of Nuclear Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Hepatology 57:258-65. 2013..Arterial blood ammonia concentration decreased 20% after recovery (P < 0.05) and CMRA was unchanged (P > 0.30); both values were higher than in the control patients (both P < 0.05)...
- Hepatic uptake and metabolism of galactose can be quantified in vivo by 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxygalactose positron emission tomographyMichael Sørensen
PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital, DK 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 295:G27-G36. 2008..At near-saturated kinetics, the maximal hepatic removal rate of galactose can be calculated from the net metabolic clearance of FDGal and the blood concentration of galactose...
- Dynamic FDG-PET is useful for detection of cholangiocarcinoma in patients with PSC listed for liver transplantationHanne Prytz
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Lund, Lund, Sweden
Hepatology 44:1572-80. 2006..In conclusion, dynamic FDG-PET appears superior to conventional imaging techniques for both detection and exclusion of CC in advanced PSC. FDG-PET may be useful for screening for CC in the pretransplant evaluation of patients with PSC...
- Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors in the brain of cirrhosis patients with manifest hepatic encephalopathyPeter Iversen
PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 33:810-6. 2006....
- Quantification of (18)F-FDG uptake in the liver using dynamic PETOle Lajord Munk
J Nucl Med 43:439-41. 2002
- Brain metabolism of 13N-ammonia during acute hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis measured by positron emission tomographySusanne Keiding
Department of Medicine V Hepatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Hepatology 43:42-50. 2006..In conclusion, increased cerebral trapping of ammonia in patients with cirrhosis with acute HE was primarily attributable to increased blood ammonia and to a minor extent to changed ammonia kinetics in the brain...
- Effect of intratumoral heterogeneity in oxygenation status on FMISO PET, autoradiography, and electrode Po2 measurements in murine tumorsMichael Sørensen
PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 62:854-61. 2005..To explore conflicting results obtained when tumor hypoxia is assessed with Eppendorf electrode Po(2) measurements and with positron emission tomography (PET) by use of [(18)F]fluoromisonidazole (FMISO)...
- Hepatic microcirculation assessed by positron emission tomography of first-pass ammonia metabolism in porcine liverSusanne Keiding
Department of Medicine V Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, DK 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Liver Int 25:171-6. 2005..We examined the effects of these vascular variations on porcine hepatic first-pass ammonia metabolism, which is characterised by high uptake and separate periportal urea and perivenous glutamine formations...
- Metabolic fate of 18F-FDG in mice bearing either SCCVII squamous cell carcinoma or C3H mammary carcinomaKatrin Kaarstad
PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
J Nucl Med 43:940-7. 2002..We therefore wished to characterize the metabolism of 18F-FDG in experimental tumors in mice...
- 11C-methionine PET, a novel method for measuring regional salivary gland function after radiotherapy of head and neck cancerSimon Buus
PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Noerrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Radiother Oncol 73:289-96. 2004..The aim of this study was to develop a positron emission tomography (PET) method for measuring regional salivary gland function in the major salivary glands irradiated during RT...
- Individual radiation response of parotid glands investigated by dynamic 11C-methionine PETSimon Buus
PET Centre, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Radiother Oncol 78:262-9. 2006..The aim of this study was to investigate by dynamic 11C-methionine PET the individual radiation dose response relationship of parotid glands in head and neck cancer patients...


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The ease of creating an online web mapping experience that taps a strong GIS foundation has gotten much easier over the past few years. A rich user experience that offers seamless map viewing along with tools for analysis and decision making is now very possible.
To my mind, this negates the "neo" vs. "paleo" debate and illustrates through compelling applications where GIS on the Web can take us. GIS has taken the leap to become more open and developer friendly, and allows both the "neo" and "paleo" crowd the tools to extend functionality almost to the limits of their imagination.
The CUNY Mapping Service is one organization that is illustrating this new power to an exciting degree. Their Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS) was a pioneering vision for web mapping back in 2000, and it's now getting a major upgrade. The organization is also responsible for creating the Long Island Index interactive map that combines regional planning data with a rich set of analysis capabilities to promote sustainable development.
I recently spoke at length to Steve Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service at the CUNY Graduate Center. He sums up the GIS community's backlash to the mash-up mentality very nicely:
"Once you think a little bit more about geographic data that you're working with and the potential to analyze information spatially and visualize it spatially, the different mash-ups that are out there that just show dot locations of things become very limited and repetitious. We're interested to try to go much further beyond the simple mash-up, and really think about how we can layer in more information in a way that facilitates understanding of relationships and how the world works in more interesting ways."
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As you work on SLOs, don't forget the lessons we learned from the process; that reflection is posted at the APPR 2.0 page of the APPR microsite. Additionally, there are new SLO resources on engageNY.org, including revised guidance and examples.
The transition to Common Core Regents examination memo has been revised. This was revised to make it clear that the old IA and new A1 exam administration will overlap in June 2014, August 2014, and January 2015. After that, only the new A1 Regents examination will be available.
The portal for ordering January Regents exams has been slightly delayed. It will open September 30th. The portal for ordering 3-8 exams is open now.
This advice about feedback rings true when providing feedback to students and adults alike.
If you encounter low expectations for students with disabilities or challenging circumstances, share this post about the "Least Dangerous Assumption." The post addresses the cultural roots and offers concrete tips to counter low expectations.
If you have been previously certified as a Lead Evaluator, please register for your Ongoing Lead Evaluator Training. Three sessions have been scheduled: October, January, and March. You can find the registration links at the Lead Evaluator Training page. Resources will be archived there, too. Each session is repeated four times so you can find one that best fits your schedule.
If you have been previously certified as a Principal Evaluator, please register for the ongoing Principal Evaluator Training. This year, there are three sessions to register for. Each session is scheduled once, however.
This provocative article from The Atlantic points out that we spend more on high-school athletes than high school math students; "The Case Against High-School Sports."
If you want higher test scores, do more physical fitness in schools. And, the more difficult the material, the more physical fitness might help.
The popular Responsive Classroom Level One course begins October 16th. Learn how a positive learning environment, along with effective management and engaging academics for the 21st Century, can be incorporated into classroom culture.
The 2013-2014 CNY NYS ASCD theme for the year is Data-Driven Instruction. The data focus of the last 15 years has been summative assessment data -- and not much has changed in our classrooms! So, we will focus on Common Formative Assessment as Data-Driven Instruction. You can find a complete list of dates at the website.
The first meeting is October 9th: What's a PLC, Really? Here's the flyer; here's the registration link.
Also, NYS ASCD is holding a symposium on Poverty and its Effect on Students' Ability to Learn on November 5th at Union College.
Research is Core& Common Core, that is! October 25th is a unique opportunity for teams of teachers and librarians across the region to work to define or refine research process, K-12. We will examine how research is different under Common Core Standards. Tools and processes will be shared to develop capacity to implement research process to meet rigorous standards. Registration is filling quickly.
The Teaching Channel has hour-long "specials" prepared for public television:
This source of on-line courses includes some that would apply to teachers – and they are free.
Paula Rutherford and the folks at Just ASK Publications have created a crosswalk between all of their resources and the NYS Teaching Standards. Instruction for All Students, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners, Creating a Culture for Learning, and Why Didn't I Learn This in College are all connected to the Standards.
Check out this special sneak preview of the Practitioners Workshops at the NYS State Middle School Conference! Now is the time to make arrangements for all of your middle-level staff to attend. It's close to home, this year, in Verona. Group rates make this the most cost-effective professional development imaginable – and all of it aligned to the Essential Elements, the Common Core, and College & Career Readiness. Take a deep dive with the Common Core at the Middle-Level in these preconference sessions: ELA with John Harmon, math with Andrew Chen, and literacy in content areas with Linda Ruest.
In the story from The Atlantic, a parent decides to do all of his daughter's homework for one week. Read about his experience. If you are talking about homework in your school, this is worth reading (after you get done with your homework).
The January Regents Examination schedule is posted here.


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|Sustained prolongation of the QTc interval after anesthesia with sevoflurane in infants during the first 6 months of life.
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|PMID: 12606907 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Sevoflurane, an inhalational anesthetic frequently administered to infants, prolongs the QT interval of the electrocardiogram in adults. A long QT interval resulting in fatal arrhythmia may also be responsible for some cases of sudden death in infants. As the QT interval increases during the second month of life and returns to the values recorded at birth by the sixth month, we evaluated the effect of sevoflurane on the QT interval during and after anesthesia in this particular population. METHODS: In this prospective two-group trial we examined pre-, peri-, and postoperative electrocardiograms of 36 infants aged 1 to 6 months scheduled for elective inguinal or umbilical hernia repair. Anesthesia was induced and maintained with either sevoflurane, or the well-established pediatric anesthetic halothane. Heart rate corrected (c) QTc and JTc interval (indicator of intraventricular conduction delays) were recorded from electrocardiograms before and during anesthesia, and at 60 min after emergence from anesthesia. RESULTS: Prolonged QTc was observed during sevoflurane anesthesia (mean [+/-SD], 473 +/- 19 ms, P< 0.01). Sixty minutes after emergence from anesthesia, QTc was still prolonged (433 +/- 15 ms) in infants treated with sevoflurane compared with those treated with halothane (407 +/- 33 ms, P< 0.01). Analogous differences were found for the JTc interval. CONCLUSIONS: Despite a shorter elimination time than better known inhalational anesthetics, sevoflurane induction and anesthesia results in sustained prolongations of QTc and JTc interval in infants in the first 6 months of life. Electrocardiogram monitoring until the QTc interval has returned to preanesthetic values may increase safety after sevoflurane anesthesia.
|Alex Loeckinger; Axel Kleinsasser; Stephan Maier; Bernhard Furtner; Christian Keller; Gabriele Kuehbacher; Karl H Lindner
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|Type: Clinical Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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|Title: Anesthesiology Volume: 98 ISSN: 0003-3022 ISO Abbreviation: Anesthesiology Publication Date: 2003 Mar
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|Created Date: 2003-02-27 Completed Date: 2003-03-27 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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|Nlm Unique ID: 1300217 Medline TA: Anesthesiology Country: United States
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|Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria. firstname.lastname@example.com
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Halothane / pharmacology
Infant, Newborn
Methyl Ethers / pharmacokinetics, pharmacology*
Prospective Studies
Time Factors
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Development of Silver Spring's new library will roll forward, whether or not the Purple Line mass-transit project runs through its ground floor, the hood's regional director said.
"The county executive wants this library project to move forward. He also doesn't want to create a roadblock to the Purple Line" Gary Stith, director of Silver Spring's regional center, told the pedestrian safety committee Monday night. "We're going to have to find a way to work around this."
Early plans spread the library's collection over two floors on the corner of Fenton and Bonifant streets, according to library manager Dan Beavin. If state planners choose a Bonifant Street route for the Purple Line, there could be a station through the library's first floor.
Along with the Purple Line station, the library site could have up to 120 free parking spots, Beavin said. "That's a lot in an urban center like this," he admitted.
"A lot of people will be walking to this library, but not everybody," Beavin said. "We have a lot of people who live in the suburban areas and need to drive."
Some with the pedestrian safety committee objected to having that many free parking spots, though they did feel some parking was needed. "We have to get out of this car mentality, but we do need handicap parking," one unidentified woman told the committee.
However, one downtown resident felt ample free parking was necessary. Felicia Eberling, who lives across Colesville Road from the current library, believed the Purple Line wasn't expansive enough to transport library patrons from Silver Spring's more suburban neighborhoods to the downtown area.
"This isn't a city," she told the committee. "This is a suburb that's gone development crazy."
Questions of the future library's size also have been raised. According to a planning department study, Silver Spring's new library will serve 87,000 patrons within about 40,000 square feet of space. That size is comparable to the new library in suburban Germantown, Beavin explained.
Compare that with the library in Rockville's town center. That facility serves 53,000 patrons within 62,000 square feet of space. It also has 160,000 items circulating in its collection, Beavin explained.
The amount of reading material at Silver Spring's library would be "way smaller than Wheaton, way smaller than Rockville," Beavin admitted. Currently, the Silver Spring library has 100,000 items in circulation. That's expected to grow to 125,000 once the new library is complete, Beavin said.
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The city of Battle Creek may add to its wish list of capital improvements about $13.2 million worth of new projects, with heavy investments in roads, parks and police and fire equipment.
The city's capital improvement program is updated annually. It serves as a blueprint for projects over the next six years which usually are for improving and maintaining property. Some 180 projects and $131.6 million in spending are outlined in the proposed 2015-2020 program, although approval of the plan does not mean the OK for all individual projects. ...


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I am a fairly experienced rider who rides about a thousand miles a year for the past 3. I am looking for riders to ride the roads with. I can do 30-60 miles at a pretty decent pace, but I really have no riders that I know at my level. Trying to join a couple races this year I am looking for a group or team to ride with in the 2010 season.


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Alien movies seem to be on the rise. District 9 was a huge hit critically and financially, we got Master of Wanton Destruction Roland Emmerich courting Independence Day 2 and 3, Super 8 from JJ Abrams in 2011 (one can assume it's about an alien), and of course we have Ridley Scott making two prequels to Alien. And in 2011, we get another mysterious one; not from story, but from what's gonna be shown.
Janathan Liebesman (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) directs Battle: Los Angeles; a film about a Marine platoon fighting an alien invasion in Montana...no, of course it's LA. No solid images have been released for the film as of yet showing the alien critter (which is a huge shocker considering nowadays); IMPAwards has their hands on five teaser posters, which I think look pretty cool. But also the fifth (dubbed Los Angeles 2011) seems to actually show what they look like.
Well, Battle: Los Angeles is being released March 11, 2011 and hopefully we'll be getting a trailer within the next couple of weeks to get the mouth watering.


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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Defending champions New Zealand are on pace to reach the final of the Dubai Sevens after Tomasi Cama scored two tries in a 28-7 win over upstarts Portugal in their quarterfinal on Saturday.
New Zealand, which opened the season by winning the Gold Coast title, will next face Kenya which downed Canada 19-7. In the other quarterfinals, last year's finalist France scored a late penalty to beat Fiji 8-5 while Samoa swept aside Wales 19-7.
England, which was looking for a third straight Dubai title, continued its bad run with a 24-14 loss to Argentina in the Bowl quarterfinal.
Portugal struck first against New Zealand to take an early 7-0
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text: Jefferson Davis Academy 4-H Club is reorganizing. Depending on the program, club meetings have also been held in barns and on farms.The club meetings are conducted by club officers, a club member will present a demonstration and a speaker or an activity is part of a program. The club visited a greenhouse to learn about watermelon transplants, a commercial swine farm, a horse farm to learn horse conformation and how to age deer jawbones and score antlers. Since 2010, 4-H Volunteer Leader Brent Johnson has provided leadership to the club. The club is open to youth ages 5-19.