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Yankees Wash Fans Out of Stadium Before Game
The New York Yankees' front office has not been invited to the NRA convention in Phoenix this weekend, but they should have been. Their breakout session on How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot Repeatedly with a Semi-Automatic Weapon would have drawn crowds, even to the expensive seats up front.
However, those crowds might have been kicked out prematurely by Yankee Stadium ushers like the ushers did to Yankees fans during the rain delay last night. Some ushers told fans the game had been canceled around 9 pm ET. This would have been brilliant crowd control except the game then started at 9:20 pm.
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See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryLine breaks: back|gam¦mon
Pronunciation: /ˈbakɡamən/
Definition of backgammon in English:
noun[mass noun]
1A board game in which two players move their pieces around twenty-four triangular points according to the throw of dice, the winner being the first to remove all their pieces from the board.
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- Also included are checkers and backgammon boards and pieces.
- Compare backgammon, where first moves for each possible opening dice roll are well-analysed, but there is virtually no opening theory after that.
- The aim of the game, as in modern backgammon, is to move all your pieces to your 'home ground' and then off the board before your opponent can do so with theirs.
1.1 [count noun] The most complete form of win in the game of backgammon.
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Dan Snyder Not on RFK Gala Guest List
The highlight of RFK Stadium's season-long 50th Anniversary celebration comes tomorrow night with a dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Earlier today, Events DC, the quasi-governmental body that which now operates the stadium and is putting on the anniversary shindig, released a list of featured guests and expected attendees.
The roster's full of vintage local heroes who were with the Redskins during the fairly glorious 1970s (Brig Owens, Roy Jefferson, and Charley Taylor, among others) and others from the supremely glorious 1980s (Raleigh McKenzie, Doc Walker, George Starke). There's also some lightly remembered folks from the expansion Washington Senators and even a few from the USFL's Washington Federals (Phil Dubois? Buddy Hardeman?), and assorted politicos (Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Vince Gray).
The name that really jumps out from the guest list, however, is one that's not on it: Dan Snyder.
The Redskins owner, of course, brings up how much RFK once meant to him about as often as a baby brings up dinner. And we know how much Snyder loves anniversaries. And it's well known the stadium folks and Snyder's organization have been talking for the last several years about the team making some sort of comeback on these grounds, even if it's just for a new Redskins Park.
Rumors about the Redskins' return to D.C. have picked up ever since Gray and some city councilmembers flew to Florida to inspect the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' training center.
So I was surprised that Snyder's passing up this climactic anniversary function. I asked a source with the party planners if Snyder was invited: "Yes of course he was invited," was the reply.
When I asked Redskins spokesman Tony Wyllie, he replied only, "We will have representatives there." Maybe a desire to not raise any eyebrows before a deal with the RFK Stadium people is actually done caused Snyder to not send in an affirmative RSVP. Or, continuing in this French vein: Perhaps he'll be off holidaying on his new-to-him $70 million boat somewhere on the Riviera.


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So we got sick of homework and decide to do some anatomy...yeah! Anyways so we mess around a little and end up 69ing with me on top.
Shits going great until I feel my lady massaging my asshole... So I'm kinda like uh...WTF... I ask her why she's rubbing my asshole and she tells me she read that guys love it and she "really wanted to"
I let it slide because it isn't hurting me and I don't really have the heart to tell her I think it's downright fucking weird. I'm enjoying the head, and that's when it happens-
She entered in my exit and she fucking stuck 2 of her fingers into my asshole while were 69ing! My butthole clenched up so tight I'm damn surpised her fingers didn't get cut off. I'm off of her fast as he'll like WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!! And she responds by lickig one of her fingers. I almost threw up. She realizes I'm legitimately freaked out and asks what wrong and I get mad telling her she shouldn't have done that, it was weird and I didn't want it. She gets mad about it, complaining that she read that guys love it so therefore I will too. I told her she should have asked and stuff, and she got mad at me and left.
She got mad at me because I didn't like her putting her fucking fingers in my asshole!
Anyways... Yeah just a weird story I thought I'd share. And can anyone here actually vouch for her because there's no way a majority of men can be pleased by that...


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Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
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After finishing his education at the University of Munich, the German pharmacist Dr. Heinrich Rothdauscher (1851–1937) spent the years 1873 to 1883 working in drugstores in Manila, Cebu, and Vigan. He eventually finished writing an account of his experiences in a work entitled "Memoirs of a German Pharmacist" in 1932. Presented here is a translation of two chapters of a short expedition to the Cordilleras in 1878, which contain interesting literary, historical, and ethnographic elements.
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Virtual Colonoscopy Can Spot Osteoporosis
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Dec. 2, 2008 (Chicago) -- Virtual colonoscopy -- colon cancer screening via CT scans -- can also be used to screen people for the bone disorder osteoporosis, researchers report.
"If you're trying to decide whether to have a colonoscopy or virtual colonoscopy, you may want to opt for the latter as it has the added benefit of allowing us to determine your bone mineral density at the same time," says Rizwan Aslam, MBChB, assistant clinical professor of radiology at the University of California San Francisco. Low bone mineral density can indicate osteoporosis.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), he noted that colorectal cancer and osteoporosis generally affect adults over age 50.
Virtual colonoscopy, also known as CT colonography, begins with an abdominal CT scan, which creates cross-sectional images of all structures in the abdomen, including the spine. Computer software then arranges the CT images to create a "fly-through" view of the colon, allowing doctors to look for polyps that can lead to cancer as well as cancer itself.
Using the same CT images, another software application can create three-dimensional images of the spine, allowing bone mineral density to be measured.
Recent studies suggest that virtual colonoscopy is as accurate as the real thing, and this year, the American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiology, and the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer added CT colonography to the list of colon cancer screening options.
Still, only about 40% of people get the recommended colon cancer screenings, Aslam says. The added benefit of being able to screen for osteoporosis using virtual colonoscopy may help improve that statistic, he says.
"It's just a question of manipulating the same data for extra information," he says.
The Downside of Virtual Colonoscopy
A downside of virtual colonoscopy is that it requires the same bowel prep (cleansing of the bowels) as a real colonoscopy, says RSNA spokesman Philip O. Alderson, MD, dean of St. Louis University School of Medicine.
"Here is a chance to get an elegant look at bone mineral density without an extra procedure, and that's great. But what will really make patients want virtual colonoscopy is when we figure out how to do it without the rigorous prep," he tells WebMD.
The new study, conducted at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital, involved 30 men and five women aged 54 to 79. Bone mineral density measurements obtained from the virtual colonoscopy scans were compared with those obtained using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), the standard bone density screening tool.
"There was excellent correlation," Aslam says.
"CT colonography isn't a replacement for DEXA testing, but it could be a way to screen more people for osteoporosis using off-the-shelf software that any doctor can obtain," he says.
Aslam says that if a virtual colonoscopy scan shows a person has low bone density, "treatment can be started right away. Then, the next follow-up exam would be DEXA."
According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, 10 million Americans have osteoporosis. A out 34 million more are at risk because of low bone mass.
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I like his body and the motion in the image.
He looks great. But his eyes remind me more of Naruto when he's sad... maybe because in the manga we've seen him so angry (and laughing) lately!
love the way you did his chest :3 he kind of looks like he's sticking his tongue out though...


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|Episode Info
Episode number: 7x1
Production Number: 701
Airdate: Thursday October 25th, 2007
Network: NBC
Director: Bill Lawrence
Writer: Garrett Donovan, Neil Goldman
Alternate Airdates:
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As Dr. Kim Briggs
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John C. McGinley
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Judy Reyes
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|Bill Lawrence  | Garrett Donovan  | Bill Callahan (1)  | Neil Goldman
|• Co-Executive Producer
|Mike Schwartz  | Janae Bakken  | Mark Stegemann  | Debra Fordham
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Hudsucker tells the fictitious tale of the invention of the Hula-Hoop by a bright young mailroom clerk that works for a monstrous bureaucracy of which we are not sure what they produce.
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|PG for mild language and thematic elements
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|March 18, 1994
|Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman
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Happy December to everyone. I am very very excited this season as this not only means a gift of 3DS-XL for yours truly, there are just too many things that truly set apart December from all the other months. Be it your love for snow, family, or just time off from life, December is truly one of the most-awaited months of the year.
The Christmas holidays is the most exciting event of the year for many and as a group, MF4L admins would like to wish you a wonderful holiday season but more importantly...
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I am pleased to announce the commencement of the MF4L 2012 Christmas Contest. Taking inspiration to the weather, the ambiance, and the love of the EB series, we would like to encourage you to write, draw, sculpt, or take a picture of what you think a Christmas or winter would be like for your favourite Mother/EB character. But taking this into an even better extreme, as suggested by Silly-Sphere, we would love to adorn our front page with pictures of enemies and heroes 'bein' friends'. It would be great to see some artwork featuring the silliest, funniest and most evil bosses and enemies our heroes have encountered during their journeys setting aside their differences with our heroes and celebrating Christmas together.
A minimum of 10 participants is necessary for the contest to go ahead.
This contest is open to ALL. LET'S SPREAD THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!
A minimum of ONE enemy, ranging from the silly to the terrifying per entry.
ANY medium of art is allowed.
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NO stealing other people's art! That includes the usage of bases, tracing, etc.
Please enter art created solely for this contest. Do not enter old artwork that seems to fit around the theme of the contest.
You must be willing to let your image/story/icon/whathaveyou, if it wins, be used in various forms including but not limited to journal features.
Please submit to the CORRECT folder. I cannot stress this enough.
Make sure your artwork fits the theme, not the theme fit your artwork.
Mature artwork will NOT be accepted.
Deadline is on 11:59:59pm of December the 23, 2012, Vancouver Time
To see how much time is left, visit this link: www.timeanddate.com/countdown/…
We are in need of more people to donate prizes. This section will be edited further on in the competition. But just to whet your competitive appetites, 60+ points are up for grabs in this contest, courtesy of Silly-Sphere.
EDIT(5/12/2012): Prize-givers may join.
Thanks very much for your attention and have a lovely festive season.
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Does it have to be a drawing? Because I was going to write something instead.
Conflict resolved. Thanks for bringing this up PurpleMagechan.
Oh, I thought I had signed up to draw a picture for the winner?
Ah, well I suppose I'll just participate then.
Ah, well I suppose I'll just participate then.
I can donate 40 points. Who should I give them to?
I'm not quite sure of what I want to do but, I'll try.
Cool, I'm really excited about this! I'm joining, not for prizes since I'm donating one, but just for fun.
I'm in
I can try, I'll write something for it. Hmm.
I'm in! I can also offer a prize, just a free drawing though. Full color, I guess?
I'm in.


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Canary Islands
From eRepublik Official Wiki
Canary Islands
Islas Canarias
Islas Canarias
The Canary Islands (Islas Canarias) is an island region of Spain. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the capital of the region.
Canary Islands is neighbored by following regions:
- Portugal, Andalucia
- Venezuela, Guayana
- Portugal, Madeira
- Brazil, North of Brazil
- Mexico, Southeast of Mexico
The region is originally from Spain and has been conquered conquered by many countries, such as Brazil, Poland and USA.
|Regions of Portugal
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In 1627, Schiller's Coelum Stellatum Christianum attempted to replace the mythical constellation figures with Christian figures. More from the Linda Hall Library Digital Services Unit. Art, illustration, and astronomy aficionados will appreciate the beauty of historic celestial atlas illustrations: Bayer's Uranometria 1603 (also the 1661 Edition), Flamsteed - Fortin Atlas Celeste - 1776 (text intro), Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson. HubbleSource is cleaning up scans from one historic atlas and making them available in web and hi-res versions for use in non-commercial applications. (See also: David Rumsey Map Collection, and the exhibition Out of this World (index & T.O.C.), more Images, Artwork and Historical Objects at the US Naval Observatory. [more inside]
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So I'm driving to Salina, KS in the middle of the night and I realize that in all that nothing, I can look out my windshield and I can see stars. Like, all the stars. And I think that it's a bummer that I don't know that much about what it is I'm looking at.
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Star Atlases, Mercator Globes and Celestial Sundries [more inside]
Celestial Atlases are perhaps some of the most beautiful scientific books ever published, capturing the mystery and the grandeur of the heavens, and rife with beautiful and often intimidating interpretations of the constellations. Out Of This World has been my favorite website since the dawning of time, and one I go back to over and over again even though it never changes. The period from 1603 to 1801 produced the most beautiful star maps, and you don't have to know a thing about astronomy to appreciate how heavenly these are.
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Hi the first horse is my Warmblood mare Delta park dainty lady. She is 4 and is my young dressage horse. The second is my dressage pony Maralinga Hassain who is a Arabian riding pony, he is 19 and partly retired. Could you please critique them both for me.
Thanks :)
How tall is your 4 year old? I love her head set! She has the same white socks on her hind feet that my horse does! lol
Aw shes lovely-still got some serious filling out to do if shes only four! I bet she will be a completely different animal by the time she hits 6/7!
all the best with her!
Pony looks nicely put together and his age doesnt seem to have effected his good looks! lol
Elz x
she is 16.3hh
Very nice head...though a little bit vertically challenged by the looks of it....... :D
It is two different horses Kiki......hehehe
One is a warmblood and the other is her pony! hence looking vertically challenged.
Elz x
You're horses are stunning.
I love the warmblood its rare that i see a pretty headed warmblood.
And you're horse has a Pretty head!
Beautiful horses.
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A replacement word for "hippo"
or when you are very mad
it DOES not mean "fuck you"
or when you are very mad
it DOES not mean "fuck you"
"Sally, I lost your credit card!..."
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A woman's genital region
At her time of the month, a woman can be described as having a sticky foo...
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short for fool. Like calling someone a fool, but they are so stupid they don't deserve the last "l" so you just call them foo.
That foo stuck his finger in the flame to see if it was warm.
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A very innocent contraction of the world fool. But you know, some people type foo', what doesn't change the meaning of foo. Or fool. Whatever.
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Lunchtime doodle request.
omg her boobies... dont look directly at it lol
idk if i should giggle or scream
She's so adorable! >v<
the typical random thing that makes my day
She'd make sucess in innsmouth
why does this look like me?
LOL, that's...different
Uuuuuummmmmmm......nice choose of colour's
She looks like the Missing Link from Monsters versus Aliens! Funny little picture!
I just found my future Halloween costume.
why. why would you do this...
I love her expression!
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Lol I love it!
I have seen many of these creatures at beaches unfortunately many of them aren't wearing any bikini they're very gross (aka average nude bathing old lady)
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Made me laugh, that's great!
Made me laugh, that's great!
Looks something that you would find waltzing around Bikini Bottom. Just sayin'.
That's adorable
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I think I met this lady (or perhaps her ugly sister) in Kapaa, Kauai.
So pretty. Them mermaid hos can't even touch her.
Oh lord, I transform into her every once in a while.
did someone really request a boobie monster
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oh my gah, a real boob monster... i know some guys that would still hit it... yep, they are THAT desperate.
You've out-done yourself.
Awesomely funny.
Awesomely funny.
There use to be a pub called the cock and boob in my hometown XD
haha xD
Dayum, that's one sexy monster!
Eh, this reminds me of Beetlejuice. Don't ask why, I don't know
I like it
I like it
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|Great Potoo with chick.
|Scientific classification
| Nyctibiiformes
| Nyctibiidae
Bonaparte, 1853
| Nyctibius
Vieillot, 1816
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|Global range (In red)
The potoos are a family, Nyctibiidae of near passerine birds related to the nightjars and frogmouths. They are sometimes called Poor-me-ones, after their haunting calls. There are seven species in one genus, Nyctibius, in tropical Central and South America.
These are nocturnal insectivores which lack the bristles around the mouth found in the true nightjars. They hunt from a perch like a shrike or flycatcher. During the day they perch upright on tree stumps, camouflaged to look like part of the stump. The single spotted egg is laid directly on the top of a stump.
Evolution and taxonomy
The potoos are today an exclusively New World family, but they apparently had a much more widespread distribution in the past. Fossil remains of potoos dating from the Oligocene and Eocene have been found in France and Germany.[2] A complete skeleton of the genus Paraprefica has been found in Messel, Germany. It had skull and leg features similar to those of modern potoos, suggesting that it may be an early close relative of the modern potoos. Because the only fossils other than these ancient ones that have been found are recent ones of extant species, it is unknown if the family once had a global distribution which has contracted or if the distribution of the family was originally restricted to the Old World and has shifted to the New World.
A 1996 study of the mitochondrial DNA of the potoos supported the monophyly of the family although it did not support the previous assumption that it was closely related to the oilbirds.[3] The study also found a great deal of genetic divergence between the species, suggesting that these species are themselves very old. The level of divergence is the highest of any genera of birds and is more typical of the divergence between genera or even families. This raises the possibility that there are several cryptic species to be discovered. For example the Northern Potoo was for a long time considered to be the same species as the Common Potoo, but the two species have now been separated on the basis of their calls. In spite of this there is no morphological way to separate the two species.[4]
The potoos are a highly conservative family in appearance, with all the species closely resembling one another, and even species accounts in ornithological literature remark on the unusualness of their appearance.[4] Potoos range from 21–58 cm in length. They resemble upright sitting nightjars, a group they are closely related to. They also resemble the frogmouths of Australasia, but are stockier and have much heavier bills. They have proportionally large heads for their body size and long wings and tails. The large head is dominated by a massive broad bill and enormous eyes. In the treatment of the family in the Handbook of the Birds of the World, Cohn-Haft describes the potoos as little more than a flying mouth and eyes.[4] The bill, while large and broad, is also short, barely projecting past the face. It is also delicate, but has a unique "tooth" on the cutting edge of the upper mandible that may serve a function in foraging. Unlike the closely related nightjars the potoos lack rictal bristles around the mouth. The legs and feet are weak and used for perching only.
The eyes are large, even larger than those of related nightbirds in the order Caprimulgiformes. As in many species of nocturnal birds, they reflect the light of torches.[5] These eyes, which could be conspicuous to potential predators during the day, have unusual slits in the lids.[6] The slits allow potoos to sense movement even when their eyes are completely closed. The plumage of potoos is cryptic and designed to help them blend into the branches on which they spend their days.
Habitat and distribution
The potoos have a Neotropical distribution.[4] They range from Mexico to Argentina, with the greatest diversity occurring in the Amazon Basin, which holds five species. They are found in every Central and South American country except Chile. They also occur on three Caribbean islands: Jamaica, Hispaniola and Tobago. The potoos are generally highly sedentary, although there are occasional reports of vagrants, particularly species that have travelled on ships. All species occur in humid forests, although a few species also occur in drier forests.
The potoos are highly nocturnal and generally will not fly during the day. They spend the day perched on branches with the eyes half closed. With their cryptic plumage they resemble stumps, and should they detect potential danger they will adopt a "freeze" position which even more closely resembles a broken branch.[7] The transition between perching and the freeze position is gradual and hardly perceptible to the observer.
Potoos feed at dusk and at night on flying insects.[4] Their typical foraging technique is to perch on a branch and occasionally fly out in the manner of a flycatcherTemplate:Disambiguation needed in order to snatch a passing insect. They will occasionally fly to vegetation to glean an insect off it before returning to their perch, but they will not attempt to obtain prey from the ground. Beetles form a large part of their diet, but they will also take moths, grasshoppers and termites. One Northern Potoo was found with a small bird in its stomach as well. Having caught an insect potoos will swallow it whole without beating or crushing it.
Potoos are monogamous breeders and both parents share responsibilities for incubating the egg and raising the chick. The family does not construct a nest of any kind, instead laying the single egg on a depression in a branch or at the top of a rotten stump. The egg is white with purple-brown spots. One parent, often the male, incubates the egg during the day, then the duties are shared during the night. Changeovers to relieve incubating parents and feed chicks are infrequent in order to minimise attention to the nest, as potoos are entirely reliant on camouflage to protect themselves and their nesting site from predators. The chick will hatch about one month after laying and the nestling phase is two month, a considerable length of time for a landbird. The plumage of nestling potoos is white and once they are too large to hide under their parents they will adopt the same freeze position as their parents, and resemble a clump of fungus.
|Species of potoos in TiF order.[1]
|Rufous Potoo,
Nyctibius bracteatus
|Guianas to E. Peru.[8] Sedentary.[8]
|Differs from the other potoos in morphology and vocalizations; could warrant a new genus.[8]
|Great Potoo,
Nyctibius grandis
|S. Mexico to S. Brazil.[8] Sedentary.[8]
|Long-tailed Potoo,
Nyctibius aethereus
|Sedentary.[8] N. a. aethereus: north and east Brazil to northeast Argentina.[8]
N. a. chocoensis: west Colombia.[8]
|Common Potoo/Grey Potoo,
Nyctibius griseus
|Sedentary.[8] N. g. griseus: Trinidad and Tobago, northern Argentina, and south Brazil.[8]
N. g. panamanensis: east Nicaragua, southwest Costa Rica to west Ecuador.[8]
|Northern is identical and can only be separated by voice and range.[8]
|Northern Potoo,
Nyctibius jamaicensis
|Sedentary, but vagrant to Mona and Desecheo Islands (off Puerto Rico) and Cuba.[8]
N. j. jamaicensis: Jamaica.[8]
|Common is identical and can only be separated by voice and range.[8]
|Andean Potoo,
Nyctibius maculosus
|White-winged Potoo,
Nyctibius leucopterus
- ^ a b John H. Boyd III (December 11, 2011). "METAVES II: Cypselomorphae, Steatornithiformes, Nyctibiiformes, Podargiformes, Caprimulgiformes". TiF Checklist. http://jboyd.net/Taxo/List4.html. Retrieved 8-02-2016.
- ^ Mayr, G (2005) "The Palaeogene Old World Potoo Paraprefica Mayr, 1999 (Aves, Nyctibiidae): its osteology and affinities to the New World Preficinae Olson, 1987" Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 3 (4): 359–370 doi:10.1017/S1477201905001653
- ^ Mariaux, Jean & Braun, Michael J. (1996): A Molecular Phylogenetic Survey of the Nightjars and Allies (Caprimulgiformes) with Special Emphasis on the Potoos (Nyctibiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 6(2): 228–244. doi:10.1006/mpev.1996.0073
- ^ a b c d e Cohn-Haft, M (1999) "Family Nyctibiidae (Potoos)". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Sargatal, J. (editors). (1999). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 5: Barn-Owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions. P.p. 288-297 ISBN 8487334253
- ^ Van Rossem, A (1927) "Eye Shine in Birds, with Notes on the Feeding Habits of Some Goatsuckers". The Condor 29 (1) 25-28
- ^ Borrero, J (1974) "Notes on the Structure of the Upper Eyelid of Potoos (Nyctibius)". The Condor 76 (2): 210-211
- ^ Perry, D (1979) "The Great Potoo in Costa Rica". The Condor 81 (3): 320-321
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cleere, Nigel (2010). Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird and Owlet-nightjars of the World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691148571.
External links
- Potoo videos on the Internet Bird Collection
|This article is part of Project Bird Orders, a All Birds project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each bird order, including made-up orders.
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Billing for upcoming months services
Just curious how many (if any) of you charge in advance for monthly services. I've been sending out invoices on the 15th for payment on the 1st and haven't had any issues. A new customer I just started with referred me to a property management company and said that they would most likely have an issue with my billing cycle and stated that he had never seen anyone bill as I do. Ill bill however the PM co wants if the price is right but I wanted to get some feedback from some of you guys to see if I am doing things correctly.
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I bill this same way for commercial lawn maintenance and both residential and commercial snow removal.
I will tell you that most clients are ok with this if explained in advance, however a portion of clients (particularly property management firms for condo association s)
Prove yourself with quality, dependable service and most (not all) clients will have no problem with any billing format you suggest.
Remember that the client may have been stiffed in the past, and may be reluctant as a result... not that they dont trust you specifically.
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I've been requested to add analytics stuff on a app that I'm working on, and one of the events that I need to track is: in what screen of the app the user was when he touched an AD.
That seems strange to me, and I think its not possible to do it on a reliable way. I tried looking online but with no luck.
We are using multiple ad networks, so I thought of adding some event that tracks when the user leaves the app (ads usually do that).
Anyone know a better way to do that, or even, if is it possible to do that with any ad network?
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Samsung Hikes Apple Component Price By 20%
Two months ago, when we commented on Apple's pyrrhic courtroom victory in which it managed to halt sales of older generation Samsung smartphones - a "victory" which would backfire with Samsung phone sales soaring, while AAPL results missed, forcing the company to accelerate its product launch cadence to a ridiculous 3 months with news that the iPhone 5s is already in the works a month after the launch of the iphone 5 - we said "The paradox here is that AAPL's victory is quite pyrrhic: if and when Samsung feels sufficiently threatened, it can just pull a Gazprom and halt the supply of mission critical components to the world's biggest publicly traded company." Naturally, the hyperbolic all out response would mean an immediate nuclear war of attrition between the two electronics giants. Instead Samsung would be even better served to show Apple who is boss in quantized increments. Today, it has done just that, forcing Apple to swallow a 20% price increase on hundreds of millions of Samsung application processors used in iPads and iPhones. "Apple first disapproved it, but finding no replacement supplier, it accepted the (increase.)" Game, set, match Samsung.
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Samsung Electronics , the world's largest technology firm by revenue, raised the price of mobile processor supplied to Apple Inc. AAPL -0.25% by 20% recently, Chosun Ilbo reported Monday, citing a person familiar with negotiations between the two tech giants.
"Samsung Electronics recently asked Apple for a significant price raise in (the mobile processor known as) application processor," the person was quoted as saying in the report. "Apple first disapproved it, but finding no replacement supplier, it accepted the (increase.)"
The two firms have started to reflect the new supply price recently, the report added, citing the same person.
According to the report, Apple buys all APs used for production of iPhone and iPad from Samsung Electronics with the volume estimated to be 130 million units last year and more than 200 million units this year.
Samsung Electronics has a long-term contract to supply APs to Apple until 2014, the report added.
Two things will come out this development:
i) Apple profit margins, as in go down materially; and
ii) Samsung leverage, as in surge.
Because Apple flexed its muscles in US-based courts, and won as was largely expected, in the process ushering "Patents Wars 2: The Asian Empire Strikes Back - Are The Tables About To Turn On Apple?" (they did), and also letting Samsung understand that a little mutual game theory defection may be useful to teach its unruly client a few lessons.
What is for now unknown, but is certainly the biggest risk factor for the world's biggest company by market cap, is how other supply chain verticals will take this retreat by Apple: if recent dramatic events in South African labor relations are any indication, expect every other Apple product supplier to attempt to squeeze incremental profitability out of their own existing relationships with the behemoth which will have no choice but to yield to a coordinated attempt at extracting concessions, now that the balance of power has shifted dramatically in the favor of the suppliers.
One thing is certain: Samsung has nothing to fear in terms of future legal escalation from Apple now or any point in the future.
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Apple's executives are meeting right now, devising on what grounds they are going to sue Samsung, and calculating highly speculative damages (never mind that they don't have a case that will survive summary judgment).
Apple absolutely has to resort to their new "when all else fails, sue everybody" business strategy. If Samsung and other suppliers continue to raise prices on components going into highly commoditized Apple iGadgets, it will crush Apple's net revenue.
Too bad Apple is just the designer, and manufacturers so few (if any?) components that are used in its iDevices. They've left themselves completely vulnerable to their benevolent suppliers.
They're both foreign companies, so who gives a shit?
230 hedge fund managers.
Since when does nationality matter when making a profit on your investment?
The real question is how long until Foxconn opens a subsidiary called Appel, that sells the exact same products that Apple does (since they will be made using the same components and made in the same facility), for 1/2 the price Apple charges?
Strike that, because it's really not as pertinent as it once might have been, now that Samsung and others are making products that are the equal of, and better, than any competing Apple products.
Apple has screwed its business model up so badly so quickly that it's actually truly remarkable.
What would Steve Jobs think of the Lightning Dock and other the crap Apple has introduced that has accelerated planned obsolescence while actually giving shit benefits (if not net-negative benefits) to its customer base if he were alive?
Fair value is $85 a share, just like it was 3 1/2 years ago.
In the end, Reggie will be proven right. Last Apple I bought was a IIe never again. At least they provide suicide nets for their iSlaves at Foxconn.
Real R&D comes from specialized part suppliers. You need math and science long term investment there, not Master Bullshitting Assholes.
well Asian manufacturers are becoing global brand and US (we outsource all the real work) companies are findings themselves out of a job unless supported by the state corporate welfare.
Roman Empire crumbled when the barbaric mercenaries they hired became generals and when they revolted no Romans were in the talent pipeline.
No Jobs...Less Cash...No Hopes.
Empire befell...
Samsung....those rat bastards.
Was that in your best George C Scott voice?
Whoggie? That guy is always tooting his own horn for shit that an imbecile could figure out by using common sense. Analysis and research I can respect. Hubris, not so much.
Mr_T, man you hold a grudge. The IIe came out in the 80s.
So, you are going to say, that ALL the other computers you have purchased since then (what, 30 plus years) were great machines, and ONLY the IIe was a lemon?
Still, I kind of get the point. I am also ticked off at Apple. Their OS has become ridiculously closed. Very Orwellian. Try getting a product up at the Apple store (the review process takes a month or longer.) I cannot use the iDevices as RAM disks, can't mount iDevices other then through iTunes, etc., etc. Apple is not interested in making general purpose computers but in selling iGadgets. Shame. (I speak as an Apple software developer and with around 20 of their products in my home.)
Banshee music player on linux connects just fine to my gen2 itouch. Can manage music, load files whatever. No itunes for me.
...how long until Foxconn opens a subsidiary called Appel, that sells the exact same products....for 1/2 the price Apple charges?
About 11 years ago..only it was LG
Technically, you are correct.
Practically, it will crush both, as one is derivative of the other, and component costs are an expense.
To be very precise, I should have said it will crush Apple's EBITDA.
Off Topic: Billionaire (former?) John McAfee-in-Belize and on a[n alleged] rectally inserted, refined bath salts bender & murder spree, bitchez:
Very former if he ever was a billionaire. Saw his house on the market a couple years ago, trying to eek out 20% of what he paid and lots of inuendo he was broke.
I danced a jig when I saw that he is wanted for murder. Angriest day of my life damn near, installed mcafee and it crashed my whole system. Called tech support, said it was 50 bucks for assistance. Desperate, I paid it.
Cocksucker on the phone when he finally picked up: "Oh. Yeah you have to reinstall"
"Reinstall Mcaffee?"
"No, you have to reinstall windows."
Motherfuckers. Been hating him ever since. Karma.
Don't know what sort of hell awaits Bill Gates, probably not enough torment in a third world prison for all the hating directed his way over the years. But Mcaffee...fuck him let him rot. I will even send him a christmas fuck you card to wherever shithole they drop him.
Who's fault is it that you had to pay $50 to be told you need to reinstall?
It reminds me of what the liberty movement os going to do to the Republican party.
I don't think Apple has manufactured anything since the 80s or early 90s.
Once, when I was riding my bicycle, I ran over a stick -- thought I was bad ass (until the stick flipped into the front wheel spokes...)
Telephones have no Constitutional right to be answered. I use mine maybe 5 times a week.
I personally dislike the device because it has a habit of disturbing me.
I only use mine to hang up on the debt collectors.
5 to 7 cents on the dollar. That's a decent settlement rate assuming one wants to pay off their debt.
Anything more offered to the buyers of bundled & unsecuritized delinquent debt is mission failure. The entities that buy defaulted, unsecuritized debt from credit card companies and others pay from 5 to 12 cents per dollar for it, so the settlement rate I highlighted ensures they won't profit, and may possibly lose money.
MAKE SURE TO INSIST ON A COMPLETE & TOTAL RELEASE OF ANY FUTURE LIABILITIES ALONG WITH A WRITTEN GUARANTEE THAT NO ADVERSE CREDIT RATING IMPACT WILL RESULT (If one cares about such things).
Right. Good luck with your list of demands. They will laugh and tell you to fuck off and then ruin your credit and take you to court most likely. Ask a debt vulture for a written guarantee about credit impacts before you pay them and see how fast they start to laugh. If you get a call from a debt collector then 9/10 times it's already too late to do anything about the credit impact.
Good luck?
I actually pay my debts, as I live below my means, no matter how many/much or little/few resources I have, but I have personal knowledge of many people who have paid no more than 12 cents on the dollar to discharge unsecuritized debt this way, including several (less than a dozen but more than 4) who've discharged more than 100k in credit card debt (one person essentially paid 7 cents per dollar, on an aggregate average, to discharge 230k worth of debt spread across many credit cards).
I realize it's the internet and all, but if you really do check out the manner by which large, unsecuritized debts get satisfied, you'll discover this isn't as far fetched as it may seem.
"Screw you. How about if I pay you 8 cents or you get nothing when I file for personal bankruptcy" is very compelling in certain circumstances.
Sure BK is always an option but I thought the goal was to save your credit here? You aint doing that by paying 8c on the dollar and by demanding a no credit impact before you pay them which is what I'm talking about. Half of the big stick that credit vultures carry around is our fear of them humping our credit score. BK is always the nuclear option anyway. And BK aint cheap either.
Same deal with my doorbell.
No checkee no workee.
Maybe in 12 months, a year, 2, 3, 4 or more years. These banks aren't going to mplode any time soon without your Deposits going first and then your taxes to support them. Go ahead, hold your breath....they dare you.
"And wait till silver is $200/oz!"
And wait till silver is $2000/oz!
There fixed.
Keep dreaming. You PM hawks been saying this shit for 10 years now and silver still stuck at 30 something just like it always will be until or unless you sink JPM which frankly aint gonna happen. If silver ever reaches more than $50 oz then it won't matter because we will all have bigger problems to worry about since most likely the dollar will be worthless at that point anyway.
Its not smart to bite the hand that feeds you or makes your components.
Samsung seems to have hit upon a plan to get their legal fees back. Hmmmm.
Sony once owned the consumer electronic gadget market, in the wake of Sony's revolutionary and immensely profitable Walkman, until Samsung cut them down at the kneecaps, completely and brutally.
Contrary to whatever anyone says, it's a provable fact that the iPod, and no other product, was the product that saved Apple and allowed it the cash cushion to engage in the R&D needed to augment its existing portfolio of products and design new ones, and now Samsung is dialed in on Apple...
...eerie similarities that rhyme in terms of history, as Samuel Clemens might have opined.
Sony cut themselves down when they went into content production (Movie Studios and the like) and let their Media division dictate to their Electronics division the features of their products while at the same time moving production to China.
The followup to the Walkman, the Minidisk was a proprietary locked-down POS and, at a time when people in the computing world were clamoring for a data storage solution (these were the times of the floppy disk and the ZIP drive), Sony didn't allow people to use them to store data. Sony continued with this policy of locking down their products to protect "content" (notice how Sony's DVD players were always the ones without any "undocumented trick" to remove Region coding), all the while they cheapened design and moved production from Japan to China, which meant that Sony's products, previously known for quality and reliabily, just became an overly expensive version of the same crap everybody else was selling (only worse, 'cause they were locked-down tight).
Fifteen years ago, Sony had made their name as a Consumer Electronics brand of quality and innovation that gave customers what they wanted. Now they're a sleazy Movie company with a me-too cheap electronics arm.
Add to that Sony's purchase of the Massively Online Roleplaying game Everquest, which started out with a bang, but due to bugs that would never get fixed, horrible customer service, pay another $40 to play expansions (I think there were 12 last I checked), and a refusal to update the game with things like graphics and quests (aka stuff to do beside kill the same beast you did a thousand times before). Blown opportunity gave Blizzard a leg up when they whiteboarded, "What didn't we like with Everquest? Great, we have a list, let's build and update a superior game"
Between AAPL and Samsung war, only China manufacturer will benefit.
How long before AAPL has the Chinese knock off the chip...
China has completely given the WTO the finger and stuck it up our ass... and Russia just got let in the WTO a few weeks back while no one was looking. IP/Trade/Patent war between Russia and China should be interesting.
One of the questions Romney and his democraticly run campaign never asked, "Just what did you mean when you told Dimitri that you will have more flexibility after the election?"
More flexibility = capable of bending over much further while spreading cheeks far wider.
All your profit are belong to us!
Veddy Interesting...Vut Stupid!
I hate my apple ipod. It doesn't synch right with my favorite music software on my laptop and I only bought it because it could store my whole music collection. As soon as sony makes something equivelt in mega titties; I'll BUY!
The apple software sucks and blows chunks of corn.
Fix it with Rockbox. It works, it's totally worth it. Play flacs.
Maybe the big Corps will figure out that China manufacturing...wasn't as good a deal as it looked on paper (fiat).
What does China manufacturing have to do with Samsung raising prices? Samsung is not Chinese
HREE's ST. Almost all come from China. Other parts are also M.I.C. which then hikes up prices on other things used in those devices. Samsung isn't a one stop shop.
My comment wasn't really wasn't directed at Samsung, so much as the "BIG Corps" like the fruit of the loom. This will set the model for others to do the same, and China will see this and follow suit. They understand the Econ Biz model well enough - again, look at what they did on the supply side for HREE's . . . then look what the price did. HREE's are used in all of the "smart" phones, TV's, computers, iPads, etc...
So you could say that because of the HREE hike just over a year ago, that cut into Samsung, and the apple rolled down with the stock price. Look outside the apple crate ST...it's like fighting without fighting.
This is significant.
O.T. I was just looking at all the story links on Drudge and its like the whole fucking world is going insane. I honestly have no idea how humanity has made it this far. Especially when I see the same cluster of inbreds that are in positions of power. To paraphrase the Joker.... This world needs an enema.
hey doc, first texas, then indiana??? their secession petition is growing exponentially:
Kito... I believe this country will eventually Balkanize into smaller nation states. I don't think this is the start of something serious , but it would be nice if it was. My guess it doesn't happen until after the complete collapse.
Don't you mean "Complete and Total Economic Collapse"?
Yes that's exactly what I mean.
Dr. E, I have told people for about 2 years now (during the so called "recovery") that we're in a bona fide economic depression, and that few can see it and/or admit it due to the government spending $1.44 for every $1 of revenue it's taking in, in order to "print" what would be soup lines and violent acts born of economic calamity off of the streets (the main difference between now and the 1930s is SNAP/EBT cards, Social Security, Medicare, SSI, other direct benefits), and that the real rate of unemployment/significant underemployment is 24% using what was the BLS' own methodology pre-1994 (not to mention the evolution of the McJobs service sector economy with McJobs wages and McBenefits).
Now, a significant plurality if not slight majority of the people who refused to/didn't/couldn't believe what I was saying a mere two years ago are in genuine agreement.
Did you not learn how to read, thus preventing you from comprehending the "economic" immediately preceding "depression" in what I wrote?
Or are you attempting to be humorous, which would actually be quite sad?
And "[d]ought?" Really?
You didn't answere the question.
A tale of two cities - the best of times, the worst of times.
I'm not depressed in the psychological sense; quite the opposite, actually.
Citing Dickens in this context raises the question as to whether you're schizophrenic or suffering from schizoaffective disorder. If so, eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, get plenty of exercise and rest, and eliminate refined foods and beverages from your diet.
I'm pulling for you, SockPuppet.
Will you, your children, grandchildren and so on see this Great Collapse?
You know, being a contrarian, when the shoe shine boy says that there is going to be a collapse.....
Is there any on this website who was alive during the Great Depression? NO?
Will the collapse start before, or after high tea?
Just saying.
q opinologo!
Man you sure can give Nostradameus a run for his money..
Humanity made it this far because there is so much of it. Many many died along the way because of their stupidity.
But don't take Drudge too seriously. His whole shtick is constinually looking for the most outrageous stories and even then exaggerating them in his headlines. It's childish and tiresome and a waste of one's time.
totally agree excepting it's needs a turpentine enema.
So..........just like that Apple has lost its mojo? While there is no doubt that Apple is struggling at this point that doesn't mean it's dead and buried. Not by a long shot.
It seems that Apple is the company people love to hate and you have to wonder if it is because of its huge profits, double digit growth, the $100+ Billion cash position and the love affair 200+ hedge funds have with it. Do you hate Apple or its stock price and media following?
While Apple has certainly taken advantage of all the media attention and leveraged its position to the hilt, does that make Samsung any better? Is Apple fully responsible for ALL of the media attention it receives?
Just sayin'
Apple is not dead, but the days of 40% margins are dead. Suppliers will push costs up while competitors will push revenues down.
But Steve is. The new guy must be laughed at behind his back constantly
Steve Jobs declared "Thermonuclear war". Mr. Cook is carrying out Steve's vision. Why Steve Jobs gets a pass amazes me. Steve Jobs' blind arrogance is the reason they're in trouble.
Apple's not dead, but it is most certainly slipping quickly into the status of an iCommodity seller.
That's what Apple gets for trying to compete with Lawyers and Judges rather than the marketplace.
If you want a phone or tablet made with Samsung parts, it's cheaper just to buy it straight from Samsung.
Cut out the Apple middleman with its 50% or 100% markup.
Sammy makes rectangles with round corners, too.
Harley Davidson taught them that.
You're about to see how fast Apple rolls Samsung over and fucks them in the ass with no lube. You guys have not been paying attention. When Nvidia sold Apple and a lot of other manufacturers defective GPUs for laptops Apple went with AMD / ATI for their next generations and also Intel IGP's as well.
Also...why do you think that Apple bought PA Semi and Intrinsity? To give them control of their CPU design that they just farm out anyway. They can just moved that tech over from Samsung to TSMC and the other components that they use from Samsung can be obtained from Qualcomm or Broadcom or Ralink or even TI.
Samsung....relax that anal sphincter.....you're about to go Greek.
You seem to have an odd fascination with anal sex. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
He might be a friend of John McAfee
Sorry to hear you are caught long Jumbotron. Keep the faith, it might come back : )
"Sorry to hear you are caught long Jumbotron. Keep the faith, it might come back"
Just to let you know....I do not....nor have I ever owned an Apple product. I do not nor have I ever owned Apple stock. Just telling you how it is from past Apple experience. Maybe 6 months....maybe a year. But Samsung just screwed themselves. Maybe Cook goes to it with a lighter foot.....but Jobs would have squeezed them out in a heartbeat.
There are no alternatives to the Samsung displays. In fact that is the major selling point of those iCrap gadgets. Apple screwed with their distributors and they will get what they sowed.
"There are no alternatives to the Samsung displays."
Really....sure about that?
Apple's a lightweight outside of packaging design and software development.
Go look at a teardown of the latest iDevices and you will see they have Apple (A4,A5,A6 etc) application processors. Samsung used to be a main supplier for flash memory for the older iDevices. Hynix supplied the flash memory for the iPad mini and the iPhone 5. Numonyx supplied the flash memory for the iPad 3G. I don't see that Apple has any dependence on Samsung.
Except every single one of their devices that are actually selling has that nifty Retina Display. You know that Display that in all reality is just a fancy Samsung IPS panel. Nope no dependencies at all, just Apple's latest marketing gimmick for the past two years comes from Samsung.
Everyone is stuck on this idea that Samsung only makes chips, you'd be surprised to learn that they make everything. I mean everything, from SoC setups to full on mainframes for ships. Something like 98% of the electronics in the world have something from Samsung in them.
"Except every single one of their devices that are actually selling has that nifty Retina Display. You know that Display that in all reality is just a fancy Samsung IPS"
Once again...sure about that?
Lemme tell you a short story:
SCO's (formerly known as Santa Cruz Operation) leaders decided to sue their customers for using Linux, claiming that they and they alone held all the Unix™ copyrights. Unfortunately for them, two of those customers were Novell (which actually did own the Unix™ copyrights!) and IBM, which could afford to fight SCO and make an example of them.
DO NOT fsck with the people on whom yer livelihood depends!
This is why Apple is now talking about developing its own processors.
Probably it will.
But that's 2-3 years -- a half-dozen product cycles -- down the road. And it's not a core Apple competency.
Meanwhile ARM is upping its game every day.
At best, Apple is a long shot to succeed at producing its own proprietary chips.
I must be missing something. Apple already bought good ARM-license designers a few years ago, PA Semi and Intrisity, one of which provided Samsung with part of its mobile low-power chip design. Apple's biggest problem, as one of the worlds largest, sometimes the largest, companies...is to avoid anti-trust problems and also to not bring in-house all the risks of electrical engineering surprises. There are lots of great chip makers out there and they aren't all particularly profitable in their chip fab segment. I agree with the 'core competency' bits, above. 5% of Apple's cash would buy a great fab or AMD control. The shadenfreude glee on such a thin basis as Samsung's little nicket-and-diming seems a bit over-the-top.
And like Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Motorola (to name a few), will find themselves bleeding red ink in short order. Notice that Ford and GM no longer manufacture their own steel, seats, electronics, etc?
Maybe they can work with Motorola and IBM like they did with the PowerPC
All that Apple has to do with its giant cash hoard is go do a little shopping, and with a few percent of it buy a company that is just itching to get into mobile space in a big way, AMD.
Instant processor design expertise, graphics chip expertise but no marketing sense whatsoever.
Inject a couple of billion into AMD, they'll design whatever Apple wants, and give Nvidia, Intel, and Samsung the finger.
AMD is to Samsung as an asteroid is to Jupiter ... or a flea is to an elephant.
Samsung's third quarter profits were SIX TIMES AMD's gross sales.
But don't let me intrude on your own private Idaho.
I wonder how Apple's cash reserves compare with Samsung's. Not that I'm in Apple's corner here, but they may have enough $$ to just buy AMD, who can and do design very good chips, then have all of the chip manufacturing capability they need in-house. Something I would be looking at pretty seriously if I were in charge at Apple.
It's on, bitchez.
Apple will either need to start designing and manufacturing the processors, or they will need to spool up second source vendors.
but it's a definite shot at them by Samsung.
Good summary by Capt Obvious here.
Apple has already is designing the processors. Chosing a fab isn't difficult in these times. When Samsung decided to become Apple's competitor in mobile devices, they made a big bet. Of course the Chinese are coming after Samsung, too, from other directions. Tough world out there.
Which vendor do ya think is gonna trust AAPL after this?
So did "someone" know this news was coming and started the AAPL dump?
cough. (Braeburn)
or contract those processors through marvel (mrvl). good entry on mrvl 7.77, methinks a good buy and hold. marvel is in the mobile business and has supplied chips for years
I believe that all Americans should be allowed to have guns.
However, I believe that only I should be allowed to have bullets.
Why doesn't Apple just takeover Samsung instead?
Apple's "cash" balances are questionable, and it is unlikely that Samsung shareholders would accept Apple scrip in exchange for ownership of their very valuable factories.
Samsung's fabs very valuable? With every fab having to be retooled incessantly? And 20% increase is how much in dollars? 11? 14? And what's the margin on iPhones? Short term, any co's suppliers can push prices up during a launch. They don't because buyers have a memory. Samsung knows well-enough that Apple's not going to be hanging around so they'd better pick Apple's pocket while they can. Sam's got LG pulling the Nexus 4 biz. What software platform does Sam OWN? Didn't think so. Processors are a small part of the total parts list for an iPhone or Nexus 4.
South Koreans would rise up and USA would have diplomatic crisis on their hands. j/k.
A lot of these massive Korean companies are family owned. They'd probably die before letting some American company buy out an empire.
Quite right.
Living in a relatively open large economy, it's easy for americanos to forget how vigorously smaller countries such as Korea and Canada and Argentina will defend local ownership of national champions, no matter how much it costs the stockholders.
And bring the current, crushing themselves daily, mangement team to Korea
You're about 25% of Market Cap too late.
in other news UK going after AMZN for tax evasion by accounting gimmicks. How soon will other countries do this to AAPL, etc?
Lot o' that in play these days. The bigger they are...
I wish Jobs were alive.... this would be my post if he were: 1share of APPL 30% les than what is was a month ago, Airfaire and hotel to share holders meeing $1,136 seeing Jobs whine in person and try to explain to shareholders why APPL took a hit cuz he got pwned by some Koreans ..... PRICELESS!
And what a fabulous allusion it is....BUT, "...Game, set, match Samsung."
I, in my blissful ignorance, think that maybe(just maybe), we will soon see the ultimate eConOMICAL warfare(salesman/Untripenaur vs. Suppliar/UncleThom).
WHAT could happen??
WHO could care??????
Thousands of square haectars of Sugarcane were laid waste for thid pillosoficalese.
Apple has some balls, I mean seriously, how are you going to bring Samsung to court for "patents" when Samsung essentially MAKES 98% of your phone.
The iphone is MORE OF A SAMSUNG PRODUCT than it is an "apple product", Apple in "name only".
Apple is a discgrace.
Apple in "name only".
Well, it says right on the product, "Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China" So, technically, they're admitting the fact you pointed out.
I almost bought one of those $200 white Samsung Android phones at an AT&T shop a month ago. They are bitchen. But I decided to keep my 2007 Nokia cell and buy a clone Android tablet instead. Too bad AAPL maybe if you would pay some friggin taxes and manufacture in the states you'd do better than relying on your middle men profits. Why don't you move your HQ to Bejing you bunch of ingrates.
FYI, APPLE is buying up office buildings in Silicon Valley with cash. You guys shall know what happen later.
APPLE is buying up office buildings in Silicon Valley with cash.
On purspose? Everyone knows you should be buying farmland.
Generally a foundry price increase on a per die basis is related to poor yields, and a price increase on a per wafer basis is related to increasing costs. It is hard to say if this is inflation driven, die yield driven, line yield driven, or emotionally driven, however, I suspect one of the former over the latter. The fabless-foundry model is where one company, Apple in this case, designs the chip, and a second company, Samsung in this case, manufactures the chip. In this case, Samsung owns the process, and Apple owns the chip design. Alternative foundries would include TSMC, Global Foundries, Toshiba and IBM.
On a separate note, Apple introducing a new phone in six months or less after the iPhone 5 is most likely an admission that the current design of the iPhone 5 is too difficult to manufacture, and that these manufacturability issues could not be resolved without significant end customer visible changes.
Newton was right!
Wait till Samson meets Delilah and gets his hair shorn!
All these Oligarchs are like the proverbial beanstalk, they shrivel when Jack finds Jill on Blueberry hill!
Will seem very inflationary to those in the Mariner Eccles Bldg. unless one substitutes beef for chicken. Nice price increase right b4 holiday....exit hedge funds stage left.
Oligarchical incestuousness...always leads to "thieves falling out"...
As the worm turns.


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Hands down, I believe Suh is the best player in this draft class. But, if Devaney and Spags end up rating Clausen as THEIR franchise QB then they need to take him, and I believe they will.
If they don't rate Clausen as OUR franchise QB:
Round 1, Pick 1: Ndamukong Suh
Round 2, Pick 1: WR/TE/OL/OLB
If they DO rate Clausen as our franchise QB:
Trade:Rams: R1 Pick 1, R4 Pick 1Round 1, Pick 3: Jimmy Clausen
Buccaneers: R1 Pick 3, R2 Pick 10, R4 Pick 3
Round 2, Pick 1 & 10: Pick two in this order...DL/OLB/WR/TE/OG
This class has one of the deepest DL's, so even if we choose Clausen we could still get a really good DL in the early second. Plus since Spags is a defensive minded coach I actually think its MORE likely he'll pick offensive with the first pick NOT defensive, because he'll believe he can fix the defense using his coaching skills.
This season, our defense has been coming along really nicely. Yes they let up some big plays and need to put a little more pressure on the QB, but for the most part the defense is way ahead of the offense. Our Offense is totally inept, they can't move the ball AT ALL.
Besides some injury issues, I believe Devaney/Spags did a great job with last years draft...I have faith that they will make the right choice, they have a lot of good scouting talent in that FO. We can sit here and argue back and forth...but in the end its up to them, and we have no say in the matter. We can only speculate...


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If nothing else, this cute video proves one thing-- the characters at Disneyland do NOT break character.
If nothing else, this cute video proves one thing-- the characters at Disneyland do NOT break character.
Remember cringing in terror while a pair of vultures chuckled about your impending doom? Remember screaming as the log you were riding dropped down into a flooded briar patch? If you do, then you remember Splash Mountain, one of the top thrill rides at the Disney parks since 1989.
Welcome, foolish mortals! If you're anything like us, then no trip to Disneyland (or Disney World) is complete without at least one visit to the Haunted Mansion. The Mansion's 999 happy haunts have been scaring and delighting park guests since 1969.
'Pirates of the Caribbean 5' was a done deal when the fourth film in the franchise, 'On Stranger Tides,' grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. But it was unknown who would helm the fifth entry. And instead of returning to original franchise helmer Gore Verbinski or 'Tides' director Rob Marshall, it was just announced that the job has gone to Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.
Here's hoping writer Jon Spaihts has better luck this time around -- the 'Prometheus' scribe has been hired to pen the script for Disney's upcoming remake of 'The Black Hole.'
The classic Walt Disney animated films have become ripe fodder for big budget live action remakes. They've already updated 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' twice, they've filmed a new version of 'Sleeping Beauty' ('Maleficent'), and are working on a re-imaging of 'Cinderella.' But they're far from done mining these classics, as Disney is now looking to do a new gritty version of 'Beauty and the Beast,' called 'The Beast.'
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As children we were all terrified by Disney's villains. Their evil cackles rattled our still-developing brains, and haunted our nightmares along with their songs, which gleefully reveled in their bad intentions and malevolent plots. Yet looking back, these vicious villains are a beloved part of our childhood, from their cruelly pointed toes to their audacious hairdos.
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Graduated from Klein High School… Played under head coach Jackie Edwards… Averaged 11.9 points and 8.8 rebounds per game during her senior year… Defensively, she averaged 1.6 steals and 1.4 blocks per contest… Earned Second Team All-District honors as a sophomore and junior and First Team as a senior… Named co-captain of her varsity squad during her sophomore and junior years and captain her senior year… Played for the Lady Sparks and the Houston Fastbreakers AAU teams… Member of the track and field team and was named MVP after her junior and senior seasons… Qualified for the UIL State Championships in 2012 and 2013.
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Started in all 31 games for the Pack during her sophomore season… Ranked second on the team in scoring (343) and first on the team in rebounds (289)… Averaged a near double-double 11.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per game during the 2014-15 season… Ranked second in the conference in double-doubles with 12 on the year… Shot a team-high .542 from the field and collected 36 blocks on the season… Ranked 11th in NAIA Division I in total rebounds, 16th in defensive rebounds per game (6.355) and 19th in total rebounds per game… Notched a career-high 26 points against SUNO on Nov. 10 and a career-high 18 rebounds versus Dillard on Nov. 25… Named to the SSAC All-Conference First Team and SSAC All-Tournament Team… Received WBCA NAIA All-America Honorable Mention.
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Started in five games and appeared in all 35 contests as a freshman… Averaged 5.4 points and five rebounds per game… Ranked first on the team in blocks (25), second in field goal percentage (.419), second in total rebounds (176) and sixth in total points (189)… Scored a career-high 18 points vs. Southern Wesleyan University on Jan. 11… Collected a game-high 10 rebounds in three games in 2013-14… Named to the SSAC All-Freshman Team.
Majoring in physical therapy… Born on June 20, 1995… Daughter of Lisa Temple and Purnell Harvey… Hobbies include shopping, eating, sleeping and basketball… Favorite movies are Coach Carter, Love and Basketball and Glory Road… Greatest influences are her parents and her cousin Garrett Temple who plays for the Washington Wizards… Favorite sport to watch is basketball…Favorite athlete is LeBron James… CD in her car right now is Chris Brown… Happiest day of her life was when she received her first basketball scholarship offer…Aspiring career is to be a coach or a physical therapist.


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The key is finding a vendor that makes the best circuitry to communicate with the GPU, and or one that has the features you want most.
Try http://www.tomshardware.com for reviews on pc hardware.
All those graphic cards out there confuse me. There are so many brands that carry Nvidia. I thought it was just Nvidia who sold the cards. what i came up with is that Nvidia makes the tecnology and then others sell it. so now my wustion is, which is the best company?


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While it's always disturbing to hear about the unexpected collapse of a bridge or building, technology is being developed to lessen the chances of such incidents occurring. Increasingly, this is taking the form of sensors that are implanted within structures, that measure and transmit data on the stresses that the surrounding material is experiencing. If the mechanical strain causes one of those sensors to break, however, it won't be much good anymore – depending on its location, it also may be impossible to replace. Fortunately, researchers at North Carolina State University have created a self-healing structural stress sensor.
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APPEAL: Lewis Richards is wanted in relation to an assault in Penarth on February 25
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POLICE have appealed for information about the whereabouts of a man in relation to an assault in Penarth.
Lewis Richards, 22, is wanted in relation to an assault in Penarth on Tuesday, February 25.
Mr Richards, of St Luke's Avenue, also has links to Cardiff and the West Midlands.
Anyone who knows of his whereabouts should contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting occurrence number 62140025840.
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I would like to know why you can not declare a global with the same name in 2 different .cpp files. My understanding is considering scope, that it should only be visible to that particular .cpp file and no where else but it is obviously complaining. The reason I'm doing this is for commonality in code and that's it. any ideas?
Edit for Clarity
int g_x;
int g_x;