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Can EPM Go Fully Cloud?
By tobyehatch-Oracle on Jul 31, 2015
By Guest Blogger Muthu Ranganathan, Director, EPM Product Management at Oracle
There is no denying the fact that the world is moving towards "the cloud", and CFOs and CIOs have come to the point where they can't avoid recognizing the many benefits of the cloud. While finance took more time than their peers in Human Resources or Sales to go to the cloud, recent trends indicate that more CFOs are open to "getting on the cloud".
Opex vs Capex
Given CFOs care a lot about cash flow and ROI, the biggest advantage for them with cloud is the "Opex" (Operational expense) element, as cloud systems are not "Capex"(Capital expense) types. The cloud certainly helps them with profitability and cash flow as a justification to move to the cloud.
Beyond Organizational Boundaries – You just need a URL and your cloud applications can be easily rolled out to your customers, vendors and other stakeholders in your business network. This is a huge advantage for finance, especially when they can exchange information through the systems. Imagine getting sales forecast data from your distributors, or project finance data from your subcontractors.
No Shelfware – One of the biggest pains of the past was that a lot of software was purchased, but not used. The unused "shelfware" became a sunk investment due to the lack of resources available to get the application installed and working. Cloud completely eliminates this issue as installation and management is provided by the cloud vendor.
No Hardware - other big benefit is that you don't have to worry about hardware costs - and more importantly maintaining hardware - the installed applications, and having to consider different test and production environments.
New Features Rapidly – When we login to Gmail or LinkedIn every day, we often see that there are a lot of new features added. This is the power of the cloud. The same is also true for enterprise applications – you no longer have to wait for a long upgrade process to see new features, because they are installed by the Cloud vendor and appear regularly and rapidly in the cloud.
Simpler to Use – organizations can take advantage of new design ideas and new technology like mobile and social functionality which may not be available or difficult to implement in the on-premises solutions they currently use. Also Cloud solutions deliver significantly simplified application management designed for Business users with the complex IT management being handled by the service supplier.
Security is no Longer an Issue - Uptake of cloud solutions has been across many application types, including HCM, ERP, SCM, CX, and EPM, all industry sectors, including Public Sector and Financial Services, and organization sizes, from very small enterprises to global brands. For this to happen these organizations (especially sectors like Financial Services and Public Sector) have to be convinced that their data will be safe, their systems will be available when they need them and there will be sufficient capacity to provide the response they expect. Given the 1000s of organizations that have moved to the cloud and likely due diligence they have applied organizations should not be citing security as an impediment to moving to the cloud.
EPM and the Cloud
Enterprise Performance Management (or Management Accounting / Information Management) systems have evolved through different generations of software. Reporting, planning, profitability and consolidations have evolved from spreadsheets to desktop applications, to the web, and now to the era of cloud and mobile. While the above benefits are relevant for EPM systems, there are even more that make it clear it is time for EPM to move to the cloud.
Tapping the Unserved Business Users - While EPM systems have existed for over a decade, it has still been a highly corporate finance affair for many years. Still, many Business Unit level users rely on spreadsheets and other unstructured ways of creating and seeking information. There are several reasons for this, one of the main being difficulty in maintaining IT systems, costs, and lack of technical consultants to support their pursuits. With cloud, we see a change where we can now roll out these systems just via a url to anyone in the company at a very affordable subscription-based price. It starts to really tap into the departmental use cases for Business Unit CFOs and other business users such as HR, Marketing, Sales Ops etc. With Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services, as well as Oracle Enterprise Reporting Cloud Services, departmental business users are better served.
Business Calls the Shots - Traditionally, Business users, especially coming from finance, have owned the EPM systems. Often in the past, due to heavy Capex and upfront investments as well as infrastructure/upgrade needs, IT had to be heavily involved in EPM projects. With the cloud, business users are able to make quick decisions and call the shots for EPM systems as they do not need major IT resources to get them up and running. They can be live in just a few days or weeks. This is certainly an exciting reason for business and finance to move to the cloud for EPM. We are seeing faster adoption due to Business being in charge for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud services.
People as the Focal Point - Cloud brings with it the benefit of receiving new features rapidly, as mentioned earlier. As users have now experienced consumer grade cloud applications like Facebook, they will expect enterprise applications also to act in the same way; so the focus is mostly on user experience, flexibility and keeping it very simple for the users. Also, for EPM systems, users have been great fans of spreadsheets; so it's very important to have the user experience to be like a great consumer grade application combined with the flexibility and simplicity of spreadsheets. The great advantage with cloud is, engineers who build these systems get really close to seeing how users use the solution and roll out changes more frequently. Oracle Planning Budgeting Cloud Service has been very well received by users because of the great user experience and spreadsheet-like flexibility on the web, and because it is supported by the Oracle SmartView for Microsoft Office interface - a great solution for the Excel lovers
The Case for Hybrid EPM
But, with the benefits and value mentioned above the question still remains - can all of the EPM systems go fully into the cloud? The answer is yes!But, it may take more time since many companies have mission critical financial consolidation and reporting systems, as well as corporate planning systems in which they have invested over the years, and cannot be replaced in a short period of time.
This is why Oracle provides a hybrid EPM strategy for companies to combine on-premises and cloud based EPM systems. What we see is that customers are continuing to leverage their existing on premises deployments for the corporate finance needs, and using cloud applications and infrastructure to surround these for new Departmental and Business Unit needs.
As both on-premises and cloud run on the same best-in-class Oracle Hyperion technologies, they offer a seamless and integrated as a suite of hybrid EPM solutions. While Cloud EPM systems provide significant benefits to warrant moving to the cloud in the medium term, hybrid EPM is likely the best strategy for the short term; and Oracle is the best equipped to provide a comprehensive solution for both worlds.
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At New Hope Church in Alsip, Illinois, an easy 50-minute drive from downtown Chicago, worshipers have been wrestling with difficult topics from the Christian faith. One of them is the debate between Calvinists and Arminians. The article below was put in the church bulletin to serve as spark plug as people in the pews think through the myriad issues and focus on the sermon dealing with the same subject to be delivered by their senior pastor Gerry Miller.
Great thinkers have struggled to resolve the tension between predestination and free will. Historically, the debate has been carried out mostly between Calvinists and Arminians. In America, the emerging method for resolving this tension appears to be Arminian. In Europe and everywhere else that has been under a monarchical system of government where a sovereign king is in charge, it is Calvinist.
In a nutshell, Calvinism states that God decreed, chose, and predetermined those who would be saved before they were born. "You did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16). Arminianism states that God looked into the future and with foreknowledge saw those who would freely choose Him and then making sure that the choice they made would eventually come to pass. Space limitations prevent us from describing in detail the differences between these schools of thought. There is, without a doubt, a large pool of logic that can be mined from either one. Perhaps what greatly separates them lies in the Calvinist emphasis on total depravity of man – his total inability to choose God using his own powers (Romans 1:16-20) - and the Arminian belief that man has a fully free(d) will.
The Bible certainly teaches predestination. However, it is not clear on how God performs it. We are given statements that the Holy Spirit operates in our inner being as well as outside of it through the influence of parents, institutions, culture, friends, events and circumstances. We are told of how God hardened the heart of the Pharaoh. We are told of how God chose Abraham for His own reasons. God also chose Israel for His own pleasure as a special people even though He never explained why.
Can we really comprehend or know how God can sovereignly choose us without violating the dignity of our will? Perhaps not. But we can rest assured that this historical tension pales like nothing compared to the immensity of the grace that we can experience through His salvation. "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:4-9).
If no one else gets saved as a result of rejecting His offer of salvation, it is only fair and just that we all go to Hell. If only one of us gets saved as a result of accepting His offer of love, that is amazing grace!
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With a second transaction post this week from Baseball America (H/T to Ben Meyers for alerting me via Twitter), we have a few more moves to pass along:
• LHP Tyler Robertson
• IF Jamey Carroll
• IF Mike Fontenot
• OF-1B Joe Dunigan
• RHP Ben Grisz
• 2B Matt Foat
As noted in the comments, Robertson is a re-sign, having been waived to make room for Rule 5 additions in November. He was picked up on waivers from Minnesota as part of the Nationals' spaghetti-on-the-wall attempts to find a LHRP last summer.
Carroll and Fontenot are veterans who will compete for bench roles as backup infielders. Both will be non-roster invitees to spring training, according.
Dunigan is a longtime Seattle farmhand who finally made it to AAA in 2013, only to lose nearly three months of the season to a broken jaw. He will most likely compete for a 1B-DH-LF role on the Chiefs.
Grisz and Foat were NDFAs signed in 2011 and 2012 out of Duke and USC, respectively. Grisz missed all of 2012 after developing Nationals elbow and made five scoreless appearances for Auburn in 2013. After an impressive 2012 in the GCL, Foat split time between Low-A Hagerstown and Auburn, compiling a combined line of .215/.295/.283 in 64 games.
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Foat release is a surprise since he could hit
Plus play two positions
Maybe this signals some openness to young
IFs starting at hags??
So Dunigan plays some 1b?
Hopefully it means more of the young International contingent are ready … Smiley is finally gone I think so …
At least Luke has Smiley in his photo file. 🙂
I too surprised about Foat! Was All Star at GCL then jumped back and forth between SS and A all last season never really getting consistent at bats.
The Nats must have liked something about Grisz to keep him this long with his 'character issues'. When he pitched healthy, he was good enough.
Balfour interest stoking up talks with
Astros for Juan Castro as backup catcher??
"Nationals elbow." Love it. Could be a useful term in these parts.


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American Idol is set to kick off its 13th season with a two day premiere on January 15th and 16th, but this is not the same American Idol of old. Viewers who have turned their backs on the program are promised to fall in love with the show once again.
The past few seasons, American Idol was subject to scrutiny and ridicule by viewers. The audience was vocal in its collective opinion that the show has long been losing steam. Season XII was overshadowed by bickering between first-time judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey. Additionally there was widespread disappointment professed by viewers who grew tired of what they saw as a lack of constructive criticism of the performers, bullying in the form of mockery of contestants in the bad audition reel, and what many parents felt as material inappropriate for children.
Visibly unhappy with her role on American Idol, Carey provided more entertaining critique of the show than she did of the contestants. Carey said that working on American Idol was "like going to work every day in hell with Satan…I thought it was going to be a three-person panel."
Originally slated to include Randy Jackson, Keith Urban and Carey, American Idol producers ultimately brought in Nicki Minaj as a 4th judge.
It seems as the powers that be of American Idol have done a great deal of soul searching. It was clear that what took place last year was simply not working so they set about to make a change for the better. Looking to rebrand the show, American Idol has signed music industry legend and icon, Harry Connick Jr.
Connick was quick to respond to Carey's comment by tweeting directly at the star, "Must've been hard to judge in hell X( ...Idol XIII: welcome to heaven ." Connick was sure to tag Season XIII judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and host Ryan Seacrest in the tweet. That was perhaps a glimpse into the new judge's quick witted personality and his willingness to say what he feels needs to be said.
During a private screening of Idol's season premiere, viewers who have become known as the American Idol Tweethearts received a first-hand account of what Connick brings to the table. He is funny, critical, entertaining and helpful to the contestants.
"We're laughing at the right stuff," Connicks said referring to the critiques of the contestants. "We're laughing at the things that are funny, never laugh at the contestants…it's a great environment!"
Connick's presence also gives a new depth to the two veteran idol judges.
Jennifer Lopez, more affectionately known by her fans as J-Lo, was beloved by American Idol fans for her nurturing nature in her previous judging stint. Producers knew that she would be well-received as they built this year's judging panel. J-Lo was able to give constructive criticism while not falling into the trap of coddling. Coddling was one of the chief complaints of those critical of Mariah Carey as an idol judge who seemed to love each and everyone's performance.
Award winning country artist Keith Urban was viewed as a little "bland and boring" during Season XII. Urban appeared to fade into the background to the ongoing drama of Minaj and Carey that took over the show. But with the developing "bromance" between Connick and Urban, viewers will see a different side of him that is alive, comical and independently opinionated.
Idol viewers will find the chemistry with all the judges, and host Ryan Seacrest, to be much more refreshing, light-hearted and humorous. Yet, the audience will quickly sense the serious focus on the actual talent at the same time. The back stories of the contestants gives great insight into who they are as people and reminds us all that these kids are just that…kids. They bring us a sense of community in that the kids reaching for the stars night after night in your living room could be your son or daughter, your neighbor's kid, or one of your kids' classmates. These glimpses into their home life allow the viewer to become emotionally invested in the contestants as individuals. You want to see them learn, grow and develop as artists. The mentorship that Season XIII's all-star judging panel brings to the table is a breath of fresh air in that even those who don't make it through to the next round have still walked away with valuable bits of information that will allow them to continue to grow and improve.
Less emphasis is placed on the poor singers who seem to always be ridiculed while lines are crossed in the name of "entertainment." Rather this year American Idol has sought to bring back wholesome family viewing pleasures that are sorely lacking in most networks' primetime lineups these days.
American Idol Season XIII premieres January 15th and 16th on Fox.
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I want to delete file on windows OS using java, how ever some time file may be in use by external process, how can I delete forcefully or by knowing which process use that and kill that process or any how, any code or way?
You can call low level Windows routines via JNI (http://www.atwistedweb.com/java/jni.html) or JNA (http://jna.java.net/)
But how about a more simple solution: Download Unlocker and run it with
Java doesn't have any built-in tools to find out what process opened specific file. This is OS-specific. You must run some external tools for that, but I don't know any Windows command-line tool allowing you to do that.


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What's more important to you -- becoming physically fit or fixing
your finances?
In a nationwide poll commissioned by Bankrate.com,
getting in shape tipped the balance by a slim margin.
Pollsters asked: "In 2005, are you more focused
on improving your physical fitness or your fiscal fitness? By fiscal
fitness we mean improving your financial situation; for example,
by paying off debts and increasing your savings."
Some 36 percent of respondents said they would focus
more on physical fitness, and 31 percent said fiscal fitness.
That's almost a reversal of a similar survey taken
two years ago, in which 29 percent of respondents said they would
focus more on physical fitness during 2003 and 37 percent said they
would concentrate more on fiscal fitness.
In this survey and the one conducted two years ago,
about one-quarter said they would focus equally on both fiscal and
physical fitness. Eight percent said they won't focus on either
in 2005. Maybe they're thin and rich, or they enjoy being fat and
in debt. One percent of respondents just don't know which type of
fitness deserves a higher priority.
The survey comes at a time when Americans are fatter
and deeper in debt than ever before. Take weight -- please. According
to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
the average American is an inch taller and 25 pounds heavier than
in 1960. The average American gained about 10 pounds in the 1990s,
and even the airlines have noticed: The CDC says airlines spent
an extra $275 million in fuel in 2000 to carry the weight of ever-heavier
Meanwhile, if you're typical, you're saving less than
1 percent of your income. In October, the personal savings rate
was 0.2 percent, according to the Commerce Department. Consumers
owed almost $2.1 trillion in consumer debt in October, according
to the Federal Reserve. That's the most ever. Just in October, Americans
charged up another $7.7 billion in net consumer debt. That's $26
for every man, woman and child in the United States in one month.
It might not sound like a lot, but every dollar -- like every ounce
-- adds up.
Families aren't the only ones going on a borrow-and-spend
spree. The federal budget deficit is half a trillion dollars, and
the Japanese and Chinese are buying bonds to finance our deficits
so we can keep waddling into stores and plunking down credit cards
to buy their stuff.
As Americans' waistlines expand and their credit card
balances swell, it's tempting to say that 24 percent are on the
right track. They're the ones who say they will focus equally on
physical and fiscal fitness in 2005.
A gender gap was evident in the results, with women
expressing more concern about weight than money, while men's concerns
reflected the opposite. Some 38.8 percent of women said they would
focus more on physical fitness in 2005, compared to 28.7 percent
for fiscal fitness. Men stressed money more than weight by 34.1
percent to 32.5 percent.
The group that was most focused on getting their financial
houses in order was composed of men and women earning somewhere
in the $30,000s. More than 54 percent of these respondents said
they would focus on fiscal fitness, and 27 percent said physical
How much flab do people want to shed? One-third of
respondents said they don't plan to lose weight in 2005. The other
two-thirds want to lose an average of 22.8 pounds. Men want to lose
an average of 21.3 and women want to lose 23.9 pounds.
A shade under one-third of respondents -- 32.2 percent
-- don't feel the need to pay off debt in 2005. The people who want
to eliminate debt want to pay down an average of $11,288. The men
were twice as debt-focused as the women: Men wanted to pay down
an average $14,780 and women, $7,848.
The survey was commissioned by Bankrate.com and conducted
by Roper, which interviewed a nationally representative random sample
of 1,004 adults by phone in early December. It has a margin of error
of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Let $X=C(S)$ where $S$ is compact. Suppose $T\subset S$ is a closed subset such that for every $g\in C(T),$ there is an $f\in C(S)$ such that: $f\mid_{T}=g$. Show that there exists a constant $C>0$ such that every $g\in C(T)$ can be continuously extended to $f\in C(S)$ such that: $\sup_{x\in S}\left|f(x)\right|\leq C\sup_{y\in T}\left|g(y)\right|$
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$C(S) \to C(T)$ is a surjective bounded linear map of Banach spaces (with sup norms), so there is a closed linear subspace $M \subset C(S)$ such that $C(S)/M \to T$ is bijective and bounded with the quotient norm. Inverse mapping theorem says that the inverse is a bounded linear map. The statement then follows.
By the way, how is this related to Banach-Steinhaus/Hahn-Banach?
So $A:C(S)/M \rightarrow C(T)$, then $A^{-1}:C(T)\rightarrow C(S)/M$, apply the inverse mapping theorem, we obtain $\left\Vert A^{-1}g\right\Vert \leq\left\Vert A^{-1}\right\Vert \left\Vert g\right\Vert $, then $\inf_{f'\in M}\left\Vert f+f^{'}\right\Vert \leq C\left\Vert g\right\Vert $. We must show that there exists a function in $f+M$ whose restriction is $g$ and it's norm is less than C$\left\Vert g\right\Vert $
But How to show the existence of such function?


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3 fast ways to purify your drinking water
Editor's note: check out Water4Patriots for our top choice of personal water filtration.
We've covered some easy water purification techniques here, including using the sun, but I've got even more for you.
The first order of business, however, is to try to find the cleanest water to begin with. Here are some rules of thumb:
- Avoid water with a strange hue or film on it, and avoid water that is not clear
- Try to find moving water as opposed to still water
- Avoid water where there is active growth in it such as algae or scum
- Avoid water near roadways or pavement as it likely has oil and pollutants in it
- Stay upstream of industrial facilities, mines and construction
- Avoid water from farmland, as it might have large amounts of fertilizer and pesticides in it
Now onto some easy tips for making sure you have clean water anywhere, any time.
This seems obvious but is really the surest way to make sure your water is clean. Water should be boiled at least 5 minutes straight to kill the bacteria existing in most water. Every "bug out bag" should include a way to heat and boil enough water for everyone in your family. Don't skimp on your pot or your stove, as these could be your lifeline if there is no clean water available.
There are many commercial filters available. Stick to brands you trust and make sure they are made in the USA. There are plenty of crappy filters out there that are made in China that could leave you literally high and dry.
For a more primitive method, try the Birch cone method. Cut a 1ft by 1ft square of birch, aspen, or other paper like bark from a tree. Roll it into a cone. Place some small stones in the bottom to keep your material from falling out of the bottom. Tie a couple pieces of string around the outside to keep it in the cone shape. Now alternate putting layers of charcoal, grass, and sand. The sand and grass will filter the suspended solids in the water, and charcoal can filter bacteria. Run your water through the filter at least 3 times and keep changing the materials inside it for best results.
You can also use the earth to filter your water. Dig a hole next to a stream and let water filter through the sand and silt into your hole. This water will be reasonably clean, but may not be free of all bacteria.
Distilling with the Sun
Once again our old friend the sun has a great solution for us. Mother Earth news has a great article about how to build a solar still from scratch.
The still works by causing the water to first evaporate, then condense on a surface where you can collect it. Since 99% of solids and bacteria won't evaporate with the water, the condensed water will be pure.
Let me know in the comments what your favorite water filtration methods are.
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To be fair, I've never soloed a concert either. I think that's pretty damn cool.
To be fair, I've never soloed a concert either. I think that's pretty damn cool.
I would never solo a concert. Ever. That took some balls.
I don't even like the idea of eating by myself, even in a fast food place.
I don't really like eating alone in public either, but I prefer to eat alone at work.
My rationalization for going alone was, "free ticket + music I like = must go," "I won this ticket and would feel guilty if I didn't go because I'm sure there are other people who would've loved to win it and attend," "I like music and have gone to plenty of concerts and am familiar with this venue (it's small), so I don't think it will be a big deal to get there and find a space to hang out for the duration of the concert." It helped that I was in a good head-space, but winning something made me pretty happy too. I was surprised that the two drinks I had did not help me feel more comfortable. In the end, it was the music.
The Mustang also needs a new drive gear for the speedometer. Boyfriend's dad has changed the cable, but the speedometer still doesn't work. Unfortunately, I think this means the transmission has to come out, but my dad has done this on his Jetta in the driveway, so I'm wondering if we can do it at home. Figuring out which gear is the right size for the transmission is the tricky part. The engine was originally a V8, but it was swapped with a 2.3L turbo and transmission from the same year.
Rather than getting scared of the work this car needs, I'm excited. Somehow, it seems much more accessible than the bug was. Probably because there's nothing mysterious about it (yet).
And when its done you'll have a Mustang!!!!!!
I had to replace the odometer gears in my dash once. It wasn't too bad since I had a manual for my Mustang. Good luck with all the repairs. I hope everything gets fixed the way it needs to be and you are on the road with a reliable car afterwards.
Well, crap. I just learned that simply not paying for the next year of insurance is not a good way to cancel a policy. Now Commerce wants me to pay for the premium up front if they were going to cover me, including renter's insurance. I would...if I had that money.
Insurance sucks.
Even if you don't have a car and don't drive and WON'T be driving - you lose the history or something and have to go through all that? SO dumb.
My record is completely clean in terms of driving, but apparently not paying when my policy is over (aka not renewing) leaves a bad mark on my insurance record. It's really stupid. I had the car insured for 2 years and just didn't renew when I sold it. I guess this non-renewal crap is some statewide thing.
Another company said they'd cover me with 50% up front. I am either going to have to dig into my emergency savings account (which won't leave much in it, it just accrues interest from some savings bonds I have) to cover that, or ask my dad for a loan. I don't know how much I'd want to ask for because I don't know when I could reasonably pay him back. Maybe I will not be getting that tattoo in January after all.
Okay, Liberty Mutual took me for no weird premium stuff. We now have renter's insurance! I guess since it was over 2 years ago that I ended that premium via non-payment, they had no issue with it, but the original company did.
Now trying to sort out getting an RMV-1 form that indicates I'm insured and I'll head to the RMV Wednesday morning.


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I was thinking of Woking, or maybe Accrington Stanley. What about you guys?
I was thinking of Woking, or maybe Accrington Stanley. What about you guys?
I was thinking of Woking, or maybe Accrington Stanley. What about you guys?
Possibly swansea have a decent side, big stadium, got finances and not a very ambitious bored.
I'll do the usual thing that I do with every FM game. I'll have a blast with a decent English side to begin with (Chelsea, Liverpool etc.) to get to grips with the game. I'll then have another blast with a good foreign club, before taking my Leicester to glory. And then Scunthorpe. After this I'm a free spirit
like Jonno-Blood i will start with a big team like Tottenham or someone and then once im used to it start a conference game with Exeter and try and get them promoted
I'm a hammer at heart and can never resist taking them to glory!
I usually play as Leyton Orient but I might start with a big club (Arsenal) first this time since the game has been simplfied; starting with such a large squad was always a bit daunting.
Chelsea, just to get used to managing again..
... then maybe start from the pits of League 2 and work my way up Thats the best way to play.
Either a poor Conference side, or East Stirlingshire.
I doubt I'll spend much time abroad, given that each league seems to have only two divisions. I like good depth in the leagues, especially if I can only run one nation at a time.
I will be managing Scunthorpe from the off, and learn my trade, hopefully getting them promoted to the Premier within say 3/4 years and then UEFA cup glory after wining the FA Cup. I simply cannot wait.
Leeds United first, Bristol City second, then either Conference or Foreign for me...
Liverpool first, as always. Then it'll be some lower league club, not sure which one.
The mighty Luton Town FC of course, up the hatters !!!!!!!!! Roll on 13/4/06 !!!!!!
i will be managing my home team and the team i support Huddersfield Town.
None of the clubs I actually follow are in the game as playable teams. Sniff...
Which teams are they Crayola?
I'd have to start with say Luton Town and get them in premiership. Will move to i dunno but i will definately try my trade in europe and playing for the champions league.
Ive got a challenge for you guys, when you get the game, see who is bottom of each league irl and choose one of those teams. The challenge is to get promoted if you are below the premiership and top 10 with Sunderland who it will probably be in the Premiership
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Which teams are they Crayola?

Mainly Newry City (Northern Ireland) and AFC Telford United (England) but I also have a soft spot for Floda BoIF (Sweden).

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Ive got a challenge for you guys, when you get the game, see who is bottom of each league irl and choose one of those teams. The challenge is to get promoted if you are below the premiership and top 10 with Sunderland who it will probably be in the Premiership
All the Best

Sunderland will "probably" be bottom of the premiership when this game comes out? I think I'll stick my neck out and say DEFINITELY! They're the worst excuse for a team in the top division I've ever seen!!!
Yeah but i dont want to offend any sunderland fans, there is also a chance they might not be at the end of the season, slim ill admit, but it is still there mathematically
I'm going to start a game as Chelsea, my team. then I'll start a LLM game as Crawley before venturing overseas, probably Italy first.
Arsenal all the time !
Need someone to make a decision for me, I dont have the game yet, getting it this evening, and I'm stuck between two teams for who to go.
Normally I go Rangers in my first game in a new CM/FM, but I was talking to a friend the other day, and he says he always goes Burnley, he doesn't know why, he just likes them. I then vowed to go Burnley the next time I started a new game. He also vowed to start a game as Bolton as I always manage them in my second or third game of a CM/FM.
So who should I go, Rangers or Burnley?
I like starting sometimes with lower league teams so I'd go Burnley.. I've started a Bristol Rovers myself btw
already started a game as spurs, halfway through seson 5th in league, 5th round of fa cup, excellent game
I`ve started as barnsley but I am struggling at the moment...
I have won 2 but Drawn 6 and lost 3
How can I get Drawn to Win !
Great FMH
I will play as Forest Green on the PSP because they finished the lowest position last season in the game and I will be Liverpool in my 360 game.

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already started a game as spurs, halfway through seson 5th in league, 5th round of fa cup, excellent game

How's this work?
Halfway through the season, and yet you're already involved in FA Cup games?
Something wrong there.
Maybe he meant League cup or he miscalculated half way through.
I've just started with Chelsea to get to grips with the game...Then i'll start one as Fulham, then I will venture abroad


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The new rate means revenues could rise to $500 million, Hagan said.
"We tried to base it on some of what the most successful states were doing relative to gas or oil," he said. "I'm not against [fracking], but if we're going to frack our area, we should take the biggest advantage of it as we can."
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Good idea Booby, then the prices of natural gas can go up to. Brilliant just when we can have lower prices , you want to raise them. That's the D party working for the people
The "dog philosphy" says that if you can't eat it or hump it, pee on it. Striking how similar this is to Comrade Bob's perspective on job-generating businesses.
What a bum. Tax and spend , the only thing this guy knows. How about getting rid of these government programs. Make people stand on their own two feet. If one has a disability help them. no more the more kids I have the more money I get. No more free rides.
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ELYRIA – Joel Covender will get a new trial in a 20-year-old case that saw him serve 11 years behind bars after being convicted of molesting two stepchildren.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi granted defense attorney W. Scott Ramsey's motion Tuesday for a new trial for Covender, whose defense has long argued that the man's former stepdaughter was coerced by relatives into testifying against him and that counseling records from the 1990s indicated she had a problem with lying.
Covender was visibly moved by the decision, putting his head down as he quietly sobbed at the defense table seated next to Ramsey.
"I've lost 20 years of my life," Covender said outside the courtroom following the hearing. "I just want to have my life back, or at least what's left of it."
"I said all along these were false allegations," Covender said as family members wept and smiled nearby. "I never did this. I want to let justice be served."
Covender was convicted in 1996 of sexually molesting his former stepson and stepdaughter in the early 1990s. He has been waging a legal battle since his release from prison in 2007 to have molestation charges against him dismissed or to secure a new trial.
As he had done in earlier proceedings, Lorain County Assistant Prosecutor Peter Gauthier argued there was insufficient evidence to grant Covender's request for a new trial.
County Prosecutor Dennis Will said later that his office would review a transcript of Tuesday's hearing before deciding whether to appeal Miraldi's decision.
The hearing saw testimony from Lois Fridenstine, a clinical social worker, who had done some counseling with the stepdaughter in the 1990s.
After a 15-minute recess during which Fridenstine looked over notes from the case file, she told the court she had limited recollections of counseling the girl during a six-month period when another case worker who had handled the case was on maternity leave.
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The lack of further records and documentation in the file puzzled Fridenstine, who had trouble recalling specifics of the case.
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Case records reviewed in court Tuesday indicated the girl was counseled from December 1993 to May 1996.
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Covender's former stepdaughter had given written consent to have the case files examined and used in court.
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I am having some difficulty with this problem:
Let $I := [a,b]$ and let $f: I\to\mathbb ℝ$ be continuous on $I$. Also let $J := [c,d]$ and let $u: J\to\mathbb ℝ$ be differentiable on $J$ and satisfy $u(J)\subseteq I$. Show that if $G: J\to\mathbb ℝ$ is defined by $$ G(x) :=\int_a^{u(x)} f(t)\,dt $$ for $x$ in $J$, then $G'(x) = (f \circ u)(x)u'(x)$ for all $x\in J$.
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- Choose your battles carefully. Be firm but willing to lose sometimes.
- Don't put down their feelings, which are intense, by saying they shouldn't feel that way.
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UMass Postgame Notes vs. Temple
Feb. 16, 2013
With the loss UMass falls to 21-44 against Temple and 15-16 when playing in Amherst.
The 48 points scored in the first half by the Minutemen matches a season-high, which was previously set in the first half against Ohio.
UMass had two players finish with double-doubles. The last time that happened for the Minutemen was December 1 against Miami (Terrell Vinson 14 pts, 11reb., Chaz Wiliams 11 pts, 10 ast.).
Williams finished the game with his fourth double-double of the season tallying 16 points and 13 assists. Williams' 13 dimes are a Mullins Center record and two shy of the school record. He now has nine career double-doubles. He also became the 44th player in school history to reach 1,000 points at UMass. He now has 1,004.
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|The Manchester Evening News and BBC News Manchester reported over the weekend on the arrest of eleven people on public order offences during an EDL protest in Rochdale which took place on Saturday.
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"Eleven men were arrested by police today during a rally by the English Defence League in Rochdale.
"More than 400 members of the far-right organisation gathered for around two hours outside the town hall.
"Many gathered outside pubs on Packer Street amid a heavy police presence before they were escorted by officers to a pen on the car park outside the town hall. Officers dealt with a handful of minor skirmishes as the group marched the short distance to the car park from Packer Street.
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"Coun Colin Lambert, leader of Rochdale council, said…"I would like to thank the residents of this fantastic borough for continuing to demonstrate that people co-exist peacefully here and extreme, far-right views have no place. I am also proud of the support shown by our businesses, who continued to operate in challenging circumstances.""
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The story takes you through two eras. In the 16th century, when the Pallava dynasty is ruling over South India, a king from that dynasty, Bodhi Dharma (Suriya), who is an expert in martial arts and medicine, travels to China to teach there. After staying in China for years, he sacrifices his life and is cremated there. Cut to the modern world and the Chinese government sends Dong Lee (Johnny Tri Nguyen) to India to spread a deadly virus here as part of Operation Red. He is also ordered to kill Subha ( Shruti Haasan), a genetic engineering student, who is researching on Bodhi Dharma. Meanwhile, Subha befriends Aravind (Suriya), who works in a circus company and it is he who saves her from Dong Lee. The rest of the film explores Aravind's story and his connection with Bodhi Dharma.
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The Bruins posted a final round team score of 273 (-11) to jump two spots into third place at 841 (-11). Stanford took top honors with a score of 831 (-21), followed by runner-up Washington at 833 (-19). LSU was fourth at 846 (-6), while Texas Tech and Arizona State tied for fifth at even par 852.
Pinizzotto, who recorded seven of the Bruins' 25 birdies on the day, blistered the course with a final round 66 (-5). That score enabled him to vault 25 spots up the leader board into a tie for 12th place at 211 (-2). Sophomore Jonathan Garrick was the Bruins' top finisher, tying for seventh place and climbing seven spots to 209 (-4) following a 68 (-3) in the final round. Tied for 16th place were senior Anton Arboleda and sophomore Lorens Chan at one-under par 212. Arboleda improved 15 places with a final round score of 68 (-3), while Chan posted a 72 (+1). Junior Jay Hwang tied for 28th at 215 (+2) after his round of even par 71. Sophomore Jake Knapp, playing as an individual, posted a 74 (+2) and tied for 56th at 223 (+10).
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I have a very non-technical team that would like to build an RDF vocabulary. So I thought a little about what I learned about RDF, which is mainly that RDF triples are made out of URIs. Google Sites offers the ability of creating Pages and Sub-Pages that generate URIs such as
Would this be a good way to start building a vocabulary without any extra programming or development, or am I missing something? I imagine my team would simply create a page for each of the vocabulary terms we have.
Eventually I want this vocabulary to be used with RDF. Any ideas? What would happen if I wanted to build relationships such as the ones defined in OWL and RDFS?
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What do you want to use the vocabulary for? Some use cases would help to guide your choice for many of the issues you are considering. Also, if you can limit the vocabulary to a particular domain, you can build something, create an application that uses the data and demonstrates its value, and then build out from there iteratively.
(31 Jan '13, 12:56) bobdc
I want to use the vocabulary to document all of our "crop descriptors" that we have. We're a research organization that has worked on these so called descriptors for over 20 years, so we're trying to move forward with technologies and embark into the semantic web. So the particular domain of the vocabulary would be crops. Definitely, we also would like to do things iteratively... we essentially want map much of the crop-related data that exists, using our vocabulary, and be able to make it queriable in the semantic web.
(31 Jan '13, 13:04) Luca Matteis
You might want to check out a few related questions:
(31 Jan '13, 14:06) Signified ♦
@Signified all of those tools are too complex for my team. Classes, properties... I just tried using webprotege and neologism and I also couldn't figure it out. I'm talking about a very non-technical team here.
(31 Jan '13, 14:20) Luca Matteis
In a very brief nutshell: RDF triples represent graphs of structured or semi-structured data. The URI is used to provide a unique naming scheme for classes and play a part in constructing triples, but only a part. You should have a domain unique to your organization for URIs. URIs should be persistent as well, this will give you an idea of how that works. Google sites, unless using your own domain name, aren't appropriate.
Read the W3 primer for RDF, it's a good place to start. You might want to hire or contract in help if this is beyond your team's technical ability, taken that an RDF vocabulary is really what you need.
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The approach you've chosen for building a vocabulary is a very elegant idea, however this will not result you an RDF graph by default (assuming your team will create human content on these URLs). The URLs would be the nodes, but you need edges too. There are two options to build it up to a graph:
You will need either a triplestore or one should be able to dereference your URLs to download RDF about the resource. The ideal solution is both, but you need to make sure to keep these synchronized. You can check out how the dbpedia was built out: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Architecture
If you consider this image, here the box "HTML" would be equivalent to your handmade pages:
In dbpedia the HTML representation is automatically generated from the database. As you can see, you will need a lot more in order to serve up RDF. Having your own domain (and not leveraging the google URL) has also some benefits, so you should consider some equivalent solution running on your domain.
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A Winter Vegetable Garden (page 2 of 5)
by Robert Smaus
When to Plant What
Though I sow something almost every week in winter, I begin in August, a seemingly unlikely time to be planting anything in southern California. But this is the first opportunity to sow cole crops, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, the weird sputnik-shaped kohlrabi, and especially brussels sprouts, which take a long time to mature. In August's heat and humidity, the seedlings come up like rockets off a launching pad.
What winter vegetables need to mature is cool weather. As youngsters, they can even handle the heat of California's sizzling San Bernardino and Imperial valleys. But when heads are forming, they need cool weather. Otherwise they'll likely make blossoms but not form heads. Even root crops get crisper in the cool soil.
There's enough time to get in two or more crops of most winter vegetables, so I sow seed again in late October, December, even in February. Though I'm feeding three vegetarian teenagers, there can be too much of a good thing, so I try to spread the harvest out by planting a little now, a little later, and some more after that.
I learned this lesson years ago when working in Alan Chadwick's fabled bio-intensive garden in Santa Cruz, California. We ate what we grew, and one week we had only beets, and way too many of them, so we subsisted on beet soup, boiled and baked beets, beet juice, beet bread, and beet cake. In retrospect, such a diet seems barely one step up from a downed airman's diet of ants and grubs.
Gardening in the mild coastal strip of southern California (USDA Hardiness Zone 10), where the last frost was back in 1908 or something like that, I'm admittedly spoiled. I can plant during any week of the year. But if you want precise planting dates, check with your cooperative extension office. Be sure to experiment a little, though; I've found the typical planting dates to be quite conservative.
As the weather cools down, germination slows down, too, so take this into account when menu planning. Seeds will wait for just the right conditions, which may take quite a few days. The sun will shine brightly for a few days, the winds blow warm, and up they'll come.
If you want to speed things up, cover flats or beds with a row cover, such as Reemay or Agrofabric. Thes materials let in the sun and rain (or irrigations), and trap the heat. They also exclude pests such as white cabbage butterflies, and they'll even help keep slugs and snails at bay. Lay the fabric on loosely, tuck the edges into the soil, and the seedlings will simply push it up as they grow. You can leave it on, but I usually remove it after plants are a few inches tall so I can keep a better eye on weeds.


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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to My Birthday
I'm one of those people that gets ridiculously introspective when it comes to birthdays, particularly since mine is at the beginning of the year (today, in fact), and particularly when its second numeral is a zero or a five.
For reference purposes, we'll call this my 35th birthday, even though regular readers of this space know I have a grandson. Not that there aren't 35-year-olds with grandkids and not that I haven't spent years staying out of the sun while not smoking cigarettes in order to score that Photoshop-flawless complexion, but, in my case, 35 is a teensy exaggeration.
Besides, I tore up the AARP application, so who's gonna say otherwise?
When I was a little girl, I wrote poetry. Then angsty teen sci-fi short stories. I know, right? Who knew that'd end up being a real genre twenty years later? I missed that boat big time.
I explored other avenues of fiction, and then realized I sucked at it and started writing nonfiction. In my twenties, I started working as a freelance opinion columnist for a newspaper. (Not the newspaper I write for now, which has put up with me for almost fifteen years.) When my kids were born, I supplemented article income with risqué greeting cards and offensive button slogans, which I hid from them until they were in high school.
"Ew mom, you're gross."
Yep, gross like a $100 bill every time I sell one of these suckahs.
Anyway, blah blah. Regular readers of this space know my history already.
All through my career, I've had the unfortunate habit of assigning math to my goals. And, like fiction, I suck at math.
Note: I apparently don't suck too much at fiction anymore, having placed in a couple of big contests, and, oh, yeah, selling two novels. I guess I should say I suck at literary fiction. Literary fiction I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot (insert risqué euphemism for pole here, then sell it as a button slogan).
So, math. That's what we were talking about it.
Dang, do I hate me some math. I have to do it for one of my regular freelance gigs. I write up a couple of weekly city crime blotters for my newspaper and I have to go through coded sheets that list the arrestees' birthdates. Problem is we don't run birthdates (or names, for those of you who are worried); we run ages. Which means I have to take a birthdate and figure out how old the offender is. Worst part of the job, other than when angry people come into the police station and everyone who works there is safely behind glass, except me, typing frantically on my laptop in the lobby, wondering if I can make myself into a tiny ball and roll under the desk. Who says writing isn't glamorous?
Ugh, sorry. We were talking about math.
In my case, I keep setting these math-related goals for myself: published author by 15, 20, 25, 30, 35…
Yeah, it did happen fairly early on and I know I should be grateful that I'm a working writer in an industry that can be terribly unkind, but this five-zero age introspection rule is making me crazy. I always want to sell more and I want to do it now and not when another *&$!! five years goes by.
All I can do is keep working and hope that, when I do make the big leagues—or, rather, bigger leagues—I stop using my age as a point of reference.
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Sharkie's Machine: Prefight Thoughts on Antonio Margarito vs. Miguel Cotto and PPV
By Frank Gonzalez Jr., Exclusive to Doghouse Boxing (July 21, 2008) DoghouseBoxing.com
The buzz is in the air for this weekend's Welterweight showdown between Mexico's Antonio Margarito (36-5, 26 KO's), the IBF belt holder and Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto (32-0, 26 KO's), the WBA belt holder.
The fight will be televised live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. For those who can't make it to Vegas, it will be televised on Pay-Per-View in accord with your local cable providers.
For those of you who don't have cable TV, my sympathy goes out to you as this match up has the potential of being one of the best fights of the year.
Here's the video game style match up.
Offense edge: Even
Defense edge: Cotto
Boxing edge: Cotto
Brawling edge: Margarito
Speed edge: Cotto
Power even
Ring Generalship edge: Cotto
Stamina edge: Margarito
Chin edge: Margarito
Cuts edge: Cotto
Styles make fights and Cotto and Margarito are very different types of fighters.
Cotto is a well oiled boxing machine who uses footwork and timing to strike his opponents. He is a smart, well balanced fighter with excellent skills on defensive and offensive and has particularly good ring generalship. Cotto has good power and speed but a possibly suspect chin, since it hasn't been tested since the Corley fight a few years ago at Jr. Welter, when Cotto came into that fight weighing 157! Cotto went on to win that controversial fight when the ref waved Corley off after he took a strategic knee for an eight count after taking a few clean shots from Cotto.
Margarito is a fighter in the purest sense. His boxing skills are respectable but it's his tenacity and tendency to brawl in the late rounds that makes him especially dangerous. Margarito used to be a slow starter but after the loss to Paul Williams last year, where he didn't get into his rhythm until so late in the fight it didn't matter, Margarito has evolved. He showed great potency in starting fast in his recent rematch against the brave Kermit Cintron, who lost their first fight by KO a couple of years ago. In the rematch, Margarito was busy from the first bell and put Cintron down and out in six rounds. Margarito has a good chin and incredible stamina that sees him get stronger in the late rounds. He does seem to have problems with good boxers, as evidenced in his match with Joshua Clottey two years ago. Margarito won that fight but many felt that Clottey deserved at least a Draw. Miguel Cotto is a very good boxer.
The only new thing I saw from Cotto's last fight against Alphonso Gomez (a terrible mismatch) was a little bit of ego, something I never saw Cotto show in the ring. Gomez is a decent fighter but far too green for the likes of Cotto, so that fight did nothing to prepare him for the likes of Margarito. But in Cotto's fight against Shane Mosley, he showed his pedigree as a quality boxer, who landed the better punches and won a decision over the aged but still respectable Mosley.
Antonio Margarito vs. Miguel Cotto represents the best in boxing entertainment in an era where it's rare to see two of the best fighters, fighting each other. Cotto and Margarito are both in their prime, both dangerous in their own right and unless it turns out to be a Draw, one of them is poised to capture a career's worth of glory this coming weekend while the other suffers the agony of defeat.
When the dust settles Saturday night, one man will have two pieces of the title. Will the new WBC belt holder, Andre Berto fight the WBO belt holder Paul Williams so the winner can fight the winner of Cotto vs. Margarito and render us with one true Champion, spelled with a capital C? Unfortunately, it's very unlikely.
While they all have title belts, they can't all be Champions. By definition, there can only be ONE Champion. Boxing is the only sport that really doesn't have any Champions in the true sense of the word. In today's boxing, with all the sanctioning bodies doling out titles to several fighters in the same divisions, one would have to win all the major belts in one's division to be the real Champion. Everyone else is a top contender, alphabet soup belts be damned.
Just because everyone thinks one guy is the best, doesn't make it so. A fighter has to clear the deck, fight and beat all the best to be the best.
Manny Pacquiao was recently crowned the new, 'best Pound for Pound' champion after fighting David Diaz, who's a good fighter, but not even considered one of the best in his own division. So much for best p4p. Pacquiao is a great fighter, no doubt…but that whole "best P4P" thing is just a promotional gimmick. If Cotto wins Saturday night, he'd be a more logical choice for best P4P fighter since he'd be undefeated with a lot of "big names" on his resume. Pacman is a great fighter but he has three losses, two draws and been kayoed twice. But to Pacman's credit, he has also been involved in three rivalries with M.A. Barrera, Erik Morales and Juan Manuel Marquez, three great champions in their day.
For all the positives about this Cotto Margarito match up, it should be noted that this fight could have served as a tremendous promotion for a sport that could use a good boost in the public eye. Boxing has seen its fan base shrinking for over a decade. Between bad match ups, bogus decisions, no tournaments that create Champions, questionable "P4P" champions who pick and choose their opponents and a heavyweight division that is as exciting as watching paint dry, boxing could use some good P.R. This fight could have been it if it weren't to be limited to PPV buyers or the folks who up and went to see the fight live in Vegas.
Too bad this fight will be on Pay-Per-View. This could have been one of the best promotions for boxing today. It's the kind of fight that casual sports fans need to see to make boxing attractive again. It's a shame that kids won't be able to see this fight, since they can't afford the PPV. Where will the next generation of fighters and fight fans come from if you don't attract the next generation coming up?
I'm not against having a PPV fight once in a while but it should be a good fight card, not three crappy fights and one big name attraction that could turn out to be a dud anyway. The under card on this one is a Featherwight contest between Bernabe Concepcion vs. Adam Carrera. I never heard of either of them. From looking at their records, I'm guessing that Concepcion will win that one. How did these guys get to be on PPV?
If the promoters tried to get this fight on regular network television (like CBS, NBC or ABC) so everyone could see it, the promotional value would've been tremendous. PPV limits exposure to only the most hardcore fight fans. This is potentially one of the biggest fights of the year. There was a time when boxing was the biggest spectator sport in the world and all the major networks would be fighting each other for the rights to cover these events on their stations. What are the businessmen that rule boxing doing today that's so damn wrong?
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Researchers sought to measure the severity of swine flu, defined by how often the virus lead to illness, hospitalization or death. The study involved data from Milwaukee and New York City combined with data recorded previously by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers' statistical approach revealed that if H1N1 continues its summer behavior, the autumn to winter swine flu wave should have a death rate comparable to an average flu year. The primary difference seen was age at death. Typical flu seasons mainly kill elderly adults, while this will not be the case for swine flu patients, experts predict.
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Official service dogs and dogs trained to be service dogs for owners who are disabled aren't just family pets. They do much more than that for their owners. These dogs have been helping the handicapped for ages and do everything they can to protect their owners as well as family members when they are present.
A recent report was issued on Feb. 11 from Raw Story and KMTV News on Feb. 10 and an update from Magic Valley - Times News on Feb. 12 stating that an Idaho police officer from the Filer Police Department pulled out his service revolver and shot the dog of Rick Clubb dead in his front yard. There are two disturbing things that happened this day. First the dog called Hooch died and second the gun was fire towards the Clubb house where his nine year old son's bedroom was located.
Rick Chubb who suffers from Parkinson's disease is more than just upset. He is furious. He plans on suing the city, police department and the police officer, Tarek Hassani for unjustifingly putting his dog down just because he wasn't tied up but was on their property.
The officer reported to the area because a call was dispatched stating there were dogs showing aggressive behavior and barking. The complaint also stated that there were dogs running loose in the neighborhood. Most likely it didn't specify what types of dogs were causing a commotion from the neighbors.
Rick Chubb's dog was a Labrador that wasn't showing any signs of aggression until the officer neared the animal. The dog saw what him as a stranger and started to bark. This is a natural defense mechanism that every dog has as a form of protection and warning for people to stay back. Hooch was on his property and protecting it but the officer got closer and kicked the animal and then took his gun out and shot him dead.
The entire act was caught on video from a dash-mounted camera from the officer's vehicle!
Chubb was having a birthday party for his son who just turn seven. The home had children all over and he feels that there could have been a better way to restrain the dog other than killing him. He also said that it gave his heart such a fear that if that bullet had ricocheted and wasn't a perfect shot his son or any one of the children attending the party could have been injured or killed and that upset him the most.
Rick Chubb was issued a ticket for not having the dog tied up, in the family home or yard and he can fight that but he doesn't feel that is necessary. He does plan to file suit because he feels the death of Hooch was unjust.
Hooch performing his duties as a trained service dog can help a person such as Rich Chubb who suffers from Parkinson's disease by doing the following tasks:
- Turing light switches on and off
- Opening and closing doors
- Picking up items from the floor
- Assist with walking and balance
- Act as a support when they rise from a chair or the floor
- Hold a person upright if they feel dizzy or faint
- Reduce stress
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- Be a loyal companion
Do you think Chubb has a right to sue for the death of his service dog?
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Scrabble word: STOOPS
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Definitions of STOOPS in dictionaries:
- noun - an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- noun - basin for holy water
- noun - small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
- verb - bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- verb - debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
- verb - descend swiftly, as if on prey
- verb - sag, bend, bend over or down
- verb - carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- verb - to bend the body forward and down
There are 6 letters in STOOPS: O O P S S T
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