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A small town in Michigan, which happens to be the true hometown of Michael Moore; despite his claims that he is from Flint. In reality Flint Michigan is roughly as far away from Davidson as South Central is from Beverly Hills.
Davidson is a small town in Michigan. People tend to clam up when asked about Michael Moore.
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
Calling someone a davidson is another way of saying someone is a lost cause and is a waste of space. Davidson's often crawl deep into the anus of unusually gargantuan chimpanzees and suckle the nutritious juice from monkey dangle berries.
by The Red devil hunter September 04, 2011
A small college town north of Charlotte North Carolina. It is patrolled by cops who have eaten quite a few too many donuts in their careers, yet will pull you for 5 over or passing on the right. The people are nice enough to you unless you are under 35. Great place to start a family!
by Matthew Wasburn August 14, 2006
a little town in rural north carolian. well known for it's annual parade in which participants (mainly Jamie and his friends) elephant-walk around the town. also known for it's extremely dumb population and girly-men.
Davidson was recently named the worst place on earth, mainly because of all the girly-men that roam the streets.
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Video: Kirsten Powers says Bush 2008 veto of bill with end-of-life provision "not true"
posted at 3:00 pm on January 1, 2011 by SueZeeQ
Good stuff. When you tell a liberal the truth they recoil in disbelief. Seriously.
Just watch Kirsten Powers and her disbelief in this interview when the bomb is dropped about 6:00 in. She's so flustered when she finds out the truth that President Bush vetoed the 2008 bill with the end-of-life provision in it and it was the Democrat Congress that overrode the veto and forced it into law.
Here's the transcript:
SCHLAPP: And government itself, let me tell you, the language here right, the language is different. They made the language worse, instead of doing this once every five years, now the Obama administration is allowing this to happen every year and actually reimbursing doctors to do it every year. So, that's quite a slight of hand. And doesn't government — aren't they a little conflicted here? They have to find this huge health care savings for seniors at the same time they've become the counselors to seniors in their end of care decisions?
POWERS: Where was your outrage in 2008 when the Bush administration said that Medicare would reimburse end of life counseling?
SCHLAPP: It was a veto that was overridden by the Democrats. So, I give President Bush credit for vetoing that bill.
POWERS: No, it was a 2008 law. I mean, I don't know what are talking about.
SCHLAPP: Yes, that became law over the president's veto.
POWERS: No, that's not true.
Yes it is true, Kirsten. And you look foolish and lose more of your credibility for believing the false narrative and then trying to advance it on national TV.
Could you imagine if Sarah Palin made that mistake?
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Help Decide: Thinkpad T42 or T43
I had a T42 with the last company I consulted with and it was fine, slow, but it had XP and I didn't get to do a fresh install, plus I'd be running linux on this machine, most likely through USB 2.0, since I find it to load distros faster than the HD.
So what's out there.. I can pretty much get either for between $120 and $200 (give or take this and that) on ebay..
Differences I've found are that the T42 use DDR vs DDR2 on the T43, but they both max out at 2GB. Processor wise, they both range from 1.6 to 2.0Ghz. I know the T42 uses a different chipset and video card I believe.
T42, less noisy and hot and a bit longer battery life (which when I had seemed like 3hrs max.. but this could have been the battery and XP).
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Made in Idaho: Gem State authors
Like ABC News, we're excited to see people buy Christmas gifts "Made in America. We're taking it one step further: We'd like to see you buy Christmas gifts "Made in Idaho."
Here are some ideas from writers from the state.
Jo Deurbrouck has lived in Idaho for 25 years – almost a native. And her most recent book, "Anything Worth Doing," just won the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award. It's a story about two special outfitters on the Salmon River.
The book is about men who put a dory in the mouth of the Salmon River and rode it all the way to the ocean. This is a story made in Idaho by an author who lives in Idaho.
"This is a true story. I could not have made it up," said Deurbrouck.
Two experienced outfitters that had run the river so many times in so many ways and needed one more challenge. In the book, you learn about life, love, triumph and tragedy. And you learn about Idaho's Salmon River.
"The Salmon River is basically unique in the 48 states -- 425 miles long, runs through the largest wilderness complex in the lower 48," she said. "It's undammed its entire length, navigable its entire length, It's … rare in the world. Here's what's cool. On this amazing national treasure. And it's completely contained in Idaho."
Deurbrouck said her book makes a perfect Gem State gift.
"If you're talking about Made in Idaho, a trip down the Salmon river is a Made In Idaho gift," she said.
So pack a big box with a summer trip paid for inside and take a trip down the Salmon River with your family
To learn more, visit the Idaho Outfitters and Guides website, http://ioga.org.
Here are some more Idaho authors whose writings you may want to consider putting under the tree. Thank you to viewers who recommended some of these:
Kirby Jonas, a Pocatello firefighter, got bored working on the spud line and started writing westerns, good old fashioned ones with heroes, books that use Idaho as a backdrop.
"I just like seeing the good guy win and the bad guy get his in the end," he said. Jonas' most recent book is "The Secret of Two Hawks," and he won the 2010 Best Western Novel in Audio from Western Writers of America. He has published 11 novels.
Jerry Painter writes popular hiking guides to this area.
Ron Watters and Kathy Daly write paddling guides mostly, although Ron Watters also wrote "Never Turn Back" about kayaking pioneer Walt Blackadar in 1995. Also Watters and Daly wrote about easy water for nonadrenaline junkies, Ron and Kathy wrote a guide book to exactly those river stretches. http://www.amazon.com/Kath-Rons-Guide-Idaho-Paddling/dp/1877625078
Poet and University of Idaho instructor Kim Barnes wrote "In the Wilderness," a memoir about growing up in logging camps in northern Idaho. http://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Coming-Age-Country/dp/0385478216
Cort Conley has written a guidebook, "Idaho For the Curious," a driving guide to the state.


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Hi folks,
I'm moving into a postage stamp sized apartment in Boston and my girlfriend already has a 75G tank with some turtles and fish in it (that I'm going to try to convert into an aquaculture setup for growing edibles, might do a post here about it when I get started) so my beloved 29G has to go for space reasons.
$200. Everything included. This means: Tank, hardwood stand, homemade LED lighting setup (see below) and hood, all flora and fauna, tank heater, air pump and bubble wall.
The LED hood I made myself last year. It's 12 x 3W Cree LEDs, 6 warm white and 6 cool white alternating on separate channels. They have 60deg optics on them. It's driven by a driver I made myself and modulated with an Arduino, with my software on it. You can adjust intensity on either channel and it has sunrise/sunset with smooth dimming. The poplar hood is wall mounted and sits well above the tank for easy visibility/access to the tank itself. I run it at about 50% power normally -- it is capable of far brighter light than even the most high-light plants would need. Total draw around 45W at full power.
The tank is a walstad natural planted tank, with mineralized soil under white pool filter sand. It has been set up around 18 months and is growing great. It has no filter, and a 150W heater. There is a nice piece of oak-root driftwood in there, though you can hardly see it with all of the plants.
Painted Red Cherry Shrimp (hard to tell how many, at least a dozen very large adults. Might easily be 75 total)
Pond Snails
Possibly one or two Panda Cories but hard to tell
Duckweed (L. minor)
Crypt Spiralis
Crypt Wendtii
Wisteria (just one stem left, it did well when the tank was young but is now outmatched by the jungle)
Java Moss
Flame Moss
Java Fern (3 large ones on driftwood)
Blyxa Japonica
Ludwigia repens
The tank is very stable. I've been doing a PWC twice a year and just topping off whenever the water gets low. The water remains crystal clear, but the driftwood and soil still leech tanins slowly so it will get a tint after a while.
Any questions please post! I'd rather sell the whole thing together, but if you just want all of the fauna/flora that might be arranged -- though I don't want to ship, you'd have to pick up.
Ended up moving it with me and incorporating most of the plants into other tanks. I'm still looking to get rid of the 29G tank (empty), stand, and lighting setup. PM if interested.
Welcome to MA!
Thanks! I'm in Boston, in the north end of JP.
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This seems to be the thing to do when you reach a milestone, so here goes...how many are in the #9,000 club?
Just one home schooled musician!
Jesus christ dude...you've been here two months less than I have, and you have nearly 3 times more posts then me....maybe I should be homeschooled.
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Man that is a whole lot of post you have made. Jeeze .
Perhaps you should. This may sound silly, but I recorded my milestone...
You oughta get something when you reach your 10,000th post (which is probable, since the post count will be carrying over). Maybe everyone should pitch in and send one dollar to you to help you with your music career!
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and then buy everyone a sub-200k car
dang man! i'm still working on getting to 2500
ok man, you reached your 9k milestone. now get a girlfrend.
How do you copy the page like that
Press print screen, (next to F12) then go into paint, then edit, then paste. Then view, zoom, custom size, 800%. Save it. No girlfriends, thanks. And I accept contributions.
Wow, learned something new.
Yeah, it'll show up small unless you set the zoom to 800%, then save it...
go home... j/k - thats a lot of posts.
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As I was posting the audio from Falcons head coach Jim Mora's conference call with our local beat writers, it occurred to me that you may not know exactly what multimedia we post on Giants.com.
I'm continually updating the schedule found on the following page:
Always check the Giants.com homepage, as well as the links in the media player and the "This Week's Multimedia" slide in the homepage lead story rotation for a listing of all the multimedia posted each week.
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Any videos?
I couldn't see one anywhere in this thread so here is the link for results.
Kristine just unravelled - what on earth happened? She is so much better than that.
A huge disappointment but I trust she'll put it behind her and deliver at Nationals.
Shibutanis have a new video journal for the event up:
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trying to clean up their sinning image.
trying to clean up their sinning image.
Spin that Webb young Davis
Mallett wears Tebow's #15....Tebow wants the backup QB job also....
"You killed my family, and I don't like that kind of thing."
Prob won't beat out Mallett for the two spot, so unless he is willing to do other things he will prob be Cut. They don't usually carry 3 QBs during regular season
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
***Stat provided by "Schloss22"***
makes sense, going to the Jets the fans were gonna want Tebow, there no way there be calling for him in in NE.. T- BONE!
Bellicheck is probably the only coach that really believes that good players who are white.
I'll be very surprised if Tebow is listed as a QB - assuming he makes the team.
Entire Team Let Eli down today - NYG4l
Coach Bellichek will help Timmy Tebow evolve and NE Patriots just got a heck of a lot stronger by signing him.


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The 2010 Winter Olympic Games came to a joyous close yesterday for Canada and for the United States. The Canadian men's ice hockey team beat the Americans in a 3-2 victory in a game that went into overtime. When Sidney Crosby hit the puck through the legs of American Ryan Miller to score the winning goal, fans in their red-and-white jerseys—the national colors of Canada—jumped from their seats and yelled, "Go, Canada!" There were hugs, cheers and tears of happiness both at the rink and across the nation as citizens celebrated the win.
Last Thursday, the Canadian women's ice-hockey team also won gold, defeating the Americans. Hockey is Canada's national sport, so these two big wins were extra special for fans. By the end of the 17-day Games, Canada had won 14 gold medals, the most of any nation competing at the Games.
Team U.S.A. Wins Big
The United States team also had reason to cheer. American athletes came in first in overall medals with a total of 37—more than the U.S. has ever won at a Winter Olympics. "It has felt like a home Games for us," speed-skating star Apolo Ohno said. "I think that's part of the reason why we're doing so well."
How did the other nations do? Germany placed second with 30 medals overall and Canada came in third with 26 medals. Norway, Korea and France were also among the top 10 medal-winning countries.
The Party's Over
At yesterday's closing ceremony at B.C. Place, the huge indoor stadium in Vancouver where the Games opened on February 12, athletes marched in with their teammates. Then, in a sign of friendship, respect and unity, athletes from different countries came together in the stadium. No longer competing, they were there to celebrate their shared accomplishments. Canadian-born singers Alanis Morrissette, Avril Lavigne and Michael Buble got the 60,000 people in the audience on their feet and dancing. Fireworks filled the sky, ending one of the biggest events that Canada has ever hosted.
What's ahead? The Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games begin will take place March 12 through 21. Athletes with disabilities compete in these Games. Then, Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls have four years to get ready for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.


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Students lead charge in food drive
Recently a group Pequot Lakes High School Students led the charge in collecting thousands of items and hundreds of dollars for local food shelves.
Sophomore Angela Gudahl was one of the students who coordinated the food drive. She said that she and fellow students were inspired to hold the drive after attending We Day, an event the group attended on Oct. 8 in the Twin Cities. The event focused on empowering young people and focusing on the "we" rather than the "me"
We Day inspired the club to hold the food drive, called "We Scare Hunger," fitting with the Halloween season.
Gudahl said that after attending We Day, she and several other students started We Club. Any student can join, she said.
We Club members visited with every high school and middle school teacher to make them aware of the food drive, and students also traveled to Eagle View Elementary, Gudahl said.
"I think we wanted to step up in our community and give back," Gudahl said.
"There's hunger right under our noses," another student said.
The food drive was organized in just a week and lasted a week and a half. Middle level and high school students brought in 749 pounds of food and $639.41 in cash donations.
At Eagle View, students were motivated by principal Dave Endicott's offer to sleep in the school's clock tower if students brought in 3,000 items.
Any can or box of food, along with each dollar, counted as an item. Endicott said students brought in more than 2,700 items.
Items from the middle level and high school will go to the Crosslake Food Shelf; items from Eagle View will go to the Lakes Area Food Shelf.
High School teacher Abbie Schramm said the food drive was completely organized by students.
"Our attendance at We Day was motivational for them and they are taking the ideas at a sprint," Schramm said in an email. She added that she's looking forward to seeing what future projects the club takes on.


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Express yourself through a voice based on the great Selmer tradition. The SSS280R soprano sax is capturing the interest of today's upcoming artists and delivering a modern French sound at an exceptional price. Incorporating all the right features, this soprano sax is lightweight and delivers all the performance demanded by today's top players. The acoustic response of Selmer LaVoix II saxophones is quick and fluid through all registers, and the neck is specially designed with slight resistance. This combination provides superior response, and teachers also prefer it for embouchure and air stream development. Key design is compact with professional spring tension for quicker facility. Other features include a traditional bell flare, high G, multiple adjusting screws, and treated leather pads. Its finish boasts clear lacquer over rose brass, adding a warmer timbre always appreciated on the soprano, and it also features hand engraving on its body and bell. The LaVoix II soprano uses an included Selmer USA mouthpieces that helps to create an even tone, excellent response, and steady intonation. The included lighter-weight case thoroughly protects the saxophone and offers excellent storage capacity.
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The story of the Selmer Company dates back to the 1800's with brothers Alexandre and Henri Selmer's graduation from the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1885, Henri began making reeds, mouthpieces, and clarinets in Paris. Alexandre Selmer moved to the United States performing as the principal clarinetist for the Boston Symphony. The Selmer clarinets grew quite a following and in 1904, even received a gold medal at the World's Fair in St Louis.
In 1909, Alexandre moved to New York City as the principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic. Alongside his performances, he opened a Selmer retail store in downtown New York with teaching and repair facilities. George Bundy began working in the store under the guidance of Alexandre Selmer.
In 1911, Alexandre returned to Paris to assist the family business, leaving his US interests in the hands of George Bundy. Bundy expanded the business to incorporate selling and distributing instruments from other companies such as Vincent Bach, Martin, Ludwig, and Musser.
In 1920, Bundy moved into the area of flute manufacturing. Hiring George Haynes, he began operating in Boston under the names "Original Haynes" and "Master Flute". In the early 1920's, Bundy moved his operations to Elkhart, Indiana in search of a stronger labor pool. With production by C.G. Conn in Elkhart, it was known as the "Band Instrument City of the World." In the late 1920's in response to growing demand for the flutes, Bundy brought a young flute craftsman, Kurt Gemeinhardt from Germany to work for him.
In the late 1920's Bundy purchased the American business from the Selmer brothers, while maintaining the exclusive distributorship of Henri Selmer Paris products in the US. In 1948, Selmer produced the first successfully molded plastic clarinet called the Bundy Resonite 1400. The clarinet was modeled after the famous Selmer Paris BT clarinet used by notable artists like Benny Goodman. The clarinet established a reputation for affordability and high quality and by 1978, sold over one million units.
The Selmer Company continued to grow acquiring other legendary brands and makers such as Vincent Bach, Buescher, Glaesel, Ludwig, Musser, Emerson, and William Lewis & Son.


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We spend lots of time together but it seems like we don't really know each other that well. An internet community is still a community so tell us who you really are.
I'll start
I am thirty, a father of two of my own and a father figure to any kid that I think needs one.
I'm self-employed, I artificially inseminate dairy cattle and farm, but don't get to set my own schedule so I pretty much work seven days a week unless I can find a replacement weeks in advance.
I am a pro-life christian even though I cuss and drink more than the Good Lord wants me to. I wasn't raised as one so I'm fine with not being perfect but I'm still in awe over the changes He has made in me.
My wife has a genetic disease that puts her in a wheelchair when the pain gets out of hand but we believe it is for the best because working through it together has probably saved our marriage from the issues that we both brought into it...Praise the Lord.
I enjoy all aspects of farm life and pretty much live off of the land simply because it makes me happy. Bees are a big part of it and really the only part that makes money
My non-farm hobby is home-brewing and I spent my one day off in the last five months with my sow, a pet turkey, three dogs and my son on the back porch brewing a batch of raspberry beer.
I can't stand people looking for a handout that are unwilling to work but the local rescue mission is a favorite charity of mine and I will gladly skimp to make sure that the down and out get a warm meal and a place to sleep.
My real name is Caleb Pennebaker so when you all call me cp, I still know who you're talking about.
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Hef's Movie Notes: The Bad And The Beautiful
An actress, a writer and a director are asked to help revive the career of a down and out Hollywood executive. The twist? They've all been betrayed by him before.
Tonight: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan and Gloria Grahame in the five-star classic The Bad and the Beautiful—one of the best movies ever made about making movies in Hollywood.
Ironically enough, though, the film was made by an outsider—John Houseman, a man who earned his initial reputation as a writer and producer for Broadway.
In 1937, Houseman founded Mercury Theater with Orson Welles and subsequently produced and directed a number of radio broadcasts and stage productions, while simultaneously teaching at Vassar. He was associated with the famous Mercury broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds that convinced many Americans that Martians had landed in New Jersey. (A most unlikely destination for a Martian invasion, to be sure!)
Shortly thereafter, Houseman came to Hollywood with Welles to make what would become what many people consider the greatest American film of all time—Citizen Kane.
It's Houseman who developed the original story for tonight's film (with Herman Mankiewicz) and supervised its development. But a falling out with Welles during the making of the movie cost him any credit on the picture.
He's best remembered now for his Oscar-winning performance in the film version of Paper Chase—and subsequent portrayal of the same character in the highly regarded television series.
And the TV commercial in which he announced: "We make money the hard way; we earn it!" Houseman also co-authored the screenplay for Jane Eyre, in which Welles starred.
The Bad and the Beautiful is constructed in a manner similar to Citizen Kane, telling its story in flashbacks.
Similar in theme to Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? the film is actually based on a story titled Of Good and Evil.
Initially developed with the title Tribute to A Badman, Houseman chose Vincent Minnelli to direct. Minnelli had just completed his Oscar-winning An American in Paris with Gene Kelly.
This is Minnelli's best non-musical.
Houseman wanted Clark Gable for the role of the ruthless producer, and when Gable declined, Kirk Douglas got the part. It would prove to be one of his best performances.
The same can be said for Lana Turner, and much of the rest of the cast, including Gloria Grahame, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Kirk Douglas confessed that when they started The Bad and the Beautiful, several of his friends suggested that he would probably have an affair with Turner before the filming ended. They were both free at the time, and he was looking forward to seeing what might happen.
But Turner started going hot and heavy with Fernando Lamas after making The Merry Widow together. And Lamas showed up every day after work to pick her up, so there was no chance for Douglas to hook up with Lana.
Made by an outsider, this is the insider's view of Hollywood. And film buffs had a fine time trying to guess the actual identities of the real-life characters portrayed here.
Some suggested that the Douglas role was based on Val Lewton, the extravagant, hard-driving producer of low-budget horror films in the 1940s that became cult classics, because he made Cat People, and Douglas produced a similar film in this picture titled Cat Men.
But the obvious inspiration for the Douglas role was movie mogul David O. Selznick, whose father, Lewis J. Selznick, battled Hollywood giants Adolph Zukor (Paramount) and Louis B. Mayer (MGM) and was driven into bankruptcy.
The parallel between the Douglas role and Selznick are unmistakable, including his start as a B-film producer, the grooming of star Jennifer Jones (who became his wife) and his making of a colossal Civil War picture (Gone with the Wind).
The Walter Pidgeon part is based on the cost-conscious B-production chief at MGM, Harry Rapf, for whom Selznick first worked. Pidgeon's line, "Give me pictures that end with a kiss and black ink on the books" is straight out of Rapf's penny-pinching philosophy.
The Dick Powell role is most closely identified with F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose romance with Hollywood was an unhappy one, and whose Southern wife, Zelda, died in an asylum fire, rather than in a plane crash.
Turner's part was based on Diana Barrymore, the ill-fated daughter of John Barrymore, the Great Profile.
Part of the "insider's" ploy on this picture included using Turner's own makeup man, hairdresser and stand-in in their real-life roles.
Critics loved the film and so did the Academy. It received six nominations and won five. The nominations included Douglas for Best Actor, Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Black and White Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Costume Design. Douglas was the only one who lost—to Gary Cooper in High Noon.
And now, what The Movie Guide calls "The quintessential movie on the movies"—The Bad and the Beautiful.


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Next time youre in Spain and buy up big from fashion retailer Zara, not only will you impress friends and colleagues with your trendy European clothes, youll become a link in a world-renowned supply chain management system.
Managers at Zaras 450 stores use hand-held devices to send customer feedback directly to in-house designers, telling them which designs the customers are responding to so they can make more, and change their focus. Zara can deliver new styles to its stores in three to six weeks, compared to up to five months for competitors.
When you head to the US, if there is a hurricane alert in Florida, US retail giant Wal-Mart - another global pin-up for supply chain management mastery - harnesses its data mining and supply chain systems to ensure that its local stores are well equipped with products the company knows will be in strong demand, such as torches, batteries, strawberry Pop-Tarts and beer.
Both Zara and Wal-Mart are examples of a new business buzzword - the adaptive organisation - a term coined by analyst Meta Group to describe companies which have configured their IT systems and business processes so they can respond rapidly to changes in the market, and have reduced internal barriers to the cost - monetary and otherwise - of change.
According to Meta, adaptive organisations are more likely to thrive and grow in the coming years, and at the core of their adaptability will be their IT systems, which will be aligned as tightly as possible to their business goals and strategies.
"Most companies are focused around product excellence or containing cost, but what about the ability to actually adapt?" asks Meta analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac.
"One of the things which can make a big difference on cost is, whats the cost of change?"
In the modern organisation, Meta says the ability to adapt is directly linked to the IT infrastructure. Integrating customer relationship management, data mining, and supply chain management in the most effective way gives companies the capability to respond swiftly to customer needs, and bring new products to market faster.
Another side of the equation is minimising internal barriers to change. For the CIO, this means challenges such as reducing fixed costs, the commitment to licences which may not be needed in the future, and the ongoing need to align IT projects with business needs.
Rapid reactions required
If the metaphorical aircraft carrier needs to turn around in a battle situation, it needs to be able to do it as nimbly as it can, otherwise it could be sunk.
"You think about the banks. Theyve put in some systems which are up to 25 or 35 years old, and the cost of changing and introducing internet banking was in the hundreds of millions of dollars," says McIsaac.
"Our argument is that a lot of that cost was actually associated with the cost of change."
"Sure, I might be able to do something cheaper today with a lower purchase cost and even an acceptable total cost of ownership over a four year period, but if I had to change I might find that what I had built is an enormous barrier to the future."
So, is the adaptive organisation alive and well in Australia? The fact is, while organisations may have flexibility as a goal, many are yet to understand adaptability precisely in the way in which Meta defines it.
McIsaac himself agrees that while many of his clients are desperate to "get out of their own IT hell," only about 20 per cent of them are looking at IT projects where flexibility is the priority.
When several organisations lauded as adaptive were asked about their IT approach, the word "adaptability" failed to strike any chord.
"Its hard to remember you are there to drain the swamp when you are up to your armpits in alligators," says McIsaac.
Easy for you to say... In some quarters, there is polite scepticism about Metas new credo.
Professor Michael Vitale, from the Australian Graduate School of Management, says while the term adaptive organisation "rolls off the tongue", he sees few real examples of organisations that have managed to become simultaneously more responsive to the market, and more agile with their IT systems and investments.
"There is no question that a company like Dell is a tremendous success story, but it seems a lot of that success is [based] around a heavy investment in IT, and if we want to call them adaptive Im OK with that, but surely there has been a heavy investment in IT to help them become like that," he says.
Vitale cites both Qantas low-cost start up JetStar and Woolworths supply chain reforms as good examples of Australian companies that have successfully changed to meet their markets, but asks if they have also fulfilled the other side of the Meta definition, and found an IT model which allows them to change quickly, and cheaply, to new systems as they emerge and become appropriate.
"IT is very often a fixed asset that is not intended to be adaptable over the short term," says Vitale.
"It is intended to give the organisation flexibility, but I would say that the IT investments are not flexible assets in themselves."
One multinational that has arrived at its own version of adaptability is Hewlett-Packard, where the company articulated its own view of the "adaptable enterprise" back in 2003.
In Australia, HP offers clients an agility assessment, based on its own experience, and adaptability is one of the organisations internal mantras, driven from the IT perspective.
"The key push within HP is around business process simplification, and that is led by IT because we recognise that processes have grown up independently in different parts of the world," says Kerry Holling, HPs Australian chief information officer.
Adaptability within HP, says Holling, got its momentum from the merger with Compaq nearly three years ago, an event which was the catalyst for a major consolidation and rationalisation of IT worldwide.
"After the merger, we did an inventory and found we had 11,000 solutions we could separately identify, so we put targets to reduce that down to 1,500 solutions by 2007, and we are now down to 4,000," says Holling.
"That has only happened by aggressive inventory management, and its been made possible by a governance process where business operations managers - in cooperation with IT - work out which of our IT projects actually support the goals of the business, and that unfortunately means some people are disappointed that the things they think need to be done dont make it to the top of the list.
"At the moment, for example, theres a huge focus on our volume direct capability, so we may focus more resources on that than on other areas which still have a need but which dont rate so highly."
As CIO, Holling says one of his priorities is to make sure HP doesnt end up with "shadow technology," where people disaffected by the top level priorities will go and surreptitiously create their own IT projects to the detriment of the wider organisation.
"We are a technology company and there are plenty of people here who have the ability to do that [create IT projects], so its a priority for us to monitor it, and make sure [the number of projects] doesnt grow up again," he says.
Can you manage to adapt?
Adaptability sits alongside portfolio management, says Holling, in that first of all systems must be consolidated so that a multinational, for example, that deals with HP in France, gets the same price, terms and conditions as it would dealing in Australia.
"When you have a bunch of local systems all doing the same thing in different countries, and all having to interact with one corporate system that might be further along the road to centralisation and consolidation, then there is the potential for inefficiencies," says Holling.
"You have to plan it across the board because the integration nightmare of doing one project significantly ahead of the others starts to eat into the benefits."
It may have been easier for HP as a technology company, and Holling insists that the move towards adaptability was driven by the companys IT people.
"We had a former CIO, who has now passed away, who used to say that for every business decision there was an IT event," he says.
"The traditional approach of putting together a project team with a time line stretched out to 18 months - by the time you implemented it, most of the decisions are ancient history."
Metas McIsaac agrees that IT is the bedrock of the adaptable organisation, and that the CIOs portfolio management has a pivotal role to play.
"Our conversations with CIOs are about aligning their costs with their business, and that means bringing down the cost of infrastructure, and making those costs available where appropriate, says McIsaac.
"On a practical level, its about licence renegotiation, and putting in virtualisation so I can quickly move workloads from one machine to another.
"And its really about making the data centre more like a power grid, so that when the business needs the power, its there, and when it doesnt the business doesnt have to pay for it."
He points to the growing popularity of on-demand computing, service level agreements that create incentives for the provider, and open standards as trends which indicate a move to the Meta definition of adaptability.
The current conflict between users and vendors over software assurance, which can lock users into life-cycles and upgrades they do not necessarily need, McIsaac says, is another case in point for the drift towards adaptability. "Current trends in software licensing dont fit very well with any goals on adaptability, because in many cases you are paying for resources whether you use them or not," says McIsaac.
"Its going to be very interesting come June, when the first three years of software assurance is up, to see how many people actually take it up again, because I think a lot of people are asking how much value there is in an arrangement like that."
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We've had this exact topic 6 times in the past month.........tiresome.
We've had this exact topic 6 times in the past month.........tiresome.
No one remembers who came in second.
While Jacobs may not be the guy we are not "set" at RB - it would be more surprising to me if they didn't bring in a vet. They are currently looking at hightower. It's wilsons job to rotate with AB but they will most likely bring in some experience as well for depth with Scott.
Of course, if Jacobs decides to retire I'd hope we sign him for a 1 day retirement contract.
I think his career is finished
ugh, r u guys kidding? id be all for BJ spelling Wilson and Brown. Just give him a few carries a game of pure bull doze and make that clear before signing him. I bet he felt disrepected enough to where he would be hungry, and he's had a yr off on his body...vet min, back up role, vocal leader, and prob still could be used effectively...u guys hating on it are being ridic
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Officers will today examine a car to look for clues over the death of Shalvin Prasad, who is believed to have been killed before being set alight.
The 21-year-old's Toyota RAV 4 was yesterday found by a member of the public outside an industrial building on Plunket Ave, Papatoetoe.
The vehicle was 27km away from where his scorched body was found in a scrub fire near McRobbie Rd in Kingseat on Thursday morning.
It has been seized and "will be subject to an extensive forensic examination", police said.
Detectives were trying to establish how long the vehicle had been parked in the area and have appealed for information from nearby business owners.
CCTV footage from businesses on Plunket Ave will also be investigated.
Yesterday would have been Mr Prasad's 22nd birthday and his family has asked for privacy as they prepare for his funeral.
Police believe Mr Prasad was killed by the fire and an accelerant was used.
His brother, Pravin Prasad, yesterday released a statement from the family appealing for information about his brother's killers.
"Family and friends are the centre of his world. He loves to play soccer and enjoyed his job. He is probably the most innocent and naive 21-year-old you could meet," he said.
Area inquiries completed by police have also established that two vehicles left McRobbie Rd at high speed about 6.30am on Thursday morning just prior to the arrival of the first police vehicle.
Both vehicles carried on straight through the intersection into Kingseat Rd travelling in the Pukekohe direction.
One vehicle was described as blue/silver in colour and the other was white.
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Bozeman protesters rally against GMOs, Monsanto
BOZEMAN, Mont. - Dozens rallied in Bozeman to speak out against Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs and the seed company Monsanto.
Organizers tell us Bozeman's "March Against Monsanto" is part of a worldwide effort to spread the word about the dangers of GMOs and protest a new law that streamlines the regulatory process to allow genetically engineered crops, even if the environmental impact is disputed in court.
Genetically modified plants come from seeds designed to resist insecticides, increase nutritional value and crop yields.
But folks we talked to say they make people sick and are harmful to the environment.
"We have the right to know. It's as simple as that. If they're so proud of their product, label it," says protester Karen Suplee.
Protester A.J. Scaff says he's been growing his own food for years.
"There's flavor in natural foods. There's no reason we need to be manipulating what nature gave us millions of years ago and have kept us alive and sustained us," explains Scaff.
Organizers also hope to spread awareness about the impact of genetic engineering on local agriculture.


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4th, I've always had good results from the Chip McCormicks and the Wilson Combats. They are well made and use good follwers. Some are 8 or 10 rounders too. They are expensive but they don't crack or cause jams. Long lasting quality IMO.
The one in your pic always cracks apart at the notch in the back of the mag body right at the bottom of the lips causing the lips to spread apart and get thrown in the canal.
In looking at the Wilson, that notch is rounded. The McCormick is angled. Both types seem to leave more meat on bottom of the lips for strenth.
Save the spring and follower, ya never know.
I grabbed a bunch from a show recently that are sealed in brown paper. The guy says they are mil. contract but I don't know how to tell. The followers don't tilt so I bought them. They have no markings on them that I could find. I'll try one out next week and let ya know.
Also I have a couple standard Shooting Stars. The notch is angled but the followers tip forward. So far (multiple thousand rounds) they have been reliable but time will tell.
My Mecgars have been reliable even though I've been told others have had problems w/ them. Strange thing about them is that they won't trip the magazine safety inside of the Marlin Camp 45, so I need to keep them separated from the others.


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Yeah I didn't think the panic had anything to do with it, I just figured they'd be around a little longer, you always seen crates of them at the shows.
I got a few at the $80-90 price, a couple others about 100, and I did see they were at 110-120 without the accessories a year or more ago.LOL I know the feeling, I bought a couple just because I liked the look of the stock, or it was all matching numbersbecause they are like candy to me. Or is it Lays potato chips? Heh....Heh


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Discussion in 'Photo & Video Gallery' started by HoopsChevy, Jun 23, 2010.
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KMC XD series Hoss 20x9"
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Awesome truck man. Congrats on the new wheels and tires.
It's amazing what wheels and tires do for a truck. Great looking truck!
Thanks Guys, I had to tone down the chrome and add a little more heigth with the bigger tires. I love them, nest is a 4-6" lift...
nice set of shoes you got there.
Looks good. If you dont mind me asking how much did you pay for both tires and rims? How tall is it now? From bottom to the satellite antenna? Curious to know since i park on a garage and has height restrictions.
Very nice.
Those rims and tires are looking good on your truck!!!
i like the look your truck has now! I also LOVE those step bars, i want to get a set for my truck!
Looks great! Nice looking truck!:glasses: Thanks for the pictures!
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The annual British Go Congress is being held on 8th-11th April in the lovely location of Malmesbury Town Hall.
The website with full information and booking form is now available here
PLEASE NOTE the accommodation side is a little more difficult this year as there aren't that many hotels or B&Bs very close to the site. The Best Western has a block of 30 rooms reserved for us at £69 per night (room only), but this block will be released if not booked by 9th MARCH, so if you want to stay there you need to book EARLY.


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Don't know. DH is off and told me he'd surprise me. He's a pretty good cook.
I made chicken, onion gravy, mashed potatoes, broccoli, and buns.
Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn. Mmm...
Not sure yet.
No idea!
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You are going to LOVE this room. Lucky you.
A beautiful room! I love your big shelf units - you'll have lots of storage!
Looks like it is gonna be GORGEOUS!.. Lots of space and storage to, ENJOY!
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Its looking marvelous. Sew Happy for you. YOur hard work will be worth the end result.
your avatar is ADORABLE!!
That is going to be one fantastic sewing room!!! Merry Christmas!
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A referral to the dean's office. Coined due to the three sheets of carbon paper they are written on. One goes to the dean for his or her records, another to the teacher who wrote you up, and the last to your parent or guardian.
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UTSA students play soccer birdie at Sombrilla Plaza
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Feb. 17, 2006)--Taking advantage of a sunny day, several UTSA students played the new game soccer birdie last week near Sombrilla Plaza on the 1604 Campus.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Soccer birdie can be played like volleyball (with or without a net), hacky sack, lawn darts, badminton and football.
The cylindrical game device floats, and can be used in a swimming pool.
Soccer coaches like the game because it helps improve players' foot-eye coordination and keeps them fit year round.
The game is usually played in groups of four, indoors or outdoors when the wind is calm.
Other players can recover missed hits and continue play without the soccer birdie hitting the ground.


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I live in a rural area, upland on a ridge. Within a 5 mile radius, I have some row crop soybeans and corn, an azaela farm, a winery, local gardens, and misc pasture and forest. How many hives do you think this type of area will support and still produce a honey surplus?
When I split off some successful hives and grow, I will move some out to our main farm. It is mainly pasture land and forest, no row crops or other nectar sources. What will that area support?
I have noticed some of the apiaries in the area with 20 or more hives, but really don't know how well they produce. I don't really notice many supers. I have not been able to catch any of them and see how well the honey production is in those apiaries.


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Darn you, popularity! Help with alternatives?
So I need some help...
Expecting my second child 6/10. Gender will be a surprise. With my son (Sullivan), the girl name I had picked out was Violet. Well, as you know, this name as consistently climbed the ladder and is now too common for my taste. I have several options selected if this child is a boy, but not so much for a girl.
For reference, here are the girl names that are sort of hovering on my list:
Maeva (DH loves this one...I'm not sold)
Theodora (nn Thea)
VERY VERY open to suggestions...We're not into anything that's too gender-neutral, and not so big on "kreatif" spellings.
Our last name is one syllable and starts with H.
Thanks in advance!!!
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Okay for girls how about: Imogen, Freya, Heather, Maeve, Lucia, Yasmine, Grace, Freida, Charlotte, Nina, Georgina, Arianna, Paloma, Laura, Eve, Bethan, Kaitlyn, Dorothea, Rhea, Leah, Melody? And a boy: Carter, Louis, John, George, Frederick, Carson, Declan, Bennett, Vincent, Hamilton, Jenson, Isaac, Tobias, Sebastian, Sidney, Albert, Sonny, Edmund, James, Vance? Hope these have helped some.Britberry * Trainee Teacher
Octavia ~ James-Joseph~ Sapphire~ Clark
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Violet - Ivy, Iris, Cassia, Briony, Juliet, Imogen, Alice, Willow, Rose, Louise, Opal, Beatrice, Autumn, Lydia, Viola, Violetta, Seraphina, Rosalia, Junia, Keira, Florence, Geneva
Maeva - Maeve, Amaya, Maya, Cosette, Carlotta, Ruby, Isabeau, Lilia (lily-ah), Delilah, Victorie, Hannah, Marigold, Carina, Catalina
Verity - Amity, Solace, Echo, Persephone, Lisette, Evangeline, Selena, Serena, Serenity, Bonnie, Rachelle, Felicity, Mercy
Theodora - Thomasina, Wilhelmina, Gwendolyn, Nicolette, Bernadette, Greta, Danica, Isadora, Ingrid, Mary, Hyacinth, Pearl, Bernice, Regina
Sparrow - Lark, Wren, Robyn, Kestrel, Callista, Calandra, Daphne, Phoebe, Fawn, Fern, Oceane, Thalassa, Bay, Lake, Sapphira
Mabyn - Taryn, Tegan, Petra, Agnes, Agatha, Vera, Xanthe, Zoey, Mariska, Saskia, Fiona, Lilac~ Catholic. College. Communicative Disorders. ~~(updated 11/3/15)
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A term on the online game World of Warcraft that is used to mainly describe a Druid (class) with a Balance specialization that is doing something very wrong, not paying attention
or just doing stupid things that is easy to avoid.
or just doing stupid things that is easy to avoid.
An example of this is a Balance Druid named Knoemd ,on the European server Doomhammer, that is regularly attacking stuff and getting other WoW players killed and also asking questions about stuff that has been answered 5 seconds before in a chat room and he can be called a failkin
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Just days after the terrorist attack on the United States, the National Infrastructure Protection Center issued a warning that online assaults might follow. In particular, government officials worried about an increase in denial-of-service attacks, which essentially flood with messages a computer connected to the Internet and thereby cripple it or even shut it down. "The closest physical analogy to such an attack," says Stefan Savage of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), "is someone signing you up for 100,000 pieces of extraneous junk mail. Without a good way to filter the junk from your regular mail, you're stuck spending lots of time reading each one." Past denial-of-service attacks targeted Web sites for CNN, The New York Times, the White House and many others. Yet despite the prevalence of denial-of-service attacks, one fundamental question long remained unanswered: Just how common are they? A team of UCSD investigators recently answered that question.
Although a variety of programs generate denial-of-service attacks, they all follow the same basic strategy. The attacker's computer sends messages to the victim, or targeted computer. Each message to the victim includes a randomly "spoofed" in cyber language—source address, which makes it hard to identify the attacker, and the victim computer sends a response to the spoofed address. The high flow of messages can overload the victim's Internet connection or computer, leaving it struggling to catch up and unable to handle real messages. Quantifying the characteristics of such attacks, though, requires some way to "see" them in progress.
An idea for such cyber-watching came to a UCSD computing team: David Moore, Savage and Geoff Voelker. They decided to assess denial-of-service attacks by watching the response messages sent from a victim, which is called backscatter. By using backscatter analysis, these investigators could determine the number of attacks, as well as their duration and the targets. The backscatter consists of unsolicited responses, which can be discriminated from other traffic online. Of course, normal mail distributions—including junk e-mail—also send unsolicited messages all over the Internet. This surely puts some bias in a backscatter-analysis approach. Nevertheless, Savage says, "The network we used had virtually no activity on it, so any packets that arrived were basically unsolicited."
Moore and his colleagues watched traffic for three one-week periods. Each time, they monitored more than 16 million addresses, which covers 1/256 of all address space on the Internet. That data revealed some spectacular findings. "In general, I'd say that we've demonstrated that denial-of-service attacks are both common and widespread," Savage said. "We have indications that there are several different kinds of attackers who mount attacks with different intensities and likely for different sorts of reasons. These range from individual vendettas that only impact a small number of systems to broader based attacks that pose a substantial threat to large content providers or even moderate-sized service providers."
In three weeks of data, the team analyzed more than 12,000 attacks. Most of the attacks sent fewer than 1,000 message packets per second, but some swamped sites with more than 600,000 message packets every second. The victims included virtually every part of the Internet—from home computers and large commercial sites to Internet traffic routers and other pieces of the Internet's infrastructure. Most victims endured only a single attack, but others got hit over and over. One received 102 attacks in a single week! About half of the attacks lasted for less than 10 minutes, but a few victims suffered attacks more or less continuously throughout the study. Still, Moore says, "The high amount of attacks under five minutes caught us by surprise; we expected more of the attacks to align with longer durations, such as an hour, since many tools default to longer durations." He adds, "We are currently investigating new techniques to tell whether the attacks actually stop after the short time period or the victim has crashed or otherwise become incapacitated, since the backscatter methodology requires the victim to respond to be tracked."
Some of the statistics on victims make sense, and some seem surprising. As expected, sites that end in .net or .com received the most attacks. Unpredictably, addresses that end in .ro—for Romania—got attacked just as often. Next in line came Brazil. Moore said, "We were initially very surprised at the amount of victims in Romania—greater than 12 percent—and Brazil—greater than 6 percent." These attacks may be in retaliation for denial-of-service and break-in attacks sent from those countries, or they might be responses to junk e-mail. Another possibility is that Internet service providers in Romania are attacking each other to make themselves look better and gain customers.
Perhaps even more surprising, Moore and his colleagues discovered that 10 to 20 percent of the denial-of-service attacks targeted home computers. One possible explanation is that the attacks are related to IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, which allows real-time communication. "IRC servers are often targets of attacks by upset users," observes Moore, "in order to get revenge or retribution for something said or done on IRC or as a response to a previous denial-of-service attack from the other party." IRC users may also attack to improve their scores in multi-player Internet games such as Quake or Halflife. A denial-of-service attack against other players may render the victims unable to send or receive enough traffic to play effectively.
Despite this epidemic of attacks, Savage says, "There is a lack of good automated defensive technology. Detecting, diagnosing and responding to denial-of-service attacks is still largely a manual procedure. That increases both response time and cost while also reducing the number of attacks that can be addressed." He adds: "While the attackers have embraced automation through worms, viruses, tools for breaking into machines and distributed control platforms, this same level of technology has been slow to emerge on the defensive side."
Although the attacks will continue, information technologists now at least know the breadth of this battle. As Moore, Savage and Voelker showed us, no one is safe, neither industries nor individuals. Like other forms of terrorism, denial-of-service attacks prove hard to stop.—Mike May
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It's not like the old days when players were playing with concussions and broken bones. Now player's safety is a top priority in the NFL.
It seems the Redskins ignored the protocol for diagnosing RGIII with a concussion, for the sheer reason to have him play this week.
So now what? Should we go to the Redskins message board to wish the rest of their entire organization well? Riverdance?


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When I showed up to help this frantic English woman in Encinitas, CA, part of the swarm had landed on a bush and the rest were still flying around the backyard. I thought it looked strange and figured the queen must not be on the bush. Sure enough, a small pile of bees were on the ground in the normal tight formation, so I dug up the queen out of the grass and a worker had locked down on the queen's wing.
Ever seen this behavior? I know I haven't.
My theory is that they wanted her to stop flying and latched on!
While I was caging the queen, the swarm decided my leg would be a good spot to land.


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This looks like a friendly place and a really good place to learn. I'm involved in anti-fraud research [the Nigerian scam variety] and I wanted to expand my relatively limited knowledge of hacking to become more effective. Some of the anti-fraud sites I frequent were targeted for DDOS in recent months, so that's another reason I want to gain a deeper understanding.


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My friend lost his wallet on a subway in Tokyo, and someone returned it with all the contents intact. Tokyo has a population of more than 12 million people.
Why is that story so shocking? After all, things like that happen all the time in Steamboat Springs.
I wrote two articles last week that dealt with amazing acts of kindness.
One involved a local man who returned a wallet that had more than $600 in it. Matthew Shelters and his girlfriend were driving down U.S. Highway 40 when they saw the Benjamins flying at their windshield. For a moment, Shelters thought he was on a game show and started "cash grabbing."
The wallet had no ID in it, but that didn't stop Shelters from going to great lengths to figure out who its owner was.
He did all this because he believes in karma. The dictionary defines karma as one person's actions during his existence that are regarded as determining his destiny.
I liked Shelters' definition better.
"It's like that movie, 'Pay It Forward.' I hope the act will inspire someone to do something nice for someone else without any expectations of it necessarily returning to you," he said. "Karma is about being content with the fact that it will go from one person to the next."
Another local woman I interviewed was diagnosed with a blood clot in her brain. Complete strangers walked into her bank to donate money to her medical expense fund. Eight children visiting from Florida held a car wash and lemonade stand to raise money for her without ever having met her.
This community is amazing. When people think about Steamboat Springs, I'm sure they picture champagne powder, hot springs and our amazing outdoor wonderland.
When I tell people why I love Steamboat so much, I never mention any of those things. I fell in love with this town because of the people.
I have never lived in a place where people go so out of their way to help and support one another. When my friend's dog needed a pacemaker, there was a benefit for her to raise the money. Another local woman has received close to the $5,000 she needed to pay for her dog's chemotherapy treatments and surgeries to fight cancer.
I already have covered what seems like a half-dozen stories about musicals and other performances for which the profits were donated to Brian Houston's memorial fund.
Whenever someone gets sick (dog or human), this community comes together to help raise money and provide emotional support. And that doesn't even include all the philanthropy events and nonprofit fundraisers that take place every week.
I lost my license and ID last Sunday in the Torian Plum parking lot. I got a call the next day from a police officer who said someone had already turned it in.
It's crazy.
I grew up with paranoid parents who locked the car doors while driving through shady neighborhoods. We had laser beams going across our pool, and every door and window beeped every time it was opened. Living with alarm systems was all I knew.
We had our house broken into in Florida, our car broken into in Italy, my mom's purse stolen in Vienna, and we were pick-pocketed in Rome.
Then I moved to a town where no one locks their doors and my friends leave their keys in the ignition of their cars. My roommates and I never even received a house key for one of the homes we lived in.
Of course we have crime, but if you read the police blotter, you will notice that most of them involve noise complaints, barking dogs and people setting off fireworks (especially in my neighborhood).
There are residents here who work three jobs to stay afloat but will return found money because it's the right thing to do.
Although inflation and gas prices seem to rise with every passing day, the value of kindness always remains the same.


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Heart attack symptoms increase dramatically in women who have very stressful jobs. It was also concluded by researchers that these women also had a 40% higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
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I am not sure why my wife and I have cable! For me, out of the hundreds of channels to watch, I watch basically three: Fox News, ESPN and HGTV (yes, I like those real estate shows where the spoiled people try to pick a new home).
I love to keep track of the news even though it depresses me (of course, so do Minnesota sports right now, too). What often grips me is the magnitude of our cultural problems and the misplaced solutions that we try to bring to those problems as a society.
My mind reviews horrific circumstances such as school shootings, unimaginable violence, rampant immorality, the growing menace of poverty, radicalism and international conflicts that seem perpetually on the horizon. I am struck with just how deeply we are "messed up" as people.
What I believe we are seeing is the consequence of what happens when we try to live our lives on our own terms, for our own means, while rejecting both our original design and our original designer.
For centuries humanity has been running away from God. We have not only been denying that God has any claim on us or how we should live our lives, but we have been denying God's very existence. The result is that we have run headlong, as a human race, into our own destructive nature.
God is good. When we turn from Him, we also turn from everything that is good and gain its opposite, that which is not good (unrighteousness, evil, immorality, brokenness, pain).
The irony is that it IS God who has created and designed. He has made us to know Him, love Him and serve Him. When we willingly embrace Him and His purposeful and good design, the result is joy! Yes, joy!
God created us to be in relationship with Him. There is nothing more satisfying than a joy-filled, love-based relationship with the one who has made us: our Heavenly Father.
The reason people are unhappy with their marriages, jobs, homes and life in general is that most people want to live by their own rules instead of God's. When we start to align ourselves with God's plan and put Him at the center of our lives, the pieces start fitting together again and we start to rediscover peace and joy.
It is time for us, as a people, to recognize that our ways just haven't worked! We need to turn away from our way of doing things and turn back to God. We need to remember that He loves us so much that He not only made us and designed a plan for us, but He sent His own Son Jesus to call us to come back home.
Through Jesus' life, death and resurrection He made the way for us to come home to God by offering us forgiveness for our rebellion against God. He did this by dying in our place. It is through receiving Him that we receive forgiveness and experience a new kind of relationship with God.
This is a relationship where we are no longer running away from God, but we are now running toward God. The amazing thing is that we realize He has always been running toward us with open arms.
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All we hear is how good are pass rush is, yet our defensive ends only have 3.5 of our 8 sacks. I Know osi has 2 sacks but he has been playing absolutely dreadful especially against the run and tuck looks like he doesn't even care from what i've seen, heck blackburn has more sacks tham tuck. These two need to show us that they are here to play, and there's not a better time than on sunday against Cleveland.
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A few days ago astronomers discovered a new planet that is only 300 light years away. If the aliens set out for earth at a speed of 99.9998% of the speed of light, they could make the trip in 7.2 months (their time), just in time for the Sochi Olympics.
Then yesterday yet another one was discovered, this one 700 light years away. Both of these are right in our back yard. The second bunch of aliens could make the Olympics, too -- only they would have to travel at 99.99996% of the speed of light to make it in time.
This planet is in the constellation Coma Berenices, so I assume they are Mae Berenice Meite fans.


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[quote user="AllTuckedUp"]"TE coby Fleener just ran 4.45 40"
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This guy is big. This guy is fast. This guy can catch. This guy can run good routes. This guy is the real deal.[/quote]I am not sure that Fleener has the blocking skills that the Giants require for that position. Fleener was used more as a slot TE rather than a blocking TE in college so I am not sure he will fit the Giants needs. Now with Jacobs gone, the Giants will need a lot of help in their blocking schemes and I do not think they can afford a non-blocking TE.