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Do maple sticks reduce shock?
Ive heard that maple sticks transmit less shock to ones hand than other woods. Is this true?
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It'd be interesting to see any science behind this. Personally I've always thought that a hickory stick offers the best "feel" with respect to the transfer of vibrations or jarring effect on the hands et al.
Maple is certainly lighter, but I can't say I've found it to feel superior with respect to shock transferred into the hands. However, I stopped using oak sticks many years ago because I just couldn't cop the horrible jarring feeling I got from them, so I have no doubt some woods respond better than others. Seeing where they rank scientifically on a "shock scale" would certainly be of passing interest to me.
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They have a lighter feel so when I use them I get the impression that there is less shock.
The problem is that I sometimes hit harder to compensate for the lighter attack and it defeats the purpose. It depends on the music that I am playing.
I find that hickory sticks produce less shock as they age a bit. I often feel shock transfer from a new pair of sticks but it dwindles after a few weeks of play.
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the opposite, they will allow more shock into your hand than hickory....
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I use maple sticks and hand shock has never been a problem...
...except once.
We did a gig recently at which I was sitting over the piano amp (Star Trek issue) and the piano was way, way, way too loud (another story in itself). I tried in vein to compensate by playing louder and realized considerable hand shock. There is NEVER a reason to have to play that loud. If the band is turned up that much, the drums should be miced, too. If this happens again, I will either unplug the piano amp or shoot the singer (the source of the problem.
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I have only had issues with shock a few times. I'd never experimented with anything other than hickory though.
It makes sense that maple sticks would tranfer more shock though, since it's a more dense wood, the vibrations may be transferred directly to your hands. With a less dense wood, the molecules have space to vibrate on their own so some of the vibrations may be absorbed before they get to your hands.
This is all just my assumption though. Some verified science would definitely be interesting though :)
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In my case there was more shock because I had to play so much louder. With heavier sticks (oak or hickory) I probably wouldn't have had to hit so hard. Now, if I had longer sticks I probably could have hit the piano player. Hmmm?
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FWIW, I find hickory to be more comfortable, as a rule, but maple is OK, too. My issue with maple is breakage. Oak simply hurts my hands.
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In order to determine whether or not one stick transfers more shock than another, we must look at both the sticks density (weight, if you will), as well as the sticks hardness. We shall assume that all uncontrollable factors (velocity of hit, dryness of wood, straightness of grain, etc.) to be equal for our purposes. So here we go:
Take your favorite stick, I'll pick a 2B. Now envision the same stick in maple, hickory, and oak. Maple is the lightest, and oak is the heaviest. Therefore, by definition, maple is the least dense, and oak is the most dense, with hickory somewhere in between. This is not the only factor in shock absorption. We must factor in the hardness of each different wood type. According to the Janka Hardness Rating of wood (widely accepted hardness test, I'll explain at bottom), hickory is harder than maple, and maple is harder than oak. So now we know that the heaviest stick is also the softest, the least dense stick is middle ground in hardness, and the hardest stick is middle ground in density. We know that the harder something is the more energy it transfers (think bricks vs foam), and the heavier it is the more energy it produces (again, bricks vs foam). So if each stick were to hit the same head at the same velocity, we can conclude that:
1. The oak stick, being the heaviest, will produce the most energy upon impact, but being the softest it will absorb the most energy of the three.
2. The hickory stick, being the middle weight, will produce more energy than maple but less than oak upon impact. It will transfer the most amount of energy being the hardest.
3. The maple stick being the lightest will produce the least amount of energy of the three upon impact. Being in the middle in terms of hardness, it will transfer less energy than hickory but more than oak.
In conclusion, the harder stick transfers more energy, but the heaviest stick produces more.
So do maple sticks reduce shock? Sure, compared to hickory. But lets not forget how hard you play and the weight of the stick most definitely come into play. And lets not forget that ALL sticks transfer energy to your hands as long as you are holding on to them, no grip exceptions to this either. If it vibrates and you touch it, energy will be transferred.
As I promised, the Janka Hardness Rating is measured by determining how much pound force (lbf) is required to embed a .444" (11.28mm) diameter steel ball halfway into a piece of wood (half the ball, not halfway through the wood). The harder the wood is, the more force is required. Hickory, hard rock maple, and white oak have hardness ratings of 1820lbf, 1450lbf, and 1325lbf respectively.
Okay, I promise, no more science for today :)
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If I'm understanding this correctly though (and it's certainly possible I'm not), I totally dispute the findings with respect to an oak stick. I'm reading "but being the softest it will absorb the most energy of the three" as them offering less vibrations when compared to hickory or maple, yeah?
In my experience oak promotes far more jarring vibrations through the hands than any other wood I've used. I used them for quite a while back in the 90's....right up until I decided that I just hated the feel from them due to how much unnecessary vibration I felt in my hands when compared to a hickory stick.
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Even in science, there are always exceptions.
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After further investigation, the way maple, hickory, and oak form may have a lot to do with the way they act.
Maple is diffuse-porous. This means that the pores in the ring growths are the same size throughout the rings. As a ring forms in the beginning of a season, it contains pores for water dispersion throughout the tree. These pores remain the same size throughout the season and the life of the tree. In a maple, the pores are rather linear and are spaced fairly far apart, with tightly packed wood fiber and linear cells that radiate from the center of the tree surrounding the pores. This repeats every season and gives the wood its strength. The pores cannot be seen without high magnification.
Hickory and oak are ring-porous. This means the pores at the beginning of the season are much bigger than at the end of the season. In hickory, the pores are large in the beginning of the season, but are very limited in number. The end season pores are very tiny, and there are very few of them. The pores are fairly linear, and like maple, are surrounded by tightly packed wood fiber. The cells radiate laterally, unlike the maple.
The oak is a totally different story. The beginning season pores are huge, and there are tons of them. They aren't in any linear pattern, rather a random array of placement, practically one on top of the other. They radiate out to about half of the ring, then the pores suddenly become smaller but are still bigger than the maple's. This creates weak spots in the wood. The area of pores to wood fiber in an oak is about 50/50. So half the oak is actually randomly spaced pores, or air if you will.
This is probably why oak sticks suck. They are half air! While the wood itself is more dense, giving the stick its weight, the vibration that the stick endures doesn't know where to go because it has to deal with all of the voids in the wood. The maple and hickory, on the other hand, are almost all wood, allowing the vibrations to freely pass through them.
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What about Hornbeam? What are the physical characteristics compared to the other woods? As I understand it, hornbeam is a European hardwood which was described to me a "hard maple".
I bought a few pairs of hornbeam sticks recently and have found them to be light and comfortable; it's only been a couple of weeks so I can't say how they compare in the long run to the hickory sticks I typically use but they have been surprisingly good so far. Especially when one considers that they are the B stock of that particular manufacturer.
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If your fingers suspend the sticks and act as shock absorbers, none of this matters. But I agree that the shock transmitting properties of each respective wood is not the same.
I like stringy hickory the best. It has more give than maple. Oak is too dense feeling for me.
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If indeed your analogy that fingers are like shock absorbers is right, then that points all the more urgently to the need to use the stick that produces the smoothest ride.
Seems to me, anyway. I just use what feels good.
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less shock through science
Less shock comes at a price tho. Less shock means less energy is transfered to the stick, which means less rebound.
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While I would have to buy a pair and cut them up to be sure, there is a black plug at the butt of the stick. This plug is more than likely a rod like insert that goes partway into the stick itself. The insert is what absorbs the shock, not the stick. The stick would perform as usual, but when the vibrations (they travel as waves that start at the point of impact, the tip if you are doing it right) travel down the shaft of the stick, the insert will arrest, or capture if you will, the vibrations.
This technology is also used in baseball bats, tennis rackets, and bows (for hunting), just to name a few.
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I've never used maple sticks, but I'm sure you'd know just from playing if shock is considerably more than playing with plain old hickory. Unless I was playing softer music, I stay away from really hard woods like Oak, Jatoba or Purpleheart.
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I use maple VF SD1 sticks all the time. I never have shock issues, but you have to select sticks for what you play. I play most snare solo stuff, which is more of a concert setting. Maple works great for this. If you try to play too loud with this stick, braking can become an issue. I am referring to very aggressive rock or big band. when you need more volume and weight, I would switch to a hickory stick. You have to pay attention to stick weight, length, and wood type for your application. You can't go by wood type alone.
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Stick rebound and shock transfer are two different things.
You're correct, they are two different thing by themselves, but you might not realize they're directly related when it comes to drumsticks.
While I would have to buy a pair and cut them up to be sure, there is a black plug at the butt of the stick. This plug is more than likely a rod like insert that goes partway into the stick itself. The insert is what absorbs the shock, not the stick. The stick would perform as usual, but when the vibrations (they travel as waves that start at the point of impact, the tip if you are doing it right) travel down the shaft of the stick, the insert will arrest, or capture if you will, the vibrations.
OK, now I see for sure you don't realize it.
In regards to the ZILDJIAN ANTIVIBES, I've played them extensively when they first came out and yes they do work, if/when you do play them you'll realize rebound is affected and it should be obvious as to why.
The 'insert' in the ANTIVIBES doesn't absorb the shock, it acts as an arrestor, it interferes with the vibration. 'Shock' is energy in the stick which has been produced by impact, that same energy propels rebound.
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You may want to find and try some of the new bamboo sticks. They may transfer less than all others mentioned previously.
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So I looked and looked and looked and couldn't find and slow motion videos of what happens to a drumstick when it strikes a head. I did however find this:
Yes I know it is a baseball bat, but you can still see what happens. A drumstick will act exactly the same way, just on a smaller scale. You will notice that the initial impact creates shock, and that shock travels up and down the bat numerous times, even as the machine that holds the bat allows the bat to swing. The vibration finally ceases when they are absorbed by the bat and the machine. This is actually a good video. The ball acts as the initial impact with the head, the bat acts just like a drumstick would, and the machine that holds the bat is the hand and wrist.
Before anyone says "well the bat is made of ash", ash has almost the same hardness as oak, and baseball bats are also made out of maple. Regardless, anytime a force is imparted on an object, energy is transferred to that object in the form of vibrations and motion.
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...anytime a force is imparted on an object, energy is transferred to that object in the form of vibrations and motion.
Very good, and the energy that creates vibration (shock) and motion (rebound) are one and the same. In order to limit shock this energy must be dissipated, which means what? There'll be less of it to produce rebound.
Order yourself a set of ZILDJIAN ANTIVIBES, the best anti-shock sticks on the market, you'll see rebound is affected/reduced.
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I opted to use plain yogurt and this turned out great. Very much like tzatziki sauce. After reading through some of the reviews, I started thinking about vanilla flavored yogurt. It seems to me that today's flavored yogurts are very sweet and some brands of vanilla yogurt are really more like a custard dessert. It's not like the plain vanilla yogurt that you used to buy that was only slightly less offensive than plain yogurt.
The vanilla yogurt seemed to give it an odd flavor. Salad was edible, but not something I'd make again.
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The yogurt in this recipe adds an interesting sweetness. Since I didn't have onion, I used onion salt in place of the regular salt, and next time I would thinly slice the cucumber rather than dicing. All in all, not bad.
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Let's start this series with something that illustrates a spectacular shift of automation in manufacturing, Let's look at a fire-engine red robot poised to transform how humans interact with, and work alongside robots.
If you talk to Rodney Brooks, CEO, Rethink Robotics, he'll tell you that using a search engine is a different experience than talking to a person, but both experiences have their strengths and their place in our lives.
"Over the next twenty years no one is going to mistake a robot for a person, but nevertheless, we will interact and collaborate with robots and they will become as common place in our lives as turning to a search engine is today," said Brooks.
And today, Rethink Robotics, who recently raised $30 million in a Series C round, showed the world Baxter, a robot built for the modern manufacturing environment and to help US manufacturing compete with off shore low cost labor. They call it adaptive manufacturing - think of Baxter as a ready-to-wear robot for any manufacturing environment.
Rethink focused on the simplicity of integrating Baxter into a manufacturing environment so a company doesn't have to reconfigure their manufacturing lines. But, Baxter is also a complete system that can be unpackaged and working in less than an hour and be trained by non technical personnel. Employees can train Baxter to do a new task just by showing him what to do — no software programming needed. So now, humans get to supervise robots instead of doing mundane tasks, people working alongside robots.
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As summer winds to a close, we are excited to begin a new school year at Utah State University not only at our main campus in Logan, but at our regional campuses and distance education centers and at USU Eastern.
Utah State University provides a high-quality education to students no matter their interest. I encourage you all to learn more about the many academic opportunities we offer and about our vibrant campus life. You are part of an exceptionally talented student body with a long history characterized by student success. Because of students like you, the past year was filled with noteworthy achievements.
USU undergraduate Rachel Nydegger was named a 2014 Goldwater Scholar and students David Griffin and Austin Spence received honorable mentions in a prestigious national competition that recognizes outstanding achievements in science and mathematics. USU now boasts 23 Goldwater Scholars and 11 honorable mention recipients since 1998. It was also a banner year for USU and the search for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows. A university-best 14 Aggies were honored from departments all over campus.
Our students succeed because of dedicated faculty and staff who work hard to carry out USU's mission. Joyce Kinkead, a professor of English known for her connection to students and the promotion of undergraduate research, was named the 2013 Carnegie Professor of the Year for the state of Utah. Dr. Kinkead was among just 30 others given the award and is the 13th honoree from USU. And the excellence continues for our Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services that was ranked 28th in the nation overall against all graduate college of education by U.S. News and World Report in the 2015 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools."
It was a great year for our alumni as well. USU alum Lars Peter Hansen was named as one of three Americans as a recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics for groundbreaking research on the workings of financial markets, asset prices and behavioral economics. And plant geneticist and USU alum Steve Cannon was one of 102 recipients to receive a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers from U.S. President Barack Obama in December 2013.
Before you get too far into your studies, be sure to take some time to explore our campus. Whether you are a new or returning student, you will notice some physical changes. Ground was broken last fall for the new, state-of-the-art Huntsman Hall, a $42 million, 117,000-square-foot addition that will wrap around the south and west sides of the George S. Eccles Business Building. Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. is the lead donor for the new building, scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2015. And Jon M. Huntsman School of Business alum Jeffrey Clark and his wife, Bonnie Clark, have provided a $6 million leadership gift to help establish the Jeffrey D. Clark Center for Entrepreneurship in that college.
Students will also be excited that we finally broke ground and are beginning construction on the USU Student Recreation & Wellness Center (SRWC) building. Our students voted in favor of a new recreation and wellness center in the spring of 2012, but the building has been a work in progress for nearly a decade. Students will have full access to the building in fall 2015, which is the anticipated completion date.
As you can see, our campus is humming with the activity and promise that a new school year brings. On behalf of the entire USU community, I hope you have a memorable year.>
Stan L. Albrecht
Utah State University


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OAS – When Raw Fruit is Forbidden
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Since it occurs mainly in people with allergies to birch, grass or ragweed pollen, "the key to diagnosis is the history of hay fever and positive skin tests to relevant pollens," says Mazer.
"As well, a history of eating the food with typical mouth and throat symptoms without other symptoms, plus the ability to eat the cooked variety of the fruit or vegetable makes the diagnosis fairly certain."
However – I don't react to any vegetables sharing allergenic proteins with birch tree pollen, only to fruits. Keith explains that this could be due to a lower level of offending proteins in some of the cross-reacting foods. As well, freshness makes a big difference to the potency.
"The peel also tends to have more protein than the fruit itself," he says. "So if you peeled an apple and ate it, you might not react as if you ate one with the peel on."
Like any food allergy, both Mazer and Keith espouse avoidance as the primary means of coping. Mazer also mentions microwaving raw fruit before eating, but agrees the suggestion is not the most appetizing solution. Sprinkling the cut-up fruit with lemon juice and letting it sit for a few minutes may also work.
Given the unpredictability of "true" food allergy, even I have to be on the lookout. "If someone gets hives or worse with the fruit, vegetable or nut; or gets symptoms with both fresh and cooked varieties; or has prolonged symptoms (hours instead of minutes), this may be the sign of a true food allergy," says Mazer.
In those cases, he emphasizes the importance of seeing an allergist for diagnosis and testing, and then to "strictly avoid the substance and carry self-injectable adrenaline."
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If the problem is genuinely OAS, "the key is to manage the hay fever," Keith says. He suggests using an intranasal steroid two weeks before the season and throughout, to stave off a seasonal rise in the allergic IgE antibodies.
"We want to turn off your nose's production of IgE locally to the pollen, so when you eat a protein that is very similar, you won't get the symptoms," he says. Immunotherapy or allergy shots has not proved particularly helpful for this syndrome, though it can be effective for the hay fever itself.
Some natural therapies may provide some relief. Keith finds that nasal rinsing with a saline spray can be effective in reducing inflammation, while wearing glasses lessens pollen exposure in eyes. He also recommends keeping windows closed, especially in the bedroom and the car, during the specific allergy season.
Keith and his colleagues have recently completed a novel study on a mint tea high in rosmarinic acid, which is believed to have anti-allergic properties. Trials were conducted with sufferers of severe chronic rhinitis.
The results, which Keith allows "are interesting" were to be released at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting in March. He thinks it's important to undertake proper studies "to see if natural therapies do have a benefit."
Given that a third of Canadians suffer from hay fever, the experts actually find it surprising that so few people experience OAS. "A major question is not why people get this problem, but why more people don't – since the pollen-protein link is always there," says Mazer. It tends to be those who have more severe hay fever who get OAS.
"If you get OAS symptoms, see your doctor," says Keith. "What you're experiencing is really a side effect of your hay fever not being controlled." So it's off to the specialist for me to make sense of my hay fever symptoms. There may be a chance yet for my love affair with peaches. One can only hope.
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Toyota's Ideas for Good challenge began just seven months ago when the company opened up five of its most innovative technologies and asked people to come up with ways they could be used outside of cars. They received nearly 10,000 submissions, 4,300 of which qualified for the competition. Then the public cast 19,000 votes, and a team of experts chose 25 finalists and five winners. The team of experts included Wired Associate Publisher Keith Grossman; Joel Stitzel, Ph.D., a biomedical engineer at Wake Forest University Biomedical Center; Jacob Ward, the West Coast Bureau Chief at Popular Science; designer and entrepreneur Grace Hawthorne, a consulting associate professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford; and Josh Morenstein, the creative director at fuseproject.
Over the weekend, the experts worked with the winners, creative engineers and designers from Deeplocal, and engineers from Toyota to make working prototypes of the the five winning ideas. And the ideas were really just that — ideas. The winners are not designers by trade, so it was amazing to watch the insanely talented team at Deeplocal turn them into reality.
One of the most exciting projects was using the Prius's solar powered ventilation to create a clean air system for homes in developing countries where people still cook over open fires indoors. While Toyota uses the technology to cool the inside of a car, Tim Witmer came up with the idea to use it to help clean the air inside small homes where people use open fires.
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Originally conceived as a token of appreciation for our loyal wine club members and visitors to our two tasting rooms, J. Lohr Gesture debuted in August 2009 as three limited-release, Rhône-inspired varietals and blends showcasing the distinctive microclimates of western Paso Robles. Gesture GSM boasts a high-toned fruit character from Grenache, with a bit of Syrah spiciness and a savory accent from Mourvèdre. Gesture Syrah leads with great color density, followed by a delicate oak signature and lingering minerality. Our Gesture Mourvèdre presents a violet hue and enticing aromas of lilac, anise and black pepper.
In recent years, our winemakers decided to broaden the Gesture offering to include additional varietals. A wine club favorite, Gesture Zinfandel is loaded with brambly raspberry and red plum aromas, balanced by its French oak barrel bouquet. Gesture Grenache Rosé was introduced and quickly became a staff favorite with its Asian Pear and strawberry notes, its bright fruit acidity, and refreshingly clean finish. Capitalizing on the delicate lilac, pear and beeswax aromas and plush, silky texture of Roussanne, we offer the unique Gesture RVG, complemented by delicate Viognier floral and citrus aromatics and finished with Grenache Blanc's acidity and green apple fruit. Lastly, Gesture Viognier expresses effusive floral and citrus fruit with mouth-filling viscosity.
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DODGE CITY, Kan. - - A second major winter storm is bearing down on the central Plains, forcing cancellations and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand supplies less than a week after another system dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region.
The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard watch through late Monday for much of Kansas because of the storm system that's tracking across western Texas into Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. The storm could leave up to 15 inches of snow in some sections of Texas and Kansas, where a storm last week dumped about a foot.
More than a foot of snow is possible from the Texas Panhandle, across the Oklahoma Panhandle and into Kansas and possibly Missouri as the storm moves eastward from the southwestern United States.
Joe Pajor, deputy director of public works in Wichita, Kan., says "It would have been nice if we'd had a few days to recover, to do some equipment rehab." Wichita saw its second-highest snowfall ever Thursday with 14.2 inches.
Weather officials say the storm also could spawn tornadoes Tuesday in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and Georgia.
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We have always had two dogs and recently had lost one. We were season ticket holders at the time and naturally at the game with Adopt-a-Dog. I would like to say that we found Maddie, but it seems she found us...as with all our dogs. When we found her we knew she would be a perfect fit for our family. A few years later we lost our oldest dog and thought it would be a good time to get another. I remember sitting on the floor as the dogs were coming in and this big black dog with a corkscrew tail came running right to me. That's when we found Demon (named after the dog from SnowDogs). We could tell that he had not had a good start, but my husband knew he would be a good dog. He never left my side. Then a few months later we fell in love with this adorable 4-week-old puppy. We thought she was a golden retreiver, so we were surprised when she started to grow and so did this Ridge on her back. When we brought Irish into our home it was as if our Pack was complete. Demon had a playmate and Maddie had someone for Demon to play with since she was getting older. We now have two 5-year-old girls and they are absolutely in love with all our dogs. The dogs are very protective of our girls and happy that they are finally old enough to play with. My husband and I are big believers that our dogs are not just pets...they are a part of our family.


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The point of the article is pretty clear to me. We (and Cloud Infrastructure providers Rackspace and Amazon) have been providing Cloud Infrastructure for several years now with 100,000′s combined customers actively using our respective clouds. Obviously, depending on the provider, this process can be quick and easy or a bit more involved. But once you have your infrastructure deployed in the Cloud, how do you monitor and manage it effectively? The authors take this challenge of deploying, managing and taking down jobs hosted in the cloud and discuss their findings within the article.
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Our findings in this test are that RightScale impressed us most with its overall control and deep understanding of specific cloud vendors like Amazon. Tap In Systems has more breadth in terms of different clouds that can be used, it's just not as easy to use. And we liked Cloudkick for its simplicity and ease of use.
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The annual party rewards the top Zumiez's store employees who sell more than $100k during the year.
It's a frenzy of hundreds of young people with energy and enthusiasm mixed with wacky costumes, creative and funny games and videos during the awards ceremony, nearly every action sports star athlete on the planet and nearly every CEO of brands carried by Zumiez.
Spend a few hours at the party and it is so clear why Zumiez has dominated the mall and taken market share from teen competitors.
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