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The twenty mile long West Somerset Railway which runs between Bishops Lydeard near Taunton (M5, Junction 25) and Minehead has built up a very successful trade in the Group and Coach travel market during its 35 year history, offering a "pink-knuckle relaxing ride. A one way journey takes 80 to 90 minutes and the train passes through the Quantock Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and along the Exmoor Coast, giving passengers a chance to enjoy some of the finest scenery in Britain.
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Cloud services can play a role in any business continuity and disaster recovery plan. Yet if our readership is any indication, these services are largely untapped—just 23% of the 414 business technology professionals responding to our InformationWeek 2011 Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Survey use cloud services as part of their application and data resiliency strategies, even though half correctly say it would reduce overall recovery times.
In this report, we'll examine the state of business continuity planning in the enterprise while looking at trends over the past year; outline the types of data and applications most often protected; go over typical disaster recovery design parameters, like data set sizes and recovery windows; and summarize the features respondents expect out of a cloud backup and DR service before signing on the dotted line.
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I won't speculate further b/c I am not that way.
Post game interview totally hints toward Bron being very upset, uncomfortable and leaving. His body language is telling, his eye contact is telling.
This sucks, I feel cheated, not in an entitled way but that we never got to see what could happen.
For the record, you have to wonder whether Jordan would warn LeBron about Reinsdorf, being that he screwed Jordan at the end of his career?


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TribeinLA wrote:I have to harp on the moving the team philosophy and for my own selfish wants, wish that the team would move down near us in New Orleans. First, the Hornets would have to leave town, which wouldn't be impossible. Secondly, the citizens would have to buy into that they are far bigger of a baseball town than hoops -- the Jazz would never have been relocated if not. Other reasons?* A town that is on its feet -- comparatively speaking to its own self -- after years of turmoil. Crime is as bad as Detroit, D.C., Baltimore, Richmond, CA, etc. but not nearly as bad as pre-Katrina. Tourism is as good as anywhere and the hotel and restuarant industries are booming. * The triple A stadium in outskirt Harahan, LA could be revamped and become the Indians' home. There is no room in the city, but that is just about anywhere. Detroit and Minnesota did build in the heart of the city, but San Fran and Texas, among others, built in very upscale areas. Building a stadium in Harahan would make it another Arlington, TX. It already has a fairly wealthy tax base and classier citizen than inner-city New Orleans...I believe if Harahan and Metairie picked up a lot of the bill, that New Orleans and its west bank could help out also. *Fans are passionate and love college and pro baseball. *Weather is hot...Ubaldo would be better, lol. * All I read about is why we'll never get the great players and great young single players b/c of the weather and the boredom of Cleveland. New Orleans rivals only Las Vegas and NY as far as entertainment and that is a pure fact. Detroit or New Orleans if you are a free agent? Minneapolis/St. Paul or New Orleans?* There is a great MLB tradition of wonderful players from the NOLA area -- some tied to Cleveland. George "Bo" Strickland, Rusty Staub, Mel Ott, Mel Parnell, Coach Rod Dedeaux, Jack Kramer, Will Clark, and many more from surounding areas like Ron Guidry and your biy Joey Belle. New Orleans was a baseball town before knowing what a Saint was and would be. *Speaking of the Saints, the city has always ben loyal to them...very simuilar to the Chicago Cybs fans. They may show up wearing a paper bag over the head, but ticket sales have never dipped to the point of panic. Those same fans got behind the Hornets, but realize since the CP3 fiasco, that they'll never let themselves get close to the team the way they are to the Saints. A MLB team? They'd get behind it. I would be an Indians fan if they moved to L.A. or stayed. It doesn't matter. If we want to see this team return to at least a glimpse of 1994-2001, do we care that it's in Cleveland? I do not want the city crippled any further. I love Cleveland. I enjoy eating at the Flat Iron Cafe, drinking at the Parrot and Lizard and checking out the auto museum when I am up there. My wife just went with me for the first time and thought she'd hate it, but truly enjoyed the stadium and the city and its people. What I am saying is that I know how hard it is in Cleveland right now and if the team ever did move, I would hope it would make things BETTER SOMEHOW. It's always going to be a Browns town, right? As many have said, unless fire in a bottle and serendepity are rolling at once, this team may never see another WS appearance. 2007 was a ton of comeback wins and Detroit may have been the worst best team that season. Otherwise, we may be looking at another drought that would soon rival 1954-1994. Ouch. New Orleans is only a suggestion. I just want new ownership and out with Shapanetti and I want players to want to come play for this franchise. I can no longer be patient with being "sellers" and then call ourselves buyers and we end up with Fuckyoudomeeeey and Ubaldo. Kevin Seitzer was a better late season move than those two were. For us to see this, it just may never happen again in Ohio -- #455 and 1995 aside. What do we we want? Serious contending baseball or hopes and prayers built off of corner outfielders and platooners?
by leadpipe » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:13 am
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by skatingtripods » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:40 am
leadpipe wrote:As Forrest Gump always said, "You can't have an ace who's a box of chocolates."Or something to that effect.
by leadpipe » Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:55 pm
skatingtripods wrote:leadpipe wrote:As Forrest Gump always said, "You can't have an ace who's a box of chocolates."Or something to that effect.So you were watching Forrest Gump on Lifetime last night too?
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TribeinLA wrote:Yeah...fuck all of those players who decided to pack up the team on their own.
by Bigfist » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:36 am
by gotribe31 » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:34 am
pup wrote:Fuck Baltimore and their Super Bowl.Clear enough?
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TribeinLA wrote:I grew up an Indians fan in Louisiana. It would be different for me if I grew up in Cleveland. Pup, I appreciate your stance -- maybe I and a few others are in the minority. Name on the front counts, but so does my attachment to the players and it would be easier if I was a wild eyed youngin again. If Kenny Lofton, Baerga, Belle, and Nagy had played for the San Antonio Indians, my allegiance would have switched to baseboil ala Aladome stylee. I am a fan b/c my dad was one and b/c he still will tell anyone they're wrong when he's told the 1954 Indians didn't have the best staff and pen in all of baseball then and now. I inherited his love. I love the Indians so much that I go to Cleveland on vacation, ignoring the sneers. I have converted my wife. I will always love Cleveland. My only problem is that Cleveland (not this board) doesn't love their team back...and the front office is the most incompetent and over-confident bunch of cocktits I have ever seen in sports. When I see John Hart on MLBnetwork, I just want to time travel back to when he and Grover ran the show. Shapiro and Wedge started something that is still going strong -- bad economy or not. But yes, I would follow the team wherever, so long as they didn't sell 8/9 starters and 4/5 staff members. Then, you must have STRONG minor league allegiance (which I am too far removed from to care).
by TribeinLA » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:31 pm
by gotribe31 » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:48 pm
TribeinLA wrote:Hey. Asshole, read. I was explaining my stance. Not yours or pup's and if you read instead of wasted time running your keyboard at someone you do not even know, you'd have seen that I clearly stated that I "appreciated Pup's stance". You wanna be a dick just to be one, fine...but nowhere did I say, "I don't get it. I am an idiot. Please, Clevelanders, help me because I don't understand how you could live with yourselves if the team moved. I made a case in point about the team moving. I have not overharped on it since. I might be from the south...I might be an LSU and Washington & Lee alumn...but I am not an idiot. Meanwhile, you...
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TribeinLA wrote:And every word you type says, "I like to pick fights on message boards. Being adequate was never my strength. Feel my wrath, Macintosh."
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The Avengers and Batman made off with everybody's movie money this year, but you'd have to dig down to the 14th most-popular film of 2012 (Lincoln) to find a Best Picture nominee.
That shouldn't surprise anyone who's watched the Academy Awards in recent years or noted the disparity between its nominees and those at the top of the box office earning list -- or on the guest list at the People's Choice Awards. Since the Oscars were first handed out in 1929, the most popular movie in the country has won Best Picture just 18 times. In the past 40 years, the only box office champions to break through to the Academy voters were The Godfather (1972), Rocky (1974), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Rain Man (1988), Forrest Gump (1994), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). That's right, it's been almost a full decade since the last time it happened, and the gap hasn't closed much since.
Statistician William Briggs checked box office receipts and found that, since 1940, 15 Best Picture winners made 25% or less of the haul of that year's highest-grossing pictures. It's happened five times in the past decade:Shrek 2's $441 million overshadowed Million Dollar Baby's $100 million in 2004, the final Star Wars installment's $380 million dwarfed Crash's $54 million in 2005, Spider-Man 3 trounced No Country For Old Men by $336 million to $74 million, while the record $750 million raked in by 3-D spectacle Avatar in 2009 more than quadrupled The Hurt Locker's $17 million take in its opening weekend alone. In 2011, the $381 million made by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 blew away the scant $44 million made by black-and-white, silent Best Picture winner The Artist.
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Interesting article. I wish he'd used a word like "uninformed" over ignorant, but I'm sure more people will click on it this way, so mission accomplished. I have absolutely no problem with having to pass a basic citizenship test for the right to vote. It will never, ever happen under any circumstances, but I'd be fine with it. One issue you'd have is even lower voter turnout if they told you that you had to take a test when you arrived at the polling stations. There would be some districts that would have canditates win 7-5 or something I'm sure. But interesting that they brought it up, and very good choice of author. Who can accuse the gay black dude of being racist/predjuice etc?
If I were to ask you to ingest an unknown medicine from someone who knew nothing about the medical field, you probably wouldn't do it. And I doubt many of us would feel comfortable as a shareholder in a company that asked people who knew nothing about business to hire its next CEO?
Yet we all know people who gleefully admit they know nothing about politics, don't have time to find out what the current issues are or even know how the government works, but go out and vote. Want to know why it seems Washington is run by a bunch of idiots? Blame this hiccup in our political system for starters. What's a solution? Weed out some of the ignorant by making people who want to vote first pass a test modeled on the one given to those who want to become citizens.
The Founding Fathers were not a bunch of average Joes with gripes about England; they were elite thinkers and philosophers. James Madison attended what is now Princeton. John Hancock went to Harvard. Thomas Jefferson enrolled at the College of William and Mary when he was 16. Today it seems the more education a candidate has, the harder he or she has to work to distance him or herself from it.
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In 1950, the University of Michigan established the School of Natural Resources, one of the first schools of its kind. But the study of natural resources and environmental problems has been part of the University for more than 100 years. Fittingly, the school changed its name to the School of Natural Resources and Environment in 1992. The school remains a global leader in educating students to be innovative and effective stewards of the environment.
The school's home is the Dana Building, which underwent a series of renovations and is now the greenest academic building on U-M's campus. Other SNRE facilities include terrestrial, aquatic and analytical laboratories; a microcomputer laboratory; a remote-sensing laboratory; a computer graphics laboratory for landscape architecture; and a geographic information systems laboratory. In addition, Nichols Arboretum, Stinchfield Woods and Saginaw Forest, and the University's Biological Field Station and Matthaei Botanical Gardens, are available to the school for research and field work.
A Commitment to Future Leaders
The current rate and scale of environmental change are unprecedented. Responding to this, the school has adopted an ambitious, but essential mission. We aim to train leaders, develop policies and teach the skills necessary to manage and conserve the Earth's resources on a sustainable basis. For more than half a century, the school has been a leader in natural resource and environmental research and education. The tradition continues today and into the coming century.
A Historical Timeline
From its beginnings in 1903 as the University of Michigan's Department of Forestry, the School of Natural Resources and Environment has been adapting to and anticipating the needs of environmental leaders. Take a walk through time with our Great Moments Timeline.
The SNRE Visiting Committee
Contributing expertise to the Dean and SNRE's leadership team, the SNRE Visiting Committee is helping to expand the school's reach and influence on campus, across the nation and around the world.


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Oct 06, 2011
2011 Federal Government IT Priorities
To gauge how federal IT teams are managing the Obama administration's technology mandates and the many other projects on their plates, InformationWeek conducted its third annual Federal Government IT Priorities Survey. The survey was completed in July by 131 federal IT pros. IT security and cybersecurity were ranked the No. 1 priority. Data center consolidation moved up a few notches on the list, while the Open Government Initiative moved down.
One of the big changes in federal IT this year was the resignation of federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who was replaced by Steven VanRoekel, the former managing director of the FCC. One of VanRoekel's first actions was to announce new responsibilities for agency CIOs in the areas of governance, commodity IT, program management and information security.
Federal IT teams have a lot of their plates. The top five priorities, according to our survey, are cybersecurity, disaster recovery, data center consolidation, data records management and virtualization. (R3191011)
Survey Name: InformationWeek 2011 Federal Government IT Priorities Survey
Survey Date: July 2011
Region: United States
Number of Respondents: 131
Purpose: To determine IT priorities for federal government technology professionals and contractors.
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Hikohadon wrote:Lubber wrote:Is that seriously the first time you have seen a defensive back take the wrong angle on a pass? Who is to say he picks off the ball even if he is in the correct position? You are assuming a lot there.
No, I don't recall ever having seen a Safety overrun a pop fly then fall down while backing up to catch the pop fly he overran, especially in a situation where your main task is to NOT let any receivers behind you. At the very least that ball should be knocked away.
You will not find anyone outside of Baltimore and - apparently - yourself that doesn't feel that completion was due to a DB error.
Maybe you need to re-watch it again. The dude simply took a bad angle. He did not over run anything. Bad angles from safeties happen at least once a week in the NFL. Obviously, this gaffe was magnified due to specifics of when it happened. I agree, his main job was to not let the WR get behind him. To say it was one of the worst in history is a little exaggerated.


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4 Chain Restaurants With Valentine's Day Promos
This is the shoebox well-intentioned suitors have been backed into since Esther Howland and her gang of greeting card industry thugs grabbed hold of Valentine's Day in the late 19th century and DeBeers and its diamond-company cronies made every dinner on that holiday a game of high-stakes poker. Now it's an $18 billion industry that trails only Thanksgiving ($30.5 billion) and Christmas ($135 billion) in holiday spending, according to IBISWorld.
That's almost $3 billion more than what's spent on Mother's Day, which means most folks love that person they met on winter break in Breckenridge more than they love their own mother. For shame.
Perhaps its only fair that those poor, misguided saps get squeezed for their Valentine's supper. Restaurant ratings guide Zagat found that spending on a dinner out jumps on Valentine's Day to more than $146 for a typical dinner for two -- from $70. Overall, the National Retail Federation expected Valentine's Day dinner spending to jump from $3.36 billion in 2011 to $3.58 billion last year.
It didn't help that last year's Valentine's Day diners decided to treat the holiday like an Olympic-style challenge. Last year, restaurant reservation site OpenTable found that 93% of the Valentine's Day reservation holders they surveyed planned to either match last year's dinner bill or increase it. Roughly 54% planned to spend $101 to $200, while 10% plan to go well beyond $200.
This is how the place around the corner from your house that requires you to lean out the driver's side window and shout your order into a speaker becomes a viable Valentine's Day option. We took a hard, soul-searching look at the lovestruck American dining landscape and found a few establishments that will try to sell fast and familiar fare as romantic dinner this Valentine's Day:
White Castle
The Midwest and East Coast miniburger palace, the Beastie Boys' muse and Harold and Kumar's sacred feeding ground usually has no problems doling out sacks of 10 or cardboard "Crave Case" briefcases filled with dozens of burgers to anyone willing to make the pilgrimage.
Unless they want to drop by on Valentine's Day, when they'll need to hit the White Castle website and make a reservation.
For their trouble, White Castle couples get a $10 "share-a-meal" served on plastic red tablecloths set with candles and flowers in collapsible take-home vases.This year, the package includes a free digital photo that gets posted on the chain's site after March 1 and keepsake menus to mark the occasion. While there's plenty of room for questions about the romantic value of a meal that tends to settle like a cannonball in the stomach a few hours later, a White Castle Valentine's date is worth the agita if only to see the confused, bloodshot look on the regular clientele's faces when they come in and see the glowing candles and flush decor.