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Laura Merling is senior vice president of the application enablement business unit at Alcatel-Lucent. She leads strategy and execution for Alcatel-Lucent's company-wide push to transform the network into a software platform. Merling's most recent experience has been as a strategist in transforming companies to API and cloud-driven businesses. Her more than 20-year career spans leadership roles in executive management, business development, and product management in the software and corporate IT sectors.
John Musser is the founder of ProgrammableWeb, the online resource for mashups, APIs, and the web as platform. He is a Seattle-based technology consultant, writer, and teacher. During his 20-year career in software development, he has shipped five award-winning software products in three industries, working with companies that include Electronic Arts, Credit Suisse, MTV, and Bell Labs.
Laura Merling and John Musser of Alcatel-Lucent share how enterprises can use APIs to create platforms from existing assets to unlock new value.
Interview conducted by Vinod Baya, Bo Parker, and Christopher Isaac
PwC: Laura, can you talk about your organization and the efforts that you are leading at Alcatel-Lucent?
LM: Sure. I lead the application enablement organization. The function of this organization is to drive the adoption of the network as a platform. If you could turn the network into a Facebook-like platform, how would you do that? This goal has a couple of dimensions: the API [application programming interface] dimension and the cloud dimension.
My group does all the software and technology development to expose capabilities of the network as APIs. The capabilities could range from the ability to select what cell you run on, to functionality to route calls or access information such as call history. We also provide mechanisms to manage the use of these APIs; we put controls and rate limits on these APIs, normalize the data, establish business rules—including related business models—on the data or service, and analyze the data related to the API itself. We are also tightly integrated with our cloud offering, CloudBand, to provide API management as an embedded service. CloudBand combines dynamic network availability with cross-cloud access.
PwC: Why is creating and offering APIs to others important now?
LM: In many ways, APIs are the building blocks of the digital economy. They make existing capabilities fungible, so that it is possible to use them in new ways, quickly and easily, thereby spurring innovation and new value creation. All carriers have extremely valuable assets that are effectively locked up in their own networks. Such assets include network capabilities, data about QoS [quality of service], subscriber profile information, and call control. These assets can be used to make existing services better or build completely new offerings, to drive incremental revenues, and to enhance a third party or an enterprise brand.
Leading telecom service providers are aggressively using these assets to build deep, broad value chains across previously unconnected market segments. For instance, Facebook recently announced a relationship with AT&T, Softbank, Mobile Corp., Telefonica, and others to provide in- application purchases using carrier payment services. We already have customers around the globe who have demanded that in the next two years, all of our products should have web-based services or RESTful [representational state transfer] APIs in and out of them. That request is not just for our software solutions but for the hardware solutions as well.
PwC: John, you have tracked the growth of APIs for years. APIs have been a part of computing as long as people have been connecting one piece of software with another. Why the new interest now?
JM: There are a couple of primary differentiators with APIs now. First, they are available and accessible over the public Internet. One of the previous methods, SOA [service-oriented architecture], generally was behind-the-firewall web services within a corporation—or sometimes across partners, but classic SOA is interdepartmental and within a single enterprise. The phenomena growing for the last few years is really about APIs being open and accessible to all over the public Internet as the Twitter, Facebook, or Google Maps APIs are.
Another differentiator is that an API is not an SDK [software development kit], which typically is at either an operating system level or a platform level, such as an ERP [enterprise resource planning] system or database. SDKs used a very traditional behind-the-firewall programmer interface into a layer of the software. The difference now is that the layer of software is a website. Typically over HTTP, you access a web service endpoint that belongs to another company. This is a lot easier to do.
RESTful interfaces create a level of simplicity that didn't exist previously, and simplicity always speeds things up, making integrations cost-effective. One of the challenges with SOA was that it was over-engineered for the complex case, which was only about 20 percent of the use cases. Owing to the complexity, it cannot adapt easily to 80 percent of the simpler cases. APIs today, using RESTful interfaces, make it possible to easily serve 80 percent of the most common use cases. At the same time, the goals of modularity, reuse, ease of integration, and flexibility apply to both approaches.
PwC: Is this largely a change about how you deliver the service or does it influence the business models in the industry?
LM: I see this as a disruptive change. You can view APIs as a toolkit to co-create value, so they have an impact on how value is distributed in an industry ecosystem. All providers need new ways of thinking about their businesses. Now it is possible to see network capabilities digitized and modularized, and therefore open to access and manipulation by programming code. The network becomes a platform for development. It becomes capable of serving exponentially more use cases. In emerging markets where greenfield LTE [Long Term Evolution] infrastructure is being installed, we see providers wanting their entire network to be API enabled out the door for a nationwide broadband network and differentiated value to the ecosystem.
PwC: Are these messages relevant to industries other than telecom providers?
LM: Absolutely. Broadly speaking, all major enterprises have underutilized assets; that is, the existing business models are not tapping into the full inherent value. For telecom service providers, networks are such assets that can create a lot more value if the providers open them up with APIs. Similarly, to fully capitalize on existing assets, other businesses must shift to platform-oriented business models that allow others to extend their capabilities in innovative ways by enabling new applications. This cannot be possible if tapping into the capabilities is expensive, time-consuming, or complex.
PwC: What should enterprises know about using APIs?
LM: One common misconception I see in how enterprises define ecosystems is targeting the long tail developers only. However, platforms that have used APIs successfully, such as Twitter or Facebook, have a small number of API users in the ecosystem that drive the bulk of their traffic. Twitter actually acquired the four top companies that were driving all its traffic. Businesses need to also look for B2B2C [business-to-business-to-consumer] opportunities that are real and can scale quickly.
JM: Indeed, the long tail of developers is an option but not a requirement. The requirement is that your audience for APIs could be anything from your own department by transforming your prior SOA efforts to something more systematic, cost-effective, and flexible. You don't need to bend over backward just to have an API; you need to think about that strategically. One of my favorite examples is eBay. Back in 1999 or 2000, eBay opened what really was the first API in this class of APIs. Of all the things eBay could have an API for, what do you think it did first? Most people think eBay had an API to search the auction marketplace. Not so. The company's first API was to add listings to the marketplace, because that was what was strategic. The winner in the auction universe would be the provider with the biggest marketplace, so to eBay, success meant the ability to grow that catalog as quickly as possible.
PwC: What should organizations know to start on this journey?
LM: Organizations need to establish a vision of the ecosystem that they will create or be a part of and what role they would play. This vision is dependent on the existing business model and the assets that organizations can tap to create new value. They also should look for opportunities where they can digitize existing processes, because those processes create the opportunities to expose APIs. Also, any organization that succeeds with an API has a vibrant developer ecosystem. There are many best practices on how to attract and foster a developer ecosystem, and organizations need to learn and adopt some of the best practices. It is important to understand that a developer isn't always the guy in the garage building the next Angry Birds.
We have done studies and learned a great deal about what makes a developer ecosystem—one that spans casual hobbyists to professionals in other large firms—tick. APIs have been with us for a long time, but in the past they always took a lot of time to use and make work. Now, thanks to emerging practices with RESTful interfaces, developers expect to use their time efficiently. The easier it is for them to tap into your assets, the more they focus on creating value-added capability and bringing it to market quickly.
PwC: Are there any guidelines for where CIOs can focus first?
JM: One easy way is to look at your existing portfolio: what's on the plate now, and how can any of those high-priority projects that are either in development or about to get under way benefit from an API? In today's marketplace, anything to do with mobile is a natural candidate. Who doesn't have a mobile strategy right now? Nobody. CIOs should take anything to do with mobile and make sure it is integrated with a platform strategy, because they're such a perfect and natural fit.
Also, CIOs should understand that using APIs is an architectural choice and not a technology choice. Organizations can build a platform using whatever their core technologies are. If they are a Java or Microsoft shop or something else, there's no need to change the core. The concepts are neutral regarding language and implementation platform. Organizations can use whatever stack the enterprise prefers and may have a mix of them as well.
PwC: Are there any risks to be aware of?
JM: For CIOs right now, it's more important to be API literate than to be API ignorant. In the future, you're not just going to produce APIs, you're going to consume them. If you use a single cloud service, just one, your team needs API literacy, period. API ignorance is a risk that no CIO wants to be accused of a couple of years from now.
CIOs are going to need to know how to integrate services in the cloud. They'll need to understand how to deploy using APIs, because there will be some project that they must run on the VPN [virtual private network] version of AWS [Amazon Web Services]. If the CIO's team doesn't understand this market and it's waiting for things to settle down, good luck in your new job because it's not going to be here. Your competitors are going to eat your lunch by being more nimble and agile and not necessarily waiting for things to mature or standards to emerge.
PwC: Where do things stand with respect to the use of APIs internally or externally?
JM: Most of the action today is in external use, but I think it's going to be bigger inside the enterprise. I feel there's a much larger universe of private APIs and their usage than there is of public API usage. The two flavors of private API—for internal companies or for a company's partners—constitute the part of the iceberg that's under the water and the tip of the iceberg represents the public APIs. The real body and meat of the API universe is hidden. This is where a lot of the value is, because you can be more adept and agile and get better ROI [return on investment].


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I first heard about a copy of the complete works of William Shakespeare known as the 'Robben Island Bible' when a good friend was reading Anthony Sampson's wonderful biography on Nelson Mandela in 2002. I was fascinated by the story and found online the subsequent article that Sampson wrote 'O, what men dare do' in the Observer from 2001.
The book's owner, South African Sonny Venkatrathnam, was a political prisoner on Robben Island from 1972 to 1978. He asked his wife to send him a book of Shakespeare's complete works during a time when the prisoners were briefly allowed to have one book, other than a religious text, with them. The book's 'fame' resides in the fact that Venkatrathnam passed the book to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells. Each of them marked his favourite passage in the book and signed it with the date. It contains thirty-two signatures, including those of Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada and Mac Maharaj, all luminaries in the struggle for a democratic South Africa.
These men signed passages within the text which they found particularly moving, meaningful and profound. The selection of text provides fascinating insight into the minds, thinking and soul of those political prisoners who fought for the transformation of South Africa. It also speaks to the power of Shakespeare's resonance with the human spirit regardless of place or time. But, as he explains it, he just wanted a 'souvenir' of his time in the Leadership Section of Robben Island.
After hearing this fantastic tale, I determined to write a play based on interviews with as many of the former political prisoners I could find intertwined with the chosen Shakespearian texts. I first encountered Sonny's 'Bible' in 2006 when it left South Africa for the first time to be a part of the Complete Works Exhibition hosted by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2008, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and interview Sonny and seven other signatories of the 'Bible' to form the foundation of the play. I returned to South Africa in 2010 for further interviews and to workshop the research with the Market Theatre Laboratory.
It is an honour to have had the opportunity to spend time with these most gentle of men – each one a lion in the fight against apartheid. Many opened their homes to me, a complete stranger, for a couple of hours, shared with me a cup of tea and what their lives were like under an oppressive regime. As Ahmed Kathrada said, 'After being locked up for all of these years, when I get a chance to speak to someone who is interested in my story, I find it hard to keep quiet.'
I was, and continue to be, fascinated by the resonance of the chosen texts and the men's biographies – how life imitates art and; how great art, like holy books, seems to give strength to the oppressed.
Read more about this post and Matthew Hahn's work on his blog .
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In Montana, the state House of Representatives approved a resolution calling for repeal of the RAT by a vote of 92-8 on Feb. 21. The 100-member body is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.
"This overwhelming vote shows the level of outrage that exists in Montana about this major change in public lands policy. Obviously this is not a partisan issue- this is a citizen issue," said Bob Raney, Executive Director of the Montana State Parks Foundation.
The measure, House Joint Resolution 13, now moves to the state Senate, where a favorable vote is also anticipated. It asserts that "Montana's culture, quality of life, and traditions demand free access to public lands" and goes on to say that "the Montana Legislature demands that H.R. 3283 be repealed by the United States Congress."
In Colorado, Ouray and San Juan Counties have also called for repeal of the RAT, joining San Miguel, Hinsdale, and La Plata counties. All the county resolutions express dismay that a major change in public land policy was made behind closed doors, without congressional debate. They are directed to the leadership of the U.S. House and Senate, and to the Colorado congressional delegation.
U.S. Representative Ralph Regula (R-OH), who has no federal public lands in his district, originally introduced the RAT, officially known as the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, as H.R. 3283. It allows the forest service, Bureau of Land Management, fish and wildlife service, national park service, and Bureau of Reclamation to charge fees for use of vast tracts of federally managed land by the general public.
H.R. 3283 passed the House Resources Committee on a voice vote in October but never passed the floor of the House and was never introduced into the Senate. It became law nevertheless by being attached as a rider on the huge Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which must pass in order to keep all government operations funded.
The RAT supersedes the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program (Fee Demo). Fee Demo was originally a two-year test program but was repeatedly renewed and expanded and ran for eight years. Regula attached Fee Demo to the 1996 Omnibus Appropriations Bill as a rider, meaning that it, too, never was subjected to hearings or a vote on its own merits.
Robert Funkhouser, President of the Western Slope No-Fee Coalition and a leading opponent of Fee Demo, is pleased that elected officials are taking action. "The RAT fundamentally changes the way our public lands are funded and managed.
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At the moment the only way to import users from (say) a csv file is through the Admin interface.
It would make more sense (I think) to have this function also available for teachers within a course, matching on (probably) userid or email and allocating users to groups (and probably creating groups on the fly if the groups don't exist).
This would be very useful for teachers working with large classes who want to import a spreadsheet of users into groups, but without them needing to use the main system admin block.
Note that I'm assuming that the students exist and are enrolled in the course.
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We have something like this (for 1.9) and would be happy to share: In the Admin block, the 'Import' functionality accepts the upload of a csv sheet with at least two columns.
It also accepts userid, user id, user, user name for the first column, and group as the second column. All other columns are ignored.
This is the training doco we have for the feature Netspot has developed for us - let me know if it fits what you're after:"
Click the link titled "Quick Group Creation from spreadsheet file" in http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=202&topic=10
We have this for M2 too, I've linked the tickets in our system, thanks for catching this MT.
This is something I have heard teachers wanting. Perhaps it's something that can be developed along-side the Group self-selection update, which is on the cards.
If people have a solution to this (and I suspect it exists), please do share it. That will certainly make the likelihood of it coming about much greater.
As an additional piece of functionality I would require is the ability to download a pre-filled CSV from the system with IDs so that all the teacher has to do is fill in the group then upload.
In the meantime, another mechanism for encouraging this along is to encourage votes. If I can out-tweet Mark, I'll send that out now (from @Salvetore - please re-tweet).
Attached is the work done by John Kelsh (NetSpot) for the University of Canberra for 1.9. The patch is based on latest 1.9.13+.
Adding David as watcher: what is the status of new CSV import lib that should finally deal properly with all the escaping and quoting in various CSV dialects?
My +1 to get this included in 2.2dev once we know what is the general plan for CSV handling improvements because it would require changes in code, UI and user docs.
The new CVS handling library to be implemented as a part of
MDL-13114. There is not time scheduled for that one yet.
Bumping this issue.
It was on the Roadmap for an earlier version but fell away.
@Minh, Are you able to send or point me to the training documentations as I can't locate it from the above link?
Hi Leon, it seems the documentation has changed and what's there now will likely not be of use to anyone outside of UC.
The short of it is that there is a new button called "Import Groups" which will allow the upload of a CSV file containing at least two columns: username, group. All other columns are ignored.
Well, we got this functionality, but I'm not sure why this issue was not used and why it was never closed.


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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:50 PM GMT on October 02, 2012
October is here, and its time to start thinking about how the coming winter's storm might compare to mighty blizzards of years past. Do you remember the North American blizzard of February 4, 2010? No? Well, do you remember Snowmageddon, the massive February 2010 Nor'easter that dumped up to 38" of snow in the mid-Atlantic, and killed 41 people? The two storms are the same, but having a simple name for the snowstorm like "Snowmageddon" helps us identify and remember the impacts of the storm. Naming a major winter storm makes even more sense if it is done before the storm hits, to aid in raising awareness of the storm, and to reduce the risks the public faces. That's exactly what The Weather Channel is going to do for the U.S. this winter, they announced in a press release today. A group of senior meteorologists at The Weather Channel chose 26 names for the upcoming winter of 2012 - 2013. The only criteria was to select names that are not and have never been on any of the hurricane lists produced by the National Hurricane Center or National Weather Service. Naming of a winter storm will occur no earlier than three days prior to it hitting, to ensure there is strong confidence that the system could have significant impact on large populations. There is no national center for monitoring winter storms like we have for hurricanes with the National Hurricane Center, so I think it makes sense for The Weather Channel to take this step.
Figure 1. Snowmageddon in Maryland: February 4, 2010. Image credit: wunderphotographer chills.
U.S. winter storm names for winter of 2012 - 2013
Athena -- The Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspirations, justice, mathematics and all things wonderful
Brutus -- Roman Senator and best known assassin of Julius
Caesar -- Title used by Roman and Byzantine Emperors
Draco -- The first legislator of Athens in Ancient
Euclid -- A mathematician in Ancient Greece, the Father of Geometry
Freyr -- A Norse god associated with fair weather, among other things
Gandolf -- A character in a 1896 fantasy novel in a pseudo-medieval countryside
Helen – In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus
Iago -- Enemy of Othello in Shakespeare's play, Othello
Jove -- The English name for Jupiter, the Roman god of light and sky.
Kahn -- Mongolian conqueror and emperor of the Mongol Empire
Luna -- The divine embodiment of the moon in Roman mythology
Magnus -- The Father of Europe, Charlemagne the Great, in Latin: Carolus Magnus
Nemo -- A Greek boy's name meaning "from the valley", means "nobody" in Latin
Orko -- The thunder god in Basque mythology
Plato -- Greek philosopher and mathematician, who was named by his wrestling coach
Q -- The Broadway Express subway line in New York City
Rocky -- A single mountain in the Rockies
Saturn -- Roman god of time, among other things who had a planet named after him
Triton -- In Greek mythology, the messenger of the deep sea, son of Poseidon
Ukko -- In Finnish mythology, the god of the sky and weather
Virgil -- One of ancient Rome's greatest poets
Walda -- Name from Old German meaning "ruler"
Xerxes -- The fourth king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Xerxes the Great
Yogi -- People who do yoga
Zeus -- In Greek mythology, the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and the gods who lived there
I expect that this year The Weather Channel will be pretty conservative about assigning names, and only the very strongest winter storms will get named. For the eastern 2/3 of the country, storms that receive a ranking of "notable" or higher on NOAA's Regional Snowfall Index (RSI) or Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS) are the only ones fairly certain to get named this winter. We only had one such storm during the winter of 2011 - 2012 (Snowtober, on October 29 - 31, 2011.) Thus, if we have another wimpy winter like last winter, we probably won't get to see the Wrath of Khan.
Naming of Winter Storms in Europe
Various organizations in Europe have been naming their winter storms since 1954, and the public has reacted positively to this practice. The names given by the Free University of Berlin are the most widely used, and have been in existence since 1954. Their meteorologists traditionally name all lows and highs that influence the Central European weather. In November 2002, the Free University began an Adopt-a-Vortex scheme, which allows anyone to buy a storm name. The money raised is used by the meteorology department to maintain weather observations at the university. Over 1,800 participants from 15 European countries plus Brazil, Japan and the United States have participated. So far in 2012, 90 European low pressure systems have been given names.
Figure 2. A huge wave from Winter Storm Klaus rolls into Santander, Spain, in this wunderphoto taken by wunderphotographer lunada on January 24, 2009. Klaus had a central pressure of 967 mb at its peak on the morning of January 24, and brought sustained winds of 59 mph, gusting to 81 mph, to Santander. Wind gusts as high as 124 mph (199 km/hr) occurred along the northern coast of Spain, and the storm killed at least 26 people in Spain, France, and Italy.
Naming of Lake Effect Winter Storms by NWS Buffalo
Tom Niziol, The Weather Channel's winter storm expert, was meteorologist-in-charge of the Buffalo, New York NWS office until January 2012. He tells me that for over ten years, the Buffalo NWS has been naming lake-effect storms. This was done only after the event occurred, to avoid any confusion, but was very popular with users. The names were chosen on a yearly basis by having the office staff vote for one of several themes--such as insects, heavenly bodies, famous scientists, minerals, Native American tribes, etc. Last winter, eight storms were named after breeds of cows (?!), as seen at the NWS Buffalo Lake Effect web page. I was not asked to contribute to this year's list of U.S. winter storms, but will lobby for next year's list of names to be taken from famous monsters--Rodan, Ghidorah, Nessie, Kong, Bunnicula, etc.
Figure 3. The most significant lake-effect snow storm of the winter of 2011 - 2012 was named Lake Effect Storm Evolene by the NWS office in Buffalo, New York. Image credit: NWS Buffalo Lake Effect web page.
The Methuselah of Atlantic tropical storms, Tropical Storm Nadine, is slowly weakening over cool 22 - 24°C waters. Nadine will have accumulated 20 days as a tropical cyclone later today, but the end is in sight. Wind shear will rise to 30 knots and ocean temperatures will drop to 20°C by Thursday, which should cause Nadine to transition to an extratropical storm as it passes by the northern Azores Islands on Thursday and Friday.
96L off the coast of Africa no threat to land
A tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa over the weekend (Invest 96L) has a moderate amount of spin and a large area of heavy thunderstorms that is growing more organized. The storm is located about 925 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, and is headed northwest at 10 - 15 mph. Wind shear is a moderate 10 knots, and is predicted to remain light to moderate, 5 - 15 knots, through Friday. The atmosphere surrounding 96L is fairly moist, and the disturbance does have a good degree of model support for becoming a tropical depression by late in the week. In their 8 am EDT Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave 96L a 70% chance of becoming a tropical depression by Thursday morning. 96L is likely to get pulled northwards by a large trough of low pressure over the Central Atlantic late this week, and should not be a threat to the Lesser Antilles Islands.
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Missile Baits Baby D Bomb 7pk
Following in the highly-successful footsteps of the Missile Baits D-Bomb, the Missile Baits Baby D-Bomb maintains all of the same fish-catching characteristics - now in a smaller, versatile package. The petite stature of the Missile Baits Baby D-Bomb opens the door for a wide range of applications that will put its lively, thin claws to work, like a shakey head or football jig. Although the Missile Baits Baby D-Bomb is scaled down, it can still accommodate a 3/0 flipping hook, and it soft ribbed body adds to its lifelike action and still allows it to displace a significant amount water on the drop. Blow the competition out of the water with the Missile Baits Baby D-Bomb.
Straight off the top-level professional bass tour, and out of the head of Bassmaster Elite Series standout, John Crews, each Missile Bait is uniquely designed and thoroughly tested to ensure it is just right.
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Comments: These things are awesome! I've caught smallies in Canada to largemouth in Texas & they always deliver. Caught a 7lb 5 oz fat chick last week. Green pumpkin purple they just can handle it!
From: Dave: St. Charles, MO 5/12/16
Comments: these things are deadly. Used the desert storm baby d-bomb and wow. i was blown away with how much more fish i started to catch! awesome bait!
From: Brandon: Canada 2/11/16
Comments: Love these. I fish a river system a lot & the smaller size of the Baby D Bomb just drives em crazy. It catches numbers and size, absolutely love these babies!
From: Red: USA 6/1/15
Comments: Clip about a 1/4 - 1/2 inch off the back of these guys and thread em on a football jig. Absolute money. These are very soft, and the action is top notch. The claws flap like a curly tail, I catch a lot of fish on the retrieve back to the boat, even stripers. Only downside is bluegill often bite the claws off. Average durability, 2-3 fish per bug. Color choices are great.
From: Dallas: GA 8/27/14
Comments: I don't know what it is but I have had a lot of success with this baby Dbomb. I once got on a flipping bite with the Baby d bomb and caught a bunch of 12-15 inch fish and then switched to a full size d-bomb to try for a kicker and didn't get another bite for an hour. Works great with an VMC Ike Approve 3/0 flipping hook. I like super bug color. Try some !!
From: Debeaux: Waccamaw River, SC 3/13/14
Comments: When all else fails drop the bomb on em. Texas rig em or cut em down and throw it on the back of a jig. The twin tails flutter beautifully when you swim em. The ribs hold gel type scents forever. Truly versatile.
From: Bassdale: NJ
Comments: D bomb in the house..... this thing is a beast..love it.
From: Skyline: Greenfield wi
Comments: Been waiting a long time for baby d bombs, the originals were great, but, I fish the Ohio river chain and the fish stay very picky and finicky. A smaller finesse style presentation with the baby d bomb really shows them something new and they crush it!
From: Cody: KY
Comments: This thing flat catches fish. Super bug was irresistable the other day when nothing else was catching fish. This thing caught me three real nice bass cruising the flats looking for an easy meal
From: John
Comments: Deadly on a shakey head
From: Sonny: NC
Comments: Perfect size, unbelivable bait. Try and out flip me with any other creature bait.
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- 8 Eden Frozen Dill Cubes -
- ½ tsp extra virgin olive oil -
- 4 pieces of sea bass, lunch size portions, skin on -
- Kosher salt for sprinkling -
1. Preheat oven to broil.
2. In a small bowl, place dill and garlic cubes to defrost. Add the extra virgin olive oil and mix to create a paste.
3. In a heavy saucepan, heat 1 tsp of oil. Wash fish and pat dry with paper towel. Sprinkle with kosher salt. Place in pan skin side down for about 4-5 minutes over medium heat. Flip fish over and cook until fish is opaque and top is slightly browned, about 5 more minutes.
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The planning commission approved the site plan and final master development plan for Chuck E. Cheese in Providence.
Chuck E. Cheese will be located at 66 Belinda Parkway right near the H.H. Gregg and Two Rivers Ford.
It will be next to the Gander Mountain which has already been approved as well and is under construction.
An issue discussed was the possibility of sidewalks up near the road.
H.H. Gregg has a sidewalk, but Two Rivers Ford does not.
The commission has made a concerted effort to get more sidewalks in the city to increase the walkability.
However, Chuck E. Cheese representatives said they felt singled out because Gander Mountain was not required to put in a sidewalk.
The commissioners assured them they were definitely not being singled out and the absence of sidewalks in front of Gander Mountain was an oversight.
They hoped to reach out the representatives from Gander Mountain and Two Rivers Ford to see if they can lengthen the sidewalks and tie into the others in the area.
"You're just a piece in the puzzle to help us get there," said Commissioner Art Giles to Chuck E. Cheese representatives.
They eventually agreed to the sidewalks, saying that it was in the best interest in the safety of children to have them there, and that is what Chuck E. Cheese is all about.
A zoning change near Mt. Juliet Road Oakmont Drive was approved.
The change was made for an assisted living facility that will be built. Residents of the neighborhood behind complained that the wooded area in the back of the property would be disturbed, and would eliminate the buffer they had from the noise of N. Mt. Juliet Road.
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There were tears in her eyes as Lucia Hernandez talked about what a Thanksgiving food box from Inter-Faith Community Services meant to her and her family.
"I am a single mom with three children. I have three part-time jobs. The pay is enough to get by but there is nothing for extras," the Littleton woman said as she waited to pull her car into Inter-Faith to receive the box. "This box will be such a blessing for us. I try to be thankful for what we have but this food will make Thanksgiving special for us."
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A short distance away, Cherry Creek student Ashley Klingbiel was helping set up the food boxes before the distribution began.
"I am a member of the Enact Club, the high school version of Rotary," she said. "There are seven of us here today. I think being here is a great idea because we are doing something that will help a lot of people have a nice Thanksgiving."
The first distribution went to volunteers, like Brad Bernero of Parker, delivering boxes to seniors.
"I am glad to do this," he said. "All the seniors are nice people and a lot of them are happy to see us and talk to us. I like to do this as a way to give back to the community. It is a lot better than just sitting around the house."
Even as food was being distributed, additional food donations were coming into Inter-Faith.
"Our church, Abiding Hope Lutheran, held a food drive and collected 100 boxes and 100 pounds of potatoes," Littleton resident and church member Ron Siegfried said as he unloaded several boxes out of his car. "It is our way to help Inter-Faith and to help needy families in the area."


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