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Thinkertoys: a Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael MichalkoWell
At first the title makes me think of those crazy sticks and dowels from the 60's that many of us played with as kids. You remember Tinkertoys, right?
This book is stuffed with creative ideas to resolve problems and look at things from different perspectives or in creative new ideas. Although, Michalko wrote it for mostly business audiences it parallels what we do in education very closely. He says it is not be to read from cover to cover but I am on my second time through and have not turned into a toad yet.
The first time I grabbed up the book, I was fascinated with all of the line drawings in the book. Being a visual learner I had to go through the whole book and analyze each image. Oh yes there is the famous old woman and young woman drawing, but the author includes many more, actually too many to even count. Even if you did not read one word out of the book, you would get ideas from the images included.
Each chapter has a little section called a "Blue Print" and it walks you through the steps of the idea addressed in the chapter. That is helpful to me but.. sometimes I just want to experience the idea.
The other day at our Area Meeting we all took a blank piece of paper and closed our eyes and then drew some random lines. From there we exchanged the papers and then looked at the sketches and tried to use our imaginations and add some lines to create something else. It was amazing what each of us envisioned. It was amazing how many different ideas each of us brought to the table.
The Three B's is one technique that I am repeatedly using. If you are working on a problem or innovative idea, sometimes you need time for the idea to incubate. So you need to occupy your brain with other things, so the suggestion is to take a bus ride, take a bath, or go to bed (take a nap). Then when you least expect it the subconscious develops a solution or plan. Our logical side of the brain thinks that if I just spend more time in deep thought, I can figure it out. But the truth is, that your brain needs a break for it to digest and "incubate".
"Think Bubbles" are a modified version of a concept map and are connected with different types of lines, in and out of the bubbles related to other bubbles. Since I have used Smart Ideas, I would never do this on plain paper, it would be much more visual and adaptable using Smart Ideas. This is great for brainstorming but also for organizing thoughts and weighing pro's and con's.
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Oh yes without a doubt. Just the "Warming Up" chapter has enough ideas to help you with any group meeting or training session. I keep revisiting this book because I remember bits and pieces of the wisdom that the author shared.
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Originally posted by Lord.Bachus
The grind came with EQ, Tough we didnt mind grinding back then, as it was the first virtuall 3D reallity
Technically, it existed long before; several hundred single-player rpgs and several hundred MUDs.
There is no modern game set up with a decade as average time-to-cap.
The grind, I think, always existed to some degree. Most people did not notice it until they were years into living constantly within the same game. It is possible that games were just never meant to be abused by players to this extraordinary degree.
Is it the game aging, or is the player's tolerance for mid-90s (even late 80s) design standards? How many wild boars must Cartman kill to make love, not warcraft?
Yet--Andrew!? A thinly-disguised NGE rant? Still ?!!!??!?!!!! Just let it go already.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
I love the grind as long as it is fun. It is about the jourmey not about how quick you can get things done. Played FFXI for many years, tons of grind in that game but oh the journey was so much fun.
Grim Dawn, the next great action rpg!
Oh look. Another "Sandbox good, Themepark bad" thread. How novel.
I'm glad im not the only one out here with the same feeling.
I loved the grind, not because it was a grind, but because every mob i killed I felt like I was headed to something better. I've always believed that people that play more and work hard should be rewarded. I don't get this EQ2 feature that balances 2 different level characters to make them more even. When I was in PvP and saw someone below me I wanted to teach them a lesson. Go level up and then come back.
As a classic DAOC player (oh god that game was a grind). I wasn't even aware there really were quests besides at lv 50. But grinds never felt like grinds, and when I leveled I felt awesome.
WoW did a great job creating quests, which was a grind, but you got great gear and learned an amazing story.
MY Top 2 MMOs are Daoc and WoW because of their lore. I love the Arthurian legends and I love how WoW have used all the stories from warcraft 1-3 to create its world.
I'm currently back to daoc playing, and I really don't see the age as much as everyone else does I guess. My biggest attraction was the endgame PvP and your continued opportunity to be rewarded for kills with new abilities. (Daoc really has removed all grind to get to lv 50 and to get good gear which is really nice for new people). Daoc is actually a lot more populated then you think. Maybe I just favor RvRvR, you should really try Daoc if you havent before.
I could really go back to WoW because of its great world and the new expansion ( I dont see why people think the panda expansion is so funny lol? A classic character from Warcraft 3 was the drunken panda). It turns me off though because of the wild level disparity of trying to start over and go from 1-90? And still the PvP.
To get people to keep paying.
What a great article of why mmos today fail and they don't make it ......While I don't agree with everything in the article some advancements have been leaps in bounds as far as story lines and player mechanics and enviroments. Some of these so called advancements have done nothing but to spur a divided commiunity of trad mmos with casual gamers only intrested in turning single player gmes into mmos with no end game and rail tracks of where you have to be and how you have to do it....
In summary its about time some wrote a article about this and maybe this might be the tide where a dev actually goes bact to the roots of mmorpgs
I can only hope
Decent article. I agree with a lot of people here thought pointing out the hyprocisy of calling EQ/UO pre-grind games. I think the focus needs to be less on what the ingame objectives are and more the pace and playstyle of the game.
Take UO as an example, there was no real ability spamming, not rotations, heck most fighting involved doubling clicking something and anxiously awaiting the result trading blows back and forth with a goat (which was quite formidable and might kill you...). This created lots of empty time. Time allowed for social interaction... something that a lot of hardcore gamers often lacked in everyday life, and it was good. Social interactions and a slower style which allowed you to go off and fish for few hours without feeling like you are "wasting your time".
EQ capitalized on this spare time notion, making people band together (for the most part) to progress through the game. Downtime, slow kill times, slow attack speeds, heck I could text-chat between skill uses and never worry about my DPS going down. Complex social relationships were the real game, honestly more like an RPG-chat room of sorts. The ultimate social experience resulting in raids.
But the biggest complaint which turned player away from games like UO/EQ was TIME. "Time sinks" were a household name, and "grind" was getting out there as a way to describe MMOs. Downtime, time to level, time time time. So Blizzard answers this all with reducing time, cut the downtime, cut the time between attacks, add more skills, and expand on other game concepts (quests, factions, etc.).
It was never anything deceitful by Blizzard to remove this blight of timesink from the genre, they answered the demand from the market and were rewarded greatly for it. But Blizzard was smart and realized people still needed to spend TIME in the game in order to collect on monthly subscription fees. Thus the endgame. Time was no longer distrbuted through the game, but focused on the end of the game to keep players playing... and AH the "grind" shows its ugly face.
TL;DR the article misses a key point in that the "grind" was more of a social experience and made it tolerable. Now there is more focus on actual gameplay and the "grind" is more apparent.
"They essentially want to say 'Correlation proves Causation' when it's just not true." - Sovrath
Shadowbane was a great game without the grind, unfortunately developers put forth a game with lag and crashing and despite the good game play it was killed because of that, Darkfall supposedly the spiritual successor to Shadow does not seem to have the game play.
A lot of people praise SWG but it had such a small pop why?
To me Vanguard is a bit less grindy because the fights are more engaging and with diplomacy and an advanced crafting system there is more to do.
Originally posted by Skyy_High
Oh look. Another "Sandbox good, Themepark bad" thread. How novel.
About the same time we stopped loving the grind. I remember when people used to say WoW was too casual because there was so little grinding. When did we stop loving the grind?
The big change in grind came for me when I started playing WOW after being in EQ for a few years. EQ was the king of all grinds for me. I liked to solo, so I rolled a necromancer, and found myself killing the same mobs over and over and over again to level. I enjoyed it at the time, because I had nothing to compare it to. Then WOW comes along, and it became more of a quest than mob grind which I thought was an improvement. However, being able to kill a mob in WOW with my eyes closed was a big turn off. They made it way too easy. Grind is part of the game in mmorpg's, if you don't like it, then don't play it is my take. I happen to like the slow progression when it is somewhat challenging and fun to do. The moment it becomes boring I move on.
Problem is that most/all of the current "virtual worlds" are grinds now too.
I haven't played a MMO where I haven't felt like at times I was just "grinding" since UO.
UO never felt like a grind.
Even the power-hour skeleton respawn killing for skill ups didn't feel like a grind because it was always a social experience.
EvE, SWG, FFXI... any of the old/current "virtual worlds" learned far too much from EQ and not enough from UO.
Well, EvE is the best by far but the isk grind and PvE grind are two of the worst Grind offenders in the genre, IMO.
But I don't pretend to be a master of EvE, not by a long shot.
who knows...
People called Darkfall a grind.. but i enjoyed the amount it took for me to develop my character...
I think for some reason most people that play MMORPGs these days are the instant gratification lot and anything that takes time to do is a grind..
Grind became popular when the ADD crowd started to play MMORPGs in numbers. Before the term grind most enjoyed the slower pace and socializing as they played.
Now its populated with terms skill and compitition...and I'm not talking about pvp. You see these terms thrown around like prosac. Before it was just raid content where you would see these terms come up. Then it was 5 man hard mode. Now its everywhere. Myself, I don't know what this compitition is but I am sure that someone is using it as justification to act like a tool.
And when I got my flaming sword it was the best thing. Many had got theirs before me but I wasn't thinking about them, there was no make belief compitition. It was just me and my sword. Also loved my Cloak of Flames and my Short Sword of Ykesha.
Money and because mmos were never meant to be able to finish in a weekend like we have today.
Grim Dawn, the next great action rpg!
Good read up to:
"On the story side of things, Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the few MMO's to take storylines seriously."
Then I stopped.
Originally posted by saurus123
its all becouse p2p model devs wanted players to stay as long as possible in thier mmo so they invented grind ;D
F2P & Freemium games are as grindy as p2p ones. Often even more.
Originally posted by Caldrin
who knows... People called Darkfall a grind.. but i enjoyed the amount it took for me to develop my character... I think for some reason most people that play MMORPGs these days are the instant gratification lot and anything that takes time to do is a grind..
i feel the same way.
There doesn't really need to be much said on this topic...The biggest reason is player retention. The cheapest and easiest way to retain players is to create tasks that need to be repeated MULTIPLE times in order to achieve a goal. Want to keep players around for a while? Release about 20 daily quests that reward reputation, but gate them and make the entire faction process take 2 months + (Firelands dailies).
That and technically ANYTHING is a grind. Ever played multiplayer MW or BF? That's a grind. You're repeating the same activities over and over and over again.
Grinds AREN'T BAD! Really, they aren't. HOW THEY ARE PRESENTED matters. It's the same thing with questing. SWTOR, GW2, TSW and TERA all have pretty similar questing content (although TSW does have awesome investigation quests), in that they all have standard kill/collect/talk to quests as one of the primary questing activities. But the quests FEEL different in each game because of how they are presented. SWTOR/TSW do fully voiced directed cutscenes with different styles, GW2 has them appear more organically by "running into" them, and TERA has the traditional delivery method of questhubs and text blocks.
I really don't like how everyone has jumped all over "grinding" as if it's inherently terrible. It's like people jumping over linear endgame progression now (primarily GW2 fans, and before you start raging I've pre-ordered the game and love the hell out of it from what I've played already). There's nothing WRONG with linear progression and "gear hamster wheels". It's a method of delivering content and providing an incentive to continue playing. Is it pointless? Yeah, but so is every other activity if you look at it in a vaccum. If people have fun doing it, who cares?
TLDR: Grinding is fine and there's nothing inherently wrong with it. Just like with questing, it's how it's presented that matters.
Best article ever.
This is exactly how I feel. I despise grind in MMO's and especially when developers don't even try to obfuscate the grind with story/immersion elements. All I can imagine are these smug developers laughing at their customers, who are paying them to play their terrible content over and over. And then developers initiating pyramid schemes like Sign up a Friend to mask the fact that the content is not actually fun enough to play by itself. If the content is good, the people will come.
And when did the MMORPG become something you enjoyed only after you hit max level? When did the destination trump the journey? The very concept of an end-game is broken. In a virtual world, you don't have one. You should be enjoying what you are doing ingame from day 1 all the way until you stop playing. No game today has this (some come close), but its an ideal that is largely ignored by developers in favour of the ideal of a Cash-cow.
I like virtual worlds, not repetitive action/arcade games. Else, I'd go and play... a repetitive action/arcade game. They have their place. But this is not it.
Funny (or sad) when you only have to read the title of an article to know the author has no clue. As mentioned several times before in this thread, grind has been around for ages.
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I enjoy games that make the grind fun. I would much prefer a year to get to lvl cap then 2 weeks. I'd much prefer xp parties grinding on mobs then solo questing.
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Originally posted by tollbooth
I enjoy games that make the grind fun. I would much prefer a year to get to lvl cap then 2 weeks. I'd much prefer xp parties grinding on mobs then solo questing.
Couldn't agree more. And the way you make the grind/mob killing more fun is that each different type of mob drops loot specific to that mob. No tagging of mobs though, anyone that hits that mob will get loot. This universal loot stuff is getting really old.
I can't say I agree with much the OP is complaining about. What the hell is he talking about "grind"? It's the anti "grind" people that have scared devs into making 1 month long MMO's. Have any of the newer MMO's had more than a couple months content. If OP thinks these newer MMO's are a "grind" he has a serious problem.
They need to stop steamlining everything and bring back a little inconvenience in order to help immersion. Let me kill my own town guards but then I destroy my reputation and have to go to vendor's under the town ala EQ or I'm booted out of the town until I bring my rep back up though whatever means necessary. Give players a small bit of freedom again.
If you like what you are doing then its fun.
If you don't like what you are doing then its a grind.


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Gloucester Director of Rugby Nigel Davies has made five changes to his starting XV for Saturday's visit of Leicester Tigers to Kingsholm.
Freddie Burns is back at fly-half after having missed the club's two recent European outings as one of two changes in the backline while Rob Cook replaces Martyn Thomas at full-back.
Up front, Nick Wood and Rupert Harden return at loosehead and tighthead respectively while Tom Savage replaces the injured Jim Hamilton in the second-row.
The visit of the Tigers will be a stern examination of Gloucester's credentials despite Davies' side being unbeaten in seven games, and recent meetings between the two teams at Kingsholm have been close fought encounters.
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"We've had a few of those this season so we're used to them! Leicester are very good at staying strong until the end of matches and grinding out results," said the Gloucester boss.
"I'm sure it'll be a tight, tough encounter. We've also gained a lot of experience in the past five or six matches of getting results towards the end of the game, so it should be an exciting fixture which goes right to the death."
Meanwhile, Geordan Murphy and Louis Deacon return to the Leicester Tigers starting line-up.
Club captain Murphy has recovered from a knee injury suffered in the draw with Saracens in Round 3, while Deacon returned from injury to play as a replacement in last weekend's win over the Ospreys and is now given a starting place. The duo have almost 550 first-team appearances for Tigers between them.
"Geordan and Deacs are two of our most experienced players and two of the leaders in the camp so it is good to have them back in the squad," said Leicester Director of Rugby Richard Cockerill.
"We've had a decent start but it is important that we keep our form going, especially with the autumn international period coming up."
Tigers are without Miles Benjamin, Tom Croft, Rob Hawkins, Wessel Jooste, Julian Salvi and Richard Thorpe this week due to injury.
Form: Gloucester are unbeaten in their last seven matches in all competitions, a sequence which includes five successive victories. The Cherry & Whites have won their last three games at Kingsholm against Wasps, Bath and Bordeaux-Begles. Leicester Tigers' solitary defeat in Aviva Premiership Rugby so far this campaign was 9-22 to defending champions Harlequins at Welford Road in round four. The Tigers have lost just one Premiership game on the road in the past twelve months: 11-19 at Exeter on 11 February. The Tigers are undefeated in their last four clashes with Gloucester in all competitions, but have won just once at Kingsholm since 2008: 19-14 in this equivalent fixture last season.
The teams:
Gloucester: 15 Rob Cook, 14 Charlie Sharples, 13 Mike Tindall (c), 12 Billy Twelvetrees, 11 James Simpson-Daniel, 10 Freddie Burns, 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Ben Morgan 7 Akapusi Qera, 6 Sione Kalamafoni, 5 Will James, 4 Tom Savage, 3 Rupert Harden, 2 Huia Edmonds, 1 Nick Wood.
Replacements: 16 Koree Britton, 17 Dan Murphy, 18 Shaun Knight, 19 Peter Buxton, 20 Matt Cox, 21 Dan Robson, 22 Martyn Thomas, 23 Shane Monahan.
Leicester: 15 Geordan Murphy (c), 14 Scott Hamilton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Vereniki Goneva, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Thomas Waldrom, 6 Steve Mafi, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Louis Deacon, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Logovi'i Mulipola.
Replacements: 16 George Chuter, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Martin Castrogiovanni, 19 Ed Slater, 20 Graham Kitchener, 21 Sam Harrison, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith.
Date: Saturday, October 27
Kick-off: 16:45 BST
Venue: Kingsholm
Referee: JP Doyle
Assistant referees: Andrew Pearce, Kevin Stewart
Television match official: David Grashoff
Timekeeper: Anthony Turner
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SCC went 1-3 over the weekend, beating Blue Mountain Community College of Oregon 15-4 on Saturday, for the team's first win of the year, but then dropping a 6-0 game to BMCC and losing a doubleheader to Walla Walla CC, 5-1 and 12-3.
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Chasing the Greased Pig Down Wall Street: A Gatekeeper's Guide to the Psychology, Culture and Ethics of Financial Risk-Taking
Donald C. Langevoort
Georgetown University Law Center
July 12, 2010
Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, pp. 1209-1246, 2011
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The current financial crisis has once again focused attention on lawyers, corporate directors and auditors as gatekeepers, who are expected to introduce some degree of cognitive independence to the task of risk assessment and risk management in public companies, including financial services firms. This essay examines the psychological and cultural forces that may distort risk perception and risk motivation in hyper-competitive firms, beyond the standard economic incentives associated with agency costs and moral hazards, warning gatekeepers against too easily assuming that all is well when insiders display high levels of intensity, focus and devotion to hard-to-achieve goals. In fact, these may be the source of perceptual problems. It includes a section entitled "Three Variations on a Theme by Chuck Prince," based on his famous reference to Citigroup having to dance because the music was still playing. Building on this metaphor, we look at the emotional and physiological impulses to dance into a frenzy, the pressure to win the dance competition, and dancing as performance for a fickle audience. The essay concludes by connecting culture to moral rationalizations – Goldman Sachs doing "God's work"– and the exercise of individual power in organizations, and urges caution about the psychological and cultural forces that affect gatekeepers, too.
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Han Solo piloted the Millennium Falcon with his co-pilot Chewie. The Millennium Falcon may not look like much, but she did the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs.
USS Enterprise
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What ordinary object inspired the design of the Millennium Falcon?
frying pan
George Lucas and his design team were inspired by a half-eaten hamburger when designing the Millennium Falcon.
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What series features the TARDIS?
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What does the TARDIS resemble?
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Which of these series features a simple ship known as the Enterprise?
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In the classic "Star Trek" series, Capt. James T. Kirk leads his crew on a five-year mission aboard the USS Enterprise.
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True or false: The Enterprise was destroyed on a trip to the Genesis Planet.
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What is the name of the ship on "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
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"Star Trek"
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Bird of Prey
Iron Eagle
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Discovery One
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USS Sulaco
Satellite of Love
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Which is larger: USS Enterprise or Klingon Bird of Prey?
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Bird of Prey
They are about the same size.
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"Deep Space Nine"
The Constitution-class USS Defiant appears in "Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: First Contact."
"The Next Generation"
"The Original Series"
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Kate Mulgrew
James Kirk
Jean-Luc Picard
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard commands the Enterprise on "The Next Generation," years after Kirk and company had completed their five-year mission.
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On "Star Trek," what class does the USS Voyager belong to?
The USS Voyager, which appears on both "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager," is part of the Intrepid class of spacecraft.
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Hans Solo
Darth Vader
On "The Empire Strikes Back," evil Darth Vader travels aboard his Super Star Destroyer Executor.
Boba Fett
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In the "Star Wars" franchise, TIE fighters are single-pilot fighter jets designed for dogfighting.
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What is the name of Boba Fett's vessel on "Star Wars"?
Slayer I
Bounty I
Slave I
The vessel Slave I is originally owned by Jango Fett, who passes it to his son, bounty hunter Boba Fett.
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What is the name of the giant vessel the Empire uses in "Star Wars"?
Moon Star
Death Star
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Laser Star
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near Endor
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Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups?
Aswath Damodaran
New York University - Stern School of Business
April 14, 2012
Value investors generally characterize themselves as the grown ups in the investment world, unswayed by perceptions or momentum, and driven by fundamentals. While this may be true, at least in the abstract, there are at least three distinct strands of value investing. The first, passive value investing, is built around screening for stocks that meet specific characteristics – low multiples of earnings or book value, high returns on projects and low risk – and can be traced back to Ben Graham's books on security analysis. The second, contrarian investing, requires investing in companies that are down on their luck and in the market. The third, activist value investing, involves taking large positions in poorly managed and low valued companies and making money from turning them around. While value investing looks impressive on paper, the performance of value investors, as a whole, is no better than that of less "sensible" investors who chose other investment philosophies and strategies. We examine explanations for why "active" value investing may not provide the promised payoffs.
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Keywords: value investing, PE ratios, Price to book, activist value investing, private equity
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Leinster moved back into second position in the RaboDirect Pro12 with a dominant 41-22 victory over winless Zebre.
Leinster moved back into second position in the RaboDirect Pro12 with a dominant 41-22 victory over winless Zebre.
Joe Schmidt's men had taken an early 17-3 lead through Tom Denton and Fergus McFadden touchdowns before the Italian team hit back via Sinoti Sinoti and Daniel Halangahu.
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Carlo Festuccia went over late on for the hosts but it was yet another disappointment in a difficult season for the newcomers.
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Sexton initially kicked them into the lead once again before Carr and Ryan tries took them ahead by 34-17 with a quarter of the game to go.
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Tries: Sinoti, Halangahu, Festuccia
Cons: Halangahu 2
Pen: Halangahu
For Leinster:
Tries: Denton, McFadden, Carr, Ryan, Nacewa
Cons: Sexton 5
Pens: Sexton 2
Zebre: 15 Ruggero Trevisan, 14 Leonardo Sarto, 13 Giovanbattista Venditti, 12 Matteo Pratichetti, 11 Sinoti Sinoti, 10 Daniel Halangahu, 9 Alberto Chillon, 8 Josh Sole, 7 Mauro Bergamasco, 6 Filippo Ferrarini, 5 Marco Bortolami (c), 4 Michael Van Vuren, 3 Luciano Leibson, 2 Andrea Manici, 1 Matias Aguero.
Replacements: 16 Carlo Festuccia, 17 Andrea De Marchi, 18 Salvatore Perugini, 19 Emiliano Caffini, 20 Filippo Cristiano, 21 Tito Tebaldi, 22 Luciano Orquera, 23 David Odiete.
Leinster: 15 Isa Nacewa, 14 Fergus McFadden, 13 Brian O'Driscoll (c), 12 Andrew Goodman, 11 Fionn Carr, 10 Jonathan Sexton, 9 John Cooney, 8 Rhys Ruddock, 7 Dominic Ryan, 6 Kevin McLaughlin, 5 Devin Toner, 4 Tom Denton, 3 Michael Bent, 2 Richardt Strauss, 1 Jack McGrath.
Replacements: 16 Aaron Dundon, 17 Jack O'Connell, 18 Jamie Hagan, 19 Quinn Roux, 20 Leo Auva'a, 21 Isaac Boss, 22 Cathal Marsh, 23 Andrew Conway.
Referee: Neil Paterson (Scotland)


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Several hundred people braved chilly weather to attend the Wreaths Across America ceremonies at Fort Logan National Cemetery.
Wreaths Across America began in 1992 when the owner of Worcester Wreath Co. in Maine discovered the company had a surplus of holiday wreaths. The owner arranged to have the wreaths taken and placed on graves at Arlington National Cemetery to remember the veterans there, honor them and to teach younger generations about the value of their freedoms.
The program remained largely unchanged until 2005, when it received national attention. The demand for wreaths grew beyond what the company could donate, so a program was established for sponsoring wreaths at a cost of $15 per wreath.
Those taking part in the Fort Logan ceremonies on Dec. 15 included military personnel, veterans' groups like the Scottish American Veterans, and civilians including members of the Patriot Guard. There were about an equal number of young men and women of the Civil Air Patrol, the Young Marines, the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts taking part in the event. In addition, there were numerous individuals and groups who had volunteered to place the 1,100 wreaths on the graves of veterans.
Ralph Nations, who was master of ceremonies, said the Fort Logan event has been part of the national program for several years.
The ceremonies began with a color guard presenting the flags and representatives of each service placing a wreath. Nations then introduced the families and Gold Star mothers attending the service, and read a list of the men who died in combat fighting terrorism.
That was followed by speeches, a 21-gun salute, bugles playing "Taps" and bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace."
Volunteers then stepped up to place the 1,100 wreaths, which could only be placed on a small percentage of the 80,000 graves at Fort Logan.
Some placing wreaths were families of the veterans, and there were wreaths designated for the graves of veterans who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The undesignated wreaths were taken and placed on veterans' graves in the area around the ceremony.
Eagle Scout Ethan Pfeiffer joined fellow members of Littleton's Boy Scout Troop 361 who lined the road holding American flags during the ceremony.
"My family has a history of military service, so I feel honored to be there today," the Arapahoe High School senior said. "It meant a lot to be part of these ceremonies. I feel it is a way to volunteer my time to honor the veterans for what they have done for our country."
Cindy Fellows held a wreath close to her as she walked to the grave of a Vietnam veteran nearby.
She said she is an Army veteran who served in Iraq and volunteered to place wreaths when she heard about the program.
"I like to do anything I can to honor veterans," the Centennial resident said. "I didn't even know about the Wreaths Over America program until a friend told me about today's ceremony. I am so glad I came. It is a special program and I am honored to be part of it."
Young John Paul Justius was also a volunteer and, with the guidance of his dad, placed a wreath on the grave of World War II Army Capt. Lee Lang.
"I think this is special," the Castle Rock 7-year-old said. "My uncle is in the Army and we are doing this to honor soldiers."


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I don't think he was talking about apertures in the specifical physical or electromagnetic waveguide sense, but rather in the general 'opening' sense. It is as though there are onboard networks/devices that can receive data from the outside, but do not consider the data as possibly hostile. It is as though encryption at the boundaries is the sole defence.
It is as though encryption at the boundaries is the sole defence.
It is not as if a root certificate has not been hacked and an entire CAM compromised
I'm not saying there is an answer, somebody right or wrong, still wrapping around the content and acknowledging that change is certain..
Give me a Hadoop cluster and some mapping route reductions, even brute force is possible in hours
I don't know, still wrapping around it… lets just hope that as a consequence of the discussion adversaries are having to consider same
asdfsdf (from ID)
""As a virus exploits a networked system, anti-virus systems are often configured to counterattack the virus immediately, preventing the execution of rogue code and isolating the rogue code towards preventing further damage to a system. The physical world analogy is to run down the bad guy and throw them in jail – which is difficult to describe as a defensive action.""
Actually, I would describe isolating and attacking a virus as an aggressive defensive action, not an offensive action. The virus is not the bad guy; the bad guy sent the virus, and you are counterattacking something already in your system. Real world analogy: CIWS.
Offensive would be tracking virus backwards to find and target adversary systems–taking them offline with a virus causes their attacks to cease, but requires an explicit offensive action. Offense is the best defense, but requires willpower to use.
re: 90% offense, 10% defense.
Is an observation that when the domain favors the offense, defense is deterrence thru regular demonstration, if not use, of offensive capabilities. I believe this is (still) true in all other military domains, from the days of Maginot lines to today's magical thinking about missile defense (that it might be impenetrable, vice just casting doubt on a less than full-out offensive).
Call it "Billy Mitchell" thinking. Imagine a non-kinetic "boot on the neck" of an adversary leading to the desired political outcome. What if Cyber (or its earlier analog in (a declared intent to use) human covert/clandestine action) was able to guarantee a declared political result (e.g. regime change, capitulation, or bringing say, North Vietnam to the table in its day).
Perhaps then it turns out those with greatest deployment of a dual use technology are not only the most vulnerable, but the most able to respond to attacks, as well as attack and dominate in this domain.
What if, say, the U.S. were to use the upcoming Iran sanctions to declare a cyber "tightening of a noose" policy on Iran? Congress passes an authorization that is a new form of War Declaration (that, unlike the old, doesn't require the DCI/DNI to report to and take direction from the SECDEF) that has defined phases (political/statecraft, followed by non-kinetic (cyber and covert human action), followed by kinetic).
And then the military week-by-week informs Iran (both leadership and populace) of what is going to stop working until they changed behavior. Starting with water and light in leadership areas, bank accounts for their 1% that get scrambled if not looted, shut down of air-traffic control and airport facilities, followed by general transportation mischief (scrambling shipment orders, putting perishables on un-air-conditioned trucks, etc.), traffic lights scrambled, etc. followed by other infrastructure shutdowns, all of which when they attempt to turn back on, are re-scrambled or turned back off.
Part of the Congressional Authorization is authority for the military to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal that authorize the anyone (after registration and guaranteed identification with the military and after declaring their objectives and posting a bond, they receive specific help against their objectives, say, lists of accounts and passwords, shipment schedules and manifests, etc.) to do mischief if not more to Iran's 1%'s assets. Eventually all their people are cold and in the dark, and after a weeks of declining food supplies we announce that since the existing leadership did not capitulate this will not stop until we see this list of heads-on-pikes. And if they go kinetic or use deadly force against us, we're will respond kineticly.
When the dust settles, we have a new military service capable of using its offensive capability to both win wars, and deter others, which is the only way forward given defense in this domain is likely to be asymmetrically disadvantaged for decades, perhaps forever (as we see in the other disciplines). The Cyber threat to the free world declines to criminality and mischief as the pictures and videos of Iran's 1% being guillotined by a hungry and angry populace circulate widely.
In 30 years we don't remember a time without the Cyber Force (CF, AF, Army, Navy, Marines) – which has its own service academy in the mountains overlooking Silicon Valley, 3/4s of the way to Santa Cruz.
Some of the anti virus company develop harmful virus to force people to buy their products. No Virus no anti virus products will sell? What do you think?


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Alright before this shit gets graveyarded n shiet, before all that, remmber this is a thread for some fucking drunk stories, fuck yeah!
Alright, now that that's settled, lets get to my story, shit yeah!
Spoiler!So ok, man it was a crazy as night. We hit a few clubs and get our dance on and a few drinks. I get some head out the back, it was awseome. THEN, we hit this place called the Wing Factory, and IT WAS PACKED with bitches, it was so awesoem. Everyone drinkin, having a good time, tryin to be mack daddy n shit, it was awesome. So we was chillin right? And these cholos are like, tryin to talk shit to us, and us, we've seen this happen many times, they can't hold their shit down, so it was okay, we ALLOWED them to talk shit to us, we just agreeed n crap like that. It was gettin on my nerves, dude was like, "if you fuck with me, i'll fuck with you and your family" and Im like..yeah yeah it's how its supposed to be. You know, drunk shit talk. So then it gets on my nerves and i go to my friend n go, yo man imma go inside, this faggot is pissing me off, I'm not looking to go to jail tonight, so I don't want to fuck his ass up. So i go inside and go to the pisser. I wash my hands, go out all ballin, shake some hands, hug some bitches, and I go outside and see these two dudes getting arrested, blood on the floor everywhere, shit was insane! Turns out this other dude didn't have enough patience and just went on that stupid drunk guy, and then some other dudes weretryin to start shit, basicallly, these cops were busy the whole night. We went inside and had a ton of shots, and I DRINK ALOT, but my friend drinsk more than me, so it gets late and i decide to talek them home, fuckin friend of mine puts th e widnow down and pukes, I wa slike...what hthe fuck? Dude we drank the same! adn I'm feeling fucking good!!! And he was puking his brains out, man, good thing i told this chick that was with us to not look, she's at my restroom as Im typing this, "refreshing" and well, I gotta stop this paragraph here cause I got shit to go down on, and maek that hoe go to town. :D
EDIT: Alright, I'm on sober mode now, feeling like a champ too! Anywho, i put the story on spoilers because you know, it could offend someone.


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Toffees set to come unstuck
Dave Tickner and Nick Hext preview Saturday's action in the fourth round of the FA Cup and cover all the action.
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Stoke and Manchester City, Betting Zone's two outright tips for this season's tournament, meet at the Britannia Stadium and our expectation is that they will go to a replay.
We also have tips for Bolton v Everton, Hull v Barnsley and Macclesfield v Wigan so read on.
Stoke v Manchester City (1245 GMT)
There was a groan around BettingZone HQ when our pair of antepost picks were paired together at such an early stage, and it's unlikely either set of fans were too thrilled either. Stoke have lost just one of 11 Premier League games at the Britannia this season, and title-chasing Man City know they will have to be on their mettle to keep hopes of the Double alive. For Stoke, this competition looks their likeliest route back into Europe after a slide back into mid-table following a run of three straight defeats in the league. But with another year of Premier League football in the bag, Stoke can throw themselves into this cup tie and should give City a tough game. They've already held City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Everton to draws this season and have ended all square at 90 minutes in 14 of 26 in all competitions this term and seven of 13 at home. City are in good form but have drawn more Premier League games than any other current member of the top four and may have to settle for disposing of Stoke back on home turf.
Verdict: Stoke 1 Manchester City 1 (DT)
Looking through the FA Cup coupon for an upset, this looks a likely contender. Everton may be chasing a top-four spot in the Premier League, but there have been signs in the last couple of weeks that they may just be running out of steam after the busy festive period. They looked as poor as I've seen them all season in the goalless draw at Southampton on Monday night, and that followed another 0-0 stalemate against Swansea. Bolton, meanwhile, look to be turning the corner in a difficult season. They've lost just one of their last six games, which includes the home draw and away win against Sunderland in round three of this competition. They've also tightened up significantly at the back, conceding just five goals in seven since the 5-4 defeat at Peterborough before Christmas. With promotion off the agenda and relegation not a significant threat, Bolton are - unlike their opponents - able to approach the cup with freedom. They might just be running into the Toffees at the right time and look overpriced at 19/4 to win. However, with Everton having drawn 11 of 26 in all this season and six of the last 12, we'll play slightly safer and back the Trotters draw no bet.
Verdict: Bolton 1 Everton 0 (DT)
Arsenal will travel south with spirits renewed having bounced back from successive Premier League defeats with a cathartic dismantling of West Ham at the Emirates on Wednesday night. Some of the Gunners' attacking play was irresistible, with Lukas Podolski, Olivier Giroud, Santi Cazorla and Theo Walcott all on target as the Hammers were put to the sword. They should have too much quality for a Brighton side that, despite sending Newcastle packing in round three, will be focused more on getting out of the Championship than getting to Wembley. However, having played on Wednesday night and with another crucial Premier League game against Liverpool to follow in midweek, there must be doubts about the team Arsene Wenger will select for this one and therefore it may pay to wait for the team sheets before getting involved.
Verdict: Brighton 1 Arsenal 3 (DT)
Not a game to get the juices flowing too much as 13th in the Championship hosts 14th. Derby are the 13/10 favourites for victory at the time of writing and you can understand why given the troubles at Ewood Park. Blackburn are now under the management of Michael Appleton but it hasn't gone to plan so far with a defeat and draw in the new man's first two games. Rovers have claimed just one in five on the road but Derby are inconsistent - the record from their previous six games reads won two, drawn two, lost two - so can't be trusted. There are more confident selections to be made elsewhere.
Verdict: Derby 1 Blackburn 1 (NH)
Huddersfield v Leicester (1500)
Huddersfield sacked manager Simon Grayson while I was writing this preview but it doesn't change my thinking. These two sides met on New Year's Day and it was Leicester who strolled to a 6-1 victory. That helps explain partly why the away side are the clear 4/5 favourites to win this clash and the difference between the two recent records further explains it. Leicester are second-top of the Championship form table - taking into account the previous six league matches - and Huddersfield are way down at second-bottom. There has been plenty of fighting talk from the Terriers but they are without Jermaine Beckford and Neil Danns - both loanees who are unable to play against their parent club - and the record of no league win since November 10 is appalling. I expect Leicester to progress to round five but won't be getting involved at the odds-on.
Verdict: Huddersfield 1 Leicester 3 (NH)
Another clash between sides at the opposite end of the Championship but this time I fancy an upset. Barnsley travel to Hull on the back of three games unbeaten but David Flitcroft's men still find themselves up against it in the relegation zone. A cup run would provide some real momentum and there should be confidence that they can go to Hull and win. The Tigers are without a league success this year and only just stumbled past League One Leyton Orient in extra-time to progress in the cup. Plenty of changes were made by Steve Bruce for both bites of the cherry in the third round and it's clear the priorities are elsewhere for the KC Stadium club. Sheffield Wednesday, who sit just two places higher than Barnsley, won at Hull a couple of weeks ago and that helps make me happy to back the Tykes for victory at 17/4.
Verdict: Hull 0 Barnsley 2 (NH)
Conference v Premier League is the attraction at Moss Rose on Saturday. It really is a match to look forward to and there will be a sell-out crowd to witness the contest. I don't think there will be an upset though as Wigan - even with plenty of changes made - offer a much sterner test than the completely altered Cardiff side did in round three. The Latics progressed from the third round with a 1-0 replay win at Bournemouth and that shows that there is the steel needed to get it done when the going is tough. Angelo Henriquez started that match and grabbed his first goal for the club when coming on as a sub in the 3-2 defeat at home to Sunderland last Saturday. Roberto Martinez has been full of praise for the striker - who is on loan from Manchester United - and described him as having the "knack of being in the right place". I am very happy with the price for Henriquez to strike at Macc and will be taking advantage with the Chilean odds-on to net with plenty of other firms.
Verdict: Macclesfield 0 Wigan 3 (NH)
Middlesbrough v Aldershot (1500)
We have one League Two club standing in the FA Cup and one League Two club left in the League Cup. The size of task facing Aldershot in matching Bradford's successful run is shown by the odds for the clubs to lift the respective trophies - Bradford are now 9/2 for glory in the Capital One Cup final at Wembley and Aldershot are way, way, way out at 7500/1 in this competition's outright market. The Shots have improved recently - the only defeat in their previous six games coming on Tuesday night against promotion contenders Northampton - but this is a big step up in class. Boro have lost a couple of matches on the spin but lower league opposition have already been dealt with four times previously this season. Bury, Gillingham and Preston were all sent packing in the League Cup and non-league Hastings dispatched in the FA Cup. I see more of the same here and expect a fairly comfortable home win.
Verdict: Middlesbrough 2 Aldershot 0 (NH)
Saturday's other clash between England's top-flight and fifth tier takes place at Carrow Road. Norwich's haven't been ripping up many trees during the last few weeks in the Premier League but I would fancy them to get through this test with relative comfort. Norwich have lots of players in their ranks who have experienced football in the lower levels of the game and the 3-0 win in the third round at Peterborough was described as "very professional from the first minute" by manager Chris Hughton. Exactly the same is required again. Luton start pretty much every game they play in non-league as big favourites - their previous three matches coming against Barrow, Skelmersdale United and AFC Telford - so it will be interesting to see how being the underdogs suits them. It worked well in the 1-0 win over Wolves but Norwich provide a sterner test and I think the Canaries will claim the spot in the fifth round.
Verdict: Norwich 3 Luton 1 (NH)
We all know QPR's priority for the rest of the season is to stay in the Premier League. They sit five points from safety at the bottom of the table and it's fair to say more headlines will be created at Loftus Road from the final days of the transfer window than Saturday's game. Harry Redknapp's side did manage to get past West Brom in the third round - by no means an easy task - and they start Saturday's game as 8/13 favourites. They should never be trusted at odds-on this season but I'm not convinced MK Dons can head to London and get the job done. Karl Robinson's men have been inconsistent in recent weeks so - like QPR - can't be backed in this game. QPR won't want a replay but that may well be what they get.
Verdict: QPR 1 MK Dons 1 (NH)
Reading v Sheffield United (1500)
Two teams here with bigger concerns than an FA Cup run, nice as it would be. Reading have hit a decent patch of form in recent weeks, winning four of their last five with the only defeat coming at Spurs in a game where the Royals took the lead. Sheffield United, meanwhile, have seen their bid for promotion from League One hit a bump in the road in a run of four league games without a win. Improving Reading should be too strong, but with their fight against relegation still very much in the balance - they currently lie 18th - then team changes are a real possibility and this is one game we'll swerve.
Verdict: Reading 2 Sheffield United 0 (DT)
Manchester United v Fulham (1730)
It's no surprise to see Manchester United chalked up as heavy favourites for this one, with the Premier League leaders unbeaten domestically since November and having won all bar one of their Old Trafford clashes with Fulham since the Londoners' return to the Premier League. This isn't a match we'll avoid, although if you do fancy a bet on the game you could do worse than head to the handicaps. United are reasonably priced at a shade of odds-on giving a goal start and almost 2/1 giving a two-goal start against a side they've beaten 2-0 (twice), 3-0 (four times), 4-0 and 5-0 in a run of 10 wins and a draw in their last 12 clashes.
Verdict: Manchester United 3 Fulham 0 (DT)
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Skip to comments.Pictured: 'horrible' woman steals flowers from boy's grave
Posted on 12/08/2011 9:38:53 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Police are hunting a woman who was captured on camera appearing to steal flowers from a schoolboys grave.
She was photographed at the grave of 11 year-old, Robert Stringer, who died in a car accident in 1980, after the boys family installed a motion-sensing camera in a tree.
It followed a string of thefts of floral tributes at Rippleside Cemetery in Barking, Essex. His family have released the pictures in an attempt to track her down.
Steve Rose, 37, of Walthamstow, east London, who installed the camera, said: I was only six when he died. My aunt, who died two years ago, never got over it.
We have left signs asking them to stop stealing but that didnt deter them. Its just callous.
"Robert was a lovely lad and it was a terrible tragedy. Potted plants and baskets started to disappear on a regular basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
needs an ass beating
His family 'has...", not have. UK!
We had a degenerate do this here in Utah. The cops installed a 'Low-jack' device into some knick-knacks and tracked the scum-bag to her home. She had been gathering 'goodies' for years from cemetaries, and then giving them away as 'gifts'.
Seems like in today's world, anti-social degenerates are becoming the new 'norm'.
Maybe she's just your everyday Marxist/OWS protestor/Obama woshipper who is redistributing flowers so "everyone has their fair share".
Sadly True.
We had a group who would do that here. Take the flowers after funerals and then sell them in bars later that evening. Made me sick and I would call them out when I was present.
There's a story at that link about Hanoi Jane and her appearance at 73. Comments are enabled. At least one comment was about her treachery. You may want to "recommend" the comment.
We can't remind the bitch enough that we haven't forgotten her treason.
What do you expect from a society where most people are on the dole. She is just taking what she perceives is rightfully hers. Judging by the size of her luggage, that ain't going to be her first shopping stop.
They are really into flowers at gravesites there.
No, it's not right but she's probably a poor woman who doesn't have the money to place on her relative's grave. The road is right there so she parks her car or has walked up the drive, sneaks some pretty flowers at the boy's abundantly flowered site thinking no one would notice a few missing and walks on down the row to what is probably her recently deceased husband's grave. Do a few fake flowers really constitute wasting tax dollars to get the cops involved? The relatives should just talk to her and find out her story.
Nearly everything I've ever put at my daughter's grave site (wind chimes, pinwheels, flowers, etc) usually gets swiped within a week. It's incredibly sad.
And here they are after brass urns at the headstones.
I think either one is appropriate. In American English, we tend to use the singular form of the verb following a collective noun where in England the plural is used.
I use to live across the street from where Jimmy Hendrix is buried. Degenerates visiting his grave would blanket the area with empty booze bottles and cigarette butts, and of course they would remove flowers from other graves and deposit them on Jimmy's.
The cemetery folks seemed to think it was people who redo the fake flowers, make into Memorial Day wreaths and sell them on the side of the rode.
HINT for protection: I used to mark every petal with a black felt marker pen, with his initials. OR, I would take a HOLE PUNCH and punch each petal. Can't re-use those and it don't show from a distance.
'and sell them on the side of the rode.'
:-D I think we have a winner for the most creative spelling of the word 'road.'
I've heard of theives stealing the brass plates that have the name and date of death on them as well.
Our local paper had a story in it yesterday about someone stealing urns from the local cemetery and selling them for scrap. The more I know about people, the more I love my dog.
"Nearly everything Ive ever put at my daughters grave site (wind chimes, pinwheels, flowers, etc) usually gets swiped within a week. Its incredibly sad."
Worth checking into is the possibility that the grounds keeper may be removing them. I have known several people who have had the job and they don't like anything that they have to mow around or move.
Check the cemetery rules. The groundskeeper may be well within his rights to do so. It might take him just a few seconds extra, but multiply that by the number of graves and it can add up to a lot of extra man-hours that need to be paid.
Public humiliation needs to be revived.
Or, she's just...a thief. To a thief, the opportunity to steal is just that-an opportunity. The family sees it as desecrating the memory of a loved one. A thief sees it as "a great place to get free flowers".
I do not know why some people think some thieves are more honorable than others, and are aghast the someone would actually steal from a grave. Why do they break into people's cars and steal their Christmas packages? Why do they steal some disabled vet's wheelchair? Because they're THIEVES.
I seriously doubt she's stealing flowers for someone else's grave. If so, she is desecrating the grave of her loved one. "Here, sweetheart; I just stole ya some flowers from some schmuck's grave".
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When the owner of the milling-equipment manufacturing company Joseph Zidik and Carl Yerger were working for decided to sell the company, Zidik and Yerger decided to start their own company: Custom Milling and Consulting, Inc., or CMC. Established in 2002 to provide chemical material processing equipment, as well as custom material processing and toll processing services, CMC helps its customers make the leaps from laboratory development to small production and on to full scale manufacturing.
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totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.
HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.