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Cheap Shot
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Why Make An Account?
Opportunities for cheap shots aside, I mostly created this account because I thought it was silly for Jeffery W. Baker to be stuck at Apprentice level. The work I do on a day-to-day basis depends on Apache::Session, so I felt obligated to at least see him promoted to Journeyer.
Obligatory Self-Referential Observation
I wish I understood from whence this diary/journal impulse that has infected the free software community in the last few months springs. Is it:
- an expression of the sort of thoughtless
self-importance you might see in an adolescent who thinks
that everything he or she is doing should interest everyone, or
- an attempt at human contact on the part of hundreds of
people so consumed with work that they are almost shut-ins, or
- an attempt by a large dispersed community to give keep
one another abreast of what is going on in their shared
experiment, much like the informal correspondence of scientists
- All of the above
Still Pissed
Jeff Buckley shouldn't be dead.
The case for goodwill
Why do some communities work, and others not?
In addition to being a Debian developer, and thus party to (though no longer much of a participant in) it's quarterly attempt to gnaw its own leg off to escape some imagined trap, I also participate in a fairly large email list for a group of people from an honors program where I went to college. It's a fun list---there's at least four foreign languages seen regularly, discussions of everything from music to politics to geekdom, and the range of knowledge and experience that people bring to the table is staggering.
The program's celebrating its 40th anniversary this year---it celebrated its 30th during the time I was in residence---and so the mailing list has a wide cross-section of people on it. We have people who graduated when I was barely out of diapers, people who are still in school, and everything in between. Though everyone usually knows at least one other person, there's always a number of people you have never met, though you may have heard about them one way or another.
(Heck, for a while there my wife's ex-husband was on the list. That was kind of interesting.)
Funny enough, for a group of loosely connected strangers, we don't have the sort of knock-down-drag-outs that Debian experiences all too regularly.
Sure, we have disagreements---bring up certain topics, and you're sure to see a couple of heated messages. We have had one real flamewar, which I'm sorry to admit I was deep in the midst of. But that was five years ago.
How so little conflict? I mean, it's not as if these people aren't opinionated!
I think I can explain it. It's what Robert Fripp might call an assumption of goodwill.
Simply put, our shared experience in this honors program helps us remember that, however stupid the person whose email you're reading may seem at that moment, they're probably not; and just as you assume that no one's going to take violent exception to what you post, you shouldn't abuse this persons similar assumption.
And even when someone gets out of line, it's usually enough for a third party to express disappointment at that sort of behavior, and things clear up.
I'd like to see more of that in some of the free software community---Debian certainly, but there's other places.
For instance, earlier today, a developer on IRC commented about killfiling another developer, because all of his posts in the last six months have seemed intended to stir things up.
Why aren't we trying to deal with other like adults, and actually communicating about problems like this, rather than putting our fingers in our ears and saying "I'm Not Listening" when someone displays this behavior? Do we really think they're not worth the effort? And if that's the case, on whom does this reflect most poorly?
As a final addendum, I'll note that someone on this mailing list I'm on said several particularly stupid things in quick succession a few months ago, and I kind of unceremoniously *PLONK*ed him. Well, not really, but I said I had, just to make a point, and I studiously pretended that I didn't see any of his posts, even though I did usually read them.
He died suddenly in his sleep, of a heart attack just three weeks ago. If you don't feel like shit when someone dies and your last words to them amounted to, "You're not worth talking to", you need to have a refresher course on being part of the human race.
So perhaps we can keep some of this in mind when dealing with the other people in our community. That they're here probably says a lot.
Still Still Pissed
Kurt Cobhain, too.


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i always liked The People's Choice reminds me of the Rock
i always liked The People's Choice reminds me of the Rock
Let's see they call Elway - Elway. Marino - Marino. Montana- Montana. Peyton they call Peyton, because of his brother and father. Brady is Brady.
I'm thinking I'll just call him Tannehill for now, and hope that someday, everybody will know who you mean when you just say "Ryan."
Insert witty thought-provoking saying here.
I'm a FANehill of Tannehill?
Reshad "GET IT ON" Jones
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Tannebeast or Tannemal the animal.
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I don't care what you all want to call him.....after 40 years without a SB, I just want to win it all.

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|>> Archive: Warmwater Gamefish Flies Freshwater Bass, pike, muskie?!?
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I am a big fan of traditional materials, and that's a great baitfish immitation.
Nice job!
|very cool. original and uses my favorite material - peacock herl, the fishiest feather around.
Peacock Bluegill Imitator
Well here is the panfish look-a-like contest loser fly. I really don't have a good name for it nor know if it is even original or not. I just thought it up after having a rash of Bass attack and devour my spider/fly caught bluegills. The recipe is as follows and is easily modified with other materials. I used what I had on hand.
The body: two left or right Peacock sword feather tips. About the last 3 inches. These are then trimmed of the sparse side herle and glued at the tail end to about halfway quill to quill. (the glue did not hold on the first fish so carefully wrapping thread between the feathers to secure them together is a better method). I thought about splitting the quills with an exacto to remove mass and reduce floatation but it was not necessary. The tail tips overlap on each side giving the tail area a propellor or screw effect.
The hook: any good size Bass streamer style and length hook will do. Something like a Salmon fly hook will work. Shank should come out of the head end about 3/16ths for other feathers and head wrap. I body wrapped the hook in tan thread ( noob faux pas-should be dark thread) for the quills to get some purchase on when tying them in. Hook point goes down. Weed guard is optional. Hook length should go about half way through the body before the bend occurs.
Throat: I used yellow marabou to simulate the bright breast of Bluegills. yellow fan type feathers could be subbed in here
Cheeks and Gillplate tags: Black hen fan type feathers used here to simulate a head and gillplate area with a dark tag
Eyes: I used guinea feather tips with most other spots trimmed away. Stick on eyes, Jungle Cock, or probably best and what I'll use in the future will be fairly big jiggly doll eyes glued on each side.
Whip and finish with head cement.
Fished with panic-stricken-herky-jerky strips and pauses. My first version also spins and gets some line twist which is removed automatically during the pauses. If your water is clear you can observe the fly rotating slowly and flashing the iridescent peacock feathers, hopefully sending an "EAT ME!" message to nearby Bass.
Can be sized up or down if desired. This is my first attempt at something like this but it sure did catch a monster Bass on the first time out. It also needs to get waterlogged to "swim". Weight may or may not be needed... you decide.
The Bluegill Imitator........
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Band of Brothers was great and I think it was episode 9 that really made me appreciate the whole series. The whole Holocost episode really gave Schindler's List a run for it's money and was very moving. As horrific as it is to see, much like the end scene of United 93 or World Trade Center when they arrive at the towers, because it feels so real and that is truly how it's intended for us to see.
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We are organizing another BSP in Munich on the weekend of 17th/18th July. Like the last BSP, it will take place in the LiMux office in the city center. See the coordination page for further information and directions and in order to sign up for it.
Food and drinks for the event are partly sponsored by the City of Munich and this amount (100 €) has been again matched by credativ GmbH.
Contributions by non-DDs are welcome as always; the BSP will be attended by several Debian Developers who will be able to upload fixes. Attending BSPs is a great way to get involved in the Debian community!
We cannot guarantee crash space to people from outside Munich at this point, so if you want to attend please contact the Munich list (firstname.lastname@example.com) beforehand or arrange your own accomodation.
We probably start the BSP at some point after 6PM on Friday evening already, but the main action will be on Saturday and Sunday. As usual, people should bring their notebooks and possibly an ethernet cable. Wireless will be present as well, but a certain bandwidth cannot be guaranteed.
Bug-Squashing Introduction
I also plan to give an introduction to bug-squashing at this month's Garching Debian Stammtisch, which will take place next Wednesday, July 14th in the campus-cneipe (or its beergarden) as usual (the monthly Stammtisch is always on the second Wednesday of the month). If you study/work in Garching and would like to attend the BSP, come to the Stammtisch for a tutorial (and beer)!
Debian Packaging Tutorial
Some time ago, I gave a tutorial on Debian packaging in the TechTalk series of the Open-Source- School. The audience seemed to be pleased with the talk, and as more people requested to attend than there were seats in the room, we decided to reprise the event on September 7th. Attendence is free, but you have to register (see the event page). There are still some places left at this point.


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2012 NBA Draft Breakdown:John Shurna
Yes, I understand that his lack of athletic ability can hurt him playing big minutes at the NBA level. I also know that he's one of the best if not the best shooting big man in college basketball. His skill to get himself in an NBA game is that he can stretch the floor and make shots. He also possesses a very high basketball IQ, simply put he can make basketball plays. He understands how to look for cutters, pass out of double teams, and make the extra pass to spot an open teammate. There are many negatives that are said about players that lack athletic ability. No question it hurts your development if you are looking to be an elite NBA player. But one can never discount the ability to think the game. When I scouted in the NBA I would hear the same remarks about players like Matt Carroll, Steve Novak, and Matt Bonner. There's no question that none of the players I listed could win a foot race, high jump competition, or broad jump. What all three of those players can do is stretch the floor and make shots and are all smart players. When they are in the game they won't hurt your team in the short term. With their ability to shoot the basketball and make smart basketball decisions as long as they are not your first, second, or third option they won't hurt your team.
There is a lot of value in smart players on your bench in the NBA. He may struggle playing long stretches of min John on the right team can be a great asset at the end of your rotation. If he plays on a team that has two penetrators he can spot up in the corner and when his man rotates off to stop penetration can be a deadly weapon making shots for a team. There are certain things he'll struggle with such as defending a long athletic big man or rebounding out of the power forward position, but he can definitely be an asset making shots for your team. I never like to talk about draft positioning like this player should be the 8thpick of the draft or this guy is a late first rounder. The way that I evaluate is if a player has an NBA skill or not and to try to figure out his value by the time his first contract is up. It's tough to predict where John will get drafted or if he will get drafted at all, but what I do know is on the right team especially one that has multiple penetrating guards he will bring value to an NBA team. Outside of the 11 or so irreplaceable players in the NBA such as Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, etc. and then about 30 all-star level players after that the rest of the players in the league are merely role players that do at least one specific thing that bring them value in the NBA. Like anything else you have your higher level role players and then some are just one trick ponies that can get in a game for one specific reason like shooting, rebounding, defense, penetrating, etc. Shurna has size and can make shots.
I think he can be a Matt Bonner type of player at the next level. Matt is one of the best shooting big men in the game. Besides being an inch taller Bonner and Shurna posses a lot of the same features in their game. Bonner is a specialist that can space the floor with his shooting and makes a lot of smart basketball plays as well. He has taken his one skill in shooting the basketball and found himself a career in the NBA by being a player that can come in a game and make shots. Like Bonner, a team will have to take a chance on Shurna and give him an opportunity. I have a lot of faith in his ability to stick in the NBA if given the opportunity.


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This course aims to introduce students the basic elements of project development and management and how to do market research and needs analysis. The students will learn how to turn an idea into reality and the step by step process and techniques for the various stages of a project life cycle. The course will give solid grounding and confidence the students could approach project development and management with confidence.
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Introduction to project conception – how are projects identified and defined; what issues need to be managed during the life of the project; initiating a project idea; explaining baseline data and situation analysis; turning an idea into business case.
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The Classical launches in November, but the cruel folks behind it love baseball way too much to let the World Series pass without comment. Throughout the series, its writers will do a daily diary for Deadspin. Keep tabs on us @Classical.
Over the weekend, Canadian radio host Brent Bambury asked Chad Harbach about all the faces in baseball. Was it possible, Bambury asked, that the interminable, static close-ups, presented as objects for contemplation, lent themselves to literature like no other sport? Harbach responded that "There's a slowness, an openness there, that gives the writer space to work in there."
(This aggrieved NBA fan would like to point out that pro basketball has faces galore and kinesis to spare, and that "literary" is nearly a euphemism with baseball. Whatever. Let's do this!)
Sunday, there were plenty of notable faces on display. These don't just heighten tension; they fill out the story when precious little happens on the field.
There was Derek Holland, awaiting instructions from a long-lost Son of Sam puppy that had wandered off, leaving him with nothing to do but pitch an absolute gem of a game. Lance Berkman—trying his best to sustain normalcy while his team withered—was that dude in a horror movie trying to decide whether to freak out or make a play for last man standing.
And oh yeah, there was this guy.
Supposedly, the Iraq War has ended, even if all Obama really announced was Mission Accomplished (Slight Return). Last night, after Mike Napoli's homer put the Rangers up 4-0, the man who started it casually slapped five with baseball's all-time strikeout (and walk) leader, who also happens to be Texas's
general manager president.
George W. Bush is at most Rangers home playoff games, seated next to Nolan Ryan. From 1988 to 1994, Bush was part of the group that owned the Rangers; he has no official standing with the team now. He's just a former U.S. President, throwing out first pitches in Arlington and yukking it up with Nolan. Unlike Dick Cheney, Bush has kept a relatively low profile since the end of his administration. But national television, sure to draw innumerable close-ups and reaction shots, is hardly a cloak of invisibility. Maybe it wasn't the spotlight Bush wanted to avoid, but a certain kind of exposure.
The mere sight of Dubya prompts outrage for most of us. I've had several conversations about the moral implications of rooting for the Rangers, specifically, for that charming, wizened gentleman known around certain Twitter circles as "Uncle Ron." And from a narrative standpoint, there's really nothing richer than Bush cheering on the Rangers a week after his signature foreign policy blunder has finally been put to bed. His face, like Nixon's, should probably be shamefully totemic.
Yet subjected to repeated shots of Bush, interpolating them into the game as I would any other recognizable face in a baseball stadum, I rarely think "arch-fiend doodler" or even "apocalyptic klutz." He's utterly harmless, and actually, seems natural in a way he never did while attempting to run the country. But the Bush reax shots—and our reax to them—are not just a question of relief. This is George W. Bush's element. He's no different from any number of Texas oil brats who went off and had themselves an adventure, one that involved sizable failures but never a crisis of confidence.
As undeserved as it might seem to the 66 percent of the world that loathes him, the man just wants to get on with his life, legacy be damned. For Bush, that means attending the World Series, not endlessly revisiting the battles of his presidency. Like us, he seems glad the whole thing is over.
The injustice we might feel seeing Bush have a nice time at the game days after his war finally closes on Broadway offends far less than the dissonance of his time in office. At least he's had the decency to step away. Or was he ever really there to begin with? Maybe sports, not statesmanship, was always his primary frame of reference, with Bush conceiving of himself as part Tom Hanks, part Roger Staubach. Realistically, he was always a cheerleader at heart. He shows up, eschews the luxury boxes, and enjoys himself. That's more than we can say for Zooey Deschanel.
Somehow, George W. Bush is a straw man, one of many rich and powerful folks at sporting events with shit on their hands. Clueless destroyer that he was, he remains a jovial, well-meaning fan, with no armies waiting his command once the game winds down. The real power match-up is between the style of the two managers; that's the moral question here.
Tony La Russa is a priggish reminder of baseball's most irritating tendencies. I'll even guess that his superstition is designed to ward off witches, and his Santana-gifted necklace was fashioned from recycled copies of Duets. Ron Washington, with his bouts of hyperactivity and a sense of engagement that acknowledges, rather than controls, the mysteries of baseball, is the hub of all charisma in this Series. La Russa's face attempts to bend the game's outcomes through the depth of his concern, like players leaning to keep a ball fair. Washington buzzes with possibility. Leapin' and hoppin' aside, Washington is the only person on the field who can reliably be counted on for something resembling levity, or irony. La Russa sits in judgment; Washington waits to be surprised.


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Chapter 8: Water on Earth
Pale Blue Dot.
"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." —Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, p. 6
- 8.1.
Distribution of Water on Earth
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States of Water
- 8.3.
Processes of the Water Cycle
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Streams and Rivers
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Ponds and Lakes
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- 8.7.
- 8.8.
Introduction to Groundwater
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Groundwater Aquifers
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Importance of the Oceans
- 8.11.
Seawater Chemistry
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Ocean Zones
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Wind Waves
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- 8.15.
Surface Ocean Currents
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How Ocean Currents Moderate Climate
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Deep Ocean Currents
Chapter Summary
What makes the dot blue, of course, is water. Water cycles through multiple reservoirs — glaciers, lakes, oceans, groundwater, and life, among others. As it cycles, it changes state between solid, liquid, and gas. Water is almost always moving, imperceptibly slowly as an ice crystal in a glacier or at rapid speeds in flooding stream or an ocean current. Surface water cycles through streams and into ponds and lakes. When too much water falls, the stream or even lake may flood. Water from the surface may filter through the ground to enter an aquifer. Streams eventually enter the ocean, which has motions of its own. Water travels in surface currents and may undergo downwelling to cycle through the deep ocean. Ocean currents are important to the planet, for example they moderate climate by bringing warm equatorial water toward the poles and cold polar water toward the equator.


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A good knowledge of your customers enables you to develop marketing strategies that target their specific needs - and increase your sales. But where do you get, store and sort customer information? Emma Allen finds out how a customer relationship management (CRM) system can improve your marketing and increase your revenue
A customer relationship management system can be a powerful tool in your marketing armoury. By recording your customer's product likes and dislikes, their spending patterns and even their location, age and gender, CRM software enables you to build up a detailed picture of their tastes, needs and buying habits.
This in turn enables you to segment your customer base into groups of buyers with different tastes or budgets. You can identify your most profitable customers, for example, or promising prospects, and target them with marketing messages and offers devised just for them. If the message - and its timing - is right, you could improve your sales conversion rates considerably.
"CRM is a customer focused business strategy designed to optimise revenue, profit and customer satisfaction," explains Jason Nash, product marketing manager for Microsoft CRM UK. "The more you understand your customers, the easier it is to target new prospects and boost sales.
"If you have your marketing database, your sales pipeline and delivery going through your CRM system, you can monitor the relationship and accurately measure your return on investment," he continues. "By using data effectively, you can also drive sales from an existing customer base, rather than spend a lot of money on trying to attract new clients."
Value for money
According to Nash, a CRM system can be a boon in the current economic climate. "Nobody can afford to lose customers at the moment, and managing the sales process properly is crucial for any firm," he points out.
"Smaller businesses don't necessarily need a highly sophisticated CRM package either. But if it's implemented properly, most systems should pay for themselves within twelve months," adds Nash.
Many businesses now opt to set up a cloud-based CRM system. This can have a number of benefits: cloud-based systems can be accessed simply and easily by sales people working out of the office; cloud-based applications are often cheaper as they don't require a large up-front investment as businesses can subscribe on a monthly basis; it may be easier to scale up an online CRM system.
A micro business can expect to pay as little as £3 per user per month for an entry-level, cloud-based CRM system. However, businesses with around 10 employees should expect to pay around £50 per user per month for a cloud-based system.
Alternatively, businesses can buy and set up a CRM system on their computer network. Initially this is likely to cost considerably more as it will include IT support and one-off fees such as software licences. It might be advisable to check out your existing IT support contract to see what it covers. Cheaper options might include accountancy firm Sage's entry-level 'ACT' CRM software for around £150 - it is basic but useful, and you would have to set it up yourself.
Choosing a package
With many CRM systems on the market, you will need to be clear about what you want yours to do. Do you need something that will work seamlessly with your existing software, for example? Do you want it to schedule sales calls or send automatic emails to customers confirming orders?
"You should try to find one that is easy to use," advises Nash. "Some, for instance, are compatible with common email clients which many people recognise. In turn, that is likely to encourage staff to use it because it's familiar."
Whatever package you choose, making it accessible to everyone is crucial. "Too often, CRM systems are just rolled out to sales staff and you miss other opportunities across the organisation where you can gather data to build customer loyalty. For CRM to be effective, all staff should have input," concludes Nash.


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Normally, torrential Monday rain would make us yearn for one more day to don pajama pants 'til noon. However, despite the need for an industrial-sized umbrella and clunky rubber boots, we were quite excited to get to our booth and let the National Stationery Show goodness begin.
Over the past couple days, the lovely ladies from Martha Stewart and The Knot stopped by for a peek, as did a few of our favorite blogs: Oh So Beautiful Paper, Paper Crave and Save Snail Mail.
In addition to our new collections, one of our favorite new features of the booth is the Refresh Salon, where guests can stop by to play on Pinterest, peruse the #NSS Twitter feed and scan our QR code feature, which takes them to a section on our site where we explain all the unique ways to incorporate QR codes into a stationery wardrobe.
Really, technology never looked so luxurious.
From Honduras to Tokyo to North Carolina, we're truly enamored by how many people love our paper as much as we do. We can't wait to meet and chat with even more fellow stationery lovers tomorrow. We hope we'll see you there.
Love & Letters,
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By Tiernan Ray
Topeka Capital Markets's Brian White, who is travelling in Taiwan this week, having meeting with component makers, writes in a note to clients that "We believe the much-hyped Apple (AAPL) iWatch is showing early signs of movement in the supply chain and will be launched this year with interesting new technology features that have not yet been touched upon."
Apple shares today closed up 88 cents at $429.79.
Most of White's note, however, is about steady sales of smartphones and "phablet" devices in China, a trend that should be good for panel makers Corning (GLW), whose shares he rates a Buy, AU Optronics (AUO), whose shares he rates a Hold, and for LG DIsplay (LPL), which he rates a Sell.
"Today, we met with a LCD panel maker and we walked away comfortable that the industry has bottomed out, while opening our minds to the possibility of profit generation at certain panel makers this year," writes White.
TV sets, phablets, and tablet computers are all driving panel production simultaneously, writes White:
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Wildlife expert and naturalist Casey Anderson hosts America the Wild and Expedition Wild on the Nat Geo Wild channel. Anderson's best friend Brutus—a grizzly bear that he rescued as a cub—sometimes joins him on the show. Now, Anderson and Brutus are the stars of a new interactive TV-game, Kinect Nat Geo TV for Xbox 360. Through eight episodes of Nat Geo WILD TV programs combined with the Kinect for Xbox 360 technology, kids are transported into animal habitats to learn more about how the animals live in the wild. Throughout each episode, you can play mini-games that use Kinect's camera to transform you into a bear protecting her cubs, an owl gathering food and much more!
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French JA, Pedley TA. Clinical practice. Initial management of epilepsy. N Engl J Med. 2008;359(2):166-76.
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wasn't Pat White up until that point the only QB in college history to win a BSC bowl game as a 4 year starter (Freshman - Senior)? Can't deny he lit the college game on fire from time to time. With that said, Pat really had no business going before very late in the 3rd round or 4th at the earliest, he just didn't have the messurable.
I blame the trifecta in thinking that the Wildcat was going to be just as big as the creation of the forward pass. I can see where they think Pat White would be the guy to handle it, boy oh boy were they wrong on all accounts.
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Problem is everyone knew White was a runningback playing qb unlike rg3 who is a qb that can run. The 2009 season is when our coaching staff, gm and czar became too enamoured with the success of the previous year . I dont know how many arguements I had about the wildcat and that it wouldnt sustain us . Probably some of the same people who wouldnt talk about thier old opinion now lol
This article sucks. Eddie Brown with 6000+ yards and 40+ TD's? Gtfo. I don't care who was drafted after him. The guy made a pro bowl.


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I made the analogy the other day to my co-workers that doing a new project in a new programming language is like writing a dissertation on a topic you don't know in a foreign language you don't really know. Not only are you struggling with figuring out what you want to do with the project, but you're also having problems expressing yourself to the compiler/interpreter in the new syntax.
That was a lead in to the fact that my irritation with python has reached its breaking point. I originally started using python because it was billed as an "Object Oriented Programming Language". After reading through the first seven chapters of ORA's Learning Python, it looks to me like python is simply a procedural language with some objects bolted on. Most of the examples from the first chapters were procedural statements with only passing lip service to actually using objects. Classes aren't introduced until chapter 8 and, when they are presented they're presented in a ship-shot manner with little practical application. If I wanted no practical application for my code, there are a thousand OOP books out there to tell me how to create a generic Shape object and subclass a Square, Circle and Triangle from that, then override the Shape.compute_area() method in Square, Circle and Triangle to calculate the area appropriate for each. Is it too fucking much to ask for a reasonable example to use for coding!?!?!
Well, apparently not. The Practical Programmers in their Ruby book A) use a concrete example (that of coding a jukebox) for their discussions and B) talk about and show objects from the first chapter. Perhaps I'll give python another chance a little later, but for now, I think I'll use ruby to make my new project. The documentation is clearer and the pureness of the Object Orientation is much more appealing.


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WEEI.com continues to provide daily insight and analysis on the 2011 NBA draft. This is one in a series of profiles of players who might be available for the Celtics [1] to select with one of their two picks (25th and 55th overall).
Malcolm Thomas
Position: Forward
School: San Diego State
Height: 6-foot-9
Weight: 220 pounds
Stats: 11.4 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 2 bpg
What he brings: At 220 pounds, Thomas is a little scrawny to be a pure power forward. Glen Davis [2] is as tall as Thomas but outweighs him by nearly 80 pounds. Even the taller Kevin Garnett [3] has a 40-pound advantage. But Thomas uses his lighter body and long arms to block shots with incredible effectiveness. His mobility makes him a very active presence in the paint, as he's able to shoot and pass from the post, maneuver around defenders to the basket and rebound. He has the shooting form to develop a complementary jump shot, and on defense he can box out and move laterally.
Where the Celtics could get him: Second round
What they're saying: "He's long enough to play the 4. He can play in the high-post area, too. He can really pass it up there. He can put it on the floor from up there." ' Former San Diego State (now UNLV) assistant coach Justin Hutson
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Try Jamie's Pasta Sauces!
Just made Jamie's meatballs and used his Jamie Oliver range of Pasta Sauces, Tomato and Basil, gorgeous! Thoroughly recommend them! Thanks Jamie!
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Re: Try Jamie's Pasta Sauces!
i have tried there too and l love them too, i have green pesto and they're nice too
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Well I really like the tomato sauces.... but I have to say, I was a little disappointed with the pesto... it tasted like any other jar pesto... and I didnt think it was great to be honest... It had that acidic after taste you always seem to get with jar pesto.
But I absolutely love his selections of spice mixes for chicken or fish... the moroccan tagine style one for chicken is absolutely brilliant..
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The Kennedy KGB letter Updated with info about the NIE leak
posted at 10:47 pm on October 20, 2006 by Bryan
So you want answers, eh? Not satisfied with the CNS report?
I've got answers.
There's a new book on Ronald Reagan making the rounds, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.
Think about that.
I received a review copy of The Crusader on Wednesday. The book first references the Kennedy plan on page 206, and includes the complete Soviet memo, dated May 14, 1983, in the Appendix. It's an eye opener.
If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y. V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview. Specifically, the board of directors of ABC, Elton Raul and the television columnists Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters could visit Moscow. The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.
Just, not the senator himself. Because collaborating with the leadership of a foreign state to unseat an American president, by whatever means, could be seen by Americans as treasonous. No fingerprints, that's the rule. Who knew Reagan would win and then defeat the USSR, so this document could see the light of day?
The Kennedy KGB memo runs about four pages. If there's an honest liberal left in the country, it would be nice to have their take on this revelation.
Update: Hoo-boy. The Congressional staffer who was suspended on suspicion of leaking the NIE has been revealed. He works for Democrat Rep. Jane Harman.
Update: I should clear up a misconception that's making the rounds, and that's the authorship of the memo. Ted Kennedy didn't write the memo. The memo's author is V. Chebrikov, head of the Committee on State Security of the USSR–the KGB. It seems to have been written as an after-action in response to a meeting with former Sen. John V. Tunney. Tunney had been sent to the USSR to propose the strategy on Kennedy's behalf to Andropov. The timing of the meeting isn't immediately clear from the memo, but if the meeting took place it was most likely in late April or early May 1983.
I think the next step here is to nail down the authenticity of the memo. If it's real, then the story is obviously very significant. If it's not real, there's no story here at all.
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The differences between types of labs are just generalizations, and there are always exceptions. For instance, everyone talks about British labradors (trial lines) being smaller, but I've read several posts on here of American FC line ancestry lab females who barely reach 45lbs. The bottom line is, the labs in the UK are tested differently than the labs in America... the good pedigree'd labs from the UK are from dogs who did exceedingly well in that type of testing, and the same goes for American labs. The guys in the UK train their dogs a specific way to achieve success in those tests, and American's do likewise. There is much overlap, MUCH. This forum tends to focus on the differences, which is fine.
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One mor thing I would like to add:
I have one spey rod where I put the guides on the hard side. I dont notice any effect in casting the rod, but with a heavy fish on the rod wants to rotate to one side or the other. I have learned to live with it but in the beginning it was kind of annoying.
Hmmm how about for 2 handers though and the Grant Switch which is basically performed by torquing the rod ~180 degrees on the lift and then torquing it back another 180 degrees on the forward cast. This multi directional torgue can really put a lot of energy into the cast and it considered by many the most powerful of any cast out there.
If true it would seem to blow away any directional alignment theories...
OK, I concede.
But there are still rod companies and rod builders who place guides somewhere other than in line with or opposite the plane of the spline. There are many folks who have bought and use(d) Sage rods and Sage doesn' t spine the blank. They simply put the guides on the straightest plane of a rod section. And I don't think anyone would say Sage does not produce high performance rods, nor do I think that anyone would say that Sage rods do not track properly when cast despite not having the rod spined.
Personally, I think a spined rod is best; but this is only because I think a rod with the guides placed on or exactly opposite the spine puts just a little more power into the cast and tracks just a little straighter. However, I'm not sure if this is actually the case or not with our modern medium modulus graphite rods.
I can see no reason whatsoever to have the spine out of line with the guide placement. Place it on the same side or place it opposite the guides, but place it anyplace else and the behavior of the rod will be asymetrical. Perhaps there's a valid reason to to this but I sure can't think of it.
FT, Nice argument but no sale. There's no slot or keyway and the term refers to the entire blank -not its components. But I agree it doesn't matter much (except for good language usage) as it will be undertstood by most fisherman.
Thanks very much for the definitions flytyer, Gary, and everyone else!
This raises another question for me: A lot, if not most, experienced casters I've seen do not cast with the rod/reel held perpendicular to the body. When looking at the reel, it'll be cocked at about a 30 degree angle away from the person. So when lining up the spine of the rod, shouldn't this be taken into account? The cast usually finishes with the reel coming down to the perpendicular position, but at this point the spine really doesn't matter since the cast has really been made and you're just waiting for the line to settle on the water.
The problem with this I see is that some people don't hold the rod this way, especially newer casters. But on the flip side, a newer caster might not notice where the spine is, so it might not matter to them. But an experienced caster may be able to notice a difference.
Common sense tells me that the spine should be in line with the flexing force of the cast. Clearly when the force from the casting hand is applied directly in line it makes a difference, therefore it only makes sense that the flexing characteristics of the rod should also be in line with the plane of the cast.
If a rod was held sideways in the hand and cast with a 'wiping' motion I think all would agree that much is lost vs. direct alignment with the thumb or palm. Therefore if the rod's spine is askew to the plane where force is applied, I would think there is a direct analogy in terms of physical characteristics to the 'wipe'.
With a single hander, pushing the thumb toward the target means pushing the blank directly in-line. I prefer a vee-grip with a Spey cast for the very same reason.
Nobuo insists on spine alignment with the casting plane for CND rods. For me it's just common sense and gut feel, but he must have a real reason.
I agree with you when speaking of wooden rods (bamboo, greenheart), but not when speaking of tubuler fiberglass, boron, or graphite. Since spline is defined as the slot or groove that joins two parts together, it seems to me that when speaking of the high side of a rod blank, spline is the proper term. This because when the prepeg is wrapped on the mandrel (or the bamboo strips glued up into the blank), the place where they join produces a spline, and that is where the high side of a tubuler rod blank is found.
However, when speaking of bamboo, not only is there a spline for each strip, there is a spine, the stiffest strip in the rod section. And with greenheart, there is only a spine and not a spline.
At any rate, since the two of them are used to refer to the same thing by most fisherpersons, IMHO, it matters little which one someone uses.
If you consult your dictionary, I think you'll find that Spine is the term that really applies.
I've heard both used for years and in fact always used spline myself - albeit incorrectly I think.
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By coincedence, I had a friend call me the other day to say that he had sent a Powerlite Speycaster back to Bruce & Walker because, when the rod was set up, the top section appeared to go off at a slight angle to the others. I imagine that the rod was probably splined correctly, but asthetically it looked off to a buyer not familiar with splining.
On such a high end rod I would expect a perfectly straight blank!
It is called both spine and spline, although spline is the more accurate term because it is describing the stiffest or least bendable side or plane of the blank. In other words, the spline is the side of the blank most resistant to bending (some folks think this also means it is the strongest side, but that is eroneous). It is found by either 1) placing the butt of a rod section (the thicker portion of the section) on a table, allowing the top or thinner portion of the section to rest on the 1st two fingers of one of your hands, and then pushing or flexing the blank down in the center of the section while slowly rolling it as you push down on it; 2) or by placing the butt (thicker portion of the rod section) againse the bottom edge of a table and pushing up in the center of the blank against the table and your other hand. The spline is located where the blank "jumps" or "resists bending".
However, as valuable splining is with bamboo or greenheart rods, its value with fiberglass, boron, or graphite is a matter of much debate. Supposedly rods with guides placed on or opposite the spline will have the rod blank track in a straighter plane when casting than those with the guides placed elsewhere. With wood rods (bamboo or greenheart) this makes perfect sense because of their much lower modulus and elasticity; but with modern tubuler fiberglass, boron, and graphite it is very difficult to quantify the difference (especially with the high modulus graphites) because they are so stiff and recover so fast the difference in tracking are rather minute.
That is why splining or not splining and putting guides on, opposite, or 90 degrees to the spline are each advocated by rod builders. It is also the reason some say to simply place the guides on the rod's straightest plane as you sight down the blank section and not worry about the spline (this is what Sage does).
I have a couple of questions here, not to hijack the thread, but...
1. Is it a "spine" or "spLine"? There are some knowledgable people on this thread who aren't calling it the same thing.
2. What is it?
3. How do you determine it?
Thanks, and sorry for the newbie questions, but I'm not a rod builder!
|Gary W
If you go into a shop and try a few rods from one manufacturer, you will usually find that they are all splined differently. That's because they are built in a factory where time eats into profit margin. Try some and if you cannot find one splined correctly, write to the manufacturer and ask why. Who knows you may get a correctly splined rod at a reduced rate!!
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If you go into a shop and take a couple of rods off the rack (Always ask first) and check the spine you will find that they are all over the place. Some high end rods are right on, some arent. Its not that much trouble to remove and replace guides, you just have to be careful and take your time. On the other hand I guess it depends on what you want to do with your rod as to weather you want a super fine tuned rod or not. How does the rod cast. Does it do what you want it to do, if its OK dont try to fix it. If you want real accuracy or a distance casting tool I think having the guides in line with the spine makes a big difference.
Try test casting the rod and rotating the upper sections of the blank and see if it makes a difference.
I have also had blanks that have a natural curve to them that you can see as you roll the blank around. In that case I have settled for the natural curve of the blank. I dont think that hurts anything really.
|Gary W
I know some rod builders who swear by attaching the guides directly in line with the spline, be it on the soft or stiff side. This all depends on whether you want the rod to flex better on forward or back stroke, or to bend easily into a fish or give more leverage.
I also know rod builders who say that they line the sections up to be straight as possible and then place the guides accordingly. I have noticed that when you spine a blank properly, sometimes the sections do not line up straight, looking along the blank.
I also know that a well known blank manufacturer states - if you attach a 1 ounce weight to a the end of a blank the spine is unnoticeable.
I think that there may be advantages to playing with the guide placement on a spey rod. The sections on a spey rod get pulled in various directions during all but the overhead cast, and guide placement could be altered from the norm to maximise a rods potential for different casting styles. In fact, Bob Meiser's website has an article where he suggests that any rod builders try to play with the guide placement for this very reason.
This argument will rage on amongst the rod building fraternity, until somebody invents a machine(for consistency) to test if the tracking is affected by guide placement in relation to the blanks spline.
Does any human really notice a considerable difference for anything other than competition casting?
Sage builds their rods so that any curvature of the rod is in one plane, improving appearance, and in the process, ignores the spine. I wonder how many other manufacturers ignore the spine? Many, I would suspect.
I don't specifically remember what I did with which rod, but I'd try and assess the action of the blank then spine it accordingly, including one or two where I reversed the spine in the top section.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 12:58 PM GMT on July 24, 2010
Tropical Depression Bonnie is barely clinging to life. Wind shear of 25 knots and dry air from an upper-level low pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico are taking their toll on Bonnie, which is now just a swirl of low clouds accompanied by a small clump of heavy thunderstorms on the north side of the center of circulation. These thunderstorms are now visible on New Orleans long range radar, and will arrive in coastal Louisiana early this afternoon, well ahead of the center. The Hurricane Hunters are in Bonnie, and have found a much weaker storm with top winds of just 30 mph.
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On the "Just Found" front, not that anyone gives a bleep about what is found in the San Gabriel Valley, I found another Saga Legends AOTC clone at Rosemead Target. I have not seen any evidence TAC 3 has been stocked there.
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