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In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.
In The Tipping Point, Gladwell introduces us to the particular personality types who are natural pollinators of new ideas and trends, the people who create the phenomenon of word of mouth. He analyzes fashion trends, smoking, children's television, direct mail, and the early days of the American Revolution for clues about making ideas infectious, and visits a religious commune, a successful high-tech company, and one of the world's greatest salesmen to show how to start and sustain social epidemics.
The Tipping Point is an intellectual adventure story written with an infectious enthusiasm for the power and joy of new ideas. Most of all, it is a road map to change, with a profoundly hopeful message, that one imaginative person applying a well-placed lever can move the world.
Don't miss any of Malcolm Gladwell's books, articles, and interviews.
©2000 Malcolm Gladwell; (P)2005 Time Warner AudioBooks
"A fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way." (Fortune)
"An interesting listen"
I really enjoyed this audio book. I've heard Malcolm Gladwell speak before and had been interested to "read" The Tipping Point for a while. It's a mixture of anectdotes, psychology, economics, marketing, epidemiology and more.
The principle focus of The Tipping Point is how small changes, can bring about large effects. With examples such as marketing of Hush Puppies shoes, the broken windows theory, Airwalk shoes, Paul Reveres midnight ride, word of mouth, mass hysteria and more.
The only disappointing thing about this audio book is that it is abridged. If you like short 3 hour "quick listen"'s, you may not mind, but it felt to me, like a reasonable amount of material was cut out. This was even more apparent at the end during the afterword, when it references several things that did not appear in this audio book.
But overall, it was enjoyable, fairly "light reading", and kept my interest throughout.
"Great book, too drastic abridge job"
This book is a true classic. I read the text version a while ago and thought i would hear a "refresher". I was hihgly dissapointed that many of the examples and topics covered in the paper version were not even mentioned here.
This book will get you acquianted with the general concepts, but if this stuff really interest you find the nonabridged version or read the paper back.
Nearly Human
"Disappointing. Overly abridged."
I had high hopes for this book (a breeding ground for disappointment, I realize), but they seemed well-founded. I had heard nothing but good things about it. The subject matter is fascinating and I had already listened to "Blink" (Gladwell's current bestseller), also read by Gladwell, and enjoyed it immensely. What went wrong?
I have to imagine that it suffered from being overly-truncated to fit the 3 hour constraint. To add insult to injury, the actual book itself comprises only approx. 2:20. The remaining 40 minutes are an afterward added (maybe for the paperback release?) that did little to add to/explain the content itself.
I've subsequently borrowed the printed book from the library to fill-in what was missing and hae found it much more elucidating. As it stands, I would only recommend this if you were considering reading the full book and were not sure if you wanted to commit the time to it.
"Got it based upon reviews - was not disappointed."
I too found the work well written and well read and fascinating, though I did wonder whether the part that was abridged-out was just as good. Sure wish they had taught this stuff when I went to college 30 years ago. If you're starting your career or if you are thinking about how to run your business, reach your customers or influence your students, you'd be wise to listen. Little things can and do make all the difference sometimes.
I've been an Audible subscriber since 2000 and my original subscription was packaged with a Rio 500 player. I was so impressed with both in the dark days of 2001 that I bought stock in both companies. Audible to its credit acheived the tipping point. But what of Rio? Five years ago my Rio did most of what an IPOD can do today. It still does. Yet Rio was bankrupted twice over while the IPOD made a fortune for Apple and its investors. The IPOD "tipped", while the Rio tanked. Rio didn't get it, but Apple and Audible did. After listening to "The Tipping Point", I understand.
This book and another Audible selection I would recommend - "Linked: The New Science of Networks" (Barabasi) both give an interesting and perhaps essential slant on how things work in our well connected world. Don't set sail on your career without them.
"Interesting topic, but beautiful voice??"
I found the topic and the examples to be mostly quite interesting but having just listened to Freakonomics, I found the latter's analyses more compelling and *definitely* preferred Stephen Dubner's voice. I'm interested to read Blink for content, but a little hesitant for speaking style. Maybe that's one for good ol' print.
"No Audio Purchase, Read it only!"
The book is incredible. The audiobook is lousy. The authors voice is great but the abridgment is truly horrible. I wonder if the author deliberately made the abridgement so bad to "tip" people into going and buying his book to fill in the gaps. Hmmmmm....
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"Fascinating insights in a short book"
Normally I steer clear of abridgments, but this was an excellent way to spend five hours. I'm not sure how much longer an unabridged version would have been, but I felt the argument of this book proceeded very logically and was adequately developed and supported by the factual examples.
That argument is essentially this: that many social trends and phenomena follow the same basic pattern as epidemics; that they follow the same pattern because they are caused and sustained in much the same way; that the difference between trends that get past the "tipping point" and those that do not may often be one or more very small factors; and that if one wants to create any sort of social trend (whether that be buying a product or committing fewer crimes), it is important to attend to such very small factors.
The book is anecdotal, and for all I know there may be respected social scientists who think Gladwell is a rank amateur who is dabbling beyond his depth. But for my part, I think Gladwell is a perspicacious observer whose insights here are original, interesting, and even useful.
"The Power of Numbers!"
Wow... What a great read. Malcom Gladwell really captures the spirit of human connections and the human need to feel part of something. A definate must read for anyone interested in looking at what moves people and how a small event can result in large response.
The idea of a social tipping point is definitely intriguing and Gladwell gives plenty of anecdotal examples. In a nutshell, social phenomena happen because of a complex inter-relationship between social innovators, mavens, and first adopters. It's basically the theory behind viral marketting, and "cool hunting", though the $1M question "What makes something (ex iPods) cool and others not?" remains unanswered beyond the elusive "because the mavens showed it to their friends". Beyond that, why do some crazes stay in a niched and loyal subculture (linux adoption) whlie others become mainstream? And taking into attempts like ilovebees and subservientchicken, I have to wonder if viral marketing even works, or if it's just another unmeasureable gimmick/fad in marketing and advertising.
It's certainly an interesting theory, full of possibilities, but I suggest reading "Linked" by Alberto-Laszlo Barabasi for what I believe to be a broader look at not only social phenomenae but also the properties of highly connected networks as general model, and how networks apply to other phenomena like computer virii, AIDS epidemiology, power outtages, and computer security. Although I felt that Gladwell did a suitable job covering the subject, having just finished "Linked", the "The Tipping Point" felt like a weaker, more limited, reiteration of network theory.
"better as audio"
This is a very current topic, with which business persons should be familiar.
I found the audible format, which I could absorb while commuting, far more useful than reading the printed text. The pace and vocal timbre were suitable to the material.
Mr. Gladwell has another book, Blink, which I hope will be available soon.
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keep track of your hunts and everyone else's here! let us know how youve done, boast brag, but keep it somewhat humble haha
cheers fellas ill start it off!
opening day afternoon hunt in east providence.
. total tallie, 3 drake mallards, 2 hens, 1 black, 2 buffleheads. hope everyone elses day was as good as mine cheers guys and let everyone know how you did!!!
cheers, miles

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The RIDIR project (Resourcing IDentifier
Interoperability for Repositories) is a project funded under the
auspices of the Joint Information Systems Committee 'Repositories
and Preservation' Programme. It is investigating the requirements
for, and benefits of, the clear use of persistent identifiers in
order to facilitate interoperability between digital repositories
of different types.
Further details are to be found on the 'Project
Aims' page of this website.
Final Report and Demonstrator (08/10/08) The
JISC have given us permission to release the RIDIR Final Report and
this can be downloaded from the 'Documents' section of this
site. Please get in touch if a copy of the Demonstrator DVD
would be useful to you. The Demonstrator is supplied for use
with a downloadable Virtual Machine.
Final Report and Demonstrator (06/08) The RIDIR
Final Report and the software Demonstrator were submitted to the
JISC at the end of June 2008. The lengthy report makes a
number of recommendations ranging from national strategy to
repository implementation. The Final Report will be made
available through this website and through the University of Hull
Institutional Repository as soon as it is approved by the JISC.
Implementation (11/07) The early autumn has
been spent turning our identified use cases into a more detailed
form to aid implementation. Our developers have started on
production of components for the demonstrator.
Workshops report and use cases (14/09/07)
The report on the two national workshops and the use cases that
were considered for the RIDIR Project is now available in the
'Documents' section of this site. This document also includes
the subsequent proposal put to the JISC detailing two possible ways
forward, and their response. The proposal includes the five
use cases that will be considered in detail.
Focus Group meetings (18/04/07) At the RIDIR
start meeting earlier in the week (16/04/07) it was decided that
the foundation for the project's work should be established at two
focus groups. The first such meeting will be held in London,
probably in late May, when invited repository practitioners will
discuss issues of interoperability so that we can establish the
role that identifiers play, or should play. The second focus group
will be held in Manchester towards the end of June where an invited
group of identifier experts will discuss the outcome of the first
meeting and how identifiers might be managed in order to best
accommodate the needs of repository interoperability.
Project start (08/03/07) The RIDIR project will
officially start on 1st April 2007 and run for one year. At the
moment the project team is busy arranging a start meeting. Watch
this space!
Contact details
Project Director:
Ian Dolphin
Project Manager:
Richard Green
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The RIDIR project is funded by the Joint Information Systems
Committee and is being undertaken by the e-Services Integration
Group at the University of Hull and Rightscom Limited.
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Frandsen is becoming a pest. Frazier grounds out. 1-0 Phillies after 4.
Frandsen is becoming a pest. Frazier grounds out. 1-0 Phillies after 4.
Kendrick is hitting his spots. I hate the phillies.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Well that was a terrible call but wouldn't you guys agree that if they'd called it a trap that a DP would've been made anyways?
Kratz singles to center.
Kendrick strikes out on a foul bunt attempt.
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Found a nice quiet spot yesterday. It was just me and my buddy, plus one guy clear on the other side of the pond.
It was a nice change from the shoulder to shoulder hunting I'd experienced the first 2 times out.
Being so quiet and all I decided to try my hand at calling for the first time. Most of the ducks were solo flyers and flying high.We had deeks out but none were looking to make friends.
I saw a single guy flying over head to my left and gave him a single quack. To my surprise he quacked back. so I quacked twice. he responded again and banked right, circled far to the right. I gave him a series of 4 quacks and he put down the landing gear and headed in.
Unfortunately I was so excited I forgot I was supposed to shoot it LOL. By the time i got my gun to my shoulder he had spooked and headed off. It was an awesome experience though, and I'm glad all that ticking off my co workers has paid off.


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Then after the party, wave 'bon voyage!' as you ride away in your stylish carriage to begin your special getaway. Have a wonderful time - we'll be waiting for you when you return. Of course, the scope of our service can include your entire family, so treat those special relatives to a San Francisco or wine country tour while they're here. And how about the bachelor and bachelorette parties? You'll have more fun in a limousine, luxury bus or cable car - with us as the designated driver!
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Chile Earthquake Response
2 comments:
- Tobi's Blog said...
It's too bad that on your main Charity Navigator you don't list well-established local Chilean organizations such as: "Un Techo Para Chile", "Hogar de Christo", etc since they have a much larger and stronger presence in the country than most of the fine American or International institutions you lists, and a proven track record for doing excellent work in the country.
- March 5, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Sandra Miniutti said...
Hi Tobi's Blog.
At Charity Navigator we only rate organizations that have nonprofit status in the US (although the scope of their work can be international). Therefore, we simply do not rate local Chilean charities. That doesn't mean that they aren't doing good work. But Americans can not get a tax deduction if they give to organizations that do not have 501 c 3 public charity status in the US.
A description of the type of charities we rate can be found on our site here: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=32
- March 5, 2010 at 10:08 AM


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Arsenal Football Club have announced that Spanish La Liga side Valencia will be participating in the Emirates Cup, replacing Hamburg in this exciting pre-season competition.
German side Hamburg have had to pull out of the season's curtain raiser at Emirates Stadium due to qualification into the Intertoto Cup, which has resulted in a clash of fixtures over the same weekend.
Arsenal is delighted to welcome such a high profile replacement in Valencia, who have already qualified for next season's UEFA Champions League through their consistently strong performances in La Liga.
Valencia have been one of the leading club sides in Spanish football for a number of years and currently boast stars such as David Villa, Santiago Canizares, and of course ex-Arsenal midfielder Edu.
Valencia will directly replace Hamburg in the fixtures over the weekend, with matches now as follows:
Inter Milan v Valencia
Emirates Cup, Emirates Stadium
Saturday, July 28, 2pm
Arsenal v Paris
Emirates Cup, Emirates Stadium
Saturday, July 28, 4.15pm
For more information regarding this match click here.
Paris Saint-Germain v
Emirates Cup, Emirates Stadium
Sunday, July 29, 2pm
Arsenal v Inter Milan
Emirates Cup, Emirates Stadium
Sunday, July 29, 4.15pm
For more information regarding this match click here.
Arsenal Managing Director Keith Edelman said: "We are delighted to welcome Valencia to the Emirates Cup and it's great that a club with such a successful history and high profile have agreed to join us for our pre-season competition.
Hamburg's late surge up the Bundesliga meant that they could no longer take part in the Emirates Cup, but I'm sure all supporters will be excited by the prospect of watching Arsenal, Valencia, Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain playing at Emirates Stadium in July."
Day admission tickets for the Emirates Cup, which give access to both matches in a day, are available for as little as £25 for adults and £15 for OAPs and children.
Tickets are now on General Sale and are available to buy by calling 0870 3800 232.
If you are interested in buying hospitality at the Emirates Cup please call 0845 262 0001.


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Sleepyhead Beds is a pint-sized organization delivering an outsized impact to needy families in the Metro area.
Sam Cook, the executive director of Sleepyhead Beds, says the organization fills two different needs.
"Well, we provide two services that provide two needs," said Cook. "Landfills get filled with mattresses and obviously other objects every day. And you've got all these mattresses going there that obviously could be used for other purposes. They can be recycled and they can be given to other people after being cleaned. So we eliminate an environmental disaster that we can get into by collecting all the stuff in landfills. The second service we do and is our primary service is we take these beds. We clean them with a special cleaner and we give them back to kids in Kansas City. We've helped thousands of kids in Kansas City and we'll continue to help thousands more in 2014 and beyond."
For Deb Davis, whose home was destroyed by fire, the help came at just the right time.
"We had a fire in our home in September of this year, and a friend of mine had heard about Sleepyhead Beds and contacted them and they were kind enough to donate beds for my grandchildren that live with me," Davis said. "We're just now getting into a home and so they brought the beds today. The kids will have beds to sleep in."
"It's a huge relief that we don't have to worry about where they're going to sleep, or sleeping on the floor, which probably would have been the alternative," said Davis.
People find Sleepyhead Beds in different ways.
"A lot of times it's the social worker who notices they don't have a bed and they need that for their children to either be in the home, stay in the home, or come back home and so, at that point they'll either tell the client to call us or contact us or or they, themselves will and we'll figure out a way to get them a bed," Cook said.
For children to be returned home from state care and custody they need to have a safe place to sleep and that means a bed.
"I can't imagine not having my child here for the holidays just because I don't have a bed for her. So it's a very big deal. There are so many kids in state custody because they are waiting for a bed to get to go home so they have to have that bed to be reunited with their parents."
Angie Kelley is a Title One Reading teacher at Indian Creek Elementary School in the Center School District. Kelley says she sees the results of a good night's sleep in the students she teaches every single day.
"I actually teach in the Center School district and Sleepyhead Beds provides beds for a lot of our kids. Kids that we know. When they come to school and they've had a good nights sleep. They can perform much better. It's very important because it not only affects their mood and being able to deal with situations that come up during the day, but their focus and their learning span, to be able to keep focussed and learn more."
For Cook the rewards of focusing on beds is simple.
"There are a lot of services out there, and they are doing a million things, and people need help with all this different stuff. But beds is one we don't think about and that's why someone has to focus on it, because they are expensive. They are difficult to move. It costs money to get them delivered. When you have two or three kids and you've had cribs for them, but now you have to get mattresses for them, it's just a huge expense. And so a lot of times they end up sharing beds or making do with what they have, as we all do. We make do with what we have sometimes. Well, a bed, people shouldn't have to make do with."


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Trends, fashion, celebrities, events, music, and all things only Vegas
Beach clubs, concerts -- Vegas redefines the pool scene
From party cabanas to concerts to the world's best DJs, Las Vegas has redefined and reinvented the pool experience (again). And, since summer in Vegas starts and ends longer than the rest of the country, you've got that much longer to enjoy the most lavish pools you'll find anywhere.
The newest addition to the ultra-pool experience in Las Vegas is the Boulevard Pool at Cosmopolitan Resort. Overlooking the Strip, the multilevel, open-air environment provides unobstructed sightlines in all directions, upbeat music, intimately spaced lounge chairs and daybeds, and a vibrant social scene with live musical performances to movies playing on the marquee. For a quieter, more relaxing day, enjoy the Bamboo Pool -- it's a soothing canyon-like environment with spa services, yoga and Pilates sessions.
You'll be swimming in luxury at Wet Republic, a 53,000-square-foot ultra-pool at MGM Grand, which features the only two saltwater pools on the Strip. Celebrity DJs keep the beat going on a daily basis! Enjoy European-style sunbathing at Moorea Beach Club at Mandalay Bay and get rid of those pesky tan lines, or enjoy access to the private pavilion for guests 21 and older.
Encore Beach Club at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas opened for the season on April 16! This 60,000-square-foot paradise includes 26 cabanas outfitted with refrigerators and flat-screen televisions along with the exclusivity and opulence of eight bungalows, all with amazing views of Las Vegas. Guests at Encore or Wynn can also have the option of enjoy the sophisticated and alluring elegance of the hotel pools nestled deeper in the property far from the commotion of daylife' parties.
Other great pool parties can be found at TAO Beach, on the roof of TAO Nightclub at The Venetian, and at the Palms Pool & Bungalows. This year, the Palms Resort hosted MTV's Spring Break -- and even after the cameras leave, guests can still experience the latest and greatest Palms excitement! For a unique pool experience, try the Golden Nugget Downtown, where you can whisk down a three-story waterslide, straight through a 200,000-gallon shark tank!
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It's a summer-long pool party like none you've ever seen before, so grab your hottest swimwear, get to Vegas before summer ends, and spend a day at one of Las Vegas' ultimate pools! Life is short, summer is shorter!


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My dad is retired and he is a yardsaler. He deals in military and old sporting goods.
So I hit his basement looking for anything I could use to help me get started on my ROTJ Fett costume.
He had (3) shelter halves! Sweet! I grabbed them all. He was happy to get them out of the basement.
Cost to me: $0
I can sew (Thanks Mom for teaching me how to use a sewing machine! :thumbup ) so this will be easy using Brak's cape tutorial.
At least one shelter half has the correct stitches as shown in Brak's tutorial. I'll check the other two, this evening.


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Guess what I have on my mind :-D
:-D I answered all the questions correct. :-DGuess I'm not as screwed up as I thought.
Speedy recovery K9!Scott
Quote from: hardwood on December 22, 2010, 06:06:58 PMSpeedy recovery K9!ScottThankye sir. I get a kick out of the warning labels on narcotic pain meds. "Warning-alcohol may intensify the effects" If pain relief is the goal then it seems as if Coors Lite should be included with the prescription.


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DxOMark Score for lens with cameraSensor Insight
DxOMark Score design
We considered the following requirements when designing DxOMark Score:
- should be a single number,
- averaged over the whole range of focal length
- taking into account the best aperture
- using only RAW measurements and is therefore independent of any RAW converter,
- growing linearly with resolution, for a perfect optic and a noise-free signal,
- growing linearly with the sensor dynamic range, measured in f-stops, for a perfect optic.
DxOMark Score can be interpreted as the maximum print size of the average quality. Obviously, any photo can be printed at any size, but beyond a certain point, a larger print does not reveal any additional details to an observer at close distance.
A DxOMark Score of 10 is high enough for an excellent 30x20cm print. When doubling each dimension (hence multiplying the print surface by four), the DxOMark Score should ideally be multiplied by four also. Typical correspondences are indicated in the table below.
DxOMark Score
Optimal print size
Another element of DxOMark Score — part of its uniqueness as an image quality evaluation ranking system — is that we built it with the consideration that some camera flaws can be partially or completely corrected by digital processing (embedded in the camera, or performed on PC/MAC afterwards).
While the Sensor Overall Score describes the results of measurements only on sensors and is essentially related to image noise (for example, a difference of one f-stop offsets the Overall Sensor Score by approximately 15 points), the DxOMark Score is both proportional to resolution (taking optical aberrations into account) and to sensor dynamic range.
The purpose of a camera is to capture light reflected (or emitted) by the scene. More precisely, a camera capture the spatial organization of the scene, the amount of light at each point, as well as the colorimetric properties of this light. The greater a digital camera's information capacity, the better its RAW output. DxOMark Score provides photographers with a powerful tool to evaluate this fundamentally important aspect of digital camera image quality performance.


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1. What is Cisco® Application Visibility and Control (AVC)?
Cisco® Application Visibility and Control (AVC) is a solution that uses multiple technologies of the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers and Cisco Integrated Service Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2), and network management tools which together provide powerful and pervasive integrated solution for discovering, monitoring as well as controlling applications.
2. How does Cisco® AVC work?
AVC works by enabling the software features within the Cisco ASR 1000 and Cisco ISR G2 in conjunction with network management tools to perform the following functions:
Application recognition – Uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to recognize and identify applications regardless of port number
Performance monitoring - Utilizes embedded monitoring capabilities within the routers to extract and collect application usage, performance metrics, aggregate and export this information using open export format such as Netflow Version 9 and IPFIX for network management
Network Management – Enables Cisco and 3rd party network management tools to provide visualization of network application bandwidth usage and performance to end users, as well as to provide feedback and implement policy to network devices to fine tune performance
Control - Controls per-application bandwidth usage and intelligently selects the path to deliver application data based on real time performance
3. What technology is used in Cisco® AVC solution?
Cisco® AVC consists of the following technologies:
- Next-generation DPI technology called NBAR2, which can identify more than 1000 applications and support application categorization, with the ability to perform in-service update of application signatures.
- Flexible NetFlow (FNF) infrastructure and data export to select and export data of interest, allowing easy consumption of AVC information by Cisco and third-party applications.
- Performance collection engine to collect Application Response Time (ART) for TCP applications, and Media Monitoring (MMON) to collect voice and video performance such as jitter and loss. All the information is exported through the Flexible Netflow infrastructure.
- Reporting and management tools, such as Cisco Prime™ Infrastructure with Assurance module which is an enterprise-grade infrastructure management and service monitoring tool for reporting of application and network performance; and Cisco Insight which can provide up to 30 different reports for application visibility.
- QoS to facilitate optimization and control of application performance.
- Performance Routing (PfR) to provide per-application intelligent path selection based on real time performance data
Hardware, Software, and Licenses
1. What routing platforms support AVC?
AVC is currently supported on the Cisco ASR 1000 and Cisco ISR G2 routers.
2. Which software releases support AVC?
AVC is supported on the Cisco ASR 1000 starting IOS XE 3.4S and Cisco ISR G2 starting IOS 15.2(4)M2.
3. What license do I need to enable AVC?
AVC support is provided by Right-To-Use (RTU) license on both Cisco ASR 1000 and Cisco ISR G2
Required license
ISR G2 (880 and 890)
Advanced IP license
Data license
Advanced IP Services (AIS) or Advanced Enterprise Services (AES) license, and in addition, AVC license (FLASR1-AVC-RTU)
4. Is there a demo license for AVC?
Yes, the software license is available for demo and evaluation. Please contact your Cisco representative to obtain the license applicable for your platform.
5. I already have Flexible Packet Inspection (FPI) license for my Cisco ASR 1000, can I enable AVC?
No, starting with IOS XE release 3.4S the FPI license (FLASR1-FPI-RTU) has been obsoleted by AVC license (FLASR1-AVC-RTU). There is an upgrade license (FLASR1-AVC-UPG) to upgrade your FPI license to AVC.
6. Do I need AVC if I just want to use NBAR2 and QoS?
Yes, both NBAR2 and QoS are components of AVC and provide per-application bandwidth control.
Features and Functionalities
1. How many applications does AVC recognize?
AVC, through NBAR2 technology, currently recognizes more than one thousand applications including but not limited to web and enterprise applications, cloud services, voice and video, email, file sharing, gaming and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.
2. Where do I find more information about NBAR2?
Please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/nbar
3. Do we need new IOS software for recognizing newer applications?
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NBAR2 and QoS on the Cisco ASR 1000 and ISR G2 routers are the main mechanism for application control in AVC. With AVC, the QoS class-map has been enhanced to match the application name and attributes such as category as sub-category which are recognized by NBAR2. These added matching capabilities can also work in conjunction with all other match criteria already supported by QoS class-map such as ACL or DSCP. QoS actions such as shape, police or priority can then be applied to the application traffic.
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It's good to be back.
I was on here a few years ago with some CG stuff (Webley, Jet Pack) and I've started a new CG bucket. Save this link (quicktime file) and have a look. Relax your eyes until you see three buckets and then focus on the middle one - VOILA, it's 3 dimensional... ooooh :-)
I've been trying to incorporate all asymmetries into this helmet and this is what I have thus far. Let me know what you think.
Here is a 2d render also.
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It does in fact sound like you drew a vacuum in the tank and the pump could not pull any gas.
You could just end the tank vent hose in the frame somehere and call it good, but if you ever over fill the tank, it may start running out of that hose and turn your car into a BBQ! LOL
Best bet is to use the canister.
|With a '72 El Camino, you can eliminate all of your emissions equipment. Just keep everything you take off incase the liberals get back into power and decide it is time to change the smog laws.
|As you found out it is the vent for the gas tank...it does nothing to hurt performance...and if you don't like the looks of it just bury it somewhere you won't see it.
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I took the Charcoal canister off my 72 El Camino (350) to clean up the engine compartment. There are three hoses on it. I plugged off the vac tube at the Carb base where one of them went. I took the one that was "T"d on the hose between the vac line on the base of the Carb and the PCV valve on the valve cover off. I then took the vent hose from the gas tank and plugged it into the "T" at the PCV valve.......... I drove around for a day and had no problems. Then when I went to fill up my gas tank ( it had been close to empty on the day I had no problems) as soon as I left the gas station the engine started to flutter......then it died.....like I was out of gas! After looking for problem for a while I decided to put the charcoal canister back on just to make sure that was not the cause........well it was now it runs fine. I am assuming that the hose configuration I used caused a vacuum problem in the gas tank and the gas could not get to the fuel pump. So ..........what did I do wrong with the re-hook up of the hoses? And what is the correct way to do it.......jerry
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text: To me, all of those feel like bb guns........that being said, has she ever shot something a bit larger in caliber? I know they say that a .22 is a good starting firearm.....the first firearm my wife shot was a Beretta 92fs. Handled it well, didn't freak out on the recoil....now the proud owner of a Ruger SR40.


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Man I can't wait, this will go good with the new sidearm....:cry
I'm interested too.
Thank you.
Could be a good month before this takes off... waiting on materials and FP's schedule...as he is extremely busy these days...
but the pieces are in place. :thumbsup
Thx Spidey. I am in no rush - have my Bobamaker one until then :)
The wheels are in motion on this project, my Nemrod holster is in Fettpride's hands and I think from everyones experience with the quality of his work, either first hand or by his reputation alone, can rest assured that this project will come to fruition and be realized with a extreme level of quality & accuracy! :thumbsup :thumbsup
Hmm, thought that's what seeker said when I bought it. I must have that wrong though since Daz is buying three of these :lol
Has the logo molded in, but a closed knife sheath. Anyone?
thanks for doing these, GBH and Fettpride! anxious to see how it will all turn out! and you are right, you both have quality reputations here, and no doubt this will be an awesome item to have for the ESB Fett!!! :cheers
Interested depending on price... :thumbsup
This will be sweet, I may have to jump on that list at some point :thumbsup
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any updates on this progress fellas?
Please count me in for one. Thanks!
Def interested!
Definitely interested
I´m in - sign me up please.
Interested, pending price:)
Assuming that I can get in on the sidearm from Gav I would of course need a holster. Mark me intrested.
It looks like I will be starting this - this month. I'll most likely start getting the master (the original) prepped and ready for butchering this weekend :lol
So, heads up. It gonna happen ;)
:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup great news, Chris!!! appreciate you guys doing this for us! :cheers need to be able to do Gav's beauty justice with an awesome holster...:D
I'm interested as well.
Can I be added to the interest list
interested in one as well
Count me IN for a holster :)
Thanks, Markus
Wow ! The BIG 50 !!! Looks like I'd better double my efforts ... before "I" hit the BIG 50 !!! We don't want this taking THAT long :lol
I'm about ready to mold the holster guys and gals ! Wish me luck !! When the mold is made, I'll be able to estimate costs. I know that costs haven't been discussed yet. I'm shooting for $100 or less. Less shipping of course. HOPEFULLY, it will be less.
It all depends on the amount of material used in each holster, and the time factored to pull each one. Even at that though, it will be a great deal considering that these are so rare.
We need to get a fix on accurate snaps though. As GBH and I were discussing, there is a unique stamp on the back of each one. If I find some time, I take a pic.


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It's time for another round of CAPTION THIS.
Obviously it's a pirate them. I wanted to laugh, chuckle, and even guffaw. Give me your best effort! Do as many as you want.
They'll be posted in the next posts. Just pick your favorite, hit reply and have at it. Maybe you want to do it as a conversation, a newspaper blurb, or perhaps marketing copy for some new product.
As always, PG-13 is appreciated.
To get you started:
Wait a second! Diamonds, gold, silver. Where's the cupcake lipstick? The Woot! shirt? No bags of sweet Texas air?
ThunderThighs wrote:
Ask me about my Bags O' Crap again!
iissurf wrote:Ask me about my Bags O' Crap again!
Well, gosh, sir... I was only looking for my bandolier of carrots!
pirate 1: WHY YOU NO GIVE ME CRAP!
pirate 2: Who are you?
Tell me how my coat looks like a throw pillow again, I DARE YE!
Wow...when was the last time they cleaned the chandelier?
Man: Why are you not in the kitchen?
Woman: There is a Booty of Contraband out there, dear!
Man: Oh sweet jesus, let's go get it.
If you get that bulge close to me again, I will blow it off!
Man in the middle: What are you so excited about? I suggest you calm yourself, lad. You almost poked my eye out!
Man on the left: Sir, our maps indicate we're on the path to the legendary Booty of Contraband.
Man on the right:You REALLY believe in those drunken tales of riches? Do you think I would be sitting here right now if I knew there was a real Booty of Contraband out there in the seas? NO, and you will not make a fool out of me!!!! Go back to swabbing the decks!!!
Pirate 1 - YE TOLD ME it would work with me Macintosh, ye sallow faced bilge blower!
Pirate 2 - Yarr. I don't, in truth, be knowin' what a Macintosh is.
ps. I like pretty pirate hats :D
Listen mister! I've seen Zorro, and no matter what you keep telling me, you're not him! Yes, you're good with a sword and you talk funny too, but it's just not the same thing!
What's that, Mr Pirate? Lassie walked the plank?
Bilge water! How am I ever going to explain to her that I'm gay now??
Aye, Ye ever been in a Turkish brig?
Pirate 2: All you fools know I gots so many lasses lined up. 40-inch helm, and you know my kegs are so fresh a-
Pirate 1: Would you QUIT IT with this pimp act!! It's getting on my nerves! We haven't had women on this boat since our port call in Valencia, you landlubber! Now get out of those ridiculous clothes and mend the mizzen!
Really?! The Twelve Apostles ...they were all treasure hoarders?! Yarrrgh! I thought them land lubers were all about sharin' da Crap?! Those scallywags!
I'm not really sure what to do with my hands...
Pirate 1: YARRGH!!! There be a bunghole between me legs!!!
Pirate 2: Oh, really!? I totally should fancy a look!
Look kid... I'm really scared... Just tell me where the yellow brick road is so I can get my courage and get out of here.
Middle: All the treasure among the seven seas won't be savin' ye from lung cancer Smithy...
No seriously... You can pull the trigger. This is my new armored codpiece!
Pirate 1: "Yarr, it be hard to discern the silvers from the golds in this here non-technicolor moving picture."
Pirate 2: "Perhaps the reboot will reveal the treasure!"
ThunderThighs wrote:As always, PG-13 is appreciated.
How be it you suppose to make with the piratical humor if it ain't rated "Arrrrrr"....?
Saaay, what's the big idea pointing your pistol at my gun?
scapsinger wrote:How be it you suppose to make with the piratical humor if it ain't rated "Arrrrrr"....?
Ok, so my pants are a little high, stop staring!
Arrr. Do you realize what this means....
Now the entire crew can play Pretty Pretty Princess.
tiasissi wrote:Ok, so my pants are a little high, stop staring!
Click reply on the picture you want to use and then it will be with your post.
How do you get your hair to curl like that? Can you do mine?
When a pirate is landlocked, what is a pirate's favorite car to dive?
But I just trimmed my nose hairs!
deracon wrote:When a pirate is landlocked, what is a pirate's favorite car to dive?
the Toyota YAAAARRRis of course!
Well gosh I guess you do have a beard.
But I'm pretty sure that Santa would never threaten to run me thru if I didn't sit on his lap and tell him what I want for Christmas.
Pirate 2: ..stuck a feather in his hat and called him maca-
Pirate 1: STAHP WITH DAT SONG
Pirate 2: *whistles the rest*
Pirate 1: YARRRRRRRR TO FISTICUFFS WE GO
Man: You MUST inform me of the curler you use for your hair
Woman: I..I...I forget the brand. I got it on Woot.
Man: Blast! I only ever see Dyson vacuums and Roombas!
"Waaaiiittttt. You said there'd be booty, but all I'm seeing is Thunder Thighs."


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- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons butter
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- 1/8 teaspoon each ground mace, pepper and cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted, divided
- In a Dutch oven, bring water and 1 tablespoon salt to a boil. Add shrimp; cook for 3 minutes or until pink. Drain. Sprinkle shrimp with oil and lemon juice; set aside.
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Cool looking car - but it just doesn't fit the Buick image IMHO.
If only GM had a small, quirky, unconventional European brand in which a small, fun, efficient hatchback could be sold to US buyers....
1988 BMW M3 Project Thread - 8k all day, rain or shine. Yes, I drive mine.
1987 Saab 900 Turbo Convertible - 335whp, March 2010 Eurotuner Feature Car
That other small Sonic-based Buick should have been called the Buick Eve and you'd have a gold mine.
"I was in the future. It was too late to RSVP."
<< so it Hz >>
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Seriously just drop Buick and bring over Opel, Buick will always be known as a geezer brand.
Now that I looked at the picture harder, I think this looks way better than a 500. I would love to have one.
Buick is doing great these days. GM would be stupid to dump them in favor a brand that means absolutely nothing to most Americans.
Im sure that, even if it were manufactured in Germany, Buick can do good for its self by importing them in small numbers. Get people into the brand, and they'll "move up" to other models.
I for one like the Adam, but I like all miniature hatchbacks.
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Am I the only one who thinks that ,with those devilish looking eyes and thin, upturned chrome grille mustache, it look like it wants to tie a young girl to some railroad tracks or trick her into marrying it for her inheritance? I do like it though. It's a neat looking little car.
I'd like to see it come to the US, but I don't think Buick is the right brand for it.
It would have made a nice Pontiac........
It's a great looking car but I think branding it as a Buick would ruin it.
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Hell no the interior for one will need a massive update to be a Buick. There is nothing "premium" about the Spark looking touchscreen or climate knobs.
As a Chevy yes. The front face looks like it could easily be sculpted to support the gold badge. But with the Spark already here I'd say this will remain another grass is always greener car.
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Just looked at how well the Amazing "German engineered" Regal is selling.
Pontiac was trying to create an enthusiast based image. I think a hot version of this would have fit Ok with that, but it would have worked as a Saturn too.
Hipsters+Buick dealerships=does not compute.


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> Apart from having made a reasonably thorough study of the Mathematica core language and notebook interface I am new to Mathematica and remain at somewhat of a loss as to how to go about using it as a substitute for a pen and paper notebook. This would encompass the following use-cases: (1) rote transcription from a textbook at the advanced undergraduate to graduate level in addition to my own "between the lines" embellishments (i.e. filling in of "gaps"); (2) a complete rewrite of a proof from a text book; (3) original material; (4) possibly some integration with Mathematica's symbol manipulation, theorem proving/verification capabilities.
> Perhaps a concrete example would help clarify my goals. The case I have in mind involves a summation over a subset of a sequence satisfying some condition, but I cannot find a way to represent this in Mathematica, which seems to in every case require a numerical index of summation, with the index to at the bottom right of the sigma instead of directly under it, which latter would be the natural location for the desired set-theoretical specification of the summands.
> Another, more general, issue I am having is whether to enter a given piece of exposition as a text cell or as a math cell, and whether certain palettes have a text vs. a math "bias." Unfortunately, I lack the patience for instructional videos and cannot seem to find any conventional, text (i.e., html or notebook) based documentation of the palettes. I contacted support regarding this and they are currently taking their time responding.
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OBYs war on coal might cost him OHio and the election
OBYs war on coal might cost him Ohio where it's now tied after blowing a 14 pt lead before the debates. Mitt focused on that war and the closing of over 100 power plants with more to come.
Mitt is leading in Fla and Penn so if he wins Ohio, it's all over.
The miners are fighting back by voting vs O. They carried Ohio for him in 08 and that was after Sarah Palin warned them that OBY would destroy their industry on the last weekend before the election.
As much as Galin attacked her, she was spot on once again.
Coal along with oil are America's greatest natural resources and OBY destroyed both. He just shut down more acres of public land for drilling.
America has more coal than any other country and almost as much
oil, probably more oil than any other country if we could dig up
all that shale out west that is locked down, not to mention
Anwar drilling in Alaska.
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Re: OBYs war on coal might cost him OHio and the election
I've said it before, and I'll say it again now, but the only possible positive from Oby's shutting down american energy production could be that we are attempting to run everyone else out of energy sources on borrowed dollars, and then at the end we have all of the "real dollars" when we are the only ones remaining with natural energy products.
It's a gamble for sure.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc LCC.N and AMR Corp AAMRQ.PK are nearing an $11 billion merger that would create the world's largest airline and could announce a deal within a week, after resolving key differences on valuation and management structure, people familiar with the matter said.
Under terms of a deal that are still being finalized, US Airways Chief Executive Doug Parker would become CEO, while AMR's Tom Horton would serve as non-executive chairman of the board until spring of 2014, when the combined company holds its first annual meeting, the sources said.
The deal would come more than 14 months after the parent of American Airlines filed for bankruptcy in November 2011, and would mark the last combination of legacy U.S. carriers, following the Delta-Northwest and United-Continental mergers.
The all-stock merger is expected to value the combined carrier at between $10.5 billion and $11 billion, and would give AMR creditors 72 percent of the ownership in the new company and US Airways shareholders the rest, they said.
The board of each airline is expected to meet in the middle of the coming week to vote on the proposed deal, and an announcement would likely come in the latter part of the week, the sources said, asking not to be named because the matter is not public.
Negotiations are continuing and could still be delayed or fall apart, they cautioned.
The companies had initially tried to schedule board meetings for Monday, the day that AMR's creditors committee planned to convene, and had aimed to announce a deal as soon as Tuesday, sources told Reuters previously.
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The Floyd Central Alumni Association is gearing up for its second annual banquet to honor alumni, former faculty and coaches. Again the selection process was a difficult one as the association received many outstanding nominations. "I wish we could induct all of the submissions as they each are very deserving. However, we set a target of three to six inductees," said Donna Riley, FCHS 1971, who served as the chair of the Hall of Fame Committee. "After a very thorough review and with numerous discussions we feel we have an excellent representation of what Floyd Central High School is about." The selection committee was comprised of four alumni and three members of faculty and staff.
There will be a benefit and Silent Auction on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at the Navilleton Activity Center. The event is to raise money for LADO (Latin America Discipleship & Outreach). The primary focus of LADO is building churches in South America. The local connection is Julie Kiesler Zuluaga and her husband Edgar were the first couple sent out by LADO. In an interview with this paper last year, Julie said the most important thing for anyone is to discover Jesus. "We know what everybody needs -- no matter their situation, where they live in the world or their background, they need Jesus," she said. "Whether it's a country like the United States that supposedly has it all, or it's a country like Colombia whose suffered violence from drug trafficking and has been hit so hard, we all need Jesus. "We know that He is the answer for our every need and every day. Not only for our salvation and the forgiveness of sins, but also that daily help we need to experience peace and joy and understand our purpose. That's what fuels us." The Zuluagas spent four years planting churches in Costa Rica and now have focused their attention on Colombia. Doors for the fundraiser open at 5 p.m. and at that point bids will be taken on auction items, The hot buffet dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $15 for adults and children 6-12 are $7.50. Children 5 and under eat free. For additional information, or to purchase tickets call Bev Kiesler at 812- 923-8772.
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In 1847, Charles M. Hovey, a stalwart of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the proprietor of Hovey & Co., a 40-acre nursery in Cambridge, began publishing a series of handsomely illustrated prints of American fruits. Most of the trees—apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry—had come from England and Europe. Over time, many new fruit varieties emerged from natural cross-pollinations effected by wind, birds and insects—for example, the Jonathan apple, after Jonathan Hasbrouck, who found it growing on a farm in Kingston, New York. By the mid-19th century, a few new indigenous fruit varieties had arisen from breeding, notably Hovey's own widely admired seedling strawberry and the prizewinning Concord grape, a recent backyard production of Ephraim Bull, a neighbor of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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At the time, regional and national agricultural markets were emerging, aided by steamboats, canals and railroads. The trend was accompanied by expansion in the number of commercial seed and nursery entrepreneurs. State horticultural societies dotted the land, and in 1848, several of their leaders in the Eastern states initiated what became the first national organization of fruit men—the American Pomological Society, its name drawn from Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruits. Marking these developments, in 1852 Hovey gathered his series of prints into a compendium called The Fruits of America, Volume 1, declaring that he felt "a national pride" in portraying the "delicious fruits...in our own country, many of them surpassed by none of foreign growth," thus demonstrating the developing "skill of our Pomologists" to the "cultivators of the world." Further evidence of their skill came with publication of Volume 2, in 1856.
I first came across Hovey's book while researching the history of new varieties of plants and animals, and the protection of the intellectual property they entailed. In the mid-19th century, patent protection did not extend to living organisms as it does now, when they are not only patented but also precisely identifiable by their DNA. Still, fruit men in Hovey's era were alive to the concept of "intellectual property." Operating in increasingly competitive markets, they offered new fruits as often as possible, and if they were to protect their property, they had to identify it.
Hovey's aims transcended celebration. He published the illustrations so the fruits could be reliably identified by growers as well as sellers, and especially by the innovators who first brought them out. I discovered upon further digging—in nursery catalogs, handbooks and advertisements—that his effort exemplified the beginnings of a small industry of fruit illustration that was an integral part of the pomological trade in the latter half of the 19th century. And much of it, while produced for commercial purposes, was aesthetically arresting. Indeed, it combined traditional techniques and new technology, leaving us a large, often exquisite body of American botanical art.
The need for pictures was prompted by the proliferation of fruit names that accompanied the multiplication of varieties. Fruits in the United States were bought and sold under a riot of synonyms, creating, Hovey noted, "a confusion of nomenclature which has greatly retarded the general cultivation of the newer and more valuable varieties." One popular apple, the Ben Davis, was also called Kentucky Streak, Carolina Red Streak, New York Pippin, Red Pippin, Victoria Red and Carolina Red. William Howsley, a compiler of apple synonyms, called the tendency of "so many old and fine varieties" to be cited in horticultural publications under new names "an intolerable evil, and grievous to be borne."
Variant nomenclature had long plagued botany. Why now such passionate objections to the proliferation of synonyms, to a mere confusion of names? A major reason was that the practice lent itself to misrepresentation and fraud. Whatever their origins—hybrids, chance finds or imports—improved fruits usually required effort and investment to turn them into marketable products. Unprotected by patents on their productions, fruit innovators could be ripped off in several ways.
In the rapidly expanding nursery industry, a good deal of seedling stock was sold by small nurseries and tree peddlers, who could obtain cheap, undistinguished stock, then tell buyers it was the product of a reliable firm or promote it as a prized variety. Buyers would be none the wiser: a tree's identity often did not become manifest until several years after planting.
Fruit innovators also suffered from the kind of appropriation faced by today's originators of digitized music and film. Fruit trees and vines can be reproduced identically through asexual reproduction by grafting scions onto root stock, or by rooting cuttings directly into soil. Competitors could—and did—purchase valuable trees, or take cuttings from a nursery in the dead of night, then propagate and sell the trees, usually under the original name. A good apple by any other name would taste as sweet.
Nurserymen like Hovey founded the American Pomological Society in no small part to provide a reliable body of information about the provenance, characteristics and, especially, names of fruits. The society promptly established a Committee on Synonyms and a Catalogue, hopeful, as its president said, that an authoritative voice would be "the best means of preventing those numerous impositions and frauds which, we regret to say, have been practiced upon our fellow citizens, by adventurous speculators or ignorant and unscrupulous venders."
Yet the society had no police power over names, and its verbal descriptions were often so inexact as to be of little use. It characterized the "Autumn Seek-No-Further" apple as "a fine fruit, above medium size; greenish white, splashed with carmine. Very good."


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Discussion in 'March 2009' started by Dlev59, Mar 19, 2009.
True. I blame Sheed, Hamilton, and Iverson for being wimps.
I did. Also check CHI's last possession of the 1st half when Ty Thomas had the ball behind the backboard in the corner near the 3pt line when Max for some reason decided to close out on him like he was Larry Bird and gave up a baseline dunk to give back a lot of the momentum they had just built up. Herrrman is not the only one giving up hoops out there. Not even close. If you want to see teams focus on one guy, watch what other teams do when DET plays Afflalo at the 3.
This is actually embarrassing now. I no longer care about even getting into the playoffs. And if this season was ALL about "developing Stuckey as our PG of the future" then this season is nearly a complete failure. Trying to point out that it's because our coach is playing one obscure scrub in place of another obscure scrub and pointing it out every time we lose is confirmation bias, and finding loopholes whenever the "bad" scrub ever comes through for us. They aren't big enough factors to matter. We don't suck because we play Walt, and because we don't play Amir. We suck because the team we have right now isn't good. The only time chemistry EVER comes into play is when we're throwing a D-lague lineup out there. We have not one true alpha dog in this entire organization.
It will be fine to have someone grab double digit rebounds in any game and I also won't be bother if a big man made "NO" board in any given game while team's total rebounds are forty something.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to watch these. But looking at the boxscore, looks like Bynum was unconscious. 10-16 with 9 asts, 1 turnover, and 2 steals???!!! He didn't get to the line, but other than that, what a game. Also, he was +10 for the game. Bulls, 92 points from their starters? What's up with that? From the stat sheet alone, it looks like the Bulls just beat us with equal contributions from all of their starters. They were all efficient and productive. Looks like Herrmann and Amir had pretty decent showings as well. If we miss the playoffs, does MC automatically get fired?
Only watched the last 10 garbage minutes. They play like a different team with Salmons and Miller on board.
Folks its time for us to realize that the team as a whole have quit.... Yeah there is a chance they might miss out on the playoffs, but apparently AI, Rip, Sheed or even Joe can care less. We are playing scrubs who should be better than what they are, but there was no player development by LB, Flip or any of those assistant coaches who have been collecting a check the past few years....yeah I and talking about HOF'er Dave Cowens who has passed none of skillsets to Amir, Max or Kwame. Even Alflolo who on occaision shows up, has not played enough the past couple of years to show any real progress. Bynum has shows signs of brilliance the past couple of weeks and has out shown Stuckey in half of them. Tonight~~20 pts, 9 assists for Will.I.am, 14 and 3 for Stucky. Who is or should be our point guard..? The guy who is not affraid to penetrate or the guy who is not sure when to shoot, penetrate or pass? Herrman Speaking of development, there has been none in our coaching ranks either. Curry was outcoach two games in a row on two nationally televised games by two other rookie coaches. Even the the ESPN/ABC TNT announcers can see what we see and point out the piston flaws....but apparently no one in the Pistons org pays attention. After the Piston [strike]loss[/strike] I mean game with the Lakers Thurday, the Pistons fans should quit coming to the Palace....The Pistons will probaly be close in this game, but I am trying to think in advance what will Curry do to blow the upset win. The Pistons I believe are about 2.5 games ahead of the ninth seeded Bobcats??? If LB makes the playoffs and the Pistons don't I can only imagine Mr. D rolling in his grave and sending Mrs D a message that she can pick between one person to get rid of May > Dumars or Curry
Hey Dre, totally agree with you to the subject of development of young players while it has always been my lament on the ride. However, no matters what will happen in off season and no matter where this young players will play next season they gotta to see this year as a grace in disguise in their career.
There have been plenty of opportunities these past few days while Sheed was out to put Walter Sharpe in for 2-3 minutes in the first or second period, but in the last two games he has been inserted in the game in the last 30 seconds to upset the Vegas spread by scoring the last two pts of each game...;) Both were circus shots, but he is maintaining his 2ppg average.
Normally I would agree with you, he is definitely not a presence out there, but he had a decent game. It's sad though that his decent games aren't all that spectacular. It's been a learning curve with me, Darko, Delfino, Max, Amir, Afflalo my high and enthusiastic expectations keep dropping until they succeed and we find level. We've barely seen him, and I am not going to fall in love with him, but he is crazy athletic, he goes straight to the hoop, and gets a shot in the paint. I don't know if he has a J, but he reminds me of a poor man's Richard Jefferson. For a second rounder, he's "appears" to have more upside than [strike]Acker[/strike] or Amir. Aff is like a mini Amir. He gets hyper and plays himself out of position. If I have learned anything this season, it's that veteran players play a lot more between the ears, than with their athleticism. Nice use of confirmation bias. If you ever have time, look up Nassim Taleb and his "turkey story" about confirmation bias. It's points out how we fool ourselves, and forget to factor for error. We all do it. You, me, Joe.
Great point
I don't think anyone's trying to say that Hermann is solely responsible for the loss or that Amir not playing is. The point is this team is not a "powerhouse" anymore. They need the players that give them the best chance to possibily win the game. We can no longer afford a stretch where Hermann goes mentally retarded and gives up 6 points in a minute or getting no rebounds out of a big that plays almost 20 min or playing two slow help defenders together for a long period of time and expecting it to work. I'm not saying that other players don't make mistakes, but the difference is those other players play defense and usually end up having a net positive effect on the game b/c of that. If you notice AA's offense was atrocious this game, but when he was taken out the game became a blow-out (granted it's not just him taken out but who replaced him). When you look at Hermann, what is the point of him being in the game? Seriously does anyone see one? I'm sure if you put me on an NBA court, i could eventually make a shot or two occasionally. I can also get confused about where i'm supposed to be, forget who i am guarding, adjust my ponytail, etc. My point is these players aren't causing the loss, but they are making it very hard to win. I'd like to see the team with an actual coach and rotation of players that makes some freaking sense, and then decide whether they are hopeless. Common sense would tell you that Amir was a good match-up this game, and that you don't need Kwame's post defense for Brad Miller/Thomas/Noah or that maybe's it's not the best idea to continue to play Dyess and Tay 40 minutes. Flip used to make no moves. Curry makes moves like he's blindfolded. Amir goes from crucial to benched. Max goes from insignificant to the first big. Kwame starts. Kwame doesn't start. Arron is everything a Piston player should be. DNP. DNP. DNP. Hey, Rip's injured, start now. I feel like i'm on one of those gravitron things and i can't get off. Consistency, defense, a rotation. We have none of that, and there are what 10 games left?! The tanking theory is looking very appealing right now.
That's very true. And in the big picture, one year or even two years under .500 isn't that big a price to pay if we can get back to contention, and sort the wheat from the chaff on our roster.
Will do.
I deeply appreciate having you around, someone who understands the game. Absolutely, Herrmann is just part of the problem. In my game reports, I mention several problems, but some choose to focus only on Herrmann. Of course, tonight, I made it hard not to, as that is the first and foremost thing I mention. But hey, we start the game with two bigs, neither a power forward who can rotate defensively, and we get burnt around the basket. The pair of Kwame and Dyess got outplayed mightily, and its not that either is a bad player - just that neither is a power forward. I mention the disorganization. I get no comments. I mention fatigue for several players. I get no comments. I mention the inconsisten use of one of the players, I get no comments. Except for you, and a few others here, it seems that nobody is paying attention to what I write. Thanks again for being here. You are very, very much appreciated.
I have now reviewed the game. Herrmann gave up 12 points, 15 if you want to be a bit more critical of his play. In addition, the team as a whole very often covered for his slowness. Great job by the rest of the team on defensive rotation - needed because Herrmann could never guard anyone. PS, and the 6 points I mention, that was all in 30 seconds.
It seems Will Bynum is getting more developed then Stuckey is! Since, I knew we had no chance at the 'Ship, I want these guys to go out there and try, but Curry flat out sucks. It seems like they can, LB has finally gotten that team to click. The loss of J-Rich was a minimal one.
We could end up five games out of the playoffs, easy. Charlotte only has a couple of teams on their schedule that are maybe too tough for them, Orlando and the Lakers. We, on the other hand, will most likely beat Washington, but otherwise might lose the other 11 games remaining. We are that bad. (as coached by Curry.)
Lee356, I'd like to comment on the games but all I get here in Montana are the stats. Amir had 3 points, was a +-0 with 6 rebounds in 10 minutes. Hermann had 9 points, was -1 with 4 rebounds in 13 minutes. Hard to gleen anything from that. That's why I look forward to your game reports.
It's frustrating to lose to the Bulls, the Heat, and whatnot. But this isn't a 60 win team or a fifty win team, maybe even not in the end a 40 win team. It's a team built not to have an alpha dog, and one that has shown over the course of this season that it can't play with one even when he shows up. This is at very best a 500 team that is going to lose to other 500 teams. It's a team of role players being asked to step outside their roles and it's ugly. Six years in the ECF may as well have been in the 50s for all the relevance it has to this season. The Pistons style of play over the past few years was a fun bump on mainstream NBA life, but an aberration it was. Despite all the talk of how great the style was, how wonderful it was that there were no egos, all that, and no other GM sought to build a similar team. Changes in the defensive rules after '04 took the soul from this team, that and losing Ben Wallace. Ben, who in hindsight actually left at the right time given his rapid physical decline. But still, it marked the end of something. It also marked the end of injury free seasons. Nobody used to miss games. Certainly guys got hurt, and some of those injuries really hurt the team, but nothing like this year. Age and too many very long seasons in a row with too many minutes had to be paid for, and this year the bill came due. It's no longer a matter of bringing in the right guy to put them over the top. Now it's at least two, and maybe three new starters who are needed, and at least one solid guy off the bench. Joe has his work cut out for him if he wants anything other than an also ran anytime soon.
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