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...when you notice you just did with 23 lines of code what the previous programmer did with 425.
sub parse {
my $self = shift;
my $feed = XML::Feed->parse( \$self->get_content() );
my @items;
for my $entry ( $feed->entries ) {
push @items,
title => $entry->title,
link => $entry->link,
description => $entry->content->body || $entry->summary->body,
date => $entry->issued || $entry->modified,
author => $entry->author,
return {
feed_title => $feed->title,
items => \@items,
That over there is parsing Atom, RSS1, and RSS2 just the way the system needs it to be done.
And yes, the project where those 425 lines could be found was the one I mentioned a few days ago.
(apparently the code tags are messing up the allignment of the
=> and
ew! Implicit return? You wouldn't have added an extra line by adding in those 6 letters; but you would have improved readability a fair bit. With what you've written I have to skim to the end to see what you're returning and then work my way upwards to see where the last statement starts. That might be okay when golfing, but that doesn't appear to be your intent. Damian spends almost 3 whole pages on the evils of implicit returns in "Perl Best Practices". See 197-199.
Otherwise, well down on shrinki
I tend to write in an expression-oriented style, e.g. "map" instead of "foreach", and implicit return fits right in. I also try to limit vertical whitespace in order to fit more stuff on the screen. Both are just a matter of taste, though.
I haven't read PBP, but from what I've heard about it, the "best practice" seems to be to ignore it. It has a few bits of good advice, but most seems arbitrary or just plain wrong.
You shouldn't judge a book by its critics.
Almost everyone who passes comment on the book seems to have read right past the first chapter where Damian explains that what's important is not to follow his mandates, but to read the arguments and think about them. The book's goal is not to get you to write code the way Damian tells you to, but to get people to consciously reflect on their own tastes and proclivities to analyse the impacts of their own choices, particularly as they relate to eac
I'm actually judging by what I've read of it online (see e.g. other comment). And the statement you mention is eminently reasonable. The problem is that people seem to interpret "PBP" as "the Best Perl Practices," not "My Perl Practices," and to follow them slavishly.
As you haven't read PBP, I recommend you do so. Even if you then go and ignore most of the content, I'm sure you'll still learn a few things you didn't know before and become a better coder because of it. I'm dubious about it being a common recommendation from other experienced Perl programmers that the best practice is to ignore it, but I guess we know different people.
I have no issue with you using map instead of foreach, and often use it myself, but I don't agree with leaving off the return. As a P
As you haven't read PBP, I recommend you do so. Even if you then go and ignore most of the content, I'm sure you'll still learn a few things you didn't know before and become a better coder because of it. I'm dubious about it being a common recommendation from other experienced Perl programmers that the best practice is to ignore it,
That's not what I said, or at least not what I meant to say. Let's take a look at this [perl.com]: 1) okay; 2) okay if you use TDD, irrelevant otherwise; 3) a good way to end up with pointless boilerplate documentation; 4) good idea; 5) okay; 6) meh, enforcing human readability with a program is a recipe for failure; 7) uselessly vague; 8) okay; 9) again, useful iff TDD; 10) good advice that's usually given and/or taken the wrong way.
So we've got 4 good ideas, 3 neutral ones, and 3 bad ones. Most of the good ones se
the other 25000 lines of code XML::Feed loads. Modules rock and all but sometimes I wonder should it take me 20 minutes to install something because it has a bazillion dependencies. Each of those is something bad waiting to happen.
Are you optimizing for machine performance or developer performance? In my experience, the latter is way more important these days, and CPAN is the best accelerant in the Perl world.
And, your point about bugs in other people's modules is sometimes valid, but in general I've found that other people write better code in their area of expertise than I write outside of my expertise.
RSS/Atom is one of those areas where expertise *really* matters. Have you ever seen some of the test cases Sam Ruby has for the P


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While it might not get as much national recognition as its neighbor south of the Red River, Oklahoma has always been a must-stop spot for college football recruiters.
The depth in the class of 2009 in Oklahoma makes it one of the best seasons in recent memory. More than 40 players have already earned scholarship offers from the state, which made ranking the top 35 players in the state a difficult task.
There are several talented players that didn't make the list in Rivals.com's Oklahoma Preseason Top 35, but there's no debating who is the top player in the state. That honor belongs to Jenks cornerback Gabe Lynn.
Ranked by Rivals.com as the nation's No. 3 cornerback, the 6-foot, 185-pounder has dominated the past few years for the top program in the state. Lynn is one of the most heavily recruited players in the nation. As a junior, he had 52 tackles and five interceptions - not bad considering teams hardly threw his direction.
Allan Trimble has led his program to nine state titles in his 12 seasons as the coach at Jenks, and he believes Lynn has the chance to be one of the best players he's coached.
"He's special," Trimble said. "He not only can take away half the field for an offense, but he can hurt you on special teams. He's so gifted athletically, but another thing that sets him apart is his intelligence. He's a smart, savvy football player that knows how to be in the right place at the right time to make the big play."
What's even more impressive about Lynn is that he knows he's the face of the Jenks program and everybody will be watching what he does every little step of the way. But that's OK, he relishes the chance to help Jenks win another championship.
"At Jenks, excellence is expected every year and from every player," Lynn said. "That's the legacy we live up to, and we have a responsibility to be the best we can in everything we do."
Behind Lynn at the No. 2 spot in the state is the nation's No. 1 all-purpose back, David Oku of Midwest City Carl Albert. The 5-foot-10, 186-pound four-star prospect has been on the recruiting radar for almost three years. He had a breakout sophomore season that saw him rush for 1,462 yards and 19 scores. He bettered that as a junior with 1,628 yards and 20 touchdowns. He currently ranks as the No. 82 player in the nation overall and has narrowed his list to Florida State, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Tennessee.
The No. 3 player in the state is Ronnell Lewis of Dewar. He also is the nation's No. 8 outside linebacker and the No. 99 player in the country. Not bad from a guy that played 8-man football last season. Lewis was offered a scholarship early by Oklahoma, and he quickly jumped on it.
"I've only coached 8-man football for about five years; I grew up playing and coaching 11-man," Dewar coach Josh Been said. "Coach Stoops said after analyzing film that he didn't care if it's 6-man, 8-man or 12-man, it's obvious he can play the game of football.
"First of all he is real physical on both sides of the ball. Obviously, for us he runs the ball. He plays running back in the 8-man game, he'll play one of the linebackers … when we go to 11-man. Last year he played something of a strong safety for us. I think he had 11 or 12 interceptions. Offensively, he rushed for over 2,000 yards, and I believe he led all classes in touchdowns."
The top-flight talent doesn't end with Lewis.
Offensive lineman Brandon Webb of Owasso, running back Jeremy Smith of Tulsa Union and Daytawion Lowe of Carl Albert are all four-star players and are ranked fourth, fifth and sixth in the state, respectively.
Even players that aren't on the four-star level are heavily courted in the state.
The seventh-ranked player, Lawton MacArthur safety Javon Harris, is heading to Oklahoma. David Gordon from Tulsa East Central is the No. 8 player, and he's become one of the most heavily courted speedsters in the nation. No. 9 Pearlie Graves from East Central is one of the best defensive tackles in the country, and rounding out the top 10 is Booker T. Washington linebacker Michael Doctor.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have done a nice job in their backyards. The Sooners have pledges from three players in the top 35, including two of the top seven. OSU has scored two commitments from players in the top five. Tulsa has also done a nice job, scoring commits from five players in the top 35.
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ok, was that cryptic enough 8-)
Just this week I have purchased two vintage machines, a 301A and a 201-2. While fondling my new toys I have found numbers, almost in day-month-year fashion in hidden spots on both of these machines.
On the first one, I thought maybe a service center dated some work they did but when I found the same style of numbering on the second machine....???
Both machines were purchased 150 miles apart, the odds that they were in the same service shop is a bazillion to one as I live in the Seattle area.
Anyway, on the 301A number is under top cap written on metal. It's written exactly as: 6-22-7
On the 201-2 is written on the plated head cover (?) as:
Anyone have any thoughts on these numbers? I'm baffled.


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One of the perks of winning a district championship is being able to host an opening-round state playoff game. This weekend Jackson, Glacier Peak and Lakewood all get that distinction. That's why we're narrowing our choice for the Game of the Week to those three teams. Here's the choices:
Voting ends on Thursday at 6 p.m.


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ANot to mention:
Steve Young wasn't starting again until his 7th season
Drew Brees was an pro-bowler in his 4th season and was far more accurate than Sanchez ever was
Elway was good in his 2nd and 4th season,
Kelly was good even in his rookie season
Simms didn't turn a corner until his 7th year in the league.
Again, all of these guys have shown improvemet, Sanchez has not. Plus for eveery one of these guys, there are 5 that bombed out of the league. I'm not saying it's impossible for him to become a solid NFL QB, I'm saying it's far more likely that he will never become a good NFL QB.
I do agree with whoever wrote upthread about David Carr. The Texans never gave him an Offensive Line and he was pummeled as a rookie, they didn't give him the players he needed and he never developed. I will always believe that he could have been a very good QB under the right circumstances, but the Texans essentially broke him.
I don't see Sanchez as being too different, he had an OL, but never had great talent around him, and now there is a total lack of ability in the skill players. But, I'm finding it harder and harder to believe that he'll ever be a consistent NFL QB. He'll have his good and even great games, but he's seemingly incapable of stringing 5 good games together.
Sanchez has never gone 5 consecutive games where he completed more than 52% of his passes.
Sanchez has never gone 5 consecutive games where he had 5 games with a QB rating above 60
Sanchez has never gone 5 consecutive games where he threw 200 yards


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'Demon Reptile' Is Not a Missing Link
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
The skull of a previously unknown dinosaur with interesting teeth and a unique head shape was uncovered in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. The technical description that appeared in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B claimed that this creature bridged a gap between fundamentally different kinds of dinosaurs.1 One news blog did not mince words: "New dinosaur species is a missing link."2
But is it really? How was its "missing link" status determined? Was it simply declared a missing link whether or not this was empirically established?
Named Daemonosaurus ("demon reptile"), the dog-size dinosaur was found in what was called a "Late Triassic" rock layer. The skull and first few vertebrae of this interesting creature had a handful of features in common with a group of dinosaurs called "neotheropods." Theropods had lizard-like hips—as opposed to the bird-like hips of other dinosaurs—and walked on two feet. Neotheropod specimens, often with fewer "fingers" than other theropods, are mostly found in the Jurassic and Cretaceous rock layers that lie above Triassic beds in many locations.
But other features of the Daemonosaurus skull were dissimilar to neotheropods, looking more like "basal theropods." This term refers to the belief that certain theropods evolved earlier, leading to their placement at the "base" or trunk of an evolutionary tree diagram.
The study examined 319 characteristics, such as tooth shape and size, skull height and length, and the sizes and shapes of various holes in the skulls called fossae and fenestrae. These characteristics were then fitted into a "most likely" evolutionary tree diagram, which ended up showing Daemonosaurus on its own "branch" that extended backward in evolutionary time to the supposed origin of the "first" theropod dinosaurs.
The researchers compared Daemonosaurus to Tawa hallae, another dinosaur discovered at Ghost Ranch a couple of years ago.3 According to its technical description, Tawa was supposed to clarify "early" dinosaur evolution. But if it did, then why did authors of this later Daemonosaurus study admit "that theropod dinosaurs had a more complex evolutionary history prior to the origin of Neotheropoda than previously inferred"?1
The study authors wrote, "Daemonosaurus is most closely related to the clade Tawa + Neotheropoda."1
They described three somewhat obscure characteristics shared by Daemonosaurus, Tawa, and neotheropods, including a depression on their vertebrae and a protrusion on their jawbone. But one could find three characteristics in common between any set of animals with similar body plans, illustrating why no ancestor-descendant relationship was established by such a comparison.
After all that work, the researchers did not name a dinosaur from which or to which Daemonosaurus evolved. What does it link to if it is a missing link? The report merely listed characteristics in common or not in common with other groups of dinosaurs, then force-fitted those characteristics into a preconceived evolutionary model.
Evolutionists quibble over which dinosaur belongs on which evolutionary branch, but there is still not one example of a continuous series of transitioning dinosaur forms, let alone one that ascends the geologic column to show that the transitions progressed with time. All the dinosaur data, however, fit easily in the creation model, which actually predicts what is observed—no transitional features, just fully formed creatures fossilized mostly in a cataclysmic global flood.
Daemonosaurus is not a missing link. Instead, it looks like a separately created dinosaur—or a variety thereof—with all its features well-integrated and none of its features in a state of transition.4
- Sues, H.-D. et al. A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Published online before print April 13, 2011.
- Landau, E. New dinosaur species is a missing link. CNN news blog. Posted on news.blogs.cnn.com April 12, 2011, accessed April 19, 2011.
- Thomas, B. New Dinosaur Causes New Confusion. ICR News. Posted on icr.org December 18, 2009, accessed April 19, 2011.
- In fact, like the Tawa hallae discussed in the reference 3 article, Daemonosaurus was also described as having a "mosaic" of attributes. Sues et al wrote in their paper: "The differences in the form (fossae versus fenestrae), position (centrum versus centrum and neural arch) and number (one versus two) of pneumatic features among basal theropods show the mosaic acquisition of pneumatic features in the cervical vertebrae of these dinosaurs."
Image credit: Copyright © 2011 The Royal Society. Adapted for use in accordance with federal copyright (fair use doctrine) law. Usage by ICR does not imply endorsement of copyright holders.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on April 27, 2011.
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Mesmerizing GIFs Show Nintendo & PlayStation Controller Evolution
One Changes a Lot; the Other Very Little
One Changes a Lot; the Other Very Little
SoftBank announced the release of wireless MIDI music Keyboard C.24 manufactured by an American startup, Miselu.
The keyboard, C.24, is scheduled to be released around the world in January 2015, however, SoftBank is going to exclusively start selling it (500 units only!) on December 16 before the rest of the world!
Kaga Hightech announced they are going to release MYKRONOZ-brand smartwatch models "ZeWatch2" and "ZeBracelet2", manufactured by Kronoz LLC in Switzerland, on December 26 in a limited quantity.
They can be used through pairing-up with a smartphone.
Datel Japan, a game console peripherals manufacturer originally from the UK, is going to release earphones with a Game Boy-shaped remote-control microphone - Retro GB Earphone Mic (DJ-RGBEM-GG) - on December 19.
Just like Game Boy, there is a volume control dial at the side of the Game Boy-like remote-control microphone. There are also other control buttons such as Play/Stop and Mute on it.
Since the accompanying earphones are removable from the microphone part, you can connect other earphones to it.
Terrie's Take is a selection of Japan-centric news collected and collated by long-time resident and media business professional Terrie Lloyd. AkihabaraNews is pleased to present Terrie's learned perspective; we all could use another take on the news - here's Terrie's:
A Japanese contact lends company, From-eyes's color contact lens brand "1-DAY Refrear Color" has released disposable contact lenses that have the popular Rilakkuma bear character design on them.
They come in a 10 lense-pack set and are sold for ¥1,800. You can choose ones without prescription or degrees.
Leica Camera Japan announced the release of a Japan-only special model - Leica M Monochrome Silver Engrave - on December 20. Only 30 cameras will be available.
The price is ¥972,000.
Leica M Monochrome, which was released in August 2014, is the world's first interchangeable lens digital camera that is designed to shoot sharp black and white photos. It features an effective 18MP 35mm low-pass filterless and a 2.5-inch monitor. Photos are recorded in RAW and JPEG file formats.
A cooking tool - Yudetamagokko - that allows you to make a Doramemon-shaped hard boiled egg, will be released on January 30 by Japanese household goods manufacturer Kokubo.
Simply put a peeled hard boiled egg in the tool while it is hot and cool it down for 10 minutes in cold water.
Doraemon's sister, Dorami, will be available on the same day, too.


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Along with placing four players on the all-conference teams, senior Maria Alvarez was named the first GAC player of the year, Aida Castany netted the freshman of the year honor and head coach Abby Davis was named coach of the year.
Tech, who claimed the regular season GAC title with a perfect 6-0 record and is sporting a 15-5 overall mark heading into its GAC Tournament semifinal match with Southeastern Oklahoma State, had senior Akanesi Fa and junior Mariel Aleman join Alvarez on the first team, while senior Rachel Stevens earned second-team honors. Tech's four all-GAC performers recorded a combined record of 60-24 in singles, including going 22-2 in GAC play and they were a combined 65-25 in doubles play, including going 23-0 in doubles in GAC action to lead Tech to its first conference title since taking home the AIC Championship in 1995. The final GAC individual award winner was Harding sophomore Maria Moreno, who was named the league's newcomer of the year.
Davis becomes the second Golden Sun tennis coach to be named coach of the year. Clarence Holley earned AIC coach of the year after leading the Golden Suns to a 14-1 record and the final AIC title. Alvarez becomes the first Golden Suns player to earn player of the year honors in tennis, while Castany becomes the second Golden Sun to earn freshman of the year accolades. Saki Matsuoka was named the Gulf South Conference West Division freshman of the year in 2008.
"I am so happy that Mariel was named the player of the year in the league. She has had a tremendous season for us and is truly deserving of this honor," Davis said. "Additionally, I am really proud of our entire team and our success has helped our players receive recognition for their efforts.
"I am really honored to have coached this outstanding group of players and I thank them for all the hard work and dedication they showed this season."
The all-GAC teams were voted by the league's head coaches and the coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players.


text: Above class carries Culture Studies credit A portion of the above class reserved for majors Above class open to undergraduates and Education MA's only The Early Middle Ages (c. 400-1000 AD) was a time of dramatic cultural, political, and social change. In the year 400, the Roman empire was a political entity that embraced most of western Europe, as well as much of eastern Europe, the Levant, and North Africa. People belonged to a variety of different religious, cultural, and ethnic groups, but all coexisted under a common Roman administrative and social umbrella. In the year 1000, western Europe was divided into various different political units, but again shared similar sorts of economic and social institutions, and had a common religion centered on Rome. However, the eastern and southern Mediterranean areas had gone in very different directions. The civilization of 1000 was very different from that of 400; during these seven hundred years, Europe experienced invasion, conversion, and other upheavals that overturned the old Roman order and shaped entirely new systems. Europe in 1000 contained many of the political, cultural, religious, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries that we know today, and thus the Early Middle Ages can be regarded as the period in which the foundations of modern western society were put into place. We will be examining the different ways that Roman, Germanic, Christian, and Islamic traditions interacted to produce this new world. Assignments: four essays (5-7 pp) on primary source readings, participation in one in-class debate, a midterm, and a final exam.


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Question for all. I am new to social media as a matter of fact I have just started reading and submitting my blog to dofollow social media sites but I am not sure if I am doing this correctly. So far I am just setting up accounts with them and filling out the profile forms filling out my url for my blog hoping that will be a backlink to my blog. I am not sure how else backlinks are built using social media sites. Of course I know if people like my blog some will link automatically which is great but what am I missing when it comes to how to best utilize these dofollow media sites for backlinks to my blog?
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Best Regards,
You are using social media in the wrong way. Social Media is not about getting backlinks.
HI Logic,
Thanks for the prompt response. I am aware this is not the normal use of social media sites but I want to make sure I obtain backlinks from everything I do on my blog and I have a team setting up my social media right now for me. I wanted to know how do people collect backlinks from social media? This is certainly not my main way of developing the backlinks but want to understand how it is done. The only thing I can see is the profiles allowing the backlinks? Am I wrong on this?
Much Appreciate Your Time,
Most people don't use social as a backlink tool -- there are other benefits that are far better and more direct and focusing on links makes it hard to achieve those -- but if that's your goal, ok.
Blogs are one of the more link friendly networks [facebook is mostly closed, twitter shortens links and the volume flies by everything in milliseconds and google+ remains up in the air although google certainly ranks its own posts] but just because you get a link doesn't mean the link does much good. Blogs that are well managed link out far less than you'd think and a profile on its own, well that's just a single page among thousands on a site with almost no internal weight. Essentially if you're not participating in the blog what you've created just isn't that important.
Comments can be a much better opportunity to get seen [not just for seo, links are after all intended to be clicked by actual people] but that requires providing actual value. Enough not to be moderated out, enough to be valued. But again the volume is generally high on popular places and thus much like a forum one has to assume search engines have a hard time weighting each found response.
If you're looking at places you can put links where people are going to see them, that's fine. But if you are looking to put in links that search engines will pick up on, you're wasting your time. Any links that are easy for you to put in place are pretty much worthless as far as search engines are concerned, precisely because they're easy for you to put in.
Social Media/ Social Networking like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube and Google Plus are the sites I used the most. They are very helpful for Traffic but not on backlinking purposes.
If you want to have a quality backlinks for your Busines Blog you can try Guest Posting/ Guest Blogging, Participating on Do follow Forum Sites, Blog Commenting and Social Bookmarking.
Social media sites are useful to communicate with the people. And increase your business revenue. Mainly that will be helpful to get the website traffic not a backlinks..There are some tactics should be available in Off-page..:1. Directory Submissions.2. Social Bookmarking.3. Article submissions.4. Guest posting.5. Blog Commenting.6. Forum posting & commenting.7. Video submissions.
Social media sites are very good to increase back-links but i none of any popular SM site give back-link. People use them for their brand promotion as well.
OK folks - this is not yet another thread on how to create backlinks. It is a specific question about using Social Media. Please keep your replies on-topic, or they will be removed as fluff.
I do not have observed that you can not get Do Follow back links from social media website. It increase awareness of website with the help of informative sharing.
Can anyone explain me what is Do follow and backlinks ? Actually i am new in bogging hence i dont know much.
Hey JT,
If you want to use Social for backlinks do not rely on your profile as most social media sites have SSL set up and block search bots (some are more open then others). Instead, visit authority site sin your niche and post useful comments via your Twitter or Facebook and drop your full URL in the comment itself when appropriate (meaning it gives value to the post and will pass moderation).
THAT is what gets you a juicy backlink from the authority site PLUS the social media site.
Hope that helps.
Backlinks are links from another site which point to yours. Links are normally followed by search engines when they crawl the internet, unless they are marked as "nofollow". Nofollow links are ignored by search engines and will therefore give you no benefit in search engine ranking. There is really no such thing as "do follow" links, as that is simply the default behaviour.
All external links in these forums are nofollow.[/ot]
Backlinks are links from another site which point to yours. Links are normally followed by search engines when they crawl the internet, unless they are marked as "nofollow". Nofollow links are ignored by search engines and will therefore give you no benefit in search engine ranking. There is really no such thing as "do follow" links, as that is simply the default behaviour.
All external links in these forums are nofollow.[/ot]


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, November 15, 2012, 9:34 AM
Town Square
Audit: Palo Alto spends too much on office supplies
Original post made on Nov 15, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, November 15, 2012, 9:34 AM
Comments (40)
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 15, 2012 at 9:48 am
>>In fiscal year 2011, the city had spent about $425 per full-time-equivalent employee, far >>more than other comparable jurisdictions. Mountain View, for example, had expenditures >>of $225 per employee. Sunnyvale's were $225 and Santa Clara's were $131.
But this is Palo Alto. Of course we have to spend more on office supplies. We have more twittering ( and I don't mean Twitter) residents that stick their noses into everything. The city has to respond to more and more residents that don't like what other people are doing and complain. And then they complain when another resident complains about what they are doing.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2012 at 9:55 am
While the thrust of this audit seems to have focused on the lack of monitoring price changes, as well as possibly improper coding of items as office supplies that were not actually office supplies—without focusing on the consumption side of the equation, this audit is not as complete as it should be.
o) Is expressing the total expenditure on a per-employee basis really the best way to document these expenditures? Certainly people not working in offices don't have the same needs as those who do. Wouldn't it be better to look at the spending based on where the supplies are actually used?
o) What exactly does $425 buy for each employee?
o) And what about theft of supplies by office workers? When it's time for school, how many binders, notebooks and pens disappear from the office supply lockers, and end up in the local schools on the desks of children of government workers?
It would appear that there is roughly a $200K/year difference between Palo Alto and other local cities, some of which have up to twice the population. So—this $200K comes to about $1M every five years, and $2M every ten years. Clearly this is not an insignificant amount of money.
There seems to be some problems in the Finance Department when it comes to proper identification of invoices, as well as monitoring price changes. Presumably Mr. Perez, and his staff, are too concerned—since it's "other people's money". It's a shame no one on the City Council seems concerned either.
a resident of another community
on Nov 15, 2012 at 10:28 am
There needs to be an audit of "discounts lost" as is done in industry. After that, a reasonable decision can be made about adequate staffing of the disbursing function.
The first meeting I went to as a temporary employee was with the disbursing staff and the Accounting Manager. She was seeking greater accuracy. She said, "This is the people's money. It's not my money--it's not your money. It's the people's money." She had a high level of personal concern for the task at hand.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2012 at 10:47 am
> She had a high level of personal concern for the task at hand.
This retired Staffer's personal experience seems at odds with the audit. Any chance that there wasn't much follow through, or management supervision, of the work done by Staff?
a resident of another community
on Nov 15, 2012 at 11:46 am
@MGOTDI--If there weren't management supervision the meeting mentioned would never have occurred. Point is--Staff cares about the people's money.
This meeting was held many years ago when a different database was in place and there was adequate staffing to supervise vendors. If you read the audit report you will see that both the City Manager and the ASD director recognize that staff cutbacks have been so severe that they have damaged the ability to "get the job done." Please remember--Palo Alto does NOT have a city controller.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Nov 15, 2012 at 12:03 pm
City documents have become thicker and thicker. Bigger typefaces and lots of blank space on every page. Space wasted on unnecessary graphics, lots of reprints of Powerpoint space wasters with maybe 25 words on a page. It all adds up.
a resident of Palo Alto Orchards
on Nov 15, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Benchmarking cost-per-employee with neighboring cities does indicate PA should be better at negotiating their contracts with the likes of OfficeMax. No question the name, OfficeMax fits well. Retail prices on stationery is thru-the-roof. 58% discount should still allow them to make a pretty penny. This type of non-competitive pricing is accelerating the push of everyone toward "the Cloud" (digital-paperless world).
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 15, 2012 at 12:05 pm
>> But the report notes that the city has in fact been spending more on office supplies since it joined the program in 2007.
This seems to be the pattern or incompetency in Palo Alto City Government in every single thing it does. Power rates, Garbage rates and then the job of keeping up the city is not getting done because of these "deals" that turn out to be scandals, boondoggles, whatever?
God knows what the costs of Police, Fire, maintenance is. There is not a decent restroom anywhere in the Baylands, making the whole area useless. But perhaps that is what the airport and people with airplanes want so that we don't get too many complaints and requests to upgrade and make the Baylands more inviting and useable?
There is something very systemically wrong with Palo Alto, and things are so opaque that it is hard to really figure out who are the groups in charge and what they are doing - let alone why?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Interesting that the City uses Office Max - a big box store not allowed in our town - to buy its supplies. Do they realise that Palo Alto does not get sales tax dollars for these supplies but it goes to East Palo Alto.
Should there be a rule that all purchases made by City Hall should be purchased in Palo Alto since they want us all to shop Palo Alto. I think they should be shopping Palo Alto also.
Apart from this, there is no surprise here. Most big offices buy too much and waste money on office supplies.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 15, 2012 at 12:38 pm
One big expense that could be cut waaaay down is the incessant repetitive annoying brochures, no-no's, do this & don't do that which come in 'by the ton" from the Utility Department. Enough already. Take out an ad in the newspaper. Save mailed paper and postage. It comes in droves - and I for one am fed up with it. This is 'justifying someone's unnecessary job". I don't have filing space for all of this civic junk mail. And while the city's at it, please leave us alone. We KNOW how to live 'green', efficiently, and responsibly.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 15, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Anyone remember 6 months ago and the cuts to Animal Services? or the cuts to Traffic Enforcement?
I'm willing to also guess that better management of the city fleet of automobiles, power, and some other areas would yield additional savings, especially if benchmarked against neighboring cities.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2012 at 1:35 pm
And don't forget the Utilities Department's generous contributions to the general fund, circumventing Prop 13 with a direct pipeline to your wallet! All to help finance the city's gracious employee benefits and plentiful office supplies.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2012 at 1:37 pm
So the cost per employee is about twice as high? What about the sheer number of employees?
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 15, 2012 at 1:39 pm
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2012 at 1:52 pm
This 70-page audit seems to be quite comprehensive:
Web Link
It could take several hours to read through it, but that time is probably worth spending.
This Audit is much higher in quality than most of the audits produced by previous Auditors. Let's hope the quality level stays at this level.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 15, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Supplies are only the beginning...what about the constant tearing up, resurfacing and again tearing up of all the same streets time and again. This speaks to NO preplanning by the City Works department. This is constant, only months go by before something else causes road work. If only there were some coordination. Private companies wouldn't work this way, they would go broke. Maybe Palo Alto would be money ahead if they subcontracted the work to a non-city entity.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Nov 15, 2012 at 2:11 pm
> what about the constant tearing up, resurfacing and again
> tearing up of all the same streets time and again.
A previous Auditor did look into "the streets"--maybe five years ago. Unfortunately, she did not seem to have a very comprehensive approach to her analysis, and it's hard to find any evidence that any of her findings were ever implemented, or if they were, that those findings actually were particularly effective at saving costs, or stopping unnecessary street cuts.
The whole issue of "streets" is complicated enough that it would pay to have an on-going project dedicated to trying to model everything that impacts our streets. With about $30M (at least) of backlogged street repairs, and the impacts on our quality-of-life that comes from traffic (particularly these difficult-to-understand lane reductions)--having an on-going Audit team monitoring all the data possible would be in everyone's best interests.
a resident of another community
on Nov 15, 2012 at 2:33 pm
This story reminds me of a similar way the way the City buys hardware.
The City buys hardware from a local store owned by an elected official ... not a City Council person, but a guy with some connections.
The thing is, when City employees order hardware, we're told to go to the online site of the national chain that this local hardware store is connected with.
They "drop ship" it to the MSC, meaning a truck from the chain pulls up to the door and drops off the merchandise. The merchandise never goes through the local store belonging to this elected official.
But this elected official/hardware store owner gets a portion of the sale price. If we ordered directly from this same chain, we could reduce the amount of tax money we're paying for hardware.
I know the Auditor's Office has been told about this arrangement, but apparently doesn't want to touch it.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Nov 15, 2012 at 2:41 pm
> But this elected official/hardware store owner gets a portion
> of the sale price. If we ordered directly from this same chain,
> we could reduce the amount of tax money we're paying for hardware.
A little more detail would make this a very interesting contribution to understanding why the City of Palo Alto spends so much money.
Any chance you could file a Request to Investigate with the Santa Clara County Grand Jury to look into this matter?
a resident of another community
on Nov 15, 2012 at 3:39 pm
When I worked for the City fasteners were purchased from Fastenal and small hand tools were purchased from Grainger. Fastenal has a Palo Alto store. Grainger has a Sunnyvale store. Both are publicly owned corporations traded on major exchanges (FAST on NASDAQ and GWW on NYSE)
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Nov 15, 2012 at 4:36 pm
> When I worked for the City
But what about today?
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 15, 2012 at 6:50 pm
How about the City saving money by NOT sending all this extra junk mail with the Utility bills, and other mailers everyone just dumps in the recycling?
I sometimes get multiple mailers from the city.
Palo Alto being Green?? Yeah, right.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 15, 2012 at 8:28 pm
I'm glad that our auditor noticed that other cities have recently audited city supplies contracts and saved a ton. I know San Jose's auditors office did this about 2 years ago and won a considerable settlement, and they in turn were following another big city (San Diego or LA?) if my memory is right.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 15, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Mattie, Palo Alto's wonderful auditor went to San Jose just a few years ago as its chief auditor. Wish we had Sharon back.
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 16, 2012 at 12:30 am
HIRE a welfare mom to be the buyer. If they can raise a family on it, they should be running the entire country.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 16, 2012 at 12:53 am
Thanks Wayne for the audit web link. Fortunately everything after page 27 is attachments and I think I got through it in less than an hour if I don't count the places where I fell asleep.
I noted a typo in Gennady's article: Mtn View's number is $255 per FTE, not $225. Also the Palo Alto number $425 might be more realistically $264 if the $161 not from office supply vendors are actually mis-coded items not really office supplies. Maybe the other cities categorize differently.
Learned something new -- was not aware that the City pays sales tax. Do we pay things like vehicle registration fees also? Property tax on City Hall?
Guess I always knew that retail customers like me subsidize volume purchasers who get the deep discounts. Now realizing that I'm subsidizing the government in more ways than I thought.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 16, 2012 at 7:38 am
Yes Musical and Wayne
The City should be shopping Palo Alto to spend the sales Tax $$$ in Palo Alto not on Office Max to give the money to East Pale Alto. Ooops, then we would tell them they should be shopping somewhere cheaper - nowhere to buy reasonably priced office products in Palo Alto.
It is about time we had decent affordable shopping in Palo Alto.
a resident of Professorville
on Nov 16, 2012 at 8:07 am
Ok, that's done. Now how about having the Auditor look at the parking situation in Downtown and SOFA and give us an idea of how much we - the neighbors - are subsidizing the developers who don't provide parking to support the use of their land and properties.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 16, 2012 at 8:42 am
This topic is sort of interesting but likely a drop in the bucket insofar as waste goes.
@Kate above mentions utility dept mailings and printed inserts - I think the periodic mailing that compares our energy use to our neighbors (even if the comparison isn't a great comparison - another issue) is mailed independently from the service which is contracted with the city?! - so that, for example, might use paper (office supplies) not included in the city office supply usage figures that are listed as expenditures in this thread.
Whatever can be done to tighten up operations and lessen bureaucracy would be a benefit, in my opinion...
a resident of another community
on Nov 16, 2012 at 12:02 pm
@musical--Yes, the City pays sales tax. Everybody in CA except the feds and bona fide charities pay sales. The State pays tax to itself.
Sales tax is based on the "ship to" address of the end user. If no tax is charged by the vendor then the City must pay use tax monthly.
Printing is now outsourced in order to save money. In the past (pre 2008) printing was done at city hall.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 16, 2012 at 12:47 pm
If I embezzled $47,000, I would go to jail for a long time. I'm sure no one at OFFICE MAX will be held criminally accountable for this because it will be hard to prove intent.
I for one will be pushing the city to ditch OFFICE MAX at the least.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 16, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Why the hell would anyone buy from the big chain office supply stores? They're complete ripoffs. I suggest walmart.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 16, 2012 at 12:53 pm
I totally agree with the person who asked about the constant resurfacing of city streets when there is no necessity. Someone is making money on this I'm sure. I wonder how I, as a citizen can find out how this is justified.
a resident of another community
on Nov 16, 2012 at 3:47 pm
It's unfortunate that it doesn't say the breakdown in cost per city department.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 16, 2012 at 3:57 pm
@Midtown resident, did you miss the part about OfficeMax giving the city a 58%-off coupon? That's why we buy there. It was the best deal we could get, including Walmart I presume. I think much of this article was about quibbling over the usual fine print of what items are really eligible for the discounts, and what quantities you need to buy, just like at the grocery store. The question should be, do we really need to buy all this stuff? Is it a predetermined pile of money that must be spent before year-end or you don't get a larger pile next year?
@Retired Staffer, thanks for the sales tax notes including Fed exclusion. Always seemed to me that NASA did not pay. I assume then the school districts pay. So the budgets actually appear inflated because we are counting tax money that is going around in circles?
a resident of another community
on Nov 16, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Most of those mailings from the Utilities Dept. are mandated by law.
They'd stop killing trees if they were allowed to.
I'm just sayin.'
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 16, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Hey, whatever happened to "buy locally"?
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 16, 2012 at 7:39 pm
"did you miss the part about OfficeMax giving the city a 58%-off coupon?"
58% off of what? Twice the fair price? The discount in itself makes no sense unless you tell me what the "list price" is. And everyone knows the list price is just marketing BS.
And what about those 47K of crooked price-raising? Do you really think that was an "honest" mistake?
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 19, 2012 at 4:40 pm
@midtown, ok, but apparently OfficeMax gave the best deal Palo Alto could find, and we are free to go elsewhere (Office Depot, Staples, and Walmart are main competitors). It will take teams of auditors, accountants, and lawyers to decide how "crooked" the 47K overage was. Contracts can be quite complicated, especially in things like what constitutes "proper" notification of price adjustments. OfficeMax (NYSE:OMX) stock value has recovered somewhat this year, but has not been a very good investment for decades.
We can try to drive a harder bargain, and keep better oversight on the billing, but probably our best tack is improved inventory management and trying not to order things we don't really need.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 19, 2012 at 4:53 pm
But Office Depot, Staples and Walmart are not in Palo Alto (like Offix Max_ and PA doesn't get sales tax dollars on purchases there. The City should shop Palo Alto since that is what they tell us to do.
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A landscaping ordinance would provide for green space and vegetation as part of any new commercial development. The result is a slightly reduced percentage of asphalt, which can create runoff problems during storms and also absorbs and retains heat during summer months. In addition, some vegetation and trees means green space has some aesthetic qualities and is more than simply grassy space. What Harris doesn't want is to put an undue burden on developers.
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There is real public benefit in addressing landscaping issues, Harris said. The added effect over time of businesses implementing more green space and vegetation leads to a more positive image of the city and adds to quality of life.
Many cities are implementing beautification ordinances, which include landscaping ordinances, Harris said. In most cases, they are effective in adding to the city's quality of place. The times when ordinances are not beneficial are when cities go "overboard" and over-regulate, something Harris said he does not want for Russellville.
"Far, far more often than not, landscaping ordinances benefit cities," he said.
Parking goes along with landscaping. Harris called the city's current parking regulations "burdensome" and said they do not take into account different types of commercial businesses. The current code determines the number of parking spaces a business must have based on the square footage of the building.
Harris used the example of a grocery store compared to a furniture store in terms of parking needs. Both may take up large quantities of square footage, but a grocery store is typically going to utilize a great many more parking spaces than the furniture store.
Amendments to the city's parking ordinance would alleviate some of those problems and also let city staff have some flexibility to making adjustments when warranted.
A third area Harris wants to focus on is signs, which he acknowledged can be a touchy subject for business owners. He said he doesn't want to completely change how the city's signs look, but instead just to start seeing signs that are a little smaller and a little lower than they area currently.
Harris said he hopes to receive input from city leaders, citizens and business developers as he continues to work on the ordinances.
All ordinances must be approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council before they will go into effect.


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Discussion in 'Odds & Ends' started by heycal, Oct 28, 2012.
Madonna is like my golfer elbow….really annoying and never goes away.
I'm thinking an STD joke would be appropriate here.......
The organ line in Whiter Shade of Pale was influenced by a few JS Bach pieces. The lyric borrows from Chaucer.
In the case of appreciating arts, yes "better" is fairly subjective, though not completely. But the degree to which it is subjective is enough for me to stay out of trying to convince people that a certain band is better than another. If someone would like to prove otherwise, I would like them to propose a quantifiable and objective measure for how good a song/band is.
A similar debate exists in the contemporary art world, because of the same confusion about subjectivity and objectivity. Nowadays, some people say that no work of art is better than any other. The Campbell's Soup logo is art; a pile of rocks or dog poop is art; the Aurora Borealis is art. Why? Because whether or not something is art is a "subjective" matter. Philosophers cringe.
What about aesthetic judgments (like "Mozart's music is better than Copland's" or "Amadeus is a better movie than Austin Powers")? Are aesthetic judgments mere matters of opinion? Again, most philosophers would say no, though aesthetic disagreements might seem tougher to settle. But think of it this way. Suppose someone says "I think store-bought tomatoes taste better than home-grown tomatoes." Now, anyone who's eaten home-grown tomatoes would be incredulous: how could anyone with experience of both decide the store-bought tomatoes taste better? As a tomato grower, my first impulse would be to wonder if the speaker simply didn't understand which tomato was which; I would want to bring the speaker one of my home-grown tomatoes and ask again! Which is better? It's just obvious if you've experienced both. Something like that may be true for works of art as well. Maybe people who think Austin Powers is an excellent film simply have no idea what a good film is, and they'll change their minds gradually as they acquire more experience of life and art. All I'm proposing is that with aesthetic judgments, some people have relevant expertise.
But what about the fact that "Austin Powers" IS a better film than "Amadeus"? Or that brownies made from a mix (Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker, etc) ARE generally better than homemade brownies? (Same with cake mixes. Although homemade chocolate chip cookies are almost always better than any store-bought ones.)
And some bands that are better than them are...?
No. In tennis terms, the Beatles are Rod Laver, Roger Federer, and Pete Sampras combined, and these are other bands are like Leyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick, and David Nalbandian.
Any idea where I can find the best pizza? Or Chinese food?
I certainly do.
Let's talk about Brian Wilson for a moment since he comes up a lot in this thread.
Now, I like the Beach Boys as much as the next guy. They are all over my ipod. I love all the surf music, and later hits like God Only Knows and Good Vibrations are wonderful.
But what else is there? What did he do that put him anywhere near the Beatles, or the Stones, for that matter?
The vaunted Pet Sounds, which I read was suppposedly inspired by Rubber Soul, ain't no Rubber Soul. Check out the track listings if you don't believe me. A couple of excellent songs and that's it.
I mean, come on, folks. He's certainly one of the most talented American pop guys of all time, but let's not over-praise him. The surf music was great, but he was really only able to produce less than a handful of excellent songs once he moved beyond that.
Pink Floyd and Queen are as good or better than The Beatles.
Lol, as the kids say. Pink Floyd was excellent, but when you look at their output, you've only got the great "Dark Side of the Moon" and a few fine songs here and there.
As for Queen, there's really not much beyond Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie Mercury had what I might call an Elvis problem: Amazing singer, not so great material.
This band rocks (related)
You're so clueless. The Beatles played three chord songs and called it music. Same with the Stones. Same with Nirvana. Freddy Mercury wrote the songs, composed the (very intricate) music, played the piano, AND sang at a ridiculous range. And don't even get me started on Pink Floyd. To suggest that "Dark Side of the Moon" was their only contribution is not only stupid, it's insulting!
Heycal, don't make it bad
Take a sad thread and make it better
Remember to let us into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Heycal, don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get sunshine
The minute you let thoughts enter your head
Then you begin to make it better.
And any time you feel the urge, heycal, refrain
Don't carry these thoughts between your ears
Well don't you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
Heycal! Don't let us down
You know the truth, now go and get sunshine
Remember, to let us into your heart
Then you can start to make it better.
So let it out and let it in, heycal, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you, heycal,
You'll do, the movement you need is on your shoulder
Heycal, don't make it bad
Take a sad thread and make it better
Remember to let us into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Amazing singer, NOT so great material???? Mercury was probably the best songwriter in popular music. Not really much beyond Bohemian Rhapsody?? Listen to March of the Black Queen, Innuendo, Millonaire Waltz, My Fairy King, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Killer Queen, In the Lap of the Gods Revisited, Jealousy, Great King Rat, Ogre Battle, Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, You Take My Breath Away, and I can go on for ever.....Not to mention Brian May's stuff like The Prophet's Song, 39', White Queen, Teo Torriate, All Dead All Dead, It's Late and a lot of other great tunes.
Probably not any other could write and arrange music like Queen.
And Dark Side is Floyd's masterpice, but you're very wrong again if you think it's their only great album...what about Wish You Were Here?? Animals? Meddle?? The Division Bell?? All of them fantastic albums.
It's true what you say about Nirvana and Rolling Stones playing very simple music. But The Beatles could write fantastic music too. In their first albums there are a lot of 3-chord songs and nothing very creative but from "Revolver" on wards there are a lot of fantastic songs.
How about a nice pair of skinny jeans for a 50 year old man?
Yes, BAD songs.
I must admit I don't know these songs. When I say bad music, I really only mean the hits that a casual listener would know. That said, I somehow doubt that all these songs are great, and somehow only the bad ones became well-known...
Gap or H&M. But can't go too skinny though when this old -- let a girlfriend or a teenager be your guide here.
after reading opening, I just realized that I am different-never heard of them... sorry,op. I am going to pass this thread.
Oh boy, you are clueless. The stuff he wrote from 1961-1967 is amazing work. Lyrically it's about surfing and girls mostly, but the composition and style was phenomenal.
As for the last comment, that is ridiculousness at it's most extreme. Brian Wilson had a mental breakdown, which basically incapacitated him for a good 20 years.
Try listening to his solo albums, Sweet Insanity, Imagination, also the released smile album. Musically they are fantastic.
In my opinion the Today album is their best album by far. Much better than Pet Sounds.
The reason people cite Pet Sounds as one of the greatest albums of all time (I believe it's number 2), is because the musical composition of that album was revolutionary. Every track on that album sounds fantastic.
I already acknowledged that the surf music is great. What I'm saying is that he couldn't really move beyond it aside from a few excellent songs. He wrote tons of great surf songs, yes, but only a handful of interesting ones after that, and I'm talking pre-mental breakdown. It's akin to the Beatles being unable to produce more than a few great songs after a "Hard Days Night" something.
As for "revolutionary", and "compositionally" and "innovative" and "conceptually" and whatever other terms we want to apply to these artists and their music only one thing really matters: the songs. How good are the songs? And "Wouldn't it be nice?" and "Sloop John B." aren't going on my ipod before "Gimme Shelter" or "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", my friend. Are they really on your "A" list?
Cool!! I'm currently dating Tracy from Woody Allen's Manhattan, so she qualifies on both counts.
The skinny jeans thread... Good memories...
H&M clothes (at least the men's stuff) are crap. Just sayin'...
Indeed. Maybe we should start another one, even though the last one proved controversial for some reason.
In terms of style or material? If the former, I defer to women's views, who seem to like their stuff on this old man. If the latter, yes, probably so. But it's also half the price of the Gap, for one example. (Speaking of which, my thinly made Gap blue jeans already have a hole in them after one year of normal wear. That store is going downhill...)
Taylor Swift is nice to behold but the 'music' well i feel its quite common and mediocre.
Her looks carry it.
I bet everyone following this thread was thinking the exact same thing right about now, but you beat us to it.
Of course, but someones gotta take the lead.
Kaitlin can pull off jeans better than heycal.
Wouldn't it be nice? is a great song. Sloop John B is not a Brian Wilson composition. You are forgetting that he had a mental breakdown in 1967 while composing Smile right?
He did still write some awesome tracks though, "All I wanna do" on the sunflower album, "Till I die" on the Surfs Up album. "I went to sleep", "Breakaway", "Time to Get Alone", all brilliant songs.
As I said, in my opinion, his best album was the Today album. Every song on that sounds fantastic, and it was the first one to really break away from the surf and car stuff.
Say what??
I don't recognize the other songs you mention, but if "Wouldn't it be nice?" is your definition of a great song, I don't hold out much hope for those others. It's perfectly pleasant, but hardly a masterpiece.
As for the mental breakdown -- what's his excuse for not producing better non-surf music before that happened?
Don't get me wrong. I think Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys are great overall, and could be the best American band of all. It's just that the Beatles and Stones were significantly better. It's not unlike Andy Roddick being the best American tennis player in his day -- yet not in the same league as the Europeans.
The record company had a lot of say over what kind of musics bands produced in those days. The beach boys got popular because of the surf and car stuff. So Brian made a lot of it because that's what sold records.
When we made Pet Sounds the record company were seriously against it, as were a lot of the fans. You'll notice it didn't do particularly well, there's a good reason for that.
He was moving away from the surfing stuff, and it sounded totally different. Then just as Pet sounds started to pick up, the record company released a Beach Boys best of. So people stopped buying Pet Sounds and bought the best of instead.
Brian was really disappointed with the performance of Pet Sounds, and really angry with the record company for effectively sabotaging any chance it had to be a big seller.
I don't know which is worst
The best band is Drean Theater :wink:
It depends what you mean.
If you mean, that the materials are crap, or around that level I am inclined to agree.
If you mean, that the construction is crap, I strongly disagree.
Actually, I got a present from a friend some time ago. A Slim fit long sleeve H&M shirt. It puts my RTW Cerruti and other even more expensive shirts to shame.
"Wouldn't it be nice" is a fantastic song. This is a successful troll thread created by someone with no music experience outside of being a common fan.
That's all well and good, but why isn't Pet Sounds a better album?
Fantastic? Not quite. A fine song, yes, but I don't think it's going on anyone's "100 songs I'm bringing to a desert island" list.
I know plenty of people who would disagree with both of those statements, Many are much more accomplished in the music business than yourself. One is personally responsible for over 7 platinum albums. In the music industry, Pet Sounds is considered one of the greatest records in the past 50 plus years. The fact that the label of the past did not properly market it, has no affect on that current opinion. It was essentially far ahead of it's time when released.
The only reason I bring this up is because you are making subjective statements as if they are facts. Your opinion of song quality is no better than any other average fan. At least the people I cite have made careers in music so I would carry their opinion far more over yours.
If you have ever had your job on the line where you have had to predict hit songs, song order and allocate promotional budget than you may have some set of ears that makes your opinion more respected. But I sincerely doubt this is the case.
I don't think people in the music industry have any monopoly on taste. In fact, there is is ample evidence of quite the opposite.
And I really don't care about sales or popularity, so I don't know why you guys are feeling a need to defend the album on that count. Good seller or bad seller, hits or not, I'm just saying a lot of the songs on the album ain't that great.
Indeed. What a moronic thread.
And all I am saying is you have no ears and no real reason to make a pointless thread about your musical opinion.
That's fine. Just remember: Pet Sounds = Andy Roddick. Revolver = Roger Federer.
"Candy & Cathy, hope you both are well..."
I love Brian Wilson (seriously).
And I'd use The Beach Boys' sumptuous (respectable) harmonies to get on the good side of my parents:
"See mom & dad?..rock 'n roll can be 'good'!....*oh, please love me!*
...then I'd go to my room, close the door, put on the 'cans' and blast the song "Citidel" <---- THIS is bliss
I now suffer from tinnitus. Citdel (and my live friends Fender, Vox et al) Surprised?
ninman, not a flame, but there is often a striking resemblance between the guitar solos in a number of mid-60's 'surf tunes' and watered-down/cheesy Chuck Berry. Just sayin'....
I went through H&M for the first time in about 5 or 6 years this past Sunday with my wife when she told me they were having some sort of buy-one, get-one sale on sweaters. When I say H&M is crap, I mean I felt like I was picking through the leftovers of a Lebanese bazaar. Crap style, crap materials and yes, crap construction. My wife reminded me of a couple of dresses she had that basically fell apart after wearing them once or twice. "That's what you get when you pay $19.99 for a dress", I replied.
I'm not on the bleeding edge of fashion, but I thought it was lame that H&M was still pushing the blazer-with-the-hoodie-sweater-sewn-in. Isn't that the universal d-bag uniform, or something?
Regarding the falling quality of blue jeans, I totally agree. I used to have a couple of pairs from Old Navy that looked and fit great and lasted quite a while. When I went back to ON, I was surprised at the paper-thin denim they were selling as blue jeans. I went to the GAP and found the same thing. Bought a pair anyways - out of habit, I guess, - and my initial impression was confirmed. Garbage. Even the Levi's I tried recently seemed to be lower quality (though their price has climbed steeply). A couple of labels I found acceptable quality in are Lucky and Salt.
Pet Sounds. I'm not a big Beach Boys fan but I like some of their music well enough and have a copy of Pet Sounds somewhere in my collection. I thought, for the longest time, that "Good Vibrations" was on Pet Sounds. When I realized it wasn't, it really lowered my opinion of the album.
Perhaps something along the lines of Zara , Nautica ,FillipaK or if you can afford it Ermenegildo Zegna could be a better deal for you?
I'm just going to assume these were skinny jeans.
I stopped letting teenagers pick out my clothes on my twentieth birthday...
Personally, i will never underestimate the judgement of people younger than me.. not even when it comes to jeans.
Well, doesn't your wife like to see you in skinny jeans?
I have it on good authority that women are wild for old men in skinny jeans.
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Hefner solid as he prepares to enter rotation
With Santana out, right-hander will be Mets' No. 5 starter to open season
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Adam Wainwright continued his steady march toward the regular season, giving the Cardinals 4 2/3 innings of two-run ball on Thursday in a 3-2 win over the Mets at Tradition Field.
St. Louis' Opening Day starter walked three, struck out three and allowed three hits. One of the hits was a two-run triple to Mets center fielder Matt den Dekker, who had his second consecutive game with an RBI triple.
The Cardinals took a 1-0 lead on Wainwright's RBI single in the second off Mets starter Jeremy Hefner. David Freese's solo homer in the fourth made it 2-0.
Hefner was otherwise solid, striking out four over five innings with three walks. It was not until the eighth inning, facing Mets reliever Brandon Lyon, that Allen Craig singled home Matt Holliday to reclaim the lead for St. Louis.
"I feel good physically," Hefner said. "I wasn't as sharp as I'd like to be today. They're a real aggressive team so I tried to throw a few more offspeed pitches early in the count, and that got me behind in the count because I wasn't getting them over for strikes. But overall I was pleased with the outing. I still have a lot of stuff to work on and I'll continue to do that."
With Johan Santana battling shoulder weakness and still not close to appearing in a game, Hefner will begin the regular season in the starting rotation. That will give him a measure of stability he lacked last year, when many of Hefner's 13 starts came on either short rest or short notice.
As long as Santana remains sidelined, Hefner will start every fifth game.
"That's what I'm used to," he said. "That's what I'm comfortable with. Having that stability of knowing every five days you're going to get full rest, you're going to get a full bullpen, that type of thing, it's refreshing."
Lucas Duda went 2-for-2 with a double. Scott Rice and Bobby Parnell each pitched a perfect inning in relief.
Up next: Jon Niese will look to stretch out to 100 pitches as he makes his penultimate Grapefruit League start in Friday's 7:05 p.m. ET game against the Marlins. Niese will likely back off his workload in his final start in preparation for his Opening Day assignment on April 1. Friday's outing will give him a chance to go as deep in a game as he has all spring. The game is available live on Gameday Audio.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Court Rejects House Arrest Request for Sahara's Roy
India's top court on Wednesday rejected the Sahara Group's request that its chairman Subrata Roy be shifted to house arrest so he can meet with foreign investors to sell group assets and raise money to repay the billions of dollars Sahara owes its bond holders.
"We are trying to look at international buyers," Sahara lawyer Ram Jethmalani told the Supreme Court in Delhi. "How can we ask anybody to come to jail to negotiate?"
The court did not respond to a Sahara request that Mr. Roy be allowed to have home-cooked food in jail and make more phone calls than allowed to other inmates. Mr. Roy is sharing a small jail cell in the notorious Tihar Jail in New Delhi.
The Sahara Group, which according to India's capital market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India has a market capitalization of 1.5 trillion rupees ($25 billion), is said to be entertaining offers to sells its majority stake in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, located on Central Park, is one the world's most famous hotels.
Mr. Roy-who is one of India's most high profile business leaders-and two Sahara directors were sent to jail last month for the group's failure to repay to its bondholders.
The court recently asked the conglomerate to put up 100 billion rupees before it would release Mr. Roy. The court asked the group to pay 50 billion rupees in cash and another 50 billion rupees through a bank guarantee to the market regulator before its chairman will be released.
At the center of case is the 240 billion rupees the Sahara Group's two privately-held companies — Sahara India Real Estate Corp. and Sahara Housing Investment Corp. — raised by issuing bonds. The SEBI ordered the group to return the money to investors, saying the way the funds were raised was illegal.
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Alright dudes, the game 1 GT is done and will be up tonight hopefully. Once it's up, it'll be time to boot this thread to the NBA section.
Done already? Bro, you're quick! I'm currently working on my MIA GT and I'm wondering if you wanna rate what I already have.
It's difficult to jump to immediate conclusions about whether a trade is good or bad without letting things play out, but here is my attempt.
For Harden:
People are saying he wouldn't compromise on 5-6 million in exchange for being able to stay on a good team. The guy is only 23 years old though. The reasons it's important for him to get the max contract is that in his mind, he expects to develop into a superstar caliber player very shortly. Then again, he may just end up another joe johnson, but Houston provides an opportunity to develop himself into a big name guy, while in OKC he would always be #3. Not to mention he will be playing alongside Lin, and we all saw how much playing alongside Yao benefited T-mac's marketability.
For OKC
Because of the cap penalties, it would be pretty reckless to offer Harden a max deal. Personally, I think the OKC front office is the best in the league, and 2 potentially high draft picks in their hands is very valuable. Not to mention Lamb has the potential to develop into a very legitimate 2. Overall, I think this is the type of trade you see in baseball when the small market team can't afford the superstar, and instead trade him for the next up and coming guy.
For Houston
This is a $$$ move for Houston. They need a winning team immediately to put substance behind the hype that will come with having Lin. Trying to rebuild through the draft isn't an option, and for the Lin gamble to pay off, the team will have to be competitive immediately.
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who gives a ****, its 3 days till we play the Nets....and the last power standing i saw had the Nets at like 7 and us at like 11....wow
Yes you're right but KMart is not going to put the same amount of stress on their cap situation as Harden would. So sure they took back a lesser player but they gained freedom, young talent and future picks.
You don't give a max deal to a 6th man.
This is a lesson to NY front office on how to get value back for the players you don't want.
Kobe Bryant L.A. Lakers $27,849,149
Dirk Nowitzki Dallas Mavericks $20,907,128
Carmelo Anthony New York Knicks $20,463,024
Amar'e Stoudemire New York Knicks $19,948,799
Joe Johnson Brooklyn Nets $19,752,645
Dwight Howard L.A. Lakers $19,536,360
Pau Gasol L.A. Lakers $19,000,000
Chris Paul LA Clippers $17,779,458
Chris Bosh Miami Heat $17,545,000
LeBron James Miami Heat $17,545,000
Dwyane Wade Miami Heat $17,182,000
Deron Williams Brooklyn Nets $17,177,795
Andrew Bynum Philadelphia 76ers $16,889,000
Paul Pierce Boston Celtics $16,790,345
Kevin Durant Oklahoma City Thunder $16,669,630
Zach Randolph Memphis Grizzlies $16,500,000
Rudy Gay Memphis Grizzlies $16,460,538
Derrick Rose Chicago Bulls $16,402,552
At least OKC got something in return instead of Harden just leaving in FA. Harden was huge for them when it can to both sides of the court, but I think their team can fill in what Harden brought. Kevin Martin is all offense no defense but he should be able to get tons of open looks now that the attention will be mostly on Durant/Westbrook. Look for Harden to put up all star numbers this year with Houston, and it will be interesting to see Kevin Martin finally on a winning team.
Desperate to make a splash is this team!
This will either prove to be a Grand Slam off season for them or one of the worst ever.
Potential is no doubt there with young players like Harden,Lin,Parsons and Asik...yet in 3 years 3 out of four of those guys will be making 14+ million...that's bout as much as Miami got Bosh Wade and Lebron to sign for. if those players don't perform...lets just say Isiah would look smart compared to their GM!
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
This move kind of came out of nowhere, but I knew something was going to happen the Ibaka deal
Its Official...Kobe Bryant will be in the NBA Finals
Thunder will draft Andrew Wiggins with one of those picks.


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Fairway Details Losses From Superstorm
By David Benoit and Telis Demos
Fairway Group, the New York-centric grocery store operator, has seen its current fiscal year's loss soar following damage from last October's Superstorm Sandy.
The storm ravaged the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N.Y., shuttering one of the company's few stores the past several months. The damage cost Fairway $2.1 million in unusable merchandise and $3.4 million in property and equipment, it said in an updated filing Tuesday. The company said it estimates the store's closing has cost about $2 million a month, in part because it has continued to pay the store's employees.


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Thread: Engine problems from spain
www.indmar.com09 21v LAUNCH
99 Outback LS. Sold
run your engine after you change your oil
68 th Member. WS420,HSE Revolution, OJ 466, Acme1157,1100 sacs,Kicker HLCD's n IX500.4, Supra Coolies
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Thank you very "mucho"! We are looking for a mefi connector over here. There are loads of volvo and mercruiser official garages maybe they could help us. We wll also contact Indmar. The Spanish Moomba importer says that when he connected the software no problem came up. He also says that there is no "memory" as such, that he has to run the diag when the problem is happening. It doesn't make much sense to us...
What sensors could activate the limp mode?
Oil pressure
Tranny oil pressure
Water temp
03-16-2012, 01:22 PM #2309 21v LAUNCH
99 Outback LS. Sold
run your engine after you change your oil
68 th Member. WS420,HSE Revolution, OJ 466, Acme1157,1100 sacs,Kicker HLCD's n IX500.4, Supra Coolies
Just remembered. Look below to see if any of this might help. I had some electrical issues last year.
Look for the post by Engine Nut. There's a link to some schematics.past---------------2003 Outback SOLD
present------------2006 Supra Launch 21V
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Thank you very much to all for your helps.
Within a month, starts the season in spain, heat returns and good weather.
And I want to have the boat managed to date.
I will return to Check all wiring and temperatures will look.
I'll get in touch with Indmar to watch the video.
I will talk about how to the problend end.
Thanks a lot.
04-03-2012, 06:08 AM #26Junior Member
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While Indmar answers our email, we are checking the procedure to read the ECM ourselfs.
Here it says that the PCMs are equipped with Fault History, but it doesn't mention any Fault History for the GM Mefi5 Ecu.
Can that be right?
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This is the problem....
07/12/2012 14:02:13
Cust. Name: santi
Engine Make: 17-38
Engine Serial No: 1
Model Year: 2008
System Type: GM-DELPHI MEFI 5B CAN
Parameter Description Value Unit
Engine Speed 672 RPM
Calibration Checksum 796A HEX
Desired Idle Speed 680 RPM
Engine Displacement 5,7 L
Coolant Temperature (filtered) 162,5 °F
Engine Hours 337,9 hrs
Coolant Temperature (raw) 162,5 °F
Total Operating Time 337,9 hrs
Coolant Sensor Resistance 434 Ohms
Total Engine Revolutions 33750 x 1000
Throttle Position 7,8 %
Cause For Power Reduction No
Desired Throttle Position 8,2 %
Check Engine Lamp Output Off
Throttle Sensor Voltage 1 0,96 VDC
Check Gauges Lamp Output Off
Throttle Sensor Voltage 2 4,08 VDC
Low Oil Level Lamp Output Off
Pedal position 0,0 %
Gen Warning 1 Lamp Output Off
Pedal position sensor 1 voltage 0,96 VDC
Gen Warning 2 Lamp Output Off
Pedal position sensor 2 voltage 4,10 VDC
RPM Based Output Off
Manifold Absolute Pressure 10,9 inHg
Fuel Pump Output On
MAP Sensor Voltage 1,43 VDC
Warning Buzzer Output Off
Baro Pressure 11,7 inHg
TransShift Output Off
Manifold Air Temperature -40,0 °F
Power Train Relay Output On
MAT Sensor Voltage 0,00 VDC
Starter Relay Output Off
MAT Sensor Resistance 0 Ohms
Crank Request Input No
Spark Advance 9,2 DEG
Emergency Stop Input On
Cam Angle 545,6 DEG
Shift Interrupt Input Off
Knock Retard 0,0 DEG
Troll Mode Input On
Max Knock Retard Cylinder 0 #
Load Anticipate 1 Input On
Oil Pressure 22,6 PSI
Load Anticipate 2 Input Off
Oil Pressure Sensor Voltage 1,75 VDC
Low Oil Level Input Off
Fuel Pressure 147,9 PSI
OEM Engine ID 215 #
Fuel Pressure Volts 2,94 VDC
ECM Hardware Version 5 #
Fuel Flow Rate 0,83 GPH
ECM Software Revision 1 #
Fuel Temp Sensor Volts 4,84 VDC
ECM Software Release 20 #
Injector Bank A Pulse Width 3,9 ms
Twin engine CAN connection No
Injector Bank B Pulse Width 3,9 ms
Paired Firing Mode Off
Battery Voltage 14,00 VDC
Rev limit threshold 5400 RPM
Vehicle Speed 0,0 MPH
Rev limit within last second No
Governed Vehicle Speed 99,6 MPH
Cruise Off
Governed RPM Speed 5104 RPM
Cruise Set / Coast Off
Variable governor input voltage 0,00 VDC
Cruise Resume / Accelerate Off
ETC Idle Stop / Idle Valve Duty Cycle 8,2 %
ETC System Present Yes
IAC Position 40,2 %
Governor Present Yes
IAC in Control of RPM Yes
Canister Purge System Present No
Octane Rating Adapt 99,6 %
MAT Sensor Present No
Octane Adapt Enable Off
O2 Sensor A1 Present No
Octane update in progress No
O2 Sensor B1 Present No
O2-A1 Volts 0 mV
Actual EGR Position 0,0 %
O2-A2 Volts 0 mV
Desired EGR Position 0,0 %
O2-B1 Volts 0 mV
EGR Position Sensor Voltage 0,00 VDC
O2-B2 Volts 0 mV
EGR Duty Cycle 0,0 %
O2 Sensor A1 Ready No
EGR enabling conditions met No
O2 Sensor B1 Ready No
EGR output enabled No
O2 Sensor A1 Closed Loop On
EGR duty cycle inverted No
O2 Sensor B1 Closed Loop On
EGR closed loop output driver On
O2-A1 Cross Counts per second 0 #
EGR driver type PWM
O2-B1 Cross Counts per second 0 #
Load Anticipate 1 0,0 %
O2 Sensor A1 Rich/Lean Lean
Load Anticipate 2 0,0 %
O2 Sensor B1 Rich/Lean Lean
Load Anticipate 1 Enable No
O2-A1 BLM Cell Value 0,00 #
Load Anticipate 2 Enable No
O2-B1 BLM Cell Value 0,00 #
Power balance test enabled Yes
O2-A1 BLM Cell Id 0 #
Troll Mode Off
O2-B1 BLM Cell Id 0 #
Troll Mode Enable Off
O2-A1 Fuel Multiplier 1,00 #
Gov Mode Input Off
O2-B1 Fuel Multiplier 1,00 #
Reflects ETC H-Bridge Direction Open
O2-A1 Heater Current 0,00 Amps
Min Position Learn Pending No
O2-A2 Heater Current 0,00 Amps
Governor Status Lamp Off
O2-B1 Heater Current 0,00 Amps
Close Throttle Idle Control Mode Yes
O2-B2 Heater Current 0,00 Amps
In Fuel Detonation Control Mode No
O2-A1 Oxygen Percent N/A %
Knock present in last second No
O2-A2 Oxygen Percent N/A %
Monitoring For Knock No
O2-B1 Oxygen Percent N/A %
Misc Status Flags 0,0 #
O2-B2 Oxygen Percent N/A %
Bank A Downstream Temp N/A
ETC or Governor Motor PWM 14,1 %
Bank B Downstream Temp N/A
Canister Purge Duty Cycle 0,0 %
Fuel Level 99,6 %
Governor Pedal Anchor Pos 99,6 %
Fuel Level 1 Volts 4,98 VDC
Warm Up Cycles Since Last DTC 2 DEC
Fuel Level 2 Volts 4,47 VDC
A DTC has set this ignition cycle No
Fuel Level 1 Percent 99,2 %
CAM W Angle 540,0 DEG
Fuel Level 2 Percent 0,0 %
CAM W Phaser Ref Angle 705,0 DEG
CAM W Phaser Duty Cycle 0,0 %
Current ECM Codes
Diagnostic readiness information.jpg
I would look at the throttle position sensor. It's throwing a fault.2017 Moomba Craz
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stazi, where is the throttle position sensor? How do you change?
Somebody see something in the Parameter Description Value with faulted?.
Thanks DOCDRS.
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Santi, hold on a minute.
Before we order a new TPS, you need to check the reading again.
Have you noticed this?
Fuel Pressure 147,9 PSI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The correct fuel pressure must be 60PSI !
Santi, espera un momento,
Antes de pedir un TPS nuevo, deberías volver a conectar el lector.
Has visto esto?
Presion de Combustible 147,9 PSI !!!!!!!!!!!!!
La presión correcta debe ser 60PSI


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Financial Aid Office
Available to parents of dependent undergraduate students enrolled at least half time. Financial need is not a requirement.
PLUS loans are unsubsidized: Borrower is responsible for interest during the life of the loan.
Loans must be repaid, but students are not required to do so until after they graduate or unless they drop below half-time enrollment at the university. A loan fee may be deducted from certain student and parent loan disbursements. The gross loan amount minus the loan fee is then credited toward bill payment at the university. The net disbursement will be indicated on the loan disclosure statement.


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My main interest is Entomology so I was very pleased to see this subject covered in some detail. I was particularly engrossed by Shazia Mahamdallie's study of the Sandfly which inspired me to investigate further the species connection with the spread of leishmaniasis and the work of EDEN.
Although the museum in general was very busy on the day of my visit I found the Cocoon to be very relaxed and much less crowded. I also think the design and technology will be more inspirational to the younger generation compared to traditional museum formats. My last visit to the museum was around 15 years ago although many of the old favourites still exist, it's great to see an institute moving with the times.
A pleasurable and memorable day Thanks
dear Jonny. i think making the 'cocoon' and 'Nature Plus' was fan-dappy-tastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Jonny!
I realy liked the mosquito section that taught you about sspesies that carry malaria and those that don't. It was very interesting. I hope your paper goes well!!
My name is Chloe and I am 7 years old .
My favourite thing about the cocoon was that I got to learn lots of info and got to pres lots of buttons.
(Im 11)
I enjoyed planning the trip because you got to interacted a touch and press
stuff i also enjoyed collecting data for natureplus,becouse i liked putting
the card underneath the red thing.
i liked looked down from a height
I enjoyed everything in the cocoon!
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Police in Bradford are keen to identify a man who they want to speak to in connection with four attempted robberies which were committed between the afternoon of Thursday August 28 and the morning of Friday August 29.
On each occasion, a lone, masked man demanded money but was unsuccessful in his attempts.
A composite description of the suspect is of a dark skinned man, aged 20 – 35 years, slim build, between five feet seven inches and six feet tall, clean shaven and wearing a dark jacket and gloves.
The first incident occurred at 1.05 pm, on Thursday August 28, at a Bookmakers on Allerton Road.
The manager was threatened by a suspect with a hammer outside the premises but was able to fight him off and escaped with minor bruises.
The second offence took place at 5.15 pm on the same day at a convenience store in Staveley Road, Keighley.
The suspect demanded money, once again threatening the owners with a hammer, but they were able to activate the alarm and he fled empty handed.
Just before 9pm, the suspect entered a convenience store on Thornton Road demanding money and brandishing a small claw hammer.
The owner made efforts to disarm the suspect and was repeatedly struck with the hammer.
The suspect smashed his way through a Perspex screen and out of the shop and his face was uncovered and captured on CCTV.
No property was stolen and the suspect made off on foot down Middlebrook Way.
The fourth incident took place at 6.45am this morning (Friday August 29) when the female resident of a public house on Girlington Road was approached by a man as she came out of a side door onto Girlington Road.
She managed to lock the door and get away and the suspect was seen running towards Thornton Road.
Detective Inspector Neil Benstead, of Bradford CID, said: "At this stage we believe the incidents are linked; it is still possible that what happened this morning is not connected, however we are investigating every possibility. On each occasion the victims were left shaken and, in two cases, they have physical injuries as a result of what occurred.
"Hopefully someone will recognise this man from the CCTV footage or from the description provided by the victims and witnesses. We urge anyone who might have information about these attempted robberies or who was in the area at the times when they were committed, to call us on 101 or ring Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111."


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The Mancos Valley Distillery will present Old North State on June 29, as part of the group's "Rollin' with the Sound Tour.".
Old North State is a bluegrass/American band founded by bothers Dillon and Jantzen Wray in 2009. Armed with bluegrass instruments, the brothers blend elements of speed punk, bluegrass, folk and rock and roll into one cohesive vision.
By 2011, the Wray brothers had already adopted a rigorous touring schedule and self-released their debut album, "Long Road Home."
In 2013, Old North State relocated form Durango to Asheville,N.D.
The group added longtime friend, Bryan Thurman, as a permanent bassist and released the "Hello, Darling" EP in April.
Doors will open at 5 p.m., and the music will begin at 8 p.m. Cover charge is $5.


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Before you plan your announcement against, or fail to take advantage of, one, invest in this year's model of the venerable "Chase's Calendar of Events 2013." It's an invaluable and easy way to avoid lousy timing, conflicts, and other snafus in your communications and editorial calendar this year. Reporters will thank you for using it to remember the many things people think they should cover on any given day. By this book's count, there is an average of 34 events a day.
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Author Sara Horowitz heads Freelancers Union and is a MacArthur Fellow; she's the voice for thousands of freelancers. In her book, you'll learn everything from where the term "freelance" originated (Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe") to how to run your independency. Based on my experiences, this book rings true.
4. "The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation": The 2013 edition of the Associated Press Stylebook is due out in July, but you can further hone your AP Style with one of its more specialized guides, "The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation." Put an authoritative end to those office debates about parentheses and serial commas.
5. "Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator": Much of what we know about communicating effectively comes from cautionary tales, and this confessional from last year stirred the controversy while offering a good reminder of why your efforts are met with increasing skepticism. This is a must-read for seasoned veterans and starry-eyed newbies.
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8. "Network Like an Introvert: A new way of thinking about business relationships": I know plenty of introverted communicators, and this 2012 book puts a new spin on the conundrum of networking when you'd really rather be alone. This book applies, whether you are introverted or extroverted.
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This catalog is in effect for the period of Fall Quarter 2015 through Summer Quarter 2016. It may be updated throughout that period in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to) the following:
Changes in curriculum and in academic and admission policies will not be made within a catalog year unless the change is clearly to the benefit of those to whom it would apply, is optional (but beneficial to some), or can be accommodated without serious difficulty within the normal span allowed for a degree. Significant changes in curriculum or academic or admission policies will normally begin with a new academic year and a new catalog. Depending on the nature of the change, changes in academic policies may be applied to all students, regardless of the catalog under which they entered. However, changes in curriculum apply only to students who first enroll in a program during the academic year in which a change in curriculum becomes effective, or students who transfer into such a program during that year.