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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Legend: height in meters, time in GMT increasing from right to left. Red lines are temperature in C.
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power has been off here on Mercer Island since 12:45 PM today. The National Weather Service Wind Advisory was posted at 1:21 PM
Another case of "not seeing it coming"?
- January 6, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I'm looking at your wind profiler which you just put online. What is the "x" axis or abscissa?
- January 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Joseph Ratliff said...
Winds haven't been TOO awfully bad...breezy though here in Lacey...about 14-22mph gusting to no more than 29mph...but we'll see...they may pick up.
Been raining ALL day though, non-stop.
- January 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Will the winds be stronger (or weaker) in the foothills?
- January 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- Walter Harley said...
@Allan, I think the X axis is time (more recent to the left, imagine a paper tape printer with the tape spooling off to the right). The Y axis is altitude. The red lines show temperature gradients; the blue barb symbols show wind speed and direction. Somewhat confusingly, the blue barbs are compass direction: that is, right now it's SSW wind, not "up and to the right".
This is all surmise from studying the pictures and reading what Cliff's written; I don't actually know it to be true.
Cliff, when the temp gradients go from horizontal (colder air higher up) to vertical (same temp at all altitudes, warming over time), like they did between 06/15:00 and 06/18:00 in this chart, what causes that? Is it vertical mixing of the layers?
- January 6, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Cliff, I have a request about your blog's design.
Would it be possible to have the graphics open in a new separate window rather than substituting the graphics page for the blog page? Your explanations of the graphics are very helpful, but I have to keep hitting the "back" and "forward" keys to go between them, trying to remember what I've just read or seen.
It'd be great to be able to see both your graphics and your explanations side by side.
Thank you again for your wonderful blog.
- January 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM
- AnnB said...
BTW, if you use a browser with tabbed browsing, you can Right click on the graphic and choose to open the graphic in a new window or a new tab. (Works great in Firefox v3!)
Ditto on the kudos for the blog!
- January 6, 2009 at 5:23 PM
So I know this will probably cause someone to yell at me, but what the heck.
I have lived in CA. I have lived on the East Coast a few times, and even in the midwest. And now I live here (for almost 10 years now).
I can say without question, this is the dumbest weather place I have ever lived in in all of my years. And by dumb I mean that it's probably super facinating if you're Cliff or a weather nut, but as someone who lives in it, it's dumb. Rain shadows, micro climates, convergence zones, no radar off the coast so you don't know what's coming...yuck.
I sat today watching completely GLOOMY skies, clouds moving at breakneak speed above me (and not very high up, I might add), and yet, no rain. I can't think of anything more depressing. Very, very gloomy.
It's a beautiful area. The mountains, the topology -- I love it. But the weather here I could live without. It can't make up its mind.
- January 6, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Suggestions?....on where to see rainfall totals on current storm (really 15 inches of rain up in mtns) and then the snowfall, say in Bellevue, this winter to date??
- January 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM
SnowLover - the chaotic weather is what makes this place so great! It keeps everybody off balance except those that are prepared for it. Events like the storm in Dec06 brought our community together more than ever before (I am 41). Cheers to Western Washington!!
- January 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Jerry said...
Any reason that the Sedro-Woolley area is not "warming up" quite like the rest of W-Washington? We have seen 40 maybe once since the "pinapple xpress" has arrived. 49 in Mount Vernon, 38 in Sedro.
I would love to hear what makes THIS area interestingly different...
- January 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- Ashley said...
Here in Woodinville the power is flickering and the greenbelt behind my house is downright scary with wind. I hear breaking and creaking out there....sigh.
- January 6, 2009 at 5:59 PM
You can have great weather events and still know they are coming. Having been in the midwest, I can tell you they get incredibly interesting events. Thunderstorms, sometimes a tornado, blizzards, but it all just happens and you know it's coming (save for the tornado).
Here, you have an entire area blanketed in dark, dark clouds, and a pocket of no rain. That is just weird to me. And depressingly gloomy.
- January 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- AJ said...
Hey, it's warmer and it's not snowing. This works for me. Oh, Brian Williams on NBC nightly news just showed a satellite image of the storm hitting us. It is massive, stretching almost to Hawaii.
Surfs up, ride the wave!
- January 6, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- AJ said...
SnowLover - I totally agree with the gloomy thing. It does get old, like by November, and then we still have four more months of it! I've never gotten used to it. However, I've found that a couple weekend trips per winter to Palm Springs and/or Phoenix helps take the pain away.
We may be gloomy but we're only 2.5 hours away from warm sunshine. Can't say that about the Midwest!
- January 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM
- Weatherfreak said...
Been living in the NW all my life and can't think of a better place to live for a weather watcher. Where else do you have such a diversity in climates? Rain forests on the coast, some of the heaviest snow in the country in Cascades, and sage brush desert in the East. The only element I wish we had more of is Thunderstorms. But then again, who likes the humidity the usually goes along with them. BTW, as I write, strong winds, rain pounding on my window, and a warm cup of tea! Does it get any better??? ;)
- January 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- epjmcginley said...
Oyster bay (sea level) - NW Thurston County
Very strong winds blowing,
lots of rain.
- January 6, 2009 at 6:38 PM
@weatherfreak: I hear you, and I'm sure there are areas around here cooler than others. I am up in Sammamish, and I can't think of a dummber place, especially where we live right along the ridge, so we have even our own micro climate in Sammamish, different from the rest because of the lake. It's weird.
Right now, I have gusts of wind, no rain, and low clouds. Nothing fun about that.
- January 6, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- Joseph Ratliff said...
In Lacey... winds 18mph gusting to 27mph...not too bad so far...but raining like a mad dog!
And Weatherfreak, nothing like that warm cup of tea as long as the power doesn't go out ;)
- January 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM
- Julia said...
Just had a house-rocking gust at my protected hillside in Union Mills and decided to check some weather sites. It was miserable this afternoon when I went out to check the cattle, winds SE gusting to about 20mph and rain blowing in curtains. I don't notice the wind until I'm fifty feet from the house, and by then I'm committed to getting the work done and getting back into the house as fast as possible.
- January 6, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Olalla: The wind has been pretty steady all day, but not the rain. There's been rain more often than not, but not often very hard. I guess the rain shadow is extending this far south for the time being.
A couple of minor flickers, but no power outage. I suspect that Sunday/Monday's heavy wet snow cleaned out most of the stuff that was weakened by the earlier snowfall. Walking in the woods we can see evidence everywhere of brush being beaten down by snow. Broken sword ferns anyplace they're not protected by tall firs. Many, many fir branches down, almost to the point they've caught up with alder. We can see farther into the woods from the roads almost everywhere.
- Pete
- January 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- epjmcginley said...
Oyster Bay - nw Thurston County
Very strong winds now, whistling through the trees,
warm and wind driven rain.
- January 6, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Its worse as far as wind east of the mtns
- January 6, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Winds seemed to have died down here east of North Bend. In the town proper, they were blowing pretty good around 6PM. It seems we are are somewhat sheltered from the wind this time. It is POURING however! When I could see the river (Middle Fork Snoqualmie) before it got dark, it was rising, but not as fast as '06 thank goodness. We're about 50 feet above it, but I know what happened elsewhere. Hope this is not a repeat. I'll be happy to get rid of this snow though. We still have about 10 inches and I'm hiking in as I have to abandon the car at the end of the driveway near the road.
- January 6, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I Lied. Wind just picked up here dramatically east of North Bend (Exit 34).
- January 6, 2009 at 8:23 PM
I agree that the NWS got the wind forecast wrong. In north Redmond, the wind is howling like it was during the hanukkah storm of 2006
- January 6, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Middle Fork Snoqualmie River is rising fast now. Level I flood stage at 8:15pm.
- January 6, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- nocurling said...
just got home here in east oly, and the winds are calm (<10 mph), and it is not raining at present. it was pouring pretty good downtown when i left 30 minutes ago.
- January 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Edmonds on the ridge above the bowl. A very breezy, gusty day. Lots of branches down and several alders that needed to go anyway. No damage in my immediate area, except to the trees. No rain today and temp now 50.8. Wind is still working but not not near as hard as this afternoon.
- January 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Any other migraineurs hit by this one? Things started to get interesting for me at about 1100 hrs this morning.
(You know, I could probably swing the year of college-level calc and physics. Maybe a career change is in order. Not that I could quantify things, but I'd sure know in advance...)
- January 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM
This weather builds character.
Blowing pretty good on Finn Hill, just north of Juanita.
- January 6, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Migraine alert... yeah, my neighbor got one bad at noon (seattle) and had to borrow one of my valuable Immitrex pills... didn't know we suffered like LA folks w Santa Ana..
- January 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM
High winds have now closed I82 between Ellensburg and Yakima
- January 6, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Terribly windy in Eastern Washington. Gusts of 60, thankfully power hasn't even blinked...yet. I-82 closed at Yakima to Ellensburg, and closed to trucks from Prosser to Umatilla.
- January 6, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- Dave said...
We may be gloomy but we're only 2.5 hours away from warm sunshine. Can't say that about the Midwest!
Errr....ummm...doesn't take much longer than that to fly from Chicago to anywhere in Florida or the Gulf Coast.
- January 6, 2009 at 9:51 PM
The weather around here is not 'dumb', it's just bipolar. I always like to tell people the weather here is 'extremely moderate, and moderately extreme'.
By this I mean, most of the time it is b..o..r..i..n..g, but then we get the crazy stuff punctuating things: nasty, nasty wind storms, potential for huge downpours (NWS says up to 20 in. in the mtns in some spots tonight, really?), snow storms that seem to come out of nowhere, etc.
Combine all this with 16 hours of daylight in the summer, and the never ending darkness of winter, and well, I wouldn't have it any other way.
- January 6, 2009 at 9:54 PM
High winds aren't all bad. From another perspective, they create big waves for those that surf on the coast.
We also get large surfable waves in the city, thus preventing a 3hr drive to the coast. Aloha!
- January 6, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
My migraine today started at around 11:55. So was it the pressure that dropped around then?
It's really windy here in East Bellevue and a balmy 51.6F. Nearly t-shirt weather, except for the wind (and rain) chill.
SnowLover, have you been here for a good summer yet? Do you love green things? I left the East Coast to move here ten and a half years ago and I LOVE the weather. I think it's the best-kept secret about the Pacific Northwest.
If the winter darkness gets you down, get a lightbox for your morning reading. That will fix you right up.
- January 7, 2009 at 12:10 AM
I've unfortunately lived here for a summer or two, and it's been HORRIBLE. No weather whatsoever. Way too hot. Way too sunny. Not even thunderstorms to make it interesting. I'll take winter here over summer anyday! And I'll take the Midwest's exciting weather over this boring stuff any day. At least it's been nice the past few weeks. :)
- January 7, 2009 at 6:59 AM


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Seven of the most unlikely single-game performancesby John Kreiser
The NHL record book is filled with accomplishments by the greatest stars in hockey history -- Wayne Gretzky's record-setting 92 goals in 1981-82, Bobby Orr winning scoring titles as a defenseman and Martin Brodeur piling up 119 (and counting) shutouts are just a few.
But there are also guys in the record book that weren't household names -- players whose brush with greatness was confined to a single night.
Here are some of the greatest and most unlikely one-game performances in NHL history:
March 4, 1941
Grand finalesBy John Kreiser - NHL.com Columnist
NHL.com takes a look at some of the best farewell seasons in League history, featuring finales of Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe among others.
LoPresti, a native of Eveleth, Minn., lasted just two seasons and 74 games in the NHL, but that was more than enough time to earn his line in the record books for most saves by a goaltender in a single game.
LoPresti took the ice for Chicago at Boston on March 4, 1941, and was immediately under siege from the powerful Bruins, who were on their way to a first-place finish. The Bruins pelted the rookie goaltender with shot after shot, only to see him make the save. They did manage to get three pucks past LoPresti, but he set an NHL record that still stands by making 80 saves -- earning an ovation from the Boston Garden crowd despite the loss. No goaltender since that night has faced more than 73 shots.
March 16, 1947
Two players in NHL history have had seven assists in a regular-season game. One is Gretzky, who did it three times while playing with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s. The other was Taylor, who did it for Detroit late in the 1946-47 season.
Taylor and the Wings rolled into Chicago Stadium needing a win against the last-place Hawks to help them hold onto the fourth and final playoff position. He proceeded to earn assists on seven of Detroit's 10 goals in a 10-6 victory. Before Taylor's feat, no player had earned more than five assists in a single game.
Taylor led the NHL in assists that season with 46 and was third in scoring with 65 points. But the Wings traded him to Boston that summer, and he was suspended by NHL president Clarence Campbell late in the 1947-48 season for gambling violations.
Oct. 12, 1976
The New York Rangers were in a rebuilding phase in the mid-1970s when they took Murdoch with the sixth pick in the 1976 NHL Draft. With the core of their powerhouse teams from the early '70s getting older, Murdoch earned a berth on the team and wasted no time in showing why the Rangers drafted him.
In only his fourth NHL game, Murdoch lit up the Minnesota North Stars for five goals as the Rangers won 10-5 at Met Center. Toronto's Howie Meeker was the only other first-year player to score five times in a game; no one has matched that mark since Murdoch did it.
Murdoch went on to score 15 goals in his first 15 games and 32 in 59 games before a severe ankle injury ended his season. He had 27 goals in his second season but was suspended by the NHL for the first half of the 1978-79 season after pleading guilty to a drug possession charge and was gone from the NHL by 1982.
Feb. 2, 1977
For all his greatness, Bobby Orr never scored more than three goals in a game. Neither did Hall of Famers like Ray Bourque and Brian Leetch. Paul Coffey, another Hall of Famer, did get four. But Turnbull, a Montreal native taken in the first round of the 1973 NHL Draft by Toronto, is the only defenseman in NHL history ever to get five.
Turnbull was perhaps best known as Hall of Famer Borje Salming's partner with the Leafs for much of the 1970s. But he stepped into the spotlight when Detroit came to Maple Leaf Gardens in early February of 1977, beating Ed Giacomin twice and Jim Rutherford three times as the Leafs overpowered the Red Wings 9-1.
(Photo: NHLI via Getty Images)
Amazingly, Turnbull scored his goals on his only five shots on goal -- he's the first, and still only, player in League history to score five times on just five shots.
Turnbull finished the season with career highs of 22 goals and 79 points, but never got close to either total again and was out of the NHL before his 30th birthday.
Feb. 14, 1977
No player in NHL history had a better debut than Hill, whose lack of scoring left him undrafted before the Philadelphia Flyers signed him as a free agent.
Hill, playing on a line with Bob Clarke and Bob Kelly, wasted no time making an impact after the injury-plagued Flyers called him up from the minors -- he scored his first NHL goal just 36 seconds into the game, ripping a 40-foot slapper past St. Louis goaltender Yves Belanger. Hill got his second goal of the game less than 11 minutes later, then added three assists as the Flyers beat the Blues 6-4.
Hill also got into a fight, giving him a Gordie Howe hat trick in his debut.
It took NHL statisticians several days of research to determine that Hill had set a record for the most points by a player in his first NHL game -- and by that time, he had been returned to the minors. He went on to play 221 NHL games, all with the Flyers, scoring 40 goals and 95 points.
Feb. 10, 1993
Reese is known today as one of the NHL's best goaltending coaches -- he earned a Stanley Cup ring with Tampa Bay in 2004 and now works for the Philadelphia Flyers. He never won more than 14 games in a season during his 12-year playing career, but he's in the record books more for his offense than his goaltending skills.
Reese was playing for the Calgary Flames when the second-year San Jose Sharks came to the Saddledome. The Flames delighted their fans by demolishing the lowly Sharks 13-1, and Reese set a mark for goaltenders that has yet to be equaled by earning assists on three of Calgary's 13 goals that night.
How out of character was the three-assist night? In the other 173 games of Reese's career, he had only five more assists.
Feb. 2, 2012
Dave Gagner, became the sixth player taken in the 2007 NHL Draft when he was selected by Edmonton. He was good enough to make the Oilers as an 18-year-old and finished his first season with 13 goals and 49 points.
But Gagner never built on his promising start -- he had no more than 16 goals and 42 points in any of his next three seasons, and there were rumors circulating that he could be traded by the time the Chicago Blackhawks came to Rexall Place during their annual February road trip.
Much to the amazement of everyone in the building, Gagner scored four times and added four assists to become the first player since Mario Lemieux in 1988 -- and just the 13th in NHL history -- to pile up eight points in a game. He added three more points in the Oilers' next game against Detroit to set a franchise record for points in a two-game span with 11, one more than the previous mark held by Gretzky.
Despite the outburst, Gagner finished the season with only 47 points -- though his 18 goals were a career high.

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Tom Eblen: Duo compiles a finely crafted book about Ky. antiques
SIMPSONVILLE — When journalists Genevieve Lacer and Libby Howard began collecting Kentucky antiques more than a decade ago, they were surprised by how little information was readily available.
A few monographs had been written and some museum catalogs published. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C., had collected some scholarship. The Magazine Antiques had featured Kentucky pieces in special issues in 1947 and 1974.
But there were no comprehensive books about Kentucky-made furniture, silver and textiles, even though they were some of the finest produced anywhere in antebellum America.
What the friends soon discovered was that considerable scholarship had been done on early Kentucky decorative arts, but most of that knowledge resided in the heads and notebooks of a few dozen passionate collectors.
That prompted Lacer and Howard to write and publish Collecting Kentucky 1790-1860. The 360-page book is detailed and exacting, yet readable and beautifully designed, with 600 illustrations by Lexington photographer Bill Roughen. State historian James Klotter wrote the forward.
"The book gives you a visual entryway into things you'll never see, because they're in private homes," Lacer said, and only a few pieces from historic house museums are included "because we literally ran out of room."
The book's 270 "subscribers," who paid $275 early in the process to get leather-bound special editions, receive their books Sunday at a private reception. A $75 "collector's" edition goes on sale Monday at bookstores and antique shops around the state (for more information, go to Collectingkentucky.com).
Lacer, who lives in Shelby County, wrote an award-winning 2006 biography of Swiss artist Edward Troye, who painted America's greatest racehorses in the mid-1800s. Howard, who lives in Henry County, is a former editor of Kentucky Homes and Gardens magazine.
In approaching their book project, Lacer and Howard wanted to document Kentucky antiques and explore their histories, relationships and craftsmen. They also wanted to explain the goals and objectives of serious collectors they knew about, all of whom live in Kentucky.
"These are people who have spent 30, 40, 50 years refining a viewpoint about their collections," Howard said. "They all have a focus. We became fascinated with how, visually, they are telling the story of antebellum Kentucky as they understand it."
Ten major collections are profiled in separate chapters. Objects from 40 more private collections are gathered by object type in an 83-page "archive" at the back. Between each chapter is a small essay that tells an interesting story about an object, its maker or the time and place in which this work was created.
Only one collection is identified with its owners' names, because it is the only major collection now in the public domain. Over three decades, Garrard County natives Bob and Norma Noe assembled one of the most impressive collections of early Kentucky antiques. They recently donated it to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville.
The Speed is now closed for a major renovation and expansion. But when it reopens in 2016, the Noe Collection will be the foundation of a new Center for Kentucky Art, the first permanent museum space devoted to Kentucky works.
Bob Noe encouraged Lacer and Howard to write Collecting Kentucky as both a primer and a reference book, and he said in an interview that he is pleased with the result.
"I think the book will do wonders to add context in an area too often neglected," Noe said. "Kentuckians need to know more about our early culture."
The six decades covered in this book were exciting times in Kentucky. After statehood in 1792, Kentucky transitioned from America's frontier to being a prosperous and influential region of agriculture and trade.
Prosperity created demand for decorative art and utilitarian items that were both beautiful and functional. Because Kentucky had little colonial tradition, early decorative arts often featured motifs of patriotism, and native flora and fauna.
Craftsmen in all parts of Kentucky produced remarkable work. Some, such as silversmith Asa Blanchard and cabinetmaker Porter Clay (brother of Henry), created pieces as fine as anything then being made on the East Coast.
The book features many outstanding examples of chests, cupboards, desks, case clocks, tables and chairs made of native cherry and walnut with poplar inlay, as well as imported mahogany. The authors tried to pull together available research on the craftsmen who made these items, linking pieces to regional styles.
Early Kentucky silver, often made from melted coins, has long been prized. Lacer said one of the most fun experiences in compiling the book was when several collectors brought more than $1 million worth of silver to her home to be photographed. Roughen was able to create images comparing large groups of work that had never been brought together before.
The book includes a section about one of Kentucky's most famous products of the era: the long rifle. Kentucky rifles were not only accurate and dependable weapons; they often were highly decorated works of art.
Lacer and Howard said they hope their book will spark more public interest and scholarship in early Kentucky decorative arts.
"We just scratched the surface," Lacer said. "We left out big collections we know about, and I can only imagine the ones we don't know about. This is a lot bigger idea in our state than I ever dreamt."


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New Fall Titles: TeekyuPost Reply
Hey guys,
We're just added Teekyu to our Fall 2012 lineup.
We'll be broadcasting from Sunday, October 14th at 7:00am PDT in the following regions: North America, South America, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
The series follows the hilarious everyday routines of four girls in the Kameido High tennis club who, on occasion, actually play some tennis. Oshimoto Yuri is a first-year who has grown critical of her upperclassmens' ridiculous antics, Shinjo Kanae is a silly second-year who joined the tennis club even though she can barely play tennis, Bando Marimo the second-year is an unpredictable pervert from Kansai, and Takamiya Nasuno the second-year is a strange rich girl who thinks everything can be resolved with money. Today and tomorrow and the day after, whether the four of them are together or not, this zany tennis anime is guaranteed to be full of laughs!
Continuing Titles:
Next Announcements:
9/25 - Hiiro No Kakera Season 2
9/27 - Gintama'
9/28 - Hayate No Gotoku! Can't Take My Eyes Off You
9/28 - Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World)
9/30 - Ixion Saga
10/1 - My Little Monster
10/1 - Blast of Tempest
10/3 - Magi
10/3 - GIRLS und PANZER
10/4 - Medaka Box 2
10/9 - My Little Nightmare
10/10 - The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
10/11 - Teekyu
10/?? - ??
If this is as good as Poyopoyo, I will be happy
So far, it's got the moe appearance checked
Good job CR, can't wait for the next announcement
What even
Looks moe! With enough comedy it could be fun. Will give it a try at least.
Hmm I had thought this one wasnt going to be picked up. It's nice being proven wrong when I think that.
I wonder if that last slot'll be used up (not really into 2-3 minute animes…. except Hetalia XD), and if it is, I hope it's a good anime.
what are the chances of them getting Code: Breaker?
Journeying to the West
I guess I'd give this anime a chance too.
Are y'all planning to add more Fall Anime Titles that will be available in Asia and Middle East -3-
*Depressing music that strangely turns into dance music
>.< Im getting the feeling they dont have little buster
Nice pickup, Crunchyroll. I don't like tennis, but I think I'll enjoy this short anime.
The last box could be something with a special problem to sort out, like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ending with the Yes song Roundabout, or it could be a sublicense from a second tier distributor like NISA (if its NISA, they'll probably announce at NYCC this weekend) ...
... or it could be an international licensor that has never worked with Crunchyroll before that is doing its due diligence on its contract.
8 years as a premium member, but no more
One is not like the others...
I look forward to it.
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I wonder if that last slot'll be used up (not really into 2-3 minute animes…. except Hetalia XD), and if it is, I hope it's a good anime.
The only other short episode anime series that are out there this season are Wooser and Litchi De Hikari Club... I can't see CR getting the latter but maybe the final slot would be taken by Wooser... but I'm hoping for something full length myself.
From what's left, excluding Wooser, I'd really hope they would get Little Busters or Suki-tte... I'm still really pissed off at Funimation getting both noitaminA shows as those would have been ones I would have liked to have seen on top of the two I just mentioned added to the lineup.
What would be really cool is if tomorrow CR announced Little Busters and released ep 1 and 2 on Saturday when the show airs... that would be a nice surprise... they could also do the same if they got Suki-tte as I think that one airs on Sundays... keeping my fingers crossed that something cool happens like that.
It's a shame though, 10 simulcasts went down the crapper this season because of who licensed them... 4 with Sentai who can't seem to figure out time zones and now everything seems delayed, and we all know what issues Funimation has, so yeah. The only hope that is left is that CR can round out their lineup with a strong title that people are waiting for.
Back on track... this anime looks cute, I'll watch it, and it's nice to see that they are going to be simulcasting it and putting up both eps 1 and 2 on Sunday.
I forgot about JoJo, that one would also be okay for them to pickup to round out the lineup as far as I'm concerned.
So far behind on anime... need to catch up
Q4 2012 has been weak in terms of the quantity of shows CR has obtained for simulcast, but if other distrubers are throwing more money around to get a large portion of the shows what can CR do?
On Teekyu, I've can't see Teekyu being as good as PoyoPoyo but hopefully it is better than Chitose Get You (and most of 3 min series I've seen on CR).


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Most of the things "proclaimed" are subjective and who is "proclaiming" that the plane's handling it too responsive and essentially calling the plane a heap of junk. Each vehicle is unique and has it own flaws. Most of which can be over come, like the Super GT often spins out, so the player has to overcome that flaw by learning the limitations of the vehicles turning capability, adapting the driving style to the vehicle and finally learning when to brake and what brake should be used and soon the player will be evading corrupt police officers, gangbangers, and OG's who want their car back. So just like the Super GT the player will have to learn when to turn how far and they will soon find that the plane is not that bad. Just because the Stuntplane turns fast doesn't mean it's a horrible plane, with that logic you could "proclaim" that the Hunter is the worst helicopter in the game because of it's tendency to flip over rather easily. All you have to do is try harder to master the vehicle before say it's flaws are beyond help. 01:44, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I do agree, although i find the stunt planes handling exelent people should learn to adapt to it rather than calling it useless. --Chimpso 07:37, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I've never flown a PITTS but I have flown an EXTRA 300, which is in the same class, being a stuntplane, and I can say that in real life, stuntplanes of this nature are MUCH more difficult to become acclimated to than in this game. The aileron extends almost the entire length of the wing on the Extra, giving the aircraft the ability to roll 360 degrees in less than a second! It's also built to take 10 positive Gs and (the manufacturer proclaims) 10 negative Gs, although Humans cant take that kind of Negative G pressure! So you can imagine the sensitivity on the stick...hell it took several minutes to get the wings level, as they were "wagging" up and down even though I wasn't moving my hand! Finesse is the key here, as it is in GTA. All the above comes from experience in the 300, but from what I've seen the PITTS Special do, I would imagine similar preformance characteristics. WS 21:28, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't know what he just said but I agree. Oh and by the way. Your username is not WS its Sukhoi-35BM. Stop signing your comments with WS its confusing. --Chimpso 06:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


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November 26, 2007
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School administrators and board members are looking at a first draft of a 2008-2009 budget that could — if approved in current form by the VUHS board in January and by voters in March — boost spending by about 5 percent to $8.45 million.
Rising energy and health insurance costs are pressuring the bottom line. In 2006 the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union also signed a new contract with its teachers giving raises ranging from about 3 to 5 percent, with the higher raises going to the lower end of the salary scale.
VUHS Principal Ed Webbley said officials have little wiggle room once they factor in those items; expenses mandated by federal and state governments, such as special education; and other uncontrollable costs such as transportation, maintenance, and an almost $700,000 payment on the school's seven-year-old expansion and renovation bond.
Unless they want to start cutting non-mandatory programs at the 650-student high and middle school like music, art, agriculture and world language, Webbley said officials have about only $100,000 to play with.
"Discretionary monies at our high school are $155 per student," Webbley said. "We can make decisions on only such a small, small fraction of our whole budget. We can make decisions regarding field trips, books and supplies for students, and after that our discretion pretty much runs the course."
ANwSU business manager Donna Corcoran projected an 8.5-percent increase in health insurance costs for budgeting purposes, although she said she picked that figure to be safe after being told to expect an increase closer to 7.5 percent.
By MEGAN JAMES
ADDISON COUNTY — After Kathy Jones' father killed himself, her mother went to great lengths to have his death certificate changed. Instead of reading "suicide" as the cause of death, it now reads "unknown."
There's no doubt about how her father died, Jones said. Her mother drove home early from work that day to find him asphyxiating in a running car, closed up in the garage.
But people don't know how to talk about suicide, Jones said. So for many survivors, it's easier to make up a lie.
"You learn, when you've dealt with a death like this, people act so bizarre," Jones said. "I've had people just shut right down when I tell them how my father died."
It's been eight years since the East Middlebury resident lost her father, but this year Jones joined the Survivors of Suicide (SOS) support group in Burlington. Before long, she became a board member for the Vermont chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
Last month, Jones joined nearly 100 Vermonters in the fourth annual AFSP "Out of the Darkness Community Walk" in Burlington, helping to raise more than $17,000 toward national and local suicide prevention and awareness programs. She hopes to bring the topic of suicide out of the shadows.
According to the Vermont Agency of Human Services, in 2004 Vermont had the 12th highest suicide rate in the country; there were 93 suicides in the state that year. Addison County has seen a number of suicides in the last couple years and certainly has a reason to be concerned, said AHS field director Sue Schmidt in Middlebury.
VERGENNES UNION HIGH School students Joe Chugg, front left, Erin Conway and Chris Griffin, back left, are among the 15 students who are working with teacher Meg Coffey and pharmacist Larry Renaud to learn how to help senior citizens navigate the Medicare.gov Web site to find the prescription drug plan that best fits their needs.
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VERGENNES — Like many of her friends, Vergennes Union High School senior Erin Conway spends more than an hour a day using a computer.
For Conway, a task like logging onto the medicare.gov Web site and comparing 51 different private prescription drug insurance plans is not that difficult, even though it's a multi-step, multi-screen process with thousands of possible results depending on the drugs entered.
But ask the senior citizens for whom the Web site was created and you'll likely find many of them struggling to make sense of the process.
That's why 15 VUHS students, along with Kinney Drug supervising pharmacist Larry Renaud and two pharmacy technicians, have volunteered to help senior citizens navigate the medicare.gov maze at the VUHS library on Dec. 2. The goal is to help older Americans take advantage of the annual six-week enrollment period in which they are allowed to change their Medicare Part D prescription drug plan in order to save hundreds or, potentially, thousands of dollars.
The last six weeks of each year senior citizens enrolled in Medicare have the opportunity to change their Medicare Part D drug plans. Pharmacists recommend that all seniors who have such a plan evaluate it each year because the number of plans available changes and what is covered in existing plans changes.
November 22, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — A standing-room crowd packed the Ilsley Public Library meeting room on Monday to urge the Middlebury Development Review Board (DRB) to reject proposed Staples and Starbucks stores that would be sited in, and adjacent to, The Centre shopping plaza off Route 7 South.
Some of the more than 60 residents, one of whom presented the DRB with a petition bearing more than 1,000 names, told DRB members the new stores would be out of character with Middlebury and could substantially weaken already established family-owned stores in the downtown.
The developer Myron Hunt Inc. — which owns The Centre — is proposing both stores. The 14,600-square-foot Staples would be built next to the Hannaford Supermarket in The Centre. The 1,700-square-foot Starbucks would be erected on an adjacent parcel now occupied by the former Middlebury Car Wash.
Chris Hunt, a principal of Myron Hunt Inc., represented the company at Monday's hearing. He said he believes neither of the two stores would put a dent in Middlebury's current retail scene.
"We realize that without a healthy, vibrant downtown economy, we can't exist," Hunt said. "It is purely a question of striking the right balance and we do not want to cause an imbalance."
Hunt pointed to the proposed Staples as an example of a store that could help bring a better balance of stores to Middlebury, thereby giving shoppers less incentive to shop in the commercial hubs of Rutland and Chittenden counties.
"The Staples is a store that has been designed for the smaller town," Hunt said. "It is roughly 10,000 square feet smaller than their average store. It's in fact smaller than many of the drugstores we've seen."
Staples, according to Hunt, has been looking to establish a store in Middlebury for "the past several years."
ADDISON COUNTY — Deep in the New Haven woods, the whirly-gig wheels on Dave Winborn's ambulance-shaped lawn ornament spin around in the wind. This is how visitors know they've taken the right path to his tent, Winborn said, and how he knows he's home.
Winborn doesn't consider himself homeless, and he doesn't consider himself poor. He has a job, a truck and his beautiful tent, complete with a woodstove and writing desk, which he has inhabited since this summer when he pitched it on a friend's land.
The 55-year-old is an EMT on three different area rescue squads: he has volunteered with the Bristol squad for more than 25 years, with New Haven First Response for about 15 years and five months ago he started a paid position with Valley Rescue Squad in Hancock.
Next spring Winborn will earn his associate's degree in human services from the Community College of Vermont.
"If I don't blow it," he said with a smile. "It'll be the first time in my life I've ever worn a cap and gown. I never finished high school. I went right from public school to the streets."
But, even though he is a contributing member of society with a paying job, Winborn is one of many people in Addison County who cannot find an affordable apartment.
This month the United Way of Addison County released the results of its 2007 Community Needs Assessment, in which about 750 area residents responded to a survey asking them to identify the most pressing needs they face today. Affordable housing ranked among the top four problems, along with financial stability, health and transportation.
MARY HOGAN ELEMENTARY School paraprofessional Nancy Wollum works with her sixth-grade students and Sable, a black Lab puppy going through training for Guiding Eyes for the Blind. Sable has been in the classroom since the beginning of the year and will leave the school for official training at the end of the academic year.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — It's recess time at Mary Hogan Elementary School, and Sable eagerly lines up with her fellow sixth-grade classmates in anticipation of a spirited game of soccer on the playground.
And though less than a year old, Sable has a decided kicking and running advantage over other players on the soccer field; she has four legs to their two.
She never growls at a bad call.
Sable, you see, is a dog — and not just any dog. The young black Labrador retriever is being groomed to graduate from her class as a "seeing eye dog" who may one day provide indispensable guidance to a blind man or woman somewhere in North America.
"It's working out beautifully," said Nancy Wollum, an ID-4 teaching paraprofessional and Sable's temporary custodian. Wollum received Sable last summer from Guiding Eyes for The Blind, an organization that trains dogs and places them with sight-impaired citizens.
Wollum became aware of Yorktown, N.Y.-based Guiding Eyes for The Blind around five years ago after seeing one of the organization's postings at the Ilsley Public Library.
"It was a card at the library on the bulletin board, and it said, 'Do you want to be a puppy raiser?'" Wollum recalled. "I wanted a dog, but I didn't want one for a 10-year span. I didn't know what my life would be like."
November 19, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — The UD-3 school board will spend the coming weeks refining the first draft of a combined Middlebury Union High School/Middlebury Union Middle School 2008-2009 budget of $15.46 million, which would represent a 7.8-percent increase in spending over the current year.
But district officials are very confident they will be able to substantially trim that number in short order, largely due to an early retirement program that has been offered to 13 veteran UD-3 teachers. The board is scheduled to discuss the budget at its next meeting, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 5:30 p.m., in room 218 at MUMS.
"We think we're in good shape," Addison Central Supervisory Union Superintendent Lee Sease said on Wednesday.
As of last week, roughly half of the 13 early retirement slots had been spoken for, according to Sease, who is confident the others will be used up before the UD-3 budget is put to bed next month.
The prospective early retirements of 13 senior teachers will allow the district to hire new educators at lower salaries while keeping some of the slots vacant.
"As we go through the early retirement process, there will be some positions that we don't replace," Sease said. "That will not eliminate programs. What it might do is eliminate the number of course offerings we might have in a subject."
Sease said he could not yet confirm which subjects are likely to be affected by the early retirements.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
STARKSBORO — A Starksboro mother and daughter team are planning a charity event for May 2008. That's far in advance for a relatively simple project, but what they have in mind takes a lot of time to prepare. Beth and Meghan Hahr are encouraging people to get their hair cut in a Locks of Love hair drive and donate the trimmed tresses to make wigs for children who have lost their hair for medical reasons.
Meghan herself has a wig like that. Now in sixth grade, Meghan found her hair falling out while on a family vacation about three years ago. The family eventually found she had a condition called alopecia, an autoimmune disorder whose side effects include hair loss.
"Your immune system thinks your hair follicles are bad," as Beth described it.
Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization intended to contribute a sense of confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss from long-term medical treatments and disease. Some of the children need wigs due to radiation treatment or chemotherapy for cancer, but most Locks of Love children have alopecia like Meghan herself.
In some cases, a person with alopecia only loses patches of hair here and there, but some lose all body hair, even nose hair and eyelashes. However, the disease has no symptoms other than problems caused by hair loss, like a greater risk of sunburns if the scalp is bald or a more severe case of allergies if the nose hairs go.
Meghan said that for her, alopecia means losing patches of hair about twice a year. She is now growing back a patch of hair that she lost over the summer.
Meghan doesn't wear her wig as much as she did at first. Sometimes the hair loss is unnoticeable, and when it isn't, she just has to pay more attention to how she dresses.
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Michael B. Jordan has a message for all the hating comic book fans who say a BLACK man can't play the extremely WHITE Human Torch -- CHILL OUT!
Jordan just got the the role of Johnny Storm in the upcoming Fantastic Four remake -- even though in comics, the character's always been blonde-haired, blue-eyed ... and has a white sister Sue Storm (Kate Mara got that role).
Check out Michael's answer. One thing's for sure ... Black Torch has way more swagger.


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GameStop is an amazingly profitable company, and those profits are due largely to the margins the company enjoys on used game sales. When GameStop gives you $15 to $20 for a game that has been out a mere week, then sells the same game for $45, they're making money that no retailer selling new games can match; new games have a very thin profit margin for retailers. Which is why it is surprising to see Best Buy make its new game prices competitive with GameStop's used game prices.
In West Jordan, Utah, an eagle-eye Cheapassgamer reader snapped a picture of a sign at a local Best Buy. It said that Best Buy would price-match any used game from GameStop or GameCrazy with a new copy. So instead of going to GameStop for a $45 used game that has been opened—and of course, used—you can go to Best Buy and pay the same price for a brand-new, sealed copy. All evidence is pointing to this promotion being a small test run in a very few locations, but it didn't take long for GameStop to fire back.
GameStop has the margins to make this fight ugly
Soon after the Best Buy story hit the Internet, Kotaku was given a copy of a flier from GameStop that showed some amazing price cuts on a wide selection of used games. Don't be confused if you haven't seen this sale at your local store; it seems to be localized around... wait for it... West Jordan, Utah.
The games on sale are newer titles, with an additional $10 or $15 knocked off GameStop's normal prices for used games. It doesn't take a cynic to realize that Game Stop is hoping customers flood Best Buy locations with the flier, demanding price-matched new copies of these games. And if gamers go into GameStop locations to take advantage of the sale, the company still wins; the margins on GameStop's used games are so high that it can afford to run this sale and turn a profit, while forcing Best Buy to lose money on each game it sells at these prices.
The thought process going on at both companies has been opaque when it comes to the competing promotions—we contacted both Best Buy and GameStop and have yet to hear a comment from either—but the economics of the situation are clear. GameStop can fight the good fight on used game pricing and still come out the victor, because new games purchased from distributors, even with the scale of large retailers, leave only a few dollars of profit when the game is sold.
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It's doubtful, since both companies are fighting in such a way that their bottom lines are compromised. Best Buy may not be ready to turn its entire new game inventory into a loss-leader, and GameStop loves its high-margin used games. The gaming retailer is likely hoping that its counter-attack will make Best Buy skittish about trying this tactic in other markets, and there may be room to dump used prices further in case the message wasn't strong enough. Once Best Buy kills its promotion, GameStop kills its sale.
It's a cat and mouse game between two giants in the gaming world, with only one clear winner: gamers looking for a bargain in West Jordan, Utah.


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Major Section: PROGRAMMING
(Nthcdr n l) removes the first
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The following is a theorem.
(implies (and (integerp n) (<= 0 n) (true-listp l)) (equal (length (nthcdr n l)) (if (<= n (length l)) (- (length l) n) 0)))For related functions, see take and see butlast.
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Consider the Glory of God
John Newton (1725–1807) is best known today for his great hymns (including "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken"). But in his own day, he was perhaps more highly prized as a letter writer — "the great director …Read More
Consider the Public
Unbelievers, even though their hearts and minds are opposed to God's truth, sometimes have more spiritual insight than we give them credit for. At least that is what I learned as a junior in college. As a religion major at …Read More
Consider Your Opponent
I became convinced of the truth of Reformed theology while attending Dallas Theological Seminary — the flagship institution of dispensational theology. Some of my fellow students accused me of being apostate when they discovered that I had rejected dispensationalism. Having …Read More
Consider Yourself
Controversy exists because God's truth exists in a world of lies. Controversy is the plight of sinners in a fallen world, who were originally created by God to know the truth, love the truth, and proclaim the truth. We cannot …Read More
Why Controversy is Sometimes Necessary
I recently watched as a young mother acted quickly and decisively to end a squabble among two preschool boys. She acted righteously and quite effectively, and then she turned to her two charges and set down the law: "It is …Read More
On Controversy
John Newton is best known as the writer of the hymn "Amazing Grace". Were that all he bequeathed to the church, it would be an incredible legacy. There is another small work by Newton, however, that I believe could be …Read More


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Multiple Subject Credential
The Multiple Subject Teaching Credential authorizes its holder to teach in a self-contained classroom in which several subjects are taught by the same teacher to the same group of students. Most elementary schools are organized around self-contained classrooms. The Multiple Subject Teaching Credential also enables the holder to teach in middle school core programs with relevant supplementary authorizations or credentials, in subject oriented departments: e.g., math or science. In addition to foundations, methods and field-based practicum courses, preparation for this credential includes the study of language acquisition, cultural diversity, bilingual education, and instructional strategies for second language learners.
The Elementary Education Department offers several options for earning the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential.


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
March 2007
Mass Spectrometry Capabilities Aid in Large Poxvirus Study
Results will help development of improved antiviral drugs and vaccines
Results: Using state-of-the-art mass spectrometry capabilities at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy national scientific user facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers successfully conducted one of the largest proteomic studies of the vaccinia virus. Vaccinia is a poxvirus nearly identical to smallpox, used as a vaccine to prevent the sometimes-fatal disease. The results of the study were reported in the journal Virology.
Why it matters:The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will help provide researchers with a biological understanding of poxviruses and is expected to aid in development of improved antiviral drugs and vaccines to combat outbreaks of poxviruses that might occur as a result of biological threat.
Methods: The team used a combination of EMSL's tandem mass spectrometry and Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry capabilities to detect 80 vaccinia virus-encoded proteins—confirming and extending the list of vaccinia virus proteins known to be produced. Ten of the proteins detected during the study accounted for approximately 80 percent of the virion mass of vaccinia virus—or the infectious form of the virus as it exists outside of the host cell. Another 13 proteins were identified that were not detected and reported in earlier studies.
Next steps: The researchers will continue efforts to study and learn more about the previously undetected proteins.
Research team: Kim Hixson, Mary Lipton and Ron Moore, PNNL; Wolfgang Resch and Bernard Moss, NIH.
Source: Resch W, KK Hixson, RJ Moore, MS Lipton, and B Moss. 2007. "Protein composition of the vaccinia virus mature virion." Virology 358(1):233-247.


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Paul Graham, one of the founders of web incubator Y Combinator, says we're not in a bubble, and he's right. There's way too much talk about this mythical bubble. It ain't a bubble, folks.
However, I think Paul is wide of the mark on a number of his assertions made when interviewed by Ian Delaney, who is currently writing a book on Web 2.0. Paul says he has spotted "a social trend that will last", namely: "the startup world will increasingly be ruled by technical people rather than business people".
God forbid!
I'm amazed that a savvy investor would think that way. Paul is a hacker himself of course, and a successful entrepreneur to boot, so I could be wildly out on this one. It just seems… wrong… on… so… many… levels…
"The idea of building something popular then figuring out how to make money from it was born in the Bubble. It sounds irresponsible, but it works," he says. He should maybe append that sentence with "some of the time". Or "once in a blue moon".
Paul's reasoning is: "As in so many other areas, Google is the pattern for the future. The hackers dominate Google, and that's why Google wins."
Yet it is an open secret that Google has struggled with the internal strife that accompanies massive success. Some commentators have said that Google executives seem more worried about the concerns of employees, than Wall Street, or indeed any number of other challenges. Do you think Google's technologists are staying awake at night pondering how to deal with this stuff? Or is it their business executives, the HR people, the internal comms people, and the PR folks?
Google is struggling to be a corporate, which, given its scale, it undoubtedly is. It doesn't want to be a corporate, and certainly it doesn't want to behave like one. Amen to all that. But a company that has doubled its headcount in the space of a year (to almost 7,000) needs some serious coordination. I don't think most technologists are even remotely interested in that sort of thing.
So it is safe to say hackers don't run Google, not in 2006. Hackers founded Google, sure, but Messrs Brin and Page will be the first to admit that they had no clue about how to monetise it when it launched. Remember that Adwords only became a reality about five years ago. Google mined gold, but as internet wannabes without a business model any right-minded VC in 1997 would have a) admired their ambition but b) showed them the door, on the grounds that they had no business model. The VCs would have been cursing themselves now of course, but would it have been wise to invest back in the day?
Hackers may have serious amounts of influence at Google, and yes, they build lots of lovely new Gproducts for fun, but Google is a big advertising network, and its clients are advertisers. Most techies I know hate advertising, marketers, account managers, and so on. Techies are good at the detail, not necessarily the big picture. I'm generalising here, but so is Paul.
Google, like other companies of that size, is most likely governed by the demands of its marketing department, driven by its business goals. Not by what Google's internal tech purists want.
The fact is, Google built something really cool, and it worked, so it went viral. Like Digg, Bebo and MySpace went viral. None of these sites were engineered to 'go viral'. They hoped to gain support from users, who became evangelists, raising brand awareness by word of mouth. But they could never have forecasted that level of success, and nor could a VC.
Paul says: "A lot of the most characteristically lame startups of the Bubble were that way because they were started by business guys, who then went looking for hackers to implement their ideas." Hmmm. The really lame startups were those that were overfunded by dumb VCs who jumped on the bandwagon before realising where it was heading. I blame the VCs way more than the entrepreneurs waving the beermats around. They should have known better.
We're not in a bubble nowadays partly because consumer internet behaviour has caught up with some of the crazy forecasts of yore, which means today's crazy valuations might actually be rooted in something approaching reality. But back in the day, VCs were demanding that newly-funded companies spent their cash to acquire 'eyeballs', a metric that is slowly (sadly) but surely working its way back into favour. Look at the Superbowl ads in 2000 for proof of this. Eyeballs! Eyeballs count for shit. Eyeballs are a goddamned cost to the business, if there isn't a business model (existing or prospective).
Many Web 2.0 startups are overly reliant on the 'get scale, get acquired' maxim (aka 'get lots of eyeballs, start hawking'). Which is a rubbish throwback to the madness of 1998-2000. This seems to be what Paul is hoping for too… get scale, then pin on some sort of business model (wooo, Adsense!), then get acquired. Or, in his case, implement an exit strategy. Let us not forget that Paul is an investor. If you were investing money in some cool technology product / web app, then wouldn't you take a very close look at risk / reward, at market size, at market trends, and at opportunities to cash in somewhere down the line?
Coming at this from a developreneur perspective (I just coined a term there, people), you need to remember that just because you can build something doesn't mean you should. Every minute spent working on your own web app is a minute you can't bill a client for. If you are a developer, then time is money. You might learn new things building new web apps, so there is a value there. And yes, your new web app might 'get scale, get business model, get acquired'. But that happens much less often than you might imagine. And besides, you need to know about business, about online (and offline) marketing, about quality content, about attracting users, about design, about encouraging interaction, about making sense of the data, about customer support, and so on. Most developers I know just don't have all these skills, whereas internet business people might (but they won't know how to code).
Businesses are typically engineered and operated by business folk. Technologists solve problems for users. Marketers sell. That's the way it should be. You see what happens when a marketer tries to tell a techie how he should implement his technology! Carnage! Or when a techie writes copy for a web page. Rubbish!
Solving problems with technology can be fun, it can put you on the map, and yes, you can probably bolt on some sort of business model to a successful website (like Google did) once you've got enough users to merit thinking about revenue streams / paying bills. But to suggest that "the business belongs to the hackers" is crazy talk. That's tail wagging dog, in my view.


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BAGHDAD: Militants wearing military uniforms carried out an overnight attack against a balloting center in a remote area of the country's north and killed 10 guards, a senior police official said on Tuesday.
It was the latest in a surge of attacks around the country as Iraq gears up for crucial parliament elections on April 30. The attack came as Iraq's Shiite-led government struggled to keep a lid on a surge in sectarian violence that has sent bloodshed soaring to levels not seen since the country was pushed to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
An unknown number of militants showed up at the polling center late Monday in Daqouq village outside the northern city of Kirkuk, deputy police chief Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman Youssef said. They said they were there to carry out a search, he added, but instead shot and killed the 10 guards, eight of whom were village residents.
Daqouq is located about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad.
The attack was part of an ongoing effort by militants to derail elections in Sunni-dominated areas. It came just hours after a series of suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed at least 33 people.
The violence has led to a cancellation of balloting in parts of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which is engulfed in clashes between security forces and al-Qaida-inspired militants. The militants have seized and are holding parts of the provincial capital, Ramadi, and almost all of the nearby city of Fallujah.
More than 9,000 candidates are taking part in the elections and will vie for 328 seats in parliament.
Later on Tuesday, authorities said a roadside bomb targeting a street full of shoppers killed four people and wounded nine in the city of Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad.
A roadside bomb also hit a police patrol south of Mosul, they added, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding four.


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Unions in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and Greece used the traditional marches to express anger over a savings drive across the euro zone, aimed at shoring up public finances but criticized for forcing countries deeper into recession.
Italian demonstrators briefly clashed with police in riot gear in Turin and thousands marched in the central city of Rieti to listen to the leaders of the country's three main unions denounce Prime Minister Mario Monti's reforms.
French trade unions organized about 290 demonstrations, from Marseille in the south to Strasbourg in the east, as well as in Paris. The Interior Ministry said 316,000 people turned out altogether, compared to 77,000 in 2011.
President Nicolas Sarkozy attracted almost 100,000 to a rival Paris rally for "real workers" after the largest union, the CGT, advised members to vote him out of power on Sunday, the first time a union has openly urged a vote against a candidate.
In Madrid, tens of thousands headed in the rain to the main square waving signs opposing cuts, while thousands turned out in Lisbon. In Athens around 5,000 workers, pensioners and students marched with banners reading "Revolt now" and "Tax the rich".
Greece will vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election that risks derailing the international bailout keeping the country afloat by punishing the parties that backed the package.
"Our message will be stronger on Sunday," said Maria Drakaki, 45, a public sector worker whose salary has been cut.
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The marches come against a backdrop of growing frustration towards austerity that more fiscally conservative northern euro zone members say is necessary to bring deficits down to meet EU limits and end the debt crisis.
Unemployment has soared and loan defaults are on the rise. In Italy there are frequent reports of suicides as people lose their jobs or their businesses fail.
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In Portugal, thousands of people rallied in Lisbon, some with placards saying "Stop the robbery, no more stolen wages".
The 700,000-strong CGTP union, which refused to sign a pact on labor market reforms required under a 78-billion euro EU/IMF bailout this year, rallied across Portugal under the slogan "Against exploitation and impoverishment, for a policy change".
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Spain's jobless rate rose to near 25 percent in the first quarter, more than double the EU average, as the economy sank into recession. Some economists, including those at the International Monetary Fund, have questioned whether deep cuts should be made at the expense of growth.
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"We want to stay in the European Union and the euro. We realize there is a crisis but it's unacceptable that even now the rich have become richer and the poor poorer," Bitsi said. ($1 = 0.7555 euros)
Additional reporting by John Irish in Paris, Andrei Khalip in Lisbon, Deepa Babington in Athens, Philip Pullella in Rome, Paul Day in Madrid and David Cutler in London; writing by Anna Willard; editing by Elizabeth Piper and Philippa Fletcher


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High competing commodity prices, uncooperative spring weather, and competition for irrigated land meant fewer acres were devoted to alfalfa seed production this year in the U.S. and Canada. In spite of the challenges, if harvest conditions cooperate, alfalfa seed supplies should be adequate to meet demand for the next production year, according to alfalfa industry experts. Seed suppliers are advising alfalfa growers to expect higher prices and limited supplies of some nondormant varieties.
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"Because of competition for acres from other crops, the price of seed is going to go up," says Joe Waldo, NK Brand Seed. "In many cases, we compete with crops like wheat for the seed-growing acres."
Alfalfa seed production is a challenging business. Specialized growers have to understand the intricacies of pollination, often manage their own bees to assist with pollination, and struggle with weather conditions.
Alfalfa seed producers generally have one or more other cropping options too. Many growers use wheat after alfalfa as part of their rotation. When commodity prices spiked, some of the country's best alfalfa seed growers took advantage of the opportunity to produce a little more wheat and a little less alfalfa seed.
"For many growers, $10 wheat is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because the input costs are low," says Mark McCaslin, president of Forage Genetics International. "Crops that are competing with wheat for those acres need a competitive net return. I would say the total number of alfalfa seed production acres is probably a little lower this year because there have been some extremely attractive options for alfalfa growers in terms of other crops."
Paul Frey, president and CEO of Cal/West Seeds, has a similar perspective. "In order for us to secure the acres to grow the seed, we have to raise what we pay to the seed growers very substantially," he states. "In addition to high commodity prices, water is an issue in the West, where much of the alfalfa seed is grown. Irrigated land is at a premium. Everyone who wants to grow crops under irrigated conditions is competing with everyone else who needs the same thing."
Dennis Gehler, Croplan Genetics, says higher production costs for alfalfa seed growers are going to be passed along to seed buyers. "Seed growers are farmers too, so their input costs and fuel costs have gone up," he explains.
A late spring over much of the northern U.S. added to the seed production challenges this year. "Early reports from the Pacific Northwest, where a lot of the seed production occurs, indicate we were probably a couple of weeks behind," McCaslin says. Early on, growers feared the seed crop was going to be below average, on a per-acre basis, because of the late spring. "Now I think we are little more optimistic that we are going to come in at least with an average crop," McCaslin says. "Unfortunately when acres are down a little bit, you would like an above-average crop in order to compensate."
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Mike Velde, alfalfa breeder, Dairyland Seed, expects adequate seed supplies for most dormant varieties but sees tight supplies for fall dormancy ratings from 7 to 9. He predicts there is going to be very little alfalfa seed grown in the Great Plains states of Kansas or Nebraska this year. "If there is any crop grown in this part of the country, it will be economy alfalfas grown in the Dakotas, but we don't anticipate any significant supply of cheap alfalfa seed coming out of that area," he says. "In addition, Canadian [alfalfa seed] acres are down about 15 to 20% due to high commodity prices." A wet spring in Manitoba made bee pollination difficult at key times. Saskatchewan has been cool and dry, leading to late crop maturity. Velde says Alberta is expected to produce an average alfalfa seed crop.
Cal/West's Frey sees tight supplies in California for alfalfa in the dormancy 8 to 10 category. "As far as the winter hardy lines, from our perspective we think there is an adequate supply of seed," he states. "The nondormant side is another story and I think there is a shortage of all types of nondormant seed — proprietary, common and public. This is due to the competitive pressures we face when we try to contract for seed production."
Frey says fewer growers in the western U.S. can grow nondormant alfalfa seed because of problems obtaining adequate irrigation water or because growers have opportunities to produce other high-value crops that take less water while offering lower risk and good market potential. "There just haven't been as many acres of production of nondormant alfalfa seed," Frey says. "U.S. companies have planted additional acres overseas in countries like Australia, but there still aren't enough acres to meet the demand."
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Demand for nondormant alfalfa varieties extends beyond the U.S., contributing to a worldwide shortage. "There are pretty big export markets for nondormant seed in Mexico, Argentina and Saudi Arabia, and they all compete with each other in terms of supply," McCaslin says. "That global shortage of nondormant seed has made supplies of nondormant varieties even tighter in the southwestern U.S. for the last couple of years, and that is probably going to continue this year. But I don't think anybody is talking about a supply disaster. Supplies will just be a bit tight for some specific varieties."
Gehler recommends growers place their alfalfa seed orders when they place corn and soybean orders. "Don't wait, especially if you are looking for a particular variety," he says. "Placing orders early allows seed companies to have product in the right place at the right time to meet grower needs."
Dairyland's Velde advises growers to buy the best varieties they can afford, making sure to work with reputable companies. "Book in the fall to make sure you have the best selection," he states. "Prices are volatile, so booking early also helps ensure price. If you are going to wait until the day before you plant, your ability to get the seed you want may be curtailed because inventories may be gone."


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Travel to Europe in the summer has gotten to be so expensive that more people are taking advantage of lower fall airfares and enjoying cities like London this time of year.
I'm a huge fan of the Soho area as it's very eclectic with nightlife as well, and it's a short walk to Piccadilly Circus.
The shot above is of the Natural History Museum in Kensington. This is a great area to enjoy is you stay in one of the Kensington hotels. The area is elegant with a ton of culture, referred to by some as"London's Museum Quarter." In South Kensington you'll some great museums like the Natural History Museum, Science Museum and the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum.
For something different you can check out the Kings Cross hotels. Here you'll be centrally located and it's convenient if you want to explore the whole city.
It gets colder this time of year so make sure to check the weather and pack accordingly, but there's definitely some charm to being in London this time of year. You'll also avoid all the crowds, and this can be a great romantic trip as well if you're looking for something other than your standard tropical fare.
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