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"Bob's notes" are reports from CFCA President Bob Hentzen, who regularly accompanies mission awareness trip participants. You can see Bob's full update on his Facebook page.
We really had an "early-morning CFCA flight" out of Kansas City.
Twenty-eight students and faculty from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., boarded our same flight for Atlanta.
From Atlanta, Cristina and I went to a mission awareness trip to the Dominican Republic, and they are en route to a CFCA mission awareness trip to El Salvador.
Godspeed, dear friends. Thanks for keeping CFCA on the move!
At CFCA, we favor a culture of learning and listening.
Here are a few things I have heard this week in the Dominican Republic.
Sponsored youth Monica to her Puerto Rican sponsors, Beridiana and Rafael: "It has been many years. You are much more than sponsors. You are like my parents, and I love you." (These sponsors have been with CFCA for 23 years.)
Sponsor: "Something I learned on the mission awareness trip (MAT) to Chile. Please keep in mind the elderly. Chile was my first MAT, but I'll be going on many more trips with CFCA."
Sponsor: "Since sponsoring this young lady, my life has changed."
Sponsor Mirtie, a registered nurse, shared this idea: "The mothers group structure has so many possibilities. These groups can be places of influential learning with the encouragement of natural leaders.
"Mothers group leaders can receive orientation and capacity training in many areas like preventive health care: vaccinations, purifying water, care of newborns and first-aid.
"In turn, they can share this training with their local community. Simple videos are very effective for this communication."
Some of Bob's notes from home visits with families in the sponsorship program
- At age 26, Mari is a single mother of four precious little girls ages: 11, 8, 5 and 3. This loving family is the very picture of struggle and vulnerability.
- Dominga shared with a shy smile that she was married at a young age. Now in her 30s, she has returned to school and will soon graduate from high school. She hopes to go on to university. Dominga says she wants to be able to provide for Alexander, her 8-year-old stepson.
- Joselin is an admirable young mother of six children, from age 20 down to 2. She was abandoned by her husband. Her boy Jose is sponsored. He suffers from sickle-cell anemia. Fortunately, Joselin belongs to a CFCA mothers group, albeit in the initial stages of organization. In spite of many blows in life, including having to leave school early, Joselin has returned to high school. Her 20-year-old daughter Sofia has finished high school and would like to go on to college. The CFCA project in Santo Domingo is inviting Sofia to apply for a scholarship. Their simple home in a landfill area shows signs of budding dignity and hope.
- On one of our home visits, a father of a sponsored child asked the sponsors, "How do you feel in our neighborhood?" Our wish and our prayer is that sponsored friends and their families may come to see themselves as part of a worldwide movement ó shared with their sponsors.
We really enjoyed our gathering with about 200 sponsored children and families from Pantoja. The Amico Sisters who serve this community hosted the afternoon event.
In spite of living in overcrowded and precarious conditions, the children were very well prepared for their participation. I (Bob) took everyone on a musical tour of the CFCA world.
Other notes
According to the World Bank, 25 percent of our people live in extreme poverty. Ten percent of the population controls 50 percent of available resources.
CFCA Hope for a Family is creating the base for positive and sustainable change in the Dominican Republic. We have about 6,000 sponsored friends as well as 105 scholars.
The mountainous area "up country" is quite cool and green. Tireo and Constanza are areas served by CFCA. This area is known as the "bread basket" of the Dominican Republic.
It is refreshingly cool, verdant and comparatively orderly. I find it also very fertile in planting, cultivating and growing the CFCA spirit.
In Los Almacigos, it was inspiring to see the relationship of the parish priest (Padre Jaime, or "Jimmy") with the people of this rural zone. He seems to know everyone, even those in the more remote areas.
In Tireo, we were really tight in the little parish hall. The children were like the surf at high tide, edging inevitably toward the center of the stage.
As we were leaving, Maria Ortiz, sponsored aging, offered an enthusiastic farewell:
"Con esto, me despido y lo digo de corazon, con Dios y nuestros padrinos, tenemos mas alegria."
Translation: "With these words I take my leave and I say with all my heart, 'With God and our sponsors, we have more joy.' "
Thank you, Mary, and God bless.
With joy and gratitude I share these notes before heading for Costa Rica. There Cristina and I will accompany the sponsors in their mission awareness trip.
After the trip, we will participate in an exciting few days of CFCA formation for families and co-workers. We call these days "Encuentros."
Know of our love and thanks.
Bob Hentzen
Dominican Republic
March 10, 2012


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Soong's Augments take control of a medical facility containing more augment embryos and several dangerous diseases.
(Part 2 of 3)
Dr. Arik Soong and his Augment children head to Cold Station 12 to free other embryos following his escape from the custody of the starship Enterprise.
Meanwhile, the only clues given to Enterprise were the coordinates Soong last gave them, so they follow them. They arrive at Trialas IV, the settlement where Soong raised his children, where there is only one person: Udar. He was left there about one year ago by his brethren because he was not as strong and intelligent as the others.
Captain Jonathan Archer then receives new orders from Starfleet. He learns that there were about 1,800 other embryos kept at Cold Station 12 and, since Soong is probably headed that way, Archer is given orders to stop him, using whatever force is necessary.
After formulating a plan to get the embryos, the Augments then hijack a Denobulan medical ship, and easily take control of the station without killing anyone (as Soong wished). Things get a little uglier when Soong realizes that Jeremy Lucas, the senior medical director, will not give up the code that unlocks the embryo chamber, even at the expense of his people or his own life. Soong is not able to go through with his threat, which raises tension between Malik and Soong.
The Enterprise then arrives at the station and, after not being allowed to approach, is able to transport a team to the station before backing off. However, the team is no match for the Augments and they are easily detected and captured. Nevertheless, Archer is still able to give a final order to T'Pol: activate the station auto-destruct sequence as Starfleet ordered. The security measure is quickly disabled, thanks to the hacking skills of one of the Augments. The Enterprise has to then proceed to destroy the station manually.
Realizing the friendship between Dr. Phlox and Lucas, Malik decides to take things into his hands as he openly defies his father and proceeds to expose the Denobulan doctor to one of the various pathogens studied on the station. Understanding he is not bluffing, Lucas reveals the code and the Augments are finally able to steal the embryos and get away before the Enterprise, which is busy with a Bird-of-Prey, destroys the station.
In the last minutes of the episode, Malik clearly shows sadistic tendencies and little regard for his father's wishes. He beats Archer badly, decides to take some virulent pathogens, and programs a containment breach that will release all the pathogens stored on the station – killing everyone there. He also kills Udar, with the excuse that it is to spare his brother a horrible death.
Memorable quotes
"You son-of-a-bitch!"
"Actually, mother was a chemist."
- - Jeremy Lucas and Arik Soong
"Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get rid of you?
"You're going to spend the rest of your life in prison."
- - Arik Soong and Jonathan Archer
("Father" and "son", reunited, engage in a heartfelt embrace) "They told me you were dead, that...that...that...that you were sick..."
"They lied to you."
- - Arik Soong, Udar, and Jonathan Archer
"Whenever a group of people start believing they are better than everyone else, the results are always the same.""
- - Jonathan Archer
Background Information
- At one point, it is said that there are a few hundred thousand possible combinations for the hexadecimal password. However, when Lucas finally reveals it, we see on the screen that it is composed of 16 characters, meaning that there were in fact about 1.8 * 1019 (= 1616) or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (about 18.4 quintillion) possibilities. Note that the Augments may have understood the workings of the encryption algorithms and thus able to reduce the number of possibilities from its mathematical limit.
- On the surface of Trialas IV, where Soong raised the Augments, there was a large device composed of two long glowing red tubes. This device has been seen in many places on TNG, DS9, and VOY, including, most interestingly, in Doctor Noonian Soong's lab in TNG: "Brothers". It is also seen in the control room of Cold Station 12, but with blue lights rather than red. The device was first seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on the space laboratory Regula I.
- When this episode was aired in the United Kingdom, broadcaster Channel 4 edited out some of the more violent scenes, including the part where Doctor Lucas gets tortured, and the close-up of the scientist being killed by the virus.
- The lethal diseases mentioned as being stored in Cold Station 12 in this episode are references to various (fictional) diseases which have been mentioned on previous Star Trek series, including Xenopolycythemia, Synthococcus novae Type A, Rigelian fever and Telurian plague.
- This episode received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Stunt Coordination by Vince Deadrick, Jr.
- Several props and costumes from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including Richard Riehle's lab coat [1] and Dr. Soong's lesson PADD. [2]
Links and references
- Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer
- John Billingsley as Phlox
- Jolene Blalock as T'Pol
- Dominic Keating as Malcolm Reed
- Anthony Montgomery as Travis Mayweather
- Linda Park as Hoshi Sato
- Connor Trinneer as Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Guest Stars
- Alec Newman as Malik
- Abby Brammell as Persis
- Richard Riehle as Jeremy Lucas
- Kaj-Erik Eriksen as Udar
- Kris Iyer as Deputy Director
- Adam Grimes as Lokesh
Special Guest Star
Uncredited Co-Stars
- Jorge Benevides as Private R. Azar
- Nathan Bowers as Young Raakin
- Ryan Chase as a Denobulan doctor
- Fernando Chien as Saul
- Amy Kate Connolly as Irina Karlovassi (still picture)
- Benny Farillas as Augment child
- Nikki Flux as a Denobulan doctor
- Scott Hill as Ensign Hutchison
- Ricky Lomax as Private W. Woods
- Macarena Lovemore as a Starfleet officer
- Andrew MacBeth as Private E. Hamboyan
- Tonya Olivarez as Augment child
- Chandler Taylor as Augment child
- Violetta Torres as Augment child
- Unknown actor as a Denobulan doctor
Stunt doubles
- Shawn Crowder
- Vince Deadrick, Jr. as stunt double for Scott Bakula
- Danny Downey as stunt double for Kaj-Erik Eriksen
47; Anchilles fever; Andronesian encephalitis; Augments; Barzai; brain; Clarke's Syndrome; code black; Cold Station 12; Corsair; delta radiation; Denobula; Denobulans; Denobulan medical ship; Earth; Earth Starfleet; Eugenics Wars; feedback pulse; geophysics; incubator; Karlovassi, Irina; Karlovassi, Miklos; Klingon Bird-of-Prey; Nicholas Nickleby; Olympics; protein resequencer; Raakin; Rigelian fever; silver medal; Symbalene blood burn; Synthococcus novae; Telurian plague; water purifier; Xenopolycythemia; Yavar
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Fox's Batman prequel TV series Gotham has officially chosen its lead actor. Ben McKenzie, best known for his roles in Southland and The O.C., has been cast as young James Gordon – before he was Gotham City's Police Commissioner, and before he met Batman.
Above: McKenzie in Southland
Last month we learned that Gotham would be an origin series loaded with classic Batman characters. As Fox chirman Kevin Reilly put it at the time, the show will follow "the arc of how [the characters of Batman] became what they were... It's going to be this operatic soap that has a slightly larger-than-life quality."
Bruno Heller wrote the pilot script and will serve as executive producer with the episode's director, Danny Cannon.
A young Bruce Wayne is also slated to appear in Gotham, with the show presumably ending when Batman dons his cape for the firs time. No official word yet on which villains will be appearing on the show – but we're of course open to all manner of speculation.


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One week ago we tested our first board with the X38 chipset here. While we were quite pleased with its performance, overclocking was not as good as we would have liked, and the price was way too high. Asus recently released the Maximus series, which is the successor of the Blitz series. We got both versions, the Extreme Edition for DDR3 and the Formula Edition for DDR2. This will give us an opportunity to compare them head on. The Maximus Formula board comes in two flavors, one for water-cooling solutions and an standard edition.
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Mango-Macadamia Upside Down Cake
"This is a new, tropical version of an old favorite," writes Carole Resnick of Cleveland, Ohio. "It will bring a bit of summer into your kitchen any time of year."
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 25 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 medium mango, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons macadamia nuts, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup 2% milk
- Finely chopped crystallized ginger, optional
- In a small bowl, combine mango and lemon juice. Line a 6-in. round baking pan with parchment paper; coat with cooking spray. Combine brown sugar and butter; spread evenly into prepared pan. Top with mango mixture; sprinkle with nuts. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, baking powder, ginger and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Spoon batter over nuts.
- Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate; remove parchment paper. Sprinkle with candied ginger if desired. Serve warm.


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You really can't go home again. Okay, maybe you can, but be prepared, because home — however you define it — is unlikely to be how you left it.
Sometimes, for instance, the home isn't even there. Sometimes it is, and the memories that flood your senses may be good, but they might also be bad. Sometimes, going home after many years just makes you sad for what might have been.
But going back and walking the halls of your old high school? Now that's an emotional reunion of a different kind.
I was tapped on the shoulder to sit on a Grade 8 career conference panel last week at my alma mater, David Thompson Secondary School, a big low-slung public school built in 1958 to educate the growing numbers of teenagers filling up the post-war bungalows in the new subdivisions of southeast Vancouver.
The school was then, and still is now, a magnet for the middle-class. And if a mostly multi-cultural student population has replaced the once-predominately white faces of its early history, there is much that hasn't changed.
The original terracotta-tiled artworks depicting the storied legend of explorer David Thompson still hang in the huge foyer with the central staircase. The polished linoleum still lines the hallways. The metal lockers, your locker, are exactly as you recall. The girls' washrooms are the same — same old porcelain sinks, same doors jammed open while the doors on the boys' washrooms are closed, and, yes, you're still asking why.
Maybe there weren't locks on the toilet paper rolls, like there are now, or condom machines with matching posters depicting an amorous boy and girl with the words, "When the passion heats up," but to walk the long corridors, and wander through the courtyard, cafeteria, gym and even your old classrooms is to watch a slice of your life flash before your eyes.
If you remember teachers as stern and scary and aged, today they are youngbloods in blue jeans, looking more like students than authority figures, making you wonder if that mix of fear and respect you had in high school — which seems less evident today — was one of the reasons you did rather well in your lessons.
And good lord, is that the 1969-70 graduating class in that big picture frame at the top of the stairs? Is that really you, a shiny-faced 17-year-old with long, hippie hair? Were you every really that young, staring out into the world with so little notion of the future?
And your classmates, your friends and foes, the beautiful girls and the cute boys, the outcasts and nerds and troublemakers, what has become of them? Is he still alive? Is she still the smartest one in the room? Is he still a math whiz? Is she still a jock?
And then you're back in the present, and it's off to the auditorium, where keynote speaker Terry Small is mesmerizing several hundred extraordinarily well-behaved 13-year-olds with balloons and card tricks and assorted other diversions that has them laughing, but thinking about how they might better use their brains.
And then you're on to your panel, which is Media and Communications, where there is a E-Comm manager, a radio host, an air traffic controller, a television anchor and two newspaper journalists imparting the wisdom of their 100-plus years of collective experience.
You give your spiel, and take questions and hope they absorb some wisdom by osmosis. You tell them to find a mentor, and learn how to spell, and never be late, and combine their confidence and ambition with humility and enthusiasm, and well, all those other innate and learned traits that over the years have come to serve you well.
And when you're done, you look at them, eating potato chips and drinking pop at the same desks you sat in, their brains like so many wondrous sponges, and remember that you never really had a career day. No one ever came to your classroom and talked to you about what to expect once you graduated, and maybe that was because, in 1970, with waves of boomers heading out into the real world, the jobs were so plentiful you only had to show up, and getting into university was a snap.
You sure don't remember counsellors talking to you about your potential, or opportunities beyond teaching or nursing — those being the girl-friendly occupations of the day. You do remember wanting to take drafting and being told it was boys only, so you had to take home economics instead.
And you remember graduating without a plan, and sidestepping university for the workforce until, years later, toddler in tow and a lifetime of work ahead, you decided to make something of yourself.
But today these kids, babies really, are talking about post-secondary education, and future careers, and they are smart and inquisitive and you marvel at how times have changed because all you ever wanted at that age was a pair of white go-go boots.
And then you realize how lucky you were. And, even though they don't yet know it, how lucky they are.
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I read Rielle Hunter's book What Really Happened. It should have been titled What Just Happened? It's ironic that Rielle, who identifies herself as a "spirtual truth seeker" is involved with the biggest lyin' ass. Ever. Presidential wanna-be John Edwards takes lying to a whole new level. We should all be ashamed looking back over the paltry… Read More ›
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Some bloggers responded to my post "He Doesn't Want to be Your Effing Friend!!" with statements about how you just need to trust your partner. Wrong. We're always told in order to have a healthy relationship you must trust your partner. It would be great to trust your partner—whether it's a man or woman. The fact is, you shouldn't. Trust… Read More ›


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You've read about OSGi an how it supports versioning and its own service model. You might be even using it in your development projects. So what's next in the OSGi world? Distributed OSGi. This post takes a closer look at its current state and purpose. Read the complete post entitled 'Distributed OSGi, an elegant way to distribute software': http://www.alkpone.com/2009/08/distributed-osgi-an-elegant-way-to-distribute-our-software/
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Robbie Lawler has experienced the highs and lows of his profession more than most – the exhilarating victories, the crushing defeats and everything in between.
But nothing in his MMA career matched the night Lawler's hand was raised in triumph and he became the UFC welterweight champion after 13 years in the sport.
Lawler's split decision win over Johny Hendricks, who had beaten him at UFC 171 to win the title vacated by Georges St-Pierre, finally took Lawler to the top in a career that has been occasionally bumpy.
Lawler, who defeated Hendricks in their rematch at UFC 181 in December 2014, is one of the most vicious punchers in MMA, with 19 of his 25 wins coming via knockouts. But he also has 10 losses, the most by any champion in UFC history – proof, if nothing else, that his resilience has sustained him through the lows.
Lawler was just 20 years old when he made his UFC debut at UFC 37, winning a unanimous decision over Aaron Riley. He went on to win three of his next four, losing only to Pete Spratt at UFC 42 when he suffered a hip injury and was submitted.
Lawler's career was momentarily derailed in 2004 when he was knocked out by Nick Diaz, the only KO loss of his career. After losing by submission to Evan Tanner in his next bout, Lawler subsequently fought for PRIDE, EliteXC and Strikeforce over a seven-year period and held the Elite XC middleweight title in 2007 and 2008.
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Collage Football National Championship 2015 Bento
Go Ducks!!!!!!!!!!!
Again, my husband is a big fan of Oregon Ducks;)
I don't know much about football, but I like Ducks mascot and their quarterback...Marcus Mariota!!!!! He is cute...:P
This no-meat bento is made with rice and teriyaki tofu hamburg!
Face parts: slices of cheese, nori seaweed
The cap of the Ohio mascot: quail egg and cherry tomato
The hat of the Oregon mascot: cucumber and yellow cherry tomato
Football: quail egg soaked in soy sauce for over night
Can't wait to watch the game!!!!
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text: My name is Theresa C. Haddaway and I had been searching for something new to bring to the art community. Being a student at Art Institute of Pittsburgh I am working on a Bachelors Degree in Gaming Art and Design. While learning about the arts I came to realize there was not much in the way of 'Cosmic Art'. I have worked on the different periods of art but felt that nothing really jumped out at me. My main focus is on cosmic bodies such as super novas and fantasy works of planets. I also enjoy painting wooded scenes and beach scenes with the Aurora Borealis as well as camp fires. My works are done primarily in Acrylic paints both normal and metallic. When using the metallic paints I often add things that can only be seen in certain light. Once I have graduated I look forward to making environments for video games both indoors and out. I feel that my art is helping me to break the barriers of normal everyday still scenes and portraits. Instead of looking to those around me I prefer to look to the stars.


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In auto sales, a loan that a dealership arranges for a customer to make the down payment on an automobile. While the dealership does not extend the mickey directly, it works with a separate financial institution to ensure that the customer receives it.


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Greetings, Folks.
This is my first post, not only at this forum but also on the subject of OpenBSD.
As an OpenBSD (and BSD in general) newcomer, I find this topic to be more elusive than others. Is there perhaps a known database of what video cards (or other hardware) work and which do not? It seems even Radeons have their limitations.
I could be a bit green, but I am having a difficult time trying to get my Radeon HD 4890 (1GB) card working with Gnome 3. When I install gnome 3 with pkg_add it fails to start and after installing a live cd with Gnome 3, it loads using the software rendering.
My point is, how do you know what is "fully supported" ?
This is drifting off topic but to answer your question you will need to post more information.
OpenBSD Developers put a great deal of effort into keeping documentation current. Because of this, the version of OpenBSD you run is important to post. I would review /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/gnome. The gnome meta package README-main for current suggests that you could be having several issues like user permission for drm, dbus, memory limits for OpenGl, etc. This readme has undergone several revisions on the way from 5.3 -> 5.4 -> current.
In general you will be well served by reading all of the pkg-readme's.
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OpenBSD is the smallest of the Unix-like projects, so you will find that there are a number of rough edges which may or may not exist in other similar projects. However, the caliber of development at times exceeds what is found in other similar projects.
One of the shortcomings of this particular project is finding reliable information. The project developers take quality documentation seriously, and thus put significant time into the correctness of the manpages and officially sanctioned FAQ. Newcomers are highly encouraged to study this document carefully.
As for your question about supported hardware, the very best source is to mine the project's mailing lists -- particularly misc@. Many of the project developers & regulars here prefer the http://marc.info reader. The interface is simple & fast. Other mailing list aggregation sites can be found at the following:
For both political & historical reasons in the OpenBSD world, avoid nVidia at all costs. Studying the mailing list archives will state this again & again.
I sincerely apologize for off topic material... however I just wanted to offer a response.
I appreciate all of the hard work that is put into the documentation... in fact I have several files on my desktop for referencing (several times I may add) - currently reading pkg-readmes/gnome, pkg-readmes/dbus & avahi. I have read the initial mail, the afterboot man page (three times and took notes)... every piece of official documentation I could find on X11 both within the OS and OpenBSD's faq pages (which I love). and I have read and took notes on lots of man pages as I move along....
Trying to get it on with OpenBSD is turning me into a serious man page junky. For this reason alone I will not give up easily and will stick with it.
Also I am a subscriber to misc@, www@, and x11@... but I am in observation mode... currently reading the newest edition of Absolute OpenBSD and to be honest, the author has put it in my mind that until I am much more well versed, I should refrain from posting in the mailing lists...
Anyway, sorry for off topic... surly as things move on if I can't get gnome to compile etc, I will maker my own post... after other channels have been exhausted :-)
@ocicat - Thanks for the welcoming :-)
I actually first tried OpenBSD with an nvidia gt430, so I learned super quick that wasn't going to work out... I happened to have an ATI (xfx) 1GB card on deck, so I am using that... running OpenBSD with xfce at the moment - I like to use the desktop while I learn a new system..
Anyway, thanks Gents... back to on topic :-)
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Newbie questions have been asked repeatedly on the mailing lists. The developers have seen these over & over again considering them to be nothing more than wasted time. Some developers along with some members of the community have no problem telling posters of ill-conceived or poorly researched questions that they are lazy, did not take time to understand the manpages or other documentation provided by the project, or are just generally clueless. People that repeatedly post poor questions on the mailing lists end up being ignored altogether. Don't post to the project mailing list until the problem has been thoroughly researched & understood.
People who consider this to be an unfriendly behavior do not understand software development. For those who persist in calling this unappealing, consider:
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For OpenBSD, the man's page is the best database.
A quick search with the radeon keyword, for example, and you can see that your Radeon HD 4890 is supported...
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daemonforums.org , Thanks again for offering us such a nice place !
I also definitely understand the irritation that stems from users asking questions before reading the documentation... I used to work for a well known audio plugin developer and saw tech support questions all of the time that were easily answered by reading the site faq or manual.
As far as Gnome goes, it isn't really a matter that I am going to pursue.... I have an iMac and a Mac Pro for all of the desktop stuff anyway... I just like to put a desktop on OpenBSD to mill around on it while I learn the system better. XFCE fits the bill quite nicely. I am much more interested in OpenBSD as a webserver ... i have a few websites that I attend to and my goal is to move them to an OpenBSD vps.
Of course this was a decision made after several months of testing out different distros of Linux etc.... it came down to RH/CentOS or OpenBSD. After using OpenBSD for a month, it was hard to return to CentOS - it wasn't as nicely laid out as OpenBSD... plus what really put the nail in that coffin was the documentation... top notch.
I am certainly no stranger to the OpenBSD documentation... the faq, the man pages in the OS AND on the OpenBSD site etc...
Thank you all.
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text: So, I can't even recall all the shows but here are some that I do remember being at. This may date me, as if I care but some that I saw (mostly at MSG) were: Bad Company Pink Floyd (several tours) Led Zep Aerosmith Tull Queen Boston Fleetwood Mac Blue Oyster Cult Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (London, England) Springsteen Ray Charles (in Stamford, CT) Allman Brothers in the mid 70's (can't recall where) Santana (ditto) ELO (ditto) Sly & The Family Stone (somewhere in NYC) Steve Miller Band Elvis Costello (somewhere in NYC) Al Green First go 'round I forgot, but these too: Rare Earth (at a dive bar in Lauderdale) CDB aka Charlie Daniels Band (thx to KokiB for jogging my memory on that one) KC & The Sunshine Band (when they were hot, and dang nobody stopped dancing) The Traamps (in OCMD the summer I waited tables at The Embers) Donna Summer Sinatra (NYC) Miles Davis War Loudest: Led Zep holy crap my ears took a beating, Bonham's 45 minute drum solo wtf Funkiest: Sly & The Family had everyone on their feet the whole show Most Danceable: Sly Lamest: Blue Oyster Cult they should have just let everyone in with bongs to hit it and then sit around & nod off Nuttiest: Southside Johnny came out drunk, was so hammered he couldn't sing even one song & after missing several lead-ins he then started staggering around the stage, heaving amps at his own bandmates until security came out & literally dragged the star of the show offstage; that was the end of the show without even one song being played by the headliner & no refunds were given; audience responded with a massive cascade of debris aimed at the stage; there were many subsequent brawls in the venue & on the streets outside. And of 'em all, Brutha Ray was far & away the most incredible musical performance. Kick myself for missing: Bob Marley and too many other greats. What's your list?


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Update to Snap sessions package
I've been working furiously this weekend on the mysnapsession package that I announced a few days ago. Version 0.3 is now released.
I've started an introduction to the package, with a getting started step by step process, links to online API documentation, etc.
A few highlights of this new release:
Client Side Sessions: I've provided a second implementation of sessions based entirely on cookies and Michael Snoyman's clientsession package. This was in the cards from the beginning, but it's not my favorite choice, so it was second in the list of implementations.
Module Reorganization: I moved some modules around, in acknowledgement that the dialogues programming model is not actually a Snap extension. Instead, it's a library that builds on sessions.
Matching APIs with Ozataman's Package: One of the bigger surprises was learning that ozataman is already working on a different sessions package for Snap. Because of substantial design differences, I will still continue to develop my implementation anyway; but at least we can keep the exposed APIs similar. As such, you'll notice that MonadSession looks very similar between the two. The differences are:
- Whereas ozataman defines the session type as a type alias at the top of the module, in my package it's an associated type inside the MonadSession type class.
- Whereas ozataman defines setInSession, deleteFromSession, and getFromSession as members of MonadSession with default implementations, I define them as convenience functions following the MonadSession type class, and with somewhat more general types.
Aside from that, Snap.Extension.Session is basically the same between the two. The implementations differ considerably.
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Marek Sieradzki / Jan 3 2011 10:45 am
I noticed that snap requires network-2.3. That's quite painful since you only get 188.8.131.52 +network-bytestring with Haskell Platform on Windows. Does it really need new network package? As far as I remember API is the same.


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Chinese Caption Contest #464
Written on November 28, 2011 at 4:35 pm, by DK
At first, I thought it said, "No Black People Allowed"… but then I figured it out. What do you think it means?
The Summer That Was ________…
Written on September 26, 2011 at 11:33 pm, by DK
I'm back in Tianjin and, honestly, not loving it yet… "Tea and Gin" is just one of those cities that needs to grow on you. And it's taking its sweet time this round. Oh well?
Let's focus on the past 2.5 months, instead!
This summer was grand / busy / emotional / wonderful / sad / whirlwindy / needed / crazy / too short / worth it. Insert whatever adjective you want and it probably describes it perfectly! In an unexpected turn, I actually didn't want to return to China. (Don't worry, I did anyways.) I had a fabulous time with my family and friends and just didn't want it to end. Alas, it was time to come back and continue my life.
I'm told that the first time going home after living overseas is always the weirdest, so I hopefully did alright? I asked some good friends who've lived in East Asia for many years, "How do you balance life in China and life in America?"
Their answer wasn't what I wanted. They chuckled and said, "You don't. You just have to get used to the imbalance."
Here's to imbalance!
*Leave a comment with what we did together this summer so we can always remember… and make notes for next summer.
Did it still feel like home?
Tough question. The house I "grew up in" was long sold, my sister had moved out, and my dog had gone where all dogs eventually go… in that sense, it wasn't really home. But my family was still the same, my friends and I picked right up where we left off, and Minneapolis was basically how I remembered it and loved. I just need to learn how to have two homes now.
The first day back, a soon-to-be friend pointed out that I used very simple English and a lot of hand motions and verbal cues when I communicated. He guessed that I must have lived in a foreign country before. Little did he know, I had just returned from one!
And another time, I pulled out some hand sanitizer before a meal (a must here in China!), and my friends looked at me strange and got a good laugh at my expense.
All in all, I'm still an American – I just don't act and speak like one much anymore, I suppose.
Other changes I observed: Netflix. (I was just getting the hang of it, too.) Food trucks. (Maybe Mpls is trying to be more like NYC?) More bicycles! (My days of lone biking are over.) QR Codes. (I still don't see the point.) Reality TV. (Out of control! But oh, so addicting.)
Get everything done you wanted?
Yes and no. Looking back at my calendar, I'm surprised I was able to keep track of everything! In fact, in the 65ish days I was home, I had about 140 different occasions or appointments that were listed. Hmm, that's more than 2 a day! Oy vey. I'll have to think of another way to do things next summer…
Some good friends lent me a car, a bicycle, and a record player, and I was so thankful to have those tools to help make my summer more accessible and awesome. I don't know what I would have done without them, actually.
I had many meals, coffees, and walks around parks. I got to go up to my friend's cabin on Lake Vermillion, MN, for a few days. I watched and participated in friends' summer sports leagues. I got to see so many wonderful concerts, including a truly American bluegrass show at least every week. I had a couple weddings to attend. A bad run-in with Americanized Chinese food. I had a memorable day-long roadtrip to Wisconsin. I saw a show at the Guthrie Theater. I saw a MN Twins game at their new stadium. Lots of grilling out on my friends' decks. Outdoor movies. A Chinese language and culture tutoring session for a business consultant. Lots of shopping for a needed wardrobe. Seeing people I didn't expect to see. Meeting new babies. Making new friends.
But no, I didn't get to do everything. And there were many people I didn't get to see, either… all I can say about that, though, is start planning for next summer!
What's up next for you?
Besides readjusting to the wasteland that is Tianjin, I've had a great time reconnecting with my friends here and seeing how much of my Chinese has sunk into my language learning iceberg.
I'm teaching at the same university again this year, so my mailing address remains the same… hope that helps! Some of my students actually signed a petition to get me back and the admin gave me a nice little raise so I can live off-campus.
I will be living with a like-minded New Zealand guy who's been here longer than I have and who's known to be an excellent cook. I've only been moved in for a week, but I can vouch that this is accurate. Should be a great relationship! As long as I continue to do the dishes, I'm guessing.
Also, at the beginning of next month, I'll be going to Seoul, South Korea for a week for a friend's wedding out there. It's during China's National Day Holiday and I'm really looking forward to visiting a new country and seeing some old friends…
Summer Me Go Home Home
Written on June 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm, by DK
I apologize for my poor English skills ahead of time… I've really immersed myself in Chinese this semester and my native language has definitely taken a nose dive. Don't tell the university where I teach English! They'll never know.
Summer Me Go Home Home = Heck yeah, I'm coming home for the summer! (Is that grammatically correct?)
After almost two years of life in China and travels to North Korea, Western China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, I've decided to spend a holiday back home with the people that care about me the most.
And it's long overdue!
Please check your calendars and let me know when you'd like to meet up… I'd love to catch up on your lives and, of course, share about mine. If you have a small group or a big group that wants to hear about "overseas life," I'd definitely consider sharing with them, too. Ask me anything!
When and where will you be?
I'm arriving home to Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the end of June, to firstly spend some quality time with my family and friends for a few weeks. I'll be traveling to Washington, DC, to spend some time with various friends on the East Coast maybe in August? Back to Minnesota for the end of August.
There will be a weekend somewhere when I go to Chicago. Maybe spend a weekend up north at a lake. Maybe short trips around MN and surrounding states? Any road trip ideas?
I will head back to China by September. Make sure all of our adventures are completed before then. I'm afraid my time home will go by way too quickly.
What will you do whilst home?
I can tell you what I won't be doing: having dinner with three beautiful Chinese girls at the same time! Hey oh! It's possible, but unlikely.
Anyways, my options are really endless. What else would someone who hasn't been in America for two years want to do?
Food (literally anything), Twins games (or any sporting event), Guthrie tickets (or any theater), live music (of any size or genre), cabins up north (or south or west), State Fair (self-explanatory), walks around the lakes (or rivers), more food (maybe not Americanized Chinese?), coffee/tea (or milk tea), and free things (like food!)…
And to be frank, I won't have too much money to spend this summer, so if we're deciding between things, I'd prefer the cheaper option… You know what I mean? Thanks. Good thing it doesn't cost anything to just hang out!
How can I best support you?
Many of you want to help in various ways and with various resources while I'm at home. Here are my thoughts:
Does anyone have an extra car I could use for a couple months? In Minnesota or DC?
How about a two-month SIM card for my cell phone?
Any spare frequent flier miles laying around?
Who'd like to fill me in on recent pop culture/politics?
Anyone like to help me go shopping? I desperately need an entirely new wardrobe. For lack thereof and for lack of fasion know-how. (My second to last pair of shorts just ripped yesterday. Come on!)
Anybody know a cheap doctor and dentist to get check-ups at? My Chinese insurance won't cover things in the States.
How about a counselor? Being home might be a tad bit overwhelming.
Does anyone have a record player I could borrow for the summer? I sold mine before I left, but saved my favorite vinyls.
Oh, and I'm thinking about taking up the banjo.. Anyone have one they don't want?
Another Subtle Reminder about April 9
Written on March 21, 2011 at 2:08 am, by DK
A few people have asked what to send me for my birthday this year, so I thought I'd post another little list for everyone. It's April 9, so that gives you a few days to get a letter or package or email together… I'd love to hear from all of you!
1. Easy Mac (This doesn't leave my list, but I haven't had any since last summer!)
2. American candy (Last fall, a friend sent a box entirely of candy! Great idea! Too bad it didn't last long.)
3. Ranch Dressing powder (Had this in Vietnam! All I need to do is add milk, I think.)
4. Amazon Gift Cards ($27's a good amount, right?)
5. Books (Most books purchased online can be shipped directly to China! By the way, Rob Bell's new book looks interesting.)
6. Postcards from your hometown (I have many walls to post them on.)
7. Random reminders of home (I don't know, fortune cookies?)
8. Comic Strips (After I read them, I use them in English class…)
9. Anything handmade or handwritten (Gifts from the heart are priceless.)
10. Pictures of you! (I miss you guys.)
Also, there's a wishlist on Amazon, if you'd like to browse it.
My mailing address, in case you've forgotten:
Tianjin, Hedong District
No. 63 Chenglin Road
Tianjin Polytechnic University
International Office – Daniel Konold
My Favorite Albums, Songs, and Shows- 2010
Written on December 31, 2010 at 10:14 pm, by DK
My Favorite Albums:
The National – High Violet
Beach House – Teen Dream
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes
Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
The Black Keys – Brothers
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
(Favorite albums from 2009 that I didn't hear until 2010…)
The xx – xx
Edwarde Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
Florence + The Machine – Lungs
Most-Played Songs:
We Are The Willows – A Funeral Dressed As A Birthday
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
Kid Cudi – All Summer (feat. Best Coast and Vampire Weekend)
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Eminem – Not Afraid
Kanye West – Lost In The World (feat. Bon Iver)
Freelance Whales – Hannah
Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
Antoine Dudson – Run & Tell That (The Bed Intruder Song)
The Shows (Gasp! Only five all year!):
Andrew Bird, YuGong YiShan, Beijing (my view from the show)
St. Vincent, YuGong Yushan, Beijing
Handsome Furs, 13 Club, Tianjin (These guys are moving to Beijing next year! They told me themselves…)
Wil, 13 Club, Tianjin
Skip Skip Ben Ben, Riff Live House, Tianjin
How about you? What were your favorites from the past year?
A Lesson in Language Learning
Written on November 29, 2010 at 5:43 pm, by DK
So I was out with my Chinese tutor last week. We were having a great time learning about comparisons and weather patterns, etc. But then in the middle of the lesson, she said something that I didn't understand at all. Not. A. Word. I kept asking her to repeat it more slowly, again, and again. But I just couldn't get it… twas seemingly hopeless! And very frustrating.
It's easy to get arrogant when learning a new language and I tend to celebrate at every small accomplishment. But on the flipside, it's also easy to get quite frustrated when you don't understand the simplest thing. Oh well.
On this occasion, with a smile on my face, I voiced my frustration to my tutor: "Why is it taking so dang long to learn this dang language!?"
Also with a smile, she answered by teaching me a Chinese proverb. Here is that proverb…
"Impatience Spoils The Results"
Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought they were growing too slowly.
He got impatient with the young plants. "How could the plants grow faster?" He tossed in bed during the night and could not sleep. Suddenly, an idea popped into his head! His idea could not wait until daybreak. He jumped out of bed and dashed to the field. Under the light of the moon, he began working on the rice seedlings. One by one, he pulled up the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was already morning. Straightening his back, he said to himself, "What a wonderful idea! Look, how much taller the plants have grown in one night!" With great satisfaction, he went back home.
In a triumphant tone, he told his son what he had done. His son was shocked! By this time, the sun had risen, and the young man was heart-broken to see all the young plants dying.
People now use "ya miao zhu zhang" to describe the behavior of those who are too eager to get something done, only to make it worse.
Time to give my Chinese tutor a raise.
每天他到稻田时,发觉那些稻苗长得非常慢。他等得不耐烦,心想:"怎么样才能使稻苗长得高,长很快呢?" 想了又想,他终了想到一个"最佳方法",就是将稻苗拨高几分。
Chinese Caption Contest #461
Written on May 5, 2010 at 5:41 pm, by DK
I think the four marketing points say, "I'm American. I'm white. I'm cool… I'm Todd."
Who would want to study from a guy named Todd, anyways!?
(Hopefully I don't have any readers named Todd.)
Chinese Food 101: Adventures in Cooking Rice
Written on April 28, 2010 at 10:09 pm, by DK
"Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook." – Chinese Proverb
I'm no housewife, but oh how I wished I had practiced cooking rice before moving to China! The first few weeks here were brutal without this simple knowledge. My roommate and I and purchased a rice cooker, but I had no idea how to use it. The directions were in Chinese, obviously, and the pictures seemed to also be in another language. Thankfully, I've mastered the art of rice cooking and I can now easily make a bowl of mouth-watering rice whenever I feel like it.
My first try, I ended up with a bowl of watery slop. The second try, I overflowed the rice cooker and made a huge mess. I asked a Chinese friend how to use it and they laughed at me and said that rice is the easiest Chinese food to cook! They said to put in a cup of rice and then to add water up to the top of the rice, "just so that all the rice is covered." That time, I ended up with a disgusting and overcooked hodgepodge.
I turned to my friends in Egypt for help. They told me a simple formula that saved my wannabe cooking life: >one part rice + two parts water = one delicious bowl of rice.
The only preparation needed might be to clean the rice. If, like me, you buy the rice from the outdoor market down the street, you might not trust it to be the cleanest rice in the world. Just rinse until the water becomes clear.
(For reference:
Chinese Food 101: Basic Cooking Utensils
Chinese Food 101: Basic Ingredients)
Let's begin.
1. One Cup of Uncooked Rice
You can't have cooked rice without uncooked rice… but which came first? The little cup that came with the rice cooker is a little smaller than an American-sized measuring cup, but I'm sure you could use it just the same. Remember to clean the rice if you don't trust it!
2. Two Cups of Water
Clean water, please.
3. Mix in the Rice Cooker
Add both to the rice cooker's bowl and mix together lightly, allowing the rice granules room to breath and cook evenly. Place back in the rice cooker, push the "cook" button and wait.
4. A Fresh Bowl of Delicious Rice
15 – 20 minutes later, you should have a refreshing snack! Be sure to have some veggies, soup, or soy sauce ready…
DK's Fried Rice will be next, I think.
A Very Generous Video of Tianjin
Written on April 23, 2010 at 11:30 pm, by DK
I came across this video the other day and was completely surprised. Is this really the city I live in? True, I haven't been here during the summer yet, but STILL. Shouldn't I have seen at least one of these places already? I think this is just good marketing trying to lure unknowing foreigners into its grasp:
Would you live here?
Little ol' me, featured in a Tianjin monthly…
Written on April 14, 2010 at 11:45 pm, by DK
You know you stand out from the crowd if you get interviewed for a big magazine in town when you haven't even been here 3 months. Well, that's what happened to me.
I met one of my good Chinese friends, Jonathan, on the subway. Apparently, he knew I was a foreigner right away. (How could he tell!?) This was back in December and I found out he had just gotten a job at Tomorrow Magazine – "An Extensive Living Guide for Foreigners in Tianjin." In January, he wanted to interview me. I only found the publication recently.
Here is that interview in its embarrassing entirety:
Daniel Konold, a big boy from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Before moving to Tianjin, he worked with computers in support and design. He loves travelling. So far he has been to over 20 countries covering almost all continents on the earth. For leisure time, he likes basketball, American football, and rugby.
1. Why do you choose Tianjin as destination? Actually, I didn't choose Tianjin, Tianjin chose me! The company I work for places me in different cities around China, and Tianjin happens to be the city they chose for me.
2. How long have you been living in Tianjin? I've been living in Tianjin a little over 3 months.
3. What do you do here? Here in Tianjin, I'm an English Teacher and a Web Designer.
4. Did you feel difficult living in Tianjin when you just arrived, for instance? No, it wasn't difficult at all to start living here. I think Tianjin is a good transition city with many similar things to my hometown, but still different enough to feel new.
5. How do you like Tianjin? Tianjin is not my favorite city in the world, but it's a fine city to live in. The public transportation is very easy to use and I can find most food from around the world whenever I feel like it.
6. What do you think about Tianjin locals? Tianjin local people have been very nice to me, personally. Since the first day I arrived, many people have offered to help me move in and find things I'm looking for. No complaints about the locals!
7. By far, what do you think about Tianjin? I think Tianjin is, by far, the biggest city I've ever lived in but also small enough to start to call home.
8. When the day that you leave Tianjin comes, what will you miss about this place? Mostly, I will miss the people I've met along the way and all the nice Tianjinians who have helped me live here.
9. Tell me something about some interesting personal experiences in this city. One of the most interesting experiences so far was going to the TuanBo Hot Springs on the outskirts of town. I was definitely the only noticeable foreigner in the spa and I got a lot of stares. Dipping into all the different liquids was fascinating and I really felt rejuvenated after the visit.


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EPA Watershed Academy Webcast on "Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution and Harmful Algal Blooms in Lakes" on January 26th
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Posted: 1/11/2011
EPA's Watershed Academy will sponsor a free webcast on "Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution and Harmful Algal Blooms in Lakes" on Wednesday, January 26, 2011, at 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. This webcast will highlight an emerging issue of nutrient enrichment leading to harmful algal blooms in lakes. The webcast will explain the connection between nutrients and harmful algal blooms such as blue green algae. These algal blooms are causing loss of recreational uses including fishing, swimming and in some cases are resulting in increasing costs for drinking water treatment. The webcast will provide an overview of the issue and will present case studies on Grand Lake St. Mary's in Ohio and Lake Waco in Texas. This Webcast is a first in a series of Watershed Academy Webcasts on the important issue of nutrients and their impact on water resources.
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GREENLAND — Regional planners and real estate professionals painted a fairly rosy picture of the economy and housing markets during presentations Wednesday at a forum of the Seacoast Board of Realtors.
GREENLAND — Regional planners and real estate professionals painted a fairly rosy picture of the economy and housing markets during presentations Wednesday at a forum of the Seacoast Board of Realtors.
But there were some thorns in the picture, too, as they pointed out issues such as the aging population and infrastructure that could have an effect on future economic growth in New Hampshire and the Seacoast.
Portsmouth Realtor John Rice, past president of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, went so far as to bid adieu to the recession, saying: "The numbers don't lie — 2012 is the year we've been waiting for."
Rice was part of a panel gathered at the Portsmouth Country Club that included Cliff Sinnott, executive director of the Rockingham Planning Commission; Daniel Gray, managing director of the Coastal Economic Development Corporation; and David Mullen, executive director of the Pease Development Authority.
Both Sinnott and Gray offered analysis of numbers that showed while New Hampshire didn't suffer as badly with unemployment as the rest of the country, it isn't recovering as quickly as the U.S.
But within the state, both said Rockingham County as a region is doing better than the Granite State as a whole.
Sinnott told the crowd of real estate professionals that "housing is the bright spot in the economy" with construction trends, having bottomed out in 2009, showing steady improvement. But, he warned, the state's aging population would lead to a shrinking of the available work force, an increased need for transportation and housing alternatives, and add to the state's health care burden.
The trend is that people are moving out and aren't being replaced: The state's growth rate has declined from an average of 40,000 people a decade to 10,000 people a decade.
He asked rhetorically: "Are we going to attract people to the region?"
Sinnott emphasized the need for quality schools, road infrastructure and the environment. He noted there's been a disinvestment on infrastructure because of the way inflation has devalued the state's tax on gas, which hasn't changed in 22 years. A proposal in the state Legislature would increase the state's tax on gas by 12 cents a gallon over the next three years.
Gray pointed to several factors that enhance New Hampshire's appeal, including its supportive business climate (ranked sixth in the country; Wyoming is No. 1), low crime rate (ranked fifth in the country; North Dakota is No. 1), and the highest standard of living in the country.
He also talked about what he called the state's "inherent economic engines": the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (which in 2011 had a total payroll of $408 million), the ocean and the tourism dollars it brings, and Pease International Tradeport.
Gray argued that Massachusetts needed to be included in that list of economic engines since so many New Hampshire residents commute to work in the Bay State.
"I'm here to tell you that things are looking up," Mullen said as he introduced numbers showing Pease has more current projects than it ever has: two major renovations and six new projects.
He said the 250 companies currently at the tradeport occupy 4.4 million square feet; 7,800 jobs contribute $45,000 per job annually in wages. From Pease, according to Mullen, the city of Portsmouth gets $5.3 million a year in a municipal services fee in lieu of taxes, and the state gets $10.4 million in business profits tax and meals/rooms tax.
Rice listed several reasons why he felt 2012 represented the end of the recession, at least as it applies to single-family home and condominium sales. He noted that in the 13 communities that the board uses in its sampling, single-family home sales increased by 30.7 percent from 2011 to 2012, while condo sales increased 30.3 percent.
While median prices for condos continued to struggle to recover, Rice said median house prices are seeing a modest increase.
"The Seacoast is more than holding its own," Rice said, noting the sales in July and November of 2012 haven't been matched since 2009.
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Remember the infamous scene in Speed where a bus jumps a fifty foot gap in an elevated freeway? Of course you do, because every physics teacher from that day on illustrated that moment as something that could never, ever happen. Although the freeway was elevated, the bus was careening down a flat section. It would have fallen down from the edge of the freeway the same way a ball rolling off the edge of a table would. Gravity doesn't care if you're going very fast. What's more, since the front section of the bus moved off the freeway first, it would have started falling while the back section of the bus was still being supported. This would have sent the bus into a spin, and if the fall were long enough it would have tumbled end over end into the ground.
Buses don't generally inhabit regions where they can go tumbling end over end, but animals do, and the more likely they are to slip, to jump, or to go into free fall, the more likely they are to have tails. A group of UC Berkeley scientists took a look at this, especially the way leaping lizards use their tails to control their falls and their jumps. The lizards bring their tails up towards their own backs at first, this forces their upper body up and back towards the tail, letting them reach up higher. Later, when lizards notice that they may have overshot their goal, they curl their tails forward and under their bodies, forcing their upper bodies forward and down, again moving towards the tail, and letting them reach down and forward to control their landing.
The team, lead by Robert J Full, a professor of integrative biology, decided to do their own version of the Speed jump. They made a little toy car, gave it a tail, and put it on a ramp. At first, when the tail was loose and uncontrolled, the car did just what the bus should have done. Its front end dipped and it went into a spin downwards. By forcing its tail up and forward, it forces the front of its move up and back. The car keeps its front end up and prevents a spinning fall.
We imagine the robots of the future as bipedal humanoids. Perhaps that's being speciesist. Maybe the fantastic machines of the future will look like gigantic lizard-men, hopping robo-kangaroos, climbing robot rhesus-monkeys, and long-tailed, perfectly steady off-road vehicles.
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Auburn's Frankie Sullivan is tired of facing the same questions following loss after loss - and having no satisfactory answers.
The Tigers got off to a slow start and never recovered in an 83-52 loss to No. 7 Florida on Saturday that was the program's worst home drubbing in 61 years.
Now, Auburn (9-16, 3-9 Southeastern Conference) has lost nine of 10 games.
"If I knew the answer I would try to fix it right away, because it's getting to a point that it's getting redundant and embarrassing after every game," Sullivan said. "That's not what you want from your career."
The Gators made the extra passes, hit a season-high 15 3-pointers and pretty much confounded Auburn's shooters in a systematic rout.
Mike Rosario scored a season-high 22 points, Kenny Boynton had 16 and the Gators (21-3, 11-1) raced to a 25-point halftime lead.
"We had 25 assists in the game but you don't get 25 assists unless the ball goes in the basket, and the ball went in the basket for us," Florida coach Billy Donovan said.
It really was just that simple.
The game matched the worst loss for Auburn in coach Tony Barbee's three seasons, tying a 90-59 defeat against Mississippi on Feb. 16, 2011. It also was the Tigers' worst home loss since an 88-48 blowout by Kentucky in 1952.
The Gators have won their last three SEC games by an average of 24 points since their only league loss at Arkansas.
Rosario had 18 points - two shy of his previous high this season - by halftime, when the game was effectively over. Michael Frazier added 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting from 3-point range for Florida, which has won seven straight at Auburn.
Erik Murphy added 11 points and went 3 of 4 from beyond the arc.
Chris Denson led Auburn with 13 points and Jordan Price had 12.
Barbee said his team "just ran into a buzz saw."
"We played a veteran, experienced team and they proved why they are one of the best teams in the league and in the country," Barbee said. "I told our guys I was disappointed in the overall defensive intensity and attention to detail. You have to learn playing against teams like that. They have a veteran group now that has been doing it together for a couple of years, so you see why they play with such chemistry on the offensive and defensive end of the floor."
It was a precision performance by one of the SEC's hottest teams against one that is struggling badly, losing nine of 10.
The Gators hit 31 of 54 shots (57 percent) from the floor and held Auburn to 19-of-54 shooting (35 percent).
"We shot a lot of 3s and when we're shooting like that, it's hard to beat a team," Donovan said.
Especially when the stat sheet also includes numbers like this: assists on 25 of 31 baskets and 18 points off Auburn's 14 turnovers.
Boynton broke Andrew DeClercq's school record with his 129th career start and hit four 3-pointers in nine attempts. Rosario scored on drives, including a nifty reverse layup, and hit a couple of 3s. He also dished out five assists and Boynton had four.
Scottie Wilbekin had six points, 10 assists and three steals for the Gators.
Rosario and the Gators did pretty much whatever they wanted in the first half and jumped ahead 13-3, making the Tigers look helpless to defend the outside shooters or stop darting drives. They also kept Auburn's offense off balance as it struggled to find decent shots.
The final shot of the first half showed how easy it was for Florida. Wilbekin worked the clock down and then pulled up for a long jumper over Noel Johnson with 2 seconds left. Auburn didn't score in the final 3:56.
The lead surged to 36 with 8 minutes left.
The Tigers got little production from seniors Rob Chubb and Sullivan, the team's leading scorer. Chubb had one point, didn't play in the second half and missed all four field goal attempts with four turnovers after Auburn went inside to him several times in the opening minutes.
"I think Rob is still fighting," Barbee said. "He just isn't very good right now. What can I say? He is not very good. He isn't getting it done."
Sullivan came off the bench for the second straight game and had eight points in 19 minutes.


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The Von Crastenburg Family are a powerful dynasty from New England and are one of the richest families in the world. Jill Von Crastenburg is a member of this family.
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The Von Crastenburgs have been said to have once owned half of the island of Algonquin in Liberty City if this is true and they still own parts of it their wealth could easily reach the trillion US dollar mark and above. the family are well-known in Liberty City's social set and high society Algonquin , their residences are among the largest and most opulant in America, their offical residence is a 19 bedroom mega mansion estate in the exclusive part of Westdyke in Alderney. They also own a hotel in Los Santos.
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- Both made their fortune in the investment banking industry
- Both are considered one of the wealthiest families in the world
- Both have attracted the limelight for their extravagence
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First of all, you will have to all excuse my language in this post – because reading this story from the Daily Mail has really pissed me off.
So, some trumped up, self important shop keeper has told 18 year old Harriet Phipps that she cannot wear a RBL Poppy to work as it is not part of the uniform. Who the <inster swear word here> does that person think they are? Their excuse is that it is not company policy. Well I say sod corporate hoity-toity bloody policy and show some damn respect. Soldiers are fighting and dying so you can keep your shitty shop open without the threat of being bombed and you wont let your staff wear a little poppy? It makes me sick.
So. The shop in question is Hollister in Southampton. I am in half a mind to go to Southampton and paint the whole f@*@ing shop poppy red. If anyone is passing by the store, go in and ask why none of the staff are wearing poppys – see what they have to say. Better yet, take a war veteran in with you and get the pompous, self centred, ignorant jumped up little shit of a shop manager to tell the veteran why none of the staff are allowed to wear a poppy.
What a bunch of fuckers.
Oh and here is another thing…those people that have commented on the Daily Mail story about 'times are changing' and the Poppy Appeal is out dated etc…you tell that to the veterans of the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan that are looked after by the Legion. You tell that to the soldiers who can't walk any more because of land mines. You tell that to the widows of the soldiers that have been killed. You tell that to the kids who no longer have their Dads.
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Bats/Throws: R-R
Height/Weight: 5-11/195
Hometown: Smyrna, Tenn.
Previously Drafted: Cubs '08 (27)
Birthdate: Nov. 7, 1989
SCOUTING PROFILE: Gray might rank alongside UCLA righthander Gerrit Cole as the premier college arm in this year's draft crop were it not for the simple, inescapable fact that he is a sub-six-footer—and righthanded, to boot. Scouts traditionally distance themselves from that demographic, but there seems little doubt that a club will roll the dice on Gray in June, probably in the first 6-8 picks. In Gray's case, there is simply no way of ignoring the inescapable conclusion that Gray has a big arm, superior athletic ability and instinctive feel for pitching. For added measure, he has had a superior track record throughout his career at a Tennessee high school, in three years at Vanderbilt and in two summers with Team USA's college national team. There remains some debate in the scouting community whether Gray will remain a starter at the pro level or may be better served pitching in short stints, but he appears well-equipped for either role. As a starter, Gray has run his fastball at a steady 92-97 mph, and not only can he locate it up and down in the strike zone, but he can make it cut and sink at will. His cutter typically is clocked from 91-93, his sinker from 89-92. Gray also has excellent command of an exceptional breaking ball that normally ranges from 81-84 mph, but he has an uncanny ability to add and subtract from it, and has been known to catch a hitter off guard by throwing it as high as 86 or as low as 76. Gray has become a more complete pitcher this spring because of the development of his changeup as a viable third pitch. He normally throws that offering at 82-85 mph, and has used it a number of times to get big outs against both lefthanded and righthanded hitters. In the past, Gray often lost velocity on his fastball when he tried to incorporate his change. If clubs remain uncomfortable with his size and the extra effort he generates in his delivery, Gray could make a seamless transition to closer as his fastball has reached 99 mph on the rare occasions that he has been used in that role. His fierce competitive approach to pitching might even be better suited for an end-of-game role. Through 10 starts this spring for the No. 3-ranked Commodores, Gray is 8-2, 2.00 with 46 hits allowed and 29 walks in 67 innings, to go with 80 strikeouts. As a Friday-night starter for Vanderbilt as a sophomore, he went 10-5, 3.48, and was even more dominant during the summer in his second tour of duty with USA Baseball's college national team, working six innings of a combined no-hitter in his first start and going 3-0, 0.38 overall with 37 strikeouts and four walks in 24 innings. The general criticism that scouts have with smaller pitchers is their inability to withstand a starter's workload over a long professional season and also their tendency to lose plane and pitch up in the zone. But Gray addresses both those concerns as he can squat more than 400 pounds and is very strong in his lower half. He also has a surprising downhill tilt to his pitches, stemming mainly from a long stride that enables him to extend down the mound like a much-taller pitcher. He also pitches down in the strike zone consistently, so his smaller frame may not prevent him from becoming a starter down the road. The biggest specific knock scouts continue to have with Gray is his fringe-average command. If anything, though, he walks more batters than he should because of how much he pitches off his curveball in college. At the pro level, when he'll pitch more off his fastball, his walk total should decrease. His command to both sides of the plate has improved drastically over his college career, and should continue to improve. He also is one of the best fielding pitchers in the country and controls the running game extremely well. Gray has long been one of the more-recognized and most-accomplished athletes ever produced in Tennessee, and was named the state male high school athlete of the year as a high-school junior. His high school football team won the state 5-A championship that year, and Gray was named first team all-state after passing for more than 2,200 yards and running for 10 more touchdowns. On the baseball field, Gray led Smyrna High to the state finals, going 11-1, 0.78 with 139 strikeouts on the mound while hitting .461-10-43. Had he chosen to sign a professional baseball contract out of high school in 2009, he almost certainly would have been a first-round pick. Gray, however, is a close friend of ex-Vanderbilt lefthander David Price, the No. 1 overall pick in 2007, and had a full appreciation for Price's rise from a mid-round pick out of a Tennessee high school to the top of the draft after three years with the Commodores, and Gray almost certainly will follow a similar career path.
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June 15, 2011 // Franchising.com // CHANHASSEN, Minn. - The entrepreneurial spirit around the country is about to 'warm-up' and hit the gym. Peter Taunton, Founder and CEO of Snap Fitness, the world's fastest-growing franchisor of 24/7 express fitness centers, announces the launch of his "Partner with Peter" contest that will award one aspiring entrepreneur a free fitness franchise.
Kicking-off June 15, 2011, contestants visiting www.petertaunton.com can enter to win by providing their contact information, along with a brief essay explaining why they would make an ideal owner of a Snap Fitness franchise. Following the submission deadline on August 15, 2011, 25 semi-finalists will be chosen based on quality of submission. Of those selected, three finalists will be chosen by a Snap Fitness review panel, and will then participate in an in-person interview with Taunton, who will determine the winner of the fitness franchise.
Additionally, spotlight videos of all the finalists will be posted on the Snap Fitness Facebook page and www.petertaunton.com, allowing the public to show their support for the contestant they feel is most deserving.
"Whether a seasoned entrepreneur or someone looking to get into business for the first time, this contest presents a great opportunity for anyone with a driven, entrepreneurial mindset," said Taunton. "As an entrepreneur myself, I know the importance of guidance for anyone embarking on a new business venture. This contest gives me a great chance to pass along my knowledge and business experience to one deserving individual."
The grand prize will include all costs associated with a new fitness franchise, including franchise fee, build out, equipment, site selection and initial rent and working capital, estimated at a value of up to $250,000.
While Snap Fitness offers the same quality equipment as traditional health and fitness clubs, the booming brand is setting industry standards by focusing on complete member wellness and providing a host of products and services designed to give members better results and more value for their money. By scaling down in size and eliminating unnecessary amenities such as swimming pools and racquetball courts, Snap Fitness offers customers a quality, affordable gym workout with strong emphasis on customer service and convenience.
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With a focus on providing members with fast, convenient and affordable workouts in clean, comfortable locations that are close to home, Snap Fitness (snapfitness.com) is experiencing phenomenal growth with approximately 2,000 locations sold worldwide and some 15-20 new clubs added monthly. Founded in 2003 by CEO Peter Taunton, the Chanhassen, Minn.-based franchisor is dedicated to providing members with more value than any other health club. For more information, please visit www.snapfitness.com.
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Booking website Lastminute.com recently did a survey of 500 hotels to find out all sorts of interesting stats like how often guests steal, what they tend to snatch and also what items they leave behind. While phones, iPads, books and clothes are pretty common, take a look at these bizarre items. (Shutterstock)
Bag of snails: A hotel in Budapest found a bag full of live snails after a guest checked out. $20 000: Housekeeping staff at a hotel in Washington found $10,000 in cash hidden in different spots throughout the room and another hotelier in New York discovered $20,000 of forgotten cash in a suite. (VVork)
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Wife: Okay, so there may still be some forgiveness among friends, but forgetting your wife?! Nevertheless a guest at a Prague hotel on a business trip finished the days meetings and headed to the airport completely forgetting about his loyal lady who had come to join him, back at the hotel. (Hotels About)
Mother: More understandable to some perhaps is the guest at a Dublin hotel who was called back by reception when he forgot to tell his mother he was leaving. (Shutterstock)
Yakuza swords: A guest left a traditional Japanese Yakuza sword behind in a hotel room in Istanbul. Makes you wonder... oh, many things. (MafiaWars Wiki)
Dog: Supposedly your best furry friend, but obviously not memorable enough for a guest at a four-star Milan hotel who had forgotten all about his pooch until he had crossed the Italian border. (Shutterstock)
Wedding dress: Imagine spending thousands on your perfect wedding gown only to have your brand new husband forget it in the hotel after the nuptials. This happened to an unfortunate bride at a New York hotel. Not the best start to marital bliss. (Shutterstock)
Police gun and badge: We all know that whatever happens is Vegas is supposed to stay there, but when a policeman accidentally left a gun and badge in his Sin City hotel room things were sure to get a little sticky. (Shutterstock)
Wooden leg: This seems like a rather common occurrence at Travelodge, as about 80 false limbs were left behind by guests between 2003 and 2004. (Shutterstock)
Kate's face: Well, not her real face, but a suitcase containing 100 Duchess of Cambridge masks was found in London. Pretty weird. (Affiliates4U)
Roborovski hamster: The poor little cutie was found in his cage in Knutsford, after his owner drove back to Bristol without him.
Spiderman: Among others, as a suitcase of vintage Marvel comics was found in a hotel room in Leeds. (comic book daily)