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Mr. Davis and the Cooks at Safeco Field (8/5/2013)
Who was the first batter at the first MLB game you ever attended? Personally, I have no clue.
But I can tell you that Frank Catalanotto took "strike 1" when Tim watched Gil Meche deliver the first pitch of his first Major League game back on September 12, 2006. And I can tell you that Luke French delivered "strike 1" to Rajai Davis with the first pitch of Kellan's first Major League game back on October 1, 2010.
Our goal has been to meet and get an autograph from each of those guys. And on August 5, 2013, which marked the first full day of our 2013 Seattle vacation, we finally caught up with Rajai Davis. Here is the story of that day.
We had four Mariners games planned for the trips. On our way down to this one, we were happy to have Colleen "Mommy" Cook…
…join us for her first game of the season.
We arrived plenty early and entered through The Pen entrance…
…in left field.
At the outset, Tim hung out with Granpda while Kellan, Colleen and I headed out by the batters' eye:
There were two baseballs in the grass out there and an usher eventually tossed one our way.
Thanks, Usher!
I then split off from Colleen and Kellan and headed over to the LF corner to check out Edgar's Cantina. It's nice, but I'll never really spend any time here for at least a decade or two because kids are not allowed in there (which seems silly to me since people drink alcohol everywhere in the ballpark…and all ballparks). Anyway, here are a couple photos. First, the view to home plate:
The bar:
And through the window looking into the visitors' bullpen:
Someone hit a homerun into the Cantina while I was in there. They put a net over the top of the fans during BP, but the ball still trickled down and made its way into the hands of a fan back toward the bar.
So long, Edgar's, I'll come check you out again once the boys are in college or something.
When they opened the rest of the ballpark, Tim and my dad headed to RF for a bit and Yoervis Medina tossed a ball to Tim.
Thanks, Yoervis!
Colleen, Kellan and I headed to foul territory in LF. We had one major goal for this game: get a special autograph from Rajai Davis. I knew the 3B line would be our best bet to make it happen.
As the Blue Jays took the field, the scene looked a little like this:
The three of us went to the lower "X" on the far right side of the photo. Davis was playing catch with one of his teammates and he was in shallow CF throwing to his partner just behind 3B.
I made a big sign (just like I made for Tim's first batter, Frank Catalanotto) that read:
When I spotted Rajai out in shallow center, I yelled, "RAAAAAAJJJJJJJAAAAAAAAAIIIIIII" at the top of my lungs and held the sign high over my head.
Davis looked over and gave me a nod and a little "hold on a minute" hand gesture.
I knew we were going to succeed in our two three-year old Davisquest.
After taking some fungo'd pop flies in LCF, Rajai made his way over to us (and my dad, who had joined us) took a lot of pictures:
Top Left: I'm showing Rajai the photo of the first pitch of Kellan's first MLB game back on October 1, 2013. The picture was already signed by the M's starting pitcher, Luke French.
Top Right: While a Rueters photographer snapped away, Rajai and I look up to track a ball after hearing the crack of the bat.
Bottom Left: Rajai points at the picture and mumbles (as if half to himself and half to me), "Ah, Oakland A's. Luke French. Yeah…that's a good night for Mr. Davis." After the game, I checked the box score and found that Mr. Davis went 2-3 with an RBI and 2 walks on the night. Nearly everything went wrong that night. The M's lost 9-0. Thankfully, the one thing that went right was that Rajai was retired on the second pitch of the game. So Kellan started his MLB career with the Mariners throwing "strike 1, out 1" on his first two pitches.
Bottom Right: Rajai signs the photo for Kellan.
After signing the photo, Rajai was super cool (and patient) and hung out long enough for my dad to snap a few more photos of us (in which, for some reason, Colleen tried to lean back out of the photo instead of joining us – silly girl):
Here's a close up of Rajai and Kellan (and me since I was holding Kellan):
And here's a photo I found after the game by search google for "Rueters Rajai Davis":
That photo was posted on several sports websites around the world…I'm not sure why, but I won't argue about it.
Finally, check this out:
How many people have a picture of the first pitch of their first MLB game signed by both the pitcher and batter AND photos with both of the players?? Not many, I am sure. In fact, Kellan is the only one I know (we are still trying to track down Tim's first pitcher, Gil Meche).
After our Rajai Davis experience, we headed further down the LF line for a while:
There were so many Blue Jays fans down from Canada that we stood no chance at getting any toss-ups.
Late in BP, Colleen and my dad stayed with the boys in the shady foul territory and I headed out to RF to try my luck at catching a BP homer. It was really sunny out there…
…and I came nowhere near catching any homers.
Check out my dad, Colleen and the boys (you can only see Tim in this photo) hanging out in LF foul territory…
…behind a line of Blue Jays fans. I'm pretty sure that there are more Blue Jays fans at BP at Safeco Field when the Blue Jays visit Seattle than there are at any Blue Jays home game.
On my way back over to foul territory, I stopped by the Mariners bullpen to check out the new setup…
…, which is the result of the M's bringing the fences in for the 2013 season. Last season, there was a tall chain link fence between the bullpen and the fans. Now, it is just a low railings. Much more access and less interference between fans and players. I like it.
Here are a few views of the newly reconfigured LF area:
Lower Right: Edgar's Cantina from the seats next to the LF foul pole.
Lower Left: The hand operated scoreboard is now above Edgar's and set back 10-15 feet from the field – it used to be right above the OF wall.
Upper Right: Tim touching the LF foul pole.
Upper Left: The new standing room area above Edgar's Cantina. This area replaces two sections of seating that used to be in LF.
Next, we headed off to the Kids' Play Area for a bit:
Last season, we concluded that Tim wouldn't be able to go in the play area this season. This season, he was a smidge taller than the height limit, but they still let him in with Kellan – and he still had lots of fun.
While we watched the kids play, my dad posed for a picture with the Rajai Davis sign and…
…then I drew a "Hit It Here" sign on the back of the Rajai sign.
Before the game started, we headed back to the bullpen to watch Hisashi Iwakuma warm up for the game:
And then Tim acted like he was throwing this Pepsi sign on our way to our seats:
We made it to our seats in CF in time for Kuma's first pitch to Jose Reyes:
And that's when I noticed that one of the Blue Jays' BP homers had busted the out-of-town scoreboard above the bullpens:
It was like this the entire game, but was fixed by the next day.
For most of the game, my dad and Tim sat next to each other…
…and Colleen, Kellan and I sat right in front of them, with me on the aisle seat.
The game was a pitchers' dual with R.A. Dickey…
…going pitch-for-pitch with Kuma.
In the bottom of the second inning, Justin Smoak hit an infield Popfly that just missed hitting the international space station…
…and it almost went for a base hit, but for the last minute diving catch by Jays third baseman, Brett Lawrie.
In the second inning, Kellan and I set out on foot for a little adventure. First, we headed out to the SRO area in CF by the Mariners bullpen:
Check out the shadows on "MarinersVision" in those bottom two picts. The sun was streaming into the ballpark from low on the horizon across Puget Sound resulting in a shadow of the lighting fixture clock in LF being cast against the screen.
Next, we headed to the SRO bar area Edgar's Cantina:
I guess, in theory, this is somewhat like the Flag Court in Baltimore or the LF corner in Cleveland, but it is much smaller and is partially covered with an overhang. Not bad though.
Next up, we headed over to the Mariners team store, where Kellan wanted me to buy him a stuffed Mariners Moose thingy (which I meant to buy later in the week, but forgot to do)…
…and then we headed back to our seats. By this point, it was the fourth inning and I had to shake my head at the fact that people were still arriving for the game!
In the bottom of the fifth, it looked like the M's were getting something going. Dustin Ackley led off the inning with a single. After Humberto Quintero flew out, Brad Miller slapped a single…
…of his own. But that's all the M's could muster in the inning. Two more quick pop outs followed and the game went into the sixth inning with a scoreless tie.
Here are some random, mid-game cute pictures of Colleen and Kellan:
We held the "Hit It Here" sign a bunch when the M's were batting. But no one ever hit us with a homerun.
I had forgotten about this, but Mariners home games against the Blue Jays are usually annoyingly crowded. I'm all for tons of fans showing up at Safeco Field. But I'm not for tons of visiting fans showing up. I don't particularly enjoy hearing the crowd at Safeco Field cheer AGAINST the Mariners. I get enough of that phenomenon when we see the M's play road games. When I Seattle, I like the crowd to go crazy IN SUPPORT of my boys in blue. This was the wrong series to attend from that perspective.
Anyway, due to the large'ish crowd (at least large'ish for a Mariners Monday night game), the people running the play area handed out these cards…
…at the beginning of the game. They ran 15 minute shifts throughout the night and Tim and Kellan (accompanied by Colleen) had their chance to play a bit more from 8:40 to 8:55 p.m.
While they were away at the play area, my dad came down a row to sit next to me. Soon, a couple of my high school friends sent me messages that looked like this:
My dad and I made the Mariners broadcast with my "Hit It Here" sign. I think that picture is pretty funny because (1) my dad is smiling like he knows we're on TV, (2) I'm doing something weird with my mouth (maybe I was eating something???), and (3) Kellan's cute little glove looks so tiny on the corner of the chair in front of me (next to my knee). I only wish they would have put us on when Colleen and the boys were all there. Tim would have gotten a kick out of that. Oh, well.
In case you were wondering, he was the Mariners outfield for the game:
Michael "The Beast" Morse, Michael "The Condor" Saunders and Rauuuuuuuuuuuul Ibanez.
And, in case you were wondering again, here is the oddly cool green-based Ken Griffey, Jr. shirt that Tim wore to the game:
So, Justin Smoak led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a massive Smoak-bomb to deeeeeeep RF:
That put the M's up 1-0 with only sixth defensive outs to go and Kuma dealing a gem on the mound. I was feeling quite positive about the prospects for an M's "W".
But it wasn't our night. Kuma gave up a lead off triple to Brett Lawrie in the top of the eighth inning. After retiring Josh Thole, Kuma gave up an RBI single to Jose "Jose, Jose" Reyes. Tie ball game.
Funky Cold Yoervis Medina then came in and recorded the second out of the inning. But then he gave up a single to Jose Bautista, a wild pitch sending Reyes to 3B, and a walk.
By this point, Tim and I were over by the Mariners bullpen…
…watching Oliver Perez warm up:
And just taking photos of the bullpen setup that was still very new to us:
Unfortunately, Perez gave up a 2-RBI line drive single to Mark DeRosa. That put the Jays up 3-1, and that was the final score.
On our way back to our seats we were hopeful for a Mariners comeback (that was not in the cards). We stopped along the way at what I think is one of the most unique spots in any MLB stadium – The Pen's lounge area with open flames:
The boys love that spot. Unfortunately, you cannot see the game whatsoever from there.
The M's gave it their best shot, but couldn't come back. Final score 3-1 Blue Jays.
After the game, we got some family pictures before heading out:
While we prefer Mariners wins, it is always great to be at Safeco Field, and we left this game knowing we had three more opportunities to see the M's win at this beautiful ballpark over the course of the week.
Go Mariners!
2013 C&S Fan Stats
|20 Games
|19 Teams – Mariners, Royals, Phillies, Red Sox, Rays, Orioles, Yankees, Dodgers, Reds, Nationals, Marlins, Pirates, Blue Jays, Twins, Tigers, Mets, Brewers, White Sox, Braves
|32 Ice Cream Helmets – Phillies (jumbo) 4, Phillies (normal) 2, Red Sox 2, Yankees 2, Orioles 4, Nationals 2, Pirates 2, Blue Jays 2, Tigers 6, Mets 2, Reds 4
|93 Baseballs – Mariners 13, Royals 4, Phillies 19, Rays 2, Orioles 7, Dodgers 3, Umpires 7, Reds 9, Nationals 3, Marlins 4, Pirates 1, Blue Jays 2, Twins 3, Tigers 1, Mets 3, Yankees 2, Brewers 2, Red Sox 6, White Sox 3
|11 Stadiums – Safeco Field, Citizens Bank Park, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards, Nationals Park, PNC Park, Rogers Centre, Comerica Park, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park
|33 Player+ Photos – Oliver Perez, Lucas Luetge, Hisashi Iwakuma, Carter Capps, Daniel Nava, Alex Wilson, Andrew Bailey, Pedro Ciriaco, Mike Carp 2, Koji Uehara, Will Middlebrooks, Joel Hanrahan, Jonny Gomes, Alfredo Aceves, Clayton Mortensen, Rick Anderson, Tom Gorzelanny, Joe Savery, Jonathan Pettibone, Carlos Ruiz, Charlie Manuel, Justin DeFratus, Ryan Howard, Ben Revere, Larry Anderson, Gary "Sarge" Matthews Sr., Kyle Kendrick, Ryne "HOF 2005" Sandberg, Michael Stutes, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Rajai Davis
|11 Autograph – Hisashi Iwakuma 2 (English & Japanese), Carter Capps, Ryan Hanigan, Jesus Tiamo, Mike Carp 2, Ryan Rowland-Smith 2, Felix Hernandez, Rajai Davis


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Issue 79 of Retro Gamer magazine contains my six page feature on Superior Software, the most prolific BBC Micro games company back in the 80s and 90s. The company is still in business today selling remakes of the classic back catalogue and can apparently even supply original copies of BBC Micro games.
I don't have my copy yet but you can watch Darran, the editor of Retro Gamer flicking through the issue on Youtube. As you may know, this is my third feature for this magazine. If you read it, I hope you enjoy it, and I hope I've done justice to such a great company. There is a feedback thread for the issue on the RG website.
[Update: I've got it and it looks great. I forgot to add my name to the introduction and I'm not credited elsewhere, but I did write it, I promise!]
Thanks are due to Richard Hanson, Peter Irvin, Tony Oakden and Gary Partis for allowing me to interview them.

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Dmitry Orlov
Theme: "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
-- Samuel Johnson
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On October 8, 2001 – opening night of the 2011-2012 season for the Washington Capitals – defenseman Dmitry Orlov finished a plus-1 with one shot on goal… for the AHL Hershey Bears, in a 3-2 win over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
Orlov, a second-round draft pick of the Capitals in 2009 was starting his first full year in hockey in North America (he signed a tryout contract with Hershey in February 2011 and played in 25 games there, including six playoff games). The expectation was that he would spend a year (or more) of apprenticeship in Hershey to grow familiar with the North American game and develop his skill set at a difficult position.
The plan took a turn when injuries hit the blue line (that is, Mike Green) and cut the defense squad to six healthy players. The call was made for Orlov to join the team on November 20th. At the time he was showing signs of advanced development: 4-5-9, even, in 15 games, including a 1-2-3 effort against Albany in the game immediately preceding his recall.
He was thrown right into the mix. He skated just under 12 minutes in his NHL debut and recorded three hits and a blocked shot in the Caps' 4-3 win over the Phoenix Coyotes in what would be coach Bruce Boudreau's 200th career NHL win. But all was not gumdrops and accordions, either. He was, as one might expect, somewhat uneven in his early going. In his pre-Christmas shakedown period he was 0-5-5, minus-1, in 15 games and was averaging almost 17 minutes of ice time a game, but mixed in there were were four "plus" games and an equal number of "minus" games. While he was going through his growing pains, the Caps were just treading water at 7-7-1 over those 15 games.
It wasn't as if his after-Christmas performance was markedly better, at least not for a time. In 22 games after the holiday he did record his first NHL goal (a game-winner in a 2-1 win over Carolina), but he was just 1-2-3, minus-4. Then came an otherwise forgettable game against San Jose on February 13th. While the Caps were skating to a 5-3 loss to the Sharks, Orlov scored his second goal of the season. It touched off a run of games in which he was 2-9-12, plus-6 over his last 23 games.
Overall, he would finish the season with 19 points in 60 games, good for third on the club in scoring. It would be the sixth highest point total for a rookie defenseman for the Caps in franchise history and the most since Mikhail Tatarinov was 8-15-23 in the 1990-1991 season. Among those top-six rookie scorers among defensemen, only Orlov and Scott Stevens finished in "plus" territory for the season (Orlov was plus-1, Stevens a plus-14 in 1982-1983; although that speaks more to the difficulties the teams of the others had).
Not that Orlov was not protected. Only John Erskine faced a lower quality of competition among Capital defensemen playing at least 20 games (numbers from behindthenet.ca). And only Erskine had a larger percentage of offensive zone starts (54.9 percent) than Orlov (51.1 percent). Perhaps a good thing – only Erskine had a worse percentage spread between offensive zone starts and offensive zone finishes.
We would offer a comparison to his previous season, but there not being one in the NHL, there is not one to compare.
Odd Orlov Fact… Orlov had only three goals, but they came on only 51 shots for the season. In fact, his three goals came on his last 37 shots of the season and that percentage (8.1 percent) would have ranked ninth among league defensemen in shooting percentage over a full year.
Game to Remember… January 15, 2012. With the Capitals and the Carolina Hurricanes locked in a 1-1 tie early in the third period, Tomas Vokoun made a save on a shot from Hurricane forward Jeff Skinner. Orlov collected the long rebound and started the play the other way with a pass to Jason Chimera on the left wing. As Chimera was skating with the puck down the left side, Orlov kept going, heading down the middle to the Carolina net. Chimera fed the puck through, and Orlov appeared to try to redirect it past goalie Cam Ward. Orlov missed but stayed with the play, following up his own attempt by sneaking a shot from a very severe angle behind Ward as he was about to circle behind the net. It was his first NHL goal and a game-winner in a 2-1 Capitals win.
Game to Forget… February 12, 2012. The record will show that Brandon Prust scored a shorthanded goal for the game-winning tally in a 3-2 New York Rangers win over the Capitals at Madison Square Garden. But Orlov was on the ice for each of the first two Ranger goals, both times being this close to getting into position to sweep the puck away from danger when goalie Tomas Vokoun was down, and both times not being quite close enough.
Post Season… Orlov was a healthy scratch for all 14 games in the post-season.
In the end… Despite the ups and downs, it was a season that no one might have expected when the season began last October 8th. The plan might have been for Orlov to spend his apprenticeship in Hershey logging a lot of minutes for a contending AHL team. But circumstance led to his being called up in November, and he would never return to Hershey. He would prove to be durable (he missed one game to illness) and would show improvement over the course of the season based on his ten-game splits. But there was room for improvement. For example, his 48 giveaways in 60 games was fourth most on the team, more than Roman Hamrlik had (43) in more games (68).
What Orlov did this year was provide a look into the future, a look at what could become a third pair fixture next season (assuming Dennis Wideman is not resigned) and perhaps a top-four, two-way defenseman down the road. That he would have provided that glimpse this year – and in 60 games of action – was among the most unexpected happenings for the club this season.
Grade: B


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Wednesday, Dec 6, 2017, 7:00 pm
Watch Live Seminars from the 2017 Young Farmers Conference
The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture—a non-profit organization working to promote sustainable, community-based food and teach the next generation of farmers—kicked off the tenth Young Farmers Conference earlier today, Dec. 6, in Pocantico Hills, N.Y.
Through Friday, hundreds of new farmers will be joined by sustainable agriculture experts, scientists, chefs and speakers from across the country. This year, select sessions will be streamed live on Facebook and the Stone Barns Center's website. Administrators will also be taking questions from the online audience, so be sure to tune in.
Check out the streaming schedule below as well as the keynote from earlier this afternoon (featuring Ricardo Salvador and food journalist Mark Bittman):
11am-12:30pm: Mimicking Nature: Integrating Livestock into Perennial and Annual Cropping Systems
1:15-1:45pm: What Is Agroecology?
2:00-3:30pm: Farmers Cultivating Restaurant Relationships
3:45-5:15pm: Growing from Urban to Rural
5:30-6:30pm: Keynote: Ricardo Salvador and Mark Bittman
9:00am-10:30am: Pollination Ecology part I
10:45am-12:00pm: Pollination Ecology part II
12:45-1:15pm: Agroequity: Defining a New Equity Framework in Food and Agriculture
1:30-3:00pm: Climate Change Adaptation
3:15-4:45pm: Changing the Way a Generation Thinks About Food
5:15-6:15pm: Keynote: M. Sanjayan
9:00-10:00am: Women on the Verge
10:15-11:45am: Appropriate Tools and Technology for Emerging Small-Scale Market Gardeners
1:15-2:45pm: Cover Cropping
Ricardo Salvador and Mark Bittman at the 2017 Young Farmers Conference. (Source: stonebarnscenter.org)
(Visit stonebarnscenter.org/yfc for complete information on the livestream sessions and all the conference presenters. For more information about the Stone Barns Center's work and support for new farmers, click here.)
Rural America In These Times
This blog's mission is to provide the public service of helping make the issues that rural America is grappling with part of national discourse.
More by Rural America In These Times
- In Less Than One Generation, We've Lost More Than 10 Million Acres of the Best U.S. Farmland
- Two Conversations About "Sustainable Capitalism" and "The Art of Work"
- Rural America's Population is Shrinking for the First Time Ever
- Watch Live Seminars from the 2017 Young Farmers Conference
- Why Didn't We Listen to this Guy?: Bernie Sanders on the GOP Tax Plan and Global Oligarchy


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UNDG Regional Workshop for the African and Arab Regions Explores Integrated Approaches to Mainstream Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
Climate change, environmental degradation, and disasters have direct impacts on the livelihoods of people. To address linkages between these three areas and mainstream them in country programming, the UN Development Group (UNDG) Task Team on Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change and Rio+20, in collaboration with several partners, organized a regional workshop for the African and Arab regions from 20-24 June 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop brought together members of UN Country Teams who are embarking on the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) roll-out process. It is the first in a serious of three regional workshops scheduled in 2011 which will also cover Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.
In his opening remarks, Mounkaila Goumandakaye, UNEP Regional Director for Africa, highlighted that the workshop was timely given that several UN Country Teams in Africa had just embarked on developing new UNDAFs, working in collaboration with partner governments and stakeholders. The workshop aimed at enabling participants to identify opportunities and tools for mainstreaming environmental sustainability (ES), climate change (CC) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in these processes. Alexander MacKenzie from Canada, who led the workshop together with a diverse facilitation team from across Africa, emphasized that "this workshop is not a formal top-down training, but rather creates opportunities for participants to share their experiences".
Through hands-on 'Country Clinics', UNCT representatives presented opportunities and challenges in their UNDAF development processes and gathered feedback and advice from their peers. Good practices that were identified through the discussions include, for example, the need to align UNDAF priorities with national development challenges; focusing on areas where the UN has a comparative advantage; and leveraging expertise from other specialized agencies in the area of CC, ES and DRR.
The content of the workshop was based on three interrelated UNDG guidance notes:
- "Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into the CCA and UNDAF" (2009);
- "Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability in Country Analysis and the UNDAF" (2009); and
- "Integrating Climate Change Considerations in the Country Analysis and the UNDAF" (2010).
Throughout the event, representatives from a range of international organizations provided background information and introduced supporting resources and experiences. Samba Harouna, Coordinator of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Africa, Cecilia Njenga, Head of the UNEP Liaison Office in South Africa, and Francis Battal, Deputy Head of the Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), shared their insights on how to effectively use the guidance notes. Jacqueline Olweya and Caroline Mueke, Regional UNDG Team Secretariat for Eastern and Southern Africa, outlined the technical and strategic support regional UNDG teams are providing to UNCTs throughout the UNDAF development and implementation process. Amrei Horstbrink, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), introduced resources available through the One UN CC:Learn initiative to support country-driven processes to strengthen learning and skills development in the area of climate change.
The three regional workshops are organized by the UNDG Task Team in cooperation with the Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI), UNEP, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) through the Bureau for Development Policy and the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, the Secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), UNITAR (with resources from UN CC:Learn), and the UN System Staff College (UNSSC). The workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean will take place in Panamá, 11-15 July 2011, and the workshop for Asia in Bangkok, 25-29 July 2011.
For additional information please contact: Marjolaine Cote (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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The most frustrating bad movies are the ones that insist on showing you teasing glimpses of a better one. "Green Hornet" is enjoyable in fits and starts, but never coalesces into a satisfying or even vaguely coherent movie.
Seth Rogen stars as Britt Reid - irresponsible playboy by day, raging d-bag by night - who inherits his father's newspaper and decides on a whim to become a superhero and then use the paper to promote himself as that superhero. Er, wait, no. He's going to pretend to be a villain, and use the paper to promote his villainy, but he's actually going to be a superhero. Or something. It's all so confusing that you never bother to ask "WHY DID HIS NEWS MAGNATE FATHER EMPLOY A KUNG-FU FIGHTING WEAPONS EXPERT?"
Director Michel Gondry (who crafted the magnificent "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") is constrained by his first mainstream movie, but he is able to squeeze in just enough of his left-of-center visual style to give the movie some real flash. It's just too bad that one of the most Gondry-esque sequences is used to, literally, tell the audience what has just happened for the last hour so that it can rush to the climax. Seriously, no joke - the movie actually features a complete plot recap as a white flag saying, "Yes, we know none of this makes a lick of sense." It's as tough to swallow as the relationship between the charming Jay Chou (as Kato) and the utterly charm-free Rogen. Like the movie itself, Rogen is stuck between making fun of superheroes and actually being one - and neither Rogen nor "Hornet" can fully commit, so it all ends up being nothing. A big void. It's a shame, because somewhere in there is a good buddy action comedy just waiting for someone to light a fire under it (Chou really deserves better - the guy just exudes a badass cool). And somewhere under THAT, there's an actual part for Christoph Waltz to play. The man does his best with what he's given - an insecure but vicious baddie - but, again, the movie isn't sure whether its mocking the villain or trying to craft a real nemesis so, like the rest, it settles into forgettable "meh."
Oh, and Cameron Diaz pops in for a few scenes to have absolutely zero chemistry with anyone, and, well…that's about it.
But, again, "Green Hornet" does have style, some great gadget porn, and at least one really good fight scene and car chase, which makes it passable home viewing (hell, there are even one or two jokes that work even though they do nothing to help the movie's tonal schizophrenia). On Blu-ray, the colors pop (the "Black Beauty's green headlights especially) and, if you have a 3D capable TV and Blu-ray player, you will enjoy this movie's total embracing of the format. "Green Hornet" is available in a 3-Disc package that includes a 3D Blu-ray, a regular Blu-ray, and a DVD. Yes, it's come to this.
The special features are rounded out by deleted scenes that do little to illuminate the goings on, a surpassingly gag-free "gag reel" (unless you count watching Rogen use a Shake Weight) and a featurette that wisely focus on the true star of the movie: the car. It's a decent package when all's said and done, but nothing groundbreaking.
Home Video Review: "The Green Hornet"
The most frustrating bad movies are the ones that insist on showing you teasing glimpses of a better one. "Green Hornet" is enjoyable in fits and starts, but never coalesces into a satisfying or even vaguely coherent movie.


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The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, The Fedora Linux project hopes to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
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Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary USB thumbdrive ("stick"). Originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child Project and designed specifically as a 1-to-1 computing environment for K-8 students to collaborate with others in exploring the world around them, Sugar is used every day by over one and a half million students in classrooms throughout the world. It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop; students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their customized computing environment without touching the host machine's hard disk or existing system at all.
The heart of the Sugar Learning Platform is its Activities for children - fun and engaging programs for reading e-books, writing, drawing, browsing the Internet, programming, and so on. Each Activity is designed to achieve specific pedagogical goals.
A thriving community-created ecosystem of Activities can be found at the Sugar Labs Activities Portal. Activities take full advantage of computer-based learning, from interactive speech synthesis for beginning readers to tools for remixing open content into customized digital libraries for your local classroom.
Sugar automatically saves your progress to a "Journal" on your stick, so teachers and parents can easily pull up "all collaborative web browsing sessions done in the past week" or "papers written with Daniel and Sarah in the last 24 hours" with a simple query rather than memorizing complex file/folder structures.
The source code for each Activity is available right from the application itself with the "View Source" feature, meaning that students can see exactly how their favorite applications work - and perhaps how to make them even better. Tinkering encouraged! An international community of learners, teachers, deployers, and developers is always there to help classrooms turn their feedback and ideas for improvement into reality.
Join us in enabling children to reclaim computers for themselves - we need contributors of all ages, backgrounds, and types to help us bring open source personal computing to classrooms as a tool for enabling exploration.
What is Sugar on a Stick?
Information is about nouns. Learning is about verbs. Designed specifically for children and based on cognitive and social constructivism, the Sugar user interface differs from traditional user interfaces with their "office productivity" orientation.
The fourth Sugar on a Stick release, "Mango Lassi", is a slim, stable version of the Sugar Learning Platform featuring a few classroom-tested Activities and designed for remixability and customization by adventurous students, families, and small classroom deployments who want to try something different and help shape the future of personalized learning for children around the world.


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ICMA-RC Client, Monroe County, NY, Receives NAGDCA Leadership Recognition Award
October 30, 2018
Monroe County, a longtime ICMA-RC client in New York, was recently awarded a NAGDCA 2018 Leadership Recognition Award, which recognizes excellence and innovation in retirement plan design, participant education, technology, and/or effective communication methods in government defined contribution plans.
The Monroe County Deferred Compensation Plan received the recognition following the launch of its first annual VIP Retirement Dinner in 2017 to engage high-balance retirement plan participants who retired or were no longer working for the county. After analyzing participant data for trends and opportunities to better serve participants, it was determined that a significant portion of Monroe County's retirement plan assets were held by high-balance separated/retired participants over the age of 50. The goal of the VIP dinner was to educate participants about the benefits of the plan and examine their individual goals and retirement needs. The event contributed to a 17 percent decrease in roll-outs, a 33 percent increase in roll-ins and a plan retention rate of 96.3 percent, which represents more than a .5 percent increase from 2016.
"Our inaugural VIP Retirement Dinner in 2017 encouraged attendees to become more involved and better informed about their retirement options and it produced strong measurable results," said Brayton Connard, Director of Human Resources for Monroe County. "We received very encouraging feedback and engagement from attendees, making it a win-win for those who were involved and we anticipate making this an annual event for the foreseeable future."
The one-night event included a cocktail hour, formal dinner, and presentations from featured speakers. The attendees had the opportunity to interact with the Deferred Compensation Committee, Plan Investment Consultant, ICMA-RC, and the 457 Plan Education Team. One-on-one discussions focusing on the benefits of their 457 plan throughout retirement gave attendees a better understanding of their retirement needs and how to reach their goals.
"ICMA-RC applauds Monroe County's innovative approach and the effort they made to carry out a productive event for their retirement plan participants," said Joseph Teague, Managing Vice President, Field Sales & Relationship Management for ICMA-RC. "We were pleased to support their efforts by providing resources that helped attendees think about retirement in new ways."
Joseph Teague, Managing Vice President, Field Sales & Relationship Management (East), ICMA-RC,
Brayton McK. Connard, SPHR Director of Human Resources, County of Monroe,
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Lillie Lagasse must have been close to my grandfather Léo Lagacé. Her husband Eugène Dubé was a witness to his wedding in 1912.
I wonder if Lillie Lagasse Dube (1875-?) could be on this picture as well as her husband Eugene Dube (1872-?).
I wonder if Lillie's descendants would have pictures of my grandfather Léo when he was just an 11 year-old boy living in Bristol in 1900.
I also wonder who took this group picture around 1922.
What I know about these people on it is that my great-grandfather, Dennis Lagasse II, is on it as well as his son Dennis Lagasse III. Dennis Lagasse IV is the reader who sent it a few months ago. His father Lionel had the family album.
I posted most of his 100 pictures on this blog.
Now looking at this picture once again more closely, I think some people on those 100 pictures could be Dubés.
This group picture was taken in the fall of 1922 by looking at the trees and the leaves on the ground. I am pretty sure when it was taken because Dennis III died on October 21st, 1922.
I have identified Ida Lagasse (1895-1967), daughter of Dennis III, and most probably Ida's daughter, Jeannette Lamothe, born around 1920, holding on to her mother's skirt. Ida married Hector Lamothe on April 23rd, 1919.
Someone seems to have been just married… probably a Dubé because I am sure the newly weds are not Lagasses.
But the Lagasse clan is there in full force.
In the back we see my great-grandfather Dennis Lagasse II (1842-1927).
His son Dennis Lagasse III (1864-1922) and his wife Amanda Ménard (1866-1955).
Their sons…
Levi Napoleon Lagasse (1896-1964).
Victor Philip Lagasse (1890-1964)…
His wife Alice Myers (1888-1958) holding Rhea Lagasse, born around 1921, with Rhea's sister Flora Lagasse, born around 1918, in front of her.
All the numbers add up, but where could Lillie be on that picture?
Lillie, will you please come forward ?


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3001 Forest Park Fort Worth, TX 76110
What: Campus Teachers of the Year Reception
When: 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Where: Kimbell Art Museum's Renzo Piano Pavilion
Summary: Fort Worth ISD is honoring its 134 Campus Teachers of the Year recipients at a special after-school reception on Tuesday, April 2. The invitation-only event, hosted by Central Market and other community partners, will include the announcement of the 10 finalists for the elementary and secondary District Teachers of the Year awards.
Since 1985, community businesses and organizations have partnered with Fort Worth ISD to recognize outstanding classroom teachers in our District. One teacher from each school is selected by fellow teachers for the honor of 2018-2019 Campus Teacher of the Year.
Teachers selected are eligible to apply for the District Teacher of the Year award for elementary or secondary. Each of the two award winners receives an honorarium of $5,000 from Central Market. The eight finalists also receive an award of $1,000 from Central Market.
The Campus Teacher of the Year Reception will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Kimbell Art Museum's Renzo Piano Pavilion, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. Entertainment will be provided by musicians from I.M. Terrell Academy for STEM and VPA's String Orchestra, directed by Hunter Lewis.
The following are this year's honorees:


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John Goodman has followed Drew Carey as the latest Hollywood big man to achieve a super-sized slimdown.
The "Treme" actor told People he's lost more than 100 pounds since cutting out drinking three years ago and hiring Serena Williams' health coach, Mackie Shilstone.
"I know it sounds sappy, but it was a waste," Goodman said. "It takes a lot of creative energy to sit on your ass and figure out what you're going to eat next ... I wanted to live life better."
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Goodman, 58, said he now avoids sugar entirely and works out six days a week.
"I'm breaking a sweat but I'm not going nuts," he told People.
The one-time "Roseanne" star has become fit enough to take on athletic roles, Shilstone told the magazine.
Last week, comedian Drew Carey also credited daily workouts for helping him lose more than 80 pounds since January. Instead of sugar, the "Price is Right" host said he'd cut out all carbs.


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This Academy-award winning non-fiction film endures as a remarkable document, one that pain-stakingly charts a specific time and place, particularly Bethel, New York, on the specific weekend when 1.5 million kids descended on a parcel of farmland for what ultimately became a free concert (much to the surprise of the show's concerned financiers).
It's no hyperbole to state that Woodstock is a giant among documentaries (and concert films), much as the event itself remains a colossus among concerts. If you want to witness the dark side of the Vietnam generation, check out (the equally amazing, if depressing...) Gimme Shelter. But Woodstock has the good vibrations. It delivers just what the film's subtitle promises: Three Days of Peace and Music.
Yet what I admire most about the movie Woodstock is that director Michael Wadleigh depicts two engaging stories simultaneously. One is the story of the music itself, of the on-stage performances. You've got Arlo Guthrie, The Who, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Virtually everything about this facet of the film is sterling; from Joan Baez on stage at night by her lonesome, singing about her incarcerated husband (a draft dodger), to the always energetic Jimi Hendrix, doing his particular brand of hard rock.
But today, I'm even more fascinated by the other story depicted by Wadleigh. It's a tale of logistics; of preparations; of amazing, vast scope. In other words, Woodstock is a film that doesn't merely provide shots of teeming masses, it's one that desires to reveal how those masses lived for three days (and nights) in that farmland setting. The film shows us how, where, and when concert-goers slept, carving out territory for themselves and pleasantly "saying goodnight" to their neighbors. It reveals how people made the best of a difficult situation when the sky opened up and it began to rain. Before long, the ground had turned to slick, messy mud...
Improbably, Wadleigh even arranges an entire sequence around the toilets; portable chemical port-a-johns that service the vast crowd. And finally, at the end of the film, we see volunteers cleaning up the deserted field, picking up what appears to be a vast sea of garbage. "Just love everybody and clean up a little garbage on the way out, and everything will be fine," one organizer optimistically suggests.
There was so much footage shot for Woodstock that, at times, the movie cuts to split-screens, ones two-and-three frames strong. To Wadleigh's credit, he marshals the technique when it is merited -- as balance and counterweight, mostly -- not when he's simply attempting to be flashy. The result is a visually dazzling film that's never less than compelling.
Unlike the rowdy, contentious Town Halls we see on TV today, the Woodstock concert didn't require policemen to step in and maintain law and order. Instead, people behaved themselves and didn't act on ignorance or bigotry. Fifty thousand teenagers were expected...and over a million showed up. And yet there were no major incidents to report.


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- 21,536 +/- Sqft
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Property TypeLand & Ranch – Homesite
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Listing Date07/15/20
Lot Size0.49 Acres (21,536 SqFt)
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Premier .49 ac lot in Dercums Dash on the Mountain LUXURY development with ski in/ski out access to Keystone, #1 family ski resort in US, offered complete with custom designed elevations/floor plans that can still be altered to create YOUR legacy dream home. Site cleared, amazing mountain views, plus dedicated green space on 2-sides. Lot 18 was purchased as a premium reserve lot from original developer. Direct access to trails, hiking, biking, fly-fishing, golfing, boating on nearby Lake Dillon.
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In the winter Keystone offers three challenging mountains on over 3,148 skiable acres, an 11.5-hour ski day and A51, one of the largest night terrain parks in North America. In the summer, visitors and locals enjoy two 18-hole championship golf courses, fly-fishing, horseback riding and countless other mountain activities. Year-round, Keystone features award-winning dining, and shops in River Run and Lakeside Village. Ski under the stars and lights, enjoy the Wine Jazz and Art Festival or relax along the seven miles of the Snake River that runs through town. Enjoy award-winning dining at the Ski Tip lodge, the Keystone Ranch, or the Alpen Stube.
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I,T.DYVIK CHENNA am a Final year U.G student at SASTRA University,Thanjavur.I am enthusiastic about Openware resources like Mozilla.Presently I am a Representative for Mozilla and also a Firefox Student Ambassador for INDIA. I am interested in giving talk about Opensource, Webmaker ,FxOS and also SuMo.
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He seems to have done so much for Mozilla contributors as a rep and student ambassador. :) And he also has dopne a WebMaker event. I am happy to vouch for him.
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One of the active Telugu localizers in Telugu. He is leading many localization projects within Mozilla and helped users by answering our Support forums. He organized various Webmaker events and App Days. Regional Marketing Ambassador, Mozilla Reps, Webmaker Mentor and so on. I am really happy to vouch THIRUNAHARI DYVIK CHENNA.
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I know dyvik from the past one years, he is an awesome contributor to mozilla from the past 1 year. Links to his contributions: dyvik100.wordpress.com , SUMO : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/dyvik1001 , Webmaker : https://webmaker.org/user/dyvik1001, Promoted as Webmaker Mentor. *Presently core-member for Webmaker India where we are working more on community building and also Maker Party. Club lead for Sastra University : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_Club_@SASTRA


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LONDON (Reuters) - Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or reduce pain from the condition, according to the results of a large trial published on Thursday.
A study published in The Lancet medical journal found that the popular pain medicine was no better than placebo, or dummy pills, for hastening recovery from acute bouts of low back pain or easing pain levels, function, sleep or quality of life.
Researchers said the findings challenge the universal endorsement of paracetamol as the first choice painkiller for lower back pain.
"We need to reconsider the universal recommendation to provide paracetamol as a first-line treatment," said Christopher Williams, who led the study at the University of Sydney in Australia.
Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. In the United States alone, costs relating to the condition are estimated to be more than $100 billion a year.
Currently, every back pain treatment guideline in the world recommends paracetamol as the first-line analgesic and Williams said this was despite the fact that no previous studies have provided robust evidence that it works in this condition.
In his trial, 1,652 people from Sydney with acute low back pain were randomly assigned to receive up to four weeks of paracetamol, either in regular doses three times a day, or as needed, or to receive placebos. All those involved received advice and reassurance and were followed up for three months.
The results showed no difference in the number of days to recovery between the treatment groups - with the average time to recovery coming out at 17 days for each of the groups given paracetamol, and at 16 days for the placebo group.
Paracetamol had no effect on short-term pain levels, disability, function, sleep quality, or quality of life, the researchers said, and the number of patients reporting negative side effects was similar in all groups.
Christine Lin, an associate professor at the George Institute for Global Health and the University of Sydney who also worked on the study, said the reasons for paracetamol failing to work for lower back pain were not well understood.
"While we have shown that paracetamol does not speed recovery from acute back pain, there is evidence that paracetamol works to relieve pain for a range of other conditions, such as headaches, some acute musculoskeletal conditions, tooth ache and for pain straight after surgery," she said in a statement about the findings.
"What this study indicates is that the mechanisms of back pain are likely to be different from other pain conditions, and this is an area that we need to study more."
Experts who were not directly involved praised the study but cautioned that guidelines should nevertheless not be changed on the basis of a single piece of research.
"More robust and consistent evidence, including verification of the results in other populations, is needed," Bart Koes and Wendy Enthoven from the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands wrote in a Lancet commentary.
They also called for more studies on whether other simple analgesics could add extra benefits on top of giving advice and reassurance to patients.
Editing by Robin Pomeroy


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Written by Jake Koeneman
I needed this. Since I first went hunting with my dad as an eight year old, autumn nights in the Wisconsin woods have always reminded me of the first time I looked up and saw more stars than I could possibly imagine existed. These moments where I can just stop, look at the sky, and reflect provide the calm that I often forget I need. Life is very busy right now and I needed the chance to step away for a couple of days.
When Michael Kiser of Good Beer Hunting texted a few weeks ago and asked if I was interested in attending the third Good Beer Buckshot weekend at Camp Wandawega in Wisconsin, I was excited. Once I saw the rough agenda, I wasn't sure how anyone would survive the weekend. I confirmedmy reservation without hesitation and blocked off my calendar for October 10-12.
On Monday of camp week, we got our sleeping assignments and the final details for the weekend. It was here and it was go time. The week at work was crazy and I did not have the chance to really look at the details until Thursday. However, I kept coming back to the closing line of the email "you're going to have the best time."
Once I got some breathing space on Wednesday, I read the recaps of the 2012 and 2013 #GoodBeerBuckshot weekends and let those be my guide for packing. On Thursday, I re-read each of them again. I read them once more on Friday for good measure. Each time I read the 2013 recap, I paused at two statements:
1) "An event that's not 'held' as much as it is conjured by the very men in attendance — their good wills and collaborative spirits providing all the strength necessary for an amazing time. "
2) "Each man finds his own way throughout the day — joining a small faction of adventure seekers for awhile. Then going off alone in a canoe for some all-too-rare silence out by the lake's other shores."
A great time, conjured by the collective spirits in attendance, with time to share beers but also plenty of time to make our own adventure: YES.
I left Friday afternoon from Indianapolis and immediately realized that I had plenty of blankets, beer, bourbon, and mead from New Day Craft, but little in the way of toiletries. I pledged to stop at any Wal-Mart or Meijer I could find that was closest to camp to get last minute supplies and headed north. Making my my way around the Chicago suburbs at rush hour, I started to notice the first wave of tweets marked with #Goodbeerbuckshot. Turning to the west just north of the Wisconsin state line toward Lake Geneva, it was impossible to miss the incredible sunset. It was one of those times where you smile and exhale as deeply as your lungs will allow, and then exhale a little further. I tweeted a quick picture of the sunset over the rolling hills, but it could not do the sky justice. I parked my car as darkness fully engulfed camp. As I stepped out of the car to meet Michael, the bonfire was alight, spirits were high, and the table was set for an amazing weekend. It was perfect.
Friday night is acclimation. For those of us that were there for the first time, it was a hell of an introduction. Jon Barley and Paul Schneider of Solemn Oath described the beers they brought, including one they made exclusively for the weekend. Max and Michael thanked everyone for being able to make it, and the night progressed from "how did you get invited?" to conversations focused on industry trends and life outside of the beer industry. As the night faded further into darkness, everyone headed to their sleeping accommodations as they saw fit. Most heed the advice to not celebrate Friday in spite of Saturday, some do not.
Saturday is exploration. I was was one of the first to rise Saturday and was greeted with one of the most amazing scenes I have ever witnessed. Two steps out of my tent on a bluff was the mirror-still lake with fog rising and reflecting the early fall colors. The crisp air and the view were the perfect preview to the day. As coffee was brewed and more guys rose from slumber, discussions ranged between employment and speculating on who was using the rope swing at 1am the night before.
When breakfast rolled out of the kitchen at 9:30a courtesy of the Longman and Eagle crew, the stage for the day was further set. Breakfast consisted of hand rolled burritos filled with Foie Gras, lime cabbage, potatoes, refried beans, and eggs. Oh, and the beans, potatoes, and eggs were all cooked in the rendered duck fat from the Foie Gras. After breakfast, the day rolled along seamlessly. While one group was opening bottles at the picnic table, another was throwing hatchets at a wooden target, and still others were in boats out on the lake. I took a rowboat out on the lake for some time to reflect. It was incredibly peaceful until my less than graceful exit from the boat once back on shore resulted in a wet shirt and spilled beer. Lunch was a pairing of amazing smoked meat prepared by Cleetus Friedman of Fountainhead and beers from Penrose in Elgin.
Saturday afternoon captured the essence of camp as I had pictured it. 4 Hands brewery from St. Louis, MO brought multiple versions of their Berliner Weisse fermented to different PH levels for blending. The crew broke up into a few different groups to create unique blends that were then judged. Shortly after the blending was done, a whiffle ball game started that lasted for multiple hours until it was time to help set the table for dinner. Dinner featured multiple beers from Une Annee, a one year old brewery in Chicago, paired with more incredible food. After time for digestion, and some music, the bonfire and bottle share started. As Friday night went, so did Saturday. A number of guys faded out until there was a small contingent left debating who could curate the best tap list with only 12 tap lines while passing around a bottle of bourbon.
As I packed my car on Sunday morning, I had some initial moments to reflect on what had transpired in the previous 48 hours. I met incredible dudes. Guys that execute at an incredibly high level in their chosen career and are willing to put all of the usual guard aside to just be a group of dudes running around a summer camp. The fact that I could actually hit a whiffle ball was a definite bonus. I cannot thank Michael Kiser and Max Whistler enough for their invitation this year and I can't wait to attend next fall. Cheers to #GoodBeerBuckshot weekend 2014.


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Most of the time when we think about chamber music, we picture string quartets and other instrumental ensembles, but some of the best chamber music ever written was scored for the singing voice. And mezzo-soprano Faith Sherman and pianist Joseph Li proved that point beautifully when they appeared on the Artist Series of Sarasota recently in a picturesque John Cannon home at Lakewood Ranch.
This was chamber music as it's meant to be: intimate (the audience numbered fewer than 100), in a small space (a private home) and convivial (we sat around the performers, sipping wine and feeling happy and pampered). Best of all, it was beautifully presented.
Sherman is one of these new, young superstar singers who can toss off the most difficult repertoire (three gorgeous songs by Rachmaninov, in Russian) after presenting familiar, fun and fervent songs by the likes of Cole Porter (the hilarious "Tale of the Oyster"), Sondheim and Kern ("Bill" from "Showboat").
And her pianist, Li, playing with the music flat on top of the piano and sounding very much like the great Warren Jones, is a master musician from classics by Schubert and Hahn, to the jazzy "Cry Me a River" and "Bewitched." Like Jones (who has partnered with some of the world's finest singers), Li knows how to breathe at the keyboard, allowing his vocal partner space and room to phrase poetically.
Yes, Sherman is a classy classical singer, and some of her jazz and cabaret interpretations smacked more of the opera house than the nightclub. But her perfect diction in five languages, deep understanding of the words and her breezy, charming, warm personality brought her through with flying colors.
This is a mezzo for which to watch. She's already gotten rave reviews in the New York Times, received a Grammy nomination and made appearances with numerous important companies from the Houston Grand Opera to Chautauqua and Wolf Trap. Her upcoming schedule is even more exciting with appearances scheduled in Europe, as well as this country. The Artist Series of Sarasota made a good choice featuring her now — while she's still available.
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Google vs. Death How CEO Larry Page has transformed the search giant into a factory for moonshots. Our exclusive look at his boldest bet yet–to extend human life. By Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman
"At the moment Google is working on an especially uncertain and distant shot. It is launching Calico, a new company that will focus on health and aging in particular. The independent firm will be run by Arthur Levinson, former CEO of biotech pioneer Genentech, who will also be an investor. Levinson, who began his career as a scientist and has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, plans to remain in his current roles as the chairman of the board of directors for both Genentech and Apple, a position he took over after its co-founder Steve Jobs died in 2011. In other words, the company behind YouTube and Google+ is gearing up to seriously attempt to extend the human life span."


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An Incident at the Eisenhower Library
During a recent nine day research visit to the Eisenhower Library in Abilene Kansas, an incident occurred which might be of interest to UFO researchers.
Procedures differ at many of these archives. At the Eisenhower Library, a researcher will file a research proposal with the library prior to visiting the library. Once there, the researcher is assigned an archivist who will visit with you usually twice a day to see if you have any questions, suggest files that might be in the area of your research inquiry, and do minor searches for certain letters and documents based on his or her available time. Speaking for my archivist he was very helpful, particularily in light of the topic which was UFOs.
A few days into my stay I showed the archivist an FBI memo from 1954, which identified a particular letter that had been written to President Eisenhower. The archivist knew prior to his search the name of the person writing the letter, the general date of the letter, and the fact that the letter dealt with UFOs. I had searched for the letter for many days using the many finders guides provided without success. Figuring it might be in the "Alphabetical File" I asked the archivist if he could run a search. (The Alphabetical File contains almost 3,000,000 pages which is the largest of the unprocessed segments of the Central Files. It consists of letters from the public, letters referred to the government, and cross-reference sheets to documents in the other collections.)
The archivist disappeared and later in the morning returned while I was coping documents at the photocopier. He stated he had found on one piece of correspondence from the individual in question. The date of the correspondence he had found seemed to fit. The only problem he said is that the letter was transferred to the Secret Service.
I stated that I wanted to see the letter, along with enclosures that I believed had come with the document, so I wished to continue to pursue the letter. The archivist said "Ok. Hang on." He disappeared again and returned shortly with a White House Transfer Sheet. It identified the author of the letter, the date it was written, the date it was transferred, and the agency that the letter was transferred to. I stuck it in my file, and started planning an FOIA to Secret Service to recover the letter.
It wasn't till at least a day or so later in rereading stuff I had copied that I noticed that the transfer date on the letter was 31 days after the letter was written. The letter therefore could not have been considered a threat on the President as it would have been transferred immediately. The fact that the letter addressed to the President had been held for up to 31 days indicated that the White House may not have seen the letter as a crank letter either, so I started to research the White House records for the date I guessed the letter had arrived and the date the letter was transferred. This included checking the Presidents schedule, the White House phone logs, and any records I could find on the Secret Service.
On the date of the transfer I found what appeared to be a significant meeting that took place in the President's office from 11:15 to 11:45am. There was 4 people in with the President and one had a direct tie in with what would have been in the letter, so I started to attach my findings with a paperclip to the tarnsfer sheet which I had in a file on my table. Each morning I would ask more questions of the archivist about what I had found.
One morning after pulling the transfer sheet out, and asking questions, the room monitor ( there are room monitors in the research room who act much like Grade 3 teachers. They carefully watch what is going on in the room, and quickly point out things you are doing that you shouldn't be doing) came to me and said "Where did you get that transfer sheet. You shouldn't have it." I asked her what she was talking about and pulled it out of my file. " Did you get it from (my archivist). We are not allowed to give those out". The war was on.
I told her that this was a White House record, and the only difference was that it was held by another agency. I told her I had clearly identified the document, I knew it was there, and that I had clearly identified the subject of the letter. She stated "You should have been told we don't have the document. That wouldn't have been lying. We would have been telling the truth. You have it now so there is nothing we can do. You won't get that document out of the Secret Service anyway." She asked what the document was about..." not that I care" she said....so I told her.
She asked for permission to make a copy of the transfer sheet and said that she was going to call up ( my archivist) on it. She headed to the phone and a couple minutes later one of the other archivists (the archivist happened to be the same archivist who had told me in an e-mail a month earlier that he couldn't find the letter. One of the comments he made to the monitor was " I remember seeing this" ) appeared in the room, and they quietly began to discuss the transfer sheet. I listened carefully as I was at one of the front tables. It appeared that the other archivist agreed with her. After the five minute discussion, the archivist left the room clutching the transfer sheet. I was very angry, both over what had just happened, and over visions of my archivist being fired for actually helping me. I left the library and walked around the grounds for 30 minutes.
The next morning I was determined to fight with the room monitor about what had happened. I started two minutes after I was in the room with a question to her. " If Bill Clinton had transferred Monica Lewinsky's letters to the President to the Secret Service as soon as the story broke, claiming to the Secret Service that she was stocking him, would that transfer be covered up? Would those documents be gone forever? Are you not allowed to tell us about a transfer to the Secret Service or a transfer to any department? What's to stop the President from pulling a three ton truck up to the back of the White House, loading it full of documents and transferring it to some obscure agency?"
" We haven't decided yet she said. We had a meeting, but haven't decided yet. Don't talk to me. The assistant director is right here. You talk to him." She quickly took off, and the assistant director came up and introduced himself.
He stated the same thing as the monitor. The library had had a meeting and no firm decision had been reached about what the policy on transfers would be. "It's a matter of confidentiality," he said. " When we see something go to Secret Service we assume trouble."
I pointed out that in Mamie Eisenhower's official files there are two files identified as "crank letters", and that James Hagerty had transferred a letter written by a woman in a state penitentiary directly to the FBI. In both cases no names were withheld and in Mamie's case you could even read the letters complete with name and address of the person sending the letter. He responded, "I realize it appears we haven't been very consistent."
I pointed out to him that the library by withholding the transfer was buying into what Ufologists have claimed for years - that is that documents are being withheld. He said the library took no position on any topic and only provided the documents to researchers for review. The researchers can come up with any interpetation of the documents they choose, and he referred to some researcher who comes to research who writes books denying the holocaust.
I pointed out that if Eisenhower had sent one UFO letter to the Secret Service, he could have considered all UFO people reporting things as crazy and there could be thousands of UFO reports in the Secret Service. The assistant did not disagree.
I pointed out that with UFOs that is not the case especially related to MJ-12 where the Eisenhower Library is on record claiming that Ufologists are circulating a fake briefing document.(1) I stated researchers can now claim that all the MJ-12 documents were transferred to MJ-12 and the Eisenhower library can claim there are no MJ-12 documents without lying. He said there would be a transfer in the file if this had happened. I replied but the policy is not to release the transfer. That's about where it ended. No decision was made on transfers that I was told about, and I was told to take up my document with the Secret Service.
What is to be learned from this. There are probably loop holes where agencies and libraries can play the " depends what the definition of the word 'is' is " game. This case study is just one example that has come to light. Also learned from this experience is - sometime you just get lucky and get a good archivist.
1. I was provided by my archivist a review of UFO Sources at the Eisenhower Library that was prepared by some archivist inside the archives. It is quite obvious that the library holds a strong bias against Ufology. Terms such as "UFO buffs allege" and "UFO crowd is circulating a fake briefing document"are used in the document.
The document identifies only five UFO documents in the entire 22,000,000 pages of files. They are 1) Special Report No. 14, Project Blue Book, Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects, May 5,1955. (100 pages) 2) CIA report on UFOs, January 17,1953 (8 pages) 3) Air Force memo, 10-13-55 re sighting in Soviet union, ( 1 page) 4) A reply to a question by a reporter in the Dec. 15, 54 news conference...in which Eisenhower states he knows an Air Force person who doesn't believe UFOs are extraterrestrial 5) A telegram from G.W. Van Tassel re a space craft convention in 1954. The archivist made sure to note the telegram was not seen or answered by the President.
I did not mention this review I had been given of UFO material so as not to get another archivist in trouble.
I have one last promise I wish to make. From all quarters come in requests for me to speak, as if I were now released from a prison and would be able to "tell all." Well, that is not my concept of duty to you. I have no more right to talk or write in the substantive matters in which I shared you confidence, at any time in the future than I did in the past. Of course, I may talk of mechanics and operations and of course of your great spirit; but if I talk of those other things may a great Hand reach down from Heaven and squash me.
Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs writing to Presient Eisenhower following his 1955 resignation from the White House
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On May 06 2007, randi81 wrote: I literally stood up and started booing.
On May 06 2007, 8:45 PM, iluvk9 wrote:On May 06 2007, randi81 wrote: I literally stood up and started booing.
Boy, you are a toughie!
On May 07 2007, 6:39 AM, iluvk9 wrote:I don't think I have ever been to a film where people said ANYTHING at the end.
Do you ever clap or say "YAHOO" if it is good?
On June 10 2007, 2:20 PM, Asta wrote:Well, Pirates of the Caribbean, at World´s end....Can´t make heads or tails out of this one And i am a diehard fan of the first 2!
So i have just voted on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/ and gave it a 5.
Can anyone that was blessed enough to be on hallucinogenic drugs while watching it please clarify it for me?
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Showtime! Alumnus Celebrates 'Jeopardy' Appearance with Friends in Hoboken
Answer: This young alumnus is able to cross one thing off his "bucket list'' after appearing on a popular television game show.
Question: Who is Mike Munley?
Munley '09 recently fulfilled a lifelong dream of appearing on "Jeopardy,'' after trying out for the show twice before and not making it.
"I've watched the show since I was a little kid and I am very happy to have done it,'' Munley said recently, weeks after his March 8, 2013, appearance aired. He finished third, winning $1,000.
He applied twice before – while a Stevens student, and previously as a student at Kearny High School in Kearny, N.J. But the third time was the charm for Munley, who now lives in Jersey City, N.J. He made it to the interview stage and flew to California in Fall 2012 for the taping.
Munley now works as a digital marketing analyst at Johnson & Johnson in Manhattan. To prepare for "Jeopardy,'' he spent about a week brushing up on some "Jeopardy'' favorite categories, such as U.S. Presidents, Capitols, Authors, and Famous Operas. "You only have a few seconds from the time when you hit the buzzer to when you have to answer, and I wanted to have the answer on the tip of my tongue. I wanted to know it,'' he said. "And as a Stevens alum, I know how to cram.''
To celebrate his appearance, about 70 family members, co-workers, friends and Stevens students gathered at a Hoboken bar to watch the program on March 8. Munley, who was unable to divulge how he did on the show until airing for fear of losing prize money, had to sweat it out for four months without spilling the beans. "It was painful to keep it a secret,'' he said. "I wanted people to know that it happened and that I had a great time, but it was hard to not tell them how I did.''
At the Hoboken bar with his friends, Munley took some good-natured ribbing for three wrong answers, one of which involved engineering, asking the components of making a makeshift compass with a magnetized needle, cork and water. His first incorrect response involved the number of zeros in a billion.
"I got 20 questions right, four more than my nearest competitor, and all I'll hear about for the rest of my life is that I got the engineering question wrong,'' he said, with a smile on his face. "But the question about the zeros in a billion was asked before the first commercial (break), and I still had some butterflies in my stomach.''
Natalie Arndt Marone '08 was one of Munley's friends who watched "Jeopardy'' that night. "I was super excited and not surprised at all (by his appearance). It was meant to be, it was one of his life's goals,'' she said.
Marone recalled fond memories of "homework parties'' with Munley, as they would gather in a dorm room and quiz each other on homework in all subjects. "He was always smart,'' she said.
John Frega '07, a Sigma Phi Epsilon brother, met Munley through the fraternity. He admitted that he will be one of the guys teasing Munley about missing the engineering questions. "I will be ribbing him for it in the future,'' he said with certainty. The Final Jeopardy question was about the Oscars, one subject Munley had prepped for. The question was: "This brother & sister were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win.''
Munley admitted that didn't have a clue about the answer; the other two contestants on "Jeopardy'' also answered incorrectly. "And in my defense, at the bar, no one under the age of 40 guessed correctly,'' he said, laughing slightly.
It's a safe bet that this J&J analyst will never forget the correct answer, which is Peter and Jane Fonda, he for "Easy Rider'' and she for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?''


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"Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible".
Campaigning against the influence of creationism in the UK Science Classroom
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"Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible".
cathy wrote:Most schools will have some kind of bible anyway for RE lessons. It won't be the King James version tho, that is fairly tough going I think.
At a time when schools are so desperate for cash it probably wasn't politically good for christianity either. Goofy Gove.
The only reason it's privately funded is that Cameron realised what a pr disaster public funding would be, and smacked Gove down.cathy wrote:Grand gestures linked to stingy governments (and even tho its funded by private donors and is only one book per school, its still linked to Gove) always turn people in the oppposite direction.
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How employer transportation allowances helped create commuter hell
Employers don't have to pay their workers' transportation expenses, but most do. In fact, as the so-called lifetime employment system that was so central to Japan's postwar economic growth has slowly been abandoned over the past two decades, more companies have opted to either cut back on transportation allowances by limiting the amounts, or eliminating them altogether. The above figure is for regular full-time employees, and the growing trend among employers now is to hire non-regular employees, either as temps or contract workers.
But while transportation expenses are not legally mandated, they are regulated. Companies can write them off as business expenses, but only up to ¥100,000 a month per employee. If an employee's commuting costs exceed ¥100,000 in a month, the excess is subject to tax as if it were income.
That's a lot of money to spend on commuting, even in Japan, and, for sure, the vast majority don't spend that much. But inadvertently or not, the tsukin teate system has contributed directly to the concentration of businesses in major cities, thus exacerbating the problem of long commutes and over-crowded public transportation.


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Ok normally I am a dessert is my favorite course kind of gal. What can I say, this one has a sweet tooth; at times it seems like the only tooth I've got.
But last week during my dinner ay Candle, the main course stole the show. 100% vegan. Ok I will admit it, I have toyed around with the idea of going animal product free more than once. I even lasted 14 whole days last August until I got so wrapped up in the need for an ice cream cone that I caved. There are definitely days I eat vegan and days I stray far far away. That being said whenever a restaurant that boasts this characteristic is on the books fora visit I get excited. I mean, it takes immense skill to cook food sans animal anything that tastes better than the majority of foods I've eaten in my life.
Candle succeeded and then some. I wasn't even all that hungry and I finished this massive plate. My fork was a magnet to the flavor. Hook line and sinker, give me more. The creamy luscious mac and cheese, the succulent barbecued seitan, the heart chili, and the salty spicy corn, I mean who could resist.
It's funny but it's true; this Southern gal had a damn near perfect replica of the food she grew up on at a restaurant that used none of the products the South is known for. I felt more at home during the course of this meal than I have since my last visit. And believe me, Nashville isn't exactly teeming with vegan hot spots. Those tastes, though, well they brought me back.


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After several years of faithful service I had to change my OpenBSD 3.8 gateway from using a static IP to using a dynamic IP since my ISP stopped providing static IPs.
I didn't think much about it and when the day of the changeover came I edited /etc/hostname.vr1 and made it contain "dhcp" instead of the ip and sub mask used so far expecting the transition to be smooth. (this should be enough to convince you that I'm too naive to run around without supervision ...)
To my great surprise the new setup didn't work.
Now I have spent a couple of days trying to sort this out without success while trying to cope with the mounting frustration of a wife, a teen daughter and a tween ditto. I really need assistance sorting this out…
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From the OpenBSD gateway I can ping the default gateway (and all other external addresses).
From computers on the subnet I can ping the internal interface (192.168.1.1) and the external interface but not the default gateway! I.e. no internet access for the Snapchat addicts…
Some (hopefully relevant) info:
$ ifconfig -A lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33224 groups: lo inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:40:63:ef:9a:ef media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::240:63ff:feef:9aef%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 vr1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:40:63:ef:9a:ee groups: egress media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active inet6 fe80::240:63ff:feef:9aee%vr1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 220.127.116.11 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 126.96.36.199 xl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:60:97:9f:f6:5d media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier pflog0: flags=141<UP,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 33224 enc0: flags=0<> mtu 1536
$ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface default 188.8.131.52 UGS 6 28584 - vr1 85.224.176/22 link#2 UC 1 0 - vr1 18.104.22.168 00:26:cb:39:a3:00 UHLc 2 31 - vr1 22.214.171.124 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 33224 lo0 127/8 127.0.0.1 UGRS 0 0 33224 lo0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 25 2734 33224 lo0 192.168.1/24 link#1 UC 4 0 - vr0 192.168.1.1 00:40:63:ef:9a:ef UHLc 0 210 - lo0 192.168.1.36 5c:f6:dc:2d:3b:e0 UHLc 1 2092 - vr0 192.168.1.38 f0:b4:79:1f:45:47 UHLc 5 1465 - vr0 192.168.1.56 00:12:ab:1b:c5:66 UHLc 0 14 - vr0 224/4 127.0.0.1 URS 0 947 33224 lo0 Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface ::/104 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ::/96 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ::1 ::1 UH 15 1 33224 lo0 ::127.0.0.0/104 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ::18.104.22.168/100 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ::255.0.0.0/104 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 2002::/24 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 2002:7f00::/24 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 2002:e000::/20 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 2002:ff00::/24 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 fe80::/10 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 fe80::%vr0/64 link#1 UC 0 0 - vr0 fe80::240:63ff:feef:9aef%vr0 00:40:63:ef:9a:ef UHL 0 0 - lo0 fe80::%vr1/64 link#2 UC 0 0 - vr1 fe80::240:63ff:feef:9aee%vr1 00:40:63:ef:9a:ee UHL 0 0 - lo0 fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 U 0 0 - lo0 fe80::1%lo0 link#6 UHL 0 0 - lo0 fec0::/10 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ff01::/16 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ff01::%vr0/32 link#1 UC 0 0 - vr0 ff01::%vr1/32 link#2 UC 0 0 - vr1 ff01::%lo0/32 ::1 UC 0 0 - lo0 ff02::/16 ::1 UGRS 0 0 - lo0 ff02::%vr0/32 link#1 UC 0 0 - vr0 ff02::%vr1/32 link#2 UC 0 0 - vr1 ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UC 0 0 - lo0
Thanks in advance for any and all support with solving this before I get eaten alive!
// Magnus
Last edited by magrin; 4th April 2014 at 09:06 PM.
Hello, and welcome!
OpenBSD 3.8 support ended on November 1, 2006. It is doubtful you will be able to obtain a great deal of support for a system that is so old, but we will still try to help.
It is my assumption that your PF configuration needs to be revised. At your version of the OS, a typical NAT rule for static use might have looked something like:
nat on vr1 from vr0:network to any -> vr1
This will only work properly when the address has already been established at PF load time. Under DHCP, you need to modify the rule. Parentheses are needed to inform PF to revise the rule whenever the address is changed.
nat on vr1 from vr0:network to any -> (vr1)
I don't know if this will resolve your issue, since this is just a guess regarding your problem.
Thanks, I'l try your suggestion to surround the interface with parenthesis. In the mean time, here is my pf.conf in its current state...
$ sudo cat /etc/pf.conf # MACROS ext_if="vr1" int_if="vr0" # 22 ssh # 25 smtp # 113 ident # 443 https # 587 smtp # 993 imaps tcp_services="{ 22, 25, 443, 587, 993 }" icmp_types="echoreq" # OPTIONS set block-policy return set loginterface $int_if set skip on lo # NORMALIZATION scrub in # NAT nat on $ext_if from !$ext_if to any -> $ext_if nat-anchor "ftp-proxy/*" # REDIRECTION rdr-anchor "ftp-proxy/*" rdr on $int_if proto tcp from any to any port 21 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8021 #rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $ext_if port 8080 -> 127.0.0.1 port 22 # utorrent rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 52007 -> 192.168.1.35 port 52007 rdr on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port 52007 -> 192.168.1.35 port 52007 pass in quick on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 52007 flags S/SA keep state pass in quick on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port 52007 # FILTER RULES block in pass out keep state anchor "ftp-proxy/*" antispoof quick for { lo $int_if } pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if \ port $tcp_services flags S/SA keep state pass in inet proto icmp all icmp-type $icmp_types keep state pass in quick on $int_if
Your PF configuration looks OK for a static egress, from a check by eyes and with no real remaining knowledge of the particulars of the PF syntax from nine years ago. (This is my way of politely saying I may not have any real clue if there is something else wrong with it.)
If revising the NAT rule for dynamic egress does not solve the problem, I would double check your IP forwarding sysctl, which is the only other thing I can think of.
If you wish to stay with -release 3.8, you might benefit from keeping a local copy of the OpenBSD Project webite as it existed when your OS was released:
$ cvs -d <pick your AnonCVS root> get -D 2005/11/02 www
or perhaps retain only the PF Users Guide web pages:
$ cvs -d <pick your AnonCVS root> get -D 2005/11/02 www/faq/pf
Last edited by jggimi; 4th April 2014 at 11:12 PM. Reason: typo
Changing the NAT rule as you suggested made the trick!
# NAT nat on $ext_if from !$ext_if to any -> ($ext_if)
No doubt you saved me a weekend of hacking trying to sort the issue - thank you!!
// Magnus
Now that your system is once again operational ...
Please consider moving off of 3.8. OpenBSD 5.5 will be released in several weeks -- on or before May 1 of this year. You could upgrade, but I think it would be much easier to reinstall, because you've missed 17 releases.
Much has changed. Much has been improved, and that includes security fixes that are not available for your release.
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