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Spoke w/ Flip post-presser. Asked if Love can be main guy on really good team. Praised Love, but tap danced around a direct answer. #twolves
A. ... And my feelings toward Kevin, frankly, I really like him. And we've had some really productive conversation about the steps he needs to take to win back the respect and admiration of his teammates and coaches. It's almost ridiculous how much attention is paid to my relationship with him. In terms of import, it has no bearing at end of the day whether he'll be happy here and whether organization will be happy with him. It's much more important for him to forge really meaningful relationships with his teammates and coaches.
Q. Why did you say he needs to win back the respect of his teammates?
A. I think there's some work for him to be done in terms of, he didn't play very much this year, right? And I think there's a void there because of that. Many of those guys really fought their way back from injury, sometimes multiple injuries. He had two broken hands. He came back once, didn't play well, broke his hand again and then decided to have his knee done at the end of the year when the pain was such. I think he has some work to do in the locker room, and I believe he will. I certainly don't want that to come across negatively. I believe he will and I believe he's on the right path.
but I wonder if he is indeed attainable now.
Gordon and Lopez going to Sac Town
Cousins, Thornton, and Salmons coming here
We swap 1sts in this draft (assuming that we have the higher pick) and they send a top 3 protected 1st in 2014 (to take on Salmons contract).
I think I'm obsessed with Cousins.
Salmons only has two years left, and one of those years is a Team Option I think. So really, one year.
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I used 1t Trader Joe's curry and pitted Kalamata olives. Oh, and Greek yogurt instead of mayo. They came out great! You need to add salt and pepper at the end to taste too. Also I sprinkled with cayenne (you could use paprika if you don't like the spicy kick) to make it look more appetizing.
I used 1.5 tsp curry with cilantro and green onions from my garden. It was pleasant enough, but really needed more... I will make these again but will use stronger flavoring. Perhaps the curry powder was old.
This was really uninspired and dull.
The recipe is a good suggestion to take a different direction with the tried and true "deviled egg." I zipped it up a bit myself, but just like any good recipe, take the information and run with it!
These were good, but not great. Next time I'd stick to tradtitional deviled eggs, but if you like variety, these are pretty easy and they do taste different.
Good recipe. Nothing special.
I thought these were fabulous, although I too skipped the olives. I did serve some mango chutney alongside and thought that was a great addition. I used curry powder from penzey's and believe the quality of the curry is a make or break. Too the cook who had a hard time peeling the eggs -- use older eggs next time. Fresh eggs are nearly impossible to peel (i have my own hens.)
Best deviled eggs I've ever eaten! I substituted chives for the parsley & skipped the olives, but otherwise followed the recipe exactly & it was terrific.
Let it be known that these deviled eggs won people's choice in the 1st annual Feasting Fox deviled egg contest held July 18, 2007 in St. Louis, MO. Just the right amount of tradition and twist. Will become a classic.
These are great! Super easy. People love to see deviled eggs at a party; I brought them to a bbq and they were gone in about 5 minutes. I used a generous teaspoon of curry for 10 eggs, and I consider it the minimum; they could have used more. I think unpitted olives would be a drag on deviled eggs, so I skipped them. Also used chives instead of green onions. Swell!


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Two bright and comfortable double bedrooms are present. Featuring a lovely white decor, the living room contains a sofa bed and a cosy dining table. Cook meals in a fully-equipped kitchen with a washing machine.
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I had I nice stay in this bright, spacious and neat flat. I reckon at least 4 people can easily accommodate on it. You will be attended by Margarita, one of the best hosts I've met while using Wimdu's services. Thanks a lot guys, I´ll be in touch again if I need it in the future.
Very good location, right near the metro station Quintana. Luis and Margarita who can help us in organizing the football tickets too much because the ticket office was a bit chaotic organized. Thanks Luis and margaritas we could use the 9: 1 experience from real against Grenada! Apartment was very well equipped for our needs! Supermarket, bakery inside 5 min walk distance! Only worth recommending!
Sehr gute Lage, gleich in der Nähe der Metro Station Quintana. Luis und Margarita haben uns auch sehr bei der Organisation der Fußballtickets helfen können, da das Ticketbüro etwas chaotisch organisiert war. Dank Luis und Margaritas Einsatz konnten wir das 9:1 von Real gegen Grenada miterleben! Wohnung war für unsere Bedürfnisse sehr gut ausgestattet! Supermarkt, Bäckerei inner 5 Min Fußweg erreichbar! Nur absolut weiterzuempfehlen!
We had a great long weekend in Madrid - aided by the best weather you can imagine and a wonderful flat near the Plaza de Toros las Ventas - near a subway stop so we could easily go anywhere - a great city you surely must have seen - including communications with Luis is just excellent and attentive
We hebben een geweldig lang weekend in Madrid gehad - geholpen door het beste weer dat je maar kunt voorstellen en een geweldig Flat nabij de Plaza de toros las Ventas - dicht bij een metro halte zodat we snel overal naar toe konden - een geweldige stad die je zeker gezien moet hebben - ook de communicatie met Luis is gewoon uitstekend en attent
Luis was very fast and friendly answering my questions before booking.
After confirming your reservation, efficiency, organization and information useful Luis sent me left me impressed! Shame we have not met personally, as Margarita, her cousin, has received us. Treatment also very friendly and very nice! Check in quick and easy. Data organized check out at the check in: truly professional!
The apartment was spacious, great internet, super comfy bed, clean sheets. The only thing that was not up to the rest of the apartment is the bathroom of the room has a lot of humidity and is very "tight"!
The great location, close to subway.
Luis ha sido muy rápido y amable contestando mis preguntas antes de hacer la reserva.
Después de confirmar la reserva, la eficacia , organización y información útil que me envió Luis me dejo impresionada! Pena que no nos hemos conocido personalmente, ya que Margarita, su prima, nos ha recibido. También de trato muy amable y muy simpática! El check in rápido y sencillo. Datos sobre check out organizados en el check in: verdaderamente profesionales!
El apartamento era espacioso, internet fantástica, cama súper cómoda, sabanas limpias. Lo único que no estaba a la altura del resto del apartamento es el baño de la habitación: tiene mucha humidad y es muy "apretado"!
La ubicación genial, cerca de metro.
Comfortable apartment for 4 people (we were 2 adults and two teenagers). Apartment clean, the mattresses are comfortable and a bottle of wine as a welcome! Two bathrooms with shower although very small. Apartment situated on the ground floor in a fairly central but not noisy. Supermarkets and Station de metro '(green line) really close! Quiet but well served! We have not had the chance to meet her cousin, but Luis was nice!
Appartamento comodo per 4 persone (noi eravamo 2 adulti e due adolescenti). Appartamento pulito, i materassi sono comodi e una bottiglia di vino come benvenuto! Due bagni con doccia anche se molto piccoli. Appartamento situato a piano terra in una zona abbastanza centrale ma non rumorosa. Supermercati e stazione de la metro' (linea verde) veramente vicino! Quartiere tranquillo ma ben servito! Non abbiamo avuto la fortuna di conoscere Luis ma sua cugina è stata gentile!
The apartment was very nice and especially very close to the metro. Super convenient with children.
L'appartement etait tres bien et surtout tres proche du metro. Super pratique avec les enfants.
This a very comfortable apartment close to the Metro and shops in a busy area but still quiet. It was clean and well fitted out with almost anything you could need. With the excellent Metro nearby it is an ideal place to discover Madrid.
Luis is probably the happiest men in the World he not just got a really nice flat in a perfect location sourunded by shops and restaurants he also got a really nice Wife :-) We had a good stay there just the bathroom is to small everything else Perfect
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When my guy got this I did the same thing you did and posted, I also called my vet. WIth rest it will get better. You are probably like me and worried about it and posting is a great way to get info.
they will also experience pain and maybe have a hard time laying down.


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Hull delamination and structural failures in this race are nothing new. Off the top of my head (and I'm sure there have been other cases), in 1985 Drum had to divert to Namibia with serious hull delamination issues (having previously lost its keel in the Fastnet), and in 1993 half the W60 fleet (and, iirc one of the maxis) had major delamination problems. There has always been a requirement to throttle back, in some conditions, to avoid risk of hull damage.
No rigs have fallen in this leg. But, Ador and Puma both lost rigs in leg one and Sanya almost lost hers later. Telephonica even had standing rigging issues. So, by your logic they should not have gone back to a proven dependable set of standing rigging. They should have just replaced with what they had and figured they over pushed the capabitlity of the entire design.
The failures race only stopped teams from racing or slowed them down. They have not required rescue. Previous iterations have required rescue and far more IMOCA boats have had to have their skippers rescued than Volvo or Whitbread boats.
It's about competition and how hard the teams are willing to push. If you don't like the risks these guys are taking, you don't have to sign up for a VO70 program. But, these guys keep coming back and are more than happy to push to and occassionaly beyond the edge. They are willing to accept that if they do need rescue, it's more than likely going to come from one of their competitors.
You both miss the point:
First, I'd like to say I'm fine with the guys taking the the usual and customary risks of offshore racing. What I'm talking about is inflicting risks they didn't know they were taking when they stepped aboard.
They didn't knowingly take on a substantial risk of floating bulkheads, separating longitudinals and delaminating oil-canning panels. (Those are always risks, sure, ones that should rank right alongside the risk of being struck by a falling meteor. Well, almost alongside.) KR is quite right about the need to watch the hull for damage - now that the issue has come to light. It would be stupid not to. But did he or anyone else expect to lose hull integrity under conditions that leave the rig standing when they started? I think not. Did KR set a "ring frame-bulkhead-hull panel watch" from the start of leg 5? I think not. Did KR learn from the experience of others? Thanks, yes. G4 same, I'm sure.
And are we to accept Drum as the benchmark for good design/engineering/construction practice? That's plainly absurd. Bad boats have been with us before. They will again. My point is that they are here now.
It is a credit to the sailors that they haven't come to greater harm. I salute them. I wish them fair winds and following seas. I celebrate their achievements. I hold my breath for their well-being in the face of considerable additional risks they didn't expect to accept. Pushing the boat until you lose the rig is going to result in a miserable, wet, battered existence until rescued, but there's a reasonable likelihood that rescue will, in time, come. And they do have engines and at least some fuel. That's a level risk these sailors know and choose to accept. Stepping into a life raft because the hull has come apart shouldn't be in the cards (unless there's a collision). These guys aren't that far, at this point, from that life raft and all the hazards of that step at 45-55S in 2 degree water - or lower. Until their recent deterioration, we've heard that ADOR has been watching Camper (and maybe even shadowing them) in case things got to that point. Can't say yet that they are still able to rescue themselves, much less Camper.
One of the four cripples has made it to a port. That leave three still facing the risk of further deterioration. A cascade failure would not be fun for the crew.
This is messy business, boys and girls, and not what anyone had in mind back in NZ and certainly not back in Spain.


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Here's a suggested approach to squid patterns I developed using a plastic tube fly tube to extend the body (step by step images to follow.)
Using a 3/0 TMC 811s hook, I cut a peice of plastic tube fly tube (Kennebec River Co. is a good local source) at a shallow angle on one end.
Using a tube fly tool, I tie a tapered clump of tan / pink fur on the end of the tube fly tube to serve as the core of the leg assembly. If you don't have a tube fly tool, just tie the tube onto the bend of the hook first and use your vise.
Over the fur, tie short hackles to serve as squid legs. The under-clump holds them out when in the water or in current and the legs 'dance' in the foil. Most squid flies have super long legs and short mantles, most squid have very short legs and long mantles. I like to go with short legs and long mantles myself, although the one in the picture has long legs (wouldn't ya know it!) <b>In any case, the tube fly tube permits the extension of the mantle beyond the bend of the hook.</b>
After you tie the legs in, try this trick - strip two hackles from the base leaving 1/2 - 3/4" of feather at the tip. Tie in the stripped hackle stems so that the two claspers extend beyond the other legs. I fished this hard and never lost the claspers, although they would not survive a bluefish they may help you con a huge picky cow someday.
After the legs are done, you now need to form the underbody and tie in the eyes. Eyes are posteriorly positioned. Featherlight aluminum Deep-sea eyes are a good choice. Squid are see thru such that you can see their innards thru their mantle. I like to tie them so there is a pink/tan, brick red, or purple color under the semi-transparent stuff to represent their innards. An easy way to go is to wrap Estaz or other hi-bulk synthetic chenille over the tube and hook shank. Stop 1/2 up the hook shank to allow for tapering and hackling near the eye.
Another choice is to use synthetic dubbing hanks on a waxed loop to control length of wrap and tapering. SLF is the best choice but make sure you get the right stuff and know how to dub a loop.
Generally, I form a layer over the red core with fly fur, marabou or some other material that is semi-opaque and drapes nicely with a trimmable edge on the leg end of the mantle. Tie in the material to taper toward the eye, then finish with a palmered SW hackle in tan, pink or white. Marabou is a good choice for a draping / palmering feather because the barbs are very long and it lays down nicely when wet.
Sorry about the vague description, lunchtime is over! More to come.
(Hope the Estes share their secret flies!)
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My brother and I own the world's most expesnive double wide on Harkers and I have fished the albies a fair bit. Contact Rob Pasfield at Harker's Island Fishing Center or you might check out Brian Horsley and Sara Gardner's website- they guide out of the fishing center until early December- good folks who have also found another amazing fishery for huge redfish on the east side of the shoals.
You really need a boat to have consistent fishing, but you can wade " The Hook" where the channel between Shackleford and Cape Lookout goes into the Atlantic. You can also wade on the outside around the "Rock Jetty"- you take a ferry out from the Fishing Center. There are also some wading spots to west at Atlantic Beach ( check Joe Shute's on Atlantic Beach for info there) I have hooked albies at Fort Macon.
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Offshore fly fishing (wrecks and reefs) for kingfish, false albacore and other species is available with the right guide/boat. 10wt.
There may be fly fishing for redfish and seatrout in the sound, marshes, and rivers. 8wt or 10 wt depending on size of reds.
Capt. Gordon used to frequent this site. He is down that way. Maybe Juro or someone else has his contact information.
Beautiful area and great fishing. Have a great time!
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Sorry to split hairs, but when someone throws out statements of facts like, "in his first week Bush...." I just think think they/we have a good-faith obligation to make sure those facts are correct.[/QUOTE]
We know how accurate you are on your fact checking, and that you feel everyone has a....."good-faith obligation to make sure those facts are correct". I wished more of the neo-cons felt that way.
You can talk the talk on fact checking, now lets see if you can walk the walk
In view of your stated position , why haven't you reported back on the results of your fact checking on the "Should Bush be held accountable" thread?


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|some people carry a net to catch the insects, but I usually just look at the bottem of a few rocks to see the nymphs, and just roughly immitate the flying insects, afterall artificial flies are impressionistic, so why take the time catching a bug, identify it, find out the scientific name, look in your fly book, and find a recommended pattern lol.. when you could be catching the fisshy!!
Basically, big trout will eat big prey but if there is an abundance of small prey (numerous flies hatching) they will go for those also. That's why we can catch trout best measured in pounds on very tiny flies. If a big brown is just finning away and a mayfly nymph drifts by the brown will probably take it especially if there is little effort in doing so.
|When I'm trying to match the hatch I seem to have a big problem! For 1 I can't Identify the flys well enough to see what they're eating. So do you carry a net of some sort to catch the flys to see whats around the pond or stream that you could possibly match something to?
Bear in mind that I know less about trout-fishing than most people on this board, but I did study ichthyology in general at the graduate level. So here's my .02...
People do studies all the time of what fish prefer to eat, and in general (with room for lots of exceptions), the larger the fish, the larger their preferred prey. Once I netted a bunch of juvenile bluefish about 3-4" long for a study, and in the lab they regurtitated lots of tiny copepods that they had been feeding on. Obviously when they get just a little bit longer they turn to a fish diet. You can even see this, though, with fish like eels, which in freshwater start out eating insect larvae and the like but incorporate more and more small fish into their diet as they get larger.
With that said, I think that it is good advice that you have to match the hatch, because even very large fish will eat small food if it is super-abundant. Think of a bear eating blueberries. The bear might prefer to eat salmon, but if there aren't any salmon around, it will go with the abundant food. Fish are the same way.
makes sense
changing the subject, I see your home water is the alsea and siletz river. Mine is Argentina, way south. When I was a teenager I lived in corvallis for a couple of years (my old man was studying at OSU) and that´s where I more or less learned to speak english.
I´v actually caught trout in your alsea river!! Once I got a nice cutthroat (fishing with salmon eggs, not fly fishing). Its a beautyful river. Anyways, funny how life is, if your ever down in Corvallis in the "scarlet ibis" fly shop, tell the guys down there they introduced a 15 year old teenager to fly fishing (upper wilamette and the santiam river is where I used to go), who 15 years later still fly fishes about 11.000 Km. south!
I remeber these guys from the shop, the lived in Nepal I think (or maybe Mongolia), they went there with the Peace Corps, taught some people there to tie flies and actually later imported the flies from asia and gave those people a chance to make a few bucks and escape poverty. Cool thing to do.
well, thanks for the tip.
Ide say stick with matching the hatch.. and I have ALWAYS had awesome luck with small patterns, griffiths gnats, trico patterns, and cdc flies all kick..
But, take into consideration that small fish wont eat big flies..(they cant) and small flies will catch almost anything.. so if you want to weed out the little fellas use the big flies.. And, I dont know if this is true.. but I think big flies are harder to present because fish can see them better.. small flies are small lol, and thus harder to see and define as food, so fish reconize them as a local insect, but cant tell its a fake.. Make sense?
Do big trout eat big or small stuff?
I´ve heard this "urban myth" going around amongst some of my fishing buddies, saying that big and old trout eat less since they´ve "grown all they can and have plenty of fat reserves" so they would probably be targetting small flies (so the myth says).
On the other hand, one might think big fish would need big food in order to maintain body weight (I don´t think that big boxer called "butterbean" could survive only with lettuce sandwiches...)
anyways, that´s just me trying to be funny . Here is my serious doubt:
Is there any relation to the fishes size and the fly size one should be using?
supposing there isn´t any visible hatches fish might be targetting, big flies for big fish, the other way around or it doesn´t make a difference??
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So I did a pile of research into quiet computing. Apparently I'm not alone with regard to overall machine noise in my work environment. The 2 biggest culprits in this case were the 120mm exhaust fan, and the 92mm intake fan for the hard drive bay. Both of these fans were running at approximately 3000rpm, and they were making a heck of a racket.
One site in particular had quite a lot of information. Silent PC Review is a great resource for information regarding quiet PC components. I highly recommend looking around that site if you're interested in quieting your PC down. Especially look at the forums. There are a lot of people out there that have done trial and error with a variety of hardware components to find the quietest stuff they can find.
After reading a lot of reviews on both the site and in the forums, I decided to go with a Nexus 120mm exhaust fan and a Nexus 92mm hard drive bay fan. Total cost was about $45. The standard mounting space for the 120mm fan in the back of the case requires a 38mm deep fan, but it's a replaceable plastic bracket, so I opted to remove the bracket and directly mount a 25mm deep fan on the case.
The fans came in on Thursday. I installed them Saturday night. It's by far the best $45 I've spent in a LONG time. The noise dropped from about -50dBa down to about -24dBa. It's astounding. The only thing that makes noise now is the power supply, and that noise is manageable.
Next up is to replace the hard drives in my 4 older-model Linux boxes. One of the drives in particular is relatively noisy. But I have to try to find some time to do the replacement on that machine. I'm currently overwhelmed with projects.
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I've looked at nearly all of the open source Linux distributions that can be installed in roughly 128MB of disk drive space, and I can't find any that I like. As I posted before, I have a bunch of thin clients that have 128MB of compact flash ram on them. What I'm looking for is a build that basically acts as a complete redirector, allowing users to connect to XDM machines via XDMCP, or to Windows boxes via RDP. It sounds simple, but it seems pretty hard to find something that covers all of these bases. I've also been looking at Xfce4 as the main interface, and putting all of the X sessions and RDP sessions in a window.
Unfortunately all of the distributions are just missing one thing or another. I could easily build a GUI for doing the lab machine selection, but the distributions all seem to be somewhat behind on the kernels and software versions. LTSP provides a stable environment, but it uses an NFS mounted root directory for the clients. I've done some hacking to see if I can get it in an embedded state, but that's an ongoing project that's taking more time than I figured it would.
Having said all of this, I did download the Metrowerks distribution builder for the HP5515 thin client. It's ok, but it's expensive (~ $15k for the deployment environment) and all it really is is a simple GUI for package management along with some scripts for deploying the BCP. I don't know if there's an open source package for doing this type of thing. I've done some research and haven't come up with anything yet, so I've been planning a distribution builder for building up Linux distributions using existing binary packages.
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We bought a pile of HP T5515 thin clients at our lab. The box itself is pretty cool, sporting a caruso processor, 128MB of RAM, 128MB of flash RAM, and other sundries. It comes with a thin client Linux build that HP produces for it that has Xfce as the desktop environment.
Unfortunately they omitted Xnest from the build and they force all rdesktop sessions into full screen mode, which drives me bananas. So I went out to the HP site to see what I had to do to create a new build environment for the box. It told me to go visit Metrowerks to get the build environment for the thin client. Mind you, we paid $450 for these boxes in an effort to save money. Metrowerks wants $7000 just for the build environment. That's more than all of the clients we purchased cost us. Just for the build environment. Argh.
So I started looking for options. The thin client world in Linux is all over the place. LTSP has a decent build, but it's somewhat server-centric. I'd like to put the build on the 128MB flash RAM (that acts as an IDE drive within the kernel.) I installed a distribution then hacked it apart and moved it to my Solaris server, along with the PXELinux environment and got a client booting into LTSP. Then I looked at the build. It doesn't have Xnest either. Argh.
I looked at a few other distributions (PXES, ThinStation, etc.) and none of them provide what I'm really looking for in a thin client distribution.
So I've started the process of building my own distribution based on the LTSP distribution. More appropriately, I'm going to submit some modules to the LTSP distribution to make it more like what I'm looking for in a thin client build.
I've basically been running "thin" client architectures for years, but back in the day we called them X terminals. I must say, though, that with the open source projects that are out there, the universal thin client architecture is finally becoming a reality. It's really nice being able to run X, RDP, Citrix, or even standard terminal sessions on a single client with a very small build.
I've been thinking about emulators lately. Most of the machines that have a microprocessor or microcontroller operate similarly. I've been working out whether it would be feasible to write an emulator creator, with which you could describe components of the emulator, including all of the various hardware contained within it.
In basic terms, a CPU is really quite simple to describe. Take an instruction and do something with it. Most of them are linear, and even those CPUs that provide separate pipelines could probably be described.
This thought process came about because, as a former musician, I own a pile of synthesizers. One of them I own, A Roland W-30 music workstation, is basically a self-contained computer. It has an Intel 8098 (a variant of the Intel 8096) microcontroller on the system board. It also has a SCSI interface, floppy disk drive, and an LCD display. The workstation, which started production in 1989, went end of life by 1992 or so, and Roland discontinued building new operating system releases for it by 1994. Unfortunately there are features I've always wanted to have in the W-30, but never got around to doing anything about.
Another owner of a W-30 plucked out the EEPROMs from his W-30 and ripped all of the BIOS-level routines from them. I spent a month or two reverse engineering the entire operating system of the box to understand it, hoping I might be able to add the features I was looking for on it. After a while it became apparent that I'd probably have to write an emulator for it. That's when I stopped because I didn't have time to work on it.
This past week I started writing an emulator for it. It's not hard, it's just very time consuming. I've got many of the opcodes working and I have a plan of attack for building the emulators for the other components in the box. But while I've been looking at it, I've realized I could probably build a much more generalized emulator builder.
Anyway, I wonder if someone has already come up with something like this. If anyone knows of something like this, please post.
After reading the story about Alan Kay from yesterday's diary entry, I decided to give Squeak a try.
Some background: I worked for a company many years ago that built Smalltalk environments. Actually, I worked for that company twice. The first time I worked there, I wrote MacIntosh applications for one of our clients using a combination of MPW and Smalltalk. I left the company for about 5 years when there was a big lull in the business. During that time, my boss built a Smalltalk environment called Agents OS for the MacIntosh. That link will take you to his latest product, which is a system called SmallScript.
Anyway, about 5 years after I left, my old boss called and we got to talking about building a Windows version of AOS. I was newly married at the time and had just purchased a house. But I packed up my 4 computers, all my books, and some assorted other things like clothes into my 4-Runner, and drove to California with the intention to move there because I believed in what he was doing. Unfortunately, due to life-happenings, it didn't work out.
I haven't touched Smalltalk since then, which is a travesty because Smalltalk is probably the most elegant environment I've ever worked in. Squeak is a Smalltalk environment. The group they've assembled for Squeak is like an all-star list of players from the Smalltalk world: Dan Ingalls, Alan Kay, Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, and Scott Wallace.
I played with it all last night, and it took me back to my days of writing Smalltalk applications on the Xerox 6085 workstation when I worked in a small artificial intelligence lab in the late 1980s. It's a really nifty environment with the kernel built in none other than Smalltalk. It has all of the normal extensibility you'd find in a Smalltalk environment. Best of all, the Squeak Team wants to keep it "open" so people can extend it to their heart's desire.
Either you'll love Smalltalk or you'll hate it. Either way, it's what drove the object train.
I recently read an interview with Alan Kay at The Queue entitled: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk--and much more and it was, yet again, one of the most informative interviews I've read in a long time. I once had the pleasure to have met and talked to Alan Kay many years ago. His grasp of what computer science "should" be is deeper than anyone I've ever met.
Of particular interest in the article, his comment about C++ was revealing:
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That's probably the most accurate depiction of C++ I've ever read.
Ahkh: Speed doesn't really bother me that much. What bothers me more than anything is the underlying responsiveness of X. Grabbing with the cursor is one of those things. If I grab a corner of a window to resize it, in MS Windows and on the MacIntosh, I'm greeted with an instant (< 1ms) response time on the interaction. In X on ALL of my platforms, many times I'll grab and EXPECT that 1ms responsiveness to often times I'm greeted with a rubber band selector for desktop icons. I usually have to click and wait a few milliseconds (3 - 5) before I am guaranteed my selection.
You do bring up a good point about overall application responsiveness though. It takes upwards of 10 seconds for FireFox to display on some of my machines. It doesn't even render a window for 10 seconds. It sits with the application launch icon in the environment. Sure, I can go do other things, but I'm not doing other things at that particular moment in time. This is yet another reason I don't think X will ever be embraced by the common desktop user. We're dead center in the instant gratification generation.
pbor: One of the biggest flaws I see a lot in open source GUI applications these days is this odd desire for developers to add features for no better reason than to add them. While some folks might appreciate having a file icon in a MRU dropdown, the sad fact is this leads to code bloat and it conveys very little information to the end user. Sure, the metaphor is there, but metaphors were really fun when there were only 50 desktop applications, but with 500 - 1000 desktop applications, the whole concept of trying to remember 500 - 1000 icons plus all of the metaphoric icons within those applications becomes unreasonable.
I'm glad you guys are making the effort to actually look at performance bottlenecks within GEdit, as it seems that many of the open source developers are not. Although I use GEdit rarely, I do use it.
Is it unreasonable for people to question the use of large, by desktop territory standards, toolbar? Do we really need Undo and Redo options in a toolbar? Do we really need ANY of those types of toolbars on a text editor?
As much as this sounds like blasphemy to the open source community, I don't like Linux as a desktop operating system. Now don't get me wrong - I love Linux as an operating system. It makes a really awesome server. Unfortunately, even though I've written many applications for X, I do not like X. I don't like it the same way my friends at Apple Computer Corporation 9 years ago didn't like Windows 95.
I remember a discussion I had with my buddy Scott Boyd back in 1996 about Windows 95. He said "It's the lack of a hardware cursor that just feels wrong." I argued that it really shouldn't make a difference. 9 years later, I know he was right.
It's the nit-pick things that bother me about X. It just doesn't feel "crisp." It always feels like I'm running in an emulator, and because of the way X works, it's really what I'm doing.
I've been silently waiting for a "good" replacement to usurp X as the desktop GUI of choice for a long time now. Unfortunately, trying to replace X with just about anything else these days is going to be very difficult. The momentum of the graphical operating environments that ride on top of X (KDE, GNOME to name a couple) is enormous, and having to either rewrite a lot of the code or figuring out how to build a compatibility layer would be a huge undertaking.
In the past 3 years, it's gotten better, but there's really only so much a developer writing software on top of of the libXt, libXm, or even libX can do. They're still at the mercy of how X performs, and it just doesn't feel right to me.
A little bit of my history in the free software environment.
I wrote my first free software back in 1981, as a 16-year-old. Back then I had a borrowed Apple ][ and after I figured out how it worked, I realized that there had to be easier ways to make efficient algorithms work. AppleBasic was highly inefficient, and I was writing a lot of routines in machine language to optimize my code. At that point, I realized it was ridiculous for me to continue to write in machine language, so I wrote an assembler in AppleBasic. I posted that on Compuserve, and it went completely unnoticed forever.
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In 1991, as a member of the MINIX community on a variety of online resources (Compuserve, BitNET, etc.) we were having discussions on how to improve the MINIX kernel when Linus Torvalds posted the first of the LINUX kernels. I still have those kernels on 3.5" floppy disks. They are version 0.11 and 0.12.
Thus spawned a bunch of activity I had in the LINUX community. I helped the first of the distribution teams (in this case, the Yggdrasil folks) get their distribution debugged. I finally ended up purchasing the 1.0 version of Yggdrasil INCLUDING the binary Motif version they sold just so I could port a bunch of commercial Motif applications I'd written to the Linux platform.
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In 1994 and 1995, I was very active in the Samba mailing lists as well as promoting Samba, as well as debugging code and submitted some patches to existing code. My forte was reverse engineering on the wire, though. During that time I reverse engineered much of the browser wire transactions, and started a development group that began writing the browser code. Before we even got off the ground, Andrew Tridgell basically finished the preliminary browser code, and clients connected to Samba all over the planet suddenly were joining workgroups and advertising their shares with Samba servers. During that year I also started the two Samba USENET News groups.
In 1996, lkcl was working on some new things for Samba and asked that I try out his additions on my private development servers. Eventually I was invited to the Samba development team. In 1997, I set up a site to allow Luke and Paul Ashton to share their debugging information for the NT Domain reverse engineering project. I was invited to the Samba development team in late 1996, more as a strong advocate than a developer. Over the last 8 years, I've silently been waiting for the right time to produce a reasonable Samba management GUI. It looks like Samba 4 is the right time to do such, and I've already started work on it.
I run a combination of operating systems at the house. I've got 5 or 6 Linux boxes, 3 or 4 Windows boxes, quite a bit of stuff running in VMWare on each of those boxes, I run Solaris 9 x86 in a VMWare session, and I run a variety of CD-BOOT environments for a variety of purposes.
I've been actively writing software since 1980. The majority of my work has been commercial work. I've had some of my source code released using a variety of useable copyrights (I rewrote a large part of SNACC - an ASN.1 compiler - to do DER instead of BER for a project, for example.)
It's been a fun ride.
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A Q&A With Two Michigan Ghost Hunters
Kat Tedsen and Bev Rydel are the authors of "Haunted Travels of Michigan," a book chronicling their adventures exploring haunted places across Michigan. They were kind enough to take time out of their schedules to answer some of our questions. See them in person at the Historic White Horse Inn on Oct. 26 and 27.
Q. How long have you been exploring haunted places in Michigan?
A. Since 2006. Over the last five years we have completed more than 160 investigations. Each year we travel thousands of miles across Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsula searching out Michigan's most reputedly haunted locations. With a skeptic's eye we investigate each site and attempt to separate fact from fiction. We'll spend weeks analyzing evidence and additional months on historical research all to determine the truth behind the stories of hauntings.
Q. What do you look for when you are exploring a location?
A. First we have to find a location. We're looking for a place with a long history of reported paranormal activity. Next, we want it to be public so people traveling through Michigan can stop, if they choose, to visit and explore the location.
As investigators, we stay alert for the slighted noise or movements that may seem out of the ordinary. We monitor temperature and energy fluctuations in a room using a variety of equipment and gauges.
It is believed that a ghost is energy and that, when an entity comes near, it will draw energy to themselves. This causes the temperature to sometimes drop and high levels of energy fluctuations to register on gauges. Audio and video with infrared night vision are also part of an investigator's gear bag.
Of course, a real paranormal investigation (ghost hunt) is not nearly as exciting as seen on TV. Most of the time it is very quiet and uneventful. Nothing is experienced. It is only in reviewing audio and video that evidence is identified.
Q. Where are some haunted places in Michigan? Can you give a quick summary of three places?
A. Over the past 4-5 years we've discovered many locations in Michigan with paranormal activity. Perhaps one of our most compelling is the Calumet Theater in Calumet, MI and, just a few blocks away, the site of the Italian Hall Disaster.
The Italian Hall Disaster occurred on Christmas Eve 1913. Hundreds of people, mostly children, crowded into the Italian Hall for an afternoon party. During the event, someone called "fire". This started a panic. Adults and children rushed for the single staircase leading to the exit. They tripped and fell on one another blocking the stairway. When all was over, more than 70 deaths occurred through suffocation. Most of those were children. Adding to the tragedy, there was no fire that afternoon. Who called fire or why they did it remains unknown to this day.
The bodies of the deceased were taken to the Red Jacket Opera House, which is now the oldest section of the Calumet Theater. The evidence captured during our investigation of the Red Jacket Opera house and small memorial park where the Italian Hall once stood was compelling.
Another of Michigan's most haunted is the beautiful Whitney Restaurant in Detroit, MI. This magnificent mansion now restaurant was built by Detroit's wealthiest lumber baron, David Whitney, Jr., around 1900.
Reports of strange phenomena began in the mid-1980s during the time the home was being converted to a restaurant. Since that time there have been frequent reports of apparitions primarily on the second floor. One of those wandering apparitions is said to be Mr. Whitney. There have been other reports of shadow people on the second floor. Disembodied voices have also been heard in the second floor ladies room.
We completed several overnight investigations with paranormal team, Highland Ghost Hunters. From those investigations, some of our most significant and compelling evidence was collected. Based on that, it appears to validate the claim of its haunting. Perhaps even more fascinating, some of the evidence collected connects with historical events that occurred in the house over 100 years ago.
Yet another fascinating haunted location is the Terrace Inn in Petoskey, Michigan. The original inn was built in the 19th Century and rebuilt in 1911, after a fire. It was a popular resort hotel during Michigan's Chautauqua era.
The inn is said to have been active for decades. Objects moving across floors and tables have been reported. Disembodied voices, mists traveling up stairways are just a few of the other reports. Its most well know ghost is The Lady In White. She is said to roam the hallways and, occasionally, into a guest room. There is also reported to be the apparition man in a tweed jacket standing out on the balcony looking in. Perhaps the most active spirit is that of a little shadow person that hangs out in the basement.
After several extended investigations, the audio and video evidence was overwhelming. This evidence appears to connect historical events and people, which may identify at least some of the ghostly apparitions that roam the inn.
Q. Are there haunted places in the Upper Peninsula?
A. We've already discussed the Calumet Theater and site of the Italian Hall. But that's just scratching the surface. There are many reports of hauntings in the U.P. Too numerous to name here but a few include:
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse in Gulliver. Legend says the ghost of former lighthouse keeper, Captain Joseph Willie Townsend, remains. Our investigation and collected evidence may or may not validate old Willie is there, but seems to indicate evidence of something paranormal going on at this historic lighthouse.
There are the Paulding Lights in Watersmeet. For those who haven't seen them, the Paulding Lights are white, yellow and red lights that appear in the evening sky at the far end of a railroad track. These lights float erratically, moving forward, back, and sideways then just disappear. Some believe cars and trucks on a distant roadway are causing the strange lights but others, including an in depth investigation by SyFy producers of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, disagree. It cause remains a mystery.
Folklore has it that a railroad brakeman was swinging his lantern to stop a train from hitting rail cars. The train struck and killed him. The lights seen are thought to be from the brakeman's lantern.
Q. Are there different groups or events in Michigan that focus on haunted places?
A. We have heard there are several paranormal events in Michigan that include historical ghost walks and group investigations.
Every August, Michigan hosts one of the country's largest paranormal conferences. It is hosted by the Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society and the Kewadin Casino Resort in Sault Ste. Marie.
The conference draws over 1,000 people annually and features some of the most well known and well respected people in the paranormal community. Special guests have included Ghost Adventures Crew from the Travel Channel, SyFy's Ghost Hunters, John Zaffis and many more.
Todd Clemens, Haunts of Mackinac offers a unique Downtown Haunted History Tour of Mackinac Island and night time investigations of Mission Point Theater and Soundstage.
We, Haunted Travels of Michigan, also host a variety of overnight and weekend ghost hunting adventures. Some of our regular public hunts include A Ghost Hunters Weekend at Historic Terrace Inn in Petoskey, MI. Here guests have the opportunity of spending a weekend at one of our most haunted locations. This event includes ghost stories, dinner, and an all night ghost hunt of the inn.
Another of our most popular weekend public hunts takes place on Mackinac Island, A Haunted Weekend on Mackinac Island. The weekend is filled with daytime and night time ghost hunts that take guests to some of the island's most remote and reputedly haunted locations. Our special weekend also brings in Todd Clemens' Downtown haunted tours and Mission Point Theater investigation. For this special weekend, Haunted Travels of Michigan opens up the resort's most notoriously haunted Room 2200 for private investigation.
All of our public events and ghost hunts can be found on our website's events page: www.hauntedtravelsmi.com/events
Q. How can people find out more information about you?
A. People can find out more about us and what we do on our website, www.hauntedtravelsmi.com
If people would like to be kept informed on our public events, presentations and the latest on our investigations, they can join our Haunted Travels friends' list. To join, people can go to our website and register or simply email us.
We are, of course, authors of a paranormal book series, "Haunted Travels of Michigan." Our series was awarded the International Paranormal Acknowledgement Award for Best Paranormal/Educational Book & Authors.
Our stories are not your typical ghost stories focusing on urban legends and folklore. We want to bring readers into actual paranormal investigations with us.
In addition, we're very historically based. For us, it's not just about the haunting but the history that creates the haunting. If we can capture paranormal evidence that connects to true historical events and/or people, it provides a compelling reinforcement of a connection between the past and present.
Of course, each story stands on its own. However, to add an extra dimension, we have linked every story to our website's Secret Room (password protected). The Secret Rooms allows the reader, if they choose, to hear and/or see audio, video and photographs taken during the investigation. This, of course, includes the evidence collected.
Our books area available for purchase at most major booksellers including Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com.


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Many of the qualities that help corporate executives rise to the top of their organizations are the same qualities that push many entrepreneurs out of the corner office and into their own venturesMay 3, 2013 4:00 AM
Working with one of the world's largest tech companies in 2005, John Feghali had hit the career jackpot. Living in the heart of Manhattan, where wall-to-wall NYC taxis and subway stops make car owners seem extravagant, the IBM strategy consultant was swept to appointments via the company limousine. That five-star lifestyle extended to lodging, restaurants and access to the tech and financial sector's brightest shining stars, all in the name of business.
For all the good corporate America had brought Mr. Feghali it couldn't give him what he desired most: his own business, operated his way. So at the peak of his success in 2008, he stepped away from IBM and joined Carnegie Mellon University student Sarjoun Skaff in Pittsburgh for a new life as full-time co-founder of robotics company Bossa Nova Robotics.
Today, sitting inside the former Oakland shoe store that serves as headquarters for Mr. Feghali's mobile media company Walking Thumbs, the surroundings are notably less posh than his former life allowed.
The office, located above a GNC store and a Chinese restaurant, sends stir-fry scented drafts into the central workspace when the front door opens. A storage area crammed with promotional stickers, fliers and 8-foot banners that will transform storefront windows into billboards is the heart of the company's marketing operations. The 16 employees work side by side at borderless stations that allow for maximum collaboration and zero privacy.
Looking around the room, comparing what he was given in his corporate career to what he had created on his own, Mr. Feghali said there was no other place he would rather be.
"I was staying in the most fancy hotels. They paid for my meals. Everywhere was open bar. I was pretty well paid. But that's not what I wanted," he said. "I wanted to build something, to basically see how far I can go."
In retrospect, Mr. Feghali's exodus from corporate culture shouldn't have been much of a surprise.
Self-motivation, resilience and infectious enthusiasm -- many of the qualities that help corporate executives rise to the top of their organizations -- are the same qualities that push many of them out of the corner office and into their own ventures. However, one of the biggest contrasts between corporate leaders and those who excel as entrepreneurs is an attitude of exploration and risk-taking that isn't always the first course of action for traditional corporate leaders.
Susan Foley, managing partner of Boston-based management consulting firm Corporate Entrepreneurs LLC, is working to change that attitude. The company's core mission is to help corporate executives grow their companies by helping them see the businesses with the fresh eyes of someone seeking to build something from the ground up.
"The issue is that many of the things you need to do to manage the core business are just the opposite of what it takes to build a new business. Traditional leaders may only have experience leading the core business. The key difference between both types of leaders is that the entrepreneurial leader can do both -- he can simultaneously lead a company at the same time he is building a new one," she said in an email statement.
For financial reasons, that course is often the one entrepreneurs follow when deciding to set off on their own.
Chuck Fluharty, founder and CEO of Atlasburg-based machine tools manufacturing company Apex CNC Swiss, found himself as dissatisfied with corporate life as Mr. Feghali when he stepped down as a director at Bayer in 2001.
Tired of the constant travel that came with his position and wanting more time with his newborn son in Pittsburgh, Mr. Fluharty took high level positions at three other companies before stepping out of the corporate arena altogether. For an entire decade, between budget meetings and monthly trips to Mexico, he worked to build a business during his few off hours.
"I worked 50- to 60-plus hours a week in my corporate job and worked 30 to 40 hours a week part-time to build the business," he said. "Fortunately, I'm one of those people who only needs about five hours of sleep. I have a high metabolism."
Sleep deprivation aside, Mr. Fluharty's strategy gave him several advantages.
When the time came to purchase a Swiss CNC Machine, which is used to create component parts for other manufacturing machines, Mr. Fluharty used a home equity loan to pay the $200,000 expense and used his salary to pay off the loan. Second, he was able to build a customer base through word of mouth over the course of several years without struggling through a period of insolvency that most entrepreneurs face.
After the purchased of that first machine in 2003, the business has expanded to seven machines today and Mr. Fluharty is considering a move into the former Atlasburg School building to accommodate his company's growth. Apex has four full-time employees and five part-time employees.
As for Mr. Feghali, the path toward success couldn't have been more different. The transition from consulting to technology manufacturing took him to school in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science department, to robotics factories in China and Hong Kong and back to Pittsburgh, with a pledge to "build the company or go home," within a year.
With only a $10,000 initial investment and support from CMU's Robotics Institute, Bossa Nova would grow to become one of the largest players in the entertainment robotics space by the time Mr. Feghali left in 2009.
From there, he went on to found WatchMe, a silicon watch company that sells regularly on QVC.
With Walking Thumbs, he hopes to revolutionize text messaging through smartphone applications such as BlabCake. BlabCake turns a smartphone's contacts into interactive characters and lets users blow text kisses by blowing into a phone or send angry scratch marks across a friend's screen by scratching their phone's surface. Mr. Feghali expects to officially launch BlabCake on iPhone and Android as a free app and will launch two other companies out of Walking Thumbs this year.
Although they took divergent paths, Mr. Feghali and Mr. Fluharty share traits that would inevitably send them toward the world of small business. Both came from families with generations of business owners and both had dreamed of owning their own business since childhood.
But the most important feature -- the burning desire to chart your own course, build a legacy, lead a new initiative -- comes from neither heredity or heritage. That quality, both said, can be invoked in anyone with the right idea and the convictions to see it through to reality.
"You have to have a positive attitude, the ability to work long hours, the ability to multitask. Most importantly, you need to understand the needs of your customers and anticipate those needs," Mr. Fluharty said.
Following that advice will get individuals a lot farther than even they can imagine, added Mr. Feghali.
"We were trying to take $50,000 robots and turn them into a $50 toy. And we were just a group of passionate people, no experience, no money, no background in the industry or in general," he said.
"But we were dreamers and we were willing to dream far even if we knew maybe we shouldn't dream that far," he said.intheleadstories
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When it comes to violinists, Tupelo's Chris Thompson is about as real as it gets.
He first picked up the instrument at age 7, and followed in the footsteps of his father.
Abroad, he has played recitals in Italy, Taiwan, Tuscany and Switzerland. A bit more locally, he has studied with the best professors from Julliard School of Music and the Eastman School, both located in New York.
He also found a career with the strings and the bow, teaching the art to students at the University of Louisiana at Monroe for 28 years before retiring in 2010. He now teaches lessons for all age groups in Tupelo, and has never been happier.
"After retiring, I kind of reinvented myself. My wife can back me up when I say I've never been happier in my whole life," he said.
But what he is most proud of is the music ministry he and his wife – an accomplished pianist and vocalist – have carried out in their 39-year marriage.
"Someone said to me once, '100 years from now, no one will remember what car you drove, but y'all's ministry is annointed,'" he said. "It's rare for someone with talent and dedication to commit their efforts to kingdom work."
Seasons of the Spirit
Thompson's latest CD, "Seasons of the Spirit," takes the listener through the liturgical season with 17 tracks that run the gamut of styles from folk songs to high classical hymns. They are divided into Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost.
" The challenge comes when you have to use an instrument to compensate for a vocal presence. You have to include every nuance of expression made with the human voice," he said.
Thompson said he was particularly proud of the Easter and Pentecost movements on the CD. The 12th track, "Were You There," was made famous by opera singer Paul Robeson, but Thompson forgoes the piano accompaniment present in a few other songs, letting a single violin do the talking.
"There is something powerful about that simplicity," Thompson said. "I've seen it bring a linebacker to tears."
The closing arrangement, "Meditation from Thais," comes from a French opera that tells the story of a 15-year-old temple prostitute's conversion to Christianity.
"Thais is a prostitute in the temple of Venus who is witnessed to by a Catholic cleric," he said. "The song comes after her conversion, in a scene where she meditates on her salvation. It begins peacefully, to reflect the sublime peace of being saved, then gets stormy in the middle, to show the character is reflecting on her checkered past, then returns to the original mood."
Thompson said though listeners who understand the significance of the movements might appreciate it more, even someone who knows nothing about Christianity would be touched by the music.
"If you know the scripture, you can see the topical relationships between the song instead of just thinking 'oh that's a pretty piece,'" he said. "The reason great art is great is that it speaks to all people, and penetrates to the core of who we are."
The Suzuki method
Thompson said most of his time is spent teaching and learning from his students. After retiring, Thompson reinvented himself as a musician, undergoing the Suzuki method of instruction from the ground up.
Imported to the United States in the 1960s, the Suzuki method was invented by Japanese violinist Shin'ichi Suzuki.
"The idea behind it is if children can learn language just from hearing it and imitating it early in life, learning music could work the same way," Thompson said.
The program is structured so that parents become coaches at home, and every week Thompson brings his students together for a group lesson. Instead of being one on one with the instructor all the time, the group lesson lets kids see other kids with their same interest. It provides positive peer pressure to stick with the instrument, especially for younger students who look up to older ones.
But what really struck a chord with Thompson was the Suzuki philosophy.
"Suzuki believed in the intrinsic value of the individual. He is known for saying 'teach to the whole child,'" Thompson said. "As a teacher I have to learn to talk in a way they will listen and listen in a way they will want to talk. Each student is different, and each student is worth that effort. It's the way God sees us. If there was only one human that ever lived, Jesus still would have gone to the cross for that person, that relationship. How could you pass that up?"
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Today I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain!
It's overcast and cool. There was a misty rain coming down this afternoon but I think it stopped now.
I'll try to find some of the pics I took of the mushroom cloud-looking downpour in AZ this past week. It was hot there (but since it's their monsoon time, it was more humid with occasional thunderstorms than I'd have thought).
Here, it's just dry and hot (just under 100 expected for today) outside.
The weather was apparently beautiful out here today. Everyone is walking around with sunburns because we had a steel beach picnic up on the flight deck. The lines were about 2 hours long to get food so there were many burns to be had.
That's what you get for playing near the water.
[FONT=Courier New]Hot. Damn hot. 95-100 all week hot.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Courier New]But I am not complaining. My brother in law is in Kuwait (moving on to Iraq soon) with the National Guard. He said it was around 130 last week. Probably more of the same for him this week, too.[/FONT]
Here's a storm that stayed in the same spot along the road for about a half an hour, south of Tucson AZ. It looked like an H-bomb explosion, and was quite dark. Luckily, we were moving away from it.
Thankfully, this isn't "the weather by [me] today." But it could've been the "view outside [my car] window," I guess.
It actually rained this morning; not enough to dent our drought, but just enough to spot stuff. It was pretty humid today, as well, and hot (mid- to upper-90s).


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Asia has recorded the highest compound annual growth rate in terms of its growth prospects for automation tools
Asia is becoming increasingly important as a market for upcoming biobanks. Within Asia, India, China and Japan have attractive prospects. Many countries in Asia have launched or are about to launch ambitious population-based biobanking projects. In fact, some of the biggest projects in terms of number of samples can be found in Asia. Pharmaceutical companies are focusing their priorities on the large and relatively untapped populations in Asia. Companies want a strong presence in this region not only for novel DNA reservoirs, but also because of the recent history of deadly infectious disease outbreaks, such as SARS.
Approximately 13 percent of revenues for the automation vendors within the biobanking arena arise from Asian countries. Asia has recorded the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in terms of its growth prospects for automation tools. For the period between 2012 and 2018, the estimated CAGR is 8.7 per cent. Since 2002, China and Japan have been active in biobanking.
Many biobanks are still in nascent stages to automate their storage process as a result of which the CAGR for automated compound storage segment is 7.6 percent. Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and consumable segment will grow at a CAGR of 7.1 per cent and 10.3 per cent, respectively. The existing and established biobanks are increasing patient recruitment and donor programs owing to which there will be a steep increase in the demand for consumables.
The US is known for its well-established private biobanks. However, country patterns also indicate that for many private biobanks in the US, getting into Asia is an enormous undertaking due to government sanctioned restrictions on sample exportation.
The emerging Asian markets would lead revenue growth in the automated liquid handling robotics and the consumable segment over the next two years. However, compound storage and LIMS will be an area to focus for medium term growth prospects.
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