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Hennepin County Government Center
Structure in General
- The building is essentially two towers separated by an atrium rising the full height of the building. The west tower houses primarily administrative offices, while the east tower has many courtrooms.
- The building's foundation consists of 119 perimeter caissons, with the interior columns supported on spread footings.
- 11400 tons of structural steel were used in the building's construction.
- The building was opened May 24, 1977.
- The building is connected to the US Bank Plaza and the 4th Avenue Parking Ramp by skyway.
- The adjacent block of 5th Street was permanently closed to vehicular traffic in early 2002 to make way for a new light rail station serving the Hennepin County Government Center and Minneapolis City Hall.
- The Hennepin County Government Center straddles 6th Street South between 3rd & 4th Avenues South, allowing for half-block plazas to the north (across 5th Street from Minneapolis City Hall) and the south (across 7th Street from Accenture Tower).
- When the building is viewed from either side, it resembles the letter H.
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Features & Amenities
- One of the city's famous buildings


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The Scouts Association has taken down its Compass database, which holds the records of nearly half-a-million young people and adult volunteers, after discovering a "potential security vulnerability," The Register can reveal.
Spinning rust into gold: WD profit grows ... though sales dip
Western Digital sold 61 million drives in its latest quarter, 2.1 million less than a year ago, but made $30m more profit, and it out-shipped and out-earned rival Seagate – CEO Steve Milligan's men must have ear-to-ear grins on their faces.
I ain't afraid of no GHOST – securo-bods
The latest high-profile security vulnerability affecting Linux systems is serious but nowhere near as bad as the infamous Heartbleed flaw, according to security experts.
Spartan on Windows 7? Microsoft is 'watching demand'
Details of Microsoft's fledgling Windows 10 Spartan browser are emerging with a suggestion of possible support for Windows 7.
Google Translate MEAT GRINDER turns gay into 'faggot', 'poof', 'queen'
Google has apologised after its language-scraping service offered up offensive alternatives including "poof" and "faggot" as replacements for the word gay.
Cluster-grappling kids clash: Battle of the Big Iron in the Big Easy
HPC Blog
Two hundred years after the first Battle of New Orleans*, we saw the third, and perhaps most important, tussle the city has ever seen. I am, of course, referring to the SC14 Student Cluster Competition (here's a quick guide on how the youngsters' HPC battles work).
NexGen polishes guns, prepares to face hybrid array legions
Hybrid array startup NexGen is starting out afresh having been spun out of SanDisk, and now faces the full competitive force of hybrid competition from both mainstream array vendors and the up-and-coming trio of Nimble, Tegile and Tintri. What are its chances?
Hungry UK IT biz, VC firm to swallow former Ericsson arm Damovo – sources
Privately owned Daisy Group is very close to making the British arm of comms integrator Damovo its 47th conquest, sources are telling us.
X-IO fights global hybrid warming, keeps ISE age going
X-IO has overhauled its hybrid ISE array line with third generation technology and given it a top-end ISE 780 model with boosted performance.
Five years of Sun software under Oracle: Were the critics right?
Oracle-Sun anniversary
Back in 2010, critics worried that Sun Microsystems' software portfolio would wither on the vine once Oracle got its hands on it. Five years on and the worst fears have proven baseless, yet former Sun diehards have had plenty to be disappointed about since Larry Ellison & Co gobbled the former server heavyweight.
Care.data refuseniks will be DENIED CANCER SCREENING invites
Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients who opted out of having their details shared with private companies under the controversial Care.data scheme would not be invited to a number of cancer-related screenings – a terrible effect of the gaffe-ridden scheme.
Win Sun, lose Sun: How Larry's bet on old-world systems hurt Oracle
Oracle-Sun anniversary
Feeling calm and relaxed? Join the Reg on a journey to an alternate reality where Oracle's cloud business is the envy of all of its competitors. It holds two trillion objects and is growing faster now than at any time in its history.
I'll get my coat – there's a dusty one flying off Comet 67P
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is shedding four years worth of accumulated dust as it hurtles towards the Sun, say scientists after studying the output of the Rosetta spacecraft's COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser, aka COSIMA.
Regin super-malware has Five Eyes fingerprints all over it says Kaspersky
The Regin malware, often described as the devil spawn of Stuxnet and Duqu, is the handiwork of the Five Eyes nation state spy apparatus, analysis reveals.
Sleepy Ofcom glances at Internet of Things, rolls over, takes nap
UK regulator Ofcom has published a report [PDF] into the so-called internet of things (IoT) in which it promises to do something at some point in the future.
EE squashes Orange UK: France Telecom's been 'destroying it for years'
With BT now expected to complete the deal to buy EE, it has been reported that EE will kill off the T-Mobile and Orange brands in the UK. The mix of brands from BT, EE, T-Mobile and Orange is all a bit confusing.
YouTube flushes Flash for future flicks
YouTube has decided it's had enough of Adobe's perenially-p0wned Flash and will therefore now default to delivering video with the HTML5 <video> tag.
Fanbois to gamebois: Apple paperwork reveals iOS FUNPAD
Apple has been granted a patent in the US on a gaming controller pad for iOS-powered things.
Boffin finds formula for four-year-five-nines disk arrays
Forty-five disk drives, ten parity drives, and 33 spare disks: that's the optimum array size to protect data for four years with no service visits, according to a study published at Arxiv.
US looks at plan to hand over world's DNS – and screams blue murder
The US government official in charge of the critical Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract wants a course change in how the globe's core DNS systems will be moved out of Uncle Sam's hands.
Oz spooks hack, try to fry Middle East servers – report
Oz spies have reached across the Indian Ocean and meddled with the cooling controls of an unnamed Middle Eastern nation's servers hostile to Australia, according to reports.
VMware cracks US$6bn for the year, says SaaS will slow growth
VMware today used its Q4 2014 earnings call to warn its revenue growth will slow because it's doing so well in the cloud.
Australian spookhaus ASIO could retain private data FOREVER
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) has told the government it's forgotten to set down how long ASIO is allowed to keep metadata handed over by telecommunications companies.
Horrifying iPhone sales bring Apple $18bn profit A QUARTER
Apple chief exec Tim Cook has said his company's smartwatch won't go on sale until April – not that he's too fussed about the delay, given Apple has banked $18 BILLION in profit since October.
Passing asteroid MOONS the HUMAN RACE
Space-watchers peering at the fly-by asteroid 2004 BL86 will have missed a detail that NASA caught: the flying mountain has its own moon.
Excitement in boffinry circles as GIGANTIC ALIEN RING BLOTS OUT SUN
The first planetary ring system outside of our Solar System has been spotted and it's massive – in fact, it's 120 million kilometers in diameter.
'Boozed up' US drone spook CRASHED UFO into US White House
A drone crashed into the US White House because the government staffer flying the thing had hit the bottle, according to the New York Times.
Yahoo's! Mayer!: We'll! spin! off! $40bn! Alibaba! stake! and! pay! ZERO! tax! on! it! Ha!
Yahoo! has announced plans to sell off all of its remaining stake in Chinese online giant Alibaba, even as its latest earnings report shows a company struggling to pull in revenue on its own.
Google reveals where AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable will next offer Gbps broadband
Google has named the next four areas in the US to get its gigabit-a-second fiber broadband.
'Super-secure' BlackPhone pwned by super-silly txt msg bug
The maker of BlackPhone – a mobile marketed as offering unusually high levels of security – has patched a critical vulnerability that allows hackers to run malicious code on the handsets.
Government's rushed NBN migration plan off to the ACCC
Industry objections notwithstanding, the federal government has okayed Telstra submitting its revised NBN migration plan to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
FUMBLE! NFL app drops privacy ball just before Super Bowl Sunday
With Superbowl Sunday approaching, interest in the ritualized combat that is American football is peaking for the year – but fans of the action may be letting hackers slurp their personal details.
BOO! Grave remote-code exec flaw in GNU C Library TERRIFIES Linux
Security researchers have uncovered a critical bug in the GNU C Library (glibc), a key component of Linux and some other operating systems, which could render countless machines vulnerable to remote code execution attacks.
FTC to Internet of Stuff: Security, motherf****r, do you speak it?
US regulator the FTC says now is not the time for new laws on the "Internet of Things" – but security needs to be improved as we enter the era of always-on, always-connected gadgets, sensors and machines embedded in homes, streets and pockets.
Another day, yet another emergency Adobe Flash patch. Because that's how we live now
The new year hasn't been a pleasant one for Adobe: the Silicon Valley firm has scrambled to close yet more serious security holes in its Flash player.
Wall St wolves tear chunk off Microsoft: There goes $30bn!
The morning after Microsoft published its second quarter figures, its share price tumbled 10 per cent as markets opened in New York – wiping $30bn off its value.
Twitter ATTENTION SEEKERS can now blab to each other IN PRIVATE
Twitter is set to become even more annoying.
PwC: Forget margin, tech biz, HUSTLE for that SALE
The phrase "turnover is vanity, profit is sanity" apparently does not apply to the tech sector, with PwC advising companies this year to focus on revenue growth above margins and "yield maximum shareholder value".
NetApp embiggens E-Series flashbox: Gee, a benchmark... thanks
NetApp has doubled the speed and capacity of its all-flash E-Series arrays, and won an SPC-1 benchmark record in the process.
Anonymous: Snap on that Guy Fawkes mask, we're marching against child sex abuse
Hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for a day of protest against paedophiles who take advantage of their wealth and power to abuse children.
Post-modem Ericsson wobbles thanks to flat sales and falling profits
Ericsson's flat sales last year were the result of its disappointing fourth quarter, especially in America, its latest financial results show.
Meat puppet security sucks... let machines find your flaws
Commercial organisations have cash to burn on stopping hackers getting into the network, but relatively little to spend on dealing with a breach.
HMRC fails to plan for £10.4bn contract exit... because it's 'too risky'
HMRC's eye-wateringly expensive £10.4bn IT deal – "the largest technology contract in government" – could be too risky to change as the department has failed to plan for a new contract model, MPs have warned.
Switch it off and on again: How peers failed to sneak Snoopers' Charter into terror bill
Bungling peers failed to thrust Theresa May's widely discredited Snoopers' Charter into the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill on Monday – but they did an excellent job of highlighting their ignorance about technology.
What's that, Microsoft? Yep, a Lumia and Surface SALES BOOM
Microsoft shipped a record number of Lumia smartphones in the final quarter of calendar year 2014, as Surface revenue finally started to make an impression.
Keylogger: Somebody STOP ME! Oh hang on, I just did
Developers of a range of commercial keyloggers have switched sides and begun marketing anti-keylogging technology.
Facebook: Oi, Lizard Squad – we can take down our own site, ta
A technical cockup – rather than hostile hacker action – is apparently the reason Facebook, Instagram and other Web 2.0 sweethearts fell off the internet on Monday.
Cash'n'Carrion January sale: Get in there while you can
If you fancy enjoying 20 per cent off everything down at El Reg's merchandising tentacle, Cash'n'Carrion, you'd better get in there sharpish, because our January sale ends on Saturday.
Opera Jon weaves a brand new browser
The man behind the Opera browser has created a new one, he says, because power users are poorly served. The new Vivaldi browser launched today in a "Technical Preview" form, with customisation and speed taking it in a different direction to the mainstream, where minimalism rules the day.
Want to win Microsoft's cloudy love? Just spend $500
Channel partners that want to cosy up to Microsoft at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference have got the option to be an extra special pet – cough $500 and they could be within spitting distance of the event… literally.
The firm that swallowed the Sun: Is Oracle happy as Larry with hardware and systems?
Oracle-Sun anniversary
One Sun swallow doesn't make a hardware summer, and while it certainly hasn't for Oracle, it is far from being in a hardware winter for the firm.
Snoopers' Charter amendments withdrawn – FOR NOW ...
The House of Lords rejected controversial last-minute amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill in a debate on Monday.
Euro mobile standards chiefs eye tiny beauty: It's the KEY to 5G
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which sets the standards for mobile comms, has just started work on five specifications for millimetre Wave Transmission – the 30GHz to 300GHz range.
There's life after Oracle, but very little left in Oracle's reseller channel
Oracle-Sun anniversary
A headstone in Santa Clara carries the names of the fallen in Sun Microsystems' once illustrious reseller channel – it is five years this week since grim reaper Oracle bought the server giant.
Apple patch shields Macs from Thunderstrike
Apple will mute the Thunderstrike attack in an upcoming OS X patch, according to a report.
Jellybean upgrade too hard for Choc Factory, but not for YOU
Google says it won't patch Android Jellybean because it's too hard.
INTERNET of STUFF: Google to replace old Dropcams for $0.00
Dropcam, the home video camera company acquired by Google's Internet of Things limb Nest, is giving away new cameras to owners of its old cameras.
Humanity can defeat SkyNet with BOOKS, says IT think tank
A group of researchers working for National ICT Australia reckons computer science courses need to look at artificial intelligence from an ethical point of view – and the popularity of sci-fi among comp.sci students makes that a good place to start.
Facebook, Instagram, Tinder TITSUP*: HOW did anyone even find out?
It appears Facebook and its snap-slinging subsidiary Instagram have fallen off the web. Hook-up-finder Tinder is also reportedly having problems.
Photons link arms on chip to hasten march of quantum crypto
A multinational collaboration of boffins reckons it's come up with a chippable solution to one of the practical problems of quantum communications: getting a good source of entangled photons.
P0wning for the fjords: Malware turns drones into DEAD PARROT
Hacker Rahul Sasi has found and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows the flying machines to be remotely hijacked.
HP reveals which execs have a chair once the splitting music stops
HP has revealed who'll be sitting where once the splitting song stops and the company has broken into HP Inc. and HP Enterprise.
Some Androids can be HOSED by WiFi Direct vuln
Google, which has been criticised by Microsoft for recent bug disclosures, is now downplaying a bug of its own.
IBM details PowerPC microserver aimed at square kilometre array
IBM has revealed more about a PowerPC microserver it says will help to crunch data gathered by the square kilometre array (SKA), the colossal radio telescope to be built across South Africa and Australia.
Linux chaps want to recycle your mobe as a supercomputer
A Finnish group of phone developers, hoping to get the world interested in modular smartphones, has proposed a nifty idea for re-using their phone motherboards: turn them into clusters.
Secret Service on alert after drone CRASHES into White House
The US Secret Service is investigating how a drone came to crash into the White House in the early hours of Monday morning.
VDI is heading for a minor DAAS-aster
Desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) services are getting good enough, fast enough, that organisations need to consider them as an alternative to desktop virtualisation (VDI).
Wikileaks: We DO NOT approve of OUR secret stuff being LEAKED
WikiLeaks is demanding answers from Google after learning that the company handed user information to the FBI and didn't acknowledge the incident for more than two years.
Microsoft brings SUNSHINE – but it's a CLOUDY DAY
Microsoft posted another quarter of respectable results on Monday, matching analysts' earnings estimates and slightly outperforming on revenue, but its strong showing couldn't disguise the continued shakiness in its core software business.
Charlotte, NC thinks it has won the Google Fiber lottery
Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina believe they will be the next to enjoy Google Fiber.
NASA greenlights SpaceX and Boeing to carry crew to ISS in 2017
Crew and cargo resupply missions will be launched from US soil by 2017, with SpaceX and Boeing both sending rival systems into low Earth orbit from now on.
Watchdogs critical of Oz data retention regime
Ahead of parliamentary hearings this week into the Australian government's proposed data retention regime, privacy watchdogs have lined up to criticise the legislation.
NASA greenlights SpaceX and Boeing to carry crew to ISS in 2017
Crew and cargo resupply missions will be launched from US soil by 2017, with SpaceX and Boeing both sending rival systems into low Earth orbit from now on.
ICANN CEO criticizes domain 'hoggers'
ICANN's CEO has infuriated domain investors by dismissing them as domain "hoggers" in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Great Firewall of China blasts DDoS attacks at random IP addresses
An upgrade to China's Great Firewall is having knock-on effects all over the internet, with seemingly random sites experiencing massive traffic spikes.
Nexus 6 would have had a fingerprint reader, but Apple RUINED IT ALL
The former CEO of Motorola Mobility says the company's Nexus 6 phablet would have been a nicer piece of kit, were it not for Apple's inteference.
NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app
The US National Sheriffs' Association wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk.
Cubans defy government's home internet ban with secret home-made network
Cubans are fighting back against restrictions on their use of internet with SNet, a secret network. Also known as StreetNet, it pools the resources of citizens, who are effectively prohibited from using the internet.
Seagate belches, chomps down another greenback burger
Seagate's second quarter revenues for 2015 rose 4.8 per cent over the year to $3.7bn while profits more than doubled to $933m, up from $428m a year ago.
Brits need chutzpah to copy Israeli cyberspies' tech creche – ex-spooks
Israel's intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been a production line for hi-tech startups since the 1980s, a success British politicians are now seeking to emulate. Yet replicating that success in Blighty may be difficult because of cultural and environmental differences that may prove difficult to overcome.
IBM to cut '118k jobs worldwide' – report claims
IBM is reportedly planning to jettison 118,000 workers to counter 11 quarters of declining sales and the impact of shifting industry demand – which, if true, would make it one of the biggest corporate culls on record.
Analyse THIS: Facebook alumni upstart Interana inhales MORE cash
Why the hurry? Interana, an analytics startup co-founded by ex-Facebook engineers just got a 250 per cent rise in funding, $20m, less than four months after its initial $8.2m A-round.
Symantec sources claim exec teams in place by April Fools' Day
Symantec execs will line up under the classic security or information management divisions from April Fools' Day – no, seriously – amid talk that senior management may revive the Veritas storage brand.
Ex-G-Cloud bigwig Chant weighs in on GDS' framework rebrand
Former G-Cloud head Chris Chant has entered the growing row over the status of the framework under the UK's Government Digital Service (GDS), criticising its decision to ditch a brand "that has won hearts and minds".
A Bombe Called Christopher, or A Very Poor Imitation
Some weeks ago, on the back of superlative-laced recommendatory posts like this one, I took myself off to the Fosse des Puces high art cinema to see The Imitation Game, the new biopic about Alan "Weird Al" Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Brightstar deal means Post Office mobile network could be a thing
The Post Office is ramping up its plans to become a virtual mobile phone network, with hardware distributor Brightstar being appointed to handle logistics for SIMs and phones.
EMC: Kerr-ching! $430m XtremIO gulp's paying off... Hello, $1bn a year
EMC president Chad Sakac says the XtremIO will be the fastest product in EMC's history to reach a billion dollar run-rate. A new release is coming to keep the momentum up.
Lizard Squad threatens Malaysia Airlines with data dump: We DID TOO hack your site
Infamous hacktivists Lizard Squad are threatening to dump data they supposedly snatched during the process of defacing the website of Malaysia Airlines.
Welcome to Spartan, Microsoft's persuasive argument for... Chrome
Two years after its last browser strategy policy change in Windows 8, Microsoft is shifting the pieces around the board again.
Shareholders pen outraged letter about Ellison's bulging package
Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison are facing fresh calls from shareholders to change the company's high compensation structure for executives, and stop ignoring requests to communicate with directors.
Right, we've bagged IBM's X86 server biz... now what? – Lenovo
Now that Lenovo has IBM's X86 server business, it's able to freely participate in partnerships with storage suppliers. Does it view storage as a market into which it can expand?
Hoaxer posing as GCHQ boss prank-calls PM Cameron
A hoax caller claiming to be GCHQ's chief spy was put through to UK Prime Minister David Cameron's phone on Sunday.
Dark Fibre: Reg man plunges into London's sewers to see how pipe is laid
Deep Dive
We've all seen it and we've all cursed it. Whether you're stuck in traffic or grimacing over the noise, digging up the roads to enhance or extend our communications pipelines is disruptive and causes frustrating transport delays. In oh so many ways, infrastructure in the UK is going down the toilet and for the likes of dark fibre outfit Zayo, this is all part of the plan.
Official: Whiteboxer Super Micro is a $2bn server company
Commodity server vendor Super Micro has reached a $2bn run rate with its latest quarter's results.
Should Google play carriers at their own game? There's never been a better time
In the week that Microsoft made its last, best bid for mobile relevance, Google was active all over the mobile ecosystem. It had recently announced an investment in satellite venture SpaceX, and was said to be stalking mobile payments outfit SoftCard, and even planning to launch direct mobile services via its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deal.
What gets the internet REALLY excited? Kittens? No. EXPLODING Kittens
Sysadmin Blog
Let the internet run amok for long enough and you'll eventually find someone making millions with exploding kittens. Curious? Well look no further, because the internet has delivered!


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HAHA! Yes, yes I do.
^ Best song to fuck to, EVER !!!
(I guess youtube won't support the REAL video...)
For Stacy:
I dedicate this song to..........SWERVE
I dedicate this song to ........Alley
I dedicate this song to NickCole and JockBoy87.
Never regret anything, because in that moment it's exactly what you wanted.
For Elvin.
Be your best friend, ya, I'll love you forever.
There is way too much Lada Gaga in this thread.
I haven't heard anything by her that I have liked so far.
for Stacy
this one's for my new downstairs neighbor.
omg, he is soo frakkin' hot.
I dedicate this song to all of the Gay Trek Fans:
Never regret anything, because in that moment it's exactly what you wanted.
for my friend Avinash, whom I miss dearly
Parce que c'est la seule chanson Française que je peux penser en ce moment.
LOL you good you good
here's a song for you :
Ekim, vous êtes fou!
Oh and to all Jubbers and JUB!
Again I dedicate another song to Alley and his soon to be partner.......
Dedicated to: The love I let get away... ( @ 4:15 "Handbags and Gladrags")
For Bemused.
For Bemused and Morgaes because I just want to make them laugh.
This acoustic live version of Speechless by Lady Gaga goes out to all Jubbers out there!
One for Mo.
I dedicate this song to no one, I just want to share, I love this song.
For Windsors:
For Mr. DakotaKen:
For Scains, bemused, Qixote and every LOst fans...
Quite simply one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
I dedicate this to everyone who has ever felt like this, or who hopes to ever feel this way.
this one's for ram..
For: You know who....
And *this* one is for Elvin....
I'm not sure what you think about ol' Babs...
But, this... I think... Is you and me in a nut shell...
It's an absolutely * gorgeous* song....
This one's for me. I love APC.
For all JUBBERS who are yet to find the one who sets their soul to flying.
For JockBoy
For BRIOHAZARD
This ones for elvin.[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwi9XohP2iE[/ame]
For Jayden.
For everyone here on JUB!
for my fellow loud, badly-dressed, cliquish, self-centered, and generally boorish Americans
Jayden and Moe:
For Joshy
For Moe[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3_Eqlq8a4&feature=related[/ame]
To all Jubbers.[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFGDNGkev7M&feature=related[/ame]
for Ravenstar
For Stacey
It really depends on the context ... were you nude?
Aw Thanks Under! Fun song!
To all JUBbers. Especially, Mr Raven, Martin, GL, ABS, Kev, Lolito, Stace, Elvin, Rareboy, alfa...
GL, thanks for creating this thread.


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Earlier this year I saw pictures of a great garden that I would like to find again. It had raised beds out of wood and I seem to remember that it had post at each corner with a finial on them. It had bricks or pavers around the beds. There were many (5-6-7) blond children gathering produce in the garden. Does anyone remember that picture. So many of you have lovely gardens, but I would like to see this one again. Thanks. |
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- Posted by anniesgranny 6b (My Page) on Mon, Oct 13, 08 at 23:49
I have those photos! I have no idea where I got them, I was just so impressed I saved them. I really don't think it would be right to publish someone else's photos here, but if you want to email me at anniebloom1 at gmail dot com I can email them back to you! Granny |
Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Kitchen Garden
- Posted by soonergrandmom Zone 6 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 14, 08 at 15:04
Thanks Annie. I am writing to you. |
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.- A lesbian Episcopal priest has made the top-five list of bishop-candidates for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. The list includes three women. No woman has ever been a finalist before.
"I believe that accepting this nomination is what God is asking of me," Rev. Tracey Lind said in a statement. The openly lesbian cleric is dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland and author of Interrupted by God.
Bishop James Stanton of Dallas, a leader in the global effort against gay bishops, called Lind's nomination distressing.
"It's an action that says Chicago really doesn't care what the rest of the Anglican Communion says," he told the Sun-Times.
The worldwide Anglican Communion has been dealing with the possibility of schism since 2003, when the Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
"My life with my partner, Emily Ingalls [a cradle Episcopalian], is the gift that most sustains me," Lind's statement said. "Together, we tend our garden, travel, hike."
The Columbus native dropped out as a candidate for bishop in the Newark Diocese last year, saying she wasn't ready to leave Ohio. But she's told the Chicago diocese "the timing is now right," a spokesman said.
A diocesan search committee selected the candidates. Additional nominees can be made through a petition process. The election is Nov. 10.
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This is Amelia Rayno's third season on the Gophers men's basketball beat. She learned college basketball in North Carolina (Go Tar Heels!), where fanhood is not an option. In 2010, she joined the Star Tribune after graduating from Boston's Emerson College, which sadly had no exciting D-I college hoops to latch onto. Amelia has also worked on the sports desk at the Boston Globe and interned at the Detroit News.
Follow Rayno on Twitter @AmeliaRaynoRead my full story on the Gophers' 78-70 loss at Wisconsin here. (Will be updated as the most recent version is edited.)
Home-court advantage is no joke.
You know it. I know it. Ken Pomeroy knows it.
But man, if the Gophers are going to take themselves off the bubble of all of this tournament talk (what a roller coaster that has been), they've got to show they can win on the road.
Right now, they haven't come close.
Minnesota's only road win in league play came at Penn State, one of the worst college basketball environments I've ever been in, and against one of the bottom-dwellers of the conference. The only other true road win they've claimed all year is at Richmond -- which certainly was quality, but wow, doesn't that feel like a long time ago?
The Gophers did nothing but perpetuate the idea that they can't win on the road on Thursday night, showing up looking nothing like the team that slapped around the Badgers at the Barn a few weeks ago. The defense was back to being [what was that word I used again?] after a decent second half against Indiana. The offense was entirely lackluster up until the final three minutes or so. The Gophers' inside game completely evaporated after four games of looking like Hey-Maybe-This-Is-Real-Now. And hey, what's new, Minnesota fouled a lot couldn't dole out a consistent effort.
What has it been about the Gophers that they crumble so dramatically in unfamiliar arenas? Certainly, the Big Ten houses some very tough place to play, but other teams have found a way this season. Minnesota seems to check its aggressiveness at the door.
The Gophers have just three road games left -- at Northwestern on Sunday, and then at Ohio State and at Michigan to round out the regular season. A victory at Northwestern is essential at this point, but it also doesn't turn many heads. And finding success at Value City Arena or Crisler won't come much easier.
A few other notes from tonight's game:
*Andre Hollins is probably the bright spot of the night, finishing with 22 points and four rebounds. That is very encouraging for the Gophers. In the first, he showed that finding his role and his groove on the team after missing most of three games with an ankle injury is still going to be a process. It seemed like he was forcing things a bit early, but when he calmed down in the second, he became much more efficient, and the spark down the stretch that Minnesota could have used early.
*I was surprised that coach Richard Pitino didn't try to put Mo Walker back in late in the first half [when he had two fouls, but so did Elliott Eliason and Joey King]. He opted for Eliason, but the Gophers' offense really had no scorers at the time. Pitino said his plan was to keep Walker out for the second so that he could ensure his big man would be really aggressive. In fact, that never happened, with Pitino saying Walker was playing timid and afraid to foul.
*Wisconsin scored 1.18 points per possession despite getting just three offensive rebounds.


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Hey! I was nervous about ordering the jacket but when I got it, it has a MAIN ZIPPER -- the buttons you see in the photos are fake and for display. I ordered the white version of the jacket - 5'3", 110 pounds, in a SMALL and it fit great -- it's a "Burton Team Relaxed Fit" so I was able to wear layers underneath. Kept me warm, too, for early season riding.
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Hospital Drug Shortages Deadly, Costly
A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can't get them any other way.
Minn. Hospitals Team Up Against Drug Theft
Top health officials in Minnesota are taking new steps to address a longstanding problem: the theft of drugs in hospitals and nursing homes.
Minn. Emergency Rooms See Makeover Over The Years
As a new generation of emergency rooms opens across the east metro, patients are finding amenities that might remind them more of hotels than hospitals.
Sanford To Operate County-Owned Hospital In MN
Dakotas-based Sanford Health has reached a six-month agreement to run a county-owned hospital and clinics in Minnesota's Clearwater County.
Report Details How Hospitals Can Be Risky Places
Medicare's new chief called for more steps to improve patient safety Tuesday, in the wake of a government report that said one in seven hospitalized Medicare patients is harmed during their stay.
Health Care Changes Bring New Stress To Hospitals
Some hospital administrators in Minnesota say health care reform's looming changes are causing some sleepless nights.
Nurses Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
The Minnesota Nurses Association says nurses have overwhelmingly approved a contract and averted a strike with 14 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
Nurse Voting Underway
12 thousand nurses are voting today on a tentative contract with 14 Twin Cities hospitals.
Are Nurses and Hospitals Talking Again?
Neither side is commenting. But there are hints that union nurses and 14 Twin Cities hospitals are communicating once again, with the threat of a strike next Tuesday morning.
Long Talks, Some Compromise, No Deal
Talks lasted until 1 o'clock this morning. And both sides made changes in their contract demands.
Talks Resume in Nurse/Hospital Dispute
Union nurses and 14 Twin Cities hospitals resume negotiations Tuesday afternoon.
Saturday Night with Esme Murphy- 6-26-10
Esme gets the latest on the possible Nurses' strike. She's joined by Nellie Munn, an RN from Children's Hospital and by Hospital Spokesperson Maureen Shriner.
Nurses Filing Strike Notice
They met for 13 hours but nurses and Twin Cities hospitals failed to reach an agreement on contract issues and this morning the nurses will file a strike notice.
Nurses And Hospitals Resume Talks
Meeting in a secret location, negotiators for 12,000 nurses and 14 Twin Cities hospitals are resuming talks today with help from a federal mediator.
Nurses Take Another Strike Vote
Thousands of Twin Cities nurses vote Monday on a proposal for another strike, only this one would be open-ended. 12,000 nurses struck 14 hospitals on June 10th, but it didn't help movement toward a contract settlement. […]


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The resource management aspect adds an extra level of strategy to consider above and beyond the traditional RPG trappings, and within the confines of the battle screen it's logical, fun and well-implemented. Unfortunately, in the wider context of the game structure it makes so little sense as to actually prove counter-productive to the enjoyment of the game.
See, since there's no levelling-up involved, there isn't a lot of incentive to get actually get involved in the battles in the first place. Defeated enemies drop stickers, true, and winning battles earns Mazza a cash reward (which he can spend on more stickers, or gamble away during fights in the hope of winning extra turns), but the outlay almost always outstrips the reward.
Once we wised up to this we spent much of our time sprinting through levels as though they were some kind of goomba-laden assault course, actively avoiding fights to ensure we were well stocked for the boss battles - where the difficulty tends to spike inexplicably.
The level structure has also been pared down to accommodate the format, and again it proves to the game's detriment. There's no over-arcing game world here - instead, levels are split into bite-sized chunks, navigated via the kind of world map you'd more often associated with the Mario's 2D platforming adventures.
Most levels feature some kind of insurmountable obstacle that requires Mario to find an object from somewhere (often from a different level entirely), and 'stick' it on top of problem. An early example is a snoozing wiggler who'll only shift his thorax if you trumpet its ears off with a brass instrument sourced from an earlier stage.
This means Sticker Star's structure is reminiscent of classic point and click adventures, complete with all that negatives that brings to the table. Extensive, aimless backtracking over old ground for vital stickers is a common requirement, a problem exacerbated by some very ropey, very un-Nintendo signposting.
A flawed combat system and an infuriatingly vague progression structure; it doesn't sound like a perfect recipe for a killer handheld RPG, does it? And indeed it isn't. Unlike Super Mario 3D Land, which was pruned to perfection, Nintendo has hacked away at Paper Mario's template wildly and indiscriminately, leaving behind a stumpy, overly-simplified RPG which fails to hit the highs of the first two Paper Mario titles.
But that's not to say that Sticker Star is as bad as it sounds on (ahem) paper. The quality of the writing, the eclecticness of its colourful cast and the glee of trying out a brand new sticker for the first time on an unsuspected victim are all positive factors that help keep the player plugging away merrily.
It moves along at a fair rate, you can always count on something whimsical or fascinating lurking on the next page, and it never gets boring - at least until you get pegged back by one of its cryptic puzzles, at least. We enjoyed our time with it.
But it never threatened to truly catch fire either, and considering the game's rich heritage, that means the disappointment is pulpable.
Packed full of wit and invention, but way too lightweight to enthrall like a good RPG should. We fold.
- Collecting stickers is addictive and fun
- Great characters and sights
- Punchy, lively combat
- No real incentive to get involved in scraps
- Irritating amount of backtracking
- Not the longest - little replay value.


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Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux?
Re:Simple, forget the kiddie cards, go displayport (278 comments)
NVS450 drives 4x DisplayPort.
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Re:Simple, forget the kiddie cards, go displayport (278 comments)
NVS450 drives 4x DisplayPort.
Re:as often the user is the problem (278 comments)
NVS450 has 4x DisplayPort and can easily drive those four monitors.
Re:There's something missing. (278 comments)
The point is, on other OSes you don't need a "right" card or "right" driver to do something as simple as multiple monitors driven from one card. Two monitors is fairly standard for one card pre-Radeon 5000 series and pre-GeForce 600 series. Now both vendors support driving 3+ monitors from a single card or in SLI/CFX for many more. All it should take is installing the most current driver for the card to get the monitors up and working properly.
Re:any nvidia MDT device (278 comments)
The NVS450 has 4x DisplayPorts on it so he shouldn't need a new card to drive 3+ monitors from a single card.
Why not a VM? (278 comments)
If Linux is coming up short for multi-monitor support (especially 2+ on a single card), definitely plop Windows 7 on your box then run Linux in a VM using your choice of VirtualBox, VMWare Player, or Virtual PC. The only snag I can think of to that is that the VM may not be able to take advantage of your screen real estate if you need tools visible on more than one screen. At which point, you could always clone that VM and run other tools in that one if you have the hardware resources.
It's kind of surprising to me that in 2013 Linux is still having issues with more than two monitors running from a single card (which the NVS450 is capable of four total).
Re:I'm going for an S3 (470 comments)
Takes less than five minutes to root and load CM10 for Jelly Bean goodness but I guess I can see how some people don't do that.
Re:I'm going for an S3 (470 comments)
Honestly, if you're going to go for an Android-based phone I'd go with one of the Nexus devices. They're a lot easier to modify and get software updates before any other phone. The Galaxy Nexus is available on all carriers and is fairly similar to the S3, spec wise. The iPhone 5 announcement was severely underwhelming and every "new" feature is something that's been floating around Android for a while now. Stock Android 4.0 or 4.1 works so much better and smoother than any of the 3rd party skins like TouchWiz or SenseUI that just hog resources. It's also a lot better, imo, than iOS 5 that I'm forced to use at work or with my parents. The UI just makes a lot more sense to me than iOS.
Cost and hassle (268 comments)
The determining factor is definitely cost. A tape loader or even just a single tape drive is pretty expensive, even when buying used and provided you have the right equipment to house it if it's not in its own enclosure. The price of media is comparable to physical drives of equal space. Honestly, it would be cheaper and less of a hassle to build a disk-based NAS.
Bloatware anyone? (1264 comments)
It's kind of interesting how Linux fans brag about all of the software that comes pre-installed with every Linux distro but bitch and moan if any extra software is installed on a Windows box. Why isn't the software that you'll probably never use on a Linux box a bonus but gets called bloatware on Windows? I'd personally rather start with a blank slate or a standard image with standard programs that are always used by everyone (PDF reader, Office suite, Flash) than have to go through to uninstall a bunch of shit I won't use.
I'll tell you the main reason my company doesn't use Linux and restricts its usage - because it's FOSS. The integrity of the code is, at best, shaky. I'd also say that having an anonymous FTP, SSH, and HTTP server running on a box right from the get-go is a giant security hole and should be plugged up quickly if it won't be used. Also, have you heard of Windows PowerShell? It's pretty much the bee's knees for a shell (and is secured by default) and comes standard with Win7.
In a properly secured corporate Windows environment (basic AV/malware scanner and non-paper thin firewalls), malware is a non-issue and easily caught to be fixed. There's multiple good solutions for pushing non-MS software updates, Lumension being a step above the rest.
In a home environment, Linux is good enough for most anything except bleeding edge gaming. Gaming is a huge market for computers. Something that Linux cannot compete in without Wine which only works sometimes with some games and not easily configurable for the average end user. Most of Linux is really just not very friendly to your average end user even with a lot of the improvements I've seen the Linux desktop go through over the last decade. It's friendly to techies and computer savvy people but to average people, there's a steep(er) learning curve compared to Windows. Who here that installed Linux for their grand/parents didn't have to sit and show them some of the basics for getting around that would've been fairly intuitive on Windows?
Re:Wonder what Mr. Teller thinks of Iran? (352 comments)
They bomb them.
Re:Wonder what Mr. Teller thinks of Iran? (352 comments)
Bomb them.
Re:Neither advertise Android as a selling point (275 comments)
I'd argue that it is a vendor's right and responsibility to plug security holes in their products whether it's hardware, software, or both. Simply because plugging that security hole removes future ability to exploit the product in such a way that gives you or someone else root access is a good thing. We really shouldn't be pressing vendors to keep security holes open because you're part of the vast minority that wants to have full root access to the device when, a majority of the time, you don't need or use those root functions. We should be pressing vendors for unlocked/unlockable bootloaders (via fastboot oem unlock for Android devices) that open up access without having to use a security exploit. It should be a feature, not a bug.
Re:Obligatory tin-foil fueled comment (218 comments)
Not sure what you're getting at. I've flashed many recoveries on many devices in ROM Manager with no issues at all, even without the "erase recovery" option when flashing. Koush does have a habit of making sure an image works before pushing it out to RM to prevent exactly what you're talking about. And if it's an unsupported build of CWM that you're trying to flash then that's up to the person that ported CWM to verify its integrity since CWM is open source. Eventually, after testing and fixing it can make it to officially supported status. And there's no way to manually flash an unsupported recovery in RM. You'd need to use joeykrim's Flash Image app (if your device is supported)or use fastboot to flash it.
Why are you even talking about ROM Manager when you haven't used it in what seems like a couple years? Your experiences from then are completely baseless for it now.
Re:Obligatory tin-foil fueled comment (218 comments)
Are you aware that you can, in the free version, go into the options and turn off ads? It's also up to the ROM developer to put their ROM in ROM manager, not Koush's decision what ROMs are there and which ones aren't. As for the premium ones, besides the CM nightlies, it is once again up to the ROM developer to decide if they want to offer it free or premium. The only time a phone is ever actually bricked is if the bootloader is corrupted and you can't get into a recovery mode. It will, typically, only allow you to download and install a recovery for your phone and your phone only. If you flashed a recovery for a phone that isn't your phone somehow or flashed a GSM ROM and not a CDMA ROM for your phone, then that's your fault and not ROM manager's for causing a soft brick.
What's wrong about usage statistics and seeing what an app's install base is for an indie developer? Once again, you can disable that in the options.
When was the last time you actually used ROM manager?
No such thing as pre-rooted Android devices (168 comments)
Your two best choices in the 7" range are the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color or Nook Tablet. I can't speak on the Nook Tablet (since it's fairly new) but the Kindle Fire and Nook Color are both easily rootable. But, you really don't need to root either to do what you said you'd like to do. There's rumblings of an iPad Mini that's a 7" coming out next year, most likely. The 7" Galaxy Tab or HTC Flyer (/Evo View) aren't bad choices either but those are a bit pricier.
The only tablet out that has the ability to root with the least hassle is the Motorola Xoom which you would just do a "fastboot oem unlock" from the command line (requires Android SDK installed). That doesn't fit your 7" criteria as it's a 10" tablet.
Re:Good to see... (285 comments)
Android itself isn't licensed using GPL or GPLv2. It's licensed under the Apache2 license. The GPL'd code that it does use (Linux kernel) Google and manufacturers release to the public with their modifications for each device as a new version of the kernel comes out. Are they timely releases? Sometimes, not always.
Re:Japanese probably investing huge amounts of mon (84 comments)
Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, so far.
Re:Radioactive spills? (84 comments)
I don't particularly like bathing in dirty water to get clean. Do you?
Re:Who's paying for it? (84 comments)
Molycorp, if you pay attention to the news at all, is a publically traded company as of last summer. It's being funded by the shareholders and obviously corporate interests that intend to make use of the products that Molycorp produces as well as people that have been buying their products for years. They get no breaks on environmental regulations, especially since they fall under California environmental laws along with federal law.
Re:Radioactive spills? (84 comments)
The radioactivity from the waste water deposits is so low it's just above normal background radiation but still fall under the EPA's guidelines for radioactive containment. You wouldn't want to go bathing in it but it wouldn't take decades to clean up, that's for sure. The accidents were no where near on the scale you're comparing it to.


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World War One - Zeppelin crash, location of events unknown - somewhere in UK.
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