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by Sara Levine in Food Network Star, June 13, 2012Last Sunday, Season 2 winner Guy Fieri stopped by the Star set and challenged the finalists to put on live specials before an audience. Many of them were less intimidated by the spectators than by Guy himself. Despite his warmth and friendliness, it's hard to stand beside that kind of mega star power and measure up.
In this exclusive video, Guy talks about how the show has changed since he competed back in its early days: "With Giada, Bobby and Alton giving them constant mentoring through the entire season? I would have loved to do this. I would love to be a mentor!" He reflects on his own Star mentor and shares words of advice for the finalists, who would be wise to listen up. This Guy knows what he's talking about.
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I have a question.....I know that Justin wears lipstick, but does he ALSO wear blush? He looks like he does.
maybe if you had a mentor, they would tell you not to wear sunglasses on the back of your head
Funny! I have tried to not like GF, but I live in Sonoma and ran into him at Safeway a few weeks back. Little girls and mid-life gentlemen alike were going nuts. I have to give it to him, he was totally patient and stood still while everyone took their photos of him. I still won't watch his shows, they grate on one's nerves.
I think Guy would make a good mentor. I wish FN would replay Guy's season. Missed out on that when there was actually a host. Really like Marc Summers and Unwrapped.
I have NEVER placed a comment on any "reality show" I have watched, until tonight. I CANNOT believe that Judson was let go...I totally think it should have been Martie! I am totally a talker like her, but she doesn't know when to stop, especially tonight when it jeopardized Emily's take. She never once apologized to her or her team, and I really don't think that she thinks she's wrong anyway. I have been rooting for Judson as being one of the finalists, if not the winner! Wrong decision Susie and Bob!
I really think the FoodNetwrok Needs Hawaii!!!! I beleive Ippy can do it...He may be laid back, but that is Another different food that the Foodnetwork have not Seen!!! The foodnetwork has the BBQ, Sanchwiches, Asian, India, Homemade, but I have not REALLY seen the Pacific!!! I beleive Ippy can put the SPAM in The CAN too rest!!! I would love too see bananas leaves, pits, pineapple stuff in pork, or whatever in Hawaii style!!!
Amen, Lorie!
I know Guy's style/attire doesn't sit well with a lo of you but, I don't get the hate. I saw the frosted tips a long time ago and I too judged him before actually watching his show...then I tuned in and he is a natural in front of cameras. He has a confidence when talking to people that doesn't sound rehearsed and that's something some of this season's contestant's lack.
My current top choices:
1. Martita - Confident, good food and a natural in this environment. Girl was born to do this. There are still episodes left but, so far....she seems like the one who just shines and acts like she's in control.
2. Justin - Justin is a food ninja. I like where his mind goes sometimes. His fashion week plate looked awesome...but for me, looked extremely undercooked. But yeah, the guy doesn't hold back when it comes to ideas. He needs to really really work on his on camera stuff though. He's like a robot.
3. Linkie - So yeah...so far she's done a lot of desserts & gets negative comments here for that but, if you look up her BIO, she's got plenty culinary experience and she's got the chops. On camera however, she can be really natural one moment (On camera comments between challenges) and then completely out of place and lost the next. The thing is, she's likable, not over-the-top...not too laid back...and she's got an interesting accent. She also seems more than willing to take advice and apply it. THAT IS IMPORTANT in television.
Good luck Martita!
I thought the same thing about Justin's fashion plate, but thought it was just me, because I don't care for my meat pink! lol I've also noticed the same thing about Linkie, and I wonder if she's just more relaxed when the pressure of the competition is not there?
I love Martita, would like to see Ippy win and I like Linkie but i want to see more of what she can do ON this show. we don t want to google and have to go look up waht these guys can do. we need to see the chops on the show. if your pov is that food is art we need to see how to turn food into art too. not just desserts. giada lookes scepticel about the cooke she made but she adored it. lets see giada diversify and tell linkie to make other stuff too. the pot pie was not art enough for me. as far as stuttering on camera she sseems intimidatad by the camera and famous folks like guy. and it looks like she is tryiong too hard. the inbetween takes are better because the pressure is off. i think she has some tough comptetion.
Since this blog is all about mentoring and wisdom, I thought this quote, I believe to Michele from Bobby is appropriate to highlight at this stage:
"People that come out into the game really fast, fade really quickly" I thought that was the biggest lesson in this program this far.
Stars do not just fall out of the sky, they practice to become stars..........my attempt to wisdom...............
Right you are. But if you compare the show to other reality shows like American Idol, the front runners usually remain. Look at Phillip Phillips that won this season.He was strong from day 1 and remained so till the end. At this point in FNS, to me at least, the same is true. Michelle faded because she is not a true star. True stars are born, not made. You can see it right from the start. They just continue to shine brighter and brighter as time goes on and become more refined. You can't turn something that is not coal into a diamond. Just my opinion and perhaps my attempt at wisdom.
My 4 favorites are: (no particular order here)
Ippy: Watch his viedo. He showed some spark and passion when gave a challenge of his own back to the Food Network: "if you will send this Island-boy to your big city, I will perform beyond all your expectations!"(very close quote). His food has always had great flavors! He would bring something new.
Linkie: Check her Bio & peofile. Skilled in the kitchen. (Have you seen her work?) There is a news-clip where she did use "real food" and compete against other non-pastry Chefs and she held her own very well. So, she can do more than just dessert. Linkie would also bring something new! Her dishes taste good. She isnt fake. Isnt loud. Learns from her Mentors. Great smile.
Martita: Confident lady. At ease on camera. Also makes good dishes. Leading in fan vote and seems to have alot of people behind her. Good energy.
Emily: Easy to listen to when she explains/presents. Creative without being toooo out-there. Her Ham/Pineapple with the little "hat" went over very well.
As it looks now, I could be happy with any of these 4.
But who knows what will happen with the rest of the challenges?-
FoodFan do you have a tiny crush on Linkie maybe. Blush blush...
Then you'd have to say that anytime i said anything good about any female.I have also complimented:
...and even Nikki even when she is rated on the bottom of the fan vote.
Guy would be a great mentor. What I would like to know is why does everyone have to be a speed freak? I don't think Ippy is laid back. He is just cool and calm. I would watch his show. Why does the "Food Network" want people to change who they are? Is any one else offended how much everyone is reminded that their talent is a BRAND? I know money is the name of the game, but give it a rest. I watch "Food Network" to get great idea's and tips. I'm just saying.......................


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I'm a filmmaker and a thinker. I write about films sometimes but mostly I write about work, scrubbing someone else's toilet, steaming a seven thousand dollar gown, or making a drawing. I am trying to figure out how to create the perfect mushroom cloud with low impact explosives for a character of mine who is less interested in the explosion than the aftermath in the air directly above. My films are the only place I feel safe enough to express how strange I really think this world is. I always see something interesting in the waitress or the motel lawn, the Japanese fruit vendor's ingenious hydraulic cart made with milk crates and plastic bags on a four wheel rudimentary dolly. My acupuncturist's furrowed brow when concentrating on the needles she's poking in me and her neglected beehive because of issues to do with keys. I write things and keep waiting for the money to make them. What happens in church basements and with mental illness. Addicts, lovers, people in pain. But soon I won't wait anymore, I'm collecting money for digital equipment and wireless mics. Soon I will shoot and write more about that.
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'Joe's Round' is a Chili pepper variety in the Capsicum genus with a scientific name of Capsicum annuum longum group. This variety is a Vegetable that typically grows as an Perennial, which is defined as a plant that matures and completes its lifecycle over the course of three years or more. Joe's Round normally grows to a max height of 1.49 feet (45.72 cm metric).
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Selinsgrove—Need to find a fun way to get active this weekend? Saturday is the 6th annual Celebrate the Valley 5K Race and walk. Proceeds from the 5K benefit the Susquehanna Valley Preschool.
Race coordinator, Mike Stebila explains how the race will be supporting the school. "The schools actually relocating next year to a new church on the top of Park Road, and what that is allowing us to do is have a little bit more room. It's also allowing the school to be able to grow and a new partnership to be formed, and with that the 5K is hopefully going to help benefit the move and be able to get some new playground equipment and things like that."
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Income inequality is surging, and there are few countries where it is rising faster than the United States. The distance between rich and poor is greater in America than nearly all other developed countries, making the US a leader in a trend that economists warn has dire consequences. GlobalPost sets out on a reporting journey to get at the 'ground truth' of inequality through the lenses of education, race, immigration, health care, government, labor and natural resources. The hope is to hold a mirror up to the US to see how it compares to countries around the world.
When citizens become patients, the country's growing economic divide is painfully evident.
Comparing the Divide: Income dictates access to health care in the capital cities of Russia and the United States, where lawmakers debate policy mere miles from some of the country's most underserved communities. Russia's Gini coefficient, at 0.420, is actually better than that of Washington, D.C. at 0.435.
MOSCOW — Pensioner Galina Nikolaeva, 65, cries with affection when she recalls how she was looked after when she suffered a seizure on New Year's Eve.
"If I hadn't made it to this hospital, I wouldn't be alive anymore. I'm sure of this. I believe the Lord sent me here," says Nikolaeva, whose 8000-ruble ($264) monthly pension does not allow her to afford even low-budget state care.
Nikolaeva was admitted to Saint Alexei, a respected Moscow hospital financed by the state and the Russian Orthodox Church that provides free medical care. She doesn't think she would have survived her latest run of bad health without what she calls the "dedication" and "love" of the medical staff.
"This isn't empty praise," Nikolaeva says. "I am just saying what it is like. And I am in a position to judge — I've been in and out of hospitals for the last 25 years."
"If you want to be healthy, then you have to pay."~Elena Prikhodova
Russia's Constitution guarantees free health care for everyone, but many Russians say the reality is not so egalitarian. They say that health care is divided into two camps: those who can afford private clinics or paid state treatment; and those who must queue for crowded and second-rate care if they cannot draw together the necessary funds.
Since the Soviet collapse, years of unbridled western-style capitalism driven by high oil prices have transformed Russia, still the world's largest energy exporter, but many believe it has mostly enriched the wealthiest slice of society while the majority remains little better off. Though in Soviet times personal wealth was kept well out of sight, Russia today is rife with ostentatious displays of personal riches.
The disparity in health care access reflects what analysts call a widening gulf between the rich and the poor in a country with a minimum wage of $170 a month but which has almost a hundred 'dollar billionaires.' Those billionaires own 30 percent of all the country's personal assets, according to the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report.
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Russia's Gini coefficient — the standard measure of income inequality — ranks Russia as more equal than the United States and the four other BRICS countries. But Russia performs well on this ranking in part because the government handed citizens their apartments in a mass privatization effort after the Soviet Union's collapse.
In the last two decades, trust in Russia's free health care has plummeted, spurring the rise of private clinics, some of which are world-class and have attracted foreign investors — tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars at a time.
But millions of Russians like Nikolaeva have never set foot in such a clinic.
Fearing they are left with no real safety net, poor sections of society like pensioners are thankful for charity organizations like the Sisters of Mercy who contribute staff to the Saint Alexei hospital.
They know how lucky they are to get in the door.
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The Sisters are an international religious movement that sprung up in the mid-1800s. But in Russia they are thought of primarily as the Orthodox Tsarist-era nurses who treated the wounded during the Crimean War, later morphing into a national movement that saw communities helping the poor, homeless and sick across the country.
These communities went underground in atheist Soviet Russia, but they have returned after the Soviet collapse just over two decades ago and operate a number of programs to treat the poor.
Their nurses, who once again wear traditional nurses' head scarves, elicit glowing praise from patients in Saint Alexei, many of them Orthodox Christian pensioners. Svetlana Prokofeva, 74, who is recovering from stomach poisoning and pneumonia, says the hospital's dedicated care has made her feel like "she has made it into heaven."
But for every patient receiving top care in a reputable Moscow hospital, there are thousands facing long queues, sub-standard treatment, outdated medical equipment in the regions or not able to afford treatment at all.


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The recently finished green roof atop the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) headquarters in Washington, D.C. is the third largest in the nation's capitol. The project involved replacing the original 24 year-old roof with a 27,750 sq ft, state of the art living system of locally grown plant life. WWF has already impressed us with green architectural innovation at their headquarters in the Netherlands, and we're glad to see them giving Washington D.C. an excellent example of the benefits of a green roof.
The roof has eleven types of sedum plants installed, which are known for their excellent water storing properties. These plants will reduce stress on the city's sewer infrastructure while lessening the overflow into the nearby Potomac, Anacostia and Rock Creek Parks. The renovated roof will aid in sound insulation and will also reduce the operating costs to cool and heat the building.
An on-site dedication by WWF along with and representatives from the EPA, the District Department of the Environment and the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) will take place this week.
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Developed for Windows Phone, this app enables UK users to catch up on 30 days worth of programming from Channel 4, E4 and More4. Users can search for programs by keyword, choose from an alphabetical list, or browse programs by category. The app also includes some of the most memorable programs from the last 30 years.
- The user interface is high contrast and well aligned with the Channel 4 brand.
- The application uses the brands' distinctive font for panel headers, and the native Segoe font ensuring a clean, light, and open look.
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Alan Lotvin has been appointed as executive vice president of specialty pharmacy at CVS Caremark Corp.
Walgreen Co.'s Take Care Health Systems has partnered with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) and technology provider American Well Inc. to provide telehealth services to thousands of BCBSNC employees in North Carolina.
London Drugs has begun flu vaccination clinics at stores across British Columbia and Alberta.
The National Community Pharmacists Association has released a new video that portrays the value of the personalized care that community pharmacists provide to patients.
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), Rite Aid Corp. and the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy were part of a group recognized by accreditation body URAC for a cloud-based health management program that improved the quality of care to consumers.
Walgreen Co. has launched a hospital discharge services program that aims to improve transition of care and reduce readmission rates.
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Pharmaceutical wholesaler H.D. Smith plans to acquire regional health care distributor Valley Wholesale Drug.
Independent pharmacists helped trim health care costs by dispensing a record high number of generic drugs in 2011 and reported more frequent interaction with doctors to promote generic drug utilization, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association's 2012 NCPA Digest.
CVS/pharmacy this weekend is getting customers to celebrate Halloween early in its drug stores.
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The Reading ForecastSanoma Magazines implements SAS tools.Tervuren, April 2011 In the past you bought a magazine, and that was that. Today, you buy your favourite magazine often in combination with a CD, a good book or some other fun gadget. All very nice for the reader, but the broader range of options does make predicting demand a more complicated business. Ben Sprangers, ICT Business Solutions Manager at Sanoma Magazines, was confronted with this new reality and joined forces with Steven Raekelboom, external Master Data, Planning & Circulation Manager for Sanoma, to find a solution. They arrived at SAS' forecasting, data management and optimisation tools, which they implemented in 2009, and are currently investigating the possibilities of multi-phase delivery. Sanoma Magazines Belgium employs over five hundred people and has a turnover of EUR 223 million (2008). The organisation distributes around 25 mass-market magazines in Belgium and has a substantial market share in various sectors such as womens', TV and home magazines. Some of its well-known titles are Humo (51% owned by Sanoma Magazines), Flair, Libelle, Story, Goedele, Feeling, Femmes d'Aujourd'hui, TeVe-Blad and Télémoustique. The project focus was on reducing the volume of returns. Sanoma Magazines has to take back unsold magazines and also bears the costs of this flow of returns. Inevitably, the increasing diversification of the products also had to be taken into account. "We hardly ever sell just a magazine nowadays. Usually, a reader can choose between the magazine by itself or the magazine plus a giveaway, for example a DVD or another magazine. In fact, we often put out a magazine in three different variations nowadays, which only makes things more complicated. The previous distribution software wasn't designed to handle this complexity", explains Steven Raekelboom. "Most publishers have outsourced the entire control process, by which I mean the decisions taken on the distribution of magazines between the various sales outlets, to their distributor. We have an in-house Circulation team that tackles the distribution of magazines on the single-copy sales market. How many single copies of Humo are distributed and how many copies with a DVD? And what is the distribution between the 4,500 shop outlets that we supply with Dutch-language magazines? We want to keep this control process in-house because it gives us a degree of flexibility. It also keeps us more in touch with our products. Knowledge of the market undoubtedly plays a role in deciding the print run", says Ben Sprangers. "Plus the costs of returns are borne by the publisher. So it's logical that we should want to control those flows ourselves," he adds. The project's first Key Performance Indicator (KPI) was reducing the volume of returns. To this first KPI was added a second, namely the 'out-of-stock weighted'. Quest for suitable toolSanoma Magazines included the two proposed KPIs in the project specifications. "How many percent fewer returns can we achieve, with the same out-of-stock level, by using a new tool? In other words, is it worth investing in a tool?", says Ben Sprangers. Two IT suppliers were on the shortlist. In the end, the preference went to SAS. In addition to SAS Operations Research and SAS Forecast Server, the publisher also purchased SAS Data Surveyor for SAP. In the past, Sanoma Magazines didn't use a real forecasting tool but a sort of database management system. "The solution no longer complied with the industry standard. And with the increasing complexity it wasn't possible to keep doing everything in the old tool, because the tool required a lot of manual work. In addition, that tool had to be fed with data that we extracted ourselves from the databases, which was a fairly time-consuming process. A consequence of this was a limited history. We used four measurement points to determine demand. In our SAS application we include two years' history, which leads to much better estimates", says Steven Raekelboom. Go liveSanoma Magazines' management decided to sign up for SAS in December 2008 and went live around nine months later. Under the bonnet, the SAS solution is more complex than the previous tool but according to Steven Raekelboom the users don't notice it: "The users only see the specially developed user-friendly screens via a web interface. At the start I did have trouble 'selling' the automation of the optimisation issue. People don't just believe that a tool can automate such issues. You have to win people over, give them the necessary training and gain their trust." The Circulation team produces a forecast of the distribution between the various outlets, but the shop managers can overrule the forecast. Visible resultsAs benefits of the forecasting tool, Ben Sprangers cites the flexibility of the solution and the reduced workload on the Circulation team. "Previously, the Circulation team devoted around sixty percent of its time to administration and forty percent to analysis. Today, that ratio is thirty/seventy. For me, it's also very important that Sanoma Magazines is better armed for the future due to the implementation of a new forecasting tool. We are using two KPIs, but are they the right ones? SAS allows a better analysis. We now have an industry-standard solution in-house and we're going to use it to the utmost to take our Circulation team to a different dimension." "Typically, there's an area of tension between the Circulation team and product management. Which is healthy. With the support of the forecasting tool, we don't have to debate the figure any more, just the assumptions made. For example, we assume that it'll be a top edition and we factor in that the magazine will be available in four different versions. Based on the history, given those assumptions, what will the demand be? You can debate the assumptions, but that's easier than debating figures", says Steven Raekelboom. "In 2011 we also want to keep the history of the various control scenarios up to date. We produce several scenarios based on the different assumptions, but then, in consultation, choose a scenario that we market. The intention is to update the different scenarios to enable us to evaluate our decision afterwards. This allows you to systematise the business information and report on it more easily, and produces a healthier consensus model." The project's first Key Performance Indicator was reducing the volume of returns. Sanoma Magazines has to take back unsold magazines and also bears the costs of this flow of returns. Sanoma Magazines didn't give any specific figures on the savings made, but the Return on Investment (ROI) is good at any rate: the solution has paid for itself in under a year. S. Raekelboom: "The project was implemented in 2009. If you want to innovate at a time like that, taking account of the economic context, the criteria for an innovation project are very strict. We have met the criteria according to the measurements, although it's a difficult comparison exercise because the first proof of concept dates from 2007. The market has changed enormously since then." The future is multi-phaseSanoma Magazines is now also investigating the possibility of multi-phase delivery to the sales outlets. Currently, it distributes several times a week to the sales outlets, but only once per edition. "On Tuesday it's Humo in the crates, and on Thursday Libelle for example. But it's not inconceivable that, instead of putting out the full print run of Humo straight away on Tuesday, we might put out part of it and distribute the rest only in a second phase. In the Thursday distribution round the crate will contain Libelle magazines but also, for example, a number of current-edition Humos. The volume stays the same, so the transport costs remain stable. This system has two major advantages in our view. First, it brings a greater degree of freedom because you can control on the basis of more information. That should reduce the return costs. Consider the coastal region for example. That's a very volatile sales area because sales are strongly influenced by factors such as weather conditions. Second, the outlets don't receive all of the magazines in one go, which should make for a better business in terms of organisation and presentation. Multi-phase delivery may also be a solution to the storage problems that shop managers face due to the increasing number of giveaways", says Ben Sprangers. However, it is not the intention to print the magazines in several phases as well. "Phased printing of magazines is much too expensive. Instead of putting the full print run on the market, we will put out part of it and keep part of it back. We will distribute that part depending on differences in sales at the outlets", says Ben Sprangers. "We also have an important changeover of ERP platform ahead of us. In that respect it's vital to have good cooperation between business and IT. I believe the SAS project has shown that it's possible to bring a project to a satisfactory conclusion provided you have good communication. By using the same IT system throughout the organisation, we also aim to participate more in 'knowledge sharing'. For example, it may be an option that the Dutch branch will use the same SAS tools in the future. 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June 8
Do I have anything to lose? Probably. Right now I have, ready to send, a message to Eric on ICQ. It says, "Would you run away if I told you how I feel?" I wish I could tell him. Jan knows. He's the next logical person to tell. I just don't want to hear him say for me to go away. I wanted to kiss him so badly today that it hurt. I could feel the pain inside, from the pit of my stomach it spread through my limbs.
What could I lose? A friend who's there to see movies with and laugh with, but never really talking about what's important. I could gain a lot more.
I'm going to send it... It's gone. Too bad he's not online right now. I don't know what I'll do if he asks about it.
Oh well.
June 17
It's been several days since I've written anything. So I guess I should catch up.
Last Saturday, Dad and I helped the Jacksons move some of her mother's stuff out of a storage unit into their garage. It wasn't that big of a deal, although it was a pain to have to get up at 8 am. But I did make forty bucks off of it.
On one of the trips, Dad and I were driving down the road and there was a car in front of us with some symbol on the back of it. It was a circle with a triangle inside. The thing looked like it was made out of metal or gold-painted plastic with a translucent blue in the spaces. I had never seen anything like it before and wondered what it was for, but I didn't really care. But as soon as I had put it out of my mind, my dad asked me about it. I told him I didn't know. He told me what he thought, "It must be some kind of symbol for Satan worshippers. Or gays." My heart sank. What would he say if he knew? Would he really put me in the same class as a Satanist?
I told him. I finally told him. I was happy, scared, and depressed at the same time, and a little shocked. I guess my message asking if he'd run away really tipped him off since he actually asked me. I do have to wonder what he's thinking though.
I am a little disappointed. Almost the first thing he said was that he's not gay. I didn't really think he was, but I still hoped. I really don't know what I'll do if he asks if I've ever been attracted to him. I don't want to lie, but I don't want to make him uncomfortable. I'll have to tell him that it's not an issue anymore. Although the last time I told someone that something wasn't an issue I was outright lying. I don't know that I won't be doing the same this time.
I am happy that he seems to have taken it well. But the whole conversation was a little surreal. It feels like it was a dream. He didn't have the usual tone that he has. I don't know. I think he probably had planned what he wanted to say beforehand because he obviously guessed what I was hinting at.
I wish I hadn't told him on ICQ. I wanted it to be something that I could tell him face to face. Even though I am much more comfortable online than in person, I just felt telling him that I'm gay should have been done with him in the same room.
Oh well... I'll just have to wait and see what happens. It's time for sleep. It's 2 minutes 'til 3 in the morning.
June 19 (6:31pm)
In about an hour I will be at the movies with Eric and a dozen other people from his work. I have no idea what is going to happen. Probably nothing. Will he act any different? I hope not. Unless he was lying about how he feels. I doubt he was. Oh well. I'll just have to wait.
June 29
I went out to Denny's with Jan tonight. It's really such a simple thing, to be able to go to Denny's with someone, not to eat really but just be with a friend and talk. I'm glad she's there. I wish I hadn't thrown so much shit her way though.
I just wish I knew how she really felt when I tell her things like I told her tonight. We were riding in my car and she asked me about what I had told her about on the phone earlier. Part of me wanted to just ignore it, or shut up and not tell her anything. But that would have only annoyed her. So I just decided that I would put away any fears that I had and asked her, "Do you get uncomfortable when I talk to you about how I feel?" She said no. However, that was only the precursor for what I wanted to tell her.
When I talked to her on the phone earlier tonight I told her about the trip that Eric and I and a couple of people from his work took to Sedona today. It was a nice little day trip, up and back to eat lunch and walk around some of the shops. We ate at a Thai restaurant. The food was great and I had fun even though Eric was sick from something he ate last night. But as I told Jan, the whole trip was a little frustrating for me.
Naturally, she wanted to know why. So I told her, "For a long time I've liked Eric." I decided that I would let her know that bit of information in the most toned down way possible. I didn't want to blow her away with me telling her I want to screw the hell out of him, or even something like that I have crush on him. But I still needed to explain why I was frustrated. So from there I explained to her how I had told him I was gay and that he said he wasn't, even though I had hoped. She just sat there, and the subject was quickly changed which left me just as frustrated. So I just let it go and decided not to think about it.
Basically I need to just get over him. That won't be easy. Especially without having someone I can talk to that understands what this feels like. For me, that's the hardest part of being gay right now, I have no one to talk to other than a few people on the Internet. I know Jan doesn't accept who I am, but she wants to be my friend so she'll tolerate it. But I think I'm going to have to not say anything more to her about it. And I know that Eric doesn't agree with it, but we don't ever talk about anything important any way so it doesn't matter.
I wish I could find just one person who understood that I could talk to. Either that or go insane.
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The Global Positioning System is getting an $8 billion upgrade that will create at least 100 new jobs in Colorado this year and about 200 more at the project's peak.
The project is aimed at improving the accuracy and reliability of GPS, as well as its security.
It will allow users to pinpoint a location within an arm's length, rather than the margin of error of 20 feet or more today. And the system's anti-jamming capabilities will be strengthened, making it difficult to infiltrate a system relied up by tens of millions worldwide.
The upgrade is the first for the navigation system, which has become a ubiquitous part of life. Created by the military, it is now mostly used by civilians and corporations.
GPS can be found in cell phones, cars and ATM machines. It can help hikers find their way through the Rocky Mountains, and helps the military target enemy locations. About 1 billion people use GPS technology worldwide.
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"I'd say three-quarters of the work is going to be done here, and three-quarters of the jobs will be here," said Raymond Gray, senior manager at Raytheon, the primary civilian contractor hired by the Air Force for the upgrade.
"It's what Raytheon in Colorado is known for," he said. "So it was somewhat of a natural fit. But getting the contract was a very big deal for the company. It's really a huge project for us."
To land the contract, Raytheon created a team that includes Colorado Springs-based Braxton Technologies and Infinity Engineering Systems, as well as Boeing's Aurora, Boulder and Colorado Springs offices.
ITT's New Jersey office and the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, Calif., are the only out-of-state companies participating.
Raytheon's contract is worth $886 million over four years, and, with extensions, could be worth up to $1.5 billion, Gray said. As the primary contractor, Raytheon is the company that will be doing most of the hiring for the project.
GPS is made up of three parts: space satellites, a control segment and a ground segment. Raytheon is working on the ground and control segments – replacing aging equipment throughout the country.
It will be renovating and refitting a ground station in Colorado Springs at Schriever Air Force Base, providing it with new computers and new software.
Braxton is part of the team that will help create the new ground system for the GPS satellite constellation.
The program will "revolutionize GPS operations," said Jeoren "Dutch" Heuzen, program manager at Braxton.
The new system will focus on both military and civil requirements around the globe, including technology to keep GPS from being jammed.
Braxton has supplied much of the technology used to launch GPS satellites since October 2007.
"We have made this the primary focus of our GPS work for almost a decade and we relish the (upcoming) opportunity," Heuzen said.
Civilian users won't see as much difference after the upgrade as those in the military.
"For consumers, it will be a little more accurate, a little more reliable," Gray said. "The military uses will see a much bigger difference; they'll be able to use GPS in all kinds of adverse environments."
The upgrade includes sophisticated anti-jamming technologies that are important for cyber security in war, he said.
GPS technology was created at the Los Angeles Air Force Base in the 1980s. It started with purely military applications, but 97 percent of current users are individuals and corporations.
The first big step in the upgrade took place last week, when Air Force Space Command, based in Colorado Springs, launched a new satellite for the constellation from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The plan is to replace the satellites – there are 30 in all, six of which serve as backups – one at a time over the next decade.
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The system suffered a glitch earlier this year, when new software proved incompatible. About 10,000 military GPS receivers were affected, but the Air Force said the problems were fixed in less than two weeks, and no active combat equipment was involved.


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