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Most of my life is about animals. I work at a local animal adoption and rescue group and I have a second job at a doggie daycare and boarding facility. I firmly believe that animals are not for us to destroy, eat, or contain. I also believe the environment is not for the benefit of man to destroy and leave desolate. Peace, Love and Paw Prints!


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Penicillin V Potassium Oral solution
It is used to treat certain kinds of bacterial infections
Generic Name: penicillin | Brand Name: Pfizerpen
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PENICILLIN V (pen i SILL in V) is a penicillin antibiotic. It is used to treat certain kinds of bacterial infections. It will not work for colds, flu, or other viral infections.What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
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Take this medicine by mouth. Follow the directions on the prescription label. It is best to take this medicine on an empty stomach. If it upsets your stomach, take it with food. Shake well before using. Use a specially marked spoon or dropper to measure every dose. Ask your pharmacist if you do not have one. Household spoons are not accurate. Take your medicine at regular intervals. Take all of your medicine as directed even if you think your are better. Do not skip doses or stop your medicine early.Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. While this drug may be prescribed for selected conditions, precautions do apply.
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How was Frozen Synapse ported?
Performance seams to still be an issue with this port.
Phoronix: Torque 3D Port To Linux Materializes
Last year I wrote about the Torque 3D game engine wanting to come to Linux and they were attempting a crowd-sourced campaign to finance the port. The campaign was a flop, but a developer has been bringing the support anyways to Linux...
How was Frozen Synapse ported?
Performance seams to still be an issue with this port.
Being one of those whom tried to get crowed fund the official linux port campaign, i've got to say that this is a really cool thing to see that someone is actually porting T3D to linux. I can only hope that port will include the editor.
Anyway this is truly an awesome event happening.
How about all the people who put money towards the campaign (myself included) use a Flattr system or similar to get this guy some cash.
Awesome. Yes indeed, they should recollect the money and give it to Dusan.
Hi guys
I want to share one more addition to whole Torque3D on Linux thingy
Now I have semi-working OpenAL sound inside my fork of Torque 3D (there is still some work left to do)
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Torque 3D on VMWare
This maybe is looking like something bad, but see in pastebin console.log that this is Torque3D working on Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE, version 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2 provided by VMWare.
I would like to present working Sixense Razer Hydra for Torque3D on Linux
provided better console.log
I don't have device to do real testing, but I believe that its 100% working.
This build is also with Bullet physics enabled. As you can see inside "% - Initializing Physics Tools" you don't have anymore "No physics plugin exists." like in my other builds and console.logs what I shared here.
EDIT: As you can see inside pastebin link, there is "Bullet Physics parallel threads: [2]"
Last edited by TheDushan; 03-25-2013 at 07:09 PM.
This youtube video is showing Torque3D working on real Linux machine (not VMWare)
In this video, you can see OpenGL renderer with basic lighting, OpenAl sound system and World Editor.


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Kuster calls on Democrats, Republicans to do their jobs, end sequestration
"Since Congress left town without passing a balanced deal to avoid the sequester, we now face the reality that these mindless, across-the-board spending cuts will actually take effect," she said in a statement.
"This is not what responsible governing looks like. Instead of going home for a long weekend, Republicans and Democrats should be working together on a balanced, bipartisan plan to stop these cuts that will hurt middle class families and businesses all across New Hampshire. I call on House leadership to reconvene Congress so we can do our job."
Kuster said that while Granite Staters "are doing their jobs" Friday, "It is simply unacceptable that Congress has once again failed to do the same.
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Ok, since you're going to beat around the bush, I'll ask it for you:
**WHY** is there still nothing resembling support for X-Fi?
Is there some technical reason or is this just sour apples from ALSA in revenge for no docs for so very long?
Phoronix: ALSA 1.0.17 Final Released
Over the past month we've seen three release candidates for ALSA 1.0.17, but arriving today is the final stable build. There are hundreds of changes between ALSA 1.0.16 and 1.0.17...
Ok, since you're going to beat around the bush, I'll ask it for you:
**WHY** is there still nothing resembling support for X-Fi?
Is there some technical reason or is this just sour apples from ALSA in revenge for no docs for so very long?
I think because the demand isn't that great for it. With the recent fiasco's that creative has pulled off, the priority for support on the X-Fi I would imagine is pretty low. There is however greater demand for SoC audio support and for alternative chipsets such as the popular Cmedia 8788 and Asus chipsets (rebranded Cmedia).
Unfortunately, the audio situation on Linux is awful. ALSA is a bunch of crap, the driver quality varies extremely and the new layers and layers on top of it, like pulseaudio, don't make it any better. It's quite ridiculous that it's still hit-and-miss when you want to play multiple audio streams at the same time.
No demand for X-Fi support? Maybe people are just sick and tired of waiting and lack of any response. Many people have also moved onto different soundcards as a result.
James Courtier-Dutton doesn't care and just brushes everyone off the moment they even mention the word "X-Fi". He is the one with the datasheet, and since this datasheet is under NDA, he's the only one that apparently can code this driver.
I can tell you there is (or was) more demand for X-Fi support than stupid System on a chip support that nobody, you or me, will care about probably ever. As you can see I am rather disappointed by the lack of support, waited for years, and now since moved to an external DAC, and there are many people like me who no longer really care about support anymore as its been too long already and have bought something else. Sure hardware mixing and resampling would be great, but at this point its easier to just stick with an Audigy 4 for that. Its like waiting for UT3, there are few that actually give a crap anymore as most have just moved onto other things, as well as decline in popularity of the game as a whole.
So ALSA has the specs, and they don't really care about coding the driver in a timely fashion at this point in time it seems. Nobody bothered porting the OSS code over to ALSA as the driver is a piece of crap, no hardware mixing, no resampling, etc. ALSA is also crap as anyone thats never coded for ALSA before wont ever dare even as much touch the code as its a complete nightmare to develop for. Not to mention ALSA completely goes against the openness and portability of open source as its only for Linux.
Lack of proper sound support is one of the major downfalls of Linux as a whole. Sure many cards are supported, but try naming a single card that has *complete* support that was made in this decade, I dare ya.
What sound chip do the SoCs use? Something derived from an old chip which they already have working drivers for?
SoC is getting more popular amongst the geekier crowds, and is probably worth a lot more for Linux longterm as it is Linux on SoC is a good choice for thin client set-ups, light-weight desktop set-ups, basically any set-up that isn't trying to do heavy computing which is everything except the workstations and game boxes.
because most people using linux are smart, and they didn't buy this cards, knowing they won't work.**WHY** is there still nothing resembling support for X-Fi?
that's what i think anyway


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WESTERN KY (9/20/13) – Kentucky's elk seasons open Sept. 21 with bull elk archery season. Biologists with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources hold a positive outlook for the upcoming elk seasons.
"We think it will be a productive elk hunting season," said Tina Brunjes, deer and elk coordinator for Kentucky Fish and Wildlife. "Our elk hunters have excellent success rates."
Last season, elk hunters in Kentucky took 595 elk comprised of 39.5 percent male and 60.5 percent female. There were 900 permits awarded for the elk quota hunts in 2012.
The number of elk hunting permits increased to 1,000 for the 2013-2014 elk season. The first Kentucky elk hunts began in 2001 when Kentucky Fish and Wildlife issued 12 permits. The herd goal is 10,000 elk.
"We have the new system in place that we think hunters will find better distributes hunting pressure and maximizes hunter opportunity," Brunjes said. "A hunter with an At-Large tag now has eight counties to search for a place to hunt. Although we have a lot of public access where our elk herds are most numerous, we are excited to see the number of elk harvested from private lands continues to increase."
Hunters may now choose between the At-Large North and At-Large South hunting areas or three limited entry areas (LEAs). Kentucky's elk restoration area encompasses 16 counties and roughly 4.2 million acres.
The key to a healthy herd is the harvest of cow elk, the reason Kentucky Fish and Wildlife issues 750 cow elk tags and 250 bull elk tags.
Bull elk, however, are the draw for most hunters.
"Kentucky bull elk hunters have a success rate of about 90 percent for harvesting bull elk with a firearm," Brunjes said. "Most of our hunters are taking mature bulls."
The typical bulls taken are 3 1/2 years to 5 1/2 years old. A 3 - year-old bull has already grown a 4 x 4 antler rack and a 5 1/2 year-old bull usually has 6 x 6 antler rack that scores about 280 inches in the Boone and Crockett scoring system.
Minimum entry into the Boone and Crockett record for an elk with typical antlers is 360 inches. So far, three bull elk with typical antlers harvested in Kentucky qualified for entry into the Boone and Crockett record books.
Terrell Royalty set the record with a typical bull elk taken in Knott County in 2007 with a modern gun that scored 371 inches on the Boone and Crockett system.
The bull elk archery season debuted in 2011. Hunters enjoy an extraordinarily high success rate for these hunts since, averaging about 60 percent.
Brunjes explained the reason bull elk archery hunters are so successful is partly based on the timing of the season. "The bull elk archery season opens at the beginning of the bull elk rut and runs throughout the rut," she said. She also said the limited number of bull archery tags makes for a well balanced hunt.
"Also, the bull elk archery hunters put in a lot of sweat equity," she said. "They do their homework."
The bull elk archery season closes for the first time Oct. 4. The second segment of this season opens Oct. 19 and runs until Dec. 13. The third segment begins Dec. 28 and ends Jan. 20, 2014. The cow elk archery season mirrors the final two segments of the bull elk archery season.
The first week of bull elk firearms season opens Oct. 5 closes Oct. 11. The second week of this season runs from Oct. 12 through Oct. 18. The first week of cow elk firearms season opens Dec. 14 and closes Dec. 20 with second week of opening Dec. 21 and ending Dec. 27.
The crossbow season for either sex bull runs Oct. 19 and Oct. 20 from Nov. 9 through Dec. 13 and Dec. 28 through Dec. 3.
Author Lee McClellan is an award-winning associate editor for Kentucky Afield magazine, the official publication of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. He is a life-long hunter and angler, with a passion for smallmouth bass fishing.
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Description: Proliant BL20P G2 1p 3.06GHz 512MB FC Manufacturer Part# 323146-B21
Overview:HP offers the industry's broadest portfolio of blade servers and technologies optimized to address customers' needs. The ProLiant BL20p G2 is a performance dual-processor server blade engineered for the enterprise. The ProLiant BL20p G2 delivers high-performance Intel Xeon processors SAN storage capability up to 8GB of PC 2100 DDR memory and gigabit NICs standard. The ProLiant BL20p G2 delivers optional Fiber Channel support for SAN implementations and clustering capabilities. Through the implementation of a SAN with the ProLiant BL20p G2 customers can achieve improved data availability easily scale capacity and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. In addition with HP's fusion of SAN and NAS (Network Attached Storage) customers can design a storage architecture that incorporates application database and file serving solution functionality. Fiber Channel capability is achieved using a Dual Port Fiber Channel Mezzanine Card specifically designed for the ProLiant BL20p G2. The ProLiant BL20p G2 is optimized for HP StorageWorks and compatible with EMC and Hitachi SANs. Specifications: CategoryProliant Server Sub-CategoryBL20 GenerationG2 Part Number323146-B21 Products ID15400 Chassis Form FactorBlade ModelHP ProLiant BL20p Cache Memory (installed)512 KB RAM (installed)512 MB RAM TechnologyDDR SDRAM RAM (maximum)8 GB Networking ProtocolEthernet Controller RAID LevelRAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5 Weight50 lbs


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good news about improving. I hope also tests by HD3850 AGP... that's my card.
Phoronix: More Mesa 10.2 + Linux 3.14 Benchmarks On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
In verifying and complementing the major R600/RadeonSI performance regressions noted earlier today for a wide-range of AMD Radeon hardware, here's some more tests that were done this weekend on a different system that also finds the newer code to be running slower than Linux 3.13 + Mesa 10.1..
good news about improving. I hope also tests by HD3850 AGP... that's my card.
So for my r200 regressionHowever, this doesn't appear to be the only cause for the performance drop when upgrading Ubuntu 14.04's graphics stack. Other regressions have also been reported by other users of the open-source AMD driver. "This is not completely from HyperZ and so still worth investigating. We have reports from Luke and dungeon on this forum that confirm there's another regression besides the intended hyperz change. Luke specifically tested it, dungeon's case is media apps that do not use the Z buffer." There's more comments in this forum post about the issue unrelated to HyperZ.
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That is enough for today . Maybe i will checked agd5f tree further for the right commit tomorrow
Found it . My bad it is not in radeon, but change in ttm... this commit:
It says "Use PFNMAP instead of MIXEDMAP where possible for performance", but actually this make it running poor on r200 and consume nearly 500 MHz more CPU here .
Please file a bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org) and cc Thomas.
I have a Mint 16 install that I use for games. I recently got sick and tired of fglrx and the nonsense I have to go through every time I want to use a newer kernel, and the performance regressions (on my hardware) in the last two fglrx betas. (I was stuck on catalyst 13.11 Beta 9.4... the last one that worked decently for me on Linux 3.12.x with my HD 5870 card)
So I built a Linux 3.13.5 kernel, enabling the radeon/DRI options (I had them disabled because I only used fglrx), removed my fglrx debs and rebooted into a much better environment with the open source radeon driver. Desktop stuff and hardare accelerated web browsers actually work better than with fglrx. Windows create and destroy with a snap, switching between virtual desktops is snappier, scrolling is better in the browsers (Chromium and Firefox) and tab switching is instant. Of course, these some of these things don't really matter in the grand scheme of things (milliseconds don't matter to productivity), it's just a matter of perception.
Wow... most of my games (especially source engine games) actually work better with radeon than with fglrx. I was pleasantly surprised. Left4Dead 2 (for one example) which was horrible with fglrx, was stutter free and smooth.
Of course, that left Metro Last Light out in the cold, as it needs a newer OpenGL than the Mesa 9.2 that I had. I was going to forget about Metro LL, because while it worked decently (with the occasional crash) all the way up to that point, it was crashing every time after a load screen with fglrx and I couldn't complete it anyway.
Then I bought Deadfall Adventures, which was crashing on the opening cut scenes (with radeon) and I couldn't even start the game. I managed to skip through them with the space bar and get to the game proper, but it was unplayable.
So I added the xorg-edgers ppa to get Mesa 10 (10.2.0 now) and had much better luck with Deadfall Adventures (not crashing on cut scenes and playable on Medium) and Metro Last Light runs again. It still won't get past that point where it was crashing after a load screen, but at least it runs again, and every bit as well too.
However, I have noticed a regression on the source engine games. A bit of audio and video stuttering after a level loads but mostly fine. Left 4 Dead 2 has a bit of occasional stuttering in game, but still way better than before. Noticeable though, Mesa 9.2 seemed better for those games. Oh well, a necessary evil for now. I'm sure this will improve soon enough.
I haven't noticed any extra noise. It's possible the fan may be running more, as the card does seem to run pretty cool (which was one of my concerns, that kept me from ditching fglrx a bit longer) but I don't notice it. I've got a lot of case fans anyway, and a heavy duty bathroom type exhaust fan in the ceiling of my office/computer room that runs 24/7. The sound of the graphics card doesn't come through over the existing white noise, so I'm going to say no on that issue.


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Rico Suave is basically a man who is for all intended purposes the following: Good Looking, muscular, "macho"-being totally cool toward everyone and everything, very clean and neat in appearance, a man who is 100% man: almost every lady is attracted to him because of his great charismatic ability, and when need be, he can be a real bad guy to mess with. Rico Suave is more of a definitive personality type, go to the beach in the summer and you will see several who fit the above, in addition to wearing sunglasses and jewelry, he is a ladies man, enjoying fast cars, hot woman, and good at hustling people in pool. Rico Suave is what every man wants to be, but 99.7% of men never live up to.
"Man, that guy has it going on, he's a real Rico Suave"....
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Latin lover type with greesed hair, gold chains, flowing shirt, the whole bit. Said person usually has largely inflated ego and a slight lisp.
Hey, check out rico suave over there...
von Katy!
20. Juli 2002
A guy who is hot and knows it. Someone who has a cool confidence that over flows. Walks with a style that says "hey girls, take a look at this.." Not necessarily a bad thing
I'd love to talk to that guy, but he's such a Rico Suave, he probably has more phone numbers than he can dial.
von kfleming010
24. Juni 2003
A man who is filled with more cheese than the state of Wisconsin. Constantly making comments to make a girls heart melt. Usualy having the effect of actually looking really corny. Though still deep down her heart melts.
A man who is filled with more cheese than the state of Wisconsin. Constantly making comments to make a girls heart melt. Usualy having the effect of actually looking really corny. Though still deep down her heart melts.
Boy "If I could rearrange the alphabet I would put U and I together."
Girl, rolling her eyes "Your so Rico Suave."
Girl, rolling her eyes "Your so Rico Suave."
von AuntieMommies
12. Januar 2010
A guy who has a big ego and tries to do something new or something he thinks he's good at, and sucks badly.
Nice, Rico Suave.
von Rebecca LaRue
12. Oktober 2003
A certain young redhead white male who engages in love making while screaming spanish phrases like, " yo kiro taco bell" and singing Ricky Martin singles with a thick spanish accent.
Bobby did the rico suave to Rachel last night.
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The criteria for being selected NAHBR Remodeler of the Year are daunting, particularly so, for a relative newcomer to the remodeling business. And that is by design. The Remodeler of the Year application awards points for years in business and number of local, state and national committees on which the applicant has served and chaired. It tallies the number of industry-specific professional designations that the applicant has earned. It gives points for business excellence and community involvement. From there, the recipient must stand out from a crowd of other worthy remodelers in the eyes of the judges who are all tenured and successful industry veterans. That is why none of the past recipients of this award have been in business less than 20 years. In most cases, it simply takes that long to — using baseball terminology — touch all the bases and head for home plate
But Jeff Hunt is no run-of-the-mill Remodeler of the Year. Incorporating his business in January 2003, Hunt and his team at Heritage Construction Services, a full-service design/build firm, have been running flat out ever since. And in the span of slightly more than five years, he has overseen not only the growth of an impressive roster of clients and a profitable business, but he has also been perhaps the most involved and energetic member of the Greater Houston Builders Association.
The story goes that, one month after launching his business, Hunt literally walked into the office of the builders association and asked if they had classes where he could learn more about the remodeling business. When he found out that they had the kind of classes he needed, he asked to join the association. The administrator was surprised to find out that he had not been sent, referred or sponsored by another member. "I said, 'I don't have a sponsor; can I still join?' " Hunt recalls. "They had not seen a guy like me.
"Most people get their business going, then they get active in the association when they have had some success. I was the opposite," says Hunt. "I got involved before I even had a business. I was still working out of the house, and I had a little rented storage building. I had some tools and some carpenters, but I was active in the GHBA very early on. And that takes a lot of time. There is a lot of time committed each and every week. But I always tell people that I've gotten so much more out of it than I have put into it in terms of the relationships and the specific knowledge and the wisdom of all the people who have been doing what I do longer and better."
Hunt's early mentors and friends in the association include Dan Bawden of Legal Eagle Contractors, and Michael Strong of Brothers Strong, on a local level. And by attending and chairing national committee meetings, Hunt soon got to know and learn from national leaders like Mike Weiss, Alan Hanbury Jr., Bill Owens and Vince Butler. "Their attitude was: 'Hell, I'll help you. What do you need to know?' " Hunt says. "That is the thing about remodelers. Everybody is entrepreneurial yet willing to bend over backward to help."
In recommending Hunt for this award, Kathryn "Toy" Wood, executive vice president and CEO of the Greater Houston Builders Association, cited Hunt's willingness to fully participate in the activities of the association and as well as to help others. "There is no need to repeat Jeff's many achievements over the last few years, but few members have become so involved so fast. I watched as the trainee became the trainer extraordinaire, and the team player — who he still is — become the leader."
Consultant to Entrepreneur
By the time Hunt and his wife Carrie were building a new home for their family in 2002, Hunt had spent three years with Andersen Consulting and 10 more as an outside consultant, running large projects to create software for some of the nation's largest and most respected companies. Prior to that, Hunt's first job after graduating from Texas A&M University was as an estimator and construction manager, helping build hospitals and airports as a member of the nation's 65th largest commercial contracting firm, Robert E. McKee.
The combined effect of the recession following 9/11 and the Enron scandal dampened the project flow at Andersen Consulting's Houston office. So, with extra time on his hands, Hunt gravitated to his family's jobsite, getting to know the project manager and the various tradesmen working on his house. It got him thinking about making a break into a new line of work as a residential general contractor, work he knew well. He had grown up in the home building business. And as a youth he spent summers learning the ropes from his father Jim, who was home builder. Those days around the jobsite rekindled Hunt's interest in the business.
"At Andersen, you build things. You build information systems. You build software programs and technology, but it is so nebulous you can't really reach out and touch it," Hunt says. "When you put your hand to something — I don't care if you swing the hammer, or you do the estimate, or you sign the contract — if you were directly involved in the physical construction of a building, there is a real, primal type of innate gratification of seeing something tangible come into existence. I've always been oriented that way and I think that a lot of people in this business feel the same way."
So in December of 2002, at the urging of his wife who'd "never seen him happier," Hunt sent out a simple marketing letter to 100 of his friends and business associates, telling them about his new remodeling venture and asking for referrals. He landed two jobs. The first was a patio cover. The second was a $15,000 siding job. Building upon these first jobs, Hunt quickly notched his way up into bigger projects. Armed with a construction management degree as well as an MBA (which he earned before joining Andersen Consulting), Hunt felt emboldened to keep asking for bigger jobs. Along the way, he heeded the advice of fellow Houston remodeler Michael Strong, and took lots of before-and-after photographs. Methodically, Hunt built a photographically documented remodeling business track record that included most types of remodeling projects — from bathrooms and kitchens to room additions and whole-house remodels. In 2004, he even built a custom home.
"They already had plans drawn up. He was looking for a builder, so I built a $450,000 house. I did not make the money that I wanted to make. But guess what I had? I had photographs. And I had a happy customer. So I've always been about that. Get the job, build it right, take lots of good pictures and market the hell out of it."
Heritage Construction Services made a significant leap forward in 2005, when Hunt partnered with a local remodeler, Tom Pellegrin, who also brought in two carpenters from his previous business. This was a very complementary partnership. Pellegrin is a detail-oriented person, a very exacting administrator and job supervisor. Better with the big-picture, Hunt runs accounting, general administration, marketing and selling.
"Tom had two guys with him when he and I joined forces in November 2005. So it was a very pivotal move. Tom and I are very much opposites in personality and temperament. And that is good. We complement each other in many ways."
The final team member to join Heritage Construction Services was Randall Self. Hunt hired him in March. Like Pellegrin, he is a project manager with a lot of experience.
"Tom and I knew Randall, because he also had owned a remodeling business. At the time he was working for a custom home builder as a Houston-area manager. He had grown tired of home building and wanted to get back to remodeling for the different challenges." As of yet the company does not have an office manager or a bookkeeper. Those are hats that Hunt still wears.
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Loyalty: Hunt prides himself on being very loyal to trade contractors and employees. But loyalty is something to be earned. Suppliers and trade partners need to demonstrate a can-do attitude and must look out for the interests of Heritage. In return: "We respect them; we treat them as experts and we ask their advice. And we pay on time, and early every time we can." The result pays dividends when warranty calls get quickly expedited. It also helps Heritage get timely and accurate estimates back on proposed projects.
Market, market, market. Hunt's business-school training and innate sense of how to spread a positive image of his company is perhaps the single most important factor in the growth of his company. He documents his work with photography. Heritage populates his Web site with these photos and writes up project summaries so Web visitors can get a broad sense of the company's abilities. "When we won a Star Award for Best Kitchen this year, there was a professionally shot photograph of that award on our Web site in 36 hours," notes Hunt. "You have to celebrate and broadcast every single good thing that you can."
In addition to celebrating the company's wins, Heritage is also involved in local home shows, magazine and internet advertising. Hunt writes numerous articles for the Houston Chronicle. He is a substitute on a Saturday morning home improvement radio show.
"We always have our antenna up, where can we find things to brag about what we do."
Discipline. Hunt's success is also a testament to the benefits of hard work. He is not apologetic about out-working all of his competitors. It's been his way of operating going back to his days as an MBA student at Texas A&M, where he took 16 credit hours per semester and drove 85-miles each way every day to get to classes, all while working 20 hours a week part time. "I never entered remodeling thinking that this was going to be a 40-hour work week. I don't bat an eye at working a 70-hour week. I can put this aside, that aside, I'll take a vacation later. If there is something going on, I'll stay here and work an18-hour day. I don't like doing it. But if something comes up and things need to be done, you can't be afraid to work your ever-loving behind off."
Fairness. Remodeling is full of contrary points of view, says Hunt. In terms of developing a good reputation and enhancing long-term customer satisfaction, Heritage is vigilant about being fair in all of its dealings. "We treat people fairly and we expect to be treated fairly in return. It is not always easy. People will treat you and make unreasonable demands on things. Sometimes you are thinking long-term, what is the right thing to do and it is not all about dollars and cents here. You have to be able to say: 'We did that wrong, we are going to fix that. You don't worry about that.' "
Use systems and processes. Heritage Construction is very systematized. Hunt is not be able to operate any other way and it gives the company and its team members a clear track to run on. "It could be the way that you prepare your financials and your job-cost reports. It could be in the way that you develop templates for your proposals. It could be in the way that you develop your sales process and how you sell. Good systems and processes have enabled us to grow and handle the volume that we've had without the benefit of a bookkeeper or an office manager, or an estimator."
Heritage uses Salesforce.com to track all of its inbound calls and to keep notes on all prospects and clients. After the first meeting with a client, photographs, field notes and conversation notes all get filed on the computer.
Develop a sweet spot: By doing post-mortems on jobs, measuring the profitability and the tightness of estimates and execution, Heritage Construction is in a good position to know the types of projects where they make the most money. Though Hunt would prefer doing the bigger more challenging whole-house projects and kitchens, the company tends to be more profitable with bathroom jobs and room additions. This is their sweet spot, and they concentrate on putting more of those jobs in their pipeline. "We know what we do. We do room additions and kitchens and baths."
Know what you don't want to do. Heritage Construction is now in a place where it has clear limits on the type of work the company will engage in. For example, the company does not do replacement windows, roofing, siding, gutters, etc. In fact, they tend not to look at any jobs under $20,000 because they have less chance to do them profitably. And because Houston is very spread out, the company has drawn a 20 mile radius for a service area. "You need to have limits."
Measure results. All leads that flow into Heritage Construction get analyzed at some point. Where did they come from? What type of job did they lead to? How profitable was the job? And so forth. "So when I say measure your results and know where they come from," says Hunt. "I also know which advertising sources are paying off. You pay for them in terms of numbers of exposures or pairs of eyeballs, however you measure it. And then how do they perform as jobs? Which ones are the payoffs? What is your cost per lead? What is your cost per sale? We also measure profitability. We look at the P/L. This is a job-cost thing. We use a matrix to chop it up and to determine our sweet spot."
Spend time on the business. Swinging hammers, estimating and selling are all activities that can be characterized as working in your business. Working on your business is a step back, developing strategy, writing job descriptions, charting a course. Hunt feels that he needs to clear his schedule to spend at least 20 percent of his week working on his business. "You have to spend time on the business thinking strategically about it. You need to think about who you have working for you and with you, what suppliers you are using, which jobs you are going to go after etc. I've heard it said that if you don't spend time on your business, you just have a job."
Plug into your association. Hunt is a firm believer that without his work at the local and national levels of the association, he would not be in the position that he is in today, at the helm of a growing remodeling firm, with a lot of momentum. "Being active in my association inspired me to be around the guys here in Houston. They are real pace-setters and they have businesses that are good models for me. Yes, being part of the industry is about giving back to your industry and being a good steward but there is a selfish motive in there. I do it because I get way more back than I put into it."
Fast Facts About Jeff Hunt, CGR, GmB, CAPS, CGP
- Company: Heritage Construction Service
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Founded: January 2003
- No. of team members: five (including Hunt)
- Revenue: Expected 2008 revenue $1.75 million; 2007 revenue $923,000; 2006 revenue $805,000; 2005 revenue $547,000; 2004 revenue $766,000; 2003 revenue $350,000.
- Local and state industry involvement:
• Chair, NAHB Designations Subcommittee, 2005
• Chair, Education Committee, 2006
• Remodelers Council Board of Directors, 2004 to Present
• Vice President , Remodelers Council, 2007
• President, Remodelers Council, 2008
• State Remodelers Council Start-up Task Force, 2008
• State Director, 2008
• National Director, 2006 to Present
• GHBA Board of Directors, 2008 - In addition to the positions above, each year Hunt teaches a portion of the CSP designation course pro bono at the GHBA and also speaks four times per year at GHBA new member orientation meetings. He is also heavily involved in two to three charity projects for the GHBA each year, including a Habitat for Humanity house built by the council, and recently, a $100,000 remodel for a local foster parent. He also routinely speaks at local home shows on behalf of the Remodelers Council and contributes articles to the Houston Chronicle on remodeling as a means of promoting the Remodelers Council.
- National industry involvement:
• University of Housing, Instructor Review Committee, 2007 to present
• University of Housing, Master Instructor Review Committee, 2007 to present
• University of Housing Instructor, 2006 to present
• Subject Matter Expert, Basics of Building course, 2007
• Subject Matter Expert, Taking the Guesswork Out of Scheduling, 2007
• PREP Revision Committee, 2007 to present
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Up next is the salad that I made the creamy avocado dressing for, a hearty BBQ chicken salad that eats like a meal. With the warmer days here there is more time for grilling and throwing some grilled chicken onto a salad makes for some nice quick and easy summer meals. It has been a while since I have done anything with BBQ sauce and I had been craving the some of that tasty, sweet and spicy mixture! A BBQ chicken salad seemed like a great way to go and I was immediately thinking about building the salad up with some tomatoes, black beans and grilled corn from the cob. I was also initially thinking about adding diced avocado but I changed my mind and went with a fresh, creamy, guacamole like avocado dressing instead. The combination of the sweet and spicy BBQ chicken with the creamy avocado dressing was quit impressive and the rest of the salad did not disappoint either! I could easily see adding the diced avocado back into the salad along with the avocado dressing for the texture and even more avocado goodness!
BBQ Chicken Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
A BBQ chicken salad with tomatoes, corn and black beans all dressed up in an amazing avocado dressing.
- 1 pound chicken breasts
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce
- 6 cups lettuce, sliced or torn
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- 1 cup corn
- 1 cup black beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 strips bacon, cut into 1 inch slices and cooked (optional)
- 1/4 cup cilantro, torn
- 1/4 cup avocado dressing
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and grill over medium-high heat until cooked, about 4-6 minutes per side basting the chicken in the BBQ sauce as you go.
- Let the chicken cool a bit and slice.
- Assemble salad and enjoy!
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I think it is a pointless vanity file system with no real use.
Perhaps could be used in education to teach users how-to-write-your-first-filesystem.
Phoronix: LanyardFS: A New Linux File-System
A new Linux kernel file-system has been presented, LanyFS, a.k.a. the Lanyard File-System...
I think it is a pointless vanity file system with no real use.
Perhaps could be used in education to teach users how-to-write-your-first-filesystem.
While I agree and feel there really doesn't need to be another filesystem, we don't know what this FS offers that makes it ideal for its purposes. It could actually be really nice, but of course as with all open source filesystems, the problem is adoption. ext2/3 has been around for a long time and there's still not very good support for those in either Windows or Mac.
I think the developer is relatively smart, because he is smart enough to write a file system.
I also think he wants to see it upstreams because it would feel nice for him and be good for him.
But I think he wanted to experiment with file systems and write something easy and then find a purpose for it.
I don't think he is smart enough to write a scalable journaled file system with metadata, checksumming, transparent compression, cryptography, snapshotting, deduplication, etc.
The supposedly makes it ideal is that it is easy to implement.
include simplicity, interoperability, and flexibility.
Simplicity? why would anyone care?
Interoperability? windows /linux? if not, than ext3/4 eos all i need.
flexibility? What?
Dead at birth. no one needs it.
The lkml comments are pretty much in agreement. There is no use case for this really.
He said it's for usb sticks when fat32 limitations are too constraining. And that it could be used instead of fat32 due to not depending on patents.
For the first we technically have UDF, the second is not certain at all.
Better the devil you know, right? An extra $0.25 really never make a device unsuccessful.
Anyways it seems the goal is to make a file-system so simple as to be trivially portable to any OS, perhaps even microcontrollers. I say throw it in staging and see if anyone actually starts using it.
99% of portable devices need to operate with at least one Windows PC or a Macintosh. Until there's an IFS driver for windows and a proper Mac driver, any filesystem released for portable devices is a useless waste of devloper time. All 3 people that are exclusively Linux users are going to use this and everyone else is going to ignore it. If developers want to start pushing their technologies they have to aim for interop. Anything less just isn't acceptable anymore. Especially for low level stuff like Filesystems. We have OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, and Fat32. Until you're ready to add your filesystem to that reasonably prestigious lineup. You won't get adoption. Linux already has ~50 filesystems most of which are useless outside of their niches due to lack of interop.
No, not even the linux-exclusive people would use it, when they already have better FS available. For example ext4 without journal is very good for usb sticks.


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Well, guys I figured out the problem... And it's not my fault. I'm kind of annoyed that it even happened becouse it is so simple it should have never even happened in the first place. Not to mention that it should have spit out --some-- kind of error message.
It turns out that hald wont start if dbus or acpid starts before it. In order for hald to start it needs to load before either dbus or acpid. All I had to do to fix it was to go into /etc/init.d/hald and add acpid and dbus to the needs line. A simple 1 line fix. Took me two whole days to figure it out. Why? Becouse of nonexistent error messages and poor documentation. I mean come on. This has got to be the most ridiculous and pointless loss of time I've ever come across. All becouse someone forgot to add acpid as a dependency of hald.
Just plain stupid is what it is.
The person writing these init scripts should have caught that before he even made it public, and even then people running the testing builds should have caught it. I guess it just goes to show just how poorly tested Gentoo really is. That something this simple has gotten past the developer of the script, past the testing keyword, and is now marked stable. The fact that this simple little oversight can cripple a system, and that it is marked stable says volumes. The number of unstable scripts and packages that are marked stable on Gentoo is simply staggering. Absolutely overwhelming. It's completely ridiculous.


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Phelps out to follow Pettitte's lead in nightcap
With three straight wins and five in six games, the Yankees will try to take the nightcap of their doubleheader and continue to angle for the American League East title. Their win on Wednesday afternoon pushed the Bronx Bombers a half-game ahead of the Orioles for the AL East lead, although Baltimore will complete its three-game series against the Mariners at Seattle on Wednesday night.
The Yankees could be getting a big boost for their nightcap, as Derek Jeter may play shortstop for the first time in a week. The 38-year-old has been dealing with a bone bruise in his left ankle and played the past four games at designated hitter before sitting out Wednesday's matinee.
Jeter will go through some fielding drills between games before being cleared to return to his usual defensive role.
"He'll go out and do some work in between games, and if he can play short, he'll play short," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "If not, I'll have to make a decision if we DH him."
With no off-days remaining on New York's regular-season schedule, Girardi pushed up right-hander David Phelps -- 4-4 with a 3.39 ERA this season -- to start the nightcap. The rookie has posted a 4.17 ERA over nine starts in contrast to a 2.50 ERA in his 20 relief appearances.
Phelps went 6 1/3 innings and allowed four runs in a start against the Blue Jays on Aug. 27, but he's also not entirely fresh. Girardi used the righty out of the bullpen on Sunday for two-thirds of an inning in a 6-4 win over the Rays.
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V/H/S/2 arrives June 6th, 2013.
You know what, this looked really cool...now I want to see the first one and then see this one.
Cant wait...For what it was, I enjoyed the first one. A few of the stories were really good.
wtf??.. looks like a headache to me alk that shaking and bull shit..
The first one was just okay but supposedly this one is much better. I'll check it out.
The sequel will be called DVD
I'll see this in a year or two if I happen to catch it while channel surfing and there aren't any good infomercials on
larkcall, VHS stands for vertical - helical - scan. Video tapes were read by passing a magnetic tape over a rapidly spinning metallic drum.
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I'm continuing with my reading of this year's Notable Books List from the American Library Association.
This morning, I finished "The Hakawati" by Rabih Alameddine.
It's fiction, set in contemporary Lebanon as well as the ancient Middle East of storytellers. Alameddine stirs up a stew of story here, moving between two ancient stories and two lines of family history of Osama al-Kharrat. Al-Kharrat has returned to Beirut from LosAngeles. His father is dying. His heart and mind return to the prosperous Beirut of his childhood.
Osama's maternal grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller. Osama's childhood, his grandfather's life, and classic tales of the Middle East, take turns at our attention.
My issue as a reader of a book like this is that I usually prefer one story over the others, and find myself just enduring the others. In this case, I loved the grandfather's story, and was sorry when it came to its end.
Alameddine uses language wonderfully. I kept a vocabulary list at my side.
Throughout this book, one keeps returning to this question--what does "story" mean? I'm distressed that I didn't mark my favorite quote from this book. It's very similar to, "Don't trust the teller. Trust the tale." I've got a fascination for authors who misguide us about their backgrounds--what does it tell about their tale? I find that topic delicious, every time I return to it.
Amy Tan wrote an extensive essay about this book for Amazon. I'm intrigued by her prediction of geat awards for this one. I'm not surprised that it was chosen for the Notable Books list. It is a classic choice for that list--an international setting, a complicated plot, and an author who's nimble with language. I'd describe it as a challenging read, but I do believe that people who love storytelling, or are interested in the Middle East, or who love a family saga, will go for it.
Have you read it? What did you think?