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I had heard about the latest Gartner report claiming that Microsoft Windows will become the dominant platform for "Open Source" (and free) software in the future. While there are certainly a number of reasons why some FOSS has and will continue to be written that also runs under Microsoft Windows, I think the fundamental premise is wrong.
Since FOSS software is licensed in ways that enable others to modify and port software to other platforms at their choice, it is very natural that such software will migrate to platforms like Microsoft Windows, and tend to become more cross platform in nature overall, over time. Some software is deliberately designed portable from the start, as this offers technical advantages. The most important technical advantage is perhaps having different platforms and different compilers expose underlying bugs that might otherwise get missed. This is just one way that software freedom tends to also result in higher quality code, and one of the more indirect ways that it happens.
Another reason for seeing more FOSS software under Microsoft Windows is the rise of portable and platform neutral runtime environments, starting with Java, and more recently with things like Portable.NET, Mono, etc. However, the second largest barrier facing Microsoft Windows as a FOSS platform, outside of the proprietary nature of the platform itself, is Microsoft, and the way they build and distribute their development tools.
The best example of this can be found in the way collaborative tools work in Microsoft development environments. These are designed well to exchange information "within the castle walls" of companies and organizations, but in doing so, they have no vision or active support for the wider notion of community driven development, or even for supporting development over multiple third parties. Where in any Unix, there is a somewhat universal
/usr[/local]/include and
/usr[/local]/lib to drop shared header files and link libraries from arbitrary software components, this concept does not exist at all in Microsoft Windows development tools.
Even for shared development of source, where the FOSS world has fundamental enabling tools like subversion, cvs, etc., Microsoft locks their users into an aptly named source control environment they call "Source Safe", which focuses on the castle wall approach to software collaboration. They do have hooks which allows third parties to create version control backends by having them behave like they are Source Safe. This is a self referential culture, and one that is about excluding, rather than including, others in development.
It is for these reasons together (the proprietary nature of Microsoft Windows as a platform, and the limited proprietary nature of collaborate development that Microsoft envisions and promotes through its development suites) that I think will continue to limit Microsoft Windows as a platform where FOSS is usually ported to, rather than one where FOSS originates.
Well, it's the principle of the thing...
Well, obviously, people who WRITE free software are big believers in the benefits of free software, so it seems pretty obvious that they are going to prefer free software platforms.
And if the developers are running free platforms, then it stands to reason that the free platforms will be the first ones they support.
That seems really obvious to me.
I think how they get away with making this kind of claim is that as long as more users are using Windows, that free software (along with all other kinds of software) will more often be run on Windows than on GNU/Linux. But that's kind of a trivial and unimportant metric -- it's not talking about issue with any weight to development, it's just talking about sheer numbers of copies of a particular build of a package.
So, for example, it's probably trivially true that more people are running Mozilla Firefox on Windows than on Linux -- but do you really think of Windows as Firefox's target platform?
This is just playing around with statistics. The truth is, free platforms will continue to dominate with free software developers, and users who want the best experience with free software will do well to run it on free platforms, because that's where the serious debugging and testing is going on.
Windows WILL become the dominant platform for "Open Source"
I happen to think the Gartner Group are probably correct!
Now before you jump to the wrong collusion, I'm not a Microsoft apologist, I HAVE tried Linux (many distributions and quite like Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS). I am also a great supporter of FOSS (I choose to use OOo, even though I have a copy of MS Office that I own), I use Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, I use FileZilla, I use Python rather than Visual/.NET whatever, etc. etc. However, I can't quite make the permanent switch to Linux.
The reasons are twofold:
Firstly, I can't get a printer (Samsung ML-1740) to work as well as it does under Windows (I can't get my Canon LBP-1210 to work at all!). Also, prior to ADSL, I could never get dial-up internet connections to work as easily as they do under Windows.
And secondly, the software development tools that I use (TextPad (www.textpad.com) and HTMLPad (http://www.blumentals.net/htmlpad/)) don't have any real equivalents under Linux. TextPad, for example, is a simple text editor but its features such as editable clip library make HTML/CSS and Python coding very simple, and the way it handles regular expressions is very simple and just works - I have a regular task where I copy fixed format text from an on-line journal and paste it into TextPad, then a series of quick 'search and replace' routines completely strips out the formatting and saves my about ten pages when I print the current journal. I can't find Linux based editors that have either clip libraries or that handle the finding and replacing of regular expressions such as tabs and carriage returns.
I can hear you say - TextPad and HTMLPad are not FOSS, I know but they are shareware and from my perspective both FOSS and shareware are close cousins and I don't bother to split hairs over the differences. Again, I don't bother too much which operating system the software runs on, its the application software that matters. As I said above, I like the concept of FOSS and so have a preference for Linux, but at the end of the day I'll choose the environment where I am most productive and most comfortable. For me (unfortunately) that's Windows at this point in time.
There is another side of the issue that many FOSS supporters seem to choose to ignore and that's the lack of quality and usability of many FOSS titles - Abiword is one that comes readily to mind. Good FOSS is really good (Python for example) but there is a great deal of dross.
Well I know for sure that GEdit deals with finding and replacing tabs and carriage returns. I do this on a very regular basis as an editor. I don't know about its clip libraries.
I'm sure you can find a FOSS editor that does what you want. It just might require a bit of searching around. Even seasoned FOSS veterans don't know about every FOSS application out there. I hope someone else reads this who can help you find FOSS alternatives. Again, I'm sure what you need is out there.

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Rhythm was the answer.
It�s what the Fort Lewis College men�s basketball team lacked as UC-Colorado Springs took a 48-46 second-half lead.
It�s what the Skyhawks found in rolling to a 17-point win.
No. 22 FLC played better defense and found its way on offense over the final 15 minutes, pulling away for a 83-66 win Saturday at Whalen Gymnasium.
Trailing by two with 15:31 to play, FLC (17-4, 14-4 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) held UCCS without a point for 5 minutes, 31 seconds as part of a 29-6 run that saw the Skyhawks build the lead to 75-56.
FLC outscored UCCS 44-30 after leading 39-36 at halftime, and the Skyhawks shot a blistering 69 percent after intermission.
�We always talk about if we play 40 minutes of Fort Lewis basketball, we�ll have a great game,� said Marcus Ayala, who led all scorers with 23 points. �So staying composed is the main part, and playing our game is what helped us stay through it and get the ballgame out.�
Alex Herrera was Mr. Inside to Ayala�s Mr. Outside, scoring 21 points and pulling in 13 rebounds. Matt Mazarei had six assists against no turnovers as FLC assisted on 25 of 33 made field goals.
Herrera had to battle and really exert himself for points in a very physical contest, fighting through a sea of bodies and arms to make 9 of 13 field goal attempts.
�Well, if they�re going to play physical, I�m just going to play physical right back. I�m not going to let it get in my head,� Herrera said.
Fort Lewis turned up the heat defensively as well, holding UCCS (4-18, 4-14 RMAC) to 36 percent shooting in the second half.
�We have pretty good depth, and in the second half, I thought (the bench) came in and gave us some energy,� FLC head coach Bob Hofman said. �I don�t think they�re quite as deep as we are, and I think we wore them down a little bit, and I think our starters were able to come back in and play with a bit of an advantage.�
FLC jumped out early, leading by as many as 13 in the first half. But a 12-4 run late in the first half was sparked by Alex Welsh, who finished with 17 points, and Derrick White did some of his 17 points worth of damage early in the second to help UCCS to the lead.
�One of the cardinal rules of coaching is don�t coach frustrated,� Hofman said. �And the team played, I thought, a little frustrated toward the end of the first half, and in the second half ... we were a little bit freer.�
Looming next is the heretofore unbeaten Metro State, ranked No. 1 in the nation. Fort Lewis fell 71-65 to the Roadrunners last time, with the rematch set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Whalen Gym.


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A South Florida jury has convicted a man of operating fraudulent precious metals investment businesses that fleeced $25 million from investors.
The jury on Thursday found 54-year-old Arthur John Schlecht of Boone, N.C., guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud charges. He faces a maximum 40-year prison sentence plus fines and restitution.
Evidence showed that Schlecht's companies offered people the chance to invest in gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion that would be stored in vaults for them. In fact, trial testimony showed the companies never purchased any of the bullion in the names of the investors.
Testimony showed Schlecht spent millions of dollars for cars, maid services, home decorations, landscaping, jewelry, and to make payments to family members.
Prosecutors say there were hundreds of victims. Four other defendants pleaded guilty.
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(NEWSER) – Drug use, cheating on a big exam via phone texts—the allegations sound like run-of-the-mill stuff for your typical high school. Except that in this case, the accused are Air Force officers charged with watching the nation's nuclear arsenal. In the latest round of bad news for the service, the Air Force announced today that 34 officers at a Montana base either cheated on a competency test or didn't report those who did, reports CNN. All have been decertified.


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Post 77 falls 8-1 to Lincoln County in Game 2
Published: Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
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Henderson County Post 77 fell 8-1 to Lincoln County on Sunday in Game 2 of the first round of the Area IV American Legion baseball playoffs at East Lincoln High School.
Lincoln County now leads the best-of-five series 2-0.
Game 3 will begin at 3 p.m. Monday at East Henderson High School, and Game 4 will immediately follow, if Post 77 wins Game 3. The doubleheader will be two seven-inning games.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. - The University of the Cumberlands (UC) Women's Basketball team faced their biggest challenge of the season on Saturday afternoon: themselves. Due to nagging injuries over the past couple of weeks, the Patriot ladies found themselves only 7 players deep as the Hornets of Morris College visited the O. Wayne Rollins Center. While most teams would have crumbled under the pressure, the Patriots banned together and put out one of the most impressive performances of the season defeating the Hornets 97-31.
Cumberlands jumped out to a quick lead from the beginning and never looked back, shooting a solid 55% from the field while dishing out a season high 28 assists. While the offense rolled through the opponent, the Patriots' defense seemed to cover every inch of the floor, tallying an exciting 20 steals and out-rebounding the Hornets 45 to 20.
To say the win was an all-around team effort would be an understatement as 4 Patriots reached double-digit scoring and season high statistics. The Patriots were led by Jackie Alexander (Brodhead, KY) and Ashley Mullins (Totz, KY), both finishing the day with a double-double a piece. Mullins scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while Alexander chipped in 22 points and 12 rebounds. Jill Herman (Powell, TN) was had an outstanding performance herself, just missing a double-double with 18 points, 9 assists, and 5 steals. Stephanie Salyers (Somerset, KY) came off the bench for the Patriots with enthusiasm scoring 13 points and 7 rebounds, while the rest of the Patriot ladies all contributed over 5 points on the night.
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Including offense data reported by law enforcement agencies including public and private schools (K-12, post-secondary, and colleges and universities), the School Violence in Alabama 2011 report found that:
· School violence was indicated in 2% of all reported violent offenses and 3% of all reported simple assaults in Alabama in 2011.
· Of the reported offenses of school violence in 2011, 11% were cleared by the arrest of a juvenile, six percent by the arrest of an adult, and 27 % by exceptional clearance (lack of prosecution). 56% of the offenses were not cleared.
· 53% of the victims of the reported school violence in Alabama during 2011 were female.
· 49% of all these school violence victims were acquainted with their offender, and 31% of the victims reported injuries.
· Juveniles made up 57% of the school violence victims, representing the largest number of school violence victims in the robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault categories. Of the juveniles, 42% were ages 13-17.
· Hands, fists or feet were the weapon used in 90% of the school violence offenses.
· Although 43% of school violence offenses occurred at an elementary or secondary school, only 15% of the victims were of elementary school age, while 42% of the victims were of middle-school or high-school student age, which includes the age range of 13-17 years.
· 22 % of school violence offenses reported in Alabama during 2011 occurred at a college or university, with 16% of the victims being of college age (18-24). A total of 19 colleges and universities in Alabama submitted 2011 crime statistics for the uniform crime report. For a full list of reporting law enforcement agencies, please see Crime in Alabama 2011 online at www.acjic.alabama.gov
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"We always caution citizens or the media against drawing conclusions by making direct comparisons between statistics submitted by cities or individual agencies, as there are unique conditions that affect each law enforcement jurisdiction," said Maury Mitchell, ACJIC director. "Valid assessments are only possible with careful study and analysis of the conditions that affect each law enforcement jurisdiction."
Alabama's Uniform Crime Reporting program is administered by ACJIC Statistical Analysis Center to provide uniform crime statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The special School Violence in Alabama 2011 report was prepared by the ACJIC, the state agency responsible for gathering and providing critical information for Alabama's law enforcement and the criminal justice community.
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SANTA CLARA -- Some of the nation's best potential employees never make it through the first job interview, autism experts say.
But adults with autism can bring remarkable and unique talents to the workplace if they are trained, adequately supported and placed in positions that don't demand sophisticated social skills, according to experts in the complex brain disorder who gathered Saturday for a conference at Santa Clara University.
"With some accommodations, these people can do so much. They can be incredibly productive," said Jennifer Sullivan, organizer of the "Transitions: Bridges To Success" event, sponsored by San Jose's Morgan Autism Center. "It's getting over that first hurdle: 'Let us show us what we can do.' "
Two new Bay Area ventures are pioneers in that effort, training high-functioning autistic adults for high-tech jobs.
In San Jose, the company Semperical plans to exclusively hire autistic software testers who work from home to spare them the stress of commuting and office politics. San Francisco's Specialists Guild trains autistic interns as software testers and then places them in full-time positions at companies like SalesForce.
With accuracy, dogged focus and careful attention to detail, autistic adults can be better analytical workers than the average adult, said Steve Perricone of Semperical and Andy Aczel of Specialists Guild. They also tend to be extremely loyal employees, uninterested in office politics, gossip or jumping to a competing company.
Autism, a spectrum disorder that is usually detected in very young children, causes difficulties in social interaction, communication and sometimes intellectual ability. But many people with high-functioning autism excel in visual skills, music, math and art.
European companies have a longer tradition of tapping into the autistic workforce. But U.S. companies are beginning to follow. Earlier this year, the global software giant SAP announced plans to hire 650 software testers who have autism. The mortgage finance company Freddie Mac launched an internship program to teach adults data analysis. Goodwill says it plans to offer positions in data entry and other technical jobs. Walgreens trains autistic workers to set up displays, work the cash register and stock and organize shelves.
This is the challenge: An estimated 750,000 adolescents with autism are about to become adults. They are woefully unprepared to leave the "safety net" of the well-funded educational system, said Peter Gerhardt, director of adolescent education at the McCarton School in New York City.
Most will graduate out of high school to nothing; about 85 percent will be under or unemployed, and live with family members. They'll sit at home -- and a parent often has to sit at home. And when parents die, their children may go into state-run institutional services.
"What could we do if our corporate talent included those who are now locked at home, playing video games?" asked Perricone.
Meanwhile, many American companies are outsourcing their software testing and other detail-driven jobs to places like India.
"We are Silicon Valley guys. We know these folks can be brilliant," said Perricone of Semperical. "They just need to be managed differently. We thought: Would it be great to put folks with autism to work, to allow them to reach their full potential?
"But it's not just good for this amazing group of individuals -- it's good for the company. Semperical will be a for-profit, highly competitive company," said Perricone, a veteran of four other successful valley startups.
"They are very ambitious, on a horizontal plane," he said of autistic workers. "They want to be the best at what they are doing."
Many, he said, already have computer skills, after years of playing video games. "They find errors that a typical mind would not and see things that we might skip over. They find user interaction anomalies that we don't catch. Their brains go straight through a process, meticulously, 1 through 100."
Next week, Semperical is completing its pilot phase and is preparing to sign a contract for a project for a top Silicon Valley company, not yet named, he said. Ultimately, they hope to hire 1,000 people around the country.
The company recognized that adults with autism do best if they can work remotely, from their homes, to avoid the stress of a commute or noisy and social work environment. This also allows them to find brilliant workers in remote rural areas -- what autism advocate and Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin -- arguably the world's most famous person with autism -- calls "nerds on the farm."
"We're networking, cloud-based guys," Perricone said. "Providing IT services remotely -- that is something we know how to do."
San Francisco's Specialists Guild offers training to adults with autism who need computer experience before they can land that first job. Its most successful candidates, Aczel said, are people who aren't bored by hours in front of a computer, finding problems with software. They also must enjoy puzzles and problem-solving.
"These are real jobs, not charity jobs," he said. "The reason they are so good is because they think outside of the box -- because they don't see the box."
Some have college degrees -- but have not done well in the workforce because they fail their interviews, missing nuanced social questions or failing to look the interviewer in the eye, Aczel said.
To expand efforts like Semperical and Specialists Guild, there must be greater funding of workforce development programs, said psychologist Jed Baker, director of the Social Skills Training Project, a private organization in New Jersey that serves individuals with autism and social communication problems. And businesses can work with schools to tell them what skills are needed.
"And these young adults don't just need preparation. They actually need a job. Real permanent work, not pretend work," Baker said. "It might take them longer to learn, but once they've got it, they've got it. And they're not going away."
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Predatory Lending Practices Continue to Weaken Blacks and Hispanics
In the first report of its kind, the Center for Responsible Lending has examined consumer lending markets across-the-board and found that despite recent regulatory reforms predatory lending continues to undermine American households trying to rebuild their finances after the recession. The State of Lending in America and its Impact on U.S. Households (State of Lending, http://rspnsb.li/stateoflending) paints a picture of working families struggling to manage debt while coping with stagnant incomes and a substantial decrease in wealth. In fact, the housing crisis has produced the largest documented wealth gap ever between White households and families of color.


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redball wrote: Eh, that graphic is fairly backward. The current threat to net neutrality is that service providers want to charge websites, not the end users, for preferred routing and bandwidth allocation.
barlow wrote: redball wrote: Eh, that graphic is fairly backward. The current threat to net neutrality, in the U.S., is that service providers want to charge websites, not the end users, for preferred routing and bandwidth allocation.
redball wrote: Eh, that graphic is fairly backward. The current threat to net neutrality, in the U.S., is that service providers want to charge websites, not the end users, for preferred routing and bandwidth allocation.
Quote: Network Neutrality, the public policy unicorn that's been the rallying cry for so many many on the American left for the last three years, took a body blow on Sunday with the Wall Street Journal's disclosure (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html) that the movement's sugar-daddy has been playing both sides of the fence.
The Journal reports that Google "has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content."
Google claims that its doing nothing wrong, and predictably accuses the Journal of writing a hyperbolic piece that has the facts all wrong. It's essentially correct. Google is doing nothing that Akamai doesnt already do, and nothing that the ISPs and carriers don't plan to do to reduce the load that P2P puts on their transit connections.
Caching data close to consumers is sound network engineering practice, beneficial to users and network operators alike because it increases network efficiency. More people are downloading HDTV files from Internet sources these days, and these transactions are highly repetitive. While broadcast TV can deliver a single copy of Survivor to millions of viewers at a time, Internet delivery requires millions of distinct file transfers across crowded pipes to accomplish the same end: this is the vaunted end-to-end principle at work.
Theres nothing wrong with Google's proposed arrangement, and quite a lot right with it. The main beneficiary is YouTube, which accounts for some 20 per cent of the Internets video traffic and was recently upgraded to a quasi-HD level of service. Taking YouTube off the public Internet and moving it directly to each ISPs private network frees up bandwidth on the public Internet. Googles not the only one doing this, and in fact so many companies are escaping the public Internet that researchers who measure Internet traffic at public peering points, such as Andrew Odlyzko, are scratching their heads in wonderment that the traffic they can measure only increases at 50 per cent a year. Researchers who study private network behavior see growth rates closer to 100 oer cent per year, and caching systems like Googles and Akamais make this kind of traffic distribution possible.
While theres nothing to see here of a technical nature, the political impact of this revelation is study in contrasts.
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Rick Whitt, Google's chief lobbyist and spin doctor, was pressed into service Sunday night to deflect the Journals claim that the search monopoly has abandoned its commitment to the Neutrality cause, which he did by issuing a rebuttal-by-blog:
"All of Google's colocation agreements with ISPs ... are non-exclusive. ... Also, none of them require (or encourage) that Google traffic be treated with higher priority than other traffic. In contrast, if broadband providers were to leverage their unilateral control over consumers' connections and offer colocation or caching services in an anti-competitive fashion, that would threaten the open Internet and the innovation it enables."
Whitt makes some great points, and as a bonus, some of them are even true. But hes trying to change the subject. Google is making exactly the kind of deal with ISPs that it has consistently tried to ban in law and regulation. One of the blog posts that Whitt cites in defense of Googles alleged consistency makes this very clear. The post, titled What Do We Mean By 'Net Neutrality'?, advocates a ban on the following ISP practices:
* Levying surcharges on content providers that are not their retail customers;
* Prioritizing data packet delivery based on the ownership or affiliation (the who) of the content, or the source or destination (the what) of the content; or
* Building a new "fast lane" online that consigns Internet content and applications to a relatively slow, bandwidth-starved portion of the broadband connection
Googles co-location agreement violates all three principles if any money changes hands - and the latter two in any circumstance. Placing content close to the consumer raises its delivery priority relative to content housed on the public Internet. This is the case simply because each hop that the content has to make from one router to the next is an opportunity for congestion and loss, the result of which is a slowdown in the rate at which TCP will transmit. While the Google system reduces the load on the public Internet, it pushes Googles traffic to the head of the delivery queue at the last minute, as a consequence of its relative immunity to loss.
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OAKLAND -- A federal wire fraud trial for a top Seeno company sales executive is scheduled to begin early next year.
Carey Hendrickson, 36, of Martinez was indicted earlier this year on three counts of wire fraud, the first casualty from a 2010 FBI raid of the Seeno family's Concord headquarters. The federal judge Thursday set a trial date for March 11.
Hendrickson's defense attorney John Runfola also told the judge he plans to file a motion before then, saying "there may be an issue with searches conducted on (Hendrickson's) computer."
A prosecutor has said that they recovered about 20,000 e-mails from Hendrickson, who still works for Seeno Homes. She is accused of participating in a scheme that inflated the value of four homes she tried to buy in a struggling Pittsburg development owned by her employer. Court documents show Hendrickson's alleged activities may have been part of a larger Seeno effort to inflate the value of homes, also known as a "builder bailout."
Hendrickson has been free on $50,000 bail.
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Facebook has put out a nifty little feature that gathers your top 20 moments of the year and presents them to you in reverse chronological order.
The custom Year in Review feature gathers your top moments based on several factors: It takes into account Life Events that you added, posts you highlighted and posts you put up or were tagged in that were popular, meaning they got a lot of Likes and comments.
Of course Facebook also had to jump on the bandwagon and put out several of its own top 10 lists. They're based on the "pulse" of the social network's global, 1-billion member community. Here are some of the highlights:
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Builder of the Kingdom
Meet Jay Peak's Bill Stenger. He's circling the globe, working to hook foreign investors' wagons to one of the largest economic-development projects in Vermont history.
By DAN D'AMBROSIO for the Burlington Free Press
Bill Stenger, president and chief executive officer of Jay Peak, is surveying his kingdom.
In The Foundry Pub & Grille at the base of Jay Peak, a smiling staff tells him about the latest dessert being made that day, a blueberry ice cream sandwich with ginger snap cookies.
From a balcony overlooking the Pump House Indoor Water Park, Stenger waves to a group of young, laughing lifeguards, hanging out by the "river" that circles the park, waiting for the 11 a.m. opening.
"Friday is a big arrival day for people," Stenger says, looking out over the $25 million complex of water fun. "That family you just saw, they're here for this. The lifeguards are having their early morning meeting. It just is bright and lively, with greenery, a lazy river to float around in, an action pool kiddie area, chutes and slides that go outside and come in, cabanas for people to stay in."
On the way out of the water park, Stenger notices something he doesn't like about the door, and grabs some passing maintenance workers. Could they take a look at the problem and fix it? Yes.
Next up, one of the original buildings at Jay Peak, built in the old faux-Swiss chalet style. Asked about his upbringing, Stenger mentions his grandfather, a glassblower for Steuben Crystal in Corning, N.Y., where Stenger was born and raised, and his father, who worked in the consumer products division for Steuben."Each of them worked there for 45 years," Stenger says. "That's something I am very proud of."
The faux-Swiss chalet is under construction, being renovated into Stenger's version of a Vermont country store, where guests will be able to buy groceries, coffee, toothbrushes.
This is the kingdom that EB-5 money built.
The glass is half full
As nearly everyone in the state knows by now, Stenger is spearheading an effort to bring $600 million of EB-5 money into the Northeast Kingdom. Under the rules of the federal immigration program, the money comes from wealthy foreigners who want green cards for themselves and their families. They can get them by investing $500,000 in rural, economically depressed regions of the United States. Ten direct or indirect jobs must be created as a result, and the green card is theirs.
In addition to the $25 million water park, the $75 million Hotel Jay and Conference Center, and another $150 million or so in restaurants, condos and other amenities, there's another $170 million in EB-5 money already sitting in the bank, Stenger says, ready to go for the next phase of building and development.
Pat Moulton Powden, deputy secretary of commerce, calls Stenger a "glass half-full kind of guy." "He's spent years cultivating EB-5 investors," Powden said. "That's what it takes to get to this level of confidence, and the projects he's developed so far have delivered. They are producing jobs."
As Stenger explains, EB-5 capital must be "patient" capital, meaning the investors' money must be at risk, without a guaranteed payback date. "The federal government does not allow us to guarantee the return on the investment or how you're going to pay them back in the future," Stenger says. "You can have a strategy to share with the investor, but you can't guarantee it."
Stenger tells his EB-5 investors not to expect any return on their money until the third year, and to not expect a strategy to get paid back until at least five years into it.
"We want to get the business up and running and successful before any burden to pay back the investment," Stenger says. "Most investors are not investing their last $500,000."
In late September, surrounded by a phalanx of state officials including Gov. Peter Shumlin, and every member of Vermont's congressional delegation, Stenger announced at the Hotel Jay that he would bring some $600 million of EB-5 money into the Northeast Kingdom, extending his reach beyond the resort to Newport, and closer to home to Burke Mountain Resort, which he and his partner, Ari Quiros, also own.
In Newport, EB-5 money would build a hotel and conference center on Lake Memphremagog, an entire new block of shopping, offices and housing downtown, and a state-of-the-art biomedical research center and manufacturing plant.
As the Burlington Free Press reported last month, Stenger estimates that some 1,500 jobs will be created in Newport alone, with a total of more than 10,000 jobs in the region once all is said and done. There have to be that many jobs. The $600 million represents 1,200 foreign investors, which means 12,000 jobs for the green cards. That's the math.
Those jobs won't all be in the Northeast Kingdom, according to Commerce Secretary Lawrence Miller, but will also include jobs created outside the Kingdom to serve those projects inside the Kingdom.
"The way these econometric models work, it's looking at the projects and saying, 'Hey if a place is going to have this many rooms at an average occupancy of whatever the regional average is, there's that many food prep people and truck drivers and others employed as a result," Miller said.
The thought of finding 1,200 investors around the world is "daunting," Miller says, but Stenger has developed a "very clean process," and is "very good with disclosures," according to Miller. "He provides a lot of information to the investor so they can make an informed decision without a lot of hassle," Miller said.
Canada is doing it, why aren't we?
Stenger first took notice of the EB-5 program when he realized a similar program in Canada was raising lots of money for businesses there. "We started thinking about this in 1997, Howard Dean and I and Bill Shouldice, who was secretary of commerce at the time," Stenger said. "We put together a Vermont regional center in 1997 because I was hearing about all this investment going into Canada. I said, 'We've got to get a piece of this.'"
The State of Vermont Regional Center for the EB-5 program is the only regional center owned, operated and administered directly by state government officials, according to the center's website. That's an advantage, Stenger says. "The Department of Commerce plays an important role on behalf of us, and also the investor," he said. "They come and make sure we're on schedule, getting things done, accomplishing things."
Stenger also take pains to point out that "not a cent of taxpayer money" is involved in financing projects under the EB-5 program, which is often described as a public-private partnership."It's public because it's a federal program," he says.
Stenger has developed a well-oiled machine to bring the EB-5 money in. He does it with a core staff of about 15 engineers, attorneys and marketing people, but he's out front, meeting with investors around the world, and at Jay Peak.
"It's on paper, it's in my head, we've got a very good team of people here," Stenger says.
From 2007 to 2012, Stenger worked with a company in Florida called Rapid USA Visas, an EB-5 broker that helped with promoting Stenger's projects and "administrative follow-through," Stenger said. The relationship came to an unpleasant end in February, however, when Rapid USA sent a letter out to immigration attorneys saying it no longer had faith in Jay Peak's projects. The spat was picked up by a blogger and blew up into something "way beyond what it should have been," according to Stenger.
Stenger won't comment on what motivated Rapid USA to do what they did, but he says both organizations have moved on. A call and email to Rapid USA Visas for comment were not returned. "We're still cordial," he said last week from the Montreal airport, on his way back from Korea. "We're doing our work in-house. With the numerous projects we've got it's imperative we have a seamless relationship with investors, because in the next 18 months we'll be identifying and welcoming over a thousand investors to Jay Peak."
Go where the market is
Stenger said in another month or two he would be raising $30 million to $50 million a month, "because I know where the market is."
"People are reaching out to us, they know what we've done, they know the relationship we have with local and state government in terms of support," he said.
Stenger said he's getting four to five emails daily from potential EB-5 investors. Pulling out his smart phone, he brings up a recent email. "Here's an inquiry that came a couple of days ago," he says. "We sent them the information, and now they want to talk to me about the particulars of the program and they may make a decision to invest on the phone." Stenger pages down through the email. "She is currently in South Florida. I take that back," he says. "She's Lebanese. There's her coordinates, but her attorney is in South Florida. I know her attorney."
Stenger knows a lot of attorneys. The next day, an attorney representing 30 investors from South America, mostly in Brazil, was visiting Jay Peak, along with four Chinese investors.
"I'm going to China and Korea starting the 9th of November, and I will meet between 300 and 400 investors or representatives," Stenger says.
And that's not the end of it. Stenger returned to his office Saturday from the Far East trip, spending most of his time in Seoul and Shanghai, but in January he's off to Dubai and India, Delhi and possibly Bangalore.
"It's a tech and financial center," Stenger said of Bangalore. "Then in March, we'll be in South Florida, Miami, where there's enormous numbers of EB-5 Latin American folks who already have second homes in Florida, and would like to become permanent residents."
In April, Stenger is off to Brazil, after Carnival, to visit Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
"That's the outreach," he said. "That's dealing with Central and South America, the subcontinent of India and Pakistan, and Dubai, a crossroads for commerce in that part of the world." Stenger says there's no need to visit Europe. "They come to us," he said.
What's your business case?
Win Smith, owner of Sugarbush resort in Warren, completed an EB-5 project of his own — $20 million on an upgrade of the base area started in 2006 and completed in 2010. Smith said he's in the process of trying to repay the 40 investors who made the work possible. "They're looking to get a return on investment and we're doing our darnedest to pay them back," Smith said.
Smith said he went about his EB-5 project differently than Stenger. In Smith's case, a law firm in Washington, D.C., named VisaLaw, and its principal David Morris, created a partnership of EB-5 investors and approached him about investing in Sugarbush. "He actually called me out of the blue and asked me, 'Do you know anything about EB-5? We think your project is something we'd be interested in,'" Smith said.
Smith credits Stenger with raising the awareness of the EB-5 program for everybody in Vermont, and outside of Vermont. "Bill was a real pioneer," Smith said. "I give him a lot of credit. It took him years to get going. He was persistent. Because of his efforts, we were able to take advantage of EB-5."
Smith said he paid VisaLaw "good money" for their services to raise the money and take care of all of the filings and processing required. The payback was that he didn't have to spend much of his own time on EB-5 related matters, and could focus on turning around Sugarbush, which he bought in 2002 in rough financial shape.
"What a lot of people don't understand about EB-5 is this is a source of capital, just a different source of capital," Smith said. "Like any other business, you got to have a business case and tell the investors it's worthwhile investing. The difference here is in the investors' eyes, a good deal of the return is getting a green card on an accelerated basis."
'We're a horse'
Stenger said 95 percent of the investors he's able to close the deal with — and that works out to about one in three he talks to — actually come to Jay Peak and Newport to see for themselves what is being done, and what is planned.
"We build, sell, manage, maintain and operate," Stenger says, sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Jay. "I'm sitting with the investor in a seat like this. They're dealing with the general partner, not some third party promoter. That is very meaningful to the investor."
That's why Stenger believes that by March, he'll have identified the 1,200 investors he needs and that by six months after that, the fall of 2013, he'll have nailed them down.
"When you demonstrate it's a win-win situation, people want to hook their wagon to your horse, and we're a horse," Stenger says.
Contact Dan D'Ambrosio at 660-1841 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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NAME: Bill Stenger
AGE: 63, married to Mary Jane
HOME: Newport, has lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
TITLE: President and Chief Executive Officer of Jay Peak. Co-owner with partner Ari Quiros of the resort.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Syracuse University in 1971, studied to be a priest at one point.
EXPERIENCE: Worked as an insurance salesman before taking a job as on-hill manager at Jack Frost ski area in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Has been in the ski business for 30 years.
FAMILY: Sons Andy and Jamie work for him, returning to Vermont after attending Colorado State University, and living as ski bums. Andy is on the construction team. Jamie runs the retail and golf operation.
The Kingdom to come
This is the second in an occasional series of reports by Burlington Free Press reporter Dan D'Ambrosio about the planned revitalization of the Northeast Kingdom area at and around Jay Peak. These stories are examining the plan, the players and the people affected.
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The cruise-in starts at 6 p.m. and will be followed by the dance at 7 with music provided by Bob Dobs.
Trophies will be awarded so don't be late.
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This was definitely the show that hooked me for life. It is now known as the GameHoist show, for obvious reasons. I won't go into much of a performance review besides saying they rocked and the setlists speak for themselves. Of course, the music is what brought me there, but the main reason this show had such a big impact on me was the circumstances surrounding it.
I had just gotten back from studying and traveling for a semester in Florence (Firenze), Italy. I went with my buddy Dogger, and as we departed I gave him a little crap for bringing twenty Phish tapes along. Though I had seen the boys three times already, I was not a huge fan yet still sticking to my Jerry-is-God opinion and not really opening myself up to the Phish experience. Well, needless to say, those damn tapes grew on me like fungus on cow dung. By the end of our four-month adventure, I was thanking the Dogger for bringing that music. By then I knew about every note and lyric on all twenty tapes.
Back in the States I dubbed a few tapes and was off to an adventurous job supervising youth groups in the repair of poor peoples homes in War, West Virginia. This was one tough job. Sixteen- to eighteen-hour days (no exaggeration) of some of the most satisfying and hard work I've ever done. When I found out Phish was playing two hours drive from War in Charleston, I felt I deserved a break and immediately told my supervisors that I had a "wedding" to go to. They bought it and I was off to see Phish the band I now felt I really knew after listening to those twenty tapes and many others.
So going into this, my fourth Phish show, having done my "homework" listening to tapes, I felt I was ready to rock along with every tune note for note. Maybe I would finally figure out what this Phish thing is all about. What I did not realize was that I had never heard a Gamehendge tape and that Phish had recently released Hoist an album I had never heard, or heard of, for that matter.
I walked into Charleston's Municipal Auditorium right as Fish crashed a big cymbal to start Kung. Huh, Kung? What's this weird chant? As Trey began to tell his intricate story of the fall of the Lizard people, Wilson's abuse of the Helping Friendly Book's powers, and the rest, I was mesmerized drawing parallels in my head to our government's treatment of Native Americans and to the Bible. Wow, these guys are a lot more than the noodling, nonsense-lyrics band I had pegged them to be. Oh, I forgot to mention, the auditorium was about one-third full with no more than nine hundred people in attendance. Since I was alone, I walked right up to an empty second row seat in front of Trey. By the end of Gamehendge, I was fully impressed and ready to hear some tunes I knew. (Of course I knew Divided Sky, Lizards, Llama, etc., but the rest were not on tapes I had heard.) So what do they do second set? They played all new tunes I did not know, but quickly caught on to and enjoyed. This was the only time they have played all the songs from one album in the same order as they were on the album. Pretty cool. They encored with the first My Old Home Place, which I remember Trey saying they had just learned on the bus the night before. Then I think I recall Trey saying something about Internet people requesting this next one Tube. Another rare one that I had never heard before, but loved. End it off with a killer version of my favorite guitarist's (Hendrix) song, Fire, and you have the show that would hook most people and definitely hooked me.
Moral of the story: You never know what youre gonna get when you see a Phish show, but it almost always satisfies your soul. If it was predictable, we wouldn't travel fourteen hours to see them like I'm doing this weekend (12/67/97).


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My vet suggested giving my little 15 lb. terrier a dry fod higher in fiber to keep his anal glands from getting engorged. Does your dry food have high fiber?
Lyn H.
March 25. 2010 14:39
Hi, I have a cat, dog and two parrots and they all eat dog food, is the cat lacking something by only eating dog food, the parrots seem healthy and happy.Thanks Carlos
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My 4 cats all eat Life's Abundance. Not only do they all love it, but I feel like a more responsible pet parent feeding them such a nutritious food.
March 25. 2010 16:27
I feed my dogs & cats Canidae/Felidae. How does your food compare?
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March 25. 2010 18:18
My two cats are on Life's Abundance. One is a rescue tabby that is about 5 years old and the other is an 11 month old Siamese. The breeder I purchased my Siamese from recommend Life's Abundance. Both cats are thriving on it. I do wish that they would sell it at my local pet store where they carry only the best cat and dog foods. I am currently considering a couple of other cat foods because of this as the cost of s&h and the overall cost of the food is much higher than the competitive brands.
March 26. 2010 10:02
My dog Mandy has been on Life's Abundance dog food for almost 7 yrs now.She will be 17 this Sept.and shows no form of slowing down.Everyone who sees her,thinks she's around 5-6 yrs.Thank you so much for your product.ps-she's a clone of the small dog on your dry food.
March 26. 2010 10:27
We tried our sheltie on regular store-bought pet food and she gained too much weight in her puppy years. A breeder recommended we try Life's Abundance, and she has done GREAT! She has more energy, no sicknesses, and has a much healthier looking coat. I would recommend this to anyone!
March 26. 2010 15:45
I am very worried about my 8 year old Maltese. She has frequent stomache upsets, quits eating, and later will eat only boiled chicken and white rice. Last time she lost 7 oz. I don't know how to get her to eat kibbled dog food again. Do you have any suggestions? HELP!
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@ Nancy:If both of your cats are thriving on this food, then you should stick with it. You won't find any other food to compare, especially with all the advice and help you can receive from Dr. Jane directly or any of the reps. Talk to the person who referred you to this wonderful food, Life's Abundance and possibly think about becoming a rep. You could eventually get your pet food for free with customers' purchases and sign up the local small pet food store. The cost does even out in the long run because the pets do not eat as much food as the store brand types. Hope this helps.
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I have been feeding my 5 month old puppy lifes abundance since we got him at 8weeks old. He gets fed 3x a day and he eats at a normal rate but he still has terrible gas.Does anyone have any suggestions?? We would really appreciate it. I feel like the smell just takes over the whole house.
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is gearing up for a massive legal battle against mobile phone
industry heavyweight Nokia. Nokia is the largest phone market in the
world while Apple has one of the most popular and profitable
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IP lawyers in the country to fight Nokia. Bloomberg reports
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sued Apple in October of 2009 alleging that Apple was
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Qualcomm is part of the team. Apple also has Matt Powers from Weil,
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license each other's tech. Rob Enderle from Enderle Group said, "It's
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quote: You can tell Apple haven't innovated or invented
quote: Just because you found a great new way to use the wheel, does not mean you invented it
quote: Apple has very few inventions, what they do have to some extent are innovations. Although many would argue that in order to innovate you must first invent, and only when said invention improves a product and/or process for the masses is it truly an innovation.Things like swiping your finger across a screen to unlock your device hardly falls into that category.FYI: I don't even know of a dictionary that has a similar definition for innovation, so I'm not exactly sure where you pulled it from.(I'm just going to assume you are being legit)
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I was xtraining doing moutain climbers. My left ankle or in the area behind the foot as if you were to pinch the back popped. Now I can not move my foot without pain. Not really swollen but feels like a sprain. Ughh. Should I tape it and keep training?
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I was xtraining doing moutain climbers. My left ankle or in the area behind the foot as if you were to pinch the back popped. Now I can not move my foot without pain. Not really swollen but feels like a sprain. Ughh. Should I tape it and keep training?
Should you keep training? Definitely not; you should get to a doctor.
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Ditto. Hie thee to a physician. That's your achilles and it is nothing to mess around with. You have to make sure of the extent of injury and rehab it properly. If you push it and it goes completely you're talking surgery and months of rehab.
No this is depressing I am running the Zombie Run with my 19yr old son. The race is in Nov. just a 5k but it is a milestone the first time my son wants to enter a race and he asked me. Any home remedies to try. RICE will do but Dr. are out.
It would be one thing if it were just sore. The "pop" means there is probably a tear. You may be able to get back in a few weeks if it is treated properly. But that means a doctor for diagnosis and probably physical therapy.
I fear this will end badly.
Fat old man PRs:
On the one hand I'm not trying to be alarmist. On the other hand - if you're not REALLY careful you could end up in A LOT worse shape.
Let's say the pop was a partial tear. The difference between healing a partial and full tear is light years. I believe with a full tear you're looking at surgery and probably a year from when you injure it to when you're doing stuff again. Something less severe than a complete tear might involve a walking boot, or crutches, or just staying off it to let it rest.
It also may not be your Achilles - but rather one of the tendons that runs on either side of the ankle. What if that's torn - or about to tear?
A pop with swelling means this was not minor - or at least coule be the precursor to something not minor. I would be EXTREMELY cautious. If you're saying "No doctors." because you just don't want to mess with them and/or you're afraid of what they're going to say - then not going is (sorry to be blunt) just foolish. If you have no insurance and can't pay out of pocket - well - that's a totally different program.
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Eagle County Clerk Teak Simonton is reminding voters of the following important election dates:Oct. 22 to Nov. 2 — Early voting available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at all three Clerk & Recorder's Office locations.Oct. 27 — Saturday early voting available 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at all three Clerk & Recorder's Office locations.Oct. 30 — Deadline for requesting a mail-in ballot be mailed.Nov. 2 — Deadline for requesting a mail-in ballot in person.Nov. 6 — Election Day. Polling place and Clerk's Office hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.Clerk and Recorder's Offices are located in Avon at 100 West Beaver Creek Blvd., in Eagle at 500 Broadway and in El Jebel at 0020 Eagle County Drive. To determine your polling place location, visit www.eaglecounty.us/clerk.Voters are also reminded that identification is required both to vote early and at the polls on Election Day. The most common acceptable forms of ID include Colorado driver's licenses, Colorado Department of Revenue IDs, valid U.S. passports, valid student ID cards from any institution of higher education in Colorado, U.S. military IDs and certified birth certificates.Electioneering is not allowed within 100 feet of any polling place. All forms of the following actions are prohibited: campaigning for or against any candidate who is on the ballot; campaigning for or against any ballot issue or question on the ballot; wearing clothing, buttons, hats and pins with candidates' names or ballot issues.For more information, contact the Elections Department at 970-328-8715.
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Matt McDaniel did all he could to give the Oak Ridge Wildcats a boost, but it wasn't enough to get past the Anderson County Mavericks, as the 2013 Oak Ridge Wildcats varsity lost 8-5 in seven innings at Hardin Valley on Monday.
The Wildcats were led by a flawless day at the dish by McDaniel, who went 2-2 against Anderson County's pitching. He singled in the fifth inning and homered in the seventh inning.
Kevin Steen had an impressive outing against the Mavericks' lineup. Steen held them hitless over 2 1/3 innings, allowed no earned runs, walked none and struck out three.
Hunter Tackett got the win for the Mavericks. He allowed three runs over 6 1/3 innings. Tackett struck out six, walked two and gave up four hits.
The top of the first saw Anderson County take an early lead, 1-0. Tackett singled to ignite the Mavericks' offense. A passed ball then moved Tackett from first to second.
The Wildcats answered Anderson County's top inning with two runs of their own in the first, then scored on a groundout by Ralph O'Neal and a wild pitch.
The Mavericks didn't relinquish the lead after scoring two runs in the second inning when it scored on a sacrifice fly by Garrett Johnson and a wild pitch.
Anderson County added three more runs in the top of the fourth. A clutch wild pitch scored Carson Pack to open the scoring in the frame. Thet piled on two more runs in the top of the fifth. A sacrifice fly scored Bryson Phillips for the inning's first run.
Two runs in the bottom of the fifth helped Oak Ridge close their deficit to 8-4. An error triggered the Wildcats comeback. Finally, Tackett got Traven Proveaux to strike out to end the threat.
An Oak Ridge run crossed the plate in the bottom half of the seventh, making the score 8-5. A solo home run by McDaniel gave the Wildcats life. Tackett ended the game by getting Kyler Jones to fly out.
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Sean Lowe, the hunky Dallas businessman with a good sense of humor and abs of steel, closed out one of the most popular seasons of "The Bachelor" by proposing on bended knee to Catherine Giudici during Monday night's episode of the ABC reality series.
Catherine, a 26-year-old graphic designer from Seattle, accepted the proposal and the sparkling Neil Lane diamond engagement ring that came with it during the final rose ceremony in Chaing Rai, Thailand.
"Every time we have to say goodbye, I miss you," Sean, 29, told her. "I don't want to have to say goodbye anymore. Catherine, I want to spend the rest of my life telling you 'I love you' and making you feel like the most special, beautiful woman in the world. Catherine, will you marry me?"
"This is the coolest day of my life," Catherine said as the happy couple off into the sunset -- on the back of an elephant.
It wasn't so cool for Lindsay Yenter, the other finalist, who looked stunned when Sean kicked her to the curb.
"I have to say goodbye to you, and it's by far the hardest thing I've ever had to do because I know how incredible you are and I love you," he said. "That's the hardest part I love you. I know I do. I'm sorry."
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"This is really painful. This is my nightmare," Lindsay told him. "I really didn't see this coming. I'm happy for you, I'm happy that you found love, but I honestly can't image my life without you and that's something I'm going to have to figure out."
As she was driven away in a van, Lindsay, a 24-year-old substitute teacher from Fort Bragg, N.C., broke down in tears and said she felt like "an idiot."
Monday's finale began with Sean's family meeting both finalists in Thailand and offering their input. Sean's mother, Sherry, was especially leery, suggesting that her son hold off on proposing if he wasn't absolutely sure at that point.
"It doesn't have to be either one of them," she said.
"I'm going to do what's best for me," said Sean, who claimed that he had yet to make up his mind.
After her final date with Sean, Catherine wasn't exactly confident that things would end in a proposal. That's because she admitted her love for him, but felt he didn't reciprocate, only replying, "Thank you for today."
"This is one of the most horrible good-byes I've ever had," she revealed ... I can't get anything out of him."
Before the final rose ceremony, Catherine had host Chris Harrison deliver Sean a letter. Had she decided to end things? No, it was a reaffirmation of her feelings for Sean. "I will love you forever if you let me," she wrote.
During the live post-show, Sean revealed that he and Catherine plan to get married "soon" and the wedding would be televised on ABC. Harrison said the wedding would air this summer.
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That first real blast of winter we had over the weekend was pushed back by the enthusiasm and warmth exhibited and felt by the large crowd attending the 2012 Saints football awards banquet, which was held Sunday night at the Presbyterian Church.
Head Coach Jeff Whitney opened the event by giving special thanks to the parents of the players whose support was essential in fielding a football team.
Thanks and recognition was then given to the players, Saints boosters, coaches, and all of the people and organizations who supported Saints football this fall.
In addition to a recap of the varsity program, the results of the 7th, 8th, and C squad seasons were covered.
Individual and team stats were included in the handout at the banquet.
Ryan Menssen was the leading rusher for the Saints. He picked up 465 yards on 109 attempts, averaging 4.5 yards per carry. Ryan had more than half of the Saints total rushing yards of 818.
Coach Whitney also noted that as the fullback, Menssen was the team's leading receiver. He had 262 yards receiving during the season. Zack Gleiter was second with 229 receiving yards and Mason Collier had 209 yards.
Senior Sam Carlson, a four year varsity letter winner, was the leading passer for the Saints. He had 804 yards through the air.
Walker Froehling contributed another 301 yards to the passing game as the team's second quarterback.
Menssen was the team's leader in tackles. He had 117 tackles. He also led the team in sacks with four. Devin Wolle was second in tackles with 89. Will Runge was second in sacks with three.
Gleiter was third in tackles with 71 and he led the team in interceptions with four. Kody Curry had three interceptions.
Ryan Menssen was the only Saint to make South Central Conference first team All Conference in the balloting conducted by the SCC's football coaches.
Devin Wolle was an Honorable Mention All Conference winner.
For the awards chosen by the team, Menssen was named the team's Most Valuable Player on Offense and he won the Leadership/Iron Man Award.
The Saints lineman of the year went to Wolle. The scout team player of the year went to Mitch Rettke. Coach Whitney noted that Rettke was so good on the scout team that he played his way onto starting for the varsity a couple of games into the season.
The 'Sundrop Award' went to special team players Menssen and Froehling with Walker Froehling winning the special team player of the year award.
Two captains were selected for next year. They are Ryan Menssen and Kody Curry. The Head Coach noted that other players, through their efforts over the course of the off season, could earn their way to being team captains.
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February 22, 2013
The School for Creative Startups is to turn Somerset House in London into a creative business hub this March.
The Startup Showcase event will feature expert talks, interactive workshops and a pop-up marketplace featuring the work of students and alumni from School for Creative Startups, the year-long business training course founded by former Dragon's Den investor Doug Richard.
The event takes place on 23 and 24 March and will feature products from participating creative start-ups. There will also be a programme of talks from industry experts and successful creative business people.
Speakers will include entertainment entrepreneur and angel investor, Michael Jacobsen and Silvia Baumgard of Own-It, who will give tips on protecting IP and avoiding partnership challenges.
In addition, two panel sessions will give any would-be entrepreneurs the chance to perform a five-minute elevator pitch to a panel including Doug Richard, Sophie Cornish, co-founder of notonthehighstreet.com, restaurateur Oliver Peyton and Dale Murray, angel investor of 2011. Those that pitch will get instant feedback and investment advice.
Doug Richard, founder of School for Creative Startups, said: "The Startup Showcase is a wonderful opportunity to highlight and showcase Britain's brilliant creative startup scene and spotlight the rising stars that will become tomorrow's global creative entrepreneurs."