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How 'Bout That Front Office??
So, how's this front office doing so far? If any of you read my blog a year ago, during that awful offseason, you know that I was really, really upset with the front office. It was not pretty. I was ripping into them almost every day, mostly because of the horrible Trevor Hoffman separation, which I really hope doesn't happen with LT. That situation with Trevor was handled terribly by the front office. It was embarrassing, in fact. Oh my goodness, it was just really bad.
So I was not happy with John Moores and Kevin Towers and Sandy Alderson at this point. It felt like we were under a dictatorship that didn't care about the fans, like at all. You have no idea how happy I was when I found out that Jeff Moorad was going to buy the club. I was also very happy when Towers got fired and we hired Jed Hoyer. At that point, anything was better than what we had before. It didn't really matter if these guys turned out to be worse; we just needed something new.
And so far, I like what I see.
Of course, I don't agree with the Kevin Kouzmanoff trade, but you know what, things are changing for the good. I think that the fact that things are changing is a great sign for the future of this organization. We haven't been as big as some teams in the free-agent market this offseason, but we've made some big moves, like the signings of Jerry Hairston and Jon Garland, and soon, hopefully Yorvit Torrealba. These aren't the biggest names, but they're fairly well-known, and as a fan, it's really exciting to actually recognize the names of these players!
One thing that I've really noticed is the use of the "SD" logo a lot more. I remember reading an article where Jeff Moorad said that he wanted to use the logo a lot more and make SD a thing like LA. I don't know why, but I'm always really thrilled when I see an "SD" used on the website and stuff 'cause it's got Jeff Moorad written all over it. It's also exciting because he said that he wanted to use it more and now they are. That shows that they're really going through with what they said they were going to do.
Like in the FanFest information, I noticed this line: "Wear your Padres blue to show your SD pride and win prizes." Very interesting.
By the way, the FanFest is going to be a fantastic event this year. It's been pretty good is years past, but this is going to be huge. That's another thing that the front office is really doing well on. It's going to be an amazing day, and it's for free too! I'm really, really excited🙂
The front office is doing great. They're making changes, generating excitement among the fans, and hopefully, building a World-Series-caliber team.
Last week I went to Sports Authority, and guess what I found? A $120 Padres jersey on clearance for $10!!! I was sooo happy!! I love a deal🙂
Oh yeah, so we're supposed to sign Yorvit Torrealba sometime soon. I wanted the Padres to get this guy a while back. I don't remember exactly when it was, but I thought he would be a good fit here. I remember that last year he was like a Padres killer. It was most annoying. Hopefully we will be able to get this guy locked up soon. I think he will be a great mentor to Nick Hundley, and also a great asset behind the plate.
Dude, it's seriously less than two weeks until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training! I can't WAIT!! I miss baseball so much right now. I can't wait for those long summer nights listening to some great Padres baseball. And this is going to be a great year, I'm sure of it. We probably won't get anywhere, with San Diego's luck, but hey, as long as we play some great ball, I'm sure it'll be a great season. Stupid Chargers.
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Its good that the front office is really selling the SD. It is a company after all and that logo is the first thing notced when talking about the Padres
The Padres front office has been great this off-season, and it's been very productive. They haven't spent too much on one player, which is good. They have also made a lot of low-risk, high reward moves. Gotta be a fan of that. I think I'll be going to the Fanfest as well. It will be awesome!!!
Great entry! It seems like our front office is on a roll.
Plus, check out my to do list at the Fan Fest :)(PS: I know I'm super late but thanks for the nice comment you wrote to the guy who thinks Eck is a horrible player. Thanks for having my back!)http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
It's so nice to see the good energy around the padres. Lets hope it takes them far .
Wow, what a great bargain on the jersey! Will you be wearing it to the FanFest? So cool that it is FREE! You'll post plenty of coverage of it, right?
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So is the jersey from a player or plain? I have both.
Is good that the Padres are using the SD logo more just like L.A.
I am super excited that the Pitchers and Catchers day is fast approaching!
Apparently, the Jays were looking at signing Torrealba too. He presents an interesting choice, being very good defensively and a contributor on offense. He is a steady player to sign for some of your young pitchers like Latos and Richard.
A fanfest! How super-cool. I'm surprised Torrealba's gone unsigned this long; he's a good catcher coming off a good year.


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Mitchell is featured in the ABC7 News Chicago report, "More Haitian evacuees connect with U.S. loved ones." The report may be viewed at http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=7233237.
"I think a lot of the Red Cross volunteers who were volunteering yesterday expected it to be sad and very very difficult, and what we found was quite the contrary. They were full of life and energy and joy, and while there were a few tragic stories in the midst, most of them were happy to be in a place where they were safe."
While a student at North Central College, Mitchell majored in English literature and was a College Scholar honors student. She wrote for the College literary magazine, "North Central Review," and received many awards, including the College's Outstanding Creative Writing Student Award her senior year and two study abroad grants to study travel writing. Formerly of Marseilles, Ill., Mitchell lives in Chicago.
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The Cardinals & A Milestone at PNC Park (9/29/07)
Heading into the final week of the 2007 season, I checked the Pittsburgh Pirates schedule and noticed that the Cardinals were coming to town for the final weekend of the season. For reasons discussed further below, I was excited to see the Cardinals and their monster first baseman Albert Pujols. So I told my wife to have a nice weekend at home because TIM AND I WERE ROADTRIPPING!!
We had lots of "firsts" on this trip — some "baseball firsts" and some "life firsts." First, it was our first baseball roadtrip "camping" in a KOA camping cabin. Pittsburgh is about 4 or so hours away. So I figured it was a little too far to drive back home after a night game. I also figured staying at a KOA would be more fun for Tim than staying at a hotel. So we booked a cabin at the Washington, PA KOA.
We left in the morning and arrived in Washington, PA in the early afternoon. Tim loved roaming all around the camp ground:
With the assistance of our KOA hosts Rick and Sharon Leclair, our second "first" was a trip to West Virginia:
I'd noticed that West Virginia was really close to Washington, PA on the map. So I asked Sharon about it while checking in at the KOA. She advised that there was a place in West Virginia just about 17 miles down the road that might interest Tim. So, with lots of time to spare before the game, Tim and I hopped in the car, drove to West Virginia for the first time in either of our lives, and arrived a Cabela's in Wheeling, WVa:
Sharon was right. Tim loved it. Mostly, he liked watching the fish swim around in the huge fish tanks. So our 45 minute trip to West Virginia was a success.
It was time for Tim's third "first" of the trip — Pittsburgh, PA. We left West Virginia and headed into Pittsburgh for the game. I've been to Pittsburgh several times and each tiem the sole purpose was to attend a baseball game at PNC Park. I know next to nothing about the city other than PNC Park. But I can tell you its a neat looking place.
As you can see on the map below…
…downtown Pittsburgh is nestled between the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahea Rivers. The red arrow points to PNC Park, which is across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh. Downtown and the ballpark are connected by a bunch of yellow bridges including:
The RCB is an automobile bridge most of the time, but before Pirates games (or at least this one) it is closed down and made into a pedestrian bridge. Although the bridges look a little weathered up close, they look beautiful from PNC Park with Pittsburgh's unique-looking skyscrapers behind them.
Here's a view of PNC Park from the Roberto Clemente Bridge…
…its a great location for a ballpark.
Finally, it was time for Tim's fourth "first" of the day — PNC Park. On our way into the park, we stopped so Tim could get his picture…
…with Hall of Famer Josh Gibson.
Soon, we were inside the stadium…
…and it was looking pretty beautiful from the top of Section 133.
We were there in time to watch BP. But Tim was still too young for us to go out into the bleachers and test our luck at catching a BP homerun.
Instead, we grabbed some food and watched the Red Birds take BP. Going to games back then was a lot more difficult than going to games in 2009. As you can see, we had Tim's on-the-go stroller with us…
…so, along with a back pack full of stuff, there was a lot to lug around to a ball game (and it made it a lot more difficult to take pictures too). But it made for a convenient place for Tim to sit and enjoy eating his ballpark frank before the game.
Anyway, at this game, our seats were in the lower section of the upper deck behind 3B. After BP ended, we went to our seats. They provided an outstanding view of the field, river, bridges and city. It was like a postcard…of course, I didn't take a picture of it. Sorry.
We were out of our seats before the game even started, and we never returned to them. Instead, we spent most of our time during the game standing (or in Tim's case running around in circles) on the big spiral walk way from the LF field concourse up to the upper deck concourse. Here is a shot of Tim standing at the top watching the grounds crew readying the field:
Do you see that braclet on Tim's right wrist? At some point, a Pirates employee gave it to me. Its like a luggage tag, but its for lost kids. You put your name, seat number, cellphone number on it. Don't worry, I wouldn't lose Tim at this (or any other) game.
While up on the upper deck concourse, Tim had his fifth "first" of the day — his first time drinking from a water fountain. Tim thought the drinking fountain was great. He went back to it literally about 25 times throughout the game. And, he still loves drinking fountains today.
During the game, I took a fairly odd self-portrait of the two of us at the top of the spiral walkway:
The game was a good one. My main goal was to see Albert Pujols hit a home run. While that did not happen, he had a strong day at the plate going 3-5 with a double, 1 RBI and 1 run scored. I was also interested in seeing Rick Ankiel because his pitching troubles were still fresh in my mind. I wanted to see how he'd do as an outfielder and batter. He too had a strong performance. He went 3-4 with a homerun, 3 RBI, and 1 run scored. Generally, the story of the game was the Cardinals hitting and the Pirates not.
In the 4th or 5th inning, Tim and I relocated to a standing room area in RF…
…see that red arrow above? Well, maybe you should click on that picture to see it larger. If you do, you'll see a chain link fence above the out-of-town scoreboard and below the RF bleachers. The chain link fence is part of the RF wall. Behind the chain link fence is a tunnel beneath the RF bleachers. There is a single row of seating along the front of the tunnel in groups of 2-3 seats at a time. I think the purpose of those seats is to have room for wheelchair seating. In 2008, I tried to buy tickets in that row of seating, but couldn't figure out if or how I could do that.
Anyway, its a great place from which to watch a game with a young active son. I could watch the game while Tim ran circles around me without really bothering any of the other fans. There is also a "family restroom" in that tunnel, which is also handy when you have a young active child with you.
For some reason, I thought Ankiel was playing RF so I took this picture…
…of "him," but "he" ended up actually being Ryan Ludwick.
In the 6th inning, So Taguchi hit a seeing-eye single up the middle. It looked like either future Mariner Jack Wilson would snare the grounder from short stop or Matt Kata would get it from the second base position. Instead, the ball snuck by them both and Wilson and Kata ran into each other. In the process, Wilson took a direct shot to the side of the head from Kata's knee. He went down hard and stayed down a long time. Eventually, they put him on a little flatbed type golf cart and motored him out of the stadium through a tunnel right below us in the RF foul corner.
The day had been really long for young Tim. He crashed hard by the 7th or 8th inning. That was fine with me, I'd achieved what I'd come to achive. So we left. By the time we got to the south of the Robert Clemente Bridge, Tim was fast asleep…
…see, its handy to have a stroller when attending games with a 1.5 year old boy.
We drove back to the KOA and spent the night. The next day, we heaeded home to tell Colleen all about our adventures.
Our 2007 season was complete.
Now, there was one more "first" I haven't mentioned yet, the most important first of the day. Amazingly, at the age of 31, this was my first time EVER seeing the Cardinals play live, and with the game I finally completed my 30-MLB Milestone. Compared to Tim seeing all 30 teams at 3.5, I guess doing it in 31 years is pretty unimpressive. But, I have a good explanation.
I grew in Seattle, which at the time was 812 miles from the nearest National League Park, Candlestick Park. Plus, there was no inter-league play until 1997. In 1997 and 1998, I went to at least one of the interleague games featuring each NL team that visited Seattle. But, that was just the NL West. I didn't see most of the other NL teams until I moved to Philadelphia in 1999.
It was 2000 or 2001, when I first sat down and tried to figure out if I'd seen every team play at least once live. I had seen every American League team (including the Brewers) multiple times at the Kingdome. But I wasn't sure if I had completed the NL. At that point, I could pinpoint at least one specific game in which I had seen every team play except the Montreal Expos. Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals.
I checked the Expos and Astros off the list in relatively short order. But for years, I could never get to a Cardinals games. It seemed like they would visit Philadelphia for only one series per season and I could never get to that series. So, it came to late 2007 and I saw this game as my first and best chance of actually getting to a Cardinals game. I planned the trip without hesitation. So, there you have it, at age 31, I finally could say that I had seen all 30 MLB teams play live. (Notably, Tim and I have now seen the Cardinals play in Pittsburgh, Cinncinati and Philadelphia.)
I didn't keep a Baseball Log growing up, so I couldn't put together a full game list for myself like I did for Tim's 30-MLB Team Milestone. But I wanted to do something to illustrate my milestone. So, I tried to compile a list of at least one specific game when I saw each MLB team. By way of reviewing old ticket stubs (which I used to keep for years in the inside flap of my baseball caps), reviewing calendars, doing lots of research on Baseball-Reference.com, and exchanging emails with friends with whom I attended games throughout my life, I was able to pinpoint at least one specific game for every team except the Astros and Dodgers. Here you go (with brief comments for notable games):
A.L. West
Mariners – May 6, 1982 – Gaylord Perry's 300th win.
Athletics – June 24, 1997 – Randy Johnson K's 19 & Mark McGwire hits epic homerun.
Rangers – June 3, 1989 – Nolan Ryan 1-hits the M's. Harold's lead off hit is M's only hit.
Angels – June 18, 1999 – My first game at Yankee Stadium.
A.L. Central
Indians – October 10, 1995 – Game 1 of ALCS. Mariners win!
Royals – August 31, 1990 – The first game with Ken Griffey Jr. & Sr. playing together.
Twins – May 15, 2000
Tigers – August 30, 1990 – My first foul ball caught during an actual MLB game.
White Sox – April 5, 1999 – Final opening day at the Kingdome.
A.L. East
Red Sox – April 25, 1994 – Randy Johson (CG) beats Roger Clemens & Griffey hits HR.
Orioles – May 26, 1994 – Ken Griffey, Jr. hits a homerun and breaks arm making catch.
Rays – May 20, 2000
Blue Jays – September 12, 2006 – Tim's First Game.
Yankees – August 25, 1995 – Griffey's walk-off HR starts M's charge to AL West title.
N.L. West
Giants – June 19, 2004 – Barry Bonds hits his 689th homerun in Philadelphia.
Dodgers – I saw them at Dodger Stadium in June 1994 and in Seattle in 1997-98.
Padres – June 1, 1999 – My first game at Wrigley Field on "moving to Philadelphia" drive.
Rockies – September 12, 2007 – Tim's First MLB Anniversary.
Diamondbacks – August 8, 1999
N.L. Central
Cubs – June 1, 1999 – Same as above (First game at Wrigley)
Cardinals – September 29, 2007 – This game! Finally!
Pirates – June 19, 2004 – Mariners beat Pirates and Eddie Guardado throws me a ball.
Astros – Two games in Philadelphia between 2000-05, but I can't pinpoint the games.
Reds – September 4, 1999
Brewers – September 2, 1993 – Brewers playing in the AL (where they belong).
N.L. East
Phillies – April 12, 1999 – 1999 Home Opener and my first game at the Vet.
Mets – June 8, 2003 – Mariners sweep double-header at Shea behind Moyer and Garcia.
Expos – September 4, 2002 – My only "Expos" game.
Nationals – June 10, 2005 – My first "Nationals" game.
Marlins – September 9, 2007 – Tim's first game seeing Jamie Moyer pitch in person.
Braves – April 12, 1999 – same as above (Phillies Home Opener)
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Thanks and congraturations for this monumental post! I really enjoyed it!
Now I can understand why you developed Baseball Log, a very unique product.
A ballpark located on the river bank with a river flowing just beyond the scoreboard in the center field! There's nothing like this in Japan. Maybe you will have a nice game at a summer night in the cool breeze. Is there anyone waiting for a home-run ball on a boat? (I've heard some people do so at a ballpark built on the seashore)
Congrats to Tim for his 4 (i think) firsts. I bet we will see many many more in the future
I'm a long time reader of your blog and I think it's awesome how time has gotten to experience so much baseball so early in his life! God bless him. I recently saw" A Dennis the Menace Christmas" and Dennis, at points in the movie looked exactly like Tim! It was pretty cool.
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In 2004, my wife and I went to a Mariners game in Pittsburgh and during batting practice Ichiro launched home runs on three consecutive pitches that cleared the RF bleachers and bounced into the river. I'm sure someone was out there to claim the balls. It was a mighty impressive display of power by Ichiro. I don't think anyone else cleared the RF seats during BP.
Indeed, many more on tap and the stories will be told right here. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for leaving a comment. HA! "Timmis" the Menace. I can see that. Thanks for sharing, we'll have to check out Dennis. Hopefully it won't give Tim too many menacing ideas!
GREAT PICS! I'm glad you enjoyed yourself in my two favorite places-West Virginia and Pittsburgh. I live right down the road from Washington and Wheeling in Morgantown. Wheeling is a great place us college kids go to to take a break from stress of 18 credit hours. We joke that whenever we get the "FEELING" we head to "WHEELING" this time of year is great up there. A minor league hockey team plays and the city turns its christmas lights on throughout the entire area. Just a beautiful sight. Thanks for supporting my area! Glad you had a good time
You should work for the West Virginia Tourist Bureau! We had another Pirates home game and another trip through West Virgnia in '08. So look forward to that entry sometime during this off-season. Next time we get that FEELING, we'll certainly head to WHEELING.


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Posted on July 24, 2014
A group of Grand Valley faculty members received national awards from Blackboard for their work on designing engaging online courses.
Szymon Machajewski, affiliate professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, and Julia VanderMolen, assistant professor of allied health sciences, were named recipients of a 2014 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Exemplary Course.
They were recognized at Blackboard's annual user conference BbWorld, which took place July 15-17 in Las Vegas.
Machajewski said contemporary teaching involves online tools. He uses Twitter, YouTube, Blackboard and other tools to create collaborative, online environments with his students.
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Righting a Wrong
In all the hubbub of Opening Day last week, we forgot one very important thing. Before you can yell "Play ball," you have to sing the anthem. Here to right that wrong is Frank Drebin:[youtube http://youtu.be/poIRktlowCM]
Ok, now it's official. Play ball!!!
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Oh My Lord! I had forgotten about the singing in that movie which is not a bad thing. Thanks for the laugh. I have to relax. I am too excited to sleep. Is Opening Day at Dodger Stadium in 14 hours but I will be up way way before that! Gates open at 10 AM and I intend to be there b4 that.


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International travel destination: Guilin, China
Kari Iverson spent months traveling around the world. Get her tips on what to see and do in Guilin, China.
After living in Ecuador and Argentina, South America became my second home. Traveling became easy -- the language was familiar and I understood the culture. Traveling to Asia reminded me that traveling is about expanding your horizons and stepping outside of your comfort zone.
After spending a few days in Hong Kong I left for Mainland China -- I had no plans, but was ready to explore. I went to the airport where I decided to book a flight to Guilin. I spent the night at a youth hostel and the following day explored the city sights, including Xiangbi Shan (Elephant Trunk Hill) and Riyue Shuangta -- Sun and Moon pagodas. I wandered through a local market where unfamiliar fruits and dozens of different kinds of eggs and meat were sold. I exchanged smiles with a few vendors who realized I had never seen some of these products in my entire life.
Although I enjoyed the city, I departed for the infamous rice terraces at Longsheng, south of Guilin. As I stood at the bus station I realized I had no idea where to go -- my friends and I were lost, we couldn't read characters and didn't know which bus to get on. Luckily, we met three Chinese boys who were staying at the same hostel we had been at. They told me they were also traveling to the rice terraces. We boarded the bus and wound through the mountains for a few hours until we reached Longsheng. Upon arrival, we wandered up the steep terraced hills until we reached a hostel that opened its doors that same day. We wandered through the terraces with our new friends and watched the sun set from a viewing point.
Back at the hostel, we ordered a traditional meal from the area -- bamboo rice and rice wine. The rice was sticky and had a nutty taste after being cooked inside of bamboo for 3 to 4 hours.
I arrived in Longsheng at an exciting time; farmers were beginning to plant their crops in the terraces. The terraces are hills and mountains that are leveled off and look like steps. When the farmers are beginning to plant rice in the terraces, the terraces are dry. After the crop is planted they slowly begin to fill them with water. The day I arrived the terraces were not yet filled with water but by the next day when I woke up to watch the sunrise, they were beginning to fill. It was beautiful -- the mountains were reflected in the water.
Some women in the nearby village of Huangluo have extremely long hair, a long-time tradition. Their long hair is tied up and twisted into a knot and they still wear their ethnic clothing to keep their culture alive. Many of these women welcome visitors to the village and carry baskets with a strap made of their hair offering to help you carry your belongings.
Although my stay in Longsheng was short, it was one of my favorite places in China. Escaping crowded buses and the noisy city was relaxing. The beauty of the terraces was surreal; exploring the small village was very rewarding since the locals were so welcoming.
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March 13, 2013 —
In my last column about webcams, readers were pointed to opportunities to intimately observe birds with the aid of modern technology. Those who prefer a more active role can consider participating in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's NestWatch project, in which "citizen scientists" are helping to provide answers to questions about bird nesting behavior by monitoring nests and reporting their observations utilizing online data entry tools.
NestWatch is a nationwide program designed to track trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, the number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch and how many hatchlings survive. The database will be used to study breeding bird populations and how they may be changing over time as a result of climate change, habitat degradation and loss, expansion of urban areas and the introduction of non-native plants and animals.
Based on details of nesting behavior reported to the program so far, project leader Jason Martin recently reflected on the question of how a bird such as the Northern cardinal, which frequently nests close to the ground and is so visually conspicuous, can still be so abundant.
Despite its low rate of nesting success, with typically fewer than 40% of nests fledging at least one young, cardinals still thrive. Martin believes the answer can be found partly in the long breeding season, which may begin in late February and continue into September, allowing for more than one brood of young per year. As habitat generalists, cardinals successfully nest in a variety of habitats, building nests in the lower reaches of trees, shrubs or brush.
Their high survival rates may also be attributed to avoiding the stress of migration. One Pennsylvania cardinal was recorded to be at least 15 and a half years old.
The intense red color and vigorous song of the male serve as advertisements for mates. According to the Birds of North America Online, the intensity of a cardinal's redness is related to the quality of his food source and indicates that he holds a good territory. Females respond to redness as a sign of a healthy mate, thereby encouraging the evolution of bright coloring in males.
NestWatch is looking for more participants to expand its program and aid understanding of this beautiful bird and other bird species. Visit www.nestwatch.org [2] for tips, stats, species information and details about how to monitor nests as part of the free project. Other targeted species include the Eastern bluebird, tree swallow, house wren, black-capped chickadee, American robin, Eastern phoebe, barn swallow, mourning dove, house finch and more.


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At an estimated cost of $38 billion a year, lighting represents the largest source of electricity consumption in U.S. commercial buildings. A new breakthrough by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Lab could help commercial buildings save on lighting and ventilation costs by improving the accuracy of motion detection.
Commercial buildings have high energy needs and can put great strain on the nation's power grids during peak periods. Developing more efficient buildings helps ensure a steady supply of affordable power and significantly lowers operating costs for business.
The Department of Energy works to develop and deploy cost-effective solutions that help increase efficiency and reduce the cost of powering commercial buildings. Through research, best practices and the Better Buildings Initiative, the Department is working with businesses to create a cleaner, more sustainable future.
During a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Secretary Moniz met with some of the all-union workers who are building a super-efficient office building downtown.
How a focus on energy efficiency and renewable energy is helping one Massachusetts city prosper.
As a researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Dr. Michael Brambley is working to improve the energy efficiency of our nation's buildings. In this "10 Questions," learn how he is marrying engineering and computer technology to cut energy waste in commercial buildings.


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- Narrative identity as a central theme in an ethics of librarianship
- Author(s)
- Jones, Bonna
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- The theory of narrative identity presented by Paul Ricoeur is suggested as a basis for understanding the notion of person. The action of reading is considered as an analogy to understand not only how we make an account of an individual or corporate life, but also how we as persons live inside an identity as an ongoing consciousness. Some implications for an ethics of librarianship are explored.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Swinburne Graduate School of Management
- Source
- Australian Library Journal, Vol. 50, no. 2 (2001), pp. 121-131
- Publication year
- 2001
- Keyword(s)
- Librarianship; Information; Ethics; Philosophy; Reading; Authors; Library science; Reader text relationship; Personal narratives; Self concept
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- Australian Library and Information Association
- 0004-9670
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- Copyright © 2001 Bonna Jones.
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Police: Man failed to register as offenderMarch 26,2014Cops: Man failed to
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A man convicted in 1999 in Bennington of sexual assault on a minor is behind bars on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.
Jeremy Smith, 36, who until recently had lived in Troy, N.Y., pleaded innocent last week in federal court in Burlington to the charge, according to a press release from the U.S. attorney's office. Smith was ordered jailed pending a trial, which has not been scheduled.
According to court records, Smith's 1999 conviction in Bennington required him to register as a sex offender in any state where he resides or moves to. In early 2011, after being released from prison in Vermont, Smith moved to New York, records stated.
However, he did not register as a sex offender with New York officials, according to court records.
A federal grand jury in Rutland returned an indictment last month charging Smith with failing to register, and he was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in South Carolina on Feb. 21. He has been jailed since his arrest.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER Vermont hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for 2017 will be available Dec. Full StoryWHITE RIVER JUNCTION A Vermont National Guard member has denied a charge of sexually... Full StoryRutland City is getting $20,000 to tweak its zoning laws. Full Story
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Omega 3s and RA
By Health Day
Yet another reason for fish-lovers to rejoice! Eating fish regularly may significantly cut your risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.
Researchers analyzed the dietary habits of more than 32,000 women who took part in a Swedish Mammography study.
They were asked to complete questionnaires about their eating, exercise and smoking habits, as well as their height and weight, and use of supplements and aspirin.
The surveys also requested detailed information about fatty and lean fish- specifically how much and how often the women ate these foods.
During the monitoring period, 205 women were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
Digging deeper, the data showed those who ate at least one serving of fatty fish or four servings of lean fish a week had half the risk of rheumatoid arthritis compared to women who consumed less.
The researchers say the benefit here can be attributed to the omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in fish.
Americans are already advised to eat at least 2 servings of fish a week due to its heart health benefits. Now, we may be able to add joint protection to the list!
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The 4th and Fireworks
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Just one week until the 4th of July so it's the perfect time to talk about ways to play it safe this red, white and blue holiday.
The American College of Emergency Physicians strongly recommends you let the PROs take care of the pyrotechnics
But If fireworks are legal where you live, and you're planning to use some at home, start by buying from a reputable dealer.
Make sure an experienced adult handles things on the big day and that all warning labels and instructions are read and followed.
Young children should not be given anything to hold...including sparklers, which can burn as hot as a blow torch. Older children should be supervised by a responsible adult.
When setting off the fireworks, make sure you light the fuse...and immediately back up. Never try to re-light or pick up fireworks that have not ignited fully.
Keep a bucket of water or fire extinguisher on hand in case of emergency and to cool off any hot spots.
Almost half of fireworks injuries are to a person's hands or fingers while, a-third impact the eyes, head, face and ears.
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Capital Sounds: Music, beer and springMay 01,2013
By Ed DuFresne
Arts Correspondent
From the looks of things outside my front door, spring has definitely sprung, and we can look forward to our Green Mountains becoming green again in the coming days. Spring in Montpelier has also become a time to celebrate outdoors, and every first Saturday in May (that would be this Saturday), The Three Penny Taproom has its annual Montbeerlier festival, honoring the beer-bar and resto's birthday.
Besides all the cask-conditioned beers and house-made sausage and grilled wild leek sandwiches, they also add music to the mix, with top-notch production to go along with it. If any of you attended last year, you'll recall the awesome sets of tunes by Northampton, Mass.-based The Primate Fiasco. The band will be performing an encore of its unique brand of psychedelic Dixieland, perfect for dancing in the streets. In addition, the stage will feature a showcase of local talent courtesy of Montpelier's own State and Main Records. The fun starts at 2 p.m. and goes 'til about 10, and it all happens on Langdon Street in the heart of downtown Montpelier. Happy birthday, 3PT.
There's also lots going on at our local indoor venues, with Charlie-O's on Main Street in the capital kicking off the weekend early tonight with its open blues jam hosted by longtime local ax-slinger Blue Fox. Bring your instrument and your best blues chops starting at 8 p.m.
Friday night, indie psych-pop duo There Is No Mountain, out of Portland, Ore., rolls through town bringing its upbeat, jangly sound to the back of the barroom. Local up and comer Dan Zuraopens the show, starting about 10 p.m.
Saturday night, our local dive for nice people switches gears to a more punky-Americana direction when it hosts the raucous and rowdy Pariah Beat, which always delivers a great time at the ol' world famous. Violet Ultraviolet opens the show, once again at 10 p.m. Best of all, shows at O's are always free; as the motto states, "Never a cover." Yes!
Things are also happening over in Barre these days, with the Southside Tavern hosting live music on a weekly basis, and not just your run of the mill local-yokel stuff. Saturday night, the Southy presents Portsmouth, N.H.-based jammers Superfrog, bringing a funky, upbeat, horn-laced sound to the Granite City starting at 8 p.m. for $5 at the door. As a bonus, the tavern will even give you a ride to and from the show, with a shuttle that runs to Norwich, Montpelier, Plainfield and the like. For more info, find 'em on
Facebook, and do your part to help support live music in Barre by simply showing up.
Back in the capital, for those looking for something earlier in the evening, you can check out local folkie Colin McCaffrey tonight at Bagitos on Main Street. He'll have some special guests along for the ride starting at 6 p.m.
Friday night, the Bag hosts bluesman Chickie Stoltz, with folk-rocker Steve Ormprey featured Saturday evening at 6. And Sunday, perhaps the most interesting show of the weekend happens during brunch when Bagitos hosts a tribute to the iconic Reverend Gary Davis with William Lee Ellis, Leda Schubert, Andy Pitt, Mark Greenberg and others starting at 11 a.m. A great option for those who want their live music during daylight hours.
Looking to get your dance on? Positive Pie II on State Street is hosting a disco party Friday night with a live DJ spinning hits from the late '70s. Revisit the days of Studio 54 starting at 10 p.m. for a mere $3 at the door. If you want to get your dance on to a live band, the Pie has you covered Saturday night with local neo-reggae outfit Bossman, featuring the vocal and percussion stylings of longtime local frontman Brandon Klarich. Get irie starting at 10:30 p.m. for a nominal cover at the door. Ya, mon!
Looking to get out of town? You can head up Route 12 to Morrisville on Friday night to check out local indie folk-rock outfit Anachronist at Moog's Place in the heart of downtown Mo-Vegas. The atmospheric Anders Parker and Cloud Badge co-bills.
Saturday night, Moog's hosts Johnson-based groove-grass act Tall Grass Get Down. Moog's hosts live music nearly every night of the week, and purportedly will be bringing a second location to Montpelier in the former Langdon Street Café space, something local live music fans are definitely looking forward to.
And finally, if you're looking for more daytime live music, you can head down to Waitsfield on Sunday at 11 a.m. to catch Lewis Franco and the Brown Eyed Girls along with Dono Schabner playing swingin' folk to benefit Spring Hill School. Tix are $6, with kids 2 and under free.
That about wraps up this week. Get on outside, enjoy spring, and go see live music.
Ed DuFresne is the former talent coordinator at Langdon Street Café and The Black Door, occasionally produces concerts, and books at various venues in the area on a freelance basis. He lives in Montpelier with a lovely Polish anarchist, an energetic waitress, a budding renaissance man and a calico cat named Turtle.
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The 10 Beer-Drinkingest States In America
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Though the wine and spirits markets have grown during the last few years, Americans' love of beer still hasn't reached last call.
Americans put down 28.2 gallons of beer per capita last year, according to Washington, D.C., beer industry group The Beer Institute. That's nearly two 15.5-gallon kegs apiece, or nearly six of their buddy's five-gallon homebrew kegs. It's also well up from the 20.8 gallons they put down last year, which is saying far more about the health of the industry than it lets on.
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Emails add to state school board firing controversy
The return of Dr. James Phares to Randolph County this week, speaking at Monday's county Board of Education meeting, makes this an opportune time to look at what he accomplished locally, and also at the controversy surrounding the way he was hired as the interim state superintendent of schools.
Emails between Wade Linger, the president of the state Board of Education, and Phares show the two men were communicating about the possible replacement of then-Superintendent Jorea Marple for two months before she was fired. The emails were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Linger said he asked Phares for a biography in September, but added that the idea of replacing Marple dates to the review of a March 2012 education-efficiency audit. Marple was fired Nov. 15, 2012 in a public meeting, five months after a positive performance review.
Marple is now suing the state board and demanding a hearing to confront its members about her firing. Marple is requesting a "full airing of the issues" in court, in addition to compensatory and punitive damages.
Phares and Linger worked together in Marion County, but Linger says the appointment of Phares was neither predetermined or politically motivated.
Maybe not, but even Linger was aware that their pre-firing communications might not pass the public stink test. Shortly after Marple was fired, Phares told The Inter-Mountain and other media outlets that he intended to resign as Randolph County's superintendent. Linger then warned him by email to hold off on resigning.
"I am being told that it is a bad idea for you to take any kind of resignation action whatsoever until after the WVBOE takes official action offering you the position," Linger wrote. "The concern is that your doing so will create the appearance that I am overstepping my authority by offering a position on my own."
Exactly. The public should be able to safely assume that state officials are not making decisions in secret and exerting undue influence on important matters. Which is why we believe the state should fully investigate the Marple firing and the manner by which Phares was selected as her successor. Only by learning the truth about the situation can taxpayers be sure whether the process was conducted according to law and state policy.
This is not to take away from what Phares accomplished in Randolph County. He was hired by the Randolph BOE in 2009, and took over the school system when it was under scrutiny from the West Virginia Department of Education and the Office of Education Performance Audit. Phares helped lead the school system through the turmoil, and full accreditation eventually was given to the system.
He also helped spearhead the excess levy that was passed by voters in 2010. The levy was the first to pass in Randolph County since 1989.
Phares has a solid record of leadership in Randolph County, and although he was hired to serve as state superintendent on a short-term basis, signs point to the possibility that he may be in the position for quite some time.
His appearance in Randolph County Monday was part of his planned tour to speak before every county board of education in the state. That doesn't sound like the plan of a short-term superintendent.
If Phares stays in the position for the long term, that is all the more reason to get to the bottom of his hiring and Marple's firing now. Otherwise, a dark cloud will hang over his tenure, forever raising questions about the legitimacy of his appointment. We believe Phares, Marple and the state's taxpayers all deserve better.


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Spoiler alert: If you haven't read or seen "The Hunger Games," vital character details are revealed below.
Even though it's been five months since the blockbuster movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins' international best-selling novel hit theaters, some of the stars of "The Hunger Games" are thrilled the movie is living on in a big way -- even though their characters have perished.
Take for instance Amandla Stenberg, who plays fan favorite Rue: a diminutive District 11 Tribute who is at the core of the one of the most emotional scenes in the film.
"I always feel bad when people tell me, 'I cried when you died.' I don't know what to do when that happens. Do I say, 'Thank you? Or do I say, I'm sorry'? I don't know," said Stenberg with a puzzled laugh. "I don't want to take credit it for it, but it's Rue's death that really starts the revolution in book three. She sparks Katniss in a big way."
In new interviews for the Saturday release of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray (Lionsgate Home Entertainment), Stenberg and fellow stars Diyo Okeniyi and Willow Shields told me they're excited about the release of the film on home video because it will give fans access to even more of the worldwide movie hit.
"This thing is chock-full of special features, so people will really get a chance to delve into what it was really like to make this movie and to bring Suzanne Collins' vision to life," said Okeniyi, who plays Thresh, Rue's fellow District 11 Tribute. "They're going to be really pleased with all the stuff on the DVD and Blu-ray."
Directed by Gary Ross from a script co-written by Ross and Collins, "The Hunger Games" is set largely in the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem, the future ruins of what was once known as North America. It's there where each of the country's 12 Districts annually sends a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games: a nationally-televised event where the participants, known as Tributes, must fight each other to the death, until one survivor remains.
Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen, a District 12 Tribute who volunteers herself to take part in the games in place of her younger sister, Primrose (Shields), who would likely not survive long in the brutal environment.
Although a controversy about the violence in the film brewed around the time of its release in theaters, Shields said viewers with concerns need to look beyond that.
"A lot of people may want look at that book and movie and say, 'Oh, my God, it's just full of violence.' But I think of it as a story about Katniss fighting for her family, so I don't look at it that way," Shields said.
Okeniyi agrees with Shields' assessment, saying it's the bond between Katniss and Primrose that should matter most to people.
"If you look at the core of the story -- it's about a girl sacrificing for the one she loves. It's the story about a girl who takes the place of her sister, knowing that she might not make it back to her family. I think that intrigues people more than the spectacle of the action and the sci-fi element," Okeniyi said. "The part of the story that really gets people is the thought of, 'Oh, my gosh, what if my sister was put in Prim's position, would I sacrifice for her? Would I be courageous enough to boldly go to a place where I might not make it back? The violence is just a backdrop for the whole thing."
That's not to say the violence doesn't have any meaning. Stenberg believe it's a very important element of the story that drives the film's point home.
"The story is kind of like a cautionary tale. It's happened in the past with the Roman Coliseum and people fighting each other to the death, so the story sort of pulls from that and puts it in the future," Stenberg said. "It's like a word of caution because people have become too desensitized to violence."
Looking Ahead
Shields, who is one of the few younger stars returning to the work on "Catching Fire" this fall, said she's already read the script, and thinks fans are going to be pleased with what they see.
"I think fans are going to love it because it sticks very, very close to the book," Shields said. "I'm really excited to go shoot 'Catching Fire' because I get to go hang out with Jennifer again. It's going to be really fun.
"Primrose gets more mature in 'Catching Fire' and she plays a bigger role in the story, so that's really exciting."
While Stenberg and Okeniyi won't be a part of the next "Hunger Games" films, they can at least say they had the joys of experiencing the madness of the "Hunger Games" nationwide mall tour, a massively popular event that brought fans out in droves before the film was released in theaters in March.
"I felt like one of the Backstreet Boys. The acceptance was of Justin Bieber proportions," Okeniyi said, laughing. "The crazy thing was, the movie hadn't even come out yet and fans were trying to find us in our hotels. The passion was incredible. To be a part of something like that, all narcissism aside, it was a very humbling experience."
Even better, the film met expectations, which came as a big relief to Okeniyi and his fellow cast members.
"Oh man, you don't want to be in the crew that messed up Suzanne Collins' work," Okeniyi said with a laugh.


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Fourteen members of the Bluefield State College Model United Nations club attended the 23rd annual International American Model United Nations Convention in Chicago, Illinois, November 17-21. Approximately 2000 participants from over 125 colleges and universities took part in the simulation of United Nations committees and conference, including a mock Security Council Emergency Session from 1 a.m.-3 a.m. on the third night of the convention. The Emergency Session of the Security Council dealt with the anticipated takeover of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the so-called M23 rebels.
"The AMUN convention utilizes real issues discussed by the actual United Nations in New York City, and teams from the various colleges and universities must 'act in character' by truly adhering to the expressed positions of the countries they are representing," noted Dr. Colin Cavell, BSC's Model UN Director. This year, the BSC Model UN team represented the countries of Togo and Poland.
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One of the senior technical members of the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, which developed and distributed the popular 4BSD Berkeley Unix operating system release.
Founder and President of Sleepycat Software, providing embedded database technology and services to professional software developers.
Keith Bostic joined the Computer Science Research Group at Berkeley in 1986 where his first job was finishing up a port of 4.3BSD to the PDP-11. He was later one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases, and instrumental in an expanded public release of the BSD code, managing an effort to rewrite utilities and libraries based only on the documentation. These efforts led to the Net/2 release, which was the basis for 386/BSD, and subsequently FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Bostic was also one of the founders of BSDi. He currently runs SleepyCat Software, which develops and supports Berkeley DB, an open source embedded database.
This O'Reilly Network interview was conducted through several e-mail exchanges.
O'Reilly Network: Are you optimistic that a common FreeBSD/BSDi release can reinvigorate the BSD platform?
Keith Bostic: Yes, I am. BSD has always had the best technology, what it has lacked is timing and marketing.
O'Reilly: Is it important to have this choice or would the market be better served by getting behind Linux?
Bostic: It's never preferable to have a market owned by a single vendor. If nothing else, having competition validates the marketplace, i.e., you can ignore one guy jumping off a bridge, but if two or more are doing it, well, you have to take notice.
O'Reilly: One might say that Linux is not built around a single vendor, but a single code base. Is it valuable to have different code bases, then?
Bostic: Well, first, Linux isn't really built around a single code base, although it is certainly more of a single code base than BSD is. That said, I don't think it's particularly good or bad to have multiple code bases, I don't think it matters much.
O'Reilly: Did BSDi make the wrong choice by doing so much proprietary development instead of going down the Open Source path.
Bostic: I think that's clearly true. When BSDi started (1992), it wasn't nearly so clear as it is now that Open Source is a viable economic model. There was a minority at the time that pushed for what would now be called an Open Source model, but as I said, things were different then.
O'Reilly: You are the person who had the bright idea to rewrite all the utilities and the C library, to remove any taint from AT&T. What made you think at the time you could pull this off? Apparently, your colleagues at Berkeley didn't think this was possible. It's an amazing achievement.
Bostic: I wouldn't say I had the idea. It's been an awfully long time, but I think that John Gilmore originally suggested it. And, of course, Richard Stallman had obviously been doing similar things for a long time, and he would periodically drop by CSRG to borrow a terminal and we'd argue back and forth about the why and how of free software. I can probably take the credit for making it happen at Berkeley, but like most things, it's hard to point to a single Eureka! moment or person who had the idea. I suppose if we'd truly understood how hard it would be, both in terms of time and legal hassles, we probably wouldn't have tried to do it. But there were lots of goals along the project path that were good in and of themselves, and so it was easy to gradually work our way to the point where we looked around and said "Hey, we're almost done."
O'Reilly: You say that FreeBSD is technically better than Linux. What evidence is there for this opinion? Or what areas of FreeBSD are significantly different from Linux as to make this case? If a technical person wanted to investigate this argument, where would you look to start?
Bostic: The obvious examples are the network stack and the filesystem support. It's been at least a year since I really looked at the Linux kernel, so you have to take this for what it's worth, but at that time the various BSD kernels were still significantly better engineered than the Linux kernel. For example, the Linux filesystem can lose data if you crash at the wrong moment. That's not acceptable. The Linux NFS support was pretty bad (not that BSD's was all that wonderful).
To be perfectly clear -- I'm not a Linux basher. Everybody that works on Linux or runs Linux is my good friend, we're on the same side and have a lot more shared goals than differences. That said, there was a clear technical differentiation between the BSD and Linux systems at the time. Now, to be fair, there's also a clear technical differentiation between BSD and Solaris, i.e., Solaris is currently a better engineered kernel.
Whether these kinds of technical differences matter at all in the larger scheme of things, well, that's a harder argument to make. Unix is infinitely superior to Windows, and look which one dominates the marketplace.
Sure, the technical quality of the systems matters to me, because I'm an engineer. However, as an engineer, it's important to look yourself in the eye in the mirror every morning, and remind yourself that "marketing is everything," and engineering doesn't matter a tinker's damn. Once you get to "good enough," any further engineering work you do is fun and rewarding, but has nothing to do with how well the product will do in the marketplace. The surprising fact that came out of the 1980's was just how low a standard "good enough" was. People really didn't care that they had to reboot their Windows boxes every morning. People really didn't care that the user interface was horrible (Apple never did figure that out).
O'Reilly: How much of the technical advantage stems from the original BSD code or from the newer developments coming from the FreeBSD team?
Bostic: Both. Certainly some of it is the original BSD code. Both the network stack and the filesystem work came from the original BSD code. Doing a good network stack is a very difficult project -- the BSD stack has at least 15 years of development in it now, and lots of very bright people spending serious research time on making it work. Linux and Microsoft both started from scratch, and it showed.
|"Linux is still very much directed by a small core, while FreeBSD has pushed the core developer group out into a larger set of people."
That said, FreeBSD has done a much better job of leveraging the community for quality than Linux has. Note the phrase "for quality" -- that's what makes that sentence correct. Linux is still very much directed by a small core, while FreeBSD has pushed the core developer group out into a larger set of people. One of the things I admire most about Jordan Hubbard is the job he's done in herding the cats and pushing FreeBSD's quality forward. He's done a better job of distributed management than we ever did at UC Berkeley (although, in our defense, he has better tools and infrastructure than we ever had at UC Berkeley, for example, the Web and high-speed networking).
O'Reilly: Was the original idea behind BSDi to find a way to continue development of BSD outside the University and allow its developers to be paid commercially for the work they were doing?
Bostic: To find a way to continue development of BSD outside the University, definitely. To pay the developers, no, not really.
Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick and I have long been accused of leaving Berkeley for BSDi because it was a commercial opportunity, and it's obviously not true. We could have all left and closed down UC Berkeley's development and never released 4.4BSD. Instead, we stayed at the University, did additional work and releases, and gave it all away to anyone that wanted it, as the University had always done.
The only key developer that went to BSDi was Mike Karels, and he didn't go until a year or so after BSDi was founded. Mike left before Kirk and I did because he wanted to return to Minnesota to live, and the fact that BSDi needed a system architect made it a natural and easy move for him. (And, I should point out, he and other BSDi employees continued to work on the 4.4BSD release as well as their own release, so BSDi to some extent funded the 4.4BSD release.) Kirk and I stayed at UC Berkeley for a couple years after that, then I took a year off and spent a couple of years at BSDi. Kirk has never been a BSDi employee, although he's consulted for them and is now chairman of their board.
The bottom line is that, had there been continued funding at UC Berkeley, we would all have stayed there, probably forever. Universities are really, really, nice places to work. But, all of us were engineers, and none of us had any interest in spending our time fund-raising, and the University no longer had any real interest in keeping us there. So, we looked around for some way to continue doing what we liked to do.
And we wanted BSD to continue to move forward. It was our baby; we wouldn't be human if we hadn't. But that was an engineering goal, not a money-making one. We were never in it for the money; if so, we sure wouldn't have been working at UC Berkeley!
O'Reilly: I recall Rick Adams as the driving force in organizing BSDi.
Bostic: Rick was a big founding force -- it wouldn't have happened without him. (I think that the original idea for BSDi came out of a discussion he and I had in his office, although I suppose it might have been obvious to anyone thinking about engineering and operating systems at the time. Especially after the OSF group was created. When OSF was first being founded, a group of folks approached the Hamilton Group and offered to create a clean-room implementation of Unix for not a lot of money. Given the eventual success of the OSF group, they should have taken us up on that offer! But, that's another story.) Anyway, Rick was the person that put together the actual structure of BSDi, more than any other single individual, I think. Rob Kolstad came later, first as a technical manager and then as the president, not in a founding role. At least, that's how I remember it.
O'Reilly: What interests me is that BSDi is an early attempt to start a company by and for engineers.
Bostic: Yeah -- what a spectacularly bad idea. See above: Marketing is all that matters. Once you come to terms with that you can relax more when you see Microsoft dominate.
O'Reilly: As the Open Source movement progresses, learning about the formative experiences of BSDi could be relevant.
Bostic: I think BSDi is a reasonable case study, but it's not a shocking fact: Engineers generally aren't good or experienced in the 90 percent of the work that is necessary to make money from the 10 percent of the work which is the writing of the code. (And, there's no reason that they should be good at it, I suppose.)
O'Reilly: Was BSDi technically smart but not market savvy?
Bostic: Yes.
O'Reilly: So let's suppose that Walnut Creek CD, which has been reasonably successful at selling a FreeBSD packaged product, can bring some of the marketing expertise that's been missing. The new BSDi will be competing with Linux companies that have a lot of marketing dollars. Still, do you believe there's a good future for FreeBSD and BSDi, especially as they converge on a unified code base?
|"There are good reasons for the Open Source movement -- it's not that we're a bunch of random zealots crying in the wilderness because we had authority problems with our parents."
Bostic: Absolutely. I'm pretty optimistic about FreeBSD/BSDi, Linux, and Open Source in general. It's important to remember that there are good reasons for the Open Source movement -- it's not that we're a bunch of random zealots crying in the wilderness because we had authority problems with our parents. Open Source software has distinct advantages over closed software, and I think we'll be pleasantly surprised at how useful those advantages turn out to be in the marketplace and the future of software development.
I think the interesting question right now is if commercial Open Source companies can succeed and grow over the long term. It is difficult and often impossible to make money from Open Source software, that is, from the software itself. You make your money from proprietary software wrapped around the Open Source software, from packaging, from support, that is, from things that are ancillary to the Open Source software itself. This doesn't match the traditional business model of selling the intellectual property inherent in the software, and the revenue streams scale in completely different ways. I'm just not sure how that's going to play out.
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Yes, hippies, we know that we can "save the world" by merely giving up all of the things that make modern life worth living. Thanks for reminding us that we can save lots of greenhouse gases by simply walking the 13 miles to work in the middle of the damned summer. We'll get right on that.
Though to be fair, a huge chunk of the damage we're doing to the world is due to things you probably didn't even know you were doing. For instance ...
5A Massive Amount of Power Goes to Gadgets You Aren't Using
Most of us have a weird double standard when it comes to using or wasting electricity. You'd never leave your refrigerator open or your front door open in the summer when the AC is running. And you'd be regarded as a crazy person if you left your oven on at all times so you wouldn't have to wait for it to preheat if you wanted to cook a pizza.
"I like to eat a baked chicken every hour, on the hour."
But everything from your computer to your TV to your Blu-ray player does something equally crazy, and they're probably doing it right now.
The Horrible Downside:
Two words: Vampire energy.
Not to be confused with its mortal foe, werewolf energy.
Most modern devices are like your computer -- they don't turn all the way off, they just go into sleep mode, either because it makes them start up faster the next time or because they have little blue lights on at all times to make them look cool. As long as these devices are plugged into a socket, they suck the teat of Mother Electricity, little by little, 24 hours a day.
But honestly, how much power can that really be? It can't really take that much to keep your sleeping computer alive or your TiVo on standby for when it wants to record something. Right?
With all the extra seconds you save not unplugging things, you'll be able to write an extra six Facebook messages per year!
Actually, the "vampire drain" of your various plugged-ins accounts for up to 10 percent of your home's total power usage. That's more than $3 billion per year out of our pockets. "Our" doesn't mean "the government" here, either -- it means you, personally. Experts estimate that the average home loses around $200 per year because of the phenomenon.
And if you think the monetary part is nasty, wait until you see how downright ugly things get on a planetary scale. Vampire drain isn't just sneaking five bucks off your wallet for a Big Mac every now and then. Machines that leak power all the time pollute all the time. Vampire drain is responsible for 100 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions every year, an amount that would take 10 million cars to fart out. It is estimated to account for up to 40 percent of the energy used for home electronics ... and it's on the rise. By 2020, some estimates expect the cost of vampire drain to hit 20 percent of our national power use.
That's every nuclear power plant in America keeping your iPhone topped off.
Think about that the next time the government is going on and on about spending billions to replace 20 percent of the power plants with renewable energy by 2020. All of that power will be sucked up by gadgets that aren't actually doing anything.
And that's not even mentioning the other idle energy wasters -- to just name one, think about the many office buildings, where useless nighttime lighting and air conditioning fight a never-ending war that benefits no one, yet manages to piss away 38 million tons of coal every year.
There are three people inside that building right now.
Or those open display refrigerators most supermarkets have. While the ecologically frozen cheesecake we have a hankering for is certainly easier to grab when there's no pesky doors to open, the energy they waste amounts to leaving your fridge open all day -- if you had dozens and dozens of fridges. It's 1,550 tons of carbon emissions per year. Per store.
Oh, and the things cool down the building so much that they force the heating systems to waste even more energy as they try to heat it up again. With the simple act of adding some doors, most supermarkets could reduce their energy consumption by up to 68 percent. But that would be a deterrent to customers who don't like to have to slide glass to get to their frozen pizzas.
"Fuck that noise. Hand me a mallet!"
4Birth Control Turns Your Pee into Fish Poison
Hormonal birth control, while awesome and liberating and instrumental for relatively consequence-free sex, does have some pretty serious side effects. We've already discussed how it can fundamentally change who you find attractive, which is weird, but does keep things interesting.
Incidentally, there's another interesting thing about the birth control pill: The way it turns your pee into fish poison.
"But no, hey, those condoms sound like a real hassle."
The Horrible Downside:
That's not some weird euphemism. Birth control pills work by flooding the body with synthetic versions of estrogen and progestin. Together, they stabilize hormones and effectively dumb down a woman's ability to become pregnant, thus saving her hundreds of dollars every Christmas.
Basically, it's this or a week of sex and drugs in your beach house every December.
But all that ingested estrogen creates a surplus, which the body dumps the best way it can: by peeing it out. The jacked-up urine goes into the sewage system, which feeds it into the waterways ... where the hormone eventually ends up in fish.
A seven-year experiment in Ontario, Canada, yielded some alarming results. The good news: The estrogen wasn't quite enough to straight up kill the fish. The bad news: It did bring the followed populations close to complete extinction by giving the male fish some serious gender issues -- and rendering them infertile in the process.
At least unwanted fish pregnancies are at an all-time low.
As fish gonads shrank and sales of fish training bras soared in Canada, studies from Boulder, Colorado, and the Potomac River also showed dramatic increases in aquatic gender confusion. In some instances, the percentage of intersex fish --fish with both male and female traits -- was as high as 80 percent. These were not isolated incidents, either -- a full third of all surveyed rivers show similar symptoms.
Other continents are also experiencing the fishy underbelly of sexual liberation -- five in seven Northern European countries struggle with the phenomenon.
"On the plus side, those of us with working gonads are getting mad fin."
In a world already set to run out of many kinds of seafood by 2048, this creates a conundrum: If we make fewer babies and lower the world demand for seafood, we force the fish populations down. If we make more babies, so do the fish -- we'll just eat them all. So, either someone MacGyvers a solution for the problem pretty damn now, or we're looking at a future of mass vasectomies sponsored by Red Lobster and Long John Silver's.
"For every man at the table who gets snipped, you each get a free order of coleslaw."


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"This one's for every one of those fans in the stands that pull for me every week and take all the bull**** from everybody else." - Tony Stewart, July 29, 2007


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It's a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked "Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it's the Palestinians". By creating a middle Eastern version of the Warsaw ghetto they are recapitulating their own history as though they've forgotten it. And by trying to paint an equivalence between the Palestinians – with their homemade rockets and stone-throwing teenagers – and themselves – with one of the most sophisticated military machines in the world – they sacrifice all credibility. [more]
See also: Top 5 Lies About Israel's Assault on Gaza, and: The Maps Tell the True Story.
Yea, Israel is the victim as their borders constantly expand . . . and I got a bridge to sell you – best bridge ever. Call now, while supplies last.


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Comic book movies are the greatest gift Hollywood has ever given unto mankind, and I'll tell you why, because if I didn't, that statement would just hang there like a flaccid, weird penis on a fence post, all inexplicable and unusual and in need of justification. Beyond comic book geek culture, beyond the various subgroups of nerds who enjoy stories of men made of iron and spiders, a comic book movie represents how much we truly, as a people, value imagination.
The Avengers grossed exactly all the money ever. Even if you don't like the movie (which only means that you're a bad person and slightly dirty in the soul), it represents so much -- wonder and spectacle and fantasy. Those are great things. As great as boobs or gravy or boobs with gravy on them (in a way that is somehow less gross than what you're imagining).
While the latest crop of movies is generally enjoying a lot of positive buzz, there was also a time when comic book movies were all Daredevils and Spider-Man 3s, and the very act of watching them made your butthole clench and sputter like an angry old person viewing young people on the lawn. And the Internet, since that time, has made much of the "best" movies and the "worst" movies, all the while overlooking one key group of comic book films: the best worst movies. Good thing I wrote this article to fix that shit.
5 Dr. Strange (1978)
The year is 1978. A young Roman Polanski decides that molesting young girls and fleeing the country is better than molesting young girls and going to prison. Ted Bundy is arrested in Florida. Someone steals the remains of Charlie Chaplin from a Swiss cemetery. It's a pretty decent year for awful shit.
Somewhere north of Hollywood, maybe in a shack, maybe an opium den, someone hatches the idea to develop a Dr. Strange film based on the Marvel comic book about a sorcerer who looks like an over-the-hill European gigolo who's endured a lifelong struggle with denying his own sexuality.
The plot of Dr. Strange involves an evil sorceress, and Dr. Strange becomes the new sorcerer supreme to defend against her and other evil-type people. Jessica Walter, whom you may know as Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development, plays Morgan LeFay, so we can pretend, in retrospect, that if the TV show had been picked up, it would have featured the evil of Pop-Pop and Uncle Father Oscar.
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Pictured: Dr. Strange's mentor, Professor Ass Tapper.
As a Marvel movie of the '70s, this had no choice but to be terrible, but it's worth noting that when Strange is introduced about eight minutes into the movie as a mild-mannered psychiatrist with no knowledge of what's to come, he's also introduced as a doctor who routinely shows up late for work and bangs the nurses from the hospital while cracking jokes about buying them shitty perfume. Was Dr. Strange the origin of the term "some strange" in reference to obtaining illicit sex from someone whose name you couldn't care less about? I like to think so, and I like to think that this movie specifically is what brought it out.
Strange has to accept his fate and fight against not just Lucille Bluth but her twitching red/orange dildo of a boss, whose name may never actually be established, but which we can assume is Dildwar the Horrendous. Will Strange be up to the challenge? Will he continue to drink malt liquor and offer rides on his stellar, Magnum-level mustache? We'll never know, because the movie was broadcast opposite Roots, no one watched it, and it never became a TV show.
4 Captain America (1990)
Before Captain America: The First Avenger made us all believe in the power of nerds injected with super-secret serums made from the blood of Jose Canseco, in 1990 he was born to shitty-movie stardom in a film with effects so special, they have to wear their own helmets.
In this version of the story, Red Skull is Italian for some reason and was kidnapped as a child by Nazis, because that's just how they do shit, and Captain America has flappy rubber wings on his mask for ears. It's pretty dope all around. Most people will tell you that this version of Captain America is the worst one, that this is the worst comic book movie ever (although I can't stress enough the existence of Daredevil, Elektra, and The Fantastic Four), and that this is, in fact, one of the most terrible films of all time in general.
There is a scene in this movie in which Captain America has been welded to a missile. As it's about to launch, he grabs the Red Skull by the wrist. The Red Skull, who is not welded to anything, pulls a knife and, without a second thought, cuts his own hand off to get free. He does not stab Captain America in the face or in the dick or even in the hand. He cuts his own hand off, because Red Skull is Red-iculousTM. And, possibly, horribly Red-tardedTM. Captain America then, while still strapped to the missile aimed at the White House, kicks it all the way to Alaska, in midair.
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"I can see Italian missile silos from my porch!"
Jump to the present, and the president of the United States is RoboCop's nemesis, Dick Jones. Captain America has been frozen under a light dusting of snow in Alaska for 50 years, and the Red Skull now wears makeup, so he's just the No Skull. Captain America steals two cars using the same lame gag and does more back flips than a gymnastics class full of 7-year-old girls, all toward the goal of preventing Red Skull from taking over the president with brain technology and/or blowing up Italy. No, neither of those plans makes sense.
The Red Skull only appears as a man with a red skull for about five minutes in the entire movie and, this needs to be said again, his first major act as a villain after beating the ever-loving shit out of Captain America in hand-to-hand combat and welding him to a missile is to cut his own hand off. And for the rest of the movie, he still has the hand, and it's never explained why. This movie cared so little for continuity that a character cutting his own hand off was something they were willing to overlook, because fuck everyone and everything, and that level of not caring is what was missing from movies like The Fantastic Four, which was awful because they tried so hard and failed. This movie didn't try to succeed at all, so it necessarily couldn't fail, and that's why you should probably watch it. Trust me, the ending is totally worth it.


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The names of five fallen police officers have been added to the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial.
Law enforcement agencies and hundreds of people from across Wisconsin gathered at the state Capitol Friday to honor the newly enshrined officers.
WISC-TV reports one of those officers was Jennifer Sebena of Wauwatosa, who was shot to death while on patrol Christmas Eve. Her husband is being held in her death.
Also added were the names of Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies William Wank, shot in 1915 while chasing two fugitives in a train yard; Frank Heup, whose motorcycle crashed into a buggy in 1915 during a pursuit; George Pazik, whose motorcycle crashed into a streetcar in 1917 during another pursuit; and Sergio Aleman, who crashed into a wrecker on Interstate 43 last year.