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In the previous article, we took a look at the built-in
utilities that can be used to manage the FreeBSD ports collection. In this article, I'd like to continue in that vein. Let's take a look at
portupgrade, a feature-rich port designed to help you get the most out of the ports collection.
Like any other port, you install
portupgrade by
cding into its directory and issuing a
% cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
% make install clean
The build will install over a dozen useful utilities. Let's take a trick from the last article and see which manpages, and hence, which utilities, were installed:
% pkg_info -xL portupgrade | grep man
It is time well spent to skim through those manpages. You'll get an idea of the power and the flexibility of the ports collection and will uncover tips and tricks you've never thought of. However, don't be dismayed if you feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of available information. In the next few articles, I'll walk you through some concrete examples to get you started in using these utilities effectively.
First, let's review the ports structure, where it's installed on your system, and how you can keep it up to date.
When you installed FreeBSD and chose to install the ports collection,
/usr/ports and its files and subdirectories were created for you.
If you
ls /usr/ports, you'll see that it contains subdirectories
that logically divide the ports collection. For example, there are
subdirectories for mail, www, and
databases. Each subdirectory contains subdirectories for
applicable applications, so www has subdirectories for
mozilla and lynx. Each of those subdirectories
contains the information needed in order to install that particular
application. For example:
$ ls -F /usr/ports/www/mozilla
./ Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-message
../ README.html files/ pkg-descr.gtk2
We were actually gathering information from the Makefile, pkg-descr, and pkg-message files with some of the utilities and switches we covered in the last article.
The ports collection is constantly being updated. New ports are added regularly, usually on a daily basis. If you're the curious type and like to see a layout of which ports were added when, you'll find FreshPorts an invaluable resource.
It's great to have such a dynamic ports collection, but it does mean that
your ports tree, the /usr/ports directory structure, can quickly
become out of date. To keep in sync with the changes and ensure that you always
have the ability to build any available port, use
I've mentioned
cvsup often. If you're not using
cvsup yet, you really do want to read through Using CVSup before giving it a go. The handbook is definitely the best place to get the proper understanding of the entire
cvsup process. Once you're ready:
% cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
% make install clean
cvsup can be used to keep both your operating system and your
ports collection up to date. If you're only interested in keeping your ports
tree in sync, a file similar to this will do it:
% more /root/cvs-supfile
*default host=cvsup.ca.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
ports-all tag=.
The file can be invoked with this command as the superuser:
% cvsup -g -L 2 ~/cvs-supfile
If that file or that command doesn't make sense to you, read the section of
the handbook I referred to above. Also note that the
=. in the
ports-all line is important, so double-check that your file has
cvsup command will download all of the latest bits of the
ports collection and add them to your ports tree. This is the type of command
that benefits from being run on a daily basis, so you might wish to add it as a
cron job.
cvsup process also updates a file called
/usr/ports/INDEX. This file contains a list of all of the ports in
your ports tree. To see how up to date your ports tree is, use this
$ ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3678738 May 17 17:04 INDEX
That particular machine was installed on May 17 and I haven't kept its ports
tree up to date. If I compare that system to my main machine, which is
cvsuped daily:
$ ls -l /usr/ports/INDEX
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3912366 Aug 17 08:50 INDEX
you'll see that the size of the file, and thus the number of port entries, has grown considerably in that three-month period.
Okay, we're finally ready for
portupgrade and its suite of
utilities. After each
cvsup, run this command:
% portsdb -Uu
The first time you use this command, a database called INDEX.db
will be created in /usr/ports. This database will be updated every
time you repeat that
portsdb command after a fresh
cvsup. If you use the
file utility, you'll see that
you won't be able to access the contents of INDEX.db, since it is
not an ASCII text file:
$ file /usr/ports/INDEX.db
/usr/ports/INDEX.db: Berkeley DB 1.85/1.86 (Btree, version 3, native byte-order)
However, several of the
portupgrade utilities will use this
database. The
refers to a type of database algorithm that is designed to quickly search
through a large amount of data. This is ideal for the ports collection —
we'll find that some of the
portupgrade utilities are faster and
more efficient than the built-in utilities we saw in the last article, because
of that
You'll have to be patient, as
portsdb takes a while to run. Once
it is finished, you're ready to use
portversion to see if any of
your installed ports need upgrading. Remember this command?
% portversion -l "<"
If you receive any output, your next step is to upgrade those out-of-date
ports. Not surprisingly, we'll use
portupgrade, which is also
In its simplest form,
portupgrade -a will upgrade all
-a) of your out-of-date ports. However, over time you may end up
with ports that refuse to upgrade. This seeming anomaly is not a limitation of
portupgrade, but rather points to the reality of dependencies.
A port has two types of dependencies. The first is called a build dependency
and refers to any other ports that need to be installed before this port will
successfully install. The second type of dependency refers to other ports that
depend upon the particular port you wish to upgrade. You may remember from the
last article that
pkg_delete wouldn't let you uninstall an
application if other applications depended upon it.
If you just upgrade an application but don't check to see if its
dependencies also need upgrading, you'll eventually end up with applications
that refuse to upgrade. To prevent this from happening, use the two recursive
switches with
portupgrade, like so:
% portupgrade -arR
-R will check the build dependencies and the
-r will check the applications that depend upon the port being
upgraded. This will prevent your system from having outdated dependencies and
software incompatibilities.
Occasionally, when you use
portupgrade or one of its utilities,
you'll see a message asking you to run
pkgdb -F. As you may have
guessed from the name, this utility updates a package database. That database
is found at /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db. Again, this database uses a
Btree to optimize search time.
If you're ever asked to run
pkgdb -F, do it. However, don't
interrupt this command, or you'll end up with an inconsistent database. If
you're ever in that unfortunate situation, this command will fix the
% pkgdb -fu
That's a pretty easy switch combo to remember, as similar thoughts will probably be running through your head at the time.
pkgdb with
-F will interactively fix the
database. This means that
pkgdb will pause to ask you what you
would like it to do before doing it. Michael Lucas wrote an article explaining how to respond. However, if you find it intimidating coming up with the correct responses to
pkgdb's enquiries, use
-fu instead, and it will quietly do what it thinks
is best. If you're really paranoid, an alternative is
-Fa, which
pkgdb to only fix the discrepancies that can be fixed
This all sounds scarier than it really is. It's very rare that you'll ever
be asked to run
pkgdb -F.
pkgdb is usually used for
other purposes, which is why it's also called
pkg_which (or
pkgdb) can be used to find out to which
application a file belongs. Here's a simple example showing the difference
between the built-in
which command and
$ which pkgdb
which is used to find the path to an application.
pkg_which will tell me to which port the specified application
$ pkg_which pkgdb
This command is equivalent to that last
pkg_which command:
$ pkgdb pkgdb
Here's another example. Let's say you're poking about
/usr/local, the directory structure containing the files used by
installed applications. You find a whole bunch of files and don't have a clue
where they came from or to which application they belong. Here's a job for
pkg_which. Take a look at this example snippet from my system:
$ ls /usr/local/bin | grep yaf
If you're like me, those files hold absolutely no meaning to you. Let's see to which applications they belong:
$ pkg_which *yaf*
pkg_which contains a few useful switches. One is the
-o, or origin, switch. Say you can't remember where in the ports
kdemultimedia-3.1.3 came from. Try this:
$ pkg_which -o kdemultimedia-3.1.3
The output indicates that the name of the subdirectory from which that application was built is /usr/ports/multimedia/kdemultimedia3.
-v switch can be useful, as well. If I wish to know which
kde applications I currently have installed:
$ pkg_which -v kde*
kde-config: kdelibs-3.1.3
kdebugdialog: kdebase-3.1.3
kded: kdelibs-3.1.3
kdeeject: kdebase-3.1.3
kdeinit: kdelibs-3.1.3
kdeinit_shutdown: kdelibs-3.1.3
kdeinit_wrapper: kdelibs-3.1.3
kdepasswd: kdeutils-3.1.3
kdeprintfax: kdebase-3.1.3
kdesktop: kdebase-3.1.3
kdesktop_lock: kdebase-3.1.3
kdessh: kdeutils-3.1.3
kdesu: kdebase-3.1.3
kdesu_stub: kdelibs-3.1.3
kdesud: kdebase-3.1.3
kdevdlg2ui: kdevelop-2.1.5
kdevelop: kdevelop-2.1.5
That output is pretty informative. Each line shows the name of an
application, followed by a
:, followed by the name of the port
that installed that application. By the way, it looks like this machine is
running KDE version 3.1.3.
Before going further, let's summarize the steps you can take to keep your installed software up to date:
cvsup to sync the ports tree.
portsdb to update INDEX.db.
portversion to determine which applications need
portupgrade to upgrade those applications.
portupgrade Switches
We've already seen that
portupgrade -arR will properly upgrade
all out-of-date applications. However,
portupgrade comes with
several switches to let you pick and choose which applications to upgrade and
how to do it.
One option that is useful if you don't have a constant Internet connection
-F. Typically, when you upgrade,
portupgrade will
go out on the Internet as it needs a file, then spend the time building that
file. If you're doing a large upgrade such as KDE, it may need to go on the
Internet every so often over a period of hours.
This command will go out on the Internet and retrieve all of the files needed to upgrade your ports, but won't install anything:
$ portupgrade -aFrR
Once you've downloaded the necessary files, you can disconnect from the
Internet and use
portupgrade -arR as usual.
Another available switch is
-n. This switch simply tells you
portupgrade would do without actually doing it. This is very
useful if you are the nervous or the paranoid type and want to know ahead of
time what is going to happen to your installed software.
Here's an example output:
$ portupgrade -anrR
---> Session started at: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:06:00 -0400
<a page of output snipped>
---> Reporting the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
- lang/ruby16 (ruby-22.214.171.1243.04.19)
- net/cvsup-without-gui (cvsup-without-gui-16.1h)
+ lang/ruby16-shim-ruby18 (ruby-shim-ruby18-1.8.0.p2.2003.04.19)
+ databases/ruby-bdb1 (ruby-bdb1-0.1.9)
- sysutils/portupgrade (portupgrade-20030723)
- www/lynx (lynx-126.96.36.199d)
---> Session ended at: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:06:02 -0400 (consumed 00:00:02)
Let's take a look at that output.
portupgrade systematically
went through every installed port on the system, then put its results into a
report. Each line in the report shows the port's origin, the currently
installed version, and a symbol indicating whether or not it needs to be
upgraded. This particular report shows that two ports need upgrading. They are
the ones on line that begin with a
+. If I compare this report to
portversion, I'll see similar results, written in a different
$ portversion -l "<"
If you're cautious about what gets upgraded on your system, you might also
enjoy the
-i, or interactive, switch. Add it to your
portupgrade switches and
portupgrade will pause for
your input before upgrading an application or any of its dependencies. A pause
will look like this:
---> Upgrading 'ruby-bdb1-0.1.9' to 'ruby-bdb1-0.2.1'
OK? [yes]
Notice the default response of yes in the square brackets. That means if you
press enter, you are saying yes. If you decide you'd rather not upgrade this
port, type in the word
no instead.
The last switch I'd like to cover is the
l, or log, switch. This
switch is invaluable if you're ever in the situation where a port refuses to
install and you need to send the output of the failed install to someone else.
Here, I'll upgrade one specified port and send the output to a file called
$ portupgrade -rR ruby-shim-ruby18 -l logfile
You probably don't want to use the
l switch with the
a switch, especially if you have a lot of ports that need
upgrading. No one is going to want to wade through a log file that large!
In the next article, I want to discuss uninstalling ports and cleaning out files that are no longer in use by any ports. We should also have time to take a look at customizing pkgtools.conf.
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
Read more FreeBSD Basics columns.
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Local students score high on ACT tests
PARKERSBURG – Some area school systems scored high marks compared against the rest of the state on 2012 ACT scores.
Wood, Pleasants, Ritchie and Jackson counties were all among the highest composite 2012 ACT scores in the state, according to scores posted on the West Virginia Department of Education website.
Putnam County ranked the highest, with a composite score of 21.7. Wood and Pleasants County tied for second, 21.5. Ritchie County (21.3) was third and Jackson County (21.0) was tied for fourth.
McDowell County (18.0) was last in the state in composite scores. It trailed Webster, Gilmer, Grant and Pocahontas counties. School systems in Gilmer and McDowell counties are under state control. Grant County's school system is under partial state control.
The scores were posted in December.
The scores were a testament to the kids, Pleasants County Schools Superintendent Mike Wells said.
"We had a good group that achieved both in and out of the classroom," he said. "It's a testament to our teachers working hard."
Pleasants County students taking the ACT were first in the state in English (tied with Putnam) and reading and were ranked third in science.
Parkersburg High School topped the county in all four categories of English, math, reading and science. Parkersburg High Principal Pam Goots credited teachers meeting to share concepts and exchange ideas.
Teachers who teach the same concentrations have the same planning periods and are able to meet, she said.
"They are getting together talking about teaching concepts, what worked and what didn't and sharing that with others," Goots said.
Faculty at Ritchie County High School prepare students for the ACT, Principal Kelly Waggoner said. They hold ACT summer camps and lunchtime and after-school reviews, with several hours of each review devoted to an aspect of the testing, she said.
"Our teachers take it seriously and instill it in the kids," she said. "(The teachers) are on the front lines working hard every day. They are pushing it."
Students benefit from ACT tests conducted on-site, as opposed to taking the test at WVU-Parkersburg, Waggoner said.
The Ritchie County Board of Education also encourages better scores, offering an ACT book scholarship. If a student attends an ACT camp and raises their score to 19, the board will reimburse them up to $400 for books the first year of college, Waggoner said.
The ACT test is a good measure of a subset of students, Parkersburg South High School Principal Tom Eschbacher said. South had 208 students take the ACT test, which Eschbacher said is an indication of students attending college.
"It's a decent measure, an opportunity to take a sample at how college-bound kids are doing," he said.
At South, 56 percent of students indicated they would attend a post-secondary four-year program, Eschbacher said.
Between 75 and 85 percent of the students surveyed at South plan to attend some form of post-secondary, military or apprenticeship program, he said.
"We are real proud of our scores. And proud of our students making those scores," he said. "The credit goes to the students and teachers. If it wasn't for the teachers they wouldn't be prepared."
The ACT is a comparison of apples to apples, Wells said. Pleasants and Ritchie are both smaller systems with only one high school.
"Having smaller groups of kids to test, one or two can really differentiate the results sometimes," he said. "Looking past the numbers, we have done very well and been very competitive."


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Distinguished Service Award for Ron Gidwitz
Illinois State Board of Education member Ronald J. Gidwitz will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE). The national organization citied Gidwitz numerous contributions to education in announcing their selection.
Ron Gidwitz has demonstrated an extraordinary personal and professional commitment to students in Illinois and across the nation, said Robert Schiller, Illinois State Superintendent of Education. We are pleased that his efforts have not gone unnoticed at the national level.
Gidwitz accomplishments include introducing the Students First Foundation, to build an effective grassroots lobbying effort to protect the future of Illinois children and commerce through increased funding for education.
As chairman of ISBE from April 1999-April 2003, Gidwitz was instrumental in establishing the Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE) Illinois statewide high school assessment that includes the administration of the ACT college entrance exam to all juniors. Under his leadership, board meeting materials were made more accessible to the public. His guidance in improving ISBEs website helped citizens locate agency information and classroom materials.
A committed advocate for K-12 education, Gidwitz helped provide major funding increases for early childhood education programs that reduced waiting lists for at-risk children. When the No Child Left Behind Act was adopted, Gidwitz developed a student-friendly plan to meet its requirements. He is also credited with updating and improving the Illinois assessment and accountability system.
Ron Gidwitz exemplifies the best of state and national leadership in education, said Brenda Wellburn, Executive Director of NASBE. His strategic vision and practical efforts have profoundly benefited Illinois public schools and students. He has been instrumental in expanding educational opportunities for students, increasing teacher qualification, and raising student achievement in the state.
Gidwitz is also actively involved in numerous civic organizations and serves as chairman of the Chicago City Colleges, chairman of the board of the Field Museum in Chicago, a director of the Chicago Art Institute and of the Rand Corporation, and is the former state and national chairman of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
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Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia
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It is possible that the main title of the report Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
General Discussion
Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is a rare disorder characterized by the rapid accumulation of eosinophils in the lungs (pulmonary eosinophilia). Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell and are part of the immune system. They are usually produced in response to allergens, inflammation or infection (especially parasitic ones) and are particularly active in the respiratory tract. Common symptoms associated with AEP include progressive shortness of breath (dyspnea) of rapid onset and possibly acute respiratory failure, cough, fatigue, night sweats, fever, and unintended weight loss. The exact cause of the disorder is unknown (idiopathic) in many cases, however recent change in tobacco smoking habits and drug intake can trigger the disease. Outcome is favorable with corticosteroids, without relapse.
AEP was first described as a distinct entity in the medical literature in 1989. AEP is classified as a form of eosinophilic lung disease, a large group of interstitial lung diseases. AEP is different from chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP), which is marked by slower progression, lack of progression to acute respiratory failure, frequent relapses and is often associated with asthma. For more information on CEP, choose "chronic eosinophilic pneumonia" as your search term in the NORD Rare Disease Database.
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American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders (APFED)
- PO Box 29545
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- Tel: (713)493-7749
- Fax: (713)493-7749
- Website: http://www.apfed.org
Campaign Urging Research for Eosinophilic Disease (CURED)
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- Tel: (847)361-3292
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: http://www.curedfoundation.org
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- Tel: (404)639-3534
- Tel: (800)232-4636
- Email: email@example.com
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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- Fax: (513)636-9069
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- PO Box 8126
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- Tel: (301)251-4925
- Fax: (301)251-4911
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- Website: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
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This is an abstract of a report from the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD). A copy of the complete report can be downloaded free from the NORD website for registered users. The complete report contains additional information including symptoms, causes, affected population, related disorders, standard and investigational therapies (if available), and references from medical literature. For a full-text version of this topic, go to www.rarediseases.org and click on Rare Disease Database under "Rare Disease Information".
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#43791 - 10/12/01 03:24 AM Re: Bull bars
Registered: 03/22/00
Posts: 1981
>I can't understand any objection to them as presenting any additional hazard to victims of collision.
An article for you Dr Bill. http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bullbars.html
I particularly liked the quote:
"Nonetheless, in North America, the potential danger posed by bull bars has so far drawn little attention. Part of the reason is that the US and Canada have fewer pedestrians than the UK."
I see what they are saying but I had the strange idea that we were all pedestrians at some point, they obviously have invented total drive to the door shopping and working in the USA .. no, on second thoughts maybe they have .. next research - obesity and exercise?
#43792 - 10/12/01 06:02 AM Re: Bull bars
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/11/01
Posts: 2636
Loc: Caribbean
I had a 1968 Dodge van once that had the Mexican version of "bull bars", a 4"thick steel bar, front and back bumper. Once, backing up in the rain, I demolished the back passenger door of my Mother's brand new Lincoln. Ouch! And, while waiting in line at the International bridge in Juarez, I rolled into a Toyota Corolla. Poor taillights never knew what hit them. I don't have any vehicles with bull bars anymore. No profit in it.
#43793 - 10/12/01 07:48 AM Re: Bull bars
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/15/00
Posts: 4757
Cattle GRIDS in Oz.
and down here, too, stales. But of course being a nation of tenderhearts, we build escape ramps for the hedgehogs and other small wildlife to escape from the pit....
Around here, the truly athletic critters are the Welsh mountain sheep - completely mad and fearless. They are brought down from the wilderness areas of their summer grazing for soft winter tack, and evidently can't believe their luck. I nearly drove off the road a while ago at the surprise of seeing a sheep balancing (all four pointy little feet together) on top of a fence post, looking at me as if to say "You lookin' at ME..?"
#43794 - 10/12/01 08:12 AM Re: Bull bars
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
a sheep balancing (all four pointy little feet together) on top of a fence post, looking at me as if to say "You lookin' at ME..?"
You have GOT to be kidding me!...aren't you?
#43795 - 10/12/01 08:17 AM Re: Bull bars
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/15/00
Posts: 4757
well, OK, it didn't have a very good De Niro accent, but hey...
#43796 - 10/12/01 08:58 AM Re: taste/flavor
Registered: 07/24/01
Posts: 8
Hi, JimTD!
It figures that a post I reply to has to do with horse pee! My humor tends toward the bodily and the bathroom on occasion! But, the thought I had when I read the description, of "Sir, your horse has diabetes" was, the beer tasted like horse urine with sugar!
Speaking of horse, I just finished a Pat Conroy novel and came across a lovely phrase that I had never heard before...."let's make like horsesh*t and hit the trail!"
I had a good laugh over this, and vowed that if I use it in public it will be "make like road apples and hit the trail."
Marigold (need to read the info and learn how to do fun things like faces and colors!)
#43797 - 10/12/01 10:18 AM Re: taste/flavor
Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 428
Loc: Cape Cod, MA, US
I like the flavor=good/taste=good or bad distinction, but I would add that "flavor" has a slightly euphemistic quality for me. Something described as "x flavored" may not come within shouting distance of "tasting like x" -- "Cherry (or Grape) flavored" medicines and sugar-based drinks like Kool-Aid, f'rinstance.
Comedian Denis Leary used to do a bit on NyQuil -- a popular and powerful cold/flu remedy. Back when other brands were trotting out all sorts of "flavors" that still tasted nasty, he loved that NyQuil stuck to its original "Green Death Flavor," as he called it. It also comes in nasty-tasting "Cherry" now.
I read a sci-fi novel years ago that was set in the not-too-distant future and featured a protagonist who was fond of "purple-flavored" breakfast cereal.
#43798 - 10/12/01 12:37 PM Re: taste/flavor
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NY is home to the IFF-- International Flavor and Fragrance -- they produce, test, market flavoring agents.. and well as test product for flavor and (and taste) since taste buds can only taste, salt, sweet, sour and bitter, everything else is aromatic flavor.. sensed by the nose.. (which is why, when you have a cold, food is often "tasteless") In a HS bio class, we were fed apples and raw potato's --blindfolded, and with nose clips on.. you can't tell the difference between the two. all of the apple taste is aroma or fragrance-- plus sweetness and crunchiness-- which a potato also has.
and as for tasting purple, i don't know if there is such a taste- but red, green and yellow exist at flavors..
red is spicey, and some what hot on the tongue. where as green is cool, and fresh, and yellow is fruity..
and the difference between kool-ade and other better tasting flavors is time and money. artifical flavors don't have to be bad-- but good flavors, like good perfumes, are much more expensive. and in some cases, it just doesn't matter.. the chemicals that are the active ingredients give NyQuil its "green death flavor" and there is not much you can do to change that.. flavoring agents just mask it. no amount of money or effort could make it taste good.. so a "one note" cherry is as good as it gets.-- and thats not to good._________________________
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I read a sci-fi novel years ago that was set in the not-too-distant future and featured a protagonist who was fond of "purple-flavored" breakfast cereal.
Gisting a short sci-fi story (or a very long pun), also focusing on food:
On a far-future human-inhabited planet, the culinary art is deemed by far the highest art form, the acme of which is an annual planet-wide competition. Past winners are revered, and their creations immortalized, like the heroes of sport or myth. Since all food is synthetic, this competition is chemical as much as culinary, as the chef's struggle each year to develop new and proprietary flavorings.
The protagonist emerges as the stunningly unexpected victor in the annual contest, his dish wholley novel, his flavoring completely unique, representing a breakthrough such as occurs but once a century.
But "all heck breaks loose" when it is discovered that his new secret ingredient is garlic -- that is, a substance which to everyone's utter disgust and revulsion actual grows in dirt. What a revolting, literally nauseating thought: to have actually put something like that in one's mouth!
The protagonist is exiled from the planet in disgrace. For as the final sentence of the story states, his actions were simply not in good taste.
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Keiva, that was perfectly dreadful! I loved it!
You're giving Ted and Geoff a run for their money in shaggy dog stories.
(By the way, guys, any time you want to write more, I'm game to read 'em.)
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Keep calm, carry onApril 19,2013We oughtnt pray for what weve never known
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In 2000, Stuart Manley, a bookseller from Northumberland, England, was rummaging through boxes of materials that had been shipped to his store. There was nothing remarkable in the loot except for a quirky poster with an image of the British Crown and the words Keep Calm and Carry On.
Manley had never heard the phrase before, but found it sufficiently entertaining to display it on the walls of his store, Barter Books in Alnwick. He later learned that the poster came from a World War II propaganda campaign designed by Winston Churchills war cabinet in 1939 to bolster public spirits while families were being separated, with men going off to war and children being sent to safer locations in the countryside. A million copies were printed but never distributed.
Some local residents took notice of the poster on Manleys wall and asked for copies. That led to a small story in a British magazine in 2005. Then, as Manley once put it, all hell broke loose. The poster became a timeless icon of British resilience and the capacity to bounce back with a stiff upper lip and a good cup of tea.
But the lesson of Keep Calm and Carry On isnt that inspiring slogans can really alter the public mood in times of pain. Rather, the story of Manleys poster reminds us that the desire to persevere whether against an existential threat, a lone criminal, or something in between isnt created by a slogan. Keep Calm and Carry On never guided anyones response to World War II. The posters werent displayed. And yet the British kept calm and carried on.
There has been a lot of focus on resiliency in Boston these last few days, but less on what it actually means. True resilience is a function of competence, not psychology, and the ability to learn from the past.
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Those actions by authorities were the product of a constant process of learning from horrors in the past. The lessons learned from the terrorist attacks on 9/11 prompted the quick reactions of first responders in Boston. The skills that soldiers mastered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan created competencies that saved lives, and limbs, at the bomb site. The plea for public participation came from a government that has learned that an insular national security apparatus is limited in its capacities.
A resilient society is one that will absorb what it can from this week, and emerge wiser, if still wounded. So many Bostonians have lost so much. And in their honor we should not simply wish for a return to the relative peace of April 14. We should embrace the lessons of this week, study them, regroup, and adapt, in order to create a new baseline that then becomes the starting point for whatever might, one day again, happen to us. And that whole process will repeat itself, if it must.
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Drafting records show a company looking to open a huge iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin made suggestions on language in a Republican bill that would streamline Wisconsin's mining regulations.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in Wednesday's editions that the records show Gogebic Taconite officials were asking for modifications in December, weeks before the bill was introduced.
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Sleigh Bells' strong cocktail of blown-out heavy metal and bubblegum pop is direct and to the point, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the project's mastermind, Derek Miller, is among the bluntest and most practical musicians in rock. It's just uncommon to hear a man in show business speak so transparently.
"She basically runs the stage, and I run the studio," Miller said of the dynamic between himself and Alexis Krauss, the singer who brings his creations to life. "Playing live, to be honest, is a lot of fun. But it's secondary. Going into the studio to make the records is my No. 1 priority."
On the phone last week, Miller explained that he's content to let Krauss spearhead the live show and even to let her face be the one splashed across magazine covers if that means he gets to keep being a studio rat for a living.
Fortunately for Sleigh Bells fans, that doesn't diminish the thrill of hearing Miller's ear-searing compositions test the limits of a P.A. system, and Krauss' pep rally/striptease/rock star routine goes above and beyond in terms of entertainment. They put on a hell of a show.
Still, Miller more or less dismissed the significance of concerts like the one his band (pardon, "not a band") will perform Thursday at Newport Music Hall with sampler virtuoso AraabMuzik, rescheduled from last month after Miller broke his arm skateboarding with his nephew.
Maybe downplaying the live show isn't the most profitable party line, but it was refreshingly honest. And Miller has a point when he postulates that future generations will only have the albums to measure Sleigh Bells by.
"I don't really care how good the Clash were live, to be honest," Miller said. "All I have is the catalog. Those records are going to follow me around for the rest of my life."
So far, so good on that front. Since exploding out of the gate with the crackling demo "Crown on the Ground," the sugar-coated Hulk smash that established the Sleigh Bells archetype and made the group instant underground stars, Miller has kicked out two superb full-lengths.
He had never produced an album before Sleigh Bells, just played guitar in Florida hardcore band Poison the Well. So the in-the-red production values on 2010 debut Treats were less an aesthetic choice than a function of entry level studio skills.
But sonic assailment was definitely a goal when crafting this year's follow up, Reign of Terror. Miller wrote most of the album while coping with the dual blows of his father dying in a motorcycle crash and his mother getting diagnosed with cancer.
"It wasn't a whole lot of fun," Miller said. "Naturally that just sort of made its way into the record. That record almost exclusively deals with those types of feelings. They'll always be there, but I feel free to write about other things now."
He's also writing in new ways, crafting cleaner, softer songs that lean more on Krauss' knack for melody. It sounds like a radical departure, but Miller isn't worried about stepping out of bounds.
"I feel like we could make any type of record. It's an open canvas," Miller said. "In the past, especially playing with Poison the Well, usually your fan base abandons you immediately when you try something new. I feel like with us, almost the opposite. I feel like the moment we start repeating ourselves, that's when people will lose interest. Which is extremely refreshing."


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A rig for £30 - the Baofeng UV-3R 144/433MHz dualbander
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Nice review Tim. The 2nd harmonic for tx into WH (145.05 times 2) puts it at 290.1 Mhz, in the Military airband. Hmmmmm I dont want to bring down an aircraft using Brize !! But 2 Watts minus the 20 db must be flea power.
Have you done a review of the Wouxun so I oculd compare?
Richard G4MUF
- Tim said...
Thanks Richard!
Also, if you use the VHF antenna it won't radiate so well on 290MHz, so the chances of interference are more remote.
I've not had a chance to play with a Wouxun 2m/70cm HT although did review the 4m/2m one. They're easy to use and great value - but at least twice the price of the Baofeng!
Power is higher on the Wouxun too.
So interesting I've started looking for a Baofeng UV-3R for myself.
Also I have two VX-1s with dead batteries and no chargers, any ideas where to obtain replacements??
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Hi Peter,
I can see some replacement batteries on eBay. I'm guessing there are chargers available too.
A very interesting review, and very pertinent. I also have one of these little rigs, purchased nearly a year ago in prep for my foundation licence. I couldn't agree more about the so called instruction book; for anybody with little or no experience of setting up a programmable (amateur) radio, as opposed to the broadcast band unit in the car or military 'point & click' stuff this is a total nightmare!!! I spent three days trying to figure out certain aspects of the set up for 2m repeater use, became very dishearten with it all and almost chucked it in a draw and forgot about it - chalking it down to experience. However, my nature is not to allow anything to beat me so I persevered, having had a good look around the net as well. I found that in some cases the hand book was completely wrong and the instructions to push this button combined with another did not have the desired effect - much fiddling later I had a set of home made notes that I now refer to if I want to mod the radio settings. As for performance - absolutely brilliant on 2m - I've not had the chance to use it on 70cms as there is very little activity around here (Exeter). Battery performance on my unit is excellent, I spent a pleasant hour or more the other night in the a beer garden of my local rag chewing with another amateur on simplex and he was impressed not only by the quality of the audio etc. but how long the battery seemed to last!!! He headed off for cocoa at 2200hrs and the unit was still showing a charge of over 3/4 full - which mightily impressed me as well!
These units have now been well and truly superseded by the UR-V5 etc. which is a bit of shame because if they had a better written handbook then it would be the 'definitive' starter unit for Foundation licence holders, doing everything you could want in one small, neat and more importantly inexpensive package.
One small gripe - I took the plunge because I like this radio, and purchased both a speaker/mike and the programming cable - neither work properly!!! Annoying considering that they cost, together, as much as the radio! The mike will key the radio up once, then refuses to do so again??? I found some references to this problem on the net and it seems to be a software fault on early units like mine.... There is no update for this so be aware if you're thinking of getting hold of a secondhand one. The programming software came on a blank commercial CD - an obvious copy, the USB to radio cable looked the business but every PC I've plugged it into, having installed the drives refuses to 'see' the radio when attached. According to a colleague at Exeter Amateur Radio Society this is to do with the fake chips the manufacturers have used in the lead. Apparently windows interrogates the interface built into the USB plug, detects the fake and refused to connect. My colleague tells me I can download a driver to overcome this problem, but having figured out eventually how the whole thing works for myself don't feel the need to do that right now.
Cheers, Skip. Exeter. M6TGT.
- Tim said...
Good to hear from you and thanks for your comments. Couldn't agree more about the manual! It's well worth persevering with the rig as you say.
To some extent, it's a different beast to the UV-5R. I like the UV-3R because you can just stick it in a pocket and have it with you all the time - the UV-5R is a bit bigger.
I've not tried the programming lead, but I've heard that there are some leads with the 'fake' Prolific chip in it - but there is a driver around which gets around it.
Re the speaker mike - I know that there have been some RF feedback issues with some external microphones. Have you tried a ferrite ring on the cable, just in case it's that rather than software?
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Police: Armed robber was a juvenile
BENNINGTON Police are saying that the person who used a gun to hold up a Northside Drive gas station Saturday morning was a juvenile who will be prosecuted in juvenile court.
Police are not releasing the boys name or age but said he was arraigned Monday in Bennington family court which is not open to the public.
The boy is accused of using a gun to hold up the Short Stop on Northside Drive at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. No one was hurt and, because a customer interrupted the alleged robbery attempt, nothing was taken from the store.
The gun was believed to have been taken during a burglary at the Willowbrook apartment complex. Police said the boy confessed to both the burglary and the attempted robbery of the Short Stop.
Bennington County States Attorney Erica Marthage said she couldnt discuss the case because it was a juvenile case and therefore confidential, but the decision to charge the boy as a juvenile was hers. In a case where a juvenile is charged with a serious crime, Marthage said she considers what resources are available and public safety.
What I look at when Im reviewing whether to charge somebody in juvenile or district court, just as a general matter, is whether I believe the need for public safety is going to be better met with the tools and resources available in the juvenile court system than in the district court system. Working strictly through the Department of Corrections with individuals who are over 18, the resources are pretty limited, she said.
In a press release, Bennington Police Chief Paul Doucette said the boy had been in the store, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and glasses, earlier in the morning.
He picked up a few items and placed them on the counter. The clerk began to ring up the sale and asked the boy for identification.
Doucette said the boy said he couldnt find his identification and told the clerk he no longer wanted the item, which police didnt identify, that required proof of age. The boy also said he couldnt find his money and said he didnt want any of the other items he brought to the counter before leaving the store.
However, a short time later, the boy came back into the store and said he had found his money. The clerk resumed the checkout process but then the boy removed a gun from his sweatshirt, pointed it at the clerk and demanded the money from the register, Doucette said.
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I don't know about you, but I was really bored about inserting my password again and again when pulling hg based projects. Since I'm using Gnome, I decided to check if it was possible to integrate Mercurial with the Gnome Keyring. Guess what: http://bitbucket.org/ebo/hggnome-keyring/changeset/4f8cbce98fe6/ Just download the extension and install it, by adding the following … Continue reading
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By Kevin Grandia • Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 23:50
That didn't take long. Thanks to our good friend down-under at Larvatus Prodeo.
Enjoy! Now all we need up is the Tony Jones Interview.
UPDATE: Here's the Tony Jones Interview with Martin Durkin.
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WHAT THE F***?!?! Lyndon
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crickey indeed
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like the comments for AIDS desmoggers...
The enviros-are-nazis angle cracked me up. Like caring for the environment really aligns you with eugenics and state control (you know, how greens are always protesting because they want more genetically modified foods and less wilderness).
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Just wait, Eco hitler, Zog
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Subliminal messaging?
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WTF x's 5
Racist, Hitler, Nazi science!? Oh my. ABC sure can pick 'em.
This seems to explain it (thanks for the link) as an attack of the local Larouchites!
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Bizarre Audience
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Australian Prime Minister
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that the government will move ahead to establish a company that will build and operate a fibre-to-the-home national broadband network. It will create a huge broadband infrastructure from shore to shore, from Melbourne to Bondi which will no doubt have some people running for payday cash advance loans for computers. Many will now be able to stream and download at incredible speed, and watch ARL and Bledisloe Cup matches live on the computer. (Broadband – something to rub in to the Kiwis!) You have to get payday cash advance loans to get broadband in places other than Australia.
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Okay, I'll take that as a statement and we'll move on. There's another person down the front here with his hand up. We'll go down the front. We haven't been down there yet, the gentleman with the hat, eh?GENTLEMAN WITH THE HAT:
Alright Um .. I'm a … I study economics, physical economics and astrophysics and also classical music under Lyndon LaRouche and the question I would like to have with the so-called "scientists" on the panel is 400 years ago Johannes Kepler the man that discovered universal gravity actually refuted the method of the IPCC Report of statistical analysis as being like Plato's cave of seeing the shadows on the wall and there you got you know Tony doing the happy dance in front of the, uh, you know, the fire being the reality but these guys are just looking at the statistics of what they're seeing, empirically seeing, and that's – that's true for them. Now, Johannes Kepler actually proved that the previous models before that as actually being incorrect in the sense of method wise, now this has been a general trend for 30 years, since the 'Boomer' drugs, sex and rock and roll.TONY JONES:
Okay, listen, I think … sorry …GWTH:
so what's your comment on that the two, the geologists and the IPCC.TONY JONES:
I have, I have I have a feeling that that's a slightly obscure point to be making here and that …GWTH:
Well … well … method is very importantTONY JONES:
I understand …GWTH:
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C14 in Coal
The guy who was so full of himself when he started spouting about
C14 in coal "in copious measurable amounts". What ever that means?! It can't be both!
Whilst C14 in coal is sometimes measurable, it's
- hardly in copious amounts.
As for his claim of
- "over 70 reports",
this would seem to be hyperbole as would his other remarks. rather than scientific ones
Unless one includes
creationist websites,
rather than scientific ones.
The creationist 'froth', is because they believe it means they can prove a young earth < 6000 years. Rather than the 4.7 billion years!
How did it get there? Well if it were there because the earth was very young, it would be present in the ratio determined by radioactive decay. It sounds like that from the limited amount of reliable information available, that there wasn't much!
It is known that the C14 must have been there for less than 50 ky.
So presence of C14 in the deposits means that either the coal deposits are young, or it's got there by one or more secondary processes. Since it's possible to determine the age of coal deposits stratigraphically, we can be fairly certain that the coal is tens of millions of years old at least. In some cases it will be possible to infer the age by other means e.g. K-Ar dating.
It is known that:
The levels of C14 correlate with the radioactivity of the surrounding rocks. There is also a possibility that some C14 may be produced by solar neutrinos.
It looks like in-situ production of new C14 is the best-supported hypothesis; research is ongoing, and new research on the deep subterranean bacteria.
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Anthropogenic CO2 & C14 in Coal
One of the things overlooked by the triumphalist creationist [he must be a creationist idiot because he referred to claims of coal being millions or billions of years old] prattling on in the debate is the fact that annually we are putting ~ 7.2 GTC of carbon into the atmosphere and we're not taking it out! Admittedly natural processes are removing about half of this.
But the the importance of C14 in coal is largely irrelevant. Although it would be nice to know exactly how the tiny amounts of it really got there, so that the creationists and man made GW can be made to shut-up. As usual, this will be being brought-up for decades by Exxon fundies.
Personally, I think his supreme noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster put it there! ;)
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Incredible. These skeptics
Incredible. These skeptics have no arguments left that haven't been debunked, so now they try to smear people by calling them (implicitly) eugenicists. Good job, nice try. If you can't refute the messenger, throw shit at him. I couldn't believe that that guy claimed Kepler discovered "universal gravity". Um, yeah, you mean Isaac Newton? I think that more or less indicates the general intelligence of those skeptics. While the "discussion" was entertaining by seeing people make fools out of themselves, the only thing left were people making statements and not really asking questions. My favorite part "So more people is a good thing?" Yeah, cause the enviromental movement wants to exterminate billions of people to avoid overpopulation.
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Hey Jenn! We went to the Holiday Sale today, figuring it would be less crowded. Also, I didn't have a burning need to meet Chris Wheeler, Milt Thompson or Dickie Noles🙂. Took the kids' picture with Phanta Claus. There was still some good stuff available – I splurged on one of the champagne bottles. I noticed they had marked down the prices on quite a few of the signed balls, bats, etc. I saw the Adam Eaton balls were only $5 to begin with; to mark them down they'd have to give them away! I jokingly asked the girl behind the table if anyone actually was willing to even pay $5 for an Eaton ball – she said yesterday a guy bought 5 of them, plus two Eaton caps! He said she was probably wondering why he was buying all of them, and she said yeah, she was wondering. He said he was planning to give them as gag Christmas gifts! Instead of coal in your stocking, you get an Eaton ball.🙂
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I must say the Phillies do seem to have a lot of events for fans to enjoy. Glad you didn't come away empty-handed, although the rain and slush didn't look like a whole lot of fun. We're about to get hit with two storms here in CA. Mudslides, oh joy!
Sue, that is HYSTERICAL! OMG…I was thinking the same thing…who would buy that? That guy had a great idea…LOL
Jane – Mudslides? Ewww! I think I'll stick with the East Coast snow ;o) Be safe!
Seems like a cool idea. Obviously I wasn't there, but it's nice to know things happen around the clock for baseball fans. I might also add that I look pretty good in shrink wrap. Haha.
It sounds like fun! I wish the Yankees would do something like that.
Too bad the fans didn't come out to support the charities but glad that you had a great time!
Knowing you and your contacts, maybe you can let people know you might be willing to trade one of those plates, or some other Phillie collectible for one of those Taguchi signed World Series balls.
Bartering is a natural thing up in that part of the woods, and you know you got readers who might be able to steer you in the right direction, or get you in touch with an anxious seller.
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Due to its relatively large size, the frilled lizard has only a handful of predators within its natural environment. Large snakes are the most common predators of the frilled lizard along with owls, dingos, foxes and birds of prey that tend to hunt the smaller and young frilled lizard individuals.
Frilled lizards mate at the beginning of the wet season, and male frilled lizards are often slighter larger than the female frilled lizards. The female frilled lizard lays up t0 25 eggs in a burrow in the ground, before burying them. The frilled lizard babies tend to hatch within a few months.


text: My baby was not gaining weight in the beginning and was not drawing milk out consistently. I ended up having to supplement. I started out with the SNS. Baby was not sucking right and ended up getting more supplement from the SNS (red small tube) and not me. My supply dwindled to almost nothing. I am now trying to get my supply back up and it has been one long nightmare! My baby is now 3 1/2 mo. I don't know if I will ever get him off of the tube. I went to the Lact-Aid hoping that would be better but I think it has made things worse. Baby will not latch without tube now! A LC watched me nurse with both the SNS and the Lact-Aid and she thought the baby had a better suckling pattern with the Lact-Aid. We did pre and post weighings after feeds and baby was only getting 1/2 oz. from me. It was so discouraging! Have any of you had experience with both SNS and Lact-Aid? If so, which do you think it best? I read better things about the Lact-Aid, but so far have not seen better results except my baby getting more formula. I think both SNS and Lact-Aid have sabotaged my bf relationship. Help! I have a hospital grade pump and pump when I can. It has been hard though with busy 2 1/2 twins and two other children - 5 total.


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A long-time Woodstock resident recently received The Silver Order of Saint Philip Neri Award, given to those who demonstrate extraordinary performance and contributions to the U.S. Army Special Forces.
Tom Morrissey, who survived eight close-range gunshots from an AK-47 during his third tour of duty in Afghanistan, was given the award during a banquet hosted by a local chapter of the Special Forces Association.
The chapter also presented him with a donation to Transitional Living Services for Veterans, an agency in McHenry County that assists homeless veterans. Morrissey is a board member at TLSV.
Morrissey, vice president of sales for architectural products manufacturer Hunter Douglas, works with young soldiers and Marines facing physical and emotional pain tied to injuries during combat.
Senior Reporter Kevin Craver caught up with Morrissey in 2011 to talk about Morrissey's injuries and recovery, and to hear more about how he gives back. To purchase the Q&A from the Northwest Herald archives, click here.