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Coming Out Through the Ages: Two Gay Stories, Two Decades Apart
Do you remember the day you came out?
In honor of October's National Coming Out Day, SFGN decided to get the coming out tales from two very different (or very similar) people.
One is Fred Fejes, a local historian, author, professor and all-around LGBT academic in South Florida. The other is Ryan Dixon, who had been nominated in the past for his porn stardom, became one of the few active HIV-positive porn stars, and who has since left that world behind and become a writer. Their two stories are below, as written by them and submitted to SFGN.
Fred Fejes
Fred Fejes, historian and author.
Came out in 1980
My wife was probably the person most responsible for my coming out. At the time (1980), I was a 28-year-old college professor with a newly -minted Ph.D. and was living in Ann Arbor Michigan. I met my wife in graduate school and after giving birth to two dissertations, we took jobs at universities in southeastern Michigan.
However, my dreams of a long pleasant life as a campus faculty couple was rudely upset. One day over Chinese dinner, my wife announced she wanted a divorce-she had fallen in love with one of her students (a young Finnish male from the Upper Peninsula).
I was shocked. But then I thought that after some time she would realize the errors of her ways. She would tearfully come back, and I would joyfully welcome her. We agreed to a separation. I moved out and her boyfriend moved in.
I looked at the separation as a kind of vacation, where I would try out new things, go to new places, meet new people. But in the end I would always come home to her. I started to date - women.
At that time I had no idea of being gay. Although I had hung out with gay friends in college, I always thought of myself as bisexual by nature, but predominantly heterosexual by socialization. (After all, Freud did say we are all bi-sexual)
The more-than-few-times that sex with a man was offered, I turned it down. Although I was attracted, being married made the decision easy. The dating now with women was fun, particularly the sex, but they wanted commitment and I was saving myself for my wife.
One day I was reading the University of Michigan campus newspaper and saw a small ad that said in effect, "If you think you are gay or want to explore your masculinity, you're invited to join an eight-week group exploring masculine identity."
I was always one for self- exploration and, not living with my wife, I had some free time. And I always wondered about my attraction to men. I decided to call. The voice on the phone said that I would have to come in for an interview.
I was interviewed by two young men, social work students. They told me that the group was being formed by the University of Michigan Lesbian-Gay Advocates office, at that time one of the few university LGBT support services in the country. The interviewers explained that whether I realized I was gay or not was okay, just as long as I used the group to learn something about myself.
I joined what, in effect for me, was an Eight Week Course in Being Gay. It even came with a mimeographed instruction manual. In this course I learned not only about gay identity, gay history, gay life, but also about gay sex, gay culture and the bar scene (we actually did a field trip to a big gay bar in Detroit. Our group leader would point to the men around us and explain, "That one is cruising that other man, that man is giving attitude, that man is keeping an eye on his lover" and so on.
While many men come out quietly, I crashed out.
After the course was over, I joined campus gay organizations, helped organize the gay pride parade, volunteered at the Advocate's office, spoke in college classes about being gay and sat at the gay booth at the city fair. And as for the sex, being a single, gay man in a large Midwest college town was bliss itself. I realized how much fun sex could really be and the course taught me to cruise with confidence. I really made up for lost time (Fortunately, I had no issues separating this life from the professorship I held at a nearby college).
When I met with my wife to discuss the separation, I told her I was not coming back. She was chagrined; her affair with her student was going sour and I was having too much fun. Still we remained friends, we shared an important part of our lives together.
After a hectic, six months of heady personal, sexual and social exploration, I met the man who would become my partner. After a couple of months of dating, breaking up and making up, we decided to move in together.
Ann Arbor was a very gay-tolerant town - I had a hot lover, a great circle of friends, a job I enjoyed, great parties and brunches and a growing sense of fashion. At one party I put my arm around my lover and said to the crowd, "Now I know why they write love songs."
In a few months this picture would become very, very dark. Some of my friends started getting sick. Some of the faces of the cute regulars at the bar began to disappear. You begin to notice very carefully any new moles, marks on your skin or a lingering cough.
But this is another story.
Ryan Dixon, award-nominated porn star turned writer.
Came out in 1999
I told my friend Corey I was gay halfway through eighth grade- he was the first person I told.
In 1999, I finally left private Christian schools and went to public school. It was the beginning of my seventh grade year. It was then that I finally understood that what I was being told in church didn't coincide with the thoughts and feelings in my head. My health teacher said I was completely normal, and my pastor said I was an abomination in the eyes of God.
Entering my freshman year in high school was exciting and scary all at once. I had only told one person I was gay and I had made the Varsity baseball team. The principal of the school was openly gay and encouraged students to come out, so I did. My teammates were okay with it. Only a few gave me heat for it, but were quickly put in their places by other players. I played well and that's all that mattered to them.
I come from very religious, very southern and very militant parents. I intended on taking my sexuality to the grave with me. I didn't want my parents (or anyone in my family, in fact) finding out I was gay. I was running around behind my parents' back, saying I was going to the batting cages or to study, when in reality I was going to a classmates' house to do what most hormonally-charged 14 year-olds do.
I called my father one day from school to tell him I needed lunch money because I couldn't find my wallet. He never responded so I ended up borrowing from a friend.
I realized why he didn't answer when I got home. My father, mother and pastor were gathered around the dining room table. My father had decided to go into my room to look for my wallet. The search apparently required him to open a notebook of mine and read the notes I had been sending back and forth with a (special) friend. There were no names on the notes, but there was a picture of us in each other's. My father did the math. I was outed by a snooping parent. I had no choice and no chance. There was no denying the picture or the letters.
You happy dad? I'm gay.
He told me I'd die of AIDS before going to hell. My mother just sat there, apparently shocked, her hands in her lap and her mouth shut. The pastor stood up and began praying.
Two weeks after I graduated high school, I left the house. I'd since been back for visits, here and there. But that tends to quickly fade.
I'm 25, and I haven't been home in six years. It's been three since I last spoke to my family.


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I could sure get accustomed to waking up and looking out the window at the Tordrillo Mountains every day. The weather during our stay at Tordrillo Mountain Lodge has been exceptional. Warm and not many bugs to worry about. Last night I sat in a wood-burning hot tub and then listened to owls for half an hour before falling asleep.
We spent Monday in two halves. We chased big rainbows on the Talachulitna River, which runs right in front of the lodge in the morning. Everybody ended up with at least one big bow. Bill Klyn nabbed a 23-incher to take first prize. The picture here is a fish my buddy Reed Sherman landed. So great to have him catching fish. He usually won't put the camera down long enough to fish.
After a late lunch we headed across Judd Lake to our favorite spot and proceeded to catch easily more than a hundred Dolly Varden. I also caught one rainbow in the fray. The thing was 24 inches long and as thick as a track star's thigh. Late in the afternoon Bill and John from the lodge rode over on a Jet Ski to deliver drinks. We talked them into fishing and it turned out to be one of the best parts of the trip.
John has worked in Alaska for a couple of years but has never caught a fish here. We set him up and he missed three or four hits before finally hooking up. He was so excited and his enthusiasm was contagious. It was a reminder to the five of us, all longtime anglers, what it was like to catch our first fish.
Mark Freeman told John he had just become a ruined man, like the rest of us fishing addicts. John ended up staying for several more fish and we had a late dinner. If only I could fish as well as John cooks.

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Mine is Shastri, love his passion when a 6 is struck or a wicket falls, his enthusiasm is wonderful.
I used to really like Damien Fleming he was around commentating in the last world cup does anyone know what happened to him not heard his commentary in ages!
Also think Nasser is an excellent and very objective commentator as well.
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We've all been introduced to the intricacies of lost emails thanks to the controversy surrounding Lois Lerner. As former head of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division, she has been accused of using inappropriate criteria to evaluate specific groups for exempt status, especially those with conservative political names.
IRS leadership asserts that many of Lerner's emails sent from 2009 to 2011, which would likely contain information directly related to this accusation, are gone forever because her hard drive crashed in 2011. The IRS maintains that the server's backup tapes have been recycled and that her hard drive was destroyed after it crashed. (Although on Wednesday the head of the IRS said some backup tapes have now been found and investigators are reviewing them to see what they contain).
Is an email ever really gone?
It's perplexing — and we will have to see what is discovered. To be sure, though, it seems far-fetched. Although the IRS sharply limits the size of mailboxes and employees were required to archive their emails on a hard drive or delete them, I would argue that there should have been some additional backup of salient communications. I mean, they are the IRS after all.
Are emails ever really gone?
Yes and no. They can be erased from servers and backup systems, but if they have been sent outside the organization, they are subject to the policies enforced by the organization at which the recipient works. This is why the IRS has been able to recover 24,000 Lerner emails by searching server directories and other employees' hard drives.
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Evans named 'principal of year'
When Randy Evans was asked to be part of a panel discussion about budget cuts at the Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association conference last Friday in Kearney, he was a bit confused.
"That was hard to understand because we're not at that stage yet," said Evans, who has been Gothenburg's high school principal for the past 15 years.
But Evans attended, along with Swede music teacher Ernie Blecha. They ate breakfast and listened to former Husker football standout Matt Davison speak. Then it was time for awards.
Blecha was honored as the music teacher of the year and then the master of ceremonies began speaking about some programs Evans initiated at GHS.
"Then I knew Teahon (superintendent Mike) had used a trump card on us," Evans said with a laugh Monday morning.
Evans was given a principal of the year award by the organization made up of 180 school districts and educational service units who support and promote educational programs for students in rural Nebraska.
His wife, Dudley Elementary kindergarten teacher Janet Evans and his mother Alene Evans of Holdrege, appeared as Evans was recognized.
"I'm still in shock," he said.
The Loomis High School graduate, who received both his bachelor and master degrees from Kearney State College, said that kids, and bringing out the best in them, are what makes him tick.
"I treasure them more each year," he said, recalling how performance was probably most important when he first started teaching physical education and coaching in Benkleman shortly after receiving his undergraduate degree. "But the performance will come if you can connect with kids."
With the support from the administration, he's taken over the school improvement program and started a Swede Teacher Academy for new teachers and access time for students who connect with teachers before school.
Through part of the school improvement program, Evans said he visits and reviews other schools and their programs and gets ideas to bring back to GHS.
"I learn about quality schools and what they should look like," he said.
In the nomination for the award, Teahon said Evans' passion for student learning and strong organizational skills has had a huge impact on the school improvement process.
"School districts often look at school improvement as an event," Teahon wrote. "Mr. Evans and his teams look at it in our district as a culture created to help kids."
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A quick hit of thick, wet snowflakes mixed with rain dusted the Baltimore area with another light snow -- 2 inches at the most -- as snow lovers continue waiting for the region's first significant winter storm in at least two years.
That 2 inches of snow was measured near Sykesville, with 1.8 inches in Reisterstown, 1.5 inches in Catonsville, 1 inch in Towson and Columbia, and 0.8 inches in Druid Hill Park. View snowfall measurements across the region here.
Further south, accumulation was more rare. At Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, 0.2 inches of snow was measured. That brings the official total for Baltimore to just shy of 5 inches so far this winter.
Six days so far this winter, more than a trace of snow has been measured at BWI. All but one of those days, an inch or less fell:
- 1 inch Dec. 26;
- 0.4 inches Dec. 29;
- 2 inches Jan. 24;
- 0.9 inches Jan. 25;
- 0.3 inches Feb. 2.
Unless a major storm arrives before the end of the season, it will mean a third straight winter of below-normal snowfall at BWI. That includes every winter since the historic 2009-2010 winter of "Snowmageddon", when 77 inches of snow fell.
The chances of adding significantly to the snow total this weekend are slim, despite earlier forecasts that a coastal storm could develop and move through the Northeast. Rain showers are expected late Friday, turning into a wintry mix and/or light snow early Saturday, but the total moisture was expected to be scant.
Jan. 26, 2011, was the last time Baltimore saw snowfall of more than 2 inches, when 7.6 inches of snow was measured at BWI.
Each of the past seven winters except for that one snowy exception has seen snowfall below the norm of 18-20 inches. The average snowfall dating back to 1883 in Baltimore is nearly 22 inches; the average for the past 20 years is just shy of 21 inches.
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BERLIN, Conn. (AP) _ Connecticut's largest utility and the union that represents about 1,100 workers reached a contract agreement Thursday that proposes a wage increase of about 11 percent over four years.
Frank Cirillo, a business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said the deal was narrowly approved by 64 votes. He said while he's glad the contract was accepted, there is lingering anger over staffing issues the union has blamed for hindering storm restoration efforts and overtaxing workers.
CL&P President and COO William Herdegen said in a statement Thursday night the contract "is good news" for employees and customers.
"We were committed to maintaining the comprehensive benefits offered by CL&P while improving service and holding the line on rising costs for our customers."
The company said the contract also allows new schedules to meet service demands while reducing unplanned call-ins of off-duty workers. The union has said low staffing has meant workers have to be put on stand-by too often.
CL&P drew criticism from regulators, elected officials and some of its 1.2 million customers over slow response to restoring power following the two powerful storms in 2011. The union blames staff cuts, but CL&P said it brought in extra workers from out of state to help restore power.
Cirillo, business manager of Local 420, and John Fernandes, business manager of Local 457, issued a joint statement saying the union believes executive salaries and spending on out-of-state storm contractors has contributed to CL&P's costs. The statement said the union is committed to working with elected officials and state regulators to ensure the company provides what the IBEW considers adequate staffing "to bring safe and reliable power to Connecticut ratepayers."
Cirillo said earlier this week that the union is barred by federal law from striking over staffing issues. The union represents about 400 linemen and has said CL&P hasn't filled 18 lineman vacancies.
Workers were without a contract since June, and rejected one in October.
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Patten Receives VT Medical Society Education and Research Foundation Scholarship
- 11-12-2012
- By Jennifer Nachbur
Third-year University of Vermont medical student Vanessa Patten was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Vermont Medical Society's Education and Research Foundation at the Society's annual meeting, held October 27, 2012 in Woodstock, Vt.
Funded through generous contributions from Fletcher Allen Health Care, members of the Vermont Medical Society, and the Chittenden County Medical Society, the scholarship is awarded annually by the Foundation to medical students who are committed to practicing medicine in Vermont and caring for Vermonters. The scholarship program, created by Mildred Reardon, M.D., UVM professor emerita of medicine, was created to encourage young doctors to return to Vermont after completing their residency training. Reardon was instrumental in forming the Vermont Medical Society Education and Research Foundation.
Originally from New Hampshire, Patten earned a bachelor's degree in animal science in 2009 from UVM, where she participated in the Premedical Enhancement Program (PEP). A joint offering of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the College of Medicine, PEP provides enhanced opportunities for a select group of highly qualified first-year undergraduate students undertaking a premedical curriculum. PEP students have access to a practicing physician-mentor and other medicine-related opportunities while they pursue an undergraduate degree.
The vice president of the UVM College of Medicine's Student Council, a student ambassador and a former varsity cross country runner, Patten hopes to practice family medicine in Vermont. Her extensive volunteer service includes counseling Vermont high school students aspiring to enter the medical profession, working as a high school math tutor, teaching health lessons at local elementary schools, and organizing volunteer work and co-directing a girls health and fitness program at the Burlington Boys and Girls Club. She also previously worked as an in-home health provider with Armistead Caregiver Services and as a veterinary technician assistant at VCA Brown Animal Hospital.
"It is our hope and intention that by offering this annual scholarship we can successfully persuade medical students to practice medicine in Vermont, especially in its less-served areas, ensuring that Vermonters in all parts of the state continue to have access to excellent medical care," says Reardon.
Learn more about the Vermont Medical Society and the UVM PEP program.
(This article was adapted from a news release produced for the Vermont Medical Society by Justin Campfield of ThinkSpark Media.)


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Bullspit. People with REAL money don't talk about it as much as you do. I know MANY very wealthy people who have been CEOs of household named, well known multi-billion dollar corporations and NONE have ever bragged about their net worth or their incredible wealth (and most make more than your self-declared total net worth in a less than a month.)
And those that lease 3 series BMWs, do so for their 17 year old daughters, or the hired help.
Something strikes me very odd? if you did have a net worth in the "millions" then why would you not buy seats right behind the Jet bench or perhaps buy a luxury box rather then sit in Section 232a?
With that kind of coin you could be so close to the players that if they passed gas? you'd be able to smell them.
"You don't know me so don't act like you do. I have a net worth in the multiple millions right now, projected to hit double-digit by retirement age.
I carry no debt at all except for two mortgages on my two properties because paying them off in cash, which I could easily do, makes no financial sense. You pay your mortgage, you get the tax benefit, you invest that $1M in the market, let your money work for you, not against you.
Your imagined stereotype of a wealthy Jets fan doesn't fly with me. Some of us are driven to succeed and aren't stupid with our money. That's why we can afford PSL's."
http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/Ne...s/newindex.htmThe new agreement calls for the teams to pay a combined $5 million in annual rent and $1.3 million in taxes for the 75 acres needed for the stadium and training complex for the Giants. A commercial project will also be built on the land and the tax payment will increase once the retail and commercial projects have been built. The rent was unchanged from the previous agreement.
You can't really say the $5 Mil/year for that land is market rate. Do you really believe that what they pay in rent and taxes justifies higher ticket prices compared to other teams?
Really the taxpayers of NJ are getting ripped off by these measly rates.
Oh by the way the Jets got the land for their training facility in Florham Park for free also.
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he doesnt tailgate because he would probably get his ass kicked all over the parking lot.
hes the new and improved woody jonhson jet fan.
I'll cut you a deal- you stop throwing your poverty in my face, I'll stop throwing my wealth in yours.
I don't have a 17 year old. When I do, yes, I'll be leasing him a BMW. He's a great kid, and the world needs to know of his family wealth so he can marry well and continue the tradition for future generations.
You act like a million dollars means something in Bergan County. That's practically the poverty line there, no?


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Intel on Wednesday said it will invest $100 million toward research aimed at developing computer technologies, particularly visual computing, at universities in the U.S.
Intel's funding will set up several Intel Science and Technology Centers over the next five years. The first ISTC, located at Stanford University, close to Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., will focus on visual computing.
Intel Labs, the chipmaker's academic research division, will foster collaboration with academia by providing researchers in the U.S. with up to five times more funding than it has previously, while encouraging collaboration between universities, Intel said. The goal is to ultimately create a distributed collaborative center with Stanford and Intel as the hub and the participation of institutions such as U.C. Irvine, U.C. Davis, U.C. Berkeley, University of Washington, as well as Cornell, Princeton, Harvard universities.
In a conference call on Wednesday, Intel CTO Justin Rattner said Intel is looking to raise the bar by increasing investment in what he called "the information economy." He said Intel believes in driving economic recovery by investing during downturns.
"The universities have been hard hit, and there have been major cutbacks in both public and private universities," Rattner said. "Intel wants to do its part to help them get beyond the recession, toward recovery."
Intel will limit its investment to U.S. universities for the foreseeable future but plans to enable broader engagement across a number of academic institutions, Rattner said. .
"The first of these centers at Stanford will reach out and touch seven universities with a particular focus on visual computing technologies," Rattner said. "The primary goal is to drive improvement in the user experience, with a whole variety of user devices that will emerge over the decade." In preparation for this investment, Intel Labs has begun funding open collaboration centers near research universities, each of which will receive $2.5 million in funding annually over the next five years, which Rattner said will go directly toward faculty, graduate students and full-time researchers. That figure does not include any of the Intel researchers who will be affiliated with these institutions, as part of Intel's commitment to bridging what Rattner called a "gap" between academic research and the market for technology. Rattner later gave the example of Google, which began at Stanford, and has since had tremendous commercial success.
"We want to create a climate for research to make an impact on technology. So often great ideas never go from the academic setting into the market," Rattner said. "We want to install that sense of community in each of these institutions."
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Why was this ever approved in the first place?
"I conclude there was a lack of oversight/supervision and that the school administration should not have allowed this activity," Aileen M. Sterling, executive director of secondary education for the district, wrote in an Aug. 10 letter summarizing her inquiry.It took an after-the-fact inquiry.
"Even if strict guidelines were provided," Sterling said, "the result would still lead to hurtful and demeaning messages about the Mexican culture and to the students of the Mexican, Hispanic and Latino descent."


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Janssen-Heininger Named Chair of NHLBI Study Section
- 02-03-2014
- By Jennifer Nachbur
The Center of Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed the appointment of Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., University of Vermont professor of pathology, as chair of the Lung Injury, Repair and Remodeling study section for National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, for the term beginning July 1, 2014 and ending June 30, 2016.
According to the Center of Scientific Review, study section members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors.
"I want to take this opportunity to emphasize the importance of Dr. Janssen-Heininger's participation in assuring the quality of the NIH peer review process, express the NIH's appreciation of your institution's support of its activities, and indicate the hope and expectation that institutional officials will provide continued support," said Richard Nakamura, Ph.D., director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review.
Janssen-Heininger, who joined the UVM faculty in 1996, received her Ph.D. from Maastricht University in The Netherlands and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology at the UVM College of Medicine from 1993 to 1996. Her research programs focus on inflammatory lung diseases with a focus on the biology of epithelial cells and redox-dependent processes in order to understand chronic inflammation and pulmonary remodeling.


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This week, the N.C. Mountain State Fair is rolling into Fletcher, N.C., for its 20th year. The 87 acres at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center will be filled with laughing children, smiling adults, games, rides, sea lions and all the food imaginable.
This week, the N.C. Mountain State Fair is rolling into Fletcher, N.C., for its 20th year. The 87 acres at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center will be filled with laughing children, smiling adults, games, rides, sea lions and all the food imaginable.
The fair opens Friday and runs through Sept. 15.
With 30 carnival rides, 30 children's rides and 50 carnival games, the fair attracts an average of more than 180,000 visitors each year.
Even more important, marketing specialist Ron Stamey said, the fair will be a window into agriculture in Western North Carolina.
That culture will shine through the entertainment portion of the fair. There will be heritage crafters and some bluegrass music. Of course, bluegrass won't be the only musical genre represented.
"You've got everything from rock to Latino music this year," Stamey said.
The entertainment doesn't stop with the variety of tunes, however.
This year, fair organizers have added two new events to the lineup. Popular attractions such as the "Mooternity Ward" and "Chef Landry's Comedy Show" will return, but this year, fair-goers will get to experience "Sea Lion Splash" and "Kachunga and the Alligator Show."
The sea lions will balance balls, shoot hoops, dance and perform other antics to wow the crowds. It's the only show in the United States that features both California sea lions and South American sea lions.
In the other new show, Kachunga, a Florida bushman, will wrestle a 300-pound alligator in front of nervous crowds.
Another new event this year will be Timber Sports. Last year, one college team demonstrated timber sports, which is similar to a lumberjack competition. This year, four schools will compete for a title. Teams from Haywood Community College, Warren Wilson College, the University of Tennessee and N.C. State University will compete for the N.C. Mountain State Fair Timber Sports Championship at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
The fair will also offer a wrestling event featuring legendary wrestlers including George South and the Rock N Roll Express.
Other attractions will have agricultural elements.
Events include an agriculture-based magician, hog racing, a farm adventure, a horseback riding show and the heritage walk.
And then there are the agricultural competitions.
"You can compete in just about everything," Stamey said.
The competition ranges from animals to art to food. Over the 10 days, the fair will dole out $240,000 in prizes.
People come to the fair for many reasons, Stamey said, but one of the biggest draws is the food. There will be 50 food vendors.
While all of these things are a recipe for fun, the crowds will also have a chance to experience the fair from the air. There will be a chairlift that stretches across the grounds for an aerial view of all the fair has to offer.
No matter what the view, Stamey hopes that fair-goers walk away with an education about agriculture and what Western North Carolina has to offer.
"That's our job," he said, "to promote agriculture. (The fair) provides an opportunity for them to experience agriculture firsthand."


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2005 Volleyball
Keri Kuhlman named All-HCAC
Keri Kuhlman named second team All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., sports information director
November 9, 2005
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Senior Keri Kuhlman (Shelby/Shelby) has been named second team All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference for the 2005 season.
Kuhlman, a four-year starter at middle hitter for the Beavers, capped off her stellar
career at Bluffton by being named All-HCAC for the second time. She hammered 388 kills
for a 3.73 kills per game average during her final season. Her 3.73 kills per game
in 2005 placed her at the top of the record books. She ranks first in kills per game
average for her career with 2.96 and she is also second all-time with 1285 career
kills. Kuhlman was named to the All-Tournament team for her performance at the Manchester
Tournament and she was also selected as Co-player-of-the-week in the HCAC for her
play in the Kenyon quad. She finished the season with 78 blocks, 25 service aces,
292 digs and a .189 hitting percentage. Keri also holds the freshman kills record
with 262 in 2002.
The Beavers finished the season with a 12-18 record overall and 0-7 in the HCAC. Full statistics and information on the 2005 volleyball season are available online at www.blufftonbeavers.com/volleyball.


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Having had two weeks with his squad, the excitement is growing for the New Zealander as he prepares for his first Six Nations match at the helm.
"I'm nervous. It's been eight months coming since I had a little bit on my plate prior to really taking up the mantle," he explained.
"It has been a long time coming since New Zealand really. Those two months have taken a long time. Since we have been together (in this camp) the two weeks have flown by.
"I think it is a case of maximising our time together but at the same time not extending the time you are together, especially not on the field so you don't flatten players.
"You want them going into games a little bit excited, a little bit fresh and at the same time pretty well organised and fuctional as a group.
"That's part of the balance we have tried to work through for the last two weeks and hopefully that will be in evidence on Sunday."
The inclusion of Luke Marshall and Andrew Trimble in the back-line and Chris Henry's selection in the back row for the injured Sean O'Brien are the only changes to the side that came so close to ending Ireland's losing streak against New Zealand.
Schmidt spoke about what the trio bring to the team and while injuries and illness played a part - O'Brien (shoulder), Luke Fitzgerald (hip flexor) and Gordon D'Arcy (stomach bug) are currently sidelined - their form in helping Ulster qualify for the Heineken Cup quarter-finals with the only 100% record in the competition was an obvious factor.
"Luke Marshall has played really well in big games, on the Heineken Cup stage, Six Nations last year against Scotland, broke the line at times superbly.
"He played really well against Australia (in November), made a defensive error at one stage but apart from that he's learning all the time. His application to everything we are trying to do is great.
"He's between Johnny Sexton and Brian O'Driscoll, so you've got that experience that can help him navigate through the game.
"(Andrew Trimble brings) a bit of size. I think with (Rory) Lamont and Sean (Maitland) they've got good size. We just don't have that many sizeable men apart from dragging Shaggy (Shane Horgan) down from the commentary box!
"To be fair to Andrew, he's played really well in the last couple of games for Ulster, including the win over Leicester. From that respect I think he deserves an opportunity."
Out of the three players in contention for the position of openside flanker, Schmidt said Henry had done enough to nail down the role for what will be his first Six Nations start.
"(Chris Henry) has come back from injury and all three of our replacement sevens (coming in) for an injured flanker are all coming back from injury.
"Jordi Murphy has probably played the most of them, but Tommy O'Donnell was an initial selection last November so we've given Tommy first shot at it - apart from Chris to start.
"He played in November so had a headstart. It's a pivotal role, the seven, and we are asking a lot of Chris to replace Sean."
Schmidt's selected side will be tasked with building on the memorable performance Ireland produced when storming into a 19-0 lead against the All Blacks, and coming within seconds of a famous victory over the World Cup holders.
The standard has been set and the Ireland boss spoke about 'balance' once more when asked about getting the players to 'fire' first time out against Scotland.
"I think there's always something we can improve on and so without being too grumpy or negative, we are in a reasonably good place but the evidence of that will be demonstrated on Sunday.
"It's hard to make some sort of prognostic at this point especially with me, I am a little naive as well.
"I am getting to know the players and the more you work with a group of players the more you know when they are ready to fire. I'm more hopeful than certain because I am always a little bit unsure.
"I think one of the difficult things is you cannot be emotionally at your peak, week in, week out. Inevitably we are human and there are emotional highs and lows and you don't want to have a trough at all during the Six Nations.
"Can you win a game and mix a really highly emotive performance with a highly accurate performance? I think that is what you are looking for.
"If you are trying to survive purely on passion, you are inevitably going to make errors at times, you are going to be over-anxious, over-eager and maybe fall on the wrong side of the referee.
"So, it's just getting that balance and hopefully, to be honest, the players bring the intensity and they have an idea of the expectations that are out there for them and they want to meet those expectations."
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So I know to get the concentration% you have to do Solute/Solvent *100. But...some other problems are giving me trouble.
Basically I'm having trouble with the "How many grams of solute are in a solution with the following variables?" problems, and a few others. I don't get how to do it. I've even seen a couple worked by the teacher, but she's horrible at explaining mathematical equations. She pretty much worked the problem for the Concentration% and then wrote the gram answer on the board. Now, it says to show your work, and there's more than the two she worked out, so that's not gonna fly. Can someone tell me how to do these? I just need the method, and I can probably figure it out after that.
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How many grams of solute are in a 20mL of a solution that contains 32g per 75mL?
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HNHS boys' track team second at Muncie Relays
Sunday, April 21, 2013 11:33 AM
The Huntington North High School boys' varsity track and field team showed well in several events at the Muncie Relays hosted by Muncie Central on Saturday, April 20, racking up 83 points to finish second out of eight teams.
Some of the Vikings' strongest performances came in relay events, where the distance medley squad of Alex Overby, Jacob Miller, Luke Doughty and Dustin Campbell secured the team's sole championship on the day, taking first in 11:48.48.
Jake Shaw, Isaac Smith and Jordan Utter were involved in two silver finishes for Huntington North, as the trio joined with Andrew Spahr in the 1,600-meter relay to place second in 3:40.64 and then aligned with Austin Lange in the 3,200-meter relay to land the two spot in 8:49.71.
Fourth-place finishes by the 400-meter relay unit of Nathan Sutter, Kole Hale, Adam Berlier and Spahr and the 800-meter sprint medley quartet of Aremis Ebert, Drew Fawcett, Houston Lehman and Andrew Sizemore rounded out the Vikings' showing in relay events. The former team clocked in at 48.09 while the latter finished in 1:46.48.
Huntington North flexed its muscles in distance running with Cordell Lewis and Charlie Mettler. Lewis took second in the 3,200-meter run in 9:58.40 and third in the 1,600-meter run in 4:44.57; Mettler placed right after his teammate in the longer race, grabbing third in 10:03.35 and fifth in the metric mile run, crossing the finish line 4:50.70.
AdamBerlier had the Vikings' best finish in a field event as the runner-up in pole vault with a leap of 13-0.
Jon Rentschler had a pair of fourth-place finishes, with a toss in shot put of 47-6.50 and a flip in discus of 126-8.
Other Huntington North points came from Spahr's fifth in long jump on a bound of 17-04, Lehman's sixth in high jump on a rise of 5-06 and his fifth in the 300-meter hurdles in 46.30, Sizemore's seventh in the same race in 46.80 and Fawcett's eighth in the 100-meter dash in 12.38.
Kokomo won the meet with 98 points. Following runner-up Huntington North was Muncie Central with a tally of 78.


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MURRAY — In the middle of Mustang Field Wednesday, Wayne's running back Clayton Kiefer could be seen posing for pictures with his proud parents. He smiled big — his white jersey and signature handtowel both soiled with dark mud.
He had reason to smile.
Kiefer had just led the Wayne Falcons to an 82-57 victory over the Murray Mustangs in the first round of the Eight-Man state football playoffs. He carried the ball 29 times for 292 yards and five touchdowns in the victory.
"He's as tough of a runner as we faced all year," said Murray head coach Keith Shields. "At times tonight, we thought we had him stopped and he'd make a great cutback, or we thought we had him and he'd carry us three or four more yards upfield."
On paper, Kiefer doesn't look that dangerous at 5-7, 160 pounds.
"It's not his size that gets you," said Wayne head caoch Bart Elliot. "It's his toughness. He is just a hard-nosed kid who refuses to go to the ground. He deserves all the praise and pats on the back he will get tonight. He works his butt off."
Game summary
Neither team led by more than 10 points in the opening half as the two teams went back and forth trading touchdowns. Wayne led 36-31 at halftime thanks to a 50-yard touchdown reception by Trent Carpenter with 15.3 seconds remaining in the second quarter.
The two teams continued to trade touchdowns through the third quarter until Wayne freshman Nick Mattly recovered an onside kick with 2:15 remaining in the third quarter.
"We didn't want to kick it to their returnmen (Andrew Rider and Seth Nerness)," Elliot said. "So we called an onside kick and if we got the football, great. If we didn't — because they are such good returnmen — we still wouldn't be giving up a lot of field position."
Less than two minutes after Mattly's fumble recovery, Kiefer capitalized on the turnover, barreling into the endzone for a 2-yard touchdown, making the score 68-57 with :36 remaining in the third quarter.
"That fumble recovery gave them the momentum," Shields said. "And credit them, they took that momentum and finished the game."
Murray was held scoreless the entire fourth quarter.
Murray finishes the season with a record of 8-3 overall. They will lose seven seniors including Alex Shaw, Tyler Cashman, Collin Titus, Cole Weir, Sam Rockhold, George Barber and Andrew Rider.
"These seniors have 39 career victories, which if I counted right, is by far the most victories of any senior class at Murray," Shields said. "The things they've done on and off the field have been incredible."
This is the only class in Murray history to make the state playoffs in all four of their seasons.
Nerness led the Mustangs with 144 rushing yards on 11 carries and scored three touchdowns. Rider added 137 yards on 15 carries.
Matt Barnes picked up 27 yards on the ground on 10 carries with one score.
Barnes was 8-of-19 passing for 180 yards and two scores. Rockhold and Rider each had one touchdown reception.
Rockhold led the team with 14 total tackles, while Barber added nine.


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I worked in a office where about once a year one of the employees would "spill" coffee on her laptop..usually a week or so after she noticed a deployment of new laptops in some other department. It worked until she moved to a floor with security camera's and was caught...after that her replacement was the one that recieved a shiny new one. The sad part was the machines she had were never out of date they simply became bogged down because of her browsing and installing habits, but rather than ask to have it cleaned up or god forbit learn to do it herself she would just have an "accident".
Is no one going to mention destruction of company property = firing?
I assumed that "after that her replacement was the one that recieved a shiny new one" implied that she was fired and somebody else was hired in her stead. Maybe I read too much into it.
The parent you responded to did.
It worked until she moved to a floor with security camera's and was caught...after that her replacement was the one that recieved a shiny new one.
There might be something to be learned from the spiller. Rather than wasting anyone's time to "clean up" a "bogged down" desktop, it sounds like at least one of your users would have been perfectly happy with an annual drive wipe. There might be more like her.
Do you have children? You never, EVER reward bad behavior - any point she may have had was erased by her wanton destruction of company assets for her own ego gratification...
Where I work we instruct users to never keep anything on their laptop/desktop hard drive - everything on the server, then, when they have a problem, we can re-image/replace the desktop inside of 20 minutes.
that's the real trick, if Windows had and enforced proper user/system separation then companies could lock down the systems that would limit that crap.
Windows and it's applications assume you have full admin rights all the time. UAC while bad was a good step MSFT should have just pressed harder program developers to code properly, and forced all XP programs into a hard lock down mode.
breaking easy backward compatiblity in the name of security isn't a bad thing.
that's the real trick, if Windows had and enforced proper user/system separation then companies could lock down the systems that would limit that crap. Windows and it's applications assume you have full admin rights all the time. UAC while bad was a good step MSFT should have just pressed harder program developers to code properly, and forced all XP programs into a hard lock down mode.
Are you from 1999? Software developers stopped assuming users have admin access a few years after XP hit the scene. It's only rare medical of scientific control software that's written that stupidly anymore. And guess what? There is specialty scientific software for Linux out there that assumes you're root.
And windows is easy to segregate admin access on desktops either manually or via GPO. You can even list admin users additively or destructively(replacing the current list, preventing admins from adding someone else as an admin).
Are you from 1999? Software developers stopped assuming users have admin access a few years after XP hit the scene.
Bullshit - unless you mean "sometime after right now" when you say "a few years after XP". There are still a lot of new programs which do not work properly w/o Admin rights.
Hell, even MS Dynamics 2008 required Administrator rights to run (can't recall if it was local or domain , at the moment, but I do recall that allowing everyone access to run the program didn't do the trick).
that's the real trick, if Windows had and enforced proper user/system separation [...]
It has had for nearly twenty years. Fifteen if you only want to start counting from NT4. The problem isn't the lack of OS capability.
breaking easy backward compatiblity in the name of security isn't a bad thing.
Apparently it is. Just look at the negative commentary in Slashdot about UAC, from people who should know better.
Try working in most actual business environments.
The argument always goes back and forth like this:
IT Side - we have the following reasons that normal users shouldn't be installing programs themselves.
- Security risk of adware/malware/bundleware
- Number of incidents where machines have been compromised.
- Number of incidents where complaints of "my machine is slow" turn out to be the result of user filling drive up with crap
User side -
- "But it takes more than 5 minutes for them to come down and install (program X that's actually work related) for me." Nevermind that these installs happen maybe once per year and if they would bother SCHEDULING with us...
- "But I want to try out (program y) to see if we can use it in the business..."
- User happens to be the PHB's son or is fucking the PHB on the side.
Brain-dead PHB side-
- "My employees are complaining that you IT guys are getting in the way of their work! Fix it so they can install things!"
- One month later: "Megan's machine got infected again. Why the hell aren't you IT guys stopping this from happening? Do whatever it takes to stop this from happening again!"
- One more month later: "Megan's complaining you took away her install rights! I need her to be working as best as possible, give them back to her! She can't possibly cause problems with that!"
Now add in that you might be working in an EDUCATION environment - where every tenured faculty member is also a brain-dead PHB.
I don't doubt that what you say is accurate, but I'm amazed it's still socially acceptable for people to be unable to use the basic technology we interact with every day. A person who needs to drive a company vehicle as part of their job would be out pretty quickly if they kept crashing into trees - sure, the occasional genuine accident happens, and will be overlooked, but negligence/stupidity/repeated incompetence will (rightly) get you fired. There's absolutely no reason that the same shouldn't apply to people using company computers.
Here let's flip that around a bit, just as another example.
IT Side - we made up the following reasons that normal users shouldn't be installing programs themselves.
- Microsoft gave us a document that says we should configure it like this so we did just that.
- We are too lazy or overworked or underpaid to think too hard about our user's needs
- We never bothered to ask what user's requirements were, we just assumed it.
- IT person happens to be PHB's son or fucking PHB on the side.
User side -
- I have to be able to do work that my boss has required me to do which is core to the business making money!
- I need to be able to test certain situations in order to come up with a new means to be more productive and save the company money!
- Arbitrary restrictions are stifling users for the sake of making IT look good.
Brain-dead PHB of IT side-
- "We have a policy and we stick too it and we can't change it."
- One month later: "We have a policy and we stick to it and we can't change it."
- One more month later: PHB is out of the office playing golf with someone while you fume over missing yet another deadline.
Now add in that you might be working in a software development environment, where every IT rep treats you like an office temp and tries to give you access to MS office and internet explorer and nothing else and does absolutely nothing to understand how your own company's software works nor tries to understand what it takes to create, test, and support said software when your own customers have admin rights to their own machine and, funny, you don't, so you can't possibly figure out what their problem is!
This is just a counter example to your stereotype. People in general are idiots, sometimes they are in IT, sometimes they are in the user base, and sometimes it's both. You can't paint one side with a broad brush and completely blame things like this on them.
I worked in a office where about once a year one of the employees would "spill" coffee on her laptop..usually a week or so after she noticed a deployment of new laptops in some other department. [...]
This ruse doesn't work on ThinkPads. Co-worker spilled an entire litre of water directly onto the keyboard of a company owned running laptop. Hell to pay if laptop ruined. Unplug, pull out battery, pull disk drive, dry face-down on cookie rack for 24 hours. Reassemble, reboot. Laptop worked for another 18 months. IT department never knew.
My dad "accidentally" dropped his phone into a cup of coffee, because it kept disconnecting calls and turning itself off without reason. IT looked at it a few times for him, but they couldn't replace it because "it was still working"
After this he got a shiny new one, with worked perfectly.
blame the cheap PHB that run stuff into the ground this is the same attitude that led to the I-35 bridge collapse.
It's funny how many people point to their monitor and call it their computer. I can imagine a lot of people smash up their monitor expecting that it will result in their getting a new computer.
What I'd really like to know is how many people do that; get a replacement monitor; and say, "Wow, this new computer is so much faster!"
It's funny how many people point to their monitor and call it their computer.
I use an iMac at work and some people are confused when I do this
The reason most office workers are unproductive has nothing to do with their hardware.
Yes? I am a developer at Oracle. I worked for 5 years on my original computer. After that I went through a lot of hassle, it took me about 6 hours of my time in total over few days to get a new computer. I've got 3 years old refurbished one. They kept in place my old CRT monitor, because it was "working". Now another 5 years passed, I've still got that now 8 years old computer and that 10 years old CRT monitor. There was no way I would go through the Oracle Procurement again. I bought myself an iMac some 4
Obviously the 5 year old computers in TFA could use an upgrade, but I've found that for my aging workstations, a simple storage upgrade to an SSD would probably be more than enough to increase my productivity. Storage is the new bottleneck, not processing power.
Only if you're continually accessing the disk. I put an SSD in my netbook because we often boot it up, do a bit of web browsing and shut down, and that dramatically reduced boot times but has no effect on anything that isn't disk intensive.
I installed Nt 4 on a 75 mHz desktop, thinking I might go MSCE or something. If something was reading the hard disk, I could watch every control get painted. Erase, draw the outline, put the letters on, do a checkbox. Start task manager to see what is taking up the CPU, 20 minutes for that to load. Then I see CPU usage is only about 50%. Why? Windows 98 on the same machine did not have the same problem, so it wasn't the hardware.
I wish I knew. I get the same thing on Vista with a dual-core 2.5 gHz processor. Outlook refuses to show me meeting info. It's not responding, then slowly responding, then paints the reminder window. Can't see the dial-in number, waiting for it to paint. Get 3 instant messages - are you joining? Yeah, paste me the number and i'll be right there.
PC backup, antivirus, update scans, hard drive maintenance - any prolonged disk activity brings the computer to a halt. It's not just me - yesterday we had a chief architect say "Id bring that up but my backup just started" and everyone said "oh, yeah we know."
Simple version: my notebook is slower than my previous XP one, and I just tolerate it until we get the OK to move to Windows 7, and hope it's slightly faster because the processor is faster. It won't be, because it will have a 4 million GB drive at 5400 RPM.
With Windows NT, storage has always been the bottleneck. At least until you throw enough memory at it that it can hold all your apps plus an ample disk cache. Backup, antivirus, etc. tasks use a lot of non-cached data, and there goes your advantage.
Spending $500 on a cheap dual core with 4GB of ram should be high on the priority of any company with aging office workstations. Huge money saver when your employee doesn't have to wait on that old P4 to open a window anymore.
Spending $500 on a cheap dual core with 4GB of ram should be high on the priority of any company with aging office workstations. Huge money saver when your employee doesn't have to wait on that old P4 to open a window anymore.
I see you that have never worked in a big IT company.
If you did, you would know that supporting cheap randomized $500 PC is very time consuming and will end up with you having a huge stockpile of semi-working PC.
No, in a big IT environment you need standardized PC, which means buying old over-priced PC just to have identical parts.
but don't get me wrong I do understand the user frustration, if it was for me, at least the monitors (dual, triple
Ugh, I worked at a place that was still running P4s, that should have set off alarm bells in my head.
Slow computers means taking lots of breaks and going out for a snack. I don't want to be more 'productive'. I want to relax, and a slow machine helps me do just that.
"What the hell is taking you so long?"
I just shrug and point to the screen...
Their "slow" computer is thousands of times faster and is available to them nearly all day! Only a poor worker blames his tools. Now if the computer just plain didn't work, that would be a different story...
Says the person who has never used a serious CAD or GIS application on non-cutting edge workstation.
So what you are saying is that the old school programers worked for a few hours and waited for the rest of the day to see if they have an error.
^_^ I would say we are more productive than that even WITH those "lazy and dumb" practices of ours.
Besides, most projects I cover tend to be linear in nature. In fact, the output of one script may negate the whole purpose of a second script or tool.
I would also suggest to you that most unproductive workers are workers who lack good communication with the clients. Ma
I hope you also realize though, that the programs we do today are also much more complex than you could do on punched cards back then. Even small-ish programs can have a million lines of code or more. (Larger ones, more. Windows XP was some 35 million lines, Vista over 50 million, and that's not counting such stuff as C libraries and whatnot.)
Even at 1 gram per card, and each card being a line of code, a 1 million line program would weigh literally a metric ton. Did you see many people carrying their program to the computer with a small truck?
Even the kind of internal complexity that went into programs those days was actually a lot lower. E.g., you didn't need to optimize access to shared data for 1000 web sessions at the same time, when the program is run as a sequential batch. (Yes, concurrent stuff did come around too, but later, but not in the days of paper cards.)
Most such batch programs I've seen actually are just doing some fairly simple calculation in a loop, that nowadays you wouldn't even write a program for. It's stuff that the PHB would do directly in Excel.
In other words, yeah, I love reading such posts that tell me that someone is too fucking stupid to even understand the difference between programs these days and most programs that were done on punched cards. And probably the 50's-60's and punched cards were the last time they were competent. I really love that kinda PHB, who thinks that because he once did some piss-poor two-level loop on punch cards back then, it means he's qualified to judge modern programs and deadlines. No, really.
If programmers could write complex programs in the 50s and 60s using punched cards and waiting overnight for the output of their runs, a smart and diligent worker could figure out how to queue up work so they could be productive even with a "slow" computer.
I recently came across the user manual from a computer of that era, the STANTEC ZEBRA[1]. It had two instruction sets, the full set and one called 'simple code' (which was actually pretty complex). One of the limitations of simple code was that programs could be at most 150 instructions. This, the manual notes, is not an important limitation, because no one could feasibly write a working program that complex.
I also came across some exercise books from people who programmed these machines, showing the
really? who'd have thought? TYCO
I work at a computer retail store (and yes we have a biased opinion on the matter) but we try to show business owners that 10 year old computers really are a problem, even when they still work. It's amazing how hard it is to get some people to replace an old computer with a new one, when the old one still (sort of) works. It's so hard to explain productivity loss due to antiquated tools to the people holding the checkbook.
Numerous times we've had people bring in ancient computers that have died and must now be replaced, and have to treat them to the bad news that their combination of very old hardware and very old software is going to be an extremely unpleasant and expensive experience now, as they have to buy all new computer, all new peripherals (seen a peripheral cost 10k once), all new software (can you say "pagemager", "creative suite" and "quark" for 10 computers?) and all your documents are going to have to go through a painful migration of format. Generally leaves the office in chaos for the next month too. I really feel sorry for those staff.
we try to show business owners that 10 year old computers really are a problem, even when they still work.
If they still perform the task for which they were intended 10 years ago, why are they a problem?
The real problem isn't old computers, it's new software. New software comes out which doesn't really do anything better than your old software. But people you do business with upgraded, so now you have to upgrade your software to interoperate with them. But the new software runs more slowly, and now you need new hardware to do the same task you were doing just fine 6 months ago.
For a stand-alone application, there's nothing wrong with 10 year old computers. Or 20 year old computers, for that matter. DOS still works as well as it ever did.
Might be true some places but certainly not everywhere. Computers don't get slower with age. Something changes, the question is should something be chanting? If your employee workstations are just getting slower, then your IT department is doing a PISS POOR job managing those workstations, and something needs to be done about the IT department not the workstations.
There are lots of cases where five plus year old PCs should be just fine. Its not as if keying orders and inventory movements into SAP is goi
Any smashed PC is replaced by the oldest in stock. new replacements for those which reach the budgeted life intact.
More of a symptomatic treatment than a cure, though. Those old machines are gonna "wear out" faster than a new one. Either that, or your people start building Wally-style computer catapults. There's always an engineering solution.
I have a 3 year old laptop on which I have to run a software suite which is woefully inefficient.
Copying 3-4 sheets of function block logic from one controlle to another (control system stuff) generates anywhere from 3 to 10 gigabytes of disk traffic due to the insanity of no caching for ANY sort of query or check in the application.
The vendor wont fix it as they consider the product "too old" to fix, but this product runs the control system on at least 20 oil/gas installations in Norway and over 400 indust
I suspect often times a bit of extra memory, or a software cleanup would be the solution, and a bit of proactivity on the part of the employer would help. Still, could be worse, I recall my Dad, a journalist, telling me that when he started work in the 60s his typewriter was supplied by the newspaper up front, but he had to pay it off in weekly instalments from his salary. Of course, it was decades rather than months/years before it was obsolete.
Personally, there's nothing I hate more than a slow computer. But, basic upgrades that make the typical dust bunny filled corporate Dell shit-box are pretty easy. The darn thing probably needs more RAM and an SSD. Most of the time, you can swap those out without the IT weenies even noticing. Just clone the hard drive over and swap sticks for the memory. Yeah, you might lose the parts you bought in a year or two when the IT boys come to collect your machine without asking, but a few hundred bucks is wor
I've thought about smashing mine in a fit of blinding rage many times, but fortunately I know that the hardware in my laptop is actually pretty good. The reason the machine doesn't work so well is that it is bogged down with a host of security and asset management products that leave the laptop constantly IO-bound. I'm sure I will end up buying my own hard drive online and swapping it out so I can have my own operating system.
Why would I want another laptop setup by the outsourced techno-goons that only c
At an old job I did a number of upgrades to office equipment. Some of the office equipment was so old I took parts I retired from my home system and put them into the work ones. I've added memory, replaced hard drives, added a NIC so I could do testing on an isolated segment that I controlled, even added an internal fan to help cool off a system that was always overheating. I rescued systems that were to be tossed because "they are too old to run the operating system" (they thought Linux was an application
I am an IT Manager. It is important to me that our users are productive and making sure that they are not fighting their means of prodcution is critical in this.
If someone's PC truly is the problem, it is replaced. When I first started at this company, folks had one monitor, had outdated equipment and there were a lot of legitimate problems that we prioritized and took care of.
Then you get the whiners. "I need a wireless mouse to be productive". "My coworker has 4GB of RAM and I only have 3GB" (Yeah... I se
All IT people have heard the joke, "Well, if I take a hammer to it..." But that doesn't mean they do it. From the article, the headline reads as though users are causing deliberate damage to their computers in order to receive an upgrade. Read the actual text however, and while users are saying that, there isn't anything presented to show there are widespread acts of vandalism happening. The only real takeaway from this article is that some UK offices are using significantly outdated equipment. The headline is just sensationalism. I hate to say it, but I think
...do they need it?
If your job is mostly using word processing, do you really need a Windows 7 Quad-core with 4GB of RAM? Or do you just want it because its shiny?
A development company I worked with was moving its PCs to Windows 7, and souping them up with a ton of RAM and that sort of thing. But its because we needed that sort of power. But the way I see most offices working.. if your software still works and you can do your job, what's the complaining about?
an aging computer, should perform as it did when bought. Unless it's actually failing and not just aging. Computers generally either work or don't work, and rarely do they half work, or generally slow down.
If software is changing and being run on machines which aren't beefy enough to support it, that's one thing, if workers are just clogging up their machines with bonzai buddy and the like that's a different thing.
Software usually gets updated, and the newer versions are often bigger and slower.
An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.


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Patriots player has home robbed during AFC Championship game
Masked men entered Colorado home of Derrick Martin
The Colorado home of a New England Patriots player was robbed Sunday night while he was playing in the AFC Championship game vs. the Baltimore Ravens.
Aurora police said two armed and masked men forced their way into the home of Derrick Martin around 8 p.m. local time.
Police said the men held up the people inside at gunpoint, ransacked the home, took several items and left.
Investigators said there were several people in the home during the robbery, including one adult and children.
No one was physically injured, according to Aurora Police.
Martin (#26) is a defensive back for the New England Patriots. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. According to ABC Affiliate KMGH in Denver, Martin played three sports and was an honor student at Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver.
Aurora Police spokesperson Frank Fania said there was no reason to believe the home was specifically targeted, "but the timing of it makes us wonder."


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Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One
Space Metal
July 2002
Released: 2002, InsideOut
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviewer: JP
I don't give out many perfect scores. I regularly try to avoid the "gushing fanboy" syndrome, where everything is magnificent and godly. Often it is hard to avoid the passionate excitement about new music and add extra marks because over-zealous enthusiasm.
However, this CD truly deserves a Five out of Five. This is a very strong contender for album of the year for me and is practically guaranteed a place in my Top 10. Brainchild of Arjen Lucassen this is the metal CD that fans of Ayreon have been waiting for. While Ayreon occasionally in self-indulgent prog stylings, Star One is a metal treat all beautifully wrapped in a Sci-Fi theme. Don't let the words, Sci-Fi theme scare you. This is not some laboured, multi-CD project that is difficult to follow like Iron Savior. Star One is a collection of songs, each incredibly individual and strong that each are loosely based on Science fiction films. I won't tell you what they are I'll let you have the fun on your own. Some songs only touch on certain scenes from movies as it woul dbe hard to take a 4 minute song and explain an entire 2 hour movie. The concept is fresh and unique, I wish more bands did this. Lucassen is a pioneer!
The packaging is flawless, many beautiful images, each correlating to each song, adorn the inside booklet, along with notes and lyrics and so on. Star One has an absolute multitude of guests, much like the Ayreon albums giving it the feel of yet another side project. However, there is a main band and each guest is usually a vocalist that brings an incredible individual flair and style to each song. Truly magnificent. I don't like to just list people but often it is the only way. This CD includes appearances from members (and ex-members) of Shadow Gallery, After Forever, Gorefest, Edge of Sanity, Symphony X, Stratovarius, Threshold and more if ya want to get into line-up and membership trivia.
The performances are sterling as is the production; the sound is lush, modern and powerful. The songwriting is easily the heaviest material he has done in a while and it makes sense that this is not another Ayreon CD. The soloing is elegant and tasteful and Ed Warby shows why he is still one of the most respected, multi-faceted drummers in rock and metal today. The songs are not long, pretentious or self-indulgent like so many of these projects can be. It has a very streamlined, metal feel compared to Ayreon, and the tunes are faster and heavier. A highlight for me was the vocal trade off between Russell Allen and Damien Wilson on the song "Intergalactic Space Crusaders". The vocal performances on the tune "Perfect Survivor" capture perfectly the mood of the movie in question. Apparently the European version has some bonus tracks, so I may have to bite and get that as well, that's how much I enjoyed this one.
SPACE METAL gets my highest recommendation and fans of virtually all-metal genres (except perhaps death and black metal) will appreciate the absolutely top-notch writing, production and performance, lyrics and packaging on this essential CD.
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Waldorf Lentil Salad Recipe
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Here's a delicious way to get fiber-rich lentils into your diet. "This salad includes something I discovered years ago: a touch of ground cloves," notes Lily Julow of Lawrenceville, Georgia. "It does amazing things for lentils!"
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- 1/2 cup dried lentils, rinsed
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 4-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- Dash ground cloves
- Dash pepper
- 1 medium apple, chopped
- 1/4 cup sliced celery
- 2 Bibb lettuce leaves
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted
- In a small saucepan, bring lentils and water to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until lentils are tender. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk the mayonnaise, lemon juice, sugar, salt, allspice, cloves and pepper until blended. Stir in apple and celery.
- Drain and rinse lentils in cold water. Gently stir into apple mixture. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Serve on lettuce leaves; sprinkle with walnuts. Yield: 2 servings.
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Faculty Research Forum Held at Mount Union College
April 06, 2010
The Faculty Research Forum was held on Thursday, November 29 in Room 100 of Tolerton and Hood Hall at Mount Union College.
The Faculty Research Forum was held on Thursday, November 29 in Room 100 of Tolerton and Hood Hall at Mount Union College.
Dr. Richard F. Giese, president of the College, provided opening remarks and Dr. John Kirchmeyer, professor of computer science and information systems served as moderator for the evening. Kirchmeyer first introduced Dr. Richard Dutson, professor of political science and associate dean of the College who presented 'CSI (Computer Simulation, International), A Computer-assisted Simulation Game.' He began working on this project during his sabbatical over seven years ago.
Dutson became involved with Simulation Gaming in the late 1980s, when Global War Game 90 was released. Working with CSI allows for four scenarios, including current and Potential Crisis, involving the decline of a superpower such as the United States; Hot Peace, involving terrorism and anarchy in the context of culture clashes and South Central, involving the ongoing conflict in the middle east.
By participating in Simulation Gaming, students gain hands-on experience and can put into operation theories that have been taught in the classroom. Dutson explained some of these to be 'foreign policy, American character and exceptionalism, American democracy and international system theories.' Students also have the ability to organize into country teams and have different leadership roles. These roles could range from Head of State to domestic advisors. Dutson concluded by reminding the audience that the objective of this type of Gaming was not to win, but for students to learn more about the theories and how decisions made affect others.
Next Dr. James Klayder, associate professor of computer science and information systems presented 'How to Build a Second Life.' Second Life is a 3D multi-user virtual world in which societies can build their own worlds and live in them. Klayder described Second Life as a phenomenon that 'will change our lives more profoundly than the World Wide Web.'
The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems currently rents a space in Second Life, and students and faculty can access this virtual world from anywhere on campus. Activities included in this virtual world are visiting museums, interacting with other users from around the world and buying items, to name just a few. Second Life is also intricately connected to the Internet and items around this world can act as portals to web pages.
The third and final presenter, Dr. Nicole Johnson, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies presented 'Living Nonviolently in a Not-So-Nonviolent World: Peace-making in the United Methodist Church.' During the presentation, Johnson described her personal journey back to her faith and her observations of rather contradicting views the United Methodist Church had on concepts such as war and peace. In researching this idea, she carefully examined how the Book of Discipline, the United Methodist Church's main book of teachings, changed when republished every four years. She found varying differences with the ideas of war and peace, and sought out individuals who were very involved with the church. She set about interviewing persons of different ages, genders and races about their ideas of nonviolence. Johnson found that the interviewees thought nonviolence was 'central to the Christian faith, dynamic and comprehensive.'
She also asked about how they would practice nonviolence and received responses including 'through prayer and related practices, importance of community and practices of direct political action.' Johnson concluded that she found that most people learned nonviolence from experiences outside of the church, however, many of them felt that the way to work back to a nonviolent stance on all ideas was from inside their faith.


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Writing Method: Charting Your Novel
A few weeks ago we spoke to novelist Laurel Dewey about her approach to creating the lead character of her acclaimed suspense novel, Protector. That interview got us thinking about the bigger picture: How did Laurel develop her can't-put-it-down, page-turning story? We discovered that Laurel trained as a screenwriter -- and had applied techniques for writing for the silver screen to writing her novel. We asked Laurel to tell us about that, and she graciously shared this detailed -- and invaluable -- conversation with us:
VT: How does screenwriting relate to writing a novel?
Laurel: When I studied screenwriting at the California State University at Northridge, I had incredible professors who wrote Hollywood movies and television docudramas from the 1950's to 1960's. Back then screenwriters were schooled in the narrative of great fiction writing. They had a real understanding of how to tell a story. It was a different reference point than most of today's screenwriters, who are schooled in the conventions of television.
I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd be writing novels. My goal was to be a screenwriter. But I've been able to successfully put to work the screenwriting techniques my great professors taught me to writing novels. To explain them, though, I'm going to have to use the dreaded "F" word.
VT: The "F" word?
Laurel: Yes, "Formula." Formula definitely plays into what I'm going to talk about. But this formula works. It might sound like "writing by the numbers" but it's not. It's about "charting a novel" to help the writer make sure the story keeps moving and the reader stays interested.
This is not cookie cutter. In essence, it becomes the vessel into which you pour your creativity. It becomes the framework for your story. People often say they read novels that just keep going on and on and on, there's no point. Well using this technique, which I adapted from screenwriting, you can avoid that.
VT: How does it work?
Laurel: Just like with a screenplay, you break your book down into Act One, Act Two, and Act Three. This creates clear sections for containing the character development and the story arc.
VT: Sounds like you're creating a system to organize your story.
Laurel: Look at any really good classic story, whether it's a novel, a theatre play or a screenplay, and you will see this system in place. Writers who understand how to tell a story might unconsciously utilize the formula. Writers who are struggling with organizing the story peaks and so on can avoid all that by adapting this system to their novel.
When you read a novel that just goes on and on and on and on, then there's no, what I call, "spike points." My approach solves this.
First of all, you have to break Act One, Act Two, and Act Three into percentages. The rule I came up with is 25/55/20. That means, 25% of the story is Act One, 55% of your book is Act Two, and the final 20 % is Act Three. This may be a little off here and there - it's not an exact formula -- but I've found the "25/55/20 rule" really helps me create a strong box to hold my story.
If you use a 400-page manuscript as an example, applying the 25/55/20 rule would mean 100 pages for Act One. One hundred pages is your "magic number," by the way.
VT: Magic number?
Laurel: The first 100 pages are critical since most publishers judge a book on those pages. If you don't grab them within those first 100 pages, they are not going to want to read the rest of the book.
In a 400-page manuscript, Act Two would be 220 pages, and Act Three would come to about 80 pages. I have found that this approach really does work. If your novel's Act Three is around 80 to 90 pages long, you can really kick it into gear and get the reader going, "yeah, yeah" -- and take them on a ride to the end of the book.
There's wiggle room here, give or take 10 or 15 pages either side, but you don't want to go past these marks because it really does make a difference in how people are going to react to your book.
VT: What's next?
Laurel: Okay, Act One must establish your story. You MUST have a person with a problem. That's Number One. I learned this from screenwriting. If you don't have a character with a problem to solve you don't have a story. You establish the main character or the characters in the first ten pages if possible. Look at books that you really like and you'll see that they do this. They establish the main character and they establish that character's problems. It may not be the main problem of the book, it may not be the main focus of the book, but you've got to introduce what that character is trying to solve.
As for the protagonist's central problem, you have to establish that or at least introduce the problem in some way in the first 25 pages of the manuscript. If you're not introducing what this book's about in the first 25 pages, why are you writing it? And whatever this problem is, it HAS to be resolved by the end of the story.
You should outline your story so the main character must have either other characters and/or situations -- preferably both -- that complicate solving their problem. Without the hills to climb, your story will be flat and pointless. Challenges create intrigue and demonstrate the cleverness and/or determination of the protagonist.
Act One establishes the main character, their problem, and creates the obstacles. It lays the groundwork for the entire book. You have to end Act One with a springboard into Act Two because you need to catapult the reader from the section that establishes your story into the meat of the book. The meat is Act Two.
VT: What's the springboard?
Laurel: The springboard is not the major obstacle but a "wow moment" -- a twist or complication or something that propels the main character and the reader into solving the issue at hand. This brings you into Act Two, the core of your story, where everything important takes place. Act Two is where you delve deeper into the main character, creating obstacle after obstacle for them to overcome. You peel away the proverbial onion layer by layer until you hit the center, which is the "sting" or the end of Act Two. You start Act Two at around 40 mph, but you want to end it at 70 mph.
VT: Can you explain "the sting?"
Laurel: It's the "Oh My God moment." It's the guy hanging, literally, off a cliff. It's the character in jeopardy. It's the make or break moment that carries you into Act Three -- and that Act starts at 70 mph. You MUST keep that momentum going. You want to keep those pages turning and turning because what happens -- as we all know from novels we've read -- is the story often falls apart in the last 80 pages. How many times have you heard this: "I loved the book but the writer didn't know how to end it." Well, that's because the book was poorly conceived and poorly outlined. But if you chart your novel, this won't happen -- and it won't take away from your creativity. You still have to write creatively. You still have to know what you're doing as a writer.
VT: It boils down to a good story in the end.
Laurel: Right. Charting your novel works and what's great about it is that once you have this vessel, as I like to call it, then you have the freedom to create. You pour your structured creativity into that vessel.


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Carbon EmissionsComments
U.S. carbon emissions keep slowly falling, down to levels not seen since 1994, despite a lot more people in this country. I'm probably a bit more skeptical about the long-term sustainability of this than some people for three reasons. First, much of this is based upon the transition from burning coal to burning natural gas. While I'm sure that's going to be the trend for the foreseeable future, unless we invest heavily in a national infrastructure based around wind and solar energy, eventually it may change back to coal if gas prices go up. Second, the poor economy has played a major role in depressing energy use. That won't last forever, although given policymakers unwillingness to think about the deeper structural reasons for our economic problems, we probably aren't seeing a return to 1997 or 2005 anytime soon. Third, I'm not sure whether the continued drop in miles driven by Americans will continue. It's possible because people in their 20s and 30s are more committed to urban life and eschewing cars like no generation in American history since the car was invented. On the other hand, Americans really like driving and a booming economy might just convince a lot of those people that 3000 square foot houses and SUVs in the suburbs aren't such a bad thing.
Still, a good sign all in all.


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Early voting begins Saturday in Bay County, polls will be open from 7 am to 7 pm.
Voters can cast ballots at 4 locations:
Bay County Supervisor of Elections Office
830 West 11 St.
Panama City, FL
Parker Community Building
935 West Park St.
Parker, FL
Lynn Haven City Hall Annex
108 East 9th St.
Lynn Haven, FL
Panama City Beach Library
12500 Hutchinson Blvd
Panama City Beach, FL
According to Supervisor of Elections Mark Andersen says Bay County now has a record number of registered voters at just over 113,000.
With that many voters and an extremely lengthy ballot, officials ares encouraging people to familiarize themselves with the ballot ahead of time.
Early voting runs from October 27th to November 3rd.


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WASHINGTON — During last week's Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia asserted that "there's considerable disagreement" among experts over whether "raising a child in a single-sex family is harmful or not." Two other justices agreed that gay parenting was a new and uncertain development.
Those comments startled child development experts as well as advocates of gay marriage, because there is considerable research showing children of gay parents do not have more problems than others.
"This is not a new phenomenon. We have 30 or 40 years of studies, and there has been no hint of a problem," said Dr. Ellen C. Perrin, a professor of pediatrics at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center.
"There is a fundamental, scholarly consensus that children raised by same-sex couples do just fine," said Stanford sociologist Michael J. Rosenfeld.


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Microsoft announced a new initiative to add live streaming television on Xbox 360 at today's press briefing, and teased a video of the service being controlled through Kinect. Though specific partnerships weren't announced, the company promised more details on that in the coming months. The streaming is said to be coming with the fall update.
We heard rumors that the company was partnering with AT&T for the streaming TV, but no such partnership was confirmed today.
The conference is still underway. Shacknews will update this post as more information is made available.