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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) When the Florida Panthers fell behind by two goals in the first period to the top team in the NHL, it appeared they were on their way to yet another loss.
Instead, they scored three unanswered goals and Tim Thomas stopped 24 shots in the final two periods to help Florida snap a nine-game losing streak Tuesday night with a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.
Brad Boyes scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third and Thomas made 32 saves overall. Scottie Upshall and Shawn Matthias also scored for the Panthers, who earned their first win under new coach Peter Horachek and ended Anaheim's five-game winning streak.
Upshall also had an assist to help Florida rally.
The Panthers won for the first time since beating Minnesota 2-1 on Oct. 19. It was their first victory in three games under Horachek, who took over when Kevin Dineen was fired last Friday.
''I'm real, real proud of the way they responded,'' Horachek said. ''You don't just come back from 2-0 against a team like that without a lot of effort and a lot of character.''
Thomas was especially strong late, stopping 13 shots in the final period.
''I didn't know how confident to feel that we could come back against a really good team,'' he said. ''But in the second period, it started to come together for all of us, myself included. It was a real great effort after that.''
Hampus Lindholm and Andrew Cogliano scored for the Ducks (15-4-1), who lead the NHL with 31 points. Frederik Andersen made 22 saves but lost for the first time in seven career starts.
Florida took a 3-2 lead in the third on Boyes' goal. Andersen blocked a shot by Upshall, but the puck bounced off his leg pad and Boyes backhanded in the rebound at 4:29.
''It was a resilient effort,'' Upshall said. ''We didn't have a great start. That's been an issue. But when you've got a guy like Timmy in net, you're never out of a game.''
Trailing 2-0, the Panthers (4-11-4) scored two goals in 70 seconds during the second period to tie it.
Matthias backhanded the puck in from low in the right circle at 13:28 to make it 2-1. Upshall's shot from the point went off the stick of Anaheim's Mathieu Perreault and the shoulder pads of Lindholm before bouncing over Andersen at 14:38 to tie it.
''He shot it and it went off a body or shoulder or something and over my head,'' Andersen said. ''A tough one.''
The Ducks may well have overlooked the struggling Panthers, who earned their first home win after five straight losses.
''We come here to Florida and they haven't had much success but we took it for granted we were going to beat them and it caught up with us in the second period,'' Andersen said. ''Pretty simple.''
Anaheim scored 40 seconds in. Cogliano took a pass from Daniel Winnik to the left of the net and wristed it past Thomas.
The Ducks went ahead 2-0 on Lindholm's goal. His shot from the top of the right circle rifled past Thomas on the glove side at 14:26 of the first.
The lead didn't hold up.
''You could see it happening,'' Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. ''At 2-0, they were still close enough that if they got one ... when a team is down, they start to feel it, they can be a tough team to beat, whether it's fluky goals or whatever. We dug our own hole today.''
NOTES: Anaheim C Ryan Getzlaf was scratched for the second consecutive game with an upper-body injury. ... Cogliano has a four-game goal streak, a career high. ... RW Corey Perry appeared in his 594th game, tying Ruslan Salei for fourth on Anaheim's franchise list. ... Florida honored Ducks veteran Teemu Selanne with a video tribute during a first-period timeout.


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The American Music Awards know their place in the landscape of music-related award shows.
The ceremony doesn't have the prestige of the Grammys or the cheeky irreverence of MTV's Video Music Awards — and certainly not the ratings of either.
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But where the show, which aired Sunday evening on ABC, excels is its ability to provide pop spectacle.
Splashy commercials leading into the program featured a simple tagline: "Your playlist goes live." And this is one award show where radio hits — not the trophies — seem to matter most.
"This is for all the haters who thought I'd be here for only one or two years," Justin Bieber declared as he clutched his win for favorite pop/rock male artist. "But I think I'm gonna be for a long time."


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SAGINAW, Mich. — A Michigan sheriff says he's trading orange jumpsuits for black-and-white stripes as the new attire for his jail inmates in part due to pop culture.
Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel tells The Saginaw News that all-orange jumpsuits are increasingly viewed as fashionable as they're seen on TV in places such as the Netflix prison show "Orange Is the New Black."
Federspiel says "some people think it's cool to look like an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail with wearing all orange jumpsuits out at the mall or in public." He says inmates sometimes work in public, and he doesn't want there to be any confusion.
The jailhouse fashions come relatively cheap. The sheriff says the jumpsuits, which last for about two to three years of wear, cost $11.73 apiece.


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Not all vegetable preparation needs to be meditative or titilating though. Many a squash has been cleaved in half with the zeal of Jason Voorhees which of course helps to release tension, frustration and anger. Sometimes I find it very soothing to personify said vegetable, even going so far as to stick a photograph onto my butternut before sticking my cook's knife in and slashing it down the middle whilst screaming "DIE! DIE! DIE!". I have done this a lot lately which is probably not healthy but hey, it keeps me out of jail. However, some preparation of fruit and vegetables do sadly racket up the blood pressure due to their sheer finicky attitudes to life. I love gooseberries but I hate top and tailing the buggers. And why, I ask myself, do sulphourous brussels sprouts have to be crossed at Christmas time? And just what is the point of globe artichokes? Never has a vegetable have to give up so much for so little. Well that's my experience anyway, detractors have commented on the size of my artichokes in the past. The humble broad bean is similar in some ways in that you have to pod them from their fluffy overcoats and then further remove them out of their little jackets. To me this is the veritable padlock on a pair of knickers which is time consuming and fiddly to unlock. (The key of course is to blanch the beans for just a minute or so and then they will pop out with nick from your thumbnail and a gentle squeeze.)
Still the rewards are great because this sweet green little bean is very tasty indeed and I always look forward to this time of year when they are ready for harvesting from the allotment. We don't grow many and for that I am grateful but once I've got the fiddle and the faff out of the way, I always end up being rather grateful for them. If that makes any sense.
With this year's batch I made Habas y Morcilla or broad beans and black pudding to you and me. In fact, the black pudding came from Bury and not Spain so this dish does have a fervently British slant to it, he says triumpantly and I urge you to try this handsomely moreish recipe which I got from the first Moro cookbook. It really is worth the effort.
Habas y Morcilla - serves 4
3 tablespoons olive oil
200 g morcilla (or Bury black pudding) cut into 1cm slices
2 cloves garlic sliced
Half a teaspoon of fennel seeds
1.5 kg broad beans – to yield approximately 500gms of podded beans
100 ml chicken stock
A good handful of fresh mint roughly chopped
sea salt and black pepperMethod
Warm the oil in a fryin pan over a medium heat and then throw in the black pudding. Leave for a minute or two, making sure that the pudding crisps up but doesn't break down. Put to one side.
In the same pan fry the garlic and fennel for a minute until the garlic begins to colour and the throw in the broan beans, pour on the stock and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes until the beans become tender. Throw the black pudding back in the pan to warm through and right at the last minute toss in the mint. Serve up with griddled bread. Delicious.


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New Picture Books in the Spirit of Halloween
Okay, I know Halloween is still three weeks away, but I can't help myself. As soon as the Autumnal Equinox rolls around, I start to stuff my jacket pockets full of leaves, I cook lots of butternut squash recipes, and when it comes to bedtime picture books, I gravitate towards ones with owls, or monsters, or a bit of mystery. Here are five excellent new "creature feature" releases we've had in our reading rotation lately.
Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynold; Peter Brown (Illustrator)
The story of a rabbit who is being stalked by his favorite root vegetables. Peter Brown's impeccable black and white (and orange) artwork is top-notch, depicting a Twilight Zone-inspired atmosphere, full of suspense, drama and menacing, yet goofy carrots.
Frankenstein by Rick Walton; Nathan Hale (Illustrator)
A spot on Halloween-ish spin on Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline. If you're a fan of the original, you're going to love this. Mirroring perfectly the familiar rhymes, and style of artwork from the classic - only with Miss Devel presiding over 12 little monsters in two crooked lines.
The Insomniacs by Karina Wolf; Brothers Hilts (Illustrator)
Although there's nothing particularly spooky about The Insomniacs--the story of a family who moves 12 time zones away and adapts to an after-dark lifestyle--the beautiful and shadowy illustrations strike a wonderfully strange and mysterious mood (reminiscent of Edward Gorey, or Tim Burton), with eerie, moon-lit settings, hordes of bats, prowling wolves, and other nocturnal activities.
The Monster's Monster by Patrick McDonnell
In a dark castle, three little monsters, Grouch, Grump, and Gloom 'n' Doom, decide to build the biggest, baddest monster EVER, but end up learning a lesson about gratitude and kindness from a creature who turns out to be the sort of guy that likes jelly donuts, sunrises, and is thankful for just being alive.
The Spider and the Fly (10th Anniversary Edition) by Mary Howitt; Tony DiTerlizzi (Illustrator)
A special 10th Anniversary release of the retelling of Mary Howitt's classic nineteenth century poem about a sinister spider's efforts to capture a fly, intricately illustrated by the talented Tony DiTerlizzi's, who drew inspiration from classic Hollywood horror movies of the 1920s and 1930s. Warning: as gorgeous as this book is, it most certainly falls in the creepy category.


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Torpyone Takes Command In Riva Del Garda
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Riva Del Garda, Italy (June 3, 2017) - Day Two in Riva Del Garda at the third event of the 2017 Melges 32 World League, European Division hosted by Fraglia Della Vela Riva concluded with three additional, fantastic races. A total of four races are now complete with four varied winners and still, there is no clear and undisputed ruler. This characteristic of Melges 32 racing is not only evident in Riva Del Garda, but throughout the entire racing season regardless of venue. With the Europeans and Worlds happening within the next couple of months, the smallest of details will make all the difference for every team.
This was finely demonstrated by Edoardo Lupi and Massimo Pessina aboard TORPYONE with Lorenzo Bressani calling tactics. They are now in command of the sixteen-boat fleet and although they did not win a race today, they played a good game of consistency, were fast and made excellent tactical decisions. Runners-up at the 2014 World Championship, Lupi/Pessina have proven themselves on more than one occasion that they are quite capable of winning.
As the Lupi/Pessina team moved into the lead, Germany's Fritz Homann on WILMA with Nico Celon as tactician won Race Four to now sit second overall, equal in points with third place finisher Pavel Kuznetsov on TAVATUY with Evgeny Neugodnikov as tactician.
Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio's G-SPOT moved up to finish the day fourth overall, followed by Race Two winner Matteo Balestrero on GIOGI in fifth.
Richard Goransson's INGA with tactician Vasco Vascotto shook off the dust to capture the win in Race Three.
Francesco Graziani on VITAMINA continues to lead the Corinthian Division with a significant 14-point gap between himself, and second place Martin Reintjes and his Italian crew aboard CAIPIRINHA.
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3.) Pavel Kuznetsov/Evgeny Neugodnikov, TAVATUY; 4-3-13-1 = 22
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I was tagged by Denis Gobo in the latest blog meme: What was your first computer and games you've played?
Well mine was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
I got it when i was 9 years old and I only used it to play games. No programming for this kid just yet. That came a lot later.
This baby had a tape drive whose sound I really enjoyed imitating to annoy my mom :)
So what were some of the games? These are the four I remember:
Grand Prix Circuit
This was my first intro into the world of F1. I can still remember the...
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Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
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Never ever call me on my work phone as a form of the first contact!
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I don't have anything against recruiters, I think their jobs are very important in the greater scheme of things.
I also never give my work phone number away, and if I have to I give my mobile phone number to people.
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We all heard about the Chuck Norris Facts, right?
Well if you're a fan of security you have to be familiar with Bruce Schneier and his excellent blog.
What I didn't know is that he also has a collection of facts!
Just how cool is that???
Here are some I found funny:
- For Bruce Schneier, SHA-1 is merely a compression algorithm.
- Bruce Schneier once compressed a single bit of information to half its size.
- Bruce Schneier doesn't need backups because his hard drive knows that failure is not an option.
- Bruce Schneier shaves with Occam's razor.
- Bruce Schneier knows the last digit of...
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This is a very "serious" talk presented by legendary Israeli investor and community-builder Yossi Vardi. It talks about the dangers of blogging especially for males. Direct video link here. Worth the watch!
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We're having a contest over at SqlTeam.com. Go take a look it might be worth your while.
All you have to do is have a post in the forums.
The more posts you have the better the chance you have of winning.
What can you win?
Well the title says it all. See what that is on the ApexSQL Developer studio page. It's a whole lot of goodies!
Read contest details here.
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Yes, me too. :)
I was tagged with this by Denis who has liven (is that even a word?) up to his nick "The SQL Meance". Bad Dennins, bad!
As lame as this thing might be and it does reminds us of the dreaded chain letters (anyone remeber getting those by normal mail. you know the one where people acctually deliver it... by vans even...can you believe it???), it's quite a nice excercise when you think about it. It kind of clears your path career wise.
So I have to find a few things, huh? Here goes:
1. Spending more time looking at art works.
Why? Because paintings, besides...
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So as of today i'm a proud member of the MCP club :)
The exam wasn't that hard. I had 35 "Pick a correct answer" questions and 15 simulations.
The simulations threw me off a bit because i didn't expect them.
So you have to be comfortable with T-SQL syntax and Management Studio alike.
Knowing what all of the little buttons and options do helps :)
The tools i used for learning are SQL Server Books Online and
EXAM CRAM: MCTS 70-431: Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft® SQL Server 2005
I've read some more books but they were really not needed to pass this exam.
I'll post my reviews...
posted @ Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:21 PM | Feedback (16) |
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We had an interesting discussion here about Katmai (the next SQL Server version)
Of course it was discussed in the latest MVP summit, but noone can say anything because it's all under NDA.
So i'm wondering why.... WHY is it under NDA? Is there some very special reason for that?
Nigel responded to my question with this:
I think it's more to do with managing expectations.
A lot of things talked about are under development and may be dropped from the product if they look like they might impact the release date.
They want an opinion on the usability of proposed functionality from a closed community before a...
posted @ Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:46 PM | Feedback (3) |
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I use Yahoo's mail service since 1996. But today i doscovered a new thing that made me laugh for half an hour.
You have to use their ajax-ifed beta version. Click Compose and start clicking on the subject button.
It auto generates the subject line.
Here are some examples:
- LipSmack heartAttack girlie girl in a pink sleep sack
- How to Comb Your Curly Hair
- Is your coffee table decaff?
- Your earrings would make a great fishing lure!
- Quote me as saying I was misquoted.
- RE: four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie
- Thank god and Greyhound she's gone
- Scratch golfer finds ball...
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A derivative is walking down the street and sees a hot function.
So he grabs her, takes her into the bushes and differentiates her once.
Little later he sees another function and differentiates her twice.
He goes on an sees this super hot function. really sexy.
So he grabs her and differentiates her once and nothing, differentiates her second time, still nothing.
After 10 unsuccessfull differentiations he gets tired and asks the function:
"How come i can't differentiate you???!???"
And the function answers:
"HA!! That because i'm ex !!!"
and beats the crap out the derivative.
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This document is a must read for any serious network admin and i do dare to say also for a DBA.
.Net developers are welcome to read it since it is usefull.
A few excerpts:
(1) It Has To Work.
(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it
could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
(4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in networking can never be fully...
posted @ Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:55 PM | Feedback (13) |
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A coworker found this in code generated by Visual Studio 2005:
this.sqlSelectCommand2.CommandText = "SELECT columnName1, columnName2, columnName3, columnN" + "ame4, columnName5, columnName6 FROM MyViewFromMa" + "nyTables"
Searching for...
posted @ Monday, November 27, 2006 11:34 AM | Feedback (5) |
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I've come accross a video recently that was tagged with VeoTAG.
I must say that IT IS AWSOME!
I can already see the uses in presentation videos.
No more searching for that 47th minute minute where there's something that you like...
or was that 34th minute?
maybe 58th minute?
Just click on a comment and you're there.
This is a very cool idea.
posted @ Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:47 PM | Feedback (0) |
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Since this blog is hosted i don't have access to it's source code. That means that i can't play with the source, can't add counters,
can't have anykind of statistics etc... All i can do is post a formatted post or article and have galleries.
Subtext colleccts statistics by showing you numbers for aggregated views and web views and it also has a refferals page that you can see who clicked you.
And I really wanted to have some statistics. I've looked into Google analytics when it came out and I still think it's awsome.
So i wondered how to put it in my blog....
posted @ Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:15 PM | Feedback (3) |
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I usually don't do these kind of posts but for this i'll make an exception :)
This is such an awsome tool for me for one reason only: SQL Formatting
It takes you query and formats it with the template that you can also change yourself.
you can download it here.
support forum is here.
It will also come in a bundle with SQL Prompt 3.0.
If all that that was a woman i'd make sweet love to it. that's how much addiction this caused me. :))
posted @ Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:43 PM | Feedback (1) |
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I came across this "little" tool today via Mike Gunderloy's The Daily Grind.
Tried it out. LOVE IT.
My JavaScript development from now one is only in Aptana IDE.
Homepage here.
posted @ Monday, July 31, 2006 4:57 PM | Feedback (3) |
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I've come across Tod Hiliton's blog via Jason Haley's Interesting finds and there i found this great little add-in for VS2005.
The add-in was created by J.T.Leigh, i've installed it and I must say it works beutifully. I'm already using it.
It's a must have for blog posts containing code.
More info and CSAH download here.
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I came accross this site and i must admit i've become an instant fan :))
It's Roller has the most amazing collection of sql blogs i've found so far.
It's created by Peter DeBetta and Adam Machanic as far as i can tell.
More good stuff at SqlBlog.com
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This is a good explanation on how to acctually bill a customer for your service over a credit card in your web application.
More here.
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As i saw this word being used with blittable and non-blittable datatype
i couldn't help but laugh... who comes up with this stuff??
Blittable types are datatypes that don't require conversion when passed between managed and unmanaged code while
non-blittable datatypes are represented differently in managed and unmanaged code.
Complete explanation here
posted @ Sunday, April 09, 2006 6:45 PM | Feedback (5) |
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you paste the code you want to display on the page and it creates the color coded html. preety cool...
there's even a source of the app that does the convert that you can view.
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If you do a lot of managed/unmanaged code interaction with COM objects
then this is a page you must bookmark.
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Well we decided we should do some unit testing on our asp.net project. We used NUnit.Asp. i must say the thing works realy great. the whole thing is based on xml document model of the page. so accesing tags and their attribs is preety simple. the only "drawback" i could think of is that every tag you want to get has to have an id. all in all i must say the thing is quite usefull. i build some wrapper classes that we needed and we could test anything you can think of, except javascripts that executed on the client...
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well at one point in time we all went through the unwelcomed experience of removing spyware from our computers...
usually i use SpyBot or Spy Sweeper. But i got a nasty bug neither of them would remove. The pesky bug is called SearchAssistant and it's a toolbar that gets stuck in IE. So i serached the net and found that there is one little program that can get get rid of it. It's called HijackThis.exe. It's a bit hard to use it as when its ran it gives back some sort of listwith stuff you can delete. The only problem is there are...
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hello all.
my very first blog post. UAU!! i'm so proud of my self :) well thanx to graz for setting it up.
i'm going to post something constructive in few days... i hope... :)
everybody have FUN!!!
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Lena Dunham looks beautiful on the cover of the latest Glamour Magazine!
Lena Dunham lands the latest cover of Glamour Magazine, and she looks great! It's not nearly as photoshopped as her recent cover of Vogue, which I find refreshing. She's proud of her body, why not highlight her natural body, and not make her look like someone she's not? I think the pictures and styling are great, and it's one of the better photoshoots I've seen of her.
On Woody Allen: "I find the most recent revelations about his life really challenging. I hated that Mia Farrow had been bullied because the man she was [splitting up with] was the most powerful cultural figure in New York and therefore nobody wanted to look at his behaviour. I'm grateful to Dylan Farrow for her bravery in speaking out. I'm disappointed that Woody Allen thought discussing his ex's sexual history and shaming her was an effective strategy in arguing his innocence."
On her heroes: "I think I want my heroes to embody values I can agree with in their work and life."
'Girls' helped her love her own body: "I think I radicalized my relationship to my own body in order to accept it. To make my body a prop in my work gave it a value I didn't feel it had before. At the Golden Globes I had a little bit of fat bubbling over, but I love how that looks. It looks so bountiful. It reminded me of corset dramas. They'll be a point – maybe when I'm pregnant or when I have kids – when I just want to have my body for myself."
On her boyfriend of two years, Jack Antonoff: "I remember talking with him on our first date and him being like 'God, all the articles about your nudity on the show are such bulls—t'. I think women are conditioned to stand by their man and watch them make it to the top, but most men never believe the person they get into a relationship with is going to rise any higher than she was when they met. It takes a very special, evolved person to be able to deal with change within a relationship."
On her good friend Taylor Swift: "She helps me be stronger and make better decisions."


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Gillian Day
Our commonest diving duck, nesting on flooded gravel pits and lakes and reservoirs, and gathering in large flocks in the winter, often mixed with Pochard and Coot. Tufted Ducks feed on waterweed, plant seeds and aquatic invertebrates.
How to identify
Tufted Ducks are very distinctive: the female is entirely chocolate-brown, while the male is black with white flanks and a long tuft at the back of the head.
Where to find it
Found throughout the country, on lakes, reservoirs and gravel pits.
When to find it
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
How can people help
Even our commonest ducks are under threat from the loss of wetland habitats due to human activity; the Tufted Duck is no exception. The Wildlife Trusts manage many wetland nature reserves for the benefit of the wildlife they support. You can help by supporting your local Trust and becoming a member; you'll find out about exciting wildlife happenings, events on your doorstep and volunteering opportunities, and be helping local wildlife along the way.


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After London 2012: Returning a Risk for North Korean Athletes
- Kristin Wright Open Doors USA
- 2012 10 Aug
London 2012 marks North Korea's most successful Olympics since 1992. The North Koreans have taken home 4 gold medals and a bronze in their most successful presentation in decades. With 56 athletes entered in 11 sports, the communist country seemed relentless in its quest to win.
Gold medalist Kim Un-Guk, among other North Korean medalists, was quick to praise North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong Un, for the victory he achieved. "I won first place because the shining Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un gave me power and courage," he said.
But what happens when North Korean athletes fail to bring home the gold? ABC News reported last week that North Korea offers athletes a carrot-and-stick approach – televisions, refrigerators and cars for winners, and labor camp sentences for losers.
The rumors aren't confirmed, but athletes report that "review meetings" exist after the competitions, in which those found to be disloyal to North Korea's regime are banned from competing and even sentenced to forced labor camps. With the stakes so high, many people have wondered why North Koreans don't take the opportunity afforded by the Olympics to leave their communist homeland and seek asylum elsewhere.
But experts say that leaving North Korea is not that simple.
On NPR's All Things Considered, Olympic historian David Wallechinsky weighed in on why North Koreans aren't defecting as the games wind to a close. "I have actually visited North Korea and this is the most repressive country I've ever been to," Wallechinsky said. "What they do is they threaten the families."
Wallechinsky described speaking to Albania's greatest athlete shortly after the fall of communism. The man told him that when he went to the 1972 Olympics there was a minder for every athlete. "They were never allowed to be alone," he reported. "And I'm sure that's the exact same thing that the North Koreans are doing."
Human rights experts say that North Korea's brutal concentration camps are designed for the punishment of those found disloyal to the regime. Satellite images of the camps reveal miles of death camps that confine more than 200,000 political prisoners.
Defectors speak of horrific abuse that occurs within the camps – forced labor, torture, rape, execution. Shin Dong-hyuk grew up in a North Korean concentration camp. His father's father had been imprisoned years before when his brother defected to South Korea. For this, Shin's entire family had been imprisoned for generations. Shin rarely saw his mother or his father as they were separated in different parts of the camp. While he was still a child he and his father were forced to watch his mother and brother as they were executed for attempting to escape.
With such dire circumstances faced by those who oppose the regime in any way, it's little wonder that North Korean athletes have been so quick to sing the praises of their new leader. The winner of Olympic gold in the women's judo 52-kilogram division, An Kum-Ae, made her patriotic ambitions clear immediately. ""As an athlete I believe by winning the gold medal I was able to glorify my nation and give support to the people of my nation, so I am really happy," she said. "I believe I gave some happiness and joy to our leader, Kim Jong Un."
The poverty-struck nation of 25 million has been afforded the opportunity to watch five hours a day of live Olympic coverage – although viewing is of course limited to those with electricity. Featured interviews on North Korean television shows citizens proclaiming their adoration for Kim Jong Un.
Yang Moo Jin, a professor at University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, says that North Koreans have a lot resting on their Olympic performances. "North Korea is giving their best performance," he says. "It's the first Olympics since the Kim Jong Un regime took over, so they're trying to use it to boost morale for their people and unite them."
According to the North Korea Freedom Coalition, a Washington, D.C.-based group advocating for human rights in North Korea, "Human rights in North Korea are virtually non-existent." The group reports that "the government regulates individual lives from speech, opinion, and thought, to employment, travel, and food rations," and says that "hundreds of thousands have fled to China and other neighboring countries to seek subsistence."
The North Korea Freedom Coalition advocates for prisoners of conscience in North Korea, as well as those who have tried to escape. The group says that "China continues to forcibly repatriate North Koreans to a fate that includes imprisonment where they may experience torture, medical and chemical experiments, forced abortions, infanticide, starvation, and hard labor."
Could the prospect of facing these horrific circumstances be driving some of the relentless praise for Kim Jong Un from the nation's Olympians? As the Olympics wind down, there seems to be no end in sight for the praise directed at the nation's "Dear Leader." Om Yun Chol won gold in the men's 56-kilogram weightlifting. "There are no secrets," he said later. "The reason for my improvement and how I won the gold medal is [due] to the warm love of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il and the Great Comrade Kim Jong Un."
Kristin Wright is a columnist and contributing writer at ReligionToday.com, where she focuses on global human rights and religious freedom issues. Kristin has covered topics such as bride trafficking in North Korea, honor killings in Pakistan, the persecution of members of minority faiths in Iran, and the plight of Syrian refugees. She has visited with religious minorities in Pakistan, worked with children at risk in Mumbai's "Red Light" district, and interviewed individuals on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kristin can be contacted via her website at kristinwright.net or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Central America's Caribbean Coast: Politics and Ethnicity
Robert Sierakowski
From the period of imperial conquest and competition, the Caribbean coast of Central America has served as an interstitial space: between British and Spanish rule; between foreign corporate control and national inclusion; mestizo, black, and indigenous. Running from Guatemala in the north through Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in the south, "la Costa" has functioned as a contested terrain imbued with economic import, ethnic difference, and symbolic power. The coastal zones were transformed in the 20th century through the construction of railroads and later highways, large-scale foreign immigration, the spread of states' bureaucratic agents, and internal migrants, as well as transnational projects such as the Panama Canal and the United Fruit Company's integrated banana plantation empire.
The coastal region's inaccessible terrain, large communities of lowland indigenous people, and vast numbers of Afro-Caribbean migrants from islands such as Jamaica markedly differentiated these lowlands from the wider Central American republics. From indigenous groups such as the Rama, Mayangna-Sumu, Kuna, Guaymí, and Bribri, to the Afro-indigenous Garifuna and Miskitu, and the English-speaking black Creoles and Afro-Antilleans, the region has enjoyed great ethnic diversity compared to the nominally mestizo republics of which it has formed part. Finally, ladino (non-indigenous) or mestizo (mixed-race) campesino migrants from the Pacific or Central regions of the isthmus arrived in large numbers throughout the 20th century. Racism, ethnic exclusion, and marginalization were often the response of national states toward these coastal populations. In some contexts, tensions between and among ethnic groups over land and natural resources, as well as between national states and local autonomy, flared into violent conflict. Elsewhere in Central America, the Caribbean coast's position in national political development permitted a gradual meshing of national and regional cultures during the second half of the 20th century.
Conflicts between Caribbean Basin Dictators and Democracies, 1944–1959
Aaron Coy Moulton
Between 1944 and 1959, conflicts with anti-dictatorial exiles and democratic leaders against dictatorial regimes and dissident exiles shaped inter-American relations in the Caribbean Basin. At the end of World War II, anti-dictatorial exiles networked with students, laborers, journalists, and politicians in denouncing the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo, Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza, and Honduras's Tiburcio Carías. Opponents of and dissident exiles from the 1944 Guatemalan Revolution and Venezuela's Trienio Adeco (Adeco Triennium) under Rómulo Betancourt likewise turned to dictatorial regimes for aid. By 1947, a loose coalition of anti-dictatorial exiles with the help of Cuba, Guatemala, and Venezuela's democratic leaders formed what would become known as the Caribbean Legion and organized the abortive Cayo Confites expedition against Trujillo. Seeking regional stability, U.S. officials intervened against this expedition and Caribbean Basin dictators and dissident exiles' attempts to air-bomb Guatemala City and Caracas.
Caribbean Basin leaders and exiles focused upon these inter-American conflicts, rather than the international Cold War. José Figueres's rise to power in Costa Rica provided a pivotal ally to democratic leaders and anti-dictatorial exiles, and Caribbean Basin dictators began working with the Venezuelan military regime after the 1948 military coup. In 1949, Trujillo's regime coordinated a counter-intelligence operation that destroyed the Caribbean Legion's expedition at Luperón and brought greater attention to the region.
By the early 1950s, dictatorial regimes operated as a counter-revolutionary network sharing intelligence, aiding dissident exiles, supporting Fulgencio Batista's 1952 coup in Cuba, and lobbying U.S. officials against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and Figueres in Costa Rica. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) utilized these dictators and exiles during Operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, but U.S. officials intervened when the counter-revolutionary network invaded Costa Rica in 1955.
From 1955 onward, anti-dictatorial exiles from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela continued organizing expeditions against Caribbean Basin dictatorships, and multiple groups conspired against Batista's regime. Among Cuban exiles, Fidel Castro rose to prominence and received important resources and alliances through anti-dictatorial exiles. Dictators shared intelligence and gave aid to Batista, yet Caribbean Legion veterans, Cuban exiles, Betancourt, Figueres, and others helped Castro undermine Batista. In 1959, Castro supported anti-dictatorial expeditions, most notably those against Trujillo and Luis Somoza. However, Castro disagreed with many former exiles and Betancourt and Figueres's policies, so the resulting tension separated Castro from democratic leaders and divided the region among dictatorial regimes, democratic governments, and Castro.
The Galíndez Case in the Dominican Republic
Elizabeth Manley
On March 12, 1956, Basque National and Columbia University lecturer Jesús María de Galíndez Suarez disappeared from New York City never to be seen again. While no conclusive evidence was ever uncovered, it has been widely accepted that he was taken by functionaries of the regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, flown to the island, tortured, and killed. Galíndez, who had worked for the Trujillo regime after fleeing Spain in 1939 and subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1946, had just completed a dissertation on the Trujillato at Columbia. The regime did not look kindly on his chosen perspective and set in motion a plan to have him disappeared. Following his abduction, many U.S. solidarity activists joined forces with Dominican exile groups to push for greater attention to the atrocities of the Trujillo regime as well as for a closer investigation into Galíndez's disappearance. While Trujillo had similarly disappeared a number of individuals in the United States and other Latin American countries, the Galíndez case is unique for several reasons. First, Galíndez's life offers a prime example of a transnational identity, of someone who juggled multiple identities and causes, crossed physical and ideological borders, and operated daily with conflicting alliances and allegiances. Second, the murder of the Basque national mobilized a significant collective of solidarity activists in the United States, garnered considerable national press, and built a foundation for future activism. Moreover, as Galíndez had been working as a U.S. intelligence operative since before his arrival in the United States, his story complicates the traditional nexus of solidarity work. Finally, the case offers a unique window onto the geopolitics of the early Cold War (prior to the Cuban Revolution) and the intricacies of the second half of the Trujillo regime.
U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America in the 19th Century
Brian Loveman
U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America in the 19th century initially focused on excluding or limiting the military and economic influence of European powers, territorial expansion, and encouraging American commerce. These objectives were expressed in the No Transfer Principle (1811) and the Monroe Doctrine (1823). American policy was unilateralist (not isolationist); it gradually became more aggressive and interventionist as the idea of Manifest Destiny contributed to wars and military conflicts against indigenous peoples, France, Britain, Spain, and Mexico in the Western Hemisphere. Expansionist sentiments and U.S. domestic politics inspired annexationist impulses and filibuster expeditions to Mexico, Cuba, and parts of Central America. Civil war in the United States put a temporary halt to interventionism and imperial dreams in Latin America. From the 1870s until the end of the century, U.S. policy intensified efforts to establish political and military hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, including periodic naval interventions in the Caribbean and Central America, reaching even to Brazil in the 1890s. By the end of the century Secretary of State Richard Olney added the Olney Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine ("Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition . . ."), and President Theodore Roosevelt contributed his own corollary in 1904 ("in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to exercise an international police power"). American policy toward Latin America, at the turn of the century, explicitly justified unilateral intervention, military occupation, and transformation of sovereign states into political and economic protectorates in order to defend U.S. economic interests and an expanding concept of national security.


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LoriBell's Frozen Custard Creations
- Expired
- Kennesaw
- Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
With 120 flavors in rotation, during your first visit you'll likely happen upon Elvis' Breakfast, Cream of Joe or Black Raspberry. And if those, coupled with the 50-plus toppings aren't enticing enough—they have less calories than ice cream. (Yup!)Much like peanut butter slathered bananas, we're all over this froyo phenomenon—but, sometimes it just doesn't quite cut the custard when it comes to our desire for all goods sweet, frozen and creamy. Enter LoriBell's Frozen Custard—with their homemade, allegedly magical masterpieces, we're satisfying our hunger, by the bushel, by the barrel, by the ounce. Served up in a bowl, blended in a smoothie or atop a cone, these folks are prepping the goods any way you like 'em. Doug and wife Susan run the shop, which is inspired by Doug's favorite childhood hangout up in Indiana. (We hear this frozen custard deal is a pretty big one up north.) And now, the constable custard himself, is tinkering around in the kitchen, delving into the uncharted territories of frozen treatery.
With over 120 flavors in rotation, during your first visit you'll likely happen upon Elvis' Breakfast (that's the bananas and peanut butter we were talking about), Cream of Joe or that staple Nothin' But (plain ol' sweet cream, but it's doggone good). And if those, coupled with the 50-plus toppings weren't enticing enough, custard is actually a premium ice cream. We learned that while it uses a pasteurized egg base (which accounts for some of the splendid rich and creamy flavor), it means that overall, it requires less fat and sugar than conventional ice cream. Which means less calories. Which means we just found our new favorite fad diet.
Menu Highlights:
Sweet Daisy (blend of cherry, almond, pineapple and cream)
Nothin' But (plain custard)
Black Raspberry
Pancakes and Maple Syrup
Mon. - Thurs. & Sun., 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Fri. & Sat., 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.


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It's just like any other raid night in Naxx. Your group is relaxed amidst some light bantering after a large pull. The healers have about 50% mana left in the tank and can go a few extra pulls before having to sit down and drink again.
Acknowledging the green light, your tank whips out his gun, locks on to a target, and pulls the trigger. Four mobs come rushing at him as a result of his transgression.
Out of the corner of your eye, you notice a raider standing a bit further away from the rest of the group. Suddenly, his Gnomish form is over taken by a large, black figure.
"Shade!â€Â, You hear yourself breathe into the mic, rather forcefully.
To make matters worse, another patrol is about to run into your group.
Another raider curses out loud as you wince.
Turns out he was off target and tabbed to yet another group of trash off to the side and manages to get their attention.
What was supposed to be a routine pull is on the verge of becoming a blown pull.
Oh crap
This is the kind of situation that healers dread. At the same time, this is also the kind of situation where healers excel. Differences between average healers and great healers are easily noticeable.
A blown pull can look like anything. It can involve any number of mobs or any number of players. It can happen at any time. A series of minor and trivial events continue to add up until it snowballs and overwhelms the raid.
Are you ready for high stakes Whack-A-Mole?
Now what?
This is when your brain shifts to high gear and your fingers start to just react on their own. I'm going to refer to this is the APC process.
Assess – The very first thing a healer does is to look around them. Examine the situation by looking at the screen. Get a visual reference on the mobs and see if you can tell who they are running to or who they're beating on. Ideally, your raid frames will highlight red on players who have aggro. By now, you should have a mental map of what exactly is going on, who is tanking what, and who has pulled aggro with stray mobs.
Prioritize – This is the fun part. You get to decide who lives and who dies. If the players on your raid frames are flashing red, it means they have threat on some mob. If any one of those players is not a tank, I strongly suggest throwing a shield on them right away. After that, you can only pray that they drop aggro or that they live long enough for a tank to pull them off. Keep your ears open for any keywords.
For example, if you hear the word "Challengingâ€Â, you better zero in on that tank immediately.
Cast – At this time, you should have an idea of who you're healing. You should simultaneously be vocal about who you're healing. It lets other healers know who to heal and who not to. If they know you're healing Bob, then they won't waste their time or overheals on Bob. On the flip side, if Bob happens to be that guy that said Challenging, then other healers may wish to jump in on that as well.
That entire process above should take about a second to run through in your head. There's too many variables to account for so it's difficult to imagine what you would do under certain circumstances. But sometimes it helps if you think about what you would do in such a situation if it ever comes down to it.
It's kind of like being in a mall and knowing where the fire exits are in case there's a fire. Sure you may not need it. But it's nice to know where they are just in case.
The key here is to be vocal about who you're healing. Strong communication can turn a blown pull into a salvageable one.
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Include a Pledgie badge in your trac instance, raise money for your project
(do not click, the plugin is not installed on this instance. this is a sample)
Please donate anyways.
Use the pledgie.com badge to allow people to donate money to your project and show how much has been donated.
I am in no way affiliated with pledige. Thinking about reviving another project hosted on assembla, I thought it might be nice to see if someone would trow a dime at it. That is what motivated me.
Pledgie requires the campaign id as it's first argument, like so:
That will display a badge like shown above.
Note: The campaign id can be found in the pledgie url, e.g. http://pledgie.com/campaigns/ id.
As of know, the only way to install is to download pledgiemacro/0.11/TracPledgieMacro/TracPledgieMacro.py and put it in your plugin directory.
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Feist Farm was Homesteaded by one of First Five German-Russians to Settle in Strasburg Area: Jacob Feist Arrived in 1888
Burke, Allan. "Feist Farm was Homesteaded by one of First Five German-Russians to Settle in Strasburg Area: Jacob Feist Arrived in 1888." Emmons County Record, 27 June 2002, 1 & 8.
There will be lots of activity this week at the Albert and Angeline (Houn) Feist farm north of Strasburg because most of their 10 children and 8 grandchildren will be home for the Strasburg Centennial.
The Feists and their farm has special significance because Albert's grandfather, Jacob Feist, was in the first group of five German-Russian immigrants to homestead in what is now south-central Emmons County, and Jacob donated the land for the first Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church and cemetery at what was then known as Tiraspol. He and neighbor Egidi Keller also established the Tiraspol community's first store, The Bazaar.
The five-member group of bachelors included Sebastian Bauman, Joseph Baumgartner, Joseph Burgad, Joseph Kraft and Jacob Feist.
Natives of the Strassburg area of Russia, they came to New York City on the steamship, S.S. Trave, from the German port of Bremen. They traveled by train from New York to Eureka, S.D., where they spent the winter of 1888. In 1889, the men homesteaded in Emmons County.
Brothers of Jacob who settled in the area included Damion, Casper, John and Joseph.
Jacob married Barbara (Schwahn) Wald on May 13, 1889. They were married by Father Bernard Strassmeier, either at Fort Yates, where Father Bernard was headquartered, or at St. John¹s Church.
Barbara also came over on the S.S. Trave but in April of 1889. With Barbara on the ship were other members of the Feist and Kraft families plus the first members of the Keller and Schwab families.
Her sisters also married settlers. Agatha, married Egidi Keller; Katherina married Peter Kraft and Regina married Lorenz Schwab.
Jacob built two sod houses to claim his land, and both were within a short walk from where the present farmstead is located. Nothing remains of either house, although Albert remembers there was a dirt pile where one of the houses stood.
Jacob had no formal education, so he joined forces with his brother-in-law, Egidi Keller, who had some education as well as bookkeeping skills, to open The Bazaar on his homestead land. Egidi was the grandfather of Charles Keller, Sr., a neighbor of Albert's.
The tiny Tiraspol community included the church, rectory and the store.
Strasburg was founded when the railroad came to the area, and it made sense for Jacob and Egidi to move their store two miles into the new town. It was moved to the site where the BEK Communications building now stands. Years later, it was a bowling alley and was destroyed by fire.
After the store was moved to town, Jacob and Egidi were joined in owning the business by Damian Lauinger, Michael Baumgartner and J.J. Baumgartner.
The decision by the diocese to move the church and rectory from Tiraspol to the new town was not universally popular, but it was finally accomplished. "My uncle once told me that Father Justus Schweizer would walk from Tiraspol to the farm to visit my grandparents, and he would come barefoot in the summer," Albert said. "He would have a meal and visit everyone in the neighborhood before walking back to the rectory."
Father Schweizer served Sts. Peter & Paul from 1903-1906.
Albert said his dad told him of his memories of the church being moved to town.
Many of the graves from the Tiraspol Cemetery were moved to the new cemetery in town, but the cemetery, with its iron crosses, remains a landmark on the Feist farm.
A family story that Albert heard many times as he was growing up was about Joseph Keller, a son of Egidi Keller.
"A band of Gypsies came through the neighborhood when nearly everyone had gone to Strasburg for Mass," he said. "Some of the Keller children stayed at home, including Joseph and an older sister. The girl saw the Gypsies coming toward the farm with their horse-drawn buggies, so she went inside and locked the door. Joseph was playing outside in the sand, and they picked him up and took him along."
"When they got to our farm, they must have seen people coming from town because they dropped off Joseph nearby."
"When the Kellers found out what happened, they set out in pursuit of the Gypsies. Jacob saw them and joined the chase. They caught up with the Gypsies and horse-whipped the perpetrators," Albert said. "That was prairie justice."
There were no trees in the Tiraspol area, so wood had to be gathered about eight miles to the north along Beaver Creek.
"My grandfather and Egidi Keller took a team of oxen and a wagon to cut wood along the creek, and they intended to get back home before dark," Albert said. "The wagon broke down, and by the time they got it fixed it was dark. My grandmother told me it was pitch black when they got to our farm, and they found it only because she had hung a lantern outside for them."
History books about the Strasburg area say that Jacob devoted his time to the store, but the truth is that he was heavily involved in farming. He eventually owned over 15 quarters of land, including land south of Strasburg.
Jacob and Barbara had 10 children: Damian, Joseph, Jacob, John, Catherine, Sebastian, Peter, Barbara, Paul and Anton.
John farmed with his father and married Magdalena Schlosser on Nov. 24, 1924. She was the daughter of Peter and Eva (Kuntz) Schlosser.
"Dad said it was like a summer day when they got married," Albert recalled.
A dance floor was built at the farm for a wedding dance, and the celebration lasted at least two days, which was customary for German-Russian weddings in those days, according to Albert.
John and Magdalena then took over the family farm, and Jacob and Barbara moved to Strasburg.
Jacob died July 9, 1933, and Barbara died April 11, 1949.
John and Magdalena had five children. Edward (Margaret) of McKenzie, Florence (Mrs. Sylvester) Meier of Zeeland, Albert (Angeline), Geneva (Mrs. Joe T.) Vetter of Linton and Clarence, who lives in Minneapolis, Minn.
Albert married Angeline Houn, daughter of John and Magdalena (Jacob) Houn, at St. Michael¹s Catholic Church east of Linton on January 15, 1966.
They took over the farm and later bought it from Albert's parents, and John and Magdalena moved to Strasburg. Albert farmed with his dad for a number of years.
"This farm had milk cows on it for well over 100 years," Albert explained. "We sold the last cows in 2000."
Albert said milking was ideal for the family since he and Angeline have 10 children.
"The farm kept the kids busy, and it was a good life for them as they grew up," he said.
The Feists milked from 50 to 65 cows, which was a good sized family operation.
Their children include: Gordon Jerome was born on August 19, 1966, and married Laura Rohrich on October 24, 1987. Charmaine Marie was born on November 2, 1967, and married Kelly Patrick Swanson on September 20, 1991. Loren Shawn was born on November 20, 1969. Gerald Dean was born on January 26, 1971. Marvin Lee was born on August 15, 1972, and married Tina Vetsch on September 11, 1999. Steven Dion was born on November 17, 1975. Dwayne Jason was born on February 16, 1977. Sheldon Jonathon was born August 17, 1979. Keriann Corinne was born on March 5, 1982. Aric Donavan was born on February 27, 1984. Aric graduated from Strasburg High School in May, and for the first time in 30 years Albert and Angeline won't have a child attending school in Strasburg.
Angeline said raising 10 children was not as difficult as it may sound. "Everything falls into place, and we didn't think much about it," she said.
The kids had horses to ride and were busy with school activities as well as helping on the farm.
Albert and Angeline have seven quarters of land, all of which is now in CRP. Four of their quarters were part of the land Jacob put together. The Feists have visited Europe twice, in 1985 and 1989.
"The wall came down in East Germany about two weeks after we got home in 1985," Albert said.
They visited many relatives in Germany and met people from their ancestors' same village (Strassburg).
"I can remember that my grandparents sent money to the relatives who remained in Russia," Albert said.
Albert and Angeline speak German, and they were able to communicate well on their trips.
"Aric says I am so German that I laugh in German," Albert joked.
The Albert and Angeline Feist family includes, back row, left to right, Charmaine, Loren, Albert, Angeline, Sheldon, Marvin, Dewayne and Gerald; front row, Steve, Karriann, Aric and Gordon.
Jacob and Barbara Feist are pictured later in life.
These men owned the Strasburg Bazaar. They are, back row, left to right, Damian Lauinger, Michael Baumgartner and J.J. Baumgartner; seated, Jacob Feist and Egidi Keller.
Jacob and Barbara Feist would probably not recognized their homestead today, although the house they built in 1905 is the home of Albert and Angeline Feist. The house has been remodeled many times over the years, and all of the out-buildings have been replaced.
Albert and Angeline Feist are pictured by their home. He is holding an antique bottle found on the farm, and she has some traditional German-Russian soup spoons they were given on one of their European trips.
There was lots of snow at the Feist farm after the Blizzard of 1966.
John and Magdalena Feist are pictured on their wedding day in 1924.
John and Magdalena Feist are pictured in the 1940s on the homestead.
Albert is pictured with his older sister, Florence.
Albert and Angeline Feist
Reprinted with permission of the Emmons County Record.
Other books about Strasburg, ND, can be located at these GRHC
website pages:
As We Reminisce: Strasburg, Emmons County, North Dakota
Moments to Remember
Saints Peter and Paul's Parish Centennial Book 1889 - 1989: Strasburg, North Dakota
Saints Peter and Paul Parish Golden Jubilee Book
Strasburg Centennial Book: 1902 - 2002


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MUS103 Basic Sight Singing and Ear Training
This course teaches students the rudiments of singing by sight and recognizing intervals upon hearing them. Various reading systems are utilized. Students participate in each class session. Remedial course; may not be counted toward the music major.
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I appreciate that this could be a statement that could come back to haunt me but after driving this car, I reckon Peugeot is back. Proper Peugeot - the Peugeot that we used to know and love. Yes, the car has had to make a few concessions to modern motoring, and the electrically-assisted power steering isn't the wholly organic experience you got behind the wheel of a 205 GTI, but here is a car you'll drive just for the fun of it. I tried some of the larger petrol and diesel engines on offer, figuring that more was better, but this 82bhp 1.2-litre powerplant aced the lot of them for sheer fun. Without wishing to sound detrimental, it has a holiday hire car kind of feel to it, where you just feel inclined to travel everywhere with the throttle buried into the carpet and a huge smile on your face. It's not even particularly quick. 62mph comes and goes in 12.2 seconds while the top speed is 111mph. If that's not fast enough, Peugeot also offers a 1.2-litre PureTech 110 variant that improves those figures to 9.6s and 118mph. Either way, there's the option of an ETG5 auto gearbox for townies. Personally, I'd stick with the lower-powered variant and the manual 'box. You'll need to be pretty slick with the stick shift to keep things on the boil, but as you punt it through corners you'll be amazed at the sheer amount of front end grip on offer and its speed of turn-in. It's a real hoot to drive, with a real willingness to rev and very little flywheel effect. It's the first small car I've driven for a long time that suddenly gave me the pang of wanting to actually own. Here is a supermini you'll drive just for the fun of it. I tried some of the larger petrol and diesel engines on offer, figuring that more was better, but this 82bhp 1.2-litre powerplant aced the lot of them for sheer fun. Without wishing to sound detrimental, it has a holiday hire car kind of feel to it, where you just feel inclined to travel everywhere with the throttle buried into the carpet and a huge smile on your face.
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Election Section
Who's Financing Berkeley Campaigns? A Easy Way to Find Out
If you wonder who's paying for all the Berkeley campaign information you've been seeing around town lately, now it's easy to find out.
Here's where the council and mayoral candidate campaign finances stood as of 9/30, in an easy-to-browse format created for The Berkeley Almanac:
This link will get the same kind of information regarding Berkeley ballot measures, and more:
The information comes from the city of Berkeley campaign finance web site.


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"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
-- James Gordon Bennett
This site is for my SlackBuilds, which build Slackware Linux packages, that I don't have on slackbuilds.org. There are a few oddities here, mostly compiling from GIT or SVN repos. Hopefully, you will find some of them useful.
Soma is a console/dialog radio stream player which should work on any *nix with mplayer and dialog installed. My mkslack application will build SlackBuilds and supporting files from the standard templates offered at slackbuilds.org.
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Purdue game wrap (with pics!)
[ed: bump so hard Jake Ryan wanna fine me]
[ed-S: I had to completely repost due to some bad html that was making it unreadable, so all the old comments are gone. Apologies to those of you who commented earlier--if you didn't, all you missed is Blue Seoul doesn't live in Seoul anymore]
Working Too Hard
So this is what it's like having a real job. I have enough time to watch the games, but not enough to obsessively analyze them. But there's been a lingering question about Fitz's lack of productivity compared to last season that I wanted to take a stab at answering. So even though it's a couple weeks late, here's my analysis of what's been going wrong for Fitz.
I see three main differences that are causing the lack of production:
- Fitz is being overworked
- The blocking is not as good
- Fitz is lacking some burst
There are some other problems in the defensive schemes and matchups, the playcalling, and our lack of run audibles, but these are minor issues and don't really explain everything.
For Fitz' sake!
This play didn't count, but it's indicative of the kind of problems the O-line was having in short yardage. Notice how all the defenders are keeping their blockers at arms length, they've got their heads up to watch the ball, and their lateral movement is keeping them on the l.o.s. instead of getting pushed back into the endzone. After watching a year of Greg Mattison, this is some pretty good fundamentals from the Boiler DL. Fitz takes the ball a little wider than he should have, but part of that is the fullback, #36 just got destroyed. He's too small, and his pad level is too high. It would have been a tough cut, but there was a little bit of space behind Schofield. That's the kind of cut Fitz was making at the end of last year. But he either didn't see it, or was too tired on this play.
I've noted it before, but here's another example of why we don't run more veer and speed option. Denard just doesn't have much experience or feel for the pitch. On this play we had a nice wall and he should have stuck his nose in there for the first down. I don't particularly like that, because I don't want him to take unnecessary hits. But he pitches this ball way too early.
Jake MotherF****** Ryan! The long lost brother of Jack MotherF******** Johnson. I like how having an expletive as your middle name has become a term of endearment.
Look at how far away he is from this play. But his instant recognition and his quick first step™ allow him make the play.
He completely takes the running back by surprise with his Superman impression.
And trips him up for a nice TFL. That's called 'selling out' on a play. (Giving it your all)
The most nonchalant hook n' ladder pitch of all time.
"I ain't got the ball."
Devin Gardner's Development
I believe that's what the kids are calling, "Highpointing the ball".
How does scoring a touchdown make DG feel?
Pretty damn good.
How do two TD's make Fitz feel?
Well, alllllrighty then...I'm not real good at reading expressions, but I'm pretty sure that one is saying "Hey twitter, STFU."
Hate Week: Never Forget.


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Thompson guides Kings past Hornets
Sacramento, CA – Jason Thompson tallied 20 points as three different players reached the 20-point plateau for the Sacramento Kings who coasted past the New Orleans Hornets, 121-110, Wednesday night at Sleep Train Arena.
Thompson connected on 8-of-12 shots from the floor and also had eight rebounds for the Kings, who ended a four-game losing streak.
John Salmons had a game-high 22 points and Marcus Thornton added 20 off the bench while nailing 4-of-8 from beyond the arc. Isaiah Thomas also got in the mix with 15 points while DeMarcus Cousins put in 11 points before fouling out.
"It was a combination of deflections and defense that got us into transition," Kings coach Keith Smart said of his team which forced 17 turnovers and scored 23 points on the fast break. "When we've had our highest scoring game its been because of our defense."
Eric Gordon led all scorers with 23 points for New Orleans while also handing out seven assists. Anthony Davis recorded a double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) as well for the Hornets, who have lost four of their last five games.
Robin Lopez and Brian Roberts each added 20 points for the Hornets while Xavier Henry chipped in 15. It was the second-straight game the Hornets had five players in double figures.
"I didn't think we played smart offensively. Our game plan was to take it to the basket," New Orleans coach Monty Williams said. "When you're playing on a back-to-back a young team has to understand you may not have your legs so you got to trust going to the basket, getting fouled and being able to set your defense."
The first quarter was largely a back-and-forth affair until Thornton was substituted for Salmons with 3:12 remaining the period. After the change the Kings rattled off an 10-0 run to go up 33-22.
The Hornets would keep the game within range, 35-28, as the quarter ended though with a trio of buckets from Henry, Ryan Anderson and Roberts.
The same could not be said for the second quarter when the Kings really began to blow the game open. They shot at a 59.1 percent clip in the quarter, and held the Hornets to just 26.1 percent, while ripping off a 17-2 run midway through the frame to take their largest lead of the half, 60-36.
The Hornets would cut into that deficit a bit before the break. After a 3- pointer from Thornton with 3.4 seconds left in the half, Gordon went the length of the floor and was fouled while dropping in a runner as time expired. Gordon hit the ensuing free-throw but the Hornets still trailed, 65-48, going into the locker room.
In the third quarter the Hornets were able to cut their deficit to 11 points three times, the last of which came on a driving layup from Greivis Vasquez with 5:28 remaining in the period. The Kings would go on an 11-2 run from there highlighted by 3-pointers from Salmons and Thomas to push their advantage to 90-69.
Entering the fourth quarter the Kings led 95-73. That lead would balloon to as many as 30 points and despite a late charge from the Hornets, it was more than enough.
Game Notes
Sacramento scored at least 30 points in each of the first three quarters ... The Kings hit 10 3-pointers, marking the second time in 10 games they have had double-digit makes from beyond the arc ... Roberts' 20 points were a career-high ... The Hornets had a 17-9 edge in second chance points.