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4 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
and they have no comforter.
2 And I declared that the dead,
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.
4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
5 Fools fold their hands
and ruin themselves.
6 Better one handful with tranquillity
than two handfuls with toil
and chasing after the wind.
7 Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:
8 There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
"For whom am I toiling," he asked,
"and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?"
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!
9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. 14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. 15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor. 16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
2 Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
3 A dream comes when there are many cares,
and many words mark the speech of a fool.
4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. 5 It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it. 6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, "My vow was a mistake." Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.
8 If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. 9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
11 As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.
13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:
wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14 or wealth lost through some misfortune,
so that when they have children
there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15 Everyone comes naked from their mother's womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands.
16 This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?
17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot. 19 Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God. 20 They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.
6 I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: 2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
3 A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. 4 It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. 5 Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man— 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
7 Everyone's toil is for their mouth,
yet their appetite is never satisfied.
8 What advantage have the wise over fools?
What do the poor gain
by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
9 Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.
10 Whatever exists has already been named,
and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
with someone who is stronger.
11 The more the words,
the less the meaning,
and how does that profit anyone?
12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
11 I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the "super-apostles,"[a] even though I am nothing. 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles. 13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 15 So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less? 16 Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! 17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? 18 I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?
19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. 20 For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. 21 I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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When Madonna declared herself fed up over the "death of creativity" after a world tour in which religious conservatives protested her concert in Poland, fascist skinheads heckled her in France and she received terrorist threats in Russia, the pop provocateur decided she needed to do more to inspire her followers to fight oppression and stand up for human rights.
She wanted to start a revolution. And she knew she'd need help spreading her message. So the superstar's longtime manager Guy Oseary made one call — to Vice Media.
Best known for sparking the odd friendship between flamboyant former Chicago Bulls power forward Dennis Rodman and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for its gonzo magazine series "Vice" on HBO, the company has evolved from contrarian hipster magazine into a media powerhouse valued last summer at $1.4 billion after Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox bought 5% of the enterprise for $70 million.
The omnivorous, privately held Vice Media now encompasses a network of digital channels, a record label, an in-house ad agency, book publishing and television divisions, and feature film production.
"It's a great time to be Vice," deadpans co-founder Suroosh Alvi.
Doubling down on its TV and movie production capacity, the Brooklyn-based company opened a warehouse-like Los Angeles office near Venice Beach this fall, with room for 40 video editing suites. In addition to its Hollywood proximity at a time the company has become an effective movie marketing presence, Vice L.A. geographically situates the company near its strategic partner YouTube, whose Playa Vista campus is a few miles down the coast.
"We've got a new season of 'Vice' on HBO in the works, and you're going to see a Vice feature film division emerge within the next year," says the company's chief creative officer, Eddy Moretti, pointing to "Fishing Without Nets," a Vice-produced dramatic thriller about Somali pirates set for release in 2014.
Last month, Advertising Age named Vice Media its publishing company of the year, citing the magazine's 4% year-over-year ad-page increase and expansion to 24 international editions.
For Madonna, Vice eagerly signed on this year to promote and curateher public art project, Art for Freedom. As part of that initiative, "secretprojectrevolution" — a 17-minute film the singer wrote, co-directed and produced — has been downloaded free from the peer-to-peer file-sharing portal BitTorrent more than 1.3 million times since its September release.
"It felt like the right kind of partnership," Madonna manager Oseary said of Vice. "They have great reach to the people who are likely to take action — to do something. The Vice audience is not a passive audience. They want to be turned on to things, they want to see things first. They want information they're not getting on regular channels."
With the high-low worldview of 1960s Playboy and the global youth outreach of 1990s MTV, Vice Media has become a viable alternative to mainstream media.
Even before Murdoch's $70-million investment, the Australian mogul tweeted of Vice, "Wild, interesting effort to interest millennials who don't read or watch established media."
By all accounts, 2013 has been a banner year for Vice, which will celebrate its 20th year in operation come January. Its 2012 revenues reportedly topped $175 million.
But beyond simply transcending its punk-rock roots or generating robust revenues in a depressed media market, Vice has achieved a kind of cultural saturation this year. Even while continuing to do exposés such as "Fracking Gave Me Gonorrhea" and "Oktoberfest in Palestine," the company entered strategic deals with HBO and YouTube. All while promo-blitzing "Spring Breakers," the indie babes-in-bikinis crime thriller, and helping culturally reestablish international superstars including Daft Punk and Snoop Dogg — the latter as his controversial reggae-performing alter ego Snoop Lion.
"It was a team effort," Snoop said of Vice's rebranding push. "They are professional and edgy, just like I am."
Toward that end, Vice's HBO magazine series scored a world-class get when it flew Rodman and members of the Harlem Globetrotters to North Korea. The Vice crew was not only granted rare face time with Kim but it was also able to show some of the government's deceptions, including a computer lab where students pretended to use nonworking computers. Vice's effort was ultimately rewarded with a 2013 Emmy nomination for documentary or nonfiction series.
"Emmy voters are not the most cutting-edge viewers in the world and yet they embraced the show by giving it a nomination in a very competitive category," says HBO's president of programming, Michael Lombardo.
Not everyone, however, is a fan of the show or of Vice's style of journalism. In his review of the HBO series, New York Times critic Mike Hale wrote, "The problem with 'Vice' isn't its insistent aggrandizement but its excessive softheadedness. It's journalism at the intersection of shallow and gullible, where they meet, high-five and compare tattoos."
And not every Vice-branded project has achieved cultural lift-off. After weeks of build-up for the first-ever YouTube Music Awards across Vice's numerous platforms — and despite a rollicking visceral scrum masterminded by the Oscar-nominated director Spike Jonze with crying babies, a raw-throated performance by Eminem and a weeping Lady Gaga dressed down in a flannel shirt — the Nov. 3 event attracted a meager 220,000 viewers at its peak and was widely panned as a meandering, shoddily executed mess.
Vice has also been criticized for blurring the lines between editorial and advertising in ways sure to give Fourth Estate traditionalists acid reflux. Working in marketing tandem with such global conglomerates as Nike, Levi's and Samsung, Vice allows advertisers to bankroll Web series — but only the ones deemed to be in keeping with its image.
In a backhanded compliment, Gawker.com described Vice as an "ever-expanding machine for selling counterculture cool to the world's largest and most mainstream corporations."
It all prompts a distinctly Generation X question that has dogged the decidedly Gen Whatevs company at every step of its evolution: Is Vice selling out to trade up?
"We're capitalists," says Moretti. "But as long as you don't feel bad about the product, service, film or musician you're promoting, it doesn't have to be a sellout. Every time we've grown, we've confronted the risk of diluting whatever it is that makes us. I guess at the end of the day, though, we only do the things we want to do."
"It's growing up as opposed to selling out," says Jonze, who serves as a creative director for Vice. "I don't think the company's sold out at all."
As Jonze sees it, Vice's content has evolved as its core brain trust — Alvi, Moretti and larger-than-life co-founder Shane Smith — has grown older and more sophisticated.
"For so long, they were viewed as the 'party, cool sneakers and cocaine kids,'" Jonze says. "It took a long time to shake that reputation, even though they were maturing."
At its outset, few beyond a core readership of Quebecois tweakers and 'zine freaks might have foreseen Vice's staying power. Started under a Canadian government-funded welfare program as the Voice of Montreal in 1994, the underground give-away newspaper morphed into a monthly glossy with distribution across North America.
Chronicling a crazy quilt of interests including obscure subcultures (Norwegian black metal, South African rap-rave), fashion, drugs ("A Guy Who Was on Acid for a Whole Year") and sex ("The Vice Guide to Shagging Muslims"), early Vice reveled in barf and bile under the ethos of "doing stupid in a smart way and smart in a stupid way."
But after a $4-million investment by tech tycoon Richard Szalwinski in 1998 and 1999 expansion into the U.S., the company nearly became a casualty of the dot-com bust in 2000. Burdened with $5 million in debt, Vice was forced to downscale both its payroll and its ambitions, shedding about three-quarters of its employees. Vice's founders considered pulling the plug but ultimately bought controlling interest back from its investors in 2001 and relocated to Brooklyn in 2002.
"It was really tough," Moretti recalls. "We came very close to the end."
By the mid-'00s, however, Vice had rallied, launching editions in Europe, Australia and Asia. At Jonze's urging, the company began devoting considerable resources to streaming video and entered a partnership with Viacom to launch VBS.tv, Vice's online television network. By then established as a Gen Y's go-to online outlet — gimlet-eyed yet extreme, druggy but earnest — Vice finally catapulted into the ranks of media elite thanks to a 2011 infusion of venture capitalist cash (in partnership with MTV founder Tom Freston) reportedly in the "high eight figures."
And now, boasting an impressive 3.5 million subscribers on Vice's YouTube channel with unique visitors spending an average of 26 minutes on vice.com (according to its internal estimates), the company's latest initiatives demonstrate Vice's ability to serve as a conduit among mainstream corporate concerns, cutting-edge cultural offerings and the highly coveted millennial audience.
UPDATED Nov. 8, 2013 at 11:00am: An earlier version of this story stated that Vice Media produced a series of Web shorts to promote "Random Access Memories." The short films were produced by the Creators Project, a partnership between Vice and the computer chip maker Intel.
Earlier this year, French electronica trailblazers Daft Punk enlisted Vice's help to market the duo's fourth studio album, "Random Access Memories." Under its Creators Project vertical -- a partnership with the computer chip maker Intel -- Vice produced a series of Web shorts featuring interviews with album collaborators including Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder.
Stoking fan interest while keeping Daft Punk's cultivated mystique intact, the videos played a key part in making the album arguably the year's most hotly awaited release. The disc shot to the top of the pop charts in 20 countries upon its debut, including the U.S.
"When Vice started presenting a countercultural point of view, the notion of counterculture had a certain meaning that it doesn't have now," observes Hahn. "Now, the line between the mainstream and the underground has been blurred by the Internet. So they're taking the avant garde and saying, 'Why wouldn't this be interesting to a lot of people? Let them judge for themselves.' At Vice, they don't compartmentalize culture."
Awards show misfire aside, Vice co-founder Alvi sees the company's biggest achievement as having stayed true to it original, freewheeling game plan while the rest of the culture has played catch-up.
"The reason why YouTube and all these big brands are coming to us is we have a kind of stranglehold on this audience, and the audience is loyal, faithful and big," Alvi said. "After so many years of being the underdogs, we're not in that position anymore. We became the true alternative to the mainstream instead of something very niche. The mainstream came to us."

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This is the moment to celebrate the Olympic designers even if LOCOG won't, writes Christine Murray
I watched the opening ceremony in Hackney's Haggerston Park, surrounded by a thousand or so young families and twenty-somethings picnicking on the lawn in front of a big screen. The broadcast elicited a pantomime atmosphere, with cheers for the suffragettes, the Beatles and the NHS, and an unsportsmanlike boo for Team USA. The crowd shrieked in approval when the camera turned to 500 construction staff representing the builders of the Olympic Park.
They would have cheered the architect of the Olympic Stadium too, had anyone thought to mention Populous – or, indeed, that the Olympic Park was designed in Britain, by British architects and engineers – surely a unique achievement in the history of the Games, where importing talent is the norm.
This week Peter Murray continued his protest against LOCOG's absurd Olympics marketing protocol by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the architects and engineers of the London 2012 Games to UKTI's Creative Service Summit. He even got Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey to put it on.
For the record, LOCOG's marketing gag order for the architects of the Games has not prevented the AJ from publishing any London Olympic buildings. We've worked with the ODA to publish all of the major venues, from Populous' Olympic Stadium (AJ 07.04.11), to Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre (AJ 18.08.11), and a 100-page book on Hopkins' Velodrome (September 2011). The AJ team has also visited the park on multiple occasions, often with photographers. The ODA has not asked to sign off AJ buildings studies, nor sought to ensure positive coverage.
But we do know architects that have been excised from coverage of the Games for unknown reasons. When putting the final touches to her book, London 2012: Sustainable Design, AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman was asked to remove all references to the architects and delivery teams from chapter headings and photography captions, and to relegate them to two pages of credits at the back.
AJ Specification Editor Felix Mara was bemused to watch Channel 5's Megastructures: London's Olympic Stadium, in which principal architect Rod Sheard and engineer Paul Westbury are mentioned, but not Populous nor Buro Happold (referred to only as 'Team Stadium'). Ironic, given Populous is a third-tier sponsor of the Games and not bound by the protocol.
It is shocking, as Paul Finch points out in his column, that in the TV coverage of the opening, Populous was not mentioned, nor any other architecture practices involved in the building of Games venues.
In this issue, we've published our own version of Murray's T-shirt with a special issue featuring 20 London Olympic 2012 projects across our pages, including Penoyre & Prasad's East Village Health Centre, Stanton Williams' Eton Manor, Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron, and 17 projects we've collected in the AJ Buildings Library, collated in a commemorative insert – with more to come. If you've completed an Olympic project, please contact AJ Buildings Library editor Tom Ravenscroft to record your project in the AJBL.
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There does not seem to be any reference here to what has been the protocol for previous Olympics. Was there a gag order on the architects of the Birdsnest and Watercube? The gag order actually seems counterproductive to the Olympic "machine" and I would think that celebrating the Architects and the architecture would only increase public interest and support of all kinds.
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At the beginning of the semester, you'll be provided with a calendar of student events such as day trips and overnight excursions both in and out of Accra that will immerse you further in the history and culture of the region. The Community Resource Assistants also organize events each semester, ranging in variety from an outing to a local restaurant to a museum visit to a local historical site. Most student activities are partially or fully subsidized by NYU, though students may be asked to pay a small fee to participate. The cost of trips, both day and overnight, are covered as part your tuition, and include some (but not all) meals!
Program Excusions:
Cape Coast & Elmina (overnight)
The Elmina forts, initially a trading post, quickly became a major stop on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. An accompanying lecture covers issues related to the history of the slave trade and how it has shaped contemporary Ghana. We will also visit Kakum National Park with its famous canopy walk, 7 bridges stretched high across the treetops.
Kumasi (overnight)
Ghana's second city, Kumasi, is the capital of the Ashanti region and the seat of the Ashanti king. Students will visit the Manhyia Palace and learn about the long and rich history of the Ashanti people in Ghana. Kumasi is also known for its textile production, and students will have the opportunity to discover more about these traditional art forms through workshops on batik printing and kente-cloth weaving.
Tamale (overnight)
Tamale, the capital of the predominately Muslim region of Northern ghana, features an architectural blend of traditional mud houses and modern buildings. Students wil hear a talk on the region, visit the central mosque, and tour and commit supplies to the Widows weaving project and the Shekhinah Clinic, a free medical clinic and the receipient of multiple Martin Luther King Jr. awards from the US Embassy in Ghana.
Volunteering in the Volta region and Rural home stay (overnight)
Students volunteer to help build and paint a school or community center in the Volta region of eastern Ghana. Students will meet with the village chief and elders, view a cultural performance by the community, and eat dinner around a bonfire. Students will also have the option to stay overnight with a host family to get a real feel for rural life in Ghana.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
I Wish There Were More People Like Tony
I wish more people were like Tony. I wish more people could have a dynamic, passionate, energized guide as they weave their way through their genealogical journey
But my wish wouldn't end there. I wouldn't wish for it to end with Tony. There is a real opportunity here to gain momentum and for others to become as energized, organized and helpful as Tony. I would love for others to catch Tony's bug and pay it forward.
There is a real lesson in here somewhere for genealogy societies. Real momentum can be gained from an energized person like Tony who can really rev up a group. The challenge is consciously capturing that momentum and encouraging it to spread amongst the rest of the membership.
Tony is not the only Tony out there. I know of a few other "Tonys" right here in my home state of Massachusetts who are going above and beyond the call of duty and really trying to energize and build their genealogy groups and societies. But they can't do it alone.
If you're an officer in a society, see if you can identify any Tonys or potential Tonys in your group. Perhaps you don't have the energy yourself to be that person but you could do a great service by identifying and then encouraging other people to take on that role.
It sounds like the Schaumburg Library has something very special going on. Let's see if we can use it as a role model and help the momentum to spread.
Take a moment to read the article and learn exactly what Tony is doing right in Chicago. You can even check out Tony's Genealogy Group blog.
Photo Credit: Photo by Robbie1 and used under the creative commons license. Modified by M. Pierre-Louis.
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Marian, Thank you for writing this post about Tony and linking his blog and my article. I really was so impressed by all that he does. As soon as he and I can get together, we will get him set up on Twitter and hopefully get a FaceBook page going and go over Google+. Then his great work will spread even farther. He is an inspiration!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for posting this Marian - so inspiring. I'm following Tony's blog too now. So good to seek work like this.ReplyDelete
Tony's efforts are wonderful, but how does he keep it up? I am the Programme Convener for a genealogy society and I can tell you that even that portion of the society's activities is a lot of work. I work full time and I can tell you that sometimes it's a stretch to take care of all the details of finding, booking and advertising speakers let alone doing the rest as well. Perhaps Tony wants it to be a one-man show, but if he's doing it because he sees a need for the service, it's too bad others don't step-up and volunteer to help him out. With that amount of work involved, all it will take is for Tony to be sick for a bit or to have some other personal issue going on for it to fall apart. Just my 2 cents...ReplyDelete


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Hacks track
Tinkering, experimenting and bending the rules to make hardware and software do what we want.
Hacks are clever. They break the rules. They force the available material into doing what you need or want. Some hacks are illegal, and some just make you proud and embarrassed that it worked. Sometimes a hack is the only way. Show the world how you make your hardware and software obey your every whim. Example topics from the past include "Building an embedded Linux system monitoring device" and "Your Shell History In The Cloud."
Sessions for this track
* Open Source Rockets
PSAS is a student aerospace engineering project at Portland State University. We're building ultra-low-cost, open hardware and open source rockets that feature perhaps the most sophisticated amateur rocket avionics systems out there today.
|Nathan Bergey, Andrew Greenberg
* Building A Mesh Network Wireless Temperature Sensor
The problem: My HVAC system is not balanced. Easy but boring solution: Hire a qualified contractor to fix it. More interesting solution: Use knowledge from dusty undergrad degree in electronics to cobble together some simple wireless temperature sensors using XBee modules and distribute them around the house. Then use Java programming knowledge to build up a monitoring system using open source software. Attempt to use readings from temperature sensors to figure out what's going on and fix it. This presentation will delve into the hardware and software aspects of the system, although with more emphasis on the software and the role that packages such as Apache Felix and Apache Mina play in the system.
|Michael Pigg
* Copyright lawyers can Gödel
"This compression algorithm is of course very inefficient, at least when applied to a small collection of documents. But if you were to apply it to a larger collection, say, all the music ever recorded and all movies ever made, some gains may be realized...
|Markus Roberts
* CouchApp Evently Guided Hack with CouchDB
Learn to hack Evently jQuery CouchApps -- p2p web applications that can be deployed anywhere there's a CouchDB.
|J Chris Anderson
* Drizzle, Scaling MySQL for the Future
Current state of Drizzle.
|Brian Aker
* Fixing SSL security: Supplementing the certificate authority model
The most common way of using SSL/TLS encryption relies on a public-key infrastructure that puts near-absolute trust in a large number of entities around the world, any one of which could accidentally or deliberately empower anyone to impersonate any site or service and spy on all of our communications. We've seen that these certificate authorities can make mistakes. We need new mechanisms to meaningfully double-check that they're doing the right thing.
|Seth Schoen
* Housetruck: Building a Victorian RV
As a "software person," I found the hard technologies of building with steel and wood made for a very different creative and hacking process. At the same time, I discovered many parallels to software development, embedded hardware, and even open-source philosophies.
|John Labovitz
* iizip: Hacking together your own Dropbox
Dropbox, the leader in online storage and synchronization, is good, but not good enough. Find out how you can hack together your own equivalent that's more flexible, secure and convenient.
|Ben Dechrau
* import rdma: Zero-copy networking with RDMA and Python
Every time your server sends or receives a packet, it copies it to (or from) a temporary kernel buffer. What an incredible waste of CPU and memory bandwidth! RDMA solves this, at a huge complexity cost. This talk will cover what happens when a dynamic language meets a direct-memory-placement protocol.
|Andy Grover
* JIT-Compiling Domain Specific Languages
During this talk, we will survey real-world implementations of JIT-compiled embedded DSLs and their applications.
|Jeremy Voorhis
* Lightning Talks
|Peter Fein
* Listening to Data - Sonification Using Open Source Tools
Hearing your data - exploratory data analysis by way of algorithmic composition
|M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
* Multicore Haskell Now!
Multicore computers are here: is your programming language ready?
|Don Stewart
* Non-visual location-based augmented reality using GPS data
Augmented Reality and Geolocation have been hot topics this year, but there has often been a confusion between aesthetics vs. practicality, and fantasy vs. reality. This presentation will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of visual and non-visual augmented reality. We'll tell stories from our experiences building location-aware social networks with custom proximity notification.
|Aaron Parecki, Amber Case
* OAuth: an Open Specification for Web Services
Curious about OAuth? Ever wondered why OAuth has steadily gained popularity among major API providers such as Google and Twitter? Ever wondered how OAuth helps streamline consuming data from other providers? Learn more about OAuth the specification and how to implement OAuth with PHP5. The session will cover the basics of OAuth, and follow up with an OAuth implementation using php.net/oauth.
|John Jawed
* Practical Facebook stalking with Open Source tools
Facebook are full of juicy information about your friends and strangers alike! Learn how to use some simple open source tools and techniques to learn more about them.
|Paul Fenwick
* Serialist: lazy web-crawling in Haskell
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|Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett
* Speeding up your PHP Application
Is your Wordpress site too slow? What's this HipHop PHP thing? How do I write really fast PHP apps? Drop by to get the answers to these questions.
|Rasmus Lerdorf
* The $2 computer: ultraconstrained devices do your bidding
"Do you watch television? Is your furnace loud? Do you have $2?" My 7-year-old's marketing suggestions aside, building custom gadgets to improve your life is remarkably simple, and I'll prove it by building something on stage that you can duplicate at home.
|David Hollingsworth
* The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun
Social software is kind of a big deal right now. In the open-source spirit of transparency and dissection, let's talk about what makes social technology creepy, what makes it fun, and how to hack things to maximize your desired outcome.
|Audrey Eschright
* When Everything Looks Like A Nail
Markus: Nautilus? I thought you said noodle house! Matt: Wait, wait, I think I see her head!! Markus: Are you sure? Matt: Maybe It's Not Her Head...
|Markus Roberts, Matt Youell
* X Marks the Spot: Applying OpenStreetMap to the High Seas
The United States has a treasure trove of nautical charts in digital form, including plots of shipwrecks, navigation buoys, coastal and river depths, and other fine booty. OpenStreetMap is an open source, open format collaborative project for building a free map of the world. Join this session to find out more of the marine secrets of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), OpenSeaMap's plans to extend OSM to the high seas, and splicing the two (and your mainbrace) together. We'll use the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), OGR, Python, and the OSM API.
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* Building a GNU Cross-Compiler Toolchain for Microcontrollers
What pieces do you need to build code for ARM, AVR and similar microcontrollers? How do you put them together? Why might you do that, instead of just loading a package?
|2010-03-25 20:28:50 +0000
|David Madden
* Dealing the scaling: Goat Rodeo
Join David Pollak, Goat Rodeo's founder, to learn more about how to model your applications using the Goat so that your app can scale from the developers desktop to production to planet-scale without change to the app logic.
|2010-03-15 21:11:25 +0000
|David Pollak
* Developing an Open Source UMPC for Higher Education
The Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device (OSWALD) is a fully open Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) platform designed, maintained, and used by students. Join us while we discuss the design process, software platform, and challenges we've run into while developing an embedded Linux platform for a custom-made handheld.
|2010-03-25 21:39:05 +0000
|Tim Harder, Ben Goska
* Dynamic Sublists in GNU Mailman
Have you ever just wanted to unsubscribe from one of those tedious threads on your favorite mailing-list? List administrators wouldn't it be nice to allow end-users to unsubscribe from conversations rather then just silently leaving the list? Now you can using Dyanmic Sublists for GNU Mailman.
|2010-03-30 05:44:22 +0000
|Jennifer Redman
* Fiddling with Linux
A violin is an analog instrument beloved throughout the world. I started playing at the end of 2009 and will spare sharing my skills but, I will share Linux tools, scripts and hardware I use to help learn and play.
|2010-03-26 05:38:45 +0000
|Brandon Philips
* Flex from zero to hero
If you are tired of hearing of how Adobe Flex can be used to create MP3 players—and want instead to find out how you can use it to create powerful cross-platform applications—attend this live-coding talk and help build a *useful* application from scratch using Flex and AIR.
|2010-02-20 02:02:36 +0000
|Marco Tabini
* From the Ashes of MetroFi
The Personal Telco Project has been offered a portion of the wireless gear abandoned by the MetroFi muni-wifi failure. We are working on extracting the maximum public benefit from what we ultimately receive.
|2010-02-24 09:04:44 +0000
|Russell Senior
* Geohacking: 2010 Edition
Here's a laundry list of tips, tricks, and hacks you can do with geolocation on the Web today ranging from the mundane to the insane. From viewing multiple datasets on a map to integrating GPS data into a video feed for simultaneous position tracking, you're bound to learn something to improve your stalking... er, I mean build better map-savvy apps.
|2010-03-25 19:04:19 +0000
|Jason Mauer
* How to learn to parse huge XML documents by doing it wrong for 5 years
Tyler Riddle will cover his learning experiences creating the Parse::MediaWikiDump, XML::TreePuller, and MediaWiki::DumpFile modules which are made to handle the 24 gigabyte English Wikipedia dump files in a reasonable time frame.
|2010-03-22 16:31:19 +0000
|Tyler Riddle
* perl5i: Perl 5 Improved
perl5i is a single module bringing together the best magic Perl programmers have to offer catapulting the basic language forward. Suddenly everything is an object! Functions return objects and throw exceptions! You don't have to load six modules to work with files! Perl 5 is fun again!
|2010-03-26 00:52:24 +0000
|Michael Schwern
* Real Time Data Stream Visualization
A customer calls with a simple question, "is everyone down, or is it just us?" Your stomach turns. "Uhhh, I don't know, can I call you right back after I check a few things?!" Don't find yourself in this uncomfortable situation. We have the technology to watch our data in real time in ways that make the health of our systems immediately obvious.
|2010-03-26 04:35:46 +0000
|Tim Freund
* The Future of Mobile: Learn to Build W3C Widgets and Device APIs with PhoneGap
We know the future of the web is mobile, but what's the future of mobile? In this session, you'll learn how to step-up mobile app development with widgets and device APIs. Add these two technologies to your toolbox to begin building next-gen mobile apps today.
|2010-02-24 22:47:21 +0000
|Brian LeRoux
* WebNumbr - Graph anything on the web
Graphs are awesome. Everyone can find graphs for stocks and gas prices, and maybe even Amazon prices if you're good. But how about your twitter list counts, P1 bug reports, server connection count, or flickr pictures per millisecond? Come see a cool tool that will revolutionize your graphing life.
|2010-02-24 21:02:56 +0000
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Caring, committed and qualified representation of those who are seriously injured. Grace Weatherly represents clients in state and federal courts across Texas and the surrounding states. Grace has tried over 50 trials to jury verdict, handled multiple appeals and several commercial arbitrations. Most of her cases are medical malpractice, fiduciary litigation, employment and other commercial litigation.
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Modular exploratory robotic vehicles that will be able to reconfigure themselves in the field are undergoing development. These vehicles at the initial concept stage were described in "Reconfigurable Exploratory Robotic Vehicles" (NPO-20944), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 25, No. 7 (July 2001), page 56. Proposed for use in exploration of the surfaces of Mars and other remote planets, these vehicles and others of similar design could also be useful for exploring hostile terrain on Earth.
To recapitulate from the cited prior article: the modular vehicles are denoted generally by the term Axeln, where n is an even number equal to the number of main wheels. The simplest vehicle of this type is Axel2 — a two-main- wheel module that superficially resembles the rear axle plus rear wheels of an automobile (see Figure 1). In addition to the two main wheels, an Axel2 includes a passive caster wheel attached to the axle by an actuated caster link. The motion of the caster link can be used to control the rotation of the axle in order to tilt, to the desired angle, any sensors mounted on the axle. In addition to the sensors, the axle of an Axel2 houses computer modules and three motors and associated mechanisms for driving the main wheels and the caster link. An Axel2 is powered by rechargeable batteries located inside the wheel hubs.
One constructs an Axeln (n > 2) as an assembly of multiple Axel2s plus one or more instrument module(s) connected to each other at module interfaces (see Figure 2). The module interfaces contain standardized electrical and mechanical connections, including spring-loaded universal joints that afford some compliance to enable the modules to rotate, relative to each other, to adapt to terrain. Data are communicated between modules via fast serial links in the module interfaces.
An Axeln amounts to a train carrying n/2 – 1 instrument modules. The instrument modules contain additional computational units that, in addition to processing of instrument readings, contribute to coordination of motion. In other words, the "intelligence" of an Axeln, and thus the sophistication of the maneuvers that it can perform, increase with n. The symmetrical design of the modules enables them to operate in any stable orientation, including upsidedown; this feature contributes to robustness of operation in rough terrain. A fully developed Axeln would be able to diagnose itself to detect nonfunctional modules.
Going beyond the de scription in the cited prior article, the following additional major items of the hardware can now be reported.
Also contained within the axle of an Axel2 is a stereoscopic pair of electronic cameras to be used for navigation across terrain, for scientific observations, and for guidance in docking maneuvers.
Each module interface is an electromechanical module located at the mid-length of the axle of an Axel2. The module interface carries female parts of mating mechanisms, while instrument modules carry the male parts. The mating mechanisms include conical mating surfaces that correct for small initial misalignments to facilitate autonomous coupling of an Axel2 with an instrument module.


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A retired state highway patrolman shot dead an apparent intruder early Wednesday morning outside his Palmetto Bluff Road home, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
William Wise, 51, fired on 39-year-old Paul Rowell around 2:15 a.m. after he tried to enter Wise's 123A Palmetto Bluff Rd. residence while Wise blocked the doorway with a loaded weapon, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Deputies found Rowell dead in the main entryway after responding at about 2:15 a.m. Wise said he and his wife awoke to the sound of their dogs barking before grabbing a flashlight and looking outside the front door to see what set them off, the office reports. He says he saw an unknown white man exit a truck parked in front of the home.
As Rowell reportedly approached the home, Wise grabbed a handgun and told him to leave, warning Rowell he was armed. When Rowell continued, Wise fired a round in the air, hoping to drive him away, but Rowell reportedly assaulted Wise and attempted to take his gun, according to the Sheriff's Office.
As the two men struggled for the weapon, Rowell forced his way into the home, but Wise regained control of the weapon and fired several shots, killing Rowell, according to the Sheriff's Office. The fight left Wise unharmed.
Sgt. Robin McIntosh says the office doesn't know why Rowell--who has no known connection to Wise--showed up there and has no plans to charge Wise at this time.
Asked whether the Sheriff's Office accepts Wise's version of events, McIntosh said, "It's still an active investigation, but that is the information that we have right now."
Deputies believe Rowell may have been the same suspect reported making threats to a Joe Houston Lane resident about 30 minutes before the shooting. The resident reported a man driving a truck matching the description of Rowell's vehicle followed him home then repeatedly threatened to kill him after exiting the truck.
There was no physical contact then, and Rowell apparently backed down and left, McIntosh said.
The investigation remains active. Further details will be released as they become available.


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Signed and numbered limited edition Giclée print using archival pigment inks and printed on enhanced Matte paper (matte finish, cool white, 192 gsm) from my original acrylic on canvas painting.
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V-Strom Ride to Nevada - Oct 2002
Thanks to Mark Von Striver and the V-Strom Yahoo group I had the chance to spend one of my best riding weekends! Patrick, John, Ben, Clark and obviously Mark were the ones showing up at the meeting point to go camping at the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. 6 riders (5 V-Strom, 1 1150 GS) was a perfect group size and the pace was both steady and fast. Good size also for a great evening and the best food I ever had while camping! Overall it was: 3 days and 930 miles including around 120 in the dirt.Read More


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Course pack design for sales course for dentists
We build custom training programs for companies and curricula for consulting and training companies.
We need a course pack design (front, back and spine) for a training course that teaches dentists how to sell.
Here's the template of the pack the design will be printed on:
The name of the course is "The Sales Internship." This should be prominently displayed on the front and spine of the design.
The design should look professional and clean and feature an image of a health care professional meeting with a patient (ideally a dentist but could be a non-descript health care professional that could be a dentist, doctor, whatever).
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Jalebi, Crispy Juicy SweetJalebi is a warm crispy, delicious treat. It can best be described as funnel cake. In my home town jalebi was served for the breakfast treat like pancakes. It was a treat to have jalebi and kachori for a hearty breakfast. Jalebi was mostly eaten by themselves, but some time we soaked the jalebi in warm milk and that tasted delicious. I know jalebi is mostly served as dessert but for me jalebi still makes the best breakfast treat.Prep Time 10 minutesCook Time 15 minutesTotal Time 25 minutesServings 3 people
For Jalebi Batter
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour (maida, plain flour)
- 1 tsp besan (gram flour)
- 1/2 tsp yeast
- 1/2 tsp oil
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/3 cup lukewarm water (as needed)
For Syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/8 tsp crushed cardamom
- few strands saffron
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Also need oil to fry
Making the Batter
Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let it sit for about five minutes.
Mix the flour, besan (gram flour), oil, and sugar together. Add the yeast solution to the flour and mix to make a smooth batter. Set the batter aside in a warm place for one hour.
Make sure the batter is fermented, but do not over-ferment. After fermenting the batter will be a little lacy.
Making the Syrup
Boil the sugar and water together. Add the lemon juice and saffron and turn off the heat. (The lemon juice keeps the mixture from crystallizing).
Making Jalebis
Heat the oil in a flat frying pan about one inch deep. To test, put one drop of batter in the oil. The batter should sizzle and rise into a ball without changing color right away.
Fill the Jalebi batter into a piping bag with a #3 nozzle. You can also use an empty ketchup or mustard bottle.
Squeeze the Jalebi batter out into the hot oil in pretzel shapes about two inches in diameter. Fry the Jalebis until light golden-brown on both sides.
Transfer them into the warm syrup. Let the jalebis soak in the hot syrup a few seconds, then take them out.
Serve hot. Enjoy!
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Gas-Spring Wall Chart Matches Charge Fittings to Spring
Hyson Products, Brecksville, OH, has issued an updated wall chart that matches quick disconnects/charge fittings to the appropriate gas spring. The 17- by 22-in. color chart shows each quick disconnect at its exact size, for simple ID and selection. The photos are matched with a list of the gas-spring models that use each fitting.
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Councill Federal Credit Union
Councill Federal Credit Union (CFCU) was formally established on the campus of Alabama
A&M University on May 28, 1954, with the signing of the Councill Federal Credit Union
Charter No. 9554 before Probate Judge Ashford Todd in Huntsville, Ala.
The original ten (10) signers were: Dr. Joseph Fanning Drake (president of Alabama A&M College), R.A. Carter, John A. Browder, George H. Hobson, Leon W. Bonner, W.H. Hollins, Charles W. Orr, G.R. Ragland, Jr., William S. Edmond and Leander R. Patton, subscribed to before Ralph H. Lee, an officer of the new Councill Federal Credit Union. Each signer purchased one share each at $5.00 per share.
The criteria for membership was: to employees of Alabama A&M College, to employees of the Negro public schools and work in Madison County, to employees of the credit union and their immediate families.
From these humble but determined beginnings, CFCU has grown to more than 1,500 members with millions in assets. It continues to be a viable part of the Huntsville community.


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4-Panel Cap
4-Panel Cap
This cotton cap has a fun chair print and a solid blue bill.
Small and medium sizes available while supplies last.
The 4-Panel Cap has a traditional fit. The wide panels are also great for printing logos. With a soft, flexible bill and a bit of elastic in the back, this cap fits well under a helmet.
Stock 4-Panel Sizing:
Small caps are about 21" to 22-1/2"
Medium caps are about 22-1/4" to 23-1/2"
Large caps are about 23-3/4" to 25"
Each cap is made one at a time by hand, so sizing can vary. If you want to order a specific size, or color combination, please email firstname.lastname@example.com with details and I can make you a custom cap.
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In today's Christian thinking there is no such thing as age appropriate faith. I can sense quite a few taking offence already.
I have noticed one preacher who seems to understand this but say so with far more words, even books: Joseph Prince. He leads a mega church here with growing influence in America because I sometimes get my friends from there asking me about him. In fact, one just did this morning. I understand more than a few mainstream pastors are critical of his theology, but I think they are mostly people who have failed to grasp what grace truly is. Grace from the sacrifice of Christ.
I think Prince's New Creation Church is very successful in ways that are very different from City Harvest Church. Prince teaches and practices Grace as far as I can tell from watching afar. He attracts so many to his congregation because they need grace far more than laws and commandments.
Grace is what makes the commandments easy to obey. If you receive little grace, you will find it hard to obey the commandments. Prince's church like nearly every one in Singapore, and much of the rich world are full of people who have experienced little grace. If you think you have sinned little, you feel you are forgiven little and you feel you owe God a very small debt. You get on with your basically good law abiding life.
I was awestruck when I saw this movie "Amazing Grace" in 2007 at Shaw Cineplex. I am not thinking so much of William Wilberforce as John Newton (this is the guy who came up with the Amazing Grace hymn)
See the first few seconds of the trailer.
"...you told me that you live in the company of 20,000 ghosts..."
John Newton guilty of the deaths of so many slaves and forgiven by God. How did that change his life? Completely of course!
Pastor Prince core idea as I understand it from far (I don't go to his church) is to always press the point on grace with his listeners. Patiently let grace increase and be recognized to the point that it had for people like John Newton. This work is divine and work at the level of the individual even if it often takes a lifetime to achieve.
All hypocrites are welcome into the church. You can bear the label of Christian, be such horrid examples and stink the good name of the religion, may be even Jesus Christ but God wins by losing with patience beyond our imagination.
In the story of the Prodigal Son, the Father lost by allowing the bad son to take his share of the inheritance. Then he stood at the door of the house and wait PATIENTLY for him to return. You know there is room to stand beside the Father and wait with him for the prodigals to come back.
Age Appropriate Christianity means a Christianity that is offered at Christ's expense, against his good name for the sake of hypocrites who have felt forgiven little, received much grace which they do not yet recognize and so love the Lord little.
If your church is age appropriate to the faith of believers in your environment, your membership will swell. As and when in God's good time and strategy of losing in order to win, as a leader of the congregation you will pick and rescue those who become overwhelmed by His grace because they now recognize how much they have been forgiven. When your love grows, the commandments are easy to obey. In fact you would obey without even knowing them.
Grace in rich Singapore appears often in material and ego success. Meanwhile God tolerates us for as long as necessary those who has cheapen his grace for using the promise of eternal life as an insurance policy. They thought they can have their cake and eat it. Don't be foolish. Justice hasn't gone out of fashion just because Grace is freely available. This is hard to understand but true.
Finally I need to quote myself from my prior post:
Now if the map of associative links tells a God based story, good for you. If it doesn't that's hardly unusual. Welcome to the majority. No, I am not going to share what such God based stories may be. I gotta run. I have other things to attend to and the story cannot be told quickly without missing comprehension. Who could understand when Jesus told Nicodemus, "You must be born again"
If grace is recognized and allowed to actively work through your life as had for John Newton, then "the map of associative links tells a God based story" would be how you see the world. And how might it appear? I have an example to offer but this is in the context of a third world environment. Just a picture I found on my facebook wall today.
Now what about our rich world environment? I recalled Mother Teresa had some scathing words.
I referred to this before I wrote the above. See http://escapetoreality.org/2010/08/08/joseph-prince-on-prosperity-and-success/. A few years ago, I was at Times Funan and read portions of one of Joseph Prince's earlier books, "Destined to Reign". I wasn't very comfortable but I also didn't see what was wrong. But I never stood still, and I hope I am growing in the faith.


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April 2018
Have any changes been made to AdvoCare Rehydrate®?
There were no changes to the product or formula itself, but its label has been updated to follow new FDA labeling rules. As you have probably seen on other food products you purchase, there is a new layout and design for Nutrition Facts Panels per FDA regulations. AdvoCare will be updating all product labels for compliance with these new rules over coming months. For many products, including Rehydrate, some nutrient units of measure and %DVs values have changed based on revised rules.
Why did the directions for use change to 12oz of water per serving?
According to the FDA, recent food consumption data show that some serving sizes should be revised to be more consistent with current daily diets. Since consumers typically drink 12oz rather than 8oz of a beverage in one eating occasion the serving size was increased. The amount of powder per serving remains the same - the only change is in the suggested amount of water that the product is mixed into (from 8oz to 12oz).
What is different in the new nutrition facts panel?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a new Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods that will make it easier for you to make informed food choices that support a healthy diet. The updated label has a fresh new design and reflects current scientific information.
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Get yourself some fresh air and have some fun! Come on out to the 15th annual Barrington Harvest Festival - Saturday, October 13th on Clements Bridge Road. Enjoy a community wide celebration with craft displays, a beer garden, car show, and some excellent barbeque. Compete in Barrington's world record attempt at the largest egg toss competition! There will be plenty of activities for the entire family so don't miss it.
Date: Saturday, October 13th
Where: Clements Bridge Road
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Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
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Honeywell Responding to Process Industry NeedsDec 12, 2014New Technology, Service Offerings Speed Project Execution and Improve Plant Performance
Bevcorp, Corning Environmental Technologies Recognized as Safety LeadersNov 21, 2014Winners of Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards Demonstrate Value of Safety Programs that Go Beyond Simple Compliance
PartnerNetwork Delivering for Rockwell Automation CustomersNov 20, 2014Users Credit Program with Simpler, More Innovative and Collaborative Solutions
Holcim Mexico Paves Way for Global Cement MakerNov 17, 2014Reductions in Downtime, Maintenance Costs to Help Boost Plant Competitiveness
Sonatrach Reaping Lifecycle Benefits of Virtual MachinesNov 11, 2014From Process Control Servers to Laptop Tools, Virtualization Is Saving Money and Boosting Performance for Algerian Energy Company
Automated Assessments Help Optimize System PerformanceNov 11, 2014IAA Offering Pinpoints System Performance Issues, Identifies Operational Risks and Improvement Opportunities
Honeywell Breathes New Life into Older SystemsNov 11, 2014Virtualization and New Network Interfaces Further Unify Visualization and Control Capabilities
Carefully Consider Your Lifecycle Services OptionsNov 11, 2014Options Range from Pay-as-You-Go Services to Committed Outcome Contracts
Upgraded Controls for Less Money at INA CroatiaNov 11, 2014Multi-year Services Contract Reduces Costs, Modernizes Control Platforms
Honeywell Ups Ante on Active Cybersecurity MeasuresNov 11, 2014Remote Services and New Application Software Provide Real-time Situational Awareness
Omani Students Take Top Honors in UniSim ChallengeNov 11, 2014Students from Oman's Sultan Qaboos University Look at How Synthetic Byproducts Can Boost the Efficiency of Ammonia Plants
Next-gen Automation Will Continue to Build on IT AdvancesNov 11, 2014Automation Innovations to Include 'Cross-Plant' Control
Honeywell Recognizes Top EMEA Channel PartnersNov 11, 2014Giza Distribution and Euromekanik Named Partners of the Year; Channel Conferences See Third Year of Record Attendance
LEAP Methodology Slashes Project Costs, ScheduleNov 11, 2014Universal I/O Together with Cloud Engineering and Virtualization Add Up to 30% Capital Cost Savings and 25% Improvement in Schedule Flexibility
Guided Wave Radar Added to Honeywell SmartLine FamilyNov 11, 2014New Level Transmitter Joins Pressure and Temperature Field Instruments to Provide High Performance Measurement and Optimal Usability
Virtualization Coming Soon to a Controller Near YouOct 29, 2014Partitioning, Para-Virtualization Allow Implementation of Mixed Criticality Systems
GE Brings Context to Technology WaveOct 28, 2014Machines and Analytics Are Permanently Connected
Software Suite Combines GE Historian, Data Analysis SolutionsOct 28, 2014GE Releases and Features Its Proficy Monitoring & Analysis Suite (PMAS) at This Year's Summit
Usability, Process Insights Drive New Micro Motion Transmitter OfferingOct 8, 2014Micro Motion's New Flagship Model 5700 Transmitter Is Designed to Be Easier to Install, Configure, Operate and Troubleshoot
URS Partners with Emerson, LBP for Turnkey HIPPS SolutionOct 7, 2014A Turnkey HIPPS Solution Allowed URS to Streamline Engineering Effort and Start Up on Time
Yokogawa Previews Configurable I/O, Independent SISSep 10, 2014Hybrid I/O Is Software Configurable for the Basics, Relies on Optional Signal Conditioner for Added Functionality
Dave Emerson Welcomed into Process Automation Hall of FameSep 10, 2014Quintessential Engineer and Process Automation Innovator Honored for His Contributions to Industry
Global Project Complexity Drives MAC Approach for ChevronSep 9, 2014Chevron Turns to Deeper Relationships with Fewer Suppliers to Increase Project Execution Consistency
Practical Steps for Your Big Data JourneyJun 18, 2014Focus First on the Data and Assets that Are Most Important to Your Operations
Portable Access First Step in Mobility JourneyJun 17, 2014Mobility's True Value Lies in Enabling New Possibilities
Rockwell Automation Sharing Its Journey to the Connected EnterpriseJun 16, 2014As a Global Manufacturer, Rockwell Automation Has Learned Much in Restructuring its Own Supply Chain and MES Processes
Incremental Thinking Won't Solve Automation ChallengeJun 5, 2014Automation's Off the Critical Project Path, but More Work Remains
IT Compliance Adds Urgency to Chevron Upgrade PlansJun 4, 2014Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Server Will Soon Follow XP into Support Oblivion. For Chevron, IT Compliance Provides New Motivation for Modernization Strategy
South Americans Take Top HUG HonorsJun 4, 2014Chilean Integrator Named Channel Partner of the Year; Brazilian Student Wins UniSim Challenge
Build Out Continues for SmartLine Instrument PlatformJun 3, 2014Temperature Transmitters Now Shipping; Guided Wave Radar Release Planned for Late 2014
Emerson Fields 2nd European Users ExchangeApr 22, 2014The European economy is coming out of crisis; global demand for energy continues to climb; and safer, more reliable, more efficient operations are still a priority
HART-IP Extends Protocol Capabilities Over EthernetApr 22, 2014Latest protocol extension delivers valuable HART data at the speed of Ethernet
Sonatrach Manages Risk with Lifecycle ServicesDec 5, 2013Algerian Energy Company Adapts to the New, While Preserving Past Investments
SIS Migration Opens Door to Integrated SafetyDec 5, 2013Repsol Embarks on Seven-year Migration to Unify its Control and Safety Systems
Aging Systems Given New Lease on LifeDec 5, 2013Swedish Refiner Preem AB among Companies Opting for EHPM Approach
Cybersecurity Central to Lifecycle CommitmentDec 5, 2013Continuous Effort and Cultural Change Needed to Put Security in its Proper Place
A Shared Stake in Customer SuccessDec 5, 2013Assurance 360 Program Makes Customers' Interests Honeywell's Own
Honeywell Recognizes Student, Partner AchievementsNov 26, 2013Edinburgh University Student Models Reductions in CO2 Emissions; Spanish Distributor Grows Revenue 40%
SmartLine Transmitter Family Extended to TemperatureNov 26, 2013New Features and Performance Characteristics Add Up to Intuitive Use, Low Lifecycle Costs
Cybersecurity: From Art to DisciplineNov 26, 2013An Increasingly Powerful Set of Cyber Security Methodologies Emerge for the Industrial Space
New Tools Support Operators, Oil & Gas IndustryNov 26, 2013'Control Room of the Future' Among New Capabilities Featured at HUG EMEA 2013
Innovation and Commitment Drive Honeywell OfferingNov 26, 2013November 2013 Event Marks 25th Annual Gathering of EMEA Users
Rockwell Automation Deepens Process InroadsNov 11, 2013Plant-wide Approach Leverages Common Architecture for All Control and Information Management Tasks
GE at Leading Edge of Big Data ChallengeOct 31, 2013Lessons Learned as End User and Equipment Supplier Translate into Effective Solutions for Industry.
The Journey from Process to Profit ControlSep 12, 2013Real-time Economic Measures Needed to Spark Culture of Performance
Invensys Sees Opportunity in Challenging Global MarketSep 11, 2013America's Unconventional Gas and Oil Among Factors Complicating Global Project Outlook
"Enlightened Plant" Focus of Invensys ExhibitSep 10, 2013Improved Visibility of Actionable Information Can Make Everyone More Effective
Invensys Welcomes Era of New PossibilitiesSep 10, 2013New System Launch, Pending Acquisition Mark Ongoing Transformation for Industry Leader
Leadership, Communication Key to Managing IT-OT ConvergenceJun 19, 2013Mutual Understanding Needed to Achieve Organizational Goals
Freeport-McMoRan Transforms Equipment ReliabilityJun 18, 2013Centralized Approach Helps Cut Maintenance Costs and Prevent Equipment Downtime for Global Mining Concern
Control Room of Future Headlines Honeywell RoadmapJun 17, 2013The Operator Takes Center Stage at Honeywell Users Group Americas
AspenTech Breaking New Ground in Simulation, Model-Based ControlMay 17, 2013Resurgent Software Maker Showcases Innovations at OPTIMIZE 2013
Chinese Industry Reaping Fieldbus BenefitsApr 22, 2013Users, Engineering Firms Share Best Practices at Fieldbus Foundation General Assembly in Shanghai
Slideshow: Images from the Fieldbus Foundation's 2013 General Assembly in ShanghaiApr 19, 2013Learn More About What Was Discussed in the Fieldbus Foundation's 2013 General Assembly in Shanghai. Here Is a Slideshow With Details
Despite Uncertainties, U.S. Economy Poised for Stronger GrowthMar 28, 2013Federal Debt and Stimulus Withdrawal Are "Twin Elephants" in the Room
Audit helps Spanish refinery optimize system performanceDec 20, 2012Integrated automation assessment benchmarks system performance against industry best practices
Lifecycle Approach Streamlines System Updates for RepsolDec 17, 2012Migrating Five Refineries Under One Master Agreement Yields Easier Project Management, Flexibility and Budget Predictability
Carbon Capture Model Wins UniSim Student CompetitionDec 1, 2012University of Edinburgh Student Awarded Top Prize
SmartLine Transmitter Boasts Modularity, Ease-of-UseNov 30, 2012Attention to Human Factors Helps Streamline Operator Tasks, Avoid Errors
Q&A: Beyond the Process VariableNov 30, 2012Tom Moser, president of Emerson Process Management's Rosemount Measurement unit, believes that instrumentation is a big part of the answer to the process industries' challenges to improve productivity, safety, efficiency and asset utilization. Control's Keith Larson talked with Moser at the 2012 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Anaheim, Calif., about the ongoing evolution of instrumentation capabilities as well as the application revolution enabled by wireless technology.
Systems Update Balances New Capabilities, Lifecycle SupportNov 29, 2012Honeywell Users Treated to Past, Present and Future Technology Perspectives
How to Deal with System ObsolescenceNov 28, 2012Process Industry Panelists Discuss Migration Challenges
Honeywell Affirms Continuous Evolution PledgeNov 27, 2012Lifecycle Services Commitment, New Enabling Technologies Showcased in Istanbul
Cybersecurity Takes Cultural CommitmentNov 26, 2012Panelist Stress Need for Policies, Work Processes that Affirm Security
Users Weigh Risks in Migration DecisionNov 6, 2012Are Your Automation Systems Starting to Work Against You?
Desperately Seeking CybersecurityOct 29, 2012ICS-CERT Cyber-Ninja Offers Practical Insights to Industrial Control System Users
Users Challenged by PLC LifecycleOct 29, 2012ExxonMobil Talks About the Industry's PLC Lifecycle Management Challenges
Chevron's Journey to Automated Partial Stroke TestingOct 28, 2012Operator Confidence and Control Are Key to Successful Implementation
Performance, Harmonization on Triconex RoadmapOct 27, 2012Plans Range from Triconex 'on the Control Network' to Real-Time SIL Visualization
Wireless Trialed to Reduce Overflow RiskOct 26, 2012Chevron Demonstrates Use of Wireless Level Switches as an Independent Protection Layer
From Safety Systems to Operational IntegrityOct 26, 2012Invensys Seeks to Simplify Application, Eliminate Redundant Effort and Provide Integrated Context for Users of its Triconex Safety Systems
Immersive Simulator Boosts Operator PreparednessOct 22, 2012SimSci-Esscor Solutions Help Train Clean-coal Plant Operators
Invensys Driving Refinery Performance and ProfitsOct 21, 2012Software Solutions Help Refiners Deal with Issues from Heavy Oils to Aging Operators
IntelaTrac: Moving Beyond Asset ReliabilityOct 20, 2012Integration with Other Plant Information Management Systems Can Streamline New Range of Business Practices
Industry Needs Driving Software InvestmentOct 19, 2012With The Cloud Invensys Can Develop and Commercialize a Broader Array of Remote System and Support Services, Making You More Proactive in Monitoring Your Application Landscape
Spiral Strengthens Invensys' Refining HandOct 18, 2012Delivering End-to-End Optimization of the Crude Oil Value Chain
Data at Center of Technology ForecastOct 15, 2012Virtualization as a Step to the Cloud
Delivering the Future of Automation SoftwareOct 15, 2012For the Invensys Software Business, Global Reach, Technology Innovation and Service Excellence Are Key Strategic Initiatives
Seamless Integration Promotes CollaborationMay 17, 2012What Operators Need The Most to Succeed Is Information. However, the Challenge Is to Provide Seamless Access to Multiple Sources of Information
Putting the Human First in HMI DesignMay 17, 2012The Challenge for Designers of Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) Remains a Balancing Act
Operator Effectiveness: The Case for InvestmentMay 17, 2012Is It Any Wonder that Operators' Inability to Act Capably and Confidently Is Responsible for an Enormous Loss of Productivity, Money, and Even Life Across Industry?
The State of Operator EffectivenessMay 17, 2012Operators Can Influence Plant Performance Significantly
Simulator training boosts competence, confidenceMay 17, 2012Better trained operators can help increase plant safety, reduce start-up time and the number of unplanned shutdowns.
Control Center Design Can Boost Operator PerformanceMay 17, 2012Why Are Control Centers and Operator Stations Designed Without Respect to Human Factors?
"Tomorrow Is Not Cancelled"May 13, 2009Automation Companies Want to Emerge from This Downturn in a Stronger Position than Before
Bitten by the Microblogging BugApr 9, 2009More Interesting Than "What Am I doing Now?" Are the Answers to "What Am I Thinking Now?" and "What Do I Find Important Now?"
Sustainability, InterruptedMar 9, 2009Sustainability Makes Business Sense as Well as Good Policy. The Public will Demand It and Science and Technology Will Make It Happen
Process Automation Key to Obama's 'New Era'Feb 11, 2009President Obama's Initiatives to Resolve the Economic Crisis Call on the Skills of America's Engineering, Manufacturing and Process Automation Professionals
Falling Commodity Prices: Bane or Boon?Jan 12, 2009Despite the Economic Slowdown, Investment in Production Capacity Has Not Kept Pace with Global Demand
Living in Uncertain TimesDec 22, 2008Panic Makes for Bad Long-Term Decisions. Stay Focused on Core Values and Do Not Lose Operating Discipline
Infrastructure Cybersecurity Is in Our HandsNov 3, 2008There Is Growing Recognition of the Bottom-Line Impact of the Cyber Event That Doesnt Happen
How Far Weve ComeOct 10, 2008Much Has Changed in the Past 20 Years, Even as Much Remains the Same
Power to the ProcessSep 15, 2008A Single System for Both Process and Power Automation Can Reduce Investment Cost by as Much as 20%
Readiness: The New Project Deliverable?Aug 8, 2008The Commitment to Ensure Operational and Business Readiness Far Surpasses Traditional MAC Relationships
Collaboration Given New Meaning at ABB EventJul 3, 2008StatoilHydros Integrated Operations Earned $1.5 Billion in Added Reserves Last Year, with Expected Savings of $60 Billion by 2015
Siemens Exiderdome Redefines the Road ShowJun 12, 2008When Alls Said and Done, Exiderdome Will Have Hosted Some 200,000 Individuals from Around the World
Industrial Networking: The Next 20 YearsMay 5, 2008Despite All the Advances in Digital Field Networks Over the Years, Most Plants Still Rely on Technology That Matured Some 40 Years Ago
Whither the Book? One Future of ReadingApr 4, 2008The Amazon Kindles Direct Internet Connection Promises to Propel E-Readers from the Margins of Geekdom to the Mainstream
A Measured PerspectiveMar 7, 2008Measurement Can Be as Much a Challenge for Magazines as for the Process Industries.
Life on the Edge of the Idea EconomyFeb 5, 2008Automation Professionals Will Be the Agents and Enablers of the Transition to an Economy Based on Ideas and Information
Building a 21st-Century Renaissance EngineerJan 4, 2008By Creating a College from Scratch, We Can Approach Education in a Whole New Way That Will Best Serve the Engineers of the New Millennium
The Road Ahead: From Content to CommunityDec 10, 2007Today, Control isnt just a U.S.-focused print magazine, but an increasingly global and interactive community.
Is Latest Green Movement Sustainable?Nov 8, 2007Green being back in may well be the hook we need to get young people re-engaged in careers in engineering.
Basic Skills Needed to Combat Alarm WoesOct 2, 2007If we dont have the foundation right, why are we surprised that operators are getting overwhelmed by alarms?
On Strange Loops and Plant IntelligenceAug 30, 2007Douglas Hofstadter asks in his recently published book, "I Am a Strange Loop," how anything as amorphous and mysterious as the I within each of our brains can exhibit any real power over the physical world.
Of Family Trees and Brand PatriotismJul 15, 2007Keith Larson talks about the results of or May survey. We asked Control subscribers to identify the current parent companies of different process automation brands. See the results.
Integration across the fourth dimensionJun 8, 2007In the heavy continuous process industries, well-evolved simulation tools exist to aid in process design, but how well do they really integrate with the mechanical design tools they feed?
ABB thriving in global sweet spotMay 10, 2007ABB today faces a perfect storm of a different type. Its focus on power and productivity puts it squarely in the frenzied center of global industrial and infrastructure investment.
The new energy opportunityMar 9, 2007The changing energy landscape promises to keep process automation professionals quite busy for many years to come. Now, if we can just get that potential through to a few more idealistic adolescents
Yokogawa shedding quiet company imageFeb 1, 2007While its difficult to gauge quantitatively where Yokogawa stands in its market-share quest, recent project wins reflect the aggressive moves the company is making to become a more dominant global leader.
Industrial networking for the rest of usDec 16, 2006As networking technology and its applications continue to advance, the greatest innovations today are not in the networks per se, but in making them easier and more foolproof to implement.
What kind of training do you really need?Nov 10, 2006As supervisors and employees from outside the research environment are surveyed on thesis-based degree programs, continuing education expectations will convergeand not toward those of the supervisors.
Best-practices gulf is poised to widenOct 10, 2006As best-in-class, global manufacturing companies strive toward standardizing systems and improving business processes, the gulf between top-performers and technology laggards continues to widen.
Life of a salesmanSep 15, 2006Always ready with a joke and a smile, Harvey M. Warren was a beloved and respected presence throughout the eastern U.S., serving marketing clients in the industrial automation industry for nearly 20 years.
The rise of the User Group meetingJul 19, 2006Whether theyre called fairs, exchanges, summits, worlds, symposia, or user conferences, hosting or attending at least one such event each year is now a routine part of how industrial automation gets done.
Connectivity that countsJun 14, 2006Today, much fruitful activity in the process automation realm is on the meaningful integration of applications with each other, so that true knowledge and informationand not just more datais the outcome.
Invensys ups enterprise integration anteMay 15, 2006It's too early to tell the Visicalcs of today from the Microsoft Offices of tomorrow, but, for now, Invensys Process Systems appears headed in a positive direction.
Back in CONTROL!Apr 17, 2006Just when he thought he was out, Group Publisher and VP of Content, Keith Larson, is pulled back in. Check out "Wind-up," his new monthly column positioned as a final punctuation for CONTROL magazine.


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Registration open for annual Run the Rockies
Set your personal goals for the summer and register for the 37th annual Salomon Run the Rockies weekend on June 8-9, 2013. Registration is available online at http://www.RuntheRockies.com. The 2013 race offers both road and trail options to participants.
New this year are waved start times for the road half-marathon and the 10k races, giving participants more space to enjoy the view. Run the Rockies is known as a great early season race boasting a nearly 90 percent downhill course. Both races start at Copper Mountain and finish on Main Street in Frisco with views of the Ten Mile River the whole way. The 10k downhill ends on Frisco Main Street, the half-marathon continues on the bike path, turns around just before Farmer's Korner, doubles back and ends on Frisco's Main Street.
The trail races take place Sunday, June 9 on the Frisco Peninsula. The race courses include 5k and 10k options, with views of the lake and rolling climbs. Last year, more than 700 entrants participated.
"The race keeps growing in appeal, most likely due to the breathtaking views as you run along the Ten Mile River," stated Linsey Kach, recreation manager of the town of Frisco.
Registration is available online at http://www.RuntheRockies.com. Current discounted prices are $50 for the half marathon and $40 for the 10k. The trail race registration is $40 for the 5k and 10k. Prices go up May 1. Day-of registration will be available for both races. Registration for the road race June 8 is available at the Frisco Recreation Building, located at Third Avenue and Main Street, from 6-8 a.m. The 5k and10k trail race day-of registration will be available at the Frisco Day Lodge from 7-8 a.m. on June 9.
For more information, please contact Linsey Kach at (970) 668-9133 or email@example.com.
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In the United States, this is a day to celebrate not only love, but also friendship, so finding a nice gift for Valentine's Day is something very special for couples.
Although many people dislike the commercial nature of this date, most women expect to receive a gift from their partner.
In addition, they tend to put more weight on the gift they receive that day, since in many countries it is the day of lovers.
They will consider that the type of gift that their beloved gives them defines what they feel for them.
If you have to give something on that day, pay more attention than if it was your birthday or Christmas, for example.
If your partner is romantic, do your best and do not wait at the last minute to buy anything.
- If you give her something practical like a kitchen robot or an iron, she'll think you only see her as a housewife or mom. Leave that kind of shopping for when you decide together that you need a new toaster. Women do not usually consider a vacuum cleaner a good Valentine's gift.
- If you give those chocolates or chocolates you will think that you bought them on the way to the house, and that you also do not take into account how much it costs you to diet. Use the chocolates only if you buy the ones you know you like and if they are from an exclusive brand. Buy the smallest box they have.
- If you give her flowers, do not buy her any bouquet at the supermarket or at the florist on the corner. Ask them to make you a bouquet designed by you, with the kind of flowers you know they like. Otherwise you will think that you do not know her well and that you bought the flowers as a last resort.
- If you give a book, do not choose any title, or because it is on the list of best-selling books, but because you know that you like the author or the subject. Avoid buying books about raising children, understanding men or a cookbook. Choose a novel, something romantic or symbolic. Love letters between known writers is a good choice.
- If you give a gift voucher for a massage, you can take it as if you understand that you are stressed and need to relax. It is a gift that perhaps she does not dare to give herself.
- If you give him something electronic, which you know he has been wanting for a while, you'll be right. An IPhone or an Ipad tablet, are welcome for the woman who would not buy it but she has been saying for some time that she would love to have something like that.
- If you give him a jewel, almost certainly you hit. But beware; women are very particular when it comes to a jewel. Ask your best friend to guide you. Women often talk with their friends about what they would like their partner to give them. If you expect to receive an engagement ring and wear a bracelet, you may be disappointed.
Tips to get the right to choose your gift:
- Your best friend or sister is excellent sources of information. If you consult with them, you will almost certainly succeed in your gift.
- Listen to your partner throughout the year. Surely it often gives your ideas of what you would like to receive, but you do not realize it.
- Even if she tells you she does not want anything, give her something anyway. Women do not always say what they think. They expect you to guess that they do want a gift and what it is.


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DENTON, Texas (AP) Marcos Knight had 15 points and five assists and Middle Tennessee won its sixth straight game, defeating North Texas 72-64 Thursday night.
James Gallman added 13 points, JT Sulton had 11 and Neiko Hunter 10 for the Blue Raiders (17-4, 9-1 Sun Belt), who have won 10 of their last 11 games overall and are undefeated in 12 home games this season.
Jordan Williams led North Texas (8-13, 3-7) with 20 points. Roger Franklin added 14, Niko Stojiljkovic 12 and Tony Mitchell 10.
Middle Tennessee led 28-23 at halftime and stretched that advantage to as many as 15 points when Gallman hit a 3-pointer with 11:07 remaining.
The Blue Raiders shot 62 percent from the field in the second half, and 54 percent for the game.