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I know what you mean. I don't really seek out to tank all that much but I'll do it for my guild. Right now I get into a fight, I start out ok and then I feel like I'm just (no pun intended) thrashing at my keyboard. At least in Wrath I could spam swipe and there was a rhythm to it as I threw in things like mangle or lacerate or whatever. Now I just mash buttons and try to keep threat. Plus it seems like every time I tank for the guild, I wind up getting a healer having an off-day or at least 1-2 dps that are exactly iLevel 329. I'd much rather find another tank or sit in a queue by myself and dps as kitty.
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Yet Another Blast from the Past, this one from November 23, 2003. This one is kind of moot now, as well, eh?
Yet Another Blast from the Past, this one from November 23, 2003. This one is kind of moot now, as well, eh?
As frustrating as it is to us Delphi lovers, Delphi has always been a tough sell in corporate America -- not because Delphi isn't perfectly capable of performing any task that a corporate development team might throw at it, but mainly because many managers and decision makers aren't willing to take the perceived risk of investing in a non-Microsoft development solution. Borland has (rightly perhaps for a while in the past, but certainly not for a few years now) the reputation as being a bit on the edge financially, and so the safe, "nobody ever got fired..." decision has been to buy Microsoft. This will probably continue to be the case for some time, as Microsoft certainly will continue to be the a dominant company in the marketplace for the foreseeable future. However, I think the advent of the .Net Framework as the "platform of the future" and Microsoft's particular strategy for moving people to .Net both provide Borland and Delphi developers with a unique opportunity that actually makes Delphi the only safe development platform for a large number of projects that will be developed over the next few years.
Microsoft clearly wants us all to move to .Net, and frankly, I think we all should be happy to make that move. The .Net platform is really cool and really powerful. It provides a very capable and easily accessed framework (the Framework Class Library, or FCL) that is light-years ahead of the Win32 API. Microsoft actually seems to have finally figured out object-oriented programming. Once the actual framework becomes ubiquitous, or even the basis for the operating system itself , building, managing, and deploying applications will be much easier than it is now. I, for one, am eagerly looking forward to Delphi 8 for the .Net Framework and being able to develop applications with it.
Microsoft clearly wants you to move to the platform as well. They make it totally easy to download and install; every new operating system includes it, and they are on an all-out marketing campaign to raise awareness in the developer community in order to promote its use among software developers. The most interesting thing about all of their actions, though, is that they clearly want to force people to make the jump to .Net by pretty much cutting off existing development paths and by not providing a clear migration path for existing applications. It appears that the idea is to instill a bit of panic in their community of developers -- "Holy cow, we'd better get on this .Net bandwagon, or we are going to be left behind!"
Sadly, that is pretty much the case -- VB and C++ developers who don't migrate to .Net soon will be (are?) pretty much abandoned. Sure, there's "Managed C++", but what serious C++ developer would really want to use this neutered version of the language? VB6 developers are abandoned in the sense that VB.NET is so different from what they have done that it is pretty much a whole new language. Code written for VB6 simply won't compile in .Net. And of course, there were no existing C# projects before .Net was released. Therefore, if you are a Microsoft development shop, and you want to move to .Net, then you are pretty much talking about a complete rewrite of all of your Win32 code no matter what you were using to develop those applications. There simply is no easy migration path to .Net for your existing applications.
And that, of course, begs the question -- "What to do for a new application that needs to run on Win32 today, but that will eventually migrate to .Net sometime in the future?" This isn't an unreasonable question -- shoot, it is probably very common. There are certainly new development projects being started everyday, and .Net looms out on the horizon for all of them. It is also a question that is tough for Microsoft shops to answer. While the .Net Framework is readily available, it is certainly not ubiquitous, and there are plenty of machines out there in the corporate world, small businesses, and homes that can't even handle the .Net Framework and that won't be able to handle it for sometime yet. That means that Win32 may be the only option for new development. However, anyone starting new development today probably will want to be able to migrate that app to the .Net platform in the future. If you choose C++ or VB6 for the Win32 version, there simply is no easy way to migrate that application to .Net. Any Microsoft-based development solution for the Win32 platform today means pretty much a complete re-write for that application when it comes time to migrate it to .Net.
But hey, there is a solution -- a non-Microsoft one -- to this problem: Delphi. Delphi provides a powerful, fully-capable Win32 development platform, and with the VCL for .Net, a much, much smoother migration path for Win32 to .Net. And when you do move to .Net, Delphi 8 for the .Net Framework provides powerful tool that is a first class citizen in the .Net development world. If you are starting a new development project in Win32, and need to be able to move that project to the .Net framework some time in the future, then Delphi is your only real choice. Microsoft-only development organizations quite conspicuously have no similar choice. The VCL is cross-platform -- at least between Win32 and .Net. Applications build in Win32 using Delphi and the VCL should migrate relatively smoothly to the .Net platform today . VCL for .Net exists, and has been available to Delphi 7 owners via the Delphi for .Net Preview since last summer.
Now I am not at all claiming that the migration will be totally seamless -- you may need .Net version of third-party components, and if any of your code calls into the Win32 API directly, you'll need to update that. In addition, not all of the technologies that were in Delphi 7 will make it into Delphi 8, and certainly the presence of garbage collection in the .Net framework may affect the way your code works, but the migration is clearly not a complete rewrite as discussed above. Heck, at this year's Borland Conference, they compiled and ran in Delphi for .Net an application that was originally a demonstration application for Delphi 1 -- a 16-bit development tool! Can't get much more compatible than that.
This fact alone ought to be changing the way that developers and companies view Delphi. Delphi will drastically lower the overall total cost of a project by drastically reducing the time and effort needed to migrate a Win32 application that needs to be built today to the .Net framework tomorrow. Delphi doesn't lock you in to either Win32 or .Net and doesn't force you to move to .Net faster than you or your budget might want you to. Delaying the transition to .Net can also save money, as building applications in Win32 now for existing hardware can extend the life of that hardware rather than accelerating the hardware upgrades to run the .Net Framework.
Smart managers already know that they are stuck in a tough spot and smart Delphi developers will be quick to point out the advantages of using Delphi for new development. So if you have been looking for that silver bullet to convince your managers or your customers to use Delphi as the development tool for that upcoming project, you now have it.
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"I, for one, am eagerly looking forward to Delphi 8 for the .Net Framework" - did someone end up being a little disappointed with this release?
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I think it's hilarious that "C++ plus .net" is neutered, but "Delphi plus .net" is somehow "great?".
How do you feel about that sentiment now that Delphi.net is dead as a doornail, and "Prism/Oxygene" is the only path to .net for those who still care.
To me, .net and C# are certainly powerful and nice platforms, but native is always always better. I think it's hilarious that WinRT/Metro is built on a redesigned COM, not .NET.
Warren Postma
It's odd. Delphi has never looked better as a product, and yet never been as dead in the American job market, as it is now. It is sad looking back on all these ghosts of Borland's past now in retrospect: Will it support .Net exclusively? Why isn't the Linux version selling? What's going to happen with that RemObjects thing? Is TurboPower hiring? When is the next version of CodeRush coming out? All moot now.
All the kids are rushing to build their next killer mobile apps that will net them a few hundred dollars at most, lemmings hurling themselves over the cliff. Meanwhile, native is resurgent (though those of us that read and believed in the book "Windows via C/C++" knew that this was coming) and Java is the king whose crown is slowly rusting. When it comes to hourly rates, Java still leads. [I wouldn't even be financially solvent at the piddly rates that Delphi jobs offered when there were still some Delphi jobs. That's the real reason I don't do Delphi for a living anymore.]
If Delphi were able to be used to write native Win32/64 OSX iOS Android applications, maybe it could ride back to the halcyon days just before Pizzaman killed it with that dreadful D4. But these are dreams delayed. XE3 has no mobile at all, with promises that there is a "Mobile Studio" on it's way. It's always promises now, like waiting for Win64 for so many years. It turns out now that Win64 Delphi was largely irrelevant by the time it arrived. XE3 has that new car smell, but I know it is only because a salesman sprayed artificial new car smell all over the same old XE2 used car. Delphi is so niche now that a guy like me that bought one copy of the Pro version of XE2 gets a call from Embarcadero sales force. I worry that this level of sales can't sustain the kind of innovation and excitement that we saw before Pizzaman. It doesn't bode well for being able to adequately follow through on the execution of Delphi everywhere in a timely fashion. Meanwhile, C++/C#/Java pay my bills.
Like you, Nick, I do go through Delphi Reminiscing once in a while these days. I still have my Delphi books sitting at the desk here, untouched though they be of late. One thing you and I have in common (besides loving to argue politics, religion and stuff) is a deep love of Delphi. I still love Delphi. I cranked up my old unfinished Delphi code for the newsreader these last few days, trying to figure out if there is some way to use parts of it, or Delphi XE2 to write something useful or even saleable. The rich dev environment I created with all those add-ins and tools wrapped around me like a warm cocoon.
I really need to put this all away, concentrate on C++ and Java, since they pay my bills. But the memories linger and an old love is hard to abandon.
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Jake --
I just got hired at a Delphi job, and where I used to work is hiring Delphi developers as well.
John - Java hourly rate - 'consultant' fees adjust within a bandwith and the mean is strongly dependent on the complexity a technology/product is used to manage in general - it is not surprising that many technologies aim at driving complexity and specialize - then the hype ends. Consultant fee = base salary * 1,5 + mobility + injury award based on the customers corporate insanity. The hourly rates vary dependent on the availability of skilled developers in your area. You are not paid for knowing a tool.
.net simply does away with the need to implement 'complex' distributed applications in C/C++. C/C++ programs become simpler today (they fallback to it's origin) and the out of the box VS C/C++ becomes more attractive again. If we think of C/C++ as the thesis and VB being the antithesis then Delphi was the synthesis. The synthesis from Microsoft's view is .net. VB was not replaced by VB.net it was replaced by ASP.net. Microsoft made 2 good moves ADO.net and WSIT. Borland said - REST will become the standard because webservices are too complicated, at the times when neither Java nor Microsoft had an appropriate solution. After growing the complexity of WCF MS is in the process of hiding the complexity from the user/developer. This happens in the whole .net framework.
In .net you have a chance to get to know almost everything MS provides in the .net framework, Java is totally different and evolved beyond this point. In the area .net framework it is recommended to focus on some areas in the Java world specialization is a must, you have to shape up in a certain area -> In both cases this leads to teams. With the years no one believes that one or a few (really a few) people can achieve the same. Thhe vendor runs at risk to create bloatware, because so many specialists are available that know their part from the early beginning.
a)The cry for the Cloud and the data-center is of course also a result from Microsoft's complexity introduced when it comes to real systems security, the Java world is not better off in practice.
b)The second point is - the client computer was too costly (TCO discusssion, deployment discussion) but since the vendors achived to make users believe that the big-server is the dictator in the network no one had proplems to move the costs to the server-side - it simply didn't matter.
c)Mobiles and Smartphones would make almost no sense/not exist without the hosted solution in fashion of a service.
You can build almost everything in Delphi but no one will pay you for building things that already exist. Everyone feel free to do so and from this perspective Delphi/C++ Builder Enterprise is very complete if we think of a few million customers that do not need scalability because they don't expect their transaction business to grow in terms of n-times per month.
If we think about data-services (Datasnap in practice). The Datasnap is ok from the idea. In practice it would be better if EMB implements a schema server that allows to modify the underlying DB schema, allows the developer to design a submodel with the objects required which acts as a meta data storage for the interface to the real DB schema as well as the service side and provide the service infrastructure integrated into Interbase. Deployment via DB. Model/Service Metadata hosted in the Interbase instead of a web server.
The views I express here are entirely my own and not necessarily those of any other rational person or organization. However, I strongly recommend that you agree with pretty much everything I say because, well, I'm right. Most of the time. Except when I'm not, in which case, you shouldn't agree with me.
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At what I am sure will amount to certain risk of life and limb, I am going to weigh in here...
First off, I agree with York 100% here. You may get the ol stink eye from the shop keeper, but... that's just a temporary thing. If he's smart he won't burn that bridge.
What makes me want to chime in here is the Bass Pro idea. My experience with the gentleman at my Bass Pro has been interesting at best. When my wife and I spent $3000 there in one weekend setting up myself, my wife, and my son... Oh they were Johnny on the spot with whatever we needed.
"Can you do such and such?"
"Oh yeah just bring it in."
"What if I need this or that?"
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Cheri has "outgrown" the 30 to 40# draw on her bow, so we contacted them to get the limbs replaced. "Oh we can't do that... you need to contact Bowtech." Fine. So I contact Bowtech. "Oh no your retailer should handle that." Back to Bass Pro... same thing. After growing INCREDIBLY weary of the constant ping-pong game, I raised an unholy stink with Bowtech and within 10 minutes... I got a call from Bass Pro telling me to bring her bow in.
Upon taking the bow in, I was greeted like a lepper in a nudist colony. I'm not saying that because I spent money there before I should be trotted around the store on shoulders... but I had continued to spend hard earned money there, albeit not to the extent of that weekend, and I am a paying customer none the less, and finally, I DO expect a certain level of service without bureaucracy. After contemplating the reaction from them, and taking into full account the fact that I had just skewered them with a large supplier, I examined all of the previous visits and the ever-lessening service on those previous visits, and I came to this conclusion:
Unless I was going to spend half a month's income, my patronage means approximately (((EDITED BY AUTHOR))).
Now... I type this not to run rough-shot over Bass Pro, or to in any way discourage patronage of said establishment... only to illustrate that in my experience, some shops are only interested in the bottom line, and the bigger the shop, the more prevalent that idea is. In employing that tactic, they lose sight of the fact that although someone may come in and drop a bundle once, its the continued visitors that may only spend a tenth of that bundle that keep the establishment afloat... especially in times like these. I would hope that your Archery Tech can see that.
As a side note, after dealing with that fiasco and seeing the light, I found that day a bow shop called Tanglewood Archery that does see beyond the bottom line and I anticipate a long and fulfilling relationship with them. I;m afraid the same cannot be said for my relationship with Bass Pro.
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New York City skyscrapers and rooftops from above. Midtown.
These are the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan from above as seen from the top of Rockefeller Center (Top of the Rock). Looking out over these time and weather-worn buildings, it's almost incredible to think of the sheer amount of activity occurring behind each tiny-eyed window at any given time.
This is a scene that peaks in the teasing warmth of winter sunlight as the sun dips towards the horizon in the late afternoon. With rooftops covered with a light glaze of snow and with sultry exhales of smoke billowing out into the late afternoon sunlight, the city basks momentarily in distant memories of summer.
When I was younger, I used to imagine how incredible it would be to fly through the city like Batman. I would close my eyes and imagine dipping into the dark,narrow valleys created by tall skyscraper peaks. I would ascend up past the multitudes of water towers to distant rooftops where I would bide my time while seeking out other routes to glide through (in my imagination Batman took quite a few joyrides through the city during his off-time!).
I still like to imagine these things. It's probably why I love views that take me above the hustle and bustle of the city. There is a peace that seems to come with viewing the cityscape from above.
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Storm clouds and the Chelsea skyline seen from the High Line. New York City.
The summer sun washes over the city one last time as storm clouds gather overhead in congress with themselves over when they should rain their praise down from the sky.
Wild flowers swayed by the whispers of the wind take one last look at the urban landscape as it glows in the sun's deluge of light waiting for the sky to quench their thirst.
I love the drama that plays out in the sky before a storm especially when viewed alongside the buildings that make up the Chelsea skyline as viewed from the High Line. Tiny tenements stand in the shadow of towering older buildings with ornate architecture which are framed by the more modern architecture and the water towers stand proudly against the sky like beacons.
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Because of the 90's Dance Party, you should probably know by now that I'm obsessed with everything 90s. Life was just SO MUCH BETTER back then! In every way!
For a couple weeks I've been posting a daily "90s flashback" on my Facebook! You should probably check out the entire album while listening to the 90s DP, but I figured I'd give you a sneak peak at some of the ones I post here every Friday!
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Holy cow. Have you heard about the British mom who gave birth to a 15-pound, 7-ounce baby boy a few weeks ago? No, I'm not kidding. Much to his parents' surprise, baby George King made his entrance into the world weighing in at a whopping 15 pounds, 7 ounces -- and he's believed to be the second largest baby delivered vaginally in the U.K.
Whoops! I probably should've mentioned that part first -- George's mom, Jade, gave birth to him the old-fashioned way. As in she pushed him out -- all 15 pounds, 7 ounces of him.
As you will hear in this video clip, no one had any idea how large "little" George was until the birth was well underway -- so it turned into a pretty scary ordeal.
What a miracle that he is ok! I can't even imagine how scared Jade must have been -- and I still can't seem to get past the fact that she gave birth to a baby that big naturally.
To put things into perspective on what pushing out an almost-16-pound child must have felt like, here are a few comparisons of other things that weigh that much.
Three bags of flour or sugar
Two human heads
Two gallons of milk
Three standard-sized coffee makers
Four small laptop computers
A small flat-screen TV
Five boxes of wine
Three 2-liter bottles of soda
A bag of dog food
Eight pineapples
A small dog
Five human brains
Two full-term newborns (duh)
Wow. Using those examples to form a visual picture of how that delivery went down really takes Jade's ordeal to a whole new level.
How big is your baby expected to be at birth?
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At my 20 week ultrasound, it weighed the baby at 13oz ( 2oz) and his leg measurements were more equivalent to a 24 wk baby... BUT I fully expect him to be high on the growth charts - I was 8lb 4oz and my husband 8lb 14oz at birth. We are big people: as in, I am 6ft tall and my husband is 6'3" and built like a linebacker...no small/petite frames here. If the baby has our dominant genes, then he should be built like us as well.
I'm not worrying too much about it. We should all know by now that fetal weight cannot really be accurately determined, especially as the pregnancy reaches later stages. Ultrasounds in the third trimester are notoriously wrong at predicting birth weight.
My friend gave birth naturally to a 10lb baby... and I was shocked. But nearly 16lbs... that's a bowling ball!
Yup,puts my 9lb12 OZ'er delivered Natural(no epidurals or Inductions) to all sorts of shame!@areyouatroll,LOL!You are SO not JOKING!I hope mama&baby are doing well.I just can't imagine how she's going to carry him in a sling.XXXL maybe?Use a Curtain instead of a towel for it?LOLCongrats to them both,that was HARD work!
Don't forget to mention that the baby got stuck and was without oxygen for 5 minutes. Their were complications. I think the baby went home four weeks after birth.
I am sure if they had known all this, they would have gone for the c section.
*There not "their"
Those weight comparisons are a joke, the length of the baby matters, and babies do 'squish' as they come out...as my midwife says, "if your body can grow it, it can most likely birth it"...the problems tend to occur when inductions and birth are forced and a woman's body is not yet hormonally 'ripe' enough to stretch.
My daughter was ten pounds, two ounces. I had a c-section though.
My second daughter was 11 1/2 lbs; delivered her naturally at home. It's not as big a deal as the scary docs want you to believe.
That's one fat-ass baby


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Two buses, two toasters, four departure times, the SAT hours, the Big E traffic, the falling rain, the gulped lunches, 57 boys, 37 girls, seven coaches, four managers, four weeks of training behind us, the notoriously winding and dipping and soaring and soggy NMH course ahead of us: tumble together all that and apparently you end up with a winning formula, a winning day. Pelicans soared with wins in both the boys and the girls divisions of both the varsity and the JV races.
Boys JVs took to the hills first, the field a wash of maroon (predominant color on the LC and the NMH uniforms) with some distinct purple splashes (Cushing Academy color). 3.1 miles later, competitors now evenly coated in shades of mud, the leaders ripped down the final roll of hills to the flat field finish, with Pelican John MacDonald ('13) leading an LCXC stream of seven. Just steps behind Dan Lanza ('13), Ian Knapp ('12), Christian Bermel ('12), Dontay Downer ('15), David Montgomery ('13), and Ben Laprise ('14) finished Emilio Arellano ('14); just steps behind him, Alex Rainville ('12); and just steps behind him, Paul Lee ('13). Not too many strides later, Noah Christiano ('13), in 15th overall, led in the next Pelican flight. In short, 11 Pelicans with top-15 finishes. Final scores: LC 15; NMH 50; Cushing 83.
Traversing a course pretty well mud-churned by the day's previous two races, the boys varsity field followed start-to-finish frontrunner Franco of Andover (winning time: 17:04) in conditions wildly reminiscent of those of 2009s NEPSTA championships. Tri-captain Ben Hiskes ('12), Eli Robbins ('13), Mike Horowicz ('13), and Pat Dickert ('14) captured top-ten places, with Jake Verter ('12) securing fifth team-scoring spot and tri-captain David Balise ('12) finishing top-fifteen.
No blue to be found in the skies, but plenty of blue to be found at the awards, where performance tshirts bearing not only NMH Invitational cranberry-on-cornflower design front and back, but also individual top-five finish designation on sleeve, delighted overall award winners Hiskes, Robbins, MacDonald, Lanza, Knapp, Bermel, and Downer. Final team results: LC 38; NMH 56; Andover 63; Cushing 83; Vermont 101.
Less tangible but equally brilliant were the season-breakthroughs raced by Ben Pipernos ('14), Tim Mahoney ('14), Demarco Palmer ('13), Alex Smith ('14), Alex Lafrance ('12), and Scott Snelgrove ('13), all of whom were propelled by spirited competition with just-in-front or just-behind NMH or Cushing competitors. Pushing one another to best-of-season results were the trios of Ben Russell ('13), Leon An ('13), and Paul Han ('12), and of Michael Basmajian ('13), Krishna Kulkarni ('13), and Philip Cui ('15), closely pursued by Andy Munoz ('13).
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Rookie POTW: New sophomore Emilio Arellano not only finished among the top ten in the JV race at the NMH Invitational, but he did so in a time almost 30 seconds a mile faster than he raced at the Choate Invitational just a fortnight ago. Stellar pacing and racing, Emilio!
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A source close to the show said that this new -- as yet unnamed -- governor will be more conservative than Jameson and keep a tighter leash on Steve McGarrett and his team.
He'll be "cleaning up a lot of the mess left by the previous administration."
Jones has several series-regular roles under his belt, most recently as FBI Special Agent Ellison on 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.' Before that he had breakout roles on 'Girlfriends' and 'Judging Amy.'
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The Knox Service Award, established in 1987, is given to any member of the Knox community to recognize outstanding volunteer service benefiting Knox College. Awards are presented during Homecoming Convocation. Annual nominations are due by January 31.
Richard Kowalski P'14
Though Knox is not Dick Kowalski's alma mater, he is a true "friend" of Knox. For several years he was the link between the college and OSF St. Mary Medical Center, making it possible for Knox students to work as interns. A cornerstone of the Knox College educational program is the experiential learning component. Dick understood this and worked closely with Terrie Saline, director of the Bastian Family Center for Career & Pre-Professional Development, to offer opportunities through OSF.
Dick participated in the Carlin Career Development Forum, an event that provides students with the opportunity to hear from a wide range of executives and receive practical career information and advice. Dick's long tenure in hospital administration lent a unique perspective on the progression of health care services. He served also on the Business Advisory Council.
When son, Sterling, chose Knox and moved to campus, Dick and his wife, Doris, became members of the Parent Executive Committee. As parent volunteers Dick helps with welcome calls, solicitation of gifts, and the Parent Reception. The Kowalski's are members of the Gale Society, a giving club for local alumni and friends, and the President's Circle, a leadership giving society at Knox.
Though Dick's 34 years as CEO at OSF St. Mary Medical Center came to an end in June, his involvement in the Galesburg community continues. He is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Galesburg Area Regional Economic Development Association, and remains active at Knox and Carl Sandburg College, and assists with the National Railroad Hall of Fame effort.
Tony Liberta '55
Michelle Geyer '10 is just one of the students who was able to finish her time at Knox because of the Reverend Pete Hosutt Scholarship fund. That fund exists because Tony Liberta worked with five classmates to establish an endowed scholarship in memory of their friend and teammate, Reverend Pete Hosutt '55. The scholarship goes to a student involved in campus and community activities with a special focus on working with youth or within religious or faith-based organizations.
Tony has served Knox in a variety of positions. He was the FYC Board of Trustees Observer for four years and in that role, reported news to Club members via the FYC Bulletin. Tony volunteered as a Class Agent, an at-large representative for the Alumni Council, a 50th Reunion volunteer, and an Admission volunteer.
Tony is a retired Emeritus Professor of Biology from Illinois State University. An avid rose grower, he was a member of the former McLean County Rose Society, having served as its Editor, Treasurer, Vice-President and President. He is currently a member of the Greater Peoria and Decatur Rose Societies in Illinois. As a member of the American Rose Society he served on its Board of Directors for six years. He frequently lectures and writes articles on various aspects of rose culture and was a contributing author, along with his wife, to the books Ultimate Rose and The Rose.
Steve Walton '74
Steve Walton is no stranger to the Knox campus. In the past year, he spent time on campus as part of the selection committee to hire a new football coach. The committee conducted a nation-wide search and participated in on-campus interviews for five candidates. As a letterwinner in both track and football, his love for Knox athletics runs deep. Steve contributed to the athletics initiative in 2008 and named the home side line of Knosher Bowl and the shot put area of the track and field venue.
He served on the Alumni Council as an at-large member from 2000-2005. During that time he worked with a committee to revise the Athletic Hall of Fame section of the by-laws. Steve was a Class Agent, and is a member of the President's Circle, and K Club. Steve attends summer alumni gatherings in Michigan, and comes from a long legacy of Knox graduates -- his father, mother, and two aunts are alumni.
He is a retired teacher and coach from Sterling High School District #5.
Now living in Michigan, Steve gives back to his local community as a Rotary member, church deacon, volunteer for Meals on Wheels, and a tour guide and member of the education committee for Point Betsie Lighthouse. He continues his connection with youth as an elementary school tutor, and as a track coach for Frankfort High School.
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Laurence S. Chadwick '53, Vernice Mendrek, Michiko Tanaka '57
Charles Boydstun '44, Joan Felter Hotchkiss '50, James Valentine '61
Debra P. Banks '73, R. Ned Landon '43, William N. Monson '57
James R. Bowman '48, William J. Foley '38, James T. Poor '54
Bradley Burnside '45, Robert & Daniele Devillairs and Angele Parmeggiani, Russell E. Swise '42
Carol Baldwin, Robert K. Burden '55, Homer H. Johnson '57
William L. Flodin '55, Edward F. Novak '69, Steven J. Phillips '71
Merle Glick '46, Marjorie L. Gustafson '42, Irene Bowman Landis '36
Ann Asplund, Kenneth Alan Buck '79, Robert Wallace '58, Ralph C. Walter III '69
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Time for some gorgeous folksy music. Field Report's Take Alcatraz fits the billing. The musician, known for working with Bon Iver, does a great job with the introspective song, quieting things down nicely with the song about a native American activist that once occupied our very own Alcatraz Island.
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DOVER, Del.- Delaware lawmakers want gamblers to be able to get lucky by using their computers or mobile phones to gamble. The state wants to expand gambling from its three casinos to allowing people to gamble on their home computers and mobile phones.
Ashley Mellor of Dover said she would not dare gamble on her iPhone or computer.
"Not a lot of people have time to go to the casino so now if it's on your or so close to your hand on your phone it'd be super easy for people to waste their money," said Mellor.
That money may be wasted for some, but it is money to gain for casinos like Dover Downs. The state's proposal would decrease license fees for the three casinos by more than $7 million dollars a year. But, the state would restrict how the casinos could spend the savings.
Dover Downs CEO Ed Sutor said the state has his support.
"We can't take that money and put it in our pocket, we have to spend it on items they approved, and that's marketing capital, expenditures, or debt relief," said Sutor. "So if this is what we have to do to get relief, then were happy to cooperate."Sutor said playing online is a gamble he is willing to take.
"It's the future, nobody knows where this is going but with social media and young folks, they tend to come less to the casino, so unless we get on this train it's going to take off without us," said Sutor.
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Views not returning documents
Hi all,
I've just discovered that some of my views are not returning all documents that they are supposed to return. For instance,
I have this document:
{ "_id": "stock-babau-droneremix", "_rev": "3-0001236666a163e50000003b00000000", "$flags": 0, "$expiration": 0, "jsonType": "stock", "stock": 3, "product": "babau-droneremix" }
That is not returned by this view (_design/dev_stock/_view/stock) :
function (doc) { if(doc.jsonType == "stock") { emit(doc.product,doc.stock); } }
Even if I go for the all cluster data set by accessing server.com:8092/default/_design/dev_stock/_view/stock?full_set=true&connection_timeout=60000
I don't get that document in the results.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I'm running Version: 2.0.0 community edition (build-722-rel) on an Ubuntu x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
I don't immediately see a reason why you wouldn't get it back. Does the log show any errors? Also, did you request multiple times or do stale=false?
There is an open bug where the UI was not showing errors. You may want to try with some other HTTP client (like curl) and see if there is an errors section at the end of the JSON response.
Do you think this can be duplicated with the doc and view described above?
Definitely try passing in debug=true to the view request as well. This has helped me out many times.
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Natalie O'Brien for the Sydney Morning Herald:
David Hicks was desperate, lonely and scared he would never get out of Guantanamo Bay unless he confessed to crimes he did not commit. The Americans were playing mind games with him. He was forced to make decisions about his future while chained to the floor of a cell. He was coerced into signing a "plea guilty" form with "al Qaida written all over it" in the belief it would be his ticket home.
I think O'Brien's line of argument reflects the increasingly bizarre and quite frightening perspective of the Australian media to, years after the fact, reflect on the capture, arrest, charging, and detention of convicted terrorist David Hicks as some kind of unfortunate incident of victimisation, or even electoral plugging:
As he sought re-election in 2007, John Howard called in a political "favour" from the US government to get any charge possible laid against David Hicks, a former Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor has claimed.
I think journalists who try to reason with the Hicks and the small pockets of left-wing, anti-American activists who support him need to step back and remember that the man was caught red-handed training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and made no secret of the fact of what he was doing there (see this AP report):
Adelaide-born Mr Hicks was 26 when he was captured by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in late 2001. It believed he was fighting for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
Mr Hicks was held in the US-run jail in Cuba until 2007, when he pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism and was sent to Adelaide's Yatala Prison to serve the rest of his seven-year sentence.
Hicks is of the opinion now that yes, he was supporting terrorism against the United States and her Western allies, and yes, he was committed to Osama bin Laden's organisation to bring terror, violence and death to people just like us—ordinary Australians—but somehow he is entitled to 'compensation' and pity for being held with other terrorists in Gitmo and then was even transferred to an Australian prison to ride out his deserved sentence.
The man even wants the royalty revenue from his book Guantanamo: My Journey, which has incredulously been listed in Queensland's Premier's Literary Prize today. He wants to be paid out for a description about how he was caught and punished for supporting the very cause that wanted to wipe us all out.
I'm of the opinion that Ted Lapkin at the National Times brought some much-needed perspective to the issue in May of this year:
For those who have an interest in the facts rather than a self-serving rewrite of history, a quick reprise of Hicks's past is in order.
His latter day effort to portray himself as some sort of harmless, hapless dilettante is belied by letters written in his own hand. In these missives he talks of undergoing weapons training that included "anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets, rapid-fire heavy and light machineguns, pistols, AK47s, mines and explosives". His words, not mine.
This man is the worst of the worst. The media has every right to champion the cause of true justice and welfare for David Hicks but any assertion among journalists like O'Brien that he is some sort of victim, or that we have him all wrong, is disgraceful.


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Suntrust: A Compelling Long-Term Stock
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SunTrust Banks (NYSE: STI) is the largest regional bank still remaining in the Southeast United States, and the 11th largest domestic bank overall by assets. It had substantial mortgage exposure in Miami, perhaps the most negatively impacted real estate market in the United States in the recent recession. Without a major investment bank or other avenues to offset mortgage losses, Suntrust suffered as much as any bank in the nation in the recent recession. It is recovering, albeit painfully slowly, and its first quarter of 2012 further evidenced the slow pace of SunTrust's recovery.
Earnings for the first quarter of 2012 were $250 million, or $0.46 per share. It was a nearly six fold improvement from the first quarter of 2011's eight cents per share. The recent performance also crushed analysts' estimates for the quarter of $0.33 cents, by a wide 40% Has SunTrust actually gotten over the hump on its road back from recession era losses? Read on.
In the years from the beginning of the current form of SunTrust in 1985 until 2007, this company never failed to post earnings that generated a return of at least 1.0% on assets, except in years with extreme one-time events. The dividend was raised every year, and the efficiency ratio was in the 55% - 60% range every year. So, while the first quarter of 2012 looks dandy compared with last year, it looks positively dismal when perceived through a longer viewed time frame. For the record, SunTrust's return on assets in the first quarter of 2012 was 0.57%. Not until earnings are at least twice what they were in the quarter, will I ever be able to write that SunTrust is truly back. The company still has much work to do on the expense side of the ledger, as the efficiency ratio was 69.5%.
But I do see better days ahead. SunTrust's geographic footprint, I believe, will economically outperform the nation as a whole over the next ten years. And steps toward recovering have obviously begun. In that vein, it was a net positive that SunTrust did not pass the Federal Reserve's recent stress test. I prefer to see the bank increase further its capital position before committing to additional distributions of capital. It is my belief that lowering the anticipation levels of shareholders is a good thing.
A closer look at the balance sheet and income statement show some positive signs, as well. Average loans outstanding in the first quarter of 2012 of $122.5 billion were $7.2 billion, or about 6% higher than the year ago quarter. That, combined with lower interest costs, led to a $45 million, or 5% increase in net interest income versus the year ago. The interest margin was 3.49%; four basis points below the year ago level, but a three basis point improvement from the 4th quarter of 2011. We have seen most banks' margins start to improve just as SunTrust's from a low point in the fourth quarter of 2011. That is a real positive for the banking industry going forward.
Non-interest income in the quarter was just one percent below the year ago quarter, as losses from the Durbin Amendment were offset by higher mortgage fee income. Non-interest expenses continued upward by 5% on a sequential basis, largely due to personnel costs. SunTrust is trying to get a handle on those costs as it terminated its defined benefit pension plans late in 2011.
But what really drove SunTrust's profit improvement more than any single factor, was its provision for loan losses was $130 million less in the first quarter of 2012 than in the first quarter of 2011. The reduction was justified as credit metrics improved substantially in every way. The caveat to the bright credit picture is the somewhat unknown amount of future mortgage repurchase demands. As with all banks, SunTrust warranted upon selling loans to the likes of Fannie Mae that if material misrepresentations or omissions were made in mortgage applications, SunTrust would reimburse the agency. At March 31, 2012, SunTrust had reserved for $383 million for losses in that arena; time will tell if that is sufficient.
Otherwise, going forward, I expect credit metrics to substantially improve through 2012 and 2013 back to historically normal levels. Mortgage and commercial loan activity should continue to provide growth opportunities. SunTrust is not a sure bet, but I see its earnings out to mid-decade representing a 1.0% return on assets, or over $3 per share. That should support a stock price double or more its current value. I have owned SunTrust stock since the 1980's, and added substantially to my holdings in 2009. I am glad I did, and despite the company's sales of its historical and valuable stake in Coca-Cola, I am not selling anytime soon.
Regions Financial (NYSE: RF) is another large Southeastern Regional, who has struggled even more than SunTrust has struggled. It has recorded full year losses four years in a row, and was the last of the big banks to repay its TARP debt. It did so last quarter by selling its key Morgan Keegan asset to Raymond James Financial, along with a dilutive stock offering. That was indeed a case of doing what it had to do, however distasteful, and I give props to management for successfully executing a very busy quarter.
Regions posted a first quarter, 2012 profit of $145 million, or $0.11 per share. It was the best quarter, on a per share basis, since 2008. Regions has been in survival mode rather than growth mode these past couple years, and a review of the company's credit metrics shows great promise. The ratio of nonperforming assets to loans fell from about 4.8% in the first quarter of 2011, to about 3.4% in the first quarter of 2012. Further declines are likely going forward, giving Regions some breathing room.
The next step for the company is to be able to be steadily profitable. Its provisions for loan losses fell to just $117 million in the first quarter of 2012 from $482 million in the year earlier quarter. Absent that $365 million year over year gain and Regions would have lost money. The very modest reserve provision shows a great deal of confidence in its recent underwriting, and in macro-economic conditions. Time will tell. I believe Regions is a decent, but no better than that, bet for a speculator. It is not yet suitable for a long term investor.
Of course, the 900 pound gorilla of southern banking is Charlotte-based Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). As the former North Carolina National Bank, it has hundreds of branches in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, in addition to its money center and West Coast presences. So, among its almost too numerous to list problems of the past four years, it was also fully exposed to the imploding real estate markets in Miami and elsewhere. As we all know, Bank of America compounded that by also fully participating in most of the country's worst real estate markets, and all the fraud allegations that the Countrywide acquisition brought. I suppose the worst is possibly behind Bank of America, but that is far from a certainty.
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Georgia State defeated North Carolina Wilmington 68-53 on Wednesday. The Panthers (15-8, 7-5) had their way with the Seahawks, who have lost eight of their past nine games. Georgia State will play at Hofstra on Saturday.
The good
Somebody not named Ali and Buckner scored. The Panthers had become dependent on Ali and Buckner as their only consistent sources of points. Well, Rashaad Richardson stepped up and scored 10 points in his second consecutive start. He added two 3-pointers.
Ali and Buckner scored. After scoring one point in the first half, Buckner scored 16 in the second half to lead the team with 17. Ali added 16.
3-point shooting. The team hit six 3-pointers, including five in the first half to blow open the game. They've hit 13 in the past two games, after hitting just 12 in the previous three games.
Defense…again. The team forced 15 turnovers that it turned into 22 points.
3-point defense. The Seahawks missed eight of their 10 3-pointers. The two 3-pointers were the fewest for a GSU opponent since Liberty dropped one on Nov. 26. The team's past five opponents were averaging more than nine per game.
The bad
Free-throw shooting. The team missed a whopping 13 of its 21 free throws.
Devonta White. He's not a freshman, but he seems to have hit that class' proverbial wall. He was benched after being late for a practice earlier this week. He followed that by missing eight of his 10 shots.
February 1st, 2012
10:51 pm
That's a very good win on the road. There are no easy games on the road as George Mason found out against Delaware. On to Hofstra. Go Panthers!
February 1st, 2012
11:02 pm
Nice win tonight, but that free throw shooting was atrocious and won't cut it against the upper teams in the CAA.
February 1st, 2012
11:03 pm
February 1st, 2012
11:29 pm
Way to go guys! Good win. Now take it to Hofstra and relax at the free throw line. Deep breath and swish just ball it over the rim. Go BLUE from the ATL!!! See ya at home against Delaware.
February 1st, 2012
11:37 pm
We needed a win pretty badly and got it. Lets go take care of Hofstra!
February 2nd, 2012
8:55 am
Good win. UNCW was in full tail spin mode and shutting down Smith and Rendelman was critical.
The top 4 teams play each other in the next two weeks so the opportunity for a top 4 seed is right in front of us.
February 2nd, 2012
9:44 am
Interesting that both team had terrible free throws. More people scoring but need more of it down the home stretch. Winning counts and that is what the guys did.
February 2nd, 2012
12:35 pm
Guess who'll be shooting free throws in practice this week? Everyone.
Go Panthers!
February 2nd, 2012
4:22 pm
Much needed win and I was surprised by the way we won and how we played. HAVE to make FTs down the stretch of this season!
February 2nd, 2012
10:01 pm
Guess who'll be running gassers from now until March?
February 2nd, 2012
10:34 pm
@ The HUNTER/LEVICK story in the AJC,
Sounds like Levick and Hunter have figured out we need out of the CAA. Awful basketball officials and terrible logistical travels. Please get us in a Southern Conference (BSC preferred) like we were when we helped start the SUNBELT CONFERENCE. Not Rocket Science! Please get us out of this nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 2nd, 2012
11:45 pm
Go GSU Panthers!!!
Fight Panthers to victory
Our voices yell
You'll hear us mighty and strong
We're from the ATL
We're gonna give them hell
Fight Panthers to victory
Drive on for the score
Blue – White
Georgia State is in the fight
February 3rd, 2012
10:37 am
I am undecided if we need to stay in the CAA or if it would benefit us more to go to the Southern Conference. I think that if we ever have a desire to move up to a bigger conference in the next 10 to 15 years then we should stay in the CAA. The CAA, from top to bottom, in most sports, is the dominate mid-major conference. I will give So-Con credit, they are legit at football and there are other conferences that have their sports. But there is nothing Top to Bottom like the CAA. What we miss though are regional rivals and we get the painstaking trips up to the North every week. I feel like most times it is worth it, but with a travel schedule like we have had this year for basketball, and next year for some football games (Maine in November)…that logic could easily be questioned.
February 3rd, 2012
10:44 am
[...] CAA win this week on the road at UNC-Wilmington to keep hold on 5th place in the conference at 7-5. Doug at the AJC discusses the good and bad about the game. They next play at Hofstra tomorrow at 4 PM. [...]
February 3rd, 2012
5:10 pm
Played good enough to win and that is all that matters. We never let their crowd into the game and that destroyed any motivation Buzz put in before the game. Wish I could make the trip to Hofstra, but that one isnt exactly next door. Go Panthers!


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Brief Hobbit Review for Tolkien Nerds (spoilers)
I really liked it!
I have some lore and continuity thoughts below, primarily from the point of view of an insufferable Tolkien nerd. Spoilers ahead, DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT
- The tone is perfect, and they do a really good job of making this "Not Lord of the Rings," complete with the implication that Bilbo likely embellished parts of the story. It's lighthearted without being goofy or dumb, and captures that sense of innocence of a time much less dark and dreary. I suspect this might throw off some who are less familiar with Tolkien's work, who expect every one of his stories to feel like LoTR, but we know better, don't we? There are many different stories in Middle-Earth with many different purposes.
- Radagast plays a prominent role toward the beginning of the film, but you'd never expect he was an addition to the main narrative. Of course he is mentioned in The Hobbit, but now what he was up to is fleshed out a bit, and fits very well into the larger story in which Gandalf is involved. He acts to set off the story's side plot, revolving around Dol Guldur.
- The Necromancer of Dol Guldur - Beautifully woven into the main story. Not much to go on so far, but just enough to let you know that evil's brewing in Mirkwood. My one complaint here is that the Witch King (or his ghost?) shows up briefly in Dol Guldur like a cheap Scooby Doo villain. Having the Nazgul return with the Necromancer's rise is a fine way to adapt the story, though the visual part of that was a little weird. I'll be withholding judgement until I see it again.
- The Witch-King - Galadriel states that the Witch King was defeated and buried in Angmar, which makes no sense at first, but then I got to thinking about it. They've basically kept the same events as Tolkien's legendarium, but have moved up certain dates and condensed timelines. An obvious difference is moving up the Necromancer's return, but another here is that the Nazgul did not become wraiths until very recently. The implication of the film version of The Hobbit is that the Witch-King still caused all the same trouble he did in the books, but he was still in a corporeal form, more or less. While in the books, becoming a wraith was a gradual transition over centuries or thousands of years, in the movie it seems that they more or less held on to a body until that body was destroyed, but their Rings (and Sauron's general power) won't let them die proper. Very little in the books is directly contradicted, as Tolkien never expressly states when exactly Ringwraiths became wraiths. It could have even been only during the War of the Ring, or whenever Sauron actually took the Nine Rings for himself again.
- Elrond - Remember how Elrond was an asshole in the other movies for no clear reason? Well they fixed him! Hugo Weaving completely sells a happy, generous Elrond who is not a dick to anyone. This honestly was one of the biggest and most pleasant surprises of the film. Presumably the movie logic was that in LoTR he was more stressed out about the War of the Ring and Aragorn not being terribly interested in becoming king, which I'll accept.
- The White Council - The "behind the scenes" meddlings of the White Council (as described in the appendices of RoTK) are introduced very naturally. All of the drama you'd expect- Saruman being skeptical of Gandalf and Radagast, Elrond as the straight man, Galadriel being Gandalf's biggest fan - it's all there and performed wonderfully. You can really tell Gandalf's had enough of Saruman, and you get just a hint that Saruman's got plans of his own.
- Azog becomes sort of this side villain in the story. Instead of being killed during the Battle of Azanulbizar, Azog only lost a hand to Thorin Oakenshield (who at the time, of course, uses some oak for a shield). He has a habit of hunting the Dwarf party with a small band of Warg riders throughout the film. This is definitely the largest departure from the books, but the scenes are infrequent and to be honest, it's a nice way of reminding you of the larger and older history between the Dwarves and Orcs, and that their quest is about more than just getting a pile of treasure back. Azog's presence only emphasizes existing themes and scenes, and never detracts from what was originally going on.
- Bilbo is incredible. Martin Freeman is the best Hobbit that ever Hobbited.
Final thoughts: a really great, well-paced movie that effectively combined The Hobbit book with Tolkien's additional material extremely well. I went in with a lot of reservations about how they were going to make this into three films, but honestly it all makes sense now.
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I am super late with this one, but I totally don't care because this movie was AWESOME!!!!
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Really great review. I'm not familiar with Tolkein's writings outside of the Hobbit and LotR (neglected to ever read the...
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Ohhhh I see what you're saying. But I'm okay with most of those, either because they make all of the movies feel the...
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about… But it wasn't just references...things that happened, it
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Nice review.
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