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March 7, 2006
Since the start of the baseball season, there has never been any doubt that the Bisons could hit. There was not one game when they did not stand a chance. Over the course of the first nine games, fans witnessed glimpses of great pitching, but the consistency simply was not there.
On February 17, right hander Josh Smith struck out ten Chicago State batters over seven innings to earn the Bisons first win of the season.
On February 26, Matt Schnelly dominated a Pittsburgh team, that was picked to finish second in the Big East preseason polls. In nine innings he gave up just three hits and struck out eleven.
Throughout their first nine games, these two wins were all the Bisons had to show for their efforts, two dominating, well pitched games.
During this span, the Bisons' opponents scored in double figures four times.
On March 4, the Bisons made the trip to Tallahassee, Florida to take on Florida A&M. Their record stood at a disappointing 2-6. Two days and one sweep later, the Bisons returned home with a three game winning streak and a much more respectable 5-6 record. What had changed?
A glance at the weekend's box scores perhaps provides the answer. In game one of Saturday's double-header, Smith pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up just five hits and three earned runs. He struck out five. Clutch pitching by Robbie Smithson sealed the victory for the Bisons and earned Smithson his first win of the year.
Game two of the double-header featured a dominating performance from sophomore Paul Piennette. Piennette threw a five hit complete game shutout while striking out five. He improved his record to 1-2.
In Sunday's finale, Schnelly was once again masterful. Over 8.2 innings he gave up four runs, three earned, on six hits, while striking out 13.
For the Bisons, pitching, dominant pitching, was the answer, True, the Bisons used several rallies to complete the wins. But no one had every questioned that this team could score runs.
In a 16-14 loss to Chicago State on February 17, the Bisons rallied back after being down 11-0, to fall just short.
No, there is no doubt this team can score runs. It was always just a matter of whether Bisons' pitchers could keep them in the ball game long enough to give them a chance.
History has taught us that great lineups are most often times simply not enough. The 2005 New York Yankees' prolific lineup featured a cast of All-Stars. No game was ever out of reach, because there was not one person in that lineup who could not be the star on any given night. But the team was forced to use 14 starting pitchers throughout the season, and failed to win 100 games for the first time in several years. In the Division Series against the Angels, the Yankees' pitching was something short of dominating and their season was over. A murderous row lineup could not bail them out.
It is this lesson, that baseball enthusiasts have continued to learn since the sport began. At the end of the day good pitching will always defeat good hitting.
So the question is this: How good is the Bisons` pitching this year? It is still too early in the season to tell. But it is certainly no coincidence that every one of the Bisons' five wins this season have come courtesy of a well pitched game.
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The Tour of Flanders isn't until Sunday, but it's already claimed it's first victim as Filippo Pozzato has been sent home with the flu. By now you've read about the changes to the route—the riders face a new sequence of the climbs with the 5 climbs from the Oude Kwaremont to the Taaienberg all crammed into an 18 kilometer stretch (and yes, the Koppenberg's one of them). As for the weather, the latest report calls for 40-degree temperatures and a 70% chance of rain—not terrible, but not great either.
Even without Pippo Pozzato—he will be missed—there's a star-studded filed taking the start in Brugge's main square on Sunday morning, with several riders and teams able to call themselves legitimate contenders for the a victory in the Ronde. Let's take a look:
Tom Boonen won the Tour of Flanders in 2005 and 2006 and were it not for his teammate Stijn Devolder he might have done the same in 2008 and 2009. He comes to this year's event in what some are calling the best form of his career—anyone who witnessed his ferocious attacks in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and E3 Prijs is hard-pressed to disagree. The only knock against Boonen is that he's not been shy about demonstrating his fitness to the rest of the peloton, something that will certainly make him the most heavily-marked rider in Sunday's race. As a result, the responsibility to make the race—and quite possibly the glory for winning it—might fall on one of his talented and experienced teammates—if Boonen's opponents are glued his every move. Opponents will need to be careful though, for by marking Boonen out of the race, they might be marking themselves out as well—just ask Filippo Pozzato about last year.
For my money, Phillippe Gilbert has the best shot at breaking Quick Step's impressive record in the Ronde (Patrick Lefevere's boys have won 4 out of the last 5 editions). One of the most aggressive riders in the peloton, Gilbert's not afraid to attack and—perhaps more importantly—he's not afraid of Tom Boonen. Gilbert's won races with attacks in the last 40 kilometers, the last 20 kilometers, and the last kilometer—he's truly willing to take his chances whenever he feels the moment is right. And Gilbert possesses one more slight edge: a talented group of teammates devoted entirely to helping him win. With several men within his own team eyeing the win as well, such dedication might be something Boonen wishes he had too.
Fabian Cancellara impressed everyone with a terrific win in last Saturday's E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, showing the best and perhaps only way to beat Tom Boonen out of small breakaway: surprise him with a powerful attack within a kilometer or so of the finish line, preferably just before tight corner. That said, while the win was impressive, I still rate Spartacus a slight step below Boonen and Gilbert—for this weekend's race only. Call me crazy, but I just don't see Cancellara as explosive of a rider as Boonen and Gilbert on this terrain. He's incredibly powerful and knows these roads well, but I'm not convinced he'll prove able to respond to the sharpest attacks. One more question mark for the Swiss Champion: his teammate Matti Breschel would be a favorite in his own right were he riding for another team. Will Breschel prove to be a loyal domestique, or will he play his own card, forsaking his captain? Cancellara's success depends on the answer.
Like Cancellara, Juan Antonio Flecha rates a slight notch below the 5-Stone favorites—and for largely the same reason. While Flecha has indeed performed well at Flanders in the past, I think he lacks a bit of that "something extra" possessed by Boonen and Gilbert when it comes to the quick, powerful accelerations that form the basis for many of winning moves in this race. But don't get me wrong—like Cancellara, Flecha will be present and active in the finale, especially with a team completely dedicated to getting him there in as fresh shape as possible. Flecha's best chance for a win might come from the fact that people still don't seem to take him all that seriously. Maybe it's his history of making bad decisions in big races; maybe it's because he's Spanish. Regardless, Flecha always seems overlooked, something he could exploit come Sunday—if his competition makes the same mistake.
Whichever rider emerges from BMC's pre-race meeting as their protected man deserves to be considered a 4-Stone Favorite—most likely either Marcus Burghardt or George Hincapie, although Alessandro Ballan seems to be starting to peak just in time. They've all ridden different races in preparation for Flanders with Burghardt riding Dwars and the E3, Hincapie Ghent-Wevelgem, and Ballan a mixture of them all including the 3-Days of DePanne. Flanders will be the first race in which all 3 will ride together—in a race they all might be targeting. If they set clear boundaries early and stick to them as the race develops, BMC could prove to have one of the strongest teams in the race. If they leave it to chance to sort things out though, it could spell disaster for the American squad.
Matti Breschel's been arguably the most impressive rider of the past ten days, winning Dwars Door Vlaanderen and then flatting while in the winning break in Ghent-Wevelgem—a race in which he was without a doubt the strongest. The biggest knock against Breschel is the presence and current form of his team captain, Fabian Cancellara. To their credit, both riders have said all the right things in the build-up to Sunday. But one can't help but wonder what will happen should Breschel find himself in a Devolder-like situation with 30-40km left to race.
Nick Nuyens was looking as if he were on-track to be one of the top favoriets for Sunday—until he crashed 3 times in the E3 Prijs, almost knocking him out of the Ronde entirely. He heads into Sunday sharing leadership with Sebastian Langeveld, a talented young Dutchmen who has steadily shown he's deserving of a chance to ride for himseld. Regardless, Nuyens is a better rider, knows the race well, and was certain to be the undisputed kopman at Rabobank until his unfortunate E3 hat trick. We'll have to wait until Sunday to see just how much his injuries have affected him, but if the forced time-off proved to help him more than hurt him—as it sometimes often does—Nuyens could certainly find himself on the podium once more.
Sergei Ivanov might just be the most dangerous rider in the race now that his teammate Filippo Pozzato has been sent home. Ivanov's a bit older than most of the favorites, but he's no slouch—remember when he won last year's Amstel Gold Race? Ivanov's been enjoying Flemish classics since his earliest days as a professional—he won the E3 Prijs in 2000 and now lives in the Belgian town of Bekkevort. With a squad eager to prove it deserves to be mentioned among the sport's better teams, Ivanov's just the sort of rider to shock us all like Rolf Sorensen did in 1997.
Sylvain Chavanel and Stijn Devolder are two more riders not to be overlooked—despite their boss' comments to the contrary. Chavanel appeared to be taking-over Devolder's spot as the team's #2 behind Tom Boonen until a rather anonymous string of performance in the important build-up races. As for Devolder, the two-time returning champion has left it all until the last minute, showing nary a glimmer of fitness before this week's 3-Days of DePanne. That said, if Chavanel gets a chance to go for the win it will likely come from within the strategy of the team—if Devolder gets a chance, it might be by working against it.
Thor Hushovd's been suffering through a less-than-stellar start to the season. Throw-in the absences of Heinrich Haussler and Andreas Klier and you get a Cervelo team that's several steps below where it was this time last year. That said, Thor's a rider capable of holding his own in races of this sort—he essentially did it for years while riding for Credit Agricole. While he might not have the same top-level fitness as some of the other favorites, he's a threat should he hit the finish as a member of a select group. Better still, the Ronde might just give Thor the last bit of training he needs for another run at Paris-Roubaix. Watch-out for the big Norwegian; he hasn't had his last word yet.
2-Stone Favorites
Enrico Gasparotto and Maxim Iglinsky have been doing their best all season to prove that Astana has more to it than just Alberto Contador and his entourage. They race aggressively and have demonstrated an ability to ride cohesively in a variety of conditions. Throw-in Andrei Grivko—fresh from a solid ride in DePanne—and you've got a talented, aggressive team that few people are taking seriously—all the ingredients for an upset.
Tyler Farrar might be a year or two away from a big win in the classics, but he still deserves mention as a dark horse for a top-5 result—especially if a small group fights-out the win, leaving a larger group to sprint for the remaining placings (like last year). Farrar has an experienced team behind him including Martijn Maaskant and Johan Vansummeren. David Millar's another teammate who—fresh from his overall win in DePanne—merits some attention. He could play an important role in keeping Farrar out of trouble early in the race, and might just have the legs for a good result of his own.
Manuel Quinziato's been knocking on the door for a while now, scoring several top-10 results in cobbled classics and semi-classics over the past few years. But he's 30 now, and will need to score a big win soon if he wants to continue to lead his team in these races. He has a talented supporting cast including sprinter Daniele Bennati, Aleksander Kuschynski, and the increasingly impressive Daniel Oss. If these men can give Quinziato a relatively stress-free ride to the finale, the Italian might just score the best result of his career.
Several men come into Sunday hoping to play a central role in Vlaanderen's mooiste. They include three young Dutchmen striving to become their country's next great hope for the cobbled classics (Tom Veelers, Sebastian Langeveld, and Niki Terpstra), two Frenchmen at the opposite ends of their careers (Frederic Guesdon and Steve Chainel), three men from a team fighting for relevance following the departures of several star players (Marcel Sieberg, Bernhard Eisel, and Matthew Goss), two domestiques eager for a chance to make a name for themselves while helping their captains take the win (Jurgen Roelandts and Carlos Barredo), a former cyclocross World Champion hoping to continue his evolution to a star on the road (Lars Boom), and last but not least, Bjorn Leukemans, a familiar name for Pavé's veteran readers. Expect to see many of these names in the day's more important breakaways and possibly one or two of them sneaking into the top-10.
As for my prediction, I think we might have to wait a week for the big showdown we've been expecting. Boonen, Gilbert, and Cancellara could easily mark one another too closely, ultimately choosing to watch one another while their teammates ride to glory. The pressure will fall on Flecha, as the loss of Edvald Boasson Hagen leaves his team without a super-domestique on par with Chavanel, Devolder, Hoste, and Breschel.
Looking into my crystal ball, I see a break forming by the top of the Taaienberg including Devolder, Breschel, Quinziato, Ivanov, Burghardt, Van Avermaet, Boom, and just for fun, Leukemans. With so many major teams represented, the break will stay away, with Breschel taking the biggest win of his career. Burghardt and Ivanov will fill-out the rest of the podium while Quick Step and Omega Pharma-Lotto will be left facing another week of criticism.
And you? Who's your top favorite for Sunday? Share your comments below.

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April 22, 2010 ~ Lake Forest, CA ~
Sole Technology, global leader in action sports footwear and apparel, is one step closer to its goal of becoming a carbon neutral company by 2020, announcing a 14 percent decrease in its carbon footprint over the course of one year, in 2009, through sourcing cleaner energy directly associated to footwear manufacturing.
On the heels of announcing its goal in 2007 of becoming a carbon neutral operation, the company has made significant strides toward achieving this objective through a dedicated effort in both its North American and European headquarters, and with shoe manufacturing partners in China, where footwear development contributes considerably to high levels of environmental pollution and damage.
Sole Technology has implemented a "Factory Environmental Standard" agreement for its manufacturing partners in Asia, requesting that they collectively agree upon a set of ecologically-friendly factory conditions to address the growing climate crisis. The agreement addresses the management and ongoing evaluation of each factory's Restricted Substances List, promoting consistent examination of all chemicals and substances used in Sole Technology manufacturing to ensure higher safety standards; an annual Factory Energy Survey, wherein the operation's energy use is monitored and assessed to maximize production while minimizing environmental impact; and an active commitment to lessening the impact of Volatile Organic Compounds in the workplace and in all Sole Technology product.
"Examining our impact on the environmental crisis had to start from the ground up," said Pierre-André Senizergues, Founder and CEO of Sole Technology. "We want to encourage not only our employees and customers, but our partners in manufacturing and development, to move toward a greener future for footwear in Asia and around the world, and we are energized and more focused than ever on reaching our goals and making a difference in the industry in 2020, and far beyond."
In addition to the "Factory Environmental Standard" agreement, Sole Technology continues to implement standard practices and activities in its Lake Forest, Calif. headquarters through its internal eco committee, the Blue Bin Brigade, that have directly impacted the company's carbon footprint, including the use of an extensive solar panel system, corporate-wide recycling programs, waterless urinals, dual-flush toilets and more, all overseen by the industry's first-ever, full-time dedicated Environmental Affairs Manager, who operates from the Lake Forest campus.


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theMICAM is a 4-day event being held from the 11th of February to the 14th of February 2018 at the Fiera Milano in Milan, Italy. Given the popularity of theMICAM, we expect hotel prices to rise quickly over time. We've selected the following hotels based on the best price/quality ratio, assuring they are close to the event. Make sure to book now and get the best deal possible!
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5 Fun Outdoor Holiday Traditions to Start this Weekend
It can be tough to get everyone outside in the winter, what with the windchill factor, freezing rain, and infinite amount of layers required...but it's so worth it! I've gathered a handful of sweet and low-stress outdoor activities that might be perfect for this winter, and many winters to come.
Sparklers In The Snow What better way to welcome the new year than with ultra-festive sparklers? You could wave them around, dance with them, or (my favorite) stick them in the snow where their insanely hot temperatures can't gitcha. (Common sense precautions apply!)
Snow Ice Cream The snow ice cream we made last year was such a hit, the 7-year old has requested it once in early September (when we were deciding what flavor ice cream to make in our ice cream ball) and again last week when the very first flakes of the season fell. Apartment Therapy has a recipe, but snow ice cream encourages almost endless variety.
Launch Sky Lanterns I first learned about sky lanterns thanks to Jordan of Oh Happy Day. Back in 2009 she launched some with friends and family in snowy Utah. In 2010, she launched them from a beach in Mexico, which looks just as dreamy as it sounds. (The usual precautions regarding launching fire into the sky apply, of course!)
Solstice Hike We've done this for a couple years now, and I'm thrilled to see that this year's winter solstice falls on a weekend. An adults-only hike can be a welcome and rigorous workout, but taking the little ones is a perfect chance to discuss the beautifully complex motion of the solar system, the longest and shortest days of the year, and the flow of the seasons... and to play tick-tack-toe in the snow. Don't feel bad if you don't live near the wilderness: the 2012 solstice was terribly cold, so we just took a jumping-running tromp around the neighborhood.
Gather Gift Wrap Gathering natural elements to adorn presents seems like a mission the kids I know would excel at. They can scurry around the yard or park, hunting for pine cones, acorns, evergreen twigs, and any other pretty, natural elements that can be tied on a package. (Common sense don't-let-kids-eat-mysterious-berries precautions apply!)


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Land records may at first appear to be uninteresting documents of land transactions, but they can hold numerous clues to your ancestry. Not only do they allow you to sketch out migrations of your ancestors, but piecing together the information will show family relationships. They point the way to probate research, both testate and intestate. The sale of land reveals the marital status of the grantor (seller), along with the given name of the spouse, if married. In some cases, the former residence (at the time of the transaction) of the grantee will be shown.
If you think your ancestor purchased land in the public land states from the federal government, you need to visit the web site of the Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office. Be sure to read before you research. The FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) area is particularly helpful. To better understand the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), be sure to read about it here.
There is a good selection of states that have land records online. One of these is the Kentucky Land Office. There is a variety of records that can be searched, so read and study your search options.
The Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales database contains information from land sales of the public domain that were transferred to the Illinois State Archives in 1957. The database contains information on about 550,000 land sales in Illinois.
Numerous online records, including land records, are indexed on the South Carolina Department of Archives and History web site. These include the plats for state land grants, 1784-1868, which include 51,809 items.
If you have ancestry in Pennsylvania, be sure to check the Land Records available at the Pennsylvania State Archives. You will be ahead of the game if you read the explanations of their records.
Be sure to explore the Texas General Land Office databases. There are several ways to search, so check all of your options. It is also helpful to browse the Texas General Land Office web page for information.
There are many more land related web pages on Internet. Try using Google or your favorite search engine to find them. There's nothing more fun than diggin' in the dirt ... I mean land records!


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Southern Youthquake
by Heidi Waleson
The breakout success of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela's acclaimed music-education "sistema" has many people in the orchestra world looking in an unaccustomed direction: the Southern hemisphere.
click here for a pdf of this article as it appears in the print edition.
The 200 musicians of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
were so tightly jammed onto the stage of Carnegie Hall for their New
York debut concerts in November that one wondered how the ten bass
players had space to move their bows. But cramped or not, the entire
orchestra played with tremendous verve and precision, responsive both
to the hyperkinetic signals of their music director, 27-year-old
Gustavo Dudamel, and to the lower-key direction of Simon Rattle, who
conducted the final work, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10. This was
vivid, pictorial musicmaking, from the brassy comedy and breakneck
speeds of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, to the conversational
passages of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, and the serene accompaniment of
Emanuel Ax in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2. At the conclusion of the
first concert, the players changed into bright jackets in the colors of
the Venezuelan flag and launched into a trio of Latin-American themed
pieces, including Leonard Bernstein's "Mambo" from West Side Story,
in a style more typical of a marching band. Trumpets were raised to the
sky, cellists twirled their instruments, and whole sections stood and
danced while playing—all without missing a beat. The audience went wild.
These young musicians, most of whom are in their 20s, are the tip of the iceberg f a remarkable music-education venture hat has been underway in Venezuela since 1975. La Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras, or FESNOJIV), based in Caracas and known colloquially as "El Sistema," is the creation of José Antonio Abreu, an economist and musician who believes in the transformative power of music. Today, it involves approximately 250,000 children and youth, who are being trained to play instruments and perform in orchestras all over Venezuela. The program is free to the participants (with instruments provided), and is funded almost entirely by the Venezuelan government. Perhaps most remarkable of all, the estimated two million children who have passed through El Sistema are predominantly from disadvantaged families. FESNOJIV is as much a social venture as it is a musical one; its goal is not so much to train musicians is to rescue children from the poverty and crime prevalent in Venezuela.
While news about El Sistema has been circulating in the music world for some years, U.S. audiences finally got to hear its results first-hand last fall. The visit to Carnegie Hall was the final stop in a highly praised tour for the orchestra, which began in Los Angeles, where the orchestra joined the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra (Finland) and the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra (a training ensemble made up of young musicians from 30 countries) in a three-week International Festival of Youth Orchestras hosted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The festival included a day-long symposium examining models for music education, and the LA Philharmonic announced its intention to launch its own Sistema-inspired program, Youth Orchestra LA. The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (SBYOV) got an enthusiastic response there, and in its subsequent stops in San Francisco and Boston. The Orchestra had already visited Europe in August, playing to excited reviews at the Edinburgh Festival (Scotland is also xxploring the creation of a Sistema-like program), the London Proms, and six cities in Germany. Reviews, despite a few minor cavils, were ecstatic; in an essay about the SBYOV in The Wall Street Journal, Greg Sandow commented, "The simplest reaction would simply be, 'Wow! this is what classical music should be.' " Clips of the youth orchestra's uniquely energetic performance of Bernstein's Mambo" have won wide popularity on YouTube, making the SBYOV a classicalmusic phenomenon.
In many ways, the El Sistema operation is the opposite of the way Western classical music is taught and experienced in the more developed world. "In the U.S. and Europe, culture tends to be owned by the elite, and shared as much as possible with others," says Mark Churchill, dean of preparatory and continuing education at New England Conservatory, which as a longstanding relationship with El Sistema. "What's so fascinating is that in Venezuela, they are doing it the other way around. The culture is being introduced from the lower economic strata. It has become the hallmark of the lower classes; and the middle- and upper-class kids who participate are the minority."
Clive Gillinson, executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall, is also intrigued by El Sistema's upside-down quality. Almost all of us who are involved in music education think of the top-down approach—you find the right teachers, identify talent, etc. For me, effectively this has been a bottom-up process, with a small number of people who wanted to make music together and helped other people do it. It's amazing, and almost counter-intuitive, the way it has grown up out of passion, not out of particular skills or talent. And now that it has grown exponentially, all of that has reached a point where skill level is very high, and these players become impassioned ambassadors for the next generation."
When Abreu launched the program 33 years ago, Venezuela had only two orchestras, and the musicians were predominantly European émigrés. To change that, Abreu started what he called the Youth Orchestra of Venezuela: a handful of children and some volunteer teachers who met in a garage to rehearse. As the rehearsals went on, more and more people came to play. In a few years, the orchestra had performed successfully abroad, and Abreu had collected many friends and supporters. Most importantly, he persuaded the government, rich in oil money, to fund his operation. Abreu's astute and charismatic leadership, and his messianic zeal, have kept that state funding of El Sistema's budget (currently $29 million US) through many changes of administration, from the far right wing to the current socialist regime of Hugo Chávez, who announced on national television last summer that he was supporting a major expansion of the program. The Venezuelan government funds FESNOJIV as a social service program, but the positive attention that it has drawn from abroad, both for its social gains and for its artistic achievements, is clearly an important factor in the government's continued support.
Today, FESNOJIV is a far-flung, complex operation. It is essentially an afterschool program, operated through local centers, or "núcleos," in all 24 states in Venezuela. In a November interview, Eduardo Mendez, director of núcleos and training for FESNOJIV, said that the system now has 161 núcleos, with the largest ones in each state's central city, and smaller, satellite ones in smaller towns and rural areas. There are several in Caracas alone: the Montalban núcleo serves approximately 2,300 students.
The núcleos are open every weekday afternoon and on Saturdays. There is no exam for entrance; all are welcome. Beginners (some are as young as two) come for several hours and learn basic musical skills by singing and participating in rhythm bands. (Mark Churchill is particularly intrigued by the fact that children are assigned instruments early, and those instruments are part of their training even before they get them; wind players do breathing exercises, for example.) After the introductory period, students receive their instruments and begin daily group lessons covering technique, reading, and rhythm; they also have daily choir. Once they have gained enough familiarity with the instrument, they join one of the orchestras f the núcleo.
Both the intensive nature of the training, and its group orientation, continue as the students advance through the system. Students come every day after school, and spend approximately four hours there. The first two hours are spent in a sectional rehearsal, in which they work on the music that they are playing in the orchestra, sometimes in smaller groups. The next two hours are spent in the full orchestra rehearsal, during which students are pulled out for one private lesson of 40-45 minutes each week. The orchestras perform regularly. There are no seating auditions: Students join the orchestras based on age, and seating rotates for different pieces.
Affluence of Spirit
Susan Simán, a FESNOJIV graduate who directs the Montalban núcleo,
created the teaching method that has been adopted by El Sistema. As
described in an in-depth graduate thesis that examines the program,
"Orchestrating an 'Affluence of Spirit' " by Jennifer Diana Mei-Lyn Chang, Simán takes her inspiration in part from the techniques of
Sinichi Suzuki, who believed that making music is as natural as speech,
and that all children can learn to play. The training is supportive and collaborative rather than competitive in nature. Older
students teach and mentor younger ones, and the ideal of the
orchestra—a group united in a single artistic goal, rather than the
aspiration of the soloist—is the model for the program. What is more,
the children of the núcleo and its orchestras develop close personal
relationships—they create a family built around music.
At the same time, standards are high, and the intensive nature of the program produces a remarkable artistic result. As Churchill points out, the intensive focus on orchestra and the group orientation develops their ensemble playing skills much earlier, and to a much larger degree." Simon Rattle, visiting he program in Caracas, watched an orchestra of 800 play Tchaikovsky and was astonished by the ability of such large group to "phrase the same way, and be able to communicate backwards and forwards." The excitement and enthusiasm for music of the young people in the program is also one of its hallmarks. In Tochar y Luchar, a 2006 documentary film about El Sistema, Rattle went on to say, "I saw in everybody's faces what I believe music to be about—pure joy."
Abreu's twin goals for the program—artistic excellence and social improvement—have worked hand in hand to create this result. Anecdotal evidence points to the betterment of the children's lives as their families, proud of their accomplishments, work harder. Numerous stories tell of children rescued from the streets, and from prisons: A Caracas núcleo, El Chorro, is one of five in Venezuela that specializes in high-risk children, victims of homelessness, extreme poverty, abandonment, violent abuse, and drugs, who are referred to it through a government program. El Chorro offers intensive psychological and social services, as well as providing residential care for those in need. The Inter-American Development Bank, based on its studies of FESNOJIV's effect on Venezuelan society, has invested millions of dollars in buildings for FESNOJIV, including the $25 million Center for Social Action through Music in Caracas, an eleven-story building with concert halls, studios, and classrooms; seven more are planned for other cities.
FESNOJIV has its own reward system as well. The very best players audition and are invited to join the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. They live in Caracas and are paid a stipend and provided with housing. The orchestra rehearses daily for three hours and tours extensively. The players may also attend conservatory or university, working their studies around their musical obligations. The 24-year-old violist Jhoanna Sierralta has been in the orchestra for five years, and recently began studying journalism and communications in college. Rafael Payare, a 27-year-old French horn player, did two and half years of university study in chemistry and engineering, but gave it up, deciding that his future was in music. "In chemistry and engineering, everything was too square," he said. "It was too easy—you study, you do well on your exams, you get a job. When you study music, and play concerts, anything can happen. Magic things."
The best-known products of FESNOJIV are the bass player Edicson Ruiz, who at seventeen became the youngest player ever to join the Berlin Philharmonic, and 26-year-old Gustavo Dudamel, now the young rock star of the conducting world and music director-designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dudamel was always precocious: He started violin at five at his núcleo in Barquisimeto, became the concertmaster of the youth orchestra at twelve, began conducting studies at fourteen, and at eighteen was named music director of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. Dudamel's identification with his orchestra is complete, and in New York, as on several CDs recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, they play passionately for him.
But Dudamel's skills obviously translate: His debut with the New York Philharmonic at the end of November was a lively affair, with the orchestra impeccably following the young conductor's lead. At times during the Philharmonic program of Carlos Chavez, Dvorák, and Prokofiev, he seemed like a young race car driver taking on a finely tuned Maserati and having the time of his life: "Let's see how quickly it can accelerate! Let's see how well it takes this corner!" Yet there was narrative tension and color as well as excitement; the musicmaking was never just display. At the end of the concert, Dudamel plunged into the orchestra, hugging the players and urging sections to stand for applause. Churchill says, "He's in love with the music. It's a pure, direct love affair with those players who are making the music with him. It was just like Lenny Bernstein."
For most of the musicians of El Sistema, however, the future is in Venezuela, not the international stage. Unlike the bleak prospects of three decades ago, there are now opportunities for them to work as musicians. There are more professional orchestras, and most importantly, El Sistema itself is a frequent employer of its graduates, who become its teachers. This is certainly Jhoanna Sierralta's plan. "It's important to communicate what we've learned to the younger generation," she says, "and make certain that they can do the same."
It will be up to such followers of the gospel according to Abreu to carry on the work of keeping El Sistema flourishing. In a question-and-answer session at Carnegie Hall before one of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra concerts, Abreu commented that Dudamel "desires profoundly to devote himself to the task of helping to form a new generation of musical leaders in Venezuela."
Dudamel insists that his new international responsibilities will not prevent that from happening. "I am from Venezuela and I love my country and the people of my country," he says. "This will very happily exist along with my commitment to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. I will always work to give the people of my country the advantages that I had."
Heidi Waleson is opera critic for The Wall Street Journal and a New York-based freelance writer.


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When you have a chance to hijack a live CNN broadcast about the Steve Jobs biography, what would you say? What would you do? Would you pimp your favorite Dancing with the Stars contestant? Would you scream his name so he could get more votes? That's exactly what this freaking idiot did.
What an awesome neck grab by security! Reminds me of the Dog Whisperer's claw move. What happened to the guy, Benjy Bronk from the Howard Stern show (where Arquette is a friend), after the video though? Did he walk away screaming, 'David Arquette' at the top of his lungs. Did he continue to curse Nancy Grace's name? Or did he mope and realize what he had just done? I have so many questions.
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RadioShack's corporate Twitter account has just announced that The Shack will be offering up Apple's latest and greatest device, iPhone 4, on launch day - June 24th.
YES! RadioShack will have #iPhone4 at launch. More info tomorrow.
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Due to the inclement weather arriving in the New England region, the Plymouth State University athletic contests scheduled for this Friday and Saturday have been postponed until Sunday.
The Panther men's and women's lacrosse teams and the softball teams were all scheduled to play at Eastern Connecticut State University this weekend, men's lax on Friday and the other two on Saturday. All three have been rescheduled for this Sunday, Apr. 6, at Eastern Conn., with the two lacrosse games slated for 11:00 a.m., and the softball doubleheader to begin at 1:00 p.m.
The PSU baseball doubleheader scheduled for Saturday (Apr. 5) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has also been moved to Sunday (Apr. 6) at 12 p.m..
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March 25, 2009
Need to Know News to Offer Algorithmic News Feed for Financial Trading Community at Equinix Frankfurt Data Center
FOSTER CITY, CA — March 25, 2009 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Need to Know News, LLC (NTKN) has launched its Lightning Bolt algorithmic news feed service within the Equinix Frankfurt-North (FR2) International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center. The service will be available to the community of financial trading companies currently operating within the center, including buy and sell side firms which rely on real-time news feeds to improve their trading operations. NTKN currently offers the service at Equinix centers in the New York and Chicago areas.
NTKN is a premier financial news service specializing in computer readable news feeds for algorithmic trading and risk management, and it also provides written and audio economic news. Disseminated to traders and investment professionals around the world, NTKN reports market news in real-time, providing in-depth coverage of the U.S. and European futures markets, fixed income, energies, and foreign exchange markets. The company's Lightning Bolt service provides key economic indicators in a computer readable format for monitoring, analysis and easy incorporation into computer models.
By operating at Equinix, NTKN will have access to the Equinix Financial eXchange, a community of capital market participants that locate operations within Equinix data centers in order to benefit from a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment. At Equinix, companies can directly exchange data within the same physical location with strategic partners, customers and vendors, thereby enhancing their trading decisions and risk avoidance operations. They will also have access to a broad range of high-performance network connectivity and data center services.
"Our IT infrastructure is a key differentiator in the service that we provide to capital market participants who depend upon us for fast, secure and reliable market data," said Clint Rhea, chief operating officer of Need to Know News. "In addition to providing a high-performance and scalable data center environment for us and our customers, Equinix also provides direct access to a vibrant financial trading community already participating on the company's Equinix Financial eXchange service. We derive significant value from operating in the same physical location as our customers, who in turn, have come to Equinix to be in close proximity to the global financial exchanges operating within its data centers."
"As a technology leader in the electronic delivery of news for the financial trading industry, Need to Know News relies on close proximity with its customers and partners to deliver the fastest and most reliable service," said Petrina Steele, Equinix's vice president for business development in Europe. "At Equinix, they can directly reach the major hedge funds, high frequency trading firms, proprietary trading firms, and investment banks that are already operating within Equinix centers."
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Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 42 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor relations page of its website located at www.equinix.com. We encourage you to check Equinix's website regularly for the most up-to-date information.
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Initially a supplier of Scream Audio broadcasts of economic releases and news for the electronic trader, in 2007 Need to Know News began providing computer-readable news for algorithmic trading. The company's Lightning Bolt service quickly became the leading news-feed integrated into sophisticated banks, hedge funds and risk management algorithms. With news bureaus and data centers linked together via state-of-the-art infrastructure in North America and Europe, the next natural progression in expanding Need to Know News' product line was the creation of Essential, the first and only scrolling news service designed exclusively for electronic traders. For more information on NTKN, call 312-663-7176 or visit www.needtoknownews.com
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent Bahraini rights activist has been barred from a flight to the gulf kingdom after a request from government authorities.
A British Airways spokesman told The Associated Press that Maryam al-Khawaja had been stopped from boarding a direct London-to-Bahrain flight Friday. The spokesman said the airline barred her as "we are required to comply with requests from individual government authorities."
The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Officials in Bahrain could not be reached for comment.
Al-Khawaja is the daughter of jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's 5th fleet, has faced more than 18 months of unrest between the Sunni-led monarchy and its majority Shiite population. The government has promised to crack down on dissent.


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The Cardinals have in-house candidates to replace just-fired general manager Rod Graves and head coach Ken Whisenhunt if they want them.
But if personnel man Steve Keim and defensive coordinator Ray Horton hang around, they'll need to fill an offensive staff.
In addition to the previously reported top jobs, the Cardinals announced they also cleaned out their offensive coaches, firing assistant head coach/line coach Russ Grimm, offensive coordinator Mike Miller, offensive quality control coach Chad Grimm, quarterbacks coach John McNulty, wide receivers coach Frank Reich and running backs coach Tommie Robinson.
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Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race is riding across the US to raise money for MS.
Fans of the show, know that bikes are often featured – just last week they had barrel bikes and last season bakfiets. Fans also know that they contestants are always in taxis and planes. I'd love to see an Amazing Race on bikes.
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Quick History: The Arco Lamp
The Arco lamp is one of those classic designs where form and function meet and live happily ever after. Designed in 1962 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, it is so practical as to seem almost obvious — how else would you turn a floor lamp into an overhead light? — but the Castiglionis' interest in ready-mades and functionalism makes this design complex in its simplicity.
The Arco design, like the many other designs by the Castiglioni brothers, simply makes sense while also being visually appealing. An overhead light without the hassle of wiring, it was supposedly inspired by a street lamp, one of many instances where Achille Castiglioni looked to mass-produced everyday items as a springboard for reinventing domestic objects. The impressive chunk of Carrera marble that serves as the base is both decorative and essential to the piece's physical balance, while the hole in the base is so a couple people can carry it using a broom handle (great idea for a relay race?). The generous sweep of its neck makes the Arco practical and versatile, accomplishing so much with an elegant economy of form and material.
Although Achille and Pier Giacomo designed the Arco lamp and many other objects in tandem, it is Achille who is credited with establishing their design philosophy and practice. His overriding concept was the idea of the designer as problem solver, creating objects to fulfill needs that the consumer has — or maybe didn't know he has. As a professor of a course in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano (which MoMA curator Paola Antonelli took alongside 13,000 other students), he would come to class with a bag full of the found objects that he collected — things like galoshes, colanders, and, famously, a milking stool (designers seem to love traditional milking stools — Charlotte Perriand made a beautiful one for her 1955 Tokyo exhibition), all things that were simple of form and perfectly suited to their function without being 'designed.'
This interest in found objects was more than just academic — Castiglioni applied it to his design practice, too. His most famous pieces that incorporate "ready-mades" were the Sella ("saddle") stool, with a bicycle seat to perch on and a rounded base, for people who literally can't sit still (really for people talking on the phone, back when that meant you were tethered by a coiled wire), and the Mezzadro stool, which used a ready-made tractor seat.
Tractors and bicycles are unlikely inspirations for domestic furniture, and these pieces place Castiglioni in the tradition of Modernist designers who saw the industrial arena as a wellspring of functionalism — Le Corbusier loved grain silos and cars for the same reason. The sense of humor in these pieces, on the other hand, reminds some people of the Dadaists, while others see Castiglioni as a proto-Post-Modernist, especially given some of his 'Expressionist' designs like the Snoopy Table Lamp.
Whatever inadequate categories we can try to apply to the Castiglioni brothers, their designs were always grounded in practicality — of form, materials and technologies used. The Arco lamp may be ubiquitous at this point, but only, I would argue, because it is such a successful piece of design. What do you think, do you love it, or are you tired of it?
Want it? The Arco lamp is available through Design Within Reach for $2,696; Price too steep? For a mere $205, you can buy a 1:6 miniature of the Mezzadro stool — that's one stylish dollhouse! Lighting products by the Castiglioni brothers are available through Flos and Luminaire.
Sources: This great official website has lovely descriptions of all the products. In Milano? Go to the Studio Museum Achille Castiglioni and see where the magic happened. Or, you can read this essay by MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, part of a much more complete look at Achille's career and work from MoMA's 1997 show.
Images: 1 Achille Castiglioni in his Milan studio (now a museum), image from Alice Rawsthorn's New York Times review of the museum; 2 A fun in situ photo of the Arco lamp, from a Domino shoot, via Pure Green Design; 3 What I believe to be a modified Arco lamp in designer Eero Aarnio's Finnish home, image from Aaron's recent House Tour; 4 The Sella stool (1957) by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, image from e-potpourri.com; 5 The Mezzadro stool (1957) by the Castiglioni brothers, image from Wikimedia Commons.


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Do you like chili? If you do, don't miss the Chestnut Hill Rotary Chili Cookoff where you'll be able to taste and vote for the best chili in the region and sample some great micro brews.
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Any run *BSD on an Aspire One D257 Laptop?
Anyone try Open or FreeBSD on an Aspire One D257 laptop?
I've come across a few reviews...don't have the points here to post links here yet. But googling for "Aspire One OpenBSD" returned one review that looked like it worked.
The model that caught my eye is an Aspire One D257-1854:
Obvious, tons more power than one needs for a pleasant BSD experience. Just a question of drivers. If necessary I could live without wireless...mainly I want to boot, use text editors and compilers, play with unix.
Curious if someone else has tried it before I plunk down $250.
The best way of answering compatibility questions is to search through the archives of the project's misc@ mailing list.
Archives can be found on numerous sites; many are listed at the following;
Unfortunately, I did not see anything specific to a D257. However, if you read through related searches above, there is more than one occurrence of trackpad compatibility issues. I have also seen off-the-shelf Windows also have trackpad issues, so Acer must have a flunky trackpad supplier. The solution is to plug in a USB mouse.
When it comes to hardware compatibility questions, the OpenBSD project is too small to test everything available. The best method is to go to vendors with a clear return policy, & be very clear as to the conditions of that agreement before purchasing. If it works, great. If it doesn't, you have an avenue to get a refund.
Thanks ocicat.
I was somewhat inspired by this review of someone running OpenBSD on it...I'd be happy with either Open or Free:
Some discussion of an older model:
I guess I was just looking for more data points :-)
But if I did go ahead & chance it, I would buy from a vendor who would honor returns if I later decided to do so.
You can start from a LiveCD and check of everything works (Wireless, sound, etc).
As Ocicat mentioned, not all Acer Aspire models are alike, and there can be great differences even if the model no. is the same.
This way you can see which works better without reinstalling.
For OpenBSD, I recommend jggimi's LiveCD: http://jggimi.homeip.net/
I don't know of a FreeBSD LiveCD that isn't either very old or that doesn't suck ... Maybe someone else can offer some suggestion there.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Thanks for the plug, Carpetsmoker. Two things to note:
1) Live media based on OpenBSD 5.0-release has been prepared, and will be made publicly available on or about 1 November, concurrent with 5.0-release.
2) The mailing list is temporarily inoperative, pending a patch from gilles@ and eric@, as I converted from sendmail(8) to smtpd(8). I'll be editing the mailing list web page this weekend, until then, please ignore it.
I took the plunge - they're only $228 at Wal-mart. Worst case, I'm pretty sure I can run Linux on it (prefer not to :-)
I created a OpenBSD 4.9 flash disk wih bsd.rd and it recognized everything...realtek ethernet (re0), intel wifi (iwn0), hard disk, keyboard, etc. The network devices show up in ifconfig so they're all working.
Not sure about: trackpad, camera, bluetooth, etc. Will have to get into those after I install. Really hoping the trackpad works.
5.1-release will have an enhanced Synaptics/ALPS driver. Meanwhile, the trackpad should behave as at least a mouse for you. If you can't wait until May of next year, you could install -current, as long as you understand all of the implications (most of which are discussed in FAQ 5 and FAQ 15).
Bluetooth has a limited tools suite on OpenBSD, primarily for BT modems.
If the camera is using webcam standards, then yes, it'll work.
Got a quick "does it work" OpenBSD 4.9 install done and all is well:
The Intel Atom N570 is described as "2 core, 4 thread". OpenBSD sees it as four cpus.
The Intel.com site lists the instruction set as 64-bit...though it only supports a max of 2GB of memory. I think I'll stick with i386.
Hardware-wise, my only complaint is that the mouse click is a bit stiff. Keyboard is pleasant enough and the device is a nice thin Kindle-sized netbook. And now it's even better with OpenBSD :-)
OpenBSD 4.9 (GENERIC.MP) #794: Wed Mar 2 07:19:02 MST 2011 email@example.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE real mem = 1060986880 (1011MB) avail mem = 1033474048 (985MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/26/11, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xef735, SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xe5840 (33 entries) bios0: vendor INSYDE version "V1.04" date 04/26/2011 bios0: Acer AOD257 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET APIC MCFG SLIC BOOT SSDT SSDT SSDT WDAT acpi0: wakeup devices P32_(S4) UHC1(S3) UHC2(S3) UHC3(S3) UHC4(S3) ECHI(S3) EXP1(S4) EXP2(S3) EXP3(S3) EXP4(S3) AZAL(S4) MODM(S4) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 166MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz cpu2: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N570 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz cpu3: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 4 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 4 acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 4 (P32_) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 1 (EXP1) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (EXP2) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 3 (EXP3) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP4) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpicpu2 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpicpu3 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 98 degC acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibtn2 at acpi0: LID_ acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 model "AL10A31" serial 2796 type LION oem "SANYO" acpivideo0 at acpi0: GFX0 acpivout0 at acpivideo0: DD02 bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xda00! 0xcda00/0x1000 cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1663 MHz: speeds: 1666, 1333, 1000 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Pineview DMI" rev 0x02 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel Pineview Video" rev 0x02 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0x40000000, size 0x10000000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11) drm0 at inteldrm0 "Intel Pineview Video" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801GB HD Audio" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11) azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC269 audio0 at azalia0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16 (irq 255) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8101E" rev 0x05: unknown ASIC (0x4080), apic 4 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:00:00:00:00:00 ukphy0 at re0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 2: OUI 0x000732, model 0x0008 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 17 (irq 255) pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 iwn0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel WiFi Link 100" rev 0x00: apic 4 int 17 (irq 10), MIMO 1T2R, BGS, address 78:92:9c:11:ab:f4 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 18 (irq 255) pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 vendor "Realtek", unknown product 0x5209 (class undefined unknown subclass 0x00, rev 0x01) at pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 17 (irq 10) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 19 (irq 11) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 16 (irq 11) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xe2 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel Tigerpoint LPC" rev 0x02 ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GR AHCI" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 17 (irq 10), AHCI 1.1 scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, ST9250315AS, 0001> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sec, 488397168 sec total ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x02: apic 4 int 17 (irq 10) iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 1GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 SO-DIMM usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uvideo0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. WebCam" rev 2.00/82.57 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 vscsi0 at root scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
Moving this thread to the OpenBSD subforae since discussion has been OpenBSD specific.
Even if the system only has 2GB of physical RAM, installing OpenBSD/amd64 has some nice benefits.. larger virtual address space, 64-bit registers, and W^X is implemented using the NX bit in the page tables vs the old segmentation trick they use on i386.
A lot of people running Linux choose to use the 32-bit port due to closed source software not being available for 64-bit systems, but for most OpenBSD users, that's not an issue.
Many portability problems have also been solved, the 4.9 release had 6620 i386 binary packages and 6570 amd64..
There is little reason these days not to install OpenBSD/amd64 if your system natively supports it, of course, if you already installed OpenBSD/i386 you can always choose to reconsider when 5.0 is released.
If you're curious, the device shown in your dmesg is indeed the SD/MMC card reader, it doesn't appear to be supported yet.
vendor "Realtek", unknown product 0x5209 (class undefined unknown subclass 0x00, rev 0x01) at pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured
It looks like it was added to -current in June, and will be in 5.0. I found this in sys/dev/pci/pcidevs.h:
/* Realtek products */ #define PCI_PRODUCT_REALTEK_RTS5209 0x5209 /* RTS5209 Card Reader */
For anyone whoever googles for this - the exact model is the Acer Aspire One D257-13450.
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She severed our five-year friendship like it was meaningless shit.
Nancy and I became close friends around seven or eight years ago, when we were in college. I couldn't have asked for a better fit. She was sarcastic, intelligent, modern, and practical. Sort of like Daria.
We both adored Jane Austen. Our guilty pleasures included the same stupid reality shows. Our book lists held the same titles. We could talk for hours about anything and everything.
But Nancy brought out an ugly side of me. She loved to talk about her friends behind their backs. I would often find myself caught up in dissing everyone and everything.
She wasn't very clever at hiding her disdain for my life either. It was clear she hated my boyfriend, couldn't stand my best friend, and thought my blog was stupid. It wasn't uncommon for her to snidely remark, "don't post these on your blog" after I took photos of us together.
One thing I noticed about Nancy is that she never seemed satisfied with anything, especially her own life. There were certain girls she was desperate to impress--these boring, mildly attractive hipsterish girls with etch and sketch personalities.
I don't know why she was drawn to these people. It was weird, especially considering she already had a good thing going. She had interesting friends, she was dating a decent guy, and she had a close relationship with her sisters, something I always envied.
As if those clues weren't enough, I had other people telling me for years how much they couldn't stand Nancy. And I always defended her. I figured they were just jealous of a strong, independent career woman with a mind of her own.
Our five-year friendship ended one summer, when Nancy stopped returning my calls, texts, and e-mails. She eventually blocked me on gmail, facebook, and twitter. It was so completely out of the blue, I felt surely there had been a mistake. After all, it's not like I had done anything wrong. There was no fight. There had been no bad words spoken. I had actually just seen her at her birthday party a week beforehand and we had said goodbye amicably, promising to make plans.
But I was shut out. No warning. No explanation. No apology.
It was bad timing too. I was still mourning the recent loss of my grandmother. I had just been laid off from my job. I already felt worthless.
I e-mailed her, asking for a reason. She owed me that, right?
Nancy wrote back stating she didn't think we had anything in common anymore. That was it.
Five years of friendship. Five years of hanging out. Five years of sharing our personal lives together. Five years.
And after weeks of crying, months of licking my wounds, and now years of acceptance, I finally understand what she meant.
We never did have anything in common.
Because I'm not a bitch.


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Mum's The Boss talk: How businesses can harness the power of traditional print media
Unless you've been living on another planet, you can't have not heard the increasing buzz over businesses building their public profile through engaging their existing customers and potential new ones through social media.
Underneath all this new-fangled noise and bluster though, if you listen very carefully you can still hear a constant older hum and it's one which often provides the original content these digital channels so sorely need and consumers still rate surprisingly highly in terms of trust.
This older 'hum' was the subject of an informal talk – 'How to harness the power of traditional media' – I delivered to a 15-strong child-friendly networking group Mum's The Boss, in Sheffield this Tuesday. As I explained to the group, even though social media is grabbing everyone's attention, it's the editorial content of traditional media, like magazines and newspapers, which still tend to set the news agenda and are likely to carry on doing so for some time to come.
I talked everyone through three simple steps towards gaining editorial coverage for their businesses: Step 1: Focus on your target media, Step 2: Uncracking the print media code (what makes titles tick & how consumers regard editorial) and in Step 3 I showed everyone a couple of articles I'd placed as a journalist and asked them to start thinking like editors…
Special mention goes to the 'honourary' female at the meeting, Jon Hilton, MD of Pulse Rate Training Ltd – and the first ever male attendee of Mum's The Boss South Yorkshire!
Here's 5 more top tips to help businesses create positive headlines:
• Great stories are media gold dust! Brands who understand the power of personal stories have more success connecting with their audience, being remembered and creating brand loyalty.
• If you don't already know your target media, research it! Buy the title & study it or look at their online offer. If they have website, look on advertisers section as will have details about their audience demographic, official circulation figures and other useful info.
• When you're ready to approach a title with your story, write a short, well-written and informative press release, include a photo & always email to a named journalist/section editor. Build connections with these journalists – you might not strike lucky at first but learn to understand what they're looking for as they are the gatekeepers to unlocking great editorial coverage.
• In many national female consumer magazines (and some newspapers or trade titles) if you are talking about your personal story to highlight your business it's often acceptable for your website details to be featured in the article. Many womens' magazines also permit copy approval to interviewees (this will mean final version of the article will be read to you over the phone) – if in doubt, ask.
• Once your story is out in local press, be aware there is a good chance it will get picked up by national media – (this is how many national stories are still sourced by journalists).
So don't believe the hype. Print isn't dead (not quite yet anyway). And great editorial coverage still has immense value.


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Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued PadMapper For Adding
from the market-research? dept
So that makes the following story all the more interesting. You may recall that Craigslist has gotten itself into an unfortunate and petty legal spat with the site PadMapper, because PadMapper dared to make Craigslist more useful, in part by putting Craigslist housing entries on a map so people could see where they are. This is a pretty small, but incredibly useful tweak, and Craigslist -- normally a defender of internet freedom -- suddenly turned into a protectionist legal aggressor and sued.
However, as Aaron DeOliveira points out to us, Craigslist has just started quietly testing out its own upgrade... using maps. They're using OpenStreetMap (which is interesting in its own right as more and more companies are moving away from Google Maps to the much more open (duh) OpenStreetMap).
While there may not be a direct connection between PadMapper and Craigslist's decision, the timing certainly raises some eyebrows, and hints at the idea that Craigslist might just be suing PadMapper for improving Craigslist before Craigslist had a chance to launch the feature itself. Or, even worse, Craigslist thought it was such a good idea that it sued PadMapper while using its idea. That's not quite the "open innovation" model that Craig Newmark tries to champion.
For what it's worth, PadMapper's Eric DeMenthon is actually quite conciliatory about the whole thing:
"I'm glad something good came out of all this," says PadMapper creator Eric DeMenthon. "Lots of people wrote to them about the PadMapper cease and desist [letter], so maybe that convinced them that it was worthwhile to do some mapping themselves.Market research by suing those who try to improve you? Doesn't seem like the most effective system.


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Once contracted, you will schedule your services directly with the customer, allowing you to set your own days and hours of operation.
Weekly settlements and direct deposit available.
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|2010-05-22, 21:25
|Link #6841
Join Date: Aug 2009
Let's see.
Hayate-Almost always alone, and did everything by himself as a child. Had some parasitic parents that sucked him dry. Got Abandoned when he was no more use.
Nagi-Dead parents since childhood. Klaus and Himegami was there, and eventually Maria came.
Hina-Got abandoned since childhood. Had a great sister who was always there for her. Was adoped later by loving parents.
Maria-Got abandoned since birth. Was adopted. Mikado seems to be very fond of her. Living with Nagi eventually.
Ayumu--ehhh? Nothing happened.
Athena-Dead parents since childhood. Cursed by God and was trapped alone. Always in solitude. Did everything by herself as a child to climb up from level 1.
Tragic childhood rating.
|2010-05-23, 01:11
|Link #6842
*boot to the head*
Sakuya and Ayumu are probably the only ones with a decent past family life, and Sakuya seems to be the only one with a positive outlook (and it's hinted that she only has that because she's trained herself that way.).
This isn't a story where the characters have happy family lives.
|2010-05-23, 02:32
|Link #6843
Your fagottry, I hate it!
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Hamster Slapping Land
In my opinion, Maria isn't really a tragic character too. She did not grow up in despair, but in luxury. She was already adopted when she was still a baby, which I doubt she would remember, so her tragic past isn't quite so tragic after all lest Maria wants to desperately see her real parents and suffer while searching for them.
Hina < Nagi < Athena < this is a space occupying text since there is no friggin tab button but hey the guys who run this site said f*ck me and i said hurr durr Hayate
Lol, nobody has a shittier life than Hayate himself, where the whole world takes pleasure in his despair rather than weep with him, like the girls whom we cry for so much for their past.
Cries in a corner for Hayate
Sob sob
Hurr durr
|2010-05-23, 03:06
|Link #6844
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
She can be bossy indeed, and while many tsunderes are bossy, being bossy doesn't make a character tsundere.
Either way, I haven't been able to find any spoilers. ;_;
|2010-05-23, 05:23
|Link #6845
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
This discussion is making me think a lot about Ayumu. I think Ayumu belongs in her own special zone. She managed to break the barriers of being a normal person and staying a normal person in a highly abnormal situation. Ever try to take a normal person and put them in a stressful situation? It's not a pretty sight. It's even more abnormal for the normal person with a normal life with normal friends and normal expectations to VOLUNTARILY leave normalcy for abnormalcy without any big external life-changing event happening.
In a way Hina, Athena, and Hayate had terrible lives and thus were forced by their environment to get where they are. Ayumu kinda just choose to go there just because, she's Ayumu!
Nagi probably belongs in her own special area too though the current chapter will explain more about her situation.
Wasn't there a post somewhere here which said somewhere back that said as Maria's history is slowly revealed, the main plot of this story will go forward? Maria is a rather major character. Chapter 1 did happened on December 24th.
|2010-05-23, 09:29
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Join Date: Aug 2009
I don't think Yukiji would left her sister alone, even if she were to doing those various jobs, especially not after they got abandoned by their parents. It would be absurd if Yujiki were to let that happened again.
Off tangent:
The only feeling Hayate and Hina possibly have in similar was the abandonment of their parents. However, how they felt about the matter was different, since Hayate already understood as a 16 years old and possibly realized it'll happen sooner or later whereas Hina didn't understand anything as a child. Hayate said there will be no second chance for his parents (had something to do with Athena I assume), but Hina kept on wondering why they abandoned her. I won't say Hina knows what's Hayate's life was like because she don't really know what he had gone through as a child; he was abandoned at 16 year old unlike her who's at 6 year of age, and he was working as a butler immediately.
Athena, on the other hand, knew much more than Hina what his life's like and will be like, since she actually knew what Hayate's parents were like (through the mirror) and even correctly predicted what will happen to him in the future. And she probably understood the loneliness he would felt.
Similar case can be said for Athena since assassinations happened day and night for her where she had to deal with everything herself. At least, he still had his parents and had some hope. ^.^
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|2010-05-23, 15:45
|Link #6847
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
If the character didn't hide her feelings with aggression at some point, then that's not a tsundere. Athena never, not even once, hid her feelings from Hayate.
|2010-05-23, 16:43
|Link #6848
Join Date: Aug 2009
|2010-05-24, 01:35
|Link #6849
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hitman League
I'm pretty sure that Hinagiku's adoptive parents paid the debt for them when they took the sisters in. Although I can't remember which scene it was, I think either Hinagiku or Yukiji told Hayate how they were adopted.
|2010-05-24, 01:42
|Link #6850
*boot to the head*
Though Mr. Katsura is said to be fond of Yukiji. Maybe she convinced him to pay off the last of the debt, which she had planned to get from pawning her guitar, after returning from the Pawn Shop (with Athena's ring?).
I think we were told in the council room on Hina's b-day if someone wants to check.
|2010-05-24, 05:45
|Link #6851
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
|2010-05-24, 08:31
|Link #6852
Your fagottry, I hate it!
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Hamster Slapping Land
Hayate goes back to square one and does not know that Athena would be coming back to "claim" him. So we could still say that she goes with the rule of tsundere.
|2010-05-24, 08:45
|Link #6853
Join Date: Aug 2009
Athena was always being straightforward in expressing her desires, may be through hints or directly. However, she'll be tsundere about it if Hayate was the one who takes the initiative, like when he kissed her during the training or in the example I gave.
|2010-05-24, 10:07
|Link #6854
Your fagottry, I hate it!
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Hamster Slapping Land
|2010-05-24, 13:51
|Link #6855
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: France
Hina is most likely a tsundere while Maria is a bit devious.
And Hayate very dumb as soon as it is about maiden feelings.
IMO, Athena and Hayate had the most painful childhoods because they were alone and in dangerous situations while Hina got her sister, Nagi got Klaus, Tama, Maria, ...
|2010-05-24, 18:31
|Link #6856
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Athena as a Yangire?
You say that because of the incident at The End of the World?
If had read well the manga, you should already know that vioent actitude was Midas's fault, in the same way he influenced her to attack Hayate when Isumi comes to rescue him...
|2010-05-24, 20:22
|Link #6857
Your fagottry, I hate it!
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Hamster Slapping Land
I wonder which is going to be painful, to have shit parents that would suck the sanity out of you or have no parents at all? One might be different from the viewpoint from another but I keep wondering if Hayate and Athena exchange places.
|2010-05-24, 23:26
|Link #6858
Join Date: Aug 2009
I think to be trapped in a place where you believed to be for eternity in solitude after your parents were dead as a 6 year old is unimaginable and could easily turned anyone insane. I would think that's worst or equivalence to the insanity Hayate's parents brought him through constantly lying and made used of him.
Let's say who's the unluckiest girl and unluckiest guy instead? Everybody wins except for them.
And ends this with the unluckiest girl+the unluckiest guy in the series become one lucky and happy couple.
|2010-05-24, 23:43
|Link #6859
*boot to the head*
Her final chapter hints that she is of the latter.
Although she wasn't entirely alone.. she did have Midas around..
And Hayate is far from the unluckiest guy. He has a harem of girls fully willing to become his slaves if he asked them to.
Kotarou is probably the series' unluckiest guy
|2010-05-25, 00:05
|Link #6860
Join Date: Aug 2009
Technically, she was alone. But really, having Midas around is either nothing or worst, and he won't keep her from the meaning of isolation.
I think everybody in HnG and even Hata agreed to Hayate's power of unluckiness. ^.^
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Garden Design Dilemmas: The Rectangular Urban Garden
I find the two biggest difficulties of a space with this layout are: 1) avoiding the straight-line dictum; and 2) manipulating the space so it's functional for your needs.
The straight-line dictum refers to letting the straight lines of human design — seen in the straight line of the sidewalk, street, fence or even the house foundation — dictate the landscape design. This often leads to a single shrub or perennial species planted in a row parallel to whatever other straight line is present. I'm not saying this can't work, as seen in formal English gardens with impeccably groomed hedges or shrubs, but it's usually a lot of maintenance. Most homeowners will find semi-formal or informal landscapes that sweep and curve more visually pleasing — they help break up the angular layout of the traditional rectangular urban yard.
The latter design dilemma is extremely important to consider when your space is too small to support everything you want to include in your garden design. The first question you should ask yourself is: how to you intend to use the space? Is a grill and large table for gatherings essential, or would you rather have an outdoor lounge/living area with a hot tub? Do you need a space for your children or dog to play, or do you plan to be an urban homesteader? Your yard might be big enough to support a couple activities but chances are good you'll have to narrow it down. Once you've chosen which activities you want to incorporate, you'll need to decide which area of your space is best suited for which activity. The site's individual attributes should dictate what is the best location for a particular function (such as situating your vegetable garden in the sunniest spot or your children's play area in a shady location).
Having the forethought to consider these two common design dilemmas when planning your garden will lead to a visually appealing and functional space.
1. Maurice, Todd & Beans Secret Courtyard, Apartment Therapy.
2. Historic Brownstone Renovation, by Tobin Parnes Design Enterprises via houzz.
3. Create a Patio Paradise, Bridgman.
(Images: As linked above)


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1888 states:The face was gashed in all directions, the nose, cheeks, eyebrows, and ears being partly removed. The lips were blanched and cut by several incisions...
1894 states: The eyebrows, eyelids, ears, nose, lips and chin had been cut off, and the face gashed by numerous knife-cuts.
1888 states: The right thigh was denuded in front to the bone
1894 states: The skin and much of the muscular tissue, not, however, exposing the bone, had been slashed away from the anterior
aspect of the thighs as far as the knees [my bolding, Kattrup]


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I would say just current day tech, though some of the technologies that exist currently but not massively available might be in the setting of the game, but plasma guns I'd say no.
Are you still accepting characters? If so, I'll totally put in a character sheet. This sounds interesting :)
@Sharon: Still reading over the updates you've made. You can edit out the "[/url]" though since the link is copy past. (and my inner neat freak will be bothered by it...)
Two Questions , Are Cyborgs allowed and If So ,Did the gulf war take place in this universe?
Operation Desert Shield did not get fully underway as the Uzekil Crisis (1992) took the forefront. The crisis shocked the world into changing direction.Let us know if you have any more questions.
What was the Uzekil Crisis?
@Sharon: Now that I have finished reading over everything I do still have a few questions about Mikay. The hybrid status does not apply to those of mutant/human heritage. It is more for those who are mermanus/human, alien/human, or divine/human. There are still a lot of grammatical errors in Mikay's profile, but all the information I need is there. The character is approved just make sure to take a look over everything again when you post her to the approved thread.
On the Hybrid, I didn't know that I was going with what I thought I knew I will fix it and mutant. I will see if someone will fix my grammar errors though I will have them in my posts though I do try my best to catch them. I will asked people before we started this that if I do put out a bad post where you really don't understand what I am trying to say please let me know and I will fix it the best that I can. Just please be nice about it.
Completely understandable. I know I need a spell checker especially whenever I have edited an item multiple times.
How about going with up to 100mph (160km/h) and we call it a deal? Also, can he control what he has broken down or is it random?
Will do, and if you're asking if he can control what's being broken down to make his suit...... I'm going to say that there's a bit of control, but not much. I think I'll also make it so he can't break down organic material to make his suit, otherwise someone might be missing a leg that's supposed to be brought back unharmed.
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