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Wow. It has been an unbelievably fast four years watching my sister grow up from being a high school student to a holder of a Bachelor’s in MCB, and from being a nominal Christian to one with a deepened understanding of and commitment in the faith.

From the time I helped her move in on her first day of college to carrying off the last of her belongings, I’ve always felt at ease knowing she was only a 45-minute drive away, that should she need anything, I could be there for her....

There’s a saying that goes, “Before you can be a good leader, you must be a good follower.”

It makes sense. A good leader must understand his followers, and that empathy comes from experiencing what followers experience. Being a follower also allows one to experience the direct consequences of both good and bad leadership, so in turn, as a leader, one may emulate what is good and avoid what is bad.

Since encountering that quote about a decade ago, I have not thought about it...

Water Suitability Determination Model. Windows port of the Fortran program watsuit (more info), which was written by Dr. Jim Oster at University of California, Riverside, and Dr. James Rhoades at the US George Brown Salinity Laboratory.

As I am the coder and code maintainer for the Windows version of the project, the latest version will be posted here. The program should be Windows 7 compatible.

I recently finished the epic task of reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender series and the parallel Shadow series, which in total comprise eight books. Well, not exactly. Although there are two more in the latter series, Shadow of the Giant brings closure rather nicely, so I thought I would post my thoughts on my experience so far.

Reading the books was satisfying in a number of ways:

• There are so many main characters that it was refreshing every time the focus shifted to another scenario....

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