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  1. Wow, this is incredible! I love hockey, but stopped watching after the Thrashers were sent out of Atlanta. The NHL could have stopped that nonsense. i'm still out of the country, but i will follow the new team until i get back to the states in about a decade. Thanks for posting this Sothron.
  2. Theft is the biggest concern for crime here. Violent crime is low. So the house is has a lot of security measures and we have a 24/7 on premise guard service. Walking around is fine. People are all always walking in or neighborhood and it feels safe. I haven't seen a security alert since I got here. The city is small and spread out. The closet city I can think of in the US is Lincoln, NB. But Lincoln is much more built up in a central area. There are a lot of beggars so when shopping you gave to be careful. Power is an issue in most of Africa. So far we've had two outages, but I have a large diesel generator that kicks in. Internet is ok, slow. It is also expensive. I had to pay $700 USD for set up, with two routers and a terabyte of data.
  3. We are in a secured house. It sits on about an acre of land with 10' concrete walls, barbed wire on top. The house its self has sections that can be closed off and locked. So, for example, the sleeping rooms have an iron-bar door and a wooden door than can be closed and locked. In terms of quality, it is a nice house. It isn't anything like we had in Atlanta (not that we had a super nice house, but it was our house), but we are starting to settle in. In terms of the neighborhood. We are definitely in a higher cost area. There is private school just down the street from us. Most of the homes, i think, are occupied by ex-pats from the US and other donor nations (Japan, Brittan, China, and the UN agencies). There are several restaurants within a 3-7 minute drive. Grocery shopping is an adventure here. You never know what will be in stock, and you should expect to go to multiple stores to get what you need. The butcher has really good meat, but it is a 30+ minute drive for us (due to traffic). Gas is expensive, about $1.40 a liter, so we don't drive unless we have to. Please ask questions! part of my responsibility is to be a facilitator for cross-cultural learning.
  4. Yeah, the Thai restaurant was a bit of a surprise to me as well. I've traveled A LOT (I'm at 42 countries visited, and 3 lived in for more than 3 months) in my career and it is amazing what you can find all over the world. People all around the world have interesting stories that lead them to places you would never expect them to be, yet there they are. I need to get the story on the Thai place though, I'm sure it is very interesting and I'll share when I can. As for what it is like here. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. There is a lot of under-nourishment and high-levels of malnourishment, despite most people living on farms. The main economic exports are ag products, but I think they're exporting too much food. The people here are wonderful. Super friendly, very open and welcoming. The professionals I'm working with are very committed to improving the country. For example, I talked with a medical doctor yesterday as he showed me his hospital. What was sad is he had 100 beds, but his service area is 550,000 people. They are dealing with HIV, COVID-19, and all the other standard hospital issues (e.g., injuries, antenatal care, deliveries, and other infectious disease). Today, I'm looking at what can be done to improve that situation.
  5. Made it safely to Lilongwe last on the 29th. Dogs got here on the 1st and they are both in good condition. We're getting our house set-up and finding our way around. We already found a nice restaurant that serves great Thai food, which was a nice surprise. All in all, I think we'll be very happy here. My job is insanely busy, but that is what i signed up for.
  6. I think Gallo represents a contract that allows us to get into a high-priced, "super-star" vet. Gallo's partial guarantee is valuable to a rebuilding team as they can get picks, a young player, and a low-cost dead money on the books. I have no idea who Schlenk is looking at though. Most of the guys that seem to be available don't move the needle that much for the Hawks. But, I think TS has some moves in mind that we have no idea of what those are.
  7. The nice thing with Jalen is that he's coming into a winning culture and organization. Josh came into a cluster and was never really coached the way he needed to be nor did he have the vets around him to deter his worst habits. Jalen has to prove himself to the established core on the team, and I think, that is a good thing. I have high hopes for the guy, but we'll see how he develops.
  8. Thanks, your review was very helpful. I will not get them game until they fix MyNBA
  9. I was in graduate school at UConn. When the first plane hit the WTC, my major prof and I found a small tv to see what was going on. We we were in shock. Then the second plane hit and we heard a scream from down the hall. One of my fellow grad student's husband worked on one of the floors that got hit by the second plane (sorry don't remember the floor number). She was inconsolable. Many of us knew people in NYC and many that worked in the WTC complex. I had to teach a class at 10 AM (I think) and I remember walking to class thinking teaching was the last thing on my mind. Then a big white delivery truck parks right in front of my at Gampell Pavilion, and I think this could be a suicide bomber. Once I got to class the students and I just talked about the situation. No teaching that day. As I walked back across campus I could hear Amazing Grace being played on bagpipes. As I got to my department's building, one of my fellow grad students, who served in the Marines, had his full dress kilt on and was playing the bagpipes. He stood out there for five or six hours playing. He was joined by other musicians at times over the day. I had to pick up my six year old from school and talking to her about the attack was awful. But my wife and I were glued to CNN. It was simply horrible to see and watch, but we felt compelled. I remember deep sadness, anger, fear, and horror from that day. To top it off my wife's mother died the year before on Sep 11, so she was already in a bad space. Epilogue: The grad student whose husband worked in the WTC survived. Their coffee maker broke that morning, so he went to the bottom floor to buy coffee for all the junior traders in the office. He was waiting on the elevator to back up when the first plane hit.
  10. @Sothron with myNBA (is this what they are calling the franchise mode now?) are we still stuck with having to have the same inane conversations about 30 times a week? '21 was simply awful with that non-sense and I stopped playing after about a week of that nonsense. I'm extremely hesitant to spend more on this game given how bad it got over the past two seasons. For the Governor thing, in '21 you had to earn experience to make trades and do other things. I wonder if you have to reach some achievement in the game to over-ride the Governor? I head out to Africa to 2 - 4 years in a couple of weeks, so i need to make a decision soon on this.
  11. @thecampster Thanks for the advice. yes, we have a nice padded harness for her. She loves to be outside (goes in the yard with no problem and loves new people), but just fears the leash. I'm considering putting it on her while in the house and leave it on for an hour, and then gradually increase so she starts to lose some of the fear and/or acclimates to it.
  12. my recent pound-puppy loves things that make noise, the louder and more annoying the better. I'm having to keep her from getting in the recycling to as she likes to play with plastic beverage bottles because they make a "wonderful" noise. However, I cant get this dog to walk on a leash. She just drops the floor and trembles. I've taken her out with the older dog who knows leashtime is walk time (which he likes). Any ideas?
  13. The Falcons are a mess right now. Can you imagine what sort of street buzz they would have if they'd taken Fields instead of the TE? I think the organization totally blew it this offseason.
  14. I was like 14 when Nique made his Hawks debut, and there was some buzz but it wasn't huge. As the Hawks got better with Nique that is when the buzz started, so maybe 1985 when they made the playoffs. Nique, unfortunately, was overwhelmed with Bird, Magic, Hakeem and Jordan, so he just didn't have the national attention. In terms of Atlanta, I like what @macdaddy says, if there'd been internet, social media, etc. Nique would probably have taken the city faster than Trae. I agree with @Spud2nique NO ONE took ATL sports like Vick. Deion Sanders was probably the nearest, then a fall off to guys like Dale Murphy and Chipper Jones. That all said, Trae has the possibility of becoming the greatest Atlanta sports hero* if he can win a championship. Ryan lost his chance and I'm not sure he'd ever be fully embraced by the fanbase. *Caveat here Hank Aaron is Mr. Brave, but since so much of his career was in Milwaukee I'm not sure how to represent his incredible and undeniable contributions to Atlanta sports and civil rights.
  15. happy birthday GM and many happy returns!
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