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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.pathawks.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:creativeCommons="http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>Pat Hawks</title><link>http://www.pathawks.com/</link><description>All sorts of nifty little stories about my crazy mixed up life</description><language>en</language><managingEditor>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</managingEditor><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:33 PDT</lastBuildDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">164</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><feedburner:info uri="pathawks" /><thespringbox:skin xmlns:thespringbox="http://www.thespringbox.com/dtds/thespringbox-1.0.dtd">http://feeds.pathawks.com/PatHawks?format=skin</thespringbox:skin><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><media:copyright>Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</media:copyright><media:category scheme="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Religion &amp; Spirituality/Christianity</media:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>pat@pathawks.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Pat Hawks</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Pat Hawks</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>All sorts of nifty stories from Patrick Hawks (aka Pat, Rick, "The Ricks," Patty)</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Christianity" /></itunes:category><geo:lat>41.240562</geo:lat><geo:long>-95.933539</geo:long><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</creativeCommons:license><image><link>http://www.pathawks.com</link><url>http://gravatar.com/avatar/6838471f21e47341fbf89ed969d4529f?s=144</url><title>Pat Hawks</title></image><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.pathawks.com/pathawks" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>PatHawks</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.pathawks.com%2Fpathawks" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif">Subscribe with My Yahoo!</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.pathawks.com%2Fpathawks" src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif">Subscribe with Google</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.live.com/?add=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.pathawks.com%2Fpathawks" src="http://tkfiles.storage.msn.com/x1piYkpqHC_35nIp1gLE68-wvzLZO8iXl_JMledmJQXP-XTBOLfmQv4zhj4MhcWEJh_GtoBIiAl1Mjh-ndp9k47If7hTaFno0mxW9_i3p_5qQw">Subscribe with Live.com</feedburner:feedFlare><item><title>Trouble at the Mill</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/V1vd6XTeKOw/wedding.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:33 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-6322610340193115558</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;There has been some reported trouble accessing the wedding website using the URL printed in the invitation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While a fix is being prepared, the site can be accessed at &lt;a href="http://wedding.pathawks.com/"&gt;wedding.pathawks.com&lt;/a&gt; without the www.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I really really really hate putting WWW in front of a web address. This is 2010. If you're typing a URL into a web browser, chances are you're looking for a resource on the &lt;strong&gt;world wide web!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;/rant&amp;gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-6322610340193115558?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/V1vd6XTeKOw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2010/09/wedding.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>It's Been a Long Time</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/K9rCVrGrMBU/its-been-long-time.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:07:50 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-5103727185911428876</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It's been a very long time since I posted a real blog here. I feel like I went from posting every thought I ever had ever to totally neglecting my blog.&lt;br /&gt;
I have quite enjoyed having my biography as told by Chad on my homepage, however :D
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Well, life has been quite busy lately.&lt;br /&gt;
Christine and I are really coming along with wedding plans. At this point, it looks like we will in fact get married, and we will have lots of family and friends with us, and we will have a super sweet party afterwards.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
I am well on my way to getting my pilot's license.&lt;br /&gt;
A couple months ago, I decided I should take advantage of the crazy opportunity presented to me and get my license while I have the chance. I'll probably take the intense, intimidating final written exam later this week, and take my practical test next week sometime.&lt;br /&gt;
This has all gone quite fast. Because I wanted to be sure to finish before the wedding, I have been flying four or five times a week. In what feels like overnight, I went from knowing nothing about aviation to flying solo around the midwest.&lt;br /&gt;
Once I get my license, some of my first destinations will be Ames, Cedar Falls, Mt. Pleasant and St. Louis.&lt;br /&gt;
New England is also on my short list.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Also, this year my buddy Kevin and I went on an epic trip to New York City, I visited the nations capitol again, Christine and I went to the Bahamas and visited an old friend in Florida, I went on a youth mission trip to Colorado, I attended a sweet Google conference in the valley, Christine and I saw the Pacific Northwest, and Christine, Ben, Katie and I all rang in the new year in Steamboat Springs Colorado.&lt;br /&gt;
My word, I guess it has been a while since I've blogged.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
On top of all this, my brother and sister moved away from home to Cedar Falls to start class at UNI. They both seem to be adjusting to college life quite well.&lt;br /&gt;
I built a computer for my brother out of some spare parts (and a few special toys I bought online) and was planning on throwing together a spare part whitebox for my sister as well, but after I finished my brother's computer, decided she would be better off with a smaller, more elegant solution. So I gave in and just ordered one online.&lt;br /&gt;
She seems to be plenty happy with it just the same, when she can remember how to turn it on.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Hopefully I'll be able to post a stylish narrative soon, but with so much happening since I last bothered to post, I figured I'd better jot &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-5103727185911428876?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/K9rCVrGrMBU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2010/08/its-been-long-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>About Pat Hawks</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/4nsPZ4_AT8I/about-pat-hawks.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:40:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-7639786480088608568</guid><description>&lt;p style="margin-bottom:2em;color:#909090;"&gt;This is a guest post written by Chad Cook.&lt;br /&gt;Chad interviewed Pat Hawks, and wrote this paper for a class assignment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Patrick was in high school he worked for his school news paper; and he became interested in journalism.  At the beginning of his senior year he received an internship at Channel 5 News in Des Moines as a video editor.  He would edit the video for the  “unimportant” stories on the news.  The summer he graduated from high school &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2004/10/photog.html"&gt;he became a photo journalist.&lt;/a&gt; It was a forty hour a week full time position, and at the same time he was going to Grandview College to get a degree in photo journalism.  This full time job became Patrick’s life, and he would get paged to go shoot a news story even during class. “It wasn’t really contusive to getting a good education, school wise, as far as getting an education as a photographer it was a wonderful experience.” &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of Patrick’s more memorable moments was when he and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/MarisaMendelson" class="twitter" title="@MarisaMendelson" rel="met friend"&gt;Marisa Mendelson&lt;/a&gt; were sent to go take pictures of the road during a snow storm.  So they went out there and they went about half way into a ditch to get the shot and left because Mendelson was nervous.  “We were risking safety for the story and I wasn’t going to have it.” He said that it was “a nice bonding experience” and Pat and Mendelson became good friends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One night Pat went to go do a shoot a restaurant for the 10 pm news, and the shot went well, but while they were leaving he heard a &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2005/02/broken-camera.html"&gt;CRUNCH&lt;/a&gt;. He got out of the car and realized that he had left the $20,000 camera on top off the news van.  It had fallen off and he had ran over it.  It would have been a disaster. “But I am crafty,” he said.  He gathered up all the pieces and put them in a garbage bag.  Pat returned to the station and waited until everyone had left, and put the entire camera back together. He was there until four in the morning until he fixed it. “It was pretty much like Legos.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One night Patrick was doing a shoot in down town Des Moines.  He was having a hard time getting a good signal because of all the buildings. Patrick thought that if he moved the antenna about eight inches forward he could get a better signal.  He didn’t have time to lower and raise the antenna, so Patrick decided to drive the van with the antenna up. That was highly illegal. He drove the van eight inches and he heard another CRUNCH!!!.  When he got out the saw that &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/03/incident-part.html"&gt;the antenna mast had knocked down a street lamp.&lt;/a&gt;  Patrick didn’t time to worry about that and he made the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He called the his lower boss and told him what happened.  His lower boss said, “This bad, really really bad, not just for you but for the station.” Since driving with the mast up was extremely  illegal he told Pat to say that he raised the mast into the light instead, of driving with it up..  Patrick didn’t want to get anyone else in trouble, so he lied.  The next day he received a phone call saying that it was impossible for him to raise the mast into the light poll because the there was a sensor that wouldn’t let it raise of there was anything within ten feet of it.  Patrick confessed, but it was too late.  Channel 5 had no choice other than to fire Patrick.  “Well I learned not to try and lie my way out of trouble because trouble has a way of catching up to you.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“As difficult as it was for me to lose that job, I actually think it was kind of a blessing because looking back now I can’t see myself in TV news. My life would have taken a completely different turn.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While he was working at Channel 5 he had applied to be a counselor at Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp that he had attended.  They called him back and said they were full.  The Thursday after his incident with the light poll &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/05/incident-part-b.html"&gt;he received a call from the director at Riverside.&lt;/a&gt;  He said they had an opening for him.  Patrick was overjoyed to hear this and went Riverside to be a counselor.  Patrick had a great an relatively uneventful summer at Riverside and he reconnected with God.  “It was absolutely a turning point!” When he came back from Riverside he started to teaching Sunday school and became involved with Awaken which is a dramatic mime that tells the story of Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next spring Patrick went up early to Riverside to do maintenance work on the camp.  He was “mowing like it was a regular job.” That spring there had been a some really bad rain storms, and there was a lot of branches around camp.  Patrick was asked to clear the roads of branches and then burn them. “I thought this sounds wonderful… and by definition fire is fun.”  He burned the branches in the middle of a field full of dead grass.  &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2006/04/riverside-on-fire.html"&gt;The grass caught fire and the field slowly started to burn.&lt;/a&gt;  Patrick tried to put out the fire but it was too big.  He called the head maintenance guy, and they started to dig a trench to contain it, but the fire was spreading too fast.  They finally called the fire department.  It took them about forty-five minutes to put out that fire with five of the big tankers.  The entire field was gone. Fortunately no cabins were harmed.  “I learned small fires quickly become very big fires… and you have to be prepared.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the summer was over Patrick took a position as assistant youth director at &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ZionChurch" title="@ZionChurch" class="twitter"&gt;Zion Lutheran Church in Des Moines&lt;/a&gt;.  One night when the youth were being “especially rowdy and even mean”. Patrick knew he had to do &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/02/farmers-with-chains.html"&gt;something to get our attention&lt;/a&gt;, so he told all of them to get into the fifteen seat van and he started to drive north.  “I thought a change in scenery would be nice for everybody.”  He drove for about twenty-five and minutes.  The entire ride Patrick had a stone face and whenever someone would ask him where he were going to he didn’t really ever give a clear answer.  “It didn’t really take long for people to realize that something was out of the ordinary.”  He told everyone to get out.  It was below freezing and some of the youth didn’t even have coats.  Patrick then read them the story of the destruction Sodom and Gommorrah.  He compared them to the people in those cities.  “I think everyone got the message.”  So they all went back in the van and turned around, but the van became stuck in the snow.  Everyone got out to push but it was no good.  Finally a farmer came and towed the van out of the snow. “When I look back at being a youth director at Zion that was definitely one of the highlights because I think every learned their lesson.”  This incident has come to be known a the “Madrid freakout”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At end of the next summer &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/08/hanging-by-moment.html"&gt;Patrick resigned from his position as youth director and moved to Omaha&lt;/a&gt; to be with his girlfriend &lt;a href="http://christinejwarner.blogspot.com/"&gt;Christine&lt;/a&gt; who he met while working at camp.  He now works for a doctor’s office a the tech guy. He jokingly said that his official title is “monkey boy”.  Last October he and Christine became engaged, and they plan on getting married in October of this year. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-7639786480088608568?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/4nsPZ4_AT8I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2010/04/about-pat-hawks.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>This brightened my day :D</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/t9h0vZGzE3M/this-brightened-my-day-d.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:44:09 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-11471949577736964</guid><description>&lt;div style="font-family: monospace;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="float:left;width:70px;height:5.5em;font-weight:bold;color:#c060c0;"&gt;Bailey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;margin-bottom:12px;color:#c060c0;"&gt;patty cake,&lt;br /&gt;
we were talkin about you in church yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;
I MISS YOU.&lt;br /&gt;
can't wait for colorado dude!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="float:left;width:70px;font-weight:bold;height:2.5em;"&gt;Me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;margin-bottom:12px;"&gt;Talking about ME?&lt;br /&gt;
That can't be good...&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="float:left;width:70px;height:6.5em;font-weight:bold;color:#c060c0;"&gt;Bailey&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:500px;margin-bottom:12px;color:#c060c0;"&gt;it was actually about how you are so great at sharing your faith without saying anything at all. and about how gods light is just constantly shining in you and you have such a great, positive, AWESOME personality!(:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="float:left;width:70px;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;"&gt;:D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-11471949577736964?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/t9h0vZGzE3M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2010/03/this-brightened-my-day-d.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Engagement Photos</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/Gb_qSHIDAAg/engagement-photos.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:06:58 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-5286486473260882394</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, Christine and I picked up our engagement photos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They were taken by &lt;a href="http://www.jselanderphotography.com/"&gt;J. Selander Photography&lt;/a&gt; in Omaha's Old Market, and we think they did a fantastic job.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/4316856847/" title="Pat &amp;amp; Chris by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4316856847_6348a7d481.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="Pat &amp;amp; Chris" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/4316777363/" title="Pat &amp;amp; Chris by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4316777363_b951049fc0.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="Pat &amp;amp; Chris" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/4316841129/" title="Pat &amp;amp; Chris by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4316841129_b3e51c144d.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="Pat &amp;amp; Chris" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/4317554546/" title="Pat &amp;amp; Chris by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4317554546_2534b4be06.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="Pat &amp;amp; Chris" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/4316789057/" title="Pat &amp;amp; Chris by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4316789057_c4aeeae3f2.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="Pat &amp;amp; Chris" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/Gb_qSHIDAAg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2010/01/engagement-photos.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>We're Engaged!</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/JXlFqpFZVss/were-engaged.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:00:15 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-1326197054440937055</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I guess I haven't posted a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; blog post since June or July.&lt;br /&gt;Oops.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Much has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christine and I are engaged!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm so excited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We probably have the one of the least exciting engagement stories in 50 years.&lt;br /&gt;But after you've been dating somebody for three years, it's not like you can surprise them with a proposal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;"Betcha didn't know I like you!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christine and I were talking one night about how we'd really love to get married some time soon,  so we sat down with her dad and asked what he thought of the idea.&lt;br /&gt;He said it'd be fine.&lt;br /&gt;So with that, we updated our relationship status and became engaged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next week, we went to the mall and picked out a nice engagement ring together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/4155076604/" title="Christine's Ring by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2568/4155076604_6e83f31b93.jpg" width="500" height="373" alt="Christine's Ring" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're really not terribly traditional, and Christine admitted that had I tried anything "fancy or romantic" she probably would have laughed at me.&lt;br /&gt;But we like things this way :P&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Christine's grandpa proposed to his wife, they were married by the weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-left:1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Let's get married.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#669999;"&gt;Ok, how about Friday?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christine and I won't be married quite that quickly, but are well on our way with wedding plans.&lt;br /&gt;We have a date picked, a church booked, a reception venue, caterer, photographer, cake decorator, band, and plenty of other things lined up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to talk about, and how much is supposed to be a secret, but suffice it to say that Christine and I are both quite excited about becoming husband and wife, and can't wait to have our friends and family with us as we make our vows to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, we have decided that we will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be updating our Facebook or Twitter from the wedding like &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkT5XykJzo"&gt;some people have been known to do.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-1326197054440937055?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/JXlFqpFZVss" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/12/were-engaged.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>How to Handle a Live Shot</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/7f3tpHjCN_s/how-to-handle-live-shot.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:04:45 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-4023909487933735064</guid><description>&lt;h2&gt;The Wrong Way&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;The Right Way?&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p style="font-size:80%;color:#909090;"&gt;I don't usually post stuff like this, but I just couldn't help myself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-4023909487933735064?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/7f3tpHjCN_s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/09/how-to-handle-live-shot.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Old Recordings</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/00HCZMTibw4/old-recordings.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:01:39 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-5881220644605740577</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2008/12/phat-rino.html"&gt;I may have mentioned before&lt;/a&gt;, when I was in high school, I wrote some music.&lt;br /&gt;I recorded several CDs with a few of my friends, just for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This week, I decided it might be fun to try to clean up some of the recordings and post them on the interwebs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Turns out, that won't be happening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the recordings are really pathetic quality.&lt;br /&gt;I never learned the first thing about audio mixing, so everything is overdriven, there are nasty pops all over the place, and in more than one case, the audio rapidly pans back and forth between the left and right channels for no reason at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But there's more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking back, I'm probably the worlds worst lyricist.&lt;br /&gt;I was Emo before Emo was cool (&lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; Emo ever cool?).&lt;br /&gt;All my songs follow the exact same basic formula (Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus), and never really express anything at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of this makes me laugh and cry at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite recording sessions was with my buddy Alex.&lt;br /&gt;Alex came over one afternoon and he jammed on the piano while I rocked the guitar.&lt;br /&gt;It's all instrumental stuff.&lt;br /&gt;But for some reason, we decided it might be cool to layer &lt;b&gt;a ton&lt;/b&gt; of distortion on the piano, and just keep the guitar clean.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, Alex was (and still is) one heck of a musician, but because of this distortion experiment, even I can only listen to about 30 seconds of the recording before I get a migraine headache.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For all these reasons, I've decided it's for the best just to pack everything back up in the old shoebox, and send it back from whence it came.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-5881220644605740577?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/00HCZMTibw4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/09/old-recordings.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Stuff</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/8yeFQyKoXr0/stuff.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:25:14 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-4122162239173970010</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I've come to realize that I have a lot of stuff.&lt;br /&gt;The ratio of stuff I own compared to places I have to put stuff is unbalanced, and that is bad news.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom:0;padding-bottom:0;"&gt;In our culture, we are defined, to a large extent, by our stuff.&lt;ul style="padding-top:0;margin-top:0;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;How much stuff do we have?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How much is our stuff worth?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How do we acquire stuff?&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do we pay for it ourselves?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Does someone else buy it for us?&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do we have the &lt;i&gt;"right"&lt;/i&gt; stuff? (Brand names, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not my stuff.&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to depend on my stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If all my stuff went up in smoke tomorrow, would I be upset?&lt;br /&gt;Should I be upset?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, it would be inconvenient, but would it change who I am? What would it change?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So what's the answer?&lt;br /&gt;Should I burn all my stuff and find an abandoned house to live in and make soap or something?&lt;br /&gt;Should I sell all my stuff and give the money to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/mcropekey" title="@mcropekey" class="twitter" rel="friend contact met"&gt;Mac&lt;/a&gt; (because he comments on my blog)?&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I should just keep trying to acquire as much stuff as possible, so when I die, I can be buried with all my stuff (because you know it's mine).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-4122162239173970010?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/8yeFQyKoXr0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/09/stuff.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>4 Years</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/PiEF5IliLVk/4-years.html</link><category>facebook</category><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:17:12 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-2048841857660189137</guid><description>I signed up for facebook 4 years ago today (when it was still lowercase).&lt;br /&gt;
I'll just leave this here.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:45:44 -0700
To: patrick.hawks@gvc.edu
From: facebook.com &lt;register@facebook.com&gt;
Subject: confirmation email

Patrick Hawks,

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 the facebook team&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-2048841857660189137?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/PiEF5IliLVk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/09/4-years.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>BLAzE</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/0rHyzh-whYg/blaze.html</link><category>calc</category><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:18:33 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-1070998050713267005</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Little known fact about me.&lt;br /&gt;I'm a closet geek.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so maybe that's pretty well known, but many people don't know I used to be nuts for calculator games.&lt;br /&gt;Back in 7-9th grade I was all about coding games for TI-Calculators.&lt;br /&gt;Friends would let me borrow their calculators and I'd either hook it up to mine and copy some games for them, or just code a couple games from memory right onto their calculator.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="float:right;margin:0 0 1em 3em;border:1px solid #626262" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3882703890/" title="10001 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3882703890_748dfc5c81_o.gif" width="192" height="128" alt="10001" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My favorite game was a "racing" game I called &lt;em style="font-family:monospace;"&gt;BLAzE&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It was based on a game my dad wrote called &lt;em style="font-family:monospace;"&gt;GoGo&lt;/em&gt;, which was itself based on a program you'd commonly find in those &lt;em&gt;100 Basic Programs&lt;/em&gt; books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm still proud of that game. It ad a lot of things that other games of the day lacked, like a split screen with high scores at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I was doing a little Googling today and learned that, since I first wrote it 10 years ago, &lt;em style="font-family:monospace;"&gt;BLAzE&lt;/em&gt; has been downloaded almost &lt;b&gt;30,000 times!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do the math (which I did), that means that somebody is downloading &lt;em style="font-family:monospace;"&gt;BLAzE&lt;/em&gt; once every 3 hours since it was released.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And we're only talking about internet downloads.&lt;br /&gt;Like I mentioned earlier, the far more common way to get games is by transferring them from one calc to another.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All in all, my calculator games have been downloaded about 60,000 times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I decided to &lt;a href="http://calc.pathawks.com/"&gt;set up a little archive&lt;/a&gt; online of all my calculator games.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-1070998050713267005?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/0rHyzh-whYg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/09/blaze.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Whale Watching</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/TbhVLj4gSgA/whale-watching.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:33:15 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-7712617239490394742</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Spending the week in Bar Harbor, Maine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'll have a full post in a day or two with a nutritive and whatnot, but this afternoon Christine and I went whale watching and I really wanted to post some pictures right away so everybody could see.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3840759361/" title="IMG_9345 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3840759361_cfaace7472.jpg" width="500" height="284" alt="IMG_9345" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3841549078/" title="IMG_9291 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/3841549078_5c2c5615fb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="IMG_9291" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3840759913/" title="IMG_9401 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/3840759913_ace67faaae.jpg" width="500" height="357" alt="IMG_9401" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3840771557/" title="IMG_9750 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3476/3840771557_cfdb8c494b.jpg" width="500" height="282" alt="IMG_9750" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/TbhVLj4gSgA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><georss:point xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">44.387625 -68.204311</georss:point><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/08/whale-watching.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Blogger Enclosure Links</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/YDwgUW7KKwE/blogger-enclosure-links.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:11:57 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-8178848964999794279</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For a site that I'm working on, I needed access to Blogger's enclosure links from the template.&lt;br /&gt;After quite a bit of searching through Blogger's official documentation and other sources, I was unable to find anything useful at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I guess this is an undocumented feature.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, Bloggers layout data tags are quite logical, and it only took a few minutes of playing around before I stumbled upon the correct tag names.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was able to add the following code to my site to access Blogger's enclosure links in my layout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family:monospace"&gt;&amp;lt;b:if cond='data:post.enclosures'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;audio&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;b:loop values='data:post.enclosures' var='i'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Using this, I can include multiple formats in my enclosures, and the browser will select the best format. Unless the browser is Internet Explorer...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, Blogger In Draft will get around to supporting enclosure links as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-8178848964999794279?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/YDwgUW7KKwE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/08/blogger-enclosure-links.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Back from Colorado (again)</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/6kG4EoFceJ0/back-from-colorado-again.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:21:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-3111085215402268553</guid><description>&lt;div style="margin:0;padding:0;border:0;"&gt;&lt;a style="border:0;float:right;margin:0;padding:0;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3715076251/" title="Trail Tags by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3715076251_f8be6d2cce.jpg" width="500" height="309" alt="Trail Tags" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another sweet trip to Estes Park, CO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hiked up to Sky Pond, which was simply breath taking.&lt;br /&gt;Even though it isn't a summit, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; higher than the Twin Sisters summit I (almost) hiked up last time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christine and I hiked 4.9 miles, past Alberta Falls, The Loch, and Lake of Glass before finally climbing up a waterfall to get to Sky Pond.&lt;br /&gt;Words cannot describe how peaceful it was up there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, we decided to get a set of trail tags for all the hikes we did this weekend.&lt;br /&gt;I learned that trail tags come with four different colored borders, corresponding to how long the hike is. If the hike to Sky Pond would have been a tenth of a mile longer, it would qualify for a blue bordered patch, but as the round trip distance is just shy of 10 miles, it only gets a red border.&lt;br /&gt;I thought for sure the whole "climbing up a waterfall" thing would earn it an extra push, but sadly, the difficulty of the hike is not a factor in determining tag borders.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next time, I'm totally going for a blue trail tag.&lt;br /&gt;
Who's with me?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-3111085215402268553?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/6kG4EoFceJ0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/07/back-from-colorado-again.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Geekist Thing I've Done All Day</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/VZLdjyvuu0I/geekist-thing-ive-done-all-day.html</link><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:55:49 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-8625849271319556372</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3679143963/" title="Nullsleep.mp3 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3679143963_b9434d437c_o.jpg" width="224" height="240" alt="Nullsleep.mp3" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here we have the album cover for &lt;i&gt;Unconditional Acceleration&lt;/i&gt; by Nullsleep (whom I was &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2008/12/nullsleep.html"&gt;obsessing over a few months ago&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But if we download this image, change the extension from &lt;code&gt;.jpg&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;.mp3&lt;/code&gt;, then open the file, strange things start to happen....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-8625849271319556372?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/VZLdjyvuu0I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/07/geekist-thing-ive-done-all-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Mountains Look Cool, I'm Told</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/rk4bj2GQ8zc/mountains-and-depth-perception.html</link><category>mountains</category><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:19:57 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-3261571705356290214</guid><description>&lt;div style="margin:0;padding:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3627970340/" title="IMG_8787 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3396/3627970340_f31a21eafe.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_8787" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/12/god-is-good_31.html"&gt;The first time I saw the Rocky Mountains&lt;/a&gt; (ask me sometime about driving the RV through a snow storm at 2am) I was quite disappointed with how small they looked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I guess I was expecting everything to be totally flat, with one gigantic peak touching the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, that's not how the Rocky Mountains really are. Of course when you're 9000 feet above sea level, a 12000 feet peak doesn't look as high as it actually is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/search/label=Colorado%20Trip%202009"&gt;a couple weeks ago in Colorado&lt;/a&gt; I noticed something especially peculiar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was looking at a line of mountains in the distance; they all appeared to be the same height.&lt;br /&gt;
Well, except that some peaks were totally covered in snow while others were covered with trees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, using what I know about nature and science, I deduced that there was no conceivable way that these peaks were all the same height.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did they look like they were the same height to me?&lt;br /&gt;I have no depth perception.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because my eyes don't point in just the right direction at the same time, the way I see the world with both eyes open looks no different than the way I see the world with only one eye open.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's very difficult for me to judge distance, which makes it fun for my friends (&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/kevinschwarting" title="@kevinschwarting" rel="friend met" class="twitter"&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt;) to throw things at me, because it's so hard for me to catch anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to the mountains.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While all mountains on the horizon appear to be equidistant from me, of course they are not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/bwo2312" title="@bwo2312" rel="friend" class="twitter"&gt;Brent&lt;/a&gt; tells me that I'm really missing out. He says that the way some mountains appear close while others appear very far away makes them look even more majestic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't know.&lt;br /&gt;But I wouldn't know that I didn't know if it hadn't been for noticing the snow capped peaks (this was my first time in the Rockies not during winter).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img style="display:none;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/3146522899_c61b0e8f20.jpg" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-3261571705356290214?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/rk4bj2GQ8zc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/06/mountains-and-depth-perception.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Colorado: Wrap up</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/_klEkwRrYp4/colorado-wrap-up.html</link><category>Colorado Trip 2009</category><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:20:11 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-5967597630396345473</guid><description>&lt;object width="500" height="375" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fpathawks%2Fsets%2F72157619626317071%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fpathawks%2Fsets%2F72157619626317071%2F&amp;set_id=72157619626317071&amp;jump_to="&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3623408239/" title="IMG_8729 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/3623408239_0254436d49.jpg" width="500" height="368" alt="IMG_8729" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/sets/72157619626317071/show/"&gt;View Slideshow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;What an amazing trip.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've been home for a couple days now and I'm still decompressing.&lt;br /&gt;Actually, I've been sleeping pretty much the whole time. Staying up late and waking up early is not as easy for me as it used to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I met lots of amazing people, all of whom I want to stay in touch with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was really good to remember what it's like to do youth ministry.&lt;br /&gt;I really do believe &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2009/03/big-things.html"&gt;that this is what I am built for.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I got to tell some of my favorite stories, like &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/03/incident-part.html"&gt;why I left the news business,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/05/field-in-flames.html"&gt;how I burnt down much of Riverside,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/2007/02/farmers-with-chains.html"&gt;the notorious Madrid Freakout,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pathawks.com/search/label/share"&gt;and many other good ones.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was also good to talk to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/bwo2312" title="@bwo2312" rel="friend" class="twitter"&gt;Brent&lt;/a&gt; about what it means to "do ministry."&lt;br /&gt;He reminded me, once again, that I don't need to have a title and pull a paycheck to work for the Lord.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I defiantly feel like I got more out of this trip than I contributed, but I suppose that's what happens when the Holy Spirit gets involved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'll have a couple more stories later, like how my lack of depth perception really skews my view of the mountains, but right now I think I'll just keep listening to country music and praying.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width="500" height="400" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=102771481528541708181.00046cdfaa38ab16e67b7&amp;amp;ll=40.364858,-105.631485&amp;amp;spn=0.209272,0.343323&amp;amp;z=11&amp;amp;output=embed"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;View &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=102771481528541708181.00046cdfaa38ab16e67b7&amp;amp;ll=40.364858,-105.631485&amp;amp;spn=0.209272,0.343323&amp;amp;z=11" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left"&gt;Colorado Youth Trip 2009&lt;/a&gt; in a larger map&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-5967597630396345473?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/_klEkwRrYp4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><media:content url="http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~5/ESWfZKYW6q4/show.swf" fileSize="118333" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> View Slideshow What an amazing trip. I've been home for a couple days now and I'm still decompressing. Actually, I've been sleeping pretty much the whole time. Staying up late and waking up early is not as easy for me as it used to be. I met lots of amaz</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Pat Hawks</itunes:author><itunes:summary> View Slideshow What an amazing trip. I've been home for a couple days now and I'm still decompressing. Actually, I've been sleeping pretty much the whole time. Staying up late and waking up early is not as easy for me as it used to be. I met lots of amazing people, all of whom I want to stay in touch with. It was really good to remember what it's like to do youth ministry. I really do believe that this is what I am built for. I got to tell some of my favorite stories, like why I left the news business, how I burnt down much of Riverside, the notorious Madrid Freakout, and many other good ones. It was also good to talk to Brent about what it means to "do ministry." He reminded me, once again, that I don't need to have a title and pull a paycheck to work for the Lord. I defiantly feel like I got more out of this trip than I contributed, but I suppose that's what happens when the Holy Spirit gets involved. I'll have a couple more stories later, like how my lack of depth perception really skews my view of the mountains, but right now I think I'll just keep listening to country music and praying. View Colorado Youth Trip 2009 in a larger map</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Colorado Trip 2009</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/06/colorado-wrap-up.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~5/ESWfZKYW6q4/show.swf" length="118333" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><title>Colorado: Day 2-4</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/214TmJ9byoM/colorado-day-2-4.html</link><category>Colorado Trip 2009</category><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:37:36 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-119854566761742659</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3636985157/" title="Looking over the edge"&gt;&lt;img alt="Looking over the edge" height="281" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3636985157_e09c204e68.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I really meant to post everyday.&lt;br /&gt;
I really did.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Fortunately there have been plenty of other things to keep me busy.&lt;br /&gt;
We've stained bridges, benches, chairs and decks.&lt;br /&gt;
We've picked up rocks and branches, and shoveled dirt onto horse trails.&lt;br /&gt;
We've consumed lots of coffee and meat, and gone on plenty of hikes in the mountains.&lt;br /&gt;
Everywhere we go, people tell us what a blessing we are.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3634974544/" title="Staining Benches by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="Staining Benches" height="203" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3382/3634974544_158230b70e.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This week has been absolutely amazing in all respects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
It's amazing to see highschoolers who are so mature.&lt;br /&gt;
And maturing.&lt;br /&gt;
And strong.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3634876266/" title="IMG_8835 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img alt="IMG_8835" height="199" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/3634876266_88125cbb89.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
This feels so much more like the ministry of Christ than just studying apologetics or giving a sermon, yet tonight I am more restless than I've been in quite a while.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
After all the things I've seen and experienced, it is very easy for me to find faith.&lt;br /&gt;
Faith in a creator.&lt;br /&gt;
Faith in a savior.&lt;br /&gt;
Faith in hope.&lt;br /&gt;
Yet, what comes so easy for me is such a struggle for others.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps even more troubling is that there are other people in the world that have opposing convictions just as strong as mine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Why can't I shake the feeling that there's something I should be doing about all this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
This week I have felt totally at home.&lt;br /&gt;
I know I need to be doing more of these sorts of things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3638289550/" title="Wed+Wind+River by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3638289550_76f30e5e9c.jpg" width="500" height="316" alt="Wed+Wind+River" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-119854566761742659?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Elk. They are everywhere.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/bwo2312" title="@bwo2312" rel="friend" class="twitter"&gt;Brent&lt;/a&gt; loves fishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3627972024/" title="IMG_8782 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2465/3627972024_dda1076ce6.jpg" width="448" height="215" alt="IMG_8782" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The word &lt;i&gt;pwn&lt;/i&gt; is always funny when said aloud.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;High Schoolers are much more mature than they let on.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PatHawks/~4/mkPjATT4XxM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><georss:point xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">40.406882282393454 -105.60470581054688</georss:point><feedburner:origLink>http://www.pathawks.com/2009/06/colorado-day-1_14.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Colorado: Day 0</title><link>http://feeds.pathawks.com/~r/PatHawks/~3/JKo17N6lCPs/colorado-day-1.html</link><category>Colorado Trip 2009</category><author>pat@pathawks.com (Pat Hawks)</author><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:23:05 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505008.post-626263312184024402</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3623408239/" title="Colorado Youth Trip by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/3623408239_0254436d49.jpg" width="500" height="368" alt="IMG_8729" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spending the week in Colorado with some youth from &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ZionChurch" title="@ZionChurch" class="twitter"&gt;Zion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're going to be doing some service work, and plenty of hiking in the beautiful Rocky Mountains.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're at about 7800 feet.&lt;br /&gt;Everything is really pretty, and the air is very thin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Going to be an awesome week.&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for updates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:80%;"&gt;And check &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/sets/72157619626317071/"&gt;my Flickr account&lt;/a&gt; for new photos posted daily.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I filled in for &lt;a href="http://heartlandoncology.com/dr_warner.htm" rel="met friend contact"&gt;Dr. Warner&lt;/a&gt; on his radio show, &lt;a href="http://housecalls.heartlandoncology.com/" class="twitter" title="@HouseCalls"&gt;House Calls&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My guest was &lt;a href="http://heartlandoncology.com/dr_okerbloom.htm"&gt;Dr. John Okerbloom&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.heartlandoncology.com/"&gt;Heartland Oncology &amp;amp; Hematology&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Okerbloom himself is a cancer survivor, and talked about his experiences battling prostate cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-7275190196708148373?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I had a delicious spicy chicken pita, proving to my future-nurse girlfriend that it is possible to eat tasty, healthy food in a food court.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After we ate, we saw some other things...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3520384439/" title="IMG_8199 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3386/3520384439_c873d2cf8e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_8199" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3521291364/" title="IMG_8253 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3597/3521291364_73a4470c0f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_8253" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3520489237/" title="IMG_8265 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3414/3520489237_76c69ec66a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_8265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathawks/3520382689/" title="IMG_8197 by Pat Hawks, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3569/3520382689_ff6ba4969e.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_8197" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-106940813327818250?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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More than I could begin to describe in one blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suffice it to say I have learned there are some things in life that I am just built for, and no matter how hard I try I cannot escape that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That said, I plan on coming out of retirement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More details to come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8505008-1471295331540838359?l=www.pathawks.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But it's not ready yet and I need some input today, so I'm posting here.&lt;br /&gt;
I'm working on marking up a &lt;b&gt;Nutrition Facts&lt;/b&gt; table in XHTML and I want it to be as semantic as possible. I found a few nice looking examples with CSS, but none of them were very &lt;a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hrecipe"&gt;microformat&lt;/a&gt; friendly.&lt;br /&gt;
At Dirty Suds, we design with Web 3.0 in mind, so I want to make sure I'm doing this in the smartest way possible.&lt;br /&gt;
I'm not sure about the use of &amp;lt;hr /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I like to separate content from presentation, but I also like flexibility.&lt;br /&gt;
I'm still working on the CSS, but if you'd like what I've got, I can post that too.&lt;br /&gt;
So here's my code. Any input would be much appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;code style="font-family: monospace;"&gt;&amp;lt;div class="nutrition"&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;Nutrition Facts&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="servingsize type"&amp;gt;Serving Size&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="servingsize thickline value"&amp;gt;1 Meal&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/dl&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;hr class="thick" /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4 class="amountperserving"&amp;gt;Amount Per Serving&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="calories type"&amp;gt;Calories&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="calories value"&amp;gt;200&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="caloriesfromfat type"&amp;gt;Calories from Fat&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="caloriesfromfat value"&amp;gt;70&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/dl&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;hr /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h4 class="dailyvalue"&amp;gt;% Daily Value*&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="fat type"&amp;gt;Total Fat&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="fat value"&amp;gt;8g &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;12%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="saturatedfat type"&amp;gt;Saturated Fat&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="saturatedfat value"&amp;gt;1g &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;5%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="transfat type"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;Trans&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; Fat&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="transfat value"&amp;gt;0g&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="polyfat type"&amp;gt;Polyunsaturated Fat&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="polyfat value"&amp;gt;5g&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="monofat type"&amp;gt;Monounsaturated Fat&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="monofat value"&amp;gt;1.5g&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="cholesterol type"&amp;gt;Cholesterol&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="cholesterol value"&amp;gt;0mg &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;0%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="sodium type"&amp;gt;Sodium&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="sodium value"&amp;gt;640mg &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;27%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="potassium type"&amp;gt;Potassium&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="potassium value"&amp;gt;410g &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;12%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="carbs type"&amp;gt;Total Carbohydrate&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="carbs value"&amp;gt;20g &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;7%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="fiber type"&amp;gt;Dietary Fiber&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="fiber value"&amp;gt;3g &amp;lt;span class="percent"&amp;gt;12%&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="sugars type"&amp;gt;Sugars&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="sugars value"&amp;gt;2g&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dt class="protein type"&amp;gt;Protein&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;dd class="protein value"&amp;gt;12g&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/dl&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;hr class="thick" /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily calues may be&lt;br /&gt;
higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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