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Letters to the Editor
Well, it's rather an image. My daughter, Liv Helene, seven years old, has used Tux Paint to make a picture of a painting Tux. She has not told me what he is painting, though. My guess is that it is a kernel image.
See next issue for more fun Linux apps for kids. —Ed.
My niece, Addison Lotspaih, really seems to like penguins. I think she was wondering "where's the Easter Penguin?" in this picture. Future Linux guru? I hope so.
I wanted to let everyone at Linux Journal know, I think you're doing a wonderful job! I look forward to reading your magazine each and every month.
Mark Lotspaih
Historic Linux Distribution
After trying out several different Linux distributions, my baby Molly decides Caldera Network Desktop version 1.0 is just right. Should I be worried that she might become a lawyer instead of a hacker?
That was the first distribution to bundle a pre-Mozilla Netscape browser. —Ed.
"Wrong Sed Fred"
Thanks to Larry Richardson for an enlightening overview of the sed command [July 2005]. I've been using it for years, but did not know about its pattern matching (//command) capabilities.
My friend, Samueluel, tells me there's a small
bug in the s/Sam/Samuel/
code example, though.
echo "How's this, Samuel?" | sed s/Sam\\b/Samuel/
LJ Cover Okay for US Government Offices
Anyone that thinks the May 2005 cover is "smut"
is a complete idiot and doesn't deserve to read your
excellent publication. I work in a Federal Government
installation, and since the woman on the cover is
clothed, I don't see any sexual harassment potential.
Tony Heaton
Another Cover Photo Fan
I just got the latest LJ and was shocked at reading
two of the letters to the editor concerning the
May 2005 cover. I work at a software company
that displayed the issue on the magazine rack for
a full month. Not one person mentioned the cover
image. Don't listen to the backward, foolish idiots
who would have us stay in 1920.
Good job, LJ. Don't stick to men and/or hardware on
the cover. Keep branching out.
Dave Wiard
Nice Shirts
Baby Tux is in good hands. The oldest is saying, "We're protecting Baby Tux."
Wendy Cho
Millions for iSCSI, Not One Cent for LJ
The article on ATA over Ethernet [June 2005] has got to be the perfect example of the kind of crap that stops me from buying the magazine again. Great eye-catching title. Excellent introduction to a SAN alternative (we use a Hitachi that cost several million so I like to see what the alternatives are).
Halfway through the article I find out that the setup
requires a vendor-specific piece of hardware that
I'm sure not so coincidently is the advertisement
facing page 26 of the article. If you're going to
have multipage advertisements disguised as articles,
then state it up front. I buy this magazine for
Linux solutions (like iSCSI target and host on Linux)
primarily. I don't mind seeing vendor stuff, but don't
dress it up as something else. It wastes my time.
Henry Scott
AoE is an open standard protocol that any vendor is free to implement. Check out sourceforge.net/projects/aoetools for a free server and recent Linux releases for the client code. —Ed.
GB: the New MB?
In the third paragraph of the July 2005 "diff -u"
section, it states: "Of course, because SquashFS
is a compressed filesystem, this really amounts to
about 8MB of actual data." This should probably be
8GB of data instead of 8MB.
Dan Eisenhut
Yay, Monarch
I was reading your July 2005 issue, and I saw an ad for
Monarch Computer. I wanted to drop you a note to tell
you that I have been buying from them for five years
now. My company buys all of our systems from them,
I have never heard of a company that bends
over backwards for their customers like Monarch does.
They have over-nighted me parts at no charge, along with
a number of other amazing things.
Scott Adams
Linux Now on Tour
It is sad to see the ignorance and prudishness in some of letters published in the June 2005 issue with regards to the cover of the May 2005 issue.
Belly dancing has been a form of improvisational dance from the Middle East, for both women and men, dating back thousands of years. The dance is not inherently sexual in nature, and while the image on the cover does display a fair amount of belly, it is far less than what one would see at a swimming pool or at the beach.
I found the cover to be very tasteful and artistic.
The article was quite interesting and already has
proven useful in helping to spread Linux to several of
my friends who are about to start touring with their
(non-belly dancing) shows. Lastly, it was very nice
to see a cover that explodes the male-computer-geek
stereotype so effectively. My wife even picked up
my copy just to read the cover article. Keep up the
good work.
Chris Poupart
Everyone's Playing Tux Racer
Greetings from Mexico. This is my niece Regina, enjoying Tux Racer on my Debian box.
Leonardo Ibarra Moran
Bad Advertiser, Bad, Bad
I would like to register my protest against the publishing of the advertisement that appeared on page 7 of the July 2005 issue.
I'm not a member of any identifiable minority—obese, ethnic, physically or mentally handicapped—but I strongly disapprove of the use of photos such as the one in the advertisement. I hope that I don't need to explain why.
For several years I have been a regular buyer of Linux Journal and a proud owner of two of Marcel Gagné's books. Any remote idea of ever buying a Carinet server has now been banished from my mind, forever.
May I suggest that you publish some sort of apology
in the next issue?
Alan Eastgate
Everyone's Favorite Magazine
I wanted to send you a picture for your next issue. We get LJ sent to our office every month, and between the developers and sysadmins it is a race to crack into the magazine first; however, we all lost this time. The newest addition to our development team got to it first. Keep up the good work LJ.
Tux over My Hammy
I have been an avid LJ reader for a couple of years now and always look forward to receiving my monthly dose of Linux news updates from you all. Here is a picture of a 72 processor Linux cluster install at Florida International University. On a funny note, I won the stuffed Tux out of one of those prize machines during a 4 AM run to Denny's on the last day of the install.
Jason Grimm
Reply to July "Vendor Troubles" Letter
Monarch apologizes for the inconvenience to the valued customer [Letters, July 2005]. We take pride in taking care of our customers. Upon receiving his contact info, we contacted him immediately and are pleased to say he has been taken care of to his satisfaction.
We checked our Web/voice-mail logs and found no trace
of receiving a message related to this customer's
problem, which is why there was not an immediate
response to the customer's inquiry. Monarch handles
over 250k customers a year, more than 700 per day,
and has the highest rating for customer service based
on volume at www.resellerratings.com;
this one got through the cracks. We thank Linux Journal for bringing this to our attention.
Trey Harris
Monarch Computer, Founder
GIMP and nvu on Ubuntu
This photo is of my 11-year-old daughter Julia Meadows, who is happily using Ubuntu Linux. She enjoys working with the nvu Web authoring tool and is having fun learning GIMP. She is also holding her own personal penguin, from an art class project at school.
John Meadows
Multimedia Lock-in?
It appears that law-related issues are starting
to crack down on the Linux multimedia scene.
According to the MPlayer site, "Multimedia is a
patent minefield." I would like to know where we (the
Linux people) stand with the patent rights and all the
other hub-a-baloo with DVDs and the like. I think the
Linux community would embrace such a writeup.
What direction do we see the "Multimedia scene"
going for Linux? Are we going to be out cold?
Darin Riedlinger
You can create your own media in patent-free formats you can use on any OS. See xiph.org for details. In the USA, the infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act lets the non-Linux OS vendors lock in their customers with multimedia formats. Join eff.org to support legal reform to let people legally switch OSes without losing access to content they bought. —Ed.
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Kill Shakespeare
comic series re-imagines the Bard and his most famous
Launching at WonderCon, April 2-4, 2010
Preview a draft of issue #1 here!
To celebrate the birth (and death) of the world's most famous playwright, IDW Publishing is proud to launch a brand new comic series at WonderCon, Kill Shakespeare. Conceived and written by Canadian-based creators Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, this twelve-issue series is a dark take on the Bard and his work, pitting his greatest heroes against his most menacing villains. The series will launch with a 32-page, ad-free first issue, and McCreery and Del Col will host an exclusive signing and panel at WonderCon, one of the country's leading comics and pop culture conventions, including a discussion of literary mash-ups with leading authors and Shakespearean scholars.
Called "easily one of the more exciting new projects" at San Diego Comic Con by Publisher's Weekly, Kill Shakespeare is true to the Bard's canon, yet also accessible to a wide range of readers. The series offers an edgy interpretation of Shakespeare's most famous characters, bringing Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Richard III, Lady Macbeth, Puck and others together for an epic adventure. Beginning in April with issue #1, readers encounter a banished Hamlet, who embarks on a quest to resurrect his dead father. But to do so, he must kill a reclusive wizard named... William Shakespeare!
"It's poetic justice that Kill Shakespeare is released in the month of April. Shakespeare was born and died on the exact same date, April 23rd (how dramatic is that?...), and we think that our series will serve as a great tribute to the Bard while reinventing his stories and characters in a completely unique and exciting light."
Creators Del Col and McCreery bring their love of Shakespeare, independent film, and a combination of marketing and writing experience to their first comic book project. Artist Andy Belanger rises to the challenge of interpreting some of the most famous characters in the world, and he and Kagan McLeod provide attention-getting covers for issue #1.
"Kill Shakespeare has been a fascinating comic for me to edit," said series editor Tom Waltz. "On the one hand, this unique tale is undeniably grounded in its Shakespearean roots, but the creators have also produced a top-notch action thriller that rivals anything coming out of Hollywood these days."
Kill Shakespeare #1 (of 12, $3.99, 32 pages, full color) will be available in stores on April 7, 2010. Diamond order code: FEB10 0959.


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1. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind-of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection, again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey, but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.
23. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
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STILLWATER — It's been a long time coming for Oklahoma State freshman Corey Hassel.
The journey for the Stillwater High graduate has been long in the making, going back to his time as a two-sport athlete for the Pioneers as a star wide receiver on the football team, to a staple at center field for the SHS baseball program.
All his hard work culminated last week when he got his first start as a member of the Cowboy baseball squad against Central Arkansas.
"At first it was kind of overwhelming because I've worked so hard, even from starting in high school, to get to this point," Hassel said. "To finally see my hard work pay off and finally get in the starting lineup at a program like this against two big programs is kind of overwhelming. But I was able to calm my nerves and it was just very exciting for me."
But the moment didn't end there.
A midweek start is nice and all, but getting a weekend nod in Big 12 Conference play is another level. And so Friday night, with the No. 19 Cowboys facing a left-handed pitcher for Texas, Hassel was given his second start in the same week.
For Hassel, last week was redemption. It was proof that the hard work he had been putting in with the OSU coaching staff was paying dividends — something earlier in the season was questioning.
"They always say hard work pays off and there for a while I wasn't quite questioning but more wondering exactly how hard you have to work and wasn't sure if I was doing the right type of work," the SHS grad said. "I just kept trusting what the coaches were telling me, kept trusting what I've always been told and what I've always done and it ended up paying off, finally. And I ended up having the time of my life playing."
That's what first-year coach Josh Holliday is looking for in his Cowboys.
When he was first hired to coach his alma mater he heard all about what to expect from Hassel.
"You talk to people who knew him in high school, as a multi-sport athlete, all of them said, 'Oh, Corey Hassel, you're going to like him. He's a tough kid. He's a competitor and he's going to work hard for you,'" Holliday said. "I think he had established that that was who he was, so I felt good about that coming in that this kid was a tough cookie and he would come at it every day with a high level of pride. And that's good because that's what we're looking for, too."
And so Hassel worked. And worked. And in the second series of the season, Hassel got his first chance as a pinch hitter in a lopsided win over Alcorn State. In his first at-bat as a member of the program he grew up loving, he reached base on a walk.
Since then, he has seen action in 12 more games and seen a total of eight at bats. He's drawn a walk in half of those appearances and has collected two hits — as well as two RBIs, including one that sparked a four-run rally to put away Texas in his second start of the season.
The OSU freshman has given credit to senior Trey Whaley and junior Aaron Cornell for his maturation process since stepping on the OSU campus as a Cowboy.
"Trey really understands the grind of playing both infield and outfield. They ask a lot of you. It takes a lot ... and he really knows what that's like and we talk about it a lot," Hassel said. "Cornell brings a lot of energy to the table. He's a great team player who doesn't care about his stats, and that's really who I'm trying to model my game after. He's a dirt bag just like I am, who will play until somebody tells him to stop and that's what I want to instill in my game."
His work ethic — which Holliday said has been one of the key factors for Hassel's opportunity of late — comes from before his time at Oklahoma State. And even further back than his time under SHS baseball coach Tony Holt.
The constant strive to be better and play beyond his 5-foot-10, 158-pound frame comes from his father, Troy Hassel.
"My dad was the first person to instill work ethic into me because he mentioned how I would never be the biggest guy on the field, never going to be the most athletic, never going to be the strongest or fastest, but if you work hard you can develop a lot of skills," Corey said. "I feel that's really where my work ethic began and I've kept working hard and it all kind of paid off."
And it's his dad — who has been to OSU games regardless if his son were to play or not, the first person to talk to him about the day's game — that Hassel was most happy for last week when he saw his name in the starting lineup.
"He's not a real emotional guy, but I could tell that there was some hidden emotion in there and that he was really excited for me," Hassel said. "... I think he was really excited. I think he was really happy for me. That really makes me happy because he's the only family I have here in Stillwater.
"So for him to be able to watch me and watch all my games and to see how excited he was to see me play and how my hard work is starting to pay off — when he was the one who instilled it in me — is something really special."
The 19th-ranked Cowboys will face the University of Kansas in a three-game series in Lawrence, Kan., starting at 6 p.m. Friday.


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This week, the state Division of Motor Vehicles will stop handing out driver's licenses at its six local offices across Wake County. Instead, DMV will start delivering licenses by mail.
Harnett County drivers have been on the DMV mailing list since July. Wake will be the second county to make the switch to what the department calls "central issuance" of driver's licenses. The rest of North Carolina will follow by this fall.
The local driver's license offices in North Raleigh, West Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Fuquay- Varina and Wendell are each closing for a half day this week, on staggered schedules, to make the change. DMV will install new computer software and remove the old machines that used to stamp out fresh, warm plastic every time you came in for a license.
In place of that new license, you'll leave the DMV office with a piece of paper -- a temporary driving permit -- and a promise that the new license will follow in the mail within 20 days.
Since the new program was initiated a year ago at the Lillington and Erwin DMV offices, 63,000 Harnett County motorists have received their licenses in their mailboxes. DMV cranked out about 168,000 licenses last year for drivers in Wake County, and 2.6 million statewide.
DMV says it is making the change to reduce fraud and identity theft. Sixteen other states have begun or completed a shift to central issuance of driver's licenses.
All applications for new, duplicate and renewed licenses will be reviewed at DMV headquarters on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh to confirm each driver's identity and eligibility. The new licenses will be mailed from the central office.
"We look for false identities and false addresses," said Marge Howell, DMV spokeswoman. "Or they might be coming down here from another state, trying to get a driver's license in North Carolina -- when they're not a resident of the state."
For drivers, the change should amount to no more than a procedural hassle.
You'll take the usual tests at the local office, where DMV will record your signature and snap your photo. You'll leave with a piece of paper that includes your name and address and an identifying bar code -- but not your photo and signature.
Most licenses are delivered within seven to 10 days, the agency says.
Here are this week's closing times for the six driver's license offices in Wake County:
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The Fuquay-Varina (131 S. Fuquay Ave.) and Garner (222 Forest Hills Drive) offices closed Monday afternoon and were scheduled to reopen this morning.
To avoid going even a few days without a valid license and up-to-date photo ID, Howell says, drivers should renew their licenses early. State law allows you to renew your license up to six months before the birthday when it is scheduled to expire.
For more information, contact DMV by phone at 715-7000 or online at www.ncdot.gov/dmv.
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As Veteran's Day stories go, this one beats all for quirky and sweet. It is not local but it won our hearts after we found it on Facebook, where it linked back to MSN.com, which linked back to SodaHead.com.
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"Soldiers are known for being tough as nails, but when this fellow in the Belarusian army found a sick squirrel under a tree, his inner softie came out. Warrant officer Pyotr Pankratau discovered the tiny creature unconscious and barely alive. Taking him back to the base, the officer fed him milk from a syringe every four hours. After two weeks, the little guy began to pep up and ended up staying on the base with Pankratau for the next two years. When they were released, the officer took his furry right-hand man, whom he'd named "Minsk," with him and the two now drive a taxi cab together. Scroll through the gallery above to see photos of the adoreable pair."
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Friends and roommates Sam Stuart '13 (Wichita, Kan.) and Chao Wang '13 (Changchun, China) grew up in different hemispheres and met on campus. As first-year students, Stuart helped Wang through a college writing course, and Wang tutored Stuart in his introductory Chinese course.
They have learned a lot about each other's cultures through their friendship, but over semester breaks they went their separate ways.
Now, through a new program called Project Boma, they will get a chance to experience each other's cultures firsthand by taking each other home over winter break. The program derives its name from the Maasai language of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, where Boma means "home."
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Pairs of students, one international and one domestic, were invited to submit proposals outlining the types of activities they would participate in while staying with each other's families and being integrated into their "boma" during the summer or winter breaks for two to three weeks. The six students selected to participate were awarded funding to cover roundtrip travel expenses as well as a small stipend.
During their upcoming trips, Stuart plans to introduce Wang to Christmas in the Midwest, and Wang will show Stuart the ancient history of his home country.
"He will be exposed to the pomp of Christmas decorations and traditions, and feel the holiday spirit from an insider's prospective, which he never gets to see since he is usually at home during this time," Stuart says.
Over the summer, Helen Hutchens '15 visited the home of Zhe "Jason" Sheng '15 in Dalian, a city in northeastern China, after hosting him in rural Pennsylvania and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
For the first week of their exchange, Hutchens invited Sheng to visit her in Lancaster, Pa., where she took him to see her old high school. Then they flew to Denver, Colo., where Hutchens spends her summers visiting her grandmother.
"I wanted to teach him to ride horses and see how he fared as a cowboy, and I wanted him to see an area of America that is very different from Lafayette," she says.
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In Colorado, they went horseback riding, hiking, fishing, and whitewater rafting, took the highest railway in the nation up to the top of Pikes Peak at 14,115 feet above sea level, and went to see a rodeo.
"I had never seen a cowboy in real life before," Sheng says. "During the rodeo competition, I watched scenes that I only watched on television before."
After their outdoor adventures in Colorado, the pair took a 7,000-mile journey from Denver to Dalian. Hutchens stayed for three weeks with Sheng's family in an apartment near the center of the city. Some of the biggest challenges of living in China were the traffic and the language.
"Body language, tone of voice, and many other clues communicate as much as words," she says. "It can be hard to communicate through a language barrier, but when people respect each other and care about understanding, they can live together as I lived with Jason's family."
Nirav Giri '13 (Kathmandu, Nepal) and Tatiana Logan '13 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) will spend their winter break in California after spending last summer at Giri's home in Nepal.
For Logan, meeting Nirav's large and close-knit family was a highlight of the visit.
"I want to put his grandmothers in my pocket and carry their warm smiles and fierce strength with me always. His mother is bubbly, adorable, giving, and beautiful. Neetu, a "cousin-sister" or what Americans would just call cousin, is already one of my close friends. Everyone loves Nirav and they love to feed us. I love it all," Logan says.
Although Logan had plenty of opportunities to experience the culture in Nepal, many sightseeing excursions were impossible because mass strikes during her visit effectively shut down public transportation and business. These political protests were tied to the country's attempts to write a new constitution.
"I was never interested in politics, but this time I was forced to stay updated on the happenings since our travel plans depended on what days were not booked for strikes all over the country by different parties and groups to have their demands incorporated in the new constitution. In that process, I found out how complicated the situation in Nepal had gotten," Giri says.
The time spent in Nepal was very rewarding for both Lafayette students, who found that some things are universal.
"The times when my grandmother and Tat tried to communicate without understanding one another's language were very heartwarming," Giri says. "This trip made me realize that there are more important things in life than the boundaries that we have enclosed ourselves in. Instead of focusing on our ability to communicate with one another using languages we know, it is also fun to let our instincts tell us what the other person is trying to say. Smiles are great tools to help us bond with one another."


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There are so many awesome reviews of this recipe that you may never even bother to read mine but . . . we have this at EVERY single family gathering. We have to plan the rest of the food around this recipe because the entire extended family insists upon this particular recipe. Others have brought different versions but they just don't cut it with the "fam." You cannot go wrong if you try this recipe. Don't subsitute cream of chicken or celery soup for the cream of potato. It's a key ingredient and worth the trip to the market to get it if you don't have it on hand.
This is a wonderful casserole. The first time I made this dish my boyfriend thought it was too rich. He decided to give it one more try. I made it this past weekend. He loved it. Instead of using the sharp cheddar, I used medium cheddar. I also added 1/4c red bell peppers, 1/4c green bell peppers, and 1/4c onions, and 1/4c mushrooms. Also after I serve this onto a plate, I grate some fresh parmesean cheese to give it a little kick. The peppers added such a wonderful flavor to this dish. This is going to be a favorite for a long time. Enjoy. Thank you Melissa!
I followed the recipe precisely, and this was yummy. I did cover loosely with foil after about 20 minutes when it looked like the edges were browning too early, but next time I'm just going to let it go. I didn't think a cup of ham would be enough or that this would actually serve 12, but it was just right. I used diced hash browns instead of the shreds, and shredded parmesan from a bag instead of the shaker can. Next time I might throw in some chopped jalapenos or green chiles for more zip -- bacon crumbles would be good too -- and the earlier reviewer's breakfast burrito idea for leftovers also sounds fabulous! This was super-easy to make up the night before. Thanks!
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---- — State Sen. Rick Jones' proposals to provide more funding to state public school districts may never make it through the Legislature, but at least he has helped move the conversation off dead-center and possibly created a framework for breaking the issue into pieces that can be dealt with one-by-one.
Ever since the passage of Proposal A in the mid-1990s the state failed to live up to the promises — and promise — of the ballot proposal overwhelmingly approved by voters.
Proposal A was intended to take the burden of supporting local districts off local taxpayers and make that the state's job; voters agreed to increase the sales tax to provide needed revenue. Proposal A also promised to make all students equal in the eyes of the state, at least in the per-pupil amounts paid to support schools.
The state mostly kept its bargain to pay for education, but completely failed to keep per-pupil amounts equitable. Huge gaps — thousands of dollars, in some cases — exist between what some wealthy or out-of-formula districts get per-student, versus the amount dispersed to districts like Traverse City and other northern Michigan districts.
Efforts to force the state to stop treating some students and districts as second-class citizens have failed, time and again.
Jones proposed some logical steps.
First would be to stop raiding the state School Aid Fund for higher education and the employee retirement system. Second would be to finally deliver on the promise of equitable funding. His bill would mandate equal per-pupil state funding for all public districts by 2020. Finally, the state would compensate districts for getting kids to and from school. Under SB 119 the state would pay districts 50 cents for every mile traveled by school buses while picking up and dropping off students.
The first two proposals would go before voters in 2014 and likely stand a very good chance of passage. Most districts in Michigan are getting short-changed on per-pupil funding, and voters would probably welcome the chance to do what lawmakers failed to do in nearly 20 years.
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The best CRM systems change a company and its relationships for the better. Implemented well, CRM systems can take a business into entirely new markets while solidifying leadership in existing ones.
Add in the easy-to-use nature of social networks, and the potential value of CRM accelerates even faster. The Social Enterprise as defined by Salesforce.com Salesforce.com, heavily promoted at their DreamForce event last month in San Francisco, capitalizes on these factors which are critical for any CRM system to succeed.
Combining the urgency for measurable results and a sleek, streamlined, adoption strategy along with a breadth of applications across marketing, sales, and service makes the Social Enterprise a compelling vision. What energizes this vision is the opportunity to better connect with and serve customers, getting them to their goals faster than before.
Vision Meets Reality: The Magic Quadrant for Social CRM, 2012
Relationships, not technologies, are what make CRM strategies successful. They connect people and get work done, deliver value, solve problems and gain insight into how better to serve customers in the future.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social CRM appears to put technologies ahead of the more challenging aspects of CRM, which are getting the system adopted and used to better serve customers. While it is an excellent analysis at the technical level, it needs more balance with the real value of CRM in changing companies by changing people and relationships. By not having that balance, the quadrant misses out on major trends occurring in Social CRM today. Mitch Lieberman has a great post on this titled Gartner Social CRM MQ Misses Big.
The reality of Social CRM is that many enterprises aren't finding what they need with existing vendors. So they are quietly building their own CRM systems. It's all about using technology to support and streamline relationships not control them.
The Magic Quadrant for Social CRM, 2012 is shown below:
During Dreamforce I met with product managers from one of the ten most valuable companies in the U.S. (as measured by market capitalization) who are leading the development of their own CRM system. They spoke with many of the vendors in the Magic Quadrant, yet none could completely meet their internal requirements and customer-facing needs. Being software engineers, they decided to build their own. Within six weeks they had a simulator of the CRM application for their sales team to work with. They were at Dreamforce looking for enhancement ideas for their own social CRM application.
There is a lot more experimentation going on in the enterprise than many analyst firms are talking about right now. If the quadrant had been more customer-centric they may have seen the build-your-own Social CRM revolution happening right now in many of the world's largest companies.
How The Quadrant Is Defining Social CRM Leaders
The following four factors differentiate the top-ranked vendors in the latest Magic Quadrant for Social CRM. In future iterations of the quadrant it would be great to see a more relationship-driven context as well.
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If you're interested in keeping current on CRM in general or Social CRM specifically, the following people have deep expertise in both areas. Their blogs, presentations and Twitter feeds deliver valuable content daily on this topic. They are the brain trust many of the vendors in the magic quadrant turn to in striving to make applications companies can use.
Bottom line: Social CRM's potential lies in communities, collaboration, communication, and relationships based understanding and serving customers. The greatest challenge of any CRM implementation is adoption, and that begins by setting up customers to be the rock stars, not the technologies used to serve them.
Thank you for your reply and another great article!
There is still one thing I can't fully interprete.
The article states that 80% of companies follow the five stages of Social CRM Adoption. I can't really believe that this is 80% of all companies across North America, Europe and Asia.
Does this refer to the 1% mentioned in the other article?
"Gartner is seeking only 1% of companies integrate social media into their companies' departments and workflows to ensure a consistent customer experience." (there is a small typo there btw: seeking ==> seeing)
Thanks in advance,
Thanks for sharing Louis.
This is interesting because I've personally used Jive, Visible Technologies and Telligent in the past and similar to what you reported on, each platform did certain things well but fell short in other areas.
So because of a system's lack of features, we started to change our overall goals so that it would fit within the constraints of the platform itself. It ended up becoming a headache for us to be honest.
I don't find it surprising that many companies out there are looking for custom options and are working with companies to help them build these custom solutions for them.
Thanks again Louis. Appreciate the article!
That's why you need to see the stats on what really works (Social Marketing Case Studies): http://www.socialmedia-marketing-results.com/
Excellent review! As other commenters were mentioning (@Theo), it's hard to get a good picture of such a dynamic environment, but I think this paints a good picture of where CRM could go.
One boon that newer, social CRM creators are having over the tired manufacturers is their push towards simplicity. This, in my opinion, is the greatest factor in augmenting adoption rates for any software, especially CRM and especially with SMB.
Thank you, Louis for another insightful article. As always, I love reading your posts..very informative and well summarized.


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The Montcalm Generals recorded the second best record in program history, finishing off a nine-game season with a 5-4 record with a 69-12 beating of Hannan on Saturday at Prudich Stadium.
Montcalm (5-4), whose best season was an 8-2 mark in 2005, led 28-0 after the first quarter and 48-0 at halftime.
"It feels good and the boys are happy," Montcalm head coach Jimmy Redmond said. "That is the most important thing, that they were happy."
No wonder. Sixty-nine points is reason to smile, and so is a winning record.
Jason Grose led the Generals with 85 yards rushing and two touchdowns on just nine carries, while Marcus Bailey had 93 yards and a score on six attempts, and also scored on a touchdown pass by Aaron Presley.
Presley was 3-of-5 for 36 yards passing and the scoring toss to Bailey, and also ran for 40 yards and three more touchdowns.
Other Montcalm ballcarriers included Ryan Absher (7-60), Travis Duncan (3-54), Dakota Lanter (1-35), Colton Egnor (10-26), Travis Pointer (3-14) and Charles Myers (2-5).
Lanter and Duncan each had touchdown runs, while Absher returned a punt 65 yards for another score. Bailey also kicked three extra points, while Grose, Absher and Myers had two-point conversion runs.
Montcalm will lose five seniors, including Presley, Bailey, Myers, Jimmy Lowe and Josh Clower, but Generals' head coach Jimmy Redmond is excited about the future.
"We are going to keep building," said Redmond, whose Generals will have 10 games next season, including six at home. Montcalm played just three games at Prudich Stadium this year.
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Saturday I wrote about how the Blackhawks have remained successful despite a lot of change. Capitals players and coach Bruce Boudreau credited Chicago for keeping its core of stars intact – a group that includes Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp and Duncan Keith, among others.
"They didn't lose their best players," Boudreau pointed out, even though Dustin Byfuglien and Kris Versteeg are gone.
So what about the players they still have? Toews has 68 points, Sharp 63 and Kane 60. Ho hum. And the Blackhawks have gone 8-1-1 in their last 10 heading into this afternoon's matchup with the Caps at Verizon Center.
The place should be rocking (whether President Obama makes an improbable appearance or not), and Boudreau would love to see the same kind of game the teams played last year, which featured a big Caps comeback and overtime win. The Caps coach said it was the "best game" of the 2009-10 season for him.
"I hope that same kind of game gets played [Sunday], so people that are watching it will just say, this is hockey, what a sport, this is great," he said.
Last year, the March 14 game between the Caps and Blackhawks was billed as a potential Cup Finals preview – "It was for one team," Boudreau said. Both teams are cruising into this one but not so fast…
"I don't wanna put the cart before the horse," Boudreau said. "There's two good teams going at it, that's for sure."
Said Alex Ovechkin: "Last year was kind of a great game to watch hockey. There was fights, a great comeback and I think we know that they have an unbelievable team and we have to prove right now that we're a better team than them."
From a purely hockey perspective, that strong core the Blackhawks still have is the focus for the Caps. So how do you stop them? Maybe, to borrow an old "SportsCenter" cliché, you can only hope to contain them.
"They're gonna get chances, but you gotta limit their chances to maybe outside the perimeter a little bit," Caps forward Matt Bradley said. "You just can't give them much room, because if you give them much room they're gonna make plays."
It helps the Caps that their penalty kill has been going well lately. But at the end of the day, that and more rests on the young shoulders of Braden Holtby, who's making his third consecutive start. He's stopped 83 of 84 shots in this call-up.
"I came up with a better mindset these last couple times and got a little fortunate with some breaks that the games have been fairly low," Holtby said. "I think they could've easily been two or three goals against, but at the same time I've felt more confident in my game."


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Hilltoppers End Mountain Cats' Season With 78-66 Win in WVIAC Quarterfinals 02/28/13... (Box Score) Top-seeded West Liberty (WV) University used a 20-9 second half run to break open a five-point game en route to ended the ninth-seeded Mountain Cats' season with a 78-66 loss in Thursday's Quarterfinals of the 2013 WVIAC Basketball Tournament at the Civic Center, Charleston, W.Va. Jordan Miller's (Vinco, Pa.) scored 19 points to pace three Pitt-Johnstown players who scored in double figures. The Mountain Cats finished with a 15-13 overall record. Bubby Goodwin's 3-pointer seven minutes into the game put West Liberty in front 15-8, before Nick Novak's (Murrysville, Pa.) lay-up closed out a 9-2 Mountain Cat run that tied it at 17 2:31 later. The Hilltoppers pushed it back out to seven, then into double digits at 29-19 on an Alex Falk 3-pointer with 6:15 left in the half. Pitt-Johnstown answered to cut it to 34-30 on Miller's pull-up jumper, before West Liberty went into the halftime break leading 37-32. Ian Vescovi's (Patton, Pa.) bucket to open the second half got the Mountain Cat deficit down to three, but the Hilltoppers scored the next seven to extend back to 10 at 44-34 just over a minute later. Pitt-Johnstown cut it in half on Andrew Cressler's (Pittsburgh, Pa.) short jumper at the 15:38 mark, but each time the Mountain Cats would get close, West Liberty had an answer. This time, West Liberty countered with a 20-9 run, closed out by Shawn Dyer's 3-pointer, at 8:49 that put the Hilltoppers up by 16 at 68-52. The Mountain Cats got as close as 11 on two occasions, with the last coming on Bill Luther's (Gibsonia, Pa.) tip-in with 3:35 to play, but West Liberty. Miller scored 19 points and dished out four assists, and Novak added 16 points, grabbed four rebounds and had six assists. Cressler rounded out the double figure scorers with 15 points and five rebounds. Vescovi had seven points, and Luther finished with seven points and eight rebounds for the Mountain Cats. Novak holds the Mountain Cat record for assists (545), field goals-made (759), and career free-throw npercentage (86.1%) and is second on the all-time scoring list (2,023 pts.). Miller is Pitt-Johnstown's all-time leader in 3-point field goals with 294 and is also ninth on the scoring list (1,396 pts.) and tied for ninth on the assists list (331 assts.), while Luther is fourth on the career 3-point field goals list with 185. Pitt-Johnstown shot 44% from the field, but just 1-10 from 3-point range, and 13-19 from the free-throw line, while the Hilltoppers, who shot 42% from the floor, hit 12 of their 27 3-point field goal attempts and 16 of their 25 free-throws. Dyer scored a game-high 21 points, while Falk and Goodwin each collected 14 points for the Hilltoppers, who improved to 28-1. West Liberty advances to take on fourth-seeded Wheeling Jesuit (WV) University in Saturday's WVIAC Semifinals.


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The heat index will not be much of a concern on Tuesday as we top out in the low-90s.
The rest of this week our daytime temps will remain in the low- to mid-90s.
Our next real chance for rain comes at the start of our weekend. On Saturday and Sunday there's a 40-percent chance for rain as the daytime temps drop a couple of more degrees.
The clouds clear out, leaving us with a chance for scattered showers for the start of our work week.
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Signet Ring Cell Cancer
He will start with the chemo this week. We would like to help him to fight against his disease.
So, maybe you can give my family and I some tips?
Signet-ring cell cancer is a subtype of adenocarcinoma, which is the most common type of cancer arising from the stomach. It has a distinct appearance under the microscope as a result of the clear mucin it produces either inside or outside the cells. In most series, this cancer has a poor prognosis.
Surgical removal of stomach cancer is the treatment of choice, although, if you say the cancer has spread, an operation to remove the cancer is unlikely to be of benefit. Several clinical studies have reported results that indicate a moderate survival or palliative benefit for patients with advanced stomach cancer. There is no combination of chemotherapy which is clearly superior to others, but most active regimens include 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU), Cisplatin, and/or Etoposide. The combination of 5-Fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and mitomycin (FAM) has been used in the past with modest success. A prospectively randomized trial tested 5FU, Doxorubicin, and Methotrexate versus Etopiside, Leucovorin, and 5FU versus Cisplatin and 5FU. There was no statistically significant difference in survival among the various chemotherapy combinations on their preliminary report. Some newer agents, including Taxol and Gemcitabine (Gemzar®) are under investigation.
As far as diet, nutritional support of stomach cancer is a very important component of the treatment. Many patients are malnourished with some extent of weight loss prior to their diagnosis. If he is able to eat, well balanced diet with adequate protein and vegetables is appropriate. Liquid nutritional supplements such as Ensure and Carnation Instant Breakfast are recommended if oral intake is inadequate. If he is unable to swallow, feeding tube placement may be required.
You should discuss these issues with his oncologists. Also getting some input from psychosocial personnel and a dietitian may help you and your father to cope with his disease and treatment.