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During his first visit to New Mexico's Trinity Site, where the world's first atomic bomb test occurred, polymer scientist Robb Hermes could feel the military police watching him. Or maybe it was just his nagging conscience. Milling around with other tourists, he had to fight the urge to bend down, pretend to tie his shoes and swipe a piece of Trinitite — a glassy, mildly radioactive substance created by the explosion 68 years ago.
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Get a closer look at the new Razr 2 cell phones from Motorola.
A day after Motorola released its new Razr 2 cell phones, I got the chance to play with the handsets up close. Though I've grown quite weary of recycled Razrs, I have to admit I liked what I saw. The Razr 2 design is more a refresh of the popular thin handset than a revolution, but it wins new points for beauty. The redesigned hinge and the flattened bottom end are eye-catching, and they contribute to the overall sleek and shiny appearance. And though the V9, V9m, and V8 are just a hair's (0.07 inch) slimmer than the original Razr V3, the change is quite noticeable. As for colors, I'm partial to the maroon hue on the V9 but the dark blue on the V8 and V9m is attractive as well. Meanwhile, the metal casing gives the cell phone a relatively solid feel. Check out more pictures in our slide show.
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3500 seems like alot but then again i have a low bmr.....
i put it at +25% of my BMR
and on non workout days -5%
does my protein intake seem spot on?
(i was taking 300+g before)
Well 300 is overkill but 230 is fine....i would up carbs on off days because you are still growing/recovering
i had to actually reduce the amount i'm taking, from 4kg breasts a week to only 2kg, easier on the stomach, and the wallet.
then bump t up again on a cut.
I use no more than 200g even in a deficient at 170-180lbs.... At a certain point high amounts of protein wont maintain or build any more muscle than lower amounts, of course this reflects my dieting regiments...
Won't maintain or build any money in your wallet too eh? Hehe how was the muscle gain/retention at that level?
I just have to see and find out then, but the recomp and strength gains on 300 a day were amazing! But I'm slowly realizing how much is wasted..
If you're on a bulk I wouldn't reduce the calories at all
Agree with you, but I'll try it out at -5% and after a week I'll adjust the values.
i tend to eat even more on off days... Makes no sense to me to drop near 1k cals on your off days, but thats just me


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GARFIELD – Mike Gibney had the pleasure of celebrating a personal milestone in the first quarter and a victory following overtime.
The Wood-Ridge senior guard and North Jersey's leading scorer became the 12th Bergen County boy and 16th from Bergen or Passaic to surpass 2,000 career points.
Gibney's game-high 29 points gave him 2,018 and helped the fast-paced Blue Devils outlast Garfield, 97-91, in overtime Monday night in interleague basketball.
"With 2,000 points, it would have still felt good," Gibney said, "but it wouldn't have felt great without winning. We want to win as much as possible."
More than 250 fans attended, including Gibney's father, Mike; mother, Patty; younger siblings, Cali and Matt; and several other relatives. Half of the crowd was Blue Devils fans.
Gibney's strength is he can score from 25 feet and in, and he shot 10-for-25 from the field and 3-for-4 from the line. Half of his baskets were midrange jumpers, and he also contributed seven steals and six assists.
Gibney scored his 2,000th point with 1:22 left in the first quarter on a spinning 10-footer in transition. The game was stopped and he was granted permission to pose for photos on the court.
"Not a lot of players have done it, and I feel honored to be a part of that group," said Gibney, a four-year starter who this season averages 25 per game. "And I just kept telling myself, 'I work hard and it will pay off,' and it did."
"I think it's more of a burden lifted off his back, especially getting it over [in the first quarter] the way he did," Wood-Ridge coach Eddie Rendzio said. "He really didn't force anything. He had good looks, and the guys played within the offense, and they knew the significance of Mike's accomplishment."
Senior guard Gary Whritenour added 21 points, and he and Gibney have a chance to become the first North Jersey classmates to combine for 4,000 points. Whritenour has 1,781 points, Rendzio said, so the duo has 3,799 with five more regular-season games, plus the state tournament. Later this week, Gibney and Whritenour should set the North Jersey record for most points scored by two classmates. The record, according to research by The Record, is 3,876 points by 1990 Bogota classmates Pat Sullivan (2,546) and Gerard Devine (1,330).


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As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price
In the end, the money that towns across America gave General Motors did not matter.
When the automaker released a list of factories it was closing during bankruptcy three years ago, communities that had considered themselves G.M.'s business partners were among the targets.
For years, mayors and governors anxious about local jobs had agreed to G.M.'s demands for cash rewards, free buildings, worker training and lucrative tax breaks. As late as 2007, the company was telling local officials that these sorts of incentives would "further G.M.'s strong relationship" with them and be a "win/win situation," according to town council notes from one Michigan community.
Yet at least 50 properties on the 2009 liquidation list were in towns and states that had awarded incentives, adding up to billions in taxpayer dollars, according to data compiled by The New York Times.
Some officials, desperate to keep G.M., offered more. Ohio was proposing a $56 million deal to save its Moraine plant, and Wisconsin, fighting for its Janesville factory, offered $153 million.
But their overtures were to no avail. G.M. walked away and, thanks to a federal bailout, is once again profitable. The towns have not been so fortunate, having spent scarce funds in exchange for thousands of jobs that no longer exist.
One township, Ypsilanti, Mich., is suing over the automaker's departure. "You can't just make these promises and throw them around like they're spare change in the drawer," said Doug Winters, the township's attorney.
Yet across the country, companies have been doing just that. And the giveaways are adding up to a gigantic bill for taxpayers.
A Times investigation has examined and tallied thousands of local incentives granted nationwide and has found that states, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies. The beneficiaries come from virtually every corner of the corporate world, encompassing oil and coal conglomerates, technology and entertainment companies, banks and big-box retail chains.
The cost of the awards is certainly far higher. A full accounting, The Times discovered, is not possible because the incentives are granted by thousands of government agencies and officials, and many do not know the value of all their awards. Nor do they know if the money was worth it because they rarely track how many jobs are created. Even where officials do track incentives, they acknowledge that it is impossible to know whether the jobs would have been created without the aid.
"How can you even talk about rationalizing what you're doing when you don't even know what you're doing?" said Timothy J. Bartik, a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The Times analyzed more than 150,000 awards and created a searchable database of incentive spending. The survey was supplemented by interviews with more than 100 officials in government and business organizations as well as corporate executives and consultants.
A portrait arises of mayors and governors who are desperate to create jobs, outmatched by multinational corporations and short on tools to fact-check what companies tell them. Many of the officials said they feared that companies would move jobs overseas if they did not get subsidies in the United States.
Over the years, corporations have increasingly exploited that fear, creating a high-stakes bazaar where they pit local officials against one another to get the most lucrative packages. States compete with other states, cities compete with surrounding suburbs, and even small towns have entered the race with the goal of defeating their neighbors.
While some jobs have certainly migrated overseas, many companies receiving incentives were not considering leaving the country, according to interviews and incentive data.
Despite their scale, state and local incentives have barely been part of the national debate on the economic crisis. The budget negotiations under way in Washington have not addressed whether the incentives are worth the cost, even though 20 percent of state and local budgets come from federal spending. Lawmakers in Washington are battling over possible increases in personal taxes, while both parties have said that lower federal taxes on corporations are needed for the country to compete globally.
The Times analysis shows that Texas awards more incentives, over $19 billion a year, than any other state. Alaska, West Virginia and Nebraska give up the most per resident.
For many communities, the payouts add up to a substantial chunk of their overall spending, the analysis found. Oklahoma and West Virginia give up amounts equal to about one-third of their budgets, and Maine allocates nearly a fifth.
In a few states, the cost of incentives is not significant. But several of them have low business taxes — or none at all — which can save companies even more money than tax credits.
Far and away the most incentive money is spent on manufacturing, about $25.5 billion a year, followed by agriculture. The oil, gas and mining industries come in third, and the film business fourth. Technology is not far behind, as companies like Twitter and Facebook increasingly seek tax breaks and many localities bet on the industry's long-term viability.
Those hopes were once more focused on automakers, which for decades have pushed cities and states to set up incentive programs, blazing a trail that companies of all sorts followed. Even today, G.M. is the top beneficiary, public records indicate. It received at least $1.7 billion in local incentives in the last five years, followed closely by Ford and Chrysler.
A spokesman for General Motors said that almost every major employer applied for incentives because they help keep companies competitive and retain or create jobs.
"There are many reasons why so many Ford, Chrysler and G.M. plants closed over the last few decades," said the G.M. spokesman, James Cain. "But these factors don't mean that the companies and communities didn't benefit while the plants were open, which was often for generations."
Mr. Cain cited research showing that the company received less money per job than foreign automakers operating in the United States.
Questioned about incentives, officials at dozens of other large corporations said they owed it to shareholders to maximize profits. Many emphasized that they employ thousands of Americans who pay taxes and spend money in the local economy.
For government officials like Bobby Hitt of South Carolina, the incentives are a good investment that will raise tax revenues in the long run.
"I don't see it as giving up anything," said Mr. Hitt, who worked at BMW in the 1990s and helped it win $130 million from South Carolina.
Today, Mr. Hitt is the state's secretary of commerce. South Carolina recently took on a $218 million debt to assist Boeing's expansion there and offered the company tax breaks for 10 years.
Mr. Hitt, like most political officials, has a short-term mandate. It will take years to see whether the state's bet on Boeing bears fruit.
In Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican in his first term, has been working to eliminate most business tax credits but is bound by past awards. The state gave General Motors $779 million in credits in 2009, just a month after the company received a $50 billion federal bailout and decided to close seven plants in Michigan.
G.M. can use the credits to offset its state tax bill for up to 20 years. "You don't know who will take a credit or when," said Doug Smith, a senior official at the state's economic development agency. "We may give a credit to G.M., and they might not take it for three years or 10 years or more."
One corporate executive, Donald J. Hall Jr. of Hallmark, thinks business subsidies are hurting his hometown, Kansas City, Mo., by diverting money from public education. "It's really not creating new jobs," Mr. Hall said. "It's motivated by politicians who want to claim they have brought new jobs into their state."
For Mr. Hall and others in Kansas City, the futility of free-flowing incentives has been underscored by a border war between Kansas and Missouri.
Soon after Kansas recruited AMC Entertainment ith a $36 million award last year, the state cut its education budget by $104 million. AMC was moving only a few miles, across the border from Missouri. Workers saw little change other than in commuting times and office décor. A few months later, Missouri lured Applebee's eadquarters from Kansas.
"I just shake my head every time it happens, it just gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach," said Sean O'Byrne, the vice president of the Downtown Council of Kansas City. "It sounds like I'm talking myself out of a job, but there ought to be a law against what I'm doing."
Outgunned by Companies
For local governments, incentives have become the cost of doing business with almost every business. The Times found that the awards go to companies big and small, those gushing in profits and those sinking in losses, American companies and foreign companies, and every industry imaginable.
Workers are a vital ingredient in any business, yet companies and government officials increasingly view the creation of jobs as an expense that should be subsidized by taxpayers, private consultants and local officials said.
Even big retailers and hotels, whose business depends on being in specific locations, bargain for incentives as if they can move anywhere. The same can be said for many movie productions, which almost never come to town without local subsidies.
When Oliver Stone made the 2010 sequel to "Wall Street," in his mind there was only one place to shoot it: New York City. Nonetheless, the film, a scathing look at bankers' greed, received $10 million in tax credits, according to 20th Century Fox.
In an interview, Mr. Stone criticized subsidies for industries like banking and agriculture but defended them for Hollywood, saying that many movies can be shot anywhere and that their actors and crew members pay state income taxes. "It's good," Mr. Stone said of the film subsidies. "Or like basically the way business is done. I don't understand what the moral qualm is."
The practical consequences can be easily seen. The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative group, found that the amount New York spends on film credits every year equals the cost of hiring 5,000 public-school teachers.
Nationwide, billions of dollars in incentives are being awarded as state governments face steep deficits. Last year alone, states cut public services and raised taxes by a collective $156 billion, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning advocacy group.
Incentives come in many forms: cash grants and loans; sales tax breaks; income tax credits and exemptions; free services; and property tax abatements. The income tax breaks add up to $18 billion and sales tax relief around $52 billion of the overall $80 billion in incentives.
Collecting data on property tax abatements is the most difficult because only a handful of states track the amounts given by cities and counties. Among them is New York, where businesses save an estimated $1.1 billion a year in property taxes. The American International Group, the insurance company at the center of the 2008 financial crisis, continued to benefit from a $23.8 million abatement from New York City at the same time it was being bailed out with $180 billion in federal money.
Since 2000, The New York Times Company has received more than $24 million from the city and state.
In some places, local officials have little choice but to answer the demands of corporations.
"They dictate their terms, and we're not really in a position to question their deal terms," Sarah Eckhardt, a commissioner in Travis County, Tex., said of companies she has dealt with recently, including Apple and Hewlett-Packard . "We don't have the sophistication or the resources to negotiate with a company that has the wherewithal the size of a country. We are just no match in negotiating with that."
Local officials can find themselves across the table from conglomerates like Shell Oil and Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction equipment.
Shell has been offered a tax credit worth as much as $1.6 billion over 25 years from Pennsylvania, which competed with West Virginia and Ohio for an energy production facility. Royal Dutch Shell, the parent company, made $31 billion in profits in 2011 — about $3.5 million every hour. The company's chief executive made $13.1 million last year, according to Equilar, an executive compensation firm. Pennsylvania predicts that the plant will create thousands of long-term jobs, but it did not require them in exchange for the tax credit.
Caterpillar has received more than $196 million in local aid nationwide since 2007, though it has chastised states, particularly its home base, Illinois, for not being business-friendly. This year, Caterpillar announced a new plant in Georgia, which offered $44 million in incentives. Local counties chipped in free land and other aid, including $15 million in tax breaks and $8.2 million in road, water and sewer repairs.
The company, whose profits are soaring, recently froze workers' pay for six years at several locations, arguing that it needed to remain competitive. A spokesman for the company, Jim Dugan, said it employed more than 50,000 people and invested billions of dollars nationwide.
Local officials typically have scant information about the track record of corporations, like whether they lived up to job assurances elsewhere. And some officials acknowledged that they did not know to what extent incentives were a deciding factor for companies.
"I don't know that there's a way to know other than talking to the businesses, and the businesses telling us that that was a factor in creating jobs," said Ken Striplin, the city manager of Santa Clarita, Calif., which gives tax breaks in a designated enterprise zone. "There's no box that says 'I would have created this job without the enterprise zone.' "
California is one of the few states that have been cutting back on incentives. But that does not mean its cities are following suit. When Twitter threatened to leave San Francisco last year, officials scrambled to assuage the company.
Twitter was not short on money — it soon received a $300 million investment from a Saudi prince and $800 million from a private consortium. The two received Twitter equity, but San Francisco got a different sort of deal.
The city exempted Twitter from what could total $22 million in payroll taxes, and the company agreed to stay put. The city estimates that Twitter's work force could grow to 2,600 employees, although the company made no such promise.
A Twitter spokeswoman said the company was "very happy to have been able to stay in San Francisco." City officials did not respond to inquiries.
Like many places, San Francisco has been cutting its budget. Public parks have lost about $12 million in recent years, though workers at Twitter will not lack for greenery. The company's plush new office has a rooftop garden with great views and amenities. Enjoying the perks, one employee sent out a tweet: "Tanned on Twitter's new roof deck this morning as some dude served me smoothie shots. This is real life?"
A Zero-Sum Game
It was the company every state had to have. In 1985, General Motors was looking for a spot to manufacture its Saturn, a new compact car that would compete with Japanese imports and create thousands of American jobs.
Incentives were not in wide use, and several states had only recently begun to allow more of them.
In fact, when G.M. announced the search, its chairman, Roger Smith, said the perks would not be a predominant factor. "Tax breaks can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," Mr. Smith told The Detroit Free Press. He said G.M. planned to avoid states that had large debts or lackluster schools.
Undeterred, some 30 states stepped forward in what became a full-out competition. One official, Bill Clinton, then the governor of Arkansas, traveled to Detroit offering income tax credits and sales tax exemptions worth nearly $200 million.
Mr. Smith essentially kept his word and chose Tennessee, which had put together a relatively small package. Reid Rundell, a retired G.M. executive, said in a recent interview that it had come down to geography. "The primary factor was distribution for incoming parts, as well as outgoing vehicles," Mr. Rundell said.
But the gates had been opened. In 1992, South Carolina lured BMW ith a $130 million package; the next year, Alabama got Mercedes-Benz t a price tag that topped $300 million.
"What the auto incentives did back then was really raise the profile of economic incentives both within companies, in government and in the public's eye," said Mark Sweeney, who worked for the South Carolina Commerce Department in the 1990s and now advises companies on obtaining government grants.
By 1993, governors were regaling one another at a national conference with stories of deals beyond the auto industry, including a recent bidding war for United Airlines hat drew more than 90 cities. The airline had set up negotiations in a hotel, and its representatives ran floor to floor comparing bids, said Jim Edgar, then the governor of Illinois.
Mr. Edgar said he had called for a truce, concerned that the practice was unfair to companies that did not receive incentives. But many states would not sign on, he said, particularly those in the South, where businesses were moving.
"If you've got some states doing it, it's hard for the others not to do it," Mr. Edgar said. "It's like unilaterally disarming."
Soon after, economists at Federal Reserve branches were questioning the use of incentives. One, in Minnesota, used mathematical proofs and game theory to show that competition between states did not increase overall economic value. Several other economists have since called the practice a zero-sum game.
A group of taxpayers in Michigan and Ohio went as far as suing DaimlerChrysler after Ohio and the City of Toledo awarded the automaker $280 million in the late 1990s. The suit argued that it was unfair for one taxpayer to be given a break at the expense of all others.
The suit made its way to the Supreme Court, and G.M. and Ford signed on to briefs supporting Daimler, as did local governments. The National Governors Association warned the court that prohibiting incentives could lead to jobs moving overseas. "This is the economic reality," the association said in a brief.
The governors offered no hard evidence of the effectiveness of tax credits, but the Supreme Court did not consider whether they worked anyway. In 2006, the court concluded that the taxpayers did not have the legal standing to challenge Ohio's tax actions in federal court.
The tab for auto incentives has grown to $13.9 billion since 1985, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit group in Ann Arbor, Mich. G.M., the top recipient, was awarded $3.3 billion of the aid. Since 1979, automakers also closed more than 267 plants in the United States, about half of which still sit empty, according to the center.


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Activists rap Rauner's let-people-decide view on gay marriage
BY NATASHA KORECKI AND ZACH BUCHHEIT Sun-Times Reporters June 6, 2013 6:23PM
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As he announced his run for governor this week, venture capitalist Bruce Rauner said the best way to deal with the same-sex marriage question is by taking it out of the hands of the Legislature and putting the question to the people. However, there's a major problem with going that route, according to gay rights activists. A people's initiative on an Illinois ballot would do nothing. But getting a constitutional amendment question on the ballot would mean putting the question right back to state lawmakers who failed to call the measure for a vote last week. "The only way there can be a ballot initiative is an advisory referendum, which would not be binding," said Camilla Taylor, senior staff attorney with Lambda Legal, which has been in the thick of the legal and legislative battles to legalize same sex marriage. "It's simply a statement of desire on the part of the voters for the Legislature to do something." There is a way to amend the constitution — through the General Assembly. "The only way to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot is by passing both houses with a three-fifths majority," Taylor said. If that passed both houses by a super majority it then would go to voters. That's not what gay rights groups are seeking since they are in the thick of a legal fight that argues the constitution does allow for same-sex marriages in Illinois. "He's for letting the voters decide, and you wrote there are actually two ways to put it to voters," said Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf in a follow-up email. "Not sure how that's inconsistent, but his focus is on improving Illinois' job climate, cleaning up Springfield and improving education." The same-sex marriage question continues to dog Rauner even as he refuses to divulge his own position and tries to change the subject. Support for the hot-button issue could drive away the more conservative faction of the party in a contested Republican primary. That faction already drove out its former GOP chair after he announced his support for gay marriage. Rauner said earlier this week that he's toured the state and people were concerned about education, the economy and jobs. "My view is irrelevant," Rauner told the Sun-Times on Wednesday about his personal view on same sex marriage. "Why does that matter?" During a press availability in Peoria on Thursday, a Sun-Times reporter asked Rauner where he stood on gay marriage. "Should Illinois legalize gay marriage?" the reporter called out. Rauner responded: "I guess we're done," and walked away from the podium, taking no more questions.


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Possible manipulation around OOXML process in Poland
[ Thursday, 27 March 2008, michuk ]
This is a follow-up post to my recent report on OOXML process in Poland. It looks like things are going bad this time. At least as bad as in September.
We have already mentioned the letter from Tomasz Schweitzer, president of PKN in which he asked KT 182 (techical committee reposnsible for OOXML standarization process in Poland) to "abstain from voting" in case of not achieving a consensus over OOXML during the (Thursday's) meeting. Here is an (translated) extract from the letter, again:
[…]Polish stance on OOXML should be a result of a consensus, that is no significant opposition from any interestedparty. I believe that in the existing situation, the most fair and neutral decision KT 182 could make is to abstain from voting. I would like to however emphasize once again that the final decision belongs to the committee.
The letter was sent on February 26, 2008 to KT 182 chairman, Elżbieta Andrukiewicz and was supposed to be distributed among the KT 182 members (it was addressed to the chairman and all the members). However, a source close to KT 182 releveled that no one in the committee knew about the letter since Andrukiewicz didn't even bother informing the members about the letter and replied to Schweitzer on her own. The PKN president was so surprised that Andrukiewicz decided not to distribute it that he made the letter available on the Internet (here is the original [in Polish]). As far as I know such situation is a precedence in 84-year history of PKN.
Just to remind you, on Thursday's meeting 12 members voted for OOXML, 10 members voted against it and 2 abstained from voting. As the consensus has not been achieved, Andrukiewicz decided that the voting should continue by e-mail and all the missing members should be allowed to vote. What she did not mention is that if the missing members fail to send her an e-mail with their stance, it will be automatically assumed they vote yes. This is one of the crazy rules of PKN process of opinioning new ISO standards.
Am I the only one who thinks this process is seriously flawed?
Following the meeting, more interesting stuff took place. The IBM representative for KT 182 accused Andrukiewicz of intentionally manipulating the process. He claimed that the fact of not revealing the letter could influence the members voting and the process in general. It's not the only accusation, though. Andrukiewicz, while presenting the results of the Geneva Ballot Resolution Meeting on OOXML, presented the same slides the delegate from Brazil wrote about in his summary of the BRM:
Mr Barta informed Mr. Oh (the secretary of SC34, from Japan, author of that slide and the person that was presenting it) that that slide and those numbers SHALL NEVER leave that room, because they didn't summarize nor represent the results of the meeting. The slide didn't also explain the process used by the meeting so it is meaningless to the people that wasn't at the BRM.
In general the slides presented a false impression of the results of the BRM, claiming that 98% of the OOXML issues have been resolved during the meeting which is obviously not true. What is even more interesting is the real author of the slides. An anonymous KT 182 member confirmed that basing on the properties of the PowerPoint file which the members received, the author is Raul Pesch, Platform Strategy Manager, Microsoft Nederland.
Andrukiewicz obviously did not agree with the charges and, amazingly threatened to sue anyone who distributes these accusations. I'm waiting for my lawsuit to arrive any time now
It's also worth mentioning that the European Commission is currently investingating the Polish OOXML standarization process. Schewitzer, PKN's president has been already questioned by the EU representative. There has been already doubts about the process last year (after moving the OOXML case from KT171 to KT182 for unknown reasons), when the EU representative called the process "according to the rules but certainly not fair".
To sum things up:
- The letter from PKN recommending KT to abstain has been kept secret.
- Currenlty there is no (required) concensus about OOXML in KT182 (unless you count the missing votes as conciously accepting the recommendation, which seems like absurd reasoning).
- There is still no official decision of PKN concerning the OOXML (but one can easily predict it…)
- A couple of lawsuits are possibly on the way
- EU investigation is in place
Be sure I will pass more info as soon as I know anything more.
Update 28.03.2008: It's official: Poland confirms its approval for OOXML in ISO. Game over.
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You are doing a fine job in keeping everyone informed. Thanks for the information and keep it up!
Good luck!
It's corporate zombies like Elżbieta Andrukiewicz who f*ck up everything for the rest of us.
Good luck to all digital age martyr.
God speed to michuk for taking such a brave step !! Kudos !! Let everyone be inspired by him
If we are to prevent this sort of corruption from becoming the norm in future, criminal investigations and prosecutions to the full extent of the law are requited – including those of Microsoft employees and associates who were involved in organizing or paying for it.
Yes, good work Michuk, and great site Borys!
As SM says further investigation into such improprieties and I would go so far as to say criminal activities are needed and the full weight of the law brought to bear on the transgressors is needed.
MS I believe is up to its dirty old tricks again, when did it ever stop, indeed.
Wow, I had no idea Linux was so popular in Poland. Keep up the great work!
It's becoming increasingly clear that the DIS 29500 process has been irrevocably subverted by corporate corruption. Microsoft is going to put however much money it takes into the pockets of its newfound allies, and bully everyone else, until it has a shiny new "ISO Standard" that it can use to bully prospective victims with and keep those it already has locked in.
The Republic is dead. Welcome to the Evil Empire, folks. Bend over and spread them nice and wide, because that 4×6 is coming. I am increasingly convinced that our only real hope is to wait until businesses recognize how badly they've been screwed and start looking for alternatives…probably around the coming of the new millenium.
In the meantime, we should focus our open-standards efforts on NGOs and end users, and those few, heroic governments that refuse to knuckle under and pay the protection racket. There's absolutely no valid reason an office suite should cost more than the hardware it runs on – yet that's the edge of where we are now, and in another year or two, that will be the "mainstream".
This will pass in its own due time (how many out there have seen WordPerfect or WordStar documents lately?)
"The more you squeeze, Mr. Bill (Gates), the more systems will slip through your fingers."
Threating with lawsuit is forbidden in Poland, especially if the threat is used to discourage something legal, like in your case. SHE should be sued!
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Preds travel into hostile territory to take on Anaheim
The Nashville Predators head into Anaheim tonight to take on the Ducks, who have quickly become the new nemesis around Pred nation. Nashville defeated the Ducks on Oct. 29 at Bridgestone Arena by a score of 3-0 in a game where physicality was plentiful.
Simply put, these two teams aren't very fond of each other. Anaheim still has a bad taste in their mouths from the playoffs last spring. Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf expressed his distaste against Jordin Tootoo after the Preds 3-0 win on Oct. 29 by accusing Tootoo of diving.
The fact of the matter is that the Ducks have 135 penalty minutes against Nashville since the beginning of last April's playoff series until now. In that same period of time, the Preds have 83 penalty minutes against the Ducks. Former Predators defenseman Shane O'Brien accounted for 14 of those 83 penalty minutes for the Preds. It may be time for the Ducks to stop complaining and look in the mirror.
Nashville is coming off of a 4-3 loss in Los Angeles last night. Anders Lindback made his first start of the year, and the Patric Hornqvist scored a goal for the sixth consecutive game.
David Legwand is expected to miss tonight's game against Anaheim, but Sergei Kostitsyn is expected to play. One would assume that Pekka Rinne would be making the start in goal for the Predators tonight.
Anaheim has a 5-6-3 record on the year so far and have lost five games in a row. Teemu Selanne leads the team in points with 14, and Bobby Ryan only has six points in 14 games played.
It should be an intense game once again between these two teams with lots of extra curricular activity after the whistle. The fans at the Honda Center will be revved up for this game given that the Predators eliminated the Ducks last year.
My player to watch for the Ducks is Corey Perry. He's a big offensive threat, but he also does a lot of things after the play is over to try and get under the skin of his opponents. Watch Perry after the whistle is blown tonight.
For Nashville, my player to watch is Shea Weber. Weber only has one goal in 14 games this year. Teams are trying to take away his shot, and they've been doing a pretty good job. However, Weber has too much firepower for that trend to continue. Look for him to score a goal tonight.
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