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Hello! Still here! Surface 2! Way better than iPad! says slightly desperate Microsoft
Microsoft has attempted to revive the fortunes of its ailing fondleslab Surface 2 with a comparative ad campaign that pits the blue tablet against the latest iPad. In a pair of YouTube polemics, Redmond tells the world exactly what the iPad doesn't have: a kickstand, hands-free gestures and a way of monitoring your kids' online …
The real Microsoft would have demonstrated how flexible and less restricted it was compared to Apple.
But it seems Microsoft wants to be Apple.
The 27% market share figure was for the period just before the new iPad Air and Mini Retina came out - will be interesting to compare last quarter 2013 figures.
The equivalently-priced Surface isn't more flexible or less restricted than the iPad — all apps have to come from Microsoft's storefront with Microsoft's blessing.
Based on price, Apple's competitor to the Surface Pro is the MacBook Air, which again is pretty much exactly as flexible and unrestricted.
Every time I see the term "Surface 2" I'm reminded of the time this guy needed, err, 2
Microsoft: "what does it take, you guys?"
Something you can't possibly deliver: an OS other than Windows.
Now now
Will Apple now follow suit and discuss the pitfalls of Surface ownership.
Air versus Surface
As we all know the surface will corrode and wear, whereas Air flow
Yes, RT2 is more flexible than the iPad
For $500 US I have a 96 GB tablet (thanks to the SD card slot) with a built in USB port that lets me attach a wired keyboard ($15), a USB wireless keyboard ($35), wired printers, wired or wireless mice...
Listen to music...I don't have to go through iTunes.
Watch movies...again, I don't have to go through iTunes.
My Surface 2 that I purchased 6 weeks ago died a month after I'd purchased it and I exchanged it for an iPad mini retina with a cover (the Surface 2 was sold out). The only thing I preferred on the iPad was the availability of Shadowrun and a few other games. The mini's retina display DOESN'T look better in usage to the Surface 2 display.
Ah yes the iPad killer that requires a kickstand and a cover come keyboard to be of any use...
Classic Microsoft they just miss the point completely. They make a tablet and then recommend putting it on it's kick stand? I may as well buy a better spec'd laptop for the price they want for one of these things.
I use my iPad almost exclusively with the cover acting as a (crap) stand, for watching Netflix. Many others do the same. A stand is not just for typing Word Docs :)
The on-screen keyboards (qwerty, handwriting, split keyboard) work fine, and the cover-keyboard wraps around the back with less effort than it takes to pull it off - them magnets are surprisingly strong.
"I use my iPad almost exclusively with the cover acting as a (crap) stand, for watching Netflix."
For the $500 you spent on an iPad, you could have bought a TV...
That's the point so many people (including Microsoft) miss about the iPad:
It is a TV. A really little one, easily portable, with excellent battery life, and a whole bunch of added functionality thrown in. But at heart, a TV. Not a computer.
That's why you don't need to spend half your life updating, scanning and rebooting it. You just switch it on and select what you want to watch/play/read/hear right now, and you're good to go.
Compare that with booting a typical Windows laptop, with all its run-on-startup crapware, virus scans, auto-updates to about 23 different applications... you're doing well if you can actually get it to register a keypress within the first five minutes. An iPad is ready to go within seconds.
>>For the $500 you spent on an iPad, you could have bought a TV...
Yes I could, if I wanted a worse solution. I can't take a TV to watch in the bath or in bed without waking the wife.
You, obviously have not used a Surface 2 then. There's no "booting a typical Windows laptop, with all its run-on-startup crapware, virus scans, auto-updates to about 23 different applications... you're doing well if you can actually get it to register a keypress within the first five minutes" - Surface 2 uses an ARM processor.
Surface is ready to go within seconds. Go watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1b0yBJHLM - iPad is a toy. Microsoft's problem here is their name... it's very tarnished, and that's enough for a lot of people to totally disregard the Surface 2 without even taking a look at it.
>Compare that with booting a typical Windows laptop, with all its run-on-startup crapware, virus scans,
>auto-updates to about 23 different applications... you're doing well if you can actually get it to register
>a keypress within the first five minutes. An iPad is ready to go within seconds.
I'm guessing you haven't used a windows laptop for a while.
My ultrabook resumes from sleep as soon as I open the lid and is ready for me to type a password. And then it 's ready to go. And it boots from cold in less than 15 seconds.
The article is about the Surface 2, not a laptop. And even at that, most Windows laptops boot inside 8 seconds these days. Surface 2 is about 8 seconds from cold boot and 2 from standby. And if you have automatic updates switched on you don't need to do anything but reboot it over a 3 day period whenever suits you.
Might want to check facts before posting but from an Apple fan I suppose you can't expect anything other than blinkered devotion.
So is the Surface 2. In your rant you explained perfectly why I prefer the Surface RT2 to the Pro. It doesn't run legacy Windows, but it runs Netflix fine, plays music and videos stored on my 64GB sd card fine, gets mail, checks facebook, browses the web (IE 11 better than any browser on iOS), has a great tablet interface (tiles), comes with 2GB system ram for when I want a ton of apps open and I don't want to feel like the tablet is chugging along.
I don't want Windows legacy code on my tablet, but since there isn't a touch version of Office I understand why Microsoft included the regular office with Surface RT. $15 keyboard via usb and I can type occasionally.
"Hey kids, do you like Chimpokomon?"
"Well you're going to love, Microsoft Surface"
On the one hand, I have to respect Microsoft for coming out and saying "we do this, and the iPad doesn't do it as well." I think companies that refuse to name their competition or competitor's products aren't worth any respect at all.
On the other hand, there's nothing about Surface that is remotely enough to get me to switch from Android.
Worse, buying a Surface would be validating Microsoft's end-user hostile moves, inability to listen to buyers and all the bad decisions that led to the creation of this device. Morally, I just can't bring myself to do that. Microsoft's endpoint people need a lesson in humility. The day they make VDI licencing sane, I'll know they've learned it.
Actually I think the opposite. I think a company that does name their competitors in an attempt to belittle them is a company that is acknowledging that their competitor is far in front saleswise, while a company who doesn't name their competitor is one that knows it doesn't need to because it's so far into the lead it's not worth it.
It would have been better for Microsoft to shut up and concentrate on promoting their own products instead of just confirming to everyone that the likes of Apple and Google are far far more popular.
And this is coming from a man who likes Microsoft's products.
Some people take that view. I prefer to see head-to-head comparisons. Hear claims that can be challenged. If you believe in your product, then stand by it! If you believe you're better than the next guy, say why and defend that position!
I simply don't believe in the totally arbitrary social rules of "don't mention the competition". If you have a comparison to make, make it, make it well and stand by it. Not that Microsoft did a particularly good job, but in my opinion they raised valid points worth considering.
Commerce isn't a gentleman's game. It's a fight to the death. If you think I should give you my favour over the next guy, show me why.
This isn't to say your view is invalid. It is just representative, I think, of a different time. I am going to do research on all products available. Marketing by saying "here are the things to care about in our product" isn't really helping me. Telling me "here's why we're better than the other guys" cuts to the threat of the matter and speeds my decision making quite a bit.
Better yet, get your product in front of multiple independent types to do comparisons and tell me the results - good and bad - so that I can decide for myself, and do it as quickly and efficiently as possible.
I'm just too busy for the game of parsing mealy-mouthed platitudes from multiple vendors, sorting through the noise and comparing apples to footballs. I think successful marketing to today's busy people would provide comparisons as a service.
Truth be told, however, I'd give anything to go back to an era where things were slower and everything was less cut-throat...
@Trevor Pott
"I think companies that refuse to name their competition or competitor's products aren't worth any respect at all."
That, by long-standing advertising convention, is exactly backwards. You only mention the competition when you're in a secondary position, i.e. you're trying to eat some of their lunch because you can't find your own lunch in the market.
Market leaders, either actual or self-perceived, do not do competitors service by naming them, ever.
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All social mores evolve. This is one I happen to believe serves no purpose in the modern world.
The internet arrived and the world changed. Now people research their purchases before making them. You are either ready to deal with that reality or you aren't. Dealing with it means being able to stand up to both direct and indirect comparison.
You'll win on some aspects and lose on others. It's in acknowledging that and saying "no one size fits all, but we think we have the best balance of price/features/support/etc for our target market" that you earn my respect.
I recognize that my views may not be mainstream on this, but they are carefully reasoned and unlikely to change if the only rationale presented is repeated assertion of extant convention.
"On the other hand, there's nothing about Surface that is remotely enough to get me to switch from Android."
Tho i generally enjoy your articles Trevor, and most would agree they have respect for your opinion, I can not agree with this!
Android for business is just a mess. The best advice taht anyone can give is Don't Bother! Droid tabs are as bad as iToy for anything other than playing shitty games or trying to show off some crap app or another.
Surface, for business, is worthless too.
For business use I need something with a real keyboard that will give me at least 12 hours of RDP over WiFi and/or word processor usage. I see little-to-no business benefit from fondleslabs, certainly I see none over the Galaxy Note 2 I carry around with me everywhere.
If I were hot and bothered about being able to paw at some glass like a primitive for work purposes, I would use an iPad. It has rather more applications and a decent office package, at least as far as "use by glass-pawing primitives" goes.
Fondleslabs are inherently content consumption devices. At which point one is pretty much as good as the next, with the app ecosystem making the real world difference. Surface is a fondleslab with a terrible ecosystem and it's a damned shitty attempt to replace a netbook/ultrabook.
I think, for business use, I'll stick with my Lenovo x230 and the 18 hours of RDP I get out of it with both batteries in. For everything else, there's my Note 2.
I have both + a netbook.
A Surface (original) and a Nexus 7.
I use the Surface to watch Netflix or to check my work email. I have used the office apps a few times but my Netbook blows it away. The surface with crappy keyboard is too top heavy and floppy to use well in a lap, you need a desk, then you only get one angle, and the keyboard is still crap.
As a tablet it's too big and heavy and there are next to nothing in the app store. On the go the Nexus 7 kicks it's ass.
So the surface ends up as a crappy laptop substitute, and OK Netflix screen, and a crappy tablet.
I prefer to see head-to-head comparisons
but there's no way you're going to get a head-to-head comaprison in an advert that is focused on pointing out only what is wrong with the competition's product and only what is good about their own.
head-to-head comparisons are what you get from (hopefully) unbiased reviews.
so for advertising, it's better if each company just concentrates on extoiling the virtues of their products, that way, you can watch both and do your own head-to-head comparison.
I disagree. I've seen some advertising that's done head-to-head comparisons and highlighted independent reviews. I've seen companies do this well...and companies fail.
Microsoft did not do it well in these ads. They are less "vicious attack ads" than the Scroogle set, but they still are not doing the "here's our competitors, here's us, you decide" trick quite right.
That's the thing. I've seen advertisements where A is openly shown against B and pointing done to independent reviews that can back up what was just shown. That is the sort of advertisement that truly gets my respect. They are rare as hen's teeth, but they happen.
Microsoft looks like they're trying to get there. Sort of. For that, they get a little bit of respect. But...they can't quite seem to make it. Like everything Microsoft's advertising group does they miss the mark and just come off as awkward.
For me, when I see a vendor putting their product up against a competitor and saying "here's where we're better" I know what they honestly think are the winning features. Even in the terrible Microsoft ads. It gives me a clearer view on where that company sees themselves differentiating than anything else they could run in that ad slot.
I don't sanction "attack ads." But I deeply respect honest comparisons.
Edited to add: also, do you know how hard the concept of "unbiased" reviews is? I make a living to them and you lot tear me a new arsehole regularly when I dare say something nice about a product/company you hate or dare criticise a product/company you love. No matter how unbiased the review (or the reviewer) the biases of the viewer will always colour perception.
> Commerce isn't a gentleman's game. It's a fight to the death.
Most competitors know that co-operation is valuable. They rely on providing better services and products to grow rather than tearing down the market and trying to kill competitors with price-wars or other destructive methods.
Microsoft, however, does not just want to win, it wants to make everyone else fail. It doesn't do that with better products, it does it, or at least has done it in the past, with abusive contracts, predatory pricing (such as 'loyalty' discounts) and by 'partnerships' that turn out to be one-way.
Remember the "I'm a Mac / I'm a PC ads?" At least Microsoft are concentrating on the products and not a veiled ad hominem attack.
reason d'etre ...
Hey Trevor ,
"Better yet, get your product in front of multiple independent types to do comparisons and tell me the results - good and bad - so that I can decide for myself, and do it as quickly and efficiently as possible. "
Isn't that the point of a website like " The register " to act as a neutral technical instructed arbiter/adviser.
and not as a pub-magazine just posting what the marketing department of this big OEM's want the end user to belief ...
Re: reason d'etre ...
"a pub-magazine just posting what the marketing department of this big OEM's want the end user to belief"
Yeah, that's opposite of what we do.
Re: reason d'etre ...
Did...did you just say I write what big corporate want me to write? For example, Microsoft?
You're a tool. Demonstrably.
This has always been the MS way...
Well at least during the Ballmer era anyway.
Instead of putting the immense resources available into trying to make better products that the competitors, MS, well Ballmer anyway, spends more time trying to body-slam the competition than outplay them.
He laughed at iphone. Instead he should have pulled his arrogant head out of his donkey and tried to build something better.
He has had a complete obsession with taking the fight to Google. Instead he should be ignoring Google and trying to make better services & products.
The bully-boy mentality has always suited the kid with muscle but no talent.
Re: reason d'etre ...
Actually Trevor I think that very fair comment was directed at The Register. you didn't write the article did you? You have s fair mind and intelligence so you would be barred from writing for this site.
Re: Re: reason d'etre ...
Trevor's behaviour on the site led us to ban him...
So, I'm missing something here, Hooksie. Call it a misinterpretation.
Let's pick your comment apart some, shall we?
"Actually Trevor"
This says Trevor. I'm going to assume it's directed at me. I don't see any other Trevors around.
"I think that very fair comment was directed at The Register."
No, it's really not. There's no evidence presented. Just mud flinging from someone with some bent feelers.
"you didn't write the article did you?"
Um, actually, I'd have to check on that...nope, this is one of Jasper Hamill's. He's a nice chap, by the way. Head glued on straight, sharp as a tack. I think you'd like him. Unless, you know, you're crazy. I think you'd have to be crazy not to like the guy.
"You have s fair mind"
I'm going to presume that the stray "s" is supposed to be an "a". They're close together on the keyboard, that could be a typo. I am unsure what "a fair mind" is, but I am going to choose to believe you mean that I am fair and objective. I'll take that as a compliment, I put a crazy amount of effort into this.
"and intelligence"
"so you would be barred from writing for this site."
Wait...what? You've completely lost me here. (And we were getting along so well!) You see, I think you're trying to say two things here. First, that The Register would not let me write for them. Secondly, that The Register would not hire someone fair, objective and intelligent to write for them.
Okay, let's address that in two parts.
1) I have been writing for The Register for almost 4 years. While I'm sure there are some there who are not exactly fond of me, I'm going to go with "they'll let chumps like me scratch aimlessly at the walls and push publish."
2) The Register loves fair, objective and intelligent people. While I personally do - and have, loudly - dispute the objectivity (or fairness) of some writers as relates to certain topics, there is absolutely no form of downward editorial control from on high saying "believe this, write this, act in this fashion."
The mere fact that I can mix it up with other writers - even editors - about things should prove the diversity of opinion encouraged. I get into it with other writers about everything. From the lobotomy-friendly climate denying that some choose to engage in to the ultra-capitalist diminution of human beings into "capital resources" to who should be the next CEO for Microsoft. (Nadella or bust!)
That's part and parcel of being a good news organization. Differing opinions are allowed. No "party line" exists. And nobody is a shill for any company.
I have written about companies I am involved with. When I do so, I post a disclaimer about that. Examples are here and here. Am I a shill now? How about if I told you that the about page on my personal website contains a disclaimer section that is up front about any possible sources of bias that might affect my writing? Am I still a shill?
I think you should read up some on the concept of brand tribalism. It is entirely possible that your concept of who is (and is not) a shill is being influenced by your own personal preferences regarding brands/companies/products and so forth.
No writer is perfectly objective. Not me, not other El Reg writers, no one. But we try, damn it. If we are biased by anything it is all of the preconceived notions and prejudices that are encompassed within "a lifetime's worth of personal experiences". We are not shills because The Register gets paid to advertise on the web pages or other such silly nonsense. As writers, we're insulated from that crap by the excellent sales team that works at The Register.
If you want an example of this you need look no further than myself. Microsoft advertises with The Register on a regular basis. I'm sure you've seen the ads by now. I talk smack about them all the time and they deserve to have smack talked about them because they make stupid mistakes and piss off their customers, partners, employees and investors alike.
I also - just by the by - talk smack and take the piss out of anyone and everyone else too. Because, you see, I write for The Register.
...and we bite the hand that feeds IT.
You're right.
But Apple did the same thing with their desktop/laptop computer line. You know, Mac vs. PC.
Slabs v laptops
@Trevor_Pott - "Fondleslabs are inherently content consumption devices."
Pretty much exactly this. As a single device, I far prefer even my aging and slightly grumpy netbook. Yes, sometimes it's a bit unwieldy on the train, and it takes too long to boot and connect to 3G, but it's a damned sight easier to use when troubleshooting code or writing a report or even bashing out a long-winded post on El Reg. It's also good for a a quick (i.e. 3hr) Civ2 session.
Tablets and laptops are just different devices - as I constantly try to remind my clients when they complain that X/Y/Z doesn't work on their new shiny toy.
For my money, the battleground MS is fighting on just isn't relevant for me.
Re: reason d'etre ...
Trevor I was not saying that you are a corporate sponsored writer !!!
nor The Register .
I've started to see a couple of Surfaces in use by actual end-users. They always seem to be used as netbook-replacements, i.e. screen propped up and keyboard attached.
"I've started to see a couple of Surfaces in use by actual end-users. They always seem to be used as netbook-replacements, i.e. screen propped up and keyboard attached."
Something the iToy can dream of!
> Something the iToy can dream of!
You appear to be, yet again, completely uninformed.
You may be unaware of the concept, but it is called consumer choice.
Yup...and it can be a tablet too.
Aside from the games, and the availability of an iBank app, the Surface 2 is an excellent replacement for my iPad mini.
I prefer the latest scroogled ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2mqoDjQXI
Why? Don't you prefer ads that are witty, or funny, or don't leave you feeling sorry for the sad tone-deaf bastards who were falling off their over-stuffed boardroom chairs laughing so hard at their own lame knocking copy?
Actually I think the opposite. I think a company that does name their competitors in an attempt to belittle them is a company that is acknowledging that their competitor is far in front saleswise,
I agree. Instead of just ripping Apple / Google in their adverts give me a compelling reason to buy a surface give me a compelling reason to switch to live.c sorry outlook.com. Don't just say 'Google reads your email!!' and hide the fact that they hand over your data to the NSA without a fight...
It's pathetic behaviour of a company that's struggling for ideas. I like the concept of the surface and briefly had a Asus Transformer, but the hardware was poor and I took it back and I was tempted by the original surface, but the weight and the amount of space Windows took up on the basic model put me off straight away. Yes I know it has USB ports, but that makes it less mobile in my book.
Actually I think the opposite. I think a company that does name their competitors in an attempt to belittle them is a company that is acknowledging that their competitor is far in front saleswise, - or a company not afraid to stand up and say here's an alternative to established ideas! Interested, LEARN MORE!
I agree. Instead of just ripping Apple / Google in their adverts give me a compelling reason to buy a surface give me a compelling reason to switch to live.c sorry outlook.com. - Google reads your email to sell you like a street walker!
Don't just say 'Google reads your email!!' and hide the fact that they hand over your data to the NSA without a fight... - Unproven web bollox, not learned that yet? Your iToy not work?
It's pathetic behaviour of a company that's struggling for ideas. - you're cheap to a marketeer.
I like the concept of the surface and briefly had a Asus Transformer, but the hardware was poor and I took it back and I was tempted by the original surface, but the weight and the amount of space Windows took up on the basic model put me off straight away. - Meh! Rev1, what do you want.
Yes I know it has USB ports, but that makes it less mobile in my book. - iCloud for you then? W T F?
Who are they marketing it too? 1960s house wives?
"Who are they marketing it too? 1960s house wives?"
If so, you would not have purchased that iToy.
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- arugulafilesdc Aug 7, 2008 08:26 PM
I think it must be the crabcake at the Market Lunch @ Eastern Market.
re: CDouglas
Have you been recently? I'm scared about the recent posts of the slide for them. With the old chef, definitely agree.
re: CDouglas
I agree. The crab cake sandwich at CF Folks is great and not all that expensive. I did read that recent post about it going down hill (and I personally haven't eaten there in months...I live around the corner but work in Eastern Market so I don't get a chance to have lunch there unless I'm working from home or have a day off) but there was only one post about it and no one else mentioned a turn downhill. So I think it's still worth checking out.
re: CDouglas
I was there last summer and had the crab cake sandwich. It was totally inedible - a disgusting oily patty of bread and nasty crab meat.
I'm from MD and can appreciate all kinds of crab cakes, but this one didn't hit the mark in any kind of way. Also, my friend's Reuben was pretty disgusting too.
Perhaps things have turned around since then, but it was such a horrible experience that I can't bring myself to go back.
I hate to do this because I know it will elicit controversy, but The Oceanaire has really delicious crabcakes, no filler and excellent remoulade sauce. Chances that the crab is from the Chesapeake? About 0%....but these are some darned fine crabacakes.
I remember Bobby Flay doing one of this travel shows a few years ago, and the episode in DC featured the crabcakes at the Market Inn. I have not had them there. Anybody care to comment?
re: BigEats
The Market Inn is only worth going to for two things: she crab soup and the $4 happy hour drink specials. Everything else is Red Lobster quality seafood but with an upscale pricetag. If you want a sitdown seafood place, they're the only game in that part of town. Better off going to Maine Avenue and eating something standing up.
Don't know if it was Bobby Flay, but I did see Paula Deen's boys go to Market Inn on their show.
re: BigEats
The crab cake is decent enough at Market Inn but I find it on the small side (I get the sandwich usually) and it seems a little mushy at times. But I've had it a number of times. I personally prefer the crabcake sandwich at CF Folks more.
I love crabcakes and I have been to many many upscale restaurants but by far my favorite cake is from Legal Seafood in Bethesda - weird huh? It has got to be about 90% real crab and their mustard sauce is so good with it. I can't believe I haven't tasted another one better. Most places have too much breading or sauce. Although, I have been to Oceanaire but have never ordered a crabcake so maybe I will try their crabcake next time I go.
Speaking of, there is a Bobby's Crabcake in Rockville. Wonder if it is any good??
re: travelnurse74
Bobby's Crabcake in Rockville MD is excellent. Finally tried it 2 weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised. It was expensive for me, but for $16 or so, I got a crabcake on a sandwich, fries and coleslaw. Delicious in every respect though the cole slaw was fairly bland and needed a little more punch. I always eat my crabcakes with mustard and he brought out a HUGE amount when asked. Apparantly I'm the only one that ever asked him for it! Frenches, only Frenches.
Steve R
re: travelnurse74
I agree, Bobby's is one of the best around. Bu they aren't cheap.
I actually think the Clyde's-On-The-Walk in Gallery Place offers a great "value" crabcake. It is the regular crabcake on the restaurant menu, but only $7.50 at lunch time, and after 3 pm, they are are less than $5.
I don't know if its the absolute best in all of DC but the crab cake at Equinox was amazing. Also had a delicious crab cake at Majestic in Alexandria but I notice its not on their menu any longer.
Wondering if anyone else will chime in on this one:
my all-time best crabcake ever came from a little old lady in a one-person-sized trailer on the side of Indian Head Highway, and I can't say where because it's been years.
Handmade right then, an immense crab cake, huge lumps of crab, on a store-bought burger bun ... $5 or $6 (I told you it's been years) and even then I was amazed at the price.
re: wayne keyser
Truck is no longer there. They have cracked down on these types of operations -- including ribs and BBQ.


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Hi Richard, I just wanted to see if you might consider transferring the memorials to me of Henry Jackson Totty and his wife Mary Frances Scott 62836447. Mary Frances is my GGA. I have a handwritten letter from her father listing all the dates and places of birth and deaths of all his descendants that he could. I would love to be able to get this family all linked together. Their daughter Mamie Pearl Totty is a first cousin 2R. 67254985. Mary Frances is Scott is one of 18 children in that family. I have the information on all of them.
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Check your Joseph Walker Houk on Find A Grave at Mineral Creek. You will notice there is another Joseph Walker HouX. I knew this family, and Houx is the correct spelling of the name. You might check others you entered as Houk, and will probably want to update to the correct spelling. I'm looking at stones for Bernice Houx, Fannie Neil Houx, Jolee Frances Houx, Joseph, Joseph Lee Houx and wife Alice. Thanx for checking this out.
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Kenneth was my mother's uncle...the reason I am leaving you a message, is first to thank you for posting this picture of Kenneth, and also, to let you know he died in 1947. He was born 28 Feb 1903 to Andrew Jenkins McChesney and Olive Anna Briscoe, and died 9 April 1947 in Los Angeles county hospital in California.
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I deleted my memorials for Geraldine Holland Rode and Harry "Bud" Rode since Find a Grave never responded to my request to merge. I have also sent you edits to add relationship links.
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Thank you for your message. Yikes, I didn't know I created two same memorials for the above person. I deleted the one that had unknown dates. I believe I was having computer problems that day. Thank you so much for helping me out. I really do appreciate people like you keeping me on my toes lol :-) Have a blessed day.
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Here is an excerpt from what appears on 'the hill' website. Looks as though she is not committing to a lame duck session. what a joke. now i see why people are saying nothing until after january. and that will likely be even later than january, as little legislation gets passed for at least a month after a new president takes office. they are probably timing the passage of this stimulus after obama takes office so that they can 'showcase' what great things the dems are doing for the middle class. disgusting. letting one million unemployed people fall through the cracks, while giving wall street a trillion.
here's the excerpt:
"Pelosi said the package would be hammered out after various committees hold hearings in the coming weeks, adding that it may well exceed the $61 billion economic stimulus package that the House recently passed. That measure stalled in the Senate.
"We plan to go forward expeditiously but not hastily," Pelosi said.
The Speaker did not answer directly whether or not she will convene a lame-duck session of Congress following the Nov. 4 elections but indicated that it is a possibility.
"We will have the hearings and we'll see what they yield," she said. "We stand ready to take action when we are ready to do so."
what a joke. we plan to proceed expeditiously but not hastily. gee, they sure moved fast enough when wall street needed it. it took them only a week to authorize 700 billion!! and everyone has already forgotten that all this happened because the entire financial system was peopled by the morally corrupt.
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I have a feeling there will be no update on this new assistance for at least a month or more.
What sucks is that I certified today.. I will get my last check in a few days.. it's not even a normal, full check, it's just for one week of benefits. I have nothing left after this.
Neither candidate for president is a good one. We are presented with two crappy choices. Going to have to choose the "best" of the "worst".
At the Pelosi news conference today , usual talk about helping mainstreet..BUT
2 economists mentioned the Unemployed and Benefits.
The first was a ROBERT KUTTNER Senior Advisor of the DEMOS PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY GROUP who said help must go to the unemplyed who are losing and HAVE LOST their benefits. He said hearings should be held now so that the new president had all this set out before he came into office. Also this stimulus must be mostly for main street not wall street as the first one was aimed mainly at wall street.
The second was JARED BERNSTEIN,Senior Economist of the ECONOMIC POLICY INITIAVE who also said help must go to the unemployed. He then said that 800,000, the 13 week extension group, have JUST LOST their benefits, must ALSO BE covered in this new package. He said the rate of unemployment is 6.1% – but that that figure is WRONG – ITS REALLY OVER 11% counting those who have just run out of unemployment benefits.
None of Pelosi's other advisory economists mentioned the unemployed.
Perhaps we email or call and thank these 2 guys. It will keep them going for us.
Pelosi said the last stimulus was written by both parties and the republicans got the benefit. She said if the republicans again wanted to block THIS vote the democrats might as well write the package alone.
People are now trying for whatever reasons.
BUT, Pelosi, and Obama, and the economists like Rubin, Bernstein, Summers, Kuttner, Kruge, (who today won the Nobel Prize for economics), are part of OBAMA's team and are now advising Pelosi. ALL PUBLICLY TODAY CALLING FOR AN EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS—- its a big step forward.
what about nelp? how many members do they have? if congress were flooded with calls, that might change their mind about how urgent this matter is. why isn't there more outrage that congress gave all our money away to crooks, but is telling one million unemployed go to hell?
She really stuck it to us didn't she? Pretended to be for Main Street and she destroyed HR 6867's chances of passing, she wants that stimulus package and infostructure, when she said today that there will be a SERIES of meetings, I thought just as others here did, Oh Oh, not going to see anything until January, grrrrr!
the news media needs to know what is happening. nothing for one million unemployed with no income. if anyone here is in PR, please post your contact list so we can write and call…this is outrageous.
pelosi is waffling about whether a lame duck session of congress will even be called. my guess is that she struck a deal with the obama campaign to delay passage of the stimulus until AFTER he is in office. that way, they can say, "look what we did for the middle class".
the 11 million unemployed should march on washington.
Can't until 2010. Trust me if she was up for re-election we would ALL have the extension. And Sen. Allard blocking it in the Senate because he was retiring. My eyes have been truly opened over this last year and I don't like what I see at all. These people are ALL disgusting. I am not voting for Obama it is beyond low he is on the trail dangling extensions over our head for votes. And the Republicans are terrible too. We need a real 3rd party. I am beyond amazed and disgusted. Vote all serving members out. Political party should have nothing to do with it. And if people on here can't see what a shitty thing the Democrats and Obama are doing to the unemployed then you are truly blind. And make sure to thank Biden on the campaign trail for helping to lead the changes in the bankruptcy laws. I am now feeling truly hopeless and unless I get a job in the next month I will be homeless and have my own state congresswoman to thank for it. There is nothing left to even fight for my life is now beyond getting back.
got my last check this week. have no idea whether anyone will even return my calls … i can survive for a time, but not until january. i am loathe to look to ask anyone else for 'help'. UE in my area is probably (realistically) around 10+ percent. hope the wall street execs enjoy their catered lunches today. the stock market is up almost 700 points. of COARSE they are happy. and, yes, very aware what the Dems have done. pelosi had PLENTY of oportunity to make this happen and chose not to do so. i now wonder whether she was in contact with the obama campaign ages ago, and whether this was all planned (delay helping the middle class until after he is elected). am voting dem, but am not at all happy with them at the moment. they have some explaining to do. we have the biggest gap between rich and poor since 1929, and what do we do? give the 'haves't the keys to 'our' treasury.


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text: World View: Opening Rafah Border Key Goal of Hamas Print article Send a Tip by John J. Xenakis 1 Aug 2014 post a comment This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The Gaza ceasefire: Things to watch for Questions about the Palestinian delegation to the ceasefire talks The Rafah crossing becomes a major issue in the Gaza war Report: Hamas planned massive attack through tunnels on Israeli citizens The Gaza ceasefire: Things to watch for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon jointly announced on Thursday a 3-day ceasefire in the Gaza war, to begin on Friday morning. The ceasefire will allow time to provide humanitarian aid to Gazans. Israeli and Palestinian delegations will go immediately to Cairo Egypt, with the aim of reaching "a durable ceasefire." As I wrote yesterday, Israel and Hamas agree on very little, but one thing that they both agree on is that neither side will accept an agreement that restores the status quo ante. This observation leads to a number of issues and questions:. During the ceasefire, Israel's troops will remain in place in Gaza, according to the ceasefire announcement. However, the ceasefire statement left open the question of whether the Israeli army would continue military operations to destroy the Hamas tunnel network during the ceasefire. Israel's president Benjamin Netanyahu stated clearly, prior to the ceasefire announcement, that the army would continue these military operations "with or without a ceasefire." It's unclear whether Hamas was aware of these terms when they agreed to the ceasefire. It's also unclear what Hamas's reaction would be in case a Palestinian is accidentally killed during these military operations. The ceasefire announcement came several hours after Israel announced that it was calling up 16,000 more army reservists. It's unclear what role they'll have now. The "durable ceasefire" negotiations will begin as soon as all the parties arrive in Cairo. It's known that an Israeli delegation, a Palestinian delegation, the U.S., and Egypt will take part in the negotiations. BBC and Jerusalem Post Questions about the Palestinian delegation to the ceasefire talks It's not entirely clear what the makeup of the Palestinian delegation will be. The U.S. and Israel insist that Hamas, which is viewed as a terrorist group, must not be given the same status as the other parties, and so the U.S. and Israel will not sit at the same table as Hamas. However, recall that the Palestinians recently agreed to a "unity government," joining the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO/Fatah) and Hamas into a single government. The plan is for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to represent the unity government, including Hamas, as well as other Palestinian factions, such as Islamic Jihad. It will be interesting to see how that goes. Israel's committed military objectives are to totally disarm Hamas by destroying all the rockets and tunnels. Since those objectives will not be reached, will Israel agree to extending the ceasefire beyond 3 days, if it even lasts that long? And suppose by some miracle Israel succeeded in destroying every single rocket and every single tunnel. What would prevent Hamas from reconstructing them in the event of a permanent ceasefire? Reuters The Rafah crossing becomes a major issue in the Gaza war Hamas's committed objective is to get the "siege" lifted, which would permit people and goods to flow freely out of Gaza. There are a few border crossings into Israel, but the most important aspect of this objective is opening the Rafah border crossing that connects Egypt and Gaza. If Hamas agrees to a ceasefire without getting the Rafah crossing opened, then Hamas will almost certainly not survive with Gaza. So Hamas needs the Rafah crossing open just for its own survival. The Rafah crossing was closed in July of last year following an attack on Egyptian security forces by Islamists linked to Hamas. Since then it's been closed almost permanently. Even during the current war, Egypt has kept the Rafah crossing closed, except to evacuate wounded Palestinians and to allow the importation of food and medicines. In fact, opening the Rafah crossing is a matter of considerable debate within Egypt itself. Many Egyptians are sympathetic with the plight of the Palestinian people living in Gaza and would like to see their difficulties alleviated. Other Egyptians note that Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered a terrorist organization in Egypt, and fear that opening the Rafah crossing would give a boost to the Muslim Brotherhood. According to one Egyptian columnist: As far as Hamas is concerned, opening the crossing – as a trade and economic route and not just for humanitarian purposes – is the only way to fundamentally change the existing situation. It is the last chance to ensure Hamas's control of the Strip. This is evident from the fact that agreeing to open the crossing is the only thing that could ensure an immediate end to all military action, even though opening it for commercial reasons has nothing to do with the struggle against Israel or the liberation of occupied lands in the [Gaza] Strip. This is a move related to something far more important as far as [Hamas] is concerned: its continued control over 'the liberated Gaza emirate'! Opening the crossing for commercial purposes does not align with Egypt's interests and strongly undermines its policy and national security needs, especially in the long term. Operating the crossing with Hamas on the other side means a full recognition of its rule in Gaza. This is Hamas's ultimate goal. If Egypt agrees to it, then it essentially agrees to a new country on its border – a country of 1.7 million people who suffer unemployment and are rife with ideas of jihad and takfir; a country ruled by an armed movement with regional alliances and political goals that totally contradict the basic foundations of Egyptian security. These foundations are based on respecting the peace agreement with Israel and spurring it to agree to a solution for its conflict with the Palestinians via peaceful negotiations, and in accordance with the principle of land for peace and the Two State Solution. Those dreamers who fantasize that this ceasefire arrangement will last more than a couple of hours or a couple of days are hoping that some deal can be made where the Rafah crossing is opened and is guarded by Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah. Memri and Guardian (London-7/17) Report: Hamas planned massive attack through tunnels on Israeli citizens There are unconfirmed reports that Hamas was planning a massive assault on civilians in southern Israel on Rosh Hashanah in late September. The plan was that 200 Hamas fighters would pour through the dozens of tunnels that Hamas has dug under the border between Gaza and Israel and attack numerous Israeli communities, killing and kidnapping as many civilians as possible. According to the reports, they would have IDF (Israeli Defense Force) uniforms, causing further confusion. It's possible that Hezbollah might have joined in. The current unplanned war with Hamas inadvertently thwarted these plans, allowing the destruction of the tunnels, which made such an attack an impossibility. 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WASHINGTON — Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions.President Barack Obamas unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of insider threat give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for high-risk persons or behaviors among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.Hammer this fact home leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States, says a June 1, 2012, Defense Department strategy for the program that was obtained by McClatchy.The Obama administration is expected to hasten the programs implementation as the government grapples with the fallout from the leaks of top secret documents by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the agencys secret telephone data collection program. The case is only the latest in a series of what the government condemns as betrayals by trusted insiders who have harmed national security.Leaks related to national security can put people at risk, Obama said on May 16 in defending criminal investigations into leaks. They can put men and women in uniform that Ive sent into the battlefield at risk. They can put some of our intelligence officers, who are in various, dangerous situations that are easily compromised, at risk. . . . So I make no apologies, and I dont think the American people would expect me as commander in chief not to be concerned about information that might compromise their missions or might get them killed.Whistleblowers protectedAs part of the initiative, Obama ordered greater protection for whistleblowers who use the proper internal channels to report official waste, fraud and abuse, but thats hardly comforting to some national security experts and current and former U.S. officials. They worry that the Insider Threat Program wont just discourage whistleblowing but will have other grave consequences for the publics right to know and national security.The program could make it easier for the government to stifle the flow of unclassified and potentially vital information to the public, while creating toxic work environments poisoned by unfounded suspicions and spurious investigations of loyal Americans, according to these current and former officials and experts. Some non-intelligence agencies already are urging employees to watch their co-workers for indicators that include stress, divorce and financial problems.It was just a matter of time before the Department of Agriculture or the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) started implementing, `Hey, lets get people to snitch on their friends. The only thing they havent done here is reward it, said Kel McClanahan, a Washington lawyer who specializes in national security law. Im waiting for the time when you turn in a friend and you get a $50 reward.The Defense Department anti-leak strategy obtained by McClatchy spells out a zero-tolerance policy. Security managers, it says, must reprimand or revoke the security clearances a career-killing penalty of workers who commit a single severe infraction or multiple lesser breaches as an unavoidable negative personnel action.Employees must turn themselves and others in for failing to report breaches. Penalize clearly identifiable failures to report security infractions and violations, including any lack of self-reporting, the strategic plan says.The Obama administration was already pursuing an unprecedented number of leak prosecutions, and some in Congress long one of the most prolific spillers of secrets favor tightening restrictions on reporters access to federal agencies, making many U.S. officials reluctant to even disclose unclassified matters to the public.The policy, which partly relies on behavior profiles, could also discourage creative thinking and fuel conformist group think of the kind that was blamed for the CIAs erroneous assessment that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction, a judgment that underpinned the 2003 U.S. invasion.The real danger is that you get a bland common denominator working in the government, warned Ilana Greenstein, a former CIA case officer who says she quit the agency after being falsely accused of being a security risk. You dont get people speaking up when theres wrongdoing. You dont get people who look at things in a different way and who are willing to stand up for things. What you get are people who toe the party line, and thats really dangerous for national security.Obama launched the Insider Threat Program in October 2011 after Army Pfc. Bradley Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and sent them to WikiLeaks, the anti-government-secrecy group. It also followed the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, an attack that federal authorities failed to prevent even though they were monitoring his emails to an al Qaeda-linked Islamic cleric.An internal review launched after Mannings leaks found wide disparities in the abilities of U.S. intelligence agencies to detect security risks and determined that all needed improved defenses.Obamas executive order formalizes broad practices that the intelligence agencies have followed for years to detect security threats and extends them to agencies that arent involved in national security policy but can access classified networks. Across the government, new policies are being developed.There are, however, signs of problems with the program. Even though it severely restricts the use of removable storage devices on classified networks, Snowden, the former NSA contractor who revealed the agencys telephone data collection operations, used a thumb drive to acquire the documents he leaked to two newspapers.Nothing thats been done in the past two years stopped Snowden, and so that fact alone casts a shadow over this whole endeavor, said Steven Aftergood, director of the non-profit Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy. Whatever theyve done is apparently inadequate.U.S. history is replete with cases in which federal agencies missed signs that trusted officials and military officers were stealing secrets. The CIA, for example, failed for some time to uncover Aldrich Ames, a senior officer who was one of the most prolific Soviet spies in U.S. history, despite polygraphs, drunkenness, and sudden and unexplained wealth.Stopping a spy or a leaker has become even more difficult as the government continues to accumulate information in vast computer databases and has increased the number of people granted access to classified material to nearly 5 million.Proper trainingAdministration officials say the program could help ensure that agencies catch a wide array of threats, especially if employees are properly trained in recognizing behavior that identifies potential security risks.If this is done correctly, an organization can get to a person who is having personal issues or problems that if not addressed by a variety of social means may lead that individual to violence, theft or espionage before it even gets to that point, said a senior Pentagon official, who requested anonymity because he wasnt authorized to discuss the issue publicly.Manning, for instance, was reportedly reprimanded for posting YouTube messages describing the interior of a classified intelligence facility where he worked. He also exhibited behavior that could have forewarned his superiors that he posed a security risk, officials said.Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst sentenced in 1987 to life in prison for spying for Israel, wasnt investigated even though hed failed polygraph tests and lied to his supervisors. He was caught only after a co-worker saw him leave a top-secret facility with classified documents.If the folks who are watching within an organization for that insider threat the lawyers, security officials and psychologists can figure out that an individual is having money problems or decreased work performance and that person may be starting to come into the window of being an insider threat, superiors can then approach them and try to remove that stress before they become a threat to the organization, the Pentagon official said.Wide latitude grantedThe program, however, gives agencies such wide latitude in crafting their responses to insider threats that someone deemed a risk in one agency could be characterized as harmless in another. Even inside an agency, one managers disgruntled employee might become anothers threat to national security.In November, Obama approved minimum standards giving departments and agencies considerable leeway in developing their insider threat programs, leading to a potential hodgepodge of interpretations. He instructed them to not only root out leakers but people who might be prone to violent acts against the government or the nation and potential espionage.The Pentagon established its own sweeping definition of an insider threat as an employee with a clearance who wittingly or unwittingly harms national security interests through unauthorized disclosure, data modification, espionage, terrorism, or kinetic actions resulting in loss or degradation of resources or capabilities.An argument can be made that the rape of military personnel represents an insider threat. Nobody has a model of what this insider threat stuff is supposed to look like, said the senior Pentagon official, explaining that inside the Defense Department there are a lot of chiefs with their own agendas but no leadership.The Department of Education, meanwhile, informs employees that co-workers going through certain life experiences might turn a trusted user into an insider threat. Those experiences, the department says in a computer training manual, include stress, divorce, financial problems or frustrations with co-workers or the organization.An online tutorial titled Treason 101 teaches Department of Agriculture and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees to recognize the psychological profile of spies.A Defense Security Service online pamphlet lists a wide range of reportable suspicious behaviors, including working outside of normal duty hours. While conceding that not every behavior represents a spy in our midst, the pamphlet adds that every situation needs to be examined to determine whether our nations secrets are at risk.The Defense Department, traditionally a leading source of media leaks, is still setting up its program, but it has taken numerous steps. They include creating a unit that reviews news reports every day for leaks of classified defense information and implementing new training courses to teach employees how to recognize security risks, including high-risk and disruptive behaviors among co-workers, according to Defense Department documents reviewed by McClatchy.Its about peoples profiles, their approach to work, how they interact with management. Are they cheery? Are they looking at Salon.com or The Onion during their lunch break? This is about `The Stepford Wives, said a second senior Pentagon official, referring to online publications and a 1975 movie about robotically docile housewives. 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