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decision to rely on standards organizations.
"You seem to have selectively chosen one format (Adobe's PDF) that has some IP associated with (it) and said, 'That's OK, but this one (Microsoft Office) isn't.' So I'm curious about the consistency," Zuck told Peter Quinn, the state's CIO, and Eric Kriss, the state's secretary of administration and finance. "We all know that standards groups are not hives of innovation by any means."
Massachusetts officials defended their decision, saying the move will save the state money, make sure that state records will be preserved over time, and ensure the state's "sovereignty."
In a FAQ, the state's Information Technology Division said that current users of Microsoft Office in executive-branch agencies do not necessarily need to uninstall Office. "Use of existing MS Office licenses is allowed as long as agencies use a method permitting the saving of documents in Open Document Format," the FAQ said. Third-party products could in theory perform a conversion from Office to OpenDocument formats.
In addition, Microsoft could still become part of the state's procurement policy by meeting its definition of open formats, Kriss said at an open-format meeting, which was held last Friday with the Mass Technology Leadership Council.
Kriss said that Microsoft's Office formats would have to be free of or have minimal legal encumbrances and be a standard that is subject to peer review by organizations outside Microsoft. He added that Microsoft document formats would have to be subject to "joint stewardship" by a standards body not controlled by one company or a small consortium.
"If you were to do (those things), we would be delighted to do a technical comparison of your standards and the OpenDocument standard," Kriss said, addressing a Microsoft representative. He added that the question is a "moving target" because Microsoft has already made some modifications to its patent policy.
On the question of why Adobe's PDF format meets the definition of "open format," state officials said it was a "gray area" but that Adobe's legal and licensing terms were deemed sufficiently open.
During the hearing, Kriss said that the state would save significantly by migrating to OpenDocument-based products rather than going with Office 12--on the order of $5 million for OpenDocument versus $50 million for Office 12, including hardware and operating-system upgrade costs.
But he said that fundamentally the state's policy is based in the notion of sovereignty.
"Here we have a true conflict between the notion of intellectual property and the notion of sovereignty, and I'd say that 100 percent of the time in a democracy, sovereignty trumps intellectual property," Kriss said. "That's the issue we're grappling with."
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- PDF counts because
- OpenOffice supports saving a file as a PDF as standard. The cost.
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- Also...
- Also PDF readers are free again cost to ANYBODY $0
so if you want to pay to make or read a document buy Adobe pro
or you can get the OpenSource version OpenOffice for free
only need to quickly view a file? adobe offers a free viewer... a bandwagon that M$ has only reciently joined for some of it products
we need functionality and both formats do this but we also need portability and M$ is slow to allow others to use its propriatary standards
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- The PDF maybe be Adobe's IP but...
- they release the PDF format as an open format so anyone can develop tools that work with PDF. Adobe's own website makes avaliable a file that contains all the information one needs to develop a tool capable of reading and writing PDF documents.
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- Microsoft Could Learn from Adobe
- If Microsoft would do with their Office Formats what Adobe does
with their PDF Format, then they wouldn't be excluded.
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- Maybe a mistake.....
- ..... Never could understand why it took a 40+ MByte Adobe
program to read a 10 KByte PDF file. But then, Adobe is the true
champion of bloatware. And Adobe is interested only in the
professional user and doesn't give a damn about the typical
I would hope that MS has a better idea of where its buttered
bread comes from, but it wouldn't be the first time that MS has
lost sight of the real world.
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- "...foes of Massachusetts' policy said the state is acting unfairly. "
- Hey, free-marketeers and pro-business/pro-competition: Life's not fair.
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- A good idea.
- I only hope it works in practice. Personally, cost aside, I wish every state and federal government body would require this. Dealing in multiple formats is becomming a nightmare for businesses.
I use WordPerfect which doesn't support the OpenDoc format, but I wish they would. It would make interchanging documents a snap.
Not ever kind of software needs to follow somekind of standard format, but theses days Office, Web, and communications do. As a user I am tired of all the different formats and trying to get a converter or some other application to open, view, and print them.
I look at it this way... companies like Microsoft and Corel at the very least need to create an import/export utility for the OpenDoc format. At the most they need to make it their native format. I know that's a drastic view, but so be it. I am one of those people who support the standardization of information formats. I don't want more formats that require more software.
But hey that's just me.
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- Very good. Very, very good.
- I am grateful that Massachusetts has led the way. In the past, Microsoft were able to wave their hands and make unsupported claims, or pull some back-room deals, and keep everyone in awe.
But now, some governments are finally recognizing that they can't continue to allow one vendor's control of file formats to dictate their technolology choices, thereby giving the government's imprimatur to the format and the vendor, and forcing its citizens into the same choices. Other nations, most of whom were poorer and thus suffered more, saw this earlier, and it was easier to make the case against a foreign monopoly. This is the first US state government to make this stand, and it's significant also because it's a major information technology and financial services state.
Mass. has focused on this point and made the real requirements non-negotiable. The problem for Microsoft is that meeting those requirements would endanger their monopoly - a fact to which, obviously, they dare not admit publicly.
I am also grateful to Dan Bricklin for publishing the recording of the meeting. It was, however, painful to hear, because the arguments that the Microsoft supporters brought were truly embarassing. Petulant, misleading, irrelevant (except to Microsoft), fatuous, transparently self-serving, logically tortured to the point of actually supporting the Commonwealth's arguments, and even blatantly, obviously false, all the statements painted a clear and damning picture of a bloated, arrogant, spoiled playground bully and his gang finally called into the headmaster's office, with parents present and nowhere to hide.
The one question they could not answer either truthfully or credibly was: why can't you just support the format? The truth was obvious, and their attempts at pretending that there was any other plausible explanation revealed their terrified anguish at being backed into a corner. Whether the self-deception is finally eroding or not, it is a truly pitiable thing to witness. It was satisfying and cathartic to see truth upheld, and those appointed to serve the public standing unswayed by either deception or threat, but the human misery was heartbreaking, however richly-deserved it may have been. I have no sympathy for their cause, and justice is long overdue. But they are still people, and their livelihood is at stake. It's hard not to imagine myself in similar self-inflicted misery, wicked and foolish child that I have often been.
Of course, Microsoft still has some options open, but none that are likely to preserve their hegemony. Either support the format, and risk the Windows value proposition - which is primarily the cost of switching - or refuse and lose it all. The problem is that they have profited so much from forcing the users to switch that it's no longer the fear that it used to be.
Of course, if they're even more deluded than I think they are, they could try, SCO-like, to drag the whole matter into court, but at best it would only delay the inevitable.
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- Suing not an option
- now, had they required a specific companies format, they would rightly be sued by every other company making document formats
but they required a format audited by an independent body so instead of requiring electrical cords approved by General Electric they required approval by Underwriters Laboratories (the UL tag you see on all Electrical appliances) (UL is a testing facility set up by a group on insurance companies to reduce fire loss by shoddy manufacturing)
our fires are consumer portability. and its shoddy manufacturing is formats that lock you into products, that bloat your budget, and are hard to spread the information to others.
All states, nay GOVERNMENTS. should take notice. public access needs require you make available to the public certain things, Are you going to require your taxpayers, ie your employers, to spend even more to get what they have a right to get? you save money when they get electronic versions of what you are required to supply so make it as easy as possible to save them money.
I foresee a time that government officials that require proprietary programs be used for access will find themselves looking for a job the very next election day after their constituents wake up to the excess cost (are you listening Copyright Office?)
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- Cnet, you're full of it!
- "The move to adopt OpenDocument shuts Microsoft out of the state's procurement process because the software giant, which dominates the office application market, has said it does not intend to support the OpenDocument format."
Mass. didn't shut out M$, M$ shut out M$! THEY (M$) ARE THE ONES WHO SAID THEY WON'T SUPPORT OpenDocument! Mass made it clear to M$ that they can compete for Mass procurement only IF M$ is OpenDocument compliant!
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- With the Exception of MIDI
- With the exception of MIDI, I can't remember ever seeing anyone buy software based on its SaveAs options.
PDF open? No it isn't, and it isn't very performant either. On the other hand, it's no problem to write print drivers to make it. But it is IP encumbered and Adobe is getting away with weaseling down the middle. Typical for Adobe but they are survivors and the ultimate beneficiaries of the decision.
What will happen if Microsoft says "ok, we'll saveAs PDF because those are print semantics and that's easy, but not OpenDoc because being semantic laden, it is incompatible. We will continue to provide an XSLT convertor, and that's a good enough "SaveAs", so you can continue to use your Office apps and still get OpenDoc, although it's up to you to find viewers for it because we can't guarantee fidelity on Import". Same as MIDI.
I compliment MASS on their cahones, but I doubt we've seen the ultimate decision here either. Kriss claims it "isn't" about procurement, but that is exactly what it is about. The US DoD tried this kind of stunt with CALS and with all of their buying power, it failed.
Maybe it will take, but not if I have to use WordPerfect. Compared to MS Word, WordPerfect really bites. So someone has to pick up the commercial slack here. Early adopters don't make markets. The market is in the long tail and OpenDoc products aren't there.
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- You don't seem to realize what this about
- This is about having your data in a format that you can access if
or when the original product it was written in is no longer
This is about being able to send a document to somebody else
who does not wish or does not have the money to purchase the
software used to create it.
This is about interoperability damn it!
Do you know why the Internet works? It's because the format for
these web pages and their pictures are open standards made by
the World Wide Web Consortium.
Imagine if you had to purchase a $500 web browser just to
browse the Internet and create web pages. Well, that is the way it
is with all of these Microsoft Office documents and it has to
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- I am going to disagree with you...
- about WordPerfect. Word compared to WordPerfect, Word bites. Of course it's always an opinion, but I've used both (Word since 97 and WordPerfect since 5.1) and Word is just a mess. Of course if you like changing formats every release and having documents far beyond repairable then by all means use Word. If you like having what you typed print out the way you typed it then use WordPerfect. If you want something that is based on anything but a good standard use Word.
Word & Microsoft Office my dominate the office, but make no mistake WordPerfect is a real Office application. Word is a container for some objects that have some attributes that sometimes can't be changed due to an error in the program and since this was created in Office 2003 you can't open it in Office 2000 because it's to old so you need to upgrade.
Of course this is just my opinion.
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- buy software based on its SaveAs options.
- >>With the exception of MIDI, I can't remember ever seeing anyone buy software based on its SaveAs options.<<
I disagree with you completely and I am quite sure Microsoft disagrees with you completely(at least internally.)
Why is Microsoft so reluctant to include the SaveAs OpenDocument option? A couple man hours of developer time and they could. Do they realize that if other software can communicate seamlessly with MS Office they will lose their vendor lockin?
Lets think about those desktops down in purchasing or maintance. Do they really need the full power of MS Word? Could they get by with notepad except for the fact that others send they documents in .doc format.
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- Yep
- Dear Microsoft,
Please support open standards in all of your products.
For example, those made by
* The World Wide Web Consortium
Please standardize your own technologies to foster
I will refuse to use or recommend your products until the above
actions have been taken.
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- A Letter To Microsoft
- Dear Microsoft,
Please support open standards in all of your products.
For example, those made by
* The World Wide Web Consortium
Please standardize your own technologies to foster
I will refuse to use or recommend your products until the above
actions have been taken.
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- Woe is M$
- Here, we have an organisation, that was part of the committee, that was set up to establish this format, and yet they chose to ignore same! M$, is suffering from monopoly blues we got 90% of the market, we set the standards, the customer has no choice! What arrogance, and negative customer vibes!
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- Give Me Interoperability or Give Me Your Competitor
- I want my data in a format that I can access if or when the
original product it was written in is no longer available.
I want to be able to send a document to somebody else
who does not wish or does not have the money to purchase the
software used to create it.
I want interoperability damn it!
This is why the Internet works so well. It's because the format
for these web pages and their pictures are open standards made
by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Imagine if you had to purchase a $500 web browser just to
browse the Internet and create web pages. That is the way it
is with all of these Microsoft Office documents and it has to
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- This will end up costing MA a lot of dough
- Fact is, until a substantial percentage of its business partners adopt a new standard (e.g., OpenOffice), they will spend a lot of the taxpayers' money on file compatability issues. Help desk calls. Conversion problems. And the like. Better that MA just came out an endorsed interoperability applications like Open-Office, Excel-to-web (BadBlue or Secure123), etc. - and not just file-format standards.
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- So, You Advocate the Band Aid Approach Then
- Massachusetts is advocating interoperable formats because it is
insane to have to convert things in the first place. Documents
should just be compatible. Why should they have to buy more
software to convert documents made by other software?
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- What is the alternative?
- Spending $45 million more to convert to Microsoft's
proprietary XML format? Microsoft's own .doc
formats are incompatable between versions. This
will insure a standard by which all vendors must
comply with. Otherwise, the Microsoft tax would
continue ad infinitum.
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- Again lawsuits an issue for required programs
- if any government body requires a specific company they create a monopoly but if they require an autonomous standard that anyone can chose to comply with(or not) then it is a level playing field and anyone can chose if they will be included (by complying) or excluded. Microsoft has made a rash statement and if they stubbornly follow it then it is their decision to be excluded.
I want to wear a button that says WAAHHH for all those people crying because they cant spend all their tech budget because everything is free!
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- taxpayers' money
- >>Fact is, until a substantial percentage of its business partners adopt a new standard (e.g., OpenOffice), they will spend a lot of the taxpayers' money on file compatibility issues.<<
If I recall correctly Microsoft is moving to a licensing rather than ownership model for their software. Let us imagine that 20 years from now, Massachusetts realizes that they have some old documents saved as a MS Word 2003 .doc file. How much do you think Microsoft will charge for a license to convert that old document to something new.
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- It won't cost MA anything
- It will cost contractors that supplies service to state government to provide document in format the state requires. In other words the contractors will need more tech service to comply, so more tax revenue for the state!
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- Wishful thinking
- I think you are subjecting yourself to wishful thinking. MS WORD is one of the biggest PITA applications to use / learn. I could sit a newbie user in front of WORD and Wordperfect. Give them orders to preform some tasks and I guarantee that newbie will get it done quicker using Wordperfect. So if you think think OpenOfice appliactions will be harder than WORD you do have wishful thinking.
Plus it is MS that doesn't play well with others. Wordperfect gives you the option to impot WORD docs but please show me where my WORD will do the same for a Wordperfect doc. WORD doesn't have such an option ....one more way to make everyone WORD customers.
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- You all miss the point
- The point is to allow all citizens in Mass. unencumbered access
to available documents.
PDF and OASIS provides this, because any one citizen can read
documentation about these formats and figure it out. So can
software vendors, if they choose.
If one is forced to use an MS Office standard, are Mass. citizens
really expected to purchase a $300.00 EDITOR to read such
documents? Why does one need an EDITOR to read a Word
document? That's like handing out a memo at a board meeting
and requiring everyone have a typewriter to read it. Fits
Microsoft's model just swell, actually.
Please don't tell me MS makes a free Word reader, you Windows
Every modern OS can create and read PDF out of the box.
Except Windows. Why do they deny their users this feature?
Answer: so users will email each other Word documents instead.
And you all fall for it. Idiots.
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- call me what you like
- this is a link to the .doc viewer.
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=95e24c87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&DisplayLang=en" target="_newWindow">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=95e24c87-8732-48d5-8689-ab826e7b8fdf&DisplayLang=en</a>
adobe doesn't directly provide a tool any more useful than this for viewing pdf files.
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- It is quite surprising..
- ... that Mass.'s democracy considers it democratic to mandate what the public should and should not use. While the intention is noble, the intervention is artificial.
Standards and proprietary products are available in parallel so that they can each enjoy a natural development of acceptance in the market. The normal success and failure stories should be beneficial to the economy as all players and factors naturally and readily move towards their respective directions.
Artificial success and failure stories are unpredictable and may disrupt harmony and balance in the economy. Suddenly, people and businesses, ready or not, must move towards a direction. Suddenly, talents and skills must be invested on in order to keep up to the demand. Suddenly, there's no freedom to take your own direction.
This is sad and I don't think it is immediately beneficial to people and (small, medium or large) businesses. I have nothing against open standards, but the way it is enforced to success is a big shame...
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- I'd like to point out the following
- Actually what's sad is that people think that Microsoft got where it is through hard work, quality products and good business practices. Say what you will but Microsoft has been convicted of illegal business practices and unfair trade. There was nothing about free market competition in Microsoft's rise to dominance. The only difference between Microsoft and the Enrons and Worldcoms is that the victims of Microsofts illegal activities were other Corporations and not individuals.
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- Can't see your point.
- What is the Mass. gov. enforcing? You don't have to pay to write documents on these formats.
"Artificial success" is to force people to use one format which can only be written on product you must pay for. And not long ago, even the MSWord documents made on Macs needed a filter to be opened on Windowns. So if they sent a form to anything public on MSWord format, to use it the public would be forced to buy MS software just to see it.
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- Mandate what the public
- >>... that Mass.'s democracy considers it democratic to mandate what the public should and should not use. While the intention is noble, the intervention is artificial.<<
I believe that you either misread the mandate or are wrongly representing it. The mandate only refers to the executive branch of government of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. That is far from mandating public behavior.
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- Bravo to the Mass. Government.
- I'd like to see every government, from local all the way up to Federal, adopt the same policy. If it's a form or a document that the public has a right to see then it should conform to an open standard. Closed proprietary file formats seem contrary to a country that's supposed to be of the people by the people and for the people.
With all the government investigations businesses would be unwise to use applications who's file formats change from one version to the next and are incompatible with older versions of the software.
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- Great Move Mass.!
- Good move for Massachusetts. Goverment should pave the way for the use of open standards. Its a great boost for FOSS.
Mabuhay ang Open Source!!!!
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- about government enforcement
- there are a few comments here about the government enforcing OpenDocument and about how it is wrong. i disagree. here's why:
every company enforces its own standards and will not allow interoptibility. MS, Corel, they are all guilty of it. they don't want the enemy using their standards so they don't publish them. they will also refuse to support OpenDocument since it is against their best interests, especially MS. if they supported OpenDocument then their leverage would be weakened since people could use OpenDocument to send information to each other and cut out the need for MS Office. without the governement enforcing it, this would only continue. now MS is in a situation where they either have to accept the standard and support it, or be locked out of the Mass. market and lose money. if this is a success then many more governments will want to look into enforcing this, and Office will no longer be able to sell through lock-in, but companies (MS, Corel etc) would have to compete properly by offering superior software over their competitors and innovation will (hopefully) come back to the marketplace, and only the customer can win.
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- forces of nature.
- What really happens here is if those companies choose to make the OpenDocument format their native format then they have to focus on the product and not on the format.
I use WordPerfect. I love WordPerfect. I think it's the best document writer available. BUT, frankly it has problems. Corel has been playing tag along when it comes to WordPerfect. Instead of competing with Microsoft they have chosen to play along. Corel has many benifits over Word and OpenOffice. One of the most popular is Reveal Codes. Second is the fact their format is based on SGML and DocBook (old version). Third is their format hasn't changed since 6.x. Not to mention they are a true WYSIWYG editor unlike Word.
Here are their down sides. PDF creation out of WordPerfect sucks. Word coversion sucks. The fact that they are content on being second fiddle to Word sucks. The fact that they won't try to untie themselves from Windows sucks. The fact that they too believe that the only way to compete is to lock people into a single format sucks. If who ever is in control over at Corel would be replaced by somebody with a real vision I think WordPerfect would become the defacto Office application again (assuming people are willing to pay for it). The big problem is that OpenOffice is a compelling alternitive to Word and WordPerfect. A simple fact for me is that if OpenOffice had something like reveal codes I probably would switch and not look back, but I am stuck on reveal codes.
I say give me two things. A fully customizable interface with the ability to save the customization for later use (like having to reinstall the application) and Reveal Codes so I can dig deep into the document and I'm good.
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- People, its about the people
- In theory, the Mass. decision was not based whatsoever on
budget cuts and implementing FOSS in their workflow.
Its about giving their citizens equal opportunity to read
government documents and communicate electronically with
government officials.
If MS says that the OpenDocument format or PDF format are
severely short on features, then all they need to do is add the
missing features to these standards and publicly document
these added features, thus allowing Mass. citizens
UNENCUMBERED ACCESS to them.
Wouldn't anything else be, dare I say ... unAmerican?
Now, we can argue all day long about how Office 12 will allow
one to embed VIOP objects in a document (what the hell does
this mean anyway, MS?), or whether Microsoft's XPS is better
than PDF, but it TOTALLY MISSES THE POINT!
Right now on my linux and Mac system (this will be hard for you
to fathom Windows users) I can create and read OpenDocument
and PDF documents. No need for any Adobe software
whatsoever. Is Apple losing sales because of this? Why does
Apple allow me to print ANYTHING to a PDF document?
When someone emails me a Word document to relay information
only, I immediately realize I'm dealing with an idiot and proceed
to treat him/her that way. So I send them back the document in
PDF. Then I remember they have to download 3rd part software
to read it. So I give up. Maybe Mass. government officials were
tired of being treated this way.
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- WordPerfect Doesen't support OpenDocument
- >>I use WordPerfect which doesn't support the OpenDoc format, but I wish they would. It would make interchanging documents a snap.<<
Who is will to bet that as we read this article, a numer of WordPerfect developers are working on changing that shortcomming.
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- Good vs Mediocre
- Formats aside, this will come down to good vs mediocre software.
1. Some here are still confusing portable data vs interoperable software.
2. Interoperability is about semantics. OpenDoc (in fact any XML you care to name) doesn't guarantee interoperability.
A mandate for portable data (Lifecycle support) that degrades ease of use or interoperability won't be very effective at reducing costs OR sustaining information. You still have to confront the desktop/server share. If OpenDoc doesn't have enough votes on the desktop, the votes in committee are irrelevant. It loses.
So have at Mass. I like the spirit, but you are a long way from having a done deal.
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- Microsoft and PDF
- Since Microsoft announced today that they would natively support saving in the PDF format, they should not be excluded from use.
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- very logical and fair
- By choosing an open standard such as open document format, anybody, including Microsoft, is free to implement the reader/writer for the format. There is no unfairness anywhere.
Adobe PDF is open enough such that anybody, including Microsoft, is free to implement the reader/writer for the format. I've seen more than a few PDF reader/converters that are not encumbered by licenses. It is still fair to allow PDF as long as the 100% open format is always a main choice.
MS Word document format is not open enough that anybody, other than Microsoft, can freely implement well beyond into the future.
If MS Word format is open and freely implementable by anybody other than Microsoft without restrictions whatsoever of any license requirements right now and into the future, then that would require second thoughts. But IT IS NOT.
I wouldn't want a state utility be tied to a specific vendor. It just doesn't make any sense to choose something that is not 100% open and free (not cost, but freedom) to implement for public utilities. Whether they cost money to implement or not is not the issue here.
Let the commoners be able to read public documents with freedom, as in democracy. Any other way, that is, a state-sponsored industry dictating what to use in order to use a public utility, is communism.
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- very logical and fair
- By choosing an open standard such as open document format, anybody, including Microsoft, is free to implement the reader/writer for the format. There is no unfairness anywhere.
Adobe PDF is open enough such that anybody, including Microsoft, is free to implement the reader/writer for the format. I've seen more than a few PDF reader/converters that are not encumbered by licenses. It is still fair to allow PDF as long as the 100% open format is always a main choice.
MS Word document format is not open enough that anybody, other than Microsoft, can freely implement well beyond into the future.
If MS Word format is open and freely implementable by anybody other than Microsoft without restrictions whatsoever of any license requirements right now and into the future, then that would require second thoughts. But IT IS NOT.
I wouldn't want a state utility be tied to a specific vendor. It just doesn't make any sense to choose something that is not 100% open and free (not cost, but freedom) to implement for public utilities. Whether they cost money to implement or not is not the issue here.
Let the commoners be able to read public documents with freedom, as in democracy. Any other way, that is, a state-sponsored industry dictating what to use in order to use a public utility, is socialism.
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- great job toward democracy
- A state-sponsored industry dictating what to use for access to public utility is socialism.
It's great to see real democracy and capitalism at work. Let the commoners access to public documents with freedom.
Anybody, including Microsoft, is free to implement the open document format.
If Microsoft implements a better word processor using open document format, that is good. People will buy them if they are good. Nobody is saying don't buy Microsoft products.
I don't see any logic fighting against it. There have been many historic examples of converting to new and better (open) standards, and nothing was really insurmountable.
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Nokia announces Asha 302, 203 and 202
Mary McDowell came on stage and got busy right away announcing three new Nokia Asha phones - the Asha 202, Asha 203 and Asha 302. The Asha 302 is a QWERTY messenger, while the Asha 203 is identical to the Asha 202, but with an extra SIM slot.
Nokia Asha 302
The Nokia Asha 302 features extensive communication skills. It features Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp integration, but also - get this! - Microsoft Exchange email. That's a first for a Nokia feature phone.
The 302 runs on a 1GHz processor and has 14.4Mbps HSDPA which, McDowell pointed out, is faster than a lot of low-end Androids.
The Nokia Asha 302 is shipping now for 95 ($130).
Nokia Asha 202 and 203
The lower-end Ashas feature 2.4" touchscreens and come with the Nokia Browser. Both have 2MP cameras. There's also Bluetooth, microSD card slot for cards up to 32GB and FM radio.
The Asha 203 has a second SIM slot and will remember personalized settings for up to five SIM cards, so several people can easily share a single phone.
Those two come with a huge pack of EA games, no less than 40. You can download those off the Nokia Market for free during the first 60 days. That's equivalent to 75 of added value.
That's more than the price of the phones themselves, they'll go for about 60 ($80). Launch is set for the next few weeks.
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As an artist, I've gone through many twisty uncharted roads. Some maneuvers were well calculated, while others were determined through trial & error. Mistakes were definitely made along the way but never the less, I have always managed to grow & learn from each & every experience. My intentions have always been pure with respect to the musicality of our Hip Hop culture. My motivation has ALWAYS been my people & my community! Hence, there are no regrets…
Being involved in social activism has been a part of my music from day one. As part of a family who suffered the wrath of nearly a decade long war (Iran/Iraq War), getting socially active at a very young age was inevitable for me. I joined rallies, protests, marches, & demonstrations during the late 80's & early 90's in solidarity of Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, & Bosnia. Slogans like "Zionism is Racism! Down w/ both of them!" projecting from a megaphone during a demonstration in front of the United Nations in 1988, will forever resonate in my memory.
In later years, I helped organize & promote several fund raising/charity shows. In times when Middle East issues weren't popular enough to really address in Hip Hop (pre 9/11), I was one of the few artists who made it a point to include it in my musical message. See it wasn't as "cool" or "hip" back then. Many people didn't quite get it… But we stuck to our guns (no pun intended) & kept it going to the best of our ability (BIG shout to Suheir Hammad).
To continue the plight, in the early 2000's, I decided to embark on a project called "Peace In The Middle East". Initially, I was planning on releasing a 12 inch vinyl single & donating all the proceeds to an organization benefiting underprivileged Palestinian youth. Unfortunately, I never could afford to put the project together.
A couple years passed & I teamed up w/ a friend of mine named Waleed Coyote (A radio personality & all around Hip Hop entrepreneur from North Carolina). We decided to revamp the "Peace In The Middle East" project. We planned on putting a whole album out & this time recording collaborations w/ Jewish, Muslim, Arab,& Israeli artists around the world. The mission of the album was to hear different points of view from all sides w/ respect for each other, bring understanding through music, create dialog, educate the masses, uncover masked media, & donate ALL proceeds of album sales to underprivileged Palestinian youth. We then brought in MC Serch to help us on the collaborations. In it's initial stage, we got great feedback from all parties & optimistically moved forward.
Shortly after our idea for the new Peace In The Middle East project was launched, we put out the word on Allhiphop.com, calling all artists who were interested to contact us. One MC who's talent stood out & was adamant about everything we were trying to do was Sneakas (A Jewish Israeli MC who grew up in Manhattan). He was already working on his own debut album & had a buzz in the Jewish community. He contacted Waleed Coyote & being that Sneakas was based in NY, Waleed immediately referred him to me. We were supposed to meet up to work on one song for the album. Several hours later, one song turned into 4 songs. It seemed like creatively things were meshing. The project looked promising & the artists were starting to come together.
A few months went by & Sneakas & I almost instantly recorded a bunch of songs. The pendulum swung from a Peace In The Middle East album to a Mazzi & Sneakas project simply because our progress was organically moving faster & some how it grew it's own legs. So although Peace In The Middle East was not forgotten, it got side tracked & overshadowed. As the ball was rolling, MC Serch came around & offered his helping hand in the Mazzi & Sneakas project. He aided in song ideas, production, & promotion. During the past year, we've recorded an album worth of songs & shot a few videos. Although Sneakas & I did not agree on a number of issues, things seemed to be on the up & up. And for the sake of the project, I remained focused.
Also in the past year, we organized a live show called "The Tug of War Tour". This was a traveling performance & it included material from myself, Sneakas, Tahani Salah, (Palestinian spoken word artist), & Vanessa Hidary (Jewish spoken word artist). The show seemed to flow well at first & caught good media attention. But later, we all came to the conclusion that it needed to be more thought out & a better strategy needed to be implemented. The show wasn't mature in it's organization. The most pivotal relating factor to take place in the last year though, was my 3 trips to the Middle East. I'm a real hands on person so naturally I jumped on the opportunity to get out there! Furthermore, I wanted to piece together a documentary for the Peace In The Middle East project. I sought to capture the raw uncut experiences of the youth & how Hip Hop played a role in their lives. I felt like people needed to know.
My 1st trip, I traveled w/ Hip Hop Kom which was a Danish sponsored tour & competition. We toured throughout Jerusalem & the West Bank doing shows, conducting workshops, & judging a televised Rap competition. We were all over the refugee camps, building w/ children on a daily basis. I saw how underprivileged they really were. I saw how checkpoints were actually ways of dividing & caging Palestinians like cattle. I saw how racism was a normal everyday thing. We also traveled to Elat & Haifa. I interviewed Palestinian MC's through out the trip. Towards the end of my stay, I took it upon myself to visit Tel Aviv a couple times & interview Israeli artists. I gathered a better understanding of what was really going on in the Holy Land.
My 2nd trip quickly followed. This time I joined Viva Palestina & traveled w/ a humanitarian group, bringing medical supplies from Cairo to Gaza. I was also scheduled to perform. Unfortunately, Gaza was one of the most depressing places I have seen in my life! I couldn't believe that Palestinians were living in such horrible conditions & that the Israeli government was imposing such disgusting sanctions. I mean I've heard, read, & seen a lot about it for years but to see it up close, was a vivid reality that changed me forever! Palestinians in Gaza were blasted back to the stone age! No one in this day & time should be victim to that type of oppression & live under those circumstances!
My 3rd trip was the straw that broke the camel's back (No pun intended). I was on tour w/ Existence Is Resistance. I visited Jerusalem, the West Bank, Haifa, Bethlehem, Hebron, & Tel Aviv. This trip was different where as I got even more in depth w/ the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. I spoke w/ people from Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, Sderot, Tel Aviv, Ashqelon, Haifa, & Jerusalem. We also worked closely w/ the youth in workshops & performed all over. But there was a deeper concentration on communities this time around. For the most part, we stayed in youth centers at refugee camps. At times we found ourselves in the middle of conflict. From being tear gassed & threatened at nonviolent protests to being surrounded by Israeli soldiers, jeeps, & planes at our own residence in order for violating settlers to continue ILLEGAL occupying activity… It was a huge cluster fuck! Plus, the things I learned from cases in Sderot, Ashqelon, & Haifa were extremely pale in comparison to what the settlers are doing in the West Bank. Not to mention the siege & death grip the Israeli government has imposed on Palestinians… See all of this is common knowledge BUT when you see it w/ your own eyes, it's undeniable beyond a shadow of a doubt! Apartheid is alive & well in Palestine/Israel!
Many things were revealed to me during this past year. I have witnessed & learned much. As a result, in no way, shape, or form can I support any pro Israeli government AKA Zionist organization! This also includes artist/s who lean/s toward/s any Zionist view… There's no 2 ways about it! There's an unbalanced scale in Palestine/Israel that must be evened out & "Normalization" is not the answer! I also came to the conclusion that I must continue to take care of my own backyard & unify my people. This is the most important thing! Unity is a must! It is a priority! Progression cannot be maximized without this… And spreading love (not hate) among my own people is the first key to opening the doors of freedom! This does not mean I am condoning any Arab government… Corruption runs deep w/ them aswell. I am strictly community based for the benefit of my people… I want to work closely w/ Arab & Muslim artists & further focus on the Peace In The Middle East documentary/project. The truth must be shown! We as artists can reflect the struggle through our music… We must strengthen & empower the oppressed. At least I feel & have always felt that it IS my responsibility to do so… This doesn't mean I will not work w/ any Israeli artists down the line. It just means that now is not the time. I wish Sneakas the best of luck in his endeavors… He is creative & driven… There is no beef or animosity between us. I just gotta deal w/ home team right now… I want for the future of our youth to look brighter. Love, peace, & blessings to Jews, Christians, Muslims, & all other faiths of the world… "Love is love"…


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The women of the Weston family have always been headstrong - even as their lives took much different paths. A family crisis brings them back to the Midwest home where they were raised, and the dysfunctional mother they left behind. -- Chris Kavan
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'August: Osage County' is the latest film adaptation of a Tracy Letts stage play. An assemblage of terrific actors come together to form a broken family. Though, 'broken' may be too light in describing the utter disfunction going on here. It's not the 'fix all our problems and find a means to love' type of story. I very much like that fact. Not all wounds can be mended, especially when a family harbors this much distaste for it's own members. There exists some great dramatic moments spliced with stinging comedy. The lack of any reconciliation makes for a unconventional, yet satisfying end.
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The story is about a women of the Weston family have always been headstrong - even as their lives took much different paths. A family crisis brings them back to the Midwest home where they were raised, and the dysfunctional mother they left behind. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts do well in they roles but the movie lacks on everything like the plot and the slow paste.
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Painfully funny but more often just downright painful. Anyone going into AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY expecting a comedy as it has been advertised will be given a rude awakening. This is the ultimate feel bad movie of the year (no wonder they pushed the original release date on christmas day to january.) With a cast featuring such wonderful actors as Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts (in one of her very best performances) Chris Cooper (whose really the only redeeming character of the bunch, save for Cumberbatch and the wonderful Julianne Nicholson.) The very missed Juliette Lewis. As well as Ewan McGregor showing an intensity rarely seen, and even Abigail Breslin is heartbreaking in a pivotal moment. This is a film of fights, arguments, bitter family truths and lies, and while at ti...
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by Belinda Munoz
Editors' Note: This guest post originally appeared on Belinda Munoz's blog, The Halfway Point . We found Belinda's list so inspiring, and are grateful to her for allowing us to republish the post in its entirety here. Let us know what small or in-disguise blessings you're grateful for by leaving a comment below!
I'm feeling a bit off these days. Whatever it is, let's call it existential anxiety of sorts. I'm battling a stubborn cold. My schedule is manageable and still I can't manage to be with everyone I'd like to see. Somehow, I'm getting things done and yet I have a nagging sense of helplessness. In short, I'm not on my A game.
And I think I know why. I recently spent two consecutive nights with two remarkable individuals who put their lives on the line defending human rights in Ethiopia and Russia. They've seen in real life some of the worst offenses human beings do to each other. Violations I've only read about in books, seen in pictures, and never ever want to witness in person. And still, I'm shaken to the core and feel a bit powerless as I realize once again how little I do to help. The effect takes a little time to wear off. So I wait…
Has this ever happened to you? One day, you're in charge of your life, the next, you're knocked for a loop and balance lives light years away. So goes the story which I suspect we've all watched unravel in our own lives. The illusion of complete control is disturbed by the contingency of chaos. The chimera of confidence is whacked by a smidgen of skepticism. The bubble of safety bursts with a trace of a threat.
Really. It's easy to give thanks for the blessings that we do have. Love, family, friends, bounty. These are the hugs and warmth and praises analogous to a soothing back rub or an aromatic cup of tea. For these, we are thankful daily. They make us feel good and we expect and receive them with little to no toll.
And then there are those things which do take a toll. A tax of sorts that leaves us a bit spent. A hefty fine collected at the gate that seemingly depletes our reserves. Our instincts caution us when we encounter things of dubious worth. We pay reluctantly for fear the sale isn't worth the price.
Retail sales are easy to deal with. Psychological, emotional and spiritual purchases, not so much.
And yet, as we slog to the other side of existential bargaining, experience tells me we can come out okay. Because upon bearing the expense, we emerge tougher than ever. Able to be more, do more and imagine more beyond what is.
And so, in the spirit of gratefulness for blessings that aren't readily seen as such, this Thanksgiving season, let us give thanks for the things that challenge us, unwanted things we have to confront, things we can't avoid try as we might, and things that at times turn our world upside down:
- For our shortcomings , so that we may learn to look to others who can offer to integrate an extension to our limitations.
- For friction in our relationships , so that we may give them the attention they deserve so as to add fullness and depth to present and future interactions.
- For confusion , so that enlightenment may grace us if only fleetingly.
- For insecurities , so that we may move past pretending and arrive at the truth that we share many and instead of hiding them, perhaps we may one day celebrate them. (Visit Aidan Donnelley Rowley's blog Ivy League Insecurities for a healthy, always-honest and well-written perspective on insecurities.)
- For doubts , so that we may either learn to live with them or conquer them by believing when proof evades us.
- For fears , so that we may acknowledge the falseness and irrationality in them in order to recognize what tremendously good things lie beyond them. (Read Patty Bechtold's wisewords regarding fear on her blog Why Not Start Now? )
- For challenges that make us doubt ourselves and our abilities , so that we may see what tough material we're made of.
- For the flaws in all of us , so that we may revel in our blemished wholeness.
- For anxieties , so that we may do what's worth doing with care.
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Looking at commercials, you would think that we are suffering from an epidemic of excess stomach acid. This is not the case.
What is actually occurring is poor digestion, in large part because the enzymes needed to digest your food have been removed from the food during food processing. This is done because these enzymes help ripen the food and destroying them increase the shelf life. For example, an ear of corn may have a shelf life of five days where cornflakes have a shelf life of five millennia. Unfortunately, the latter are very hard to digest -- even though they may look good. Destruction of the enzymes in the food is now the case with most of the food we eat. When the food is hard to digest, it results in acid reflux and any acid in the stomach hurts. Prescription antacids decrease the pain but further worsen digestion and health. If you think about it, your body makes stomach acid for a reason. It is okay to turn it off short-term but doing so long-term can become problematic. In addition, the antacids actually become addictive, resulting in a massive increase in stomach acid when you stop them.
This week's article will teach you how to get off of acid blockers naturally and comfortably. Next issues article will then discuss optimizing digestion with plant-based digestive enzymes. Future topics will include natural treatments for osteoporosis/bone density loss, high cholesterol, weight loss, depression, and much, much more!
Eliminating Chronic acid reflux and indigestion
Do you think your problem is too much stomach acid?
If you still think your problem is too much acid, keep this in mind. The older people get the more likely they are to use antacids. This is interesting as stomach acid production decreases dramatically as people get older!
We seem to forget that having stomach acid is both necessary and normal. In fact, the body has gone to great lengths to be able to produce stomach acid without digesting the stomach itself! Your body needs to have proper nutrition, however, to make the mucous lining that protects the stomach. Instead of giving your body what it needs to heal, we sometimes make the mistake of turning off our stomach acid to solve the problem.
Most of your indigestion symptoms occur when any stomach acid refluxes (squirts) back up into the food pipe (the esophagus). Your food pipe is not made to resist stomach acid and even a little bit will cause it to burn. Because of this we give medications that turn off all the stomach acid. Because there is no stomach acid, the burning stops and we get deluded into thinking the problem was too much stomach acid.
What happens when you turn off stomach acid?
Unfortunately, using anti-acid medications for an extended period causes 2 problems. Firstly, with no stomach acid, your body is not able to optimally digest food and you become nutritionally deficient. For example, taking long term acid blockers has been shown to increase the risk of osteoporosis (see Antacids - Another Cause of Osteoporosis). They also block the absorption of thyroid hormone. Poor nutrition makes it even harder for your stomach to make the mucous lining it needs to protect itself and can set you up for even more reflux. Secondly, in your body's attempt to make stomach acid (when you take anti-acid meds), it makes huge amounts of a hormone called Gastrin that stimulates stomach acid. Because of this, as soon as you stop your antacids, the stomach makes massive amounts of acid-- which it cannot protect against. In essence, you become addicted to the antacids. It is no surprise that Prilosec, Nexium, Zantac and other antacids are some of the biggest money making pharmaceuticals!
So what can I do?
A wonderfully effective way to resolve your reflux and indigestion is the following (in mild or occasional cases, the DGL licorice for a few days may be all you need. For more severe cases, use the entire program below to restore healthy digestion).
1 - improve your digestion by taking the proper enzymes (see below and next issues) and drink sips of warm liquids instead of cold while eating (cold temperatures inhibit digestive enzyme function). Long-term use of digestive enzymes can also dramatically improve your over-all health and well being!
2 - avoid coffee, aspirin products, colas, and alcohol until your stomach heals and then use them in limited amounts.
3 - take measures to heal up your stomach lining. Using DGL licorice (must be the DGL form as others can cause blood pressure problems-see below) can be powerfully effective in resolving your symptoms. Research shows that it is as effective as tagamet, but is healthy for you! Mastic gum 500 mg capsules two capsules twice a day for two months is also highly effective. Both of these can be used separately or together. As they help to heal the stomach instead of just masking symptoms, they may take 3-4 weeks to work in severe cases .You can use your antacids during that time if you want.
4 - In many patients, stomach infections (H. Pylori) can be a major cause of long-term indigestion. Most doctors treat this with Prilosec combined with 2-3 antibiotics used simultaneously! A better approach is to add Limonene (Heartburn Free by Enzymatic Therapy) 1 every other day for 20 days once your indigestion has settled down with the licorice/mastic gum. It may initially aggravate reflux symptoms, but, by killing the infection, may give long-term relief after only one 10 capsule course!How can I come off my prescription antacids?
After you have been on this treatment regimen for 1-2 months and are feeling much better, ask your doctor if you can stop your prescription antacids and switch to Tagamet (or stay on the DGL licorice/ mastic gum). This will decrease your stomach acid instead of totally turning it off. By doing this, you're body can slowly ease back to normal production of acid. Decrease the dose of Tagamet or DGL licorice until you are able to come off of it. After two months, most people can stop the licorice/mastic gum. They can be used as long as you want, however. If symptoms recur down the line, simply use the DGL licorice for a few days. If needed, you can repeat the course of DGL licorice/mastic gum (and even the heartburn Free if the stomach infection recurs) whenever you like. Meanwhile, you'll have broken your addiction to antacids and allowed your body to have the stomach acid it needs for proper digestion!
To Summarize: (Use #1; Use # 2 &/or # 3 to help wean off the acid blockers. Then use # 4 after 1-2 months to complete stomach healing)
1 - Similase GS (by Tyler) or Complete GEST Enzymes (Enzymatic Therapy) - 2 capsules with each meal to help digest your food properly and drink warm liquids with meals. If the enzymes are irritating to the stomach, wait till your stomach feels better on # 2&3 below before resuming the enzymes.
2 - DGL Licorice- 380mg (not the sugar free one) from Enzymatic Therapy or Rhizinate from PhytoPharmica. Chew 2 tablets 20 minutes before meals.
3 - Mastic Gum (any brand) - 1000mg twice a day for 2 months - then as needed.4 - Heartburn Free - (Enzymatic Therapy). 1 every other day for 20 days (may initially aggravate reflux, but can give long term relief.


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My brother, Chris, and his only child - his son, Jordan. Jordan was KIA in Iraq 3 years ago today (right about at this hour).
Playing soldier as a boy:
On the observation deck of the World Trade Center with my daughter, Jess, on 8/29/01
In Iraq:
Picture of the gate to his base in Ramadi taken from a Humvee (photo was on Jordan's camera) - Jordan and another Marine were killed when the gate and guard shack (large pile of sandbags to right of gate) were leveled by a truck bomb a few days after this picture was taken:
I like to think that I gave him some motorcycle riding ops on our little dirtbikes and his first 'big bike' experience piloting my TW200 for a short ride in the yard... it sure would be nice to have him around still now that his cousins (my kids) are licensed and riding - I'm sure he would be with them riding his Dad's KLR or VFR. We all miss him dearly.
I had to burry a few of my friends and many men I did not know wile I was an honor guardsman. I cannot imagine doing that to a family member. God bless him and your family, I look forward to meeting men like him in the here after...
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The magic moments
Some of the biggest names in darts tell us their favourite World Championship memories.
Last Updated: 23/12/11 11:57am
Everyone has their favourite memories of the World Darts Championship.
From Keith Deller's famous upset victory over Eric Bristow to Phil Taylor's epic finals against the likes of Kevin Painter and Raymond van Barneveld we have seen some unforgettable clashes.
This is the competition where legends are made and here on Sky Sports we have witnessed some colossal encounters at both Alexandra Palace and at the Circus Tavern over the years.
But what are the greatest matches in the history of this event? We asked some of the sport's biggest names to tell us their fondest memories of both watching and playing in the World Darts Championship...
From a personal point of view, I suppose you've got to go all the way back to 2002 when I got to the semi-finals, the best run I ever had there, and got beat 6-4 by Peter Manley. I was gutted because I really thought I could get to the final. In terms of watching it, I'll always remember Kevin Painter v Phil Taylor in 2004. That was Kevin's greatest chance of becoming world champion because he had Phil on the back foot and Phil came back and won it. I also remember Raymond v Phil in 2007. I was actually 3-0 up on Raymond in an earlier round and lost 4-3 before he went on and won the tournament! That cracking final might never have happened! Another one that people forget is when John Part won in 2003 against Phil; that was absolutely fantastic. Go and look at the celebrations on YouTube to see how much it meant to him.
Every time I walk through the door I get a buzz. It's such a fantastic venue; a big place, the stage is fantastic and the crowds there are fantastic. Just walking on the stage gives you a buzz. Looking back I'd say Keith Deller against Eric Bristow in 1983 really inspired me. That was a fantastic game. I also remember Phil Taylor against Mike Gregory in 1992. Gregory had darts to win it, but didn't close the game out and Phil came through and won it. That's one of the best finals I've ever seen.
There's been a few. The Mike Gregory final was a good performance, as were the ones against Kevin Painter and Barney. I beat John Part 6-0 and I beat Peter Manley as well, so there's been too many to pinpoint one. I think the most pressurised one was the first one against Eric Bristow and also I'd mention my last final against Simon Whitlock because you're getting older and people are writing you off. I remember walking past a table at the beginning of that year and someone said: 'I hope I get Taylor, he's playing garbage'. I wasn't playing so good at the time and I thought 'I'll show you' and I went and won every tournament.
For me it was the double 11 to win the World Championship last year - even more than hitting the nine-darter. To tell you the truth, Gary Anderson was scoring that heavily against me that I actually forgot about the nine-darter by half-way through the match. It was that early on that I was just concentrating on trying to get the job done. As for watching, it's got to be Taylor v Barney in 2007. I was watching at home and it was blow for blow, there was such intensity. Phil took an early lead, but then Barney piled on the 180's and Phil didn't know which way to turn. In the end he lost on a sudden-death leg. What a match!
For me it has to be when I won in 2007. It was my first year in the PDC and I was really looking forward to it. I was quite comfortable at that time, I was not afraid of anyone and I prepared myself right. I had a very tough game against Colin Lloyd in the second round, which went to a tie-breaker, then I got through to the final without dropping a set. Then I had that epic 7-6 game against Phil. I think my popularity is still high after winning that final and the crowd has loved me since then.
I'd have to say the way I played in the whole tournament last year. I played well for the whole tournament, which makes a change because I've usually got a really bad record at World Championships, so it was nice to play in all the matches and play well. I wasn't so good in the final, but Adrian played well and the nine-darter was a wee bit special. I don't really watch much darts, but I the one I remember watching was Wilson and Bristow [1989 World Final]. Wilson was five sets up and Bristow brought it back to 5-5 and then Jocky won it.
Personally it would have to be my second-round game against Adrian Lewis in 2009. I played Dennis Priestley in the same year, which was a great game, but the one I played against Adrian Lewis was such a great match and my fans and friends say it's the best game they've watched with me involved in. There was so many ton-plus finishes and so many 180's, it was a brilliant spectacle. When I was growing up, I would probably pick the 1992 final between Taylor and Mike Gregory. I was up until very late watching that with my parents and I still to this day think it's the best game ever played.
I'd say the Van Barneveld v Taylor Final in 2007, which was the best final ever because it went to the deciding leg. It always sticks in my mind because they had to throw for the bullseye to see who threw first in the final leg and Barney asked for Taylor's dart to be left in - and then bounced his dart off it into the bullseye. That gave him the throw and he won the World Championship. It was an unbelievable game, but in a way he won it because of that bullseye and that one piece of luck.
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Yankees Seek Resolution On Girardi's Status
Could the Cubs' patience pay off in their pursuit of manager Joe Girardi?
That may be answered soon, based on comments Yankees managing partner Hal Steinbrenner made to media outlets.
Girardi is under contract to the Yankees through Oct. 31 and cannot talk directly to other teams, including the Cubs. But Steinbrenner stressed that he would like Girardi's status resolved soon, perhaps no later than next week when the Yankees conduct their organizational meetings.
Source: www.chicagotribune.com
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Gaya is 100 kilometers south of Patna, the capital city of Bihar. Situated on the banks of Falgu River (Niranjana, as mentioned in Ramayana), it is a place sanctified by both the Hindu and the Buddhist religions. It is surrounded by small rocky hills (Mangala-Gauri, Shringa-Sthan, Ram-Shila and Brahmayoni) by three sides and the river flowing on the fourth (western) side. The city has a mix of natural surroundings, age old buildings and narrow bylanes.
Gaya was a part of the ancient state Magadha.
Gaya derives its name from the mythological demon Gayasur (which literally means Gaya the holy demon), demon (asur, a Sanskrit word) and Gaya. Over its history dating millennia, the word asur got deleted and the name Gaya remained in currency. Lord Vishnu killed Gayasur, the holy demon by using the pressure of his foot over him. This incident transformed Gayasur into the series of rocky hills that make up the landscape of the Gaya city. Gaya was so holy that he had the power to absolve the sins of those who touched him or looked at him; after his death many people have flocked to Gaya to perform shraddha sacrifices on his body to absolve the sins of their ancestors. Gods and goddesses had promised to live on Gayasur's body after he died, and the hilltop protuberances of Gaya are surmounted by temples to various gods and goddesses. These hilltop temples at Rama Shila, Mangla Gauri, Shringa Sthan and Brahmayoni are part of the pilgrimage circuit, and grand staircases have been built up to most of them.
Gaya is significant to Hindus from the point of view of salvation to the souls of ancestors (a ritual called pinda daan). According to Ramayana, when Lord Rama came to Gaya along with Sita for pitripaksha (or to perform pindadanam), Sita cursed the Falgu River following some disobedience on the part of the river. The mythology states that on account of this curse, Falgu River lost its water, and the river is simply a vast stretch of sand dunes.. Same time Sita blessed a banyan tree to be immortal. This tree is known as Akshyavat. Akshyavat is combination of two words Akshya (which never decay) and Vat (Banyan tree). Once in year every banyan tree releases all its leaves, but this Akshyavat tree does not release its leaves at all and remain green always even in draught too.
For Buddhists, Gaya is an important pilgrimage place because it was at Brahmayoni hill that Buddha preached the Fire Sermon (Adittapariyaya Sutta) to one thousand former fire-worshipping ascetics, who all became enlightened while listening to this discourse. At that time, the hill was called Gayasisa.
Bitho Sharif (10 km from main city) situated on Gaya-Patna route, is one of the notable pilgrimage place. The great Sufi of Chishtia-Ashrafi order Hazrat Makhdoom Syed Shah Durwesh Ashraf (R.A) setteled here in around Ninth Century Hijri and established Khanqah-e-Ashrafia. A large number of Muslims and people from other faith, from all over the Globe visit the Dargah of this great Sufi Saint. Urs of Hz.Mk. Durwesh Ashraf (R.A.) is celebrated every year from 10th-12th of Islamic month of Shabaan. [Visit Web Site]
There are direct trains from Gaya to other important stations in India like Ranchi, Varanasi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Agra, Mathura, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Indore, Nagpur, Puri,Ahmedabad, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Dehradun, Kalka, Jammu, etc. There are also two smaller train lines from Gaya, one to Patna and the other to Kiul.
The staple food of Gaya is common to the rest of Bihar and Jharkhand. The other special preparations found in Gaya are typically traditional Bihari. The most popular of them include sattu, litti, pittha, pua, marua-ka-roti, bari-dal, sattu-ka-roti, baigan-bharta, sukhaota, etc.
Tilkut being the most popular of them is prepared using til or sesame seeds (Sesamum Indicum) and jaggery or sugar. It is a seasonal (winter) sweet and only the karigars (workers) from Gaya are believed to impart the real taste of Tilkut. One can find Tilkuts carrying the label "Ramna, Gaya" even in far flung places like Kolkata and Delhi. Ramna and Tekari Road are the areas in the city where every other house is a Tilkut factory.
Kesaria peda is yet another delicious sweet prepared from khoya (solid milk cream) and kesar (saffron). The Chowk area of the city specializes in Kesaria Peda production.
There are several varieties of Lai available in Bihar, including Lai from Gaya. The main component of this Lai is Ram dana seeds. These ram danas are processed and mixed with koya and sugar to give rise to a disk shaped sweet.
Anarsa is also based on khoya, but is deep fried and processed with sugar. Anarsa comes in two shapes 'thin disk' and 'spherical'. The sweet is finally embedded with til(sesame) toppings.vavb
These sweets are dry and hence easily packagable, preserved, and transported, unlike the bengali sweets which are soaked in sugar syrups. There is a tradition among the residents to gift the visitors with these sweets when they depart, as a token of love.
Beside this in Gaya one should must try roadside eateries like Aloo ka Chaloo & Chaat. Aloo ka Chaloo is made up of boiled potatoes sprinkled with red chilly powder and jeera powder, salt and tamarind water. One can easily find such joints outside schools and colleges as it is favourite of kids and teenagers.
Alu-Kachalu is a wet and sour snack prepared from aloo (potato) and imli (tamarind) mixed with black salt, chilly powder, jeera (cumin seeds), etc. This snack is popular among the students returning from schools in the day time. One can find herds of thelas (vendor's vehicle) standing outside the schools during the closing hours.
Sabudana-Badam Bhoonja is a dry snack that is unique to the Gaya city. It is a mixture of fried sabudana (sago) and fried badam (groundnut or moongfali is called badam or sometime chiniya-badam in Bihar) along with salt (both white and black), chilly powder and jeera (cumin seeds) powder. The mobile bhoonja vendors shouting humorous slogans can be found in every bylane of the Gaya city during the twilight hours.
Bakarkhani near jama(sarai) masjid is very famous across india and chai wala biscuit(bara biscuit) of chatta masjid area is very popular
Chienese Foods are also very popular here now.
Most of the government-run schools in Gaya (notably Zila School, Haridas Seminary - also known as Town School, Theosophical Model School, Gaya High School,Anugrah Kanya Vidayalaya, Mahaveer School,Qasmi High School and Hadi Hashmi School, Government Girls High School) are affiliated to Bihar School Examination Board. There are two Central Schools (Kendriya Vidyalaya) affiliated with the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, New Delhi. Most of the private schools are affiliated to ICSE and CBSE boards. The major ones being Creane Memorial High School, Nazareth Academy,D.A.V Public School Medical Road, Gyan Bharti Public school, D.A.V Public School Cantonment Area, Greenfield Public School,Sir Syed Memorial School Bhadeya,Elegent Public School and many more. Nazareth Academy is one of the oldest schools, which is managed by a US based congregation called 'Sisters of Charity of Nazareth'. The government-run public schools lack many facilities, but are the only options for the poor who cannot afford the fees in private schools.
The only university at Gaya is Magadh University established by eminent educationist and then Education Minister.Late Satyendra Narayan Sinha in 1962,located near Bodhgaya.Gaya has several colleges with graduate and post-graduate courses offered in sciences, arts, commerce, management and Computer Application. The well known ones include Gaya College, Anugrah Memorial College, Jagjivan College, Mirza Ghalib College. Gautam Buddha Mahila College (GBM College) is exclusively meant for women.
Anugraha Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH)is the medical college in Gaya.
Gaya has an Industrial Training Institute for vocational education located on Bodhgaya Road.
GAYA has an educational institution too who has a great record of success named * THE FLUENCY CONSORTIUM, situated in Swarajpuri Road. Students of this institution are studying different foreign language in the different prestigious university of India such as JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI, THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD, MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY, BARODA , Etc.
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Internally displaced Syrian youths line up for food distribution in the Maiber al-Salam refugee camp near the Turkish border.
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels captured a military base in the strategic Homs province Thursday as opposition fighters fought to expand territory under their control near the Lebanese border, activists said.
The central region is important to President Bashar Assad because it links Damascus, his seat of power, to one of his main allies, Hezbollah.
The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said opposition fighters took control of the entire Dabaa military complex in Homs Thursday afternoon, after weeks of fighting with government forces.
Dabaa is a former air force base and has an airfield which hasn't been used since the fighting broke out more than two years ago. Instead, the army has based ground troops in the facility to fight the rebels, the Observatory said. It did not say how many – if any – troops were at the base when it was captured.
The base is located near Al-Qusair, a contested central Syrian town near a key highway between Damascus and the coastal enclave that is the heartland of Syria's Alawite community.
Assad's government accuses those who have turned against it of being foreign-backed terrorists.
The U.S. and its European and Gulf allies have backed the opposition but there are concerns over extremist elements, such as the Nusra Front, which Washington has designated a terrorist group, and the Obama administration opposes directly arming the rebels.
Israel shares Washington's concerns. In an interview with the BBC that aired Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish state had "the right to act to prevent that from happening."
Netanyahu said Israel fears that Syrian chemical weapons or sophisticated anti-aircraft systems the rebels seek to counter the regime's superior airpower will come under control of Al-Qaeda militants or Hezbollah.
"Obviously we're concerned that that the weapons that are groundbreaking and could change the balance of power in the Middle East would fall into the hands of these terrorists," Netanyahu said. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the issue would be discussed at a Friends of Syria meeting in Istanbul this weekend.
"Everybody has now accepted a concern about extremist elements who have forced their way into this picture, and there is a desire by all parties to move those extremist elements to the side and to give support, I believe, to the Syrian opposition," Kerry said. "That's a big step forward."
Speaking to U.S. senators, Kerry also warned that Syria could fragment into rival enclaves.
"Time is not on the side of a political solution. It's on the side of more violence, more extremism, an enclave breakup of Syria."
The aim of Saturday's Istanbul meeting is "to get everybody on the same page with respect to what post-Assad" Syria will look like, Kerry said, highlighting the need to ensure that "Qataris, Saudis, Emirates, Turks, Europeans" all have the same goals in mind.
Analysts warned Thursday that Jordan was being dragged into Syria's conflict as more and more U.S. troops head to Amman.
"The escalation has become public. At the beginning of the crisis Jordan was trying to deal with it calmly, but now things are heading toward confrontation," Labib Kamhawi, a writer and political analyst told AFP.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel revealed Wednesday that some 150 U.S. military specialists have been deployed in Jordan since last year and that he had ordered a U.S. Army headquarters team to bolster the mission, bringing the total American presence to more than 200 troops.
"These personnel will continue to work alongside Jordanian Armed Forces to improve readiness and prepare for a number of scenarios," Hagel said.
Late Wednesday, Obama met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal. Saudi Arabia is among the Gulf states believed to be sending arms to rebels.
Obama is in the middle of a string of meetings with Middle Eastern allies focusing in part on Syria. He hosted Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the White House Tuesday and will also meet leaders of Turkey, Qatar and Jordan in coming weeks.
The joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is scheduled to brief the Security Council Friday behind closed doors.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dismissed speculation that Brahimi would resign from his post, saying Wednesday that he will continue to work as the joint special representative, stressing the importance of the U.N.'s work with the Arab League.
Syria's "prospects may seem dim," Ban said, "but I remain convinced that a political solution is possible."
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Khartoum — Sudan's Commissioner of Humanitarian Aid (HAC), Suleiman Marhab, threatened to expel foreign aid organizations operating in Darfur that do not comply with an agreement signed with HAC.
Marhab made this announcement during a parliamentary hearing on Saturday 15 September, in Khartoum.
The Commissioner said he would not allow foreign aid organizations to operate in Sudan without a national partner from 2013 onwards. Marhab added that as of next year he will not allow the provision of relief via air or across borders, explaining that all relief operations should come from inside the Sudanese territory.
During the parliamentary hearing, Marhab said the measures in Darfur are the same HAC took regarding foreign aid organizations operating in Kassala State, in the east of Sudan. He pointed out that a number of foreign organizations were already expelled from that area.
The Commissioner stated that the number of foreign aid organizations working in Darfur reduced from 200 to less than 40 since 2006.


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What To Do When Others Don't Want You To Change
Here is a great question from one of my clients.
As many of you know, once you start engaging in personal development work, be it getting some coaching, going to therapy, or finding a spiritual path, many of your closest friends and family members might feel very uncomfortable with the "new you."
Here's a great example that some of you might appreciate, followed up with some useful tips.
Here's my client's question:
Last night I had dinner with my bro. We got on the topic of "what the f*ck am I doing?" with all my time, going to spiritual talks etc.
My bro gave me a piece about, "You need to be clear with your friends what you're doing since you are so out of touch, you need to be clear with Mom and Dad. People need you/ want you back. No one understands what is going on with you". I was patient for a while, and then I got (more…)


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Mobile World Congress 2012 coverage
The Mobile World Congress 2012 has closed its doors and what a wild ride it was. We saw all sorts of new gadgets and software and we did our best to cover everything interesting in sight. We've written tons of news, blog posts and hands-on impressions and have added many new phones and tablets to our specs database.
To make your life easier and save time navigating the content, we have our complete MWC 2012 coverage at a glance, including phone specs, news and hands-on impressions.
Latest changes:
- Nokia 808 PureView in focus: An interview with Damian Dinning
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview highlights
- Nokia 808 PureView runs Belle OS FP1, 3 older models to get it too
- Nokia 808 PureView wins Best New Device at MWC
- Mozilla Boot2Gecko cloud-based mobile OS hands-on
- ZTE Android lineup hands-on
- Alcatel lineup hands-on
- Sony Xperia P WhiteMagic screen compared to the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S II
MWC 2012 overview
Mobile World Congress 2012 coverage - reader comments
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