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Opinion - Written by Renai LeMay on Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:43 - 41 Comments
Lotus fans: Show me the money or shut the hell up
opinion If there is one thing I am absolutely sick to death of, it is the pathetic rantings of die-hard Lotus Notes fanboys about how technically superior their product is, and how everyone else who isn't drinking the IBM kool-aid is somehow incredibly "biased" and don't understand Notes' obvious superiority.
Let me walk you through an average day in these people's lives.
Courtesy of their Google Alerts set on key search terms like 'Lotus Notes' and 'Domino', when they slouch cringingly into their Office Space-esque working environments just before 9AM every morning, they receive an annotated list of stories posted on global websites about how yet another mega-corporation has dumped Notes, typically in favour of the ultimate evil and hated destroyer of worlds, Microsoft Exchange.
Instantly, and despite the fact that this happens every day, the fingers of these Lotus Notes' fanboys tighten in terror around their 1980's IBM-branded coffee mug filled with weak herbal tea. Their throat seizes up as if they are having an asthma attack, and a series of short, disjuncted noises issue from their mouth as they gaze fixatedly at the screen, their beady eyes unable to look away from what they perceive as a horriffic event.
Then, setting the tea down shakily, these Lotus fanboys scrabble with gnarled fingers at the keyboard and mouse until they find the comments section of the website concerned. "BIAS!!!" they scream. "This journalist must be BIASED against Lotus! He's on the Microsoft payroll! Look at all the Microsoft advertisements on the site! It's a CONSPIRACY!"
They then proceed to outline in amazingly detailed prose the technical reasons why the Lotus Notes/Domino ecosystem is inherently better than Microsoft's Outlook/Exchange alternative. The extensibility of the platform. The number of third-party additions. Its easy upgrade path. The fact that you can now get it "in the cloud" with Lotus Live. Its better security and integrated collaboration features.
And the list goes on.
Without fail, they punctuate their article with yet another, slightly more veiled jab at the journalist writing the article, before collapsing briefly into their chair as their anger dissipates and they raise their mug of herbal tea once again as a knight in the Crusades would have raised his sword, believing that they have righted all wrongs and put the world to harmony once more. "I showed him," they think, and start preparing the daily email to their chief executive justifying why their company's Lotus email system won't sync with his mobile phone.
We received the perfect example of this yesterday, after we published an article about local company Steinhoff shifting to Microsoft's hosted BPOS platform.
"This is the most emotive and biased article I have read for a long time. This is not information, it is Microsoft propaganda and shows your organisation and your so-called reporting to be nothing but an arm of the Microsoft marketing," screamed an individual named Paul. "Grow up and give us some real news backed by facts, not your obviously biased opinion."
Thanks Paul. I deleted your comment, because unlike those of other readers, it had nothing constructive to add to the conversation. Actually, I enjoyed doing so, because I am a former systems administrator and I can be petty like that at times (see the Bastard Operator from Hell). But I re-publish it here as a prime example of the case I have described above.
The problem with Lotus Notes fanboys is that they are incredibly hypocritical. Long-term readerswill know that this author has written dozens of articles over the past several years about email platform migrations in large organisations. Yes, many of the stories have been about Notes/Domino customers migrating to Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, and there is an undeniable trend in this direction. However, we've also written many stories about organisations migrating off every platform under the sun and onto Google's Apps suite, which is in direct competition with both IBM and Microsoft's options.
But here's the thing: The Lotus Notes fanboys never come out of the woodwork to discuss the situation when a Microsoft customer goes Google — or even onto another platform like Zimbra. They only get excited and jump up and down when Lotus is involved. They have absolutely no interest in discussing organisations' actual email needs logically and rationally in the context of their businesses — they just want to impotently scream bloody murder whenever their personal lovechild takes a bodyblow.
Ironically, whenever we write a story about an organisation 'going Google', it's the Microsoft fanboys who list us as their number one public enemy. I'd bet Microsoft fanboys are probably a little better dressed than Lotus fanboys, but they still scream similar things at us.
"BIAS!" they scream. "Gmail is not ready for the enterprise! It's insecure because it's hosted overseas and the US Patriot Act means the Government can see up your skirt! Look at all the Google ads on the site! This journalist must be on the Google payroll! It's a CONSPIRACY!"
It's remarkable how similar Lotus and Exchange fanboys are — almost as if they were separated at birth. It would be as if Pauline Hanson and Sarah Palin were originally twins but grew up in separate households and came to form the same ridiculous views but for completely different reasons.
Right. Now that I've insulted all of the Lotus Notes fanboys sufficiently to get their attention and send the Google Alerts emails springing like demonic hyperactive mice into their inboxes, I want to get to the real point of this article: To issue an open amnesty and invitation to them in bulk.
The thing about most technology journalists is that although each probably has an email platform that they prefer, because we're all heavy users of email, we're not usually paid to express an opinion about that (although sometimes we do) — we're usually paid to report on the news of the day and describe what's happening out there in IT departments around the world.
I say this to make the point that I would LOVE to report on new deployments of Lotus Notes/Domino. I'm FASCINATED with the current state of enterprise collaboration (as geeky as that may sound) and I've been reporting on this space for the better part of a decade now, after working as a systems administrator on mail systems and other assorted and sundry items myself.
The problem is that I simply have not been able to find any new deployments of Lotus Notes/Domino in Australia at all for the past several years, so despite my best efforts to the contrary, I have to go on reporting new Exchange and Google Apps deployments — and even new Zimbra rollouts — because I simply do not know of any new Lotus ones.
Where possible, I have reported on Lotus Notes upgrades. I really enjoyed doing that, because I got the chance to tell a different story from the same old, Organisation X dumps Lotus Notes for Exchange/Google Apps yadda yadda yadda. And also, again, as dumb as this sounds, I like talking to IT managers, systems administrators and CIOs about their systems. I'm just wired that way.
So today I am issuing an OPEN INVITATION and AMNESTY to Lotus Notes fanboys.
If you come up with an Australian organisation who is deploying a new installation of Lotus Notes/Domino of 100 seats or more, I will guarante to interview them. I will guarantee to write a story of at least 500 words and probably longer about their deployment. If they will let me and it is in Sydney, I will even physically travel to their office and do a video interview with them.
This guarantee also extends in part to those upgrading old installations of Lotus Notes. I guarantee that if you can come up with an organisation of 500 seats or larger who is upgrading their copy of Notes/Domino, I will guarantee to interview them as well and publish a story.
I issue this amnesty so that it is on the public record that I am not a "BIAS" journalist and that I am interested in email platforms of all stripes. If I break my word on this, please feel free to slander me in public as much as you want to.
But, Lotus Notes fanboys, here's the kicker.
If I do not receive any invitations to interview Australian Lotus Notes customers over the next 12 months, you must acknowledge this. You must acknowledge that IBM's precious email and collaboration platform is suffering a slow and prolonged death by a thousand cuts, and that it will shortly be consigned to the graveyard of history as Microsoft and Google divide up its once strong empire between them.
If, Lotus Notes fanboys, you do not come up with the goods in the next 12 months and let me know about some new Notes/Domino customers, you must quit your incessant bitching that journalists are "BIASED" and walk away. It would make me extremely happy if you then undertook Microsoft or Google re-education and admitted the error of your ways, because then I could laugh at you and point out that you had sold out to one or both evil empires, and that if you were real men, the truth is that you should never have stopped using EMACS in the first place and that graphical user interfaces are for wimps.
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This is why I love Delimiter :-)
Was just thinking the same thing :)
Amen! Love Renai's articles. Most unique technology commentary on the web. :)
Hey, credit where it's due: at least Lotus Notes 8 correctly renders fonts called through the Google font API. Even Gmail doesn't.
Then again, Lotus Notes 8.5 doesn't.
PS: VI for life.
I'm actually hoping you do get an interview. I'd love to know why someone would adopt Notes in the current marketplace with (in my bias, non-advertiser supported opinion) there are far better products. I can understand upgrading, but a fresh adoption would be interesting to hear about.
This rants better than Gizmodo's, a few months back.
Great work!
Hats off to you Renai for setting the record straight on your point of view. I consider myself one of the Lotus fanboys, as you call us, and don't see the issue with us getting up in arms when someone attacks our platform. I would think a developer of any platform they develop for and love would do the same and if not they should, as you said, walk away, get re-educated, and admit the error of their ways.
I admit that I am a little biased to Lotus, but have to say that I would rather an organization properly scope out all the options for what will best fit their need and commit to that platform 100% whether that be Microsoft Exchange, Google Gmail, or Zimbra so that they then have no reason to bad mouth the Lotus product for not being what they have been so used to using for the last several decades.
I am not aware, not 100% sure, of any news articles talking about a security breach of an organizations mail system that was using Lotus, but Microsoft and Google hmmm.
Again, hats off to drawing the line in the sand.
A recruiter is currently looking for a contractor to move a Brisbane based company of Exchange/Sharepoint to Notes/Domino.
Migration from Exchange to Domino.
Ok it's only 50 seats and under the minimum 100 you set.
No details to the tweet however the external site is definitely Domino and the SMTP server is definitely Domino.
It seems accusing authors of bias stirs an even bigger emotional response than telling Lotus "Fanboys" that Exchange is better than Notes..LOL..
I don't think any genuine person would deny the fact that Lotus Notes is a dead man walking at this point. And for the record I don't have an IBM coffee-mug.. smashed that years ago.
Wow.. what a rant (good ending though).. i thought I was a ranter.. You clearly have too much time on your hands..
I could definitely be classified a Lotus fanboy, but I thought this article was fantastic. While I didn't agree with every specific point, you're obviously a very talented writer, and I found myself chuckling at your caricaturization of my ilk (although I had difficulty relating to the depiction of working conditions, since it's been quite a few years since I set foot in a cube farm for any reason other than the occasional consulting gig).
For me personally, there are a couple factors that make it difficult to believe that Notes may actually be "the walking dead". The first is that this mantra has been an ever-present background hum for the entire 13 years I've worked with Lotus products. When I first encountered Notes, it was less than 9 years old and already dead. Now it's coming up on 22 and it's dying. This makes it a struggle to accept assertions of its demise as "news", since many have been offering the same characterizations for so long, yet the platform remains. Hence, while it's very possible that Notes will soon disappear entirely, history makes it safer to bet against that possibility… if I'd believed the same assertions when I first heard them in 1998, I would have missed out entirely on what has been a most enjoyable career thus far.
The second factor is the complication presented by the platform's dissociative identity. Without attempting to extol Domino's merits or deride other platforms, the reality is that Domino is first and foremost an application development platform; its messaging features are merely one application that has been developed upon that platform, ships with the product, and typically gets all the attention. Every few years, it seems, IBM remembers this, adds new development features (most noticeably, with the introduction of an entire JSF implementation in the most recent major release, 8.5), which causes some invigoration as existing customers discover the new things they can develop, and new customers are attracted to the platform. Then IBM goes back to talking just about incremental messaging features like ghosted calendar entries, and the notion that Domino competes with Exchange or Google Apps – instead of PHP, Struts, Rails, Couchbase, Salesforce, et al – resurfaces.
As a result, the individual event of one organization migrating their email to a competitor's solution actually does seem like news – particularly when this happens frequently and publicly enough to appear to be a trend. But the reality is that each organization has, upon successful completion of such a migration (which history, again, indicates is never guaranteed), what they already had – email – albeit, with a couple incremental features that they didn't use to, along with new problems they never used to have to worry about. Due to this dual identity as a messaging platform and custom application development platform, it's not at all uncommon for an organiztation that has "ditched Notes" to still be using it a decade later… because whoever decided everyone should be using Outlook didn't think about the mission critical apps that run their business, and after shifting all the mail, find themselves unable to identify a superior alternative to handle their CRM, purchase requisition system, corporate website, and engineering change control process (and, typically, hundreds of other apps of varying nature), all of which have been running for years on a single server cluster. So they keep paying IBM license renewal fees, employing Domino developers to support and enhance those applications, and (hopefully) periodically upgrading to newer versions of Domino to enjoy the newly available application development capabilities. They just no longer get email for free. And Notes is dead, because more and more companies use it for what it's best at, instead of a tiny subset of what it can do that, sadly, gets all the press… even from IBM. Admittedly, I've seen indications lately that the last part of that may be shifting a bit.
In any case, I applaud you for issuing this challenge. It's not enough for IBM (or those of us whose career revolves primarily around their software products) to assert the platform's vitality and simply ask others to just take their word for it… they need to publicize the customers who are as excited to be embracing it as those who are excited to be abandoning it. But in all honesty, I don't expect this type of debate to vanish. As I mentioned earlier, many have been trumpeting the demise of Notes for so long I can barely remember a time when I wasn't hearing it… and there are always fanboys like me passionately contradicting those assertions. I would not be surprised in the least to see an article published by another journalist in five years' time expressing precisely the same sentiments you have in this one.
For the record. There are still thousands of Notes customers out there ( together with CC:Mail this product once had a 60%+ market share) but I consider the number of what you call die-hard Lotus fans is little (even lower if you subtract IBM Business Partners and IBM employees). Unfortunately I am still too busy with Notes and Domino work to comment on every article how great is was (or not).
Most people working with Domino do NOT close their eyes anymore on what's happening out there. So yes I do believe that Notes and Domino are on its way out. And yes it has been a long, and in parts painful, process. But it will take a long time until Microsoft and Google might celebrate a "Mission accomplished", And in the meantime there is money to be made here.
And considering what IBM has tried to get rid of Notes and Domino (in the past) I must say that there still is a solid number of customers who just decided that the platform has a lot of value, no matter what the competition or IBM is saying.
And yes I run a Google search for Lotus Notes but I don't have an IBM mug and drink coffee not tea.
I always suspected that the reason the Lotus Notes fanboys were so vocal was because many of them are contractors who are having trouble finding work, so they have a lot of free time on their hands :-)
OK Renai, if your offer is an honest one, I will take your challenge.
I am happy to provide you with the contact details of several Australian companies that are new implementations of Domino in the last 5 years that have more than 100 users.
I won't disclose their details in this forum, but my list will include:
1) A Tasmanian Government Department with about 500 users.
2) A Tasmanian Construction Group with over 600 users.
3) A Sydney based Electricity Distributor that is currently preparing to roll-out a Domino system to over 5,500 users.
4) A Sydney based Building Management/Construction Group that is rolling Domino out to over 600 users.
I will contact all these organisations in advance to gain their agreement in principle to be interviewed by you, just to make your job easier.
The Westfield life safety system that I mentioned yesterday is a fantastic story with over 5,600 new Domino users implemented 2 years ago, but Westfield don't comment publicly on these projects as a general rule.
I have got more, but let's see how you do with these for the moment.
Please email me for details.
Ian Randall
"the fingers of these Lotus Notes' fanboys tighten in terror around their 1980′s IBM-branded coffee mug filled with weak herbal tea."
I stopped reading there. If you want an opinion you should probably stop with the name calling or ad hominems.
"pathetic rantings"
I read your other article, those rantings looked more like correcting you. No interest to read any of your other stuff.
Next time you report on a migration, as you probably will, please mention the version of Notes the organization is moving from and how long they used Notes in the past.
Terms like "Nail in the coffin" may just be to get attention, but do seem to indicate bias even if that was not the intent.
The problem for me is that these pieces are mostly a rehash of vendor marketing. There are very few areas which point to increased ROI or solving a specific issue, or better use of alternate technology. Basically, no depth.
The marketing does it's job, which is to engage on an emotional level, hence the majority of your responses are going to be in the same vein.
Put some meat in the next one.
Ahhh Renai, this brought a chuckle to morning. Excellent article.
Having previously been a developer in the Lotus Domino stack of IBM technology, working with enterprise and public sector clients, I can say there is a significant amount of truth in this.
There is a definate market decline in Australia of IBM tech towards Microsoft and Google for mail/colab/cloud based apps, and Oracle is now going to start hammering them in the integrated hardware/software offerings.
Yet I can imagine the fanboys arcing up in response already, and I know a number of them personally, so I speak from experience, ready to defend the offerings of Big Blue with stories of "Lotus Notes was the first ever product capable of …." etc etc. Sorry, heard it all before. I used to be a programmer, I am well aware of the platform architecture, its capabilities and limitations.
I suggest you add two extra questions to your interviews if anyone is game enough to provide you contact details;
1. How well did you implementation go? (resource availability & project completion time)
2. How happy are you now?
And yes, one of my previous bosses had a white IBM mug stained black on the inside from black tea.
Don't forget though, IBM reinvented itself once under Gerstner, I am sure the glory days will return …. just like OS2 did.
Arrrr Jared you make me laugh.
Whilst your chortle away, IBM's profit and stock price has been doing rather well thanks
Certainly everyone has a lot of catching up wiht Apple or Google….
What's really sad is that all of these are US companies. If only Australia had a large IT organisation of the size of a Citrix, VMware or even an IBM we could all be proud of. I guess Australia is good at digging stuff up out of the ground and letting other countries 'value add'
Looks like your going to be busy with interviews Renai :) in the mean time it wouldn't hurt to include the REASONS why people are moving to exchange…business has become lazy and fragmented, everyone want's something out of the box and MS are really good at selling that dream…reality is however lots of $ need to be spent on any MS solution to get the same functionality as you get in LND out-of-the-box…sure you need to hire a developer to run a LND site properly however it's a good investment as you have flexibility to give business what they need without purchasing another stand alone solution and trying to marry it up with exchange in the hope things works. I think you need to do a bit more research on what Notes does/can do and also include the fact there are too many CIO's out there who simply want to move to exchange because that is what THEY are used to…once done and running costs start to climb they leave and go on to mess up another site. By this stage it's usually too late to go back to Notes as the IT budget has been blown on converting everything LND to exchange during the 3yr migration project. Sad state of affairs.
Interested in some Australian organizations running 90% of their backoffice operations on SAAS run on Domino? I've got a couple that are in the 3000-5000 range. No Notes client though (all web-delivered.)
@Tim hits the nail on the head. Notes/Domino is a RAAD platform, email just happens to be another application that it can do. The newer versions of said mail template are quite excellent. Unfortunately IBM didn't "get" the RAAD aspect as the critical piece until a few years ago, but they definitely have seen the light and are pouring significant amounts of money into this area.
Nice challenge. So, as a Notes lover, I hope some Notes Business partner down-under takes up the challenge and delivers a win!
The article is good, I must admit. Holywars between Notes and Exchange fans are more or less permanent but I certainly think that those solutions will be much less used in the nearest future. Although for large corporations having their own deployment of any collaboration platform is affordable, for small and medium businesses it's rather too complex and too expensive. Look at our heroes – MS and IBM, you'll see that after talking a lot about the cloud computing they are coming up with real office solutions. Office 365 vs LotusLive vs Google Docs – this is the holywar of the future, that's what I think. And I believe that anyone with open eyes sees the differences between these platforms.
Another thing I'd like to mention is that concentrating on Notes vs Exchange discussion is seen rather strange these days. Com'on guys, it's 2011 outside of your small office box. IBM and Microsoft offer much more than just email suites. I'd rather hesitate that anyone who decides to implement any of those offerings does only email. Both players are moving forward social collaboration with giant steps and their solutions have very little in common. IBM did a great move with Connections when MS only had MOSS 2007 that could barely be considered as a social platform. However Quickr was probably targeted as SharePoint competitor. Now MS tries to include everything in SharePoint 2010 – social stuff, collaboration, shared workplaces and team rooms. And whilst IBM pioneered there with Lotus QuickPlace ages ago it seems that MS has huge success on the field.
Also look at the IM and conferencing offerings, at this moment probably IBM has the best solution with first Lotus Sametime Unyte and now LotusLive meetings that is competing more on WebEx field and Sametime was always one of the strongest offering in Lotus portfolio, starting when no one considered IM as widely used enterprise solution.
So as the conclusion I would also mention that I see IBM/Lotus created some revolutionary ideas for the time but when implementing they sometimes forget to consult with UI and UX experts, they had major time gaps between versions and look too much at the legacy (although sometimes it's good). When Microsoft just take steps and rewrite MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 where you can pull all your hair with the migration, IBM can't afford this. The IBM strategy works for keeping some major customers and let them migrate painlessly but modern businesses are rather prepared to take steps for big updates and get something new, good looking and trendy. But IBM is barely looking at that segment and this is in my eyes one of their poorest feature.
I'm offended that you think Microsoft fanboys dress better than us.
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The full Helms-Deep-Defense MOD (Version 1.2)! Thx for download!!!!!
Sorry i don't have oblivion ;)
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helms deep oblivion mod? Can you explain that a bit more please.
xD i hope i can count on you for the mod of the year award ;)
Anyway head over to: Forums.savage2.com
to see more of my mods (i dont create for each one a site on moddb).
I'm currently working on Hide&Seek but i didn't forget this mod :).
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Hey Era , do you have a server running with ur mod ? :D
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does it have online play?
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Reason 4.1 was officially released today. Thanks to the Reason Hack/Doc coders and documentors, and the Carleton student workers who are responsible for many of the enhancements found in Reason 4.1.
Here is a sampling of what you'll find in Reason 4.1:
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- A new lister view which allows for simple duplication of Reason forms - enabled by default after running the upgrade scripts.
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- Streamlined setup script with more useful information and fewer required steps.
- Tons of bug fixes, particularly with the features module introduced in Reason 4.0.
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FATS is a virtual system that allows for multiple scenarios to be played out while officers are armed with simulator guns. The system allows for training instructors to continuously adapt to changing situations that officers could face while out on patrol, including: robberies, hold-ups, domestic disputes involving a weapon, hostage situations and any other potentially threatening circumstances.
Sheriff John Burns says that the system will allow for advanced training that would otherwise not be available at the range.
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Wednesday, two deputies demonstrated the capabilities of the equipment. Sergeant Joseph Cullen says it is an easy system to operate and that due to the tracking of shots and accuracy officers will now be able to tailor their strategy to be most efficient and save lives.
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Commissioner Nichols names Richard "Dickie" Howze as state's interim Chief Information Officer
BATON ROUGE – Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols announced today that Richard "Dickie" Howze will serve as the state's interim Chief Information Officer.
In his role as interim CIO, Howze will be tasked by Commissioner Nichols with a main focus of assisting the Department of Health and Hospitals to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of all of DHH's IT products and services.
Commissioner Nichols said, "Based on his experience and record of getting results, Dickie will serve as point person is assessing our IT assets and investments and making sure we are making the best allocation of taxpayer resources."
Howze comes to the interim CIO job from his current position of Director of Information Technology for the Department of Children and Family Services. In this role, he oversees the modernization and reorganization efforts designed to streamline the agency, decrease DCFS' overall footprint and implement new technology and systems to provide DCFS' clients with more efficient and effective services.
Howze brings more than 34 years of public service in the Information Technology Division.
Last week Commissioner Nichols announced that Ruth Johnson, who was previously tapped to serve at the state's next CIO, is instead serving as special advisor for the Division of Administration, overseeing the Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) procurement process. Johnson's new role is providing additional oversight and control to the RFP process. Johnson will also oversee the interim CIO and the Division's IT operations.
The state's CIO plays a major role on matters related to IT and IT resources, including policies, standards, hardware and software deployment, strategic and tactical planning, acquisition, management, and operations in keeping with industry trends. In addition, the CIO monitors e-government operations throughout state government and serves a key role in implementing the Commissioner's initiatives to increase government efficiency and effectiveness.
Biography of Richard "Dickie" HowzePrior to his current position of Director of Information Technology for the Department of Children and Family Services, Howze served as the Undersecretary for the Office of Management and Finance at DCFS. In this role, Howze was responsible for DCFS' $1 billion budget and the management fiscal services, human resources, information technology and planning, budget and support services.
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Howze also has served as the director of DCFS' Division of Information Technology. As such, he was responsible for making final recommendations for DCFS' IT budget which includes all major expenditures including mainframe, desktop and network equipment and other technology. He managed DCFS' business and intelligence reporting, quality assurance and disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning for the agency, as well as the user support center, IT security, database administration, and applications, server and technical support.
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Representing the Sacred in China, Past and Present
Tue, September 25, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.118
Dr. Benoit Vermander, Academic Director, The Xu-Ricci Dialogue Center; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai
Reception will be held at 3:00 p.m.
There are many pitfalls involved in the use of the word "sacredness" when speaking of a culture where the categories of "sacred" and "profane" have not been elaborated through the lexical tools that govern the use and meaning of sacer and of profanus for instance. This is not for denying that such categories may refer to feelings and experiences loaded with universal appeal, but defining this "universal" character has proven quasi impossible if it means to enclose the "Sacred" into a well-defined field of cultural references.
Taking into account the variability of our sets of aesthetic and spiritual perceptions, I will suggest that the realm associated with "sacredness" has to do, in the Chinese world, with the way to relate to territories: the "body" metaphor is central in China's perception of the world. Every territory is a sacred body, and, in Chinese medicine, every body is a sacred territory. Territories are shaped by forces to be identified, exorcized and tamed. The whole universe, China, local societies and the human person are all "continents of spirits." All space in China is inhabited by divine energies, which – because they sustain us – must receive in return our sacrificial recognition.
However, China is a country of contrasts. To the charm of the microcosm succeeds the awe of the macrocosm – when China makes itself its own object of veneration. At the same time, the land that is venerated is also desecrated through social and ecological exploitation. The sacredness of the "Chinese garden" (a leading metaphor for any sacred territory) contrasts with the desecration of the "waste land." How does the Chinese collective psyche respond to the present dichotomy between cultural nostalgia for ancestral worship of the land on the one hand and the actual depletion of its resources on the other?
This presentation will try to make sense of contemporary relationships to "sacredness" in China such as fostered by this double reality– continuity of the "sacred territory" world-view and experience of the "desecration" of the soil. It will then try to sketch the trajectories through which "sacredness" is embodied, denied and reshaped in everyday life and practices.
Dr. Benoit Vermander is associate professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, Faculty of Philosophy. He is Academic Director of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Center in the same faculty. His publications include L'Empire sans milieu, essai sur la sortie de la religion en Chine (DDB, 2010), Chine brune ou Chine verte (Presses de sciences po, 2007), Shamanism and Christianity: Religious Encounter among Indigenous Peoples of East Asia (Taipei Ricci Institute, 2008, edited with Olivier Lardinois), Creeds, Rites and Videotapes (Taipei Ricci Institute, 2004, edited with Elise DeVido), and others. His recent articles and book chapters include "Blessed are the Peacemakers: The Search for an East Asian Reading" in Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation, Exploring Theological Identities at Home and in Diaspora, edited by Heup Young Kim, Fumitaka Matsuoka and Anri Morimoto, Amsterdam/New York, NY, Rodopi, 2011; "Scholasticism, Dialogue and Universalism" in Universitas, 2011, n.438; "Chinese wisdom, management practices and the humanities", Journal of Management Development, 2011, Vol. 30 - 7/8; and "Religious Revival and Exit from Religion in Contemporary China" China Perspectives, January 2010. He is also chief-editor of the Internet magazine www.erenlai.com.


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I am about to play my first live drumming job in many years. The last time I did a job, they did not have sound men in clubs to mic the drums. Actually they had hollow logs and sticks that fell off the trees that morning.
I really do not see it necessary to mic the drums because I have a good kick and snare sound and my cymbals, to me sound good. My problem is that I have to tie the drums together and keep them from walking from my bass kicking. I have a pretty good bass kick. I break bass heads and bass beaters sometimes. I thought I stopped doing that, but started playing rock again.
What does the typical sound man do? Would he cut a hole in my bass drum even if I do not have a hole in the front head? Does the sound of the cymbals sound different through the PA system then what I hear from behind the kit? Would my snare sound different?
The place is small and only seats about 80 people, yet for some reason they have a sound man for this place.
What scares me is that I saw that you tube cartoon on this subject.
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By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. CardenAmerican Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 8, 2009 Providing better care for survivors of fallen servicemembers is a concern near and dear to the hearts of lawmakers and military leaders, but maybe to none more so than the Army chief of staff.
Addressing more than 100 parents, spouses and children of fallen soldiers at the 2009 Survivor Summit here yesterday, Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said he knows firsthand the emotional challenges they face. Just before earning his Army commission in 1970, Casey's father, Army Maj. Gen. George Casey Sr., was killed in combat.
"I have a lot of interest in this, as I'm a survivor myself," he said. "I lost my dad in Vietnam when I was 21."
Many improvements in survivor care have been made throughout the past 40 years. But when he became Army chief of staff a little more than two years ago, he wanted to continue that progress.
"I looked around at what the Army was doing after five years of war for survivors, and we were still just doing casualty assistance," the general said. "I thought about what my mother and sisters went through -- we have to do better."
One of his priorities was to develop a survivor program that offers stronger support for families. Survivor care needed to do more than notify the families, assist with funeral arrangements and help understand entitlements -- the Army needed to go beyond just casualty assistance, he said.
Army Survivor Outreach Services, also known as S.O.S, was formed in April 2008. Casey selected a special panel of survivors, and after months of discussion, the new program came to life. Outreach coordinators soon will be working at every Army post, giving survivors another source for support in their communities.
The summit here, which started Oct. 7 and ends tomorrow, is intended to further enhance the program through various work groups. During a question-and-answer session with Casey, a number of concerns were brought to his attention.
Some widows lost their husbands to ailments acquired from the Gulf War and wanted to know what the Pentagon and Congress was doing to improve pre- and post-deployment screenings. Parents wanted to know why they weren't considered part of the Army family; that they also need to be informed and connected. Other survivors in the group simply were unhappy with the overall care they received from the Army.
"There's clearly and rightly a lot of pain in this room, and hopefully what you'll leave here feeling is that we are going to work very hard to take your concerns on to change the way our country deals with survivors," Casey told the group. "It's not going to happen overnight, and it's not going to be just [the Army that improves].
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Sliced tomatoes (optional)
Step 2: Roast pork ribs
Step 3: Cook ramen noodles and noodle base separately!
Boil 3 cups of water and add both seasoning packets, diced scallions, and some shredded ginger. Add a few slugs of white wine to this broth. Keep warm and set aside.
Cook separately in plain water the ramen noodles, undercooking them so they remain firm. Remove them from water and set aside in a bowl to chill.
A variation I use on this is Pho, which I haven't had in like 25 years. So I used the same base you did and added hot pepper, I cooked some greens (in the broth) and then put in an egg at the very end.. if you can stir through the egg whites and leave the yoke whole till you have the noddles in bowl then let the yoke break over the noodles.. yum yum..
Sounds good regardless though.
the consomme isn't even a different picture of the same thing
The pictures are not better here, and the whole point is to show your own things anyway.
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The whole point is to do things and then show people (with your own photographs). You can't do that if you've dragged a picture of consomme from somewhere because you didn't photograph Ramen...
I just have one minor recommendation, borne of my own long experience. Don't use "cooking wine." Ever. Not even to clean out your drains. The best rule you can have for cooking with wine is this, "if you wouldn't drink it, don't use it." There are some decent white wines out there for well under $10 a bottle, if you know where to look (TJ's, BevMo, even Costco). A Two-Buck Chuck (Charles Shaw) Chardonnay isn't something I'd serve to my friends, but it is drinkable, and makes a really excellent base for a light sauce.


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A cigarette lighter is disclosed having a body defining a fuel reservoir and a threaded passageway extending from the reservoir to the body exterior. An insert is threaded at least partially into the passageway and a set of bendable tabs secured thereabout along a common plane exteriorly of the body. Stop means are provided for limiting rotary movement of the insert through engagement with a member of the set of bendable tabs bent off the common plane. A valve stem is movably disposed within a cavity in the insert with a portion of the valve stem projecting to the exterior thereof. An actuating lever is coupled with the valve stem and interlocked with a fulcrum.
1. A cigarette lighter having a body defining a fuel reservoir and a passageway extending from the reservoir to the body exterior; a rotatable spindle having a central bore therethrough threaded at least partially into said passageway; a windguard secured to the upper portion of said body and having a horizontal opening in its forward end with a slot in the lower portion thereof; a plurality of bendable tabs secured about said spindle exteriorly of said body and extending in a common plane except for one downwardly bent tab and extending through said windguard opening; a porous washer positioned at the inner end of said central bore, said spindle being rotated upon assembly to a point where the desired minimum compression of said porous washer is achieved where the tab adjacent one end of the slot is bent downward to restrict the withdrawal rotation of said spindle and stop means for limiting rotary movement of said spindle through engagement with ends of said slot by said bent tab for selective adjustment by the user of the flame height.
2. A cigarette lighter in accordance with claim 1 wherein said lighter further comprises a valve stem movably disposed within said spindle bore with a portion of the valve stem projecting out of said spindle bore to the exterior of said spindle.
3. A cigarette lighter in accordance with claim 2 further comprising an actuating lever coupled with said valve stem and a fulcrum to which said lever is interlocked.
4. A cigarette lighter having a body defining a fuel reservoir, a passageway extending between the reservoir and an orifice in an exterior surface of the body, and a fulcrum disposed adjacent the orifice; a valve stem projecting from within said cavity out of said orifice aside said fulcrum; a valve actuating lever interlocked with said fulcrum in operative engagement with said valve stem; and a compression spring mounted between said body and said valve actuating lever.
5. A cigarette lighter in accordance with claim 4 wherein said valve stem has a peripheral groove in which valve actuating lever is seated.
6. A cigarette lighter in accordance with claim 4 wherein said fulcrum includes a key, and wherein said valve actuating lever defines a keyhole through which said key may be inserted to interlock said valve actuating lever with said fulcrum.
This invention relates generally to cigarette lighters, and particularly to cigarette lighters of the type that may contain fuel under pressure which, upon operation of valve means, is emitted as a stream of gas adjacent spark generation means.
Cigarette lighters of the type just described typically comprise a body which defines a reservoir and a passageway communicating between the reservoir and the body exterior with a valve housed within the passageway. A combustible fuel such as butane may be disposed within the reservoir and the valve set in a closed position thereby sealing off the reservoir from ambient atmosphere. In this valve closed condition the fuel vapors cause the pressure within the reservoir to increase above that of ambient pressure. A pressure differential of 45 PSI is common. This elevated pressure condition within the reservoir serves to maintain most of the fuel therewithin in a liquid state which in turn serves to maximize fuel storage capacity.
The valves used in these lighters typically include both means for effecting valve actuation and means for adjustably setting the flame height. This adjustability is needed due to the extreme difficulty in uniformly assembling the valve components in mass with a precisely predetermined valve opening. With inclusion of valve adjustment means such adjustment is made after assembly at the factory to establish a flame of selected height upon valve actuation and fuel ignition. This adjustability feature is maintained even following manufacture so as to enable a user to adjust flame height to suit his individual needs or preferences as well as to compensate for subsequent decreases in fuel reservoir pressure once a substantial portion of fuel has been exhausted.
That cigarette lighters of the type just described are delivered to consumers with valve adjust means has led to numerous instances of dangerous conditions arising where consumers have selected very large valve openings and then ignited fuel emitted therethrough creating a surprisingly large flame. In addition, the valve adjust and actuation mechanisms themselves have been relatively complex and cumbersome to assemble in efficient and economical manners.
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to provide a cigarette lighter having improved valve means.
More specifically, it is an object of the invention to provide a cigarette lighter having means for making relatively gross valve adjustments during manufacture, and for making relatively fine valve adjustments during subsequent consumer use.
Another object of the invention is to provide a cigarette lighter having a valve adjust means of relatively simple and economic construction.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a cigarette lighter having valve actuating means of relatively simple and economic construction which may be assembled to the lighter in an efficient and expeditious manner.
In one form of the invention a cigarette lighter is provided having a body defining a fuel reservoir and a passageway extending from the reservoir to the body exterior. An insert is threaded at least partially into the passageway and a set of bendable tabs secured to the insert exteriorly of the body along a common plane. Stop means limit rotary movement of the insert through engagement with a member of the set of bendable tabs bent off the common plane.
In another form of the invention a cigarette lighter is provided having a body defining a fuel reservoir, a passageway extending between the reservoir and an orifice in an exterior surface of the body, and a fulcrum disposed adjacent the orifice.
A valve stem projects from within the cavity out of the orifice beside the fulcrum. A valve actuating lever is interlocked with the fulcrum in operative engagement with the valve stem.
FIG. 1 is an exploded view in perspective of a cigarette lighter embodying principles of the invention in one preferred form.
FIG. 2 is an assembled top view of the lighter depicted in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of an upper portion of the lighter shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
Referring now in more detail to the drawing, there is shown a cigarette lighter having a housing or body 10 of generally tubular construction closed at the top by top plate 12. The body and top plate defines an interior fuel reservoir 14 and a partially threaded passageway 15 communicating between the exterior surface of the top end wall and reservoir. A threaded spindle or insert 16 is threaded into passageway 15 with an O-ring 18 compressibly disposed about the lower periphery of the insert in snug engagement with the walls of passageway 15. The insert is hollow to define a cavity in which a generally cylindrical, hollow valve stem 20 is movably disposed. A solid, rubber shut-off washer 22 is sandwiched between a step within the insert cavity and valve stem 20. A wick 24 projects from within fuel reservoir 14 up through the lowermost portion of passageway 15 into engagement with a porous washer 25 compressibly sandwiched between a lower step in passageway 15 and the bottom of insert 16. Preferably, the porous washer is composed of an open cell elastomeric material such as polyurethane. A wheel 27 is secured snugly about insert 16 above top plate 12 with a set of bendable tabs 28 disposed about the periphery thereof along a common plane.
The lighter top plate 12 has a central projection 30 about a central channel 31 in which a tube 32 is snugly seated which contains a compression spring 33 and a flint 35. A spark wheel 37 is rotably mounted to a spark wheel carrier 38 mounted atop top plate 12 straddling the body projection 30. Top plate 12 also defines a cylindrical channel 40 in which another compression spring 41 is housed.
The cigarette lighter further includes a valve actuating lever 43 having a central aperture or keyhole 44 which may be mounted to the lighter by placing the lever above top plate projection 30 and sliding the lever down about projection keys 45 which extend outwardly above top plate 12. The keyhole 44 is detailed to slide over the keys 45 after which the actuating lever may be urged along ramp 46 underneath keys 45 into engagement with annular groove 48 on valve stem 20. With an end groove 50 in the valve actuating lever engaged within the bounds of valve stem groove 48 the valve actuating lever is positioned upon an upper end of ramp 46 which serves as a fulcrum. In this position compression spring 41 biases the lever in a counterclockwise direction about the fulcrum as viewed in FIG. 1 thereby urging valve stem 16 downwardly to a valve closed position, and depending tab 61 of valve actuating lever 43 overlaps spring 41, retaining the lever in forwardly operating position.
A wing guard 55 having an arcuate slot 56 in an end thereof is secured atop top plane 12 about valve stem 48. The wind guard slot has a step defining two end walls 60 of an enlarged width portion of the slot. These end walls 60 serve as stops for any member of bendable tabs 28 which may be bent downwardly as tab 61 is shown in FIG. 3.
We thus see that the just described lighter may be easily assembled by threading insert 16 into passageway 15 with porous washer 25 sandwiched in compression beneath the bottom of the insert and the end wall of the passageway. Valve stem 20 may be then inserted within the cavity of the hollow insert and actuating lever 43 easily mounted in operative engagement with the valve stem without the need for auxiliary mounting components. The valve may then be adjusted by the manufacturer through rotation of the valve stem with wind guard 55 in place. Once proper adjustment is achieved one or more bendable tabs located between end wall 60 may be depressed thereby inhibiting a future user from making more than relatively minor or fine adjustments in flame height.
Once assembled and fueled, liquid fuel is drawn by wick 24 into contact with porous washer 25. Upon manual depression of valve actuation lever 43 against the bias of spring 41 valve stem 20 is urged upwardly within insert 16. With shut-off washer 22 now released the porous washer 25 is subjected to decreased ambient pressure which causes liquid fuel therewithin to vaporize and rise thereby urging shut-off washer 22 upwardly onto the bottom of raised stem 20. The fuel vapor may then pass about the lower portion of the stem, into slot 63, and up through the center of the hollow valve stem into the bounds of wind guard 55 adjacent spark wheel 37. A spark emitted by the wheel rubbing atop flint 35 will then ignite the escaping fuel vapors creating a flame which passes out through the open top of the wind guard.
It should be understood that the just described embodiment merely illustrates principles of the invention in one selected form. Many modifications may, of course, be made to this specifically illustrated embodiment without departure from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
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Yesterday to Domaine de Cristia the Chateauneuf producer in the village of Courtezon just down the road from Janesse. I joined their UK merchant H&H Bancroft for a magnificent tasting. Amazingly Cristia only started estate bottling in 1999 so have just completed their 13th vintage…yet they are producing wines which some of their better known peers must be envious of. The estate comprises 16ha of Chateauneuf , mainly in the north east on a mix of soils,sand, cley , chalk , stones - there is another 9ha of Cotes du Rhone adjacant to Beaucastel`s Coudelet on the other side of the A7. The two principle family members driving the property forward are Baptiste Grangeon, the winemaker, and his sister Dominique , who seems to manage everything else and who hosted our tasting session. Dominique explained that much of the groundwork for Cristia`s current success is down to the hard work of her father who completely overhauled the vineyards, employing organic viticulture, allowing his children to take over first class assets when the winery launched at the end of the 90`s. The estate was fully certified as organic from 2008.
Tasting: We started with the 2010 Cotes du Rhone, "Vielles Vignes", 100% Grenache, 50% in cuve, the rest in wood, 12 months aging, a humble aoc, very modest price (€9) but a wine showing the power and balance of the vintage -packed with juicy black fruits, herbal garrigue notes and little liqorice. A class act, reminded me of that other CduR which boxes out of its class Terre d `Argile made by their neighbours at Janesse. Next up was a comparison of the 2009 vs. 2010 vintages ( cask samples) for the classic CDP, the Renaissance and the Vieilles Vignes. The differences between the the two special cuvées and the basic? Both are from older vines, some circa 100 years, Renaissance gets 25% new oak, but key is cepage: the latter is 60% Grenache/30% Mourvedre/10% Syrah wheras VV is 100% Grenache and the tradition is 80% Grenache. The overall house style is one of polished power - the wines are huge in every dimension ( alcohol no doubt well exceeding the 15% stated) but tannins in both these vintages are ripe and the wines are approachable now though I would expect to see more integration of the oak on the Renaissance in a few years. The Vieilles Vignes 2009 ( only 4,000 bottles made) in particular struck me a real gem of a wine, one of the very best I have tasted from the vintage - deep ruby, on the nose already very open, sweet dark red fruits and spice, on the palate more super intense plum flavours combine with roasted expressso, liqorice, manages to retain balance and some freshness inspite of awesome weight. Differences between the vintages? : Though the 2009`s already ahead in appeal based on a little bottle aging there is no doubt that the 2010 vintage in CDP, based on the evidence at Cristia, is going to be a stonker - the power , the fruit and the structure are all there as per the 2009`s but if anything there is just a wee bit more acidity and freshness to cope with all that richness - in short potentially a nose ahead in terms of overall balance. We finished the tasting with two whites, the tradition ( very classic, light, mineral) and the Vielles Vignes , the latter 100% Grenache, deeply coloured , rich, viscous and quite delicious) but sadly Dominique explained that the white Grenache grapes from which it is made are giving over to reds ( commercial decision) so the 2010 will be the last vintage of this delightful wine.
Like her friend Laurance Feraud at Pegau Dominique also runs a "negoce" business…under the name "Cristia Selections", they trade wines from Gigondas, Vacueyras, Rasteau, Beaumes de Venise and Cairanne.
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