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Acer R7 Review: Something Differentby Jarred Walton on August 15, 2013 12:45 AM EST
Several months ago, Acer released the Aspire R7, a new and interesting take on touchscreen laptops. We didn't have an opportunity to review it at the time of launch, but Acer did ship one out a bit later and it's an interesting enough laptop that we wanted to discuss some of what might make this laptop appealing to a subset of our readers. We'll start with the customary specifications table, and after you see the specs you'll hopefully begin to understand why we aren't going to do a super in-depth review.
|Acer Aspire R7-571-6858 Specifications
Intel Core i5-3337U
(Dual-core 1.8-2.7GHz, 3MB L3, 22nm, 17W)
6GB (4GB onboard, 2GB SO-DIMM, 12GB Max)
(DDR3-1600 11-11-11-28 timings)
Intel HD Graphics 4000
(16 EUs at 350-1100MHz)
15.6" Glossy AHVA 1080p (1920x1080)
500GB 5400RPM HDD (Western Digital WD5000LPVX)
24GB SSD Cache (Kingston SMS151S324G)
|Optical Drive
802.11n WiFi (Broadcom BCM43228)
(Dual-band 2x2:2 300Mbps capable)
Bluetooth 4.0 + HS (Broadcom)
Realtek HD
Stereo Speakers
Headset combo jack
4-cell, ~15.1V, 3560mAh, 53.6Wh
65W Max AC Adapter
|Front Side
|Left Side
Headset jack
2 x USB 3.0
1 x HDMI
1 x Mini-VGA
|Right Side
Flash Reader (SD)
1 x USB 2.0
Volume Control
Power Button
AC Power Connection
Kensington Lock
|Back Side
|2 x Exhaust Vent
|Operating System
|Windows 8 64-bit
14.8" x 10.0" x 1.1" (WxDxH)
(376mm x 254mm x 28mm)
|5.29 lbs (2.4kg)
HD Webcam
86-Key Keyboard
Ezel hinge
Online: $900
If we were to have looked at the R7 when it first launched three months ago, it might have made a bit more sense, but with the Haswell processors now launched and relatively available, Ivy Bridge is definitely showing its age. What's more, none of the other specifications really stand out as being marquee features… except for the display and its so-called "Ezel hinge". We'll get to that in a moment, but let's first quickly touch on the other specifications.
The R7 comes with 4GB of memory soldered onto the motherboard and a single SO-DIMM slot. There's only one model of R7 currently available now, at least in the US (and this is not likely to change for this generation), and Acer populates the SO-DIMM slot with a 2GB DIMM. Storage duties are handled by a 500GB hard drive with a 24GB solid state drive as a caching drive; unfortunately, Acer uses Condusiv's ExpressCache as opposed to Intel's Rapid Storage Technology, so in my experience the boost from the SSD cache isn't as noticeable. Still, it's better than relying purely on HDD storage. Considering the size of the R7, the lack of an optical drive and somewhat small battery are also going to raise a few question marks.
The model we're looking at uses a Core i5-3317U processor, with its associated HD 4000 iGPU. There was apparently a model overseas that had a GT 750M dGPU as well, but either it never made it to the US or it's no longer available. It's a bit of a shame, as having more potent graphics would have opened the door for additional use cases like gaming, and the touchscreen might have proved useful in some games (though the number of premiere games that are built with touchscreen support is amazingly limited right now).
Connectivity options are pretty much par for the course, though perhaps a little bit limited for a 15.6-inch notebook. You get two USB 3.0 ports and a single USB 2.0 port, HDMI and VGA outputs, a combination headphone/microphone headset jack, and an SD card reader. That's pretty much everything I use on a regular basis, with nothing extra. Note that there is not Ethernet, which is an unfortunate omission considering the size of this notebook. The wireless solution is at least decent, with both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios and connection speeds up to 300Mbps, but the lack of 802.11ac means real-world transfer speeds will never be more than about 20-25MB/s.
The specs are a bit underwhelming, but if you really like the design it's possible to upgrade to the memory to 12GB with an 8GB SO-DIMM, and you can swap out the 24GB mSATA SSD caching drive for a full SSD, plus the chassis supports a standard 2.5" drive as well. You could try upgrading the WiFi as well, but many OEMs lock down the supported WiFi cards so that may not work. The only major drawback to upgrading is that you'll have to open the bottom of the laptop, which isn't too bad if not for one thing. You need a T-9 Torx screwdriver, and then you need to pry up two of the rubber pads to get to the last three screws. The rubber pads use an adhesive, so after prying them up you may find that they don't stay put as well. Other than the three hidden screws, it's pretty simple to get inside the R7, and the bottom of the chassis comes off with no difficulty.
As a final note, this is definitely a hefty notebook, weighing 5.3 pounds without any particularly demanding hardware. In fact, I've seen gaming laptops with 15.6-inch displays that have quad-core processors and discrete GPUs that weigh this much. The reason for the bulk probably has a lot to do with the Ezel hinge, though I have to say that as far as Acer products are concerned, this is possibly the most solid feeling laptop I've ever seen from them. There's no flex, creaking, or any other indication that this laptop might fall apart in a couple years. And with that said, let's move on to the crux of this review: a discussion of the Ezel hinge and the various operating modes of the Acer R7.
Acer's marketing material mentions that they rethought everything about the notebook when designing the R7, and I'm definitely not going to dispute that. Yes, this is still a laptop at its core, but things have been moved around in some surprising and perhaps interesting ways. The Ezel hinge and touchscreen are the primary discussion here, and the R7 comes with supposedly five different operating modes: regular laptop, laptop with the screen shifted forward, tablet, floating table, and presentation mode (flip screen laptop). The question most people will have is whether or not the changes made to accommodate the Ezel hinge are actually worthwhile.
Realistically, the floating table mode is pretty much useless as far as I'm concerned, and the presentation mode is only marginally interesting. Still, some people might occasionally use those modes. It's the other three modes that are going to pull the lion's share of the duty, so let's look at each of those.
First, you can just open up the display and use the R7 as a regular laptop. What you'll immediately notice however is that the touchpad isn't where it's supposed to be, and in fact there are no palm rests. Some people might hold their hands above the keyboard while typing, but I tend to rest my wrists on whatever surface is in front of the keyboard – be that palm rests, desk, or something else. I can type reasonably well on the R7, and I have no real complaints about the keyboard layout – in fact I actually like it – but the missing palm rests definitely detract from the overall typing experience. The good news is that if you're the type that has issues with inadvertently activating the touchpad while typing, that won't happen with the R7. The bad news is that the touchpad is in a weird location, and I should also note that the notebook feels quite back heavy due to the weight of the touchscreen and cover.
The second mode, and the one that I'm most likely to use with the R7, is as a laptop with the screen pulled forward. You still have the issues associated with the missing palm rests, but the idea is that the touchscreen is easier to reach this way. I should mention that the touchpad works okay, and it uses Elan Tech hardware, but it can still be a little bit choppy. The touchscreen on the other hand works well as an input device, providing a smooth scrolling experience and all of the other usual gestures. Except, not all applications fully recognize the touchscreen gestures, so for example swiping with a single finger to scroll doesn't always work. This is mostly a problem with third-party apps that haven't been updated to recognize Windows 8 gestures, but it still happens more than I'd like. Also, grabbing smaller elements like scrollbars for the edge of a window to resize can be difficult with a touchscreen – there's just not enough precision to pull it off properly.
On the whole, this is certainly an interesting idea, and for people that really like touchscreens it might actually be preferable to a standard laptop design. However, I do think there needs to be a bit of tweaking to the current design to get it right. Mostly, the laptop just feels a lot heavier than you would expect, and being heavy means you are less likely to carry it around which means you're not using it as a laptop. In a sense, the R7 is like a smaller, portable all-in-one that happens to have the ability to function as a laptop if you need it.
Finally, we have tablet mode, where you lay the top panel flat against the keyboard (or at least almost flat). I'm not sure most people are interested in a 15.6-inch tablet, and when you add on the bulk of the keyboard and hinge it becomes an even more difficult prospect to carry around. This is definitely the heaviest, largest tablet that I've ever tried to use, and while it can work as a tablet, it's not something I found necessary on a regular basis. Showing friends or family pictures on a 1.5 pound tablet is one thing; passing around a 5.3 pound tablet is another!
Of course, any time you use the touchscreen you also run into the usual touchscreen problem: fingerprints. On a laptop with a 15.6-inch screen, I find this is an even bigger issue. It's pretty easy to wipe off the touchscreen on a smartphone, but even a 10-inch tablet usually requires that you have a microfiber cloth on hand. With something the size of the R7, fingerprints run wild! And even when you're careful, there's always the chance that a stray spec of grit will leave a scratch instead of just wiping off. I also feel like the LCD backlight needs to be brighter; I measured maximum white levels of just shy of 300 nits, where most smartphones and tablets are more likely to hit 400+ nits. Obviously, having a large display running at higher backlight levels can easily chew up a lot of battery life, and as we'll see in a moment battery life isn't one of the strong points of the R7.
Taken as a whole, I definitely agree that Acer has stepped out of their comfort zone and tried to do something fundamentally different than what most laptops have been doing for years. This is a laptop that seems to be designed to bring the touchscreen into the foreground, and it generally succeeds at doing that. The problem is that I don't think touchscreens work all that well for Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 – not until you are able to completely leave behind Windows desktop apps does a touchscreen become better than a touchpad. In fact, even simple things like word processing and working with spreadsheets benefit from having a touchpad versus a touchscreen.
Windows Desktop: Not a great place for a touchscreen
Try resizing cells for example in Excel using a touchscreen; I can't get it to work. Well, I actually can, but it involves: long-press (on column header), column width, then guess a number... or go into the menus and on the Home section find Format->AutoFit Column Height/Width, or something similar. Basically, it's definitely not easier than using a mouse or touchpad to accomplish the same task. Selecting text in pretty much any application is also difficult – oh, you can do it with a touchscreen, but it's far easier to do with the touchpad or a mouse, especially if you only want to select part of a word or sentence. I think the problem with selecting text using a touchscreen is that your finger is obscuring what you're selecting; I have similar problems selecting text on Android tablets and my iPod Touch. A mouse or touchpad – or even a stylus – simply works better for this type of interaction.
Perhaps Windows just needs a paradigm shift in order to make some of these things work properly with a touchscreen, but at the same time they need to continue to cater to people who want to use a mouse or a touchpad. This is one of my biggest issues with Windows 8 – it tried to meet the needs of both tablet and notebook/desktop users, and in the process I think it came up short in both areas. I can get around most of the complaints I have with the notebook experience, simply by installing a Start Screen alternative and using it like Windows 7, but when I do that I just have to wonder: why did Microsoft even waste so much time and energy creating the Start Screen? Call me old-fashioned, but I'm perfectly happy with the Start Menu. Windows 8 has some other cool features, but none of them require the Start Screen (e.g. faster boot times and potentially improved battery life are part of the kernel, not the Windows 8 interface).
Windows 8 Start Screen: Built for touchscreens, lacking in apps
Getting back to the Acer R7, in many ways I feel like it was built to try and make use of Windows 8 features that aren't actually all that useful. Acer did a reasonably good job on most areas, but it's the whole operating system and software ecosystem that needs to change before touchscreens can become truly useful in Windows. Android and iOS have the advantage of starting from scratch with no legacy applications to worry about; Windows doesn't have that luxury, and trying to shoehorn features into the OS isn't helping. Acer has rethought a lot of our preconceptions about Windows notebooks, and kudos to them for trying something new and different. I'm certain there are going to be a subset of users that actually really enjoy using the Acer R7, but for me running the current release of Windows 8, this design revolution comes up a bit short – much like Windows 8 itself.
If Windows 8 works so well with a touchscreen, then a touchpad wouldn't be necessary. Clearly Acer wasn't willing to omit the touchpad entirely, so they shifted the keyboard forward and moved the touchpad back, which ends up being a poor design decision in so many ways as both typing and using the touchpad become far less than ideal. So why did Acer do it this way with the R7 instead of going whole hog and eliminate the touchpad entirely? I think the answer is in the above commentary: Windows desktop applications just don't work all that well with touchscreens, at least not to the point where you can totally omit the touchpad. Well, that and the fingerprints; even if the touchscreen interface worked ideally with every application out there, I at least would be unhappy about the amount of smudging regularly found on my display.
Obviously, this is just one man's opinion on the subject, but if you scour the web you'll find many others with a similar take on Windows 8. There are people that like the new interface, though, so for those users something like the Acer R7 might fare better. But it's still a very big, very heavy hybrid, which again is going to limit the mass appeal.
Wrapping up with some positive thoughts, again I have to state that this is probably the best built Acer laptop I've ever encountered. Perhaps that's also part of the reason why it feels so heavy – the metal is definitely thicker than you'll find on a lot of budget laptops. The sound quality is good as well, with speakers that provide a nice listening experience. The best part about this laptop though: the display. It's not that the display is perfect by any means, but I'm happy to see a decent quality 1080p panel in a $1000 laptop from Acer. The panel is from AU Optronics and it uses their AHVA (Advanced Hyper-Viewing Angle) technology, which is basically their take on IPS. Colors are good, viewing angles are good, and while it's not going to displace the MacBook Pro Retina by any stretch of the imagination, it won't make you want to scratch your eyes out and you can run at its native 1080p resolution without squinting.
I'm going to stuff all of the benchmarks onto one page for this review; there's really nothing noteworthy about the performance of the R7, at least on the CPU and graphics side of things. Battery life and display quality are a bit more important, but given the timeliness of this review (or the lack thereof), most of what we wanted to say was covered on the previous pages. So, here are the benchmarks, using our updated 2013 mobility suite. I'll save a bit of short commentary for after the break.
First, here's a quick overview of the laptops we're including in our graphs. With the update to our 2013 mobile test suite, we're somewhat at the mercy of our results database. Most of our comparisons that are meaningful are going to be with Ultrabooks, and given that were dealing with basically Ultrabook hardware the Acer R7 posts similar performance. We tossed in the MSI GX60 Richland APU notebook as a comparison, not because the notebooks are similar but because the A10-5750 APU more or less competes with Ivy Bridge ULV processors. Note that we did not run every benchmark on every laptop, so some charts might be missing certain laptops.
|Specifications of Benchmarked Laptops
|Acer R7-571-6858
|Intel Core i5-3317U
|1x4GB + 1x2GB
|15.6" 1080p Glossy AHVA Touchscreen
|4-cell 54Wh
|Acer S7-391-9886
|Intel Core i7-3517U
|2x128GB RAID 0 SSDs
|13.3" 1080p Glossy IPS Touchscreen
|4-cell 35Wh
|Acer S7-392-9890 (Preview)
|Intel Core i7-4500U
|2x128GB RAID 0 SSDs
|13.3" 1080p Glossy IPS Touchscreen
|4-cell 46Wh
|AMD Kabini
|14" 1080p Matte IPS
|4-cell 45Wh
|Apple MacBook Air 13 (2013)
|Intel Core i5-4250U
|13.3" 1440x900 Glossy TN
|4-cell 54Wh
|Clevo W550EU (Mythlogic)
|Intel Core i5-3340M
|15.6" 1080p Matte IPS
|6-cell 62-Wh
|HP Spectre XT TouchSmart
|Intel core i7-3517U
|15.6" 1080p Glossy IPS Touchscreen
|4-cell 48Wh
|Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
|Intel Core i5-3427U
|14" 1600x900 Glossy TN Touchscreen
|4-cell 45Wh
|Intel Core i7-4702MQ
|14" 1600x900 Matte TN
|6-cell 65Wh
|15.6" 1080p Matte TN
|9-cell 87Wh
|Toshiba KIRAbook
|Intel Core i7-3537U
|13.3" 2560x1440 Glossy IPS Touchscreen
|4-cell 52Wh
Whew! That's a lot of benchmarks, and there are even more results in Mobile Bench – like if you really want to know how the R7 handles our gaming suite, for example, it's there! If you don't want to look but want a short summary, only one game gets above 10FPS at the Enthusiast settings, and just barely; with Mainstream most of the games fall in the 10-20FPS range, so basically unplayable. Even our Value gaming settings are mostly too much for the HD 4000, though most of the Windows 8 games in the Store are far less demanding and will run just fine – no surprise given most of those are targeting Windows RT, which means GPUs that are often less than half as fast as the HD 4000.
Elsewhere, CPU performance is about where you'd expect it: lower than Core i7 ULV/ULT, and similar to other Core i5 ULV parts. The hybrid storage solution means that PCMark7 doesn't score quite as well as pure SSDs, but it's still a huge step up from what you'd get from a pure HDD setup (e.g. GX60). Since I just mentioned the GX60, it's also interesting to note that Core i5 ULV generally posts better CPU performance than AMD's Richland APUs – though the second pass of x264 HD at least put AMD slightly ahead. GPU performance is nothing to write home about; it's more than sufficient for running most Windows tasks, but anything graphically intensive is best off served by a dedicated GPU (or at the very least Intel's Iris HD Graphics Iris Pro).
Battery life isn't particularly stellar, but we've also seen worse – sometimes much worse. Realistically, four hours of light use is possible off a single charge, while heavier workloads will bring you closer to 2.5 hours. That puts the R7 slightly ahead of the Lenovo X1 Carbon in most tests, but only thanks to its higher battery capacity. In terms of normalized battery life, the R7 places fourth from last of the tested notebooks, and given that Clevo typically doesn't optimized very well for power use and the MSI GX60 is classified as a gaming notebook, only the win over the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart is really worth mentioning. When we start to look at Haswell-based notebooks, even though Ivy Bridge was pretty good it looks pretty poor in light of what's now available. Apple's MacBook Air 13 runs at different OS, but the MSI GE40 has a quad-core Haswell CPU and a slightly larger battery, with about 50% more battery life than the Acer R7.
Wrapping up the benchmarks, as I mentioned before, the one standout item in the R7 is the display. Contrast is excellent, and color quality is at least decent – the 85% color gamut is actually a bit overblown, however, as some of the colors are actually outside of the Adobe RGB 1998 color space while others fall far short (green in particular is lacking). Still, the great viewing angles offered by AHVA combined with good overall performance definitely deserve commendation.
We're definitely late to the party when it comes to reviewing the Aspire R7, but it's still an interesting design and we thought it was at least worth a look before we move on. And moving on we are: part of the reason why I wanted to look at the Aspire R7 is that we've also got the Aspire V7 in hand, and the review is nearly finished. The Aspire V7 is a far more traditional design, in that there's no Ezel hinge and the keyboard and touchpad are in the usual places. The general aesthetic and industrial design however is very similar to the Aspire R7. What's particularly impressive is that the V7 manages to pack more performance into a smaller chassis. But I'm getting ahead of myself; let's first wrap up the review of the R7.
Acer's V7: Smaller and faster, and no Ezel hinge
I think over the last year we've definitely seen Acer begin to turn over a new leaf. Yes, we'll still see budget-oriented value offerings out of the company, and the Acer Chromebook continues to be one of the best-selling laptops around – mostly because of its incredibly low price. However, the industrial design and willingness to take some risks with both the S7 and R7 give us renewed hope for the future. A continued focus on high quality displays and improved build quality coupled with a more traditional design is pretty much all we want. (And as we'll see in the next few days, the Aspire V7 delivers exactly that.)
The other part of my conclusion is that I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Windows 8 is a serious misstep for Microsoft. I suppose we could say some of what they've done was almost required in order to try and compete in an increasingly crowded market, but when I look at the simplicity offered by Android and iOS and then look at the Jekyll and Hyde interface from Windows 8, I just don't see this ending well. I feel that Windows RT needs to be its own platform, and forget about backwards compatibility. Meanwhile, Windows 8 takes the Windows RT interface and forces that on many desktop and notebook users that don't want it, and while it's backwards compatible with existing Windows applications, most existing Windows applications don't play well with a touchscreen.
The good news is that with Windows 8 on desktops and notebooks, all I have to do is disable the Start Screen and ignore touchscreen interfaces and I get a similar experience overall to Windows 7, typically with faster boot times. And even if you do open or use a Metro app on occasion, it's not too difficult to do so with a mouse or touchpad (though it might be less than optimal). Going the other way isn't so easy, though, as desktop apps often don't work well at all without a mouse or touchpad. This is the problem that the Acer R7 faces, and unless/until Microsoft can fix things, at least personally I find the touchscreen to be mostly a gimmick that I don't need – just like most of the Windows 8 apps. At least with the R7, the gigantic hybrid tablet functionality provides a use case for Windows 8 apps on a notebook, and you can continue to use the keyboard and touchpad for desktop apps.
If you've always wanted a 15.6-inch convertible tablet thingy, the Acer Aspire R7 might be exactly what you need. I can't immediately think of any other competing systems, though perhaps I just haven't looked hard enough. It's a combination laptop/tablet/all-in-one, depending on how you want to use it, and if you're willing to give it a bit of a chance it can function in any of those ways reasonably well. There are definitely better tablets, better laptops, and better all-in-ones, but the R7 is pretty much unique in the marketplace right now. I'd still say it's not for me, even though I've enjoyed poking around at it off and on over the past month and a half, but the only real failures are the companies that refuse to innovate. I'll definitely keep an eye on Acer to see what other interesting ideas they have to offer in the coming years.


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(The Fayetteville Observer)
Duke LifePoint Healthcare has completed its acquisition of Central Carolina Hospital, a 137-bed medical center in Sanford, and Frye Regional Medical Center, a 355-bed hospital in Hickory. The hospitals were previously owned by Tenet Healthcare. The Brentwood, Tenn.-based joint venture of Duke University Health System and LifePoint Health now has seven hospitals in the state.
Small Raleigh tech company sues Apple, Fitbit over patents
January 6, 2016
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
Valencell, a Raleigh-based company that develops technology for wearable electronic devices, alleges Apple wrongly used its heart sensor technology in its Apple Watch while Fitbit used it in its Charge HR and Surge fitness bands. Valencell has 29 patents, with another 60 pending.
Former Appia CEO launches another startup
January 5, 2016
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
Jud Bowman, the 34-year-old entrepreneur whose Durham-based tech company was acquired last year by Digital Turbine in a $100 million deal, has launched Sift Media, a digital advertising company. Los Angeles-based Digital Turbine holds a 9.9% ownership stake in Sift, which is based in Durham and has already raised $3.25 million.
RTP's Hamner Institutes shuts down
January 5, 2016
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has ceased operations and sold its chemical safety division to Durham-based SciMetrika. In 2013, the nonprofit sold its 56-acre RTP campus to California-based Alexandria Real Estate for $20 million and had since been leasing back space. Alexandria unveiled in November plans to expand the space into a new life-sciences campus with more than 1 million square feet.
EMC announces layoffs; impact on Triangle unclear
January 4, 2016
(WRAL TechWire)
EMC Corp. plans to cut jobs as part of a companywide restructuring, according to a regulatory filing last week, though the impact on its estimated 1,400 employees in the Triangle is unknown. The Massachusetts-based data storage company agreed in October to be acquired by computer maker Dell Inc. for about $67 billion.
Chimerix lands big hedge-fund investment
January 4, 2016
(WRAL TechWire)
After reporting disappointing clinical trial results and a subsequent stock collapse last week, drug developer Chimerix has received an investment from Point72, a Stamford, Ct.-based hedge fund that says it has taken a 5.3% stake in the Durham-based company.
Drug developer Chimerix's stock collapses
December 30, 2015
(The News & Observer)
Chimerix shares declined 81% on Monday after the Durham-based company reported disappointing results in a clinical trial. A Chimerix drug was tested in a trial of 452 adults who had undergone stem cell transplants at more than 40 transplant centers. The drug was initially effective in suppressing an infection initially, but the infection returned. Shares traded for more than $53 in July, but were at about $7 today. CEO Michelle Berrey said the company had $378 million in capital as of Sept. 30.
Cary-based SAS promotes two execs
December 24, 2015
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
SAS Institute promoted Randy Guard, who has worked for the software company for more than 15 years, to chief marketing officer. Guard succeeds Jim Davis, a longtime SAS employee who left to take a similar role at California-based Informatica. Also, Fritz Lehman was promoted from senior vice president of customer engagement and support to chief customer officer, a new position.
Fidelity sells 69 acres in RTP
December 24, 2015
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
The Research Triangle Foundation paid more than $12 million for the land near the intersection of Interstate 540 and Davis Drive. Boston-based Fidelity Investments had planned to build a campus there but instead decided to buy and renovate the Network Center office park, also at RTP. Fidelity said in October it plans to add 600 jobs over three years in the Triangle.
GlaxoSmithKline buys up rival's HIV assets
December 21, 2015
(WRAL TechWire)
London-based GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to pay Bristol-Myers-Squibb up to $1.5 billion for the U.S. company's pipeline of HIV drugs. In May, GSK announced it would partner with UNC-Chapel Hill to form a new company to discover a cure for AIDS. GSK, which has a facility at Research Triangle Park, is investing $20 million in the venture. Bristol announced in June that it would end its virology research efforts, which span HIV and hepatitis.
Departing SAS executive says software giant is in 'great shape'
December 21, 2015
(The News & Observer, Raleigh)
Jim Davis resigned as chief marketing officer of SAS Institute after 21 years with the company. He will take a similar position at Informatica, a privately held, Redwood City, Calf-based software developer. His replacement has not been named. In an interview with Raleigh's News & Observer newspaper, Davis said it was a difficult decision to leave SAS. He plans to split his time between his home in Cary and California. Informatica has 70 employees in North Carolina after acquiring Triangle startup StrikeIron. Informatica was acquired for $5.3 billion earlier this year by a group led by private equity firm Permira and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
Court win for Chatham Park development
December 21, 2015
(Durham Herald-Sun)
N.C. Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway dismissed a lawsuit against the Town of Pittsboro challenging the planned 7,120-acre development of homes and businesses. Plans call for the construction of more than 22 million square feet of commercial space and 22,000 residential units. It is a project of Cary-based Preston Development Co. Chatham Park would bring tens of thousands of new residents to the town of about 4,000 people.


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Town turns to attorney general to resolve term limits
By: Joyia Emard, Loomis News Staff Writer
Loomis council votes to send letter for a speedy resolution
The Loomis Town Council has voted to send a letter to the state attorney general to seek a speedy resolution as to the legality of Measure A. During a public workshop held on Feb. 4 to determine how council should proceed, Perry Beck, town manager, said the town has already spent approximately $25,000 in legal fees to produce two briefs arguing both sides of the term limit issue. "We're in a mess. I'd like to see this end soon. This can be very divisive for the town," said Greg Obranovich, former planning commissioner. According to Dave Larsen, town attorney, at issue is a clause in the term limits measure, passed by voters in November, containing two retroactive statements. One is that the initiative takes effect on a retroactive date and the other that prior terms of current council members are counted. Larsen said state law says that term limits may only be applied "prospectively" — or in the future — and past terms served cannot be counted and the issue should be decided by a "third party neutral." Voters approved the term limits initiative on Nov. 2 and also re-elected multi-term councilmen Walt Scherer and Miguel Ucovich. The briefs were produced after the council decided in December to file a quo warranto lawsuit with the state attorney general in an attempt to clarify the legality of the retroactive clause. Larsen said those briefs will now be used to draft a letter presenting both sides of the argument that will be sent to Attorney General Kamala Harris. "We discovered in a quo warranto that we're suing ourselves and we're making Perry (Beck) swear to things we're not sure he believes," said Councilman Gary Liss, when he explained why the council was rethinking the quo warranto process. "No council members have said they want to overturn Measure A," Beck said. Scherer said, "Term limits are the law of the land. We're trying to figure out how to implement them legally. We're not playing any games." Randy Elder, of Loomis, accused the council of "creating smoke screens" to keep themselves in office. "The intent of the voters was not to have Walt and Miguel in office. You need to uphold that. Let the attorney general decide," Elder said. Bob Rhodes, of Loomis, suggested that Ucovich and Scherer resign. Irene Smith, also of Loomis, said the voters re-elected the men and those voters' rights need to be protected. Planning Commissioner Janet Thew said, "My rights need to be respected. I voted for Walt and Miguel. They won legitimately," Thew said. Councilwoman Sandra Calvert called the situation "very perplexing" and suggested the parties come together to draft a legal form of term limits and put it on the ballot in the next election. After discussion of that option, it was determined that it would be too far in the future before that might happen. Beck said staff members at the attorney general's office stated it should take two to three months to receive a response from the attorney general once a letter is received. He expects it will take at least two more weeks for outside legal counsel to draft a letter and may cost up to $10,000 more in attorney fees.


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Rose Retorto Lochetto, who was loved by all who met her, passed away on August 5, 2013. She was 95.
Rose was the beloved wife of the late Anthony and the loving and dedicated mother of her sons, Nicholas J. Lochetta (Maria), Rocco Lochetto (MaryAnn), and daughter, Mary Weingard (Jeffrey) with whom she resided in Richboro for 40 years. She was the cherished grandmother of Fran (Mark), Rosanne, Nicholas (Laura), Peter (Jen), Maria, Tony, Rose (Bob), Joseph, the late Jeffrey, Michael (Michelle) and Nicole (partner Jill); and great grandmother of 13. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Joseph and Michael Retorto; and her sister Mary Campora; and also is survived by nieces and nephews.
Relatives and friends are invited to her viewing Wednesday, August 7, from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. in Saint Vincent de Paul Church, 654 Hatboro Road in Richboro. Her funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m., with interment following in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
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Posted By Ariel Schwartz On February 15, 2010 @ 1:40 pm In Environment,Renewable Energy,Solar Power | 2 Comments
Instead of investing in solar cell [2] architectures that require entirely new manufacturing processes, wouldn't it be easiest to build on what we have? That's part of the thinking behind a new type of silicon nanorod solar cell developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology [3] in Pasadena. The nanorods are assembled into a "carpet" and embedded into a transparent polymer to make flexible solar cells [4] that use only 1% of the material needed to make conventional silicon cells.
This isn't the first time scientists have built solar cells [5]out of a nanowire array. Researchers in St. Petersburg, Russia, recently built a nanowire cell out of gallium arsenide, but the material is more expensive to produce than silicon. Another advantage to the CIT team's research: their silicon design can be built using tools already used in solar cell production facilities.
The CIT researchers still need to build a solar cell device out of the nanowire array. But if all goes well, the flexible silicon cells could one day be used to make cheap solar panels and ultra-efficient solar-powered clothing [6]that we can only dream about today.
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Network map is up!
you can now view the nodes on our pilot site (mountainview, Nairobi). Visit http://ja.xvm.mit.edu/afrimesh/, zoom in for a detailed map. More nodes will be coming up in the course of this month.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
FabFi Nairobi Meets Paul English
He was briefly taken through the Project in Mountain View estate. The major research question will be the best free to fee model.The three models are:
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I was just checking out the Mangekyō Sharingan page and noticed that in the content, "eternal mangekyo sharingan forms", there is no image for sasuke's eternal mangekyo sharingan, (well he does but it doesn't show the EMS). im just wondering, why? is it being edited or maybe is still being made? shall we do smething about it?Tris0928 (talk) 13:11, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
or is it just my computer?Tris0928 (talk) 13:12, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
- I believe his EMS has only been shown in the manga, the person who makes the images will be able to say more though. --Speysider (Talk Page) 13:20, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
alright, so who makes the images?Tris0928 (talk) 13:27, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
or just make/use a temporary image from the manga.Tris0928 (talk) 13:31, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
We have had one earlier. I think it is a bug in the system. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 16:27, March 19, 2012 (UTC)


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Finally, something has replaced the eyesore of an empty car dealership on the corner of Oak Street and Franklin Avenue in Ridgewood. East Coast Burger Co., on the ground floor of the renovated building, has the usual line up of burgers, hot dogs fries and shakes, but also lobster rolls and fried clams. Reviews on Yelp and other sites have been mixed, but the owners say they use premium ingredients and the place is still in the shakedown phase. It's open 7 days from 4 to 10 p.m. 75 Franklin Ave., Ridgewood; eastcoastburger.com
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I serve in an urban church that looks like a Harry Potter castle. Sometimes I sit and pray and wonder what God is doing with church. Looking out my study windows, I watch fast-paced people, many with a cell phone in one hand and coffee in the other. It makes me wonder: how do we connect people in 2012 with the good news of Jesus?
I was ordained 22 years ago on a Reformation Sunday. The preacher proclaimed that the quality a pastor most needed was "courage." I believed her that day as I began my first call of 18 years in inner-city Baltimore. And I believe her now as I read Jeremiah and hear God's words about a new covenant: "I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Jeremiah 31:33). Do I have courage to figure out how God is writing on the hearts of the people in this gentrifying section of Washington, D.C.?
One of the young people working at our congregation was listening to music while preparing our Sunday worship bulletin. The song was "Glitter in the Air" by the artist Pink. "Listen to it," she told me. "I think you'll like it." Since I've learned that the Spirit nudges me through people around me, later that day I did listen. The line that got me was: Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
The next day I asked my young co-worker, "What is it about throwing glitter?"
She replied: "It's so hopeful. It connects to something in my heart. When you throw up glitter, it's beautiful ... wherever it falls it is beautiful and that is hopeful."
In that first Reformation time, a young Martin Luther sat in his friends' castle at Wartburg. He, too, wondered how to connect with the regular people who lived in towns and villages and cities. Luther spent his time praying, studying, writing and reflecting. His goal was to make the gospel of Jesus Christ accessible to a whole group of people not known to him personally but truly loved by God. One of his ways of connecting was to translate the Bible into the language of the people. In rapid fashion, using the new technology of the day (the printing press), Luther offered God's word to people far and wide. And it stuck.
So what about Reformation today? I wonder, pray and plead for holy wisdom. What has the ability to settle into a people — some with well ordered and carefully orchestrated lives, some skating on chaos, and some who are alienated from church? How do we speak to people's heads in a way that writes on their hearts the gospel? The gospel that Jesus knew was a way of joy and suffering for the sake of a love greater than any of us and a way that has the guardrails of peace and justice and compassion and service.
Maybe the Reformation in 2012 is about each of us who follow Jesus. Daily we translate the word of God into the glittering word of hope that our God intends it to be. From our Harry Potter castle church, I imagine opening windows, courageously throwing out fistfuls of glitter and watching it land. I know that it will be beautiful, and boldly trust God's ongoing reformation in me and in you.
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I heard about this sermon from my daughter, who had the pleasure of hearing it. Keep up the good work, Pastor! It's a challenging time for denominations such as ours, and we're blessed to have so many gifted leaders
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I love your metaphor of "the word of God as the glittering word of hope that our God intends it to be." He certainly gained attention with that long ago star in the dark sky over Bethlehem. Keep those windows open and continue to throw fistfulls of glitter out there!
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Courage! You bet! It is my take that we have little courage in most of our gatherings to wrestle with the big issues of the day: death penalty, abortion, war, global warming, poverty, racism, drugs, guns, just to name a few. And, I think, many people are turned off by us because we lack the courage and resolve to engage such issues. As Jesus said, "Courage, it is I!"(Mark 6:50 TEV)
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Dr. Satyapriya Mukhopadhyay, author of the book "Solar Cookere Ranna" and an international adviser to Solar Cookers International.
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- August 2008: Dr. Mukhopadhyay conducted a solar cooker demonstration and seminar on solar cooking and its usefulness at Srikrishna College in March. The awareness-generation program was organized by National Service Scheme (NSS) of Srikrishna College unit. In attendance were nearly 250 students, as well as all college staff and a significant number of local community members. Mukhopadhyay, with the help of NSS program officers and volunteers, used a variety of solar cookers to cook several solar dishes: rice, mutton curry, spicy onion fish, tomato sauce, cazu nut, Indian porridge, dal, and boiled eggs. Shri Arun Kanti Saha, ex-principal and head of mathematics, and Dr. Sankar Prasad Dey, post-doctoral fellow and head of chemistry, delivered lectures on solar concentrating systems and their domestic and industrial uses. According to Dey, "The local participants and students became highly encouraged and showed their interest for generating awareness about solar cooking among the local people. After the completion of this program, organizations … are frequently requesting to Dr. Mukhopadhyay for conduction such program so that they can adopt the technique for cooking their daily foods. From discussions with local people, it is obvious that the program will go a long way towards creation of awareness of the villagers."


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I gasped in horror watching this as i manured all my soil in spring and also give a liquid feed every few weeks . i love the look of the new lupins and will be adding more nxt year.
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i have jused started to plant hollyhock seeds in my greenhouse , when do i put them outsied, how big should they be when planted?
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Your video is unplayable ... it jumps and sticks (I have a 20MB connection and no problem playing big videos on any other site).. I'm annoyed I waded my way through two adverts to try to watch this.
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Your video is unplayable ... it jumps and sticks (I have a 20MB connection and no problem playing big videos on any other site). .
The video worked OK for me. It's only a tiny YouTube-style video. It won't require any bandwidth at all.
I'm a big fan of lupins. Like most wild flowers they prefer poor soil. The name 'lupin' is actually a reference to that. Lupin comes from the Latin for 'wolf'. The Romans observed that lupins only grow on poors soils, and mistakely thought that the lupins were responsible for improverishing the soil, like ravenous wolves. But the fact is that the poor soil comes fiirst.
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I am also having problems viewing this video. All I get is the really annoying wine advert on a loop. It's driving me a little bit crazy and I vow never to buy Bancott wine. Have watched some of the other videos with no problems.


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It's wise to be water wise in time of drought
By: Gray Allen Director, Placer County Water Agency
Roseville residents have a lot for which to be thankful: a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent schools, parks, city services, shopping and cultural opportunities, but especially its high-quality, reliable water supply. Millions of other Californians envy the abundant supplies that our watershed provides year after year. In this year of declared drought in California, Roseville residents need not worry – nor should the tens of thousands of other Placer County citizens who depend on the Placer County Water Agency for all or a portion of their water supply. PCWA's reservoirs hold more than ample water for this year's anticipated consumption. Be Water Wise However, PCWA fully supports water conservation efforts by everyone – all of the time. No one knows what next year may bring in the way of rain or snow, therefore it is always wise to use only what one needs. Not only does PCWA support wise use of water, we encourage it through a variety of water conservation, educational and customer-support programs. Any customer interested in learning more about being water wise or the installation of water-efficient fixtures or irrigation systems should contact PCWA for a free water audit and water conservation information. While the Bureau of Reclamation, which supplies a portion of Roseville's water, has announced a 25 percent cutback in deliveries from Folsom Lake, PCWA has contracts with Roseville for supplemental supplies that would fill the gap in the bureau's deliveries. The water is available, if needed. In fact, no PCWA customer – farmer, business, homeowner, municipality – need worry about being shorted on water from PCWA this year. Rich Legacy Placer County's comparatively stable water supply is the result of the foresight of previous generations. Fifty years ago, visionary community leaders created PCWA, secured water rights and passed bonds to build the Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project. The ingenious network of dams, pipelines, hydroelectric plants and water treatment and distribution facilities assures current and future generations of an ample and reliable supply of high-quality water for homes, farms and industry at reasonable cost. This is a legacy that every citizen of Placer County should cherish. I encourage you to learn more about the source of your water and the issues that affect it by visiting our Web site: www.pcwa.net. One issue in particular is currently top of mind – water rights. Water Rights Threat An attempt is underway by the State Water Resources Control Board to revoke the Bureau of Reclamation's Auburn Dam water rights because of years of inaction on the project. While PCWA takes no position concerning whether the Auburn Dam permits should be revoked, it does have a strong interest in protecting and preserving that water for the benefit of the region. PCWA believes that if the Bureau's water right permits are to be revoked, the water under those permits should be reserved for development and use in the American River watershed. Protecting those rights would not only honor the vision and enterprise of the county leaders who created our water supply, it would also assure future generations a reliable source of water for continued growth and prosperity. – Gray Allen, a resident of Roseville since 1978, was elected to the Placer County Water Agency in 2006 to represent the portion of Roseville included in Placer County Supervisorial District 1.


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Boastful Believers?
Pride is a sin in world religions, to varying degrees.
Pride is often considered the foremost vice in Christianity, since it is contrary to love of God. As Christian thinker and writer C.S. Lewis, "According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."
Christianity teaches that there are many different manifestations of pride. They include "boasting of men (1 Corinthians 3:21)," doing something "from selfishness or conceit (Philippians 2:3)," and refusing to "be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (Ephesians 5:21)."
Like Islam, Chrisitanity views pride as a hatred of God that was the reason for the fall of the devil. The Catholic Catechism teaches, "Hatred of God comes from pride. It is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it denies, and whom it presumes to curse as the one who forbids sins and inflicts punishments."
Orthodox Christianity also warns against pride. "A festival for the spiritual man," Saint Ephraim the Syrian writes, "is the observance of the divine commandments, and his consolation abstinence from evil. His pride is the fear of God, his real joy the day when the Heavenly King calls him to inherit His eternal riches." This passage from the Desert Fathers teaches that a life of humility before God should be enough for man.
The Mormon Doctrine & Covenant similarly states, "Continue in the spirit of meekness, and beware of pride."
Hinduism teaches that one must renounce the ego in order to understand the Self and reach ultimate reality. Pride inhibts renunciation. One can only come to a state of true knowledge by letting go of pride and one's "ego-sense." As the Bhagavad Gita states,"Those who know truly are free from pride and deceit (13:7)."
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Michael F. Bennet, the Denver schools superintendent who has multiple ties to Connecticut, will soon be serving in the United States Senate.
Bennet, a Democrat, was appointed to the seat by Colorado's governor to fill the slot left vacant by Sen. Ken Salazar, the cowboy-hat-wearing politician who was named by President-elect Barack Obama as the new interior secretary.
Bennet has strong roots in Connecticut as a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown and the son of Douglas Bennet, who served as Wesleyan's president from 1995 through 2007. In addition, the 44-year-old Bennet is a graduate of Yale University's law school. Susan Diane Daggett - Bennet's wife - also attended the law school in New Haven.
Bennet is seen as a quick study - having been named to run the Denver public schools without ever having worked in education. Instead, he had worked for a Denver investment firm and as an attorney in the Justice Department during the administration of Bill Clinton.
Bennet will have two years on his term and then would be up for re-election in 2010.


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While some may argue that there is no nice way to say an early goodbye to a contract employee, we would argue that some goodbyes are certainly better than others. In fact, there is a way of doing things that can lead to a better work experience (though no longer shared) for both parties, if handled with care.
So, if you're feeling the need to free your freelancer, here are some tips to help you keep that goodbye as clean and friendly as possible:
Have a Personal Touch.
Break the news in conversation, not by email. This means either face-to-face via Skyping or picking up your phone. Your freelancer deserves the courtesy of a live person giving them the bad news, if at all possible. And set up a specific time to talk ("I need to speak with you, when can you be available?"), so that the freelancer is not caught off guard in the middle of his childcare carpool.
Be Brief.
When giving the reason for your unexpected parting, don't get bogged down in details. You are not obligated to teach the freelancer any career-altering lessons (the firing will be enough). State the facts as simply and politely as you can. For example if the work was always late, explain that your deadlines were suffering and it's time to move on. Focus on your needs, not their shortcomings — there is a subtle difference.
Offer Notice When Appropriate.
If you feel comfortable allowing the freelancer to finish whatever projects he is on or allowing him to continue another week of work, you will be doing the person a huge favor by not instantly cutting off his paycheck. However, there will be times when this sort of kindness is a bad idea — hopefully you'll know these cases when you see them.
Offer Severance Pay When Appropriate.
In cases where you can't allow the freelancer to continue a minute longer, sending her off with a day's wages (or a week's) is a nice gesture, but severance pay is a rare courtesy for freelancers, not a legal requirement. (Unless of course you have a contract that stipulates otherwise.) Consider how long the freelancer has worked for you and how much of their workload you've been supplying. If you've been her only client for over a year, you should consider the kindness of severance pay, provided you can afford it. (And by all means, get it to her as quickly as possible.)
Be Gracious.
If there is anything you can thank your soon-to-be former employee for, by all means, say thank you now. Say it again later in writing.
Sometimes when it comes to saying goodbye, less is more. Write down a very concise speech including all of the above elements and practice what you will say with a coworker or friend. Letting someone go is rarely easy, but hopefully doing this hard thing will lead to a better future for your company and eventually for the freelancer as well.
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Just imagine for a moment that you are a retired contractor, struggling to get by on your pathetically shriveled 401(k). when your ne-er-do-well child suddenly comes to you saying he's got this idea to start buying derelict homes and rehabbing them for resale. He asks you to stake him with a $100,000 loan (about half of what you've got left in your retirement fund), promising to repay you when he sells his first couple of houses. You know the kid's flat busted and has been laid off from his job as a dishwasher, so you want to help, but you've also seen his carpentry skills: The doghouse he build in high school fell apart on a windy day, and his own house has a leaking roof, needs repainting, and all the plumbing leaks. You've also seen his business skills: He plays the Lotto excessively, hasn't saved a penny, and buys most of his supplies at the local 7-Eleven.
Would you front this kid half your money?
Well, if you really loved the kid, and if he was in danger of losing his house, you might want to help,. But the smart thing to do would be to offer to go in with him in the business, acting as the contractor, so that you could train him in the necessary business and contracting skills, and at the same time make sure the rehab jobs got done properly.
That might work out. Your son might never learn to be a master carpenter, but at least you'd have a good shot at getting your investment back.
What wouldn't make sense would be to just hand over the $100,000, and say, "I'm going to stay out of your way son. Good luck, and remember to pay me back when you sell a few of those houses."
Crazy, right? And yet that's what the Obama administration's auto industry "rescue" plan amounts to.
We Americans like to fancy ourselves the supreme rationalists, but when it comes to economic policy, we are as mired in superstition and religious dogma as any theocratic society in the world.
Our religion is "free-market economics," which posits that an "invisible hand" of competition takes care of all problems, leads to the optimum outcome in terms of distribution of wealth and standard of living, and ensures maximum success in business.
Looking at the auto industry rescue program objectively, you have to ask why President Barack Obama would insist that the government, despite being the major owner of both Chrysler and General Motors, is refusing to demand a primary say, or really any say, in running those companies. I mean, if you are the major shareholder—and in this case "you" is not just the government, it is all of us, the taxpayers—you should be running the company. It is the government that should be naming all the members of the boards of directors of the two firms, and it is the government that should be deciding who will be the chief executives.
The government, on behalf of "We, the People" who elected our leaders, should also be making sure that these large, critically important firms, make decisions about vehicle design that further our national goals, such as reducing the demand for imported oil, and reducing the production of CO2 and other pollutants.
The high priests of America's state religion—the leading economists on Wall Street, in the K Street lobbies, and at the various so-called think tanks that dot Washington, DC—all rant and sermonize that letting "government bureaucrats" run the auto companies would be a recipe for disaster, but this is absurd.
After all, did the vaunted managers that their free-market religion so venerates do such a great job of running these firms? Hell no! They ran them into the ground. Chrysler already had to be rescued by the government once, and never really recovered. GM has been a failing enterprise for decades, as its management shipped production and jobs overseas, while continuing to produce shoddy and oversized dinosaurs here at home, letting foreign companies like Toyota and Honda eat them for lunch.
Now that we are on track to invest over $100 billion in rescuing these companies, why would we taxpayers want to leave these same kinds of managers, with their MBA degrees from the B-School seminaries, in charge?
Seriously, how much worse of a job could the government do than what they've done?
The workers in Detroit know how to build cars, and what's more, they know what they and their neighbors want to buy and to drive. They also want their companies to be around for a long time—not just for them, but for their kids and their grandkids. Meanwhile, the American public wants car companies that will be around for a long time, and they also want to reduce both dependence on foreign oil imports and production of dangerous greenhouse gases, which means they want companies that will produce cars that are stingy about gas mileage. So I say let the unions and the public run these companies.
It is only pseudo-religious free-market dogma that prevents us from making these companies truly public property.
To tell the truth, the same thing can be said about the banking sector. We've just had a frightening demonstration of what leaving such a critical industry in the hands of capitalist owners and managers can do.
Now that we've poured trillions of dollars into propping these zombie enterprises up, it's time to take control of them too.
At a minimum, if it makes sense to have a so-called "public option" health insurance plan to keep the private insurance industry honest and to force it to treat insured customers well, it surely makes sense to have a government-run bank to keep the private banking industry honest.
Ditto with the car industry. We still have Ford, which is privately owned, and also the foreign makers. So why not have the public option in the auto industry, too?
One thing doesn't make any sense: pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into an industry and then leaving it in the hands of the same kinds of managers who destroyed it in the first place.
That would be just like having our retired contractor write his wayward son a check for half his retirement assets and then go home to his TV to sit around and hope for the best.
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Models at the amfAR Inspiration Gala: Candice, Kate and Naomi
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Queen-of-the-ball Candice, braless Kate and stunning in white Naomi all showed up at the amfAR's Inpiration Gala Sao Paulo on Friday.
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University of Washington wins Deloitte Foundation's National Student Case Study Seminar
Undergraduates build skills by tackling complex financial accounting issues
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Wilton, CT., May 6, 2014 — By demonstrating a solid understanding of critical financial accounting issues, a team from the University of Washington took top prize at the Deloitte Foundation's 19th annual National Student Case Study Seminar. Competing against five other national finalist schools, the winners applied their burgeoning skills to successfully solve and present a real world business case study. The five members of the winning team will each receive a $2,000 scholarship and the school will receive $10,000 in support of its accounting program.
Members of the second place student team from Morehouse College will each receive a $1,000 scholarship and the school's accounting department will be awarded $5,000. Also competing were students from Brigham Young University, Miami University of Ohio, the University of Houston and the University of Notre Dame. Each of these schools will be awarded a $500 scholarship per team member and $2,500 per institution.
"The National Student Case Study Seminar is one of the many ways our Foundation supports the educational enrichment of our profession's future talent," said Carol Lindstrom, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and president of the Deloitte Foundation. "In addition to helping students build the technical, research and analytical skills required in our profession, it also allows them to hone their presentation and teaming abilities. All of the participating students should be very proud of their work."
The National Student Case Study Seminar is an educational event sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation through contributions from retired partners, principals and directors of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. During the competition, a dedicated faculty advisor and a Deloitte manager work with each student team to identify, define and solve the complex challenges of real world accounting case studies. Each group presents recommendations to a panel of active and retired Deloitte partners, who assume the roles of a client organization's senior management or audit committee members. At the seminar's conclusion, the panel selects the team that best outlines relevant issues and most effectively presents their case.
"This experience is so valuable for our students. They are asked to work as a team, provide an answer to a nebulous question and present and defend their findings. All of these skills are very important for them to learn, but are hard to teach in the typical classroom setting. Thus, by creating and supporting this program, Deloitte is taking an active role in their education. I'm very grateful to Deloitte and the Deloitte Foundation for engaging and investing in the learning process of our students. Moreover, I'm honored to have worked with such fine students who represented to the University of Washington well, not only in the case, but also in their creativity, work ethic and professionalism," said Jake Thornock, professor, University of Washington.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
Charity vs Government
Recorded: Thursday, December 18, 2014
Sr. Fellow David T. Beito appears on the Fox Business News' "Stossel" to debate whether government or private charity is a better way to abolish poverty. Beito, editor of the book The Voluntary City says that government is outdated and its War on Poverty is a failure.
Experts: David T. BeitoType: TelevisionIssues: Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Labor and Employment, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Welfare
Lawrence McQuillan: Healthcare Portability
Recorded: Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Independent Institute Senior Fellow Lawrence J. McQuillan suggests that employees, not employers, should be in control of health insurance.
To purchase copies of John C. Goodman's book "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis," click here.
Experts: Lawrence J. McQuillanType: Independent Institute TVIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Health Care, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Privatization, Public Health/ Consumer Protection
A Century of Economic Folly
Recorded: Saturday, November 15, 2014
Research Fellow Burton A. Abrams appears on the "Freedom & Prosperity Radio" show with host Joe Thomas. Abrams talks about his book The Terrible 10: A Century of Economic Folly which contains ten of the U.S. federal government's biggest economic mistakes and the fallout of those mistakes.
Experts: Burton A. AbramsType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Fiscal Policy/Debt, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S)
Gun Control in the Third Reich on The Bill Meyer Show
Recorded: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich discusses the history of gun control and gun registration with radio host Bill Meyer. Halbrook describes in detail how the Nazis used gun registration records, which were begun by the post WWI Weimar Republic, to disarm Jews and other "enemies of the state."
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Recorded: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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Elderly Gay Man Forcibly Separated from Dying Partner Awarded Damanges In Settlement
Jim Burroway
July 24th, 2010
The Mercury News reports that Clay Greene, 78-year-old Sonoma County, California man who was forcibly separated from his dying partner and whose house and belongings were sold by social workers, has won a $600,000 settlement from Sonoma County:
Greene accused social workers of denying him hospital visitation rights to see his partner, Harold Scull, despite signed wills, medical declarations and powers of attorney naming each other as spouses. The couple was not married nor registered as domestic partners.
The lawsuit also alleged that after Scull's death, social workers forced Greene into a nursing home and sold the couple's property, including art and heirlooms. The county's lawyer, Gregory Spaulding, denied the discrimination claims but admitted mistakes in selling the couple's property.
Under California law, property worth $5,000 or less can be sold by officials to cover medical expenses. But the couple's property brought in more than $25,000 at auction. The Public Guardian's office has revised its policies, according to Spaulding.
Sonoma County Forcibly Separates Elderly Gay Couple
Jim Burroway
April 19th, 2010
Some of the opposition to President Barack Obama's directive to HHS to formulate rules requiring hospitals and health care institutions to honor LGBT patients' ability to choose their partners as hospital visitors and decision makers stem from the mistaken belief that if those LGBT couples had signed powers of attorneys and advance medical directives, none of those problems would take place. But as tragic stories like this show, that simply isn't true:
Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.
One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold's care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.
Ignoring Clay's significant role in Harold's life, the county continued to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold's "roommate." The court denied their efforts, but did grant the county limited access to one of Harold's bank accounts to pay for his care.
What happened next is even more chilling: without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold's possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold's lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.
Harold died, and Clay wasn't allowed to be there to comfort him. Clay is also without all of their momentos and life possessions that they two had acquired together, with the exception of one photo album. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has filed a lawsuit on their behalf against Sonoma County. Trial begins on July 16.
In 2007, a Florida hospital denied Janice Langbehn access to her dying partner, again despite having a legal power of attorney.
Some Cool County Clerks
Timothy Kincaid
June 16th, 2008
We've told you about the counties where the Clerks were ungracious about facilitating the marriages of gay couples. Here's a few that are happy for us.
Sonoma County (NY Times)
Janice Atkinson, the Sonoma County clerk, said her office was planning to stay open late for the rest of the month to accommodate what she expected would be a heavy load of same-sex weddings. On Sunday, Ms. Atkinson and staff members attended a gay pride celebration in Sonoma to hand out applications for marriage licenses to prospective newlyweds.
"We're expecting some very happy couples," she said. "And a lot of media."
Shasta County (Record-Searchlight)
With the change, security concerns have surfaced. After speaking with her office's employees, as well as the two men to be wed first, Shasta County Clerk Cathy Darling's arranged to have plainclothes officers patrol the clerk's office area.
"As a department head, it's my responsibility to make sure my staff feel secure and comfortable coming to work, and I think we're there. We have what we need," she said.
In addition, "I don't want to put those people who come in to get a legally provided service at risk," Darling said.
I grew up in this rural conservative county.
Alameda County (Contra-Costa Times)
Chief Clerk-Recorder for Alameda County Kevin Hing likened today's crush of ceremonies to a typical Valentine's Day. Ususally on a V-Day, the clerk's office sees a good 75 to 80 licenses and weddings. And as on a V-Day, workers in the clerk's office have set up a little "reception" area with paper plates on a table with a silver cloth in the hallway outside the wedding rooms. They have little cupcakes and brownies ready to go for the couples after they wed.
To these and all the other county clerks that are sharing joy this week, I give my thanks.