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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SALISH, PEND d ORIELLES AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION 15 C HAR-KOOSTA Volume 3 - Number 23 NEW MOON OF COURTSHIP April 1,197 4 ******* IF YOU VOTED IN 1972 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, YOU CAN VOTE ON APRIL 6 ******** Flathead Lake Suit; First Round Sparring Missoula: Some 60 persons crowded into the U.S. Federal District Court Room in Missoula March 2 2 to hear the opening round of arguments in a suit involving the ownership of the bed of the south half of Flathead Lake. The suit, brought by the Tribes against non-member James M. Namen of Poison, involves the treaty rights to the southern half of the lake. The Tribes allege that Namen is trespassing on lands set aside for the Confederated Tribes in the Hell-gate Treaty of 1855. They maintain that buildings, landfills and structures which extend into the lake beyond the high water mark of 289 3.2 are in violation of the treaty and other statutes and ask that the court order Namen to remove them and restore the bed into its original condition. Namen, who operates Jim's Marina on the west side of Poison, maintains that he has riparian, or owners rights, to the lake extending out from his property line. His attorney, Irwin Roth, has asked the court to dismiss the suit on the grounds that the structures and fills are built on land belonging to Namen. The land is the former Antoine Morais allotment (J\lo. 1378) The importance of the case was emphasized by presiding Federal District Court Judge William Jameso-; during the hearing last month. Jameson noted that the case is a "relatively simple issue that has become complicated by a number of factors." He said the widespread interest in the issue and the probability that his final decision would be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court made it essential that the proceedings be conducted correctly. Shortly after calling the court into session, Judge Jameson asked the opposing attorneys....Richard Baenen for the Tribes and Roth for Namen...to go into closed conference to agree on certain basic points involved in the suit. Following several hours of conference on the basic issues, the court was re-convened. Baenen reviewd for the court several specific points the attorneys agreed not to dispute during subsequent proceedings. Among these were: —-The actual high-water level of the lake. They agreed on 2893.2. -—That Flathead Lake at some time within the past has been used for commerce. —-That Namen uses his property to conduct business on Flathead Lake. —That the lake remains "generally" in a natural state. Baenen also agreed to allow the City of Poison to enter the case on the side of Namen provided that their arguements do not include property statutes other than allottments. Bae-(Story continued on page 2 ...... Flathead Lake) Council Considers Sale Of Mission - Ashley Unit Dixon: A proposal to sell 9 million board feet of timber on the Mission Mountain face between McDonald and Mission lake will go to the Tribal Council Economic Development Committee. The Tribal Council took the action, which is preparatory to offering the unit for sale, during a special meeting March 21. The action was taken in spite of a Bureau of Indian Affairs Forestry recommendation to hold off on all logging proposals until a number of conditions are met. Acting Forestry Manager Fred Malroy suggested to the Council during a meeting March 8 that all forestry action be tabled until three conditions were met: —-All vacant forestry positions were filled to insure greater control over logging sales (at that time there were still ten slots open). —-The completion of a two-year growth and annual allowable cut analysis. The study is scheduled to be completed later this spring and should reflect a more accurate target sustained yield cut. —And the review of a reservation-wide environmental impact assessment being completed by faculty from the University of Montana Forestry School. However, the Council voted seven to nothing to have the EDC committee review modified logging plans for the Ashley unit, 2,200 acres of forest in the southern foothills oi tne Missions...and recommend final contract specifications. The motion to move ahead on the sale of the unit (Story Continued of Page 16 ...... Ashley) Flathead Leads In Violent Deaths Billings: The Flathead Reservation leads all reservations in the Billings area in untimely deaths...and Public Health Officials feel that a large portion of these are alcohol related. This is the main reason why alcoholism recieved the highest priority as a health problem in the Billings area, according to Tribal Councilman Pat Lefthand, Elmo. Left-hand attended an area health planning meeting in Billings last month. Lefthand said that in 1972, there were 13 deaths by accident, suicide or homicide among the 3,927 Indians on the (Story continued on page 3 ......Deaths)
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It certainly was an unusual night.
One of the country's top players scored only eight points, and the nation's best-shooting team finished with a season-low point total as unranked Indiana State rolled past No. 16 Creighton 76-57 on Wednesday in a game that wasn't even that close.
"I didn't think Doug was as active and moved as well as he has moved in some other games," Creighton coach Greg McDermott said, talking about his son. "I thought he got stuck on the block some and didn't get out of there. They were very good defensively and for whatever reason Doug lacked a little bounce in his step tonight."
And it showed.
The star forward, who was averaging 24 points per game, managed only eight in the first half on 3-of-9 shooting and was shut out in the second half when he took only one shot. Just one Bluejays player, backup Will Artino, reached double figures. He finished with 13 points.
Without McDermott on top of his game, Creighton looked rather ordinary and nothing like the team that was leading the nation in field goal percentage (52 percent) and was in the top 10 in scoring (79 points per game).
Rather, the Bluejays looked befuddled and bewildered all night as their three-game winning streak came to an end on a night when they finished with seven fewer points than their previous season low, a loss at Wichita State.
"It's the best (defense) we've seen this year," Greg McDermott said. "They kept us in front of them and they didn't really expose themselves when they did help. They outrebounded us on the backboard, and I'll have to take a look at the tape, but I thought some of our shots were ill-advised."
The Sycamores took full advantage.
Jake Odum finished with 22 points, five assists and four steals, and unlike Doug McDermott, Odum had plenty of help. R.J.
"I don't know if we can play any better," Indiana State coach Greg Lansing said. "We played well at both ends of the floor. I know Creighton didn't play very well, but our guys followed the game plan perfectly and we really gave them a run, and I still think that's one of the best teams in the country."
It sure was hard to tell on a night nobody will soon forget in Terre Haute.
Indiana State (15-8, 8-4 Missouri Valley Conference) earned the school's 1,400th victory, beat a Top 25 team at home for the first time since upsetting Butler in December 2006 and watched Odum, a local kid, become the 35th member of the school's 1,000-point club.
Yet the most important part might be this: Indiana State has won three of its last four to move within one game of the league-leading Bluejays (20-4, 9-3).
How did the Sycamores do it?
With good, old-fashioned, in-your-face basketball.
At times, Indiana State was virtually flawless.
Odum scored 16 points, dished out four assists and shot 5 of 6 from the field during the first half, when the Sycamores didn't even commit a turnover. They finished with only five.
About the only thing that didn't go right for Indiana State was that Odum finished two assists short of No.
"I said it a couple times out there and Manny did also about finishing the game off," Odum said. "Earlier in the season, we didn't quite finish games. We let teams battle back and a team like Creighton, you can't let them get going."
They didn't.
The Sycamores took control with runs of 12-2 and 7-2 late in the first half to take a 35-24 halftime lead and never gave Creighton a chance in the second half.
Mahurin opened the second half with a four-point play, the fifth of his career. After a dunk from Creighton, Odum answered with a layup and a jumper.
Indiana State extended the lead to 70-42 with 4:36 to go, and Creighton never cut the deficit to single digits in the second half.
"That's the leading offense team in the country and we really played well against them," Lansing said. "We wanted to make it awfully difficult for them to get an easy look, take a contested shot and only give them one. They only had six offensive rebounds. I know they didn't play their best but our defense was awfully locked in tonight and that was by every guy they played."


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It's things like this that make me think that North Jersey, NYC, Yonkers, and Long Island should all secede from their mother states and combine to make the State of Manhattan.
Oh, and South Jersey could join PA. Then PA has something worth a damn to visit in their state and the entire "Jersey Shore" series is invalidated by virtue of name... everybody wins.
I only look at fanbases based on how obnoxious and delusional they are, not geographic location.
Dallas has a couple obnoxious ones, but most I've met are generally respectful.
Skins fans got a little delusional RG3's rookie year, but again, most are fairly nice people.
Philadelphia's primary export is ******bags.
Eagles fans in a landslide.
EIGHT (8) Time NFL World Champions New York Football Giants!!!
Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013 & 2014 was a losing season's, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
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UPDATE: Missing Sarasota woman with dementia reported found
Published: Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 6:33 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 6:33 a.m.
SARASOTA - The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has reported that Diane Williams, 68, missing since Friday night, has been found. No further details have been released.
A 69-year-old woman reportedly suffering from dementia was reported missing Friday night by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
According to a report, the husband of Diane Williams told deputies that Williams walked out of her home in the 6100 block of South Lockridge Road, Sarasota, at about 11 p.m. Friday. Williams suffers from dementia and has none of her medication or identification with her, the report says.
She is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with gray hair and brown eyes. The only clothing description is she was wearing a white shirt.
The Sheriff's Office did not have a picture of her available.
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إرفنج ضد ليبستدات
Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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3.6 Conclusion
3.6.1 Not everyone who has studied Irving's writings and speeches in the 1990s has reached the conclusion that he has become a consistent and undeviating Holocaust denier. The American journalist Ron Rosenbaum, interviewing Irving for his book Explaining Hitler, published in 1998, concluded that 'Irving's stance in relation to Holocaust denial has seemed to waver confusingly back and forth in the time since I encountered him'. On occasion, says Rosenbaum, Irving, for example in his Goebbels biography, 'seems to argue that the Holocaust, or at least mass killings of Jews, did happen...that there was some deliberate killing of Jews, perhaps a hundred thousand or so, but mainly wildcat, unauthorized actions in the blood heat of the fighting on the eastern front.'1 Moreover, in the course of his conversation with Rosenbaum, Irving admitted of some Holocaust deniers 'that there are certain organizations that propagate these theories which are cracked anti-Semites', and that he only spoke at their meetings because 'I've been denied a platform worldwide...I know these people have done me a lot of damage, a lot of harm', he confessed, without actually saying who he meant by this or what kind of damage or harm he was referring to.2 This was enough for Norman Stone, reviewing Rosenbaum's book, to conclude that 'Irving...puts some blue water between himself and the nutty "revisionists" who claimed the Holocaust never happened...even Irving is not blind to the facts.'
3.6.2 However, even Stone was clear about the fact that Rosenbaum, as he wrote, 'cannot follow' subjects about which he was writing because of his ignorance of history, and had 'misunderstood' another of the key books he was writing about; while Rosenbaum himself confessed in his book to bewilderment as to the line Irving was taking in his interview with him, and elsewhere in the same chapter stated that 'to an ever-increasing extent, Irving has...become a fiery rabble-rousing Führer of the Holocaust-denial movement, addressing adoring rallies in Germany and, not surprisingly, in Argentina.'3 The fact that Irving had been banned from addressing rallies, whether adoring or not, in Germany, some years before the publication of Rosenbaum's book seemed to have escaped the author. Rosenbaum is a careless and inattentive interviewer and author, who has clearly not taken the trouble to investigate the phenomenon of Holocaust denial or to arrive at a reasonable definition of it. If he had done so, it would be clear to him, as it should be to Stone, that Irving's admission that a hundred thousand Jews were killed in largely unco-ordinated acts of war on the eastern front did not constitute an admission of the reality of the Holocaust in any meaningful or generally accepted sense of the term.
3.6.3 A close examination of Irving's speeches and writings since the late 1980s indicates that there is no doubt at all that he has become a Holocaust denier. He clearly holds all four central beliefs of the deniers as defined above. He argues that the number of Jews deliberately killed by the Nazis was far less than six million; it amounted to only a few hundred thousand, and was thus similar to, or less than, the number of German civilians killed in Allied bombing raids, which he portrays as crimes of a similar or greater order. He argues that gas chambers were not used to kill large numbers of Jews at any time. If Jews did die in large numbers, it was as a result of epidemics for which the Allied bombing raids were in large measure responsible. If there has been any wavering by Irving on these points, it has been since the publication of Lipstadt's book; even here, however, insofar as it can be observed at all, it appears to be more a matter of presentation than of content.
3.6.4 Irving continues to assert, as he had already done prior to 1988, that the Nazi state had no concerted policy of exterminating Europe's Jews; all the Nazi leadership, Hitler at its head, wished to do was to deport them to Eastern Europe. He alleges that the Holocaust is a myth invented by Allied propaganda during the war and sustained since then by Jews who wish to use it to gain political and financial support for the state of Israel or even for themselves. The supposed evidence for the Nazis' wartime mass murder of millions of Jews by gassing and other means, he claims, was fabricated after the war. He has referred repeatedly to the 'Holocaust myth' and the 'Holocaust legend' and has described himself as engaged in a 'refutation of the Holocaust story'.
3.6.5 Irving is far from being a lone figure or an original, isolated researcher in this field. For some years now, Irving has had close contacts with virtually all the major Holocaust deniers, including Faurisson and Butz. In the years up to the publication of Lipstadt's book, he was a regular speaker at meetings of the Institute for Historical Review and continued to be through the mid-1990s. He has published extensively in its journal. An examination of the Institute's history, context and activities and of the contents of the Journal of Historical Review makes it clear beyond any reasonable doubt that its central business is Holocaust denial. Irving has contacts with many other Holocaust deniers and is using his website on the Internet to propagate their views. He has been prosecuted for Holocaust denial in Germany and found guilty under German law. Whether or not the law is just is in this context quite immaterial; the point is that he was convicted by a German court of Holocaust denial and that the conviction stands.
3.6.6 It is reasonable, therefore, to regard Irving as part of an international network of Holocaust denial. Irving links himself with others of similar views in rejecting the label 'Holocaust denier', as we have seen, either because they agree that some massacres of Jews took place (as Robert Faurisson, quoted above, argued, massacres always take place in wartime), or because they redefine the term 'Holocaust' so as to make it possible for them to say they believe in it without believing in the systematic Nazi extermination of millions of Jews, the Nazis' use of gas chambers, or any of the other aspects of the Holocaust or 'Final Solution' as conventionally defined.
3.6.7 Thus for example Irving tends to argue, when accused of Holocaust denial, that the whole of the Second World War was a Holocaust, in the sense that many innocent civilians were killed on all sides; or that the term 'Holocaust' means the gassing of six million Jews at Auschwitz (a proposition which nobody apart from Irving himself has ever advanced). But it is not the term Holocaust which is at issue here. One may reject the term 'Holocaust' as a label without in any way rejecting the fundamental proposition that the Nazis had a conscious and centrally directed policy of exterminating all the Jews in Europe, and carried it out during the Second World War to the extent that they killed between five and six million of them by shooting, deliberate starvation and neglect, and in specially built gassing facilities at Auschwitz and elsewhere. It is these fundamental propositions which are at issue here, not the term used to describe them. And it is these fundamental propositions which Irving denies, in common with others who have made it their business to do so as well.
3.6.8 These are the facts which justify any reasonable person in describing David Irving as a Holocaust denier. Indeed he himself has come close at times to agreeing with the application of this description to himself. 'Until 1988', he told an audience in Calgary in 1991, 'I believed that there had been something like a Holocaust.' But since then, he continued, it had been clear to him that 'that story was just a legend.' It was not so much the label he rejected as its negative connotations - 'Holocaust denier - as though there's something wrong in refusing to accept...the whole story.'4
1. Ron H. Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler. The Search for the Origins of His Evil (London, 1998), p. 234.
2. Ibid., p. 233.
3. Ibid., p.223; and Norman Stone, 'Failing to find the Führer', The Sunday Times, 12 July 1998.
4. Videotape 189: Irving speech at Calgary, 29 September 1991
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Or, maybe residents would prefer the average yearly bill of $360 be tacked onto their property tax bill.
"We're evaluating how we take advantage of pre-existing billing services and technology to help us avoid higher costs in the future," said Kerrie Romanow, director of San Jose's Environmental Services Department, in an email to the city's list for news and information.
"Getting resident input is an important part of the evaluation process. Taking the survey is a great way for the public to get involved with what we're doing," Romanow said.
The survey is for residential owners only and can be found online a .sanjoseca.gov/recycling-garbage.
As an incentive to take the survey, San Jose is offering entrants the chance to win free curbside collection of up to three bulky items, such as sofas, mattresses, refrigerators or other large items. The value of that service is $26.


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In today's moving edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Aikage teases us all with stop motion porn. Oh, and he mentions the PlayStation Move controller as well. Which is more exciting? Both, probably.
zoop di doo!
So I just bought a move controller because amazon had a deal! I can't say no to things I don't need if they're on SALE!
Then it got to me and it turns out I needed to buy the eye. Ok, so I bought an EYE! Now what?
Do I need that navigation controller or not? What can I do with a move controller? How does the precision compare to the Wii? Is there anything that isn't gimmicky mini games that I can play? DID I MAKE A MISTAKE? I guess if nothing else my wife and I can find some creative uses for the camera. STOP MOTION XXX. Look for it in theaters near you!


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crash wrote:
assange is apparently a creep:
OM3N wrote:
apparently some huge secrets protected by a 256 character password, that should something happen to him, will be released. That right there is interesting.
Dan Shay wrote: crash wrote:
assange is apparently a creep:
Spreading hearsay on the internet is what they call a whisper campaign.
crash wrote:
of course, it in no way discredits the work done by wikileaks or the importance of the information revealed.
crash wrote: sorry, i was assuming the people who read this forum were smart enough to to make the distinction between apparent creepiness of assange's personal life and the validity of wikileaks' mission.
edit: your argument might have some weight if i was a news anchor. any news organization that is spending time reporting on the legal proceedings while ignoring the substance of the leaks is participating in the smear campaign. but this isn't a news network. it's a forum where people discuss current events, hip hop, and youtube videos. there's a whole thread dedicated to a line in a lil wayne track for christ's sake.


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Phelps County Commissioners, along with several other county elected officials, signed pledges Thursday in support of home ownership at the request of a local realtor.
By doing so, Phelps County elected officials are the first in the state to sign these pledges, according to Caroleen Ferrell, realtor with Realty Executives, who attended Thursday's commission meeting.
Ferrell said she attended as a realtor concerned about the future of home ownership.
"We're turning into a country of renters," she said.
Ferrell attended a rally in Washington, D.C., to show her support for government from the federal to the local levels that support the right to home ownership.
Ferrell informed county officials of a state rally called Missourians for the American Dream to be held Thursday, April 25, at 5 p.m. at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis.
Missouri realtors from across the state, along with elected officials, media and the public are expected to attend.
There will be a bus that area people can travel on from Rolla to St. Louis for the rally.
The bus will leave from the K-mart parking lot on Highway 63 South in Rolla at 2:30 p.m. and the bus will leave from St. Louis back to Rolla at 7:15 p.m.
The bus ride costs $15 and payment can be made to RPAC Missouri. Each person riding the bus will have a chance to win an iPad courtesy of the Missouri Association of Realtors.
To reserve a spot on the bus, people may call Shelley Klossner at 573-341-9494.
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Trey Anastasio Band,
Wednesday, 03/02/2011
The Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
Set 1: Sample in a Jar[1], Mountains in the Mist[1], The Horse[1] > Silent in the Morning[1], My Friend, My Friend[1], Runaway Jim[1], Carini[1], Wilson[1], Shine a Light[1], Wading in the Velvet Sea[2], Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan[3], Hey Ya![4], Push On 'Til the Day
Set 2: Cayman Review, I Done Done It, Valentine, Money, Love and Change, Drifting, Small Axe, Burn That Bridge, Mozambique, Simple Twist Up Dave, Windora Bug, Goodbye Head, Sand, Show of Life
Encore: The Birdwatcher, Black Dog
[1] Trey solo acoustic.
[2] Trey acoustic with Jen and Natalie.
[3] Trey acoustic with Jen, Natalie, and Russ Remington.
[4] Trey acoustic with full TAB.
Notes: The first set was Trey solo acoustic except "Wading" (Trey acoustic with Jen and Natalie), "Stealing Time" (Trey acoustic with Jen, Natalie, and Russ Remmington), "Hey Ya!" (Trey acoustic with full TAB), and "Push On" (electric TAB).
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Russell Remington, Jennifer Hartswick, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Ray Paczkowski, Natalie Cressman


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One of the winningest coaches in NCAA lacrosse history, Tony Seaman, unpacks what he believes is the best drill in lacrosse today: the 4 v 4 drill. This single drill offers every situation on offense and defense and simulates game time action and strategy. Two long sticks and two short sticks set up their defense to stop the offense from scoring. 42 min.


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The placement of the hullside windows is a clue to the layout: The biggest window usually serves the master stateroom, as it does aboard the 500 Fly. Smaller windows provide plenty of light to other cabin spaces, too.
Rethinking the Accommodations
In the past year or so, Prestige has introduced several yachts that make use of pod drives for more than just propulsion: Pods leave room amidships for a full-beam stateroom, like the one aboard the Prestige 500 Fly. In the past, this valuable space in the widest part of the hull, and the most comfortable part under way, was occupied by engines; now it's occupied by people.
The lower deck is stateroom country: three of them, and two heads, forward of the engine room and an optional crew cabin aft. We doubt many owners will carry crew aboard a 500 Fly – she's perfect for owner operation -- so that space will find other uses.
What's most surprising is Prestige's ability to fit this layout aboard a boat that's under 50' overall. The 500 Fly has 49' 1" (15.2 m) LOA – 48' 11" (14.92 m) without the platform – but has room below decks for not only an owner's suite with breakfast nook and lounge seat, but also a VIP cabin forward and a twin-berth cabin between the two. And two heads with stall showers. (Prestige's 500S, an express cruiser similar to the 500 Fly, has the same layout.)
In days past this would have been the engine room, but pods turn it into the owner's suite. Along with the centerline berth, there's a lounge seat (behind the camera) and a small dinette for two. At the left is the access stairway from the salon.
There's a tendency today for designers to focus on double berths – we've seen many boats with nothing but doubles. But in the real world, not everyone wants to share. Prestige deals with this by making both guest cabins convertible: The VIP stateroom, forward, has an island double that scissors open to form V-berths, while the third, twin-berth, stateroom comes with a filler.
The forward cabin's centerline double berth looks like all the other centerline doubles in the world, until...
... the berth is split into two singles. This really increases the utility of the 500 Fly's layout, making her welcoming for both couples and singles, and families with kids.
Drop the filler between the twin berths in the third cabin for sleeping a deux. This is the only cabin without its own head; it shares the one across the passage with the VIP cabin.
Move the Galley Aft
Aboard a boat like the Prestige 500 Fly, there's always the galley question: Should it be "down" or "up"? Galley down takes up space that could be used for cabins, but opens up the salon for daytime activities; galley up does just the reverse, but also keeps the cook happy because s/he isn't marooned below while everyone else is having fun. With the galley placement on the 500 Fly, Prestige has convinced us that "up" is the way to go. The galley is in the aftermost part of the salon, handy to both the dinette and the cockpit. (A cockpit table is optional.)
The galley, placed aft in the salon, is handy both to the dinette and the afterdeck.
The galley is well-equipped with the usual appliances one would expect on a yacht of Prestige quality. The oven and cooktop are gas-fired, not electric, which are more common aboard sailboats than power, but nevertheless a good way to go if the owner doesn't want the generator running all the time. The genset, a 13.5-kW model, is optional – odd aboard a boat like this one where one would expect it to be standard. A dishwasher is optional, too.
The galley is separated from the salon by a console bar that doubles as the backrest for a section of the dinette. There's a step up between galley and salon which could surprise the unwary.
The salon is illuminated by large cabinside windows (blinds are standard) and a three-part glass sliding door onto the afterdeck, so on days when the weather keeps folks inside they won't feel trapped. A dinette and starboard-side sofa will seat six to eight. A 26" TV/DVD is available, and is included in the "Preference" package of most-wanted options.
The fully equipped lower helm might be the captain's steering station of choice on all but bright, sunny days.
The Sunning is Easy on the Bridge
One glance and one will see the thought behind the 500 Fly's bridge: It's all about lounging and catching rays. There's a sunpad next to the helm, and the dinette aft converts to a second pad. And there's a third (optional) on the foredeck. Don't forget the sunscreen.
Nobody will suffer vitamin D deficiency aboard the 500 Fly, with sun pads all around.
A sink, fridge and grill are all standard on the bridge, as is the fiberglass arch. We'd prefer the arch to be a bit higher, not only to add a bit of range to the radar, but also to move the microwaves further above our heads. This is a typical setup for a European-designed yacht – maybe the rationale is, when the weather's bad enough to need radar, the driver will be steering from below. And that probably makes sense to most people.
No question the 500 Fly is intended for sunny climates, with sun pads all over. The telescopic passerelle on the port side of the swim platform is optional, but a necessity when cruising in the Mediterranean and docking stern-to.
The only power option is twin 435-hp Volvo Penta IPS600s. We haven't tested the Prestige 500 Fly yet, but she's very much like the builder's 500S, which we have tested. The two boats share the same hull; the 500 Fly weighs about 1,323 lbs. (600 kg.) more, according to Prestige specs, and has an inch more draft. Power is the same.
Our captain clocked the 500S at 29.8 knots; we expect the 500 Fly to be just a tad slower because of her weight, or maybe not: In this size boat, fuel levels will have more effect on speed than the extra 600 kg displacement. Twenty knots, or a bit more, was a good cruise speed for the 500S, and we think the 500 Fly will be happy at that speed, too.
We'd prefer more seating and less sunning area on the flying bridge, maybe an L-lounge where the pad is next to the helm.
Prestige includes a bow thruster with the Preference options package; most builders who've switched to pods consider a thruster unnecessary thanks to the pods' excellent low-speed control. But we like the belt-and-suspenders approach, and a thruster lets the captain nudge the bow this way or that without engaging the engines, often very handy when rigging or adjusting docklines. Electric mooring winches aft are also optional, and will come in handy more often than one would think, even with pods' excellent control.
Our Opinion
We think she is excellent value for money, a nice balance of luxury and affordability. Prestige is selling boats almost as fast as they can build them – we expect an inspection of the 500 Fly will show the boater why. She's worth a close look if one is in the market for a comfortable 50-footer with lots of accommodations and modern pod propulsion.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- One ninth-inning blow to the chin was tough enough. But in taking another shot to the jaw less than 24 hours later Saturday, the Giants officially fell into their first 2014 downward spiral.
A 5-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies was the Giants' fifth loss in six games, and this one was a killer -- two outs, nobody on in the top of the ninth, and Sergio Romo looking for all the world as if he were about to redeem himself for Friday night's 7-4 defeat in which he blew a two-run lead and gave up five runs.
Instead, the last out of what would have been a strong 4-3 bounce-back win proved painfully elusive once again. Charlie Blackmon flipped a single into short left field against Romo (3-3), and Brandon Barnes followed with an 0-1 hit to center that got by center fielder Angel Pagan for a two-run inside-the-park homer and eventual Rockies victory at AT&T Park.
Now the Giants have to hope the dispiriting events of the past two games don't set in motion a longer roll of misfortune. They were 35-0 taking leads into the ninth inning before Friday, but now they've taken two straight licks to the psyche. It's a wake-up call, without question.
"We've had so many good things happen to us, we've made some good comebacks, but now we've hit a bump in the road," manager Bruce Bochy said. "So it's going to be important that we handle this well."
The two primary figures in the defeat, Romo and Pagan, seemed be holding up OK. Romo thought for sure the game was in hand when he got an inning-opening groundout and then retired pinch-hitter Troy Tulowitzki on a lazy fly to center.
"I don't feel I could have done much more there," Romo said. "I had two outs, one pitch away again and they found a way to stay alive. I can't take nothing away from (the Rockies). They got me again today. What can I do?"
But not even Romo thought the ball Barnes hit for the game-winner was going to get past Pagan. It didn't appear to be that well struck, and, at worst, it appeared it would be a first-and-third situation and two outs. But then ...
"I'm just in disbelief that it happened, particularly the way that it went down," he said.
As for Pagan, who appeared to have Barnes' ball tracked down, he said it was "a cold water bucket for me." To wit, he said it wasn't hit that hard but that it took a weird spin toward right field when it hit the turf.
"I thought it was going to be a normal hop, but it just kind of kicked a little bit to the right, and I couldn't make the catch," he said. "I gave everything I got to make the play, but what happened happened. I couldn't anticipate it.
"There's nothing you can do. You just have to turn the page and come back to tomorrow and try to win a ballgame. These things are going to happen sometimes in baseball."
What remains to be seen if these two tough losses result in a hangover effect. Romo, for one, didn't think so.
"I've failed in back-to-back appearances before, and I've taken back-to-back losses before," he said. "It's nothing new. I just have to stay positive and confident in myself, and I am."
As for the impact on the club, Romo added: "I honestly believe we're the hardest playing team every day. I don't expect that to change the slightest bit. The effort and the confidence is not what we're questioning here. It's literally just the outcome the last couple of days."
The loss spoiled a nice day for Buster Posey, who drove in three runs in a game for the first time in nearly a year with a two-run homer and tiebreaking sacrifice fly. Posey's two-out, two-run homer off Rockies starter Christian Bergman tied the score in the bottom of the fifth. Then, after Pagan and Hunter Pence hit back-to-back singles to put runners at first and third in the seventh, Posey lofted a sacrifice fly to give the Giants the lead.
It was Posey's first three-RBI game since July 12 when he had five against the San Diego Padres. It was his first three-RBI game at home since May 9, 2013, against Atlanta.
By contrast, it was a second straight tough start for Ryan Vogelsong, who wound up allowing seven hits and three runs in his five innings, walking one and striking out two but constantly battling three-ball counts.
"I couldn't get anything going as far as finding something mechanically that was going to work for me," he said. "I was trying to make adjustments every pitch."
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Consistent foot issues
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: large
I have had consistent hot spots during long rides. I switched to these socks before a multi day stage race in hopes that they would provide some relief. The compression has been just enough that the hot spots have been noticeably reduced and late race foot cramps have completely disappeared.
Only socks I ride in.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Medium
I own multiple pairs of the Swift Wick socks and I keep coming back for the consistency and durability. Ive never had the Aspire blow out, ever, or get loose. On the flip side, the compression that keeps them together is not overbearing.
Made in the USA is also a great reason to purchase.
Pretty Good
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: large
I bought these based on some other swiftwick socks I have & love thinking they were the same. The others were merino like & a bit more padded. I like them better but these are nice. The height is good as they provide some support to you calves but are not too tall i.e. over the calf. They dry quickly & don't seem to get too stinky...
I'm a solid 10.5 & the large is perfect sizing. I would buy them again - they just were not what I was expecting.
love them
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
these fit great. and help keep your calfs from cramping up. love using them for when i go biking.
Great for Riding or Highfalutin affairs!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
If you're the type that says "I draw the line when it comes to buying "Cycling" socks", let me be the first one to tell you that you should give Swiftwick socks a try...If I'm wrong, then return them.
Most compression sock manufacturers focus on the heel to the knee. What I dig about Swiftwick is their love for feet and making a sock that helps blood-flow in your foot while ridin. Read more about Managed Compression on Swiftwick's website.
Here's the reason I choose these socks over others in my sock drawer: COMFORT
My foot is between two different sizes in most cycling shoes, the fact that swiftwick ASPIRE socks are designed with a number of contour focused stitching through their 200 needle construction, allows me to fit perfectly in Sidi size 44 versus a 44.5 which is slightly too big for my foot. Read the product description on this product page and you'll see what I'm talking about.
On a side note: These are definitely the first socks I reach for when I dig around my sock drawer. I, like most of you, have a drawer dedicated to my Cycling socks. My other socks from the days before I discovered Swiftwick go completely neglected.
It's come to the point where I love these socks so much, that I use them for work or any highfalutin affair. Whether I'm on a bike, in a Suit or Tux, or just sportin black socks with my Chucks, the Swiftwick Sevens are what I wear everytime! FACT.
+ Made in America - Enough Said. I'd buy Swiftwick for this reason alone.
+ My feet can breathe and don't come out looking like prunes after a long ride
+ My entire foot gets to benefit from Compression
+ No color fading after 100+ washes
+ Socks are not stretched out after 100+ rides
- They are a bit pricey, but so are dress socks...I get the benefit of both in just one pair w/ Swiftwick
+ Most cyclists wear the ASPIRE Four socks, try the Seven if you want to try them for non-cycling use
+ Start with two pairs so you won't get disappointed from not washing yesterday's pair!
These socks rock
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
Need Socks to give you best Cyclist tan line, these are them, they look cool, stay up, and keep your feet feeling great. The white ones hold stains if you happen to get them really muddy and then wash and dry them.
I have been replacing my entire sock drawer with Swiftwick
I've been doing the same with my Cycling sock drawer, the other socks get completely neglected!
Great socks!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
Very comfy and fit excellent. I like the long profile and they look cool too. They stay tight and cozy the entire ride and through the rest of the day as well.
Super socks
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Since being given a pair of Swiftwick socks as a gift a while back, I will only buy these from now on. Super legit, keep their size after numerous washes, colors don't fade, and may get a whole season out of these. I personally like the longer profile, but the tan line they leave makes your friends laugh :) Makes your shoes that much better - Great socks all around.
After trying these, I refuse to try anything else!
Figured I'd try some Swiftwick socks after all the high praise they get from reviews and the write ups on their websites. I didn't realize the benefit good socks can have on your ride until I purchased these! I'm a tall dude and love the 7" cuff/tall socks. These are extremely comfortable, durable, and do what they are supposed to do: stay in place, provide compression, and not produce any friction. No goofy seams or poor design flaws that you notice while riding. My wife even has a pair and never gets excited about gear, but she really likes her pair of Swiftwick socks and says they are superior to anything she's tried before.


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Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced that Bivigam [immune globulin intravenous (human), 10% liquid] is now available in the pharmaceutical distribution channel for use by physicians, pharmacists and hospitals throughout the US. Bivigam is a sugar-free, glycine stabilized intravenous immune globulin that has been approved by the FDA in December 2012 for the treatment of patients with primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI). The product is available in 50 mL (5 grams) and 100 mL (10 grams) tamper-evident vials.
This is the first new intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) approved in the US, with a validated assay for measuring potential thrombogenic activity. Thrombin generation tests are used to detect procoagulant activity.
Biotest has developed and validated the thrombin generation assay (TGA) test in close cooperation with the FDA to help reduce the risk of thromboembolic events that PI patients experienced with alternative products in the past. Each lot of Bivigam will be screened before release to ensure that the product fulfills the stringent release criteria pertaining to the threshold levels of Factor XIa. Increased Factor XIa has been identified as one of the risk factors associated with thromboembolic events following immune globulin intravenous therapy.
Biotest has made significant investments in its infrastructure and ability to efficiently manufacture and deliver the product to best serve the US market and patient population. The company has invested more than $50 million to enhance the capacity of its protein purification facility in Boca Raton, Florida.
"The FDA approval and first commercial sales of Bivigam are key corporate milestones for Biotest. The expansion and enhancement of our manufacturing capabilities have positioned us strongly to meet current and future patient and market demand," Jordan Siegel, CEO of Biotest, said in a press statement. "We are committed to supporting PI patients with Bivigam to ensure their uncompromised living."
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Here's another clip from Martha's upcoming special Men Who Make Us Laugh (see: Conan O'Brien relaxing in "ecstasy chairs.") Seth helps Martha with the farm chores, rides horses, and collects eggs from underneath a chicken.
Later, in the interview portion, the two can't stop laughing over Seth's delusions of fame.


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News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, March 20, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Last month, Rep. Bill Hitchens introduced the bill that would make it illegal to drive in the left lane unless you're passing another car, but he has since decided to table it.
"Really you just want to be just like, 'Will you just move over?' and they're stopping and going, and it just gets you real aggravated," said driver Denita McClendon.
It's a feeling shared by countless drivers when they encounter those infamous slowpoke left lane drivers, and thanks to Hitchens, Georgia almost had a law to combat it.
"The bill was because of a nerve that I've seen struck by multitudes of people. So, people who are driving slower in the left hand lane would move to the right to allow those who are driving a little faster to move on down the highway," Hitchens said.
The bill isn't just about settling the nerves of other drivers.
Lt. Ramone Lamkin of the Richmond County Traffic Division says clogging up the left lane can lead to dangerous behavior on the road.
"Getting aggressive, passing off in emergency lane, riding people's bumper, blowing the horn, using profanity, leading to road rage," Lamkin said.
"Probably causes some accidents that are on the road," McClendon said.
According to the bill, impeding traffic in the left lane could get you pulled over and ticketed.
It wasn't hard to find a left lane driver around Augusta.
"I'm going the speed limit, but I'm about to overtake him, and the speed limit's actually 45 mph, and I'm going 40, so I'm going faster than what they're going," Lamkin said.
But Hitchens tabled the bill when he realized there was some confusion about speed.
"The issue is do people still get over if the people behind them are very obviously violating the speed limit? My perspective is they should," he said.
Just because it's tabled doesn't mean you'll be dealing with frustrating left lane drivers forever.
"I think I could have passed it this year. I got support from everywhere. It's more important to me to make sure that we do it right than to get it passed," Hitchens said.
The Georgia House runs a two-year cycle, meaning this bill will pick up right where it left off next year. Until then, they'll rework what the bill says about the speed.


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The answer to that question is probably not, though the thought had crossed my mind. In a way they already have done in a small way, they have given Novell approximately a quater's worth of net profit in return for what appears to be a cut of all Open Enterprise and SUSE Linux sales. Although no shares have changed hands, this, in itself, seems to me to be a kind of "virtual" company sale. This is even not considering the palaver regarding the patent covenants....
During this last week I asked someone much wiser than myself "How come a company like Novell can be so easily duped?", I then quickly followed it on with the question "Or am I simply missing something important here?". He then asked me what I meant and I proceeded to explain my thoughts.
Novell has given away an ace for Microsoft to use as a weapon in convincing customers that there may be IP problems with GNU/Linux, despite any evidence of any kind backing this up, spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt over that in the enterprise. FUD in the original sense of the acronym. I find it difficult to believe that Novell would find this advantageous; for them to admit that there are IP issues in GNU/Linux would mean they could not legally distribute it, and for them not to would place them in an inconsistent position with the covenant and agreement they have signed. They seem to have publicly chosen the latter of the two. What they say privately I do not know.
The successful mass-deployment of SUSE enterprise distributions depends on the same thing as all of us in the GNU/Linux market, that is mass-acceptance of the GNU/Linux philosophy there. It is difficult to compete with Microsoft on Microsoft's terms, they are too good at it, and their current monopoly means they legally, and sometimes illegally, place restrictions on competing technologies. I find it hard to believe that Novell's management team believe they can increase revenue by following a path that increases Microsoft's install base in their area. After all, Microsoft do not have a track record of being nice about such things.
Novell also justify the agreement by claiming it will improve interoperability between Microsoft and GNU/Linux. I, as a member of the free software community, am not convinced by this. And I am not the only one. Jeremy Allison's interview with LinuxWorld shows that he is just as skeptical, if not more so, and he is an ex-Novell employee.
Did Novell really believe the agreement would result in increased Linux revenue (to what it would have been)? Do they really think interoperability with Microsoft will be improved? Or have I simply got the wrong end of the stick? The person of wisdom whom I asked put a different perspective on it.
He explained that Novell's old cash cow was NetWare; however, due to some silly decisions they made, and some clever ones Microsoft made, they lost that server market in a major way to Microsoft. In order for Netware to then get back their market, or even survive in the long term, they needed to inter-operate with the Microsoft protocols.
He went on to say that Microsoft, being well aware of this, started to not give the protocols to Novell. This placed Novell in a difficult position, and that was a major reason why Novell went into the GNU/Linux business despite the fact Red Hat were well entrenched as the enterprise market leader there. Microsoft were killing NetWare, and Novell needed to diversify.
He pointed out that Novell were losing revenue. In the last quarter's result Novell's profits, as seen here, were as follows:
|Software Licenses
|Maintenance and Services
Reading the "blurb" I notice they saw a "$15 million of revenue from Linux Platform Products, up 46 percent year-over-year", but a "combined revenue from Open Enterprise Server and products related to NetWare(R) declined 18 percent from the year ago period". They also quote a "651% increase of Linux invoicing" but that is quite meaningless without knowing exactly what that is. Their blurb though was heavily bullish regarding the GNU/Linux business though.
The conclusion I come to is that the figures above show that they are losing NetWare business faster than they are currently gaining that in GNU/Linux. This is reflected in their "Maintenance and Services" revenue is down 9%, a figure far more important than the "Software License" revenue in terms of both money and long term stability. Doubly important when considering the GNU/Linux business model.
My friend theorized that Novell needed, or wanted, the money. After all, they could not easily turn down a quarter's worth of revenue "just like that". At first I was skeptical, and even hostile, to that premise, but the more I thought about it the more I could see the logic.
All the above is, of course, in the minds of my friend and myself. I do not have access to the Novell board, nor does, I believe, my friend. We neither of us know exactly what is going on, nor the motivations behind it.
Despite the above, the thoughts going through my mind as I left the meeting was if Novell could sell a bit of their soul for a few pieces of silver, then what would they do next?
MS v.s. Novell
Could it be that MS wants to buy out their competitors. Because they believe that they have a Superior product.
MS use this way to keey
MS use this way to keey apparent advantage then their competitors. Its not worth paying the cash and buying Novell when a partnership would do just as good.
Re: Will Microsoft buy Novell?
From my calculations Novell lost about 1.8 millions in identity-management but gained 4.7 millions from its Linux business. How come the 91 millions from invoicing into play? If they are what Novell earned through the coupons bought from M$, they are a Linux-related gain. I guess they are; because what else could that huge growth figure (659%) mean.
Unfortunately there are no figures that would let us calculate how much net loss there is in 'combined revenue from OES and NetWare'.
What really rained on Novell's financial report are the restructuring expenses et.al. that summ up to 23 million US$.
It really, really is far-fetched to speculate that Novell's Linux-strategy, including the MS-deal, resulted in a net loss for them. Novell has acquired a couple of really big customers this year, like Peugeot, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, and many organisations consider for the first time using Linux on their desktops, now.
Although Novell still rejects the notion that Linux contains any IP-violations, the reassurance that customers won't face the threat of legal actions seems make the small but decisive difference when it comes to the decision whether or not to use Linux for many.
Currently I use Novell´s Linux suite, but....
If this happens I will be so f*cking mad!!! I will stop using it and go to debian/ubuntu. This is not fun at all but we had it coming after Novell making that partnership with Msoft.
RE: Currently I use Novell´s Linux suite, but....
The VERY first thing I did when Novell and MS made their announcement last year, was download Arch Linux and Debian. Today, I'm an active user on both of those distros. I used to be an OpenSUSE user. (Suse 9.3 and OpenSUSE 10.0)
Novell is effectively dead to me.
The very first thing I did
The very first thing I did after the announcement was sell my Novell stock.
Novell DID need the money (and badly)
Novell was in a quite difficult financial situation at the time they reached the microsoft patent agreement.
There even was a time when Novell was about being bought even by SUN Microsystems:
This is: a 340 million dollars deal, very close to the sum they were owing. Technically we can say that with this agreement Microsoft has covertly bought Novell, although this cannot be a publicly official buy because Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.
Check the figures out:
Also hope Dell will not go Novell for their Linux idea storm
If Dell were to install Novell Suse as their preloadad linux they would be caving into Microsoft IP infringement threats and FUD. Hope this will not happen, because it would be as if you were buying Microsoft's Linux with your Dell computer.(Microsoft would keep their "tax" on your computer)
Also, some encumbered formats are being introduced in Linux through Microsoft OOXML going into Novell's OpenOffice, thus trying to undermine the union of the community inside the two single products that more seriously menace their dominance and their only two cash cows: Linux (which is a threat for Windows) and OpenOffice (which is a threat for MS Office and its closed, locking-in, file formats).
Microsoft is for sure playing a divide and conquer game here. Beware!
They won't buy Novell, for a least 4 more years.
And another thing that nobody has mentioned is Novell's IP, which somebody should point out has pulled even more cash out of MS's coffers than this deals worth over the last few years. This is a win win deal for both of them in my veiw, and has been very well received by our clients that are mixed environments. Why a win win.
Novell has realized that it can't go head to head with MS, MS simply cannot be outmarketed or outfoxed with the user base it has. Microsoft has finally relaized that they are no longer a boxed product company but indeed a solutions and support company (at least in the server and corporate desktop realm.
While the "Open Source" world indeed has always wanted MS in the crosshairs the simple fact is the business world wants solutions that are secure and productive. Why ? The business world knows there no good to come from a free lunch, especially when tomorrow comes around.
time to cut Red Hat's
time to cut Red Hat's licenses Torvald!
You just don't get it
Yea, yea, yea....your a genius now that you figured out the NetWare business has been declining by ~15% year-over-year. Everyone in the FREE WORLD knows that! It still doesn't explain the "secret" reason why Novell would enter into a partnership with Microsoft.
Here's a thought.....HSBC, Walmart and the others who "PUBLICALY" stated that they've standardized on SLE and support this partnership. It is simple.....The Customer wants it!
Oh...by the way. 91 million in invoice dollars results in recognized revenue over the life of the subscriptions. If this trend continues then we'll all understand why this deal occured.
And by the way...wouldn't it S$ck for LINUX if Microsoft did by Novell. Now THAT would be something worth [email protected] about!
what a stupid article
Patents agreements are common between all companies in the same line of business.Companies realize that they always infringe on someone else's patents. Example, all car manufacturers have patent agreements among themselves. Why? Because there is no way they can manufacture a car without infringing. Do you think an automatic transmission fuel injection, air bags, anti lock brakes, blah blah was not patented by some companies and that the rest just cross license their inventions? Unfortunately in the US we have allowed software patents (the Supreme Court might or might not support strike them down, too early to tell). it means that companies must cross license their patents and they all do, so Novell doing it means nothing about the status of Linux infringing or not. What bothers open source community is that Novell had made a pledge to use THEIR patents against any company that tried to assert their patents against Linux. now with this agreement between Novell and MS, they cannot do that against MS if they decide to get nasty with Linux. That would be HUGE!
The author and his friend fail to take really discuss why MS would be interested in buying Novell and with what purpose and the chances of actually being able to do it:
1) What would MS gain? they will gain Novell very valuable patents (if courts allow them to stand) in networking. They will not gain much in the sense that they already have the right to use those patents, but at the same time it would add to their arsenal against Linux
2) Buying Novell means SuSE would be dead, not because MS will discontinue it but because their developers will leave SuSE. Don't forget that SuSE is mostly open source and MS cannot do with that code as they please. Any modification to the original SuSe GPL code will have to be open sourced.
3) Novell has over a billion dollars in the bank, that makes it attractive to many other companies, not just MS.
4) IBM owns part of Novell. they made some strategic investments with Novell when hey purchased SuSE. I am not sure if they own 5% or 15%. in any case IBM is not going to let MS purchase Novell and break that strategic alliance without IBM making it "painful' monetarily or legally. it would be easier for IBM to buy Novell because it fits them strategically in guaranteeing Linux succeeds. IBM makes a ton of money ($3 billion dollars a year) on Linux related activities and they are not going to let MS ruin that cash cow.
5) HP makes over $2 billion a year on Linux. i am sure they will not stay on the sidelines allowing MS to destroy another cash cow.
6) Sun/Oracle? They also have an interest in thwarting MS, not because they love Linux, but because they are aware Linux is a big thorn on MS side. Don't forget, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
7) MS being a convicted monopoly is not free to purchase any company they want. Other competitors will raise hell and go to court if needed to stop it. Can MS afford to be scrutinized again. I bet dinner at Peter Lugar steakhouse in Brooklyn, NY that they will not want to go through that again.
I can go on with a zillion other reasons what this article is so dumb, but let it stop here for now
Novell's move with MS is brilliant.
Novell will now capture the enterprise market period.
MS has capitulated to Novell because of Novell's ongoing suite against MS worth billions...
MS backing Suse and the technology sharing is the Tipping Point of exception in the Enterprise for most all Novell products.
Suse destop/server sales will sell faster than anyone has imagined because of MS.
Novell's Zen is complete life cycle management of ALL platforms in the Enterprise to automate all aspects of deployment. This is best in class and wins the largest deployments in the world.
Novell's secure Identity Management IDM3 is second to none in the industry. It wins the largest deployments in the world. Tied in with Access Manager and Novell Audit and that is the ONLY soup to nuts Secure Identity Management worthy for the Enterprise...
Novell has 1.6 Billion in the bank.
Novell uses it's IP property to protect it's own customers at their cost. Novell has extentend that to include all MS IP as well for Novell customers. This is good...
MS can not buy Novell as mentioned above.
Novell stock will be up higher than any one can imagine.
Oh, Red had is Toast because of Oracle.
Probable next steps in Microsoft involvement in Linux
Everyone beware of microsoft, they are losing their hold in the PC and they know it very well: expect any trick from them to keep their stranglehold on the computer marker. Have a look at insider's blog MSFTExtrememakeover latest post, which discusses, among many others, changes about MSFT's Linux strategy:
The phrase "The Novell SUSE distribution thing is a step in the right direction, but MSFT needs to do more" is scary. Nonetheless, the post is highly interesting:
The LBU - Linux Business Unit
Yup, time to face the music and stop pretending Linux isn't here to stay. Not only is it, it's likely to eventually gain a significant share of global desktops (read: eventually much more than AAPL). So why is MSFT resisting it so hard versus simply embracing it as yet another opportunity to sell software a la the Mac Business Unit? IMO, MSFT should be focused on what it can still sell accounts who go this route. At a minimum, that could include Servers for legacy support of Windows apps. But maybe MSFT should even develop it's own "customer-friendly" linux distro (or, if GPL exposure of that code is an issue, maybe a non-GPL licensed library to run on any distro, or a BSD-based distro)? BTW, if they haven't taken steps to at least determine the engineering feasibility of that and effort required, then they're not doing their job. Additionally, why make it a religious battle? Like any OS, Linux does some things very well. For one, it's much more modular than Windows. So why not empower an internal group to promote it where it might make sense - like say in a set-top box or audio device? The Novell SUSE distribution thing is a step in the right direction, but MSFT needs to do more. Heck, if it can't convince itself that the Windows kernel and architecture is superior - and I can't find a single analysis that argues that's the case (company published or otherwise - if you have one btw, I'd be interested in a link) - maybe it should do an AAPL, hop on board a Mach/BSD kernel, and add value at higher levels only moving forward?
Microsoft, Novell and the open source space
I think someone said it earlier, but... get this, paying customers want this to happen. They want things to work together, they want to have big companies to yell at, and sue if necessary. Try asking a CIO what his/her datacenter looks like; you'll find nearly all are a mix of Windows, Linux and other. Interoperability is a way of life.
So let's see: a covenant not to sue... Well, are you using any products based on Web Services. Maybe a C compiler? MPEG? and so on.
Every standard to some point has a CNTS or patent protection (not necessarily free). So stop using them if you are offended by the simple words of covenant not to sue.
OMG patents protection. Yeah right. How many times have you seen an offensive patent suit from each of the following companies: IBM, SUN Microsystems, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle. The ability to exchange patent protections and extend them to customers is a valuable commodity. It is a sad commentary on the concept of software patents, but thats another rant.
Microsoft is reaching out to the OSS community. Take some time to look at http://port25.technet.com
Microsoft has offered to extend similar protections to any company in the Linux space.
And no, I do not work for Microsoft.
Microsoft and Novell
There are some things about the Novell/Microsoft pact that might better explain what Microsoft gets out of this.
First the patent issue. Everyone seems to think that it's one-sided, with Microsoft getting the upper-hand. I'm not convinced. I think it's quite possible that Microsoft needed to get protection against Novell. I'm sure that Microsoft have seen the SCO source code, possibly long ago. They may even have been using some of it inside Windows. If they discovered that the code had been written by Novell and GPL's they could lose control of their source code, because it would be GPL'd.
Secondly I think that Microsoft knows that if Linux finally gets accepted as a reasonable desktop alternative then they will have to embrace it (as in embrace and extend.) The obvious thing for them to do would be to fork the kernel and enough of the main packages to create a complete distro pretty much incompatible with everyone else's. Released with a native version of some key Microsoft systems (Exchange, SQL Server) they could do to SuSE what Oracle just tried to do to Red Hat.