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#noemail: Are technology's early adopters abandoning their email? | Opensource.com
#noemail: Are technology's early adopters abandoning their email?
Could you live without your email?
Co-author: Paul Jones
Most people--including my parents--have email. But now, just as mom and dad (and, though more rarely, grandma and grandpa) are getting on the email bandwagon, it seems a fair number of folks are jumping right off. And I don't mean great-aunts who decided it was too difficult or dirty.
The most recent--and closest--notice was a post from Paul Jones, the director of Ibiblio.org and a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Professor Jones also happens to be my former boss, a prolific writer and speaker, a bit of an internet celebrity, and a good friend. And because of his extensive help reviewing and providing the basis for this piece, a co-author.
He posted the opening salvo of the email-less on May 3, and it went like this:
"Giving up email beginning June 1, 2011. You will be able to reach me on Facebook and on most socialnetworking sites as smalljones including Twitter, Gtalk, AIM, Skype, Quora, Hunch, LinkedIn, DropBox, YouTube, XtraNormal and here on this blog."
Professor Jones isn't the first person to ponder divesting. He's following the lead of several other tech pioneers (his friends and influencers, the way he's one of mine)--Donald Knuth, the Stanford professor and author. And Luis Suarez, a community builder and social evangelist at IBM. They've both written extensively about their reasoning, process, and success since abandoning the inbox.
Jones has conversed with Red Hat thinker Michael Tiemann about the attempt. He's opened it up for comment on his blog. And we've been watching, fascinated. We asked him if he'd mind talking about it a bit more, or if we followed along and shared it with our readers. Thus, this article (and perhaps others that look at the result) was born.
How did we do it, without email? Email is usually part of the writing process at opensource.com. Drafts traded, updates made, all by emailed correspondence. I had to change routine for this article, but it wasn't difficult. The process was, in fact, quite smooth. I caught the tweeted updates about Jones' blog posts (which also showed up in my RSS feed) on my Android phone. We used Facebook to connect, chat, and exchange messages. Google Docs came into play to compose the piece, share it, discuss it, and work on the interview portion. We didn't trade a single piece of real email1.
How the others have fared
Knuth's been email-free (well, ok, sort of--he has a secretary to receive email and pass along any important information) since 1990. While working on one of the exhaustive volumes of The Art of Computer Programming, Knuth found himself losing too much time wading through spam and unsolicited mail.
Knuth's solution is probably not practical for everyone. Most of us don't have a secretary. If we miss the important notice from HR about our benefits, well--no one's going to print it out and pass it on, and we might get an unpleasant surprise next time we go to the doctor.
But, at the lowest level, Knuth has done the same thing Suarez has--and Jones is attempting: He shifted one form of communication (email) to another (snail mail and direct communication through his assistant).
Suarez's approach, however, is a bit more reasonable for the rest of us. Like Jones, he moved the conversations he was having through email to other venues--and often found (as he suspected he would) the new method more appropriate and efficient. Quick responses got moved to chat; more elaborate conversations reverted to that old-tech method--the phone call.
Admittedly, Suarez is not exactly email-free, merely email-reduced. After three years, he was able to reduce his inbox count by more than 90 percent--down to an average of 17 emails per week, instead of the hundreds he was having to sift through before.
But it's a far cry from what people expected. Like Jones, Suarez had his share of detractors. He's commented in several of his talks, and in blog posts, that coworkers expected his email-free experiment to be short-lived. Others, more negative, speculated it could cost him his job. None of these things have happened.
The open source problem (and other motivations)
The level of concern--and outright anger--about such a communications change is interesting. Do people resent their own email ball-and-chain so much that, like with other bad environments, they want company in their misery? Or are they simply worried that their emails will go unanswered, or that the new venue for communication will result in more work on their part, or less choice about how they can respond?
Choice is important--especially for Professor Jones, and for opensource.com. Free and open source software (FOSS) advocates would like as much of their technology (if not all of it) to be developed and licensed in open ways. With email, as Jones points out, that choice is dubious--few people take the time to investigate the infrastructure behind their email or behind their internet service, nor that of the people they communicate with. It's possible to choose open source alternatives often, but nearly impossible to not make use of a proprietary tool somewhere down the line.
The social media universe is wide. For almost every proprietary tool (Facebook), there is a open one (identi.ca, based on a free software package called StatusNet), but the crux of the matter is adoption. If you want to talk to friends who exclusively use FB, or see their posts, pictures, and updates, you have to sign up for the service. Open APIs and plug-ins to other platforms alleviate some of this lock-in, but not all, and they're dependant upon the user actually using them.
People congregate around a useful social tool. Which tool this is changes, both as technologies develop and per user group. Adults over 55, to cull an example from research and our own anecdotal experience, tend to use email more than they do social apps or online shopping. It would be less likely, for example, for mom to maintain something like a Facebook account or an identi.ca profile. And she probably wouldn't use both--she would see it as useless duplication of effort, and not have the technical savvy (or desire) to integrate the services.
But bringing up the generational split introduces another interesting wrinkle. Young people still make up a vast majority of the internet's denizens. The choices people will have in the future depend largely on what tools they--and those that come after--rally around. And in late 2010, Pew Internet and the American Life project found that teens--the generation after Y Millennials--were growing even less likely to use email--only 11 percent of teens (12-17) used email to keep in daily contact with their peers. This is down from 14 percent, over three years (from November 2006 to September 2009). Contrast this with social networking--in 2006, 21 percent used IMs and FB to connect with pals. But 2009, it rose to 25 percent. But the real winner is direct text messaging--27 percent used it in 2006, but over half (54 percent) used texts three years later.
Can we leave our inboxes behind, and follow teens to texts and social networks? What if none of your age-bracket contemporaries choose to subscribe to the same services or use web-enabled phones? How do you pick which social media platforms to invest in?
Next: We interview Paul Jones about his decision to abandon email.
More info
- Paul Jones blog, category #noemail
- A World without Email by Luis Suarez (IBM World Usability Day, Windows Media video)
- World 2.0 Expo: Thinking Outside the Inbox (Luis Suarez talk)
- New York Times: I Freed Myself from E-mail's Grip by Luis Suarez
- Knuth versus Email: Email (let's drop the hyphen) by Donald Knuth
- Slate: The Death of Email
- The Oatmeal: Comics about email
1 I'm not counting the automated emails sent by Google Docs, since neither of us really composed them as email, and they were technically alerts I could have routed through one of several other interfaces.
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LinkedIn's messaging system is basically just a private webmail system limited to the site. Likewise, Facebook messaging is an combination of synchronous communication (chat) and asynchronous (messaging). Again, it's really just a self-contained email system. And email is just the latest form of asynchronous text based communication that replaced the hand written letter. I don't buy that they really gave up email. They moved it to proprietary web based services that provide some sort of barrier to entry to communication in that you have to be connected to the recipient somehow before you can communicate.
And when one of those services goes under some sot of drastic change and eliminates the messaging system, they'll probably be regretting the decision to give up email that they control, for faux email that they don't control.
From a purely and somewhat dodgy technical viewpoint, you are right. But from social and cultural constructions you are not. We use all these systems differently and we get different rewards and pay different costs. And as you start to point out a there are differences even technically.
I would argue that FB Messaging is closer to the future of activity streams and hyperintergration that I'm talking about. Email is not the center of that universe -- and as you notice you have some control over who you communicate with and how. This last part is giant and really differentiates that activity stream from the others you mention.
I am constantly amazed that people think they have some sort of control over their current email structure. Look at your inbox. There is evidence that you don't right in front of you.
I would be delighted to see something like Mugshot or even FriendFeed or some variety of Open Social to help bring these activity streams (including varieties of messaging systems) together (that's the hyperintergration part). Point me to something like that. Please! I'm serious.
What evidence of not having control over our current email structure can we see right in front of us when we look at our inbox?
Even if you are right, and there is some aspect of email that we don't have control over; that's hardly a reason to ditch it in favour of centralised mediums such as facebook as our main point of communication, where we have minimal control.
I firmly believe that if 'technologys early adopters' are going to ditch email in favour of another (possibly more social) medium, then it should be a free, decentralised one. Communicating with someone through facebook might be easier, but does that make it better?
I think as a model for social interaction, it is a very broken one. To communicate with someone on facebook, you must agree to their terms and policies (which historically haven't always been very clear, and often seem to change on a whim...), and also trust the integrity of that particular company. This is something that not everyone will do (and, in my opinion, rightly shouldn't).
You will be able to reach me on Facebook and on most socialnetworking sites as smalljones including Twitter, Gtalk, AIM, Skype, Quora, Hunch, LinkedIn, DropBox, YouTube, XtraNormal and here on this blog."
Considering this is an article on a site called opensource.com, and you seem to be called an early adopter of technology, I find it embarrassing that you don't list open alternatives to some of the above. Status.net and diaspora, for example.
The choices are a bit old and from an early rev of my message. I've been and early member of Diaspora and yes it's on the message list.
Status.net tells me: "Subscription Confirmed: Congratulations, you'll be one of the first to experience StatusNet 1.0! In the coming weeks we'll be sending you an exclusive invitation to the Private Beta, and we'll be looking forward to your feedback."
I've also spend some serious time looking over the projects in Open Social but none of them are quite there yet either.
I should have listed indenti.ca as I have had an id there for sometime, but so few others that I communicate with do that I have abandoned it pretty much.
My inbox has over 100 new messages that I could delete and feel no loss over in the past 12 hours. Lots of reasons, but that's what I mean about control. And that's not counting what my aggressive spam filter tossed out.
I want to invest my time where I also get return. email is a net loss and has been for years. It's my hope that activity streams that integrate a variety of services as Mugshot and FriendFeed once did will help me and others manage our various services. It would be nice if there were some great open services and hyperaggregators in the mix to choose from.
We can all agree that we get email that we don't want, but I also get Facebook Invites that I don't want. I have over 19 Invites to things I don't care about on Facebook right now.
As for the person who gave up email with his Secretary getting important ones. Let me sort that out. He's too important to waste his time checking his own email, but his Secretary's time isn't.
How is this different than when I first installed a Novell network at MCV in 1991 and the Directors proudly refused to have computers, because "they wasted their time."
This isn't a new stance at all. It's a repackaging of the old stance that my time is "too valuable" for this or that. Which it may in fact be.
Noemail is convenient for people. If decisions are made at an ad hoc and shallow level of non-recorded chats, they can be denied later. A broader question is whether #noemail is pushing the Private Internet. If only private networks are used, then only those who can pay for access - like LinkedIn's premium service - will be able to use them.
To me noemail is a giant step backward to 1990 when University mainframes monopolized communication. Only this time, instead of respected institutions controlling it, it will be private companies denying access to those who can't pay.
I can understand the desire to lean on your social graph to streamline communications, but it seems dangerous when you don't control your social graph. Facebook owns it. We are just the product on Facebook, we aren't even the customer. In the long run, filtering email based on your social graph is not that big of a challenge. Google could probably do it tomorrow, if they controlled your social graph. They've taken baby steps with Buzz and priority inbox, but they simply don't have the data to know which messages you'll want, and which can be back burned. Personally, I'd rather err on the side of openness and deal with the mess that ensues over letting Facebook (or whoever) decide who can contact me.
I see Facebook as only one part of the puzzle. Naturally the folks at Facebook see themselves as the total answer, but I don't buy that.
I think that Buzz, Mugshot, FriendFeed and others are steps toward a smarter and better solution, but so far not the one that has had the right traction, timing and adaptation.
What I would love, as indicated above and on my blogs in discussion with Michael Tiemann, is a open source solution that is aware of social, location, etc and can and does aggregate as applications rise and fall in importance to me and the folks who want to communicate with me.
I have a different solution to the problem. Whenever one of my email accounts gets overrun with unwanted emails, spam or otherwise, I simply abandon it. I send change of email address notices to the people I would like to continue to hear from and disappear from the rest.
Steve Stites
I understand this and it's used commonly enough to have a name "email bankruptcy". In fact that name inspired me to use a different but similar name for my own effort -- "divestment".
I'm not interested in dropping email but in moving my time and attention investments to places where the reward is greater. I will reinvest in new and emerging communications options regularly and divest in those that don't give strong returns. I've done this all along with things that looked promising like Plurk or Orcut or Friendster or (sadly) indenti.ca and I'm on the fence with Hunch and Quora at the moment.
I wish I were better about managing my listserv investments, but I guess now I'll get that way as I look for RSS and archives access to replace the mailing lists parts.
Until the mother of all aggregators comes along, I still need my email. Right now email is my "attention beacon" for social in addition to being the most establised business communication tool there is.
I know people have reached out to me on twitter, facebook, blogs / forums etc because I have an email in my inbox telling me so.
Getting my systems to notify me is a trivial task with email, too.
I love the idea of something more dynamic and fluid, but for now email leaves me in control.
I agree that email fills that role for many people. My contention is that it does a crappy job and that we use it out of habit long after the use case has collapsed under its own weight.
To recap, we saw email as a Swiss Army Knife only to watch it become a Rube Goldberg contraption and a time sink and annoyance.
How to improve the situation? #noemail is my way of probing for better answer; complacency as we slowly sink into the smelly bog isn't the answer I choose.
Lately, I have been using email more like a notification system. Groups, mailing-lists, commit notices, social network notices far outnumber the messages sent directly to me. Communication happens directly through those systems. Be it Facebook, Identi.ca or GitHub. Even a phone call.
Email is a person's address in the virtual world. But the cost of sending a message on the internet is far less than in the real world, which is why we resort to 'email bankruptcy' or #noemail.
What we need is better tools and policies. Perhaps a better notification system. Why is it that every website needs your email address? People rarely ask for your address or phone in real life.
GMail's priority inbox is a good tool. Too bad it is proprietary.
KDE's Social Desktop is step in the right direction. I hope it can evolve to answer some of these questions.
Thanks for the pointer to the Social Desktop. I'll check it out soon. Need a mobile solution to have a future too tho.
Surprised that no one has mentioned Gwibber.com "Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for Linux. It brings the most popular social networking web services to your desktop and gives you the ability to control how you communicate."
Any experience with that or knowledge about that project?
I use Gwibber, but only as a Twitter client. It works - nothing special about it IMHO. The best thing about it is that it runs as a background service. So I can keep my Twitter feed closed and out of sight / out of mind, but if somebody messages me or mentions me on Twitter, I get a pop up message.
I think a point that people are missing is that these new kinds of communication are better only because of their newness. I am willing to bet, Paul, that if you had 5000 friends on FaceBook that you would receive just as much garbage as you do in your email. What we really want to do is change the ratio of good/garbage messages. Moving from service to service seems to be a poor way to do that. What's more, I doubt you would be doing this if your livelihood depended on those communications. Out of that 100 emails you received in the last 12 hours, how many were really spam? How many of them were legitimate email that you just didn't want to read?
Newness has advantages other than just newness; that is new insights into technologies and their uses are more likely to be baked into the code. This is certainly what I've found as I've been divesting from email and moving those assets and time and attention to other communications areas. Yes, you can send attachments, but far better and easier to use a collaborative document space like say Gdocs. Yes, you can suttle date choices around trying to arrange a meeting date, but far better to use a shared calendar. Yes you can send movies and pictures around as attachments, but...
You get the picture. The big picture. Technologies for cooperation, collaboration and communications are leaving email behind.
I have a very aggressive spam filter -- thanks to Gmail -- or I would really be in trouble. None of the email that I received was spam -- or nearly none, is a groupon that I don't want spam if the next one the one I do want not spam? or should I depend on my FB friends to alert me?
I have many friends, Twitter and FB make it easier to manage that large information and social activity flow. Email, not so much.
Haven't we pretty much solved the spam issue for end users? I'm sure it's a still royal PITA for email system admins, but I've had the same email address since 1998 and I see maybe 1 or 2 spam emails a week in my Gmail account. It's such a non issue that I never think about it, which is probably not a good thing as spam certainly is still a big problem, but it's a problem that technology has mostly hidden from email users.
Methinks you just are (a) fighting the previous war (against SPAM) (b) succumbing to glitzy fads (c) not paranoid enough about privacy...
I really fail to understand how one can hope to waste less time by replacing the one-point-of-contact that an email address is, with several - unless you have some way of unifying the interface to all the sites you're replacing email with.
Not to mention the loss of privacy. I see many comments about teens' concerns about how public their personal information has become thanks to Facebook -- I certainly would least expect adult and tech-savvy people jumping on board of that kind of train.
I cope with SPAM and other nonsense with mechanical filters à la Spamassassin. I cope with undesirable mail with another level of filtering -- who's not on my whitelist and passes SPAM filtering will still not get immediate attention. And I do not spend time jumping from Web site to Web site to get all my messages.
I did ask TPTB, a long time ago, if It could extend my day from 24 to 72 hours. Never had an answer. So I have to forget about many fads, some of which I would like to indulge in.
Even if you whois my email address, you'll still have little information about who I am. I like to keep my physical neighborhood and my bank accounts as secure as I possibly can. Social media do not help much in that respect.
All the best
There is one application of email that needs to go away: sending status updates or a cool picture to all your friends - especially when forwarded. That belongs on a blog or similar where only interested parties see it.
or the spam filter ;->
One other thought I had about ditching email in favor of other services is that its a bit selfish. I'm not trying to be rude, but if you think about it, its a bit self centered. By ditching email, you are requiring the other party to create an account on another service. I personally don't use Facebook because I don't like giving away my privacy. I also don't like the fact that Facebook will track you virtually anywhere you go on the web. Most other social sites have similar issues. Asking that an end user create an account on one of these sites may serve your interest, but what about theirs? Sending an email has a much smaller impact on privacy, and with encryption, should be completely private. Can you really have a private conversation on any of these other services? You can't even really trust IM or texting for that matter. But you can send secure email from point to point. Anyway, just another point to think about.
email is only one option and the only option that I am foreswearing. I'm open to any other means of communications.
Addressing only your security concerns as I've written about your other concerns above.
The kind of email that you suggest, encrypted, is rarely done. I haven't received encrypted email but perhaps once in the past decade despite having my public key available for much of that decade.
Skype and some IM services do and increasingly will encrypt the connections. In the case of Skype and a few others, these services do point to point connections.
email is inherently insecure. There is no way around that. To the extent that email feigns security at all, it's been shoehorned into the protocol and services in a clumsy way at best.
Why on earth would you leave email for Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn etc?
Email is an established system that has worked for _ages_, you're never gonna get locked into just one system, you have complete freedom of choice wrt. clients or hosting etc.
I tried sending a private message with LinkedIn once, spent ages looking for the 'save draft' button, then ended up looking for the recipients email address. Twitter DM is a joke. And Facebook… I've seen enough reply-to-all-mistakes there *shudder*
Of course, no one has ever done "Reply All" to an email list and embarrassed themselves.
"Worked for ages" is properly presented in the past tense when referring to email. email is bloated, creaky and misused.
I expect that a variety of components that can form a reasonable and manageable activity stream of communications is close and will ideally and in the near future be as open and as customizable as email once was.
Email is a 'less-than-perfect' solution for communications that does need to be replaced by a secure/traceable (stop spam-bots)/anti-spam solution allowing anyone to be contacted independently of the service provider
That said, reading this stream, it does look there is a significant mind set about using 'social-networking' (a.k.a.: data-mining of personal information networks) to create isolated (gated) communities where only you and your friends "hang-out" together. This does sounds like people are trying 'Disney-fication' of their communications.
In an expanding world, should we be trying to make 'happy gated communities' of 'like minded individuals'? That will lead, inevitably, to the narrowing of viewpoints and intolerance. Shouldn't we be making ourselves more open to meeting people with different viewpoints/backgrounds?
In my view, with the lack of inter-site API standards, this generation of 'social-networking' (DMPIN) is pointless. When the sites owners finally get together and agree API's that allow for secure-intersite messaging, searching and connectivity, which will be about when they stop treating their 'subscribers' as a 'data-resource', then I'll join, what will then be, the social-network revolution.
In the meantime, I'll keep with my (well-ordered and small) inbox and avoid the current generation of, so called, social-networking.
When you look at why people use facebook et al instead of email, it boils down to authentication (although immediate send confirmation plays a minor role). Email has been capable of authentication for 20 years. And if you accept only authenticated email (I currently accept HELO, SPF, or DKIM), then problem solved. SPAM control is simply a matter of reputation.
Some people complain when their email can't be forged by random parties (e.g. badly configured web apps), but tough. I agree that forgeable email needs to go. I just don't see centralized services like facebook as an improvement.
Spammers already use throw away domains to send authenticated email spam, and I've started to see throw away AOL, google, and facebook accounts used to send spam. So you still need filtering and reputation database even with new services (or properly used email). But implementing filtering and reputation for centralized services is much more difficult.
The above is me!
The fact that it's only been implemented as a personal hack in 20 years says a lot.
Competent public ESPs like gmail and aol have implemented email authentication for ages. (They still have the whack a mole problem of throw away accounts - but there is no forgery.) The only unauthenticated email is from incompetent (wrt email) ISPs (I'm resisting the temptation to name names - you probably don't know who you are) and small operators who don't want to use a commercial service, but don't actually know what they are doing (and get mad if you try to educate them).
So just stop tolerating unauthenticated email. I will admit that gmail, for instance, does not provide a button for end users to "stop tolerating unauthenticated email". However, they incorporate that as part of their mysterious and hidden process of spam control.
I for one will not be using Facebook. I don't believe in using a service that has as little regard for my personal privacy as they do. I continually read stories of how they change privacy settings on a whim or of them selling personal info to third parties. I also hear of people getting infected by clicking on a bogus link on the site because the site security is so poor. The very fact that I cannot trust them to not misuse my information means I choose to stay away. I am not sure what the upside is of going with such a restricted venue such as Facebook is, especially since many, like myself, refuse to use that service. Perhaps if a better service comes along then it might be more acceptable but it will still be far more restricted and require more from those who wish to contact you than using email. I understand the frustration of having to deal with spam and junk, having lost one email address to spammers, yet I have not been driven to give up email. I have just learned to be more careful about how I use my email address. Email is just too convenient and accessible for me to let go of it. There are likely to be new ways of communicating, especially chat, in the future but I expect email will still be a part of the landscape for some time to come. To each his own but I don't expect this movement to catch fire anytime soon.
I have been very interested in Diaspora and have signed up for an invite, however it is still in Beta and so is not yet really available. Given also that it is by invitation, and likely very limited invitations at first, it is even more restrictive than Facebook.
I am on Diaspora. Beta is being generous. It is still alpha. You really can't do much more than post a status update on it, but there is nobody to see it, so what is the point?
I don;t see it ever being more than a niche service popular with geeks.
Afraid I have to agree about Diaspora.
Geeks, especially open source coding geeks, get their social interactions in the process of writing code and sharing in that environment where they are much less private than in their personal lives. "Here's my code. Judge me on that. I'll keep my birthdate to myself." Nothing wrong with that.
But github or sourceforge or launchpad are likely places for social connections and fulfillment for many of the readers and commenters on OpenSource.com
Sorry I didn't think to bring that up earlier.
I don't get it.
Email is useful, why not use it?
Err. Read the article and the interview. Email appears to be useful but I would say not at the cost that it imposes for that usefulness. And most studies agree. I've been collecting many at http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/category/noemail/
Email is how I get most communications still.
You have my sympathy. But I would guess that as a developer that you get a lot of interaction via IRC, chat and/or IM -- and that you don't even notice that since it's so much more efficient.


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Popova and Massot aren't ahead of K&S, but James and Cipres are..
Popova and Massot aren't ahead of K&S, but James and Cipres are..
Nathalie Pechalat is with Vanessa and James. She looks beautiful and somehow sad
Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE (GER)
Music: The Messiah Will Come Again by Gary Moore
3STh - nice besti squat entrance
Score: 28.23 + 26.91 = 55.14 (PB) and into 3th
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I actually really like V/VC. They have a very fresh and unpretentious style. I don't think at this point they are ever going to move much beyond where they are, but I am happy they did well.
V/VC were my favourite so far.
Gooo Aliona and Robin!! I am so nervous for them, feels like ages since I last saw them skate
K/S should just retire. They are sad to watch. Their PCS are no where near competitive anymore. They are the Zhangs without the TES.
Remember the Zhangs were 5th in 2010 O despite being clean in both phases. I'm afraid K/S will be outside of the top 5 even clean. Would be out of the top 10 for their normal mistake-filled programs.
S/S throw 3F gorgeous, very good side by side 3T and solid 3twist but they skate somehow tentative, after the side by side spin(not synchronized obviously) the program gets better
Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY (GER)
Music: Kismet by Bond
3FTh - nice and high
FCCoSp - fast, no completely in unison
Nice! Solid and strong skate.
Score: 36.20 + 34.01 = 70.21 and into 1st
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The score is very low, only 70
V/T will beat that score
I'm glad to see S/S got rid of the weird costumes.

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Even if the oldest written records of the Hôtel du Cerf date from the late 19th century, the building is known to be much older than that, with roots going back to the 17th century.
The proprietors took a conservative approach to the building's renovation and went out of their way to preserve its authenticity.
This is much the same philosophy, incidentally, as that they bring to bear when buying ingredients for their excellent cuisine.


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TAMPA, Fla. On Jan. 2, 2010, South Carolina concluded its 2009 season with a miserable performance in a bowl game that few people who werent there probably knew even existed.
It was 27 degrees that afternoon at Legion Field, a decrepit, 71,000-seat stadium in Birmingham, Ala. There were at least 25,000 unoccupied seats. It was just as well for the Gamecocks, who bungled their way through a 20-7 loss to Connecticut, a basketball school, in a game named not only for a chain pizza company, but the website of that chain pizza company.
A position of prominence in the college football world seemed a distant dream for the Gamecocks as coach Steve Spurrier used his press conference to offer sympathies to those who just witnessed the mess his team just made of that bowl game, their fifth loss in seven outings since mid-October, all by at least 10 points.
The first thing I want to do, and hopefully half the team does, is apologize to about 30,000 Gamecocks that came down here to see a football game, and we couldnt put one on, Spurrier said.
Spurrier had just finished his fifth season at USC. His records were 7-5, 8-5, 6-6, 7-6 and 7-6. A legend of his sport, Spurrier was 64 years old on that frigid day in Birmingham. He surely knew he didnt need to stick around coaching for games like this.
But things were starting to change for the Gamecocks. They had landed cornerback Stephon Gilmore in the recruiting class of 2009 the first of four straight South Carolina Mr. Footballs they would get. Gilmore was followed in 2010 by running back Marcus Lattimore, who ended his career earlier this month as one of the best and most impactful players in school history.
In the three years since the Gamecocks disastrous trip to Birmingham, they are 9-5, 11-2 and now 10-2 and ranked No. 11 nationally entering todays 1 p.m. Outback Bowl against No. 19 Michigan. In 2009, they played in the Southeastern Conference championship game for the first time. Last year, they finished with their most wins and best ranking ever ninth.
Before this three-year run, the Gamecocks won nine-plus games in a season twice, 1984 and 2001. They did not register on the national college football landscape. Now, they clearly do.
And they have what every elite program needs: star power to match their success. With Lattimore turning pro, defensive end Jadeveon Clowney is now the face of the program, and the presumptive No. 1 pick in the 2014 NFL draft.
USC does not need to beat Michigan today to legitimize its accomplishments during the past three seasons. Even if the Gamecocks do beat the Wolverines, they would still not be a consistently elite program on par with Notre Dame, Southern California, Alabama and Michigan, the winningest team in college football history.
But they would almost certainly finish in the top 10 for the second straight season, and continue to carve out their own history. And they care about that far more than just beating a program, Michigan, that claims 11 national championships, but just one since 1948.
To tell you the truth, I dont know nothing about that history, Clowney said. Were in this time. Im worried about this year. I dont care about the history.
Said fifth-year senior tailback Kenny Miles: Theyve got a lot of history behind their program, and we dont have as much, but at the end of the day, its about the team that they have now and the team that we have now. The teams in the past are the teams in the past. They aint got nothing to do with now.
For the third straight year, USCs seniors set the school record for wins in a four-year period. The 2011 seniors had 34 five better than the 2010 group. This years seniors are aiming for victory No. 38 today.
We kind of started a trend for Carolina football being competitive, being a threat on everyones game list, not just one of those run-over teams, said senior defensive end Devin Taylor. Thats kind of what we want to be remembered for.
Spurrier, already USCs winningest football coach ever, will be 68 years old when next season begins. Though he has long demonstrated the zest of a younger man, he seems especially energized by this recent success, and leading a program that can continue its rise today.
Its the game to make history, said senior free safety D.J. Swearinger. When a lot of us came here, we said we were going to be great here. We were going to win SEC championships. That didnt happen, but we made history here. Thats something that we wanted to do when we all committed.


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Since you didnt mention it in the title I assume this works with C++, correct ?
It would be false advertising otherwise.
The video is in the Premium and Ultimate overview section, but looking at the edition comparison this looks like it is Ultimate only - is that correct? Thanks
Since you didnt mention it in the title I assume this works with C++, correct ?
Yes, that's correct. Both C/C++ and .NET code is supported.
The video is in the Premium and Ultimate overview section, but looking at the edition comparison this looks like it is Ultimate only - is that correct? Thanks
You are correct. Some of the features in this video series will be available in Ultimate only; others will be available in both Premium and Ultimate. As an FYI to others, the edition comparison Matt mentioned can be found here:
You can open and edit dependency graphs in Premium, just not create them.
@EstherFan:you can view dependency graphs in professional also. The idea is you need Ultimate to create the graphs of your code, but you can share them with everyone who has professional or above.
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Could you please add also a mobile (iOS) compatible version of the video?
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Romar's message was simple: play with more intensity and focus on getting involved defensively and the scoring will take care of itself.
Suggs' response the past two games is exactly what Romar hoped to see and is giving Washington a bit of optimism that they may just be able to get on somewhat of a roll before the Pac-12 tournament.
"Whatever was the case, he's doing a much better job of it," Romar said.
Suggs hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 4 minutes remaining and finished with 23 points, and Washington beat rival Washington State 72-68 on Sunday, handing the Cougars their ninth straight loss.
Suggs' 3 from the top of the key snapped a 57-all tie. It was his fifth 3-pointer, tying his career high, and he added four more free throws as the Huskies (16-13, 8-8 Pac-12) pulled away in the final minutes. Washington won consecutive games for the first time since early January when the Huskies started conference play 4-0 before losing eight of nine, and won their fifth straight over the Cougars.
C.J. Wilcox also scored 23 for Washington, the first time this season the Huskies had two players top the 20-point mark in the same game. Suggs has 39 points in the past two games including 16 last week in a win at Arizona State.
"We just talked about playing with more intensity. That was the biggest thing," Suggs said. "Sometimes it might not look like I'm trying, but I'm trying always. I'm just trying that much harder I guess, trying to make a play aggressively."
Brock Motum and Royce Woolridge led Washington State (11-18, 2-14) with 18 points each, but the Cougars' worst slide since the 2002-03 season continued. D.J. Shelton added 11 points and DaVonte Lacy had 10 for the Cougars, who shot 51 percent but couldn't make up for 18 turnovers, many of them unforced.
"Most of it was just taking care of the ball. It was frustrating because usually we take care of the ball better than that," Washington State coach Ken Bone said. "If that was how we played all the time, we would just say that's who we are, but we don't average 18 turnovers per game.
Washington State started the second half on an 11-1 run, including a five-point possession after Aziz N'Diaye was called for a flagrant foul, Motum hit two free throws and Dexter Kernich-Drew knocked down a 3 to give the Cougars their biggest lead at 43-35. It didn't last long with Washington scoring the next six points and nipping at the Cougars the rest of the half. Twice the Huskies pulled within one 47-46 and 49-48 and finally got even when Desmond Simmons knocked down a 17-footer as the shot clock expired with 7 minutes left to tie the game at 53.
Woolridge split a pair of free throws and Gaddy hit a floater in the lane to give Washington its first lead since halftime. The Cougars followed with an unforced turnover and Wilcox's two free throws pushed the lead to three, only to see Motum's free throw and driving basket tie the game at 57.
Suggs, who had not scored in nearly 10 minutes, found himself open at the top of the key and knocked down his fifth 3-pointer for a 60-57 lead. Suggs and Wilcox combined to hit 5 of 6 free throws over the next two minutes before Woolridge's driving basket with 2:09 left cut the Cougars deficit to six. Motum's two free throws cut the Huskies lead to 66-61, but Wilcox's driving basket and two free throws with 39 seconds left cinched the victory.
Washington scored 10 of its final 12 points at the foul line.
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Motum led the Cougars in scoring, but was held in check for most of the first half. He scored the first five points for Washington State and instantly that caused the Huskies to change. Out went Shawn Kemp Jr. and in came Simmons, who was matched up almost exclusively with Motum the rest of the half. Simmons held Motum to 15 points in the first meeting back in January after he had average nearly 23 points in the Cougars previous seven games.
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With just four weeks left before the Homecoming Green-White Scrimmage on Nov. 3, the Stetson football team will be back at work this Saturday at the Stetson University Athletics Training Center.
The Hatters are scheduled to scrimmage beginning at 2 p.m. (weather permitting).
This will be the second consecutive Saturday scrimmage for the Stetson team. The Hatters are slated to scrimmage against on Saturday, Oct. 20, and again on Saturday, Nov. 10, following the homecoming scrimmage. All of the remaining scrimmages are set for 2 p.m. starts.
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Could someone please let me know why do we require MDM to integrate with BPM?
I mean what business situations demand data tobe interfaced from Legecy system -> BPM (CE !) -> MDM
Also what benifits does MDM get if the data is interfaced via BPM to MDM?
Could someone please help me in answering these!!!
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Hi Eva,
let's do a short example:
If you have want to do some masterdata for customers in MDM. To do so you need also the governance process for this. This process is often a multilevel approval workflow and therefore you need the BPM.
In the end you will have following landscape
MDM where the data is stored
CE with Webdynpro Java in order to get access to the data and approximate the business logic
BPM with human tasks and automatic tasks to route the process
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Hello Eva,
1. Complex workflows can be designed using BPM with multilevel approvals, which is not feasible in MDM.
2. Data governance can be carried out with BPM.
3. BPM is more user friendly and its very flexible, can be modified as per the Business requirement.
4. BRM is used for Tasking and routing rules.
Below links might help.
hii eva
1) first thing is governance to improve your data quality via dedicated workflows.
2) you can perform data quality operation like validations also other operation like creating, modifying data through portal or mobile application without touching any mdm clients.
3) you can apply rules at each step which is not possible by mdm alone
4) even with bpm you can use business object data services like address validations to data before storing it to mdm, which is not possible in mdm.
5) bpm can syndicate or import data between ecc and mdm, and whole process is automatic.
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Hi All,
Thanks for the responses.
1) Why should we use BPM for approvals when the MDM Workflow has the approve step in it??
2) Can BPM (CE) pick the files from a ftp location? and consume them in to its workflows!!!
3) Does anyone have a real time scenario for customer/material/vendor where adding BPM is Only the solution?
Please help me in understanding this, I can see many documents on MDM and BPM but before i go through them i need to understand the above.
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Hi Eva
BPM is a tool for managing complex and configurable workflows. Also if requirement is to cross link multiple applications like MDM, ECC. These and many more are the MDM workflow limitations. To know more you can go through Best Practices Workflow for Master Data Management
to reply to your questions-
1)Refer to link above.
2) Not a good design I can say. We need to have a staging area for storing the version of records before they are approved.
3) We have different solutions available. But with CAF GP obsolete now the focus is more on BPM. Also MDM workflow have host of limitations and dont offer cross linkage between platforms.
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1) Is CE a system like R/3 (client-server).
2) Does CE Consists of Only BPM in it or in other words it is ONLY used to create WF/BPM?
3) Does CE have the capability of extraction of data from legacy systems / Legacy locations (ftp)?
Or how does the BPM gets the data into its WF??
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Hi eva
1) yes its like client-server, CE consist of nwds, nwdi, ce server. CE server fulfill functionality requires by nwds.
2) CE consist of many functionality like bpm, brm, webdynpro(visual composer) etc which basically integrated to nwds.
3) BPM by itself can search the data, or can trigger bods for extraction.
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Hi Nitesh,
Thanks for the Response.
3) BPM by itself can search the data, or can trigger bods for extraction.
So can i say that..
> BPM can Extract files from a ftp location.
> BPM can connect to a 3rd party applications directly and fetch the data.
> BPM can connect connec directly to any Database and fetch the reequired data.
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Hii Eva
No bpm can only trigger third party application, it cant fetch the data.
Nitish Sharma
Hi Eva
Give some points if you find my answers suitable and close the thread.
Nitish Sharma
Hi Jun ,
When you say that BPM is a Framework for work flow than please comment of my below questions .
1) Do we need BPM in our architecture if we have a EP up and running ( As it is mentioned that BPM can also as a front end ) ?
2) We can custom build ABAP workflows and display a UWL on the portal for the approval of the workflows ?
1.bpm is not a front end
2. no problem
but sap provide some utility for mdm ui construction in CE environment, which host the bpm function, you just configure what fields from mdm you want to display. if you go with abap, you have to build the UI from scratch, that may take a lot of time.
Hi Jun ,
When you mean UI , its only the UWL and nothing else i beleive (Correct me if i'm wrong)
Hi Jun ,
Lets assume a scenario where i already have a EP -> MDM -> ECC scenario ,
Now does it really make sense to get in BPM in between EP and MDM or can we just custom build the worrflows in the ECC system and use them ??
1. BPM is not coming between EP and MDM.
2. bpm is just a workflow engine, of course you can go with ecc workflow.
Hi Vignesh
Comparison between bpm workflows and ecc workflows would be wrong, ecc workflows only work for ecc scenario but bpm workflow can be used for other scenarios also for eg water regulatory approval system.
Nitish Sharma
See both are developed for specific purpose, these components are not in competition.
BPM can be triggered through mobile but ecc workflow can't be triggered.
BPM can trigger transfer data to mdm(we can apply trigger mdm validation also) than to ecc, which i think ecc workflow can't do.
Both product has its own features and quality and made for different purpose , so comparison is wrong here.


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Walter Dayle Stewart Jr., 34, of Aster Court, Martinsburg, was later released after posting $10,000 bail.
According to court records, on Nov. 19, West Virginia State Police Cpl. F.H. Edwards was contacted regarding a sex offender registry violation. Edwards was told that Stewart, who is required to register as a sex offender for life, had changed his address and failed to report it with state police. A day later, Stewart failed to appear for a meeting with police to update his registry information.
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MARTINSBURG - A Shepherdstown man convicted of bilking more than $5.5 million out of unsuspecting victims as part of a lottery scam was sentenced Monday to 23 years and six months in prison in Martinsburg's U.S. District Court.
David F. Brackett Jr., 63, pleaded guilty Aug. 27 to wire fraud and money laundering. Brackett devised a scheme to defraud victims by obtaining loan money from them and falsely promising to repay them with substantial lottery winnings that he had never won. Brackett also fraudulently obtained money by making materially false statements about his assets and expected profitability of his business ventures. Brackett fraudulently obtained more than $5.5 million and laundered the money through a variety of bank transactions involving different banks and accounts.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew R. Cogar and was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.
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MARTINSBURG - A Martinsburg man accused of using a woman's credit card to make fraudulent transactions was arraigned Wednesday on one count of credit card fraud and identity theft.
Dior Allante Jackson, 20, of Flight-o-Arrows Way, was later released after posting $15,000 bail.
According to court records, on Oct. 24, the alleged victim filed a credit card fraud complaint with police. She told police she discovered her credit card was stolen and several fraudulent transactions were made.
Police determined that Jackson, another man and a juvenile were allegedly responsible for the credit card fraud.
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The following sentences were handed out in Martinsburg's U.S. District Court on Monday by Judge Gina M. Groh:
- William Thomas Gardner, 45, of Martinsburg, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He pleaded guilty Aug. 7 to distribution of heroin.
- Mark Lewis King, 34, of Martinsburg, was sentenced to nine years in prison. He pleaded guilty Aug. 1 to distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school in Martinsburg.
- Michael Pierre Christian, 35, of Martinsburg, was sentenced to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty Aug. 1 to distribution of crack cocaine.
- Matthew Earl Thomas, 34, of Kearneysville, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty Aug. 7 to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
- Crystal Star Metz, 40, of Piedmont, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Metz pleaded guilty Sept. 4 to distribution of crack cocaine in Mineral County.
- Astley Rose Brown, 36, of Martinsburg, was sentenced to two years in prison. Brown pleaded guilty June 30, 2011, to distribution of crack cocaine in Martinsburg.


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To early This really ruins the keynotes...
Yeah, someone has forgotten to set their watches.
I really like IE9, however there are a still a few things I would like to be changed before I decide to switch to IE. One of the things is the GUI for favorites editing, sorting, browsing and syncing. Please IE team look at how the competition does it and update this. I should be able to know if a URL I am currently on is already favorited. I have a lot of favorites and sometimes I need to browse and search thru them. I would like to have a function and view in which folder a favorite is located in. Also please include an integrated sync feature with SkyDrive from the browser. I know these are probably not in your high priority list but sometimes it's the little things that make a great difference.
Does ie10 preview run side by side to ie9?
Yes They run side by side
Somebody needs to fix the X-UA-Compatible META tag specification for the fishbowl demo. Right now it says
content="IE10" and it should probably say
content="IE=10". As it is, it causes the browser to render in IE7 compatibility mode and the demo, well, doesn't work (unless you hit F12 and manually switch document mode to IE10 standards mode)!
How is it that version 10 still fails Acid3 (http://acid3.acidtests.org/)?
because those 5 points are not worth earning. (and others are 'cheating' in some sense)
It's a pity that the focus is more on the lack of support in Firefox/Chrome than the support in IE10....
Unfortunately there are a lot of essential features (HTML 5, CSS 3) unsupported in IE and supported in 'other browsers'. (and vice versa btw)
I have to agree with Rhapsody.Its not essential but the little things like text-shadow do matter.
I'm so glad I had to download and update my silverlight player to watch that video.
I'm more curious how IE10 compares to IE9, not how it compares to Chrome and FF.
Wow...That 30 secs were so important in your life!
@Marko89: I completely agree with you! I suggested Microsoft to improve IE's Favorites like what you said when IE9 Platform Preview 1 be released. Sadly, IE9's Favorites has nothing changed! Mozilla Firefox has the most powerful Favorites function, Microsoft should study from Mozilla Firefox!
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A Kind of Alchemy: Medieval Persian CeramicsThis exhibition provides a beautiful and fascinating look at the diversity of ceramics made in ancient Persia (what is now present-day Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan). Produced for both the luxury and middle-class markets, these vessels, bowls, pitchers, and bottles reflect numerous cultural and artistic influences and an aesthetic sensibility that seems startling modern.02/23/2013 - 06/15/2013Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Asteria - Renaissance Love SongsAsteria burst on the national scene in 2004, winning Early Music America's Unicorn Prize and praise from the New York Times. The duo of Eric Redlinger (tenor and lute) and Sylvia Rhyne (soprano) brings out the passion and emotional impact of late medieval and Renaissance songs.02/23/2013Time: 8:00 pmLocation: Carey Performing Arts Center, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PAwebsite
Special Anniversary Concert: Chanticleer The 20th anniversary season of Music in a Great Space culminates with the return of the ever-popular, Grammy-winning Chanticleer, known the world over as "an orchestra of voices." "The world's reigning male chorus," praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its "tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity," returns with choral music from around the world, of the highest quality.02/24/2013Time: 4:00 pmShadyside Presbyterian Church, 5121 Westminster Pl, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Love SongsFree concert in a cabaret setting, featuring vocalists from the Bach Choir.02/24/2013Time: 4pmLocation: Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1146 Greentree Road, Greentree
Academy Chamber Ensemble - All-Mozart Concert The Academy Chamber Ensemble, directed by Warren Davidson, will perform a duo for violin and viola, two charming works for flute and strings, and the sublime String Quintet in C major. The informal evening will include interesting tales of Mozart's life and the particular origins of these compositions.02/25/2013Time: 7:30 pmAndrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie, PAwebsite | map
BYOB - Shakespeare's GhostsBring Your Own Bard is PSIP's informal scene night. Professional actors and non-actors read favorite Shakespeare. Feb. 25th will feature pieces about ghosts, goblins, witches, and other creatures of the night: the ghost of a murdered father, a spirit who invites himself to dinner, goblins wreaking mischief and witches chanting obscure prophecy.02/25/2013Time: 7:15 pmLocation: Te Cafe, Murray Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Verdi & Wagner: Greatest Hitst's a 200th birthday celebration! Pittsburgh Opera General Director Christopher Hahn hosts an evening of greatest hits from two prolific yet contrasting composers. The Mendelssohn Choir sings rousing opera choruses, with two great opera stars performing favorite arias.03/01/2013 - 03/03/201303/01 - 8:00 pm03/02 - 8:00 pm03/03 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Benjamin Britten's The Little SweepCelebrating the centennial of Benjamin Britten, Microscopic Opera stages "The Little Sweep," part of "Let's Make an Opera," which was a play-and-opera combo created for young people in 1949.03/01/2013 - 03/03/201303/01 - 7:00 pm03/02 - 4:00 pm03/02 - 7:00 pm03/03 - 2:00 pm03/03 - 4:00 pmLocation: CAPA Theater, 111 9th St.,Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Celtic ConnectionsWhat do Scottish, Irish, and Kentucky Bluegrass music have in common? They share the five-note bagpipe scale. That's a celtic connection! And with St. Paddy's day looming, what better excuse to dust off the bagpipes, put on our dancing shoes and don the kilt? Join us, with school bands from all over the region, as well as the pipes and drums of the Balmoral School of Piping in the explosion of all that is celtic. Guest soloist: Detective Rick Manning.03/01/2013 - 03/14/2013Time: variousLocation: 6 locationswebsite
Bach, Beethoven & BrahmsPittsburgh Concert Chorale presents two concerts of music by the "Three Bs" -- J. S. Bach's Cantata #4; Brahms' sublimely beautiful Schicksalslied; and Beethoven's powerful Choral Fantasy, featuring pianist Antonio Fermin; Saturday evening at 8 at Ingomar United Methodist Church, and Sunday afternoon at 4 at Fox Chapel Presbyterian. 03/02/2013 - 03/03/2013Location: Ingomar United Methodist Church & Fox Chapel Presbyterian Churchwebsite
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EAST LIVERPOOL-Majs. Douglas and Stella McGuire will most likely celebrate their 42nd wedding anniversary ringing the bell for a Salvation Army red kettle in their new hometown of East Liverpool.
In the ministry for 18 years, the couple always mark their anniversary during the Salvation Army's busiest time of the year-the weeks before Christmas.
Douglas, 61, and Stella, 60, are the new pastors of the Salvation Army of East Liverpool, succeeding Capts. Gary and Corina Stein. The McGuires transferred to East Liverpool from their most recent assignment-Lorain-about 10 days ago.
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Michael Dennis (left) and Ben Keener, both of East Liverpool, button their coats Wednesday for a long day of bell ringing outside the Wellsville Save-a-Lot while Maj. Douglas McGuire looks on. The East Liverpool Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign started on Monday and will continue through Christmas Eve. The Salvation Army is still hiring full-time bell ringers. (Photo by Stephen Huba)
This year's holiday season is extra busy for the McGuires as they unpack boxes and oversee the Red Kettle Campaign and other ministries of the Salvation Army.
"We're a little behind in donations right now," Stella McGuire said. "Normally, the Red Kettle Campaign starts on the first weekend of November."
This year's campaign started on Monday.
The Salvation Army is still looking for volunteers and paid bell ringers. "Good volunteers are hard to find, so we do offer paid positions," she said.
The usual shift for a paid bell ringer is 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. four days a week. Bell ringers must be 18 or older, in good health, have an outgoing personality and be neat and clean.
"We're not working for some large corporation," Douglas McGuire told a group of eight paid bell ringers at the start of their shift on Wednesday. "We're there to help people."
He reminded them to be courteous and to look people in the eye.
The fundraising goal for this year's Red Kettle Campaign is $50,000, Stella McGuire said. Last year, the campaign raised $32,000, making it one of the Salvation Army's biggest fundraisers of the year.
"I think it's a good thing because it is familiar. It's a tradition," she said.
The Salvation Army has been a longtime tradition for both husband and wife: Stella grew up going to church at the Salvation Army's Youngstown Citadel; Douglas started attending there around the fourth grade.
"We actually felt God calling us to full-time ministry even when we were dating," she said.
That calling was deferred, however, as the young couple started a family and pursued their careers. Douglas worked at Republic Steel and, later, a manufacturing company in Girard, Ohio. Stella stayed at home to raise four children, later taking a position with a research firm in Boardman. The couple also has a younger daughter, Giana, 13.
Years before he became an ordained minister, Douglas McGuire was known for playing his cornet for the Red Kettle Campaign at the Southern Park Mall. "We literally didn't see him for six weeks," said Stella, who plays the bariton horn.
All that exposure to the Salvation Army as lay people prepared the McGuires for what was to come.
"It was really a second calling that woke us up," Stella said. "We knew that God was definitely calling us."
The couple took a position as auxiliary captains and spent two years in training for the ordained ministry. In addition to two-and-a-half years in Lorain, the couple served nine years at the Youngstown Citadel and seven years in Cleveland.
As second-career ministers, the McGuires bring "something a little extra" to their ministry, Stella said. "I think we bring maturity and life experience," she said.
That experience includes Douglas losing his job at Republic Steel when the plant closed. "The pink slip was going out, and it was like, 'What in the world are we going to do?'" Stella said. "So when people come through the doors looking for help, we understand it. We've been through it."
Funds from the Red Kettle Campaign help pay for the Salvation Army's programs throughout the year, including the monthly food distribution and utility bill assistance.
"Basically, people just need that helping hand to get them through," Stella said. "People have the same needs everywhere we go-the depth is just a little different."
Stella said the Red Kettle Campaign is ideal for groups and families. To inquire about volunteer or paid opportunities, call the Salvation Army at 330-385-2086.


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on March 22, 2013 - 1:00 AM
It's time to index wage to inflation
Once again the minimum wage debate is upon us. If it seems like we have been there before, we have. The law has been around for 75 years and we've raised the rate 22 times.
Each time it comes up, we hear the same arguments. Don't raise the rate. It's currently $7.25 per hour. It will increase prices, cause workers to be laid off, hurt those we intend to help and force small businesses to close.
With that outlook, cities like Seattle (minimum $9.49 per hour) or San Francisco (minimum $10.55 per hour) must be wastelands. When I can easily walk to six pizza places from my home, it doesn't seem we are lacking in fast-food, minimum-wage facilities – and they have survived many of those 22 times.
So let's give those hard-working people their increase. They haven't had one in years. And they will spend it right back into the economy, helping everyone. And while we're at it, index the wage to inflation so we don't have to talk about it 22 more times over the next 75 years.
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ATTICA - After dropping its first two games of the season, Mohawk has heated up, winning its last 11 games. But due to weather and scheduling issues, the Warriors hadn't played since Saturday. They finally took the field Thursday at Seneca East, but neither extended time off or chilly weather could cool down the Warrior bats.
Mohawk pounded out 16 hits in a 12-2, five-inning victory over the Tigers.
"I was a little concerned having the rain delays. We just want to play ball," said Mohawk coach Jenny Weinandy. "We get more experience playing games than practice. Girls are keeping their heads in practice and really working hard on things they need to improve on."
Weinandy's concerns went away early. Whatever it was that the players worked on, the work paid off.
In the top of the first, an error, hit batter and walk loaded the bases before Clara Adelsperger delivered the first big hit of the day. The senior smacked a base hit to right center, scoring two and getting Mohawk off and running.
After a Hannah Kieffer single, another run scored after an infield-fly hit by Kasey Adelsperger, then Julie Adelsperger singled home Kieffer to make it 4-0 before Seneca East ever stepped into the batter's box.
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|Mohawk 12, Seneca East 2
|Mohawk (12-2, 5-0): Taylor McClain 5-3-2-1; Cambria Kohlenberg 2-3-1-1; MacKenzie Sowers 3-2-3-1; Clara Adelsperger 3-1-2-4; Hannah Kieffer 3-1-1-0; Kasey Adelsperger 4-0-2-2; Charlotte Moes 0-0-0-0; Julie Adelsperger 4-1-2-1; Brooke Weinandy 4-0-2-0; Allison Price 4-1-1-0; Ally Weinandy 0-0-0-0. Totals: 32-12-16-10.
|Seneca East (9-8, 3-2): Mykayla Ruffing 2-1-0-0; Kayleen England 2-0-0-0; Alyssa England 1-0-0-0; Rachel Bauman 3-0-2-1; Amy Martin 0-0-0-0; Paige Reichert 2-0-0-1; Cameil Ruffing 1-0-0-0; Holly Bordner 2-0-0-0; Caitlin Sauers 2-0-0-0; CJ Linkey 2-0-1-0; Hannah Martin 2-1-1-0. Totals: 19-2-4-2.
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|WP — K. Adelsperger. LP — Bauman.
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Weinandy said after the game that it all starts at the top with leadoff hitter Taylor McClain.
"Taylor led it off, she's a good spark I think. She had a hit to start things," Weinandy said. "Every day is the seniors' last game. We have a lot of seniors and I hope they'll carry us pretty far."
Kasey Adelsperger, another one of those seniors, said after the win the team was just anxious to get back on the field.
"We keep getting rainouts and schedule changes. We find out we're not going to play after getting all ready during the day. It's definitely good to get back on the field again," she said. "We just hated being inside the past few days. Then (Wednesday) was a nice day but our game got canceled. It was good to get back on the dirt."
Seneca East coach Steve Coppes said his team helped Mohawk out with four errors.
"We played a real good team. They're solid. They took advantage of all our mistakes and we paid the price for it. In a nutshell that's about it," Coppes said. "When you have four unearned runs in the first inning against a good team like that, you're probably going to get beat."
While Mohawk was scoring almost at will - the Warriors posted runs in every inning - Seneca East struggled to get its bats going against Kasey Adelsperger. She allowed just four hits on the day and struck out nine.
"She was on," Weinandy said." She has her bad days but we love it when she's on. She's getting confidence every game that we do play and her sister Julie is ready to come in. It's a toss up from game to game of who's going to start because I believe in both of them."
"I was just hitting my spots," Adelsperger said. "Coach went and scouted them and knew what their weaknesses were."
Two of the four Tiger hits came from Rachel Bauman. She had a single in the first inning, then doubled home Hannah Martin for a run in the third. Seneca East got its second run when Mykayla Ruffing scored off a Paige Reichert fielder's choice.
Mohawk led 7-2 going into the fifth, but seemed anxious to make it an early afternoon.
Allison Price led off with a base hit with McClain following with an RBI double. McClain came around on a base hit from Cambria Kohlenberg.
The Warriors weren't stopping.
The first seven batters that inning reached base, six by way of a hit, with one walk. MacKenzie Sowers collected her third base hit of the day and Clara Adelsperger followed with another RBI hit. She drove in a team-high four runs.
The final two runs came across on a base hit from Kasey Adelsperger, who then shut the door on Seneca East in the bottom of the frame to end the day.
Mohawk won its 12th straight to improve to 12-2, 5-0 Midland Athletic League.
Weinandy said the team took the right mindset after facing some adversity early in the year.
"Our first two games were losses, and I think the team decided that it wasn't fun to lose, and you need to work harder in order to be successful."
Coppes meanwhile is hoping his team can take that approach to turn its fortunes around with more tough games upcoming on the schedule.
"They had a bad game," he said as his team fell to 9-8, 3-2. "They gave a good team a good start and we just couldn't make it up. That's what good teams do. You give them an advantage and they put you away."


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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update is headed to court.
On Monday, the Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the TRPA's long-discussed plan for Lake Tahoe's future.
The environmental groups contend the Regional Plan Update violates the TRPA's Bi-state Compact because it will not achieve and maintain the agency's environmental standards, improperly delegates TRPA's project review to local governments and does not reduce the environmental impacts from development to less-than-significant levels.
"Because the Plan Update improperly delegates project review and approval to local governments, fails to require minimum regional standards, and is not supported by an adequate environmental analysis and proper threshold findings, the Plan Update is invalid, such that it must be set aside," according to the suit, which asks for an injunction against implementation of the plan.
The TRPA called the litigation "pointless" in a Monday statement and said the Sierra Club is "out of touch" with the issues facing Lake Tahoe. The TRPA will continue putting the RPU into effect until a judge says otherwise, TRPA spokesman Jeff Cowen said in an email. The TRPA's Governing Board approved the Regional Plan Update in December.
TRPA Executive Director Joanne Marchetta said the legal challenge to the RPU goes against scientific principles and delays needed policy changes.
"Renewal is badly needed to realize environmental improvements," Marchetta said in the statement. "A modern approach to sustainability that mixes incentives and a streamlined permit process with high environmental standards is at the heart of 21st century environmentalism. This lawsuit takes us back to the outdated environmental movements of 30 years ago. Simply demanding that development should go away or people should stop coming to Lake Tahoe is not a realistic plan."
Additional height and density allowed under the plan have been among the environmental groups' major concerns with the RPU. The height and density allowances were part of an effort by the TRPA to move development away from sensitive land and into already developed areas.
"This new plan fails to recognize that an increase in buildings, rooftops, and pavement will mean an increase in the amount of polluted rain and snowmelt - runoff that flows directly into the Lake," said Laurel Ames, conservation co-chair of the Tahoe Area Sierra Club, in a statement posted on environmental law firm Earthjustice's website on Monday. "Stormwater from pavement and roads is the leading cause of the Lake's loss of clarity. Allowing more pavement and roads seriously undermines efforts to clean up the once pristine lake."
California's Secretary for Natural Resources, John Laird, and Nevada's Director of Conservation and Natural Resources, Leo Drozdoff, issued a joint statement about the litigation Monday, saying they are "deeply disappointed" by the decision to sue.
"Over 18 months ago, we renewed a commitment to ensure that the unique environment and economy of Lake Tahoe are safeguarded for generations," according to the statement. "TRPA's Regional Plan Update offers the roadmap needed to secure protections in the coming years."
Passage of an updated regional plan was one of the requirements in Nevada Senate Bill 271, which threatens to pull the state out of the TRPA if certain changes are not enacted. The bill was passed during the last session of the Nevada legislature.
The lawsuit contends California regulators agreed to weakened protections for Lake Tahoe because of political pressure from Nevada and SB 271. The suit contends negotiations took place under the auspices of saving the TRPA compact.
Litigation over the regional plan leading to the dissolution of the TRPA Compact was brought up in a Monday statement from League to Save Lake Tahoe Executive Director Darcie Goodman Collins. Goodman Collins said the League is "disappointed" that litigation was filed regarding the plan.
"While the plan is not perfect, it is a product of community collaboration and compromise, and is designed to be adaptive," Goodman Collins said. "It also ensures that we continue protecting the regional environment through a federally approved bi-state compact that contains important environmental thresholds. Any litigation will likely result in the dissolution of this compact and no compact means no regional environmental standards for Lake Tahoe. Preserving the compact and implementing the RPU will provide the greatest long-term benefit to the lake and its communities."
Goodman Collins said the League is hopeful the lawsuit can be resolved quickly. The TRPA's existing regional plan was passed in 1987 following a three-year legal battle.


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