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• monitor and constrain government activities to only those specified by the U.S. Constitution so as to never allow the government to become suffocating, oppressive, overbearing or over-reaching into citizens' constitutionally guaranteed rights.
The number of examples is growing wherein Congress is not meeting one or both of the above two objectives. The prime reason is that members of Congress are besieged by groups and individuals seeking special treatment, variances for businesses, tax law tweaks and other anomalies. Eventually, their good intentions and will to carry out their duties succumbs to the daily, grinding pressure of the job.
How to remedy the problem? Let Congress' members have a set tour of duty to perform their public service, and then they can return to their families, their homes and their careers as doctors, lawyers, farmers, engineers, business people, etc., to enjoy the their rights as citizens.
Knowing their time in the "hot seat" of Congress is limited, and that they will be allowed to return back to their normal lives after a predetermined length of time, they could withstand the onslaught of special-interest groups to focus on successfully doing the two jobs, spelled out above, that Congress is supposed to do.
We need to allow our Congress members to perform their public service within the protection of term limits, so they can serve their country and proudly return home to enjoy the fruits of their labor, just like the rest of us.
To make the duration of their term long enough to get the job done, yet allow them to return back to their chosen life before they are exhausted, members of the House should have to serve only one four-year term, and members of the Senate one six-year term.
We would get better government by citizens elected from our ranks, and members of Congress wouldn't have to pay the price of years of servitude, being slowly worn down in a high-stress, thankless job.
Term limits for all members of Congress are a win-win-win for all the citizens, the members of Congress and our nation.
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Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat
By Susanna Reich
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Senses are stimulated on every page of Minette's Feast, a story that introduces Julia McWilliams Child in the earliest stage of her cooking career. Open the book and find a red-and-white checkered tablecloth spread over the initial pages. Flip further to discover the meals of Minette, a speckled kitty cat with yellow-hued eyes and an aloof puss personality to boot.
Minette was the "baby," so to speak of Ms. Child and her husband, Paul. While living in Paris and honing her kitchen skills, Julia spoiled her pet with dinner party leftovers, culinary experiments and fish treasures scored on food shopping excursions.
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Looks like the secret ingredient is cheesecake.
I'm sorry, were you saying something? I couldn't follow you, was distracted by the picture.
Just try to forget that she was married to Rushdie when you watch PL in the Hardee commercial!!
Warning: cynical opinion ahead.
In my view, the baseline purpose of all professional cooking is to make money. If it provides nutrition to others in an aesthetically pleasing form, all the better.
Isn't the entire point of professional cooking to sell food for more than you paid for it?
The baseline purpose of the home cook is to provide nutritious, appealing food.
I've no real idea who she is but it served its purpose of getting my attention. And if Rushdie was married to her, good. I bought Satanic Verses only because of the fatwa and it was how I could show support.
I have no idea about Doctors, but engineers have contests. Watching an engineer with experience getting tromped in the West Point Bridge Building Contest is unsettling, especially as the competition was 12 with red hair, freckles and a girl.
Exactly what are the Chef professional titles if not a contest? Ruhlman turned one into a good book.
Emril turns out good food, I've eaten at Commanders Palace when he was in the kitchen. I'm never going to match him, but what exactly is wrong with him making a buck off his skills and entertainment? I make a number of things from his show, including my own mustards.
I read your blog because it is entertainment, should you stop doing it?
Some would say sex is for procreation, not entertainment. Humans are a tad more complex, and since we discovered laughter, surprise and anger, most EVERYTHING is for entertainment. I feel you may be too close to the subject to appreciate its entertainment value. Does an Ob/Gyn value porn as much as a layman? I see your point, but disagree. If it were JUST nutrition that we were getting out of a professionally cooked meal, we would stay home and graze out of the fridge and pantry. Culinary arts supposedly stimulate ALL of our senses. It also stimulates our perceptions: humor, irony and schadenfreude.
Now get your ass back in the kitchen and cook us something, in just five minutes, using only three ingredients and a crack pipe.
Please let me clarify my position here. I am not opposed to contests between professionals, but I do think these shows suck because they turn what I believe should be a the dignified pursuit of excellence of craft into minstrel shows.
Finally, I erred when I wrote that the primary purpose of professional cooking is to provide nutrition and an aesthetically pleasing experience to ones customers. What I should have written is that I believe that this is the primary purpose.
Obviously not everyone shares my beliefs, nor would I expect them to do so.
I also believe that the primary purpose of home cooking and professional cooking are the same. I make no distinction.
BTW Ruhlman wrote about the test for Certified Master Chef. The CMC exam is a test, not a contest. If one thinks of the people who pass as winners and those who fail as losers then that's a judgment that you are placing on them and not the way that the examiners and test takers think about it.
I've taken similar tests, and never thought of them as contests. They have more in common with lab practicals than baseball games.
I understand your point about exam vs contest, however I have trouble with seeing a timed mystery basket as other than a contest.
I suppose it does come as close as possible to dealing with a disaster, but is that the purpose?
Personally I've always approached exams as something to be subdued, a contest between me and the writer/creater of the exam.
If I may go one step further and highlight Top Chef.
It is unfortunate that Ms Lakshmi, host of Top Chef, was guided towards the commercial work and print work that leads her to a more promiscuous profile professionally, but it is just that.
It would be prudent for those involved to think long and hard about the future of Top Chef concerning what its content should represent in the future and should she retain her role as host. She has become a sexual joke to all women in the cooking world, not to just the female viewers.
The ideology and creed of Top Chef might change into a reality show with distinct undertones of sexuality and subliminal sexually graphic thoughts on the part of the viewers.
I can't imagine she will she be thought of as a host representative of the professional standards of the cooking industry including the restaurant industry and those judges who appear.
I surmise Top Chef regards itself as such.
Padma's beauty and charisma always highlighted the work on screen, instigating the male attentiveness; that balancing act being very difficult to create successfully, which she did for all prior seasons. Why in the world would she choose a path without thought to the future of Top Chef and the notice it has brought to her?
Aww got that off my chest
My problem with the cooking shows is the same as my problem with all reality shows: the popularity contest elements, the demeaning of oneself personally with pitted battles of psychological sabotage.
I love the cooking challenge portions... you get a group of very creative, very talented chefs together and give them a task with various limitations, and genuinely interesting stuff results. It's an intellectual and technical challenge, and I think any professional with a sense of adventure and fun would enjoy that element now and again. Hell, I love doing stuff like that with my own work in machinema animation and writing... 50 word stories, finding new ways to make characters do what I want them to do within the confines of available programming materials...it's fun and very satisfying.
It's the forcing these people to live together and snark against each other and generally act like the worse parts of high school that bugs me.
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I'm with you that reality shows serve mostly as a vehicle to demean the contestants. And I'm certainly am no fan of ubiquitous and formulaic style "recipe shows".
That being said, as an adventurous home cook, I do find inspiration in the creativity on display in some of these shows. Living in a area with few very creative Chefs to visit, these shows (and your blog)are some of the few places I can find such inspiration.
I love Top Chef for the food not for the drama; and certainly not for the caricature Padma Lakshi has become.
I don't favor the cynical judging on Chopped(or the manufactured product either)but my nine year old daughter has me freeze the screen for each ingredient unveiling while she tells me what she would make. It's also pretty cool that she sees how some of these crap products they use make crap food.
I guess we'll have to disagree in that I think "some" good can be found in "some" of these shows. We just need to pay attention long enough to find it.
I agree totally. Reducing cooking to some half ass 'competition' takes all the joy out of the creative process that is cooking. I hate the fact that worthwhile shows where you actually learn something have been replaced by these ridiculous pieces of crap.
It's all such theatre and totally rigged? Padma is, however a complete dish. tv is such a wasteland anyway. almost like going into a coma and not caring much what is on? The worst is how overtly punishing our entire society has become. Everyone is a critic and each tiny flaw must be put under the microscope?
Chefs know that PR is the oil that greases the engine, that's all and when you look up close you can see they don't really take it seriosly...your blog is hot! best from santa barbara. s
I don't have too much to say about food shows, it's all about rating and publicity. For that they need enticing names, pseudo drama, theatrics, competition and all that silliness. That said, there can be entertaining and interesting snippets of food shows, no? It's not only food shows as Stockwell points out, it is all TV, even national geographic (all they broadcast is shark, lion and killer bee attacks). There should be a slow TV movement. BTW, can I borrow that picture, I think it might be good for my blog traffic?:-)
I believe you made this point early on, and I misunderstood:
"I also believe that the primary purpose of home cooking and professional cooking are the same. I make no distinction."
I'm a tech writer, and I do that to make a living, but my primary purpose is to convey ideas with what I write, whether professionally or personally. As with cooking, I have varying degrees of success.
As far as cooking contest shows are concerned, I don't much like them, but there is no "Iron Technical Writer", and there are no pictures of naked technical writers or judges; it would not be pretty.
Points well taken. These shows are all part of the reality TV phenom which ironically has about as much to do with the real life as Sponge Bob does. I suppose there are some things of value to be pulled from the grease trap that these shows collectively represent, but what there is is about human nature, not cooking.
true, the only problem I have is that the young generation take them much to seriously.
I mostly just view these shows as another show to be compared with daytime 'soaps'.
So after the first season of most of the ones Bob listed here I say there's nothing there to be learned, or appreciated. Its just another night-time drama opera...so since its not even remotely entertaining or usefull I went back to watching Diners, Drive-ins, & DIves...(shockingly on Food Network! shhh, tell no one) and No Reservations w/Anthony B. on the Travel Channel.
THAT at least is comedy that sometimes makes me hungery - thats more than Hell's Kitchen ever did for me!
The problem, in my opinion, with these shows is that when I get into a conversation and say I cook professionally everyone automatically bases what they think I mean by that by what they've seen on these t.v. shows. Given the situation, I may or may not have time to explain how these shows give a false impression of the real world of cooking.
The first thing anyone wants to ask is "Are those shows what it's really like??" And of course I have to answer "no" every single time because no - they aren't.
In the real world they DON'T want to send somebody home in the middle of service, and then do it again the next night for minor failures -because that would increase everybody's work load.
In the real world if somebody's f'ing up the line you can always just pull them off and put them in the pantry or something. You don't want to fire unless you absolutely have to.
I'm still confused as to what exactly qualifies Padma to judge anyone's cooking at all, at any level. Is she even qualified to judge at a local County Fair????
remember tv is there to sell you things.......not for you to someday be on......jd
I hear where you're coming from. I don't really watch any of the "reality tv" cooking shows so I can't comment on those. That being said, I have to defend the original Iron Chef. Yes there was a (huge) element of theater to it, but there is an element of theater in all fine dining, whether it's as simple as the kitchen paying attention to the plating or as complex as putting smoking wood-chips on the plate and covering the whole with a cloche so that your first experience of the dish is seeing and smelling a puff of smoke. But as a home cook with little formal training and little experience dining at high-end restaurants the original Iron Chef opened my eyes to a whole world of ingredients, techniques and ways of thinking about cooking that I didn't know existed. I'll never be able to match what was produced on that show but now that I know these things exist my technique has improved and I have something to strive for. I just started reading your blog (I found you via Ruhlman), but it looks good so far. Thanks.


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Senate Bill 5 which strips unions of collective bargaining rights, will appear on Ohio's ballot in November as Issue 2.
Representative Bob Hagan and Sen. Joe Schiavoni, along with several trade union leaders, addressed the spirited event.
Schiavoni dealt with the dishonest tactics the Ohio GOP used when the legislation was first introduced. "They didn't give us adequate time to do anything," he said. "They'd give us a 1,000-page bill, then ask us if we had any questions before we had time to review it."
Rep. Hagan said, "No one on Main Street did anything as bad as Wall Street." Hagan went on to point out that the only person to face prosecution for Wall Street excesses was Bernie Madoff who went to prison "because he screwed rich people."
The state representative said, "I'm not mad at the tea party for being so loud; I'm mad at everyone for being so quiet."
He called on the audience to "fight to the very last breath." He continued, "We're here to rally the troops because there's a movement to take away our rights." Hagan joked, "They can kiss our working class."
Other speakers included JoAnn Johntony, state president of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees, Jim Graham, president of UAW Local 112, and Sgt. T.J. Assion from the Mahoning County Sheriffs department.
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Jim Graham of the UAW said, "Kasich said he's at war. He's a war with nurses and teachers and police officers and fireman." Referring to Kasich's threat to run over his opposition he said, "They better have a big bus." Graham continued, " Just because we haven't fought in years - that doesn't mean we have forgot how to do it."
Tracey Wright, a Youngstown fire fighter, said the GOP bill was a threat to public safety.
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Youngstown State University students are planning a campus rally on Thursday to protest a freeze on financial aid and in support of faculty who are threatening to strike on Friday.
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The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (1974) is a young adult novel written by Paula Danziger.
The story follows Marcy Lewis, an amply-contoured ninth-grader who hates her looks. She has a verbally abusive father and it seems her parents, Martin and Lily Lewis, are always fighting. She also has a younger brother named Stuart who tends to carry his teddy bear, Wolf, with him everywhere he goes. Her dad doesn't make her feel good about her excuses that result in her failing gym for the year. Marcy refuses to take gym due to her insecurity over her large figure. Marcy only has one friend, Nancy Sheridan. Nancy later admits she was Marcy's friend only because her mother told her to be, as both of their mothers were friends and participated in the PTA. Later on, Nancy grows to like Marcy as a good friend. However as Nancy was very popular Marcy sometimes got jealous of her.
Her English teacher, Mr. Edwards, leaves after the first month, believed to have taken a job in administration. After going through a lot of substitute teachers, the school hires Barbara Finney, a teacher whose methods are completely unorthodox, and, unlike most of her teaching colleagues, was willing to listen to her students. Through a school club she sets up, called Smedley, Marcy meets a lot of new friends. She even meets a boy who seems to be attracted to her, Joel Anderson, whose attorney father works with the Board of Education.
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Marcy and her friends help start a protest and she, along with her friends, are suspended by Mr. Stone. During the situation with Ms. Finney, Marcy gains an ally in her mother, who is the president of the PTA. This pits both Marcy and Lily against Martin, who, like Mr. Stone, believes that Ms. Finney isn't a proper teacher, and is unpatriotic, and because of that, should be fired. Joel's father joins the fight and sides with his son, much like Lily sides with Marcy. Also siding with Lily and Marcy was Nancy's parents. Of the four students, besides Marcy's father, Robert Alexander's mother sides with Stone against Ms. Finney, and punishes her son for his involvement in the protest.
Ms. Finney brings a legal case against her firing; once in court some of her students speak in her defense. She also brings up the legal case for refusing to say the school Pledge of Allegiance. Martin becomes impossible by trying to sabotage the family's car to keep Lily and Marcy from attending the hearing. During the School board hearing, the fiercely divided board reluctantly reinstates her due to there being a legal precedent to support her stand. However, Ms. Finney, realizing that she would be going back into an impossible situation and after seeing the community so fiercely torn apart and divided by the issue, immediately resigns. Marcy and her friends feel betrayed, but come to understand her reasons, as they eventually use her lessons as they move forward in life.
The story ends with Marcy becoming closer to Joel; Lily going to night classes at the local college; Marcy's relationship with her father still strained; and for the most part life returning to normal. They get a new English teacher, who is more in line with the administration's expectations; and Ms. Finney takes classes in bibliotherapy, counseling using books and writing, which interests Marcy.
The most recent edition of the book has an afterword by Danziger explaining why she initially wrote the book and why it is still relevant today.
The title of the book comes from one of the many excuses Marcy offers to her gym teacher, named Ms. Schmidt, but she called her just Schmidt, such as "the cat ate my gymsuit" to get out of physical education classes.
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Five Tied for Lead in Dunhill Links Championship
A quintet of players fired 64s in the opening round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Over the first three rounds the 72-hole European Tour event rotates between three courses - the Old Course at St. Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns, with Sunday's final round on the Old Course.
Mark Tullo, Alexandre Kaleka, Oliver Wilson, Tom Lewis and Richard McEvoy all went 8-under par Thursday, with Tullo, Kaleka and McEvoy on the Old Course and Wilson and Lewis at Kingsbarns.
Tullo, a 35-year-old from Chile, carded three birdies on the front nine and five more on the back. Kaleka, a 26-year-old Parisian, had an identical scorecard. England's McEvoy had eight birdies, an eagle (on the par-4 ninth) and two bogeys for his 64.
Wilson enjoyed a spotless outing at Kingsbarns with six birdies and an eagle (also on a par-4, the third), while fellow Brit Lewis carded seven birdies, an eagle on the par-5 16th and a bogey for a share of the 18-hole lead.
The low round at Carnoustie was a 65 by Jamie Donaldson, one of five players at that number. The others included George Murray and Tommy Fleetwood (Old Course), and Mark Foster and Matthew Baldwin (Kingsbarns).
Justin Thomas carded a 66 on the Old Course to be the low-shooting American after one round. Fellow Yank, Peter Uihlein, a regular on the European Tour who won his first title in May in Portugal, opened with a 71 at Carnoustie.
For all the scores, visit http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2013076/leaderboard/index.html.
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My favorite peeve is mute/moot.
Seemingly well educated folks saying that "the point is mute". arghhh!
Makes me think of the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation".
My wife is always finding spelling or punctuation errors in books, magazines, and web sites.
Never, never, never quit! -- Winston Churchill
My favorite peeve is mute/moot.
Seemingly well educated folks saying that "the point is mute". arghhh!
Your goals, minus your doubts, equals your reality.
- Ralph Marston
Their just sad that there dog got lose and ended up over they're. What a bunch of loosers!
What really gets my knickers in a twist is when people substitute "myself" for "me" or "I". Yes, it might sound classier, but damn it, it's wrong! I hear supposedly educated people on the radio doing this all the time.
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Speaking of misspellings on fitness websites, these two are also way up there: weight (ie. "I weight 180 pounds") and breath (ie. "Don't forget to breath when you lift weights").
Weigh and breathe, just in case...
Wow -- I'm gratified at the enthusiastic response to this.
Other pet peeves:
* At Whole Foods: "12 items or less". It's fewer goddammit!
* On CSI and nigh on everywhere else: "I have a theory that <insert arbitrary assumption here>". Repeat after me: hypothesis.
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Groquette, I'm not gonna touch that with the entire Warsaw basketball team (a whole bunch of 10' Poles.) With the environment I work in, so many people can't seem to form a full sentence, yet think they're god(dess)(e)(s)'s gift to engineering and their word is law. Hydraulics are not just something in the low rider car, hydrology is not a made- up word, and civil engineering doesn't mean I need to stay polite. /rant
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How about IRREGARDLESS???? Seriously, WTF does regardless mean if irregardless is a word?
I mix up words all the time lately. I think it has to do with hanging out with little twin boys all the time. I'm lucky to change my verb tense.
Lately I rely on little tricks to remember things, (Like I can't hEAR you!, move that over tHERE) and hate it when I can't remember the trick... So if you have one for since and sense, please share it with me... 'cause I screw that up ALL the time!!!!!
I'll just apologize for typing the way I talk. With almost total disregard for punctuation.
One I can't stand is using "weary" instead of "wary."
Misplaced commas (and other punctuation, but commas are the most prevalent) on signage really piss me off too.
Email composed in text-speak is quite rude, especially in a business environment (and, unfortunately, becoming more common with people and their blackberries). If I give you the courtesy of full sentences and proper English, I expect to be repaid in kind.


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Senate and House will now have to reconcile the differences in their respective versions of the America Invents Act.[© Aamon - Fotolia.com]
The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed its version of patent reform legislation, a measure that changes how patents are awarded and how they can be challenged but doesn't go as far as earlier versions in setting aside fees collected from inventors with the goal of reducing its backlog of applications.
By a somewhat bipartisan margin of 304 to 117, the House passed a version of the America Invents Act that differs from the version that sailed through the Senate on March 8. Both chambers will need to reconcile their versions of the measure before they can send a bill to President Obama, who has supported the Senate bill (S.23) and qualified support for the House bill (HR 1249). It has yet to be determined whether that reconciliation will be done through a traditional conference committee or less formally by House and Senate leaders hammering out compromise language amenable to both chambers.
As passed by the House, America Invents shifts the basis on which the U.S. issues patents from first-to-invent to first-inventor-to-file. Supporters have said the change will better align the U.S. patent system with those of Europe and Asia as well as cut down on lawsuits challenging first-to-invent claims. Opponents, though, have complained the change will hurt small start-up entrepreneurs and favor corporate giants, who are likelier to have staffers focused solely on ensuring that filings are carried out quickly.
One key provision in the House bill creates a fund for fees collected by the USPTO in excess of budgeted amounts and gives Congress authority to appropriate that money to the agency. That differs from the version of America Invents that passed the Senate, which blocked diversion of money budgeted for the patent office and allowed USPTO to generate its own fees and hold on to any excess.
Some $1 billion is estimated to have been diverted from USPTO for unrelated purposes. Supporters of fee diversion have said that a ban on diversion would give the agency the funds it needed to hire more patent examiners and reduce both its backlog of patents (703,175 as of May) and number of months needed to process applications (33.9 months as of May).
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> This is a love/hate thing. When i first used Firefox, I thought it was
> great. Nice interface, performs well, isn't Microsoft. But recently,
> after upgrading to version 184.108.40.206, it's been crap. First my Yahoo!
> Mail would lock up Firefox, then ANYTHING Yahoo! (and no one else) will
> lock it up, and now it locks up all the time.
> I uninstalled 126.96.36.199 and re-installed 1.5(.0.1?) and no luck, it locks
> up within 2 minutes. Anyone with any suggestions?
> Please, I don't need any of those "It Doesn't Happen To Me" type of
> responses. I'm happy for you, but it doesn't help.
well, you're right it doesn't happen to me. I can access all of Yahoo
with no problems whatsoever.
So, there must be something wrong within your profile. Couple of
1 -- start FF in safe mode. Close FF and make sure its closed my
looking in the task manager [ctrl+alt+del] and end it there if its
still running. Now click on Start, Programs and look for the FF
folder and inside of that will be the FF Safe Mode icon. Click that.
Go to yahoo and see what happens. Starting in Safe Mode will
disable any and all extension and themes you may have. Does the
problem continue? If not, then its a problem with a theme and
extension. Go into the Extension Manager [from Tools], right click on
everything listed and disable them. Now restart FF. Go to Yahoo and
try thing out. Now, add each extension in one at a time until you
find the culprit.
If the problem does continue in Safe Mode, then close FF as outlined
in 1. Now, click on Start, Run and enter:
firefox.exe -p
this will bring up the FF Profile Manager, and from here you can
create a test profile. Does the problem continue in the test profile?
Suggestion, create a new profile and test that out.
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The Panhandle Pantherettes play in arguably the toughest Class 2A girls district in Texas.
While Panhandle takes a breather tonight from District 7-2A play featuring three teams with 25, 24 and 21 wins, the season has been nothing but a year-long breath of fresh air.
Under the guidance of fifth-year coach Terry Coffee, Panhandle has rolled to a 24-2 record, put together a 16-game winning streak, won the second half in 25 of its 26 games, and sits atop 7-2A at 8-1 by a half game over No. 3-ranked Canadian (7-1).
Panhandle is ranked No. 8 in the latest Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll.
"We are very proud of that ranking,'' Coffee said. "This is such a blessing to coach this team. We set our goal to make it to state this year. And that's not meant as a brag. But these girls are willing to practice long hours and they work so hard. And I tell them, if we are going to be ranked where we are at, we have to take care of business.''
Panhandle has five seniors - Summer Cunningham, Whitney Hightower, Kandus Meaker, Josie Dudenhoeffer and Theresa Zamora. Coffee heaps praise on the five for their leadership.
Cunningham, Meaker and Dudenhoeffer start along with the leading scorer sophomore Kara Looten, and ever-improving junior point guard Amanda George.
The dedication of this group started last summer when they attended a team camp at Texas Tech. Panhandle started its winning ways that week by going 9-0 against other schools.
"We jelled at Tech's camp,'' Coffee said. "Our press has helped all year long. It's just been a wonderful year. I'm tickled to death where we are at right now. We have good kids, and most important, we have good attitudes. They are hungry to win."
Panhandle has a huge five days of basketball looming in district when it tries to avenge its lone 7-2A loss at Canadian next Friday, then hosts Spearman (6-2) on Feb. 7.
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The CRKT Zilla-Tool™ is named a 2009 Camping Life Editors' Choice award winner.
Columbia River Knife & Tool is proud to announce that its patented* Zilla-Tool has been named a 2009 Camping Life Editor's Choice award winner.
Magazine editor Stuart Bourdon says, "Camping Life Magazine was started in 1998, and we began our Editors' Choice Awards in 2002 as a way to help focus our readership's (family campers) purchasing power and attention on products that were best suited for the family camping lifestyle."
"We define our readership as the millions of active camping families who typically stay in National, State or Regional Parks, Forest Service or BLM campgrounds, and who are camping in tents, truck campers or lightweight travel trailers, and engaging in outdoor activities such as day-hiking, fishing, bicycling, canoeing, kayaking, and wildlife photography and observation, during their camping adventures."
"Hundreds of new outdoor products are flooding the catalogs and retail shops, with more brands and a wider selection of goods available than ever before. From among this torrent of new equipment, we've selected a few choice pieces. There are plenty of great new products out there, but each piece of gear we highlight here is in some way relevant to the family camping lifestyle, and is fresh, different, better, or just incredibly useful. These qualities have made them our 2009 Camping Life Editors' Choice award winners."
About the CRKT Zilla-Tool™ the magazine says: "It delivers just the right basics: pliers with a wire cutter/stripper, combination serrated blade, screwdriver hex bits, and a bottle opener. The Zilla-Tool's single plier lever is spring-loaded for easy release, and this tool doesn't have to be unfolded before the pliers can be used. Its 3-inch spear point high-carbon stainless steel combination serrated blade opens quickly, with the assistance of a "flipper" that also acts as a guard when open...."
The Zilla-Tool™ was designed by Launce Barber and Tom Stokes as part of our I.D. Works™ line of innovative multitools, and we call it "the monster tool." It is a hefty, ergonomically designed work tool. The handle is 6.5 inches long, and it has a 3.0" knife blade. Weight is 7.4 ounces.
The user can store the two screwdriver hex bits in molded handle reliefs. They are easily stored and removed by a press of the thumb. The Zilla-Tool also accepts other standard hex bits.
The custom stainless steel clip will hold the Zilla-Tool in your pocket or on gear. We have also provided a black nylon carry-pouch sheath, with a belt loop and snap closure, for those who prefer belt carry.
The Zilla-Tool can also open bottles and cans using the pliers jaws, or prying with the end of the pliers handle.
Two Zilla-Tool models are available. The standard model 9060 has a bead-blast finished blade, frame and pliers with black injection-molded scales. For those who prefer the tactical look, our model 9060K is black-on-black throughout.
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Zilla-Tool models are available in retail clampacks as the 9060C and 9060KC.
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A prominent member of the National Democratic Party and a California superdelegate who heads the voting rights committee of the DNC Hispanic Caucus, Steven Ybarra sent an e-mail out saying that the removal of Hillary's campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with Maggie Williams, who is black, was disloyal to Hispanics.
Ybarra told The Post yesterday that the loss of Solis Doyle, a child of Mexican immigrants, just weeks before the Texas primary, where 36 percent of the population is Hispanic, was "dumb as a stump."
I find it amazing that to some people like Ybarra everything must be judged on race or ethnicity. Should Hillary keep someone who is not doing a good job just because they are Hispanic? Ridiculous. But this is what you get with identity politics.
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When Israel completed its withdrawal from the Sinai desert in 1982 following a peace agreement with Egypt, many people chose Gush Katif, a bloc of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, as their new home. But when the Israeli government ordered the evacuation of Gaza in August 2005 as part of its disengagement plan, the decision resulted in massive political and social turmoil.
Storm of Emotions documents the historic moment of this evacuation, one of the most complex and provocative missions to ever be undertaken by Israel's police forces.
The film focuses on the police forces as it accompanies police crews during the disengagement process and follows participants including a religious policeman, a policewoman, senior officers, and more. The settlers involved also use the presence of cameras and news correspondents to publicize their issues.
The result is an emotional and intense documentary that conveys the full force of the evacuation and offers a portrait of one of Israel's most dramatic recent events.
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Smoky, spicy chicken thighs should wake you up
It takes longer to say the name of this dish than it takes to make it. Beer-Braised Chipotle Chicken With Red Peppers Over Drunken Cilantro Lime Rice seems ridiculously specific, but I can't decide which element to leave out. They all work together to knock me out of my dinnertime rut.
The moist chicken thighs, crusty with a smoky, pungent rub that almost blows your head off, plays well off the tangy rice and soft and caramelized peppers and onions. The accompaniments don't quite put out the fire, but make it so you can eat more of it.
Despite all of those words in the recipe name, the dish only took me about 35 minutes to make. Also, miracle of miracles, my palate-challenged son gobbled it up. It's kind of humbling as a food writer to have a son who likes nothing but pizza, so I cherish these rare victories.
Five things I learned:
1. For those who don't pay much attention to beer, don't worry. This dish requires no foreknowledge. And the dish won't get you drunk. Most of the alcohol will evaporate, leaving behind a rich, softness to complement the heat.
There are about a billion styles of beer, all brewed a little differently, with varying combinations of fermented hops, barley, wheat or other plants. This recipe calls for a pale ale.
(Confession: Before I started paying attention to beer, I thought "pale ale" referred to the popular American beers such as Budweiser or Rolling Rock, because of their lighter color. Made sense to me, anyway.)
Those lighter and mild American beers are actually called "lagers," pronounced LOG-gers. Pale ales, native to Britain, are actually a dark gold in color, with bolder and more bitter flavor than lagers. They got the name "pale" because at first they were being compared to stouts (such as Guinness) and porters.
Ales are an acquired taste. If you're not used to the flavor of hops, the beer itself might not do anything for you, but when it's cooked down, trust me, it offers a nutty mellowness you can't get any other way.
You don't have to buy a whole six-pack for this recipe. If you aren't going to drink it, you can get away with just buying 2 12-ounce bottles of pale ale at one of the grocery stores that have new built-in beer shops -- unless you're looking for an excuse to buy more.
2. You might have heard that limes are really expensive right now, due to weather and disease on the Mexican farms that produce them. I paid about $1.50 for one -- outrageous, I know.
In any case, don't be tempted to use the bottled stuff. That will taste more bitter than the beer. If you don't want to shell out for the real thing, substitute fresh lemon juice.
3. The chicken come out pretty spicy, which is where the rice and vegetables come in, helping absorb and tame the heat in your mouth. I'd ordinarily suggest leaving out the spicy ingredients if you're really not into spicy dishes, but I think this recipe would be the poorer for it.
My son eschewed the rice and peppers, and went through a few glasses of water as a result. You also could -- if you're older than 8 -- add a dollop or two of sour cream.
4. The power behind this plate of deliciousness comes from chipotle chili powder, a smokier, drier version of regular chili powder that is made exclusively from dried, powdered, smoked jalapenos.
Regular chili powder is often a blend of seasonings, including assorted chili peppers, cumin, garlic, and/or oregano, sometimes even salt. You can use regular chili powder in this. Add some smoked paprika if you have it.
5. The first time I made this, I couldn't find boneless chicken thighs, so I went with bone-in. More flavor, more moisture, right? Well, the trade-off is time. It took at least twice as long to cook bone-in thighs as it did boneless, which I used the second time. The bone-in cuts made it hard to measure the internal temperature, and it was a pain in the neck to cut and eat them as well.
I guess someday, I should figure out how to bone chicken cuts myself. But it's hard to buckle down and do it when professionals are willing to do it for me.
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Yeah, I get sleepy during the day but if I drink it after 4PM I cannot sleep at night. Isn't that weird? That really puzzles me. I have always had opposite responses to medications that are known to stimulate or make one sleepy. When I was a kid I used to take speed to help me focus and concentrate (calm me down) but that was before all the treatments for ADD came out. I guess I was an undiagnosed ADD person.
Good luck with the getting off the honey in the coffee thing. I sometimes take a teaspoon of honey at night if I am having a hard time getting to sleep. It works most of the time and I am snoozing away in no time. I read about that some place. I think it was in a paleo site.


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Young sports leaders from Rillington School enjoyed an afternoon with the Mayor of Scarborough in recognition of their excellence in sports leadership.
They were among forty-four pupils invited to Scarborough Town Hall to receive their sports leadership certificates from out-going Mayor Councillor Andrew Backhouse.
The youngsters planned, organised and led a Paralympic-themed sports festival for children with disabilities at Scarborough Rugby Club earlier in the year.
Lisa Ponter, Rillington Primary School Deputy Head, said: "The sports leaders had a wonderful afternoon with the Mayor and Mayoress. They were all extremely excited about receiving their certificates. It was thoroughly deserved as all the sports leaders have worked so hard. We are very proud of the achievements of the sports leaders and they have already started to plan how to use their new skills back at school."


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Comments on Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For TypePad 2006-06-02T23:36:30Z UChicagoLaw http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/ tag:typepad.com,2003:http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/06/remedies_in_mic/comments/atom.xml/ mojo commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00e0097e18fe8833 2007-06-12T16:55:14Z 2007-06-12T16:55:15Z mojo Microsoft has gotten where it has by threatening others for their patents and with government backing. Bill Gates used his...
Microsoft has gotten where it has by threatening others for their patents and with government backing. Bill Gates used his former partners, and IBM, Linux, Apple Macintosh, so forth, without sole rights and/or consent to use their software/hardware. Bill Gates manipulated the code to produce his own software/hardware which in all Reality is theft, and we would be punished to the hilt by manipulating Microsoft's and a variety of others' codes and used it as our own. Our beloved Country as well as Bill Gates stages Terrorism such as donations to an Islamic Organization that had taken up residency within our own HOME.

Microsoft has gone World Wide which should be a sure sign of SPYware AKA. "Patriots Act" just as 911 was staged by our own Government to have an excuse to claim WAR against neighboring nations to cover up its own WRONG doings. How much does our Government participate in Microsoft, Enron, etc.?

Many are believing every single bit of the Propaganda and it's reasonable to say why, because it's shoved down our throats every single minute of Every Day and Microsoft has been following suit of Big Brother. Does Martial Law/Police State come to mind? Restrictions on the freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Free Open Source, etc. We all know why? but decide to do nothing about it for the same reasons and one of the reasons is due to the same as Microsoft is doing to Fellow Corps. Money talks and BS walks. The Greediest Nation in the World. "Microsoft Windows Vista Power" Sounds like a Neo Nazi slogan
 Armend Hetemi commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834a55fa853ef 2006-08-05T18:20:52Z 2007-04-28T04:58:03Z Armend Hetemi Is good idea but i wanted to know more about how to study in Chicago law school...
Is good idea but i wanted to know more about how to study in Chicago law school...
 Alicia at Fun Games Plaza commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834d9135169e2 2006-07-30T22:17:12Z 2007-04-28T04:11:35Z Alicia at Fun Games Plaza http://www.fungamesplaza.com There are many software products that create PDFs much cheaper than Adobe Acrobat, some are even free ( however they...
There are many software products that create PDFs much cheaper than Adobe Acrobat, some are even free ( however they might show adds or have limitations ).

Before purchasing an pricely Adobe Acrobat Proffessional, consider the cheaper alternatives ( personally I use:

http://www.amicutilities.com/pdf-writer/ - PDF Writer Pro ,

as it simply install itself as a printer driver, and I can print to it documents from different applications, forms, word documents, excel, scaned images, all will be converted to .pdfs )

It can also merge documents ( if the window is left open between prints ) I also tried some free ones but all had nasty limitations.

Alicia
 michel commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834ce9a6869e2 2006-06-18T01:32:49Z 2007-04-27T23:07:42Z michel I don't care ONE second about consumer or monopoly or capitalist open-market crap I care only about one thing: the...
I don't care ONE second about consumer or monopoly or capitalist open-market crap

I care only about one thing: the INDUSTRY, to make money and work need ONE GOOD and EFFICIENT and UNIVERSAL standard.

that standard is pdf. for worst and best

and it's pretty common and efficient. you can even find it in free/opensource software.

what lawyers and industrials should ask is to make pdf an international standard, with plain, free and easy to get implementation of the standard to download, testcase to try so every developpers can do pdf-enabled software WITHOUT errors.

and a test of the program , if it succeeded, bam! a pdf-logo on it.

adobe, as sun, could control the quality of implementation and the evolution of pdf , with some partners (microsoft for example, or apple, xerox, and whatever).
 sun do that with java.

please, man, for one minute, forgets "consumers", the whole industry need one simple free and universal standard to exchange and print _professionnaly_ documents.

is it REALLY important.

and it will benefit consumer in the long time.
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about java
 it cannot be a "better java" if it's not 100% compatible to the API and pseudo-binary code level. if it's ONE tiny percent, only ONE function different, one bugs different, it's just a BAD java implementation and a potential risk to destroy the usefulness of the whole java platform and language.

it's the whole problem with the blackdown java project or gnu java class.
 because they are 100% exact sun java. there are mostly useless and bad to java universality. but still there little-known project. even in the whole linux/unix community.
 but
 it's why it was ugly to microsoft to try to do their "own" windows-focus java. the risk to fragmentate java and simply destroy all usefulness of java (-> universal platform).
 the same here than pdf, we need more an professional tool, very controled, very restricted than a "consumer-friendly" product.

do not forget, for some people, documents formats and language are here to make Money. not to please "consumers".
 we create products and make works with them.

and yes, at the end, it really benefits all people.
 Gus commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834917e0653ef 2006-06-05T04:34:13Z 2007-04-26T15:54:46Z Gus I don't think that I'm disagreeing that the outcome in this case is wrong. Indeed, if this were the result...
I don't think that I'm disagreeing that the outcome in this case is wrong. Indeed, if this were the result of litigation, and not just failed negotiation, it would reek of the "protect the little guys" and "punish the successful competitor for being successful" memes of generations fortunately past. Rather, I was playing out C&D's post's "embrace and extend" idea. Also, I am pushing back against the idea that this sort of bundling is necessarily not anticompetitive--in some cases I think that it might be.

That said, I think that I am mirroring the DC Circuit's perspective, the next sentence of which says that "In order to violate the antitrust laws, the incompatible product must have an anticompetitive effect that outweighs any procompetitive justification for the design." I'm not ready to say that the allowing MS to bundle this functionality is anticompetitive. But I'm also not willing to create an broad presumption that it isn't.

Interestingly, the DC Circuit's decision looks favourably upon MS's Java implementation because it runs faster than Sun's. This is procompetitive. In the hypothetical case I consider, where MS's modifications to the pdf format are bug-induced, there would be no procompetitive value. Presumably the bugs add no valuable functionality. But MS's ineptitude could benefit it at the expense of competition.

Perhaps a way to think about the XPS vs. PDF hypothetical you give is in terms of hijacking. If MS introduces XPS, it will be in competition with PDF. Yes, it will benefit from MS's monopoly position. But PDF has comparable market power in the reader market to the power that XPS would have in the writer market. In order to be successful, MS's XPS reader would need to be competitive with PDF readers. But when MS introduces a "proprietary" PDF it is leveraging its writer monopoly to hijack Adobe's reader market.

Of course, this doesn't much matter if MS isn't planning to enter the reader market. And so long as they're not entering that market, it is hard to see how they could use this newfound power to its benefit.

There are two difficult twists in these situations. First, as we see in the Java and PDF cases, if MS intentionally adds features, in order to successfully leverage its existing power the new features will need to add value--be procompetitive--and therefore are less likely to have anticompetitive harm. Converesly, if the new "features" are unintentional (ie, are bugs), they are less likely to have procompetitive value, and more likely to cause anticompetitive harm (authors of PDF readers will need to waste time and money rewriting their code to support a new de facto standard (wasteful duplication/deadweight loss), and the new standard's changes will not be in response to competitive forces); but because the bugs alone can't be leveraged to create market power, there is no antitrust violation. (When MS releases a buggy program that costs corporations millions in lost productivity we don't call it anticompetitive--we don't even seriously call it a tort.) Second, as I suggested in my initial reply, if MS tries to add support for PDF, the gut reaction for many is that it is anticompetitive; but if they refuse to add support for OpenOffice formats, the gut reaction is that, too, is anticompetitive. So which is it? Do we want MS to support other formats or not?

The answer, of course, is that we want them to support other formats, but to do so without modification unless that modification is procompetitive.

Which brings me to my final point, in response to your question about my ideal policy. Honestly, I don't think that the current model is too bad--it's important to remember that MS's decision was a business decision, not a judge's (though certainly the potential cost of litigation with Adobe factored into the calculus). Either MS will pay Adobe a couple hundred million dollars, which will add a buck or two to the cost of Word (which has relatively inelastic demand); or users will need to pay Adobe directly or find a lower priced (free) alternative. In either case the consumer foots the bill (even in the free case--the opportunity cost of finding, installing, and using free software is certainly more than a buck or two), and Adobe makes money (I am not sure what Adobe would do if its software were threatened by a non-Microsoft free alternative). This is how it should be, because Adobe has patents that read on the PDF format (see http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/support/topic_legal_notices.html). We're not going to take away Adobe's patents simply because they have become important. To the extent that you see problems with Adobe's refusal to let MS use PDF, I think that your complaint is with the patent system, not with how Antitrust treats MS when adding features. (Note, I do think that the patent protection of the PDF format is too strong, but that is neither here nor there for this discussion.)

To the broader question of how we treat MS's addition of features to its software, in my dream world I would say unbundling. But in the telecom sense, not in the "everyone needs to buy each component separately" sense. Standards are natural monopolies; and their power derives from (virtual and actual) network effects. As with the telecom model, the difficulty is pricing. But practical things aside, I think it would be great if the developers of OpenOffice could buy a copy of Word at wholesale, add in their own filters and formats, and sell it OpenOffice-brand Word. This would let the OpenOffice developers compete feature-by-feature with Microsoft, instead of requiring that they compete from scratch against a feature-full product whose value is manifoldly multiplied by network effects. We only need one word processor--the question is how do we ensure competitors can compete with the incumbent word processor.

The practical difficulties of determing the pricing model for unbundled software components makes this dream of mine an impossibility--but you asked what I would like the world to look like, so I told you. Ultimately, I fear that the DC Circuit got the basic rule right. So long as MS isn't "embracing and extenting" to anticompetitive ends that outweigh any benefit, there should be no liability.

--Gus
 Randy Picker commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834914ae453ef 2006-06-04T16:06:47Z 2007-04-26T15:43:53Z Randy Picker C&D and Gus, I understood what you said, but I don't think that I get it. Try two versions of...
C&D and Gus,

I understood what you said, but I don't think that I get it. Try two versions of this. In the one, Microsoft is introducing a format that preserves the look of a page across platforms and programs. This is what I think of pdf as doing. Microsoft does this with a different program—is that what XPS does?—and gives that away for free (in one version of the hypo, as part of Vista or Office, in the other version of the hypo, as a download that works with Vista or Office). In the second version, Microsoft introduces an extended version of pdf.

Are we saying that because that product will do well—indeed, in c&d's version, achieve a monopoly—Microsoft is not allowed to distribute it? As c&d's comment recognizes, most of us might think that this "seems like a good thing," indeed, as competition on the merits coupled with legitimate fruits of Microsoft's success in distributing software. Yes, this might strengthen Microsoft's monopoly power, but I don't see how an administrable competition policy deals with this. The alternative seems to be say to that the market leader can't continue to compete and can't continue to add functionality to its products.

And remember the DC Circuit's perspective on this. The accusation was that Microsoft was trying to embrace and extend Java. It did so in a fashion that the court found to be deceptive, but as the court said "a monopolist does not violate the antitrust laws simply by developing a product that is incompatible with those of its rivals." The court found competition on the merits—competition to make a better version of Java. I would think that that analysis would carry over here.

c&d and Gus, tell me what policy you are suggesting that we implement. Windows and Office have to be frozen as a particular point in time never to change? (I do realize that given Microsoft's development cycle for Windows, that might seem like a fair description of the current situation, though I do assume that Vista will be delivered some day.) Any new functions have to be distributed separately and charged for separately? That is what Adobe seems to want. Can Microsoft switch to ad-based payment ala Google? Can they have just a few ads in their free software or will we insist on some minimum number of ads so that the "free" software isn't too free?
 Gus commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d83491441053ef 2006-06-04T14:19:07Z 2007-04-26T15:42:53Z Gus C&D, I think, hits the concern square on the head. The fear is that MS will "embrace and extend" the...
C&D, I think, hits the concern square on the head. The fear is that MS will "embrace and extend" the pdf format into its own format.

I'm not sure that they will do this intentionally in this case. More likely, I think that their implementation will inevitably have bugs in its output. I know that their current one does; for that matter Adobe's own pdf conversion software sometimes doesn't work well. As Alex noted, there are many pdf conversion programs--back when I was writing scientific papers, I routinely had to use about a dozen different programs to get any given paper to convert right.

Inevitably, the concern is, MS's pdf implementation will become the reference implementation that pdf viewers need to work with, bugs and all. Even Adobe, with its power over the reader market, won't be able to push back and force MS to fix its conversion software. People are used to downloading pdf readers (or at least seeing "Get Acrobat Reader" buttons all over the web)--in the consumer mind they are programs that one downloads. PDF converters, especially if there is included in Word, are not thought of in this way. In the MS world, changing converters means changing versions of Word (even if this isn't true; when's the last time you changed an import or export filter in Word?).

That MS isn't in the reader market mitigates this concern to some extent, as does the infrequency with which they change Word's conversion filters. During the browser wars, HTML was evolving at a quick pace. This made it easier for MS to stay ahead of Netscape by frequently adding features. More, the added features could be more complex (requiring a lot of work for Netscape to add compatability), and legitimately added to the web user's experience (arguably--and let's not mention how difficult MS has made it to develop web code that works with both MS and non-MS browsers). PDF is a more evolved format than the web was, any major changes to its format can be more clearly seen and scrutinized, and it is probably easier for programmers to work around the changes/bugs, which limits any power that MS could leverage.

Nonetheless, MS would by default be leveraging its power in the pdf writer market. So long as their conversion program works reasonably well, the pdf reader programs will need to change to support the MS format. This cascades back into the pdf writing market: everyone other than MS will then need to change their programs to generate pdfs that conform to MS's bug-based standard. This assumes that the pdf reader market doesn't modify their readers to support two pdf formats: the buggy MS pdf, and the true pdf. A well engineered reader should be able to identify a MS-created pdf from a non-MS created one (at least in the majority of cases), and to display as appropriate. This costs the pdf reader companies money, because supporting multiple standards is inefficient. But, so long as MS stays out of that market, they can't get any advantage. Creating inefficiency might be bad business practice; but last I heard it's not anticompetitive.

A threshold query is going to be the preponderance of MS-created pdfs relative to non-MS pdfs. If 95% of pdfs are created by MS, then it might make sense for the pdf-reader companies to ignore the pure formats (especially if another 90% of them are generally compatible with MS's bugs). This would signal that we should look at this maket with more scrutiny. But if the numbers are lower, there is no need for antitrust scrutiny.

C&D brings up another interesting point: OpenOffice. Do we want MS to implement conversion filters in Word that allow it to talk to OpenOffice? If Word users could seamlessly interoperate with OpenOffice users, this would reduce Microsoft's market power (assuming that they don't mess with the format. It seems that the same analysis needs to apply to the PDF format as to the OpenOffice format. Either adding a filter for an external format to Word leverages MS's monopoly against the other market, or it lessens MS's monopoly by allowing greater interoperability. (It is possible that the bidirectional nature of the OpenOffice case differentiates it from PDF...)

--Gus
 c&d commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834c6a32269e2 2006-06-04T10:26:42Z 2007-04-26T15:41:44Z c&d http://concurringanddissenting.blogspot.com This post completely ignores the reason why there would be antitrust problems with Mircosoft's proposed software: Microsoft intends to add...
This post completely ignores the reason why there would be antitrust problems with Mircosoft's proposed software: Microsoft intends to add on its own (certainly proprietary) pdf-like format. If use of XPS was made easy and free, it might become a very common way to distribute files. This seems like a good thing, but it would further strengthen Microsoft's position as a monopolist by making it more costly to switch to another operating or office software program that could not open files in the new widely-used format.

With the added market power resulting from network effects, Mircosoft could increase the price of its software. In then end, more Microsoft monopoly is not free.

p.s. Why don't you encourage your school to use OpenOffice? You can save files as PDF's... truly for free.
 Paul commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834911a4553ef 2006-06-03T18:46:37Z 2007-04-26T15:34:59Z Paul Adobe's PDF/Acrobat format is a monopoly. There is essentionally no competition out there for them. I'm sure there is something,...
Adobe's PDF/Acrobat format is a monopoly. There is essentionally no competition out there for them. I'm sure there is something, but Adobe has the market locked up. Couple that with Adobe submitting the specification for PDFs as a standard and allowing anyone to make "print to PDF" drivers and give them away free and I'll make a guess that Adobe is abusing their monopoly.
 Alex Platte commented on 'Remedies in Microsoft: Be Careful What You Ask For' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834c6735769e2 2006-06-03T14:34:41Z 2008-01-24T21:13:47Z Alex Platte http://profile.typekey.com/lmcplatte/ I'm a little surprised that this is an issue of concern. Certainly Microsoft has unique constraints on it because of...
I'm a little surprised that this is an issue of concern. Certainly Microsoft has unique constraints on it because of antitrust considerations, but pdf files are not solely Adobe's domain. There are existing open-source tools that generate pdf files (from LaTeX source, for example). More significantly, Mac OS X allows a user to generate a pdf file from any program that may print a document, including Microsoft Office.

A user who has paid for Microsoft Office on the Mac may generate pdfs without additional charge or hassle; why must Microsoft be careful not to step on Adobe's toes, but Apple apparently not?