text: Report a Coincidence 1234>0x6a656666 posted:1/11/2013 10:47:14 AM I'm interested in hearing people's stories of coincidence. What affect did it have on you? Please post some of yours below! Thanks. bobprin posted:1/11/2013 11:47:52 AM In october of 1973 I was hitchhiking home from los angeles after a cross country journey. I was in lake of the woods, missouri. It was 3:00am, I had just told myself that one more car and then I'll get some sleep. The next car stopped and down the road I went. The driver said he was going to pittsburgh which would get me almost home. After more conversation I found he was actually going to a town 5 miles from my home. Then I learned he was an uncle :of this girl I had dated. Whom later became the wife.spooky1 posted:1/11/2013 8:14:32 PM I don't believe in coincidence. Everything happens for a reason:)breeld posted:1/12/2013 6:46:06 AM Synchronicity! I believe! Had it happen to me lots of times-even minor things, like one time I was looking for a certain kind of ice cream. I had walked up and down the freezer section several times. A lady walked up to one of the doors, picked up the ice cream, held it out to me and said " this is a really good ice cream, isn`t it?" Just so happened to be the one I couldn`t find. It`s like "someone" somewhere knows what you`re looking for, or needing, and finds a way to help you out. lol gary107 posted:1/12/2013 4:48:11 PM over 10,000 years ago Clovis man and the Mammoth disappeared from North America. The North Pole which had been in the North Pacific Ocean shifted 23' to the Arctic Ocean. Baby Mammoths were found with fresh flowers in their mouths in northern Russia. The shift happen really fast. Now it is report that the Vale Pulsar, a neutron star that is 12 miles across and spins at 11 times per sec. and is only 1000 light years from Earth when off about the same time. This coincidence may prove to be related.breeld posted:1/13/2013 7:09:31 AM Gary, I understand you say you have asperger`s, and I even felt sorry for you. But I have a hard time understanding where you`re coming from. Did you even read Jeff`s post? Have you had a "coincidence" happen to YOU?RedBird posted:1/13/2013 10:20:04 AM So I go into a bar in my small town and happen to meet a girl there. I find out she recently moved here from a much larger city about 3 hour drive away. I used to live there years ago. Long story short, I find out she knows my mother who still lives there and we lived in the same area.gary107 posted:1/13/2013 11:33:06 AM I had thought about the information on North America 10,000 year ago and then by chance that same day this new astrological information is posted and I take note of it. coincidence ? Is the world just answering questions in my last days ? thank you.Jaxerback posted:1/15/2013 6:47:15 PM Your last days? Playing the sympathy card?gary107 posted:1/16/2013 3:11:28 AM I play chess or board war games, not cards.RedBird posted:1/16/2013 3:57:13 AM I had thought about TIME TRAVEL and then by chance that same day STAR TREK CAME ON AND EXPLAINED TEMPORAL TRANSPORTERS and I take note of it. coincidence? Is the world just answering my questions?breeld posted:1/16/2013 5:58:52 AM LOL gary107 posted:1/16/2013 8:30:59 AM and why should the world be interested in your questions ? I do not think time travel is possible. I am not certain time is a real thing itself. look at the gauge on a water pump and take the pump apart and you find water. the gauge in your car measure how much gas there is in the tank. what does a clock measure, take it apart and see if it measures anything. a clock is just a self generating gauge, there is nothing it measures the flow of, nothing flowing through it. time is just a made up convention, it is not something that actually exist. there is a book on Physics without time called "Motion Alone." Interesting reading. I am unsubscribing to television, I will see what a difference it makes in daily life. I knew the folks who wrote the scripts for Star Trek and had input to the process. TV scripts are not real Physics. a clock is not a real gauge.Wereparadox posted:1/16/2013 11:14:34 AM The world may or may not be interested in his questions Gary. But this forum is here for that exact reason. Not only that but one thing I know for sure. This universe delights in testing it victims I mean inhabitents. What ever force currently controls it loves to see what you'll do if it gives you this or that. Like an evil genie it gives you what you ask for but almost never what you want. I am pretty sure me and it will come against each other sooner or later. I think by the looks of things- it will be sooner. It might smash me like a fly or maybe by the random occurences of the universe I'll win. Either way it'll be interesting. I like talking to you guys. I like to talk to my buds about this but there all like "oh cool." And change the subject. Kind of like you guys. But at least you might have at least some idea about what I mean. Most of my conversations with everybody is like a wizard talking to scientist. Or an alien showing a caveman his spaceship. I'm not saying that the other people are dumber then me just not the same. Like breelds search, can't find what she seeks because she can't find the thing that most others seek. She's a bird living with mice. At least least that's my guess. Those who seek an answer they can only feel is something deeper. With some death is not an end but it takes a high price. The brain forgets but the soul can remember. P.S. Time is not when but where.gary107 posted:1/16/2013 1:10:34 PM to take a truth that should be known to others into the grave is to sin against God.Wereparadox posted:1/16/2013 2:48:11 PM If I have my way and if it is true it'll be known. But only if it will help and not harm. In a world of lies the truth harms when it should heal. This place has made anything helpfull able to harm and destroy. It is paradox too. But the worst part of. Strong the darkside is.... mm... yes.spooky1 posted:1/16/2013 4:43:04 PM WereP : what's ur beef wit Breeld!? Because she's searching for something means she's "dumber"then u? ?breeld posted:1/17/2013 7:33:42 AM Spooky, thanks for the back-up, but I think what wereparadox is saying is just about being different. At least, I hope that`s what he`s saying. lol Wereparadox: You mentioned that with some, death is not the end. Ok, that`s one of my biggies. I have reason to believe that, but I really, really want to KNOW. eg: my sister came back and talked to me 4 different times after she died. Always with a message. For that reason, I believe in life after death. Besides that, I reason that, since I KNOW there are such things as knowing the future, esp, etc, it makes sense that there is more than just being born, getting thru life, then dying....like you never lived. And where do ppl go when they die? Another dimension? Another planet? In the atmosphere around us? I do understand that we`re all made of energy, and energy never ceases to exist-so maybe our energy is all that remains. Sorry, I guess I`m on the wrong thread for this, but was just following a thought process. spooky1 posted:1/17/2013 12:07:59 PM Don't Thx me Breeld, ur my buddy! & as far as changing topic in a certain thread, that always happens & u just go with the flow no big deal.malachi the prophet posted:1/21/2013 4:06:07 PM this past sat, i was working all week for a lady -so nice / i wanted to bring her to god - to rapture june 30 2018 ( tammuz 17/chapter 8) fig tree =summer leaves are tender .... i know no man knows the day or the hour -but im special (lol) i took some objects i have gathered - a cross blessed by gabrial -when i was 4 - it grows heavy salt on it concencrated -salt covenant -lord lev 2-13 how do aliens like there food with salt ..... then when i was 9 a man sold me an ancient sword for 30 bucks ... it turns out it is from a set from c columbus = catholic king sword (google) also see my face book(pics) malachi the prophet =page when i was 13 gabriel came to me in the woods - called me away from friends -he bow down and gave me a staff =he said never loose it =it is the key to happyness( key to door/of agartha) mammoth cave ky im from chicago =one day my mom pops up and says where are moving to ky =58 miles from mammoth cave... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ok long story short = i took this staff to her house - told her the story - we talked all about it all day long - see aked what is the part where the top front, was scraped -the marks that look like hyro-glyphicks ? // i said i though a seal from god or animal markings ..... all little scratches so i told her that a tv show gave me proff once -it was the pope himself speaking ..... she said the only preacher i believe -is joel osteen ...... `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ so next morning i woke up =i felt like god had placed a message -in j. osteens -sermon the last 5 minutes -he completly changed subject = >>>> about yes you guessed it staffs =ancient =time of moses/araon he said before paper the prophets/apostles wold shave the top bark of and score the bark to remember holy days =he said to remember the 3 main yearly events = all over the bark =1.2.3 1.2.3 1.2.3 then crossed off - sat night -we talked -sun morning -god sent a message loud and clear = I HAVE ABOUT 10,000 I COULD WRITE 2-BOOKS ON THIS LOL BUT THIS IS LAST SAT/SUN GO SEE WHAT WAS SAID SOON I WILL POST A PIC OF MY STAFF ON MY FACE BOOK PAGE .... go to joel osteen.com the last 5 or so minutes = he finished the story i could not and proved to me this staff -was from -before ink of types of paper = what staff -arons ? i cant even spell it lol it has the marks of the buds of almonds that grew all over it / almond trees do not grow in chicago joel osteen .com last sermon last 5 minutes = Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Come and enjoy an evening of stories with your host Kevin Farley and friends. The show will consist of standup routines mixed in with crazy stories told by the funniest people in Hollywood. So grab a drink, leave your kids at home and settle in for some naughty bedtime stories.
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Farley grew up in Madison, WI, as the fourth child of five children and he attended Marquette University where he earned a business degree. Farley then went to work for his father's business, but eventually moved to Chicago and studied at the famed Second City and continues to be active as a key alumnus. Then it didn't take long for him to establish himself as a comedic presence both on the big screen and television in Los Angeles.
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Do you remember that scene in SEX & THE CITY (the film), when Carrie and Charlotte went furniture shopping for the perfect desk that could inspire Carrie's writing? Like Carrie, we are on the hunt for the perfect desk for our home office, and along the way we discovered the "BE BRAVE" print by Kelli Murray. Birdie (that's what we named her) is just darling! Her colors keep us calm and her words encourage us. She was a great purchase.
Your chair, your desk, the photos that surround you can really affect your mood and creative thought process. Here are workspaces that inspire us! So where do YOU want to work? And, where ever you are in life, remember to always 'be brave.'
Although Charlotte from Sex & the City was the art dealer, we could totally see Carrie writing here.
As the saying goes, "one twinship's junk is another twinship's treasure…" Well, it's actually 'man's' but just go with it. The girl who works here doesn't buy birthday gifts…she just makes them!
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Any exercise is better than no exercise, experts say.
But you might wonder how hard you have to work out to really get any health benefits.
Experts vary a bit on specific amounts of time and number of days, but, generally, 20 to 30 minutes of activity three to five days a week will do a body good.
That fits with a recent recommendation from the American College of Sports Medicine.
"Anything that gets your heart rate at least 20 beats above rest" is beneficial, said Tammy Garwick, an exercise physiologist at Mount Carmel Cardiac Rehab in Westerville.
That doesn't mean you have to run a marathon. Simple things such as gardening, taking a walk or riding a bike through your neighborhood for 30 minutes a day will produce results.
But even though you exercise all day — walking to the copier or drinking fountain, pushing the elevator button — it's not enough.
"Many of us are tired at the end of the day because of the stresses of life, because we think we did a lot," Garwick said. "In reality, if you look back on ... your day, you probably didn't move that much."
For people new to exercise, Dr. Darrin Bright, a physician at MAX Sports Medicine, recommends starting with 20 minutes of activity three days a week. That could mean a walk around the block. Then, he said, you slowly add to how long you do something as well as how strenuous the activity is.
He suggests increasing time spent exercising or the intensity by no more than 10 percent a week.
"Too often, we see someone start with 20 minutes three days a week, and then we see people going to five days a week 40 minutes each time, and then they stop," said Bright, medical director for the Columbus Marathon.
Experts suggest listening to your body, no matter where you are in your exercise program. If you're tired, rest.
Dr. Thomas Best, director of the division of sports medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center, said national exercise recommendations shouldn't overwhelm most people.
"The bad news is 60 percent of the population is inactive," he said.
If you can't find 30 minutes a day for a little physical activity, tailor a routine that fits your schedule, Best said. It might be 15 minutes in the morning and evening, or 10 minutes three times a day.
"If you have 45 minutes for lunch and can exercise 10 to 15 minutes, that's huge," Best said. "Clearly, this is a good example of personalized medicine — what's good for you may not be good for me."
For people who already work out five to seven days a week for an hour or so each day but want to get more out of exercise, experts recommend changing your routine. Take a weekly yoga class, lift weights or use exercise bands for resistance training.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine ReviewBy Jake Gaskill - Posted May 01, 2009
The tie-in game focused on the legendary Logan, known best as Wolverine, allows you to play the plot of the hero's origin, and in canonical locations in the X-verse. We now show our claws and slice into the new multiplatform game 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' in this X-Play Review.
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- Joyously over the top and vicious violence.
- Tons of unlockables, upgrades and secrets to find
- Surprisingly lengthy
- Wolverine vs. Wolverine fights
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- Some camera issues
- Glitchy at times
- Wonky platforming
Well, it finally happened. And you can direct your thanks to the team at Raven for creating a movie tie-in game that isn't awful. In fact, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is really good. So good that it's almost unfair to categorize it as a movie game, given the stigma attached to the genre. Of course, the game isn't without its flaws, but they are mostly cosmetic, and they are greatly outweighed by how fun, how lengthy and how bats*** nutty this game truly is.
Origin Glad You Saw the Movie First?
Given that the story for both the game and the movie contain roughly the same plot points, twists, and surprises, I'll keep this section relatively short and spoiler free. The most important thing to know is that the game's narrative jumps between two key time-periods: during Logan's last mission as part of Col. Stryker's Team X in Africa and after his life-changing adamantium operation as Wolverine tracks down Stryker and his former Team X mates to avenge the death of the woman he loved.
Jumping between these two periods not only serves to mix up the settings and enemies (both of which sport some impressive designs and graphical details), but it also gives you a chance to play as both the bone-clawed Logan and the adamantium-infused Wolverine. Both characters play the same, but you'll definitely see and feel the difference between the two claw types. Aside from the actress who plays Raven, the voice work is top notch. While the script has its share of cheesy dialogue, the performances more than make up for it.
A Journey of a Thousand Kills…
One of the most surprising aspects of the game is its length. You can expect to spend around 10-12 hours on the regular difficulty setting, and that includes a fair amount of exploration. And while there isn't a whole lot of room to explore, you'll want to try as much as you can in order to find the numerous hidden items and upgrades scattered throughout every level. Aside from simple health meter boosts, you can also find skill-boosting mutagens that influence things like how much damage you take/deal and how quickly your health regenerates. Eventually, you can mix and match up to three mutagens at a time, which gives players the chance to tweak Wolverine to their particular tastes and styles.
You'll also find a few alternate costumes based on various iterations of Wolverine's iconic duds. While it's certainly cool to be able to reek untold levels of bloody violence while sporting the classic blue and yellow getup, the game goes that extra inch to make the costumes something special rather than just a cheap attempt at bonus content. You see, after you've found a new costume in the game, you have to face off against an AI controlled Wolverine and defeat him in order to unlock the costume. These fights (which you can go back and play as much as you want) are as brutal as they are joyous, and they almost make multiplayer seem like it could have worked, which is a true testament to the game's solid fighting mechanics.
The Best There is at What I Do…
You better believe there is absolutely nothing nice about what Wolverine does in this game. This is the Wolverine gamers have dreamt of controlling in a video game since…well, forever, and man was it worth the wait. Soldiers, mutants, robots, machines, helicopters, and pretty much everything else that happens to cross paths with your lethal and devastating claws end up as nothing more than disfigured and mutilated messes. The combat is brutal and an absolutely bloody blast from start to finish, and the inclusion of dozens of post-dismemberment animations makes it all feel even more vicious. Wolverine's lunge attack adds space to fights, and it makes covering large areas a snap, giving you a real sense of Wolverine's true power and agility.
There are a number of combos to unlock and master over the course of the game, all of which are designed to make the most of Wolverine's abilities. Stringing quick attacks, heavy attacks and grabs is fluid and very God of War-ish in its delivery and presentation. While you can easily progress through the game with the same couple of combos, experimenting with all the possibilities makes for an even more rewarding experience. In addition to the standard moves, there are also four Fury Attacks that can be unleashed once you have built up enough rage. One lets you spin like a top, slicing and dicing everything in your path. Another lets you drill through foes, scattering their pathetic, gooey remains in all directions. Another turns you into an end-over-end death machine capable of hoping from one point to the next, killing everything in between. The last attack is Berserker mode, which increases your speed and killing power, letting you wipe out dozens of enemies with just a few devastating slashes.
Building a Better Wolverine
All of these moves, as well as three general categories (claw strength, health meter, rage meter), can be upgraded using experience points that you earn by leveling up. It's a very simple RPG-ish system, but one that goes a long way towards adding depth and replayability to the game, since you will most likely have to play through it at least twice in order to fully upgrade every ability. Also, the more enemies you kill, the more effective you are against them, adding even more incentive to play through more than once. There are also a large number of skills-based achievements (kill 2,000 enemies, lunge at 250 enemies, dismembered 100 enemies, etc.) that you will be all too happy to pursue and unlock.
As if Wolverine didn't have enough ways to deal death, the game also features environmental kills specific to each level type and a number of quick-time killing sequences. Wooden spikes, electricity boxes, giant vents, forklifts perilous ledges all offer you plenty of ways to vary your furry. To help pick out these deadly spots (or if you just want to pinpoint usable objects in the area), you can use Wolverine's feral senses, which bathes the area around you in flowing white waves, with usable objects glowing either green or red. This can also be helpful when trying to locate enemies or traps. Even though it isn't an essential tool, it's just another little addition that adds to the game's overall focus of delivering the most complete Wolverine experience possible.
The various boss battles offer plenty of challenge, and include a number of familiar faces, which you must then savagely attack. One boss in particular screams Shadow of the Colossus (even though the sequence misses out on being one of the great boss battles of all time thanks to some poor gameplay decisions), while another is so utterly unexpected that it would be straight up laughable if it wasn't so damn entertaining and ridiculous.
Time to Make Some Cuts
As satisfying and spectacularly visceral as the combat is, a few issues come up on a regular basis. During some of the more cramped fights (corridors, temple squares, etc.), you will often find yourself up against a wall at some point. When this happens, the camera tends to get trapped behind you, leaving you vulnerable to attacks and with no way of knowing which way to move in order to get out of the unfortunate position. The rest of the time the camera does a great job of keeping up with the action, and the automatic slow-mo 360 shots that accompany particularly gnarly executions make it easy to look past the few moments when the camera works against you.
I also encountered a number of bugs in the build that I played, many of which will most likely be addressed by the time the game ships. There was quite a bit of clipping throughout the game resulting in enemies getting stuck in walls and floors. Other times, enemy bodies or recently destroyed objects would hover several feet off the ground or twitch in place. None of these issues ever took away from the overall experience, but they are still a bummer to see.
The other minor problem is that the platforming, which is thankfully kept to a minimum, feels clunky most of the time and is simply unnecessary the rest of the time. There are also sections where Wolverine must maneuver across beams without losing his balance that are unnecessary and sorely out of place. After all, watching your skin reform over your bones while visions of the limbless torsos you just created dance in your head and then having to daintily walk across a beam just looks ridiculous, and doesn't fit in with the tone of the rest of the game at all.
Violent and Good Looking? Yes Please!
The game sports some very impressive character and environmental designs, thanks to its use of the Unreal Engine. There are a few bland textures here and there, but for the most part, it's a good looking game. The environments are diverse (i.e. jungle temples, snowy mountains, military compound, research lab, Star Wars-esque robotics facilities), and the draw distances on some of the levels, especially at the top of the towering stone spires during the jungle levels, are simply stunning.
Lacerations, beheadings and dismemberments are as gory and satisfying as you would hope/expect. But perhaps even more impressive is Wolverine's own damage system, which allows for chunks of his flesh (and shirt, but not pants) to be torn away to reveal the bones/adamantium underneath. The more damage you take, the more skeleton you'll see. Get shot in the face and you'll see a collection of teeth surrounded by bloody gums. You also get to watch tissue and skin reform as your wounds heal themselves. It's beautifully done and will bring a smile to your face every time it happens, which is constantly.
Gladly Going Berserk
X-Men Origins: Wolverine marks a new era in movie-based gaming. Far from a hastily thrown together mess of gimmicks and uninspired design used as little more than a marketing ploy, Wolverine stands as an example of what a good movie game (and a good game in general) should be. Camera issues and graphical hiccups aside, there is very little not to love here. Thanks to some seriously savage gameplay, deep and responsive combat, and a wide range of upgrades and unlockables, the game manages to offer an experience that is as enjoyable and rewarding as it is brutal and intense.
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|Abstract: This regulation is one component of the Secretary's initiative to reduce medical errors. The proposed rule would amend the expedited and periodic safety reporting regulations for human drugs and biological products to revise certain definitions and reporting formats as recommended by the International Conference on Harmonisation and to define new terms; to add to or revise current reporting requirements; to revise certain reporting time frames; and propose other revisions to these regulations to enhance the quality of safety reports received by FDA.
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Summary of the Legal Basis: The agency has broad authority under sections 505 and 701 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) (21 U.S.C. 355 and 371) and section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262) to monitor the safety of drug and biological products for human use.
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Arab winterJuly 30,2013
Two nations in the Middle East are spiraling away from the promise of an Arab Spring toward the nightmare of a deep, dark Arab winter.
The military in Egypt has struck back hard against the Muslim Brotherhood, killing more than 50 demonstrators in one incident and then over the weekend gunning down more than 80. Meanwhile, in Syria the government of Bashar al-Assad has apparently firmed up its hold on power while the opposition rebels are splintering among diverse groups, turning their guns on each other, with extreme Islamists becoming dominant.
The radicalization of the Arab Spring does not bode well for the evolution of democracy. In Syria what began as an uprising among moderate Syrians, mainly Sunnis left out by the Alawite (Shiite) regime of Assad, has hardened into a rebellion of extremists, some with al-Qaida connections, drawing jihadist fighters from around the region.
The decision by President Obama to arm the rebels is complicated when the rebels consist of jihadists who hate America. Obama knows that when the United States sent billions of dollars in arms to rebels fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, we were unwittingly arming our future enemies.
Meanwhile, Assad determined early that brute force was the way to survive, and the rebellion in Syria has reached a stalemate. As they promote a negotiated resolution, diplomats have been saying that there can be no military solution to a civil war. Tell that to Assad. There was a military solution to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, though not a good one. There was a military solution to the American Civil War. That is the kind of solution Assad is seeking, and while it will not bring peace and happiness to his country, he may be able to maintain his hold on power, at least for the time being.
That may be the lesson that the military in Egypt has drawn. Much has been made of the fact that the struggles in the Middle East represent a multi-nation battle between Sunni and Shia factions, with Shia powers such as Iran lining up with Assad and Sunni powers such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar lining up with the Syrian rebels. But it appears that the iron fist is effective on both sides, with the Sunni power of the Egyptian military adopting the ruthless methods of the Shia regime in Syria.
The result could be the further radicalization of the opposition in both Egypt and Syria, which could spill over to the entire region. A crackdown by the Egyptian military on the Muslim Brotherhood will create a whole new generation of martyrs and a new underground of revolutionaries. It is a way for the military to keep control of its wealth and prerogatives for now. But it lights a long fuse connected to a huge powder keg.
This deterioration in both Syria and Egypt may give a boost to talks promoted by Secretary of State John Kerry between Israel and the Palestinians. It may be helpful for both sides to cement a stable relationship between them before chaos among their neighbors seeps across the border. The Palestinians will not benefit if jihadis in Syria or Egypt turn their attention to the Palestinian cause, and neither will Israelis. If they can work out their differences, Israel and Palestine could become an island of stability and prosperity between their troubled neighbors.
Wishful thinking that Assad would bow out as Mubarak had done appears not to be bearing fruit. Wishful thinking that the recent military coup in Egypt might launch a new era of democracy appears to be giving way to repression more severe than Egyptians have seen in a long time. These events are tragic for Syrians and Egyptians. American commentators have been hoping that the military commanders in Egypt understood that pluralism and democracy were the way to go. But so far that doesnt seem to be the lesson they have learned from the last few years. The lesson they have learned seems to have been taught to them by Assad.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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Man sentenced to 42 days for 2010 drug bust
Three years after his arrest, a man who pleaded guilty to the possession of crack cocaine was sentenced Friday.
Tyson J. Butcher, 23, of 16825 Joy Road, Sharpsburg, was sentenced to 42 days in the Washington County Jail and will be on probation for three years.
Walter E. Harrell, 39, of 277 North Champion Ave., Apartment H, Columbus, and Frank K. Willette, 31, of 1433 Jewett Drive, Zanesville, were also arrested on drug charges the night of the incident.
Butcher and Harrell were passengers in Willette's car on Sept. 19, 2010 when they were pulled over by the Ohio State Highway Patrol on Ohio 550 near Warren Elementary around 3 a.m.
"When the car was pulled over the troopers said that Butcher got out of the car to stand up and a small packet of drugs fell onto the ground when he did," said Washington County Prosecutor Jim Schneider.
Schneider said Butcher was initially charged with one fourth-degree felony count of possession of narcotics and faced a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison with a $5,000 fine.
"At the time of the incident Butcher was on probation in Morgan County and was in violation by simply being out at 3 a.m., not to mention the drugs he was in possession of," said Schneider.
He and Willette were formally charged on Feb. 25, 2011, according to Schneider.
During this time authorities were also having trouble locating Harrell, the third passenger in the vehicle.
"The reason Harrell was hard to locate was that he had some difficulties in Franklin County and was actually in jail there at that time," said Schneider.
Harrell eventually ended up pleading to a first-degree misdemeanor and served 30 days in the Washington County Jail, according to records at Marietta Municipal Court.
Willette was found guilty by a jury of a fifth-degree felony for possession of drugs, said Schneider. He was sentenced to serve 10 months at the Orient Correctional Center, according to records from the Washington County Clerk of Courts.
Schneider said that Butcher's case was scheduled for sometime in November of 2012, but it was granted a continuance until January of this year.
Schneider admitted that the delay in the case made it difficult to track down the witnesses to testify.
"Both of the officers that made the arrest had moved on from that position," he said. "One retired and the other had transfered up north somewhere."
Despite the trouble, the prosecution was able to come to a plea agreement with the defense.
They both agreed that Butcher could have a plea bargain to a fifth-degree felony instead of the initial fourth-degree charge.
"That drops the maximum sentence he can get for violation of parole from 18 months down to 12," said Schneider.
Butcher began serving his 42-day jail sentence immediately after Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Randall Burnworth addressed him Friday morning.
"You were with some bad company that night. Making better decisions will keep you out of jail in the future," said Burnworth.


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Erick Green would be a good replacement for JR Smith. Will be a good combo guard off the best, good fit for a uptempo team. He would need tighter handles and improve his defense. Offensively he's good, but not great which will mean hell be decent in the NBA. He finishes 49% at the rim and settles for floaters than picking up fouls (lack of strength or ability to absorb contact). That's a lot of missed field goals and wasted opportunities, we can only afford Melo to do that, having two guys chuck will be disastrous to ball movement. He's basically 95% offensive minded. Hard to have that kind of player on a team with Melo.
Better options at 24 would be
1. Giannis Adetokunbo
2. Dennis Schroeder
3. Shane Larkin
Marcus Cousins is a prolific rebounder, my deal with Cousins is that he's not athletic and doesn't apply shot blocking to his game for a 7 footer. Chandler isn't much of a shot blocker himself, so we'll be doing ourselves a disfavor. Cousins would be better off on a team like OKC who have shot blockers already. I saw a couple games of Marcus in the NBDL, when he's matched with undersized athletic big men they take him off the dribble and bait him into biting on pumpfakes due to his lack of lateral quickness and his tendency to leave his feet.
I see if the Knicks get a center, he has to be a shot blocker who has a decent basketball awareness on both ends.
JaJuan Johnson is a good defender, but very average at everything else, from rebounding to scoring. His scoring, he's a face up big man with no handles and an average jumper; making him easy to guard. His offense isn't something to rave about since he never beasted in the NBDL, but he does put up impressive shot blocking numbers...he's worth the look.
We need players to come here with potential to build on a dynasty, OKC/MEM/MIN/IND style. Young guys who have as much potential and skill as Iman Shumpert. Rest of the guys on the list kinda struggle to be matched up against anyone not named James White. If we're adding players to James White calibers, then we're not improving as a team.
1. Re-sign Pablo Prigioni
2. Re-sign Kenyon Martin
3. Don't oversign JR Smith or just let him walk because Shumpert should take on a 30 min + role at SG, which makes JR Smith expendable.
4. Get Jason Kidd an assistant coaching job after he retires
5. Find some kind of offer for Amare...
6. Draft Schroeder or GA, must have prospects
7. Resign Copeland
8. Trade Felton to the Jazz for their #21 Pick Draft Schroeder with this pick
9. Draft Adetokonbo with the #24
10. Draft Ricky Ledo (buy late 2nd round pick)
11. Sign Francisco Garcia or Tony Allen
12. Splitter/Kirilenko/Dalembert/J'Oneal/JJ Hickson/Blair are all unrestricted free agents. If we don't have enough cap space to sign one of these guys, I understand...but they should be major targets since they all can answer our woes at PF/C. I don't know how our cap situation to the fullest, so I'll leave these guys out for now but the interest in these big men should be at a high priority.
2013-14 Knicks
PG - Prigioni/Schroeder
SG - Shumpert/Garcia or T. Allen/Ledo
SF - Anthony/Novak/Adetokonbo
PF - Martin/Stoudimire/Copeland
C - Chandler/Camby
before you sell out on my plan, understand this.
Felton's value is the highest it'll ever be in his career right now. If we don't use his value to acquire a draft pick and build for our future, we will regret it. Isiah style. We need young athletes with skill and high potential...Schroeder/Adetokonbo will obviously be raw like Ibaka, but they both have Ibaka's work ethic. Ibaka couldnt shoot before he came to the NBA, now he's hitting 3pointers. Can't miss out on prospects like these guys.
Garcia/Allen > JR Smith.
Let's face it, JR Smith is the streakiest Knick player since Crawford. Smith's defense is even shakey. Looks like Sprewell one day, looks like Crawford the next. Smith's low tendency to drive to the basket hurts this team. I know he's tight with Melo, but business is business. We should let JR walk, and get veterans who can defend multiple postions like Garcia or Allen. It'll improve our defense and team chemistry.
Another important point is that, we need to look to move Chandler and Amar'e.
Injuries are real, they affect players production, especially fragile big men like Tyson and Stat who have battled injuries for a decade. They got enough mileage in their career and holding on to them forever would be foolish.
If we can somehow give these guys to the Bobcats in exchange for cap space, it would be a win for us. Splitter/Kirilenko can replace Chandler and Blair can replace Amare...theres a good amount of big men out in this free agency who can contribute equally to a banged up Chandler and Stat for LESS MONEY.
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Home List of Titles A throughput maximization strategy for scheduling transaction-intensive workflows on SwinDeW-G
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/47742
- Title
- A throughput maximization strategy for scheduling transaction-intensive workflows on SwinDeW-G
- Author(s)
- Liu, Ke; Chen, Jinjun; Yang, Yun; Jin, Hai
- Abstract
- With the rapid development of e-business, workflow systems now have to deal with transaction-intensive workflows whose main characteristic is the huge number of concurrent workflow instances. For such workflows, it is important to maximize the overall throughput to provide good quality of service. However, most of the existing scheduling algorithms are designed for scheduling of a single complex scientific workflow instance and are not efficient enough for scheduling transaction-intensive workflows. To address this problem, we propose a throughput maximization strategy (TMS), which contains two specific algorithms for scheduling transaction-intensive workflows at the instance and task levels, respectively. The first algorithm called Opposite Average Load tries to maximize the overall throughput by pursuing the overall load balance at the instance level, whereas the second algorithm called Extended Min-Min tries to further maximize the overall throughput at the task level by increasing the utilization rate of resources within each local autonomous group. The comparison and simulation performed on Swinburne Decentralized Workflow for Grid (SwinDeW-G), a peer-to-peer-based grid workflow environment, demonstrate that our strategy can improve the overall throughput significantly over existing scheduling algorithms when scheduling transaction-intensive workflows.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Information Technology Research
- Source
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 20, no. 15 (Oct 2008), pp. 1807-1820
- Publication year
- 2008
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- Ad hoc networks; Algorithms; Boolean functions; E-business; Electronic commerce; Grid workflow systems; Grid workflows; Load Balancing; Management; Planning; Scheduling; Scheduling algorithms; Scientific workflow; Strategic planning; Telecommunication networks; Transaction-intensive workflows; Workflow systems
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- John Wiley & Sons
- 1532-0626
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- Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Publisher does not officially support author/institution self-archiving of either the postprint (final, revised accepted draft) or published version of full text.
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By Josephine Bennett • Aug 14, 2012
Originally published on August 14, 2012 6:12 am
A quarter of the state is classified as being under "exceptional drought" — the highest level recorded. As creeks and riverbeds dry up, farmers are drilling deeper wells to get water for their crops. Now the state is cutting back its permits because of environmental concerns.


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Get ahead of the curve
There's good news and even better news if you are a curvy girl - if you wear size 16 or above, that is - and you want to replenish your spring/summer wardrobe.The good news is that plus-size clothing has, to a major extent, lost its ghettoisation - at least for those seeking up to‑ size 20 - with many high street brands now routinely offering their entire collections up to size 18.
In addition, most of the pieces at high street stalwarts Wallis, Dorothy Perkins and Long Tall Sally go up to size 20. And while Hobbs sizing nominally only goes up to 18, their cut is so generous (standard 18: bust 43", waist 36" and lower hip 46"), that their size 18 should fit a size 20 without even a teeny struggle. US brand Banana Republic also goes to size 20 (label XL) in many of its blouses and tops, as well as 18 for its skirts, trousers, coats and dresses.
The even better new)s is that H&M seems to have recognised that its capsule BIB, or Big is Beautiful, collection, created some 20 years ago, smacks of tokenism, and earlier this week launched its new Inclusive Collection.
Available on-line only (at http://shop.hm.com), the collection, in sizes 6 to 28, features all the bang-on-trend pieces a typical H&M customer could want, from flirty prom dresses - one-shoulder, strapless spotty or broderie anglaise - to pretty frou-frou skirts, animal print bodies and gorgeous lingerie. The collection also features on-the-knee pencil skirts, statement cardis, tops and tees which should also appeal to a less typical (aka slightly older) H&M customer.
Shopping for plus size clothing has also become a whole lot easier thanks to the internet, with brands like Yours (www.yoursclothing.co.uk), Simply Be (www.simplybe.co.uk) and Asos Curve offering the style vibe of Topshop or River Island, but up to sizes 24 and 26.
There is also the off-line specialist, Evans - like Wallis and Dorothy Perkins, part of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group - which has also been polishing its style act for the past few years.
This season's collection sees some pretty, floaty maxi dresses and maxi skirts, good, wide-leg, 70s trousers - though you would need to be tall and be prepared to rock some high platforms/wedges to make this work if you are larger than a size 14 - a pretty, well-styled shirt in the season's favourite flower print, and a slouchy chiffon top at £29.50 which skinny girls will covet.
Fenwick Brent Cross stocks plus size brands galore - Gerry Webber, Olsen, Betty Barclay, Basler and Gelco - but, ironically, its boutique and main ranges don't go above size 16. The Bond Street store, however, stocks the collections of Joyce Ridings, Annette Gortz and Ischiko, all of which go to size 20 and do fabulous things with ingenious cutting and a clever soft-yet-structured feel.
Joyce Ridings has a stunning purple linen duster coat, at £339, which works perfectly over wide-leg linen trousers, £189, or A-line linen skirt with knot hem, £219. Annette Gortz has a pale grey shirt dress with drawstring hem, £239, which can be worn over slim-leg linen-mix trousers, £259, while Ischiko's spring collection features a grey silky parka style dress (£389) and a grey/silver print, belted kimono jacket at £79, and grey V-neck dress with asymmetric hem, £319.


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An Ode to the Unsigned
It's already January 24, and there are still so many un-signed free agents out there. The market has been so terrible this year, that these players are going to have to settle for less than they're worth. I'd be willing to bet that all of Scott Boras' clients regret signing with him. The fact that a lot of them aren't signed yet is his fault. As an agent, he should be able to see that accepting arbitration is their best bet!
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I say we start our own expansion team and sign them all! That would be a great lineup.
But, I will argue that Albert Pujols is the most-feared right-handed hitter in the game. Others can argue that I'm biased.
I agree with Katy all the free agents should make a team. Maybe the Las Vegas Bandits or the Orlando Green Sox, or the Oklahoma City Tornados, or maybe even the Vancover Ducks.
Orlando Cabrera irritates the crap out of me. I hope he signs somewhere in the National League so I don't have to see him. After all of his arrogance this past season on the Sox, I feel bad for anyone who has to deal with him, even though his defense is rather good. CREDE! Oh my Joey. Call Tom. We need another meeting. I'd LOVE to have Crede back, but with his back problems, I don't know who will sign him. I blame this on Scott Boras. I LOVE NOMAAAAH! Someone needs to sign him so I can watch him play. 🙂 I'd love to have Griffey back with the White Sox this season, but if this is his last season, he should retire with Seattle. If Ivan Rodriguez is willing to take a backup role, I think he'd be good with the White Sox. I think Kent goes in as a Giant. He went to the World Series with them and spent the most time there.
Kathy: Albert Pujols is one of the most feared hitters in the game, he and Manny both are terrifying. Can you imagine having Pujols and Manny on the same team?
Bob: I like you and Kathy's idea! This could be very interesting🙂
Jen: LOL to your whole Orlando Cabrera speech!! As soon as I read 'Orlando Cabrera irritates the living crap out of me' I was in hysterics the rest of the comment. Can we blame Scott Boras for all of our misfortunes please? Nomah is awesome, and Rodriguez would be a great backup catcher for the White Sox. Low risk, big rewards!!
It's been one hell of an off-season for free agents this year. Guys like CC and AJ got huge paychecks, but other than them all other guys have had to settle for less, which isn't even bad considering its still millions, but that's beside the point. Obviously the bad economy is hitting every sector. It's almost funny to see that the guys on the free agent market could make their own All-Star team, and yet haven't signed a deal with only a month and change till Spring Training.
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Manny's a better hitter than Pujols. Manny was with the Dodgers for half a season and made them win the division. Pujols was with the Cards the whole season and they didn't win the division.
And you would win the bet, Elizabeth–I hate almost everyone who ever played in a Dodger uniform!!!!! Especially the really good players!
This off-season has been so strange. Some of the great players didn't sign with anyone, yet! I really don't care who they sign with. Just sign already!
I may be making this up, I make things up all the time and present them as fact, but I think I heard that only 71 free agents were signed after the winter meetings out of the like… 270 that were available or something. There are a lot of free agents out there who I like: Adam Dunn, Kevin Millar, Curt Schilling, Nomar, among others… not ManRam, I could care less about him. As for PEdro Martinez, I feel like his age is getting up there, and his playing reflects it.
In the case of Sean Casey – for him the issue isn't money. He wants more playing time or he isn't going to uproot his family. He actually seems okay with retiring. Manny, Tek, Pedro…I am just shocked! And you had to bring up Millar didn't you! (Tom – we need a group meeting!) I agree with Kathy & Tom – let's start our own team! It would be great – we get to make the rules & NO SCOTT BORAS!!!
Vanessa: It's ridiculous that if all these guys were on one team, the team wouldn't be half bad (except for the excessive lack of pitchers). This terrible economy is coming at the worst time, what are these poor guys going to do?
Caroline: It's interesting how as soon as Manny went to the Dodgers they went straight to the post season. One guy can't carry the entire team on his back though. World Series are about team work.
Hyun Young: Let's just sign 'em and play! I want baseball!!!!
Julia: Sorry about Millar, we just have to *sniffle, and wipes away tear* get through it. We'll be laughing when he's an analyst on MLB Network someday. If we're the front office of this team, I think we'd get things done pretty quick!
Teams are trying to get younger, and the free agents still out there aren't, well, young. Should Griffey end his career with the Mariners? It would be great. Will Ivan Rodriguez be in the HOF? Yup. And, although you're not interested in him for the Red Sox, Elizabeth, I'd take Andy Pettitte back in a heartbeat. Let's hope all these guys find good homes. (I sound like I'm talking about pets!)
I really don't understand the Red Sox hesitation to re-sign Tek, as long as he isn't asking for too much. Yes, his bat was terrible last season, but he'll probably rebound and it seems like the pitching staff trusts and respects him. That isn't something you really want to mess with.
I know the Twins were interested in Joe Crede, but FieldTurf + bad back = probable waste of money for a team that doesn't really have any. Actually, that's probably the case for most of the FAs on your list. Most of them are at least 30 (some are even pushing 40), have suffered injuries or are otherwise declining, and are much more expensive than younger (and probably more talented) players.
Dunn needs to get off his high horse and reduce is salary dreams, he's a guy who has only one purpose and the rest of his baseball ability isn't too hot.
Griffey no matter how much I love to see him play needs to retire. Enjoy the money he's got, decide if he still loves the game and if he does find some other way to contribute to it. Announcing, batting coach, teaching little league…doesn't matter me. He needs to go while most of us still like him.
Jane: I think Andy Petite should sign with the Yankees. I don't blame teams for trying to get younger, it's just scar how some of these free agents might have to settle for minor league deals.
Erin: That's the exact reason why no one is signing them. The way I see it though, they're low risk, high reward deals. I don't even know if anyone has made Joe Crede an offer yet.
COB: I think Ken Griffey Jr. still has one more year in him. I think he should end where he began, the Mariners. But I'd love to see him staying with baseball. I think he'd make a great announcer or batting coach.
Funny how there is not a lot of respect for Kent, but he has definately had a fine career. I wonder how much Manny is going to have to settle for as this plays out. Usually big free agents aquisition like him go early – as teams realize how big of an investment they are making.
Homer: I think the deal with Manny is because of how he left the Red Sox. Plus, he's asking for four years and no one wants to give him that because they know if he gets tired of playing in say, LA, he'll stop trying. He'll have to settle for two years. By now, his best bet is the Dodgers.


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Dave Sifry reacts to Tim's article.
The venture capital community and tech press is abuzz about recent layoffs at Linuxcare, the Kleiner-Perkins backed Linux support company.
Boosters of open source argue that Linuxcare's stumble is simply a result of management missteps, trying to grow too fast, and the overall cooling of the market to speculative high tech offerings and to Linux in particular. Observers critical of open source might argue that this event shows the weak commercial underpinnings of Linux, and the difficulty of making money when the software is free.
I draw an entirely different lesson: that the "service" opportunity for open source software requires thinking in a much bigger box. (You don't actually have to go outside the box. You just have to give yourself some elbow room.) Linuxcare's initial business model involved a great deal of reliance on phone-based tech support and other low level services; they are now repositioning themselves for higher-level professional services such as creating private label versions of Linux. They are absolutely right to think bigger. The service opportunity is immense, but it isn't necessarily in the obvious places.
Let me illustrate with a couple of stories.
My all-time favorite open-source derived service business is UUnet, now a multi-billion-dollar division of MCI Worldcom. Rick Adams, the founder of UUnet, has never been particularly identified with the free software or open source movement, and to this day doesn't particularly like to acknowledge its role in his success. Nonetheless, he was the author of several important open source packages and built a huge business based on them. He wrote B News, at one time the most popular Usenet news transport software, as well as the first implementation of SLIP (Serial Line IP), the predecessor to PPP in making dialup internet access possible.
For those of you who weren't around at the time, a brief history lesson: You now think of Usenet as something you get from your ISP. In the early days, it was a completely voluntary operation. You got your "Usenet feed" from a neighbor who was already hooked up. You arranged to dial up on a prearranged schedule to pick up and forward mail and news, mostly using the UUCP (Unix to Unix CoPy) communication protocol. It would often take two or three days for a message to propagate itself across the net. Every news site had to download every news message in any newsgroup to which they subscribed, so this could be a very time-consuming operation, requiring hours of connected dialup, often during off-hours. Users would then access the news from spool files on their local machine. (Under today's modern news servers, connected over the Internet, users can access messages in real time from a remote host, first downloading only the headers of messages in a newsgroup, then retrieving any individual messages they want to read.)
Over time, a number of sites emerged as Usenet/UUCPnet hubs, feeding hundreds or even thousands of other sites. Each of the hubs was connected to the others, forming what was called the Usenet "backbone." Rick Adams was the manager of a site called seismo at the U.S. Center for Seismic Studies, which eventually became one of the world's largest Usenet hubs, and was particularly important because it was the only one in the early years with a connection to Europe. The closer you were to seismo or one of the other hubs, the faster your mail and news got through, since it had to travel over fewer hops to get to its destination.
But there was trouble in this cooperative paradise. As the traffic load got bigger, the phone bills of the hub sites also got bigger, to the point that management couldn't look the other way any longer! Why is our dialup phone bill $100,000 a month? How does this support our mission?
Rick was one of the first to realize that his software needed commercial support. If people were willing to pay for UUCP and Usenet access, he could get the bureaucrats off his back. The commercial ISP was born. (At the time, it might have been called a UUSP, for "UUCP Service Provider"; TCP/IP didn't become the biggest part of the business till years later. UUCP lives on as the UU in UUnet's name.)
Rick first started UUnet as a non-profit corporation under the aegis of Usenix. Over time, he realized that the opportunity was bigger than he thought, and converted UUnet to a for-profit corporation. The Internet took off, and UUnet was a big part of making that happen.
(An aside: O'Reilly's own small part in that history ran parallel with UUnet's. In 1986, I wrote a book, Managing UUCP and Usenet, that evangelized the Usenet and told people how to get hooked up. This was O'Reilly's "underground bestseller" of the mid-80's, the book that more than any other defined our earliest publishing efforts. We became a UUnet customer, and Rick distributed the book to all his other customers. When he started offering TCP/IP services as well, we switched. We realized none of this stuff was well documented either, and so commissioned our 1992 book, The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, which was so instrumental in bringing awareness of the Internet to the masses.)
To my mind, Rick and other early ISPs really understood what service means in a world where the software is free. Rick didn't try to put Usenet in a box and sell it. He didn't try to offer tech support services (though they were certainly part of his offering.) He gave the net "dial tone." He took all of the uncertainty out of access. He realized that in order for Usenet to grow to the next level, it needed a more reliable infrastructure, with a backbone that had the resources to offer a level of service that was good enough that people would be glad to pay for it.
To some people, this might make Rick and others like him enemies of free software, at least those who confuse gratis with libre. After all, UUnet took a service that had previously been provided on a volunteer basis, one of the great outpourings of cooperative goodwill in computer history, and replaced it with something you have to pay for. The old free, cooperative dialup net is dead.
But in fact, while the software was (and still is) free, the service it provided was never free. In the old days, we each paid our own phone bills, and the backbone sites with a lot of traffic paid more than their fair share. Rick basically dipped into the revenue stream that we were already paying to the phone company, and made it his own. Heck, now UUnet is a phone company, or at least part of one.
Another interesting part of the UUnet story leads me to my second "service based on free software" example. When Rick converted UUnet from a nonprofit to a for-profit corporation, he had to roll over the accumulated proceeds into another nonprofit. He funded an organization called the Internet Software Consortium, whose mission was to maintain free software required by the Usenet and internet infrastructure. Two of the packages supported by ISC are INN, the current generation of Usenet news server, and Paul Vixie's BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon), the software behind the Internet Domain Name System.
The DNS also has turned out to have a huge service business associated with it, though that business was hijacked by a government contractor and turned into a lucrative monopoly. I'm talking, of course, about Network Solutions, whose business of registering domain names was a service business implicit in the DNS.
In a similar way, you can make the case that companies like Hotmail and Critical Path are exploiting service opportunities afforded by the net's open source email infrastructure.
What does this have to do with Linuxcare, and what lessons are there for entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on open source?
First off, service does not equal tech support! It does not equal training and certification. It does not equal custom development services! It can include all of these components, but it most go beyond them, by reframing a problem that your customers are struggling with, and offering a compelling outsourced solution.
Service means helping other people to get their jobs done, effectively becoming an invisible enabler of their business. When IBM or Oracle sells service as part of their software offering, they are really selling solutions, the assurance that some kind of business problem is going to go away, or some kind of business process is going to be carried on in a more streamlined fashion.
Successful service businesses don't necessarily create new revenue streams; they often divert existing ones.
Two companies that I think have a lot of promise in building exciting "service" businesses based on open source are Collab.Net and Digital Creations. (Disclaimer: I am an investor in both companies. But I am not high on these companies because I am an investor. I am an investor because I think they have got something right.)
Collab.Net's mission is to help manage open source and other internet-enabled collaborative development efforts. Just as UUnet realized that Usenet and email over UUCP required reliable communications infrastructure, Collab.net realizes that distributed internet-era software development projects (whether open source, closed, or somewhere in between), need tools and infrastructure for collaborative work.
Collab.net's first offering is sourceXchange, a marketplace for open source software RFPs. ("We need a Linux printer driver for our new HP printer, and we're willing to pay for it.") But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Collab.net is ultimately about bringing the best practices of successful open source software development projects to anyone who is developing software.
Collab.net founder and CTO Brian Behlendorf was a co-founder of the Apache project. Like Rick Adams, he didn't try to package and sell the software he'd worked on; instead, he set out to build business services around the tools, methodologies, and processes that have made Apache such a success.
Unlike many open source projects, which grew up around the work of a single visionary developer, Apache was from the outset a collaborative project. After the original development team left NCSA for various commercial web startups, the NCSA web server was orphaned until a group of its large end users decided to take on the job of maintaining and extending it by coordinating their patches. The result, "a patchy server", went on to become the dominant web server in the market, but the real secret of Apache may well be the development processes the team put in place. (For more information on these processes, see Brian's essay in the book Open Sources.)
Companies trying to harness open source often flounder because they think that all they have to do is change their license and put their code out on the net. They find that there's a huge amount of work required to develop consensus around a technical vision and an architecture that people can participate in, then to build momentum and coordinate community contributions. In the end, open source isn't just about new software licensing terms but also about a new, internet-enabled style of distributed software development.
While Collab.net's early work has largely been with vendors like Hewlett-Packard who want to cooperate with the open source community, the ultimate target market is far larger. As Eric Raymond noted in The Magic Cauldron, far more software is written for use than for resale. Any company that is spending money to develop software in support of its business processes is intrigued by the opportunity to harness programmers outside its walls, and to reuse source code that's already been debugged by a thousand eyes. Those companies that can figure out how to embrace the best practices of open source development and apply them to their own internal development efforts will be the first to recognize the breakthrough productivity gains that open source provides.
For example, Galactic Marketing is using sourceXchange to develop an open source workflow management system. Invisible Worlds is using sourceXchange to produce open source components that support its new XML-based Blocks data exchange protocol. The service that Collab.net provides to its customers is reliable access to the far-flung developers of the open source community. Much as UUnet provided internet dial tone, Collab.net provides "open source dial tone." (Or should we call it "collaborative development dial tone"?)
Digital Creations (the company behind the Zope application server platform) has a service-based business model for providing infrastructure for managing and building web content. They look at a company like Vignette, which gets a huge proportion of its revenue from web development services involved in deployment of its proprietary content management software, and believe that they can capture the same kind of revenue even when the software itself is a low or no-cost item. After all, platform software like Vignette or Zope isn't something that you can use all that effectively out of the box. You need to customize it heavily for your site, and that is often an outsourced activity. While anyone can download and install Zope, if you really want to take it to the max, who better to help you than its creators?
As Digital Creations CEO Paul Everitt said to me once in email, "We're awfully lucky. Digital Creations is in a market that, primarily due to the hiring crisis, wants solutions rather than software. At the same time, people pay based on value, and cost of software is rather immaterial. Obviously we're also lucky since perceived value with mainstream choices in the content management market right now involves six or seven digits."
Of the two companies, Digital Creations is closer to the pure professional services model now being explored by Linuxcare. But Digital Creations isn't ignoring the frontier of internet-enabled "e-services" either. They've just added support for XML-RPC to Zope.
I've written elsewhere about the way that things that used to be delivered as applications are increasingly being delivered as internet services. What's most exciting on the services front is the way that we're starting to see the development of protocols like XML-RPC and SOAP that will make it easier for companies to create electronic services that can be accessed by other web sites and remote programs. In the age of the net, "services" doesn't just mean professional services, it means figuring out how to build frameworks for automating activities that used to require human labor.
On that note, another open source company that seems to me to have a services vision at its heart is Eazel. (And no, I'm not an investor in Eazel, though not for lack of trying :-). The best I could do was to get founder Andy Hertzfeld (who was one of the key developers of the Macintosh) to keynote at our upcoming Open Source Software Convention in Monterey.) Eazel realizes that creating a next generation user interface for Linux means more than putting a pretty face on the system. From what I've gathered, Eazel's business plan includes not just a new desktop but services for software maintenance, update, and administration.
My point isn't to suggest that any particular approach to services based on open source is the best one. Right now, the open source sector is still young, with rapidly changing tools, practices, and services. What I hope is that the open source community will think big. The really huge opportunities typically redefine markets, creating services that seem obvious and necessary in retrospect, services that were once handled haphazardly but are now so central that no one can do without.
That's ultimately the lesson of UUnet and Network Solutions: to find the killer service, you have to stop taking things for granted. You have to look with fresh eyes at what problems people are struggling with, and find a way to take them off their hands. Once you've succeeded, everyone will take things for granted again.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Gov 2.0 Summit, and the Gov 2.0 Expo. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. In addition to O'Reilly Media, Tim is a founder of Safari Books Online, a pioneering subscription service for accessing books online, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, an early-stage venture firm.
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Update: OLIVER Cromwell... sorry Brits.
Radical Geography has pointed out Homer Simpson is the Cerne Abbas giant new neighbor. The giant Homer icon on the landscape has upset local neo-pagans; however. They claim Homer is disrespectful to their fertility god-thingy.
There is a problem with their argument. The giant is not some pagan symbol but instead probably a parody of Oliver Cromwell dating from the time of the English Civil War.
This does not stop neo-pagans from making up their own history. The Long Man of Wilmington is another cultural landscape adopted into the fake pagan landscape (a "fakescape" if you will). Stonehenge, built before the time of the Druids, is now a popular neo-pagan landmark where people who style themselves druids come to worship.
Catholicgauze is curious what future archaeologist will think thousands of years from now when the trace remains of the Cerne Abbas giant. Maybe, somehow, they will find a picture of Homer by the giant and wonder who these gods were.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Popular Culture versus Fake Culture: Cerne Abbas Giant versus Homer Simpson
3 comments:
- Dan tdaxp said...
There is a problem with their argument. The giant is not some pagan symbol but instead probably a parody of Charles Cromwell dating from the time of the English Civil War.
- Tony Cassidy said...
Oliver Cromwell, even better,, don't knock him, he stands proudly outside Parliament, a reminder to Monarchs...
- Catholicgauze said...
Fascinating Tony. I guess that landscape message is "Remember Kingy/Queeny, we can behead you at any time."
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