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Ugly loss yesterday but other than this first game, I am having a wonderful times with friends Lorena and Elisa.
Like I said a couple of days ago in the ITD blog, they should have given Jeff Weaver a start.
Too funny that these guys in back of us sometimes sit in the same row where we have our season tickets. They know our friend Chuck who has those season tickets.
Having a hard time uploading pics. They keep coming out too big. This one with Tommy at the luncheon offered with the Dodgerlife event did come out. Tommy recognized me when he saw me and gave me a hug. During the Q&A I asked him where does he gets all his energy. He said when you love what you do, is not really work. He loves what he does and we all love him!
well, I better close to go meet for Dodger fans friends!
Thinking Blue! Go Dodgers!
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It wasn't a Dodger win, and Manny didn't have such a good game, but I'm glad you're having a great time in BeanTown. Tommy recognized you? You truely are a Hollywood star huh?
No Mike, it was not a Dodger win. We lost two in a row but I am making the most of the trip. lol. No star, just that I am around the stadium alot and to a few road trips. I LOVE MY BOYS in Blue 'cause they may be bums, but they are MY BUMS!
You and Tommy hanging out together. Pretty cool, Emma. Pretty cool. Looks like there's quite a contingent of Dodger fans at Fenway. Hope your bums can salvage a game there.
wow! I follow Mr lasorda on Twitter😀 haha. I think it's great that you went to Fenway! Id love to go to Boston and catch a game some time🙂
Hey Jane! I hope we do salvage one. We got our Hi-Ku, Kuroda-san on the mound.
really! I don't follow him on twitter but I do look at his blog. I forgot to ask him to recomend me an Italian restaurant here.
Hi Emma
It was great meeting up with you at Fenway Park.
Hey, Emma! Glad you got to visit Boston! Color me jealous! (One of these days, I'll get there!)
Not only do you meet up with Tommy, but he recognized you? One word! WOW!
Great to see Vin Scully there, also! I am glad he made the trip!
Did you and Julia get to meet up? I hope so!🙂
Needless to say, I am more than happy that we are in position to sweep. (And no, not sorry about it!)😉 After his rough 1st inning, Clay has been dealing, so I am liking our chances!🙂
Thanks for the photos of Fenway! Glad it has been fun for ya! Take care, Emma!
It was great meeting up wtih you and TrueBlue! Let's see when I go to New York.
I am also glad that both Tommy and Vin made the trip. No, did not meet up with Julia. I wrote something on her facebook asking her something but she never responded. We took the tour of Fenway Park today but it was subpar as they did not show us the Pressbox, bullpen and dugout like the Dodger tours include. I asked the tour guy at the end and he said we were too big a group. I though "And we get penalized for that?!"
I'll have more pics of Fenway when I get home. I forgot my power surge and was only able to do those three with my friend's power surge. I'll do the rest when I get home.
Well RFB, winning a game would have helped but the boys in Blue did not show up! They could have mailed this one and saved us a trip. Not happy with the performance here! They better perform better when they get back.
Too bad we get home AFTER the LAKER parade!
I hope you had fun at Fenway. And I hope you came back in one piece! Those Sox fans are not known for their hospitality. Ugh!
I bet you had a blast… probably would've liked some different results along the way, but it looks like you had a lot of fun!
Other than the losses and the racist Red Sox fans we encountered , we had a good time. Nothing like hanging with friends and other Dodger fans and running into more friends from back home and also my two Dodger fans friends from Brooklyn.
Looking forward to seeing more of your great pics.
Racist Sox fans? That's upsetting. Ballparks can attract some real losers, to say the least.
I am awaiting my Mannywood t-shirt in the mail, which I bought in celebration of his return to Fenway.
Safe travels,
I'm glad we were able to meet up even if it was only for a few minutes. I was also very disappointed about the sweep. I feel our 4 and 5 starters have to improve and Kemp and Either have to start hitting again for the Dodgers to start winning. I was very impressed with the amount of Dodger fans that made the trip and how vocal they were. I loved hearing the "Lets go Dodgers" chant when the team is on the road. That's what I want to hear next year at Citi Field against the Mets with you sitting next to me.
Hey Emma!!!
What a tough weekend, for sure. But I hope you and your friends had a blast in Boston! Hey, you're not the only person that got a picture with Tommy Lasorda! My sister took my mom to Boston too and ran into Tommy at a restaurant this weekend. I haven't talked to my mom yet (she's still on the plane ride home), but I hear that the two spoke for a while and she did get her picture taken with him!
Hey Michael.
When I get caught up I'll upload pictures. We were being text that our group was on ESPN and the picture was sent to a few fans. Don't you just love technology?
TureBlueWill ,
We represented at Fenway! It was beautiful seeing Dodgers fans at the stadium and how we kept running into many of them while touring. I'd love to see a game with you at Citi Field. I am a little tired from the lack of sleep as I got in this morning and I am at work, but I'd love to plan another trip and will. Will check the schedule to see where I will go next.
that is wonderful that your mom and sister were there! I forgot to ask Tommy to recomend me an Italian restaurant.
Would've been nice to avoid the sweep, but there's just something unnatural at Fenway for the NL teams this year, not that the BoSox would cheat, would they?, but they just seem to win way to easy there during inter-league
have a safe trip home….
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I'm hoping we can take 2 of 3 from the Halos and Yanks. It really bothers me that we have such trouble beating the AL every year.
Peter! I would have settled for one win from the Bums! haha with that theory, you reminded me of the book "The Echoing Green" lol.


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It's time for you to sweat and build confidence all at the same time. It's time to bring sexy back -- into your workout.
The secret to any good workout is not making it feel like a workout. And if you dread exercising, that is even more of a reason to try something that will burn a few calories, tone your body and make you feel really good.
Your size does not matter. Women of all sizes participate and end up walking away looking good and feeling even better.
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While most people may think of exotic dancers at a poorly lit club and men gawking at body parts, pole dancing is actually a good workout. It requires a great amount of upper body strength and provides a workout to muscles not customarily used.
Usually exotic dancers make pole dancing look easy, but it is not. In pole dancing, all major muscle groups are used such as the upper and lower back,
shoulders, abdomen, hamstrings, quads, inner and outer thighs and calves.
If you were thinking, "Wow!" -- Yes, wow! After twirling or attempting to twirl on a pole, just about every muscle in your body will tell you that you used something you have not used before. It is a serious workout.
And if pole dancing is something you think you will enjoy, you will definitely enjoy a workout while stripteasing ...
No. 4: Stripteasing
Stripping has been around for decades, but striptease aerobics was introduced in 2002 and has experienced a tremendous growth in popularity.
Carmen Electra is one of the celebrities who made stripteasing appealing to more women as a sexy way to work out. The workout is not only undressing slowing in a burlesque-show manner.
She has a set of aerobic striptease DVDs. In the five-disc set, Electra targets your abdomen, thighs, buttocks and hips and teaches the technique of lap dancing.
The goal of working out may be to lose weight, but Electra touts that the workout aims to encourage women to feel good about their bodies, no matter what the size.
And don't worry, you will not actually have to take your clothes off unless you choose to.
If you can't imagine yourself stripteasing, maybe our next selection -- a different form of dancing -- is a better choice for you ...
No. 3: Belly dancing
Belly dancing is a Middle Eastern dance that many refer to as body dancing. It is also found to be quite alluring.
Although the mere name of the dance may make you think that you will only exercise your belly, you will not. You will exercise all of your muscle groups.
Depending on the amount of time spent dancing, you can burn as many calories as you would walking, swimming or riding a bike.
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75th anniversary of Kindertransport explored in theater events
Posted on October 16, 2013
A series of events at Grand Valley, Allendale Campus, will be held during the 75th anniversary of Kindertransport, the mission that evacuated more than 10,000 young Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, before the official start of World War II. A talk by Kindertransport survivor John H. Rosen, a stage production, panel discussions and an exhibition are planned throughout November.
Over the course of nine months between 1938-39, desperate Jewish parents struggled to get passage for their children on unaccompanied trains bound for the safety of Great Britain. The organized effort was meant to place the children in foster families, hoping a brief separation would spare them from the growing atrocities being inflicted by Hitler and the Nazis.
Six performances of the dramatic stage production of "Kindertransport" are scheduled at Grand Valley's Performing Arts Center. Performances are at 7:30 p.m., November 15-16 and November 21-22. Matinee performances are at 2 p.m., November 17 and November 23. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for faculty, staff, alumni, and seniors, and $6 for all students and groups of 10 or more. Call Grand Valley's Louis Armstrong Theatre box office at (616) 331-2300 or visit www.gvsu.edu/theatre.
"Kindertransport," was written by Diane Samuels and first performed in London in 1993. The play examines the life of one fictional child, Eva, and is based on interviews with many who shared their actual experiences as transported children.
"It focuses on universal themes such as mother-daughter relationships, separation, loss and whether or not the past can be forgotten," said director Karen Libman. "Told in a series of flashbacks over a 40-year period, the play focuses on not only the life of the child, but her adult life and how her experience affects her relationship with others, including her own daughter."
Two panel discussions of various issues relating to the play will take place after the November 17, 2 p.m. performance and the November 21, 7:30 p.m. performance.
A special middle/high school matinee November 21, at 10 a.m. has been scheduled for area schools. Tickets are $2.50. For more information, call the box office.
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An exhibition, "The Kindertransport Journey," November 1-24 will be at the Exhibition Space in the Atrium level of the Mary Idema Pew Library. On loan from the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, New York, the exhibit includes documents and photographs to describe the Kindertransport experience. Sponsored by Grand Valley's Jewish Student Organization, Hillel, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours.
Kindertransport survivor John H. Rosen, 82, will give a public talk November 5 at 4 p.m. about his experiences as an 8-year-old child during the Kindertransport and after. Sponsored by Grand Valley's Meijer Honors College, the event is free and open to the public in the Multipurpose Room, on the Atrium level of the Mary Idema Pew Library.


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Take a look at what fun we had when 60 WBGO Members visited the Louis Armstrong House Museum last Saturday. We were welcomed both by Michael Cogswell the Director of the Museum and by 86 year old Selma Heraldo, Louis and Lucille's next door neighbor! We snacked in the Armstrong's Japanese Garden (Louis convalesced there at the end of his life), saw an amazing exhibit of Louis's collages on recording tape boxes, and learned about the humility of this world-renowned star who was very happy in his Queens neighborhood and didn't need a fancy mansion on Long Island. After a wonderful tour (if you haven't been you really should go) we went off to Pio Pio Peruvian Chicken Restaurant nearby to stuff ourselves. Thanks to everyone who came and all who made this such a terrific day. If you were there, or would like to have been, leave a comment and record of what you saw or would like to see, on this blog.


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- Victorian workers would celebrate the 150th anniversary of Melbourne building workers' victory in their campaign for the Eight Hour Day on 21 April 2006. National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is requesting its members to join in the 150th anniversary celebrations to expression their support for collective bargaining, an equitable work/life balance and the return of the Eight Hour Day as the practical and symbolic expression of civilized community standards.
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There were 4.3 percent more existing homes sold in January than in December, and the 4.57 million annual rate was the highest since May 2010, the National Association of Realtors reports.
Sales have gone up three of the past four months.
Reuters notes, however, that "the tenor of the report was weakened somewhat by a sharp downward revision to December's sales data to show only a 4.38 million-unit rate rather than the previously reported 4.61 million-unit pace."
Still, Bloomberg News says the report adds "to signs the housing market is regaining its footing."
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December 7, 2011 —
PHILADELPHIA, PA — The PennFuture Energy Center for Enterprise and the Environment released a study on December 6, detailing current subsidies for fossil fuels in Pennsylvania, which, including tax exemptions, tax credits and grants, total $2.9 billion per year.
"Despite all the woe and consternation by some about incentives for new clean energy technology, like solar and wind power, the big dirty secret is that the highly profitable, fully mature fossil fuel industry is subsidized to the hilt," said Christina Simeone, director of the PennFuture Energy Center. "Because of these subsidies, coal, oil and natural gas have been chosen as the energy winners" in Pennsylvania. And the taxpayers are in many cases footing the bill.
"While pundits like to claim that all they want is for the free market to reign supreme, there is simply no free and unfettered market for energy in Pennsylvania," continued Simeone. "Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, while still developing, are starting from behind and staying behind, as these subsidies continue. If there truly were a level playing field, Pennsylvania's vibrant wind and solar industries would be even more successful than they have been."


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August 24, 2012 —
THE DELAWARE RIVER – Gas drilling protestors occupied several sites along both sides of the Delaware River on Thursday, August 23 to greet PA governor Tom Corbett with anti-drilling signs and shouting anti-drilling slogans.
With protestors in canoes and kayaks by his flotilla on the river, the governor arrived at the Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen to visit the historic site as protestors chanted slogans.
Some of the slogans were: "Once you frack you can't go back" and "Pollute the water pollute the air Governor Corbett you don't care."
The purpose of the governor's two-day trip was to promote tourism on the river and other tourist sites in northeast PA. Later in the day, the governor visited the Masker Museum at Promised Land State Park.
"He will view recent park improvements and learn about the park's education programs including a live animal demonstration," the press release from his office said.
"How dare Governor Corbett attempt to use the Delaware River for his political photo op," said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware River-keeper. "He has no right to seek political gain from this beautiful river that he has worked so hard to decimate with his bad policies and politicking."
The Delaware River basin is the source of drinking water for millions of people, including residents of Easton and Philadelphia . "It generates jobs and economic value for the region, it waters the food we eat, it supports the fishing, swimming, boating and birding that are emblematic of the region and which makes the river a world-renowned vacation spot," she said.
Corbett launched in Narrowsburg, NY. During his trip, Corbett visited the Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen, PA and the Masker Museum in Promised Land State Park.


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A proposal that would penalize acts of trafficking food stamp benefits is moving forward quickly in the Wisconsin Legislature.
The proposal by Republican Rep. Samantha Kerkman makes it illegal to buy, sell or transfer food stamp benefits for cash and unlawful purposes.
A Senate committee is scheduled to vote on the measure Friday. An Assembly committee approved it 5-2 on Thursday. It is scheduled to be taken up by the full Assembly on Tuesday.
Kerkman says she has heard about incidents where food stamp users in her district would sell their benefit cards and ask for a free replacement. Opponents of the measure argue it would unfairly stigmatize users who haven't engaged in any misconduct.


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Sennheiser sponsors safe listening campaign
Sennheiser is sponsoring a new campaign from the House Ear Institute (www.hei.org), a research and educational outreach body which aims to ensure healthy hearing for all. HEI's new 'It's How You Listen That Counts' campaign is helping to get the word out on safer listening to teens everywhere.
"This is a critical time. Teens are at a greater risk than ever in terms of hearing loss," says Marilee Potthoff, director of marketing for the House Ear Institute. "Sennheiser's support of HEI programs is valuable in helping us reach the young consumer audio market, and is bringing greater exposure to what is proving to be a very successful public education campaign."
HEI, a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing hearing science through research and education to improve quality of life, was established in 1946. Its Sound Partners hearing conservation program and scientific explorations of the auditory system have helped to provide crucial knowledge to members of the pro audio community and general public who are at a high risk for hearing loss.
The latest campaign uses the humorous character 'Earbud' to inform teens about the dangers of noise-induced hearing loss, an irreversible affliction that accounts for 30% of all hearing loss in the population. "Not only is Sennheiser donating funds, they're also a compelling product sponsor for our contest," Potthoff says. "Overall, the timing of 'It's How You Listen That Counts' is very good, especially in light of the heightened presence of MP3 players in the news. At HEI, we believe we need to be discussing MP3 players, as well as all of the other situations in a teen's typical environment that expose them to high decibels."
Potthoff advises that people should be aware that MP3 players are only a risk factor if they set their volume levels above 85 decibels and don't limit their exposure time. A practical rule of thumb is that if you can't hear someone speaking to you at a normal conversation level while you are listening to an MP3 player or other device, it's likely that the volume is at an unsafe level for your hearing.
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Parents of a murder suspect say they reached out to the Waukesha county executive to help intervene with their troubled son.
Jaren Kuester is accused of killing three people in Lafayette County last week. His parents said they tried to get him committed, while county officials where he lived in Waukesha said there was nothing they could do.
The Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas' chief of staff said Kuester's father called their office looking for help.
"In those situations, there's really nothing the county executive can do," said Shawn Lundie, Vrakas' chief of staff. "We're restricted by HIPPA laws and other legal matters."
Kuester is accused of murdering Gary Thoreson, his wife Chloe and his brother Dean just more than a week ago. Days before the murders, Kuester allegedly threatened workers at an animal shelter after his dog was hit by a car.
"He told them that they were horrible people and they would pay for his dog," said Lynn Olenik, HAWS Executive Director.
After that incident, Kuester's parents urged the county to detain him because he was delusional and dangerous. Instead, Kuester passed a mental health exam and paid a fine. The Waukesha County health and human services director said he did not meet the state criteria allowing the county to hold someone against his wishes.
In a last ditch effort, Kuester's family went to Vrakas, and his office believes the situation was handled properly.
"We are checking on the issues over at HHS now to ensure that everything went the way it was supposed to go," said Lundie. "We believe it has."
Kuester is scheduled to be back in court on Friday, and court documents should be released about what allegedly took place in the murders.


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Are big corporations learning the lessons of the Open Source movement? We recently talked with Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and Tim O'Reilly about corporate America's deepening infatuation with open source technologies and methodologies.
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Eric Raymond: I think it's a harbinger of several important trends. One is that IBM, like many other software producers, is recognizing the increased reliability and performance and other desirable features that you get from decentralized peer review. Economically I think it means IBM has also figured out that operating systems is a bad business to be in these days.
Tim O'Reilly: Yeah, I always loved Bob Young's remark that he was really trying to shrink the size of the operating system market. And I think, in fact, that that's just one of the key concepts that I think Open Source has really brought into the frame: Software is becoming a smaller part of the overall picture, and you've got to somehow have a strategy that goes beyond just selling your bits.
Raymond: That's right, and there are two ways to look at that, one of which looked kind of negative at first blush, and the other one of which looks kind of positive. The negative way to look at it from a traditional business person's and investor's point of view is that we're squeezing the leverage out of the software market. There's less and less room for investors to play by pumping in capital if the development networks are all decentralized and open source. On the other hand, this also implies that the investors have really been getting their leverage from inefficiencies in the conventional mode of production, and when those inefficiencies are squeezed out, everybody will benefit.
O'Reilly: With Collab.net, which is the company we started with Brian Behlendorf, which is aimed really at that marketplace of trying to help corporations embrace the methodology and use it, we're finding really good uptake on that. People are understanding that this is what they wanted, they just haven't known how to do it. I guess I see a lot of growth coming from companies that -- and this goes back to Eric's thing about inefficiencies in the market -- there's so many cases where the customers of these guys are reinventing the wheel, and the open source methodology allows the customers to sort of get on the same plane and start sharing data.
|"Secrecy, and the kinds of closed intellectual properties that are bound up with secrecy, are not efficient." -- Eric Raymond
Raymond: That's right, and very directly what we're discovering is that secrecy, and the kinds of closed intellectual properties that are bound up with secrecy, are not efficient. They're not an effective way to generate value in software.
O'Reilly: You know the thing that I guess I see, a lot of people ... What metaphor do you use? Different metaphors in open source are better for explaining different parts of the problem. And so, for example, I see the first wave of the open source enthusiasm was a little bit driven by one aspect of the Linux story, which was, "Oh, look, they give it away for free and everybody uses it and isn't that a wonderful network effect?" So all these people came along and said, "Oh, we're going to give away our software for free, we'll make it open source and bingo everybody will use it."
Raymond: That's right, but the meaning of the long-term future of this revolution is going to be driven not by price but by value.
|"The Apache lesson is ... the users basically formed a collaborative network to keep the power on their side of the fence." -- Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly: Absolutely. But to go further along, what I'm seeing in terms of businesses, you know beyond that first wave of people who thought, "Oh we can just jump easily on the bandwagon," we're starting to see people for example who are trying to learn the Apache lesson instead. And I think that's a really fascinating lesson for business.
The Apache lesson was, here's a bunch of end-users, ISPs who basically were being disempowered by their vendors. You know, they were using a free solution, all of a sudden Netscape and Microsoft started saying, "No, no, the main path going forward is our proprietary solutions," and the users basically formed a collaborative network to keep the power on their side of the fence. And I guess I see a lot of opportunities where businesses are -- vertical markets are really cooperating to build some technologies they use to run their business. And that's what Eric talked about in this whole idea of "use value of software" rather than "sale value of software."
Raymond: When companies invest in a shared infrastructure, they can reap cost-efficiencies because they're not paying for the whole infrastructure if there's a whole consortium like the Apache group that's being funded by multiple corporations. Every time somebody joins that gang, the costs for everybody go down and benefits go up.
Sims: It reminds me actually, one of the earliest interesting things about the Internet itself was its ability to route around damage, and I made a big deal about that in the early days of the Internet, that it would route around damage. That's sort of a metaphor for what you were talking about. The damage was they couldn't get what they wanted out of the vendors; they routed around it. It's almost a sort of monopoly fail-safe in a way.
Raymond: Yeah. I like Gilmore's quote about the Internet interpreting censorship as damage and routing around it. These days I like to generalize it to: The Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as damage and routes around it.
O'Reilly: We all know that hardware margins have come way down, but software margins have stayed where they are because Microsoft had this proprietary lock-in. And now everybody's saying, you know, "We want you guys to enjoy the same kinds of margins the rest of us have to live with."
Raymond: Yeah, actually I think that's going to turn around and bite Microsoft very badly in the near future. I'm giving a section of my talk nowadays called "The Seven Bullets Microsoft Has to Dodge to Survive the Next 18 Months," and I think of those the most difficult for them to dodge is the basic contradiction in their business model between the fact that their revenues have to rise every quarter to sustain their option program, and the fact that hardware prices are plummeting. That puts an intolerable margin squeeze on their hardware OEM standard. I think we're mirroring the point where those OEMs are going to revolt.
Sims: If I can change tracks just a moment here, we've been talking about the motivation of open source, and how the methodology works, and part of the methodology of that -- even Microsoft identified this a couple years back in its "Halloween Documents" -- was the fact that they weren't just, coders weren't just in it for the profit. They were in it for a couple things. Some of them wanted to make the software better. Some of them wanted the recognition, and what that actually might lead to down the road. But I wonder, especially in light of the aftermath of V.A. Linux's IPO, I wonder how wealthy coders, wealthy open source coders, can change that equation. I mean does that change the equation in anybody's view of how open source methodology works or does it have no impact? Does it actually free people up to explore new technical challenges?
|"I don't think all this money coming in is going to make a major difference to the development model or the dynamics of the community." -- Eric Raymond
Raymond: Well, your listeners deserve to know that I'm on the board of directors of V.A. Linux, and in theory I made a lot of money from that IPO, so they should listen to what I say knowing that and taking it into account however they like. My personal view is that I don't think all this money coming in is going to make a major difference to the development model or the dynamics of the community. And the reason I'm confident about that is because demand for programmers has been intense for a very long time, for over a decade. I think that all the people who could be seriously distracted by money are already gone.
O'Reilly: I have to disagree a little bit, Eric. One of the things that I certainly see is that it's certainly true on the individual programmer level, but if you look at projects as competing for mind share, there's definitely an issue whereas these big companies need to maintain their market cap and maintain their momentum, I think there's going to be a little bit more dog-eat-dog in the open source corporate space than we've seen. And that's going to lead to some bad blood.
Raymond: Well, you might be right but I'm not sure that that's relevant to the question he asked which is "Do we expect this money to change the behavior of developers?"
O'Reilly: Well I think it does if, for example, you're working for a large open source company and that company says, "We're going to do this project because we're basically trying to out-do the other large open source company or out-do this startup that might be threatening our future revenue stream, so we're going to basically rip them off." You know, you've got companies that are effectively redirecting the efforts of those people who still think of themselves as open source programmers but are really now actually working on strategic corporate directives which may not be motivated by the same kinds of open source behavior.
Raymond: Well, you may be right. On the other hand, when I look at open source projects that have been sponsored by these newly successfully large companies, it looks to me like the developers are more wedded to their projects than they are to their employers. There are a couple of cases in which, when key developers have moved to another company, they've actually taken their projects with them.
O'Reilly: Yeah, I agree in the sort of part where the projects themselves are open source, but when you look at how various Linux companies are hoping to make their revenue, they are definitely looking to steal the wind out of the sails of other open source companies, and there's definitely some behavior that I'm starting to see that I think is going to give the open source community a bad name. I'm not going to mention any names, but ...
Sims: Companies aggressively seeking open source development, people seeking open source technologies ...
O'Reilly: No, just where they're basically, they see somebody developing something interesting and they say, "Oh, we need to do that because if that's going to be a good revenue stream, we better have that before the other guy does," and you know it's becoming more competitive and more dog-eat-dog underneath the rhetoric of "We're all idealistic and sharing."
Raymond: Well, Tim, when I see evidence of that happening, I'll probably issue some kind of broadside about it, but I haven't seen it yet.
Sims: Speaking of people who are secure financially and turn instead to a technical challenge, Bill Gates's decision to move to chief software architect from the CEO position. I'm just wondering if this, at the highest level, reflects any sort of industry-wide move -- recognition that the technical challenges are at least what drive developers at heart.
O'Reilly: I don't know, I have to say it's certainly true to say that Bill Gates has moved beyond money. I'm not sure what's motivating him at this point, but I don't think that his move has much of anything to do with the stated story of "I'm going to do interesting technical challenges." It's a little bit of a shell game, you know, in the Justice Department face-off where he's basically trying to make himself a little bit less of a target.
Raymond: I kind of wonder, actually, if he isn't getting out of the line before the stock price crashes.
O'Reilly: Oh, well that's an interesting thought. So in other words, if there's a dump, he can say "Not on my watch" and preserve his reputation for posterity.
Sims: When we were talking about corporations embracing open source, Sun's decision to open Solaris 8, I wonder what either of you thinks of that.
Raymond: I think it's a shuck. What they're doing is not really opening the source. It's creating a sort of pseudo-openness where they talk the right game but keep proprietary control of the results.
O'Reilly: Let me make a slightly othogonal point to that, Eric. I've actually encouraged, not directly with Sun, I'd rather see them go a full open source route. But at least in theory, I think it's great that they're doing something like this because we will learn so much from it. There are so many different aspects of the open source story, and part of it has to do with, well, how much of it is simply just having access to the source code so that you can fix your own bug. You know, we hear that as one of the benefits. Well, under the Solaris model you'll be able to do that. So then the next question is, "Well, okay, no, no there's this whole part about redistribution, so that you can ... " Well, that part they're not doing. So what we'll find out is which of those things is more important to the community. We'll have a lot more data about what really matters in open source.
Raymond: We will find that out. I have confident expectations of what the answer will be.
O'Reilly: Yeah, but I'd rather find it out empirically, so I'm glad that Sun is running the experiment. Although I have to say, I mean, it's not a pure experiment in the sense that, you know, Linux has so much momentum and at bottom, this just looks like kind of a halfway me-too gesture which I think, at bottom, will just reinforce the Linux momentum.
Raymond: That's my read on it too.
O'Reilly: There's probably a time when Sun could have done it and reaped more benefits.
Raymond: If they had done this two years ago, it would have been big news. Now it's not.
O'Reilly: The other thing when I talked with Sun, I also pointed out you know it's kind of like break-up value in companies. You know, they asked me this three or four months ago, "Do you think we should open source Solaris?" and I said, "Well, even if you went full open source with it, I think you'd get more mileage out of open-sourcing pieces of it than you would out of open sourcing the whole thing." You know, the story's over. People don't want another open source operating system. You know, they want to improve the ones they've already got. So, for example, open source NFS will figure out what parts of their code base are better and put some of those things out, they would have got a lot more leverage than trying to unload the whole thing as a competitor to Linux.
Sims: That will allow people to redistribute that and make it ...
O'Reilly: Sure. Scott's always had this idea of, you know, "over my dead body will do X," and so they always come up with ...
|"There's been a pattern of corporate announcements of 'No way will we have anything to do with open source.'" -- Eric Raymond
Raymond: Yeah, there's been a pattern of corporate announcements of "No way will we have anything to do with open source," and then two weeks later, pretty reliably, you see some kind of open source announcement. I interpret that those statements are a sign that something internal may be about to crack.
O'Reilly: Yeah, I think so too. I'd be surprised if we don't see some more, I won't say legitimate, but more real open source announcements from Sun, and at some point, they're basically looking at all this. They're basically market testing, if you like, different approaches to see how people react, and I think the momentum is certainly there for open source and for people to say, "Okay, you know, you either go all the way or don't pretend."
Sims: Well, given what you just said, Eric, is it unrealistic to expect an MS-Linux?
|"I am fairly sure that there is already, however, a Linux-portable Office. I have some intelligence from inside Microsoft that strongly suggests that." -- Eric Raymond
Raymond: That is not something I feel like I have a good answer to. I am fairly sure that there is already, however, a Linux-portable Office. I have some intelligence from inside Microsoft that strongly suggests that, and it also makes sense for that to exist already if the people at Microsoft are smart enough to see that there's a wreck coming in their operating systems business -- and I think they are that smart.
O'Reilly: Yeah, I mean, you don't want to lose both markets.
Raymond: My projection of the immediate short-term future at this point is I think the OS monopoly is going to break decisively some time in the first six months of 2001, with the defection of one of the major gray-box OEMs, somebody on the level of a Dell or a Gateway. And within a week after that happens, we're going to see an announcement of Office for Linux.
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A 53-year-old western Iowa man facing a second trial on dozens of sex abuse counts has made a plea deal and been given a suspended prison sentence.
Atlantic radio station KJAN reports that Roger Ericksen, of Lewis, pleaded guilty to one felony count of sexual abuse in the third degree on Tuesday. Prosecutors dropped the 45 other counts of sexual abuse and four other related counts.
Ericksen was immediately sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended, two years of probation and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
In August a Cass County judge declared a mistrial in the first case against Ericksen, who is accused of assaulting a 14-year-old girl from March 2011 through July 2011.


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VDS-VR works with VDS Origin Server to format and record content one time within the Videoscape Cloud. Content requests are retrieved through VDS-VR, encoded dynamically through VDS Origin Server, then passed through the VDS network. Content is delivered on demand to television, mobility, or Internet-based devices.
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There's a small battle for the legacy of Valve's Portal 2 going on right now on review aggregation site Metacritic. While professional reviewers are competing to see how effusive they can be in their Portal 2 praise (the Metacritic score for the PC version is 95 out of a 100 right now), the reviews from actual, rank-and-keyboard gamers are less than outstanding (75 out of 100 for the PC version, at the time of this writing). What accounts for the discrepancy? At least partially, it seems due to gamers anger over some of Valve's out-of-the-game decisions.
While it's hard to assign intention to an aggregation of individual user-reviews, a look at the negatives comments about the game that have been added recently reveal what looks a lot like internet "protesters" driving down the final score of the game.
- RATING: Portal 2 Review
So what are the gripes of these protest user-reviewers? Here's how the broad themes break down:
- "Portal 2 for the PC is a direct port of the console version." Some gamers are convinced that Valve created Portal 2 for the console market, posting things like: "PC gamers really got the shaft. I mean it's obviously made with consoles in mind. You can't even change the amount of portals you can look through, and you're stuck with being able to see through them twice unlike the large amount you were allowed to set in the first game." Other evidence: Apparently, the text in the PC version of the game discourages users from "turning off their consoles" during saves, leading some to assume this means the game was developed for consoles, then ported to PCs. While the evidence of this contention is pretty thin, I contacted Valve and asked 'em, but haven't heard back. Hopefully, I will soon, and I'll let you know.
- "Portal 2's online store is a rip-off!" Some PC gamers are, it seems, pretty angry over being asked to pay for DLC, as well as expressing dissatisfaction in the prices they are being charged. Or, as metacritc critic Lehandyr put it: "Pay for gestures, pay for hats, pay for a 1 **** day DLC and pay for 4 **** hours of gameplay. It isn't a bad game but I don't wanna pay for things that I ACTUALLY PAID FOR. And yes, I liked Valve until this game but this is just pathetic. You lost all that users that trusted you Valve, all of them."
- "Portal 2's ARG promotion was lame!" The ARG, which called for gamers to download and play indie games from Valve's Potato Sack in order to unlock Portal 2 early, was not without its critics, who felt that asking gamers to buy games they don't necessarily want in order to play they game they do want was little questionable. When the end result of an entire Internet's worth of gaming effort only shaved a couple hours off the release of the game, many gamers were plenty steamed. As meta-critic user Douglas put it: "I wish I had bought the game and my internet was off until today, so I couldn't know anything about Valve screwing customers by a marketing scheme."
- "Portal 2 is too short!" Many metacritic reviewers are pointing to game-finishing times of under four hours. I think you'd have to speedrun it to do it that fast, if it's possible at all, but hey, when have facts ever gotten in the way of internet gaming rage? Here's an example of a "too short" quote, from gamer saulout: "It's a 50$ game that single player you beat in 2-3 hrs...coops another 2-3 hrs." Personally, I don't care about game length. Just as I don't think The Godfather would have been better if it was 5 hours longer, I tend to judge games based more on how good they are, as opposed to how long they are.
I'm going to try to remain as neutral here as possible, while not hiding the fact that I loved Portal 2 like a seal loves fish, so I won't point out what a bunch of whiners the Metacritic haters are. Instead, I'll say that connoisseurship is a good thing. Professional critics--people who take games seriously enough to make part of their living from them--are probably better able than anonymous internet dwellers to comment on the quality of a game, as they have their names attached to their opinions, as well as their reputation and future employment at stake. Plus, pros probably play a lot more games, a lot more "seriously" than some guy on the internet.
That having been said, if this "protest" thing continues to happen and negative scores continue to come into sites like Metacritic, I think Valve and other game manufacturers could learn a lesson from it. Specifically about how the touchy, shrill hivemind of internet gamers are likely to react to marketing "stunts" and changes in the way that revenue is generated in games.
As anyone who follows games already knows, Valve has a reputation for creating high-quality products and generally giving a toss about the opinions of the PC gamers who make up the core of their fanbase. But like many passionate relationships, the interplay between Valve and its most devoted admirers can get a little co-dependent. The PC gaming community has set expectations so high for Valve (and Portal 2) it's hard to imagine how the actual release of the game could measure up, in spite of Valve's Herculean effort.
- VIDEO: Portal 2 Easter Egg
When you add a profit motive to the mix, gamer-anger toward Valve is even more understandable. It's nice to think that the people who make games are doing it because they're cool gamer-guys/artists, and they just want other people to be happy. But at the end of the day, Valve is a company like any other, and its motive is to make money in order to meet payroll, make more games, throw awesome E3 parties, and fatten up owners' bank accounts.
We wouldn't have games like Portal 2 within any other economic system, so I'm not hating on Capitalism but pointing out that things like an online store full of two-dollar animations and silly hats pay the bills for Valve. It's not like you need any DLC to finish the game; it's all cosmetic. But still, PC gamers are less accustomed to DLC-for-money than console gamers, who have been dealing with it since at least the day's of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion's expensive Horse Armor.
- GALLERY: Portal 2 Screenshots
The takeaway: High expectations, anonymity and passion can add up to some very strong emotions being expressed on internet forums; emotions that don't necessarily translate into reasoned "scores" from amateur critics.
So where do you fall in this matter? Are you in the pro-Portal camp, or are you more like "Screw Valve! It's a rip-off!"
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here are 10 things you should know for Friday, May 17:
1. -- U.S. stock futures were rising Friday, signaling a fourth week of gains for the S&P 500 ahead of the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment report and the Conference Board's Index of Leading Indicators.
2. -- The economic calendar in the U.S. Friday includes the University of Michigan sentiment index for May at 9:55 a.m. EDT, and the leading indicators for April at 10 a.m.
3. -- U.S. stocks on Thursday fell after disappointing housing, jobs and manufacturing reports heightened concerns that the historic market gains this year have occurred despite questions about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery.
The S&P 500 declined 0.5% to 1,650.47.
4. -- Dell
Dell's Enterprise Solutions group booked a solid increase in revenue during the quarter, while hardware sales were giving both sides of the Dell takeover battle an edge.
5. -- J.C. Penney
The adjusted loss for the quarter totaled $289 million, or $1.31 a share, which includes charges related to the retailer's restructuring and management transition.
6. -- One of T. Rowe Price's largest equity funds said it will vote against a shareholder proposal to split the chairman and CEO roles at JPMorgan Chase
Brian Rogers, portfolio manager of the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, said in an emailed statement to The Wall Street Journal: "I fully support the combined Chairman and CEO role at J.P. Morgan under the superb leadership of Jamie Dimon."
7. -- Yahoo!
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It simply took a few transitions — namely a 21-year stint in Bank of America's commercial lending support area and five additional years as a T-shirt entrepreneur — to get her there.
On Friday, the 59-year-old was named the state's Region 2 Secondary Teacher of the Year and received her award directly from ESC2 Executive Director Dr. Rick Alvarado during a presentation in San Antonio. The English instructor is one of 20 teachers statewide to receive this honor. One of those 20 teachers will ultimately be named state teacher of the year.
Despite having to do quite a bit of legwork to be considered a participant under consideration for the honor, Wolff said she still couldn't believe her ears when she was told she had been selected.
"In fact, when I asked the principal who called me at home to tell me about it, I said 'Really?'" she said with a smile. "He said, 'Yes, REALLY.' I said 'Are you SERIOUS?' I thought he was joking. I couldn't figure out how they picked me. The principal was still joking about my reaction after the press conference in Corpus Christi."
Wolff's nomination came as delightful news — but no real surprise — to many of her friends and colleagues on Facebook.
"This is one classy lady in and out of the classroom," wrote Whitney Orsak on FB. "She truly has a heart of gold and strives for the best for her students! Congratulations, Mrs. Wolff, for all your hard work and service!
In a follow-up post, Linda Martin Alderson wholeheartedly agreed.
"Most appropriate to an outstanding teacher," Alderson posted.
Added Kalli Escamilla on FB: "Always knew you were one of the best."
During a Monday interview, the well-thought-of teacher said she was humbled — and a bit surprised —by the honor, given the lengthy road she took to get into the teaching profession. Wolff, incidentally, has been married to veteran Walmart pharmacy manager Floyd Wolff for 16 years. Together they collectively have five adult children ranging in age from 26 to 34. They also have a 2-year-old granddaughter.
Born in Fairbanks, Alaska but raised in Stockdale, she holds a masters degree in business from Baylor University.
She has worked in a great many offices — in cities such as Baltimore, Wichita, Kansas, San Francisco and Chicago, to name a few.
"This is my third career," Wolff explained. "My very first day in the classroom I was 51 years old and this is the beginning of my ninth year in teaching. I worked 21 years in the commercial lending support area of what you know as Bank of America. For 21 years I traveled all over the United States and wrote policies and procedures and trained individuals in those."
As it stands, there are 20 distinct regions represented in this competition. The process selects nominees to represent one elementary and one secondary school. Participants were required to fill out a lengthy nomination form much like one would a resume. Issues have to be discussed and reviewed such as the reasons the teacher went into the field of education, what rewards are sought by that journey and what the teacher believes he or she is contributing to the field of education.
"It was like a multiple page request," she explained. "MLA format. 12.5. It was like writing college essays over again. When I turned my packet in, it was 11 pages long to comply with all the requirement. All the teachers in the Coastal Bend who were nominated completed packets and there was some type of review process where they accepted me as the one. Some of the requirements were two pages and some no more than one."
She said she was notified in March or April she was the school's nominee and the packet of aforementioned information was required by the end of the second week in June.
"Because of my schedule at school I didn't even see the packet until school was out," she said. "The original packet was forwarded to Austin and some group there will review all 20 packets and narrow that group down to five. Then there is an interview process for the top five."
After marrying her husband in Pawnee a little over a decade and a half ago, Wolff soon realized there was not a nearby Bank of America Branch for 80-odd miles So, rather than travel three weeks out of the month she decided to choose a new career path. She "politely declined and left."
"My good friend from church and I started a T-shirt shop in town," she said. "A lady down the street ended up buying the business from us. It was located across the square over by Campbell's bookstore. My partner's circumstances changed and she wanted to sell and here I was with my MBA. Not too many places in Three Rivers or Beeville or George West for someone with an MBA who is 50 years old. So it felt like the perfect time to go through alternative certification."
But, to be honest, she at this point ended back up exactly where she originally wanted to be — poised as a teacher to help educate young and impressionable minds.
"I finally got the chance to do what I truly, always wanted to do," she said. "When I first graduated from high school, I wanted to be a high school English teacher. I was 51 before I got into a classroom and it was three years after that before I actually got around to teaching high school. It has been a journey."
Never let it be said that the attention she has received has robbed her of any forward momentum. She said she recently redesigned her curriculum and her approach to it after attending a summer institute for advanced placement for grades 7 though 11. She said she is truly excited about the material that will be covered because of these advancements.
But still, despite her distinctive careers, she said she was nonetheless "flabbergasted" to be selected as a teacher of the year.
"I tell my students two things about my process — one is that if they have a dream and it is worth pursuing they should never give it up," she said. "It took me a long time and I went down lots of different paths than I thought I would. But in the long run, I made my dreams come true. So I tell my kids, it doesn't matter what your background is. Just because you don't think your dream is immediately accessible keep working on it. Don't give up. That's the thing."
And the money?
"I tell my kids to not give up their dreams and to not pick a career for the money," she said. "You hear a lot of people say, 'I want to do this because it makes a lot of money.' But think about it, when I started teaching I made half of what I made when I left Bank of America. And I couldn't be happier. Money is not everything."
Ben Tinsley is a reporter for The Progress newspaper in Three Rivers. He can be contacted by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 361-786-3022. Tinsley can also be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BenTinsley, Google at http://plus.google.com/+BenTinsley or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ben.tinsley.12.